Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom Hunt team to fight against
Speaker 1: coronavirus continues. We have updates from the various top leaders
Speaker 1: involved in this, President Trump, his task force, and everybody
Speaker 1: else that's trying to make sure that we save as
Speaker 1: many lives as possible and get on the other side
Speaker 1: of this coronavirus curve. I'll break it all down for you,
Speaker 1: plus the role of China and all this coming up
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Speaker 1: I am still in quarantine week two of what's going
Speaker 1: to be at least now, I guess six weeks of quarantine.
Speaker 1: This is the circumstance that we find ourselves in in
Speaker 1: New York City. I know it's different in different places
Speaker 1: all across the country, but this is going to be
Speaker 1: our reality for the foreseeable. Producer Mark and I are
Speaker 1: talking about how we thought this might be a pretty
Speaker 1: short term, a pretty temporary circumstance doing this show in
Speaker 1: our remote locations, but I think the remote locations are
Speaker 1: now the official freedom huts for the foreseeable. We have
Speaker 1: some updates for you on where we stand now against
Speaker 1: this A whole bunch of stories I want to bring
Speaker 1: to your attention today. So lots to do, lots to
Speaker 1: talk about, as it's always the case, Let's get first
Speaker 1: the President speaking about what the priority is here. There's
Speaker 1: been a redoubling of the mission. I think there's greater
Speaker 1: clarity now there had been before from the administration about
Speaker 1: how they want to proceed in terms of the timeline
Speaker 1: and the duration of some of these restrictions. Here is
Speaker 1: what the President had to say at Play nine. Well,
Speaker 1: it's so bad for the economy, but the economy is
Speaker 1: number two on my list. First. I want to save
Speaker 1: a lot of lives. We're going to get the economy back.
Speaker 1: I think the economy is going to come back very fast.
Speaker 1: Steeves just asking about the economy, what's it like. We
Speaker 1: basically shut down our country, and we did that in
Speaker 1: order to keep people separated, keep people apart. They're not
Speaker 1: working in offices and not in airplanes. Together. You know,
Speaker 1: we really shut it down. And you know, one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty hundred and fifty one other countries are pretty
Speaker 1: much shut down. But here we had the greatest economy
Speaker 1: in the world. We had the greatest economy in the
Speaker 1: history of our country. And I had to go from
Speaker 1: doing a great job for three years to shutting it down.
Speaker 1: But you know what, We're going to build it up,
Speaker 1: and we're going to build it up rapidly, and I
Speaker 1: think in the end we'll be stronger for it. We
Speaker 1: learned a lot, the President saying, look, this is the
Speaker 1: way it's going to be. This is now the mission.
Speaker 1: It is to do the absolute maximum for virus suppression
Speaker 1: measures now, and then bringing back the economy, which everyone
Speaker 1: now understands has been effectively frozen in place, well not
Speaker 1: even really frozen in place, because it is worse. It
Speaker 1: is worse than it was before. The markets have gotten crushed.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of lost jobs, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: lost businesses. And as I walk around the city, I
Speaker 1: suppose one of the problems I've had with my perception
Speaker 1: of this or an issue that I have to engage,
Speaker 1: is I see I see the shuttered stores. I see
Speaker 1: the individuals who are trying to scratch out a living
Speaker 1: in the very very few now restaurants that remain open
Speaker 1: here in the center of New York City, and I
Speaker 1: feel terribly for them, and I've got to think that
Speaker 1: there's a way to balance this out, perhaps take other
Speaker 1: precautions or other their measures. There must be something else
Speaker 1: that we can do other than just this, right, and no,
Speaker 1: it turns out that this is the only thing that
Speaker 1: we really can do under the circumstances. This is the
Speaker 1: only thing that the government now will at least for
Speaker 1: the next month, have as the as the strategy. I
Speaker 1: have been concerned about this, as you know. I'm very worried,
Speaker 1: especially about the impact on places where they don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of COVID nineteen and then it could the
Speaker 1: economic devastation might last for a very very long time.
Speaker 1: And people who are trying to be adults and talking
Speaker 1: good faith understand that there are there are some risks
Speaker 1: that society excepts when even risk to life as just
Speaker 1: a fact of its day to day functioning. But this
Speaker 1: virus and the threat that it poses is clearly added
Speaker 1: and created an additional degree of risk even beyond that
Speaker 1: which we would tolerate, for say, other major illnesses and
Speaker 1: other issues that come up that pose threat to lives
Speaker 1: and to well livelihoods as well. So now this is
Speaker 1: where we are, This is the mission. We're all supposed
Speaker 1: to do everything we can. This is a national effort,
Speaker 1: top down, to do whatever is in our power to
Speaker 1: make sure that this virus is the absolute minimum of spread,
Speaker 1: given where it already is, and therefore also an absolute
Speaker 1: minimum of casualties. And I think that the mood of
Speaker 1: the nation has shifted, or at least the mood I
Speaker 1: can say the mood of the government, and I think
Speaker 1: with it much of the national though I can't speak
Speaker 1: for other parts of the country, but certainly the because
Speaker 1: New York is in a particularly bad spot right now.
Speaker 1: It's in the worst spot of any place in the
Speaker 1: United States when it comes to this by far, I
Speaker 1: think we have ten x the number of established cases
Speaker 1: that Los Angeles does, for example. But the administration, I mean,
Speaker 1: they're there's no question that the administration has shifted from
Speaker 1: a week or two ago sounding like, look, we might
Speaker 1: have to go back to work. There's going to be
Speaker 1: some risks to now saying no all out against the virus.
Speaker 1: Everything to do everything we can do we must in
Speaker 1: the suppression of this virus. And I think we're also
Speaker 1: at a point where we have to take it as well.
Speaker 1: You don't have to take it on faith, but we
Speaker 1: have to have a belief that the federal government will
Speaker 1: be able to bring back the federal government will be
Speaker 1: able to resurrect the economy in a few months time
Speaker 1: when it starts to allow for more working and you know,
Speaker 1: an additional economic activity. I think it's a pretty big
Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty big risk that we are running.
Speaker 1: And I've been saying that all along, But I also
Speaker 1: understand how that people say, well, that's the choice that
Speaker 1: we've made as a society. Now. The is something we're
Speaker 1: just going to accept, all right. So we're going to
Speaker 1: add trillions of dollars to the debt, We're going to
Speaker 1: have unemployment that reaches close to forty fifty million, We're
Speaker 1: going to send a lot of checks from a treasury
Speaker 1: which hopefully we'll have at least very important short term
Speaker 1: benefits for everyone. And that's where we're going. That's what
Speaker 1: we're going to do. And we hope that there's no inflation.
Speaker 1: We hope that there's no economic devastation that results from this.
Speaker 1: But I also think that the government's attitude now is
Speaker 1: we can handle whatever the economic situation is. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they're right or not. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm at the hope in prey phase for the government.
Speaker 1: The same government officials and agencies, and from the federal
Speaker 1: all the way down to the local level, those same
Speaker 1: individuals are who are incapable or unable to prepare adequately
Speaker 1: for what we're seeing here. Those those same people are
Speaker 1: now telling us, no worry, We're going to take this
Speaker 1: unprecedented and major economic step of shutting down an economy
Speaker 1: and we'll just bring it all back. And it looked
Speaker 1: maybe they're right, and then it's clearly the right move.
Speaker 1: I've been worried that this will trigger a depression, and
Speaker 1: now I'm seeing that there's very little. There seems to
Speaker 1: be very little concern over that. I don't know. May
Speaker 1: maybe I'm just reading the wrong newspapers, seeing the wrong
Speaker 1: I don't read newspapers, but reading the wrong websites and
Speaker 1: news organizations and opinion columns and seeing other people who
Speaker 1: think a lot about these issues for a living. But
Speaker 1: we've decided that we're not worried about the economy right now.
Speaker 1: We're just going to do everything we can to deal
Speaker 1: with this virus. And I do wonder if down the
Speaker 1: line there'll be more of a movement to have more
Speaker 1: extreme precautions in place during And I'm not comparing this
Speaker 1: to flu. This is worse than flu, and I've known
Speaker 1: that for a while. It's a lot worse than the flu.
Speaker 1: But I wonder if when we get past this, which
Speaker 1: will be a certainly a happy day, if we will
Speaker 1: reach a phase where everyone realizes, or everyone's told that
Speaker 1: they're now expected to wear gloves and face mask when
Speaker 1: they go in the office for normal flu for which
Speaker 1: we lose you know, as you know, the numbers now
Speaker 1: are constantly talking about anywhere from twenty to eighty thousand
Speaker 1: people a year. And I wonder also how much this
Speaker 1: every life is worth, any amount of risk, and worth
Speaker 1: any amount of systemic findo systemic economic pressure. I wonder
Speaker 1: where else that will apply, because I think that's that's
Speaker 1: been the change in mentality that has occurred, and in
Speaker 1: large part it's because of the people that are around
Speaker 1: the president in the case that he has made to
Speaker 1: people about what needs to be done here. So that's
Speaker 1: the latest for me. Is that is that the president
Speaker 1: or the most important thing here I think is that
Speaker 1: the President is re calibrating the way forward. And this
Speaker 1: is in response to what he said on Sunday. I
Speaker 1: mean here he is saying that you know, we're gonna win,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be great. But also there is no other
Speaker 1: option here play clip ten. We have no other choice.
Speaker 1: Every one of us has a role to play in
Speaker 1: winning this war. Every citizen, family, and business can make
Speaker 1: the difference in stopping the virus. This is our shared
Speaker 1: patriotic duty challenging times or ahead for the next thirty days,
Speaker 1: and this is a very vital thirty days. We're sort
Speaker 1: of putting it all on the line. This thirty day
Speaker 1: is so important because we have to get back. But
Speaker 1: the more we dedicate ourselves today, the more quickly we
Speaker 1: will emerge on the other side of the crisis. And
Speaker 1: that's the time we're waiting for. The more we commit
Speaker 1: ourselves now, the sooner we can win the fight and
Speaker 1: return to our lives, and they will be great lives,
Speaker 1: maybe better than ever. There we go. That's what the
Speaker 1: President is saying. We have no other choice. We have
Speaker 1: to do everything we can here to move forward against
Speaker 1: the virus in this way. And we are going to see, however,
Speaker 1: some under any other circumstances, which you would have to
Speaker 1: consider to be very concerning circumstances, we are going to
Speaker 1: see situations in which there are, for example, state and
Speaker 1: local authorities that are really just deciding that there are
Speaker 1: no constitutional protections. This is already happening. I mean, you
Speaker 1: had to Blasio yesterday say that he might shut down
Speaker 1: a house of worship permanently. That's not something you would
Speaker 1: usually hear from the mayor of a large city. You
Speaker 1: have mandates to stay at home. I saw that in
Speaker 1: DC they're saying that maybe you will be subjected to
Speaker 1: ninety days in home ninety days in prison if you
Speaker 1: don't confine yourself to home. So on the one hand,
Speaker 1: you have cities that are releasing prisoners, and I've even
Speaker 1: seeing some reports now that it's not just elderly prisoners
Speaker 1: who pose no threat to the public, but they're releasing
Speaker 1: prisoners much more, much more broadly than that. You know,
Speaker 1: much more dangerous prisoners are actually being up our being
Speaker 1: caught up in these release or I guess should say,
Speaker 1: released in these release programs. So you have cities that
Speaker 1: are going to start having to enforce this, and right now,
Speaker 1: maybe it doesn't seem like it is all that problematic
Speaker 1: from a liberty perspective. Right now, it's it's an issue
Speaker 1: that we can philosophically understand. Perhaps, But because we're staying home,
Speaker 1: are we going to be staying home and relatively quiet
Speaker 1: in mid April late April? If this is as bad
Speaker 1: as the numbers that they're telling us, I can't imagine
Speaker 1: that they're really going to have much of a relaxation
Speaker 1: of this in May, because the way now the discussion
Speaker 1: has been set up. Anybody who says we need even
Speaker 1: if there's elevated risk, which elevated risk means that there
Speaker 1: will be more people who could conceivably catch this disease
Speaker 1: and could die from it. Anybody who's willing to say
Speaker 1: at any point, yes, let's start to go back to normal.
Speaker 1: If there's a jump in cases. Doctor Fauci talked about
Speaker 1: the rebound, that person will have people, that leader, that official,
Speaker 1: whoever it is, will have people screaming that they're they've
Speaker 1: got blood on their hands. They've got blood on their hands.
Speaker 1: That's what we'll be hearing all the time, and that
Speaker 1: means that who's really gonna want to take that upon themselves?
Speaker 1: You know? Right now, no one wants to be the
Speaker 1: one who has to say. I mean, if you even
Speaker 1: bring up the economy right now, I mean, I'm telling
Speaker 1: you this, many of you that I'm speaking to on
Speaker 1: this show, I'm saying I have concerns about the economy.
Speaker 1: The feeling in New York right now is if you
Speaker 1: even say, hey, are we sure that we can handle
Speaker 1: this economically, that maybe there's not some other concern that
Speaker 1: we should work into this whole process of you are
Speaker 1: you are like Adolf Hitler brought back to life. You're
Speaker 1: the worst person ever. If you even bring up the economy,
Speaker 1: you're a bad person. That's the attitude here in New
Speaker 1: York City. I'm sure that's true in other places as well.
