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Speaker 1: a great American Again, The Buck Sexon Show begins an

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Speaker 1: some of these procedures then to allow more economic activity?

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Speaker 1: And say, May or June or July is the person

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Speaker 1: that gives that call then that says, okay, we're going

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Speaker 1: to do We're gonna go back to work America, at

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Speaker 1: least in some places, in some ways, it's that person

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Speaker 1: going to be called the murder the answers yes if

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Speaker 1: it's a Republican. By the way, the moment that somebody says, hey, okay,

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Speaker 1: we've got to try or return to some normalcy here,

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Speaker 1: they're telling you, oh, we'll get on the other side

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Speaker 1: of the curve, and we'll have more things under control

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Speaker 1: and we'll have better create all this other stuff. Okay,

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Speaker 1: sort of, you know, sort of, we won't have to

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Speaker 1: worry about overwhelming hospitals. But unfortunately, the way this disease

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Speaker 1: goes for a lot of people, it's not like you

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Speaker 1: get on a ventilator and that's a great, great treatment,

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Speaker 1: that's a last ditch effort to keep somebody alive. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people pass away even though they're on the ventilator.

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Speaker 1: So we're still taking risk. We're still taking risk to

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Speaker 1: life and limb by opening up the economy. Is anyone

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Speaker 1: going to be able to give that order without meaning,

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Speaker 1: you know, hey, we're going to start going back to

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Speaker 1: normal without being called the monster. Well, I can tell

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Speaker 1: you this any Republican, especially at the Trump administration, but

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Speaker 1: any Republican governor, mayor and all of Republican mayors running

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Speaker 1: around for big cities. But who says, as okay, let's

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Speaker 1: let's try to open things up. It's they're committing political suicide.

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Speaker 1: They know it. So that means it's very hard to

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Speaker 1: have a reasonable discussion about any of this. How did

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Speaker 1: we get to this point? The role of China cannot

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Speaker 1: cannot be overstated at this point when you look at

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Speaker 1: the outbreak and the inability not just to contain it

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Speaker 1: but also to allow other people to prepare for Here's

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Speaker 1: what I think really tipped this scale because the projections,

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Speaker 1: the scary projections about what's going on with the economy.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what's going on with the death rate? Never

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Speaker 1: mind the economy. That's that's the way we're looking at

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Speaker 1: this right now. The scary projections on death rate were

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Speaker 1: weeks ago out there, and you had this Imperial College

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Speaker 1: that was the one that said that we had so

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Speaker 1: many people that would that would possibly die in this

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Speaker 1: country and in the UK. All right, but that was

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Speaker 1: out there, and then even last week the Trump administration

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Speaker 1: well they must see that this isn't We've got this

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Speaker 1: mostly under control. We can take some additional risk. We

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Speaker 1: got to get people back to work. And then then

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Speaker 1: the latest information was, oh, no, we can't do that.

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Speaker 1: That's a horrible idea. A lot of people are at risk,

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Speaker 1: A lot more people are at risk than than was

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Speaker 1: anticipated by that. So we are in full on lockdown

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Speaker 1: mode for another thirty days. That's a huge switch in

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Speaker 1: one week. I mean, this is what is the government

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Speaker 1: or the government just looking at this? Nobody cares about

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Speaker 1: climate change. You know that we put out a bounty

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Speaker 1: for the leader of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro. We put out

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Speaker 1: a bounty on the guy, like an old West, you know,

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Speaker 1: bring him in, not dead or alive, but you know,

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Speaker 1: bring him in as a narco trafficker. This guy's the

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Speaker 1: president of Venezuela. I mean people would say Guido, but

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Speaker 1: Maduro is the leader of Venezuela. No one even noticed.

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Speaker 1: How many of you even knew that? I mean I

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Speaker 1: read the news all day long, so I saw this,

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Speaker 1: But I mean even have I even brought it up before.

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Speaker 1: Now We've put a bounty on me, on the leader

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Speaker 1: of a foreign head of state, as a criminal, and

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Speaker 1: no one even paid any attention to it. So what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying is that the government is only really focused,

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Speaker 1: or rather the vast bulk of government effort and attention

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Speaker 1: is focused in on this problem. It's not like the

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Speaker 1: possible death rate from COVID nineteen would slip through the cracks.

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Speaker 1: So what was the game changer here, What shifted the

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Speaker 1: course of this such that we're now being told it's lockdown,

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Speaker 1: and my friends, it's not lockdown for thirty more days,

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Speaker 1: it's lockdown for at least another sixty. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you look at the models, their trend doesn't really come

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Speaker 1: down until July. So it's lockdown for a long time.

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Speaker 1: And we're all being told the economy will just flip

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Speaker 1: right back on like a switch. Just the government will

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Speaker 1: pay you, the economy will flip right back on. I

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Speaker 1: don't believe that, but I also am getting sick of

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Speaker 1: being told that just bringing that up as a concern

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Speaker 1: means that you're you know, you're basically a mass murderer. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're just I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I

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Speaker 1: would like to think of ways that we could try

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Speaker 1: to keep people alive and avoid a depression. But that

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Speaker 1: now makes you makes you a very, very bad person,

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Speaker 1: according to the consensive narrative of journalists, who are the

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Speaker 1: dumbest and worst people in the world. But how did

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Speaker 1: we get to this point where we have such a

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Speaker 1: massive shift in our thinking on this China? The answer

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Speaker 1: is China, not what they have been telling us. What

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Speaker 1: they haven't been telling us. You're in the Freedom Hunt.

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Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. And when you

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Speaker 1: talk about could we have known something different? You know,

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Speaker 1: I think all of us. I mean I was overseas

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Speaker 1: with a number of fifty thousand, you start thinking of

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Speaker 1: this more like SARS. Then you do this kind of

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Speaker 1: I looked at it, I was like, oh, well, this

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Speaker 1: is not you know, as close as those quarters are,

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Speaker 1: you know. So I think the medical community made interpreted

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Speaker 1: the Chinese data as that this was serious but smaller

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Speaker 1: than anyone expected, because I think probably we were missing

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Speaker 1: significant amount of the data. Now that when we see

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Speaker 1: what happened to Italy and we see what happened to Spain,

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Speaker 1: my friends, Chinese government lied about this, which had huge ramifications.

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Speaker 1: I mean, here's the top expert, one of the people

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Speaker 1: that liberals who are still deranged with their hatred of

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Speaker 1: Trump and focus on that more than really anything else. Right. Now,

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Speaker 1: here's the top expert saying that she looked at this,

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Speaker 1: she looked at the data, and it was her conclusion

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Speaker 1: was wrong. So I'm here telling you that I also,

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Speaker 1: based on what I was seeing and hearing, I thought

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Speaker 1: that it would be like SARS as well. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I thought it would be one of these moments where

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Speaker 1: or there, but it would it would not be anything

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Speaker 1: like we're dealing with now, and that shutting down the

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Speaker 1: economy when this is happening would be you know, the

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Speaker 1: cure would be worse than the disease, what the president said.

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Speaker 1: But no, now we're now we're actually looking at a

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Speaker 1: disease that's far beyond in terms of the losses and

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Speaker 1: the casualties what we thought even even a week or

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Speaker 1: two ago. How did that happen? Because now we start

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Speaker 1: to have more information about what really happened in China,

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Speaker 1: because you have to remember, if the China knees with

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Speaker 1: their very rapidly produced field hospitals on this matter and

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Speaker 1: all the rest of in their lockdowns and everything. But

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Speaker 1: China is a densely populated country of one billion people.

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Speaker 1: And when you look at the numbers, they claim that

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Speaker 1: they only had twenty five hundred deaths in Wuhan. Twenty

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Speaker 1: five hundred deaths the real number based upon and this

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Speaker 1: is where the data has been essentially smuggled out now

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Speaker 1: and this is how they're estimating this. There are eighty

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Speaker 1: one five hundred and sixty urns citywide, assuming one cremation

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Speaker 1: takes one hour, they told So they're looking at the

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Speaker 1: cremation data from funeral homes. And when you do that,

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Speaker 1: overall in the rest of China. When you do that,

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Speaker 1: the death rate in Uhan isn't twenty five hundred, it's

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Speaker 1: about fifty thousand. You're going up twenty x what the

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Speaker 1: Chinese government had been telling the world for weeks. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you tell me that we're facing something similar to

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Speaker 1: the flu and we'll have about the same casualty rate,

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Speaker 1: you know, then it's it's possible to have a conversation about, well,

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Speaker 1: how soon you know how many weeks before we can

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Speaker 1: maybe do this lockdown, let them get ahead. But you've

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Speaker 1: now being told. If you're gonna tell me it kills

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Speaker 1: twenty times as many people as the flu, well that's

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Speaker 1: a dramatically different calculation. And we're just being presented with

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Speaker 1: this now, my friends, it is April first. We are

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Speaker 1: in April. The first US case of this was January fifteenth.

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Speaker 1: This has been dragging along for months. So when people

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Speaker 1: tell you, I've been saying this to listen to the experts.

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Speaker 1: Everybody at every level of this has gotten some of

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Speaker 1: it wrong, and most of the people with the greatest

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Speaker 1: authority and the biggest megaphones have gotten it very wrong.

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Speaker 1: Let's just get this out of our systems now. Let's

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Speaker 1: just be clear about this, because you want to make

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Speaker 1: better decisions in the future. I want to make better decisions.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you the truth. I have been mercilessly

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Speaker 1: all my own here, beating myself up because I feel

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Speaker 1: like I should have seen this coming more. And then

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Speaker 1: it will tell all of you with greater certainty how

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Speaker 1: bad this was going to be. I'm mad at myself

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Speaker 1: because of this, and I know, yeah, Deborah Burkes and

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Speaker 1: the people that actually study this, I'm just some guy.

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Speaker 1: I'm just some ex Intel analyst who does it pretty

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Speaker 1: damn good radio show. But you know, I don't have

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Speaker 1: any special insider expertise into the issue of pandemics. Although

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Speaker 1: I did read a book on pandemics a few years ago,

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Speaker 1: which now everyone's talking about all the time, so I

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Speaker 1: got that going for me. But no, honestly, though, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm using a little bit of self deprecation here to

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Speaker 1: defray from what makes me what makes me mad at myself.

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Speaker 1: But I'm angry that I didn't see this coming. And

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine people in the US government, top to

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Speaker 1: bottom aren't also angry even though the information was bad,

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Speaker 1: even though it's garbage in and garbage out. I should

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Speaker 1: have seen this coming. They damn sure should have seen

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Speaker 1: this coming. And I mean that in all the agencies,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember

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Speaker 1: to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever

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Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. Where did the virus carrying bats

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Speaker 1: come from? And the paper says this quote. We screened

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Speaker 1: the wet market was something called the Wuhan Center for

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Speaker 1: Disease Control and Prevention. According to public reports, the center

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Speaker 1: used intermediate horseshoe bats for research. Then, about seven miles

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Speaker 1: away was another facility. It was called the Wuhan Institute

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Speaker 1: wet Market. South China University scientists concluded that the coronavirus pandemic,

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Speaker 1: the one that people are dying from here, likely came

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Speaker 1: Wuhan wet market. Tucker Carlson is doing some of the

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Speaker 1: most important commentary on TV these days, during this time

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Speaker 1: really matter, Tucker's thoughts are mattering. Tucker's thoughts are worthwhile

643
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: a lot of the other stuff you're hearing is just complete,

644
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: just either repetitious or it's worthless garbage. Oh, the Navy

645
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: ship's never going to arrive in New York, Yeah, MSNBC.

646
00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:59,959
Speaker 1: I looked at it when it did arrive two days ago.

647
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: So there we have it. But let's get into this

648
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 1: situation with China here. I believe, and look, you won't

649
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: really be able to tell me if I'm right or

650
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: wrong about this for years. So this is one of

651
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,399
Speaker 1: these predictions where I'll tell some of you, hopefully you'll

652
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: still be listening, Hopefully we'll have millions of people listening

653
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: to this show in years, and I'll tell you that

654
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 1: I said this. People will look back at this as

655
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: the beginning of the great struggle between the US and

656
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: China for global hegemony. And it's going to bring us

657
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: very close. I'm not saying that a year, might be

658
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: saying in next two or three years, next five or

659
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: ten years, it's going to bring us very close to

660
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Speaker 1: a shooting war with China because the Chinese Communist Party

661
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 1: is not going to go down without a fight, and

662
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 1: because this now shows us that what happens in China

663
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: is not in any way cordoned off from the rest

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Speaker 1: of the world. In a whole bunch of context, you know,

665
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 1: they've been engaged in this unceasing theft of intellectual property

666
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: from the United States for decades now, and we've been

667
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: trying to help them our approaches, and let's make a better,

668
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: more prosperous, happier, healthier China and every way that we can.

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Speaker 1: Let's be good neighbors. That's always America's view, right, Let's

670
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: try to be good neighbors when we can. Sometimes we

671
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: have to invade places and there's bombs dropped. Then I

672
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: understand that. But with China, we're trying to do right

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Speaker 1: by the Chinese government and be good trade partners and

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Speaker 1: all the rest of it. What China's done is, yeah,

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00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: they've sold us a lot of cheap stuff to make

676
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: them make their own country a lot wealthier, but they've

677
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Speaker 1: also been stealing intellectual property and engaged in really nefarious

678
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Speaker 1: activity for a long time. Okay, Tucker got into the

679
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: situation of the virus. There are two. Now this is

680
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: you know, you know where I've been on this. I

681
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 1: keep saying I can't prove it. I can't prove it.

682
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Speaker 1: But let's look at the facts as we know them.

683
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Speaker 1: There are two institutes of virology or infectious disease study

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Speaker 1: that are a stone's throwaway from this wet market in Wuhan. Okay,

685
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Speaker 1: So you have these two facilities. The disease this is

686
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Speaker 1: according to Chinese research, Okay, the disease that we now

687
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Speaker 1: are dealing with, and that has shut down the economy.

