Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt. A stunning and frightening
Speaker 1: assessment from the President's Coronavirus Response Task Force will dive
Speaker 1: into those numbers what it means for the weeks and
Speaker 1: months ahead. Plus we know China lied, but to what
Speaker 1: extent and how bad is coronavirus in that nation? And
Speaker 1: who didn't tell us the truth about it here in
Speaker 1: this country, perhaps for fear of upsetting China. We're going
Speaker 1: to have added more coming up. This is the Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is to decode
Speaker 1: what really matters with passionable intelligence. Make no mistake here
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Speaker 1: he's a great guy. Now, the answer is yes, we
Speaker 1: need as sobering a number as that is, we should
Speaker 1: be prepared for it. Is it going to be that much?
Speaker 1: I hope not, and I think the more we push
Speaker 1: on the mitigation, the less likelihood it would be that number.
Speaker 1: But as being realistic, we need to prepare ourselves that
Speaker 1: that is a possibility, that that's what we will say
Speaker 1: a short period of time, that's happened, right, Can the
Speaker 1: country handle that in such a short period of time,
Speaker 1: within a couple of months. You know, thirty thousand a month.
Speaker 1: You know it will be difficult. I mean, no one
Speaker 1: is denying the fact that we are going through a
Speaker 1: very very difficult time right now. I mean we're seeing
Speaker 1: what's happening in New York that is really, really tough,
Speaker 1: and if you extrapolate that to the nation, that will
Speaker 1: be really tough. But that's what it is, Jim, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to be prepared for that. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the buck Sex and show everyone. Look, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: what we always do. Deal with the fact as we
Speaker 1: know them to be, try to speak the truth, try
Speaker 1: to get to what really matters. I mean, no change
Speaker 1: in that during this period of quarantine, of national shutdown,
Speaker 1: of pandemic panic, We're going to keep doing what we do.
Speaker 1: The mission stays the same of this show, despite all
Speaker 1: of the challenges that are around us and the fear
Speaker 1: that is rising in the sense that the government has
Speaker 1: been playing catch up all along. We need to be
Speaker 1: honest with ourselves about how the response has been from
Speaker 1: government at all levels, What could have changed, what could
Speaker 1: have been different, because it matters for how we deal
Speaker 1: with this going forward. There you had doctor Fauci telling us,
Speaker 1: and I looked at the slide as they released it,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty amazing when you think about how a
Speaker 1: week or two ago the administration we were told fifteen
Speaker 1: days to stop the spread, fifteen days to stop the spread,
Speaker 1: which led people to think, myself among them, that all right,
Speaker 1: within fifteen days, we'll get close enough to where we
Speaker 1: need to be on personal projective measures and all the
Speaker 1: equipment that we can begin some lessoning of some of
Speaker 1: these for the most essential really just the economic measures.
Speaker 1: It's not going to change our social lives or anything
Speaker 1: like that, and that would come with some risk, but
Speaker 1: we would handle those risks and we would try to
Speaker 1: deal with this on a rolling basis. That was where
Speaker 1: that was where the administration was a week or two ago.
Speaker 1: That changed, As I told you on Sunday, they said
Speaker 1: we're going with lockdown till April thirtieth. And I remember thinking,
Speaker 1: how did we go from fifteen days to another thirty
Speaker 1: days in the blink of an eye. What could they
Speaker 1: have learned? What could have changed so dramatically? And it's
Speaker 1: now it's this chart. The assessments that I had seen,
Speaker 1: you've seen assessments of total deaths from coronavirus in the
Speaker 1: United States. Over the course of the first wave of
Speaker 1: this pandemic. I had seen online and look, there's a
Speaker 1: ton of stuff out there. Anywhere from fifty thousand ish,
Speaker 1: which is about what you'd see. That's a pretty that's
Speaker 1: a bad but mid level bad flu season of additional
Speaker 1: casualties to what we have from the flu all the
Speaker 1: way up to the absolute peak of one percent of
Speaker 1: all US population. Essentially we should be between two and
Speaker 1: three million, right, So that was the range you're working with.
Speaker 1: And in recent weeks it seemed like the administration, because
Speaker 1: we're doing all these measures, we're getting all this gear.
Speaker 1: We have some treatments that are not yet working but
Speaker 1: we are hopeful will work. We would switch to a
Speaker 1: more state by state strategy and we would have some
Speaker 1: we would get some of America back to work. That
Speaker 1: was the plan a week ago. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: the president with that line, let's not let the cure
Speaker 1: be worse than the disease. Well what does that mean.
Speaker 1: It means let's not let the shutdown cause more devastation
Speaker 1: and destruct than the actual virus. We went from that
Speaker 1: a week ago to yesterday being told that this press
Speaker 1: conference at the Task Force press conference that we should
Speaker 1: expect one hundred thousand to a quarter million dead even
Speaker 1: with this full on draconian lockdown situation and affected so
Speaker 1: many states. Now, really all the most populous states have
Speaker 1: some version of lockdown stay at home orders. There's some differentiation,
Speaker 1: but we also all know that the CDC guidances stay
Speaker 1: away from people, stay home, don't do anything if you
Speaker 1: can avoid it. And oh, by the way, this virus
Speaker 1: is much more contagious, not quite as lethal as the
Speaker 1: initial assessments, but much more contagious and substantially lethal, and
Speaker 1: from the medical community, also more unpredictable than we had
Speaker 1: been led to believe, more unpredictable in the way that
Speaker 1: this disease would go. People think that their doctors have
Speaker 1: been anecdotally calling in and saying telling different news stations
Speaker 1: and giving interviews where they say, I thought the patient
Speaker 1: was getting better and then within a matter of hours
Speaker 1: was gone. That's what's keeping so many people on edge
Speaker 1: right now about this whole situation. We just don't know,
Speaker 1: We don't have good answers about so much of what's
Speaker 1: going on, and we're losing a lot of Americans. Now
Speaker 1: I would know that the comparison that I'm seeing now
Speaker 1: about how we've lost more people to coronavirus than lost
Speaker 1: in nine to eleven. We lose more. I mean, I'm not,
Speaker 1: I'm not. This is like the flu person Okay, I
Speaker 1: haven't been, but particularly now, I mean, this is worse
Speaker 1: than the flu. Okay, it's worse than the flu as
Speaker 1: we're used to dealing with that. Obviously, the Spanish influenza
Speaker 1: pandemic was horrific. But we haven't dealt with anything like
Speaker 1: this in a hundred years. We haven't. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: anything like this in one hundred years. This is this
Speaker 1: is a one hundred year virus storm that we are
Speaker 1: going through. Okay, but it feels like so much of
Speaker 1: this information that's coming forward from the government level is new.
Speaker 1: Why is it new? Shouldn't we have known this? And
Speaker 1: I will get into a lot of the rewriting of
Speaker 1: history now from people are frantically rewriting history all over
Speaker 1: the media saying that they knew, they saw it, and
Speaker 1: of course Trump's a moron, he didn't see it. This
Speaker 1: is what you're hearing from everybody. It's not true, and
Speaker 1: there's evidence. Unfortunately, you can look online. You know. I
Speaker 1: I sit here, and I start from the premise of
Speaker 1: initial every day honesty with you that this is worse
Speaker 1: than I expected. It is worse than I expected. And
Speaker 1: I'm here in New York City very close to in
Speaker 1: terms of physical distance, the worst of it. But also
Speaker 1: I know people that are dealing with this every day,
Speaker 1: and I'm dealing with it just as as a person
Speaker 1: in the midst of the quarantine zone with the precaution.
Speaker 1: Every time I go out to get food, I can't
Speaker 1: get food delivered. People say, how food? I can't get
Speaker 1: groceries delivered. It's been impossible. I gotta go out. I
Speaker 1: gotta get grocery. Every time you touch a button, forget
Speaker 1: about just touching. Now you walk into an elevator and
Speaker 1: you think my breathing in this virus. You think that
Speaker 1: that wouldn't be the case, right because we had been
Speaker 1: told that this is about contact, this is about touch,
Speaker 1: and yet now they're saying, maybe maybe everybody should wear
Speaker 1: masks in public. Oh only how many weeks, how many
Speaker 1: months into this, and we're figuring out that is what
Speaker 1: has been a much more widespread practice in Asia for
Speaker 1: years of people during the season wearing face mask of
Speaker 1: some kind. Maybe that was better for us, My friends,
Speaker 1: we have been failed by the experts at every level
Speaker 1: on this. I'm here to tell you that we've been
Speaker 1: failed by the media. We've been failed by journalists. We've
Speaker 1: been failed by epidemic task forces and the epidemiologists. Worst
Speaker 1: of all, we've been intentionally failed. Those were good faith
Speaker 1: errors for the most part, not with journalists necessarily, but
Speaker 1: with the other You know, the FDA is a slow,
Speaker 1: lumbering giant, does not move quickly. Same with the CDC.
Speaker 1: It's not that people that didn't want to help. Their
Speaker 1: organizational structure just wasn't up to it. China's China's shortcomings
Speaker 1: here are malicious, their intentional, the Chinese Communist Party, and
Speaker 1: it's it's much worse than we had even thought before.
Speaker 1: So I will get into I will get into that
Speaker 1: today on the show. But I'm I'm a little bit
Speaker 1: stunned by how much all of the people that are
Speaker 1: telling us to trust them now and do everything that
Speaker 1: they say, how much they have gotten wrong, and will
Speaker 1: I will walk through that with you, and I can
Speaker 1: only base my assessments. I don't have a network of
Speaker 1: epidemiologists in wa on China that I can speak to
Speaker 1: or you know, I'm just going with what is reported
Speaker 1: on all of this all along, and we have been
Speaker 1: failed here by institutions. We need to understand that, and
Speaker 1: some of you, I'm sure feel like institutions are failing
Speaker 1: us additionally by putting in place for all these different states,
Speaker 1: these economic these economic sanctions effectively, I mean these economic
Speaker 1: shutdowns in order to deal with this virus in a
Speaker 1: way that perhaps is not worth the long term economic
Speaker 1: cost if certain states, certain counties that don't have a
Speaker 1: high level of virus took basic precautions, but also allow
Speaker 1: there to be more commerce and more business underway, which
Speaker 1: would give people a greater sense of normalcy across the country.
Speaker 1: Although right now, if you even bring this up, you're
Speaker 1: a monster. As I've said, if you talk, if you
Speaker 1: try to say, we need to be looking at risk
Speaker 1: at every step of this because if we make the
Speaker 1: wrong calls here, the devastation to the country overall, to
Speaker 1: our future could become insurmountable. So this is a very
Speaker 1: important time in this nation's history, and yet we're being
Speaker 1: told to shut up, do what you're told. The experts
Speaker 1: know what they're doing, and I don't just mean the
Speaker 1: experts on health, I mean the economic experts, the government experts.
Speaker 1: They know what they're doing. Trump, they say, is a moron.
Speaker 1: But everybody else in the bureaucracy or the the expert
Speaker 1: class really of you know, economists, politicians, and some within
Speaker 1: the medical community that they say that they know what
Speaker 1: to do. Really well, let's let's get into some of
Speaker 1: that today. But before I go there, I all seem
Speaker 1: to say, you know, the motto of the show for now,
Speaker 1: I can't even count how many years, going on a
Speaker 1: decade has been shields high, a reference to the phalanx
Speaker 1: in ancient Greece, notably when I would talk about ancient
Speaker 1: Greek warfare Hoppala warfare, where you would have people in
Speaker 1: the phalanx with a hop long shield that's where the
Speaker 1: term hop light comes from, a large round shield, and
Speaker 1: they would interlock their shields and they would have to
Speaker 1: hold them at shoulder height shields high. And that was
Speaker 1: how you fought, and that was how you not only
Speaker 1: defended yourself, but you defend the person next to you.
Speaker 1: The concept of phalanx, I mean the phalanx warfare and
Speaker 1: different iterations really continued throughout history. For many, many centuries
Speaker 1: after ancient Greece, the ancient Romans used it, and then
Speaker 1: even later on there were there was pike warfare or
Speaker 1: pike units that use very long spears interlocking spears as
Speaker 1: a defense against cavalry charge. So conversation, perhaps that's a
Speaker 1: history that I've been thinking about lately for another time.
Speaker 1: But we are in for a very very difficult period here,
Speaker 1: and it's one that we did not get sufficient warning about.
Speaker 1: I don't have any masks in my home. You know why,
Speaker 1: because I figured they're telling us not to take masks
Speaker 1: off the market because first responders need them. And now
Speaker 1: I'm looking around and people are saying increasingly, well, you know,
Speaker 1: you probably should have some masks. Oh so I listened
Speaker 1: to the experts, and now I'm one of the I'm
Speaker 1: one of the chumps that doesn't have a mask. It
Speaker 1: seems right. I mean, this is this is the thought
Speaker 1: process I'm much talking about me. This is for everybody now,
Speaker 1: all right. You know, now we're in quarantine. So if
Speaker 1: this happened and you had you know, you're I don't
Speaker 1: have a second home and barely have a home. But
Speaker 1: if you have some home in the country, a cabin
Speaker 1: in the woods and you went to it. You're in
Speaker 1: much better shape now, you know. We were told don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. We were told by Di Blasio here
Speaker 1: in New York, go out, go to crowd, spend money,
Speaker 1: go to restaurants. People have been top to bottom catastrophic
Speaker 1: with this. And I see so much finger pointing and
Speaker 1: running around. You do this, and you do that. I
Speaker 1: follow the left and the right constantly all day long
Speaker 1: in media. Nobody really knew how bad this was going
Speaker 1: to be and what it would do to the country.
