Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt. President Trump wants to
Speaker 1: put America back to work. There's a discussion now about
Speaker 1: what risks are tolerable to get some economic activity. Going wow,
Speaker 1: we continue to face off against this pandemic. Plus, the
Speaker 1: House is set to pass this massive rescue bill. Is
Speaker 1: one member going to stall it? And what's the latest
Speaker 1: on China's effort to blame us for this massive global epidemic.
Speaker 1: We're going to that and more coming up on the
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. This is the Buck Sexon Show, where
Speaker 1: the mission or mission is to decode what really matters
Speaker 1: with assionable intelligence. Make no mistake, you're a great American Again,
Speaker 1: the Buck Sexon Show begins. He's a great guy. No, Well,
Speaker 1: I want those guidelines to go even when we're open
Speaker 1: and fully operational, and frankly, much of the guidelines, like
Speaker 1: shaking hands, maybe people aren't going to be shaking hands anymore.
Speaker 1: You know. Tony had mentioned to me Tony Fauchais the
Speaker 1: other day that I don't think he was would be
Speaker 1: too upset with the concept of nut shaking hands. Who
Speaker 1: was saying that the fluid cut down, the regular fluid
Speaker 1: be cut down by quite a bit. If we didn't
Speaker 1: do that, if we didn't shake hands, you know, the
Speaker 1: regular flu, which you know you have a lot of
Speaker 1: deaths and a lot of problems with it too. So
Speaker 1: I think a lot of a lot of great things
Speaker 1: are going to when we're open. Just so you just
Speaker 1: to finish when we're open. As soon as we open.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean you're going to stop with the guidelines.
Speaker 1: You'll still try and distance yourself, maybe not to the
Speaker 1: same extent, because you have to lead a life, welcome
Speaker 1: the buck sex and show everyone. The President is saying
Speaker 1: that this is exactly what well, it's really what I've
Speaker 1: been saying for a week now, which is that we
Speaker 1: have to accept at some point we're going to be
Speaker 1: making decisions about this that don't involve just honkering down,
Speaker 1: battening down the hatches, and refusing to go outside for
Speaker 1: business for work purposes. This is something that now as
Speaker 1: we continue to try to find ways to fight against
Speaker 1: the coronavirus is gaining even more attraction. President saying, look,
Speaker 1: we're going to have things in place that will continue
Speaker 1: to lessen the spread of this virus. But the the
Speaker 1: thirty day lockdown is doable, the three month lockdown is
Speaker 1: painful and perhaps catastrophic. You go beyond that, and we're
Speaker 1: not going to have an economy to restart. And people
Speaker 1: are understanding that now now that we've seen three point
Speaker 1: three about officially unemployed just from this past week. It
Speaker 1: was a much greater understanding than there had been up
Speaker 1: to this point, now that we see that the unemployment
Speaker 1: roles are only going to go up. By the way,
Speaker 1: it's not just that last week there was really high unemployment.
Speaker 1: It's that in the weeks ahead, there is nothing but
Speaker 1: one direction this will go in. You know, usually have
Speaker 1: a bad, bad employment report and people will say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: it'll rebound, maybe it was bad weather. We all know
Speaker 1: this is just going to drop off a cliff. And
Speaker 1: so that's why the President yesterday in his press conference
Speaker 1: was trying to address some of his critics who are
Speaker 1: saying that he's putting grandma's life in jeopardy for four
Speaker 1: or one k Everyone is in jeopardy right now. The
Speaker 1: economy is in jeopardy. This virus puts all of us
Speaker 1: in jeopardy. I'm here in New York City in quarantine.
Speaker 1: There is also a growing recognition that cities are in
Speaker 1: a worse spot with this, if you are out in
Speaker 1: areas of the country where you have a lot more
Speaker 1: social distance just by virtue of the fact that you
Speaker 1: have to deal with a lot fewer people on a
Speaker 1: day to day basis. I mean, think about, just just
Speaker 1: in case you haven't really gone through this, and I
Speaker 1: know a lot of you who have. You know, more space,
Speaker 1: more air around you. You already know this without me
Speaker 1: telling you. But someone like me when I get down,
Speaker 1: when I go on the subway, you're usually packed to
Speaker 1: get into the subway. And this is the reality for
Speaker 1: millions of New Yorkers, literally millions of people every day.
Speaker 1: I think three million people are in the New York
Speaker 1: City subway system every day. And this is why we
Speaker 1: also have been we've been hit worse than other cities.
Speaker 1: You look at Los Angeles. Yeah, people, the gym, you know,
Speaker 1: the bar, the grocery store. There's certainly opportunities for infection.
Speaker 1: And one of the big problems, as we're recognizing, is
Speaker 1: infection in the home, which is why Governor Cuomo yesterday
Speaker 1: and I'll get into this more later, is saying maybe
Speaker 1: sending everybody home wasn't in fact the best idea. But
Speaker 1: in New York city. We are packed like sardines. I
Speaker 1: don't know why sardines are more tightly packed than other things,
Speaker 1: but we are packed like sardines. And your shoulder to
Speaker 1: shoulder on the way into the subway, you know, but
Speaker 1: to butt back to back on the subway crammed in there.
Speaker 1: Probably seen video footage of this. That's the reality. You
Speaker 1: are as close to people. You are so close to
Speaker 1: people every day that their bodies are pressed up against you,
Speaker 1: and you just think that this is normal because this
Speaker 1: is what everyone's doing. But you're actually in physical contact
Speaker 1: with strangers every day, lots of them, every single day.
Speaker 1: So that means that it's really easy. You gotta remember
Speaker 1: every person you're in contact with, they're all going to
Speaker 1: different places. They're all distributed around the city. You know.
Speaker 1: The subway system alone is like a virus distribution system.
Speaker 1: So that's important for everybody when we're thinking about how
Speaker 1: we can get a handle on this disease and what
Speaker 1: we can do. If you look at the places where
Speaker 1: the greatest transmission happens, it's in very close quarters and
Speaker 1: it's by touch, and all you need is one person
Speaker 1: on a crowded subway car to sneeze let's say, and
Speaker 1: those aerosol eyes droplets are there, and the subway is packed,
Speaker 1: and you can infect a whole bunch of people. So
Speaker 1: if you live in West Texas, if you live in
Speaker 1: more outlying areas of Kansas, you know, places where I
Speaker 1: know a lot of you who listen to the show
Speaker 1: do live, you know, out in Oregon, not in Portland necessarily,
Speaker 1: but the rest of the state. You don't have to
Speaker 1: deal with as many people. So you're not seeing the
Speaker 1: same degree of infections. And I think it's very possible
Speaker 1: that you will not see the same degree of infection
Speaker 1: anytime soon in those areas. That said, other cities are
Speaker 1: getting hit pretty hard right now, New Orleans. It particularly
Speaker 1: places that are a really large global tourism trade, you know,
Speaker 1: destination places are getting hit really hard. You know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of concern over what's what's going to be
Speaker 1: the final caseload. In places like Las Vegas, for example,
Speaker 1: we have huge influx of tourists from all over the world,
Speaker 1: and as we know, at least in the early stages
Speaker 1: of this, there's a direct correlation. There's a direct line
Speaker 1: between travel from China, from Wuhan in particular, and the
Speaker 1: areas around it. There's a direct correlation where those routes,
Speaker 1: places and cities that have a lot of folks visiting
Speaker 1: they got hit particularly hard. It's certainly the case with
Speaker 1: Northern Italy where you have a massive influx of Chinese
Speaker 1: nationals who for the Lunar New Year were traveling in particular,
Speaker 1: but also because of the tech style industry in Northern Italy,
Speaker 1: which is largely now run by and owned by a
Speaker 1: lot of Chinese interests, it was just a perfect storm
Speaker 1: for this virus. So the President is taking the approach
Speaker 1: that he should here and I know that for a
Speaker 1: few days there were a lot of libs who are
Speaker 1: running around yelling about how if you even want to
Speaker 1: have this conversation, you're doing so because you don't care
Speaker 1: about Grandma. That's viciously aggressively stupid. And now we see
Speaker 1: the experts, like even doctor Fauci, are saying, hey, guess what,
Speaker 1: we are going to need to have a conversation about
Speaker 1: what risks we take. And while we are taking risks,
Speaker 1: there will be the possibility of rebounds that that's a
Speaker 1: quote from doctor Fauci, rebounds of this virus. But the
Speaker 1: alternative is just continued total lockdown, which other countries are
Speaker 1: not going through that are dealing with this. You know,
Speaker 1: South Korea is not in a state of absolute lockdown
Speaker 1: the way that New York City is right now, and
Speaker 1: the way that some other cities and states are. We're
Speaker 1: also going to see a lot of tension between state
Speaker 1: and local governments restricting travel, which you usually never see that, right,
Speaker 1: I mean in this country. As much as producer Mark
Speaker 1: and I might make jokes about the New York New
Speaker 1: Jersey rivalry, there's never anybody in New Jersey who's like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing crossing the river? You're supposed to
Speaker 1: stay over there in New York. And you know, generally
Speaker 1: we in New York are the ones are telling people
Speaker 1: from New Jersey what are you doing? But nonetheless, right
Speaker 1: now we're in a moment of absolute crisis, so much
Speaker 1: so that you might have state authority, local authorities who
Speaker 1: are saying no, no, no, you're not allowed to there's
Speaker 1: no cross state, cross county travel unless you're in an
Speaker 1: exempted situation. You're truck driver, you're you know, involved in
Speaker 1: that life maintenance sector of the economy that's still open.
Speaker 1: So this is why the patchwork approach. I guess you
Speaker 1: could call it placed by place. County by county is
Speaker 1: going to gain a lot of traction here soon because
Speaker 1: we need areas that can have more commerce to do so,
Speaker 1: we need to get the parts of our economy. We
Speaker 1: are a very large country of three and twenty million people.
Speaker 1: China has a billion people. Is China on lockdown the
Speaker 1: whole country? No? Do we think that the Chinese government
Speaker 1: is more adept at dealing with this? Do we think
Speaker 1: that Chinese public health? One thing that I haven't talked
Speaker 1: to you about before is there is a tremendous amount
Speaker 1: and this does not really get you will not hear
Speaker 1: about this from our media, But my contacts in China
Speaker 1: have been talking to me in recent weeks about how
Speaker 1: the Eastern medicine, which is the what we generally refer
Speaker 1: to it as here, there's Eastern medicine that is really
Speaker 1: very rudimentary and something more along the lines of which
Speaker 1: you consider traditional and almost practices of magic. I don't
Speaker 1: know what you would call it, but it's not base
Speaker 1: really in science. That leads very much into these wet
Speaker 1: markets in China where they're selling these different animals. Because
Speaker 1: you might be thinking why why would anybody eat a
Speaker 1: pangul in? They don't know what a taste like. Well,
Speaker 1: in Eastern medicine, there are different animals and eating them
Speaker 1: is considered. I mean, one of the more famous examples
Speaker 1: as something they do with tigers and they make a
Speaker 1: soup out of a part of a tiger. Rhinoceros horn.
Speaker 1: This is another one that's very well known. Rhinoceros horn
Speaker 1: is made out of keratin, the same thing that your
Speaker 1: fingernails are made out of. And yet there is a
Speaker 1: widespread belief across much of Asia. And I say widespread,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about people that are university professors in Beijing,
Speaker 1: but among the less affluent educated populace of China in particular,
Speaker 1: people think that this is a cure for different diseases.
Speaker 1: And so that's just it's one I think instructive about
Speaker 1: how we have these wet markets where you have one
Speaker 1: hundred different wild animal species all brought together and inhumane
Speaker 1: and deeply dangerous circumstances in terms of disease transmission. But
Speaker 1: also the Chinese public health system is nowhere near our
Speaker 1: public health system. You see them throwing together all these
Speaker 1: hospitals really fast, Trust me, you don't want. If you
Speaker 1: have a choice between being in a Chinese hospital being
Speaker 1: an American hospital, the National Health Service in Britain is
Speaker 1: a little scary. I'd probably rather be in Northern Italy,
Speaker 1: but a European hospital, you'd much rather choose the latter.
Speaker 1: So we'll get more into into China and what they're
Speaker 1: doing right now, because their propaganda campaign is all out.
Speaker 1: I mean, they really think that they're going to be
Speaker 1: able to rewrite the history of this pandemic and blame
Speaker 1: it on America, and we may go back in time
Speaker 1: and look at this historical moment as a point at
Speaker 1: which the Chinese began to establish This is their plan
Speaker 1: that they began to establish true global hegemony because we
Speaker 1: over extend ourselves financially and they managed to blame us
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways for this. You know, there
Speaker 1: I'll go through, and I know it sounds crazy, but
Speaker 1: remember the first goal of propaganda for an authoritarian regime
Speaker 1: a communist country like China. It's not really communist, but
Speaker 1: it's the Communist Chinese Party or Chinese Communist Party that
Speaker 1: runs it. The first goal of their propaganda is to
Speaker 1: convince their own people. Convincing all of us as much.
Speaker 1: So many of the messages that you see being fired
Speaker 1: out are meant to give ammunition to the toadies of
Speaker 1: the regime back in China. Hey see, this is what
Speaker 1: the authorities are saying about what happened in America, and
Speaker 1: they're going at the Americans with this must be kind
Speaker 1: of true, right, So we have that to discuss. We
Speaker 1: also have this bill. I mean, there's there's a ton
Speaker 1: of moving pieces happening right now. Massy Congressman Massey getting
Speaker 1: a lot of heat over trying to slow things down
Speaker 1: because he says there's a lot of pork in this
Speaker 1: Absolutely true. There is a lot of pork in this bill.
Speaker 1: There's no question that this is another example of Congress
Speaker 1: being unable to put aside its parochial interests and just
Speaker 1: be serious about things in the most serious moment this
Speaker 1: country has faced. Look, this is worse than nine to eleven.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm somebody who joined the CIA because of
Speaker 1: nine to eleven. I know all about the terrorist groups
Speaker 1: that were going after us, not just on that day,
Speaker 1: but four years and years afterwards. I know about plots
Speaker 1: that have come to light since then. I know about
Speaker 1: a lot of plots that didn't get that far along,
Speaker 1: but that would have been catastrophic that people don't know about.