688
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 1: It's a reason that a lot of us are just

689
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: looking around like how are we in this global nightmare

690
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: people game, saying I'm gonna go somewhere. Okay, you better

691
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: get way off the grid, because this is everywhere. It's

692
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 1: in every country, it's in every state, and you know,

693
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: you never know when someone's coughing if it's an allergy

694
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Speaker 1: or if it's this. But the the bat, the specific

695
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Speaker 1: species of bat that it is believed to have been

696
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Speaker 1: the initial the initial animal reservoir for this virus, and

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Speaker 1: then you have zooonotic transmission. It comes from the animal

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Speaker 1: to people. But the specific virus here is in a

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Speaker 1: kind of bat, the intermediate guess I can't remember where

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Speaker 1: its intermediate. It's something bad, Mark, do you remember where

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Speaker 1: kind of bat there's there's actually hundreds of types of bats.

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Speaker 1: I think there might even be more more than that,

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Speaker 1: but there's a lot of bat species. Horseshoe bat. There

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Speaker 1: we go intermediate horseshoe bat, which is the scariest looking

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Speaker 1: little thing you get ever, fine, I mean that little

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Speaker 1: you know, you wouldn't want to see that thing hanging

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Speaker 1: upside down your closet late at night trying to go

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Speaker 1: in there and grab a sleeping cap, right, that would

709
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Speaker 1: not be good. But this intermediate horseshoe bat that's supposed

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Speaker 1: to be the animal reservoir for this virus didn't. They

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Speaker 1: didn't have any of them. They didn't sell them. That

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Speaker 1: wasn't a species that they would have had within out

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Speaker 1: there's no colony of them within hours of you know,

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Speaker 1: a natural colony them within hours of the market itself.

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Speaker 1: I think they said the last nine hundred kilometers. That's

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Speaker 1: that's a pretty Now. Granted, they bring in animals, they

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Speaker 1: bring in tigers, and they bring things from all over

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Speaker 1: the world, but you're you're, you're you're bringing in a

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Speaker 1: bat that's not a native species to the area. There

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Speaker 1: are a lot of bats that are so oh, you

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Speaker 1: gotta unless somebody thinks that like the intermediate horseshoe bat

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Speaker 1: just take so much better in the soup, and that

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Speaker 1: might be possible. I've never had bat soup. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but it seems fishy does. And it seems a bit

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Speaker 1: strange that you'd have the intermediate horseshoe bat not living

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Speaker 1: within five hundred miles or so. I mean, that's a

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Speaker 1: bad that's a rough calculation, but whatever, whatever nine hundred

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Speaker 1: kilometers is, it's like six or seven, one hundred, one

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Speaker 1: hundred and nine er. If I could, you know, read

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Speaker 1: a ten k and do math, I probably wouldn't be

731
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Speaker 1: working media. So a little bit of honesty there. But

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Speaker 1: here's the here's the truth. You look at the species

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Speaker 1: of bat and you say, hold on a second, they

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Speaker 1: don't have any near there. And they were studying those

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Speaker 1: bats in these two virology institutes whatever they're called, specifically,

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Speaker 1: these two infectious disease institutions, one of which at least

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Speaker 1: is known to have released viruses that it was studying

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Speaker 1: in a pass into the general population. So that's already happened. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think that China intentionally let

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Speaker 1: this thing out, not yet, meaning you know that maybe

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00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: down the line they were thinking about it. But now

742
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Speaker 1: that we see how this works, now that we see

743
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Speaker 1: the reality here, imagine the Imagine the strategic advantage the

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Speaker 1: biological warfare agent would give you, because this is a

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Speaker 1: weapon that could be completely Now, to be clear, I

746
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Speaker 1: do not think that the Chinese did this purposefully. I

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Speaker 1: do think, well, I know that it came from China, obviously,

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Speaker 1: and I do think there's a high possibility, maybe even

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Speaker 1: now at probability, that it came from that it was

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Speaker 1: being studied and got out of one of these labs,

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Speaker 1: which would also explain at some level the completely corrupt

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Speaker 1: and insanely irresponsible approach Chinese government. It's one thing if

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Speaker 1: you have a virus that pops up somewhere, Okay, you know,

754
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 1: we didn't know how bad it was. But if the

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Speaker 1: virus is the result of your faulty government labs, think

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Speaker 1: about the I mean, not that the Chinese people could

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Speaker 1: sue the Chinese government, think about the liability there. Think

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Speaker 1: about how the international community might be able to turn

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00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: to China and demand virus reparations. That's a real thing

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00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:29,359
Speaker 1: that could happen. At some point we may say, Okay, China,

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Speaker 1: you know, you get to pay for the trillions of

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Speaker 1: dollars that you have just evaporated of global wealth here.

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Speaker 1: You know they're not going to have the trillions to pay,

764
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: but they gotta pay something, right that. I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: this could happen in the future if it were so

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00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 1: clearly not just something that originated in China. But we're

767
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: the fault of the Chinese government, which seems to be

768
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Speaker 1: increasingly likely to have been the case. But now look

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Speaker 1: at this from a biological weapons perspective. We see what

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Speaker 1: this is doing to our country. It's tearing us apart,

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00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 1: it's ripping down our economy, it's killing thousands and thousands

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00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: of our fellow Americans. It's overwhelming our hospitals. Not a

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Speaker 1: shot fired. Not a shot fired. If a country, let's say,

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Speaker 1: had the Wuhan virus, had COVID nineteen, and also had

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Speaker 1: studied to the point where they knew what suppression, what

776
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: suppressive measures would work, and they release this and again

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Speaker 1: this is I'm not saying this is what happened. I'm wargaming.

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Speaker 1: Why a country would want to study and prepare to

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Speaker 1: weaponize this kind of virus if you could release this

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Speaker 1: into a foreign government population and keep it under wraps

781
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: and have your own population protected because you know either

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Speaker 1: what the necessary intervention is or you know perhaps even

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Speaker 1: what the cure is, or you could even do inoculations

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Speaker 1: for government officials. Just tell them it's for something else.

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Speaker 1: And this wouldn't be that hard to do, especially in

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Speaker 1: a country like China where's it's authoritarian. It's totalitarian, so

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Speaker 1: they make all government officials, police, military get inoculated, and

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Speaker 1: they keep the and they say it's for something else,

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Speaker 1: and they say it's a standard inoculation. You know, the

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00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,479
Speaker 1: party can give those orders, and then they when people

791
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Speaker 1: start showing up in their emergency rooms, the government mandates

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Speaker 1: a protocol for them. Even if the country that you

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Speaker 1: would you would unleashed this in, which is as simple

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00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: as just sending a few infected people, very straightforward, right,

795
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 1: how you how you would weaponize it in terms of dispersal.

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00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: Even if you did that, then when your own population

797
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 1: it would bounce back. And people say, this is why

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Speaker 1: they would never This is why you don't want to

799
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Speaker 1: weaponize a virus, or what if the state facilities have

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Speaker 1: the treatment and you know, their fatality rate instead of

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Speaker 1: being what it looks like this is, which is, you know,

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Speaker 1: one percent, but particularly for older people, Let's say they

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Speaker 1: had even elevated the fatality through continued engineering at the virus,

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00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,359
Speaker 1: so it was like a fifty percent fatality rate. I mean,

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00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 1: now I'm talking about a straight up weaponization of a virus,

806
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: but you can bring that down to one percent for

807
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Speaker 1: your own population. Think about what that does. You'll kill

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00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: perhaps a few million of the enemy before they even

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00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 1: realize what's gone on. Their economy will be in tatters,

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00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: their society will be ground into dust, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you basically are able to just keep on fighting, keep

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Speaker 1: on going. This we're running, in a sense, a precursor

813
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: experiment to that. Right now, we're seeing what happens. And

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Speaker 1: I do think that we need to take very seriously

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Speaker 1: the prospect of the Chinese government being responsible for this

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00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: through recklessness, not through intentional transmission. I do not think

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00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 1: the Chinese government would try to infect its own population

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Speaker 1: with this or would risk that knowing that they would

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Speaker 1: not really be able to control it. That doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 1: But Tucker talked to this last down on his show,

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Speaker 1: basing it on Chinese research that's already out there. What

822
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: part of this is not credible? I mean, that's one

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00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 1: way that as a former Intel officer, I'd like to ask.

824
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: I always ask that question, why doesn't the story hold up?

825
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: Don't tell me what we don't know, Tell me what's

826
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: wrong about what we already know. I can't come up

827
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Speaker 1: with anything yet. We know the Chinese government led about it.

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Speaker 1: We know the Chinese government was willing to put everybody

829
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,919
Speaker 1: at substantially greater risk. So what do we do about

830
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 1: all of this? It's a question nobody has an answer for.

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Speaker 1: Right now. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the

832
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show podcast. We do not know the origin

833
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:42,959
Speaker 1: of this virus. We know where the outbreak first began,

834
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Speaker 1: and it was Wuhan. And you're right, there is a

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Speaker 1: level for biomedical research, the Wuhan Institute of Virology that's

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Speaker 1: just a few miles away. That is the level four

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Speaker 1: is the highest level of security. We know that at

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Speaker 1: that facility they were researching highly, highly infectious diseases, including coronaviruses,

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Speaker 1: including coronaviruses that derived from back and so they're researching

840
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Speaker 1: the exact same type of disease that became this pandemic,

841
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 1: and it is a natural question to ask. There had

842
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: been multiple stories written in the global media about how

843
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: the security protocols at this will Hunt Institute were lacking,

844
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Speaker 1: that they weren't very good, that this is you know,

845
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Speaker 1: this is the sort of place you see in the

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Speaker 1: movies where people go in and the hazmat suits and

847
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 1: it's all you know, sealed off, and because they're exceptionally

848
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: dangerous diseases there, and there is a very natural question

849
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,319
Speaker 1: to ask of well, did somebody make a mistake where

850
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 1: they studying this virus and did it escape accidentally? And

851
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Speaker 1: is that part of why the communist government in China

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Speaker 1: tried so hard to cover that cover this up. I'm

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Speaker 1: and Ted Cruz on this one. I didn't know that

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Speaker 1: was his opinion until today, but that's been my feeling

855
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 1: on this all along. Wouldn't that make sense then if

856
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 1: you're the Communist party, you recognize not only are you

857
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,800
Speaker 1: going to have to deal with the I look, disease

858
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: can happen anywhere, right, I mean, no one, no one

859
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: blames Lime Connecticut for lime disease. And just because that's

860
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: the first place where they figured out what this was,

861
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 1: the disease carried by dear ticks. You know, no one

862
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: blames you know, you know West the West Nihile area

863
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: for West nil virus. It's not about that. But this

864
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,319
Speaker 1: is different than that. This isn't the place of discovery

865
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: for something that's just you know, an accident of nature

866
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: that that occurred that we're now dealing with. This is

867
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: a government entity that lied about this because of its incompetence,

868
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:41,760
Speaker 1: which goes to a whole other level here and also

869
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: under and also explains why their propaganda has been so aggressive.

870
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 1: But yeah, if if I, if I had gotten reports,

871
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Speaker 1: if I had known, let's say, a month ago, that

872
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: they're saying fifty thousand, I mean maybe it's more like

873
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,720
Speaker 1: seventy five or one hundred thousand dead in one hundred

874
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: one city from this one from this virus. If that's

875
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: what we were dealing with, I think everybody would have

876
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: figured out real fast that this is something that we

877
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: have to take very seriously and that this isn't you know,

878
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: with the flu we do the stiff upper lip we

879
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,880
Speaker 1: pushed through. We take the best care of vulnerable populations

880
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 1: we can, but we know that people people get sick,

881
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,359
Speaker 1: and people do die tens of thousands a year from

882
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: the flu. So the thinking, understandably at the early stages

883
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Speaker 1: of this was well, based on the numbers we're seeing,

884
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 1: it's going to be kind of more like the flu.

885
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to just do our best. But

886
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: we you know, we should probably move forward. Right. No,

887
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: that just went. That just got chopped like with a

888
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Speaker 1: guillotine in the last really, in the last seventy two hours.

889
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been building for the last week or two,

890
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 1: but the last seventy two hours, all of a sudden,

891
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: there's nobody now in the Trump administration who's saying anything

892
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: other than up, shut it down, shut everything down. So

893
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: what a what a stunning circumstance. And and and also I

894
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,040
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about the some of the

895
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: organizations here that were wrong about this. And it's not

896
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,279
Speaker 1: This isn't a like let's just go joy ride in

897
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:13,280
Speaker 1: the wreckage of international institutions and various global news brands credibility.

898
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,399
Speaker 1: This is let's do an accounting for what's really true here.

899
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I've told you that I'm I'm upset that

900
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: I didn't see this coming more and I saw it

901
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 1: coming more than some people, But I didn't know it

902
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: was going to be this. I knew it was going

903
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: to be serious. I didn't know it was going to

904
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: be locked down the country indefinitely and maybe just you know,

905
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: we light our economy on fire because we have no choice.

906
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: I didn't know it's gonna be that serious. But this

907
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: is where I caul to tell you we're gonna get

908
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:36,919
Speaker 1: through this. We're gonna be okay, Everything's gonna be fine.

909
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: I promise it's all gonna be I mean when I

910
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: say everything's gonna be fine, it's gonna be tough. We're

911
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: gonna take losses, and but we will have days when

912
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: we can finally go back. You know, I miss being

913
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: able to do a lot of impersonations on this show.

914
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:53,359
Speaker 1: I miss being able to joke around more. I feel

915
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 1: like I'm stuck in this one mode and there's so

916
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 1: many other things that I want to talk to you

917
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:58,919
Speaker 1: all about, and that's why I've been working to try

918
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: to do some projects from this. But I just I

919
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: don't want to be you know, I can't sit here

920
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: and do you know Hong Kong clown stuff as much

921
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: as I do enjoy that sometimes while we're going through this,

922
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,919
Speaker 1: So I hope you all understand and appreciate that it's

923
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 1: not it's and it's not that I'm trying to make

924
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: anyone's day harder. Ever, this this, for me, there's a

925
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: there's a catharsis tough word to say. Sometimes a catharsis

926
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 1: of daily truth diving that I can do with all

927
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: of you, and I find that really helpful. I find

928
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: some comfort in waking up every day and knowing that

929
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:36,800
Speaker 1: I get to learn as much as I can about

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00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 1: what's happening, use all the resources at my disposal, all

931
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: the sources that I have, and then present you with

932
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,839
Speaker 1: the biggest, best version of the truth that I can,

933
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,720
Speaker 1: and then have your feedback to me through roll call

934
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:52,359
Speaker 1: and however else you reach out and know that we're

935
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 1: in this constant dialogue about what's really going on, because

936
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: if you were, if you and I'm going to do

937
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: some of it now. When you catalog what has been

938
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: set out there and what the people that we were

939
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: depending on to get this right, what they have been saying,

940
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: what they have been doing all along, you will have

941
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: a very different view of what it means to quote,

942
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: listen to the experts. Listen to experts, but always judge

943
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 1: what the expertise they're giving you really is. You know,

944
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 1: always judge what the advice is they're handing out. And

945
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: I'll go through some of where those shortcomings have been.