Speaker 1: No one with a platform big enough to influence the
Speaker 1: rest of the nation. There was so much focus. Yeah
Speaker 1: they're saying it's bad, it's bad, but it was always
Speaker 1: it's bad and Trump is the problem, and that made
Speaker 1: people tune out. Nobody was saying a month ago, Hey,
Speaker 1: if this runs through the United States without anybody taking
Speaker 1: mitigation measures, it's going to kill two million people. Now
Speaker 1: I know people have problems. Also, I've seen this with
Speaker 1: the modeling. Are they using New York as a baseline
Speaker 1: for the rest of the country, because that would seem
Speaker 1: from a statistical standpoint to be very, very poor thinking.
Speaker 1: New York is the most crowded and largest metropolitan are
Speaker 1: in the United States place I know very very well.
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand when you look at the spread
Speaker 1: of the disease. Here in the city, we are packed
Speaker 1: on top of each other. Walking on the street, I
Speaker 1: often brush up shoulders against people. That's how close you
Speaker 1: are here every day to strangers, hundreds and thousands of
Speaker 1: them all the time. You don't have that in most
Speaker 1: of the country. Even in a place like Washington, DC,
Speaker 1: the streets are practically empty all the time. Compared to
Speaker 1: New York, the metro is far fewer people on it.
Speaker 1: It's a fraction, right, so, and I mean, these are
Speaker 1: two places I've lived in. Now we're being told a
Speaker 1: week ago it was we might have to go back
Speaker 1: to work, we might have to make some trade offs.
Speaker 1: And even Fauci was saying, you know, we got to
Speaker 1: avoid a rebound. But there was And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they crunched the numbers. They said, nope, lockdown, lockdown,
Speaker 1: or or there's going to be so much death it'll
Speaker 1: be overwhelming. And anybody who now looks at this and says,
Speaker 1: wait a second, why didn't we know about this weeks ago?
Speaker 1: They weren't able to do this modeling who my friends,
Speaker 1: this is a period of time where we have to
Speaker 1: do as much of our own thinking and be willing
Speaker 1: to question authority as much as we ever have. But
Speaker 1: first we have to get ready for what is coming
Speaker 1: in the weeks ahead. I'll get to that. You're in
Speaker 1: the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 1: I want every American to be prepared for the hard
Speaker 1: days that lie ahead. We're going to go through a
Speaker 1: very tough two weeks and then, hopefully, as the experts
Speaker 1: are predicting, as I think a lot of us are predicting,
Speaker 1: after having studied it so hard, you're going to start
Speaker 1: seeing some real light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 1: But this is going to be a very painful, very
Speaker 1: very painful two weeks, very very painful two weeks. This
Speaker 1: is from the President, folks. He's seen all the all
Speaker 1: the projections. Now he has been speaking with his team,
Speaker 1: with his team of experts in this field, and they've
Speaker 1: gone for maximum closure of the United States in response
Speaker 1: to what they've seen. Now, is this the right move
Speaker 1: if they're really, if they're correct, if we really are
Speaker 1: facing hundreds of thousands of dead, well, what other what
Speaker 1: other move I guess do you have anyone who says
Speaker 1: even relaxing this a little bit. The media, the Libs,
Speaker 1: the left, and a lot of Republicans want just chop
Speaker 1: your head off right away. How dare you? People are dying? Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's fine. We no one wants people to die.
Speaker 1: We also want the country to live, right. We also
Speaker 1: want there to be a society going forward, and that's
Speaker 1: where some of the tension is. That's what Trump talked
Speaker 1: about with the trade offs. But nope, if we're really
Speaker 1: talking about hundreds of thousands of people's that's quite clear,
Speaker 1: isn't it. We're going to have this shutdown and there's
Speaker 1: not going to really be any discussion about it. This
Speaker 1: is getting troubling as well, because there's not going to
Speaker 1: be a discussion about civil liberties, about the constitution, about
Speaker 1: what the government is able to do. Now. I took
Speaker 1: it as particularly ominous that former President Barack Obama brought
Speaker 1: up yesterday climate change. Really right, now, we've got news
Speaker 1: channels with body count tickers at the bottom of the screen,
Speaker 1: and you're going to talk about climate change now. Wow, oh,
Speaker 1: but remember what the appeal of climate change has been
Speaker 1: all along for the Left is total domination and control
Speaker 1: of society with an existential hook to it. The world
Speaker 1: is at risk. You can't you can't compete with the
Speaker 1: world is at risk. That's what they say, That's that's
Speaker 1: what they use against you. Well, now, guess what the
Speaker 1: world is, according to these calculations at risk. It's at
Speaker 1: risk from the virus, it's at risk of economic collapse.
Speaker 1: Do you think that they're going to try to use
Speaker 1: that for their own expansion of power and authority? And
Speaker 1: are they really going to just give it back? You know,
Speaker 1: to borrow from Gladiator when Marcus Aurelius wants to hand
Speaker 1: over the keys to Rome and then he's just going
Speaker 1: to give it back. Do you think that that's what
Speaker 1: the left is going to do now? Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. Thanks for listening to The bus Essen Show podcasts.
Speaker 1: Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Since I messed up that
Speaker 1: quote a little bit, it's actually from Senator Gracis who says,
Speaker 1: so after rooms all yours, you'll just give it back
Speaker 1: to the people. Tell me why, Maximus, Because that was
Speaker 1: a dying man's last wish, Maximus says, Gladiator is a
Speaker 1: great movie. If you're looking for a movie to escape
Speaker 1: all this nonsense, you really can't go wrong with Gladiator.
Speaker 1: So oh, it's just I wish I could just turn
Speaker 1: on Gladiator these days and not have to think about
Speaker 1: all these things. But here we are, friends, We are
Speaker 1: in a we are in a very very tough spot
Speaker 1: as a country. And even if this isn't affecting your area,
Speaker 1: your county, perhaps even your state all that much, because
Speaker 1: of what it's doing in other parts of the country.
Speaker 1: It's we're all dragged into this. We're all in the
Speaker 1: midst of dealing with this disaster, which just keeps it
Speaker 1: keeps getting worse. We really haven't gotten any good news
Speaker 1: in quite a while, and it is not confidence inspiring
Speaker 1: at all. That a week ago, it seemed like we
Speaker 1: were moving toward some duration of economic activity. That's not normalcy,
Speaker 1: that's not hey, let's throw house parties and forget and
Speaker 1: not protect vulnerable populations. But there seemed to be an elevated,
Speaker 1: elevated risk acceptance as a trade off with economic activity.
Speaker 1: That's what we were talking about, that's what the administration
Speaker 1: was saying. And then it's just a complete about face.
Speaker 1: And now the President ends up telling us things like this,
Speaker 1: He's telling us that this is going to be really tough.
Speaker 1: Play clip six. As a nation, we face a difficult
Speaker 1: few weeks as we approach that really important day when
Speaker 1: we're going to see things get better all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be like a burst of light,
Speaker 1: I really think, and I hope the strength will be
Speaker 1: tested in our endurance will be tried, but America will
Speaker 1: answer with love and courage and iron't lad resolve that
Speaker 1: this is the time for all Americans to come together
Speaker 1: and dot. This is the time for all Americans to
Speaker 1: come together and do our part. This is the time
Speaker 1: for all of us to try and rally and show
Speaker 1: our best selves. That much is true. Where did we
Speaker 1: Where did we go wrong? Though in the run up
Speaker 1: to this, we are a country of unprecedented wealth, We
Speaker 1: are a country of unbelievable material capacity, instantaneous communication in
Speaker 1: everyone's hands, and we went in the span of a
Speaker 1: month from this won't be a big deal. And by
Speaker 1: the people that are saying that they knew, no one
Speaker 1: who had the attention of the nation a month ago
Speaker 1: was saying that this was going to shut down the
Speaker 1: country right now, indefinitely. No one was saying that, all right,
Speaker 1: I all I do is watch and read and listen,
Speaker 1: And that was not the position. In fact, there were
Speaker 1: a lot of people who were taking the position even
Speaker 1: three weeks ago, that this was man nothing, This was nothing.
Speaker 1: I had people writing into me from the wor show
Speaker 1: that I do here in New York City who were saying,
Speaker 1: you're sounding very negative right now. You shouldn't sound so negative. Well,
Speaker 1: if you're in New York and three weeks ago you
Speaker 1: thought I was sounding too negative, you probably think right
Speaker 1: now I don't sound negative enough. Things have gotten very,
Speaker 1: very bad here. So what do we do about all
Speaker 1: of this is a big question. Before I get too
Speaker 1: far down that pathway, I do want to start though,
Speaker 1: with how did we get here? You know, we have
Speaker 1: a lot of time to think about this. We have
Speaker 1: a lot of just sitting around and not seeing family.
Speaker 1: I mean, I haven't been able to see my parents
Speaker 1: in weeks. You know, we have not been able to
Speaker 1: We're not able to communicate in person with loved ones.
Speaker 1: Social life, that's a thing that doesn't really exist. I
Speaker 1: saw that a very I will say a pretty funny
Speaker 1: tweet from somebody. I don't remember who it was, but
Speaker 1: it was I wish I developed a hobby other than
Speaker 1: going out to eat. That's how I feel too, you know,
Speaker 1: between going out to eat and reading. The problem with
Speaker 1: reading is your only hobby. As I read all day
Speaker 1: for work, So then to read all day for work
Speaker 1: and then lie down and start reading even more on
Speaker 1: your own, it can feel a little bit like is
Speaker 1: this all that I do? But I want to see
Speaker 1: how it is that we got to this to this
Speaker 1: point you are. And also then I'm going to have
Speaker 1: to deal with some of the line that you're going
Speaker 1: to hear because people view this as a fight for
Speaker 1: power and a fight for status in society. In the media,
Speaker 1: that's what they're that's what they're going to treat this
Speaker 1: as it's used against the Trump administration. Clearly, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the political thermonuclear weapon that the Democrats have
Speaker 1: been waiting for. They've tried to create other circumstances and
Speaker 1: you know, try to try to bring about a situation
Speaker 1: that would end the Trump pres and see this goes bad,
Speaker 1: the Trump presidency is over. Unfortunately, if this goes really bad,
Speaker 1: and I'm not a catastrophist, and you know that I
Speaker 1: keep saying, will be positive about this, but this could
Speaker 1: end more than just the Trump presidency. If this goes
Speaker 1: really badly, we all know, we all should know that.
Speaker 1: At least I feel like we all shouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to have adult conversations as a nation. It's very hard
Speaker 1: these days because if you say things like, hey, so
Speaker 1: when we get through the other side of the curve,
Speaker 1: and we're probably still not going to have some drug
Speaker 1: that's a miracle for this, We're probably we're definitely not
Speaker 1: going to have a vaccine. So do we start relaxing
Speaker 1: some of these procedures then to allow more economic activity?
Speaker 1: And say, May or June or July is the person
Speaker 1: that gives that call then that says, okay, we're going
Speaker 1: to do We're gonna go back to work America, at
Speaker 1: least in some places, in some ways, it's that person
Speaker 1: going to be called the murder the answers yes if
Speaker 1: it's a Republican. By the way, the moment that somebody says, hey, okay,
Speaker 1: we've got to try or return to some normalcy here,
Speaker 1: they're telling you, oh, we'll get on the other side
Speaker 1: of the curve, and we'll have more things under control
Speaker 1: and we'll have better create all this other stuff. Okay,
Speaker 1: sort of, you know, sort of, we won't have to
Speaker 1: worry about overwhelming hospitals. But unfortunately, the way this disease
Speaker 1: goes for a lot of people, it's not like you
Speaker 1: get on a ventilator and that's a great, great treatment,
Speaker 1: that's a last ditch effort to keep somebody alive. A
Speaker 1: lot of people pass away even though they're on the ventilator.
Speaker 1: So we're still taking risk. We're still taking risk to
Speaker 1: life and limb by opening up the economy. Is anyone
Speaker 1: going to be able to give that order without meaning,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, we're going to start going back to
Speaker 1: normal without being called the monster. Well, I can tell
Speaker 1: you this any Republican, especially at the Trump administration, but
Speaker 1: any Republican governor, mayor and all of Republican mayors running
Speaker 1: around for big cities. But who says, as okay, let's
Speaker 1: let's try to open things up. It's they're committing political suicide.
Speaker 1: They know it. So that means it's very hard to
Speaker 1: have a reasonable discussion about any of this. How did
Speaker 1: we get to this point? The role of China cannot
Speaker 1: cannot be overstated at this point when you look at
Speaker 1: the outbreak and the inability not just to contain it
Speaker 1: but also to allow other people to prepare for Here's
Speaker 1: what I think really tipped this scale because the projections,
Speaker 1: the scary projections about what's going on with the economy.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what's going on with the death rate? Never
Speaker 1: mind the economy. That's that's the way we're looking at
Speaker 1: this right now. The scary projections on death rate were
Speaker 1: weeks ago out there, and you had this Imperial College
Speaker 1: study I think that was maybe two weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: that was the one that said that we had so
Speaker 1: many people that would that would possibly die in this
Speaker 1: country and in the UK. All right, but that was
Speaker 1: out there, and then even last week the Trump administration
Speaker 1: was thinking about opening things up, and I figured, okay,
Speaker 1: well they must see that this isn't We've got this
Speaker 1: mostly under control. We can take some additional risk. We
Speaker 1: got to get people back to work. And then then
Speaker 1: the latest information was, oh, no, we can't do that.
Speaker 1: That's a horrible idea. A lot of people are at risk,
Speaker 1: A lot more people are at risk than than was
Speaker 1: anticipated by that. So we are in full on lockdown
Speaker 1: mode for another thirty days. That's a huge switch in
Speaker 1: one week. I mean, this is what is the government
Speaker 1: or the government just looking at this? Nobody cares about
Speaker 1: climate change. You know that we put out a bounty
Speaker 1: for the leader of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro. We put out
Speaker 1: a bounty on the guy, like an old West, you know,
Speaker 1: bring him in, not dead or alive, but you know,
Speaker 1: bring him in as a narco trafficker. This guy's the
Speaker 1: president of Venezuela. I mean people would say Guido, but
Speaker 1: Maduro is the leader of Venezuela. No one even noticed.
