Speaker 1: You are entering the Freedom Hunt. Preparations underway for what
Speaker 1: is believed to be a pandemic that will hit in
Speaker 1: the next two weeks. We'll get into everything that's going on,
Speaker 1: including whether or not the primary will actually happen for
Speaker 1: the Democrats today in Ohio, a couple of other states
Speaker 1: in the mix as well, and also whatever happened to
Speaker 1: the federal government's case from the DOJ against the Russian
Speaker 1: troll farms. I've gonna update for you on that and
Speaker 1: much more coming up. This is the buck Sexton Show,
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Speaker 1: it seems to me that if we do a really
Speaker 1: good job, will not only hold the death down to
Speaker 1: a level that is much lower than the other way
Speaker 1: had we not done a good job. But people are
Speaker 1: talking about July August something like that, So it could
Speaker 1: be right in that period of time where I say
Speaker 1: wash it washes through. Other people don't like that term,
Speaker 1: but word washes through the resist a new normal until
Speaker 1: I do. And so we'll see what happens. But they
Speaker 1: think August could be July could be longer than that.
Speaker 1: But I've asked that question many many times. Even two
Speaker 1: weeks miraculously, everything is fine. I'll reopen every school in
Speaker 1: New York in two weeks. Well, that's what we're planning.
Speaker 1: We will have specific guidelines that we announced this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Welcome the Buck Saxon Show. Everybody continuing with our freedom
Speaker 1: hunt in the time of the coronavirus wuhan virus pandemic,
Speaker 1: trying to get a sense of how long this is
Speaker 1: going to last, what preparations we should make. As I've
Speaker 1: been saying, I'm giving it the fifteen days that the
Speaker 1: CDC is asking for. And you had really I think
Speaker 1: in that and those two sound bites, one was of
Speaker 1: course Donald Trump, the other was the governor of New York,
Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo, the full scope of what we're realistically facing.
Speaker 1: It could be that within a couple of weeks it
Speaker 1: seems like this is largely under control, though he did
Speaker 1: describe that as a miracle. It could also be that
Speaker 1: we are making these provisions, that we're taking all these
Speaker 1: very drastic, very radical steps all the way into the summer.
Speaker 1: I had been thinking June the President said July. If
Speaker 1: we do a good job, nobody really knows. At this point.
Speaker 1: Everybody is very, very concerned, and as we enter this
Speaker 1: phase where we're really going to be dealing with this,
Speaker 1: we all find ourselves thinking about what's going to come next.
Speaker 1: Never before in the modern history of the United States,
Speaker 1: where when we've had a post World War two modern economy,
Speaker 1: have we dealt with anything like this. We've never had
Speaker 1: a situation where we voluntarily decide to just stop doing
Speaker 1: a whole lot of stuff, stop making things, stop opening stores.
Speaker 1: Economic activity and economics is really just a system for
Speaker 1: human decision making in the commercials, in the commercial realm.
Speaker 1: That's what economic That's what economics are. It is activity
Speaker 1: by definition, right, you do not have inactivity as something
Speaker 1: that everyone's concerned with. So we're entering a phase here.
Speaker 1: I'm like anything else we've ever seen before, and it's
Speaker 1: stuff out there. I mean, I'm coming to you from
Speaker 1: New York City. I know a lot of you are
Speaker 1: in places around the country where there are far fewer
Speaker 1: or in some cases maybe your county has zero cases
Speaker 1: of this so far. So I'm bringing you the perspective
Speaker 1: of somebody who's in the place that is expected to
Speaker 1: be in aggregate numbers hit the hardest and have perhaps
Speaker 1: the greatest disruption of day to day life. So just
Speaker 1: remember that as we're going through this. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: different areas of the country talk about disaster preparedness, and
Speaker 1: if they're places that are frequently hit by hurricanes or
Speaker 1: if they're places that are often subject to tornadoes, they
Speaker 1: have a very different view on this on that than
Speaker 1: people that have never dealt with right, earthquakes in California
Speaker 1: have a very different residence than earthquakes in Maine. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't think Maine's been hit by a
Speaker 1: bad earthquake in a long time. It could be wrong.
Speaker 1: So we have a bunch of things to get to today,
Speaker 1: including why the CDC failed us in the early phase
Speaker 1: of this because you know, all the testing, all the
Speaker 1: testing delays. You know what that was. Federal bureaucracy and
Speaker 1: regulations tell you about that. Also, the DOJ decided the
Speaker 1: Muller team, the prosecutors from the DOJ assigned to the
Speaker 1: Muller team, they decided to dump during the noise, I
Speaker 1: call it the whole case of Russian troll farmers. Remember
Speaker 1: they were going to bring this federal indictment, and then
Speaker 1: Russian Council actually showed up, which surprised them because this
Speaker 1: was the whole interference in the election, the huge scheme
Speaker 1: by the Russians and over a dozen indictments I think
Speaker 1: it was of Russians who were involved in this in Russia.
Speaker 1: They just dropped the whole thing right now. Does anyone
Speaker 1: think that that was an accident? Does anyone think that
Speaker 1: they dropped this for any reason right now other than
Speaker 1: they know that no one's really going to care. We'll
Speaker 1: spend a bit of time on that. And then also
Speaker 1: you have Tom Brady top of the Drudge Report right now,
Speaker 1: big story. Tom Brady is not going to go back
Speaker 1: to Patriots, He's gonna go play for someone else. This
Speaker 1: is just all of us, and I get this. This
Speaker 1: is all of us, and producer Mark and can weigh
Speaker 1: in on the reality. This is somebody who knows more
Speaker 1: about Tom Brady than me. We just want some story
Speaker 1: to talk about because we don't have sports now, and
Speaker 1: we can't go to movies, and we can't go to parties,
Speaker 1: and we can't go to Disney World and we can't
Speaker 1: so we just want something else to talk about. And
Speaker 1: so this Tom Brady decision that would usually be a
Speaker 1: mostly ESPN story or you know, the sports network, sports
Speaker 1: networks out there, it's getting a lot more focused than
Speaker 1: it usually would because just something other than Corona and
Speaker 1: chew that in my friends. I want to do a
Speaker 1: good job here of balancing out how much we talk
Speaker 1: about coronavirus, wuhan virus. I'm sorry, see it's I've heard
Speaker 1: so much coronavirus that now it just it seeps into
Speaker 1: my mind. But I want to make sure that we
Speaker 1: discuss other things too. I want to tell you everything
Speaker 1: you need to know about this at the federal level,
Speaker 1: from government action where I think this is all heading
Speaker 1: and that's necessary at this point. But also I know
Speaker 1: you guys are my lifeline. You are the people that
Speaker 1: you are my end run on social distancing. I don't
Speaker 1: keep my distance from any of you. I get to
Speaker 1: talk to all of you every day, So that really
Speaker 1: is more meaningful in some ways now than it's ever
Speaker 1: been before. I don't see anybody else. I don't see
Speaker 1: my family, I don't see my friends. I do have
Speaker 1: my parents French bulldog with me to Lula, who is
Speaker 1: very cute but very French, she's very stubborn. It's not
Speaker 1: always easy to deal with. She makes demands. But that's it.
Speaker 1: I mean, here in New York City, we're being told
Speaker 1: essentially that we should act as if we're all in quarantine.
Speaker 1: We should act as if we have come into contact
Speaker 1: with this, even if we have no specific reason to
Speaker 1: think that that has happened. And so that is really
Speaker 1: changing the city pretty dramatically. I called a couple of
Speaker 1: restaurants last night because I wanted to do what I
Speaker 1: had said I was, or at least I've said it.
Speaker 1: I think I said it on on wo R. I
Speaker 1: called a couple of restaurants last night and wanted to
Speaker 1: get am. I wanted to get a gift certificate so
Speaker 1: that I could tell them, Hey, guys, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: you know, here's here's some money. Now, here's one hundred buck,
Speaker 1: one hundred fifty bucks, whatever it is, and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to use this again. And I'm not going to
Speaker 1: use this rather until at least July, maybe September. But
Speaker 1: smaller places, you know, the corporate places, may be able
Speaker 1: to hold out of it longer. You know, I think
Speaker 1: I don't think Chipotle is going out of business anytime soon, right,
Speaker 1: But places that are sole proprietors sole proprietorships, where they're
Speaker 1: owned by one person or by a family, those places
Speaker 1: have very high rents. Here in New York, I try
Speaker 1: to call some last night already closed, not even staying
Speaker 1: open for this because if they don't have a robust
Speaker 1: delivery business, it's very hard to very hard to weather
Speaker 1: this store. And you know, there's there's also this this
Speaker 1: back and forth that you're going to see between wonderful,
Speaker 1: kind inspiring stories. You know that right now there's all
Speaker 1: this circulating on social media of people who are in Italy,
Speaker 1: in Rome, in Milan, and people are out on their
Speaker 1: balconies because in Italy this is very I'm sure if
Speaker 1: you've never been, you or if you've ever been, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. And they're singing. Whole neighborhoods
Speaker 1: are going out to their windows and singing together. And
Speaker 1: this is this is the heartwarming. This makes you feel like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be all right. But then there's the other
Speaker 1: side of this too. Right now, we're already seeing the
Speaker 1: panic buying. We're seeing people hoarding. People are hoarding in
Speaker 1: ninety five masks. They're hoarding toilet paper, red meat, pasta,
Speaker 1: other things, eggs. These are things that people are terrified
Speaker 1: they're not going to have. And what happens if we
Speaker 1: do start to have real economic dislocation from this? What happened?
Speaker 1: I mean, we're already gonna stuffer pain, but I mean
Speaker 1: in our food supply, what happens if all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we're not now farmers say they're going to work, and
Speaker 1: God bless our farmers. They're not shutting down for coronavirus
Speaker 1: no matter what. But in the delivery system, especially for
Speaker 1: very crowded urban areas, is a more precarious thing than
Speaker 1: a lot of people realize it. You know, most major
Speaker 1: grocery stores can get a series of deliveries throughout the day,
Speaker 1: and that's how they stay That's how those shelves stay stocked,
Speaker 1: and that's how you've got the stuff you want. If
Speaker 1: we have enough of a problem here and the quarantine
Speaker 1: becomes stringent enough and people need to stay home to
Speaker 1: take care of their kids, you know what happens if
Speaker 1: our truck drivers have got to stay home because you know,
Speaker 1: they've got kids, or they got a family member they're
Speaker 1: worried about. They've got things they've got to do too.
Speaker 1: We don't know how this is going to out in
Speaker 1: that regard, so look, I'm not gloom and do them here, folks.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be our I team. We're gonna get through
Speaker 1: it every day. I got to say that. It's important
Speaker 1: for me to be able to say it, for me
Speaker 1: to hear myself saying it. But also I think it's
Speaker 1: important that we've keep that in mind as we look
Speaker 1: at all the different policies and everything that's going on
Speaker 1: right now. This is the most uncertain moment in some ways,
Speaker 1: at least in terms of the disease spread. This is
Speaker 1: where we have to just sit and wait. It reminds
Speaker 1: me a little bit about how there's going to be.
Speaker 1: You know, there's going to be some days ahead that
Speaker 1: are like the first days of a battle. That's what
Speaker 1: it's going to feel like, because there's going to be
Speaker 1: numbers that come in assuming that the projections are correct.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know the New York projections very well
Speaker 1: because it's really done being done state by state, and
Speaker 1: you're also seeing states have a larger role in this.