Speaker 1: Even though the people that are being the hardest hit
Speaker 1: by this right now are in fact people who are
Speaker 1: working people. I mean when I say hardest hit by this,
Speaker 1: I mean on the economic side, obviously, not including those
Speaker 1: who are infected with the virus. They're working people. They're
Speaker 1: people who are losing their businesses, and there's just all
Speaker 1: of this lost productivity. I mean, what happens if you're
Speaker 1: somebody who is in the midst of trying to finalize
Speaker 1: a major transaction for your business and now now there's
Speaker 1: really no business being done. You're you're finished, right, Your
Speaker 1: life's work may go up and smoke. But we're being
Speaker 1: told that that's just the cost that we are all
Speaker 1: going to bear now for maximum measures against the virus.
Speaker 1: And I understand all you have to do is take
Speaker 1: a look at some of the information, some of the photos,
Speaker 1: and just anecdotal conversations with doctors. I mean, I've had
Speaker 1: conversation with in some of the hospitals here, and they
Speaker 1: will tell you that this is much worse. The meaning
Speaker 1: that the virus is much worse than we were led
Speaker 1: to believe, even even in a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Every day now, the more we know about this, the
Speaker 1: more we realize it is very rapidly spread, is incredibly
Speaker 1: dangerous to older people, but it is a it is
Speaker 1: a dangerous adversary even to the immune system of relatively
Speaker 1: healthy people. It can be if it goes badly, it
Speaker 1: goes badly very quickly. So this is where we are.
Speaker 1: The discussion about the Constitution, the discussion about individual rights
Speaker 1: that right now is being pushed aside. And if you
Speaker 1: even if you even bring up any of the Bill
Speaker 1: of Rights, if you even bring up any of the
Speaker 1: freedoms that we're supposed to have under the Constitution, you're
Speaker 1: essentially shouted down for being a murderer. So we have
Speaker 1: somehow transitioned in much of the country. I know some
Speaker 1: of you don't yet feel it as strongly, but give
Speaker 1: it time. I mean, you better be. Even in a
Speaker 1: state like that is generally a little more of a
Speaker 1: conservative leaning state, you're going to have a lot of
Speaker 1: policies if you don't already that just are you do
Speaker 1: what the government says. You're just going to do what
Speaker 1: the government says. There's no you know, you do not
Speaker 1: get to say there is no vote. I understand, I
Speaker 1: understand why we're being told this is necessary, and I
Speaker 1: know that you know the horrible disease. We all understand
Speaker 1: how painful it is for anybody who gets this and
Speaker 1: people who are losing loved ones to this. But I
Speaker 1: do think that there must be at least room for
Speaker 1: a discussion, a reminder, if you will, that we're effectively
Speaker 1: letting the government do whatever it wants at this point,
Speaker 1: and that right now may feel like a necessity, but
Speaker 1: and maybe it is a necessity, and you could discuss
Speaker 1: this and argue that this, but it's also a precedent.
Speaker 1: And how long does the government get to do this?
Speaker 1: Where else does the government get to do this? Remember
Speaker 1: that there are other issues that people view as saving lives,
Speaker 1: and if you oppose them, you're opposed to saving lives.
Speaker 1: That's the way. That's the way the left frames a
Speaker 1: lot of things. Do you think that they're going to
Speaker 1: stop now that we've all this one time succumbed to
Speaker 1: being told you're just going to do this because the
Speaker 1: government says so, you think this is going to be
Speaker 1: the one and only time. I doubt it. You're in
Speaker 1: the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 1: With all the talk of listening to the experts, I
Speaker 1: have to tell you that I've been paying pretty close
Speaker 1: attention to the experts as much as I can find
Speaker 1: them all along here, and they've been wrong. Mostly I've
Speaker 1: been focused on the leadership that's been wrong, and there's
Speaker 1: been there have been people telling you go out live
Speaker 1: your life, don't worry about it, it's fine. But now
Speaker 1: we see that even some of the the medical advice
Speaker 1: in the medical community. I shouldn't say the advice so
Speaker 1: much as the assessments, but coronavirus may be contagious longer
Speaker 1: than thought, even after the cessation of symptoms, it might
Speaker 1: be transmittable. It seems to be much more transmittable, three
Speaker 1: times as easily transmitted as the flu, which we weren't
Speaker 1: really told initially, and certainly there was no they weren't
Speaker 1: clear on that point. And it is dangerous even to
Speaker 1: people outside of the age and not as dangerous, but
Speaker 1: as dangerous people even outside of elevated risk of age
Speaker 1: and other health issues. So they're still learning a lot
Speaker 1: about this as we're making these massive decisions about what
Speaker 1: to do with the country. Thanks for listening to The
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Speaker 1: Anyone who says this situation is in New York City
Speaker 1: only situation is in a state of denial. You see
Speaker 1: this virus move across the state. You see the virus
Speaker 1: move across this nation. There is no American who is
Speaker 1: immune to this virus. I don't care if you live
Speaker 1: in Kansas. I don't care if you live in Texas.
Speaker 1: There is no American that is immune. What is happening
Speaker 1: to New York is not an anomaly. There's nothing about
Speaker 1: a New Yorker's immune system that is any different than
Speaker 1: any other Americans immune system. So in many ways, New
Speaker 1: York is just a canary in the coal mine. But
Speaker 1: you see us going through here, you will see happening
Speaker 1: all across this country. So here we have the governor
Speaker 1: of New York saying that this is going to happen everywhere. Now,
Speaker 1: some of what he says, or I think some of
Speaker 1: what his intent is is true, and that is that
Speaker 1: there is no difference obviously in the immune system of
Speaker 1: somebody from New York versus somebody from Texas or Utah
Speaker 1: or Montana, you name it, right, We're all We're all
Speaker 1: the same human beings, we're all the same mutantism. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: but that's an obvious point, right. We don't really need
Speaker 1: to be told that. We don't need that to be said.
Speaker 1: So let's get to what is the dispute about, then,
Speaker 1: because I know some of you listen to this, and
Speaker 1: I try to be as aware of this as possible
Speaker 1: as I'm talking to you, because New York is different
Speaker 1: from other places around the country. New York is a
Speaker 1: different circumstance than what you're dealing with really everywhere else.
Speaker 1: So though, it is getting pretty bad, and there was
Speaker 1: that one really horrible outbreak in Washington State early on,
Speaker 1: and that's getting really bad in Florida, in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: You know, look, it's heartbreaking everywhere that this thing is
Speaker 1: getting bad. I mean, the realities here of what this
Speaker 1: disease does to people, how quickly they're gone. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's you read about this enough, and I'll be honest
Speaker 1: with you, it's tough to it's tough to stave off
Speaker 1: a little bit of a feeling of just I guess
Speaker 1: you'd ever say, is just depressed from having to read
Speaker 1: about this all day and be stuck inside. So you
Speaker 1: all are a big help in that regard. It's really
Speaker 1: tough to be locked away here and not really have
Speaker 1: any contact with human beings, and yet I get to
Speaker 1: speak to you all across the country, and that's one
Speaker 1: thing that really makes me feel connected and keeps me going,
Speaker 1: because otherwise it's it's just all coronavirus in the news
Speaker 1: all day long. And this is my job, this is
Speaker 1: my lively, this is what I do. I talk about
Speaker 1: what's going on. I talk about the news. So Cuomo's
Speaker 1: point here that we're all the same, is not an
Speaker 1: easy one for people to miss, right, We're aware of that,
Speaker 1: but I mean, our immune systems are all the same.
Speaker 1: We get that. But okay, now, what really is he
Speaker 1: saying or where is the disagreement? That disagreement is should
Speaker 1: all these other states, should all these other states find
Speaker 1: themselves in the same circumstance, or should they be taking
Speaker 1: really the same precaution as New York City? Or are
Speaker 1: they allowed to our states allowed to make determinations for
Speaker 1: what level of risk? Remember, level of risk is what
Speaker 1: we're talking about with these different infections and or with
Speaker 1: the possibility of infection, and level of risk is also
Speaker 1: going to be different for different places. Risk, though, does
Speaker 1: translate at some number when you look at the aggregates
Speaker 1: into infection, and infection will translate into some number of
Speaker 1: people who die from this. But do states get to
Speaker 1: And I feel like that's almost a controversial thing to
Speaker 1: say these days, we're talking about risk mitigation for a virus.
Speaker 1: I mean Anthony Fauci said that we might have a
Speaker 1: rebound if we try to relax some of these at
Speaker 1: some point in the future. So that clearly means that
Speaker 1: we're going to make a determination. You have to make
Speaker 1: a determination one day that there will be elevated risk,
Speaker 1: that there will be an elevation of the possibility of
Speaker 1: people getting this in order to achieve greater normalcy, economic activity,
Speaker 1: and freedom and freedom of movement for for all the
Speaker 1: rest of us. Right that's the that is the discussion
Speaker 1: that will be happening. But it's not happening right now.
Speaker 1: Right now, it's whatever the state wants, whatever the government
Speaker 1: is telling us. And so I just ask, why is
Speaker 1: it that the states that don't have the same degree
Speaker 1: of cases should take the same approach as say New
Speaker 1: York where density population density matters. I mean, I happen
Speaker 1: to live in one of the most densely populated areas
Speaker 1: of all of the country, and one of the more
Speaker 1: densely populated parts of the entire world. I on the
Speaker 1: way to the subway, on the way to work. I'm
Speaker 1: on the subway, I'm packed with people shoulder to shoulder
Speaker 1: all over and touching things that hundreds and hundreds of
Speaker 1: people have touched the same day before me. With the
Speaker 1: rails and the things that you hold. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you what do you call the
Speaker 1: thing producer Mark, that's from the that hangs down from
Speaker 1: the roof of the subway car pole? No, not the pole,
Speaker 1: you know, the little hand thing? Yeah, the thing you
Speaker 1: grab all right, you know they grab the grabby great, yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: whatever that is. So, but you know, I'm touching all
Speaker 1: these things, and so there's a greater risk of virus
Speaker 1: for me. Then say a lot of you who live
Speaker 1: in a house, get in a car, drive to your work.
Speaker 1: Maybe your work has four or five employees there and
Speaker 1: you all have separate spaces where you're working, and you
Speaker 1: go home to your family, and like that's it. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm at a much greater day to day risk because
Speaker 1: of where I am. And so wouldn't it be sensible
Speaker 1: for different states, or at least different parts of states
Speaker 1: to be able to make determinations for themselves about what
Speaker 1: level of risk they're willing to to tolerate here. But now,
Speaker 1: see what happens is the federal government and other people
Speaker 1: that are trying to do maximum virus suppression would turn
Speaker 1: around and say, okay, well if you do that, though,
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't have the same social distancing restrictions,
Speaker 1: business shutdowns, all these things that we know now have
Speaker 1: become defining characteristics of our day to day lives. If
Speaker 1: we don't do that, you're just going to become the
Speaker 1: next hot spot and then you're going to be a
Speaker 1: drain on our resources. And we're already dealing with this,
Speaker 1: and so there really is going to be a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure not to allow for states to make those
Speaker 1: determinations from the federal government. And that just means that
Speaker 1: you're looking at this is a long and somewhat roundabout
Speaker 1: way of saying, you're looking at what it's effect that
Speaker 1: we're going to turn into a one size fits all
Speaker 1: policy very soon of businesses. If I mean, I know
Speaker 1: some states are a little bit lagging behind on this,
Speaker 1: but you're going to be told businesses have to all
Speaker 1: be shut down, everybody has to shelter at home, self quarantine,
Speaker 1: stay in place, doesn't really matter where you are in
Speaker 1: the country. That's what's probably going to happen. That's where
Speaker 1: the country I think is trending right now. It's amazing
Speaker 1: what a shift there's been, and I suppose it's because
Speaker 1: of the numbers we've seen. Look the numbers. The numbers
Speaker 1: are higher than I had thought they would be based
Speaker 1: on everything that I was reading, not right now, but
Speaker 1: the assess numbers that it could be one hundred to
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand in this country, and the President saying
Speaker 1: less than one hundred thousand dead would be relatively successful
Speaker 1: in his response, again, that's just what he's that's what
Speaker 1: he's saying. You know, I don't need to be yelled at.
Speaker 1: You don't care about eighty thousand of We all care
Speaker 1: about it. We're just trying to do the best we
Speaker 1: can here. We're with a terrible circumstance that nobody really
Speaker 1: has the answers too. So is New York the harbinger
Speaker 1: of things to come for the rest of the country,
Speaker 1: or is New York the worst hit place? And other
Speaker 1: parts around the country will be in a much better
Speaker 1: position to treat this and to help people get better.
Speaker 1: Here's Mary de Blasio, for example, here talking about the
Speaker 1: amount of assistance that the federal government has been providing them.
Speaker 1: Play sixteen. My message to the President is thank you,
Speaker 1: and we need more help. And that's not because any
Speaker 1: of us likes to have to say that, but because
Speaker 1: it's true that the toughest weeks are ahead. We are
Speaker 1: bracing ourselves for something we've never seen before in any
Speaker 1: of our lives, and the federal government, in many ways
Speaker 1: is the only force that can help us to reach
Speaker 1: the level of preparation we need to to save every
Speaker 1: life we can save. So I'm gonna keep calling the President,
Speaker 1: keep appealing to him to get us all the help
Speaker 1: we need for these really tough weeks, and then again
Speaker 1: we will turn around and help everyone else in this
Speaker 1: country right after. I wish that Dablasia was a little
Speaker 1: bit more confidence inspiring than he is. But this is
Speaker 1: the mayor we've got here, so those of you who
Speaker 1: live in other parts of the country be thankful. It's
Speaker 1: very unlikely there's some places where the mayors is bad.
Speaker 1: Very unlikely your mayor is as bad as ours. But
Speaker 1: this is now. We are in the fight for the
Speaker 1: next few weeks. That's where this is going to be.