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's really very little comparison in my
Speaker 1: mind between now and then, because we knew we were
Speaker 1: facing an enemy it was going to be rough, but
Speaker 1: we knew we would win that, and we know we
Speaker 1: will win this too. But the casualties that we face
Speaker 1: here remained very much a big question. We were never
Speaker 1: going to have a mass casualty event fighting against realistically,
Speaker 1: fighting against al Qaeda, fighting against Iraq or Afghanistan. It
Speaker 1: just wasn't going to happen because of our military superiority here.
Speaker 1: You know, I still think that the lower end of
Speaker 1: the spectrum of losses is much more likely for us.
Speaker 1: But there are circumstances. I mean, I've been reading, as
Speaker 1: a lot of other people have, about the Spanish influenza
Speaker 1: pandemic of nineteen eighteen, and there are circumstances where this
Speaker 1: could get a whole lot worse. And get that control
Speaker 1: what happens when the southern hemisphere goes into winter, by
Speaker 1: the way, and you have countries with much less developed
Speaker 1: public health systems that are much poorer but also have
Speaker 1: serious population density. There are some places what happens when
Speaker 1: they are faced with this, and how do we deal
Speaker 1: with the rebound of it. But the rebound won't be,
Speaker 1: i should say, the second wave. The rebound would just
Speaker 1: be a minor an outbreak in addition of what we've
Speaker 1: already seen here. Fauci addressed this yesterday. The second wave
Speaker 1: would be what we would see in the fall when
Speaker 1: this makes a comeback, which it will, so need to
Speaker 1: get to that as well. But the fundamental point here
Speaker 1: is that we now are we're waging two battles simultaneously,
Speaker 1: all right. Two battles are underway, the fight against the virus,
Speaker 1: to minimize casualties, to take care of as many Americans
Speaker 1: as we can get the equipment out there. That's one.
Speaker 1: The other is to understand the risks, take intelligent risks,
Speaker 1: know that it won't be perfect. But we've got to
Speaker 1: get out there and start going, start going forward with
Speaker 1: economic activity so that we can do the first thing,
Speaker 1: because this fight is going to extend for a long time.
Speaker 1: Someone needs to feed and pay our medical personnel. Someone
Speaker 1: needs to feed and and well, you know, give the
Speaker 1: money to keep them fed. But we need to pay
Speaker 1: for you know, people that are in our supply chain.
Speaker 1: Truck drivers, first responders, police fire, I mean, all the
Speaker 1: all the officials that are holding civilization together right now.
Speaker 1: They rely on economic activity. Without that economic activity, they
Speaker 1: can't do what they're doing to fight against the virus.
Speaker 1: So now we've moved into that phase of recognition, even
Speaker 1: before we've hit the biggest spike, which is going to
Speaker 1: be within a couple of weeks. So, like I said,
Speaker 1: team a lot to get to you today, So strap
Speaker 1: in for it. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is
Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show podcast. This is Governor Greg Abbott
Speaker 1: saying thank you to the truckers who are hauling all
Speaker 1: the goods and supplies across the Texas that are so
Speaker 1: desperately needed. Thank you for taking them to the grocery
Speaker 1: stores so the other stores to make sure that all
Speaker 1: the shoppers and Texas and our fellow Texans they have
Speaker 1: these needs for the supplies that you're delivering, and they
Speaker 1: wouldn't be there without you taking them there. Thank you
Speaker 1: for your tireless work to make sure Texans will have
Speaker 1: all the supplies they need. God bless our truckers and
Speaker 1: God bless Texas. You know there's that saying attributed to
Speaker 1: Napoleon that an army marches on its stomach. Well, if
Speaker 1: we're in right now a war against a virus, we
Speaker 1: also are marching on our stomachs and the only way
Speaker 1: that we can keep them full is because of our
Speaker 1: distro and supply chain, and truckers are the backbone of that.
Speaker 1: I know, we have so many of you who listen
Speaker 1: to this show, either on stations as you criss crossed
Speaker 1: the country, are also on podcast. Thank you for doing
Speaker 1: what you do, and you know, every day we'll try
Speaker 1: to give some shout outs to the people that are
Speaker 1: the reason why you know, here in New York City,
Speaker 1: for example, which is so hardly, so hard hit by this.
Speaker 1: Here in New York City, we only have grocery stores.
Speaker 1: I mean, if the grocery stores started having shortages, you
Speaker 1: would have panic and riots. So the people that are
Speaker 1: delivering food to the stores here that are making sure
Speaker 1: that you know, we still have groceries, you know, basic medicine,
Speaker 1: household goods. And I understand that there's some concern too.
Speaker 1: People have got to get out of the truck, they
Speaker 1: got to unload. You know, no one wants to get sick.
Speaker 1: We all understand, but they're keeping this country going. So
Speaker 1: we are also an army in America against this virus
Speaker 1: that marches on our stomach. And the people that are
Speaker 1: delivering in and cooking and preparing food as well, people
Speaker 1: that are still staying open, restaurants that are trying to
Speaker 1: I mean it's bleak out there. I went for a
Speaker 1: walk last night down one of the most crowded streets,
Speaker 1: I mean a place where usually you would be dodging
Speaker 1: just tourists every two steps and street performers, and especially
Speaker 1: this time year, no men's land. It was like crossing
Speaker 1: over from English to German lines in Flanders in the
Speaker 1: First World War. I mean, there was nothing out there.
Speaker 1: Stores all shut down, some of them now boarded up
Speaker 1: just in case. That's a little bit of an ominous sign.
Speaker 1: But thank you for keeping all of you out there.
Speaker 1: Thank you for keeping the stores stocked, because that is
Speaker 1: essential right now. We've got to keep our medical providers
Speaker 1: geared up, and we got to keep our stores stocked
Speaker 1: or else we're gonna have even bigger problems. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe
Speaker 1: on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcasts. I'm sure many of you saw the recent
Speaker 1: report out of the UK about them adjusting completely their needs.
Speaker 1: This is really quite important if you remember. That was
Speaker 1: the report that said there would be five hundred thousand
Speaker 1: deaths in the UK and two point two million deaths
Speaker 1: in the United States. They've adjusted that number in the
Speaker 1: UK to twenty thousand, so half a million to twenty thousand.
Speaker 1: We're looking into this in great detail. To understand that adjustment,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say something that's a little bit complicated,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to try to do it in a
Speaker 1: way that we can all understand it together. In the model,
Speaker 1: either you have to have a large group of people
Speaker 1: who are asymptomatic who have never presented for any test.
Speaker 1: In order to have the kind of numbers that were
Speaker 1: predicted to get to sixty million people infected, or of
Speaker 1: six million people infected, you have to have a large
Speaker 1: group of asymptomatics, because in no country to date have
Speaker 1: we seen an attack rate over one in a thousand.
Speaker 1: So either we're only measuring the tip of the iceberg
Speaker 1: of the symptomatic cases, and underneath it are a large
Speaker 1: group of people. So we're working very hard to get
Speaker 1: that antibody test because that's a good way to figure
Speaker 1: out who are all these people under here and do
Speaker 1: they exist or we have the transmission completely wrong. So
Speaker 1: these are the things we're looking at because the predictions
Speaker 1: of the models don't match the reality on the ground
Speaker 1: in either China, South Korea, or Italy. We are about
Speaker 1: five times the size of Italy. So if we were
Speaker 1: Italy and you did all those divisions, Italy should have
Speaker 1: close to four hundred thousand deaths. They're not close to
Speaker 1: achieving that. So these are the kinds of things we're
Speaker 1: trying to understand. Models or models. The models do not
Speaker 1: want up with what we've seen as reality so far.
Speaker 1: That's doctor Deborah Burkes, who I think has become for
Speaker 1: some people. I mean, it's Burkes and Fauci obviously who
Speaker 1: are at the press conference that are both providing a
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of really useful information, and by the information
Speaker 1: is quite useful. We're all making decisions, at least in
Speaker 1: particularly affected areas. I know for a lot of you,
Speaker 1: this is mostly right now an economic issue because you're
Speaker 1: there are counties where there are zero cases of this
Speaker 1: that are at least known so far, but understand that
Speaker 1: there will be some cases in a whole lot more counties,
Speaker 1: and the economic reality of what this is doing in
Speaker 1: cities is something that affects the whole country. So that's
Speaker 1: obviously why we're all in this together. Even if you're
Speaker 1: in a place where you know, you see two people
Speaker 1: a week outside your own family, and you don't think
Speaker 1: that there's any real threat of of COVID infecting you know,
Speaker 1: your township which has two hundred residents, right, So for
Speaker 1: those who are in areas like that, I understand you're
Speaker 1: looking at this like why do we have to Why
Speaker 1: is has the response been as extreme as possible? And
Speaker 1: the real turning point here was Italy, And honestly it
Speaker 1: was that there were two moments that I saw where
Speaker 1: my analysis of this had to ratchet up, and it
Speaker 1: was when we first saw real data out of Italy,
Speaker 1: and it was very you know, it's very hard with
Speaker 1: China and looking at all the modeling, and you have
Speaker 1: so many different factors that come into play when people
Speaker 1: are talking about how bad this will be. There are
Speaker 1: some who very clearly act with some degree of bad
Speaker 1: faith and do not you know, that they want this
Speaker 1: to be on the worst side at least for the administration.
Speaker 1: They want to make sure they can blame the administration,
Speaker 1: and it needs to be pretty bad for that to
Speaker 1: be the case. That's we've been aware of that from
Speaker 1: the beginning. People have been blaming Trump from before there
Speaker 1: was even a response. I was on the Bill mar
Speaker 1: Show and we had had not a single US death
Speaker 1: from COVID nineteen and they're saying that Trump boxs the
Speaker 1: response and he's terrible and we're all going to die.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at them saying, I don't even understand
Speaker 1: how we can have this conversation before we know what
Speaker 1: has happened. But you know, they hate Trump and that's
Speaker 1: all that really, that's all that really matters to them.
Speaker 1: Is very difficult to make assessments, good assessments of this
Speaker 1: based on the Chinese data, because we know the Chinese
Speaker 1: are lying, and we know that the Chinese Communist Party
Speaker 1: is ruthless. I mean, China is a modern state. It's
Speaker 1: the second wealthiest country in the world now by GDP,
Speaker 1: and you know, China is a modern state that still
Speaker 1: has internment camps for the wagers in Western China. So
Speaker 1: we understand it's a deeply immoral country. I mean, now
Speaker 1: they execute people for corruption and no one even really
Speaker 1: knows what the person did. I mean, there's all kinds
Speaker 1: of It's a thugocracy, a really powerful one. In fact,
Speaker 1: it's very similar in a lot of ways to what
Speaker 1: you have in Russia, where instead in Russia it's concentrated
Speaker 1: in Putin and his circle of cronies, but it's really Putin.
Speaker 1: In China, it's just a committee instead of an individual,
Speaker 1: but really wields the same absolute power and authoritarianism. And
Speaker 1: so in the early days they were suppressing information coming
Speaker 1: out of China as much as they possibly could. So
Speaker 1: it's very hard to make real determinations. It wasn't until
Speaker 1: we saw what happened in Italy then it was okay,
Speaker 1: this is going to be a real threat to our
Speaker 1: elderly and immunosuppress populations. And then when President Trump said
Speaker 1: that we were doing the shutdown of all travel from
Speaker 1: Europe that night, that was another That was the other
Speaker 1: shoe dropping for me. All of that said, here we
Speaker 1: are now deeper into this crisis, and there are still
Speaker 1: people who are putting out what I would consider to
Speaker 1: be very irresponsible projections about what is likely to happen.
Speaker 1: What is possible to happen is not really relevant. What
Speaker 1: could theoretically occur is not something that should be widely publicized.
Speaker 1: You know, what could happen in any given year. A
Speaker 1: flu virus could mutate and all of a sudden, we
Speaker 1: have a global pandemic that comes out of nowhere. I
Speaker 1: mean that it happened tomorrow. So what could is not
Speaker 1: something that should get nearly the attention. But from the media.
Speaker 1: You have two very powerful impulses that affect so much
Speaker 1: of the way that they're doing their jobs right now.
Speaker 1: One is there is maybe it's subconscious, although I think
Speaker 1: in some it's conscious, but a desire for a catastrophe,
Speaker 1: for catastrophe that they can pin on President Trump. And
Speaker 1: also just the if it bleeds it leads concept on steroids,
Speaker 1: things that are scary get clicks. I can't tell you
Speaker 1: how many stories I see, and it's getting very annoying
Speaker 1: because I think it's so dishonest and it's just adding
Speaker 1: to everybody's anxiety. But you keep seeing these stories about,
Speaker 1: you know, healthy, healthy, forty two year old dies from
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen in some American city or you know, here
Speaker 1: in New York wherever, And then you read in and
Speaker 1: you find out, well, he's you know, he was somebody
Speaker 1: who had chronic emphysema and type one diabetes ease or something,
Speaker 1: and you go, okay, well, I mean, this is still
Speaker 1: a tragedy for this person in his family. But they're
Speaker 1: obviously overselling the risk to the healthy in the in
Speaker 1: the headline as a means of scaring even more people
Speaker 1: than are already scared. So there's a lot of irresponsible
Speaker 1: stuff going on, and doctor Burke's is trying to address
Speaker 1: that as best she can here by saying, look, we
Speaker 1: can't even All we do all day is try to
Speaker 1: look at what's happening and what we can do and
Speaker 1: how we can mitigate risk, and how we can anticipate
Speaker 1: things going even more badly in a certain area. And
Speaker 1: there's just no way that the projection of two million
Speaker 1: dead Americans based on this study in the UK and
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand dead Brits that attracts with what we're
Speaker 1: seeing right now already happened in Italy. Italy was essentially
Speaker 1: give this disease in a confined part of a densely
Speaker 1: populated country, give the disease a solid month of just
Speaker 1: total rampant spread, no one knows what's going on, and
Speaker 1: then try to deal with it. So we would think
Speaker 1: that that should be you know, the percentages on that
Speaker 1: would give us a real sense of worst case scenario.
Speaker 1: And even the Italian scenario doesn't add up to what
Speaker 1: the UK is seeing. And right now we're taking all
Speaker 1: these measures. I mean, you don't mean New York is
Speaker 1: the most crowded part of the United States, the dent
Speaker 1: most densely populated. If eight point six I think something
Speaker 1: like that million people to live here, it's a lot.
Speaker 1: And you can walk around the streets here and not
Speaker 1: coming to not be within ten feet of anybody, you know, easily.