Speaker 1: You know, states got involved after nine to eleven with
Speaker 1: counter terrorism fusion centers, and on this on quarantine. State
Speaker 1: and local governments are very much on the front line
Speaker 1: and doing things that matter. Whether they're good things or
Speaker 1: bad things, they're doing things that really do affect your life.
Speaker 1: And that's why so I'm focused on New York because
Speaker 1: I'm in New York. I'm also seeing what's going on
Speaker 1: in other states as much as I can. But here
Speaker 1: they're seeing about a twenty percent hospitalization rate, about twenty
Speaker 1: percent of the people that have been confirmed to have coronavirus.
Speaker 1: Now that doesn't mean that twenty percent of people are
Speaker 1: going to get hospitalized, but twenty percent of the people
Speaker 1: who took a test because they had the symptoms that
Speaker 1: made them think they have coronavirus, which is probably a
Speaker 1: small fraction of those who actually have wuhun virus sorry,
Speaker 1: actually gotten this. But if you have a twenty percent
Speaker 1: hospitalization rate, just based on the established infection number and
Speaker 1: the rate that it's going up right now, there are
Speaker 1: very real concerns that you're just going to have people
Speaker 1: that are going to emergency rooms and they just don't
Speaker 1: have They literally physically do not have the ventilators necessary
Speaker 1: to keep these people alive. That's the nightmare scenario. That's
Speaker 1: what they keep talking about, flattening out the curve. And
Speaker 1: we're all becoming familiar with this verbiage now. Things we've
Speaker 1: never even heard of before, flattening out the curve being
Speaker 1: one of them. We all know more about disease than
Speaker 1: I think we've ever known before. I read about it
Speaker 1: every day, every night, you know, I'm reading books on it,
Speaker 1: I'm reading news articles. You know, feverishly probably the wrong
Speaker 1: word to use, but furiously, there we go. But we're
Speaker 1: all trying to figure out as much as we can
Speaker 1: about how this is going to play out. Trump yesterday
Speaker 1: said it was bad those of you, and I respect that.
Speaker 1: You know, we have different opinions on a whole host
Speaker 1: of things. But those of you who last week were
Speaker 1: writing me to say, Buck, it's not going to be
Speaker 1: that big a deal. I hope you're right. You could
Speaker 1: be right, but we can't take the risk of not
Speaker 1: thinking it's a big deal for at least the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks because the way that this played out
Speaker 1: in Italy is something we have to avoid here because
Speaker 1: it'll play out on a much larger We have a
Speaker 1: population that's five times plus the size of Italy. It'll
Speaker 1: play out on a scale here that will be jaw
Speaker 1: dropping and horrifying. So I'm willing to sacrifice two weeks
Speaker 1: of economic activities that we don't have fifty thousand dead
Speaker 1: in a month from this disease. I think that that's,
Speaker 1: by the way, we're going to start having some very
Speaker 1: difficult societal conversation, social converse, you know, greater society conversations
Speaker 1: about what really the trade offs that we're willing to
Speaker 1: make are. No one's going there quite yet, but we
Speaker 1: do lose. And I know everyone yells at everyone for
Speaker 1: bringing up the flu, but just that's our experience with
Speaker 1: what is really seasonal and endemic disease, endemic within the people,
Speaker 1: disease that keeps popping up in the same population. Right,
Speaker 1: Pandemic all the people, epidemic on the people. All important
Speaker 1: things to know these days. All come from ancient Greece.
Speaker 1: Why from ancient grease, Well, Hippocrates was the first one
Speaker 1: who wrote about what we think was either a flu
Speaker 1: or it might have been typhoid, can't really tell, or
Speaker 1: a combination of both. But that's when we first had
Speaker 1: these terms pandemic and epidemic, so it stretches back to
Speaker 1: I think the fourth or fifth century BC. So, my friends,
Speaker 1: we are going to work through all this again together today,
Speaker 1: as we always do. It is an honor that you
Speaker 1: come to me at this time, give me your time,
Speaker 1: lend me your ears. I do appreciate it. You are
Speaker 1: you are my social life. You know, there's all this
Speaker 1: social distancing right now. Team Buck, you guys are in
Speaker 1: for me. I mean, I can call people and FaceTime people,
Speaker 1: but this actually gives me the feeling of connection to
Speaker 1: the people in this country, to my fellow Americans that
Speaker 1: I care about. So that's one thing that I'm deeply
Speaker 1: grateful for. And as you can see, we're all set up.
Speaker 1: So as long as as long as the internet and
Speaker 1: the electricity stays on, this show stays on. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna be good to go. I'm going to go through
Speaker 1: some of what was said in a press conference this
Speaker 1: morning by the President as well as a press conference
Speaker 1: by Cuomo that I thought was pretty good, and we'll
Speaker 1: get into some other things. I'll tell you about this
Speaker 1: Russian troll farm story, which I think is really really interesting.
Speaker 1: Also why there's been a delay in testing so We've
Speaker 1: got a jam packed show, no doubt about it, as
Speaker 1: we always do. And I may although only you only
Speaker 1: see this if you watch on Pluto TV channel two
Speaker 1: forty eight. The first I may have a special guest
Speaker 1: join me for roll call today. We'll see you might
Speaker 1: you might be able to hear her little snorts and
Speaker 1: her little sneezes because she does sneeze sometimes. But we'll
Speaker 1: see about that. I've got plants. Stay with me. You're
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Speaker 1: There will be no more gatherings of fifty plus people.
Speaker 1: So if you were hoping to plan a graduation party,
Speaker 1: you can't do it in the state of New York.
Speaker 1: You can't go do it in the state of New Jersey,
Speaker 1: and you can't do it in the state of Connecticut. Casinos,
Speaker 1: we all have casinos. If I close my casinos, when
Speaker 1: New Jersey keeps their casinos open, we're going to have
Speaker 1: the same problem. All casinos will be closed effective eight
Speaker 1: pm tonight and they will stay closed until further notice.
Speaker 1: On all these closings, they are all till until further notice.
Speaker 1: And hopefully I can coordinate with the other governors so
Speaker 1: we can have the same opening period and just the
Speaker 1: way we had the same closing period. Shutting down businesses,
Speaker 1: shutting down gatherings. This is a usage of state power,
Speaker 1: not big s state, but of the fifty states, the
Speaker 1: likes of which I've never seen before, and I don't
Speaker 1: know what really your modern analogous situation would be. They're
Speaker 1: telling businesses that they just can't open, they're telling people
Speaker 1: they can't come together. Freedom of assembly not so much.
Speaker 1: There are going to be constitutional questions ahead, that is
Speaker 1: for sure, especially if this drags out for months, which
Speaker 1: most people expected. You. That doesn't mean it will happen.
Speaker 1: But those are some of the extreme measures we're talking
Speaker 1: about here. There are more extreme measures that are probably coming.
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Speaker 1: now at the front, and the front is in the
Speaker 1: places where the coronavirus epidemic is worse. On a personal note,
Speaker 1: I want to ask you how you're coping. You went
Speaker 1: to the gym yesterday and Twitter losses. Mind. I don't
Speaker 1: get it, but we'll move on with our lives. The
Speaker 1: gyms are all closed now, AlSi, yeah, I know that
Speaker 1: gyms are closed. Is there any sense that you were
Speaker 1: late personally to get your arms around what the sacrifices for? No,
Speaker 1: everyone is have to make sacrifice. But as our Health
Speaker 1: commissioner said yesterday, people still in new ways are going
Speaker 1: to have to get exercise. Whatever scenario we're going to
Speaker 1: tell people how to stay healthy. It may be a walk,
Speaker 1: it may be a job, but obviously socially distanced until
Speaker 1: and unless we get to the point of literally ordering
Speaker 1: everyone indoors. So this is going in stages. Somehow people
Speaker 1: are going to have to stay healthy insane through this,
Speaker 1: and it's going to take a lot of improvisation, for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. The gym in my building. I live
Speaker 1: in a very large residential tower in New York City
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of them here. Gym and my
Speaker 1: building is closed. I'm wondering if maybe I can sneak
Speaker 1: in and borrow some free weights because I went on
Speaker 1: to Amazon. Guess what you can't get on Amazon right
Speaker 1: now at all? Free weights can't get them delivered to you.
Speaker 1: Apparently other people have the same idea. I did get
Speaker 1: a couple of barbells. If you've got a set of
Speaker 1: decent barbells at home, you're pretty much good with YouTube.
Speaker 1: Teach yourself some straightforward exercises, do some compounds, compound lifts
Speaker 1: with dumbells, you're good to go. Can't get dumbells, though,
Speaker 1: so I guess I'm gonna have to start doing some
Speaker 1: at home yoga, homage to the sun, or I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'll figure something out. Push ups, a lot of push
Speaker 1: ups coming my way, I think. Or I'm just going
Speaker 1: to order a lot of Chinese food until this whole
Speaker 1: thing passes and not worry about the dad bod coming
Speaker 1: on fast just in time for summer. But no, seriously,
Speaker 1: there was there's there's going to be a change in
Speaker 1: people's lifestyles and what they're used to that will require
Speaker 1: quite a bit of adjustment. This is not something that
Speaker 1: we've dealt with before. This is not something that anybody
Speaker 1: has any experience with. And I know for a lot
Speaker 1: of people there, they're daily whatever it is going even
Speaker 1: if it's going to their local coffee shop, if it's
Speaker 1: going to the gym every morning, if there's any number
Speaker 1: of things, you know, going to their favorite diner. These
Speaker 1: are habits that ground us, that bring us into a
Speaker 1: sense of normalcy and routine. And these are very powerful
Speaker 1: things psychologically. There's a lot of power on them. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to get ready for this. But you notice,
Speaker 1: and you know, de Blasio of course got a little
Speaker 1: bit of got a little bit of criticism there for well,
Speaker 1: Deblasi got criticism for being de Blasio where he's like,
Speaker 1: everybody can't go to the gym, but I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to the gym one last time because I like the ymca.
Speaker 1: De Blasio's a he's a he's a two minutes on
Speaker 1: the elliptical guy and then does lots of dynamic stretching.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's how he rolls. So Deblasio, Oh, the
Speaker 1: President is authorized the deformative three hundred billion dollars of
Speaker 1: IRS payments. This is one thing I just saw this.
Speaker 1: This is one thing that we buy the way need
Speaker 1: to have happened, all right, the government if we all
Speaker 1: are waiting to get paid and we all have to
Speaker 1: worry about this, we the American people, the government can
Speaker 1: say everybody gets another sixty days before their checks are
Speaker 1: doing too the IRS, you know, just put it, just
Speaker 1: put it on our twenty two trillion dollars tab for
Speaker 1: now and then everybody can pay it off later. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been spending the last couple of weeks trying to
Speaker 1: pull together my taxes because I'm in the media and
Speaker 1: you know I do private contractor stuff and all over
Speaker 1: the place, and I'm just like, this is ridiculous. This
Speaker 1: is what I gotta be focused on right now. I
Speaker 1: gotta send them a check every quarter as it is,
Speaker 1: and now I have to worry about this deadline. It's absurd.
Speaker 1: So hopefully that will work. By the way, the stimulus
Speaker 1: plan they keep talking about stimulus, the only stimulus it's
Speaker 1: going to have any effect is going to be the
Speaker 1: stimulus of giving people money to get through the crisis.