Speaker 1: There's not gonna be any other discussion, and really, at
Speaker 1: a national policy level, we are just going to be
Speaker 1: in the midst of an all out effort to suppress
Speaker 1: this virus, to help medical personnel, to build the facilities
Speaker 1: and the equipment necessary, and everything else has been put
Speaker 1: on hold. So that is where we are, my friends,
Speaker 1: and I don't see that changing anytime soon. And I
Speaker 1: can certainly sign on for the maximum value here of
Speaker 1: protecting life. I just am. I still have my concerns
Speaker 1: that we're pushing aside the economic destruction and lives ruined
Speaker 1: and lives lost if we head into a depression. But
Speaker 1: the government's saying that's not going to happen, and who knows,
Speaker 1: who knows at this point, I've never seen no one's
Speaker 1: ever seen anything like this before. So anyone who speaks
Speaker 1: with certainty on these matters I think is fooling themselves
Speaker 1: as much as they're trying to fool anybody else. You're
Speaker 1: in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 1: In terms of the happy talk we've had on this
Speaker 1: front from the federal government, there is no sign that
Speaker 1: the Navy hospital ships that the President made such a
Speaker 1: big deal of the comfort and the mercy, there's no
Speaker 1: sign that there'll be anywhere on site helping out anywhere
Speaker 1: in the country for weeks. Yet the President said when
Speaker 1: he announced that those ships would be put into action
Speaker 1: against the COVID nineteen epidemic, he said one of those
Speaker 1: ships would be operational in New York Harbor by next week.
Speaker 1: That's nonsense. It will not be there next week. It
Speaker 1: is She was wrong. That's Rachel Mattaw, I don't know,
Speaker 1: fifteen or twenty million dollar year, main news anchor over
Speaker 1: an MSNBC. Why take that position though? Why view the
Speaker 1: president trying to tell people that he's doing what he
Speaker 1: can to get additional resources to New York. Why is
Speaker 1: he wh as he's saying this if he's not really
Speaker 1: making the effort to do it right, start with that,
Speaker 1: And why would Rachel Maddow then take it as an
Speaker 1: opportunity to say, oh, but it's not happening and to
Speaker 1: snark about this, and she's wrong. It's here, The ship
Speaker 1: is here. I actually saw it sailing into the port
Speaker 1: or Peer ninety rather the Peer here in Manhattan, and
Speaker 1: I saw it as it was coming past my apartment.
Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing sight. Actually, it was interesting thing to see.
Speaker 1: You don't always see. Now, it's also a moment of
Speaker 1: reckoning that we have a naval hospital ship that has
Speaker 1: had to arrive here in the largest city in America
Speaker 1: to try to help with hospital overflow because of what's
Speaker 1: going on. I mean, I have no illusions at all
Speaker 1: about what really this symbolizes. But look, anytime the United
Speaker 1: States Navy shows up somewhere, I feel a little bit better.
Speaker 1: I feel a little better than I did before they
Speaker 1: got there. And that's certainly the case here. But the
Speaker 1: press continues to be so reckless about all of this.
Speaker 1: The press continues to be wrong and just deeply and
Speaker 1: utterly irresponsible in the way that they approach coverage of
Speaker 1: this administration. And you know, I can understand why there's
Speaker 1: a need right now, there's a sense that we should
Speaker 1: all be nicer to each other. And I've I've been
Speaker 1: trying to be less part as in, I've been trying
Speaker 1: to be a little bit less of a what's the
Speaker 1: word go less, less hard less, and less intense on
Speaker 1: my ideological opponents as a general matter, because I do
Speaker 1: think that we are united. Everyone is inherently united in
Speaker 1: their humanity, in the desire to make things better. When
Speaker 1: it comes to the situation of America right now, we
Speaker 1: want to beat this virus who want to find a
Speaker 1: way to get past this virus. That said, there's not
Speaker 1: really the same willingness from Democrats who are covering this
Speaker 1: administration to stop with the nonsense game. They're still trying
Speaker 1: to score points for their audiences against this guy, and
Speaker 1: I find that against the president. I find that really unseemly.
Speaker 1: And you know, these press conferences, we'll talk more about
Speaker 1: what they've been doing and what some of the media
Speaker 1: responses to them have been. These press conferences I think
Speaker 1: have been a source of real information and some degree
Speaker 1: of emotional support for the country. I mean, here you
Speaker 1: have the president of the United States who's saying, look,
Speaker 1: we're we're doing all these things. Here are all the
Speaker 1: things that we're trying to do to deal with this,
Speaker 1: and you have people that are trying to play gotcha
Speaker 1: games about Look a lot of people. I haven't been
Speaker 1: right on every step of this, and I admit it.
Speaker 1: I've before some others thought that this was a very
Speaker 1: serious issue, but I wish I had recognized the serious
Speaker 1: of its seriousness of it. You know, two months ago.
Speaker 1: The leadership has been in overwhelmingly wrong on this really
Speaker 1: at all levels and in both parties this is worse
Speaker 1: than they told us it would be even two or
Speaker 1: three weeks ago. So I think we'd come to grips
Speaker 1: with I would argue even a week ago. I and
Speaker 1: the last week what we've seen is, oh, this is
Speaker 1: really you know, now that we are up close and
Speaker 1: personal with this virus in New York City, now that
Speaker 1: there's real reports coming in, is this is definitely not
Speaker 1: the flu. It's much much worse than that. So people
Speaker 1: have been wrong. And I don't understand why, with the
Speaker 1: President trying to give information about what's happening now, what's
Speaker 1: going to be going on in the future, why anyone
Speaker 1: views it as particularly useful or helpful to take that
Speaker 1: opportunity to ask the president about strategy right now and
Speaker 1: about what we're doing, and try to get him on
Speaker 1: some older, earlier thing that he did that he said
Speaker 1: that they didn't like. You know, they are playing gotcha games.
Speaker 1: Here's the President in an exchange with Jim Acosta, who
Speaker 1: continues to be the fakest journalist in America. I don't
Speaker 1: know what else to say. I mean, even now when
Speaker 1: there's real problems, there's real lives at risk, and you know,
Speaker 1: we've got massive issues here. Here's what he says. Play
Speaker 1: clip one. Let's give it a shot. What do you
Speaker 1: say to Americans who are upset with you over the
Speaker 1: way you downplayed this crisis over the last couple of months.
Speaker 1: We have it very much under control in this country.
Speaker 1: The coronavirus is very much under control in the USA.
Speaker 1: It's going to disappear. It's like a miracle. It will disappear.
Speaker 1: At March fourth. We have a very small number of
Speaker 1: people in this country infected. March tenth. We're prepared. We're
Speaker 1: doing a great job with it. It will go away.
Speaker 1: Just stay calm, it will go away. What do you
Speaker 1: say to Americans who you've got this wrong? I do
Speaker 1: want them to stay calm, and we are doing a
Speaker 1: great job. If you look at those individual statements there,
Speaker 1: stay calm, it will go away. You know it. You
Speaker 1: know it is going and it will go away, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a great victory. And it's people like
Speaker 1: you and CNN that say things like that that it's
Speaker 1: why people just don't want to listen to CN anymore.
Speaker 1: You could ask a normal question. The statements I made
Speaker 1: are I want to keep the country calm. I don't
Speaker 1: want panic in the country. I could cause panic much
Speaker 1: better than even you. I could do much. I would
Speaker 1: make you look like a minor league player. But you
Speaker 1: know what, I don't want to do that. I want
Speaker 1: to have our country be calm and strong and fight
Speaker 1: and win and it will go away. And instead of
Speaker 1: asking a nasty, snarky question like that, you should ask
Speaker 1: a real question yes correct. It would be better for
Speaker 1: all of us if they would ask real questions instead
Speaker 1: of the gotcha nonsense that we see from CNN as
Speaker 1: well as other news organizations. Thanks for listening to the
Speaker 1: bus Sex and Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts,
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Gave
Speaker 1: us grace on November eight, twenty sixteen, to change the
Speaker 1: course we were on. God had been taken out of
Speaker 1: our schools and lives. A nation had turned his back
Speaker 1: on God. And I encourage you'd use this time at
Speaker 1: home to home to get back in the word, read
Speaker 1: our Bibles, and spend time with our families. Our president
Speaker 1: gave us so much hope, where just a few short
Speaker 1: months ago we had the best economy, the lowest unemployment,
Speaker 1: and wages going up. It was amazing with our great
Speaker 1: president vice president and this administration and all the great
Speaker 1: people in this country praying daily we will get through
Speaker 1: this and get back to a place that's stronger and
Speaker 1: safer than ever. Miche Lindell has taken his company My Pillow.
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of you are very familiar with it.
Speaker 1: I know Mike, by the way, full disclosure. I think
Speaker 1: Mike's a great guy, a great American success story, and
Speaker 1: he's he's just he's incredible. I mean, he comes from
Speaker 1: a background of streamely difficult circumstances. He was a crack addict,
Speaker 1: and he's very open about this. He built an incredibly
Speaker 1: successful company, built it all by himself, pulled it all together,
Speaker 1: and now he's not just a prolific sponsor on a
Speaker 1: lot of talk radio programs and on Fox News you
Speaker 1: certainly see him, but also somebody who's closed to the
Speaker 1: White House. He's a good guy. He's a good guy,
Speaker 1: and he's doing a very good thing right now, and
Speaker 1: that is making fifty thousand masks a day, his company
Speaker 1: that makes pillows. And I know everyone's been joking you
Speaker 1: should call it my face mask instead of my pillow now,
Speaker 1: but he's going to be making face masks, masks to
Speaker 1: help first responders, doctors, nurses, and this is in response
Speaker 1: to urgent need. So this is what a lot of
Speaker 1: private sector companies, individuals are doing now. They're stepping up
Speaker 1: to help people, to keep as many people safe as
Speaker 1: possi as we try to work through this circumstance. And
Speaker 1: Mike is one of the ones that was called up.
Speaker 1: There were a bunch and there have been a lot
Speaker 1: of CEOs and a lot of captains of industry, chiefs
Speaker 1: of commerce who have come along to speak with the
Speaker 1: administration about how they can help and how we can
Speaker 1: mobilize the private sector in this fight against the virus.
Speaker 1: And it was just stunning and disheartening. And I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say surprising, because it's not surprising, but there were people
Speaker 1: who took this as an opportunity. I mean, Mike Lindell
Speaker 1: is discussing how he's trying to help, how he's trying
Speaker 1: to do good for people, and he's told that or
Speaker 1: people Action says told the people are reaching out on
Speaker 1: Twitter and everything else, and they are dunking on him
Speaker 1: left and right. I couldn't believe it. And Ali Velshi,
Speaker 1: a journalist at MSNBC was doing the whole I can't
Speaker 1: believe Mike Lindell is up there right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so much snark, so much, so many surly, undermining,
Speaker 1: nasty comments being made about Mike Lindell when he's going
Speaker 1: up there because he's answering the call. He is taking
Speaker 1: his company that could still sell a whole lot of pillows,
Speaker 1: and they are great pillows, by the way, I've got
Speaker 1: I've got I just use one of his towels this
Speaker 1: morning when I took a shower. I mean, I'm I've
Speaker 1: got one of his pillows in my room right now.
Speaker 1: So he could just keep doing that right and run
Speaker 1: a very successful company, is a very wealthy guy now.
Speaker 1: But instead he's trying to help and there were still
Speaker 1: people being being vicious to him. I mean, the level
Speaker 1: of nastiness out there. Although you know, there are some
Speaker 1: people who when circumstances become tough, when things get more difficult,
Speaker 1: they are they are the best in them comes out.
Speaker 1: They rise to it. They are kinder, they are more reliable,
Speaker 1: they are more honorable, they are more dependent, or maybe
Speaker 1: not more honorable, but you know, they're more courageous. People
Speaker 1: who are honorable tend to be honorable all the time.
Speaker 1: And then there are people who when things get tough,
Speaker 1: you see more of the unfortunate parts of their personality.
Speaker 1: And for a lot of the left wing media, there's
Speaker 1: so much nastiness still out there. I mean, you've seen
Speaker 1: this with as I've been telling you, anybody that says
Speaker 1: and there are a number of us who have been
Speaker 1: accused of this just for even bringing up the economic
Speaker 1: calculations here. You know, it's hard for me. I mean,
Speaker 1: I went yesterday for a walk and I saw all
Speaker 1: these stores in New York City. They are shut down,
Speaker 1: and they have these little handwritten notes and they're trying
Speaker 1: to be inspiring. And you know, these are places. A
Speaker 1: lot of them are neighborhood spots. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about and by the way, the workers at McDonald's
Speaker 1: and Chapotle and all that, I'm just as worried about them.
Speaker 1: But you would think that maybe their companies are in
Speaker 1: a better position to continue to sustain their employment and
Speaker 1: to be there right. I mean, I feel like most
Speaker 1: chipotleis or McDonald's are going to be back in business
Speaker 1: when things open up again. I don't know if the
Speaker 1: mom and pop stores. I don't know if the places
Speaker 1: that are owned by individuals are going to be there
Speaker 1: and then they're going to be able to come back.
Speaker 1: And they write these notes that are saying things like,
Speaker 1: we've you know, we've been honored to serve your this
Speaker 1: community for twenty years. You know, we've been honored to
Speaker 1: be in business here since you know, two thousand and
Speaker 1: four or whatever, and we hope to see you again.