Speaker 1: You can walk around the streets and not even so
Speaker 1: you can basically walk down the street, not the sidewalk,
Speaker 1: and cars there's only a few coming by. They'll just
Speaker 1: drive around you. That's where we already are, so clearly,
Speaker 1: I mean, I just bring that up because there's massive
Speaker 1: changes that are underway right now to limit the spread
Speaker 1: of this thing, and that's not really being taken into
Speaker 1: account by those initial moles that we saw. So I
Speaker 1: think that that's really important for everybody to remember. You know,
Speaker 1: there's also there are these scientists that have come out
Speaker 1: at at Stanford, super smart Stanford guys and not Unitas.
Speaker 1: I know, I feel like I pronounced that like producer Mark.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that a football coach or a player? Johnny United
Speaker 1: is just one of the best players of all time, right,
Speaker 1: one of the Okay, he's a player. Yeah, but this
Speaker 1: guy is like Eonitis. It's like a Greek name. It's
Speaker 1: not Nitis, you know, it's like something close. Anyway, he
Speaker 1: did the analysis of this that it wasn't really quite as,
Speaker 1: it wasn't going to be as deadly as everyone had
Speaker 1: been saying. And then you had two other people at Stanford,
Speaker 1: a medical researchers who have also crunched the numbers, and
Speaker 1: they've said that, look, we we ran this. We've run
Speaker 1: this experiment a little bit in Italy where you've had
Speaker 1: rampant spread among an elderly population and on a cruise ship.
Speaker 1: And you know, if this disease just spreads in a
Speaker 1: confined area, you're looking about one one percent fatality rate
Speaker 1: and maybe a ten to fifteen percent hospitalization rate something
Speaker 1: along those lines. Now, that would be just spreading entirely
Speaker 1: in a confined area with no mitigation measures, with no
Speaker 1: knowledge of social distancing or anything else that's going on.
Speaker 1: That's clearly not what we are clearly not what we're facing.
Speaker 1: And in truth, they're going to find out. There are
Speaker 1: a couple of things that are going on now. One
Speaker 1: is they're going to find out and most experts are
Speaker 1: saying this, and I and my gut believe this. So
Speaker 1: I'm going on expert knowledge here. I don't have expert knowledge,
Speaker 1: but I'm also telling you that this adds up for me,
Speaker 1: This makes sense for me, and I am the gun.
Speaker 1: I was reminded yesterday that I've been saying. I think
Speaker 1: it was in July or August when I was asked
Speaker 1: what keeps me up at night? And now I remember,
Speaker 1: and I said pandemic disease. And I've also a few
Speaker 1: times said these idiots that are worried about climate change
Speaker 1: should be worried about pandemic disease. I've said that in
Speaker 1: the last year. I mean, if those of you listen
Speaker 1: to the show enough, no that that's the truth. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying some of us knew that this was a problem.
Speaker 1: While the lunatics are running around saying the world was
Speaker 1: gonna melt because of cow farts. So stepping back for
Speaker 1: a second, here to what we've seen in the well,
Speaker 1: you know, with the overall numbers, because now you know
Speaker 1: CNN yesterday was doing this whole America has more cases
Speaker 1: than any other country. First of all, bull all right,
Speaker 1: we have more cases that we know about because China
Speaker 1: is trying to cook the books and they have been
Speaker 1: from the very beginning this People keep saying this is
Speaker 1: China's Chernobyl. Now Chernobyl was, and the you know, the
Speaker 1: show is very good, although aise I told you there's
Speaker 1: a lot of unnecessary poetic license they took. Radiation is
Speaker 1: not contagious from person to person. You know, someone doesn't
Speaker 1: get irradiated and then a week later they hugged their
Speaker 1: wife and the wife will die. That's not how it works.
Speaker 1: So I don't know why they had to do that.
Speaker 1: It's scary enough without doing that stuff. So but the
Speaker 1: reason that Chernobyl was so, you know, it is something
Speaker 1: that's so historically powerful in our memory. One because the
Speaker 1: show was actually quite good, quite well done, but also
Speaker 1: it was at the end, I mean, the Soviet Empire
Speaker 1: was already a sclerotic, crappy, inept rule of idiots, and
Speaker 1: so that just made everyone think, these these morons can't
Speaker 1: do anything right, you know, and you have the Soviet
Speaker 1: Afghan War, same idea. These idiots can't even they can't
Speaker 1: even you know, with throwing everything they've got at these mujahideen,
Speaker 1: they can't even beat them. They got Chernoble, I mean,
Speaker 1: they just look like a bunch of morons, which they were.
Speaker 1: And so that's how the Soviet Polite Burrow and the
Speaker 1: Soviet you know, High Committee and all that fell. And
Speaker 1: you have in China a much bigger issue than Chernobyl
Speaker 1: really that people are saying, maybe this is a risks.
Speaker 1: On the one hand, it's an opportunity for China depending
Speaker 1: on how bad it is for America. But there's also
Speaker 1: the systemic risk to Chinese, the Chinese Communist Party's power
Speaker 1: that is going to put people on edge over there
Speaker 1: for a while because there must be enough people who
Speaker 1: know about Then there's also why that's a press information
Speaker 1: and why you know the wee chat app that everyone
Speaker 1: uses over there, and there's so much censorship that goes
Speaker 1: on because if people knew the truth about the Chinese government.
Speaker 1: They'd say, why do we have these morons in charge?
Speaker 1: They're vicious and corrupt and they're not even good at
Speaker 1: You'd think that a high tech totalitarian regime would be
Speaker 1: best placed to deal with a pandemic like this and
Speaker 1: to stifle it. But you know, in Singapore you have
Speaker 1: essentially a benevolent authoritarianism and they will stifle this thing
Speaker 1: pretty quickly. In China you have a dictatorial and vicious totalitarianism,
Speaker 1: and they were not able to stop this thing. So
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer though, in us getting more information
Speaker 1: that will calm people I think a bit going forward,
Speaker 1: not calm them entirely, but will help help us understand
Speaker 1: the real scope of this thing and where it's all going.
Speaker 1: I'll get into some of that. You're in the Freedom Hunt.
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Do we know
Speaker 1: yet if getting Corona and surviving Corona means that you
Speaker 1: are now immune to the disease or is there a
Speaker 1: chunks of reinfection. We don't know that for one certain
Speaker 1: because we haven't done the study to see rechallenges whether
Speaker 1: they've been protected. But I feel really confident that if
Speaker 1: this virus acts like every other virus, that we know
Speaker 1: once you get infected, get better clear the virus, that
Speaker 1: you'll have immunity that will protect you against reinfection. So
Speaker 1: it's never one hundred percent, but I'd be willing to
Speaker 1: bet anything that people who recover are really protected against reinfection,
Speaker 1: Doctor Fauci laying it down there. Obviously essential to know
Speaker 1: that there would be immunity after an infection of this disease,
Speaker 1: and that's because they're working on a test now and
Speaker 1: an a body test that would let you know you
Speaker 1: might have had this and not known. You know, I
Speaker 1: had a really bad cold at the end of December,
Speaker 1: for example. I think that's probably too early for this,
Speaker 1: but maybe I just thought it was a really bad cold, right.
Speaker 1: I'm sure some of you have the same thing when
Speaker 1: they look at the testing, even in South Korea where
Speaker 1: they've done all this testing, and we've done more testing
Speaker 1: in eight days in South Korea did in eight weeks.
Speaker 1: The President has been bringing that up in the last
Speaker 1: couple of days. But ninety four percent of tests where
Speaker 1: people had symptoms in South Korea it was not coronavirus.
Speaker 1: It's a cold, or it's the flu. But there's obviously
Speaker 1: a lot of crossover in the symptoms. So if you
Speaker 1: can find out if you have had this and didn't
Speaker 1: even realize it, then that takes a tremendous amount of
Speaker 1: strain off you. Assuming that you have immunity, which is
Speaker 1: the point he's getting to here, now you can go
Speaker 1: around and you don't have to worry. And it also
Speaker 1: means you could be around if they've proven you've got
Speaker 1: immunity now from this, which they're going to be finding
Speaker 1: out soon. He's basically saying it's ninety nine percent. But
Speaker 1: if you get immunity, then that means that you could
Speaker 1: be going back to work, going around, you know, people
Speaker 1: who are elderly and not worried because you wouldn't be
Speaker 1: at risk of infecting them because you'd be protected from
Speaker 1: being an infected because you've already been infected. Now, this
Speaker 1: is this is the case. This is basic immunology stretching
Speaker 1: back to the earliest days of vaccination and how that
Speaker 1: whole process works. I'm just gonna say this right now.
Speaker 1: Though you know you heard doctor Fauci there if he said, like,
Speaker 1: I'm very very common, and this is a guy who
Speaker 1: doesn't he doesn't blow you know, smoke and sunshine or
Speaker 1: you know, sunshine and rainbows, smoke and sunshine. That wouldn't
Speaker 1: be good sunshine and rainbows at people. But you've heard
Speaker 1: doctor Fauci there. He was very clear about it. And
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say this, if we end up finding
Speaker 1: out and this is just my belief, this is my analysis,
Speaker 1: But if we find out that somehow this virus is
Speaker 1: like the only virus that doctor Fauci has ever heard
Speaker 1: of really where you don't have respiratory infection like this,
Speaker 1: where you don't have immunity, afterwards, I'm just gonna go
Speaker 1: on record and say, if we find out you don't
Speaker 1: have immunity, this was engineered in a Chinese lab, no
Speaker 1: question in my mind, there's no there's no way, you know,
Speaker 1: there's too many pieces that would have to be good. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to end. It be in
Speaker 1: the case, and I think of the really good news
Speaker 1: is we will have immunity. But I just want to
Speaker 1: go on record now, for some reason, this is the
Speaker 1: one of a thousand for viruses where you don't get immunity.
Speaker 1: It's because the Chinese built this thing and the monster
Speaker 1: got out and is attacking all of us. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to The bus Essen Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe
Speaker 1: on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcasts. We have to get back to work. Our
Speaker 1: people want to work. If they want to go back,
Speaker 1: they have to go back. And we're going to be
Speaker 1: talking about dates. We're going to be talking with a
Speaker 1: lot of great professionals. But this is a country that
Speaker 1: was built on getting it done and our people want
Speaker 1: to go back to work. I'm I'm hearing it loud
Speaker 1: and clear from everybody. So we'll see what happens. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot more information early next week and
Speaker 1: we'll be reporting that back. But I just want to
Speaker 1: leave it with you. We have to go back. This
Speaker 1: is the United States of America. They don't want to
Speaker 1: sit around and wait, and they'll be practicing. And by
Speaker 1: the way, a lot of people misinterpreted when I said
Speaker 1: go back. They're going to be practicing as much as
Speaker 1: you can social distancing and washing your hands and not
Speaker 1: shaking hands and all of the things that we talk
Speaker 1: about so much. But they have to go back to work.
Speaker 1: Our country has to go back. Our country is based
Speaker 1: on that. The President gets it. His critics are piling
Speaker 1: on him for this, getting so angry at him. It's absurd.
Speaker 1: He understands what's at stake here. There will not be
Speaker 1: an economy. Think of it this way because the war
Speaker 1: analogy here can be very helpful. Obviously, war against a
Speaker 1: virus is not war against enemy human beings. But when
Speaker 1: you think of a war, what would happen if you
Speaker 1: destroy your industrial base. We have the best military, the
Speaker 1: best fighting men and women on the planet, right we
Speaker 1: know that we do. We have the best military and
Speaker 1: obviously the most capable and powerful military in the history
Speaker 1: of the planet, which is a pretty extraordinary thing when
Speaker 1: you think about it, right, But if our military was
Speaker 1: told to go out and fight against an enemy without ammunition,
Speaker 1: without uniforms, without communications, medical equipment, etc. They wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to win. The same is true of the economy
Speaker 1: that we have here and the industrial base that's dependent
Speaker 1: upon economic activity in defeating this virus. That's why they
Speaker 1: both have to happen. And some of us who have
Speaker 1: a better strategic sense have been saying this from the beginning,
Speaker 1: while other people are saying, you want grandma to die,
Speaker 1: which is such a horrible and offensive thing to say.
Speaker 1: But Nonetheless, it is a combination of people being afraid,
Speaker 1: but also a combination of individuals who feel the need
Speaker 1: right now to establish that they're better than other people,
Speaker 1: the virtue signaling. I have people who tell me who
Speaker 1: aren't even in New York, that I don't have any
Speaker 1: skin of the game of blue check journals, that I
Speaker 1: don't understand the pain people are going through. Really, I'm
Speaker 1: the one who's getting notices all the time from my
Speaker 1: favorite restaurants, from friends of mine that they're either out
Speaker 1: of work, that their business is shut down, that they
Speaker 1: can't go outside, that everyone's scared, they're all frightened for
Speaker 1: their parents. You know one thing about New York. If
Speaker 1: you're not here, you may not know. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: fair number of New Yorkers who go down to Florida
Speaker 1: as the typical place the New Yorkers go to retire.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people, multigeneration families are here in
Speaker 1: this city. I'm here, my parents are here, My grandparents
Speaker 1: on one side were here, My great grandparents when they
Speaker 1: were alive, were here. I mean so, But for a
Speaker 1: lot of New Yorkers, not only is this hit home
Speaker 1: for them because they're in quarantine but they know they've
Speaker 1: got even if they themselves are in lower risk cohorts
Speaker 1: in terms of their age, they know that there are
Speaker 1: other people that they care very much about who are here,
Speaker 1: care about more than anything, and they want to make
Speaker 1: sure that they're safe. So this is as realistic gets
Speaker 1: for all of us who are in the of this storm.
Speaker 1: The President understands that he's a New Yorker too. He
Speaker 1: has friends and loved ones and people that matter to
Speaker 1: him all across the country in a sense, but here
Speaker 1: in New York City is his home right, So he
Speaker 1: knows this, and I do think that he's trying to
Speaker 1: do as much as he can to get us back
Speaker 1: to work as quickly as he can. And this is
Speaker 1: just one of these times where we're going to have
Speaker 1: to listen to the voices that we know are coming
Speaker 1: at this in good faith and have a strategic mind,
Speaker 1: have vision for the future. Those of us that are
Speaker 1: pushing for more economic activity are looking ahead to what
Speaker 1: happens in two months while also understanding what's going on
Speaker 1: over the next two weeks. I'm not dismissing at all,
Speaker 1: but you don't want to win this battle against the
Speaker 1: virus spike, right now at the expense of losing the
Speaker 1: war of America still being a functioning economy that can
Speaker 1: support all the rest of life, including all the other
Speaker 1: health issues that come together. So I think I've made
Speaker 1: I think I've made my case to you on this.