Speaker 1: You're going to see policy disputes arise here. There's some
Speaker 1: of this is going to bring us all together and
Speaker 1: some of this is going to pull us apart. There
Speaker 1: will be policy disputes that are sharper than what we've
Speaker 1: seen in a long time, because this is real. People
Speaker 1: are going to be in danger of losing their homes
Speaker 1: that they fall behind on their mortgage. I mean, how
Speaker 1: many Americans, if especially if they work in the service
Speaker 1: economy and they have no income coming in. How many
Speaker 1: Americans can go six months without any income? Fifty percent
Speaker 1: of Americans, according to the polls, would have trouble meeting
Speaker 1: a five hundred dollar emergency obligation. I know, I've been
Speaker 1: an American as an adult, working for years and years
Speaker 1: who would have had trouble at least with cash in
Speaker 1: the bank. I mean, yeah, I could have maybe put
Speaker 1: it on a credit card or run up some kind
Speaker 1: of a debt. But I know I've gone through life
Speaker 1: paycheck to paycheck. I know what that's like. It's not fun,
Speaker 1: it's not easy. And really, there are two kinds of
Speaker 1: people in America in a lot of ways, those of
Speaker 1: us who have lived paycheck to paycheck and understand what
Speaker 1: that's like, understand those stresses. And as I always tell you,
Speaker 1: there are people that know what it is to show
Speaker 1: up to a job where they are not appreciated, where
Speaker 1: no one really cares that they're there, where they could
Speaker 1: be fired at a moment's notice, and they have to
Speaker 1: make it work. And there are other people that just
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, get to do whatever they want
Speaker 1: and mumsey and Daddy will take care of it, or
Speaker 1: mumsey and Daddy's money. I mean there's a lot of
Speaker 1: that with millennials too, trust me, well, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of that with I guess every generation in different ways.
Speaker 1: But the economic packages will talk about what they're trying
Speaker 1: to do. One of the big concerns to the market,
Speaker 1: and I mean the Dow went down with three thousand
Speaker 1: points yesterday. A big concern to the market is that
Speaker 1: the FED has done what it can do, and everyone thinks, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: well the Fed. You know that the cavalry is here.
Speaker 1: You know, the FED rides in and saves the day.
Speaker 1: M It doesn't matter how cheap you make money if
Speaker 1: people can't spend it because they can't go anywhere because
Speaker 1: they can't do anything. It doesn't matter how much you
Speaker 1: lower the borrowing cost. If people aren't borrowing because there's
Speaker 1: nothing to do with the money. If you gave it
Speaker 1: to them, they don't want to do it. We have
Speaker 1: stopped activity. Economics is activity. That is what this is
Speaker 1: all about. We have essentially shut down the US economy.
Speaker 1: Means short of hyperinflation or the you know, the destruction
Speaker 1: of the US currency, which is a true nightmare scenario,
Speaker 1: which by the way, is something people talk about as
Speaker 1: a possibility. Short of that, I mean, this is one
Speaker 1: of the scarier economic situations we could be in, where
Speaker 1: people just aren't doing stuff. People aren't doing stuff, And
Speaker 1: it also reminds me of how much we are all
Speaker 1: at the end of this going to owe such a
Speaker 1: debt of gratitude to the people who make and deliver
Speaker 1: food the well we think of and we can never
Speaker 1: give enough respect and love to cops, first responders, firemen.
Speaker 1: I mean, but everyone knows about their heroics. We don't
Speaker 1: always appreciate it as much as we should. Everyone knows
Speaker 1: what they're doing for us day to day, although we
Speaker 1: do need to be reminded of that. But there are
Speaker 1: other people here, you know, there are people who are
Speaker 1: doing really really critical stuff to keep our lives from
Speaker 1: feeling like quite honestly, they are in some state of
Speaker 1: just complete disrepair and keep our lives from feeling like
Speaker 1: they are they're falling apart. So I think that is
Speaker 1: something that we should all remember too, that there are
Speaker 1: people out there who are doing things for us that
Speaker 1: are not getting you know, they're not getting the kind
Speaker 1: of praise, the kind of kudos that many other folks
Speaker 1: do and one example of this is I think this
Speaker 1: guy was out in California, but this is true anywhere
Speaker 1: across the country. And he he goes by the name Jester.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's his real name. It's a
Speaker 1: cool name. Obviously reminds me of the guy from Top Gun.
Speaker 1: But here's what he wrote. And I won't you remember this,
Speaker 1: because you know, I've got their people live in a
Speaker 1: very large building in New York with hundreds and hundreds
Speaker 1: of neighbors. We're all very closely packed in here. And
Speaker 1: there are individuals who are showing up every day and
Speaker 1: making sure that this building, you know, that the hot
Speaker 1: water is on, that the electricity is what it should be,
Speaker 1: that you know, there are people who are just making
Speaker 1: sure those goods and services for home life support continue on.
Speaker 1: And there are people who are picking up the trash
Speaker 1: and making sure that some normalcy, and not just normalcy,
Speaker 1: but things that we really need. I can imagine if,
Speaker 1: if you know, if people just said, you know what,
Speaker 1: it's not worth it. I don't care about my minimum
Speaker 1: wage job bagging groceries anymore. I'm not gonna We're not
Speaker 1: gonna keep the grocery store open. Sorry, now, now what
Speaker 1: do we do. I'm gonna try to figure out how
Speaker 1: to buy direct from If some of you can buy
Speaker 1: direct from the farmer, you're probably you probably are the farmer,
Speaker 1: or you're down the road from him. But a lot
Speaker 1: of people in the major cities rely on rely on
Speaker 1: stores to be able to get stuff for us, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, you see these empty shelves, and it does
Speaker 1: bring some pretty scary thoughts to mind. What happens when
Speaker 1: there's just not enough to go around. What happens when
Speaker 1: all of a sudden the economics affect our ability to
Speaker 1: get what we need to get day to day. So
Speaker 1: this is this guy gesture though, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: read this to you. It's just just on Twitter, but
Speaker 1: it's gone absolutely megaviral, as it should. And here's what
Speaker 1: he wrote about this. I'm a garbage man. I can't
Speaker 1: work from home. My job is an essential city service
Speaker 1: that must get done. It's a tough job, from getting
Speaker 1: up pre dawn to the physical toll it takes on
Speaker 1: my body to the monotonous nature of the job. At times,
Speaker 1: it's hard to keep ongoing. Right now, though, I am
Speaker 1: feeling a sense of extra pride and purpose as I
Speaker 1: do my work. I see the people, my people of
Speaker 1: my city peeking out their windows at me. They're scared.
Speaker 1: We're scared, but we're resilient. Us garbage men are going
Speaker 1: to keep collecting the garbage. Doctors and nurses are gonna
Speaker 1: keep doctoring and nursery. It's gonna be okay. We're gonna
Speaker 1: make it be okay. I love my city, I love
Speaker 1: my country. Be good to each other, and we'll get
Speaker 1: through this. He's a garbage man, and he knows that
Speaker 1: we need him now more than ever her. And that
Speaker 1: goes for those of you listening to this who are
Speaker 1: truck drivers making sure that we get milk and eggs
Speaker 1: to the store. Thank you very much for that. I
Speaker 1: really do appreciate it. It goes for those who are
Speaker 1: still delivering mail or work for ups, work for the
Speaker 1: postal service. It goes for those who work for the
Speaker 1: airlines who are going through a terrible time right now.
Speaker 1: But my friends, we all need those airlines to still
Speaker 1: be around. We can't have all the airlines just shut
Speaker 1: down and completely run out of all operating expenses and
Speaker 1: not be there when this thing passes. It's essential not
Speaker 1: just for our vacations, for business for commerce. So people
Speaker 1: are carrying a heavy load right now, and more than ever,
Speaker 1: anything you can do to show support, and more importantly
Speaker 1: in some ways, well if you can to help in
Speaker 1: some regard, you know, now is the opportunity. Now is
Speaker 1: the time for some of these ultra powerful, wealthy corporations,
Speaker 1: you know, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Amazons, Amazon, I
Speaker 1: saw it just said they're gonna surge up and hire
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand people for their warehouses and their delivery
Speaker 1: services because they know, you know, what people really want
Speaker 1: right now, Amazon delivery. And they're also going to that
Speaker 1: people need jobs. So with it. This is everybody has
Speaker 1: to get involved in some way to help us get
Speaker 1: through this. Everyone has a role to play. Um. And
Speaker 1: you know, garbagemen do not get the credit and they
Speaker 1: do not get the from a lot of people. I
Speaker 1: think the respect that they are due for making sure
Speaker 1: that our cities are clean, that that they are sanitary,
Speaker 1: and that there are places you want to live in.
Speaker 1: And this is true of suburban neighborhoods and rural neighborhoods too,
Speaker 1: unless you take the garbage for the dump yourself. But
Speaker 1: then you don't have garbagemen they're doing a critical job.
Speaker 1: They continue to do that job even while everyone else
Speaker 1: is scared, while their kids are probably at home now
Speaker 1: not in school, you know, while there, while their wives
Speaker 1: are worried about what's going on. They're putting themselves out
Speaker 1: there and they're dealing with refuse, they're dealing with you know,
Speaker 1: the post ability of contamination and infection themselves. But God
Speaker 1: bless them, they're they're keeping our city from just teeming
Speaker 1: with steaming trash. And you know that we get another
Speaker 1: pandemic unless we have the garden, unless we have garbage.
Speaker 1: Been doing their job, So it's very very important, and
Speaker 1: we thank them and everybody else who's doing the necessary work. Here.
Speaker 1: You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton
Speaker 1: Show podcast. So I meant to get to this, but
Speaker 1: I got sidetracked by the economics and by the announcement
Speaker 1: of where we are right now and what the administration's
Speaker 1: packages to try to help deal with the economic pain.
Speaker 1: Deblasio before he was asked by CNN about his decision
Speaker 1: to make one last trip to the gym, Deblasio also
Speaker 1: mentioned the possibility of shelter in place as a as
Speaker 1: an order play clip nineteen so last night ordered a
Speaker 1: shelter in place edict for the whole Bay area. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: York consider something? We're absolutely considering that. I mean, right now,
Speaker 1: we have taken a series of steps to reduce the
Speaker 1: number of people who are circling around, get people a telecommute, obviously,
Speaker 1: social distancing, closing the schools, which was particularly painful, closing
Speaker 1: the bars and restaurants. But we're going to look at
Speaker 1: all other options, and it could get to that, for sure,
Speaker 1: it could get that the whole country, could get to
Speaker 1: that for the whole country, he says, shelter in place.
Speaker 1: Do you know what's going on in Italy right now?
Speaker 1: I've told you about the shortages of doctors, ICU beds, ventilators.
Speaker 1: We've discussed that. Something else that's going on in Italy
Speaker 1: though in Lombardy, Milan, you know, northern Italian cities and provinces.
Speaker 1: If you need to leave your house, you have to
Speaker 1: go online and fill out a permission form and you
Speaker 1: have to carry that permission form with you if you
Speaker 1: want to go outside, if you want to go anywhere,
Speaker 1: you can do it. For the grocery store, for the pharmacy.
Speaker 1: It's basically it that's where we are right now in Italy.