Speaker 1: But if we don't stay safe in all the past,
Speaker 1: and you know, a little smiley faces and hearts, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is what you're seeing in these stores. And I
Speaker 1: just think that that's a part of the pain. I mean,
Speaker 1: millions and millions of people are going through that, and
Speaker 1: even if they do come back, I mean, the anxiety
Speaker 1: that they must feel right now is extreme. I could
Speaker 1: imagine nothing else that the anxiety they feel must be very,
Speaker 1: very powerful. And that's why as I now, you know,
Speaker 1: sit here and try to think about the best ways
Speaker 1: to be helpful. I mean, I think about how ordering
Speaker 1: food from them, you know, double double tipping, and you
Speaker 1: know I should even step and I'm just gonna start
Speaker 1: giving I'm just gonna start giving every delivery guy a
Speaker 1: twenty whenever they show up to deliver food. I know
Speaker 1: for some of you, the food delivery doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: as it's as much a day to day thing in
Speaker 1: New York. Food deliveries everywhere. I mean, this is what
Speaker 1: people tend to do. We don't I like to cook.
Speaker 1: Most people in the city that I know just order
Speaker 1: in their food all the time. There's so many restaurants
Speaker 1: around here because of all the population density, it can
Speaker 1: be supported. Yesterday, in my lobby of my building, you know,
Speaker 1: the entryway, there was a guy who I thought was
Speaker 1: the was the owner from the way he was talking
Speaker 1: about it, but actually I think he's now the actually
Speaker 1: the manager of a local restaurant nearby. And he was
Speaker 1: giving out menus and I mean he looked he looked
Speaker 1: really on edge. I mean he looked a little bit distraught.
Speaker 1: He's giving them many diseases. Please please if you can
Speaker 1: order where Really, you know, business is like nothing, and
Speaker 1: we're we're getting desperate and we're trying to stay open
Speaker 1: and we're trying to keep you know, keep things going.
Speaker 1: And you know, I took his menu and I ordered
Speaker 1: last night and the food was excellent. Um, but that's
Speaker 1: you know, there's a real psychological pain here too, and
Speaker 1: I just wish that we didn't have to have an
Speaker 1: either or. I mean, every everyone who's reading any newspaper
Speaker 1: or aware of anything that's going on in the country
Speaker 1: understands how serious the virus is now and how many
Speaker 1: lives it's taking. As I said, the virus is worse
Speaker 1: than I anticipated. It's more deadly, it's more easily spread.
Speaker 1: And I'm not an expert on this. I was just
Speaker 1: reading this. The experts were wrong. That's part of why
Speaker 1: a lot of us didn't really understand where this was,
Speaker 1: understand how it was going to hit us. But the
Speaker 1: impact of this on on businesses is something that I
Speaker 1: at least think is worth some attention, especially as I
Speaker 1: have three hours a day with you and there's only
Speaker 1: so much that we can do to talk about where
Speaker 1: we are with the numbers on this virus and the
Speaker 1: shortage of protective equipment, and you know, every day we
Speaker 1: hit that, we talk about it. But there are other things,
Speaker 1: there are other aspects of life that are continuing on,
Speaker 1: and I'll try to give a voice to that. But
Speaker 1: Michae Lindell back to what started this, mobilizing his company
Speaker 1: to try to do everything that he can to assist
Speaker 1: in this, to assist in this need for personal protective equipment.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to applaud it, although I
Speaker 1: think that's a normal response, but you do have to
Speaker 1: respect it and to be disrespectful. When somebody steps up
Speaker 1: like this to help out people that really need it,
Speaker 1: when the whole country needs it, just goes to something
Speaker 1: that's wrong in the minds of these enraged leftists. I mean,
Speaker 1: it just goes to there's a there's a real problem
Speaker 1: here with them. And this is where I have to
Speaker 1: think that the the what is it now? This is
Speaker 1: the fourth year of the Trump administration, and there are
Speaker 1: a lot of people whose careers are built on information
Speaker 1: and writing and communicating and speaking, and they have been
Speaker 1: on an unceasing mission to destroy this president. And they've
Speaker 1: managed to create controversies, and they've managed to use circumstances
Speaker 1: that were not dire to that end. I mean, they've
Speaker 1: effectively created a crisis mentality without their actually being a crisis.
Speaker 1: They've done this with Russia collusion, They've done this with
Speaker 1: the impeachment that now we're going to talk about things
Speaker 1: that cost time and the response and things that made
Speaker 1: us miss don't ever forget that Democrats were impeaching this
Speaker 1: president through January, when the first real reports of what
Speaker 1: was going on in China. The Democrats were busy with
Speaker 1: a sham impeachment because Orange Man bad and they hate
Speaker 1: him so much, and they're just angry little children about
Speaker 1: the whole thing. That's what was going on, when yeah,
Speaker 1: we could have been making maths, we could have been
Speaker 1: making ventilators also, though we have to remember, we didn't
Speaker 1: recognize because we're basing as the Chinese have been lying
Speaker 1: with this the whole time. Their numbers and I'm going
Speaker 1: to speak more about China Day in a little bit,
Speaker 1: but their numbers are much higher than they've been saying
Speaker 1: they are. They are RESPONSI we want to talk about
Speaker 1: lies and people with blood on their hands. And the
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party has been appalling, absolutely appalling in all
Speaker 1: of this. And now we find ourselves dealing with the
Speaker 1: aftermath of oh, I shouldn't say the aftermath of that.
Speaker 1: We're dealing with the consequences of that. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of there's a lot of moving pieces here. But
Speaker 1: part of the problem that we've had and trying to
Speaker 1: get I think the best information about this and to
Speaker 1: be as nonpartisan as possible in the coverage of this
Speaker 1: news event, is that there are I mean, there are
Speaker 1: there are liberals right now who are have big platforms,
Speaker 1: who seem to report with some degree of satisfaction and
Speaker 1: perhaps even joy at the failure of hydroxy chloroquin to
Speaker 1: be the miracle cure that some of us, that almost
Speaker 1: all of us, I should say, have been hoping for.
Speaker 1: There's been a real rooting against anything that might make
Speaker 1: Trump look better in this whole process, even with lives
Speaker 1: and the balance, there are people in the medium and
Speaker 1: I can tell you I could pull up the tweets,
Speaker 1: I can show you who they are, and they vary.
Speaker 1: Obviously hate absolutely hate this president to the point where
Speaker 1: that hatred is more important to them than anything else.
Speaker 1: And that's where that's where things stand right now, with
Speaker 1: the way that the left and the media is approaching,
Speaker 1: even the pandemic at this stage, when we are in
Speaker 1: the really the most dangerous days of this where we're
Speaker 1: about to see the real consequences of the spike. Hating
Speaker 1: Trump from the media still seems to be for some
Speaker 1: of them, not all of them. The supreme mission, not
Speaker 1: helping the public understand this and not getting to a
Speaker 1: better place. You're in the freedom heart. This is the
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show podcast. Here's the thing. Wasn't he just
Speaker 1: retreating about his ratings in the last forty eight hours
Speaker 1: while Americans are dying all over the place. You know,
Speaker 1: here's the thing about him. Narcissism is an incurable disorder.
Speaker 1: He has shown that he is incapable of empathy, and
Speaker 1: he will punish anyone who doesn't count out to him
Speaker 1: and praise him. He's jealous of anyone who outshines him.
Speaker 1: He horgs those press conferences and talks and talks without
Speaker 1: a care that he's giving out false information. He doesn't
Speaker 1: take the blame for anything. He blames Obama for everything.
Speaker 1: People are dying all over the place. So I have
Speaker 1: very low expectations that he will change. Joy beiha should
Speaker 1: be complaining about Trump in the aftermath of nuclear war.
Speaker 1: I mean, if we really if we went to war
Speaker 1: with China and there were nukes and it was like
Speaker 1: the Terminator movies, where you know, millions and millions of
Speaker 1: US incinerator at once. Whatever. Joy Behar from the Beijar
Speaker 1: Bunker somewhere would still be doing nothing but complain about
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. But that that how much I'm pretty confident.
Speaker 1: I am almost impressed by how durable the media's anti
Speaker 1: Trump fixation has been out. I'm almost impressed by it,
Speaker 1: you meaning that it seems like it wouldn't be possible
Speaker 1: to be so completely devoted to anti trump ism for
Speaker 1: so many years. In this way, not just as a
Speaker 1: general concept, but as the first and most important part
Speaker 1: of any conversation is this is an opportunity to bash Trump.
Speaker 1: You know, the weather is bad, This is an opportunity
Speaker 1: to bash Trump. By the way, I have to tell
Speaker 1: you this, I'm just I'm angry, Okay, I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 1: I'm angry about the climate change crap that we've been
Speaker 1: hearing about for years and years and years as this
Speaker 1: existential threat and oh what are we going to do?
Speaker 1: And it's all a waste, it's dumb, and now we realize, wow,
Speaker 1: we really would have been better off. Things would have
Speaker 1: been better if, instead of having the international the global
Speaker 1: scientific community focus on this hoax of existential threat of
Speaker 1: climate change, that we had focused on something like this,
Speaker 1: which I have been I've said on this show people
Speaker 1: ask me, I mean I wish we could find I
Speaker 1: mean producer Mark. I don't want to give him like
Speaker 1: hours and hours and hours of extra work. But we
Speaker 1: went back. I think it was in July or August. No, no,
Speaker 1: it would have been in September or October. Somebody asked
Speaker 1: me what really keeps me up at night? And we
Speaker 1: were doing this during roll call, and I said, pandemic
Speaker 1: disease is really scary. Any biotic resistant bacteria is really scary.
Speaker 1: These are things that are written this is a virus,
Speaker 1: but same idea, These are things that are really scary.
Speaker 1: Climate change is not really scary. Climate change is fear
Speaker 1: mongering for people that need an existential purpose, generally because
Speaker 1: they're secularists who have rejected any notion of God or
Speaker 1: a deity. Barack Obama today speaking of a deity, the
Speaker 1: deity of the left, Barack Obama tweeted out this, We've
Speaker 1: all seen too terribly the consequences of those who denied
Speaker 1: the warmings of a pandemic. We can't afford any more
Speaker 1: consequences of climate denial. All of us, especially young people,
Speaker 1: have to demand better of our government at every level
Speaker 1: and vote this fall. So shut down the whole economy.
Speaker 1: If you have any problem with that, you want old
Speaker 1: people to die. That's now become the more or less
Speaker 1: the consensus opinion in the media. You know, if you're
Speaker 1: willing to take any addition risk, try to do what
Speaker 1: you can. No one says, stop finding the virus. You
Speaker 1: want to take any additional risk, but to try to
Speaker 1: get some of the economy going, you're a horrible person.
Speaker 1: So okay, that's where we are. But while that's going on,
Speaker 1: we also need to be lectured about climate change. They're
Speaker 1: they're fanatics. I mean, this is a fanaticism. Who the
Speaker 1: blank gives a blank about climate change? Right? Barack Obama,
Speaker 1: with his eighty million Twitter followers or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: one of the biggest Twitter followers in the world. Barack
Speaker 1: Obama is still thinking about climate change. We're gonna stop
Speaker 1: the zero too. Let's come out of things. We gotta
Speaker 1: get the cows to stop doing the things that put
Speaker 1: the methode. Yeah, we're gonna do this thing. Another thing,
Speaker 1: I used to have a really good Obama impersonation of
Speaker 1: mine scotten a little bit, a little bit weaker, But
Speaker 1: it's because I haven't heard him as much of these days,
Speaker 1: I'll work on it. I'll do more impressions too. I'm
Speaker 1: also going to have to just get more of the
Speaker 1: show where I just let it rip and loosen up
Speaker 1: and talk about whatever I feel like, even if it's
Speaker 1: not on the news of the day stuff, just because
Speaker 1: I mean, how much can we all sort of sit around?
Speaker 1: I rely on you now to feel like I'm connected
Speaker 1: to humanity, Team Buck, you are my connection to humanity
Speaker 1: on a daily basis. And so that's why the unit
Speaker 1: I did this past weekend, I started the research and
Speaker 1: producer Mark Brucer. Mark, didn't I send something you about
Speaker 1: the siege of Malta? You did? I did. I'm working
Speaker 1: on it, guys, like I'm trying to do other things too,
Speaker 1: because I know we're going to get We're in quarantine
Speaker 1: for at least another month. We're not going to we're
Speaker 1: not going to be told that we could start to
Speaker 1: go outside more freely and start to go back to work.
Speaker 1: I mean, in my if you're asking me to guess
Speaker 1: until June, so that means which I would say on
Speaker 1: the WR Show WR Show, I think also on this show,
Speaker 1: I said the prucer Mark and I'll be drinking margaritas
Speaker 1: on the street in June. I think that's probably going
Speaker 1: to end up being true, maybe late June. But I'm
Speaker 1: going to try to find other ways also to keep
Speaker 1: us all informed and entertain We can't just do too
Speaker 1: much coronavirus talk. Thanks for listening to the bus sets
Speaker 1: and show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. I have said,
Speaker 1: I don't think that you should really listen to what
Speaker 1: he says. You should listen to what the experts say.