946
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 1: But man, I look forward to the day when I

947
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: can do you know, silly Bernie voices and all those things.

948
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: It'll it'll be here sooner than we realize. But right

949
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: now it's it's tough to get into that headspace. Friends.

950
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:46,760
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember

951
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever

952
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. It's shameful. I mean for the

953
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:58,879
Speaker 1: United States to be race fading virus which never has

954
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 1: a flag, can't have a flags as being the providence

955
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: of one country is designed to be divisive. It's designed

956
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 1: to stigmatize people of Asian descent, and it's certainly not

957
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 1: the way the leadership of the United States, the Secretary

958
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: of State, the President the United States ought to be

959
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 1: behaving in the best of times, but certainly not in

960
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:21,439
Speaker 1: a crisis. So that's the former National Security Advisor under

961
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: Barack Obama Susan Rice, and she is saying here that

962
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: calling it the Wuhan virus is racist. Now, this is

963
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:35,919
Speaker 1: just this is on its own, a dumb thing to say.

964
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 1: We keep coming up against this, and I've refrained from

965
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,280
Speaker 1: doing this. This is kind of the the petty parts

966
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: in squabbles that I often talk about, you know, talk

967
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:45,800
Speaker 1: about trying to avoid I should say, and try to

968
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,399
Speaker 1: avoid talking about them. But this is the usual, Oh,

969
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: don't call it that. It's racist to call it that.

970
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of virtue signaling and a lot

971
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 1: of other nonsense that's going on right now around that

972
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,800
Speaker 1: calling it the Wuhan virus is not racist. Okay. The

973
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 1: way that we talk aboutfferent places, different diseases coming from

974
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 1: different places has nothing to do with race. We all

975
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: know that the people of Lyme, Connecticut are not all

976
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:10,400
Speaker 1: all upset that it's called Lyme disease. This is just

977
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: not something that not something that we should have to

978
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: deal with it. And also I think that there there's

979
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: an effort to rewrite history that's going on right now

980
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: that we cannot allow. We cannot allow it to happen.

981
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 1: But put aside for a second these stupid comment that

982
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: this is racist. And I will say, notice how much

983
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 1: less talk we have had, how much less we have

984
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:40,239
Speaker 1: heard recently about using the preferred pronouns right, Notice how

985
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:45,319
Speaker 1: much less we've heard about mis gendering those when we

986
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 1: used to say that this was an absurdity and that

987
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:49,880
Speaker 1: society was just collapsing in on itself in terms of

988
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,319
Speaker 1: the culture being beyond anyone's even even comprehension about what

989
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 1: you're supposed to say, are allowed to say? Those are

990
00:55:56,160 --> 00:56:01,440
Speaker 1: the squabbles of a society with unprecedented freedom and wealth

991
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 1: and happiness everywhere. When you're able to sit around and

992
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: worry about being mis gendered or worried about these things

993
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: you're dealing with, well, whatever you think of that, whatever

994
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 1: you think of it, it's just indicative of the society

995
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 1: does not have. Are those major news stories we'd wrought about, Oh,

996
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: someone wouldn't use the correct wouldn't use they wouldn't use

997
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: a plural? Prone to remember all that? As I've said,

998
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: I miss I long for and I miss the time

999
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 1: when we could sit around and see who was dumb

1000
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:34,280
Speaker 1: enough to believe that a couple of guys in Maga

1001
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: hats put a noose around Jesse Smullett's neck at one

1002
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning on a freezing night on the

1003
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 1: South side of Chicago, or just in Chicago yelling this

1004
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: is maga country. Right. Nope, that didn't happen, but that

1005
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: was a major, major news story. Instead, we're in the

1006
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 1: midst of this and there are still people who are

1007
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:56,839
Speaker 1: and there's going to be some focus on. You can't

1008
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: just only talk about, even if you're in the news business,

1009
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:01,360
Speaker 1: only talking about coronavirus. So I try to make some

1010
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 1: exceptions for that. But here's Susan Rice taking the position again.

1011
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,799
Speaker 1: I mean the people that people that pretend to care

1012
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 1: so much, or at least I shouldn't say they pretend

1013
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:15,280
Speaker 1: to care, people that go to extreme lengths to show

1014
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: how much they care to signal their virtue over this

1015
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 1: virus and the ravaging of the country that it's doing.

1016
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: And those same people will also take time out of

1017
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 1: their day to lecture you on not calling at Wuhan

1018
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 1: virus because the politics here hasn't in the politics there

1019
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: haven't changed. So Susan Rice saying that's one thing. I

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00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 1: also though, want to note, why does the Democrat Party

1021
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: in general, why are we seeing so many prominent Democrats

1022
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 1: who are so willing to swallow Chinese propaganda pretty much wholesale,

1023
00:57:56,080 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 1: just just believe the Chinese government's proping enda and continue

1024
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 1: to repeat it. They are and this is a This

1025
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 1: is a statement that I think would be I don't

1026
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 1: believe an honest person can disagree with this. And I

1027
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 1: think that there are a lot of liberals who if

1028
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 1: you push them for an answer, they would they would

1029
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 1: give the answer that I'm saying. They would here for

1030
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 1: a lot of journalists and for a lot of Democrats,

1031
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 1: it is that they should. They are more skeptical. They

1032
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 1: are more skeptical of the Trump administration's information about COVID

1033
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: nineteen than they are the Chinese governments. They are more

1034
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:41,920
Speaker 1: willing to believe Shijin Ping and the CCP than they

1035
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: are Donald Trump and his Coronavirus Task Force. I think

1036
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 1: that that's true. And they would say that's because of

1037
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: trump ling. I would just say that's because they're Trump's

1038
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 1: arranged and they're insane. This hasn't changed and there's still this.

1039
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 1: I mean, the things that were being said yesterday by

1040
00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 1: Bill Crystal, by a whole bunch of pal that goals

1041
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 1: of mitigation was the whoops, sorry, I just hit the microphone.

1042
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: Goals of Mitigation was the title of the slide they

1043
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 1: put up that showed the really scary numbers, goals of mitigation,

1044
00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: and the way that people were trying to interpret that was, Oh,

1045
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 1: they're saying that two hundred thousand dead is a goal.

1046
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 1: Now know what they're saying is that two hundred thousand

1047
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 1: instead of two million is a goal. That's what the

1048
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: slide was saying, if you're being an honest human being.

1049
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 1: But they don't want to be honest human beings. They

1050
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 1: just want to dunk on Trump. Whatever it takes, however

1051
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:41,480
Speaker 1: they can, they will dunk on Trump, and that is

1052
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 1: in itself troubling, but it just goes to show you

1053
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 1: that they don't take any sort of glee in slamming

1054
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 1: the Chinese Communist Party, the government of China, which we

1055
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: now recognize, I think is a danger to the world

1056
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 1: and really is an opponent of the United States and

1057
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 1: increasing will just become an enemy of the United States

1058
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:01,959
Speaker 1: quite there. Yet, think of how much they were willing

1059
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: to demonize Russia though, and how much time was spent

1060
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Speaker 1: in the media making us all focus attention and you know,

1061
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 1: attention matters. Perception. Perception drives politics, Politics drives action and

1062
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:18,160
Speaker 1: national security decision making, and you know, perception leads to war, right.

1063
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 1: I mean, the media does have a lot of power,

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Speaker 1: still not as much as they used to do, but

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Speaker 1: they have a lot of power. I think of all

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Speaker 1: the time they spend making us think about Russia and

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Speaker 1: how Russia was such a major challenge for us. We

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Speaker 1: should have all been thinking more about what to do

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Speaker 1: about Russia. And now we're faced with China essentially, maybe inadvertently,

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Speaker 1: but China collapsing the global economy, which is what they'

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Speaker 1: that's what they're doing right now. The Chinese have collapsed

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Speaker 1: the global economy, the Chinese Communist Party, and there's still

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Speaker 1: much more fear and much more anger from the left

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Speaker 1: about Russia because you know, Hillary should have won the

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen election than anything you see directed at the

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Speaker 1: Chinese Communist government, the Chinese Communist Party. That's that's disgraceful,

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Speaker 1: but it's where it's where we are. And I'm a

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Speaker 1: big believer, as you know, and let's let's deal with

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Speaker 1: things as they are. Our media cannot be trusted on

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Speaker 1: these issues. They also cannot be trusted to evaluate their

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Speaker 1: own to give themselves a scorecard. They mocked Trump for

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Speaker 1: saying that. You know, Trump says he's done a good job.

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Speaker 1: But Trump always thinks he's done a good job. That's

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Speaker 1: just who he is, that's in his nature. But the

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Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party, the media will say, has been saying

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Speaker 1: in recent weeks that they've that China has been doing

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Speaker 1: a good job with this virus, that we haven't. I

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Speaker 1: wonder if they're going to run stories now about how

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Speaker 1: it don't. Actually China is lying and they've had a

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Speaker 1: ton more people kill than they've been willing to tell

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Speaker 1: the world, which is what we're now finding out, which

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Speaker 1: is also why I think there's this panic, my guests,

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Speaker 1: And if you want to know, I saw a report

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Speaker 1: on this about how the intelligence community has information. Now.

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Speaker 1: I think what happened is we we somehow got wind

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Speaker 1: from some some source, you know, we we caught through

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the sourcer method would be, but

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Speaker 1: we we caught wind of somebody high up the Chinese

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Speaker 1: Communist Party chain talking to somebody somehow and being like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we got to find a way to hide we're up there,

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Speaker 1: like you know, eighty thousand dead in Wuhan. We got

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Speaker 1: to find a way to hide this from the people.

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Speaker 1: You'd think the journalists that have been hoodwinked, that have

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Speaker 1: been bamboozled, swindled, fooled, you'd think that they would be

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Speaker 1: upset at China. No, they're still more upset at the

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Speaker 1: at the Trump administration. And also they want to tell

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Speaker 1: you that they, unlike the Trump administration, they saw this

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Speaker 1: coming all along. Let's examine that proposition. You're in the

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Speaker 1: Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast.

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Speaker 1: We've heard z commanual that nobody could have seen this coming.

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Speaker 1: The fact is everybody saw this coming. Everybody saw this

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Speaker 1: coming in early January. So I know it's I know

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Speaker 1: you like me. I'm sorry there, Joe, but that's just

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Speaker 1: not true. In fact, I saw an analysis of Joe

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Speaker 1: Scarborough's Twitter feed from January. I think it was seventeen

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Speaker 1: tweets about impeachment, seven about sports bunch, other about politics.

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Speaker 1: You know how many tweets he put out with his

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Speaker 1: millions of followers about coronavirus in the month of January

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Speaker 1: when there was the first US case. A couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks to figure this out. I remember end of January.

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Speaker 1: I was on the Bill mar Show and people weren't

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Speaker 1: shaking hands, and we were all taught. We everyone knew

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Speaker 1: that this was a know how tweets zero zero, And

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Speaker 1: doesn't that make you think at some point that maybe

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Speaker 1: he's not telling the truth. Maybe there's a problem here,

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Speaker 1: is this is a lie that the media saw this coming.

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Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough's lying about it. Other people are. They're all

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Speaker 1: trying to rewrite their history right now and claim that

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Speaker 1: it's not that you know that this was. The Right

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Speaker 1: called it a hoax. They all knew, they all knew.

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Speaker 1: They're also smart, and people are dying, people have blood

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Speaker 1: on their hands on the Right and Trump. Because okay,

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Speaker 1: this is just a series of they're all from this year,

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Speaker 1: so they're all from when we knew this was a crisis,

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Speaker 1: or rather that this was a problem. I should say,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give you a series of headlines. You know,

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Speaker 1: the national interests. Forget the coronavirus. The flu pandemic of

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighteen killed more people in one year than all

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Speaker 1: of World War One. The Daily Beast, the virus killing

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Speaker 1: US kids isn't the one dominating the headlines. Not coronavirus,

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Speaker 1: National Post new coronavirus maybe no more dangerous than the flu,

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Speaker 1: despite worldwide alarm. Experts patch MD flu death's climb is

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Speaker 1: flu more worrisome than coronavirus? Reuter's doctor suggests worrying about

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Speaker 1: the common flu, not coronavirus. This is all from end

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Speaker 1: of January early February Washing Post. You're likely to get

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Speaker 1: the coronavirus. Well, if we're likely to get it, then

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Speaker 1: to mind, my thinking was, then a lot of us

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Speaker 1: who are going to get it. You just accept that

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Speaker 1: we're probably gonna get it, and then keep vulnerable population safe.

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Speaker 1: And then we have heard immunity right, and they were

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Speaker 1: telling us that we were all likely to get it.

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Speaker 1: Now we're all in total quarantine because oh my god,

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Speaker 1: you can't get this because it's gonna kill everybody if

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Speaker 1: if we are too many people if we get this,

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Speaker 1: I mean I could go on. This is a whole sheet.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing. It's making the rounds wired. We should de

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Speaker 1: escalate the war on coronavirus CNN. As the coronavirus spreads,

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Speaker 1: fear is fueling racism and xenophobia. Science the Flu Science

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Speaker 1: Alert website the flu is a bigger threat to people

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Speaker 1: in the US than coronavirus. Here's what to most people

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Speaker 1: then coronavirus. Here's why as central new coronavirus is likely

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Speaker 1: to go pandemic. But that's no reason to panic or overreact.