Speaker 1: For now, We'll have to continue to see where the
Speaker 1: data leads us, what it says about the future of
Speaker 1: where we'll be able to open up in this country.
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see this left to the
Speaker 1: states and to cities, and that's going to be very
Speaker 1: interesting because there is already a dynamic that is forming
Speaker 1: right now of more rural and more red areas of
Speaker 1: the country that are that are less impacted by this
Speaker 1: less affected, not unaffected, but less affected by the spread
Speaker 1: of the virus. And they're saying, let us get back
Speaker 1: to work. We understand social distancing, we understand the precautions
Speaker 1: to prevent this from spiraling out of control in our
Speaker 1: area too. Let us get back to work. Our hospitals
Speaker 1: aren't overwhelmed, so that we can be a productive part
Speaker 1: of the economy and pushing the country forward. While New
Speaker 1: York is stockpiling ventilators and trying to deal with the
Speaker 1: influx of patients it already has, while Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: New Orleans and my me in other places are recognizing
Speaker 1: that they're also about to get hit pretty hard with this. Right,
Speaker 1: So this debate will be very interesting and you'll see
Speaker 1: state and local leadership matter into a lot of us
Speaker 1: a lot more. You know, usually your state and local
Speaker 1: leadership well, I guess depends on where you are, but
Speaker 1: usually it's gonna You're worried about are they taxing you?
Speaker 1: How are this how's this school system? They don't generally
Speaker 1: make decisions that have power of life and death over you.
Speaker 1: You don't think if you're governor. I know governors can
Speaker 1: give someone clemency who's on death row for state charges,
Speaker 1: but you don't usually think of a governor as making
Speaker 1: life and death decisions. If you did, I don't think
Speaker 1: i'd live in New York. I'd probably moved to Texas.
Speaker 1: Which maybe this is another moment where I realize, Buck,
Speaker 1: it's time to move to Texas. You folks in Austin, KLBJ,
Speaker 1: do do you guys have some you guys have some
Speaker 1: room for a good patriot service country in the past
Speaker 1: and wants to come hang out with some folks You
Speaker 1: know there's a whole bunch of plays. You know, Denver.
Speaker 1: What about Denver? I love Denver. Maybe you got room
Speaker 1: for me. I know that's not a particularly conservative city,
Speaker 1: but I hear wonderful things about it. And we've obviously
Speaker 1: got a great, great group of people listening to us
Speaker 1: in the Denver area. Team Buck Denver is going strong.
Speaker 1: So maybe that's where we gotta I don't know, profcer Mark,
Speaker 1: we might have to bust out a map and start
Speaker 1: thinking about what the escape, what the escape hatches for NYC.
Speaker 1: You already know my thoughts. Anywhere without state income tax Florida, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well Florida, Texas, that works. I think Tennessee also doesn't have.
Speaker 1: I just I was in Nashville for a weekend. I
Speaker 1: love that place. There's premiere studios in Nashville there. Oh,
Speaker 1: we got a lot of studios in Nashville. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot. I think there's gonna be a whole
Speaker 1: a little lot more development of all kinds going on there.
Speaker 1: So you're going to see some differences at the state
Speaker 1: level and how this plays out. Governor Cuomo, who's been
Speaker 1: getting a lot of attention for his daily brief things
Speaker 1: mostly for his demeanor in them and for the lack
Speaker 1: of the petty garbage. I mean, Deblasio has I've been saying,
Speaker 1: he's just, oh my gosh, we're all gonna die. Deblasio
Speaker 1: is horrible. He's absolutely horrible. Cuomo has been like, look,
Speaker 1: we're on it, we're dealing with it. We'll do our best.
Speaker 1: You know, he's kind of a little more, a little more,
Speaker 1: you know, he's been more even keeled about it as
Speaker 1: I've been saying. He's done a good job for what's
Speaker 1: going on here, and he's under a lot of stress.
Speaker 1: It's real, Okay, he's a New Yorker, he understands. Here's
Speaker 1: what he says about the Because I want to talk
Speaker 1: about this bill, I don't want to spend too much
Speaker 1: time on it because we kind of know a lot
Speaker 1: of what's going on here. It's a usual Washington shenanigans.
Speaker 1: Here's what he's saying. Play clip five. I'm sorry. Play
Speaker 1: clip six. The congressional action, in my opinion, simply failed
Speaker 1: to address the governmental need. I've spoke to all the
Speaker 1: officials involved. I spoke to our House delegation, I spoke
Speaker 1: to our senators, and I believe what they did failed
Speaker 1: to meet the governmental need. I'm disappointed, I said, I
Speaker 1: was disappointed. I find it irresponsible. I find that reckless
Speaker 1: emotion is a luxury, and we don't have the luxury
Speaker 1: at this time of being emotional about what they did.
Speaker 1: When this is over, I promise you I'm going to
Speaker 1: give them a piece of my mind. But I would
Speaker 1: say to them today, this is an extraordinary time in
Speaker 1: this nation, and it's an extraordinary time for government. This
Speaker 1: was the time to put politics aside, in partisanship aside.
Speaker 1: This is the time for governmental leaders to stop making
Speaker 1: excuses and just do your job. Okay, here's what's really
Speaker 1: going on. And some of that, you know, just do
Speaker 1: your job. They'll make it say okay, well that's we
Speaker 1: expect that. That's what people will say about this, But
Speaker 1: here's what's really going on. States are supposed I think
Speaker 1: a lot of states have balanced budgets are supposed to
Speaker 1: have balanced budgets under understate law. I don't know how many,
Speaker 1: but I do think there are a number of them
Speaker 1: to do. As we know, the state and federal income
Speaker 1: tax day has been pushed back to I believe it's
Speaker 1: for all states to income tax days and pushed back
Speaker 1: to July fifteenth, which means what happens to states and
Speaker 1: their budgets. States rely, a lot of them rely, yeah,
Speaker 1: on property taxes, but also on tax of sales, tax,
Speaker 1: tax of goods and transactions. And guess what they're looking
Speaker 1: at massive short falls now. And a state like New
Speaker 1: York in particular, is going to have huge short falls.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming there'll be others as well. Here's what I
Speaker 1: don't know people are listening to this. You're you're in Texas,
Speaker 1: you're in North Carolina, you're in Minnesota, you're in Indiana,
Speaker 1: you're in you know, California is going to the same problems,
Speaker 1: but you're in some places that probably aren't going to
Speaker 1: get hit as badly with this problem. But here's what's
Speaker 1: going to happen, right when you have this just this
Speaker 1: perception of the federal government dumping loads of cash out
Speaker 1: of helicopters onto people. And in a sense, that is
Speaker 1: what is going on, and that is necessary. People that
Speaker 1: lost their jobs because the government said you don't have
Speaker 1: a job anymore because of a disease that has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with you. The government's got to take care
Speaker 1: of those people, right. This is this you know, it'd
Speaker 1: be the same way that you know, if we got
Speaker 1: as I said, we got invaded by a foreign power
Speaker 1: and the government had to spend a whole lot of
Speaker 1: money and send a black Hawk and a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of highly trained seals or something to go get you
Speaker 1: because the bad guys had captured you. That's what government does.
Speaker 1: So that's why that's why we pay taxes, right, That's
Speaker 1: why we have these systems in place. So what we're
Speaker 1: going to see, though, is this dumping cash mentality, which
Speaker 1: is clearly evident in the way that this bill has gone.
Speaker 1: And as I go to air, Massey is still thinking about,
Speaker 1: I think, slowing down this process because he's upset about it,
Speaker 1: and people are saying, is it a conservative principle? Stand no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't think in my opinion, if you
Speaker 1: want to know, you know, Congress and Massa Kentucky is
Speaker 1: saying that he might insist on a quorum and that
Speaker 1: wo basically would slow the whole process down. To make
Speaker 1: a point here that there's too much pork in this.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, you don't lecture somebody on the Constitution
Speaker 1: while their house is burning down. And that's what's going
Speaker 1: on right now. Now. I'm not saying that you can't
Speaker 1: be critical of what's happened. I'm critical of it. I
Speaker 1: think Massey should be critical, but I don't think that
Speaker 1: it's I think it's kind of productive to slow down
Speaker 1: in any way. People are desperate for cash now. They
Speaker 1: need that money now, and they're going to be making decisions.
Speaker 1: Businesses and individuals who're making decisions based upon what is
Speaker 1: in their bank account next week when rent is due,
Speaker 1: so to say, oh, let's sort of wait and we'll
Speaker 1: see and you know, no, I'm sorry, that is not
Speaker 1: something that I can you know, I can get behind it.
Speaker 1: And also well we'll get into some of some of
Speaker 1: the other criticism that's out there about this, but it's
Speaker 1: it's shocking, and it's not shocking, right, I mean, as
Speaker 1: a human being, you're like, how could anybody use this
Speaker 1: moment for the ex exploitative means that they are, But
Speaker 1: you also know that this is this is the way
Speaker 1: our government functions now. Things only really seem to get
Speaker 1: done in a crisis. Things only seem to get done
Speaker 1: when it shouldn't be about politics. That's when it's really
Speaker 1: about politics. It's a switch Colo conundrum. Here is Manuchin
Speaker 1: telling us that the checks are going to go out.
Speaker 1: Here's what he says, Secretary of the Treasury, play nine.
Speaker 1: And I want to thank the Senate for their swift action.
Speaker 1: People literally worked around the clock for five days, and
Speaker 1: the President and I and others couldn't be more placed
Speaker 1: with the absolute unanimous support on a bipartisan basis to
Speaker 1: get this done. In regards to the checks I announced
Speaker 1: yesterday from the White House press conference, first all, most
Speaker 1: of these will be direct deposits, so we call them
Speaker 1: checks on the mail, but most movie direct deposits. It'll
Speaker 1: be within three weeks. We are determined to get money
Speaker 1: in people's pocket immediately, so that will be within three weeks.
Speaker 1: It seems pretty straightforward. Ryan, What are the objections that
Speaker 1: Democrats had, Remember when Pelosi was slowing the whole thing up. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll need to get to that. You're in the Freedom Hunt.
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Oh, we did
Speaker 1: jiu jitsu on it that it went from a corporate
Speaker 1: first proposal that the Republicans put forth in the Senate
Speaker 1: to a worker's first, democratic workers first legislation. But let's
Speaker 1: first back up, because I was coming here. I saw
Speaker 1: that nearly a thousand deaths in the United States nine
Speaker 1: hundred yesterday, So I don't know what the numbers today,
Speaker 1: but they're saying nearly a thousand deaths in our country,
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of people. Our Kate, we had tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of cases. This is a pandemic that we
Speaker 1: haven't even seen since for over one hundred years in
Speaker 1: our country. It's really such such a tragedy, so we
Speaker 1: had to take important action. We had to take action
Speaker 1: though that puts families first and workers first, and that's
Speaker 1: what we did when we did our first legislation. The
Speaker 1: first two bills were about addressing the emergency directly. She
Speaker 1: is shameless, isn't she just shameless? Ju jitsu? Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: jiu jitsu? No, that would be even more fun to
Speaker 1: watch than a Ruth Bader Ginsberg super fierce workout with kettlebells.
Speaker 1: But but Pelosi is convinced that she got something here.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure what you think she got other
Speaker 1: than repudiation people saying, what the heck are you thinking?
Speaker 1: This is a crisis. Time is of the essence. We absolutely, positively,
Speaker 1: positively cannot delay this anymore. That's you know, that's what
Speaker 1: where everybody else is on this. But Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile,
Speaker 1: I was playing all these nonsense games. Now, you know
Speaker 1: one one point here that I would I would make
Speaker 1: the jobless numbers are going to keep going up. Manuchin,
Speaker 1: who is smart. I mean, he's like Goldman Sachs, lobbyist
Speaker 1: in chief at the Treasury Department. But he's smart, and
Speaker 1: he's saying that we can handle this jobless thing in
Speaker 1: the short term, which has been what I have been
Speaker 1: saying for the last week, despite all the leftists claiming
Speaker 1: that I want to throw old people off of cliffs.
Speaker 1: We cannot sustain this in the long term. Here is
Speaker 1: Manuchin on that one play ten. We knew the jobless
Speaker 1: claims number was not going to be a good one,
Speaker 1: but I am curious this. So what your thoughts were
Speaker 1: when you saw that three point two eight three million number.
Speaker 1: You know, to be honest with you, I just think
Speaker 1: these numbers right now are not relevant, and you know
Speaker 1: whether they're bigger or smaller. And the short term, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously there are people who have jobless claims.
Speaker 1: And again, the good thing about this bill is the
Speaker 1: President is protecting those people. So you know, now with
Speaker 1: these plans small businesses, hopefully we'll be able to hire
Speaker 1: back a lot of those people. Last week, they didn't
Speaker 1: know if they had protections. They didn't have any cash,
Speaker 1: they had no choice. Now with this bill passed by Congress,
Speaker 1: there are protections, and as I said, hopefully those workers
Speaker 1: will be rehired. But between these three programs, it protects
Speaker 1: all of American workers. And by the way, you know,
Speaker 1: lots of big companies do continue to hire for obviously
Speaker 1: grocery stores, pharmacies, you know, delivery services. These companies are
Speaker 1: on overtime, so I know they're hiring people as fast
Speaker 1: as they can. Let's hope that he's right. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been saying that the unemployment numbers are only going
Speaker 1: to go up, and I think I'm right. But he's
Speaker 1: saying that because of this this I don't think it's
Speaker 1: stimulus bill. We should call it a rescue It's a
Speaker 1: rescue bill. It's not a stimulus bill. Because of this
Speaker 1: rescue bill, there may be some decisions made by businesses
Speaker 1: to keep people on payroll. Maybe we'll have to see,
Speaker 1: but remember there's going to be a lot of other
Speaker 1: pe There're gonna be a lot of other businesses that
Speaker 1: are are concerned and are going to continue to shed jobs,
Speaker 1: right that this is only going to get worse. And
Speaker 1: then you get into it, well, how does this whole
Speaker 1: thing get really scary? Even if they're doing the right
Speaker 1: thing by trying to help in this way systemic financial
Speaker 1: problems which no one wants to talk about. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to the Bus and Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe
Speaker 1: on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcasts. What did the Senate majority fight for one
Speaker 1: of the largest corporate bailouts with as few strings as
Speaker 1: possible in American history? Shameful? The greed of that fight
Speaker 1: is wrong for crumbs for our families, and the option
Speaker 1: that we have is to either let them suffer with
Speaker 1: no thing, or to allow this greed and billions of
Speaker 1: dollars which will be leveraged into trillions of dollars to
Speaker 1: contribute to the largest income inequality gap in our future.