Speaker 1: How many of you even knew that? I mean I
Speaker 1: read the news all day long, so I saw this,
Speaker 1: But I mean even have I even brought it up before.
Speaker 1: Now We've put a bounty on me, on the leader
Speaker 1: of a foreign head of state, as a criminal, and
Speaker 1: no one even paid any attention to it. So what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is that the government is only really focused,
Speaker 1: or rather the vast bulk of government effort and attention
Speaker 1: is focused in on this problem. It's not like the
Speaker 1: possible death rate from COVID nineteen would slip through the cracks.
Speaker 1: So what was the game changer here, What shifted the
Speaker 1: course of this such that we're now being told it's lockdown,
Speaker 1: and my friends, it's not lockdown for thirty more days,
Speaker 1: it's lockdown for at least another sixty. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you look at the models, their trend doesn't really come
Speaker 1: down until July. So it's lockdown for a long time.
Speaker 1: And we're all being told the economy will just flip
Speaker 1: right back on like a switch. Just the government will
Speaker 1: pay you, the economy will flip right back on. I
Speaker 1: don't believe that, but I also am getting sick of
Speaker 1: being told that just bringing that up as a concern
Speaker 1: means that you're you know, you're basically a mass murderer. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're just I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I
Speaker 1: would like to think of ways that we could try
Speaker 1: to keep people alive and avoid a depression. But that
Speaker 1: now makes you makes you a very, very bad person,
Speaker 1: according to the consensive narrative of journalists, who are the
Speaker 1: dumbest and worst people in the world. But how did
Speaker 1: we get to this point where we have such a
Speaker 1: massive shift in our thinking on this China? The answer
Speaker 1: is China, not what they have been telling us. What
Speaker 1: they haven't been telling us. You're in the Freedom Hunt.
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. And when you
Speaker 1: talk about could we have known something different? You know,
Speaker 1: I think all of us. I mean I was overseas
Speaker 1: when this happened in Africa, and I think when you
Speaker 1: look at the China data originally and you said, oh, well,
Speaker 1: there's eighty million people are twenty million people in Wuhan
Speaker 1: and eighty million people in Hubei and they come up
Speaker 1: with a number of fifty thousand, you start thinking of
Speaker 1: this more like SARS. Then you do this kind of
Speaker 1: global pandemic. I mean, I'll just be frank that when
Speaker 1: I looked at it, I was like, oh, well, this
Speaker 1: is not you know, as close as those quarters are,
Speaker 1: you know. So I think the medical community made interpreted
Speaker 1: the Chinese data as that this was serious but smaller
Speaker 1: than anyone expected, because I think probably we were missing
Speaker 1: significant amount of the data. Now that when we see
Speaker 1: what happened to Italy and we see what happened to Spain,
Speaker 1: my friends, Chinese government lied about this, which had huge ramifications.
Speaker 1: I mean, here's the top expert, one of the people
Speaker 1: that liberals who are still deranged with their hatred of
Speaker 1: Trump and focus on that more than really anything else. Right. Now,
Speaker 1: here's the top expert saying that she looked at this,
Speaker 1: she looked at the data, and it was her conclusion
Speaker 1: was wrong. So I'm here telling you that I also,
Speaker 1: based on what I was seeing and hearing, I thought
Speaker 1: that it would be like SARS as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: not that I have the expertise that she does, but
Speaker 1: I thought it would be one of these moments where
Speaker 1: we have a respiratory scare. There'd be some cases here
Speaker 1: or there, but it would it would not be anything
Speaker 1: like we're dealing with now, and that shutting down the
Speaker 1: economy when this is happening would be you know, the
Speaker 1: cure would be worse than the disease, what the president said.
Speaker 1: But no, now we're now we're actually looking at a
Speaker 1: disease that's far beyond in terms of the losses and
Speaker 1: the casualties what we thought even even a week or
Speaker 1: two ago. How did that happen? Because now we start
Speaker 1: to have more information about what really happened in China,
Speaker 1: because you have to remember, if the China knees with
Speaker 1: their very rapidly produced field hospitals on this matter and
Speaker 1: all the rest of in their lockdowns and everything. But
Speaker 1: China is a densely populated country of one billion people.
Speaker 1: And when you look at the numbers, they claim that
Speaker 1: they only had twenty five hundred deaths in Wuhan. Twenty
Speaker 1: five hundred deaths the real number based upon and this
Speaker 1: is where the data has been essentially smuggled out now
Speaker 1: and this is how they're estimating this. There are eighty
Speaker 1: four furnaces with a capacity over twenty four hours of
Speaker 1: one five hundred and sixty urns citywide, assuming one cremation
Speaker 1: takes one hour, they told So they're looking at the
Speaker 1: cremation data from funeral homes. And when you do that,
Speaker 1: the number and this is just in Wuhan, this isn't
Speaker 1: overall in the rest of China. When you do that,
Speaker 1: the death rate in Uhan isn't twenty five hundred, it's
Speaker 1: about fifty thousand. You're going up twenty x what the
Speaker 1: Chinese government had been telling the world for weeks. You know,
Speaker 1: if you tell me that we're facing something similar to
Speaker 1: the flu and we'll have about the same casualty rate,
Speaker 1: you know, then it's it's possible to have a conversation about, well,
Speaker 1: how soon you know how many weeks before we can
Speaker 1: maybe do this lockdown, let them get ahead. But you've
Speaker 1: been telling me that it's going to kill twenty times
Speaker 1: as many people as the flu, which is what we're
Speaker 1: now being told. If you're gonna tell me it kills
Speaker 1: twenty times as many people as the flu, well that's
Speaker 1: a dramatically different calculation. And we're just being presented with
Speaker 1: this now, my friends, it is April first. We are
Speaker 1: in April. The first US case of this was January fifteenth.
Speaker 1: This has been dragging along for months. So when people
Speaker 1: tell you, I've been saying this to listen to the experts.
Speaker 1: Everybody at every level of this has gotten some of
Speaker 1: it wrong, and most of the people with the greatest
Speaker 1: authority and the biggest megaphones have gotten it very wrong.
Speaker 1: Let's just get this out of our systems now. Let's
Speaker 1: just be clear about this, because you want to make
Speaker 1: better decisions in the future. I want to make better decisions.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you the truth. I have been mercilessly
Speaker 1: all my own here, beating myself up because I feel
Speaker 1: like I should have seen this coming more. And then
Speaker 1: it will tell all of you with greater certainty how
Speaker 1: bad this was going to be. I'm mad at myself
Speaker 1: because of this, and I know, yeah, Deborah Burkes and
Speaker 1: the people that actually study this, I'm just some guy.
Speaker 1: I'm just some ex Intel analyst who does it pretty
Speaker 1: damn good radio show. But you know, I don't have
Speaker 1: any special insider expertise into the issue of pandemics. Although
Speaker 1: I did read a book on pandemics a few years ago,
Speaker 1: which now everyone's talking about all the time, so I
Speaker 1: got that going for me. But no, honestly, though, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm using a little bit of self deprecation here to
Speaker 1: defray from what makes me what makes me mad at myself.
Speaker 1: But I'm angry that I didn't see this coming. And
Speaker 1: I can't imagine people in the US government, top to
Speaker 1: bottom aren't also angry even though the information was bad,
Speaker 1: even though it's garbage in and garbage out. I should
Speaker 1: have seen this coming. They damn sure should have seen
Speaker 1: this coming. And I mean that in all the agencies,
Speaker 1: all the experts, every level of government failure, failure, failure.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember
Speaker 1: to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever
Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. Where did the virus carrying bats
Speaker 1: come from? And the paper says this quote. We screened
Speaker 1: the area around the market and identified two laboratories conducting
Speaker 1: research on bat coronavirus. Within a few hundred yards of
Speaker 1: the wet market was something called the Wuhan Center for
Speaker 1: Disease Control and Prevention. According to public reports, the center
Speaker 1: used intermediate horseshoe bats for research. Then, about seven miles
Speaker 1: away was another facility. It was called the Wuhan Institute
Speaker 1: of Virology. The Virology Institute also conducted research on intermediate
Speaker 1: horseshoe bats, the ones that were not sold at the
Speaker 1: wet Market. South China University scientists concluded that the coronavirus pandemic,
Speaker 1: the one that people are dying from here, likely came
Speaker 1: from one of these two government labs in Wuhan. They
Speaker 1: noticed that a scientist at the Wuhan Center for Disease
Speaker 1: Control and Prevention had been exposed to the blood and
Speaker 1: urine of horseshoe bats. They also suggested that infected tissue
Speaker 1: samples from research animals may have wound up in the
Speaker 1: Wuhan wet market. Tucker Carlson is doing some of the
Speaker 1: most important commentary on TV these days, during this time
Speaker 1: when journalists, when the news should be really powerful and
Speaker 1: really matter, Tucker's thoughts are mattering. Tucker's thoughts are worthwhile
Speaker 1: a lot of the other stuff you're hearing is just complete,
Speaker 1: just either repetitious or it's worthless garbage. Oh, the Navy
Speaker 1: ship's never going to arrive in New York, Yeah, MSNBC.
Speaker 1: I looked at it when it did arrive two days ago.
Speaker 1: So there we have it. But let's get into this
Speaker 1: situation with China here. I believe, and look, you won't
Speaker 1: really be able to tell me if I'm right or
Speaker 1: wrong about this for years. So this is one of
Speaker 1: these predictions where I'll tell some of you, hopefully you'll
Speaker 1: still be listening, Hopefully we'll have millions of people listening
Speaker 1: to this show in years, and I'll tell you that
Speaker 1: I said this. People will look back at this as
Speaker 1: the beginning of the great struggle between the US and
Speaker 1: China for global hegemony. And it's going to bring us
Speaker 1: very close. I'm not saying that a year, might be
Speaker 1: saying in next two or three years, next five or
Speaker 1: ten years, it's going to bring us very close to
Speaker 1: a shooting war with China because the Chinese Communist Party
Speaker 1: is not going to go down without a fight, and
Speaker 1: because this now shows us that what happens in China
Speaker 1: is not in any way cordoned off from the rest
Speaker 1: of the world. In a whole bunch of context, you know,
Speaker 1: they've been engaged in this unceasing theft of intellectual property
Speaker 1: from the United States for decades now, and we've been
Speaker 1: trying to help them our approaches, and let's make a better,
Speaker 1: more prosperous, happier, healthier China and every way that we can.
Speaker 1: Let's be good neighbors. That's always America's view, right, Let's
Speaker 1: try to be good neighbors when we can. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: have to invade places and there's bombs dropped. Then I
Speaker 1: understand that. But with China, we're trying to do right
Speaker 1: by the Chinese government and be good trade partners and
Speaker 1: all the rest of it. What China's done is, yeah,
Speaker 1: they've sold us a lot of cheap stuff to make
Speaker 1: them make their own country a lot wealthier, but they've
Speaker 1: also been stealing intellectual property and engaged in really nefarious
Speaker 1: activity for a long time. Okay, Tucker got into the
Speaker 1: situation of the virus. There are two. Now this is
Speaker 1: you know, you know where I've been on this. I
Speaker 1: keep saying I can't prove it. I can't prove it.
Speaker 1: But let's look at the facts as we know them.
Speaker 1: There are two institutes of virology or infectious disease study
Speaker 1: that are a stone's throwaway from this wet market in Wuhan. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you have these two facilities. The disease this is
Speaker 1: according to Chinese research, Okay, the disease that we now
Speaker 1: are dealing with, and that has shut down the economy.
Speaker 1: It's a reason that a lot of us are just
Speaker 1: looking around like how are we in this global nightmare
Speaker 1: people game, saying I'm gonna go somewhere. Okay, you better
Speaker 1: get way off the grid, because this is everywhere. It's
Speaker 1: in every country, it's in every state, and you know,
Speaker 1: you never know when someone's coughing if it's an allergy
Speaker 1: or if it's this. But the the bat, the specific
Speaker 1: species of bat that it is believed to have been
Speaker 1: the initial the initial animal reservoir for this virus, and
Speaker 1: then you have zooonotic transmission. It comes from the animal
Speaker 1: to people. But the specific virus here is in a
Speaker 1: kind of bat, the intermediate guess I can't remember where
Speaker 1: its intermediate. It's something bad, Mark, do you remember where
Speaker 1: kind of bat there's there's actually hundreds of types of bats.
Speaker 1: I think there might even be more more than that,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of bat species. Horseshoe bat. There
Speaker 1: we go intermediate horseshoe bat, which is the scariest looking
Speaker 1: little thing you get ever, fine, I mean that little
Speaker 1: you know, you wouldn't want to see that thing hanging
Speaker 1: upside down your closet late at night trying to go
Speaker 1: in there and grab a sleeping cap, right, that would
Speaker 1: not be good. But this intermediate horseshoe bat that's supposed
Speaker 1: to be the animal reservoir for this virus didn't. They
Speaker 1: didn't have any of them. They didn't sell them. That
Speaker 1: wasn't a species that they would have had within out
Speaker 1: there's no colony of them within hours of you know,
Speaker 1: a natural colony them within hours of the market itself.