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Speaker 1: I just the media was all talking about they were

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Speaker 1: talking about how Trump is a moron, but don't worry

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Speaker 1: about this thing. He's not going to handle a while

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Speaker 1: and he's a moron. But you know this is not

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Speaker 1: going to be that big of a deal. Don't don't overreact.

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Speaker 1: We got this. We talked to the experts. They're all

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Speaker 1: claiming to talk to the experts. Axio Swabi panic about

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Speaker 1: corona virus but not the flu. I mean, the the

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Speaker 1: mountains of wrong on this would dwarf the Himalayas. From

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Speaker 1: the media, From government officials. Oh wait, here's one of

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Speaker 1: my fair Speaking of government officials, where where did it go?

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Speaker 1: It's one of my favorites. I mean, there's that just astonishing,

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Speaker 1: astonishing from January World Health Organization weighing in on this

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Speaker 1: to say that there was no evidence that there was

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Speaker 1: human to human transmission of this. No evidence of human

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Speaker 1: to human transmission. This thing spreads like wildfire in closed

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Speaker 1: quarters and increasingly. There seems to be evidence that it

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Speaker 1: spreads pretty well. It spreads pretty well in the air

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Speaker 1: aerosolized droplets. So I just I hate this, this rewriting

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Speaker 1: of history. You know, if you're if you're going to

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Speaker 1: work in the information dissemination business, if you're going to

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01:07:07,120 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 1: be an analyst or a reporter, you should be honest

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Speaker 1: about where you are. Doctor Burke says she thought it

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Speaker 1: would be like stars. I thought it was going to

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Speaker 1: be like one of those respiratory viruses that we hear

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Speaker 1: a lot about, and there's some bad cases, but it

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Speaker 1: kind of disappears after a while. And then I thought, okay, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, we'll give a couple of weeks, we'll most

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Speaker 1: of the cases, we'll stamp out, we'll get prepared, and

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Speaker 1: then you know, and now we're being told, no, we're

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Speaker 1: not going back to work. It's not happening for a

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Speaker 1: long time. If you want to go back to work,

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of people are going to die. And

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Speaker 1: this is this has been the shift, That is the

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Speaker 1: shift in conversation from the administration in the last week alone.

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Speaker 1: Listen to the experts, they said, just listen to the experts.

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Speaker 1: That's all you have to do the experts. I've got

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Speaker 1: all this stuff covered for you. This is we're going

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Speaker 1: to look back on this, and this is the virus

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Speaker 1: equivalent of Pearl Harbor or nine to eleven. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the experts failed on this, and I'm sorry, I'm upset

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Speaker 1: about this. I'm here in New York. I know people

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Speaker 1: that are terrified of getting this every single day, people

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Speaker 1: that are tending to those who are dying every day

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Speaker 1: from this. I'm reaching out. I'm talking to them as

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Speaker 1: often as I can. How are you doing? How's it going?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it feels very very real here, even if

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Speaker 1: you're just an isolation, even if you're just in lockdown,

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Speaker 1: everything you touch every time you walk outside. And I

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Speaker 1: want to know where was the CDC on all this? Really,

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Speaker 1: the CDC was so good on this, and I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you this. You go back. I mean, doctor Fauci,

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Speaker 1: I think, is a good man who's trying his best,

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Speaker 1: and he's obviously got a lot of knowledge about this issue.

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Speaker 1: But you look back at some of the things that

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Speaker 1: we've been told, Okay, should we wear masks or not?

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Speaker 1: We were told that wearing masks wasn't necessary. Another maybe

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Speaker 1: you should wear masks. What have they gotten right about this?

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Speaker 1: That's perhaps the best way to do this analysis. What

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Speaker 1: did the media get right? I mean, I'm sorry not

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Speaker 1: to media. What are the expert class the World Health

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Speaker 1: Organization massive failure? CDC can't make tests and really is

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Speaker 1: just telling you that you got to wash your hands

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Speaker 1: and keep a distance from people. Not sure about the masks.

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Speaker 1: Nobody was ready with the stockpiles of masks and ventilators necessary.

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Speaker 1: Don't really know what the mortality rate of this thing is.

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Speaker 1: Certainly don't have a treatment for it or a vaccine.

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Speaker 1: I mean, most of this we keep being full of

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Speaker 1: listening to CDC guidance. It's stay locked the way and

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Speaker 1: wash your hands and try not to breathe too much,

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Speaker 1: don't touch your face. That that they've been steady on

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Speaker 1: should you wear a mask? And depends on how you ask.

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Speaker 1: Are we going to have a treatment for this? Who

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Speaker 1: knows how long will this last? Will there be rebounds,

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Speaker 1: will there be a second wave? They're not sure. How

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Speaker 1: dangerous is it for people who aren't in high risk

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Speaker 1: age categories and with health issues? They don't know, am

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Speaker 1: am I missing something? And now they're telling us, Oh, No,

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Speaker 1: we're not going back to work and accepting the additional

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Speaker 1: risk that would come from that, because the risk is

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Speaker 1: far too high, because it actually turns out we're not

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Speaker 1: facing something like the flu. We're facing something that, based

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Speaker 1: on the numbers, is you know, twenty times worse than

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Speaker 1: the flu season. That's that's quite a record that the

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Speaker 1: experts have up to this point. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: the bus sets and show past. Remember to subscribe on

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01:10:33,040 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 1: Apple podcasts at the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get

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01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:40,320
Speaker 1: your podcasts. Well, this is about the last thing we

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Speaker 1: need right now, but it is breaking news today from

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Speaker 1: the President's official Twitter account. Upon information and belief, Iran

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Speaker 1: or its proxies are planning a sneak attack on US

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Speaker 1: troops and or assets in Iraq. If this happens, Iran

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Speaker 1: will pay a very heavy price. Indeed, I've been worried

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Speaker 1: about this, that our enemies will see us as the

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Speaker 1: massive tortoise that has retreated into its shell, and they

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Speaker 1: will be circling and then they will try to strike,

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Speaker 1: even enemies that themselves are wounded. Right now, Remember the Mullahs,

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Speaker 1: they don't respond to the needs of their own people.

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Speaker 1: They don't care that an estimated fifteen thousand people have

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Speaker 1: died from COVID nineteen in Iran. And if even it

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Speaker 1: feel terrible for the Iranian people, Chinese people, their governments

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Speaker 1: are just horrific. And it's not it's being a horrific governments.

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Speaker 1: It shouldn't be a surprise to anybody that Chinese have

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Speaker 1: been so terribly dishonest and disgraceful about this whole situation.

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Speaker 1: I remember when I say the Chinese, just for the records,

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Speaker 1: that CCP, the Chinese Commist Party. I'm not talking about

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Speaker 1: one billion Chinese who just want to go about their days,

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Speaker 1: love their families and go to sleep at night, like

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Speaker 1: I get it. But the CCP is the same organization

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Speaker 1: that you know, it's the same government that still presides

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01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: over over a million weekers in concentration camps. They ended,

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Speaker 1: but they had for a long time, the one child policy,

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01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:19,360
Speaker 1: forced sterilization, forced abortion. I mean, it's a deeply immoral government.

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01:12:19,680 --> 01:12:23,640
Speaker 1: It's not even amoral, it's immoral. It is an evil government.

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Speaker 1: And so that means that there's a lot that they're

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Speaker 1: willing to do and a lot that they're willing to

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01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:31,760
Speaker 1: justify in their conduct, or rather perhaps they don't feel

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Speaker 1: the need to justify much of anything. So that's that's

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01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:41,400
Speaker 1: where this is right now. The Chinese government doesn't care

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Speaker 1: that the world is well. The Chinese government doesn't care

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01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:46,720
Speaker 1: what's happened to its own people as long as it

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01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: can maintain power. And the Iranian government may be trying

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01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:55,400
Speaker 1: to externalize or or you know, draw attention away from

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01:12:55,400 --> 01:12:57,960
Speaker 1: its failures with an attack on US trips. Think about this.

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Speaker 1: The Iranians you're getting getting by COVID nineteen right now,

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01:13:02,240 --> 01:13:05,839
Speaker 1: They're losing people all over the place, and they're assuming

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01:13:05,880 --> 01:13:08,719
Speaker 1: that the president's tweet is correct, the information is accurate.

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01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:12,840
Speaker 1: They're planning of tax on the US now. Maybe nothing

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01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:15,680
Speaker 1: happens here, but they should know better. I mean, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you this. Anybody that pokes America right now, that

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Speaker 1: goes after I mean, do you think anybody would would

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01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:24,920
Speaker 1: question a really heavy response. I mean, the response would

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01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:27,120
Speaker 1: have to be more than proportional. The response would have

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01:13:27,160 --> 01:13:30,519
Speaker 1: to be punitive. If someone comes after American interests when

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01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 1: we are on lockdown from this virus, and I mean

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01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 1: comes after US and tries to kill Americans right now,

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01:13:36,520 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 1: our response should be fearsome and should be sending a

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01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:45,960
Speaker 1: message well beyond what we would see in normal times,

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Speaker 1: and I would leave it to this administration to figure

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Speaker 1: out what that is. I have no doubt that that

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01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:53,840
Speaker 1: would also be Trump's Trump's move. You know, governments are

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01:13:53,880 --> 01:13:57,880
Speaker 1: run by people, and people have emotions and people have feelings.

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01:13:57,720 --> 01:14:01,719
Speaker 1: It's not mechanical. And we are going through the biggest

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01:14:01,720 --> 01:14:04,439
Speaker 1: crisis we have had since the Second World War right now,

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01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:09,479
Speaker 1: and Iran wants to play games be very unwise. Look,

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01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:12,120
Speaker 1: there's going to be there's going to be a series.

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01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:16,400
Speaker 1: There will be a series of major geopolitical shifts that

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01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:19,360
Speaker 1: occur just over the course of this virus over the

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01:14:19,400 --> 01:14:22,599
Speaker 1: next twelve months. There are going to be things that

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01:14:22,680 --> 01:14:26,040
Speaker 1: happen that no one can predict right now. But in retrospect,

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01:14:26,600 --> 01:14:29,200
Speaker 1: there'll be seismic shifts that everybody say, how did we

1314
01:14:29,240 --> 01:14:32,240
Speaker 1: miss that? Maybe it is the downfall of the Iranian regime.

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01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:35,519
Speaker 1: Maybe it is finally my friend Gordon Chang wrote the

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01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:39,080
Speaker 1: Coming Collapse of China back in the early two thousands.

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01:14:39,920 --> 01:14:42,799
Speaker 1: Maybe the Chinese Communist Party finally comes under real pressure.

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01:14:42,800 --> 01:14:46,120
Speaker 1: I think that's unlikely. If anything, they're ascendant and probably

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01:14:46,160 --> 01:14:49,000
Speaker 1: an even stronger position. But we don't know, you know,

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01:14:49,040 --> 01:14:51,160
Speaker 1: we don't know. Well, what if the WUHAN numbers are

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01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:54,320
Speaker 1: mirrored in other parts of China and there's a real

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01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:58,320
Speaker 1: popular sense of enough is enough? You just again, I'm

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01:14:58,400 --> 01:15:01,040
Speaker 1: telling you that there's going to be age or geopolitical

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01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:03,240
Speaker 1: shifts over the next twelve months. One of the worst

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01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:04,920
Speaker 1: ones for US would be if it turns out that

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Speaker 1: the US is no longer the reserve currency. And I

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01:15:07,600 --> 01:15:10,560
Speaker 1: know this is a a little bit of a digression

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01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:12,200
Speaker 1: from what we're talking about her here, but I just

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01:15:12,240 --> 01:15:16,000
Speaker 1: have to think. You know, I own some cryptocurrency, not

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01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:17,680
Speaker 1: a lot, because I don't have a lot of money.

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01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:20,760
Speaker 1: I own some cryptocurrency, and I would just if you're

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01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 1: not seeing cryptocurrency skyrocket. Now, you got to wonder when

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01:15:24,200 --> 01:15:26,760
Speaker 1: when is that going to happen? It feels like the

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01:15:26,800 --> 01:15:29,080
Speaker 1: whole thing was kind of a scam, doesn't it. I

1335
01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:30,760
Speaker 1: don't know. Some of you're gonna get mad at me

1336
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:33,759
Speaker 1: for saying that, but oh, yes, you know blockchain technology,

1337
01:15:33,840 --> 01:15:36,719
Speaker 1: Yeah that's cool. But as cryptocurrency is valuable as people

1338
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:40,000
Speaker 1: were being led to believe a few years ago, oh man,

1339
01:15:40,040 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 1: those were the day as well? Was it three years ago? Now?

1340
01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:47,160
Speaker 1: In December, the cryptocurrency was just skyrocketing and the country

1341
01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 1: was at peace and things were good. And I think

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01:15:50,439 --> 01:15:53,760
Speaker 1: about the first three years the Trump administration, I almost

1343
01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:58,320
Speaker 1: tear up. It was such a we've had. This show

1344
01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:01,240
Speaker 1: has been so good, We've grown so fast. I feel

1345
01:16:01,280 --> 01:16:03,719
Speaker 1: like we've done I've been so proud of the work

1346
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:07,200
Speaker 1: that we've been putting in here, the work product that I

1347
01:16:07,160 --> 01:16:08,920
Speaker 1: I should say, yeah, everyone works hard. I don't mean that,

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01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:11,000
Speaker 1: but I mean, you know, I'm proud of what we've

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01:16:11,280 --> 01:16:15,280
Speaker 1: done as a show. And it's just been an amazing

1350
01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:20,639
Speaker 1: time in American history and American life. And I knew it,

1351
01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:23,559
Speaker 1: and I think I told you this. I sat down,

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01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 1: I told my mother in December, right around when I

1353
01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:30,120
Speaker 1: told you that, I had had that premonition which I've

1354
01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:31,920
Speaker 1: played for you on the show, of something really bad

1355
01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 1: it's going to happen in twenty twenty. And I didn't

1356
01:16:33,880 --> 01:16:35,479
Speaker 1: know what it was. So it's not really that useful.