Speaker 1: That's already happening. Shelter in place in New York City
Speaker 1: would mean everyone is on lockdown. Everyone has to stay
Speaker 1: in their own space and can only leave for essential
Speaker 1: goods and services. This is concerning. This is concerning, and
Speaker 1: beyond that, I have to say, this isn't gonna last, folks.
Speaker 1: At some point, there will be a revolt against all
Speaker 1: these orders. At some point you'll have too many servers
Speaker 1: at restaurants, too many bartenders, too many airline employees, too
Speaker 1: many you know. I mean, I can't even name all,
Speaker 1: you know, arena employees and all these different things that
Speaker 1: are shut down. Two people saying, if he's being destroyed,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I just will. Maybe we want to take
Speaker 1: the risk. I'm not saying this is the path or
Speaker 1: this is the thing to do. I am just saying
Speaker 1: I believe that we will rapidly unless we see this
Speaker 1: horrific surge of very serious cases. Remember India, which has
Speaker 1: a billion people one and twenty five confirmed cases of coronavirus,
Speaker 1: and they wouldn't be able to hide it if it
Speaker 1: got into the broader population, because they would have I
Speaker 1: would have a lot of dead people very quickly. India
Speaker 1: only has one hundred and twenty five cases a billion
Speaker 1: people at what's going on there. So we don't have
Speaker 1: we don't have an endless tolerance for these rules and regulations.
Speaker 1: And one thing that I think is going to happen
Speaker 1: is that the government is going to continue to insist
Speaker 1: that we listen to them on these dictates and that
Speaker 1: they if they tell us, for example, shelter in place.
Speaker 1: What happens in the government says shelter in place, and
Speaker 1: I'm saying no, I'm I'm gonna go see my girlfriend.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna live my life. Sorry. What happens when the
Speaker 1: government starts sending in is they are are in New
Speaker 1: York the NYPD to arrest people first to summons, but
Speaker 1: then they can arrest them for gatherings of more than
Speaker 1: more than fifty and I think now they're gonna make
Speaker 1: it gatherings of more than ten is the CDC guidance.
Speaker 1: What happens when people say I will not comply. We're
Speaker 1: heading for a very combustible period unless the government really
Speaker 1: gets this stuff right and is providing a lot more
Speaker 1: help than in his hindrance in dealing with this and
Speaker 1: we're not sure which side of it they're they're gonna
Speaker 1: fall on quite yet. Thanks for listening to The Bus
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Speaker 1: at the time, they are strong. In fact, you know,
Speaker 1: we've had so many business groups and they'll tell you,
Speaker 1: you know true February January, February is rising. The Atlanta
Speaker 1: Fed GDP now is shown three percent or three point
Speaker 1: one percent. We don't have the March data in yet. Yes,
Speaker 1: I believe that, and I think again, prior policies on
Speaker 1: low taxes and regulations and trade and oil and energy
Speaker 1: of health enormously. I believe this is a short term problem.
Speaker 1: I believe it's a matter of weeks and months. It
Speaker 1: is not a matter of years. And regarding the President
Speaker 1: I was with in this morning, we had our G
Speaker 1: seven teleconference meeting, and you haven't asked me about that,
Speaker 1: but he was very calm about the market and it
Speaker 1: is what it is. We think it's going to get better,
Speaker 1: but that's you know, we'll see, we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1: Keep telling you nobody knows they're doing the best. They
Speaker 1: can but uncharted territory here, no question about it. We're
Speaker 1: in a whole different situation than we've ever been in before.
Speaker 1: And the usual tools I mean the government, you know,
Speaker 1: the FED in these other monetary policy instruments that we have,
Speaker 1: and the FED is the big one. I mean, the
Speaker 1: FED fired it's Bizuka and coronavirus. Was kind of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do anything with that one. So now
Speaker 1: what happens, Well, it looks like they're actually talking about
Speaker 1: the possibility of putting cash into americans pockets very quickly.
Speaker 1: My friends. This is kind of like the freedom dividend
Speaker 1: that Andrey Yang talked about, except it's not a This
Speaker 1: is an extreme measure. I understand that, but people are
Speaker 1: talking about it. Manuchnuchan is a smart guy. He's one
Speaker 1: person who even even anti Trump people in the world
Speaker 1: of finance that I've talked to people that I hate Trump,
Speaker 1: they say, well, Manuchin, he's a smart dude. He understands
Speaker 1: he understands government. Oh, he understands finance, and he understands
Speaker 1: how the government plays a role in the financial markets.
Speaker 1: And so I Manuchan said, look, maybe maybe we've got
Speaker 1: to get money into people's hands, you know, a thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be a lot of money. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be for a lot of people. How do you distribute that?
Speaker 1: What do you do for peopleho don't have bank accounts?
Speaker 1: What do you do for people who don't have ID
Speaker 1: they're going to show up and say, give me my
Speaker 1: check for a thousand dollars for this week. It's not
Speaker 1: just going to be for people that are already on
Speaker 1: welfare roles, or it's gonna be for everybody, or it's
Speaker 1: gonna be for a lot of really hard working people
Speaker 1: that if they didn't do anything wrong. The fact that
Speaker 1: restaurants are shutting down, the fact that we're being told
Speaker 1: that we can't do any economic activity right now, that's
Speaker 1: not the fault of anybody, anybody period, And it's not
Speaker 1: anyone's fault right now. I mean they're gonna say it's
Speaker 1: Trump's fault. And notice again today and this. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: say things team more as a reminder to myself on
Speaker 1: the show and than even me trying to express something
Speaker 1: necessary for all of you to hear. But I try
Speaker 1: to keep it as nonpartisan as I can for as
Speaker 1: long as I can. On this show I do my
Speaker 1: best because I think it's more important right now that
Speaker 1: we focus on what's happening and we focus on how
Speaker 1: to prevent a mass casualty incident. But also we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to start looking at this like how do we
Speaker 1: balance keeping our alive if the economy completely collapses. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we go through the floor on this thing, we're
Speaker 1: going to have all kinds of problems apart from this virus.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't like to take this position or
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that this means, oh, we shouldn't do
Speaker 1: the things we're doing. I'm advocating we've got to give
Speaker 1: the government fifteen days. But if we go through fifteen
Speaker 1: days and you've got, you know, still fewer casualties, then
Speaker 1: you would see in a tough flu season. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying this will happen. I'm I'm making any predictions. I'm
Speaker 1: just pointing out the decision tree, the decision pathways that
Speaker 1: will face if you go through two weeks of this
Speaker 1: and everyone's feeling the economic pain and also the stir
Speaker 1: craziness that's going to start setting in. Right, we can't
Speaker 1: live our normal lives. Our lives are being put on
Speaker 1: pause by this, I'll talk to you about things we
Speaker 1: can do and quarantine later that you know, in some
Speaker 1: ways this is a weird way to think about it,
Speaker 1: but maybe take advantage of the time that you have
Speaker 1: to yourself at home without the obligations of normal life
Speaker 1: that'll come later on in the show. So we talk
Speaker 1: about like what video games we should play, what movies
Speaker 1: we should watch. But if they're not, people are going
Speaker 1: to get to a point where they say, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to live my life this way with the government
Speaker 1: telling me that we can't do anything anymore because I
Speaker 1: think that this isn't worth it. That we just have
Speaker 1: to deal with the reality that, like, yeah, some people
Speaker 1: are gonna get sick, some people are gonna die. That's
Speaker 1: where we are. That mentality will become widespread quickly, and
Speaker 1: the government's going to have to be very nimble about saying,
Speaker 1: all right, look, our risk tolerance has changed. Now. If
Speaker 1: we go two weeks from now and you have and
Speaker 1: we're gonna know, we're gonna see we have instant communication
Speaker 1: all over social media, never mind even just the normal media.
Speaker 1: We're all gonna be able to find out because this
Speaker 1: stuff along goo viral, you know, if all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: grandma and grandpa are waiting in an emergency room for
Speaker 1: twelve hours when they can barely breathe, and then they're
Speaker 1: being told there's no ventilator for them at a major
Speaker 1: metropolitan hospital or a major regional hospital, people are gonna say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we got to keep this social distancing thing going a
Speaker 1: long time, and you know, the economic fallout from this
Speaker 1: is something that we probably have to deal with. But
Speaker 1: if that's not the case, and if it feels like
Speaker 1: this is, you're going to have people that push back
Speaker 1: against the government. And this is gonna this is very
Speaker 1: this is combustible, it is fiscile, it is we're on
Speaker 1: the edge here a little bit more than I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people realize. So, Okay, giving people money
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars, will that do anything one off thousand
Speaker 1: dollars not If this is going to last sixteen to
Speaker 1: ninety days. There's no one in America for whom a
Speaker 1: thousand dollars over the next if they have no income,
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars over the next sixteen to ninety days
Speaker 1: means they can meet all their obligations. That's just not
Speaker 1: that's not possible, So it would have to be a
Speaker 1: lot more money from that, and it means we're gonna
Speaker 1: run up that federal credit card. There are people who
Speaker 1: are going to say, you know, this is why we
Speaker 1: shouldn't be running up deficits. They're right. How many times
Speaker 1: have I told you on the show? I know nobody
Speaker 1: wants to hear this. I know nobody by the way
Speaker 1: I did. I thought about this yesterday, not that this
Speaker 1: is like a pat myself in the back situation, because
Speaker 1: really who cares? But I remember I was asked in
Speaker 1: roll call, I think, and we could track it down
Speaker 1: because we have transcripts of the show. I think it
Speaker 1: was maybe in you know, the last quarter of last year.
Speaker 1: What really worries me? And I was like climate changes
Speaker 1: for idiots, Pandemic disease is a really big problem. This
Speaker 1: has been there those of us who pay attention to
Speaker 1: actual science. No, this has been This has been a
Speaker 1: risk that we are running as a society for a
Speaker 1: long time. But all right, so now we get back
Speaker 1: to what we do about this. What the monetary moves
Speaker 1: will be by the government. They really should I mean
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson talked about this last night on his show,
Speaker 1: and you gotta give Tucker credit. I do. I ever
Speaker 1: knows I like Tucker Show. I also think I appreciate
Speaker 1: that they have me on, but also I think it's
Speaker 1: just a really good show. I think that Tucker is
Speaker 1: a freethinker who does a lot of really important and
Speaker 1: insightful particularly with his monologues, important and insightful things. And
Speaker 1: he's been saying, take it seriously, guys, take it seriously.
Speaker 1: This is real. Get ready for it. Some other very
Speaker 1: big voices in conservative media have been a little too dismissive.
Speaker 1: There's a component of this that has to be addressed
Speaker 1: and maybe more maybe something I can address more later
Speaker 1: where we're looking at why do people not trust the media?