Speaker 1: I think they said the last nine hundred kilometers. That's
Speaker 1: that's a pretty Now. Granted, they bring in animals, they
Speaker 1: bring in tigers, and they bring things from all over
Speaker 1: the world, but you're you're, you're you're bringing in a
Speaker 1: bat that's not a native species to the area. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of bats that are so oh, you
Speaker 1: gotta unless somebody thinks that like the intermediate horseshoe bat
Speaker 1: just take so much better in the soup, and that
Speaker 1: might be possible. I've never had bat soup. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it seems fishy does. And it seems a bit
Speaker 1: strange that you'd have the intermediate horseshoe bat not living
Speaker 1: within five hundred miles or so. I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: bad that's a rough calculation, but whatever, whatever nine hundred
Speaker 1: kilometers is, it's like six or seven, one hundred, one
Speaker 1: hundred and nine er. If I could, you know, read
Speaker 1: a ten k and do math, I probably wouldn't be
Speaker 1: working media. So a little bit of honesty there. But
Speaker 1: here's the here's the truth. You look at the species
Speaker 1: of bat and you say, hold on a second, they
Speaker 1: don't have any near there. And they were studying those
Speaker 1: bats in these two virology institutes whatever they're called, specifically,
Speaker 1: these two infectious disease institutions, one of which at least
Speaker 1: is known to have released viruses that it was studying
Speaker 1: in a pass into the general population. So that's already happened. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think that China intentionally let
Speaker 1: this thing out, not yet, meaning you know that maybe
Speaker 1: down the line they were thinking about it. But now
Speaker 1: that we see how this works, now that we see
Speaker 1: the reality here, imagine the Imagine the strategic advantage the
Speaker 1: biological warfare agent would give you, because this is a
Speaker 1: weapon that could be completely Now, to be clear, I
Speaker 1: do not think that the Chinese did this purposefully. I
Speaker 1: do think, well, I know that it came from China, obviously,
Speaker 1: and I do think there's a high possibility, maybe even
Speaker 1: now at probability, that it came from that it was
Speaker 1: being studied and got out of one of these labs,
Speaker 1: which would also explain at some level the completely corrupt
Speaker 1: and insanely irresponsible approach Chinese government. It's one thing if
Speaker 1: you have a virus that pops up somewhere, Okay, you know,
Speaker 1: we didn't know how bad it was. But if the
Speaker 1: virus is the result of your faulty government labs, think
Speaker 1: about the I mean, not that the Chinese people could
Speaker 1: sue the Chinese government, think about the liability there. Think
Speaker 1: about how the international community might be able to turn
Speaker 1: to China and demand virus reparations. That's a real thing
Speaker 1: that could happen. At some point we may say, Okay, China,
Speaker 1: you know, you get to pay for the trillions of
Speaker 1: dollars that you have just evaporated of global wealth here.
Speaker 1: You know they're not going to have the trillions to pay,
Speaker 1: but they gotta pay something, right that. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: this could happen in the future if it were so
Speaker 1: clearly not just something that originated in China. But we're
Speaker 1: the fault of the Chinese government, which seems to be
Speaker 1: increasingly likely to have been the case. But now look
Speaker 1: at this from a biological weapons perspective. We see what
Speaker 1: this is doing to our country. It's tearing us apart,
Speaker 1: it's ripping down our economy, it's killing thousands and thousands
Speaker 1: of our fellow Americans. It's overwhelming our hospitals. Not a
Speaker 1: shot fired. Not a shot fired. If a country, let's say,
Speaker 1: had the Wuhan virus, had COVID nineteen, and also had
Speaker 1: studied to the point where they knew what suppression, what
Speaker 1: suppressive measures would work, and they release this and again
Speaker 1: this is I'm not saying this is what happened. I'm wargaming.
Speaker 1: Why a country would want to study and prepare to
Speaker 1: weaponize this kind of virus if you could release this
Speaker 1: into a foreign government population and keep it under wraps
Speaker 1: and have your own population protected because you know either
Speaker 1: what the necessary intervention is or you know perhaps even
Speaker 1: what the cure is, or you could even do inoculations
Speaker 1: for government officials. Just tell them it's for something else.
Speaker 1: And this wouldn't be that hard to do, especially in
Speaker 1: a country like China where's it's authoritarian. It's totalitarian, so
Speaker 1: they make all government officials, police, military get inoculated, and
Speaker 1: they keep the and they say it's for something else,
Speaker 1: and they say it's a standard inoculation. You know, the
Speaker 1: party can give those orders, and then they when people
Speaker 1: start showing up in their emergency rooms, the government mandates
Speaker 1: a protocol for them. Even if the country that you
Speaker 1: would you would unleashed this in, which is as simple
Speaker 1: as just sending a few infected people, very straightforward, right,
Speaker 1: how you how you would weaponize it in terms of dispersal.
Speaker 1: Even if you did that, then when your own population
Speaker 1: it would bounce back. And people say, this is why
Speaker 1: they would never This is why you don't want to
Speaker 1: weaponize a virus, or what if the state facilities have
Speaker 1: the treatment and you know, their fatality rate instead of
Speaker 1: being what it looks like this is, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: one percent, but particularly for older people, Let's say they
Speaker 1: had even elevated the fatality through continued engineering at the virus,
Speaker 1: so it was like a fifty percent fatality rate. I mean,
Speaker 1: now I'm talking about a straight up weaponization of a virus,
Speaker 1: but you can bring that down to one percent for
Speaker 1: your own population. Think about what that does. You'll kill
Speaker 1: perhaps a few million of the enemy before they even
Speaker 1: realize what's gone on. Their economy will be in tatters,
Speaker 1: their society will be ground into dust, and you know,
Speaker 1: you basically are able to just keep on fighting, keep
Speaker 1: on going. This we're running, in a sense, a precursor
Speaker 1: experiment to that. Right now, we're seeing what happens. And
Speaker 1: I do think that we need to take very seriously
Speaker 1: the prospect of the Chinese government being responsible for this
Speaker 1: through recklessness, not through intentional transmission. I do not think
Speaker 1: the Chinese government would try to infect its own population
Speaker 1: with this or would risk that knowing that they would
Speaker 1: not really be able to control it. That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: But Tucker talked to this last down on his show,
Speaker 1: basing it on Chinese research that's already out there. What
Speaker 1: part of this is not credible? I mean, that's one
Speaker 1: way that as a former Intel officer, I'd like to ask.
Speaker 1: I always ask that question, why doesn't the story hold up?
Speaker 1: Don't tell me what we don't know, Tell me what's
Speaker 1: wrong about what we already know. I can't come up
Speaker 1: with anything yet. We know the Chinese government led about it.
Speaker 1: We know the Chinese government was willing to put everybody
Speaker 1: at substantially greater risk. So what do we do about
Speaker 1: all of this? It's a question nobody has an answer for.
Speaker 1: Right now. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show podcast. We do not know the origin
Speaker 1: of this virus. We know where the outbreak first began,
Speaker 1: and it was Wuhan. And you're right, there is a
Speaker 1: level for biomedical research, the Wuhan Institute of Virology that's
Speaker 1: just a few miles away. That is the level four
Speaker 1: is the highest level of security. We know that at
Speaker 1: that facility they were researching highly, highly infectious diseases, including coronaviruses,
Speaker 1: including coronaviruses that derived from back and so they're researching
Speaker 1: the exact same type of disease that became this pandemic,
Speaker 1: and it is a natural question to ask. There had
Speaker 1: been multiple stories written in the global media about how
Speaker 1: the security protocols at this will Hunt Institute were lacking,
Speaker 1: that they weren't very good, that this is you know,
Speaker 1: this is the sort of place you see in the
Speaker 1: movies where people go in and the hazmat suits and
Speaker 1: it's all you know, sealed off, and because they're exceptionally
Speaker 1: dangerous diseases there, and there is a very natural question
Speaker 1: to ask of well, did somebody make a mistake where
Speaker 1: they studying this virus and did it escape accidentally? And
Speaker 1: is that part of why the communist government in China
Speaker 1: tried so hard to cover that cover this up. I'm
Speaker 1: and Ted Cruz on this one. I didn't know that
Speaker 1: was his opinion until today, but that's been my feeling
Speaker 1: on this all along. Wouldn't that make sense then if
Speaker 1: you're the Communist party, you recognize not only are you
Speaker 1: going to have to deal with the I look, disease
Speaker 1: can happen anywhere, right, I mean, no one, no one
Speaker 1: blames Lime Connecticut for lime disease. And just because that's
Speaker 1: the first place where they figured out what this was,
Speaker 1: the disease carried by dear ticks. You know, no one
Speaker 1: blames you know, you know West the West Nihile area
Speaker 1: for West nil virus. It's not about that. But this
Speaker 1: is different than that. This isn't the place of discovery
Speaker 1: for something that's just you know, an accident of nature
Speaker 1: that that occurred that we're now dealing with. This is
Speaker 1: a government entity that lied about this because of its incompetence,
Speaker 1: which goes to a whole other level here and also
Speaker 1: under and also explains why their propaganda has been so aggressive.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if if I, if I had gotten reports,
Speaker 1: if I had known, let's say, a month ago, that
Speaker 1: they're saying fifty thousand, I mean maybe it's more like
Speaker 1: seventy five or one hundred thousand dead in one hundred
Speaker 1: one city from this one from this virus. If that's
Speaker 1: what we were dealing with, I think everybody would have
Speaker 1: figured out real fast that this is something that we
Speaker 1: have to take very seriously and that this isn't you know,
Speaker 1: with the flu we do the stiff upper lip we
Speaker 1: pushed through. We take the best care of vulnerable populations
Speaker 1: we can, but we know that people people get sick,
Speaker 1: and people do die tens of thousands a year from
Speaker 1: the flu. So the thinking, understandably at the early stages
Speaker 1: of this was well, based on the numbers we're seeing,
Speaker 1: it's going to be kind of more like the flu.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to just do our best. But
Speaker 1: we you know, we should probably move forward. Right. No,
Speaker 1: that just went. That just got chopped like with a
Speaker 1: guillotine in the last really, in the last seventy two hours.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been building for the last week or two,
Speaker 1: but the last seventy two hours, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: there's nobody now in the Trump administration who's saying anything
Speaker 1: other than up, shut it down, shut everything down. So
Speaker 1: what a what a stunning circumstance. And and and also I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about the some of the
Speaker 1: organizations here that were wrong about this. And it's not
Speaker 1: This isn't a like let's just go joy ride in
Speaker 1: the wreckage of international institutions and various global news brands credibility.
Speaker 1: This is let's do an accounting for what's really true here.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've told you that I'm I'm upset that
Speaker 1: I didn't see this coming more and I saw it
Speaker 1: coming more than some people, But I didn't know it
Speaker 1: was going to be this. I knew it was going
Speaker 1: to be serious. I didn't know it was going to
Speaker 1: be locked down the country indefinitely and maybe just you know,
Speaker 1: we light our economy on fire because we have no choice.
Speaker 1: I didn't know it's gonna be that serious. But this
Speaker 1: is where I caul to tell you we're gonna get
Speaker 1: through this. We're gonna be okay, Everything's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: I promise it's all gonna be I mean when I
Speaker 1: say everything's gonna be fine, it's gonna be tough. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take losses, and but we will have days when
Speaker 1: we can finally go back. You know, I miss being
Speaker 1: able to do a lot of impersonations on this show.
Speaker 1: I miss being able to joke around more. I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm stuck in this one mode and there's so
Speaker 1: many other things that I want to talk to you
Speaker 1: all about, and that's why I've been working to try
Speaker 1: to do some projects from this. But I just I
Speaker 1: don't want to be you know, I can't sit here
Speaker 1: and do you know Hong Kong clown stuff as much
Speaker 1: as I do enjoy that sometimes while we're going through this,
Speaker 1: So I hope you all understand and appreciate that it's
Speaker 1: not it's and it's not that I'm trying to make
Speaker 1: anyone's day harder. Ever, this this, for me, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a catharsis tough word to say. Sometimes a catharsis
Speaker 1: of daily truth diving that I can do with all
Speaker 1: of you, and I find that really helpful. I find
Speaker 1: some comfort in waking up every day and knowing that
Speaker 1: I get to learn as much as I can about
Speaker 1: what's happening, use all the resources at my disposal, all
Speaker 1: the sources that I have, and then present you with
Speaker 1: the biggest, best version of the truth that I can,
Speaker 1: and then have your feedback to me through roll call
Speaker 1: and however else you reach out and know that we're
Speaker 1: in this constant dialogue about what's really going on, because
Speaker 1: if you were, if you and I'm going to do
Speaker 1: some of it now. When you catalog what has been
Speaker 1: set out there and what the people that we were
Speaker 1: depending on to get this right, what they have been saying,
Speaker 1: what they have been doing all along, you will have
Speaker 1: a very different view of what it means to quote,
Speaker 1: listen to the experts. Listen to experts, but always judge
Speaker 1: what the expertise they're giving you really is. You know,
Speaker 1: always judge what the advice is they're handing out. And
Speaker 1: I'll go through some of where those shortcomings have been.
Speaker 1: But man, I look forward to the day when I
Speaker 1: can do you know, silly Bernie voices and all those things.
Speaker 1: It'll it'll be here sooner than we realize. But right
Speaker 1: now it's it's tough to get into that headspace. Friends.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember
Speaker 1: to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever
Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. It's shameful. I mean for the
Speaker 1: United States to be race fading virus which never has
Speaker 1: a flag, can't have a flags as being the providence
Speaker 1: of one country is designed to be divisive. It's designed
Speaker 1: to stigmatize people of Asian descent, and it's certainly not
Speaker 1: the way the leadership of the United States, the Secretary
Speaker 1: of State, the President the United States ought to be
Speaker 1: behaving in the best of times, but certainly not in
Speaker 1: a crisis. So that's the former National Security Advisor under
Speaker 1: Barack Obama Susan Rice, and she is saying here that
Speaker 1: calling it the Wuhan virus is racist. Now, this is
Speaker 1: just this is on its own, a dumb thing to say.