Speaker 1: There should be shame about what was fought for in
Speaker 1: this bill and the choices that we have to make.
Speaker 1: I mean, AOC is a moron. All you have to
Speaker 1: do is listen to that one clip, never mind all
Speaker 1: the others, and she's just it's really to the detriment
Speaker 1: of the Democrat voters of Queens that she represents them,
Speaker 1: and they I guess they kind of, you know, in
Speaker 1: that regard. They traded Crowley for AOC, and I don't
Speaker 1: know how they can view this as a as a
Speaker 1: trade up, but maybe maybe they do. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But here's the problem with AOC throwing what it really
Speaker 1: sounds like a tantrum about corporate interests and how this
Speaker 1: is all for the corporations. And then this is just
Speaker 1: the usual talking points for her. She always says the
Speaker 1: same things about the big bad corporations. Here was the
Speaker 1: vote in the Senate on this one play clip eleven. Please,
Speaker 1: we passed this legislation last night, ninety six to nothing.
Speaker 1: The Senate can barely even rename a post office ninety
Speaker 1: six to nothing, much less pass a two trillion dollar
Speaker 1: emergency package, So I think it's regrettable. Then Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: intervened in our bipartisan negotiations last weekend, and now we've
Speaker 1: lost almost a week's worth of time of getting this
Speaker 1: desperately needed aid into the hands of America's families and businesses.
Speaker 1: But I'm confident to the House of Representatives will pass
Speaker 1: it to mar the President will sign it, and then
Speaker 1: our government will be moving as quickly as possible to
Speaker 1: get this aid into the hands of families and businesses.
Speaker 1: Ninety six to zero. How can we be hearing about
Speaker 1: the big, bad, mean Republicans when every single Democrat in
Speaker 1: the Senate voters for this ninety six to zero. Folks,
Speaker 1: an AOC thinks that this is some terrible Look, there's
Speaker 1: definitely there's pork in there, there's some things that shouldn't
Speaker 1: be in there. But you act like this is on
Speaker 1: the Republicans. This is just the nature of our politics
Speaker 1: right now, and it's gross. But this is reality. But
Speaker 1: it's also not really a part as an issue. This
Speaker 1: is just a Washington issue. They see an opportunity to
Speaker 1: write a twenty five million dollars check for the Kennedy Center,
Speaker 1: and they took it. They saw an opportunity to dramatically
Speaker 1: expand a lot of aspects of government. They aren't really
Speaker 1: about this. You know, there's a huge expansion of food stamps,
Speaker 1: different welfare programs. You know, Democrats got a lot in
Speaker 1: this that they'll say is all about coronavirus. But these
Speaker 1: are things that they just want to do anyway. This
Speaker 1: is just another moment where there's some people that they
Speaker 1: really only have one speed. I mean aoc. It's the
Speaker 1: same class, warfare, inequality, nonsense all the time. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what the topic is or what's happening, She's going
Speaker 1: to say more or less the same stuff. And you know,
Speaker 1: Pelosi is really not any better. I mean, she's really
Speaker 1: just blathering on about nonsense. And Congressman McCarthy pointed out
Speaker 1: that her whole thing. You know, she's just trying to
Speaker 1: save face now and it's obvious, and I'm not going
Speaker 1: to let her do it without taking some heat because
Speaker 1: she deserves a lot more than just heat. She deserves
Speaker 1: to be voted out of office. But it's not going
Speaker 1: to happen. She represents the lunatic liberals of Marine County,
Speaker 1: San Francisco incredibly wealthy. It's like, you know, the equip
Speaker 1: It's the San Francisco equivalent of Malibu, like ultra rich
Speaker 1: right by the ocean. That's Nancy Pelosi's district. Yeah, she's
Speaker 1: not getting voted out any time soon. It's also I
Speaker 1: think where they have one of those clusters where people
Speaker 1: don't vaccinate particularly like that's one of those plays. I'm
Speaker 1: just that it is a side note. But here's REPRESENTI
Speaker 1: McCarthy play clip twenty two. Speaker herself just said, every day,
Speaker 1: every week that is wasted on not taking this seriously
Speaker 1: is a problem. I could not agree more. And yet
Speaker 1: for days Democrats stalled this bill. How many people were
Speaker 1: laid off as the Democrats fought to change the election
Speaker 1: law or implement the Green New Deal. How many parents
Speaker 1: while sleep wondering how they're going to make the payments
Speaker 1: in the next month. How many small businesses set around
Speaker 1: a kitchen table and had to make that decision. They
Speaker 1: never had to be about laying their employees off. They
Speaker 1: are like family. A few minutes ago, the Speaker stood
Speaker 1: at dyspodium and claimed that House Democrats did what she
Speaker 1: called a jiu jitsu to change the bill. That is
Speaker 1: an outright lie. The fundamental portions of this bill has
Speaker 1: not changed in Sunday, four months for unemployment was already
Speaker 1: decided on Sunday. The grant to keep employees hired on
Speaker 1: small business was already decided on Sunday. Yeah, already decided
Speaker 1: Pelosi swooped in and tried to use tried to leverage
Speaker 1: the moment for her own benefit and for her narrow
Speaker 1: parochial political interests, and it failed. And now she's saying
Speaker 1: that she did something just to walk away from this.
Speaker 1: Everyone's looking at her like, no, you didn't. We know
Speaker 1: that she didn't. But she's such a liar, liar, liar,
Speaker 1: pants on fire Pelosi. That is where she is on this.
Speaker 1: So it is unsurprising, but nonetheless that's the reality of it.
Speaker 1: You know, I was talking before about the state versus
Speaker 1: local issue, and there is going to be I think
Speaker 1: some accountability for different for people who aren't used to
Speaker 1: making really big decisions in political office, for mayors, for governors.
Speaker 1: They they're being forced to make decisions here where people's
Speaker 1: lives are in the balance, the economy is in the
Speaker 1: balance of their state. And here's the mayor of New
Speaker 1: Orleans speaking about how it's Trump's fault that Marty Gras
Speaker 1: was not canceled due to coronavirus play thirteen. But you're saying,
Speaker 1: no one from the federal government came to you and
Speaker 1: urge you to at least cancel or postpone Marty Gras.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely correct, and not only that it was backed
Speaker 1: up with the response of our national leader. When it's
Speaker 1: not taken seriously at the federal level, it's very difficult
Speaker 1: to transcend down to the local level in making these decisions. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's right. Everyone who was supposed to be making these
Speaker 1: decisions to protect the people of their city or their state.
Speaker 1: The people that got this wrong. And New Orleans is
Speaker 1: clearly getting hit very badly, in part because of all
Speaker 1: the travel to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. But they
Speaker 1: got this wrong, and now they're gonnaur around, They're gonna
Speaker 1: blame the federal government and say that it wasn't being
Speaker 1: taken seriously by the federal government. Look, we also have
Speaker 1: fortunately the Internet now and so we know what different
Speaker 1: state And now I don't have this for you for
Speaker 1: Mardi Gras. I mean for New Orleans, which you know
Speaker 1: and I love New Orleans, but that's another place, Producer
Speaker 1: Mark a part of the NYC escape plan. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the state taxes Louisiana. I'm sure it's not
Speaker 1: that high. I love I love New Orleans. I want
Speaker 1: to get back there as soon as I can. But
Speaker 1: the New York City health commissioner. I don't have the
Speaker 1: New Orleans health commissioner for the first week of February.
Speaker 1: Is this is a person at the city level, right,
Speaker 1: who's obviously a Democrat. I mean, every everybody in all
Speaker 1: these may your cities is pretty much a Democrat. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Democrat government is city government. Now there's almost no differentiation.
Speaker 1: And I mean that's not true everywhere, but in most
Speaker 1: places you're going to find the mayors of big cities
Speaker 1: I'm talking about now, it doesn't you know, four Wayne, Indiana.
Speaker 1: I love you guys in wo wo Land, but you
Speaker 1: know you're you're kind of an outlier here. I think
Speaker 1: maybe you know you're talking about fifty to one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand people in a city. Sure, then maybe you have
Speaker 1: a Republican. But anything that's half a million plus two
Speaker 1: hundred fifty thousand plus, you're probably looking at an overwhelming
Speaker 1: majority of Democrats who are calling the shots for these cities.
Speaker 1: And I mean certainly the case in New York, Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: I mean Seattle, I mean, find me a city or
Speaker 1: San Diego. I mean Anyway, here's the New York City
Speaker 1: Health Commissioner without the first week of February on Now,
Speaker 1: this is a person. Remember, this is not just a politician.
Speaker 1: This is someone whose job is only to keep people
Speaker 1: healthy and safe in New York City, safe from disease,
Speaker 1: safe from things like this pandemic. Here was the public
Speaker 1: advice of the New York City Health Commissioner on February seventh.
Speaker 1: Play it. The important thing for New Yorkers to know
Speaker 1: is that in the city currently their risk is low
Speaker 1: and our city preparedness is high. And so we know
Speaker 1: that this virus can be transmitted from one individual to another,
Speaker 1: but that it's typically people who live together. That there's
Speaker 1: no risk at this point in time. We're always learning
Speaker 1: more about having it be transmitted in casual contact. Right,
Speaker 1: So we're telling New Yorkers go about your lives, take
Speaker 1: the subway, go out, enjoy life. But the practice every
Speaker 1: day precaution. That's right. The Health Commissioner of New York
Speaker 1: a month ago said the following, take the subway, go out,
Speaker 1: enjoy life. No real risk of casual transmission of this.
Speaker 1: So when people this is part of my thing this week,
Speaker 1: you know you have a lot of folks out there
Speaker 1: that are yelling, listen to the experts, listen the experts. Really,
Speaker 1: there are people who got sick and died in the
Speaker 1: last month because they listen to experts like this person.
Speaker 1: That's just reality. So it's not as easy as just
Speaker 1: repeating that mantra and all of a sudden, all all
Speaker 1: other points of view, all other ways of looking at
Speaker 1: this just fade away into nothing. It's not that straightforward, folks,
Speaker 1: as we all know. So we'll see what ends up
Speaker 1: happening with the county by county, state by state approach,
Speaker 1: and the President is probably gonna announce something pretty substantial
Speaker 1: on that on Monday. But now we're going to really
Speaker 1: see it. And I think this is going to be
Speaker 1: more of a test of federalism than we've had in
Speaker 1: this country in a long time. Because states that handle
Speaker 1: this well, people are gonna say, hmm, maybe it's time
Speaker 1: to go check that place out. States that are crushed
Speaker 1: by this, there's going to be a lot of anger
Speaker 1: and a lot of blame at state and local government.
Speaker 1: And there are gonna be a lot of Democrats who
Speaker 1: in charge of these areas, you know, whether whether it's
Speaker 1: fair or not, that they get blamed. They are going
Speaker 1: to get blamed. I mean, you know, de Blasio, I
Speaker 1: think in part is running around screaming about how everything's
Speaker 1: on fire and we're all gonna die, just so that
Speaker 1: you know, when finally people say, wow, you handle this
Speaker 1: really badly, he's just gonna say I was warning everybody,
Speaker 1: and I was the one saying it was going to
Speaker 1: be terrible. So but I also think that we're gonna
Speaker 1: We're gonna hit a peak in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be less catastrophic than the predictions were
Speaker 1: last week. That's my I wouldn't say a prediction. That's
Speaker 1: my hope, and I'm pretty I'm confident in my hope.
Speaker 1: At this point, you're in the Freedom Hunt. This is
Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show podcast High Fekes. I want to
Speaker 1: bring you up to speed with something that's happening today,
Speaker 1: which is that I've developed mild symptoms of the creative
Speaker 1: assessed to say, a temperature and a persistent cough, and
Speaker 1: on the advice of the chief medical officer, I've taken
Speaker 1: a test that has come out positive. So I am
Speaker 1: working from home. I'm so violating and that's entirely the
Speaker 1: right thing to do, but being no doubt that I
Speaker 1: can continue, thanks to the wizardy of modern technology, to
Speaker 1: communicate with all my top team to lead the national
Speaker 1: fight back against coronavirus. The Prime Minister of Great Britain
Speaker 1: and Prime Minister of the UK, he has coronavirus. That's
Speaker 1: going to be one of those ones where you say, wow,
Speaker 1: this really is all over the place, isn't it. I
Speaker 1: think the wife of Justin Trudeau has coronavirus now as well.
Speaker 1: I mean Tom, that was like a week or two ago. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a week or two ago. Tom Hanks says
Speaker 1: a coronavirus. He seems to be doing fine. I saw
Speaker 1: some update from him. Who what other famous smart What
Speaker 1: are the famous people right now have coronavirus? There were
Speaker 1: a couple of NBA players, some some like some like
Speaker 1: Sea level, you know, celebrities almost almost announced it like
Speaker 1: a little too, you know, a little they're like almost
Speaker 1: exciting to do. It's a little weird with some of
Speaker 1: the younger I've seen some people that are like you know,
Speaker 1: influencers that are like, oh, I have coronavirus, Like uh,
Speaker 1: that's know. We wish you all the best. But this
Speaker 1: is not a it's not a competition to see who
Speaker 1: can get this thing the fastest. There have been some weird,
Speaker 1: some weird posts that I've seen on this one, and
Speaker 1: never mind the ones of people like licking toilet seats.
Speaker 1: And did you see that, by the way, you know
Speaker 1: that guy got sick. Yeah, he has coronavirus. Coronavirus? What
Speaker 1: I mean? What a you know? People? Why lick a
Speaker 1: toilet in general? Never mind in these times? Yeah, I dude,
Speaker 1: I I don't even know. Man. I was one of
Speaker 1: those people that for years and years, if I had
Speaker 1: to use a toilet that wasn't in my home, I
Speaker 1: use one of those like I would build a little um,
Speaker 1: you know, a little paper towel s, a little a
Speaker 1: little paper seat for myself. You know. Oh, I won't
Speaker 1: go outside of the house. Yeah, you're one of those
Speaker 1: like that guy from American Pie who won't go outside
Speaker 1: the home. I'm the type of person who asked the
Speaker 1: leasing offices at his new apartment, do you guys change
Speaker 1: the toilet seat before I move in. That's a good call.