Speaker 1: Because the media is not trustworthy? So when a liar,
Speaker 1: when someone who is dishonest lies about their intentions, lies
Speaker 1: about their motivations, and you've caught them over and over
Speaker 1: and over again. This is the media cries Wolfe scenario
Speaker 1: that some of us had been worrying about, Like I
Speaker 1: do wish that there was a cable news network out
Speaker 1: there that was completely neutral, that we really could believe
Speaker 1: was neutral, or that was just nonpartisan. That's a better
Speaker 1: way of saying it's no such thing. There is no
Speaker 1: such thing. You have Fox as a counterbalance to the
Speaker 1: left wing insanity, but Fox is mostly in prime time
Speaker 1: opinion shows. There are some neutral journalists shows on there
Speaker 1: that do a very good job of being fair to
Speaker 1: the facts. But I digress. Okay, the economics of this
Speaker 1: are going to get very, very tricky. What could turn
Speaker 1: this whole thing around? A vaccine, a cure. I'm very
Speaker 1: pessimistic about this. It's going to tell you what, don't
Speaker 1: There's a lot of media coverage of this right now.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. Here's what Trump said yesterday about
Speaker 1: where we are at the vaccine play three. I'm also
Speaker 1: pleased to report today that a vaccine candidate has begun
Speaker 1: the phase one clinical trial. This is one of the
Speaker 1: fastest vaccine development launches in history, not even close. We're
Speaker 1: also racing to develop anti viral therapies and other treatments,
Speaker 1: and we've had some promising results, early results for promising
Speaker 1: to reduce the severity and the duration of the sender
Speaker 1: of these symptoms. And I have to say that our
Speaker 1: government is prepared to do whatever it takes. Whatever it takes.
Speaker 1: We're doing now therapeutics as they're called essentially treatments, pharmacological
Speaker 1: treatments for this virus. That's the more likely near term
Speaker 1: game changer we could have if you can just create
Speaker 1: something that slows down the disease progression enough that you
Speaker 1: don't need people put on ventilators so that they have
Speaker 1: something that is artificially breathing for them, which is what
Speaker 1: the big problem is right now with COVID nineteen wu
Speaker 1: Hunt virus. That would be a game changer. Vaccine twelve
Speaker 1: to eighteen months out, my friends, if we're on lockdown
Speaker 1: for the next twelve to eighteen months, well, we're not
Speaker 1: going to have an economy. I mean, we can't do that.
Speaker 1: So it would be nice, but also keep in mind
Speaker 1: that maybe the vaccine is not maybe the vaccines that
Speaker 1: have are not that effective. I'm also a believer in
Speaker 1: we should put out a bounty because it's going to
Speaker 1: be the private sector. It's going to be the private
Speaker 1: sector that figures out what the cure for this will be.
Speaker 1: I mean, doctor Fauci's out there saying, look, we're moving
Speaker 1: very fast on the vaccine. That's encouraging, but I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody wants to be told to shelter in place
Speaker 1: for the next twelve months. Play six and the vaccine
Speaker 1: candidate that was given. The first injections for the first
Speaker 1: person took place today. You might recall when we first started,
Speaker 1: I said it would be two to three months, and
Speaker 1: if we did that, that would be the fastest we've
Speaker 1: ever gone from obtaining the sequence to being able to
Speaker 1: do a phase one trial. This has been now sixty
Speaker 1: five days, which I believe is the record. What it is,
Speaker 1: it's a trial of forty five normal individuals between the
Speaker 1: ages of eighteen and fifty five. The trial is taking
Speaker 1: place in Seattle. There will be two injections, one at
Speaker 1: zero day, first one, then twenty eight, so there will
Speaker 1: be three separate doses twenty five milligrams, one hundred milligrams,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty milligrams, and the individuals will be
Speaker 1: followed for one year, both for safety and whether it
Speaker 1: induces the kind of response that we predict would be protective.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what I've been telling this group over
Speaker 1: and over again. So it's happened. The first injection was today.
Speaker 1: That's excellent, except we're twelve to eighteen months away from
Speaker 1: you being able to walk into your local doctor's office
Speaker 1: or drug store and get something in your arm that
Speaker 1: realistically will prevent you from getting this disease. So it's
Speaker 1: good information to have, but it's not going to change
Speaker 1: the reality of right now. And even President Trump is
Speaker 1: saying the economic You know, we have two major areas
Speaker 1: of vulnerability, the population getting infected with this, right just
Speaker 1: the pandemic nature or the pandemic that we're going through,
Speaker 1: and then we also have the economic fallout. And these
Speaker 1: two things are very obviously intimately related, but they're also
Speaker 1: separate issues and have to be dealt with and not
Speaker 1: not exactly the same policies and proposals. But Trump, who
Speaker 1: is usually very upbeat, and I appreciate that he's upbeat,
Speaker 1: but I would also say for people that are going
Speaker 1: to start, you're gonna hear a lot of trashing at Trump.
Speaker 1: He didn't, you know, I actually deal with this a
Speaker 1: little bit. I've mentioned this many times that Bill Marshaw
Speaker 1: before anything, before we even knew what was going on,
Speaker 1: They're saying Trump is awful, he's an idiot, he doesn't
Speaker 1: care about people dying, which is just Trump's arrangement lunacy.
Speaker 1: But we're going to see the European governments get crushed
Speaker 1: by this. It's going to be really bad for them.
Speaker 1: Are they all incompetent too? Are they all a bunch
Speaker 1: of you know, trust fund porn star dating, you know,
Speaker 1: evil Russia, collusion trader? I mean, all this nonsense they
Speaker 1: say about Trump, is it true? But all these other
Speaker 1: world governments do no. I mean, this is the this
Speaker 1: is the the unseen challenge that has come for this administration,
Speaker 1: the unforeseeable challenge. But Trump realizes that for the economy,
Speaker 1: this is a album play latent. Stock market took another
Speaker 1: hit today. Is the US economy heading into a recession?
Speaker 1: Well as maybe we're not thinking in terms of recession,
Speaker 1: we're thinking in terms of the virus. Once we stop,
Speaker 1: I think there's a tremendous pent up demand, both in
Speaker 1: terms of the stock market and in terms of the economy.
Speaker 1: And once this goes away, once it goes through and
Speaker 1: we're done with it, I think you're going to see
Speaker 1: a tremendous, tremendous search that's going to be a national celebration.
Speaker 1: I mean it's going to be I think it'll be
Speaker 1: like those photos you see, you know, from Times Square
Speaker 1: and you know, sailors coming home and everything from right
Speaker 1: after World War Two. It won't be on quite that
Speaker 1: same scale, perhaps, but it's going to be a little
Speaker 1: reminiscent of that. We're going to have people that just
Speaker 1: feel like the exultation. Anyway, it'll be there, but we're
Speaker 1: not there yet, so I don't want to get to
Speaker 1: ahead of it. You know, the celebratory Margarita, the producer
Speaker 1: Mark and I are going to have on the streets
Speaker 1: of Tribecco, and this thing passes. It's months away, maybe
Speaker 1: six months away. So we have to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on what's going on here. The fact that our leadership,
Speaker 1: some of them seem to take this seriously, and as
Speaker 1: I've been saying, that's a good thing. That's what I expect,
Speaker 1: and irrespective of party, I plan to do my part
Speaker 1: to try to bring attention to those who are making
Speaker 1: the right moves and aren't viewing this as just a
Speaker 1: political football to throw around. Here's what Governor Cuomo said
Speaker 1: about President Trump and Vice President Pence play seven. We
Speaker 1: have had a phenomenal increase in testing. We've been able
Speaker 1: to use our laboratories. Our emergency management team has done
Speaker 1: a very good job of reaching out to our state labs,
Speaker 1: getting them on track, getting them coordinated. Our testing numbers
Speaker 1: are way up, as you'll see next week. By the
Speaker 1: end of this week, we think we're going to be
Speaker 1: up to about seven thousand tests per day, which is
Speaker 1: an exponential increase of what we have done. I made
Speaker 1: this suggestion to the Vice President. I made it to
Speaker 1: the President. I often tell you when I am unhappy
Speaker 1: with the federal response to this state, the fairness dictates
Speaker 1: that kudos where kudos a due, and here the Vice
Speaker 1: President and the President responded very quickly. So I want
Speaker 1: to thank them for that. That's right, balls and strikes.
Speaker 1: No time for games, no time for nonsense here, and
Speaker 1: so I appreciate the Governor Cuomos being an adult about this.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom of California has been an adult about this.
Speaker 1: Are these are superlibs who usually I'd be fighting tooth
Speaker 1: and nail and policy issues. Too much at stake here,
Speaker 1: too important to get this right. They should be praised
Speaker 1: for doing what's right, saying what they should be saying
Speaker 1: under the circumstances. And so that's where we are. Now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about CDC and testing. You're in the freedom hunt.
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. So we've been
Speaker 1: told from the beginning by people, especially those who want
Speaker 1: to criticize the administration at every opportunity, listen to the experts,
Speaker 1: Listen to the experts, where's the CDC, where's the NSC
Speaker 1: Pandemic Office. And I've been telling you because I actually
Speaker 1: know something about the NSC, because I'm XCIA and I
Speaker 1: used to deal with the NSC on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: I mean I had friends at the NSC. In fact,
Speaker 1: one of my friends from the NSC is now a
Speaker 1: Fox News host, so you know our correspondent, So you know,
Speaker 1: I go, I go way back from the NSA at
Speaker 1: the NSC. The story though we've we've heard is that
Speaker 1: somehow Trump is responsible for the lag in testing, that
Speaker 1: they weren't taking this serious use there was a lag
Speaker 1: in testing. That's just not true. Trump turned around and said, okay, CDC,
Speaker 1: let's go World Health Organization. And this is from the
Speaker 1: watch Post doing a story, investigative story, and what happened
Speaker 1: with the testing levels? Because I mean it is it
Speaker 1: is an abomination how slow they were getting those tests out.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna move to the whole where are we
Speaker 1: with respirators, masks, and all these things. We are the
Speaker 1: most mighty economic engine the world has ever seen. You're
Speaker 1: gonna tell me we can't get enough masks for people
Speaker 1: that are in hospitals, for our doctors and nurses. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting around with a you know, a supercomputer in
Speaker 1: my hand, and I feel like I could order ten
Speaker 1: more than they'd be here tomorrow. We can't get enough
Speaker 1: surgical masks done. This is a reminder there's a lot
Speaker 1: of time for the politics here. I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: limit my discussions of them. But chin China makes most
Speaker 1: of our antibiotics, makes most of our medical devices. We
Speaker 1: really think that's a great idea. Huh. Now we're seeing
Speaker 1: it's not such a great idea, just like we're also
Speaker 1: seeing with Canada locking down its borders that borders are
Speaker 1: real and it's not racist to have borders. No, no,
Speaker 1: it's sane to have borders. Thanks for listening to The
Speaker 1: Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts,
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. And
Speaker 1: healthcare workers around America can be absolutely certain that the
Speaker 1: President and our entire team are going to continue to
Speaker 1: put the health of America first, and put first our
Speaker 1: healthcare workers across this country that are meeting the needs
Speaker 1: of the people of our country. We've got to get
Speaker 1: them masks, we got to give them ventilators. We got
Speaker 1: to make sure they have the tools they need to
Speaker 1: do the job and the tools they need to stay safe.