Speaker 1: We keep coming up against this, and I've refrained from
Speaker 1: doing this. This is kind of the the petty parts
Speaker 1: in squabbles that I often talk about, you know, talk
Speaker 1: about trying to avoid I should say, and try to
Speaker 1: avoid talking about them. But this is the usual, Oh,
Speaker 1: don't call it that. It's racist to call it that.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of virtue signaling and a lot
Speaker 1: of other nonsense that's going on right now around that
Speaker 1: calling it the Wuhan virus is not racist. Okay. The
Speaker 1: way that we talk aboutfferent places, different diseases coming from
Speaker 1: different places has nothing to do with race. We all
Speaker 1: know that the people of Lyme, Connecticut are not all
Speaker 1: all upset that it's called Lyme disease. This is just
Speaker 1: not something that not something that we should have to
Speaker 1: deal with it. And also I think that there there's
Speaker 1: an effort to rewrite history that's going on right now
Speaker 1: that we cannot allow. We cannot allow it to happen.
Speaker 1: But put aside for a second these stupid comment that
Speaker 1: this is racist. And I will say, notice how much
Speaker 1: less talk we have had, how much less we have
Speaker 1: heard recently about using the preferred pronouns right, Notice how
Speaker 1: much less we've heard about mis gendering those when we
Speaker 1: used to say that this was an absurdity and that
Speaker 1: society was just collapsing in on itself in terms of
Speaker 1: the culture being beyond anyone's even even comprehension about what
Speaker 1: you're supposed to say, are allowed to say? Those are
Speaker 1: the squabbles of a society with unprecedented freedom and wealth
Speaker 1: and happiness everywhere. When you're able to sit around and
Speaker 1: worry about being mis gendered or worried about these things
Speaker 1: you're dealing with, well, whatever you think of that, whatever
Speaker 1: you think of it, it's just indicative of the society
Speaker 1: does not have. Are those major news stories we'd wrought about, Oh,
Speaker 1: someone wouldn't use the correct wouldn't use they wouldn't use
Speaker 1: a plural? Prone to remember all that? As I've said,
Speaker 1: I miss I long for and I miss the time
Speaker 1: when we could sit around and see who was dumb
Speaker 1: enough to believe that a couple of guys in Maga
Speaker 1: hats put a noose around Jesse Smullett's neck at one
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning on a freezing night on the
Speaker 1: South side of Chicago, or just in Chicago yelling this
Speaker 1: is maga country. Right. Nope, that didn't happen, but that
Speaker 1: was a major, major news story. Instead, we're in the
Speaker 1: midst of this and there are still people who are
Speaker 1: and there's going to be some focus on. You can't
Speaker 1: just only talk about, even if you're in the news business,
Speaker 1: only talking about coronavirus. So I try to make some
Speaker 1: exceptions for that. But here's Susan Rice taking the position again.
Speaker 1: I mean the people that people that pretend to care
Speaker 1: so much, or at least I shouldn't say they pretend
Speaker 1: to care, people that go to extreme lengths to show
Speaker 1: how much they care to signal their virtue over this
Speaker 1: virus and the ravaging of the country that it's doing.
Speaker 1: And those same people will also take time out of
Speaker 1: their day to lecture you on not calling at Wuhan
Speaker 1: virus because the politics here hasn't in the politics there
Speaker 1: haven't changed. So Susan Rice saying that's one thing. I
Speaker 1: also though, want to note, why does the Democrat Party
Speaker 1: in general, why are we seeing so many prominent Democrats
Speaker 1: who are so willing to swallow Chinese propaganda pretty much wholesale,
Speaker 1: just just believe the Chinese government's proping enda and continue
Speaker 1: to repeat it. They are and this is a This
Speaker 1: is a statement that I think would be I don't
Speaker 1: believe an honest person can disagree with this. And I
Speaker 1: think that there are a lot of liberals who if
Speaker 1: you push them for an answer, they would they would
Speaker 1: give the answer that I'm saying. They would here for
Speaker 1: a lot of journalists and for a lot of Democrats,
Speaker 1: it is that they should. They are more skeptical. They
Speaker 1: are more skeptical of the Trump administration's information about COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen than they are the Chinese governments. They are more
Speaker 1: willing to believe Shijin Ping and the CCP than they
Speaker 1: are Donald Trump and his Coronavirus Task Force. I think
Speaker 1: that that's true. And they would say that's because of
Speaker 1: trump ling. I would just say that's because they're Trump's
Speaker 1: arranged and they're insane. This hasn't changed and there's still this.
Speaker 1: I mean, the things that were being said yesterday by
Speaker 1: Bill Crystal, by a whole bunch of pal that goals
Speaker 1: of mitigation was the whoops, sorry, I just hit the microphone.
Speaker 1: Goals of Mitigation was the title of the slide they
Speaker 1: put up that showed the really scary numbers, goals of mitigation,
Speaker 1: and the way that people were trying to interpret that was, Oh,
Speaker 1: they're saying that two hundred thousand dead is a goal.
Speaker 1: Now know what they're saying is that two hundred thousand
Speaker 1: instead of two million is a goal. That's what the
Speaker 1: slide was saying, if you're being an honest human being.
Speaker 1: But they don't want to be honest human beings. They
Speaker 1: just want to dunk on Trump. Whatever it takes, however
Speaker 1: they can, they will dunk on Trump, and that is
Speaker 1: in itself troubling, but it just goes to show you
Speaker 1: that they don't take any sort of glee in slamming
Speaker 1: the Chinese Communist Party, the government of China, which we
Speaker 1: now recognize, I think is a danger to the world
Speaker 1: and really is an opponent of the United States and
Speaker 1: increasing will just become an enemy of the United States
Speaker 1: quite there. Yet, think of how much they were willing
Speaker 1: to demonize Russia though, and how much time was spent
Speaker 1: in the media making us all focus attention and you know,
Speaker 1: attention matters. Perception. Perception drives politics, Politics drives action and
Speaker 1: national security decision making, and you know, perception leads to war, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, the media does have a lot of power,
Speaker 1: still not as much as they used to do, but
Speaker 1: they have a lot of power. I think of all
Speaker 1: the time they spend making us think about Russia and
Speaker 1: how Russia was such a major challenge for us. We
Speaker 1: should have all been thinking more about what to do
Speaker 1: about Russia. And now we're faced with China essentially, maybe inadvertently,
Speaker 1: but China collapsing the global economy, which is what they'
Speaker 1: that's what they're doing right now. The Chinese have collapsed
Speaker 1: the global economy, the Chinese Communist Party, and there's still
Speaker 1: much more fear and much more anger from the left
Speaker 1: about Russia because you know, Hillary should have won the
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen election than anything you see directed at the
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist government, the Chinese Communist Party. That's that's disgraceful,
Speaker 1: but it's where it's where we are. And I'm a
Speaker 1: big believer, as you know, and let's let's deal with
Speaker 1: things as they are. Our media cannot be trusted on
Speaker 1: these issues. They also cannot be trusted to evaluate their
Speaker 1: own to give themselves a scorecard. They mocked Trump for
Speaker 1: saying that. You know, Trump says he's done a good job.
Speaker 1: But Trump always thinks he's done a good job. That's
Speaker 1: just who he is, that's in his nature. But the
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party, the media will say, has been saying
Speaker 1: in recent weeks that they've that China has been doing
Speaker 1: a good job with this virus, that we haven't. I
Speaker 1: wonder if they're going to run stories now about how
Speaker 1: it don't. Actually China is lying and they've had a
Speaker 1: ton more people kill than they've been willing to tell
Speaker 1: the world, which is what we're now finding out, which
Speaker 1: is also why I think there's this panic, my guests,
Speaker 1: And if you want to know, I saw a report
Speaker 1: on this about how the intelligence community has information. Now.
Speaker 1: I think what happened is we we somehow got wind
Speaker 1: from some some source, you know, we we caught through
Speaker 1: I don't know what the sourcer method would be, but
Speaker 1: we we caught wind of somebody high up the Chinese
Speaker 1: Communist Party chain talking to somebody somehow and being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got to find a way to hide we're up there,
Speaker 1: like you know, eighty thousand dead in Wuhan. We got
Speaker 1: to find a way to hide this from the people.
Speaker 1: You'd think the journalists that have been hoodwinked, that have
Speaker 1: been bamboozled, swindled, fooled, you'd think that they would be
Speaker 1: upset at China. No, they're still more upset at the
Speaker 1: at the Trump administration. And also they want to tell
Speaker 1: you that they, unlike the Trump administration, they saw this
Speaker 1: coming all along. Let's examine that proposition. You're in the
Speaker 1: Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast.
Speaker 1: We've heard z commanual that nobody could have seen this coming.
Speaker 1: The fact is everybody saw this coming. Everybody saw this
Speaker 1: coming in early January. So I know it's I know
Speaker 1: you like me. I'm sorry there, Joe, but that's just
Speaker 1: not true. In fact, I saw an analysis of Joe
Speaker 1: Scarborough's Twitter feed from January. I think it was seventeen
Speaker 1: tweets about impeachment, seven about sports bunch, other about politics.
Speaker 1: You know how many tweets he put out with his
Speaker 1: millions of followers about coronavirus in the month of January
Speaker 1: when there was the first US case. A couple of
Speaker 1: weeks to figure this out. I remember end of January.
Speaker 1: I was on the Bill mar Show and people weren't
Speaker 1: shaking hands, and we were all taught. We everyone knew
Speaker 1: that this was a know how tweets zero zero, And
Speaker 1: doesn't that make you think at some point that maybe
Speaker 1: he's not telling the truth. Maybe there's a problem here,
Speaker 1: is this is a lie that the media saw this coming.
Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough's lying about it. Other people are. They're all
Speaker 1: trying to rewrite their history right now and claim that
Speaker 1: it's not that you know that this was. The Right
Speaker 1: called it a hoax. They all knew, they all knew.
Speaker 1: They're also smart, and people are dying, people have blood
Speaker 1: on their hands on the Right and Trump. Because okay,
Speaker 1: this is just a series of they're all from this year,
Speaker 1: so they're all from when we knew this was a crisis,
Speaker 1: or rather that this was a problem. I should say,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give you a series of headlines. You know,
Speaker 1: the national interests. Forget the coronavirus. The flu pandemic of
Speaker 1: nineteen eighteen killed more people in one year than all
Speaker 1: of World War One. The Daily Beast, the virus killing
Speaker 1: US kids isn't the one dominating the headlines. Not coronavirus,
Speaker 1: National Post new coronavirus maybe no more dangerous than the flu,
Speaker 1: despite worldwide alarm. Experts patch MD flu death's climb is
Speaker 1: flu more worrisome than coronavirus? Reuter's doctor suggests worrying about
Speaker 1: the common flu, not coronavirus. This is all from end
Speaker 1: of January early February Washing Post. You're likely to get
Speaker 1: the coronavirus. Well, if we're likely to get it, then
Speaker 1: to mind, my thinking was, then a lot of us
Speaker 1: who are going to get it. You just accept that
Speaker 1: we're probably gonna get it, and then keep vulnerable population safe.
Speaker 1: And then we have heard immunity right, and they were
Speaker 1: telling us that we were all likely to get it.
Speaker 1: Now we're all in total quarantine because oh my god,
Speaker 1: you can't get this because it's gonna kill everybody if
Speaker 1: if we are too many people if we get this,
Speaker 1: I mean I could go on. This is a whole sheet.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. It's making the rounds wired. We should de
Speaker 1: escalate the war on coronavirus CNN. As the coronavirus spreads,
Speaker 1: fear is fueling racism and xenophobia. Science the Flu Science
Speaker 1: Alert website the flu is a bigger threat to people
Speaker 1: in the US than coronavirus. Here's what to most people
Speaker 1: then coronavirus. Here's why as central new coronavirus is likely
Speaker 1: to go pandemic. But that's no reason to panic or overreact.
Speaker 1: I just the media was all talking about they were
Speaker 1: talking about how Trump is a moron, but don't worry
Speaker 1: about this thing. He's not going to handle a while
Speaker 1: and he's a moron. But you know this is not
Speaker 1: going to be that big of a deal. Don't don't overreact.
Speaker 1: We got this. We talked to the experts. They're all
Speaker 1: claiming to talk to the experts. Axio Swabi panic about
Speaker 1: corona virus but not the flu. I mean, the the
Speaker 1: mountains of wrong on this would dwarf the Himalayas. From
Speaker 1: the media, From government officials. Oh wait, here's one of
Speaker 1: my fair Speaking of government officials, where where did it go?
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorites. I mean, there's that just astonishing,
Speaker 1: astonishing from January World Health Organization weighing in on this
Speaker 1: to say that there was no evidence that there was
Speaker 1: human to human transmission of this. No evidence of human
Speaker 1: to human transmission. This thing spreads like wildfire in closed
Speaker 1: quarters and increasingly. There seems to be evidence that it
Speaker 1: spreads pretty well. It spreads pretty well in the air
Speaker 1: aerosolized droplets. So I just I hate this, this rewriting
Speaker 1: of history. You know, if you're if you're going to
Speaker 1: work in the information dissemination business, if you're going to
Speaker 1: be an analyst or a reporter, you should be honest
Speaker 1: about where you are. Doctor Burke says she thought it
Speaker 1: would be like stars. I thought it was going to
Speaker 1: be like one of those respiratory viruses that we hear
Speaker 1: a lot about, and there's some bad cases, but it
Speaker 1: kind of disappears after a while. And then I thought, okay, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll give a couple of weeks, we'll most
Speaker 1: of the cases, we'll stamp out, we'll get prepared, and
Speaker 1: then you know, and now we're being told, no, we're
Speaker 1: not going back to work. It's not happening for a
Speaker 1: long time. If you want to go back to work,
Speaker 1: a whole lot of people are going to die. And
Speaker 1: this is this has been the shift, That is the
Speaker 1: shift in conversation from the administration in the last week alone.
Speaker 1: Listen to the experts, they said, just listen to the experts.