Speaker 1: I'm not actually sure, if you want to be honest,
Speaker 1: that we should carry that live. I think we should
Speaker 1: run snippets. I think we should do it afterwards and
Speaker 1: get the pertinent points to the American people because he's
Speaker 1: never ever going to tell you the truth. And guess
Speaker 1: what he's going to do if you ask a question
Speaker 1: that is a legitimate question, and if he doesn't like
Speaker 1: the question, he is going to say, whether it's whether
Speaker 1: you're being mean or not or whatever he wants to call,
Speaker 1: he's going to say that is a mean and nasty question. Why,
Speaker 1: Because he wants his base to think that the media
Speaker 1: is being mean to him and they're attacking him. It
Speaker 1: is all a plot. It is all orchestrated. And if
Speaker 1: you can't see it, I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're looking at. So you know, it's obvious. It's
Speaker 1: transparent to me. This has become those press briefings have
Speaker 1: become his new apprentice. They become his new rallies, and
Speaker 1: he treats the press and the media as if he's
Speaker 1: talking to the people and his rallies. Don Lemon is
Speaker 1: just delusional. Why is this now a bad thing? The
Speaker 1: President shouldn't address the American people? Why is this the
Speaker 1: the this is now rallies? I mean, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: you know why they're upset. I mean, this is very
Speaker 1: clear if you look at the polling on this. Do
Speaker 1: you know why they're upset that the President of the
Speaker 1: United States is holding these press conference? I watched them
Speaker 1: every single day. Okay, why is the president upset about now?
Speaker 1: Sometimes I have to tape it because I got a
Speaker 1: de radio, but I watch it every day and overwhelmingly
Speaker 1: the information is worthwhile and good. You know. Deborah Deborah Burkes.
Speaker 1: Doctor Burkes really has a command of the facts in
Speaker 1: the situation. It's not afraid to push back on nonsense.
Speaker 1: Doctor Fauci, Hey, doctor Fauci went to Regis my high school.
Speaker 1: He's one of one of my guys. There's actually a
Speaker 1: great article in the Wall Street Journal about doctor Fauci
Speaker 1: playing for the Regious Raiders, which is still a name
Speaker 1: I think you're allowed to have now. It's not an
Speaker 1: offensive name, right, even though I think a raider isn't
Speaker 1: that somebody that like is a pirate and goes in pillages.
Speaker 1: But anyway, he was a Regis Regious Raider back in
Speaker 1: the day. Went to my high school, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Fauci's up there doing his thing, and you know they're
Speaker 1: they're providing all this information, and you know that if
Speaker 1: they stop taking questions from the press, then we would
Speaker 1: be told that this is you know, this is tyranny,
Speaker 1: this is the propaganda machine of the Third Reich. This
Speaker 1: is I mean, they'd say crazy stuff. I mean, they
Speaker 1: would say insane stuff. I would also note that the
Speaker 1: we've been told for three years that Trump is a tyrant.
Speaker 1: He hasn't done anything tyrannical. He's winning in court every
Speaker 1: time they actually take him to court. Whenever these federal
Speaker 1: judges they come up with wrong decisions, and then what
Speaker 1: we see is the president of the United States in
Speaker 1: this case, not going all out using all of the
Speaker 1: power to disposal at least not in a way that's
Speaker 1: sufficient for the live so essentially not taking the opportunity
Speaker 1: to be more tyrannical. Do you think they have any
Speaker 1: change in assessment of what they think of the president
Speaker 1: as a result of this now? Of course not. But
Speaker 1: the reason, the reason that they don't like the president
Speaker 1: holding these press conferences every day is because he is
Speaker 1: doing well with the American people based on the polls.
Speaker 1: They have been waiting for this moment. They have manufactured
Speaker 1: crises for three years. Now this is a real crisis.
Speaker 1: We are in a real crisis. They have manufactured crises
Speaker 1: for three years, and now in this moment, we have
Speaker 1: something that is of the gravity and seriousness that could
Speaker 1: effectively end to presidency, meaning that it would stop him
Speaker 1: from being reelected. It would be the disaster that could
Speaker 1: change the course of US presidential history. And they want
Speaker 1: this to be that moment. We know this, but they
Speaker 1: want this to be Donald Trump finally loses. For years,
Speaker 1: he's just taken all the incoming on all this Russia crap.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't even remember all that there, the
Speaker 1: twenty fifth Amendment and the you know Trump is crazy,
Speaker 1: Trump's a rapist, Trump cheated, Trump lied, Trump campaign fine,
Speaker 1: I mean the amount of stuff they threw this president,
Speaker 1: it's actually dizzying. I mean, you can't even keep up
Speaker 1: with it. And now a virus comes out. And also
Speaker 1: why do you look at so some of the it's
Speaker 1: really you know, lives have been coming after me a
Speaker 1: lot lately, just because I'm trying to ask questions. I
Speaker 1: want what's best for the country. I want what's best
Speaker 1: for the maximum number from from policy perspective, what's best
Speaker 1: for the maximum number of the American people. And I
Speaker 1: also think that I have an obligation to share the
Speaker 1: truth as I see it and test that truth in
Speaker 1: the marketplace of ideas, even when sometimes it's the truth
Speaker 1: that people don't necessarily want to hear, or that's not
Speaker 1: all that popular, or that can get me in a
Speaker 1: little bit of trouble. I think the truth really matters,
Speaker 1: and we are in very difficult times that require very
Speaker 1: tough decision making. But on the issue of China, which
Speaker 1: I know I keep saying I'll get you, and I will,
Speaker 1: why is it so Why do they get so enraged
Speaker 1: when you bring up that the Chinese government was studying
Speaker 1: very dangerous viruses near the Wuhan market where this first
Speaker 1: showed up. And the Chinese government has and we know
Speaker 1: this as a matter of fact, lost viruses from that
Speaker 1: institute in the past. But if you even say, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying this happen, I'm just saying I think this
Speaker 1: is worthy of more investigation. You're you're a conspiracy theorist. Really,
Speaker 1: this from people who overwhelmingly believe at the president was
Speaker 1: able to collude with Russia, leave no trace, leave no
Speaker 1: actual actual evidence of collusion with Russia, despite how that's
Speaker 1: basically impossible. But oh yes, no, he stole the election
Speaker 1: included with Russia. That's not a conspiracy theory. But microscopic
Speaker 1: viral particles getting out of a facility that is studying viruses.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're not being told of This thing may
Speaker 1: transmit up to twenty feet okay twenty feet with coughs
Speaker 1: or with sneezes, and is three times as infectious as
Speaker 1: the flu. We have no built in immunity against it,
Speaker 1: and it's at least ten x as deadly as the flu.
Speaker 1: And because of the incubation periods. It's incredibly hard to control.
Speaker 1: The Chinese claim they have it under control some by
Speaker 1: some miracle, which I think is almost certainly a huge lie.
Speaker 1: But this would not be if you were engineering a
Speaker 1: virus to bring down a country, wouldn't this be a
Speaker 1: pretty good way to start. Wouldn't this be pretty close?
Speaker 1: Remember if you might say, oh, no, buck, it would
Speaker 1: you'd want to hire. You'd want to hire a fatality
Speaker 1: rate if you were engineering a virus as a weapon.
Speaker 1: To that, I'd say, well, that's actually not really true,
Speaker 1: because if the virus kills the host too quickly, it
Speaker 1: dramatically drops off the transmissibility of that virus. So you
Speaker 1: want something if you're creating a weapon, which is what
Speaker 1: we're talking about here, if you're creating a biological weapon,
Speaker 1: you would want a virus that is very easily spread,
Speaker 1: very hard for a person to know that they have,
Speaker 1: and then has a high fatality. Now this could you
Speaker 1: would say the buck, Well, the fatality rate could be
Speaker 1: orders of magnitude higer than what this is if it
Speaker 1: were weaponized. Okay, but maybe maybe the people. Again, this
Speaker 1: is all theory. I have no fact. I'm just working
Speaker 1: this out as we talk about this, maybe the people
Speaker 1: that were doing research on this virus and yet figured
Speaker 1: out how to elevate. Remember you're talking about these timetables
Speaker 1: of transmission and mortality, and they knew that this virus,
Speaker 1: this strain of this virus would be something that was
Speaker 1: very very contagious and would spread incredibly rapidly and would
Speaker 1: be devastating to people in certain categories, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: but they weren't sure yet how to bring down that
Speaker 1: high risk, high risk pool. Remember, the Spanish fool of
Speaker 1: nineteen eighteen was very high risk for people in their
Speaker 1: twenties and thirties, and there's still some debate over really
Speaker 1: why that was. But the Spanish flu really crushed people
Speaker 1: in their twenties and thirties more than anybody else, well
Speaker 1: other than people who are already medically at high risk,
Speaker 1: but in terms of age category. So anyway, I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm theorizing here just because I find it hard to
Speaker 1: believe that this is all just Look, there's some levels
Speaker 1: that I know are going to get more answers that'll
Speaker 1: be troubling about what the Chinese response to this. We
Speaker 1: the Chinese are lying. The Chinese say they have no
Speaker 1: new cases of this. What how's it? How is how's that?
Speaker 1: Even anyone taking that seriously? Oh? Our media takes it seriously. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll get into that, but I just have to keep
Speaker 1: in mind one of my concerns here as as we
Speaker 1: shut down the economy, which I know you're not. We're
Speaker 1: not allowed to talk about anymore. If you shut down
Speaker 1: the economy, is shut down the economy or else you're
Speaker 1: you're a mass murder? Or is really the choice now? Um,
Speaker 1: it's not try to open up the economy while still
Speaker 1: putting a lot of protective measures in place and doing
Speaker 1: what's necessary to help, you know, and shut down the
Speaker 1: economy entirely in New York, I get it. A whole country.
Speaker 1: There's not even a discussion about whether we could have
Speaker 1: more of an open economy in other parts and other states.
Speaker 1: And no, okay, all right, this is the course that
Speaker 1: you know, maximum life saving, this is what this is
Speaker 1: what is required for that you know, we're we're just
Speaker 1: being told that your choice is shut down everything or
Speaker 1: else mass murder that you that you're responsible for if
Speaker 1: the economy opens back up. Okay, if nothing else, I
Speaker 1: aspire to be I try to be an ethical and
Speaker 1: fair minded, but an ethical person. So that's where this is. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll get back into China. I just on this uh
Speaker 1: press conference thing. It's so obvious, it's so apparent that
Speaker 1: they don't like that Trump is doing well with the
Speaker 1: American people, and that they keep asking him questions that
Speaker 1: don't do anything to help with our understanding of coronavirus.
Speaker 1: Right now, Chris Hayes, who also was over at MSNBC,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's saying that, yeah, we need to stop
Speaker 1: carrying these press conferences play fourteen. Yeah, that's why he's
Speaker 1: bragging about the ratings. It's obviously above my pay grade.
Speaker 1: I don't make the call, but we take him or not.
Speaker 1: But it seems crazy to me that everyone's still taking
Speaker 1: them when you got the my pillow guy getting up
Speaker 1: there talking about reading the Bible. Wow, taking taking shots
Speaker 1: at the my pillow guy. I just whatever to recall
Speaker 1: that the same libs that are saying everyone shut down
Speaker 1: in place. And if you have any questions about the
Speaker 1: small businesses being destroyed or anything else, or any if
Speaker 1: you want to have any kind of discussion about different
Speaker 1: areas taking different precautions, you're a horrible person who wants
Speaker 1: old people to die, that's the But Michael Lindell steps
Speaker 1: up to make masks to save people, to save lives,
Speaker 1: and they're making fun of him, almost like it's really
Speaker 1: not about ethics and morality for these people. It's just
Speaker 1: virtue signaling and attacking, having a weapon to attack the
Speaker 1: other side. Oh. This is also the same Left that
Speaker 1: wants to make sure that planned parentered clinics are reporting
Speaker 1: babies during this whole crisis, no let up in that.
Speaker 1: They've been very clear there will not be they'll stop
Speaker 1: all other health services, but that because that's for them
Speaker 1: the most essential thing that they do. Now. The Democratic
Speaker 1: Party is the party of death, a advocate for openly
Speaker 1: and in some cases celebrate the murder of unborn infants
Speaker 1: on a daily basis. But they will wag fingers at
Speaker 1: the rest of us and that anybody who, as I've said,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm trying to make sure, as somebody who
Speaker 1: has a voice in the public arena, that we're doing
Speaker 1: the smartest things for the most people and for this country.
Speaker 1: And the President addressing the American people, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: trying to do that, and he's trying to do that
Speaker 1: as well. As trying to provide information and backrunners leadership,
Speaker 1: and they don't want him to be able to do
Speaker 1: this anymore, or they don't want to give him that platform.
Speaker 1: Because the more the American people see what the President
Speaker 1: is really doing and understand his thinking, the more they
Speaker 1: tend to trust him and like him and support him
Speaker 1: in this fight. And that is that is unacceptable to
Speaker 1: the progressive left. Unacceptable. You're in the freedom hunt. This
Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. And in order to
Speaker 1: avoid that those very high numbers, we have to do
Speaker 1: at least several things. One, we have to depend on
Speaker 1: what the president is going to do right now. And
Speaker 1: first of all, he has to tell wait till the
Speaker 1: cases before anything happens. Look, the whole idea is he's
Speaker 1: got to get him place things that were shortages of
Speaker 1: what mur mur, you know, gurgling gurgen and Biden are
Speaker 1: starting to sound more and more soumilar. You are a
Speaker 1: whole burdened thing and am burning the hand is worth
Speaker 1: the barn door with the horses that left? And what
Speaker 1: is he talking about? And I bring this up not
Speaker 1: not to be mean, although it's kind of funny to
Speaker 1: make fun of Biden, sometimes. But I bring it up
Speaker 1: because we are told on a regular basis every day
Speaker 1: by the same media that thinks that Trump is hitler
Speaker 1: and the worst person ever. We are told every day
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is terrible at this. Joe Biden would
Speaker 1: be so much better based on what Trump has the
Speaker 1: experts at the CDC, the NIH up there at the
Speaker 1: press conferences, he he shifted. Let's understand this. Two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: we were being told, you know, we made we might
Speaker 1: start open up. It's going to be tough, and there
Speaker 1: might be some you know, there might be some stop
Speaker 1: and start here with it, but we're going to try
Speaker 1: to open up for business a little bit a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks here. Once we had a five number, fifteen days,
Speaker 1: and then it was going to be we open up.