Speaker 1: A big part of understanding this in the early days
Speaker 1: was testing. What went wrong with testing the CDC. The
Speaker 1: CDC has in place plans for pandemics, and that's irrespective
Speaker 1: of who the president is. That's just the nature of
Speaker 1: that seven billion dollars a year federal agency. And there's
Speaker 1: also the NIH the National Institutes of Health. You have
Speaker 1: these federal government and they exist for this for now,
Speaker 1: and they exist so that we could get testing done quickly,
Speaker 1: so we could better react to and respond to hot
Speaker 1: spots of Wuhan virus. And this is now a moment
Speaker 1: in time where we say, what exactly happened here? The
Speaker 1: CDC was slow. The CDC was slow because they have
Speaker 1: all these regulations and they have to approve things for labs,
Speaker 1: and there was some mistake in the design of their test,
Speaker 1: and then there was a problem in the manufacturing and
Speaker 1: CDC messed up. Now, we don't have too much time
Speaker 1: to sit around and trying to kick the CDC, because
Speaker 1: guess what, we need them. But this would be something
Speaker 1: like if the president said, all right, let's call in
Speaker 1: an airstrike and he says, you know, let's fire a
Speaker 1: bunch of Tomahawk missiles from a bunch of cruisers that
Speaker 1: we've got. You know, let's fire off Tomahawk missiles and
Speaker 1: the Navy goes, okay, here we go, and they fire
Speaker 1: them and then they'll just go about fifty feet and
Speaker 1: then land in the ocean because there was a design
Speaker 1: flaw because you know, Lockheed or Raytheon or whoever makes
Speaker 1: tom Walk missiles I don't even know didn't design them properly.
Speaker 1: That's not on the president. No, you know, we we
Speaker 1: have is very very expensive and now, of course our
Speaker 1: military is one of the few things our federal government
Speaker 1: gets right. But you know, this is what happened. The
Speaker 1: CDC messed up, and the CDC had all these regulations
Speaker 1: in place and all these other labs. We're saying, okay,
Speaker 1: well we can do this test and CDC said, oh no,
Speaker 1: we got to make sure that it's safe before you
Speaker 1: can do it, or you know, we got to make
Speaker 1: sure that it fits with the regulations whatever, crazy stuff,
Speaker 1: crazy stuff. So this is, you know, this is where
Speaker 1: the truth does matter, and the truth is that the
Speaker 1: CDC fell down on the job here and everybody knows.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna be lied to about that. They're gonna
Speaker 1: lie to you about this one guaranteed. They're going to
Speaker 1: say that this is for political reasons. They're going to
Speaker 1: claim that Trump wasn't taking its seriously, that the lack
Speaker 1: of testing from the CDC was or lack of testing
Speaker 1: that was possible, was the administration's fault, when in reality,
Speaker 1: the reason there weren't the tests that there should have
Speaker 1: been in the time period that they should have had
Speaker 1: them was because the CDC messed up. And that's what
Speaker 1: That's what was going down. That's what was really happening here.
Speaker 1: So let's just understand that. Let's be clear about that. Now,
Speaker 1: there are elections that are supposed to take place today.
Speaker 1: For the primary, you have the following story Ohio Supreme
Speaker 1: Court allows delayed election primary. This is pretty crazy. Early Tuesday,
Speaker 1: the Ohio Supreme Court denied a legal challenge to the
Speaker 1: state delaying the primary a candidate in Wood County, had
Speaker 1: filed the action Monday, alleging the delay of the primary
Speaker 1: violated election laws. Only four justices participated in the ruling,
Speaker 1: which was issued without an opinion after the court ordered
Speaker 1: the state to respond by one thirty am. Other states
Speaker 1: quickly filed the motion to dismiss the justice has cast
Speaker 1: their votes before four am. So you know, I guess
Speaker 1: we are not going to have a Democrat primary today.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out what exactly is going on here.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have the following states that are that
Speaker 1: are involved in this. You have, let's see, voters in
Speaker 1: three states are gonna head are gonna head to the
Speaker 1: polls today. I mean, look, no one's been paying attention
Speaker 1: to this. Even Ohio has postponed, but Arizona, Florida, and
Speaker 1: Illinois have people heading to the polls today despite the
Speaker 1: coronavirus pandemic. And you know, Ohio Governor Mike Dwine announced
Speaker 1: that the polls would not open despite a judge's ruling
Speaker 1: that the election must go on. So you know this
Speaker 1: is going to start affecting you know where this is going, right?
Speaker 1: I think we all understand this right off the bat
Speaker 1: they're gonna say the Libs, the Democrats. I know, this
Speaker 1: is getting a few steps ahead of where we are.
Speaker 1: If the Democrat doesn't end up winning, they're going to
Speaker 1: say the elections illegitimate. It's already you can count on
Speaker 1: it right now. You can count on it being the
Speaker 1: final narrative if Trump wins reelection. Oh, the primary was
Speaker 1: messed up because the pandemic, and they're going to say
Speaker 1: that Republicans, you know, exerted influence on it in some way,
Speaker 1: or even though these are decisions being made by Democrats.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like when we hear all about the
Speaker 1: sexism of not electing Elizabeth Warren, not just president, but
Speaker 1: not electing Elizabeth Warren as the candidate for the Democrats.
Speaker 1: And I sit here, I'm like, sixty percent of Democrat
Speaker 1: voters are women. Democrats are the ones voting in their primary.
Speaker 1: Vayding't elect Elizabeth Warren. Why am I being lectured about
Speaker 1: sexism as a Republican. That doesn't really that doesn't really
Speaker 1: make much sense. I don't really get that. I don't
Speaker 1: really agree with that one. So oh, but Elizabeth Warren's
Speaker 1: still out there playing politics at this moment in time
Speaker 1: play Club five. No. I think that it was absolutely
Speaker 1: irresponsible of the Senate leader to do that. He ultimately
Speaker 1: called everyone in for a vote tonight, a vote that
Speaker 1: did not occur because he worked out a deal he
Speaker 1: had a problem in his own party, a deal that
Speaker 1: could have been worked out last week, and we have
Speaker 1: still not moved forward on the coronavirus bill. This makes
Speaker 1: no sense at all. Is as if he has no
Speaker 1: sense of urgency about this problem and no sense of
Speaker 1: what to do. You know, he started this by asking me,
Speaker 1: Do I feel better that Trumps at least admitted that
Speaker 1: there's a problem. Sure, but it's time to act. We
Speaker 1: should have been acting months ago. And if that message
Speaker 1: still has not arrived with the President or with Mitch McConnell,
Speaker 1: then we're in real trouble. What were the Democrats doing
Speaker 1: two three months ago? Does anybody remember what the Democrats
Speaker 1: were completely focused on December January? What were they What
Speaker 1: were they really read? I feel like they're, oh, that's right,
Speaker 1: their psycho sham impeachment of the President of the United States.
Speaker 1: In fact, they were going through that impeachment proceeding oh June,
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney showing us how strong he is for America.
Speaker 1: They were going through that while the President was calling
Speaker 1: together a task force to deal with coronavirus, and I
Speaker 1: remember CNN, among other places, ridiculing the president while he
Speaker 1: was being impeached for just nothing. I mean, the whole
Speaker 1: thing was a preposterous joke, a disgrace to constitutional powers
Speaker 1: and separation of powers. The whole thing was just appalling
Speaker 1: and so dumb. But they were mad at the President
Speaker 1: because the coronavirus task force wasn't diverse enough. Oh, that's
Speaker 1: what they were really worried about. This is this is
Speaker 1: bad news, my friends. So let's not if we're going
Speaker 1: to start playing the point fingers and blame game, let's
Speaker 1: be honest about what was really happening. The President blocked
Speaker 1: flights from China. Probably should have blocked flights from Europe too,
Speaker 1: but we didn't know how bad it was going to
Speaker 1: be in Europe. The president block flights in China when
Speaker 1: he was told that that was a bad thing to
Speaker 1: do and shouldn't do it, And now we realized that
Speaker 1: definitely helped us out tremendously with this pandemic. The President's
Speaker 1: done everything that he realistically can do up to this point,
Speaker 1: and is doing what the experts have been telling him
Speaker 1: to do. And now you get Democrats that want to
Speaker 1: blame not just Trump but also and act like he
Speaker 1: wasn't taking this seriously. How is he not taking it
Speaker 1: seriously by trying to keep people calm while they're making
Speaker 1: maneuvers behind the scenes to deal with the crisis. It's absurd.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got journalists that think that when the
Speaker 1: President says, you know, look, we've got it, We've got
Speaker 1: this under control, he doesn't mean that the virus is
Speaker 1: gone and we have to worry about. He's saying, we're
Speaker 1: doing everything we can, we have our end of the
Speaker 1: situation under control. But journalists make him, make him explain
Speaker 1: that because they're so obsessed with a Trump lies. Trump
Speaker 1: lies even now, even when people are really worried, even
Speaker 1: when we're wondering if mom and dad, grandma and grandpa,
Speaker 1: you know, you're anybody in your life who's are and
Speaker 1: those of you who are in the high I know
Speaker 1: a lot of you listening to this now are over
Speaker 1: sixty or over seventy, and you're worried. And I understand
Speaker 1: why you're worried and why I want to do everything
Speaker 1: I can to spread the word to give the best
Speaker 1: information possible and encourage governed officials to make the smartest
Speaker 1: decisions possible, because I want all of us to come
Speaker 1: through this okay. And part of that, by the way,
Speaker 1: is also not even ending up in the ICU with
Speaker 1: a tube down your throat, and people keep talking about
Speaker 1: the mortality rate. Being in the ICU for two or
Speaker 1: three months is going to be a horrible and traumatic experience.
Speaker 1: We want to avoid people getting this who can have complications,
Speaker 1: and younger people, and there's going to be more and
Speaker 1: more stories about this. There are people in their twenties
Speaker 1: and thirties who get this and they're in really bad shape.
Speaker 1: There are people who get I mean, I remember Bree
Speaker 1: Peyton from the Federalists. She got H one N one
Speaker 1: and she she was she was an amazing young woman
Speaker 1: and I used to do work with her at the
Speaker 1: Hill and she was a writer at the Federalist. She
Speaker 1: was gone because she got H one n when she
Speaker 1: was gone in twenty four hours, young, healthy, amazing woman gone.
Speaker 1: So that was a less dangerous disease than this. Now,
Speaker 1: most people get H one N one and don't die.
Speaker 1: Most people will get this and don't die. But just
Speaker 1: because you're young and healthy doesn't mean that this is
Speaker 1: something that you can You never know how your immune
Speaker 1: system is going to respond to this. You never know
Speaker 1: what the reality is going to be. So we just
Speaker 1: gotta keep that in mind. Man. You know we've got
Speaker 1: we've got some tough weeks ahead. Keep your keep your
Speaker 1: shield high, keep your head on a swivel, stay frosty.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be our eyes. But this is the Buck
Speaker 1: Sex and Show podcast, all right, we also need to
Speaker 1: look at the lighter side of it. Sometimes. This is
Speaker 1: a nurse from Tennessee who I don't know if she
Speaker 1: listens to the Buck Sexton Show, but we have the
Speaker 1: same feeling when it comes to the credit card pad.
Speaker 1: You have to push, push, push, right the little signature, push, push, push.
Speaker 1: It's like the last thing you want to be doing.