Speaker 1: By the way, there's a lot of places we'll get
Speaker 1: they'll get cheap on that one, and they won't. You
Speaker 1: want to You want a fresh toilet seat when you
Speaker 1: move into an apartment where someone else where someone else
Speaker 1: has live. But yeah, there's o there's celebrities. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: there's some NBA players, and we we end up happening there.
Speaker 1: Why people got tests early who are celebrities is because
Speaker 1: they have money on access and they went to private,
Speaker 1: private testing facilities and said, you know what's it going
Speaker 1: to cost? And they you know, this is the way,
Speaker 1: this is the way the world works. Unfortunately, so people
Speaker 1: were rightly upset about that, but there was no surprise
Speaker 1: there really. I mean, that's the way these things are
Speaker 1: going to happen, the same way that you have now
Speaker 1: hoarding of chloroquin, not chloroquin phosphate, which is fish tank cleaner,
Speaker 1: which will kill you, as everybody already knows. Now despite
Speaker 1: the media saying Trump told them to drink, no he
Speaker 1: did not. But there is there's hoarding of chloroquine and
Speaker 1: hydroxy chloroquine, the anti malaria drug that we we're not
Speaker 1: going to know if that really works probably, I guess
Speaker 1: for another week or two. They are using it in
Speaker 1: New York. But the therapy round of it must be
Speaker 1: at least a week to ten days before you have
Speaker 1: any sense of how effective it is. So, but doctors
Speaker 1: are hoarding that and people are hoarding it, and it
Speaker 1: is used for other conditions. I think it's used for lupus,
Speaker 1: and there are a few. I think there's some autoimmune
Speaker 1: situations where you can use chloroquine to suppress it. So
Speaker 1: that's something you're seeing going on right now. And then
Speaker 1: you also have people who have tried to get and
Speaker 1: just hold one, like in their closet or something, a
Speaker 1: respirator for themselves. Our ventilator rather, you know, the ventilator
Speaker 1: is the machine that breathes for you when you can't
Speaker 1: breathe Trump speaking on that, I did see that Trump
Speaker 1: was not happy with. You know, we've been talking about
Speaker 1: the Defense Production Act and General Motors and what's going
Speaker 1: on there. Trump is very displeased with the speed of
Speaker 1: General Motors. On one Here's what he said. General Motors
Speaker 1: must immediately open their stupidly abandoned Lordstown Planet Ohio or
Speaker 1: some other plan and start making ventilators. Now all caps.
Speaker 1: When the Trumpster puts it in all caps, you know
Speaker 1: he's for real. Ford get going on ventilators fast. So
Speaker 1: the President saying, hey, we we you know, we've been
Speaker 1: telling people, We've been telling people to have a you know,
Speaker 1: open mind about working with the private sector without government mandate.
Speaker 1: Just the private sector stepping up. It's starting to sound
Speaker 1: like the President may have to say, Okay, now you're
Speaker 1: now you're getting they're gonna get paid. Right this is
Speaker 1: an appropriation of property without compensation. But under the Defense
Speaker 1: Production Act, you're going to make ventilators, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: make them now right now. Not not going to finish
Speaker 1: the line of cars. We'll have to see how these
Speaker 1: companies have stepped up. A lot of people I know
Speaker 1: and you know, could look conservatives. We understand that the
Speaker 1: free market and private industry is where prosperity comes from.
Speaker 1: So I totally agree and understand with that point of view.
Speaker 1: But we've been saying the private sector is stepping up
Speaker 1: in with some of these companies. We're going to expect
Speaker 1: some results here soon. I better see some General motors ventilators,
Speaker 1: you know, getting shipped across the country by the thousands
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Speaker 1: get on TV and it gets sensationalized, you stir people up.
Speaker 1: It's just it just leads to bad things. That's my point.
Speaker 1: How we are working. We're just as hard as we
Speaker 1: possibly can with the full force of government and the
Speaker 1: full force of private enterprise. And that's the best we
Speaker 1: can do right now. We all us a country got
Speaker 1: dealt a bad hand by China. Peter, that is just
Speaker 1: a waste of time to say that. I'm going to
Speaker 1: leave it there, Peter Navarro, were just trying to get
Speaker 1: her hands around the time. We're out of time, and
Speaker 1: that's just there. You have a third tier CNN anchor
Speaker 1: who has never been very bright, being nasty to a
Speaker 1: presidential economic advisor. I watched the whole about eight minute exchange.
Speaker 1: She was just a petulant child. She was disrespectful the
Speaker 1: entire time, which is classic at CNN. I mean I
Speaker 1: used to just so you know, when I used to
Speaker 1: go on CNN when I was a paid contributor there before,
Speaker 1: it was completely insane, like it was crazy, but you
Speaker 1: could kind of reason with them a little bit. Sometimes
Speaker 1: Now they've they've they've lost their minds. I'm actually, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I'm I'm a band from the building as
Speaker 1: a security risk. But the head of CNN saw me
Speaker 1: and like gave me a weird look and was like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? Once so I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed that, which is great.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go I would I would go on and
Speaker 1: fight with them, and they know that they don't want
Speaker 1: to deal with that. So, but you had a Keeler
Speaker 1: whatever her name is, being all aggressive here with Peter Navarro,
Speaker 1: and this is what was going on. She kept saying,
Speaker 1: you guys have done a bad job preparing. Can you
Speaker 1: get to the number? Can you get to a million?
Speaker 1: A million ventilators? And he kept saying, well, hold on
Speaker 1: a second, can let's address this. You're making a claim
Speaker 1: that the administration has done a bad job preparing for this,
Speaker 1: and then you're saying we need a million ventilators, which
Speaker 1: keep in mind, no administration ever thought that they needed
Speaker 1: to have a million ventilators on hand. A million ventilators
Speaker 1: a lot of machines, folks. These machines cost about I'm
Speaker 1: not saying we don't have the money for it, but
Speaker 1: it's a lot of machines that are costs of twenty
Speaker 1: to thirty thousand dollars apiece a million of them. Somebody
Speaker 1: else is going to have to do that math for me.
Speaker 1: So she's making this claim, and Peter Navarro kept trying
Speaker 1: to say, look, here's the reality of the situation. It's
Speaker 1: unprecedented to nobody else. No other administration would have ever
Speaker 1: you know, if you'd try to get funding for a
Speaker 1: million ventilators, people would have laughed at you. I thought
Speaker 1: you were insane, right, So, and she just kept she
Speaker 1: kept hammering the point she's trying to play, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to pander to the CNN audience, which just wants
Speaker 1: to hear how terrible Trump is and who doesn't care
Speaker 1: about old people or any people dying for that matter.
Speaker 1: He just wants to you know, make more money and
Speaker 1: violate the emoluments clause and all this other psycho crap
Speaker 1: that they say all the time. But one part that
Speaker 1: kept coming up is, you know, he was saying, look,
Speaker 1: this is China cut six weeks out, and this is
Speaker 1: just true. China by lying and covering up cut six weeks,
Speaker 1: six weeks out of America's preparations for this. And if
Speaker 1: you're going to talk about how you know, how well
Speaker 1: the administration got ready for this. You have to be
Speaker 1: fair to the situation and say, well, you know, the
Speaker 1: Chinese were a big problem here and that other countries.
Speaker 1: You know, if this had broken out first in the
Speaker 1: UK or France, I think there would have been a
Speaker 1: lot more transparency and a lot more honesty. But the
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party is a bunch of liars who don't
Speaker 1: care about anything other than their power, and that's a
Speaker 1: real issue. CNN's anchor here just kept saying, that's a distraction,
Speaker 1: you know, It's it's a pretty remarkable circumstance that you're
Speaker 1: seeing play out, and it's not one that I will
Speaker 1: forget anytime soon that the liberal news media has an
Speaker 1: insistence in undermining any good news out of the Trump
Speaker 1: administration during this panic, while they will simultaneously and wholeheartedly
Speaker 1: believe any piece of absurd propaganda that China puts out.
Speaker 1: This is really all you have to know about their character, seriousness,
Speaker 1: and intelligence, all of which are deeply lacking. The Chinese
Speaker 1: government is claiming that they have sent tons and tons
Speaker 1: palettes of medical supplies to Italy, for example, and they're
Speaker 1: sending them to other countries, and our news media takes
Speaker 1: these little propaganda pieces from China and says, you know, look,
Speaker 1: China is the one stepping up with global leadership. People
Speaker 1: who think they're really smart look at these Chinese press
Speaker 1: releases and they say, oh, wow, China is doing a
Speaker 1: great job here. Why is in America cutting itself off
Speaker 1: from the world while China is trying to help. First
Speaker 1: of all, we're in the midst of the peak of
Speaker 1: our own or about to hit the peak of our
Speaker 1: own pandemic, and so yeah, it would seem a bit
Speaker 1: strange if we're trying to build more ventilators for our
Speaker 1: people to be sending a lot of ventilators abroad. But
Speaker 1: here's the other piece of this that the moron journalist
Speaker 1: crowd doesn't understand. Put aside from the China's full of lies,
Speaker 1: we sent, we send aid to China. We tried to
Speaker 1: help out the Chinese, and in fact that Chinese kind
Speaker 1: of rejected some of that aid, including from the World
Speaker 1: Health Organization initially, but rejected American offers of help too.
Speaker 1: And then we gave them help, and then they shipped
Speaker 1: help with medical supplies, and then they've shipped medical supplies
Speaker 1: to other countries now in just a propaganda effort, and
Speaker 1: our media reports on this as though, Oh, look at
Speaker 1: China and stepping up and showing all this leadership. Yeah,
Speaker 1: China's done a great job, for example, sending testing kits
Speaker 1: to Spain. Do you know what the percentage of those
Speaker 1: testing kits? Hundreds of thousands of testing kits they sent
Speaker 1: to Spain. Our media is like, look at China stepping
Speaker 1: up here. The percentage of those kits that work thirty
Speaker 1: Now you might say, okay, well, at least they have
Speaker 1: thirty percent working kits. They don't know which kits work
Speaker 1: and which. Don't think about what that does then to
Speaker 1: the testing capacity in Spain. They have to run a
Speaker 1: test to see if they can actually work or not.
Speaker 1: They got one hundreds of thousands of tests now from
Speaker 1: China that they can really use, or if they try
Speaker 1: to use some of them, they can only use a
Speaker 1: percentage of them, right, I mean, you know what I
Speaker 1: think of it this way? How if you're in the
Speaker 1: middle of a war and I send you a million
Speaker 1: rounds of ammunition, but only thirty percent of them will
Speaker 1: actually fire, and you don't know which ones am am
Speaker 1: I doing you a big, a big favor with that?
Speaker 1: Do you want to be on the front lines, you know, click, oops,
Speaker 1: didn't fire? Do you want to be the doctor that's
Speaker 1: running a test for somebody that needs to find out
Speaker 1: before they go back home and possibly infect other people
Speaker 1: whether or not they have coronavirus? And then you go, oh,
Speaker 1: you wait four days or five days or twelve hours
Speaker 1: or whatever it is with the Chinese test, I don't know,
Speaker 1: and then you find out, oh, no, results inconclusive or
Speaker 1: what if the results are wrong? You do we think
Speaker 1: that we can actually trust these tests being sent from
Speaker 1: China America because our own media really watches the authoritarianism
Speaker 1: of China with some envy, you know, the the American
Speaker 1: progressive movement, American liberals wish that they could do what
Speaker 1: China does, which is just make people do whatever they want.
Speaker 1: May you know, once you're in charge of the government,
Speaker 1: you make people do whatever you want and there's no
Speaker 1: questioning it, there's no weight. But we have a constitution. No,
Speaker 1: don't know. American lives, if they had their way, would
Speaker 1: do what the Chinese Communist Party does. They would just
Speaker 1: be nicer, but they would just tell people this is
Speaker 1: how it's going to go. You know, they see things
Speaker 1: like the Green New Deal and they say, oh, China
Speaker 1: could institute that, so well, you know, China would do this,
Speaker 1: but we have to go through Congress, and we have
Speaker 1: Republican to get past, and we have a constitution that
Speaker 1: people will complain about when we trample it. So there's
Speaker 1: always been and this this is true. I mean Tom Friedman,
Speaker 1: some of the top columnists in liberal media for years
Speaker 1: have been writing about the China model with with with praise,
Speaker 1: with high praise, and in fact, Nicholas Cage anybody, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys remember that. And you look
Speaker 1: at the way Bloomberg has been covering China, and there's
Speaker 1: clearly some kind of weird, cozy relationship between Bloomberg and
Speaker 1: China and the ruling powers there. So you know that
Speaker 1: there's a lot. There's a lot to see here about
Speaker 1: the way that China is acting and the way that
Speaker 1: our news media is covering them, And there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot to be really outraged about because they you know,
Speaker 1: this is a moment where patriotism and truth matter, and
Speaker 1: the patriotism of the media is constantly in question. For
Speaker 1: me and really, they're actually just showing us that they're
Speaker 1: rooting for China against the Trump administration. Here would be
Speaker 1: a fun exercise, and just you could do this as
Speaker 1: a thought exercise, because you already know the answer. Do
Speaker 1: you think if you ask your average average seeing an anchor,
Speaker 1: who is more truthful Donald Trump or an official spokesperson
Speaker 1: spokesperson for the Chinese Communist Party? Who you know? So
Speaker 1: any you know the Chinese Foreign Minister Shi Jinping and
Speaker 1: anybody anyone in at the top level of Chinese government
Speaker 1: or Donald Trump? Who is more who is more honest
Speaker 1: and who is more trustworthy? Ninety nine percent of journalists
Speaker 1: would say that it's a well, maybe I should's ninety
Speaker 1: nine percent of the journalists who don't like Trump, which
Speaker 1: is ninety to ninety five percent of journalists, would say
Speaker 1: that it's you can trust China more than you can
Speaker 1: trust Trump. They believe this, you know, they believe this,
Speaker 1: which just goes to show you what terrible judgment they
Speaker 1: have and what a bunch of utter morons they are.