Speaker 1: That's all you have to do the experts. I've got
Speaker 1: all this stuff covered for you. This is we're going
Speaker 1: to look back on this, and this is the virus
Speaker 1: equivalent of Pearl Harbor or nine to eleven. I mean,
Speaker 1: the experts failed on this, and I'm sorry, I'm upset
Speaker 1: about this. I'm here in New York. I know people
Speaker 1: that are terrified of getting this every single day, people
Speaker 1: that are tending to those who are dying every day
Speaker 1: from this. I'm reaching out. I'm talking to them as
Speaker 1: often as I can. How are you doing? How's it going?
Speaker 1: I mean, it feels very very real here, even if
Speaker 1: you're just an isolation, even if you're just in lockdown,
Speaker 1: everything you touch every time you walk outside. And I
Speaker 1: want to know where was the CDC on all this? Really,
Speaker 1: the CDC was so good on this, and I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna tell you this. You go back. I mean, doctor Fauci,
Speaker 1: I think, is a good man who's trying his best,
Speaker 1: and he's obviously got a lot of knowledge about this issue.
Speaker 1: But you look back at some of the things that
Speaker 1: we've been told, Okay, should we wear masks or not?
Speaker 1: We were told that wearing masks wasn't necessary. Another maybe
Speaker 1: you should wear masks. What have they gotten right about this?
Speaker 1: That's perhaps the best way to do this analysis. What
Speaker 1: did the media get right? I mean, I'm sorry not
Speaker 1: to media. What are the expert class the World Health
Speaker 1: Organization massive failure? CDC can't make tests and really is
Speaker 1: just telling you that you got to wash your hands
Speaker 1: and keep a distance from people. Not sure about the masks.
Speaker 1: Nobody was ready with the stockpiles of masks and ventilators necessary.
Speaker 1: Don't really know what the mortality rate of this thing is.
Speaker 1: Certainly don't have a treatment for it or a vaccine.
Speaker 1: I mean, most of this we keep being full of
Speaker 1: listening to CDC guidance. It's stay locked the way and
Speaker 1: wash your hands and try not to breathe too much,
Speaker 1: don't touch your face. That that they've been steady on
Speaker 1: should you wear a mask? And depends on how you ask.
Speaker 1: Are we going to have a treatment for this? Who
Speaker 1: knows how long will this last? Will there be rebounds,
Speaker 1: will there be a second wave? They're not sure. How
Speaker 1: dangerous is it for people who aren't in high risk
Speaker 1: age categories and with health issues? They don't know, am
Speaker 1: am I missing something? And now they're telling us, Oh, No,
Speaker 1: we're not going back to work and accepting the additional
Speaker 1: risk that would come from that, because the risk is
Speaker 1: far too high, because it actually turns out we're not
Speaker 1: facing something like the flu. We're facing something that, based
Speaker 1: on the numbers, is you know, twenty times worse than
Speaker 1: the flu season. That's that's quite a record that the
Speaker 1: experts have up to this point. Thanks for listening to
Speaker 1: the bus sets and show past. Remember to subscribe on
Speaker 1: Apple podcasts at the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcasts. Well, this is about the last thing we
Speaker 1: need right now, but it is breaking news today from
Speaker 1: the President's official Twitter account. Upon information and belief, Iran
Speaker 1: or its proxies are planning a sneak attack on US
Speaker 1: troops and or assets in Iraq. If this happens, Iran
Speaker 1: will pay a very heavy price. Indeed, I've been worried
Speaker 1: about this, that our enemies will see us as the
Speaker 1: massive tortoise that has retreated into its shell, and they
Speaker 1: will be circling and then they will try to strike,
Speaker 1: even enemies that themselves are wounded. Right now, Remember the Mullahs,
Speaker 1: they don't respond to the needs of their own people.
Speaker 1: They don't care that an estimated fifteen thousand people have
Speaker 1: died from COVID nineteen in Iran. And if even it
Speaker 1: feel terrible for the Iranian people, Chinese people, their governments
Speaker 1: are just horrific. And it's not it's being a horrific governments.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be a surprise to anybody that Chinese have
Speaker 1: been so terribly dishonest and disgraceful about this whole situation.
Speaker 1: I remember when I say the Chinese, just for the records,
Speaker 1: that CCP, the Chinese Commist Party. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: one billion Chinese who just want to go about their days,
Speaker 1: love their families and go to sleep at night, like
Speaker 1: I get it. But the CCP is the same organization
Speaker 1: that you know, it's the same government that still presides
Speaker 1: over over a million weekers in concentration camps. They ended,
Speaker 1: but they had for a long time, the one child policy,
Speaker 1: forced sterilization, forced abortion. I mean, it's a deeply immoral government.
Speaker 1: It's not even amoral, it's immoral. It is an evil government.
Speaker 1: And so that means that there's a lot that they're
Speaker 1: willing to do and a lot that they're willing to
Speaker 1: justify in their conduct, or rather perhaps they don't feel
Speaker 1: the need to justify much of anything. So that's that's
Speaker 1: where this is right now. The Chinese government doesn't care
Speaker 1: that the world is well. The Chinese government doesn't care
Speaker 1: what's happened to its own people as long as it
Speaker 1: can maintain power. And the Iranian government may be trying
Speaker 1: to externalize or or you know, draw attention away from
Speaker 1: its failures with an attack on US trips. Think about this.
Speaker 1: The Iranians you're getting getting by COVID nineteen right now,
Speaker 1: They're losing people all over the place, and they're assuming
Speaker 1: that the president's tweet is correct, the information is accurate.
Speaker 1: They're planning of tax on the US now. Maybe nothing
Speaker 1: happens here, but they should know better. I mean, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this. Anybody that pokes America right now, that
Speaker 1: goes after I mean, do you think anybody would would
Speaker 1: question a really heavy response. I mean, the response would
Speaker 1: have to be more than proportional. The response would have
Speaker 1: to be punitive. If someone comes after American interests when
Speaker 1: we are on lockdown from this virus, and I mean
Speaker 1: comes after US and tries to kill Americans right now,
Speaker 1: our response should be fearsome and should be sending a
Speaker 1: message well beyond what we would see in normal times,
Speaker 1: and I would leave it to this administration to figure
Speaker 1: out what that is. I have no doubt that that
Speaker 1: would also be Trump's Trump's move. You know, governments are
Speaker 1: run by people, and people have emotions and people have feelings.
Speaker 1: It's not mechanical. And we are going through the biggest
Speaker 1: crisis we have had since the Second World War right now,
Speaker 1: and Iran wants to play games be very unwise. Look,
Speaker 1: there's going to be there's going to be a series.
Speaker 1: There will be a series of major geopolitical shifts that
Speaker 1: occur just over the course of this virus over the
Speaker 1: next twelve months. There are going to be things that
Speaker 1: happen that no one can predict right now. But in retrospect,
Speaker 1: there'll be seismic shifts that everybody say, how did we
Speaker 1: miss that? Maybe it is the downfall of the Iranian regime.
Speaker 1: Maybe it is finally my friend Gordon Chang wrote the
Speaker 1: Coming Collapse of China back in the early two thousands.
Speaker 1: Maybe the Chinese Communist Party finally comes under real pressure.
Speaker 1: I think that's unlikely. If anything, they're ascendant and probably
Speaker 1: an even stronger position. But we don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't know. Well, what if the WUHAN numbers are
Speaker 1: mirrored in other parts of China and there's a real
Speaker 1: popular sense of enough is enough? You just again, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you that there's going to be age or geopolitical
Speaker 1: shifts over the next twelve months. One of the worst
Speaker 1: ones for US would be if it turns out that
Speaker 1: the US is no longer the reserve currency. And I
Speaker 1: know this is a a little bit of a digression
Speaker 1: from what we're talking about her here, but I just
Speaker 1: have to think. You know, I own some cryptocurrency, not
Speaker 1: a lot, because I don't have a lot of money.
Speaker 1: I own some cryptocurrency, and I would just if you're
Speaker 1: not seeing cryptocurrency skyrocket. Now, you got to wonder when
Speaker 1: when is that going to happen? It feels like the
Speaker 1: whole thing was kind of a scam, doesn't it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Some of you're gonna get mad at me
Speaker 1: for saying that, but oh, yes, you know blockchain technology,
Speaker 1: Yeah that's cool. But as cryptocurrency is valuable as people
Speaker 1: were being led to believe a few years ago, oh man,
Speaker 1: those were the day as well? Was it three years ago? Now?
Speaker 1: In December, the cryptocurrency was just skyrocketing and the country
Speaker 1: was at peace and things were good. And I think
Speaker 1: about the first three years the Trump administration, I almost
Speaker 1: tear up. It was such a we've had. This show
Speaker 1: has been so good, We've grown so fast. I feel
Speaker 1: like we've done I've been so proud of the work
Speaker 1: that we've been putting in here, the work product that I
Speaker 1: I should say, yeah, everyone works hard. I don't mean that,
Speaker 1: but I mean, you know, I'm proud of what we've
Speaker 1: done as a show. And it's just been an amazing
Speaker 1: time in American history and American life. And I knew it,
Speaker 1: and I think I told you this. I sat down,
Speaker 1: I told my mother in December, right around when I
Speaker 1: told you that, I had had that premonition which I've
Speaker 1: played for you on the show, of something really bad
Speaker 1: it's going to happen in twenty twenty. And I didn't
Speaker 1: know what it was. So it's not really that useful.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like been lot determined to attack America
Speaker 1: back in two thousand, Okay, where how and when? But
Speaker 1: I knew something really bad was going to happen just
Speaker 1: because things were too good, things were too prosperous, too peaceful,
Speaker 1: too happy in despite all the Russia and all the
Speaker 1: stuff that the lives were yelling about. And I sat
Speaker 1: down and I looked at my mom and I just said,
Speaker 1: I just want to go on. I just want to
Speaker 1: say this that my life is is good enough, peaceful enough,
Speaker 1: happy enough, fulfilled enough that I know this will not last.
Speaker 1: But if this were my every day, I would want
Speaker 1: for nothing basically, you know. And they I still want
Speaker 1: a family and kids. I mean, so there's some things
Speaker 1: that we're missing in a sense, but it's just in
Speaker 1: terms of general happiness in being. And it was largely
Speaker 1: driven I think by a sense that we were all
Speaker 1: this country was in such a good place. There was
Speaker 1: an optimism, a positivity that was out there all over
Speaker 1: the place. And I bring that up now one it's
Speaker 1: just a point of nostalgia to remind myself and hopefully
Speaker 1: to remind all of you that that is a place
Speaker 1: whereas a nation we have been recently and we can
Speaker 1: get back there. I don't know how long it will be,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a struggle. And the same
Speaker 1: thing I always say about anybody that's having contractors or
Speaker 1: construction repair done of any kind. Whatever they tell you,
Speaker 1: it's going to be three times that long. I think,
Speaker 1: unfortunately that it's a pretty good rule of thumb. I think,
Speaker 1: unfortunately that's going to be true about us getting back
Speaker 1: to where we were as a country. But I also
Speaker 1: think that we need to be reminded sometimes of how
Speaker 1: good things have been so that we know that they're
Speaker 1: not going to stay like this, and they can be.
Speaker 1: It is possible to have a country where everyone's wages
Speaker 1: are going up, and not everybody, but you know, in general,
Speaker 1: wages are going up. We're not at any big wars,
Speaker 1: we're not under threat of major terrorist attacks, we're not
Speaker 1: suffering from a pandemic. Where we live in a time
Speaker 1: of tremendous abundance and security and amazing food and amazing
Speaker 1: culture and access and technology. And you know that was
Speaker 1: and you know that I was saying, enjoy it. Other
Speaker 1: shows are round, you know, they're destroying the country and
Speaker 1: this is terrible, and people yelling about everything. You know
Speaker 1: that that's what they were doing when things are really good.
Speaker 1: I'm I don't do that. I was telling you that
Speaker 1: things were really good and that we should have enjoyed them.
Speaker 1: We had struggles we had fights, we had things that
Speaker 1: we needed to focus on, but you know, overall and now,
Speaker 1: I can't tell you that I'm worried. In fact, I
Speaker 1: go back and forth between wanting to tell you what
Speaker 1: I think is really happening and not wanting to just
Speaker 1: sort of add to that. It's it's a delicate balance.
Speaker 1: I've been talking to the people closest to me about
Speaker 1: it every day when I go on this show. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel such an obligation to those of you who
Speaker 1: listen to the huge numbers of people. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a very powerful and really to me sacred thing to
Speaker 1: be able to be in the Freedom Hut and which
Speaker 1: is now in my home because we all have to
Speaker 1: be on home lockdown and be able to talk to
Speaker 1: people all across the country and have you hear my voice,
Speaker 1: and whether I'm rolling along with you if you're driving
Speaker 1: a truck or a car, or in your living room
Speaker 1: or hanging out in the kitchen while you're cooking, and
Speaker 1: trying to inform you and just keep you company, and
Speaker 1: you're all keeping me company too. Doing this feels like
Speaker 1: this is my human connection right now. But I try
Speaker 1: every day to make sure that I'm making the best
Speaker 1: usage of your time every day we do this show.
Speaker 1: And it's really a challenge right now to hit that
Speaker 1: balance between where do I think this is going and
Speaker 1: how do I keep us all feeling positive and inspired
Speaker 1: to go forward. And you know, I've had some mornings
Speaker 1: here where it's been really tough. I've woken up and
Speaker 1: I've thought, how how do I approach this one? What
Speaker 1: do I do? Not just with the show, but you know,
Speaker 1: it feels a little bit like you're you're in prison
Speaker 1: in a sense. I mean it's in very nice prison.