Speaker 1: Trump clearly was convinced by the experts around him, Nope,
Speaker 1: can't do that, too dangerous economy shutdown another thirty now,
Speaker 1: thirty days from now, another fifteen days beyond the No.
Speaker 1: I think it'll actually end up being six weeks when
Speaker 1: you add it all in, So a six week shutdown
Speaker 1: is really what we're in for, right, A six weeks shutdown? Okay,
Speaker 1: I think my math is right on that it's not
Speaker 1: as bad as the five hundred billion dollars equals or
Speaker 1: five hundred million dollars equals a million dollars for every American,
Speaker 1: or whatever it was. That was funny, that was good times.
Speaker 1: But here we are folks looking at what the Biden
Speaker 1: administration would be like. And everyone understands this that this
Speaker 1: guy's not up for it, that he's not going to
Speaker 1: be able to do this, some fantastic job that Trump,
Speaker 1: you know, has been unable to accomplish thus far. But
Speaker 1: the media is so dishonest that we are going to
Speaker 1: be the storyline you're told will be that, however, many
Speaker 1: people die from this disease. However many people die from
Speaker 1: this disease, it would have been a whole lot less
Speaker 1: if Biden had been present. That is what they will
Speaker 1: tell you, even though it sounds like the guy doesn't
Speaker 1: know where he is half the time, even though he
Speaker 1: has lied a lot. And I know they always say, well,
Speaker 1: Trump lies, Trump is a salesman who bs is a
Speaker 1: lot Trump. I don't see Trump lying about things that
Speaker 1: matter to you and me. Biden seems to want to
Speaker 1: constantly pretend that he's a much smarter, more wise individual
Speaker 1: than he is, that's really been for his whole career.
Speaker 1: There's some deep intellectual in securities I think there. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: he would have saved us. Trump can't save us. That's
Speaker 1: going to be the story that you're told. And I
Speaker 1: just have to remind everybody that that is that's just
Speaker 1: an absurdity. There's no rational reason to believe that. But
Speaker 1: they must believe it because otherwise they're stuck with Trump
Speaker 1: for another four years. And they know this, and given
Speaker 1: the way the press conferences are going over, given how
Speaker 1: strongly the American people are reacting to Donald Trump, and
Speaker 1: you know, sixty percent approval in some of the polls.
Speaker 1: Sixty percent. I mean, if Trump were to have a
Speaker 1: clear fifty two percent of the electorate, fifty one percent
Speaker 1: of the electorate supporting him, he wins, right, sixty percent
Speaker 1: approval on this issue. No, that's not the same as
Speaker 1: saying they're all going to vote for him. But Democrats
Speaker 1: are worried about this. What if Trump presided over just
Speaker 1: just as food for thought and something positive here, I'm
Speaker 1: going to bring you the positive too, right, it can't
Speaker 1: just be all I can't leave all the positive. Your
Speaker 1: producer Mark to cheer you up. What if Trump managed
Speaker 1: to have three great years, faced a true crisis unlike
Speaker 1: anything we've seen in generations, and brings out of it
Speaker 1: by election time. What do you think libs will do? Then?
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the bus sets and show podcasts.
Speaker 1: Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. President Trump and I have
Speaker 1: been committed to making sure that we had the best
Speaker 1: data available. When you hear doctors Fauci and Burkes talk
Speaker 1: about risk, talk about fatalities, trying to think about how
Speaker 1: to model, what they need is data. They need data
Speaker 1: from Italy, they need data from China, they need data
Speaker 1: from Iran. How we need every country to step up
Speaker 1: and pride accurate, transparent information. If we can't have that,
Speaker 1: if we have disinformation instead, how there are more lives
Speaker 1: that will be at risk, not only today but in
Speaker 1: the weeks ahead as we battle this enormous challenge. We've
Speaker 1: asked every country to step up, tell us what they
Speaker 1: know so that the world can learn. America will then
Speaker 1: turn around. We will share the information we get, and
Speaker 1: we'll keep people safe, not only here in the United States,
Speaker 1: but all across the world. One of the huge problems
Speaker 1: here has been the need or the inclination to make
Speaker 1: really sweeping policy judgments early on based on very bad data.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that there has really been an
Speaker 1: answer to this, but the Chinese have been lying about
Speaker 1: this from the beginning. The Chinese are now putting out
Speaker 1: information that no honest person thinks is honest. Our media,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, seems to think of itself not
Speaker 1: just as the propaganda arm of the DNC, but increasingly
Speaker 1: the propaganda arm of the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 1: Here is Congressman Matt Gates speaking to this issue play eight.
Speaker 1: We saw the Democratic Party over hype the Russia threat.
Speaker 1: Now many are cozying up to China. Today's Democrats have
Speaker 1: become the pro China Party. I would suggest that China
Speaker 1: doesn't need an apology from Seth Moulton or access to
Speaker 1: bailouts through the Economic Relief Package, which by the way,
Speaker 1: many Chinese controlled companies are going to be able to
Speaker 1: get and they start only don't need another bite at
Speaker 1: the supply chain. It was just this weekend that the
Speaker 1: propaganda arm of the Chinese government was bragging that their
Speaker 1: genetics experts had gotten fast track approval from our FDA
Speaker 1: to send over coronavirus kits. So we need to do
Speaker 1: a lot more to redomesticate that. I would suggest China
Speaker 1: needs a reckoning, not an apology. Gates is right, But
Speaker 1: there's also the civilizational shift here. And I know this
Speaker 1: sounds maybe esoteric, or this sounds like a conversation for
Speaker 1: some other time, some other era. China could emerge from
Speaker 1: this depending on what happens with our economy. And look,
Speaker 1: I know I've been told that the economy doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Economy doesn't matter, doesn't matter what happens to it in
Speaker 1: the next sixty days, the next ninety days, no talking
Speaker 1: about it. We're fine, the government says, it's fine. We're
Speaker 1: all fighting against the virus. That's it. That's it. Maximum lockdown.
Speaker 1: If you don't agree with that, you're a horrible person.
Speaker 1: All right, this is where we are. So and that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean no lockdown, right, I mean, there could be
Speaker 1: other ways to try and approach this, but no, no
Speaker 1: maximum lockdown, or you're a terrible person. Everywhere. By the way,
Speaker 1: New York, Yes, maximum lockdown, absolutely, no question. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine anything else right now, Montana, should that be in
Speaker 1: lockdown too? Or where where else? Should where else should
Speaker 1: they be on a state of you know, stay at home.
Speaker 1: I know not every state is currently on lockdown, but
Speaker 1: increasingly that's where we are heading. And there are some
Speaker 1: states that are getting more and more cases. And trust me,
Speaker 1: they're going to be in a lockdown scenario too, very
Speaker 1: very soon here if they're not already. So this is now,
Speaker 1: this is but let me just put that aside and
Speaker 1: put that. I keep returning this because I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit surprised at how quickly neither the constitution nor the
Speaker 1: economy is worthy of discussion. In so many quarters, we
Speaker 1: are being told the government, the government that was wrong
Speaker 1: in its preparation for this, wrong about the severity of
Speaker 1: this virus, wrong, wrong, wrong, is now going to put
Speaker 1: the economy in the deep freeze for sixty maybe ninety days,
Speaker 1: maybe longer, and just thought out like a like a
Speaker 1: hamburger that you want to eat tomorrow, right, that that's
Speaker 1: the plan. And if you have any concern about that,
Speaker 1: you're a bad person that wants old people to die.
Speaker 1: This is what you're this is what you'll be told. Okay, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what. So let's you know, we're we're all in
Speaker 1: on just doing what we're told now. We're all in
Speaker 1: on not questioning authority and just going forward with everything.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm washing my hands one hundred times a day.
Speaker 1: I'm on lockdown here in New York. I've been in
Speaker 1: quarantined for two weeks. I'm not a I'm not a
Speaker 1: crazy person. I just feel like open discussion about what's working,
Speaker 1: what's not, what's worthwhile, what's not is probably a good thing.
Speaker 1: But instead we're just told do as you're told now,
Speaker 1: and we are all we are all right now. When
Speaker 1: I say all, a lot of you are like buck,
Speaker 1: I'm not there. But we're increasingly in as a nation.
Speaker 1: We're just in obey mode because we're scared. Understandably we aren't.
Speaker 1: We are scared. Right now we are being told to
Speaker 1: obey or else, and the force that is backing up
Speaker 1: all of these demands is going to increasingly be deployed
Speaker 1: and used. But let's not worry about that right now.
Speaker 1: Let's just everyone stay home for as long as it takes.
Speaker 1: As long as it takes. Okay, So what does that
Speaker 1: mean for the long term prospect of our struggle with
Speaker 1: China for hegemon status, which we have had since the
Speaker 1: fall of a Silvia Union. Now for really my entire
Speaker 1: adult my entire life beyond maybe you know, we're being
Speaker 1: a very very young child. So we have been the
Speaker 1: hegemon here for thirty years. It's been thirty years of
Speaker 1: America as a power that nobody else could even begin
Speaker 1: to compare with. Do we come out of this at
Speaker 1: least still ahead of China, or do we come out
Speaker 1: of this with China perhaps ahead of us, or we're
Speaker 1: at relative parody. I think that must be considered an
Speaker 1: all this process. I read an article this morning about
Speaker 1: the possibility of the end of the US US dollar
Speaker 1: as a reserve currency and what that would mean for
Speaker 1: international transactions for US wealth. This is the kind of
Speaker 1: global incident that could lead to that. In fact, the
Speaker 1: analysis that I read, and it wasn't in some I
Speaker 1: think it was in Bloomberg, actually was that this is
Speaker 1: a Frans Ferdinand moment, that this is something that will
Speaker 1: change everything, and we don't yet recognize the full ramifications.
Speaker 1: I would change everything economically is talking about why why
Speaker 1: will we have the reserve currency after this? We're twenty
Speaker 1: two trillion dollars in debt, soon to be twenty four.
Speaker 1: Soon after that probably could be twenty six. We're going
Speaker 1: to be a reserve currency forever with that rate of
Speaker 1: debt and that rate of spending. Okay, great, you know
Speaker 1: that's what we'll be. That's what I'm told, and that's
Speaker 1: where we are. Okay. Well, the Chinese are viewing this
Speaker 1: as an opportunity to rewrite the history of what's happened,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. They don't want this to be on them.
Speaker 1: They want this to be on us. And the Chinese
Speaker 1: government's dishonesty has cost trillions of dollars of wealth from
Speaker 1: its rivals because they tried to hide this because they
Speaker 1: knew it would be a threat to their control. And
Speaker 1: the Chinese Communist Party is just built on control and force. Right,
Speaker 1: there's no elections, we know this. It's an autocracy. And
Speaker 1: instead of facing up to what happened here, they decided
Speaker 1: to try to bury it. And there are some very
Speaker 1: clear parallels. If you've seen that I mentioned it yesterday,
Speaker 1: if you've seen that show, that show Chernobyl, where you
Speaker 1: have all these bureaucrats, these true apparatchicks, right, these bureaucrats
Speaker 1: that work for the apparatus of the Soviet Union, and
Speaker 1: no one wants to be the one delivering bad To
Speaker 1: deliver bad news is to be the person that's the
Speaker 1: bad guy. No one wants to deliver bad news. So
Speaker 1: the Chinese, because they had had these other problems in
Speaker 1: the past with of virus airborne viruses spreading. We know
Speaker 1: about this, whether it's H one, N one or stars.
Speaker 1: They set up a reporting system, and the reporting system
Speaker 1: was supposed to be any cases of this go immediately
Speaker 1: to Beijing, the central government, so that they can clamp
Speaker 1: down on an outbreak very very quickly, and that's the
Speaker 1: end of it. Right then, then you'll be the outbreak
Speaker 1: will be finished. They'll they'll stamp it out right away.
Speaker 1: Guess what I end up happening. People didn't want to
Speaker 1: share the data. People kept the data out of the system.
Speaker 1: People that saw the data didn't want to report to
Speaker 1: their superiors. Nobody wanted to present bad news. Bad news
Speaker 1: when there's no accountability, and they're more importantly in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, no ethics in a government system. People
Speaker 1: don't feel that they have a mission beyond the service
Speaker 1: of the system. When that's the case, then people will
Speaker 1: do exactly what we saw in China, which is they'll
Speaker 1: be a sort of cover up by the collective. It's
Speaker 1: not just that one person said cover this up. It's
Speaker 1: that everybody along the way. I was like, ooh, I
Speaker 1: don't want to I don't want to be the one
Speaker 1: that puts in the system that this happened. Let's let
Speaker 1: somebody else do. Let's just push this aside for now.
Speaker 1: It'll go away, It'll blow over. Now here we are,
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I am sitting in lockdown right now in
Speaker 1: New York City, worried about my family members, worried about
Speaker 1: my friends, worried about people that I know who are
Speaker 1: treating this virus, and we're on the front lines. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here right now thinking about all of that, and
Speaker 1: worried about my fellow Americans because of decisions made by
Speaker 1: functionaries in the Chinese Communist Party thousands and thousands and
Speaker 1: thousands of miles away. Welcome to globalization two point zero, everybody.