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01:16:35,479 --> 01:16:38,160
Speaker 1: It's kind of like been lot determined to attack America

1358
01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:41,320
Speaker 1: back in two thousand, Okay, where how and when? But

1359
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:43,280
Speaker 1: I knew something really bad was going to happen just

1360
01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:47,200
Speaker 1: because things were too good, things were too prosperous, too peaceful,

1361
01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:49,880
Speaker 1: too happy in despite all the Russia and all the

1362
01:16:49,880 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 1: stuff that the lives were yelling about. And I sat

1363
01:16:53,520 --> 01:16:55,240
Speaker 1: down and I looked at my mom and I just said,

1364
01:16:56,680 --> 01:16:58,240
Speaker 1: I just want to go on. I just want to

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01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 1: say this that my life is is good enough, peaceful enough,

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01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:08,799
Speaker 1: happy enough, fulfilled enough that I know this will not last.

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01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:12,720
Speaker 1: But if this were my every day, I would want

1368
01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:15,200
Speaker 1: for nothing basically, you know. And they I still want

1369
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:16,840
Speaker 1: a family and kids. I mean, so there's some things

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01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: that we're missing in a sense, but it's just in

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01:17:18,280 --> 01:17:21,519
Speaker 1: terms of general happiness in being. And it was largely

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01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:23,760
Speaker 1: driven I think by a sense that we were all

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01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:27,120
Speaker 1: this country was in such a good place. There was

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01:17:27,200 --> 01:17:30,559
Speaker 1: an optimism, a positivity that was out there all over

1375
01:17:30,600 --> 01:17:33,360
Speaker 1: the place. And I bring that up now one it's

1376
01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:37,000
Speaker 1: just a point of nostalgia to remind myself and hopefully

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01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:38,920
Speaker 1: to remind all of you that that is a place

1378
01:17:38,920 --> 01:17:42,760
Speaker 1: whereas a nation we have been recently and we can

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01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:46,280
Speaker 1: get back there. I don't know how long it will be,

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01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:49,320
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a struggle. And the same

1381
01:17:49,360 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 1: thing I always say about anybody that's having contractors or

1382
01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:56,400
Speaker 1: construction repair done of any kind. Whatever they tell you,

1383
01:17:56,479 --> 01:17:58,920
Speaker 1: it's going to be three times that long. I think,

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01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 1: unfortunately that it's a pretty good rule of thumb. I think,

1385
01:18:02,360 --> 01:18:04,599
Speaker 1: unfortunately that's going to be true about us getting back

1386
01:18:04,600 --> 01:18:08,160
Speaker 1: to where we were as a country. But I also

1387
01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:12,120
Speaker 1: think that we need to be reminded sometimes of how

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01:18:12,160 --> 01:18:14,200
Speaker 1: good things have been so that we know that they're

1389
01:18:14,200 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 1: not going to stay like this, and they can be.

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01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:20,639
Speaker 1: It is possible to have a country where everyone's wages

1391
01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:24,040
Speaker 1: are going up, and not everybody, but you know, in general,

1392
01:18:24,160 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 1: wages are going up. We're not at any big wars,

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01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:29,439
Speaker 1: we're not under threat of major terrorist attacks, we're not

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01:18:29,479 --> 01:18:33,800
Speaker 1: suffering from a pandemic. Where we live in a time

1395
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 1: of tremendous abundance and security and amazing food and amazing

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01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:42,559
Speaker 1: culture and access and technology. And you know that was

1397
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:45,880
Speaker 1: and you know that I was saying, enjoy it. Other

1398
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:48,160
Speaker 1: shows are round, you know, they're destroying the country and

1399
01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:50,320
Speaker 1: this is terrible, and people yelling about everything. You know

1400
01:18:50,360 --> 01:18:52,240
Speaker 1: that that's what they were doing when things are really good.

1401
01:18:54,479 --> 01:18:56,920
Speaker 1: I'm I don't do that. I was telling you that

1402
01:18:56,960 --> 01:18:59,680
Speaker 1: things were really good and that we should have enjoyed them.

1403
01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:01,720
Speaker 1: We had struggles we had fights, we had things that

1404
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:06,720
Speaker 1: we needed to focus on, but you know, overall and now,

1405
01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:10,000
Speaker 1: I can't tell you that I'm worried. In fact, I

1406
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:12,880
Speaker 1: go back and forth between wanting to tell you what

1407
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:16,439
Speaker 1: I think is really happening and not wanting to just

1408
01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:18,759
Speaker 1: sort of add to that. It's it's a delicate balance.

1409
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:20,479
Speaker 1: I've been talking to the people closest to me about

1410
01:19:20,520 --> 01:19:21,920
Speaker 1: it every day when I go on this show. I mean,

1411
01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:24,719
Speaker 1: I feel such an obligation to those of you who

1412
01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:29,920
Speaker 1: listen to the huge numbers of people. It's a it's

1413
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 1: a very powerful and really to me sacred thing to

1414
01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:36,920
Speaker 1: be able to be in the Freedom Hut and which

1415
01:19:36,960 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 1: is now in my home because we all have to

1416
01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:40,880
Speaker 1: be on home lockdown and be able to talk to

1417
01:19:41,040 --> 01:19:44,599
Speaker 1: people all across the country and have you hear my voice,

1418
01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:47,360
Speaker 1: and whether I'm rolling along with you if you're driving

1419
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:50,120
Speaker 1: a truck or a car, or in your living room

1420
01:19:50,200 --> 01:19:51,920
Speaker 1: or hanging out in the kitchen while you're cooking, and

1421
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:54,559
Speaker 1: trying to inform you and just keep you company, and

1422
01:19:54,560 --> 01:19:57,000
Speaker 1: you're all keeping me company too. Doing this feels like

1423
01:19:57,880 --> 01:20:03,800
Speaker 1: this is my human connection right now. But I try

1424
01:20:03,840 --> 01:20:07,200
Speaker 1: every day to make sure that I'm making the best

1425
01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:10,080
Speaker 1: usage of your time every day we do this show.

1426
01:20:10,439 --> 01:20:13,760
Speaker 1: And it's really a challenge right now to hit that

1427
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:18,000
Speaker 1: balance between where do I think this is going and

1428
01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:22,280
Speaker 1: how do I keep us all feeling positive and inspired

1429
01:20:22,280 --> 01:20:24,320
Speaker 1: to go forward. And you know, I've had some mornings

1430
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:28,240
Speaker 1: here where it's been really tough. I've woken up and

1431
01:20:28,280 --> 01:20:32,559
Speaker 1: I've thought, how how do I approach this one? What

1432
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:36,519
Speaker 1: do I do? Not just with the show, but you know,

1433
01:20:37,400 --> 01:20:39,599
Speaker 1: it feels a little bit like you're you're in prison

1434
01:20:39,680 --> 01:20:41,719
Speaker 1: in a sense. I mean it's in very nice prison.

1435
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 1: You've got your refrigerator and your Netflix and your you

1436
01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:48,560
Speaker 1: know whatever. But I still have my purpose, which is

1437
01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:52,439
Speaker 1: to do this. But all the other things around in

1438
01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 1: my life, those always enriched this show. And I know

1439
01:20:55,520 --> 01:20:56,880
Speaker 1: a lot of you have the same thing going on.

1440
01:20:56,960 --> 01:20:58,639
Speaker 1: Maybe you're still doing a lot of you're probably still

1441
01:20:58,680 --> 01:21:00,720
Speaker 1: doing your jobs, either remotely, or maybe you're going in

1442
01:21:00,720 --> 01:21:03,160
Speaker 1: and you're on the front line in some capacity, either

1443
01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:06,400
Speaker 1: on logistics or the fight against the virus. You know,

1444
01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:09,760
Speaker 1: maybe you're you're doing all those things, but we're now

1445
01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:15,479
Speaker 1: missing those other those other components that enrich our day

1446
01:21:15,520 --> 01:21:18,599
Speaker 1: to day experience and make us make us better at

1447
01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:22,320
Speaker 1: the things that we do to produce, make us better

1448
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:25,280
Speaker 1: at the things that are our work product, whatever that

1449
01:21:25,320 --> 01:21:28,840
Speaker 1: may be, whether it's showing up and scanning groceries, if

1450
01:21:28,840 --> 01:21:31,439
Speaker 1: you're a podcaster yourself, if you're a you know, a nurse,

1451
01:21:31,520 --> 01:21:34,640
Speaker 1: if you're a truck driver, if you're a you know,

1452
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:40,320
Speaker 1: a finance guy, whatever, all these things. So there's going

1453
01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:42,200
Speaker 1: to also have to be sometimes here where I just

1454
01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:45,160
Speaker 1: speak to you, you know, from the heart, about about

1455
01:21:45,160 --> 01:21:46,880
Speaker 1: what I'm feeling and what I see going on, because

1456
01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:50,400
Speaker 1: I think I think we all need that, and you

1457
01:21:50,439 --> 01:21:53,840
Speaker 1: know I haven't. I will not. I'll make you this promise.

1458
01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:56,600
Speaker 1: I will not give into despair, and I will not

1459
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:01,880
Speaker 1: ever come on this show and allow my concerns about

1460
01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:04,840
Speaker 1: what's happening to mean that I started to take us

1461
01:22:04,840 --> 01:22:07,720
Speaker 1: down a path where I'm leaning on you. I'm here

1462
01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:12,320
Speaker 1: to present it, to present you with truth and stories

1463
01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:16,200
Speaker 1: and facts that help you, entertain you and push us

1464
01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 1: all forward. But I'm just saying that I never before

1465
01:22:21,240 --> 01:22:23,960
Speaker 1: have I felt like striking the balance between speaking truth

1466
01:22:24,600 --> 01:22:31,200
Speaker 1: and not being a pessimist was so challenging. And maybe

1467
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:33,639
Speaker 1: this is something I'll return to tomorrow with some more time.

1468
01:22:34,760 --> 01:22:38,559
Speaker 1: I know we will win, and I feel like everyone's

1469
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:40,000
Speaker 1: saying this and we need It's one of those things

1470
01:22:40,040 --> 01:22:41,400
Speaker 1: you need to keep hearing, you know, you know how

1471
01:22:41,840 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 1: even if you know you're not you know, you know

1472
01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:45,800
Speaker 1: you didn't do the best job in a sports game

1473
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:47,360
Speaker 1: or something, but your parents are there and after as

1474
01:22:47,360 --> 01:22:48,640
Speaker 1: they say, you know, you did a great job. You

1475
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:51,439
Speaker 1: know you fought hard, and if you know that's you know,

1476
01:22:51,479 --> 01:22:53,560
Speaker 1: it's kind of true, like you did fight hard, but

1477
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:55,639
Speaker 1: maybe you didn't have the best game. Maybe you missed

1478
01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:58,519
Speaker 1: the you know, maybe you missed a couple of passes

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Speaker 1: you should have called, or you you know, you whiffed

1480
01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:04,360
Speaker 1: at home play, whatever it may be. But you still

1481
01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:05,800
Speaker 1: need to hear that. We all need to hear that

1482
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:07,360
Speaker 1: we're gonna be okay and we're gonna get through this,

1483
01:23:07,400 --> 01:23:11,680
Speaker 1: even though we know there are big challenges ahead, big

1484
01:23:11,760 --> 01:23:14,400
Speaker 1: challenges from the virus, from the economy, from the government

1485
01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:19,479
Speaker 1: response to it, our relationships as a society with each other,

1486
01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:24,040
Speaker 1: the strain that this is putting on us set at

1487
01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:26,000
Speaker 1: every level. This is going to be a test like

1488
01:23:26,040 --> 01:23:28,960
Speaker 1: we've never really had before. And I'm also I think

1489
01:23:29,200 --> 01:23:31,640
Speaker 1: I think it's important that we get psychologically geared up

1490
01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:34,479
Speaker 1: for this is this is not even gonna We're not

1491
01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:37,280
Speaker 1: even going to really see daylight on this, so to speak,

1492
01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:40,960
Speaker 1: until June, and that's the earliest, and that's when things

1493
01:23:40,960 --> 01:23:43,760
Speaker 1: will maybe start to settle down a little bit. That's

1494
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:46,240
Speaker 1: really what I'm feeling right now. Now. I've said that

1495
01:23:46,280 --> 01:23:48,360
Speaker 1: for a while, I said on the w OUR show,

1496
01:23:48,400 --> 01:23:50,280
Speaker 1: and I think I said it on this show too. Sorry,

1497
01:23:50,479 --> 01:23:53,200
Speaker 1: sometimes I can't remember which two radio shows a day. Now,

1498
01:23:53,240 --> 01:23:55,240
Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly what I've said on which show,

1499
01:23:55,720 --> 01:23:57,360
Speaker 1: but I definitely said, you know, producer Mark and I

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01:23:57,400 --> 01:24:00,559
Speaker 1: will be having margaritas on the street in June. That

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01:24:00,640 --> 01:24:03,600
Speaker 1: was an I was at least three weeks ago, I

1502
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:07,559
Speaker 1: think I said that. And it's looking increasingly like June,

1503
01:24:07,560 --> 01:24:10,559
Speaker 1: maybe July, but June seems like a pretty good start.

1504
01:24:10,840 --> 01:24:13,439
Speaker 1: You know, this end of April lockdown thing, Okay, they're

1505
01:24:13,439 --> 01:24:15,439
Speaker 1: going to bring the curve down, but they're not gonna

1506
01:24:16,320 --> 01:24:18,519
Speaker 1: they're not going to open things up in a meaningful

1507
01:24:18,560 --> 01:24:21,280
Speaker 1: way in May and risk and risk having then the

1508
01:24:21,360 --> 01:24:24,439
Speaker 1: number of skyrocket again. The only thing that really changed,

1509
01:24:24,520 --> 01:24:26,479
Speaker 1: the only real game changer we have here is if

1510
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:29,720
Speaker 1: somebody comes up with a real silver bullet treatment against this.