Speaker 1: There's a pandemic is touching that little pad that everyone's
Speaker 1: been touching all day. You know, when rubs their nose,
Speaker 1: touches the pad, rubs their mouth touches the pad, sneezes
Speaker 1: on their hand, touches the pad. Is a nurse in
Speaker 1: Tennessee who spoke for many of us, myself included, when
Speaker 1: she went to the grocery store recently play clip one,
Speaker 1: and up until today I have managed to not ever
Speaker 1: have to do a ramp video on Facebook, but apparently
Speaker 1: today is my day. Just left the grocery store, and
Speaker 1: as we all know, the coronavirus COVID nineteen whatever we're
Speaker 1: calling it this week has driven people completely insane. And
Speaker 1: the woman in lawn in front of me, just apropos
Speaker 1: of nothing, just starts shrieking at the poor little guy,
Speaker 1: ringing her up that he has just touched his face
Speaker 1: and that he therefore must wash his hands, just shrieking
Speaker 1: this to the top of her lungs. So I'm assuming
Speaker 1: she surely to God must be the head of the CDC,
Speaker 1: because she says it was such conviction. And by the way,
Speaker 1: Lady's you're not supposed to touch her face didn't really
Speaker 1: matter as much he touches his I digress. The little
Speaker 1: guy says, I can't wash my hands right now. She says,
Speaker 1: I wait, great, we'll I'll wait down, guess lady. He says,
Speaker 1: I have hand sanitizer. So he takes like a quarter
Speaker 1: of a little squirt does his little thing on his
Speaker 1: hands for about a quarter of a second, which basically
Speaker 1: would have just served to inside a right and maybe
Speaker 1: kell off two small weak germs, to which the head
Speaker 1: of the CDC and her kitten covered lab coat nods
Speaker 1: and fervently agrees that he's saved the universe with that.
Speaker 1: He kind of refrains from rolling his eyes, which I
Speaker 1: think makes him a saint. And then she goes on
Speaker 1: to whip out her credit card and use the debit
Speaker 1: pad that every finger licking, booger picking double digit Q
Speaker 1: idiot has touched all day long after going to bathroom
Speaker 1: and not washing their hands. And then she just walks
Speaker 1: on out with her groceries. Who does she sound like
Speaker 1: when it comes to the credit card pad? This is
Speaker 1: a nurse, a healthcare practitioner. What have I been telling you?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe she's part of team Buck. Maybe
Speaker 1: she listens to the show, or she just knows what
Speaker 1: I know and all of you know, when you think
Speaker 1: about it, that credit card pad is like a germ hotel.
Speaker 1: That credit card pad is sitting there like, please touch
Speaker 1: me so I can make you sick. And yet at
Speaker 1: this time, and we have all these precautions and all
Speaker 1: these things shelter and placed, Economy's crumbling dogs and cats
Speaker 1: living together mass hysteria. Not you, Tulula, You're cool with
Speaker 1: all that going on. We still have to touch that
Speaker 1: stupid okay button like three times and then use a
Speaker 1: little I don't know what you call it, a little
Speaker 1: plastic pen thing, and she goes on to tell us
Speaker 1: her final thoughts on this one. Buddy. See, we're aligned
Speaker 1: on this play clip too, completely oblivious to the fact
Speaker 1: that everyone who handled this groceries pire to her getting them,
Speaker 1: has left their little touch and trace of germs all
Speaker 1: over them. That going down the conveyor belt, they probably
Speaker 1: picked up chicken juice and everything else. But thank god
Speaker 1: that kid used that quarter of a squirt of pure ill.
Speaker 1: She has saved the day and kept us all safe
Speaker 1: from the coronavirus. Y'all, it doesn't matter what we do.
Speaker 1: There's so many stupid people in this world. We're never
Speaker 1: going to survive anyway. So touch your face, just touch it,
Speaker 1: just touch it. It's all the slift, a little bit
Speaker 1: of gallows humor, my friends. We need that these days.
Speaker 1: We need to be able to also laugh at our situation.
Speaker 1: That's why when people call at the Wu flu or
Speaker 1: the Kung flu or the Wuhan virus, or the COVID nineteen,
Speaker 1: or the SARS cove two which is the precursor virus
Speaker 1: before the infection which is COVID nineteen, with all these
Speaker 1: different things, we just need to be able to look
Speaker 1: at it and say, we got it, We're we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna be all right, and make fun of it
Speaker 1: sometimes if you can. There are gonna be songs about this.
Speaker 1: There're gonna be people who are going to have to
Speaker 1: create humor and a This is a very dark time,
Speaker 1: there's no question about that. But we need to be
Speaker 1: able to look at this and laugh a little bit.
Speaker 1: And I really appreciate what this nurse had to say
Speaker 1: about how just I mean, everyone's so on edge, everyone's
Speaker 1: so nervous about this, but at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: there's only so much you can do. There's only so
Speaker 1: much you can do. I mean, if you go around
Speaker 1: and are terrified of germs, or if you know enough
Speaker 1: about germs and realize the environments that we all live in,
Speaker 1: you're coming into contact with staff bacteria, you're coming to
Speaker 1: contact with mrs. So you're coming to contact with these
Speaker 1: things all the time, and you're usually fine but like
Speaker 1: maybe you're not. You know, any of us can die
Speaker 1: in any given day for any number of reasons. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that we should have a fatalism like
Speaker 1: well and it does, it doesn't matter, you know, just
Speaker 1: go out there and start, you know, licking random door
Speaker 1: knobs or something. It's a horrible idea, but I do
Speaker 1: mean that we just need to remember we're all on
Speaker 1: borrowed time and we're all gonna be okay, but we're
Speaker 1: also all gonna die, not from this virus, just in general.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a true statement, all right. We all
Speaker 1: have limited time here, so enjoy yourself to the degree
Speaker 1: that you can enjoy your life right now, even though
Speaker 1: we're under quarantine and we have these difficulties and we
Speaker 1: have these challenges. That's something that we should all remember
Speaker 1: that there's just only so much you can do. Don't
Speaker 1: stress that much, and try to laugh. Try to laugh
Speaker 1: when you can. Thanks for listening to the bus sets
Speaker 1: and show past. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the
Speaker 1: radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Switching gears
Speaker 1: here from talking about the coronavirus, the Wuhan virus, I
Speaker 1: have to note that David Frum, who is considers himself
Speaker 1: highly areadye. I've dealt with him and he's occasionally insightful
Speaker 1: and occasionally occasionally a total bozo. I mean, it depends
Speaker 1: when you get him. On certain subjects. He makes sense.
Speaker 1: On other subjects, you're like, right, And he thinks he's
Speaker 1: brilliant on everything, which is the problem because he's not.
Speaker 1: He's going around telling people that no one calls it
Speaker 1: the Spanish flu anymore, which is interesting. He should probably
Speaker 1: reach out to the author of Pale Rider the Spanish
Speaker 1: Flu of nineteen eighteen, the title of the most well
Speaker 1: known book on the subject, and say, hey, nobody calls
Speaker 1: it the Spanish flu anymore? What an imbecile. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of that going around. People are fighting over stuff,
Speaker 1: and look, there's going to be a bit of a
Speaker 1: bit of tension over this. They're gonna be people that
Speaker 1: are upset with each other. We're going to be dealing
Speaker 1: with a lot of short fuses here in New York City.
Speaker 1: There's some video circulating of people in an apartment block
Speaker 1: yelling at people on the street to get inside, get inside,
Speaker 1: flatten the curve. People who need to get air, all right,
Speaker 1: you can walk on the street, maintain your distance from people.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get sick. According to the CDC
Speaker 1: if you keep more than ten feet away from anybody
Speaker 1: and you're just outside in the air, just don't touch anything.
Speaker 1: Don't walk around, let me touch all the door handles,
Speaker 1: let me wipe my face with them. Don't do that.
Speaker 1: And you should be okay if you go outside, if
Speaker 1: you're in the particularly high risk population, don't even take that.
Speaker 1: Don't even take that risk. Don't even do that. But
Speaker 1: you know, or maybe if you're going to go outside,
Speaker 1: just make sure it's at a time when there's very
Speaker 1: limited people out on the street and you're not going
Speaker 1: to share an elevator ride with somebody and you're not
Speaker 1: you know, things like that. But I told you that
Speaker 1: there was this other story, and this is classic. This
Speaker 1: is like the Friday before the long weekend government document
Speaker 1: dump with the stuff that they don't want anyone to
Speaker 1: spend any time digging into, understanding learning about. This is
Speaker 1: this is just amazing. You will recall some time ago
Speaker 1: there was this story about the Mueller team indicting the
Speaker 1: Special Counsel Robert Mullers and Fox News. Well, let me
Speaker 1: give you the backstory. They indicted Concurred Management and Consulting,
Speaker 1: LLC and Concord Catering, among three companies and thirteen individuals
Speaker 1: charged in February of twenty eighteen by Mueller. Their alleged
Speaker 1: criminal effort included social media postings and campaigns aimed at
Speaker 1: dividing American public opinion and sewing discord in the electorate
Speaker 1: officials set, although no impact on voters was ever demonstrated.
Speaker 1: So you know, some of us knew what this was
Speaker 1: right away. I tweeted the following out on February sixteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, in response to the initial filing of this case.
Speaker 1: Muller just indicted a bunch of Russians for setting up
Speaker 1: fake social media accounts and buying Facebook ads to say
Speaker 1: nasty things about Hillary online. That is what they did,
Speaker 1: setting up fake Facebook accounts to say mean things about Hillary,
Speaker 1: and that was charged as interfering in our election and
Speaker 1: committing fraud against the United States government by these foreigners
Speaker 1: who were saying mean things about Hillary with Facebook accounts.
Speaker 1: That is what was going on. By the way, Hugh Hewitt,
Speaker 1: who is supposed to be a constitutional conservative sort of
Speaker 1: and a constitutional scholar responded to me. I didn't respond
Speaker 1: to him, but they responded to me this way, Buck.
Speaker 1: The indictment is very clear. This isn't overreach in the least.
Speaker 1: Do you really think it's okay for a foreign government
Speaker 1: to do this? Well, Hugh, turns out that it was overreach.
Speaker 1: I was right you with a law degree. Who teaches
Speaker 1: constitutional law? I think at Harvard or something. But I
Speaker 1: never went to law school. But I also worked the
Speaker 1: National security so I know what's bs about this stuff
Speaker 1: and what's not. Turns out that the Muller team dropped
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Whoop. See not even going to continue
Speaker 1: charging this in a striking this is Fox News. Whoops, Sorry,
Speaker 1: just dropped something in a striking and unexpected abandonment of
Speaker 1: a once heralded prosecution initiated by Special Counsel Muller. This
Speaker 1: is stunning stuff. The Justice Department moved Monday to drop
Speaker 1: charges against two Russian companies that were accused of funding
Speaker 1: a social media meme campaign to further their quote strategic
Speaker 1: goal to sow discord in the US political system, including
Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen presidential election. Late Monday, with jury selection
Speaker 1: in the case set to begin in just two weeks,
Speaker 1: a federal judge granted the DOJ's motion to kill the
Speaker 1: prosecution for several counts of conspiring to defraud US agencies
Speaker 1: tasks with combating election interference. The government acknowledged the Russian
Speaker 1: companies were never likely to actually face punishment anyway, and
Speaker 1: cited possible national security risks with going forward to trial.
Speaker 1: Oh so the whole thing, why they even file it.
Speaker 1: They didn't find that anything new? Whom the national security risks? Yeah? Right,
Speaker 1: of what the Russian troll farms, This stuff would all
Speaker 1: have been done on the unclassified Internet. Why can't they
Speaker 1: bring this case? It was so bad? This is astonishing.
Speaker 1: Of the thirteen Russians and three Russian companies charged by
Speaker 1: Mueller and the social media disinformation effort, Conquered was the
Speaker 1: sole defendant to enter an appearance in Washington's federal court
Speaker 1: and contest the allegations. Mueller's thirty seven page indictment said
Speaker 1: that the actions detailed by prosecutors date back to twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: Resident Mueller later brought separate charges against other entities related
Speaker 1: to the hack of Democrat emails. President Trump noted that
Speaker 1: no Russian collision with this campaign. Was ever proven, etc. Etc.