Speaker 1: Even this is the part of it that, oh, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, that discussion, by the way, Oh, when when
Speaker 1: we're finally able to have political discussions without fear of
Speaker 1: just being shouted down for taking away the attention from
Speaker 1: you know, saving saving our grandparents. But it's not just
Speaker 1: our grandparents, as we know, it's a lot of people
Speaker 1: that are younger, you know, and from people my age.
Speaker 1: My parents fall into the higher higher age demographic. Here,
Speaker 1: a lot of you listening your parents or you yourselves,
Speaker 1: or the higher age demographic. But it's dangerous. This thing
Speaker 1: is dangerous down to people in their fifties and their forties,
Speaker 1: some cases in their thirties and twenties, but those I
Speaker 1: think are honestly, I think that those cases are singled
Speaker 1: out in a way that's unhelpful by the media because
Speaker 1: it's really thirties and forties. There's some bad stuff that
Speaker 1: happens to people with this, no question, especially if you
Speaker 1: have other But once you get into your fifties your sixties,
Speaker 1: it can be really, really dangerous, and you know, at
Speaker 1: some point in the future we'll be able to have
Speaker 1: conversations about other things without the constant moral blackmail. If
Speaker 1: you're taking your eye off the fight against the virus here, no,
Speaker 1: I just think we have an all of the above
Speaker 1: approach for how do we defeat a virus while also
Speaker 1: while also keeping America as strong as possible and in
Speaker 1: the best place possible to defend its interests it's people
Speaker 1: and create freedom and prosperity for future generations. But the yeah,
Speaker 1: the reporting system in the Chinese Communist Party failed. The
Speaker 1: propaganda where they're lying about it saying that America created it.
Speaker 1: That's not something that's just a little incident here or there.
Speaker 1: There's a real effort underway to do that. The sending
Speaker 1: of equipment to places that doesn't work. As we know,
Speaker 1: Chinese have done that send I think one third of
Speaker 1: the ventilators they sent to Spain actually function. I also
Speaker 1: saw some anecdote reporting today that one of the problems
Speaker 1: we're running up against with trying to get more ppe
Speaker 1: and to buy it from Chinese factories right now is
Speaker 1: that we the market rate is not being European countries
Speaker 1: are just paying for whatever the market rate is right now,
Speaker 1: and American companies are shorter on willingness to do that
Speaker 1: because they don't want to be seen as as engaged
Speaker 1: or you know, being a party to any sort of
Speaker 1: price gouging that's going on. So we don't want to
Speaker 1: pay those higher rates because then you have to sell
Speaker 1: them at a higher rate, and so they won't they
Speaker 1: won't do it. We're pretending that market price mechanisms don't
Speaker 1: function for ppe on a global scale when they still do.
Speaker 1: That's the point that I'm trying to make here. Sorry
Speaker 1: if it was a little bit of a little bit oblique,
Speaker 1: but the globalization conversation is going to be very interesting.
Speaker 1: If the borders conversation, what is the future of this
Speaker 1: country like, if we don't really think of it as
Speaker 1: a country, as a nation, as a people, and maybe
Speaker 1: there'll be a re establishment of that. In fact, Trump's
Speaker 1: rise came in part because of a desire I believe
Speaker 1: to re establish sovereignty and borders and this as a
Speaker 1: nation and not just an entity that allows for governance
Speaker 1: and you know, an economic union of individuals who happen
Speaker 1: to be here. There's something more to being an American
Speaker 1: than that. There'll be a lot of ways that the
Speaker 1: current epidemic influences our conversation about all of those things.
Speaker 1: You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton
Speaker 1: Show podcast. We're in a phase one trial. We went
Speaker 1: into it as quickly as we possibly could, the fastest ebbit,
Speaker 1: but still the process at rocket speed takes about a
Speaker 1: year to a year and a half. So if we
Speaker 1: cycle with this outbreak and it comes back next fall
Speaker 1: in winter, we might have the early components of vaccine
Speaker 1: ready to count to that outbreak, likely next winter, let's hope.
Speaker 1: So it would be an amazing time for a scientific breakthrough.
Speaker 1: Right now here we have the scientific community around the
Speaker 1: whole world looking at this and this microscopic particle, this virus.
Speaker 1: All it wants to do is just replicate itself. Why
Speaker 1: do viruses even exist another? Viruses all over, most of
Speaker 1: them are harmless to us. But the whole world is
Speaker 1: fighting against this microscopic particle. And are we going to
Speaker 1: be able to win that battle sooner than later? And
Speaker 1: how many lives that would save? You've got to think
Speaker 1: that with all the researchers, with all the brain power,
Speaker 1: all the computing capability, everything that we've got all over
Speaker 1: the world, we can't get a treatment sooner than I
Speaker 1: know that vaccine is a different issue, but we can't
Speaker 1: get a treatment sooner than the fall. We can't get
Speaker 1: a treatment to the next thirty to sixty days. Something
Speaker 1: that really is a game changer here. I feel a
Speaker 1: degree of frustration with that. In fact, I'm just not
Speaker 1: willing to believe that yet. I think that there will
Speaker 1: be something, there will be something better than what we
Speaker 1: have right now to fight against this. Or maybe we'll
Speaker 1: just find out that one of the things we're using.
Speaker 1: I know everyone's been talking about hydroxychloroquin and a zithromycin.
Speaker 1: Maybe some of the things we're using we'll find out
Speaker 1: really do make the difference. New York has started using
Speaker 1: hydroxy chloroquin and a zithromycin as of this week. I
Speaker 1: believe so we will have some real frontline data, which
Speaker 1: is different than a clinical study. But we'll have frontline
Speaker 1: data within the next couple of weeks at least to
Speaker 1: show if this is this is going to save lives.
Speaker 1: But man, now, now is the opportunity for a pharmaceutical
Speaker 1: company to come along and become a or you know,
Speaker 1: an individual scientist usually will be part of a team.
Speaker 1: I would assume it's unlikely that we'll have some of
Speaker 1: people think of Marie Curie and some of these other
Speaker 1: great scientists of the past, Louis pasture and pasteurization, and
Speaker 1: we name some of these processes for these scientists, there's
Speaker 1: unlikely to be one person that is the one who
Speaker 1: saves us from this. But man, talking about being a
Speaker 1: global hero, I mean, this is this is for the
Speaker 1: first time in my life that there's somebody or there's
Speaker 1: some group that could step forward and would really be
Speaker 1: the equivalent of the guys from the movie Armageddon that
Speaker 1: dig into the asteroid and blow it up for it
Speaker 1: and destroy all life on planet Earth. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: not all going to die from this, obviously, so that's
Speaker 1: a bit of an even more extreme scenario by a
Speaker 1: few orders of magnitude. But there's a real possibility here,
Speaker 1: and I hold out hope every day, and the one
Speaker 1: thing I wish for more than anything else is that
Speaker 1: I'll wake up and I'll be able to look at
Speaker 1: the news, or I'll get some message from someone who's
Speaker 1: perhaps in the pipeline of information on this one. I've
Speaker 1: got some good sources in a whole bunch of places,
Speaker 1: and we'll just tell me they found something. They've got
Speaker 1: something now that can really fight this thing, and we're
Speaker 1: going to churn it out. And now, you know, it
Speaker 1: would just be such a different world if you went
Speaker 1: into the hospital and they were saying we've got something
Speaker 1: that you've got a really good chance is going to
Speaker 1: knock this out of you in a couple of days,
Speaker 1: and you've got a really good chance, even if you
Speaker 1: have the more severe symptoms, a really good chance of
Speaker 1: going home just fine. I mean, I honestly think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you this when that day comes, and I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that it will be here in the next couple
Speaker 1: of months. That's mine. That's just mine. That'll be the
Speaker 1: first news story that I can think of in a
Speaker 1: very long time where I think I will actually break
Speaker 1: down in tears. That's That's how much of a relief
Speaker 1: that would be. Now, I don't know if we'll get there,
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm holding out. I'm holding out hope with
Speaker 1: everything that I've got. There are a lot of different
Speaker 1: companies that are trying to come up with something here.
Speaker 1: I also wonder why we don't have a bounty system
Speaker 1: given how much money we're spending right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: the government should just say anybody that figures out, you know,
Speaker 1: a treatment that has I don't know what the how
Speaker 1: would they even engage the efficacy, but you know, seventy
Speaker 1: percent efficacy and reducing uh, you know, in curing cases
Speaker 1: within a week or you know, eighty percent efficacy in curing.
Speaker 1: That should get a check for I don't know, ten
Speaker 1: twenty fifty billion dollars. I mean really, I mean we
Speaker 1: should be willing to throw serious money at this because
Speaker 1: the profit mode of matters. Even now. I know where
Speaker 1: supposed to believe that everyone's just all hands on deck
Speaker 1: with everything, but the profit motive always matters to people
Speaker 1: at some level, certainly to corporations. So man, I'm hoping
Speaker 1: that I'm right on this one. I'm hoping before June
Speaker 1: we get it. Thanks for listening to The bus Sexton
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Speaker 1: possibly can, so I'm hearing you. I'm reading you. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not hearing you, but I'm reading what you think,
Speaker 1: and it means a lot. Every message is appreciated, except
Speaker 1: for the mean ones, but hopefully there won't be too
Speaker 1: many of those. Ted, hey Buck, hope you and Mark
Speaker 1: are safe and sound in your lockdown. I was listening
Speaker 1: to your Friday show. You said manufacturer should be putting
Speaker 1: out thousands of ventilators by the end of the week.
Speaker 1: This is not possible. Most retooling takes months, but in
Speaker 1: this crisis only take a few weeks to be in
Speaker 1: full production. Just to make a simple tool for parts
Speaker 1: takes two weeks minimum from design to finish product. Once
Speaker 1: retooling is complete, we can run non stomp for thousands
Speaker 1: of respirators. Just let you know, you guys are my
Speaker 1: favorite shield high brother. Ted. Thank you. You know more
Speaker 1: about this than I do. And I think sometimes we speak,
Speaker 1: especially when we're just reading about coronavirus all day, we
Speaker 1: speak out of frustration. We speak out of frustration that
Speaker 1: we just wish things could be better than they are.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there are still economic and material and labor
Speaker 1: realities to all of these things, which is why I
Speaker 1: still think the economy is really important to keep going.
Speaker 1: But you know I can't say that out loud anymore. Leo,
Speaker 1: but yeah no, Ted, thank you, and by the guys
Speaker 1: when I'm wrong, I like to be told i'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I like to learn. I want to know a lot
Speaker 1: of you. Every single one of you listening to the
Speaker 1: show has a whole bunch of things you know more
Speaker 1: about than I do. And so if I ever stray
Speaker 1: into an area of your particular work, expertise, or anything else,
Speaker 1: and you think there's a way to tell me so
Speaker 1: that I can then educate everybody else. One of the
Speaker 1: reasons I love doing this show is I constantly have
Speaker 1: to learn, and I like learning from all of you.
Speaker 1: I don't pretend to know everything. Some people think that
Speaker 1: that's the way to get to build, you know, an audience,
Speaker 1: and that's the way to get attention. There are some
Speaker 1: things I know a lot about. There are other things.
Speaker 1: I'm just a student like everybody else. You know, like hockey,
Speaker 1: for example, right Producer Mark, Producer Mark is the obi
Speaker 1: Wan of the NHL. To my potty Wan, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't have to be that much an expert to
Speaker 1: know more than you about the NHL. Nice and salty,
Speaker 1: good to have you on board, Mark, no problem, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm here for. Yeah, Leo, hey Buck, I recently
Speaker 1: found your podcast. With all your talk radio hosts and podcasts,
Speaker 1: I made time for yours on the weekend, I binge
Speaker 1: your show while working around the house Shields High. Well,
Speaker 1: Leo hey Man, welcome to the team. Hopefully we'll get
Speaker 1: we'll be able to win your trust and your time,
Speaker 1: so you'll listen to us during the week That would
Speaker 1: be great. And yeah, thank you so much, thank you
Speaker 1: for adding us in. You're welcome ember team Buck. Even
Speaker 1: if you're binging on the weekends, whenever you listen, we
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Miriam, Hi there. What are your top book
Speaker 1: recommendations for a history nerd and law student? Miriam? I
Speaker 1: can't really do that much for you on the law
Speaker 1: side of things, although there are some philosophical treatises treatises
Speaker 1: that I think may be worth your time. In terms
Speaker 1: of history books, Oh man, I love Empires of the
Speaker 1: Sea by Crowley Robert Massey's Biography of Peter the Great.
Speaker 1: I'm not even a big Russian history guile, I'm becoming
Speaker 1: more of one these days, but the Biography of Peter
Speaker 1: the Great is incredible. William Manchester's biography of Douglas MacArthur,
Speaker 1: William Manchester's biography of Winston Churchill, The Jenkins biography Roy Jenkins,
Speaker 1: a former member of Parliament in the UK. His biography
Speaker 1: Winston Churchill's pretty decent. Not as good in my opinion
Speaker 1: as the Manchester Last Lie in biography, but still pretty good.
Speaker 1: Those are very excellent history books. So I'll have to
Speaker 1: think of some other books on history that I could
Speaker 1: recommend for you that I think you would. There's a
Speaker 1: Cortes book that I read recently. I'm actually forgetting the
Speaker 1: name of it, but the guy it's I think the
Speaker 1: guy Buddy. I think Buddy Levy is the guy who
Speaker 1: wrote it. Is that the name of the author. Let
Speaker 1: me make sure I see now you got me all.