Speaker 1: You've got your refrigerator and your Netflix and your you
Speaker 1: know whatever. But I still have my purpose, which is
Speaker 1: to do this. But all the other things around in
Speaker 1: my life, those always enriched this show. And I know
Speaker 1: a lot of you have the same thing going on.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're still doing a lot of you're probably still
Speaker 1: doing your jobs, either remotely, or maybe you're going in
Speaker 1: and you're on the front line in some capacity, either
Speaker 1: on logistics or the fight against the virus. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe you're you're doing all those things, but we're now
Speaker 1: missing those other those other components that enrich our day
Speaker 1: to day experience and make us make us better at
Speaker 1: the things that we do to produce, make us better
Speaker 1: at the things that are our work product, whatever that
Speaker 1: may be, whether it's showing up and scanning groceries, if
Speaker 1: you're a podcaster yourself, if you're a you know, a nurse,
Speaker 1: if you're a truck driver, if you're a you know,
Speaker 1: a finance guy, whatever, all these things. So there's going
Speaker 1: to also have to be sometimes here where I just
Speaker 1: speak to you, you know, from the heart, about about
Speaker 1: what I'm feeling and what I see going on, because
Speaker 1: I think I think we all need that, and you
Speaker 1: know I haven't. I will not. I'll make you this promise.
Speaker 1: I will not give into despair, and I will not
Speaker 1: ever come on this show and allow my concerns about
Speaker 1: what's happening to mean that I started to take us
Speaker 1: down a path where I'm leaning on you. I'm here
Speaker 1: to present it, to present you with truth and stories
Speaker 1: and facts that help you, entertain you and push us
Speaker 1: all forward. But I'm just saying that I never before
Speaker 1: have I felt like striking the balance between speaking truth
Speaker 1: and not being a pessimist was so challenging. And maybe
Speaker 1: this is something I'll return to tomorrow with some more time.
Speaker 1: I know we will win, and I feel like everyone's
Speaker 1: saying this and we need It's one of those things
Speaker 1: you need to keep hearing, you know, you know how
Speaker 1: even if you know you're not you know, you know
Speaker 1: you didn't do the best job in a sports game
Speaker 1: or something, but your parents are there and after as
Speaker 1: they say, you know, you did a great job. You
Speaker 1: know you fought hard, and if you know that's you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of true, like you did fight hard, but
Speaker 1: maybe you didn't have the best game. Maybe you missed
Speaker 1: the you know, maybe you missed a couple of passes
Speaker 1: you should have called, or you you know, you whiffed
Speaker 1: at home play, whatever it may be. But you still
Speaker 1: need to hear that. We all need to hear that
Speaker 1: we're gonna be okay and we're gonna get through this,
Speaker 1: even though we know there are big challenges ahead, big
Speaker 1: challenges from the virus, from the economy, from the government
Speaker 1: response to it, our relationships as a society with each other,
Speaker 1: the strain that this is putting on us set at
Speaker 1: every level. This is going to be a test like
Speaker 1: we've never really had before. And I'm also I think
Speaker 1: I think it's important that we get psychologically geared up
Speaker 1: for this is this is not even gonna We're not
Speaker 1: even going to really see daylight on this, so to speak,
Speaker 1: until June, and that's the earliest, and that's when things
Speaker 1: will maybe start to settle down a little bit. That's
Speaker 1: really what I'm feeling right now. Now. I've said that
Speaker 1: for a while, I said on the w OUR show,
Speaker 1: and I think I said it on this show too. Sorry,
Speaker 1: sometimes I can't remember which two radio shows a day. Now,
Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly what I've said on which show,
Speaker 1: but I definitely said, you know, producer Mark and I
Speaker 1: will be having margaritas on the street in June. That
Speaker 1: was an I was at least three weeks ago, I
Speaker 1: think I said that. And it's looking increasingly like June,
Speaker 1: maybe July, but June seems like a pretty good start.
Speaker 1: You know, this end of April lockdown thing, Okay, they're
Speaker 1: going to bring the curve down, but they're not gonna
Speaker 1: they're not going to open things up in a meaningful
Speaker 1: way in May and risk and risk having then the
Speaker 1: number of skyrocket again. The only thing that really changed,
Speaker 1: the only real game changer we have here is if
Speaker 1: somebody comes up with a real silver bullet treatment against this.
Speaker 1: If you ever prayed for anything, and you and you
Speaker 1: believe that that that is helpful for things in this
Speaker 1: worldly in this worldly kingdom, please pray for that, and
Speaker 1: that will be I've I don't think I've ever cried
Speaker 1: from a news story before, from joy. I don't think
Speaker 1: I've ever cried tears of joy. We get a treatment
Speaker 1: that knocks this thing out, and I will go on
Speaker 1: air and probably talk to you about it, and I'll
Speaker 1: be crying tears of joy. That's That's how much of
Speaker 1: a change it will be for this country and for
Speaker 1: the whole world. So and I there's a part of
Speaker 1: me that just has to believe that we'll get there
Speaker 1: sooner than later. We have so many smart individuals, so
Speaker 1: much research and work going on. A part of me
Speaker 1: believes we've got to get there. So that's the most
Speaker 1: optimistic feeling I have right now. You're in the This
Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. All right, roll call,
Speaker 1: let's do it. JJ kicks us off here with Hey, Buck,
Speaker 1: I see your bobcat and raise you a palace cat?
Speaker 1: Or is it a palace palace? Have you seen them?
Speaker 1: They're ridiculously adorable looking, but are so vicious they'll laugh
Speaker 1: at you as they slowly flay the skin from your
Speaker 1: face if you do not pet them correctly. Check them out.
Speaker 1: Thanks for keeping us safe and warm at night. I've
Speaker 1: never heard of a palace Have you heard of this,
Speaker 1: producer Mark, I have not? Oh, also called a manual
Speaker 1: manual is a small wild cat with a broad but
Speaker 1: fragmented distribution in the grasslands and step of Central Asia. Huh.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a like a Mongolian bobcat. Sort
Speaker 1: of doesn't look like something I want of these as pets.
Speaker 1: Palace cats, this is this is just from Wikipedia. This
Speaker 1: is not from any real research. It's see you know,
Speaker 1: and people. If you're like, you're just doing Wikipedia, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing a radio show. I gotta I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you something. Palace cats, while adorable to look at,
Speaker 1: should not be kept as pets. Not only is it
Speaker 1: difficult for them to survive at low altitudes, but they
Speaker 1: are truly wild animals. A palace cat kept as a
Speaker 1: pet would be miserable. It would make you miserable too.
Speaker 1: Um Okay, well, I mean they look they look really cute.
Speaker 1: I gotta say it's kind of like a big, fluffy,
Speaker 1: grumpy cat. Producer Mark. You might have a new pet.
Speaker 1: You might have a new pet. No, I don't like cats. Buck, Well,
Speaker 1: this cat wouldn't like you. How about that. I don't
Speaker 1: think it would like anybody, Buck. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: probably true. Apparently they they rip your face off. So yep, alrighty,
Speaker 1: here we go. All right, Ian, long time Daily listener,
Speaker 1: just wanted to tell you to to drop a line
Speaker 1: and hang in there. I can tell by Buck's tone
Speaker 1: in the first five seconds on Monday that things are
Speaker 1: getting really bad. Hope you guys know that your family's
Speaker 1: in our thoughts. Yeah, thank you. Ian. It has been
Speaker 1: very tough here, it has been. Monday was rough. Monday
Speaker 1: was a rough day, and especially because last week I
Speaker 1: started to think, all right, we're gonna batten down the hatches,
Speaker 1: we're gonna start getting people back to work the fifteen days,
Speaker 1: and then it's none, No, it's not the fifteen days.
Speaker 1: It's it's another thirty days. We're not going back to work.
Speaker 1: We're not taking that risk at all. I felt a
Speaker 1: little bit like whiplash. I'll be honest, that was a
Speaker 1: little you know, I was like, all right, I was
Speaker 1: ready to put a face mask on and start showing
Speaker 1: up to the office again, and I think I thought,
Speaker 1: all right, this is what we're gonna start doing. Nope,
Speaker 1: not happening. On Monday, you discussed the lack of preparation
Speaker 1: from the CDs see and how we're basically hoping for
Speaker 1: a miracle from those pharmaceutical companies. Oh wait, hold on
Speaker 1: one second, and I'm gonna I'm gonna come back and
Speaker 1: address the rest of your roll call here in just
Speaker 1: a moment. But yeah, no, we are. We are hoping
Speaker 1: for something of a miracle from the CDC. That much
Speaker 1: is I'm sorry, from the pharmaceutical companies. Rather, that much
Speaker 1: is definitely true. Thanks for listening to the Bust. Remember
Speaker 1: to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. All right, continuing with this
Speaker 1: roll call note from Ian, I agree with your analysis book.
Speaker 1: Here in Colorado, the drunk companies and the hospitals have
Speaker 1: been the favored attack, the thing that gets attacked of
Speaker 1: our Democrat governor. While criticism and specific cases has been deserved,
Speaker 1: I find it very rich that the industry the left
Speaker 1: has been demonizing for the last fifteen years is now
Speaker 1: expected to be our saviors. All of a sudden, we
Speaker 1: don't hear anything about profit margins and drug prices. The
Speaker 1: irony is rich. It's just unfortunate that it took a
Speaker 1: crisis like this to expose it, not that it would
Speaker 1: ever be pointed out in the corporate media. Take care
Speaker 1: of yourselves. Thanks for continuing your show through all this.
Speaker 1: I know we'll make it out. I don't know what
Speaker 1: things will look like when we do, but I know
Speaker 1: we'll make it. Shields II Ian, You're a wise fellow,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you writing in, and I agree with
Speaker 1: you that the demonization of big Farma, especially given how
Speaker 1: we are turning to big Farmer now and saying please
Speaker 1: save us. Basically that's really where we are. I mean,
Speaker 1: the only way that this doesn't stretch really through this year,
Speaker 1: and I mean til the end of the year and
Speaker 1: take us into a place where we're in a slightly
Speaker 1: better position but still dealing with this twelve months from now,
Speaker 1: is if Farmer comes up. I mean, we're still this
Speaker 1: disease is not just going away. And all the talk
Speaker 1: about mitigation measures and distancing and everything, I guess we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to keep doing that for six, nine twelve months.
Speaker 1: Maybe not at the same extreme of shutdown we are
Speaker 1: and right now, but I'm not sure. As I've been saying, well,
Speaker 1: well why not. If the logic is we can't afford it,
Speaker 1: We're gonna lose. We're gonna lose far too many lives
Speaker 1: unless we have the extreme shutdown scenario. Okay, well, are
Speaker 1: we not going to be losing lives in June and
Speaker 1: July and August? Well, anyway, I know, stiff upper lip,
Speaker 1: we'll make it through. We'll make good choices, We'll be
Speaker 1: all right. But yeah, I really hope that the people
Speaker 1: that are studying this, and there's some big farmer companies
Speaker 1: and some of these world class minds that are on it,
Speaker 1: I hope they realize that this is this is their chance.
Speaker 1: This is the chance for science to save civilization. Really,
Speaker 1: that's what that's what we're seeing. I don't think we're
Speaker 1: gonna total clops of civilization over this. That's a little extreme,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, there should be a
Speaker 1: huge win, a huge, huge win. Okay, man, I want
Speaker 1: to get ahead of myself, but that would be that
Speaker 1: would be the happiest, the happiest thing ever. Um, we
Speaker 1: should know more about chloroquin and about some of these
Speaker 1: other treatments that are underway in the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and even if they're mostly useful, even if they're mostly good,
Speaker 1: that would be that would be a big improvement before
Speaker 1: we are right now. Chad, Hey Buck, great show, love
Speaker 1: your use of language. Quick prediction. I see the US
Speaker 1: handling China, handing China a bill for all the costs
Speaker 1: and expenses caused by the COVID nineteen outbreak and all
Speaker 1: but elimiting our national debt with China. Shield Taigh Team
Speaker 1: Roy Chad, Chad, I said this did on the show,
Speaker 1: so you're kind of getting ahead of where I was that.
Speaker 1: I could see demands from the international community for China
Speaker 1: to pay reparations. The Chinese government now they won't pay it,
Speaker 1: but I could see a movement toward that, especially as
Speaker 1: we get more information about just how dishonest the Chinese
Speaker 1: have been in this process and what that has meant
Speaker 1: for the world. I just think it's very very clear
Speaker 1: that the Chinese government is directly responsible for a lot
Speaker 1: of the carnage and the destruction that we're seeing all
Speaker 1: over the world. So I don't see a way around that.
Speaker 1: And there's you know, it's an immoral regime that made
Speaker 1: an immoral choice. And now we're all paying that. We're
Speaker 1: all paying the price for that. We're all paying the
Speaker 1: price for it. And you know, the people that have
Speaker 1: been saying for a while that China is not some
Speaker 1: government that we should cozy up to. That. You know
Speaker 1: who is the first president in decades that wanted to
Speaker 1: confront China. Let's give credit words due. It was Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: who is the first president to come along from either
Speaker 1: party and really say this nonsense with China on the
Speaker 1: predatory trade practices and all the rest has to stop.
Speaker 1: It's Donald Trump. Yeah, remember there, all the trade war
Speaker 1: is going to know. The trade war didn't ruin us.
Speaker 1: Chinese government is ruining us right now through this virus. Roy. Hey, Buck,
Speaker 1: just look at your picture of Sixth Avenue. I moved
Speaker 1: my youngest daughter from New York City down here to
Speaker 1: Texas last year. I'm glad we've got her here in
Speaker 1: Texas hanging there, Buck every day? Roy? Yeah, Roy, thanks
Speaker 1: man um. I I don't know have you know. My
Speaker 1: whole family's here. We're all in New York City. So
Speaker 1: we're all on lockdown. Not a not a fun place
Speaker 1: to be. And uh, you know the people who work,
Speaker 1: you know, maintenance, and you know people who are you know,
Speaker 1: the handyman for the building that I live in. Things.