1511
01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:32,880
Speaker 1: If you ever prayed for anything, and you and you

1512
01:24:32,920 --> 01:24:35,439
Speaker 1: believe that that that is helpful for things in this

1513
01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:40,759
Speaker 1: worldly in this worldly kingdom, please pray for that, and

1514
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:44,240
Speaker 1: that will be I've I don't think I've ever cried

1515
01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:48,680
Speaker 1: from a news story before, from joy. I don't think

1516
01:24:48,720 --> 01:24:51,160
Speaker 1: I've ever cried tears of joy. We get a treatment

1517
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:53,120
Speaker 1: that knocks this thing out, and I will go on

1518
01:24:53,200 --> 01:24:54,519
Speaker 1: air and probably talk to you about it, and I'll

1519
01:24:54,520 --> 01:24:56,760
Speaker 1: be crying tears of joy. That's That's how much of

1520
01:24:56,760 --> 01:24:59,599
Speaker 1: a change it will be for this country and for

1521
01:24:59,600 --> 01:25:02,600
Speaker 1: the whole world. So and I there's a part of

1522
01:25:02,600 --> 01:25:04,639
Speaker 1: me that just has to believe that we'll get there

1523
01:25:05,479 --> 01:25:08,600
Speaker 1: sooner than later. We have so many smart individuals, so

1524
01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:11,800
Speaker 1: much research and work going on. A part of me

1525
01:25:11,840 --> 01:25:14,519
Speaker 1: believes we've got to get there. So that's the most

1526
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:20,679
Speaker 1: optimistic feeling I have right now. You're in the This

1527
01:25:20,760 --> 01:25:28,080
Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. All right, roll call,

1528
01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:34,800
Speaker 1: let's do it. JJ kicks us off here with Hey, Buck,

1529
01:25:34,840 --> 01:25:37,519
Speaker 1: I see your bobcat and raise you a palace cat?

1530
01:25:37,760 --> 01:25:41,720
Speaker 1: Or is it a palace palace? Have you seen them?

1531
01:25:41,960 --> 01:25:45,679
Speaker 1: They're ridiculously adorable looking, but are so vicious they'll laugh

1532
01:25:45,720 --> 01:25:48,120
Speaker 1: at you as they slowly flay the skin from your

1533
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:50,320
Speaker 1: face if you do not pet them correctly. Check them out.

1534
01:25:50,320 --> 01:25:53,519
Speaker 1: Thanks for keeping us safe and warm at night. I've

1535
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 1: never heard of a palace Have you heard of this,

1536
01:25:57,560 --> 01:26:02,880
Speaker 1: producer Mark, I have not? Oh, also called a manual

1537
01:26:03,040 --> 01:26:06,640
Speaker 1: manual is a small wild cat with a broad but

1538
01:26:06,760 --> 01:26:12,879
Speaker 1: fragmented distribution in the grasslands and step of Central Asia. Huh.

1539
01:26:13,240 --> 01:26:17,400
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a like a Mongolian bobcat. Sort

1540
01:26:17,439 --> 01:26:20,679
Speaker 1: of doesn't look like something I want of these as pets.

1541
01:26:21,560 --> 01:26:24,240
Speaker 1: Palace cats, this is this is just from Wikipedia. This

1542
01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:25,920
Speaker 1: is not from any real research. It's see you know,

1543
01:26:26,080 --> 01:26:28,080
Speaker 1: and people. If you're like, you're just doing Wikipedia, I'm like, yeah,

1544
01:26:28,080 --> 01:26:30,000
Speaker 1: I'm not doing a radio show. I gotta I gotta

1545
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:32,840
Speaker 1: tell you something. Palace cats, while adorable to look at,

1546
01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:36,280
Speaker 1: should not be kept as pets. Not only is it

1547
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:39,200
Speaker 1: difficult for them to survive at low altitudes, but they

1548
01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:42,560
Speaker 1: are truly wild animals. A palace cat kept as a

1549
01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:44,840
Speaker 1: pet would be miserable. It would make you miserable too.

1550
01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:50,080
Speaker 1: Um Okay, well, I mean they look they look really cute.

1551
01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:52,000
Speaker 1: I gotta say it's kind of like a big, fluffy,

1552
01:26:52,080 --> 01:26:55,759
Speaker 1: grumpy cat. Producer Mark. You might have a new pet.

1553
01:26:56,040 --> 01:26:59,920
Speaker 1: You might have a new pet. No, I don't like cats. Buck, Well,

1554
01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 1: this cat wouldn't like you. How about that. I don't

1555
01:27:02,479 --> 01:27:04,320
Speaker 1: think it would like anybody, Buck. Yeah, I think it's

1556
01:27:04,320 --> 01:27:08,760
Speaker 1: probably true. Apparently they they rip your face off. So yep, alrighty,

1557
01:27:08,800 --> 01:27:13,000
Speaker 1: here we go. All right, Ian, long time Daily listener,

1558
01:27:13,040 --> 01:27:15,479
Speaker 1: just wanted to tell you to to drop a line

1559
01:27:15,520 --> 01:27:17,400
Speaker 1: and hang in there. I can tell by Buck's tone

1560
01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:19,320
Speaker 1: in the first five seconds on Monday that things are

1561
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:22,679
Speaker 1: getting really bad. Hope you guys know that your family's

1562
01:27:22,720 --> 01:27:24,920
Speaker 1: in our thoughts. Yeah, thank you. Ian. It has been

1563
01:27:25,400 --> 01:27:30,240
Speaker 1: very tough here, it has been. Monday was rough. Monday

1564
01:27:30,280 --> 01:27:32,559
Speaker 1: was a rough day, and especially because last week I

1565
01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:35,000
Speaker 1: started to think, all right, we're gonna batten down the hatches,

1566
01:27:35,080 --> 01:27:38,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna start getting people back to work the fifteen days,

1567
01:27:38,680 --> 01:27:40,479
Speaker 1: and then it's none, No, it's not the fifteen days.

1568
01:27:40,479 --> 01:27:43,439
Speaker 1: It's it's another thirty days. We're not going back to work.

1569
01:27:43,479 --> 01:27:47,200
Speaker 1: We're not taking that risk at all. I felt a

1570
01:27:47,200 --> 01:27:49,200
Speaker 1: little bit like whiplash. I'll be honest, that was a

1571
01:27:49,200 --> 01:27:50,920
Speaker 1: little you know, I was like, all right, I was

1572
01:27:50,960 --> 01:27:52,960
Speaker 1: ready to put a face mask on and start showing

1573
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:54,639
Speaker 1: up to the office again, and I think I thought,

1574
01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:56,280
Speaker 1: all right, this is what we're gonna start doing. Nope,

1575
01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:59,240
Speaker 1: not happening. On Monday, you discussed the lack of preparation

1576
01:27:59,320 --> 01:28:02,599
Speaker 1: from the CDs see and how we're basically hoping for

1577
01:28:03,400 --> 01:28:07,280
Speaker 1: a miracle from those pharmaceutical companies. Oh wait, hold on

1578
01:28:07,280 --> 01:28:09,320
Speaker 1: one second, and I'm gonna I'm gonna come back and

1579
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:13,040
Speaker 1: address the rest of your roll call here in just

1580
01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:15,479
Speaker 1: a moment. But yeah, no, we are. We are hoping

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01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:18,360
Speaker 1: for something of a miracle from the CDC. That much

1582
01:28:18,479 --> 01:28:21,080
Speaker 1: is I'm sorry, from the pharmaceutical companies. Rather, that much

1583
01:28:21,160 --> 01:28:26,519
Speaker 1: is definitely true. Thanks for listening to the Bust. Remember

1584
01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:29,920
Speaker 1: to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or

1585
01:28:29,920 --> 01:28:34,000
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. All right, continuing with this

1586
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:39,759
Speaker 1: roll call note from Ian, I agree with your analysis book.

1587
01:28:39,800 --> 01:28:42,200
Speaker 1: Here in Colorado, the drunk companies and the hospitals have

1588
01:28:42,280 --> 01:28:46,640
Speaker 1: been the favored attack, the thing that gets attacked of

1589
01:28:46,640 --> 01:28:50,879
Speaker 1: our Democrat governor. While criticism and specific cases has been deserved,

1590
01:28:50,920 --> 01:28:53,040
Speaker 1: I find it very rich that the industry the left

1591
01:28:53,080 --> 01:28:56,080
Speaker 1: has been demonizing for the last fifteen years is now

1592
01:28:56,120 --> 01:28:58,479
Speaker 1: expected to be our saviors. All of a sudden, we

1593
01:28:58,479 --> 01:29:01,320
Speaker 1: don't hear anything about profit margins and drug prices. The

1594
01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:03,720
Speaker 1: irony is rich. It's just unfortunate that it took a

1595
01:29:03,760 --> 01:29:06,479
Speaker 1: crisis like this to expose it, not that it would

1596
01:29:06,520 --> 01:29:11,000
Speaker 1: ever be pointed out in the corporate media. Take care

1597
01:29:11,040 --> 01:29:12,960
Speaker 1: of yourselves. Thanks for continuing your show through all this.

1598
01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:14,439
Speaker 1: I know we'll make it out. I don't know what

1599
01:29:14,479 --> 01:29:15,800
Speaker 1: things will look like when we do, but I know

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01:29:15,840 --> 01:29:19,080
Speaker 1: we'll make it. Shields II Ian, You're a wise fellow,

1601
01:29:19,200 --> 01:29:21,720
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you writing in, and I agree with

1602
01:29:21,760 --> 01:29:25,559
Speaker 1: you that the demonization of big Farma, especially given how

1603
01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:27,439
Speaker 1: we are turning to big Farmer now and saying please

1604
01:29:27,479 --> 01:29:29,920
Speaker 1: save us. Basically that's really where we are. I mean,

1605
01:29:29,920 --> 01:29:32,800
Speaker 1: the only way that this doesn't stretch really through this year,

1606
01:29:33,640 --> 01:29:35,840
Speaker 1: and I mean til the end of the year and

1607
01:29:35,960 --> 01:29:38,599
Speaker 1: take us into a place where we're in a slightly

1608
01:29:38,640 --> 01:29:41,439
Speaker 1: better position but still dealing with this twelve months from now,

1609
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:44,320
Speaker 1: is if Farmer comes up. I mean, we're still this

1610
01:29:44,760 --> 01:29:47,680
Speaker 1: disease is not just going away. And all the talk

1611
01:29:47,720 --> 01:29:51,639
Speaker 1: about mitigation measures and distancing and everything, I guess we're

1612
01:29:51,640 --> 01:29:54,200
Speaker 1: gonna have to keep doing that for six, nine twelve months.

1613
01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:57,360
Speaker 1: Maybe not at the same extreme of shutdown we are

1614
01:29:57,479 --> 01:30:00,839
Speaker 1: and right now, but I'm not sure. As I've been saying, well,

1615
01:30:00,560 --> 01:30:04,600
Speaker 1: well why not. If the logic is we can't afford it,

1616
01:30:04,640 --> 01:30:06,599
Speaker 1: We're gonna lose. We're gonna lose far too many lives

1617
01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:10,559
Speaker 1: unless we have the extreme shutdown scenario. Okay, well, are

1618
01:30:10,560 --> 01:30:12,120
Speaker 1: we not going to be losing lives in June and

1619
01:30:12,200 --> 01:30:17,160
Speaker 1: July and August? Well, anyway, I know, stiff upper lip,

1620
01:30:17,439 --> 01:30:19,800
Speaker 1: we'll make it through. We'll make good choices, We'll be

1621
01:30:19,800 --> 01:30:23,160
Speaker 1: all right. But yeah, I really hope that the people

1622
01:30:23,200 --> 01:30:25,519
Speaker 1: that are studying this, and there's some big farmer companies

1623
01:30:25,520 --> 01:30:27,519
Speaker 1: and some of these world class minds that are on it,

1624
01:30:28,160 --> 01:30:31,040
Speaker 1: I hope they realize that this is this is their chance.

1625
01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:34,519
Speaker 1: This is the chance for science to save civilization. Really,

1626
01:30:35,400 --> 01:30:37,240
Speaker 1: that's what that's what we're seeing. I don't think we're

1627
01:30:37,200 --> 01:30:39,759
Speaker 1: gonna total clops of civilization over this. That's a little extreme,

1628
01:30:39,800 --> 01:30:41,599
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, there should be a

1629
01:30:41,720 --> 01:30:47,960
Speaker 1: huge win, a huge, huge win. Okay, man, I want

1630
01:30:47,960 --> 01:30:50,000
Speaker 1: to get ahead of myself, but that would be that

1631
01:30:50,040 --> 01:30:53,479
Speaker 1: would be the happiest, the happiest thing ever. Um, we

1632
01:30:53,520 --> 01:30:56,960
Speaker 1: should know more about chloroquin and about some of these

1633
01:30:57,000 --> 01:30:59,719
Speaker 1: other treatments that are underway in the next couple of weeks,

1634
01:31:00,320 --> 01:31:04,800
Speaker 1: and even if they're mostly useful, even if they're mostly good,

1635
01:31:04,840 --> 01:31:08,439
Speaker 1: that would be that would be a big improvement before

1636
01:31:08,479 --> 01:31:12,040
Speaker 1: we are right now. Chad, Hey Buck, great show, love

1637
01:31:12,040 --> 01:31:14,479
Speaker 1: your use of language. Quick prediction. I see the US

1638
01:31:14,560 --> 01:31:18,679
Speaker 1: handling China, handing China a bill for all the costs

1639
01:31:18,720 --> 01:31:21,639
Speaker 1: and expenses caused by the COVID nineteen outbreak and all

1640
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:23,880
Speaker 1: but elimiting our national debt with China. Shield Taigh Team

1641
01:31:23,960 --> 01:31:27,840
Speaker 1: Roy Chad, Chad, I said this did on the show,

1642
01:31:27,920 --> 01:31:29,920
Speaker 1: so you're kind of getting ahead of where I was that.

1643
01:31:30,040 --> 01:31:34,639
Speaker 1: I could see demands from the international community for China

1644
01:31:34,920 --> 01:31:41,080
Speaker 1: to pay reparations. The Chinese government now they won't pay it,

1645
01:31:41,640 --> 01:31:44,200
Speaker 1: but I could see a movement toward that, especially as

1646
01:31:44,240 --> 01:31:48,679
Speaker 1: we get more information about just how dishonest the Chinese

1647
01:31:48,680 --> 01:31:52,719
Speaker 1: have been in this process and what that has meant

1648
01:31:52,760 --> 01:31:58,320
Speaker 1: for the world. I just think it's very very clear

1649
01:31:58,439 --> 01:32:02,679
Speaker 1: that the Chinese government is directly responsible for a lot

1650
01:32:02,760 --> 01:32:05,040
Speaker 1: of the carnage and the destruction that we're seeing all

1651
01:32:05,080 --> 01:32:08,280
Speaker 1: over the world. So I don't see a way around that.