Speaker 1: And you know, there are people like Nancy Pelosi who
Speaker 1: are running around acting like we should listen to them
Speaker 1: because they know something about anything, but Nancy Pelosi knows
Speaker 1: how to be a cunning opportunist who will do anything
Speaker 1: she can to stay in power and to utilize power.
Speaker 1: That's what she knows. And she's a dogmatic lib So
Speaker 1: whatever whatever the left wing of the Democratic Party wants
Speaker 1: to do, Nancy Pelosi tries to bring that into reality.
Speaker 1: But she's going around saying, for example, we need I mean, here,
Speaker 1: just play clip twelve. We would hope that the government
Speaker 1: production of the Defensive of Production Office Agency would be
Speaker 1: called upon to call upon industry to convert to making
Speaker 1: ventilators in the rest, testing, testing, testing, mask masks, ventilators, ventilators, ventilators.
Speaker 1: What's the mystery? We need many more and ventilators just
Speaker 1: for your information. Is not about making a breathe easier.
Speaker 1: It's making a breathe period. It is vital to life
Speaker 1: and death in many, many, many cases. So we need
Speaker 1: an unlimited number, let's think of it that way, endless
Speaker 1: number of ventilators, and just to name one thing, an
Speaker 1: unlimited number of ventilators. We don't have an unlimited number
Speaker 1: of anything, but we're going to need an unlimited number
Speaker 1: of ventilators. That's really her, that's her demand now well,
Speaker 1: how do we even how do we even do that?
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that would look like. Then
Speaker 1: the numbers unlimited, we're just going to have, So what
Speaker 1: does that mean? We should have fifty million of them
Speaker 1: just just hanging around. They don't understand that there's man hours, labor, equipment,
Speaker 1: material that these things. I mean, Nancy Pelosi has never
Speaker 1: run a business other than the business of being shady,
Speaker 1: opportunistic Nancy Pelosi. She doesn't know anything. She's never worked
Speaker 1: for a company, she's never spent time learning about basic economics.
Speaker 1: All she knows is the liberal orthodoxy and how to
Speaker 1: enact it by playing the media. And well, I mean,
Speaker 1: the media is in her back pockets, so it couldn't
Speaker 1: be any easier for her. But yes, that's her, and
Speaker 1: that we need to have an unlimited number of ventilators.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, she is just she's She's the worst, though, don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, Davlasi was actually the worst, but Pelosi sometimes
Speaker 1: gets pretty close for me. All Right, So I want
Speaker 1: to talk about what we're gonna do this weekend, folks.
Speaker 1: Enough so we've gotten through all the most important news
Speaker 1: for today. What are our weekends? And this is the quarantine,
Speaker 1: Freedom Hunt. Now, so what are the weekends going to
Speaker 1: look like for all of us? What are you going
Speaker 1: to be doing? And I've got one one thing that
Speaker 1: I need to share with you that I think will
Speaker 1: be a worthwhile recommendation. We'll bring in producer Mark to
Speaker 1: hear what he's got going on. Then we'll get to
Speaker 1: roll call, and then I'll send you off to just regroup, relax,
Speaker 1: keep calm. This weekend we'll get to all that. So
Speaker 1: you're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton
Speaker 1: Show podcast. It's not every day that a zooppeeper with
Speaker 1: the prison for murder fryar. There are more captive tires
Speaker 1: in the US then there are in the wild throughout
Speaker 1: the world. The people are nuts, man, They're all crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you all got a story to too. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you. I watched two two episodes of this
Speaker 1: last night with the still mystery lady in my in
Speaker 1: my life who will team Buck. You'll meet and hear
Speaker 1: about her at some point. But I watched two episodes
Speaker 1: of that show Tiger King last night. It is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: It's so like crazy and weird, and I love animals.
Speaker 1: I remember being maybe a kindergartener, first grader and telling people,
Speaker 1: and mostly just because I was impressed. I think that
Speaker 1: I knew the word, but that I wanted to be
Speaker 1: an animal conservationist. I don't think I ever really, And
Speaker 1: I had watched some of these National Geographic VHS. National
Speaker 1: Geographic had this great series, this VHS series back in
Speaker 1: the day when we had VHS tapes that shows you
Speaker 1: what a graybeard millennial I am. Where they had They
Speaker 1: had one on sharks that was amazing. They had one
Speaker 1: with Jane Goodall and chimpanzees that was incredible. They had
Speaker 1: these sort of I don't know, these episodes of Natural
Speaker 1: Geographic back when everything was VHS and you know, or
Speaker 1: old school cable TV. And I watched those. I watched
Speaker 1: those tapes until they fell apart. So I loved I
Speaker 1: Love with the Shark one in particular, which was really
Speaker 1: amazing because this is back, this is before Shark Week,
Speaker 1: is before you had all that cool stuff. So and
Speaker 1: they kind of overdid Shark Week like they overpromised. After
Speaker 1: a while, I kept watching Princer Mark it was the
Speaker 1: last time you watched Shark Week never You've never seen it.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I've seen commercials and stuff, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't interesting as much. Fifteen years ago it was pretty cool,
Speaker 1: but then every year it's just like okay, and like,
Speaker 1: now we're going to look at like this series of
Speaker 1: attacks that we don't know if they really happened, but
Speaker 1: maybe they did. And these people didn't drown, they were
Speaker 1: eaten by sharks. You're just like just a lead up
Speaker 1: to Sharknado. Now, now, I mean, Sharknado is not something
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. I think Anne Coulter, who's who's a
Speaker 1: friend of the show, I think she was in Sharknado two.
Speaker 1: I'm being serious. I think she was too. That sounds right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think she was, which is pretty awesome. He's got
Speaker 1: a great se as of huber. So anyway, I you know,
Speaker 1: the shark stuff is a little bit overdone now. I mean,
Speaker 1: once you've seen those gray white sharks that killed us,
Speaker 1: that eat the seals and fly out of the water
Speaker 1: when they do. That's the most amazing ocean footage I've
Speaker 1: ever seen of anything. So that's pretty incredible. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm somebody who does like watching you know, these nature shows,
Speaker 1: actually the Netflix Nature at Night or whatever it's called.
Speaker 1: It's something at Night about different you know, animal ecosystems.
Speaker 1: That was pretty well done. But The Tiger King is
Speaker 1: about a guy named Joe Exotic mostly there's some other
Speaker 1: people that are central players too, who raises lion cubs,
Speaker 1: tiger cubs obviously all I can't even name all the
Speaker 1: animals that they've got. They've got hundreds of them. And
Speaker 1: he's got this zoo out in Oklahoma. Now he's in prison.
Speaker 1: That's in the first episodes. I'm not giving anything away.
Speaker 1: It's just amazing. I mean, you've got to see this thing,
Speaker 1: first of all, because the watching him play with these
Speaker 1: baby tiger kittens. They're the cutest things you've ever seen,
Speaker 1: all right, and then you realize that people pay a
Speaker 1: lot of money to go pet these baby tigers. Producer Mark,
Speaker 1: what do you think it costs to go to one
Speaker 1: of these special animal preserves? There's one in Florida, there's one,
Speaker 1: there's one in Oklahoma. As I said, what do you
Speaker 1: think it costs to go in and pet the six
Speaker 1: week old tiger cub? I'm gonna say at least five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Yeah, it's about right. It's like a three
Speaker 1: to five hundo it's a lot. Yeah, that's expensive. People
Speaker 1: pay real and of course they take the selfies with it.
Speaker 1: And there's a whole thing about Tinder selfies with big
Speaker 1: cats as a way to get people's attention. So that
Speaker 1: was a thing people were taking. And you can take
Speaker 1: photos with the with the big I mean the lions
Speaker 1: that are you know, five six, seven hundred pounds. I
Speaker 1: mean these animals are enormous and guess what, very dangerous,
Speaker 1: which also comes up at some parts in the show.
Speaker 1: But it's it's amazing. Yeah. I also, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Disneyland is expect like some of these places that you
Speaker 1: don't realize, like how Disneyland's expensive to go to, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, very expensive? Have you never been never been
Speaker 1: a disney Land? Oh my god? Yeah, it's like I'm
Speaker 1: barely America. What about like Universal any of that stuff? No,
Speaker 1: do you just not like rides? I didn't do. I
Speaker 1: didn't really do theme parks. I used to go to
Speaker 1: Rye Playland a lot as a kid, which is the
Speaker 1: most like bootleg theme park. Yeah, to get to New
Speaker 1: York Park, that place sucks, just like the I mean seriously,
Speaker 1: when my older brother would put me in the grocery
Speaker 1: store card and make me go real fast until I scared.
Speaker 1: I got scared to tell them to slow down. We
Speaker 1: were little kids. That was more fun than the Rye
Speaker 1: Playland roller coasters. I mean, what age did you go
Speaker 1: to Rye play Leg because that's built for like kids? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like eight, nine, ten. Im My, Hey, I'm not like
Speaker 1: a weirdo here. I was going I was a little kid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not the thirty eight year old dude was walking
Speaker 1: around rite playlist and leading the cotton candy like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to go all the rads. All right, that's
Speaker 1: weird to write Playland, but it's not that weird one
Speaker 1: at Disney, right, Yeah, exactly, I agree. But no, when
Speaker 1: I was a little kid, I used to go there
Speaker 1: and check this stuff out. But I'm telling you, guys
Speaker 1: this weekend, if you're in quarantine or if we're just
Speaker 1: trying to lay low for the weekend, Tiger Tiger King
Speaker 1: is amazing. So far, I've only two episodes in, but
Speaker 1: it is fantastic. Producer Mark, you and missus Producer Mark
Speaker 1: should try it. I'm telling you, I think that was
Speaker 1: on the docket for the weekend. Yeah, you guys should
Speaker 1: do that one. It's it's nuts like here's it's just
Speaker 1: the whole and the people that are involved. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's when when you find out that somebody has all
Speaker 1: these animals, you think this must be an interesting show,
Speaker 1: and then you find out more about the people and
Speaker 1: you realize it's a really interesting show. Thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to the bus seton show podcast. Remember to subscribe on
Speaker 1: Apple Podcast, iHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 1: All right, roll call, as we head off into our weekend. Man,
Speaker 1: this week went by pretty pretty quickly. I've got to say,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's tense out there. It's stressful in
Speaker 1: the country right now. But team, we are going to
Speaker 1: get through it. Okay, We're gonna be all right, We're
Speaker 1: gonna rally. Let's get to your thoughts. Hey, Buck, I
Speaker 1: was completely blown away that you read my email on
Speaker 1: the show the other day. On Monday Show, you discussed
Speaker 1: the consequences of the shutdown on the emotional well being
Speaker 1: of people. As a small business owner myself, the stress
Speaker 1: is almost overwhelming. I'm only a couple of checks away
Speaker 1: from bankruptcy myself. The only comfort I can draw from
Speaker 1: this is the fact that I understand that I'm not alone.
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely certain there are tens of thousands of others
Speaker 1: that share my situation. Pittsburgh is now completely shut down
Speaker 1: except for life essential businesses, and you have to have
Speaker 1: a permit in your possession to go to work. Keep
Speaker 1: up the great Workbuckster. Listening to show is one of
Speaker 1: the highlights of my day. Still wearing my nitrile gloves
Speaker 1: nitral and holding my shields high, rying for an end
Speaker 1: of this nightmare. Jeff Man, I hear you. I'm so
Speaker 1: sorry that you're going through this, but you you are
Speaker 1: among millions. You are among millions, and you know. The
Speaker 1: one thing about this that I do think it's important
Speaker 1: for everybody to remember because I know, you know, small
Speaker 1: business owners in particular, people that are used to doing
Speaker 1: the right thing, putting in hard work. They have to
Speaker 1: live in the reality of what, you know, what their
Speaker 1: community can sustain, and they've got to do with customers,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's it requires a lot of people.
Speaker 1: And I know that when you have a setback with
Speaker 1: a business like that, people can really feel very Not
Speaker 1: only does it affect them obviously very deeply, but they
Speaker 1: can also internalize and take it personally. Just remember for
Speaker 1: anybody out there who right now is feeling the financial
Speaker 1: pain and is concerned and is worried and doesn't know
Speaker 1: how they're going to support their family and what's going
Speaker 1: to happen, just remember this, Always keep this in the
Speaker 1: back of your mind. Your responsibility, your fault for this
Speaker 1: situation is zero. It's not oh maybe I could have
Speaker 1: or a month to go, I should over. Your fault
Speaker 1: right now for the economic pain that you're feeling because
Speaker 1: of this pandemic is zero. You have no responsibility whatsoever
Speaker 1: for what has happened to you your business that is
Speaker 1: struggling now, or your business that has closed now, or
Speaker 1: the job that you have lost now. This is not
Speaker 1: a reflection on you, your capabilities, your hard work, or
Speaker 1: anything else. This is the virus equivalent of we just
Speaker 1: got hit with a tsunami that's you know, fifty feet
Speaker 1: of solid water and just wiped away whole towns. If
Speaker 1: you know, if your shop gets wiped away by the tsunami,
Speaker 1: it is not your fault. So I do think it's
Speaker 1: important to remember that as we move forward here, and
Speaker 1: you will rebound because the business that you were running
Speaker 1: a month or two ago, that was doing well and
Speaker 1: serving customers that you were proud of is going to
Speaker 1: be the business that you're running again when we get
Speaker 1: through this. You know, maybe you have to call it
Speaker 1: a different name or something, or maybe you've got to
Speaker 1: get some you know, new employees, our old employees back,
Speaker 1: or whatever does you do. But you'll still be that
Speaker 1: person in a few months when this is up and running,
Speaker 1: in hopefully sooner than that that you were before this
Speaker 1: whole thing happened. You've got to remember that, Maria. A
Speaker 1: topic that I would like to see covered in the
Speaker 1: midst of coronavirus talks is what Lindsay Graham is up to.
Speaker 1: With your mention of him on your last podcast, couple
Speaker 1: with Tucker Carlson's allegations against him and his appearance on
Speaker 1: Sean Hannity, I think we deserved of the truth of
Speaker 1: where his allegiance stands. You know, Maria, I look, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this about Lindsay Graham. There aren't a lot
Speaker 1: of people that I'll say this about. Lindsay Graham and
Speaker 1: I had about a thirty minute conversation, you know, one
Speaker 1: to one in DC, and I, look, I don't care,
Speaker 1: I don't I feel like there are a lot of
Speaker 1: shows you can go to. You hear a lot of guests.