Speaker 1: You got me all tied up with trying to make
Speaker 1: sure I give you the right book, because I don't
Speaker 1: want to ever give you conquis Or hern Hernan Cortez,
Speaker 1: Montezuma and The Last Stand of the Aztecs by Buddy Levy. Indeed,
Speaker 1: I was correct. The Cortes story is just crazy, and
Speaker 1: the fact that it hasn't I think it is being
Speaker 1: made in a movie, do a mini series right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they do it right, the Cortez story
Speaker 1: on Netflix will be one of the most amazing things
Speaker 1: you've ever seen. The reals. I mean, they can just
Speaker 1: do the real story more or less, they can keep
Speaker 1: it very historically accurate. What this guy was able to do. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, vicious, conniving, brutal. You know, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he's a good guy, but I'm just saying what
Speaker 1: he did. I mean to show up with five hundred
Speaker 1: guys and take on a whole I mean, imagine showing
Speaker 1: up with five hundred dudes. They were all dudes. There
Speaker 1: were no ladies. So I can say, imagine showing with
Speaker 1: five hundred dudes. And yes, you have an advantage of horses, steel,
Speaker 1: and gunpowder. But those were the big advantages that Cortez
Speaker 1: and his men had. But keep in mind the gunpet
Speaker 1: It's not like you're showing up with an AAR. Some
Speaker 1: of you are like, yeah, I'd show up and I'd
Speaker 1: have my AAR, my EO tech, and you know those
Speaker 1: Aztecs wouldn't stand a chance. It's like, nope, We're talking
Speaker 1: about an old flintlock style. You know, you have to
Speaker 1: like light it and there's if there's Eddie dampness with
Speaker 1: the powder and you or one shot a minute and
Speaker 1: it's on a little stand, and you know, mmm, you
Speaker 1: would not want one hundred, one hundred people with hatchets
Speaker 1: and spears and everything else coming at you while you
Speaker 1: had your one shot. Now the horseback and having steel
Speaker 1: steal for sword, steal for armor, very very big advantage.
Speaker 1: But really the story of Cortez is a story of
Speaker 1: how he played the local politics and tribal rivalries against
Speaker 1: each other and became a special guest of Montezuma, and
Speaker 1: became a special guest of the empire of the Emperor
Speaker 1: of the Aztecs, and got close to him, held him
Speaker 1: captive in his own capital city. My friends, I'm telling
Speaker 1: you it's if you're looking for something some escapists reading,
Speaker 1: just pick up the Buddy Levy one is very good.
Speaker 1: But I would say, any any biography of Cortes, any
Speaker 1: story of Cortez, the Unquistadory, it'll just be like, this
Speaker 1: is insane, this guy's nuts. Alrighty, what else do we
Speaker 1: have here? I was doing. I was producer Mark, Well,
Speaker 1: here we go. So there you go, Miriam, So you
Speaker 1: got me off on a little buck tangent Annie, loyal
Speaker 1: podcast listener, you shine with all your personal life comments.
Speaker 1: You're banter with grumpy producer Mark. List of books you're
Speaker 1: reading or have read. Netflix cable shows by the way,
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Speaker 1: hair dilemma, the girlfriend, the fact that you're a PlayStation guy.
Speaker 1: And of course to Lou the dog comments are too adorable.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your really intelligent commentary or show is
Speaker 1: smart and entertaining. Producer Mark is really grumpy. Well I'm
Speaker 1: glad somebody thinks the producer Mark can be a little
Speaker 1: grumpy sometimes. I mean, who isn't grumpy right now? That's
Speaker 1: a fair point. I'm actually in our houses. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: actually grumpy too. I find myself walking around. I got
Speaker 1: to make sure the microphone's off. I walk around my
Speaker 1: apartment swearing more than I usually do. But everyone, all
Speaker 1: the listeners, they get nice buck, I get grumpy Buck
Speaker 1: off the air. That is that is also so true?
Speaker 1: So yeah, producer producer Mark, you know he carries a
Speaker 1: heavy load. He carries a heavy load for the show.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Eric Joe Exonic is Craig Kray. And
Speaker 1: here's the reason why it takes several generations to domesticate
Speaker 1: a wild animal. As witnessed in one of the later episodes,
Speaker 1: a tiger turns on Joe and he has to shoot it.
Speaker 1: Maybe Craig Kray is being a little easy on him.
Speaker 1: He is totally insane shields high from Texas. Uh yeah, Eric,
Speaker 1: I mean I wouldn't. I wouldn't take a tiger into
Speaker 1: my home because I feel like, even if the tiger
Speaker 1: didn't wish me extreme harm, those animals are so powerful
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Speaker 1: and those teeth are so sharp. There's you know, the
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. As a very nice one. Mark.
Speaker 1: Don't we like the super nice ones, the super nice
Speaker 1: message bright bright in my day? I read all the
Speaker 1: bad ones too, So the nice ones really make our day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the bad ones are always you know, your stupid,
Speaker 1: stupidhood and I hear your face and that's what they said, Buck, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's yeah. I know. We got to clean it up.
Speaker 1: It's a family show, Mark, Brian. I'm waiting for the
Speaker 1: Clinton Global Initiative a step up and donate to the
Speaker 1: coronavirus cause this is Hillary's chance. It's certainly a global cause.
Speaker 1: Just went to the CGI website Clinton Global Initiative, and
Speaker 1: the most recent cause they posted is the Puerto Rico
Speaker 1: hurricane relief. What a fraud, I mean, the Clinton Global
Speaker 1: Initiative of all that was a giant slush fund the
Speaker 1: media pretend that it wasn't. It was atrocious, it was disgusting,
Speaker 1: but that's the Clintons brand and everyone was told to
Speaker 1: go along with it. So yeah, no surprise. If you're
Speaker 1: waiting for the Clintons to save you from this, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be waiting a very long time. Al book, great
Speaker 1: to hear your voice this evening. I wish I could
Speaker 1: say the same for Joe Biden. The clip he played
Speaker 1: where he said almost every president's ratings go up during
Speaker 1: a crisis, going all the way back to Jimmy Carter
Speaker 1: and the hostage crisis. What Carter's response was a failure
Speaker 1: and helped get Reagan elected. I think his comments about
Speaker 1: stopping the negative attacks or the negative personal attacks were
Speaker 1: directed at Trump and not directed the Democrats. That's just
Speaker 1: my opinion. Press ONMBRO. Yeah, Al, you know, I think
Speaker 1: you're certainly right that. I look, Joe Biden is jealous
Speaker 1: right now because he thought that if he started doing
Speaker 1: these press conferences, people would think more highly of him.
Speaker 1: So there's that, and they don't. And as for the
Speaker 1: personal attacks, yeah, I can't remember if Biden was speaking
Speaker 1: about in a way where one would assume he meant
Speaker 1: no one should be engaging in personal attacks or if
Speaker 1: it was just really a personal attack on Trump, which
Speaker 1: would not be surprising if that was what he was
Speaker 1: really doing. So yeah, al you are a very astute
Speaker 1: listener and I appreciate you giving me your time. And
Speaker 1: I also would continue to ask, especially as everyone in quarantine,
Speaker 1: people are really listening to a lot of podcasts. So
Speaker 1: all of you who are podcast listeners, please do on
Speaker 1: Facebook or anywhere just post the show, tell your friends
Speaker 1: about a direct message and say hey, instead of everyone
Speaker 1: just talking about Tiger King, be like, have you heard
Speaker 1: of the Buck Sexton Show. You should listen to this.
Speaker 1: It's on Spotify, It's on the iHeartRadio app, It's on
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts produce mark. Where else can people listen to
Speaker 1: podcast these days? Oh, there's a platform called Stitcher that
Speaker 1: a lot of people use. Google Play if you have
Speaker 1: an Android phone. There we go the Bucksexton dot Com,
Speaker 1: which we'll be having new content soon. You can always
Speaker 1: get it there. Very nice, very nice, indeed. So yeah,
Speaker 1: those are all the ways, folks, please do tell people
Speaker 1: about it. We are we're actually almost at the end
Speaker 1: of the month, so we'll be checking in on our
Speaker 1: podcast downloads for the month, but we are assuming, we're
Speaker 1: hoping that they go up pretty substantially because they have
Speaker 1: been in recent months. You're in the freedom hunt. This
Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Okay, Mark with a C,
Speaker 1: not a K. Hi Buck, I'm listening to you. Am
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, k EIB, thanks for giving a shout
Speaker 1: out to all of us in essential businesses. I work
Speaker 1: at a very busy cost Go location. The past month
Speaker 1: has seen such an increase INOUME that it's unbelievable. Costco
Speaker 1: has put in place protective measures, measures such as social distancing,
Speaker 1: spacing markers on the front end where checkers like me
Speaker 1: work to install shields on the check stands themselves. Thanks
Speaker 1: for taking the time to read the shield time and
Speaker 1: good health to you, Mark. Good health to you too.
Speaker 1: Thank you for doing what you are doing. Thank you
Speaker 1: for keeping this country going. We cannot win the virus
Speaker 1: fight unless we have people who continue to show up
Speaker 1: and do their jobs. The essential folks out there on
Speaker 1: the front lines medical personnel, but also economics, supply and
Speaker 1: logistics personnel. So that is folks who work at Costco.
Speaker 1: That is folks who work at major grocery chains all
Speaker 1: across the country. I saw that there's this walkout from
Speaker 1: Whole Foods, for example. I'm concerned about what's going to
Speaker 1: happen going forward with some of these circumstances, because everything
Speaker 1: changes the moment that people show up. If this happens,
Speaker 1: if people show up to stores and they really look
Speaker 1: like there's nothing there. You know, it's very little on
Speaker 1: sale at a store, even if it's just a localized
Speaker 1: problem for a while, then real panic will set it.
Speaker 1: Now you'll see what panic actually looks like. So it's
Speaker 1: so important that we keep those stores as stocked as possible,
Speaker 1: John Buck, Pelosi is a perfect example of why we
Speaker 1: have term limits in Congress. She represents a district with
Speaker 1: powerful special interests, which ensure she's always reelected to garner
Speaker 1: more and more power in the House to ensure favorable
Speaker 1: legislation on their behalf and push their agendas shields high. Yes, John,
Speaker 1: I think that's true of Pelosi. I think also Pelosi
Speaker 1: has no intention of changing any event anytime soon. She
Speaker 1: is not going to be in favor of term limits.
Speaker 1: Members of Congress like what they do. They like their prerogatives,
Speaker 1: and that's not going to change anytime soon. Kyle, Hey Buck,
Speaker 1: I find it amazing how people want more government control
Speaker 1: of our lives. If you step back and look at
Speaker 1: the whole picture of this situation, our problems are a
Speaker 1: direct result of local governments and some federal agency's not
Speaker 1: being prepared for many many years. Now, they're all begging
Speaker 1: the private sector to pick up the slack and producing
Speaker 1: the things we need. I know you can't fully prepare
Speaker 1: for a pandemic, but I feel like these governors have
Speaker 1: no idea on how to fix these issues, so they
Speaker 1: just shut everything down. They love to blame the president
Speaker 1: for this, but in all reality, he doesn't have the
Speaker 1: power over a state like the governor does. They're the
Speaker 1: ones that decide the medical supplies they need, and the
Speaker 1: hospitals that get built and so on. The incompetence in
Speaker 1: government is breathtaking. I'm glad we have a president with
Speaker 1: some common sense. He seems to be doing the best
Speaker 1: he can with the limited powers he has, and a
Speaker 1: limited government limited government power is always a good thing. Kyle, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the biggest opportunity for the government
Speaker 1: takeover that anybody could ever really conjure up. I mean,
Speaker 1: even more so in a lot of ways than a war,
Speaker 1: at least unless you are losing the war pretty dramatically
Speaker 1: against a human foe. This opens up the ability for
Speaker 1: the government to try to control everything, and if you
Speaker 1: have any problem with that degree of control, if you
Speaker 1: have any issue with that, you are a bad person.
Speaker 1: That is what this has turned into. You are not
Speaker 1: allowed to question this. If you question this, people die.
Speaker 1: If you have any concerns, If you have any people die.
Speaker 1: That's where we are now. A lot of people said
Speaker 1: really stupid things from positions of authority for the last
Speaker 1: couple of months, but they're not being told that people
Speaker 1: die because now they're on the Okay. The government can
Speaker 1: do anything it wants, can tell you to do whatever
Speaker 1: it wants, and that's fine. I just I don't think
Speaker 1: that this goes the way that a lot of people
Speaker 1: right now the template. Well, I'll get more into this tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'll keep you on edge there, Buck fairly a fairly
Speaker 1: new listener. This is from Tiffany. You have grown to
Speaker 1: my go to podcast when traveling and staying up to date.
Speaker 1: I have four immediate family members an over a dozen
Speaker 1: of my co workers who listen to you. Also, well,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Tiffany. I know you've brought up
Speaker 1: the possibility of the Chinese virus being man made. You've
Speaker 1: also added if we don't have natural immunity or antibodies,
Speaker 1: you would believe it's man made. To questions, have any
Speaker 1: of the twenty five member Chinese Polite Borrow contracted or
Speaker 1: died of the virus? If not, do you think they
Speaker 1: had protection from this? If they don't believe in coincidence,
Speaker 1: will they also limit Well, Look, I can only say
Speaker 1: this as we close out the show. I'm just working
Speaker 1: through that theory. I can never say it's true. I
Speaker 1: would never say it's fact, but I'm open to learning
Speaker 1: more about what happened with the origins of this virus.
Speaker 1: That much as for sure, and I don't believe anybody
Speaker 1: in the Chinese Communist Party leadership has gotten it, not
Speaker 1: that I'm aware of. Team. We'll be back tomorrow and
Speaker 1: I look forward to it. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being here with me. We're going to get through this together.
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