Speaker 1: Everyone's wearing face masks. Now I don't have a face mask.
Speaker 1: I gotta get one. Go online. I can't find one,
Speaker 1: can't bother them in stores. I gotta find now, I
Speaker 1: gotta go on the whole after being told no, no
Speaker 1: face mask. Now it's oh no, get a face mask.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of too late, you know. Don't hoard
Speaker 1: toilet paper. I feel like it's only a matter of
Speaker 1: time before oh sorry, we got about a four week
Speaker 1: weight on toilet paper now. So if you were a hoarder,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be fine, But the rest of us are
Speaker 1: gonna be I don't know. Taking really like excessive showers
Speaker 1: every day. Yeah no, I'm glad you got your daughter
Speaker 1: out of New York City. Yet, I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I don't think this. I don't think New York City
Speaker 1: is ever really going to be the same because now
Speaker 1: people now this is real to people, and they're not
Speaker 1: going to want to live in such close quarters, they're
Speaker 1: not gonna want to deal with the subway. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna want this anymore. That's gonna have a huge effect.
Speaker 1: And we're also getting much more comfortable with working from home,
Speaker 1: with telecommuting, with leveraging technology for the purposes of professional productivity.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's going to have a real mark.
Speaker 1: That the leave a real mark, or be a real change,
Speaker 1: leave a mark. Sorry, that's not really the way I
Speaker 1: meant to say that that's going to be a real change.
Speaker 1: I have to see. I have to see where it
Speaker 1: all goes. Christy and Pete Buck love the show. My
Speaker 1: wife and I listen every day. We are truck drivers
Speaker 1: all over our great country hauling medical, food and supplies
Speaker 1: from coast to coast. Life is good. Yeah, different, but good.
Speaker 1: We know the extended lockdown is hard, but your show
Speaker 1: Monday was way too depressing. We all get it. It sucks,
Speaker 1: but you got to stay up at the facts. But
Speaker 1: also remember we are a great country. We will survive.
Speaker 1: There's enough doom and gloom hang in there. Life is good.
Speaker 1: We need to keep doing our job. We need you
Speaker 1: so we can keep doing our job. Christie and Pete
Speaker 1: Man I'm sorry if Monday I was a little too little,
Speaker 1: too little, too down. It was just a tough day here,
Speaker 1: and it's a tough day here in New York given
Speaker 1: what we've been told. You know, the whole city's under quarantine,
Speaker 1: and we got thirty days of this and it's, uh,
Speaker 1: it's scary out there, man. I mean every morning I
Speaker 1: wake up and I have this moment where I think
Speaker 1: my breathing okay to have a fever, you know, every morning,
Speaker 1: and it's not strange. I know plenty of people now
Speaker 1: who have been in I have been in close and
Speaker 1: continued contact with somebody who has COVID nineteen. I know
Speaker 1: plenty of people. So it's just a matter of time
Speaker 1: before some people that I know have it, and I
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully at that point there will be the
Speaker 1: hospitals will be better able to deal with this, and
Speaker 1: hopefully anyone I know who gets it won't even have
Speaker 1: to go to a hospital. But yeah, I know, look, guys,
Speaker 1: I gotta say positive. It's it's hard. You know. I
Speaker 1: do a New York specific show and then I also
Speaker 1: do this show. But this is you know, this is
Speaker 1: the main show. This is my three hour syndicated broadcast
Speaker 1: every day, and I know for a lot of you,
Speaker 1: you're not dealing with this the same way that we
Speaker 1: are here in New York. So it's it can be
Speaker 1: a bit of a it can be a disconnect, right
Speaker 1: And I'm not I don't know. I'm not on the
Speaker 1: prediction business anymore, for sure, But I'm not convinced that
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced that this is going to spread to
Speaker 1: the rest of the country the same way with a
Speaker 1: lot of the authorities, I should say, spread in a
Speaker 1: New York like fashion to the rest of the country,
Speaker 1: which seems to be baked into some of the models.
Speaker 1: But maybe not, maybe not, who knows? Who knows? Rick rights,
Speaker 1: Hey Buck, yesterday you were talking about the Tiger King.
Speaker 1: For similar viewing, you might want to check out Fatal Attractions.
Speaker 1: It's currently on Hulu. It's a series about people who
Speaker 1: make questionable choices for pets, tigers, bears, hippos, even a hyena.
Speaker 1: Interesting stuff. Shields high Rick. I saw The eight hundred
Speaker 1: oh No The Elephant, The Elephant in the Living Room,
Speaker 1: which is a documentary about a guy who has like
Speaker 1: disability from back pain and lives in a trailer in
Speaker 1: Ohio and has two I think eight hundred pound African
Speaker 1: lions in his backyard. So not somebody that you would
Speaker 1: generally think would have two full grown African lions as pets,
Speaker 1: but he does. And that's the show I've seen. I
Speaker 1: think that Fatal years ago. I think I saw that
Speaker 1: Fatal Attractions series. The one thing first of all, Fatal
Speaker 1: Attraction itself is a movie that every guy should watch
Speaker 1: and end gal But it's it's it's kind of instructive viewing.
Speaker 1: You want to you know, you see crazy, he can
Speaker 1: go bad, and weighs romantic relationships. It's it's important to
Speaker 1: know what's out there. Sometimes I'm just saying Fatal Attraction
Speaker 1: is a good movie. But of all the animal choices
Speaker 1: that people make, the one of the of the exotic
Speaker 1: animals as pats, the one that I find just the
Speaker 1: most mind boggling is the highly venomous snake. You know,
Speaker 1: that's all. And a lot of times it's like they'll
Speaker 1: have some some British guy somewhere who's like, oh, like
Speaker 1: I just really want to I want you to spitting cobra,
Speaker 1: And I just thought it'd be like a cool pet,
Speaker 1: And so I went to like this guy online and
Speaker 1: like I got it, and then I had a spit
Speaker 1: in cobra and oh then you know, cry Key, it's
Speaker 1: just like it like spat me on and then it
Speaker 1: bit me hand and then I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna die. And you're like, yeah, it's a spitting cobra.
Speaker 1: You don't want that in your home. It's a very
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's in one of those little
Speaker 1: you know, they always have it too, in like a
Speaker 1: terrarium with some kind of a top on it. And
Speaker 1: then they find out that they're, you know, eight foot
Speaker 1: long killing machine that has the ability, in the case
Speaker 1: of a spit in cobra, to shoot venom at a
Speaker 1: considerable distance directly into your eyes. That that's a really
Speaker 1: stupid thing to have in the home. Yeah, who could
Speaker 1: have seen it? Kame mate, It just bit me on
Speaker 1: and they had a good day Auntie venom and oh
Speaker 1: man at hit You're like, yeah, I'm sure it hurt
Speaker 1: a lot. That would be the last. But all these
Speaker 1: options Producer Mark, Tigers, Bears, hippos, hyena. You gotta have one.
Speaker 1: You keep asking me this, Yeah, I know, because we
Speaker 1: like to put you on the spot and hear you're
Speaker 1: grumpy noises. I don't make grumpy noises. That was a
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're asking me one ridiculous So I
Speaker 1: don't understand why anybody would want anything like that as
Speaker 1: a pet. Well, all these people have all of them.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. People. Everyone should sick to dogs, cats, maybe
Speaker 1: a guinea pig. I've always thought guinea pigs are kind
Speaker 1: of underrated. They're pretty cute. Yeah, you don't like him?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you a their big rats? Are you
Speaker 1: their big rats? Guy? Why would I want a rat
Speaker 1: in my house? Wow? Guinea pig owners address in the
Speaker 1: subject line, you're outrage to producer Mark's attention. If I
Speaker 1: want to see rats, that just go on the New
Speaker 1: York City subway. I think of all those animals, you know, hippos.
Speaker 1: This is one of those fun trivia questions that everybody knows. Now. Hippos,
Speaker 1: I think are the top three for killing people in
Speaker 1: Africa of all animals. Hippos are very dangerous and very Yeah,
Speaker 1: hippos are very dangerous and very aggressive, which you don't
Speaker 1: think of because you see another hungry, hungry hippo. The
Speaker 1: game which probably a lot of people are playing, these days.
Speaker 1: But if you get near a hippopotamus, they run pretty
Speaker 1: fast on land, and they're large, and they have tusks,
Speaker 1: and they're really nasty and they will they will do
Speaker 1: bad things to you. And in the water they're very aggressive.
Speaker 1: I've been compared to a hippo many a time, but
Speaker 1: I'm not nasty and I won't hurt you. Well, and
Speaker 1: whoever said that I will fight them for your producing
Speaker 1: than Yeah, don't let the scoop pool you. I've got
Speaker 1: some skills. Matthew, Hey Buck, just want to let you
Speaker 1: know that my girlfriend I have a cat that we
Speaker 1: named Bucky after the Marvel character. She started calling him
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton because I listen to you so much. We
Speaker 1: love you in North Carolina. Keep up the great work,
Speaker 1: shields high. Well, that's a Hugh John or Matthew, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Hopefully that cat Buck is poised, suave, sophisticated, wise,
Speaker 1: but also considerate and well mannered. That would be a
Speaker 1: great a great cat. Indeed, you're in the Freedom Hunt.
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Hey Buck, all
Speaker 1: those people going after michae Lindell, they're just jealous because
Speaker 1: they're not getting the attention he's getting and they're not
Speaker 1: helping like he is. Shout out to all my brother
Speaker 1: and sister trucker's out there. Shout out to you and Mark,
Speaker 1: keep up the great show. Shields. Hi well, jeff Man,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being out there on the
Speaker 1: roads and keeping us supplied. Every time I go to
Speaker 1: the grocery store here, which is really the only place
Speaker 1: I go there on a drug store. That's it. I
Speaker 1: got two places I can go to get supplies here,
Speaker 1: and every time I go, I am thankful there is
Speaker 1: there are stuff on the shelves, and it's there because
Speaker 1: you and your brother and sister truckers bring that stuff
Speaker 1: here into New York even though we're under quarantine. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think things here would get so ugly
Speaker 1: so fast. If people really thought that there was going
Speaker 1: to be they were gonna be widespread shortages of essentials
Speaker 1: and staples, they would they would get very sketchy already
Speaker 1: the NYPD, this is terrible, MYPD as Oh God, trying
Speaker 1: to remember how many I think it's two thousand, close
Speaker 1: to two thousand officers who marked, you know the numbers.
Speaker 1: I think maybe it's eighteen hundred officers who are out
Speaker 1: it's some huge number of officers who are out. A
Speaker 1: lot of enough Corona. I have COVID nineteen and a
Speaker 1: lot of others think they might, so MYPD is way
Speaker 1: down fifteen Oh wow, fifteen percent, Producer Nick says of
Speaker 1: the overall force. The overall force is almost forty thousand,
Speaker 1: So you guys can do the math on that. That's
Speaker 1: a few thousand who are out. Ah, gosh, that's not good, Angela.
Speaker 1: Hey Buck, I'm listening to your podcasts from yesterday. I'm
Speaker 1: worried about you. Sorry, you're stuck where you are and
Speaker 1: you're feeling caged in. It's strange here too, in southern California.
Speaker 1: But at least we can drive around a little bit,
Speaker 1: which helps a lot. No destination to go to, but
Speaker 1: just the fresh air and sunlight are a nice change
Speaker 1: from being indoors. Anyway, Glad you're still able to do
Speaker 1: the show. Know that we're out here listening. Take care,
Speaker 1: And this would be a really good time to start
Speaker 1: picking out what state you're going to move to when
Speaker 1: all this is over. Yeah, you're telling me, Angela, New York.
Speaker 1: New York is not feeling like a good choice these days.
Speaker 1: No way around that. Neither New Jerseys in rough shape too.
Speaker 1: I would know because of New Jersey really is Northern
Speaker 1: New Jersey feels like all a suburb of New York City.
Speaker 1: They don't like to think about that way, but that's
Speaker 1: the truth. Ed wondering if you saw Tucker Carlson's piece
Speaker 1: on Chinese doctors thinking that this Wuhan virus came from
Speaker 1: the virology lab in Wuhan. You mentioned that about four
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Yeah. Ed, I've been thinking this all along,
Speaker 1: as you know, I've been pretty consistent on this. And
Speaker 1: I did see Tucker's piece and it was excellent and
Speaker 1: is asking the ascent questions right now, and yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go. Team. Also, please do if you haven't written
Speaker 1: in before you guys are you guys are my team
Speaker 1: Buck Cavalry. You are the lifeline that we have to
Speaker 1: the outside world here in the Freedom Hunt. So please
Speaker 1: do send us your thoughts Facebook dot com slash Buck Sexton,
Speaker 1: even if it's just a line or two. Also, we'll
Speaker 1: do another Facebook live this week. In fact, I'll do
Speaker 1: a Facebook live tonight at nine o'clock Eastern, how about that?
Speaker 1: Right after the syndicated show. So I'll do a Facebook
Speaker 1: live tonight, and that will be a way that we
Speaker 1: can all hang out and talk to each other. Christy Buck,
Speaker 1: a week or two ago you mentioned the possibility of
Speaker 1: sporting a man Bun. I would advise against that. Also,
Speaker 1: we would love to have you in Denver, shield side. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, Christy. And Denver is definitely a
Speaker 1: place when I when I flee the Big Apple when
Speaker 1: this thing is over, if I flee, Denver is definitely
Speaker 1: high on my list of places that I would consider
Speaker 1: a permanent relocation too. I hear such fantastic things about
Speaker 1: Denver as a city, but it's gonna have to compete.
Speaker 1: You know. There's Denver, there's Austin. Yeah, there's a few
Speaker 1: places that will be in the mix. But I do
Speaker 1: hear the most wonderful things about it. Everybody, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be good, We're gonna be all right. We will get through,
Speaker 1: we will endure until next time. Shield Hie