Speaker 1: That's why I put in a lot of sound, because
Speaker 1: newsmaking sound I'll use on this show to tell you
Speaker 1: what I think is going on. Because you know, you
Speaker 1: come here for the freedom, hud. You come here for
Speaker 1: this show, right, You're not coming here because oh I've
Speaker 1: every day I'm gonna have some member of Congress tell
Speaker 1: you what we all already you know. But I had
Speaker 1: a long chat with Lindsay Graham, and I'm somebody that
Speaker 1: my word is my bond and I really do adhere
Speaker 1: to that. And one reason why I've managed to stay
Speaker 1: on good charms with every company, every media entity that
Speaker 1: I've worked for, I mean, except for CNM, but that's
Speaker 1: a political thing, not a professional thing, is because I
Speaker 1: keep my word and I play a clean I you know,
Speaker 1: I play a clean game every time. And you know
Speaker 1: I Lindsay Graham. I shook his hand and he said
Speaker 1: he would love to come on the show, and you know,
Speaker 1: I asked him a couple of times, and all right,
Speaker 1: I went to his comms person. He didn't come on,
Speaker 1: and he shook my hand and said he was going
Speaker 1: to do it and then he didn't do it. I
Speaker 1: don't like that. I don't like that. Tell me that
Speaker 1: you're busy and you know, have me talk to your coms. Guy.
Speaker 1: I don't say I'm maps are going to do something
Speaker 1: and then not do it. And that's what that's what
Speaker 1: that's what happened. So I think that that's a character flaw.
Speaker 1: I really do, especially because I mean not to be
Speaker 1: that weird guy. But this radio show is bigger than
Speaker 1: most of the radio shows that he has done. For example,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's only a handful of radio shows that
Speaker 1: have a larger audience than this one, and you know,
Speaker 1: the ones that they are, the other ones do not.
Speaker 1: So that's why I sit here and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: so anyway, So I'm just telling you this to be
Speaker 1: honest about my assessment of whether or not Lindsay Graham
Speaker 1: is somebody who really means what he says. When someone
Speaker 1: shakes my hand, they say they're gonna do something and
Speaker 1: they don't do it. I remember that, and so that's
Speaker 1: where that's where I'm at with Lindsay Graham right now.
Speaker 1: You know, loves to go on and on Fox and
Speaker 1: talk a big game about things, but he doesn't follow
Speaker 1: through on a lot of stuff. He's bad on immigration,
Speaker 1: he talks tough on a lot of stuff and doesn't
Speaker 1: do anything. And yeah, I mean he stood up for Kavanaugh.
Speaker 1: But I gotta tell you, anybody with any character or
Speaker 1: decency or backbound that backbone should have gone the full
Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham in that moment. He did, and we got
Speaker 1: to give him credit for that. But I mean, good
Speaker 1: heavens man, I mean, the thing that they were doing
Speaker 1: at Kavanaugh was outrageous. So that's my assessment. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, as Lindsay Graham's somebody whose word, whose word
Speaker 1: about what he's going to do and where he stands
Speaker 1: is good. Jury's out for the Buckster on that one,
Speaker 1: Adam buck I'm worried now that some have gone a
Speaker 1: taste of the stay at home and do nothing lifestyle.
Speaker 1: My lead might lead to a dark path for some.
Speaker 1: Japan has been seeing this as a subculture for a while.
Speaker 1: Shields High Well, Adam, I do know that the Democrat
Speaker 1: Party wants to use this moment to create as much
Speaker 1: dependency as possible. That that's real that's going on right now.
Speaker 1: So I think we have to remember that as we
Speaker 1: go forward, And I do think that there's a concept
Speaker 1: that's gaining traction in some quarters that I couldn't quantify
Speaker 1: it for you, but I think it's real where people
Speaker 1: think that the government can just write checks and that
Speaker 1: can be the economy. And this is where there's a
Speaker 1: lot of talk about, well, if we can give people
Speaker 1: twelve hundred dollars an unemployment insurance for a few months,
Speaker 1: why not have a universal basic income? Why doesn't everyone
Speaker 1: just get an electronic transfer to a bank account of
Speaker 1: a thousand and two thousand dollars a month? And that
Speaker 1: stimul the economy? Wouldn't better for everybody? Well, as we
Speaker 1: know that you would start to see inflation. By the way,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is why if you gave everybody a
Speaker 1: million dollars, a million dollars wouldn't be a million dollars anymore.
Speaker 1: And this is a concept that you know, the left
Speaker 1: doesn't really understand or just pretends not to understand. Also,
Speaker 1: if you gave people every one a thousand dollars a month,
Speaker 1: then you know what happens, and they want two thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a month, and then in a couple of years,
Speaker 1: it's no everyone needs to have three thousand dollars a month,
Speaker 1: and you just keep on trying to ratchet up the
Speaker 1: taxation in order to pay for this redistribution of wealth.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's something. But look, I think most
Speaker 1: of the millions of people right now that are out
Speaker 1: of work, I mean a vast majority of them want
Speaker 1: to get back to work. They want to get back
Speaker 1: to their jobs. People want purpose, they want things to do.
Speaker 1: It's intrinsic to our nature as human beings to want
Speaker 1: to have things to do. Darby, I'm a registered nurse
Speaker 1: in Dallas. I want to add my two cents. While
Speaker 1: I agree that many more ventilators are needed, no one
Speaker 1: that I've heard has addressed who exactly is going to
Speaker 1: operate these ventilators. They are extremely complicated and can potentially
Speaker 1: kill a patient. Some doctors and nurses can operate to
Speaker 1: a certain degree, but it's certainly not all. We don't
Speaker 1: have anywhere near enough respiratory therapists in my opinion. Keep
Speaker 1: your shield up, brother, Darby, you're the expert, man. I'm
Speaker 1: sure that's true. And look, you know, if you get
Speaker 1: an air bubble in somebody's IV, it can kill them.
Speaker 1: I'm sure a ventilator. If someone makes it messes up,
Speaker 1: it's controlling your breathing, right, I'm sure that that can
Speaker 1: go bad very fast. So you know, I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: someone to pull me in. I've got no medical expertise.
Speaker 1: I want want someone to pull me in and say, hey,
Speaker 1: you're going to run the ventilator now, right, That would
Speaker 1: be very bad news. So I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the answer is. I mean, how quickly can
Speaker 1: we train I don't know how quickly we can even
Speaker 1: train ventilator operators, technicians, whatever you call them, if we
Speaker 1: want to. Toby, Hey, Buck, glad you're working through the shutdown.
Speaker 1: I drive a truck delivering food and dry goods to
Speaker 1: Walmart stores. Well, Toby, every person listens right now saying
Speaker 1: high five, thank you, Obe, thank you for what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Thanks for keeping this the shelves stocked for all of
Speaker 1: us and being out there on the roads. You are
Speaker 1: carrying a burden for your fellow Americans on your shoulders
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Speaker 1: You know you are. You are being a hero for
Speaker 1: your people by doing your job. It's true of everybody.
Speaker 1: Everybody driving a truck. Everybody in delivery and logistics across
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Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Hey Buck, I
Speaker 1: couldn't agree with you more about getting back to work.
Speaker 1: My godfather turned seventy in July. A month ago. He
Speaker 1: had to retire on a Friday and turned seventy on
Speaker 1: a Monday. Now he's putting his retirement on a hold,
Speaker 1: at least till the end of the year. His whole life,
Speaker 1: he's done it right. He worked hard and climbed the
Speaker 1: corporate ladder while raising five kids, two of them adopted.
Speaker 1: He put away savings and started at four oh one
Speaker 1: k for retirement. Now it's unclear when he can retire.
Speaker 1: There's two sides to every coin, and this is the
Speaker 1: other side. Thanks Buck, Shields High, Yeah, man, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, people think that retirement accounts four oh one
Speaker 1: ks are for fat cats and no this for people
Speaker 1: to retire. Very few people have what order are considered
Speaker 1: to find benefit plans also known as pensions. Very few
Speaker 1: people overall have that. More people have four oh one ks.
Speaker 1: I think my numbers on this are correct. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it affects everybody when the market gets absolutely clavered. It's
Speaker 1: a very real concern. But I hear you, man. I
Speaker 1: hope we get back to work soon. David Buck, I
Speaker 1: heard you mentioned the team buck community would be a
Speaker 1: great resource. I agree. How do I reach out to
Speaker 1: members Facebook. I'm starting a business when this blows over,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking for a business partner to run sales,
Speaker 1: please let me know, Shields High, Well, David, you know
Speaker 1: there's a few there's a few ways that you can
Speaker 1: do this. There's a few things that would let you
Speaker 1: contact other folks in the community. I mean one, I mean,
Speaker 1: Facebook is certainly a very good, very good resource. I
Speaker 1: would say, you know, look at our Facebook page and
Speaker 1: if you post in the kind you know I put
Speaker 1: posts up there, or you know, Mark will put posts
Speaker 1: up from the show, and you can just in the
Speaker 1: comments be like, hey, guys, you know I'm in the
Speaker 1: I'm in the such and such area. Can you know
Speaker 1: who else is around me here? Who has any ideas?
Speaker 1: And it's just a way to get the conversation going.
Speaker 1: People will see it, they'll respond that's certainly one means
Speaker 1: of accomplishing that. We you know, we've thought about setting
Speaker 1: up some kind of more official fan page. The problem
Speaker 1: is we just don't really have the staff right now
Speaker 1: to to keep that going and to moderate it. And
Speaker 1: then people, you know, someone says something mean someone else,
Speaker 1: and now do we have to intervene in others? So
Speaker 1: just I'd say, comment on one of our posts and say, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: here's my situation, and you know we have we have
Speaker 1: you know, or reach with some of these posts of
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people that are going to see
Speaker 1: some of the posts that we do. So you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully some of them will be right in your area,
Speaker 1: and then that's just a it's a good way to
Speaker 1: do it. Um, you know, that's that's one way. And
Speaker 1: look if somebody has a particular idea or if you know,
Speaker 1: if some folks want to get together and they want
Speaker 1: me to give a shout out for an area where
Speaker 1: we have one of our one of our affiliate stations
Speaker 1: and people want to get together, and you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know the Austin and Austin area, Denver, Seattle or
Speaker 1: Portland or something and something there wants to be some
Speaker 1: kind of a team Buck meet up. I can't be there,
Speaker 1: I can't travel, but I can at least get the
Speaker 1: word out for a bunch of you if you want
Speaker 1: to gather together and try to even if you gather
Speaker 1: together virtually, right, that's what that's what we would do now,
Speaker 1: social distancing, but you could try to come up with
Speaker 1: ways to restart businesses and get on again. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's where we're at right now. I'd say that's
Speaker 1: the best way to do it. But as I said,
Speaker 1: people have gotten people have gotten jobs from people they've
Speaker 1: met on this show. Employers, people have gotten married from
Speaker 1: being in the audience of this show, certainly met lots
Speaker 1: of people that have gone out on dates with I mean,
Speaker 1: there's it's a community it is, so it's nice, Jerry book,
Speaker 1: you gotta get a PS four and if your TV
Speaker 1: has HDR High Dynamic Range built into it, get the
Speaker 1: PS four pro. The picture will look amazing. The games
Speaker 1: you gotta get are God of War and hell Blade.
Speaker 1: Both are Viking era style games, but with hell Blade
Speaker 1: play with headphones the sounds are crazy. And of course
Speaker 1: get the new Call of Duty game Shield's Eye. Well, Jerry,
Speaker 1: I hope if I do get a PS four, I
Speaker 1: see you out there in the multiplayer mode and I
Speaker 1: can school you son, show you how it's done. We'll see.
Speaker 1: But that's I'm trying to get through more books, trying
Speaker 1: to get to a multi podcast that you people have
Speaker 1: been asking for for a while. We'll see if we'll
Speaker 1: see if the new Mystery Lady allows me to do
Speaker 1: some reading and research over the weekend and get this done.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think I think we'll get that podcast
Speaker 1: done to the next week or two, so that'll be great.
Speaker 1: Greg writes in Buck this is my first time writing.
Speaker 1: I'm a medical laboratory scientist in Charleston, South Carolina. I
Speaker 1: keep talking to places I love. I love charl I'd
Speaker 1: move to Charleston tomorrow and be happy. Charleston's a great,
Speaker 1: great town. I'll listen to your podcast every morning. It
Speaker 1: gets me through the early hours. I appreciate your thoughtful, articulate,
Speaker 1: and sometimes comical view on current events, your breath of
Speaker 1: fresh air here on the front line. Shield Hie to
Speaker 1: you improve your mark, keep fighting a good fight. Well, Greg,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you so much, and you know your
Speaker 1: your expertise right now is more valued than at any
Speaker 1: point in my lifetime. So you know, God bless and
Speaker 1: keep doing what you're doing. And I hope you're able to,
Speaker 1: you know, enjoy some of the great food scenes still
Speaker 1: in Charleston. So there you go. Saul writes in buck
Speaker 1: Am seven sixty in San Diego added your show last week,
Speaker 1: and after the first day, I told my wife that
Speaker 1: I had a new favorite radio host that is incredibly
Speaker 1: smart and eloquent. The next day I told her you
Speaker 1: went to Regis and she smiled and said, now it
Speaker 1: makes sense, because she said, she has met most of
Speaker 1: my lifelong friends in the class of seventy eight and
Speaker 1: they're all top quality people. I'm going to be a
Speaker 1: kid in the candy store with your podcast playing catchup.
Speaker 1: Thank you for serving our country both then and now.
Speaker 1: Dao at Patria Shields High which means God and Country
Speaker 1: Shields High. That's that's that's the motto of Regis High School,
Speaker 1: our high school. Saul, first of all, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: It's great to be on AM seven sixty in San Diego.
Speaker 1: I'm so proud. That's a that's a wonderful station for
Speaker 1: us to be on. Mike Slater before me, he's a
Speaker 1: great dude. I have nothing but the most professional and
Speaker 1: personal respect for Mike. He's a really solid, really smart guy,
Speaker 1: and I'm honored to be following him. And I love
Speaker 1: San Diego and that whole community. So that's a great
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Speaker 1: take care of yourselves this weekend, alright, make sure you rest,
Speaker 1: make sure you get the necessary you know, mental space
Speaker 1: for this coming week to take care of yourself. We'll
Speaker 1: be back on Monday. Shields High