1652
01:32:08,439 --> 01:32:13,439
Speaker 1: And there's you know, it's an immoral regime that made

1653
01:32:13,439 --> 01:32:15,559
Speaker 1: an immoral choice. And now we're all paying that. We're

1654
01:32:15,560 --> 01:32:19,080
Speaker 1: all paying the price for that. We're all paying the

1655
01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:21,000
Speaker 1: price for it. And you know, the people that have

1656
01:32:21,120 --> 01:32:22,760
Speaker 1: been saying for a while that China is not some

1657
01:32:22,880 --> 01:32:25,320
Speaker 1: government that we should cozy up to. That. You know

1658
01:32:25,360 --> 01:32:27,760
Speaker 1: who is the first president in decades that wanted to

1659
01:32:27,800 --> 01:32:30,400
Speaker 1: confront China. Let's give credit words due. It was Donald Trump,

1660
01:32:30,600 --> 01:32:33,360
Speaker 1: who is the first president to come along from either

1661
01:32:33,439 --> 01:32:35,880
Speaker 1: party and really say this nonsense with China on the

1662
01:32:35,960 --> 01:32:39,000
Speaker 1: predatory trade practices and all the rest has to stop.

1663
01:32:39,600 --> 01:32:44,280
Speaker 1: It's Donald Trump. Yeah, remember there, all the trade war

1664
01:32:44,439 --> 01:32:46,120
Speaker 1: is going to know. The trade war didn't ruin us.

1665
01:32:46,600 --> 01:32:52,280
Speaker 1: Chinese government is ruining us right now through this virus. Roy. Hey, Buck,

1666
01:32:52,320 --> 01:32:54,760
Speaker 1: just look at your picture of Sixth Avenue. I moved

1667
01:32:54,800 --> 01:32:56,800
Speaker 1: my youngest daughter from New York City down here to

1668
01:32:56,800 --> 01:32:58,760
Speaker 1: Texas last year. I'm glad we've got her here in

1669
01:32:58,800 --> 01:33:03,080
Speaker 1: Texas hanging there, Buck every day? Roy? Yeah, Roy, thanks

1670
01:33:03,080 --> 01:33:07,320
Speaker 1: man um. I I don't know have you know. My

1671
01:33:07,320 --> 01:33:09,800
Speaker 1: whole family's here. We're all in New York City. So

1672
01:33:09,840 --> 01:33:13,320
Speaker 1: we're all on lockdown. Not a not a fun place

1673
01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:16,920
Speaker 1: to be. And uh, you know the people who work,

1674
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:21,559
Speaker 1: you know, maintenance, and you know people who are you know,

1675
01:33:21,600 --> 01:33:23,479
Speaker 1: the handyman for the building that I live in. Things.

1676
01:33:23,640 --> 01:33:25,719
Speaker 1: Everyone's wearing face masks. Now I don't have a face mask.

1677
01:33:25,760 --> 01:33:28,200
Speaker 1: I gotta get one. Go online. I can't find one,

1678
01:33:28,439 --> 01:33:30,439
Speaker 1: can't bother them in stores. I gotta find now, I

1679
01:33:30,479 --> 01:33:32,880
Speaker 1: gotta go on the whole after being told no, no

1680
01:33:32,960 --> 01:33:35,000
Speaker 1: face mask. Now it's oh no, get a face mask.

1681
01:33:35,040 --> 01:33:37,519
Speaker 1: But it's kind of too late, you know. Don't hoard

1682
01:33:37,600 --> 01:33:39,280
Speaker 1: toilet paper. I feel like it's only a matter of

1683
01:33:39,320 --> 01:33:41,240
Speaker 1: time before oh sorry, we got about a four week

1684
01:33:41,280 --> 01:33:44,160
Speaker 1: weight on toilet paper now. So if you were a hoarder,

1685
01:33:44,280 --> 01:33:46,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna be fine, But the rest of us are

1686
01:33:46,080 --> 01:33:49,080
Speaker 1: gonna be I don't know. Taking really like excessive showers

1687
01:33:49,080 --> 01:33:52,200
Speaker 1: every day. Yeah no, I'm glad you got your daughter

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01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:54,400
Speaker 1: out of New York City. Yet, I gotta tell you,

1689
01:33:54,400 --> 01:33:56,840
Speaker 1: I don't think this. I don't think New York City

1690
01:33:56,920 --> 01:33:59,000
Speaker 1: is ever really going to be the same because now

1691
01:33:59,040 --> 01:34:01,080
Speaker 1: people now this is real to people, and they're not

1692
01:34:01,120 --> 01:34:02,920
Speaker 1: going to want to live in such close quarters, they're

1693
01:34:02,960 --> 01:34:05,599
Speaker 1: not gonna want to deal with the subway. They're not

1694
01:34:05,600 --> 01:34:09,240
Speaker 1: gonna want this anymore. That's gonna have a huge effect.

1695
01:34:09,760 --> 01:34:14,080
Speaker 1: And we're also getting much more comfortable with working from home,

1696
01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:19,160
Speaker 1: with telecommuting, with leveraging technology for the purposes of professional productivity.

1697
01:34:19,200 --> 01:34:22,240
Speaker 1: I think that's that's going to have a real mark.

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01:34:22,840 --> 01:34:25,280
Speaker 1: That the leave a real mark, or be a real change,

1699
01:34:25,640 --> 01:34:28,040
Speaker 1: leave a mark. Sorry, that's not really the way I

1700
01:34:28,080 --> 01:34:30,479
Speaker 1: meant to say that that's going to be a real change.

1701
01:34:33,160 --> 01:34:35,519
Speaker 1: I have to see. I have to see where it

1702
01:34:35,560 --> 01:34:39,760
Speaker 1: all goes. Christy and Pete Buck love the show. My

1703
01:34:39,800 --> 01:34:44,479
Speaker 1: wife and I listen every day. We are truck drivers

1704
01:34:44,520 --> 01:34:47,080
Speaker 1: all over our great country hauling medical, food and supplies

1705
01:34:47,120 --> 01:34:50,040
Speaker 1: from coast to coast. Life is good. Yeah, different, but good.

1706
01:34:50,479 --> 01:34:53,160
Speaker 1: We know the extended lockdown is hard, but your show

1707
01:34:53,200 --> 01:34:55,719
Speaker 1: Monday was way too depressing. We all get it. It sucks,

1708
01:34:56,240 --> 01:34:57,880
Speaker 1: but you got to stay up at the facts. But

1709
01:34:57,920 --> 01:35:00,000
Speaker 1: also remember we are a great country. We will survive.

1710
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:03,280
Speaker 1: There's enough doom and gloom hang in there. Life is good.

1711
01:35:03,320 --> 01:35:05,640
Speaker 1: We need to keep doing our job. We need you

1712
01:35:05,760 --> 01:35:08,040
Speaker 1: so we can keep doing our job. Christie and Pete

1713
01:35:08,080 --> 01:35:10,280
Speaker 1: Man I'm sorry if Monday I was a little too little,

1714
01:35:10,280 --> 01:35:16,200
Speaker 1: too little, too down. It was just a tough day here,

1715
01:35:16,200 --> 01:35:17,760
Speaker 1: and it's a tough day here in New York given

1716
01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:20,840
Speaker 1: what we've been told. You know, the whole city's under quarantine,

1717
01:35:20,840 --> 01:35:24,040
Speaker 1: and we got thirty days of this and it's, uh,

1718
01:35:24,280 --> 01:35:26,200
Speaker 1: it's scary out there, man. I mean every morning I

1719
01:35:26,240 --> 01:35:27,920
Speaker 1: wake up and I have this moment where I think

1720
01:35:28,320 --> 01:35:30,320
Speaker 1: my breathing okay to have a fever, you know, every morning,

1721
01:35:31,160 --> 01:35:33,679
Speaker 1: and it's not strange. I know plenty of people now

1722
01:35:33,880 --> 01:35:37,040
Speaker 1: who have been in I have been in close and

1723
01:35:37,080 --> 01:35:39,439
Speaker 1: continued contact with somebody who has COVID nineteen. I know

1724
01:35:39,479 --> 01:35:42,639
Speaker 1: plenty of people. So it's just a matter of time

1725
01:35:42,680 --> 01:35:45,280
Speaker 1: before some people that I know have it, and I

1726
01:35:45,320 --> 01:35:47,880
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully at that point there will be the

1727
01:35:47,920 --> 01:35:49,519
Speaker 1: hospitals will be better able to deal with this, and

1728
01:35:49,560 --> 01:35:51,439
Speaker 1: hopefully anyone I know who gets it won't even have

1729
01:35:51,439 --> 01:35:55,840
Speaker 1: to go to a hospital. But yeah, I know, look, guys,

1730
01:35:55,960 --> 01:35:57,640
Speaker 1: I gotta say positive. It's it's hard. You know. I

1731
01:35:57,840 --> 01:35:59,599
Speaker 1: do a New York specific show and then I also

1732
01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:01,960
Speaker 1: do this show. But this is you know, this is

1733
01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:04,720
Speaker 1: the main show. This is my three hour syndicated broadcast

1734
01:36:04,760 --> 01:36:08,200
Speaker 1: every day, and I know for a lot of you,

1735
01:36:08,200 --> 01:36:10,000
Speaker 1: you're not dealing with this the same way that we

1736
01:36:10,040 --> 01:36:12,479
Speaker 1: are here in New York. So it's it can be

1737
01:36:12,640 --> 01:36:14,559
Speaker 1: a bit of a it can be a disconnect, right

1738
01:36:15,400 --> 01:36:18,519
Speaker 1: And I'm not I don't know. I'm not on the

1739
01:36:18,560 --> 01:36:24,760
Speaker 1: prediction business anymore, for sure, But I'm not convinced that

1740
01:36:26,760 --> 01:36:28,559
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced that this is going to spread to

1741
01:36:28,560 --> 01:36:29,760
Speaker 1: the rest of the country the same way with a

1742
01:36:29,760 --> 01:36:31,880
Speaker 1: lot of the authorities, I should say, spread in a

1743
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:34,360
Speaker 1: New York like fashion to the rest of the country,

1744
01:36:35,320 --> 01:36:37,719
Speaker 1: which seems to be baked into some of the models.

1745
01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:44,040
Speaker 1: But maybe not, maybe not, who knows? Who knows? Rick rights,

1746
01:36:44,040 --> 01:36:46,160
Speaker 1: Hey Buck, yesterday you were talking about the Tiger King.

1747
01:36:47,040 --> 01:36:50,800
Speaker 1: For similar viewing, you might want to check out Fatal Attractions.

1748
01:36:51,680 --> 01:36:54,720
Speaker 1: It's currently on Hulu. It's a series about people who

1749
01:36:54,800 --> 01:36:59,280
Speaker 1: make questionable choices for pets, tigers, bears, hippos, even a hyena.

1750
01:36:59,400 --> 01:37:03,920
Speaker 1: Interesting stuff. Shields high Rick. I saw The eight hundred

1751
01:37:04,200 --> 01:37:07,200
Speaker 1: oh No The Elephant, The Elephant in the Living Room,

1752
01:37:07,600 --> 01:37:11,080
Speaker 1: which is a documentary about a guy who has like

1753
01:37:11,200 --> 01:37:13,600
Speaker 1: disability from back pain and lives in a trailer in

1754
01:37:13,640 --> 01:37:17,679
Speaker 1: Ohio and has two I think eight hundred pound African

1755
01:37:17,720 --> 01:37:21,120
Speaker 1: lions in his backyard. So not somebody that you would

1756
01:37:21,120 --> 01:37:25,839
Speaker 1: generally think would have two full grown African lions as pets,

1757
01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:30,000
Speaker 1: but he does. And that's the show I've seen. I

1758
01:37:30,040 --> 01:37:31,920
Speaker 1: think that Fatal years ago. I think I saw that

1759
01:37:31,920 --> 01:37:35,120
Speaker 1: Fatal Attractions series. The one thing first of all, Fatal

1760
01:37:35,160 --> 01:37:37,800
Speaker 1: Attraction itself is a movie that every guy should watch

1761
01:37:38,920 --> 01:37:42,719
Speaker 1: and end gal But it's it's it's kind of instructive viewing.

1762
01:37:42,760 --> 01:37:46,280
Speaker 1: You want to you know, you see crazy, he can

1763
01:37:46,320 --> 01:37:49,880
Speaker 1: go bad, and weighs romantic relationships. It's it's important to

1764
01:37:50,000 --> 01:37:52,439
Speaker 1: know what's out there. Sometimes I'm just saying Fatal Attraction

1765
01:37:52,520 --> 01:37:58,280
Speaker 1: is a good movie. But of all the animal choices

1766
01:37:58,320 --> 01:38:02,080
Speaker 1: that people make, the one of the of the exotic

1767
01:38:02,120 --> 01:38:07,240
Speaker 1: animals as pats, the one that I find just the

1768
01:38:07,280 --> 01:38:12,680
Speaker 1: most mind boggling is the highly venomous snake. You know,

1769
01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:14,280
Speaker 1: that's all. And a lot of times it's like they'll

1770
01:38:14,320 --> 01:38:17,920
Speaker 1: have some some British guy somewhere who's like, oh, like

1771
01:38:18,120 --> 01:38:21,799
Speaker 1: I just really want to I want you to spitting cobra,

1772
01:38:22,280 --> 01:38:24,120
Speaker 1: And I just thought it'd be like a cool pet,

1773
01:38:24,160 --> 01:38:27,680
Speaker 1: And so I went to like this guy online and

1774
01:38:27,840 --> 01:38:30,240
Speaker 1: like I got it, and then I had a spit

1775
01:38:30,320 --> 01:38:35,120
Speaker 1: in cobra and oh then you know, cry Key, it's

1776
01:38:35,160 --> 01:38:37,720
Speaker 1: just like it like spat me on and then it

1777
01:38:37,800 --> 01:38:39,840
Speaker 1: bit me hand and then I was like, oh my god,

1778
01:38:39,840 --> 01:38:43,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna die. And you're like, yeah, it's a spitting cobra.

1779
01:38:44,880 --> 01:38:47,080
Speaker 1: You don't want that in your home. It's a very

1780
01:38:47,120 --> 01:38:48,840
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's in one of those little

1781
01:38:48,960 --> 01:38:50,439
Speaker 1: you know, they always have it too, in like a

1782
01:38:50,560 --> 01:38:52,920
Speaker 1: terrarium with some kind of a top on it. And

1783
01:38:52,960 --> 01:38:56,320
Speaker 1: then they find out that they're, you know, eight foot

1784
01:38:56,360 --> 01:38:59,639
Speaker 1: long killing machine that has the ability, in the case

1785
01:38:59,640 --> 01:39:02,439
Speaker 1: of a spit in cobra, to shoot venom at a

1786
01:39:02,479 --> 01:39:07,000
Speaker 1: considerable distance directly into your eyes. That that's a really

1787
01:39:07,040 --> 01:39:10,559
Speaker 1: stupid thing to have in the home. Yeah, who could

1788
01:39:10,600 --> 01:39:12,840
Speaker 1: have seen it? Kame mate, It just bit me on

1789
01:39:13,040 --> 01:39:15,080
Speaker 1: and they had a good day Auntie venom and oh

1790
01:39:15,240 --> 01:39:19,120
Speaker 1: man at hit You're like, yeah, I'm sure it hurt

1791
01:39:19,160 --> 01:39:22,320
Speaker 1: a lot. That would be the last. But all these

1792
01:39:22,320 --> 01:39:26,479
Speaker 1: options Producer Mark, Tigers, Bears, hippos, hyena. You gotta have one.

1793
01:39:27,520 --> 01:39:29,600
Speaker 1: You keep asking me this, Yeah, I know, because we

1794
01:39:29,680 --> 01:39:31,559
Speaker 1: like to put you on the spot and hear you're

1795
01:39:31,640 --> 01:39:35,680
Speaker 1: grumpy noises. I don't make grumpy noises. That was a

1796
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:38,920
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're asking me one ridiculous So I

1797
01:39:38,960 --> 01:39:41,280
Speaker 1: don't understand why anybody would want anything like that as

1798
01:39:41,320 --> 01:39:43,679
Speaker 1: a pet. Well, all these people have all of them.

1799
01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:47,880
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. People. Everyone should sick to dogs, cats, maybe

1800
01:39:47,880 --> 01:39:51,200
Speaker 1: a guinea pig. I've always thought guinea pigs are kind

1801
01:39:51,200 --> 01:39:54,479
Speaker 1: of underrated. They're pretty cute. Yeah, you don't like him?

1802
01:39:54,479 --> 01:39:56,040
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you a their big rats? Are you

1803
01:39:56,160 --> 01:39:58,360
Speaker 1: their big rats? Guy? Why would I want a rat

1804
01:39:58,439 --> 01:40:03,120
Speaker 1: in my house? Wow? Guinea pig owners address in the

1805
01:40:03,240 --> 01:40:06,479
Speaker 1: subject line, you're outrage to producer Mark's attention. If I

1806
01:40:06,600 --> 01:40:07,920
Speaker 1: want to see rats, that just go on the New

1807
01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:11,439
Speaker 1: York City subway. I think of all those animals, you know, hippos.

1808
01:40:12,000 --> 01:40:14,879
Speaker 1: This is one of those fun trivia questions that everybody knows. Now. Hippos,

1809
01:40:14,920 --> 01:40:20,400
Speaker 1: I think are the top three for killing people in

1810
01:40:20,439 --> 01:40:23,639
Speaker 1: Africa of all animals. Hippos are very dangerous and very Yeah,

1811
01:40:23,720 --> 01:40:26,920
Speaker 1: hippos are very dangerous and very aggressive, which you don't

1812
01:40:26,920 --> 01:40:29,080
Speaker 1: think of because you see another hungry, hungry hippo. The

1813
01:40:29,120 --> 01:40:31,479
Speaker 1: game which probably a lot of people are playing, these days.

1814
01:40:32,439 --> 01:40:35,880
Speaker 1: But if you get near a hippopotamus, they run pretty

1815
01:40:35,920 --> 01:40:38,799
Speaker 1: fast on land, and they're large, and they have tusks,

1816
01:40:38,840 --> 01:40:41,080
Speaker 1: and they're really nasty and they will they will do

1817
01:40:41,120 --> 01:40:43,240
Speaker 1: bad things to you. And in the water they're very aggressive.

1818
01:40:43,560 --> 01:40:45,559
Speaker 1: I've been compared to a hippo many a time, but

1819
01:40:45,640 --> 01:40:48,600
Speaker 1: I'm not nasty and I won't hurt you. Well, and

1820
01:40:49,080 --> 01:40:51,280
Speaker 1: whoever said that I will fight them for your producing

1821
01:40:51,600 --> 01:40:55,439
Speaker 1: than Yeah, don't let the scoop pool you. I've got

1822
01:40:55,479 --> 01:40:58,760
Speaker 1: some skills. Matthew, Hey Buck, just want to let you

1823
01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:00,200
Speaker 1: know that my girlfriend I have a cat that we

1824
01:41:00,280 --> 01:41:03,000
Speaker 1: named Bucky after the Marvel character. She started calling him

1825
01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:04,720
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton because I listen to you so much. We

1826
01:41:04,760 --> 01:41:06,360
Speaker 1: love you in North Carolina. Keep up the great work,

1827
01:41:06,400 --> 01:41:09,160
Speaker 1: shields high. Well, that's a Hugh John or Matthew, thank

1828
01:41:09,160 --> 01:41:14,200
Speaker 1: you so much. Hopefully that cat Buck is poised, suave, sophisticated, wise,

1829
01:41:15,360 --> 01:41:18,560
Speaker 1: but also considerate and well mannered. That would be a

1830
01:41:18,640 --> 01:41:24,080
Speaker 1: great a great cat. Indeed, you're in the Freedom Hunt.

1831
01:41:24,360 --> 01:41:31,000
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Hey Buck, all

1832
01:41:31,040 --> 01:41:33,639
Speaker 1: those people going after michae Lindell, they're just jealous because

1833
01:41:33,640 --> 01:41:35,800
Speaker 1: they're not getting the attention he's getting and they're not

1834
01:41:35,920 --> 01:41:37,960
Speaker 1: helping like he is. Shout out to all my brother

1835
01:41:38,000 --> 01:41:40,080
Speaker 1: and sister trucker's out there. Shout out to you and Mark,

1836
01:41:40,160 --> 01:41:43,160
Speaker 1: keep up the great show. Shields. Hi well, jeff Man,

1837
01:41:43,360 --> 01:41:45,320
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being out there on the

1838
01:41:45,400 --> 01:41:48,880
Speaker 1: roads and keeping us supplied. Every time I go to

1839
01:41:48,920 --> 01:41:50,840
Speaker 1: the grocery store here, which is really the only place

1840
01:41:50,880 --> 01:41:52,280
Speaker 1: I go there on a drug store. That's it. I

1841
01:41:52,320 --> 01:41:54,200
Speaker 1: got two places I can go to get supplies here,

1842
01:41:54,880 --> 01:41:57,439
Speaker 1: and every time I go, I am thankful there is

1843
01:41:57,600 --> 01:41:59,719
Speaker 1: there are stuff on the shelves, and it's there because

1844
01:42:00,360 --> 01:42:03,320
Speaker 1: you and your brother and sister truckers bring that stuff

1845
01:42:03,360 --> 01:42:05,960
Speaker 1: here into New York even though we're under quarantine. And

1846
01:42:07,080 --> 01:42:09,760
Speaker 1: you know, I think things here would get so ugly

1847
01:42:09,840 --> 01:42:11,880
Speaker 1: so fast. If people really thought that there was going

1848
01:42:11,960 --> 01:42:15,920
Speaker 1: to be they were gonna be widespread shortages of essentials

1849
01:42:15,920 --> 01:42:18,960
Speaker 1: and staples, they would they would get very sketchy already

1850
01:42:19,080 --> 01:42:25,280
Speaker 1: the NYPD, this is terrible, MYPD as Oh God, trying

1851
01:42:25,280 --> 01:42:28,920
Speaker 1: to remember how many I think it's two thousand, close

1852
01:42:28,960 --> 01:42:33,599
Speaker 1: to two thousand officers who marked, you know the numbers.

1853
01:42:33,640 --> 01:42:36,880
Speaker 1: I think maybe it's eighteen hundred officers who are out

1854
01:42:37,320 --> 01:42:39,080
Speaker 1: it's some huge number of officers who are out. A

1855
01:42:39,080 --> 01:42:41,120
Speaker 1: lot of enough Corona. I have COVID nineteen and a

1856
01:42:41,160 --> 01:42:44,960
Speaker 1: lot of others think they might, so MYPD is way

1857
01:42:45,120 --> 01:42:49,519
Speaker 1: down fifteen Oh wow, fifteen percent, Producer Nick says of

1858
01:42:49,560 --> 01:42:52,160
Speaker 1: the overall force. The overall force is almost forty thousand,

1859
01:42:52,560 --> 01:42:53,800
Speaker 1: So you guys can do the math on that. That's

1860
01:42:53,840 --> 01:42:58,200
Speaker 1: a few thousand who are out. Ah, gosh, that's not good, Angela.

1861
01:42:58,240 --> 01:43:00,280
Speaker 1: Hey Buck, I'm listening to your podcasts from yesterday. I'm

1862
01:43:00,280 --> 01:43:02,000
Speaker 1: worried about you. Sorry, you're stuck where you are and

1863
01:43:02,040 --> 01:43:05,400
Speaker 1: you're feeling caged in. It's strange here too, in southern California.

1864
01:43:05,439 --> 01:43:07,040
Speaker 1: But at least we can drive around a little bit,

1865
01:43:07,080 --> 01:43:09,160
Speaker 1: which helps a lot. No destination to go to, but

1866
01:43:09,200 --> 01:43:11,160
Speaker 1: just the fresh air and sunlight are a nice change

1867
01:43:11,160 --> 01:43:13,720
Speaker 1: from being indoors. Anyway, Glad you're still able to do

1868
01:43:13,760 --> 01:43:15,639
Speaker 1: the show. Know that we're out here listening. Take care,

1869
01:43:15,960 --> 01:43:17,439
Speaker 1: And this would be a really good time to start

1870
01:43:17,439 --> 01:43:18,880
Speaker 1: picking out what state you're going to move to when

1871
01:43:18,880 --> 01:43:25,479
Speaker 1: all this is over. Yeah, you're telling me, Angela, New York.

1872
01:43:26,160 --> 01:43:28,840
Speaker 1: New York is not feeling like a good choice these days.

1873
01:43:30,040 --> 01:43:33,960
Speaker 1: No way around that. Neither New Jerseys in rough shape too.

1874
01:43:34,000 --> 01:43:37,759
Speaker 1: I would know because of New Jersey really is Northern

1875
01:43:37,760 --> 01:43:39,920
Speaker 1: New Jersey feels like all a suburb of New York City.

1876
01:43:39,960 --> 01:43:41,439
Speaker 1: They don't like to think about that way, but that's

1877
01:43:41,439 --> 01:43:44,519
Speaker 1: the truth. Ed wondering if you saw Tucker Carlson's piece

1878
01:43:44,560 --> 01:43:47,320
Speaker 1: on Chinese doctors thinking that this Wuhan virus came from

1879
01:43:47,320 --> 01:43:50,720
Speaker 1: the virology lab in Wuhan. You mentioned that about four

1880
01:43:50,760 --> 01:43:53,639
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Yeah. Ed, I've been thinking this all along,

1881
01:43:53,680 --> 01:43:55,559
Speaker 1: as you know, I've been pretty consistent on this. And

1882
01:43:55,600 --> 01:43:57,840
Speaker 1: I did see Tucker's piece and it was excellent and

1883
01:43:58,040 --> 01:44:03,040
Speaker 1: is asking the ascent questions right now, and yeah, there

1884
01:44:03,080 --> 01:44:05,599
Speaker 1: you go. Team. Also, please do if you haven't written

1885
01:44:05,600 --> 01:44:08,920
Speaker 1: in before you guys are you guys are my team

1886
01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:12,240
Speaker 1: Buck Cavalry. You are the lifeline that we have to

1887
01:44:12,280 --> 01:44:14,320
Speaker 1: the outside world here in the Freedom Hunt. So please

1888
01:44:14,360 --> 01:44:17,920
Speaker 1: do send us your thoughts Facebook dot com slash Buck Sexton,

1889
01:44:18,000 --> 01:44:21,280
Speaker 1: even if it's just a line or two. Also, we'll

1890
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Speaker 1: do another Facebook live this week. In fact, I'll do

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Speaker 1: a Facebook live tonight at nine o'clock Eastern, how about that?

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Speaker 1: Right after the syndicated show. So I'll do a Facebook

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Speaker 1: live tonight, and that will be a way that we

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Speaker 1: can all hang out and talk to each other. Christy Buck,

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Speaker 1: a week or two ago you mentioned the possibility of

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Speaker 1: sporting a man Bun. I would advise against that. Also,

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Speaker 1: we would love to have you in Denver, shield side. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much, Christy. And Denver is definitely a

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Speaker 1: place when I when I flee the Big Apple when

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Speaker 1: this thing is over, if I flee, Denver is definitely

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Speaker 1: high on my list of places that I would consider

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Speaker 1: a permanent relocation too. I hear such fantastic things about

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Speaker 1: Denver as a city, but it's gonna have to compete.

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Speaker 1: You know. There's Denver, there's Austin. Yeah, there's a few

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Speaker 1: places that will be in the mix. But I do

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Speaker 1: hear the most wonderful things about it. Everybody, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be good, We're gonna be all right. We will get through,

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Speaker 1: we will endure until next time. Shield Hie