Speaker 1: Various media outlets hype the indictment, with NPR calling the
Speaker 1: Russian activities a quote attack on democracy. All right, let's
Speaker 1: just unpack this together for a second, shall we. This
Speaker 1: indictment was supposed to be our Muller brave Muller team
Speaker 1: and prosecutors striking back at Russia attacking our democracy by
Speaker 1: having Facebook accounts say mean things about Hillary Clinton online.
Speaker 1: That's that's really that is the charge. That's what they're
Speaker 1: talking about election interference, and it's an attack on our democracy.
Speaker 1: Yet they won't even proceed with this in federal court.
Speaker 1: Why and oh also, why are they dropping this right now?
Speaker 1: Why are they going? Why did they go to this
Speaker 1: point and then wait for the perfect moment to just say,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that whole case we're not going to be
Speaker 1: a case any or the Mueller prosecution, the whole Muller investigation,
Speaker 1: which was really run by Weisman, was a fraud, an
Speaker 1: abject fraud, a disgrace to the country. It was all
Speaker 1: about Russia, Trump insanity, It was all about giving the
Speaker 1: media something to chew on. You don't drag people into
Speaker 1: federal court. I don't care what country they're from. Or
Speaker 1: who they work for. You don't drag them into federal
Speaker 1: court and try to make a case that by saying
Speaker 1: mean things on Facebook about a political candidate, they have
Speaker 1: attacked your very system of government. Anyone understands us if
Speaker 1: they think about it. But that was what the Muller
Speaker 1: team run out to attack on our democracy. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: so important that they don't even go forward with the
Speaker 1: case after two years. Two years they kept this thing going.
Speaker 1: They just figured out now that it might not work.
Speaker 1: They just figured out now the national security risks. No,
Speaker 1: but they had to feed this into the system. Yes,
Speaker 1: we've indicted those Russians who meddled in our democracy. We've
Speaker 1: indicted those Russians who were doing terrible things that attacked
Speaker 1: our very system of government. We're going to bring them
Speaker 1: to justice. No, they're not. They were never going to
Speaker 1: was never going to happen. So why do they allow
Speaker 1: this to continue for two years? My friends, we see
Speaker 1: the truth of this. I tell you that I know
Speaker 1: one can predict the future. I have been right about
Speaker 1: Russia collusion and Ukraine phone call, impeachment, all this stuff
Speaker 1: every step of the way, because I see it for
Speaker 1: what it is. It's not because I can predict the future.
Speaker 1: It's because I understand the president. I know what's really
Speaker 1: going on and understand these political dynamics. I know what's
Speaker 1: real in the national security field and what's not because
Speaker 1: I used to work in it. I know who the
Speaker 1: clowns are and know who the serious people are. And
Speaker 1: this Muller team, the fact that Jeff Sessions let this
Speaker 1: thing go, I understand why the president, even though I
Speaker 1: like Jeff Sessions think is a good man, I understand
Speaker 1: when the president once is prime Mary opponent to beat
Speaker 1: him in Alabama, I get it. Sessions allowed this whole
Speaker 1: this just wild beast of the Muller probe loose on
Speaker 1: the Trump administration. Think about how much even more prosperous,
Speaker 1: even more prepared for the future, not just this pandemic,
Speaker 1: but for the future in general the administration could be
Speaker 1: if they hadn't had to spend all this time and
Speaker 1: energy on just lunacy, this absurdity of the Russia collusion
Speaker 1: narrative and all this other stuff. It was absolutely nuts
Speaker 1: from the very beginning, and yet they made us suffer
Speaker 1: through this for over two years. The country. Well, I
Speaker 1: was telling you, many of you know this. I was
Speaker 1: saying at catastrophe cells. But I'm telling you things are good.
Speaker 1: Now enjoy it. Things are good, now enjoy it. You
Speaker 1: know those you've been listening to me for even just
Speaker 1: the last year, I had times where I said, my friends,
Speaker 1: this is enjoy this country. This might be the best
Speaker 1: it's ever been. I was telling you to enjoy it
Speaker 1: because they knew it wasn't gonna last an hour in
Speaker 1: another phase. So you know, we've been together through the
Speaker 1: best of times. We're about to go through some difficult
Speaker 1: times together team, and that's where we're at. That's where
Speaker 1: things are. But with this Russia, this Russia nonsense, it's
Speaker 1: exactly as I thought. They dropped this when everyone's paying
Speaker 1: attention to other things. The whole charge was ridiculous. It
Speaker 1: was absurd overreach. They were never actually going to bring
Speaker 1: any of these people into court and they knew that,
Speaker 1: so why charge them? What was the point? It was
Speaker 1: all narrative building, was all bs. I was right, they
Speaker 1: were wrong, No surprise. There you're in the freedom hunt.
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Who do you
Speaker 1: want to turn to at this time for personal advice
Speaker 1: about how to get ready for the future? Well, I
Speaker 1: got a good buddy who has some thoughts on this one.
Speaker 1: Brandon Webb. He's a former Navy seal. He was a
Speaker 1: sniper instructor, actually created the Navy Seal Snipers School. He's
Speaker 1: now the CEO of off Rep Media. And he's got
Speaker 1: a book out, Coronavirus How to Prepare that you can
Speaker 1: now get on Apple on Amazon. Ran and my friend,
Speaker 1: great to have you back, Ay back, good to be
Speaker 1: back as always. So all right, man, what should people
Speaker 1: know about their own personal preparations for what we're going through? So,
Speaker 1: you know, I was, as you know, I've been at
Speaker 1: this of course at Harvard Business School, and when the Corona,
Speaker 1: I was there in the February and when Corona started
Speaker 1: to take off in China, and I put out an
Speaker 1: article almost almost a month ago on just to how
Speaker 1: to think about being prepared. And this is something that
Speaker 1: most Americans should just plan for, regardless of the situation
Speaker 1: we find ourselves in right now. Is just having the
Speaker 1: basics at home in case of any type of natural
Speaker 1: disaster or pandemic like we're seeing now, and it's just
Speaker 1: being you know, better prepared. And I remember, you know,
Speaker 1: my friends in New York kind of giving me a
Speaker 1: hard time, like, no, do I really need to to
Speaker 1: go stock up on just this basic stuffs like water
Speaker 1: and cleaning household cleaning item, toilet paper, stuff like this.
Speaker 1: And of course, when it became very real for America, um,
Speaker 1: you know, things change, right, So you know I'd written
Speaker 1: that article and that that's when me and the guys
Speaker 1: who write for software dot com said, you know what,
Speaker 1: let's let's see if we can put out a quick
Speaker 1: resource for people, just because a lot of people are
Speaker 1: wondering like what do I need to have at home,
Speaker 1: you know, as far as first aid, food, water, that
Speaker 1: kind of things. So, um, you know, we wrote the
Speaker 1: book in a week, and you know, it's a short
Speaker 1: d book, but it has really useful information and as
Speaker 1: well as we covered some of the other more important
Speaker 1: news aspects of this, like the fact that you know China.
Speaker 1: You know it's going to be interesting because China, it
Speaker 1: looks like, had this virus in the laboratory and accidentally
Speaker 1: let it out. Because that's why well you actually think
Speaker 1: you you've view subscribe to that theory. I've brought that
Speaker 1: up on the show. I haven't seen evidence for that.
Speaker 1: Do you think that this came out of the lab.
Speaker 1: I talked to a really good friend of mine who
Speaker 1: was a Tier one operator and worked with the NSA,
Speaker 1: and I mean it's no secret that the chemical or
Speaker 1: Biological warfare lab in China is and yeah, the Wuhan
Speaker 1: Virology Institute, and they've lost viruses before, so that's yeah,
Speaker 1: that that is established. And the fact that they immediately
Speaker 1: are kind of trying to point the finger at the
Speaker 1: US Army because I think, you know, in whatever it
Speaker 1: was nineteen eighteen, the Spanish flu did originate out of
Speaker 1: an army base in the US. But this, you know,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, it's to be continued, but I
Speaker 1: from what I I heard, I think that it's you know,
Speaker 1: the possibility is extremely strong that this is something that
Speaker 1: the Chinese let get out of hand by it probably
Speaker 1: by accident, God forbid. You know, if they were trying
Speaker 1: to release this right well, I mean, it hit their
Speaker 1: own population, So you've got to figure that they that,
Speaker 1: even for the Chinese Communist Party, is not a move
Speaker 1: they would make. Yeah. Well, what I heard was, you know,
Speaker 1: talking to my my friends, one of which worked with NASA,
Speaker 1: was that this was potentially designed to kind of quell
Speaker 1: the Hong Kong uprising, right, you imagine, you know, you
Speaker 1: release this locally on what it does, but it's just
Speaker 1: you know, it's terrible to think about, but you know,
Speaker 1: the reality is it's it's a possibility. So well, I
Speaker 1: mean there are countries in China's one of them that
Speaker 1: do have I mean, I haven't heard any of this
Speaker 1: stuff that you're telling me. You've heard from some of
Speaker 1: your but you know, you're a guy that does know
Speaker 1: tron operators and people that are in the intelligence community.
Speaker 1: And but I can just say that there are countries Russia, China,
Speaker 1: you know, the US we do research on it. I
Speaker 1: don't think we're trying to weaponize it, but weaponized um,
Speaker 1: you know, or bioweapons rather and weaponized research on this
Speaker 1: is occurring in countries that is a that is a reality.
Speaker 1: We know that, Yeah, without a doubt. So um And look,
Speaker 1: I came to Moscow for a business conference and I'm
Speaker 1: here now stuck. But seeing you know just how the
Speaker 1: flow of information it's very restricted in a country like Russia.
Speaker 1: What are you in Moscow right now? Just today? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm here. Oh, I didn't realize you're coming to us
Speaker 1: from Moscow. I thought you're here in New York with me. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm in Moscow. It's eight eight o'clock at night here. So, UM,
Speaker 1: it's very interesting. And I'm grateful to live in a
Speaker 1: country like America where um, you know, we do have
Speaker 1: access to at least information, um, much more so than
Speaker 1: in a country like Russia. Because just today, but I
Speaker 1: saw people like putting on math and like really taking
Speaker 1: it seriously because the situation Russia is like, well, the
Speaker 1: rest of the world has it, we don't. But the
Speaker 1: fact is even in the Moscow Times said today that
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's over one hundred cases that they're reporting,
Speaker 1: and it looks like a hundred is about the point
Speaker 1: where it's a tipping point where you really can name
Speaker 1: this thing in anymore. So I think Russia is going
Speaker 1: to have to deal with their own all right, brand
Speaker 1: and give me two things that people give me two
Speaker 1: things that aren't obvious that you talk about in the book.
Speaker 1: In terms of preparation, we only got about a minute. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean first aid, some type of household first aid.
Speaker 1: Even basic stuff, especially if you're dealing with a self quarantine, UM,
Speaker 1: is extremely important. Water filteration, you know, if you're in
Speaker 1: a situation where you know you don't have clean water
Speaker 1: available and you do have to use water out of
Speaker 1: the faucet. Some types of tablet or filtration devices is
Speaker 1: super important. And then you know the food. I can
Speaker 1: deal without the paper, towels and toilet paper, but those
Speaker 1: are kind of the big important items. But anyone who
Speaker 1: subscribes to the site a softwarep can get the e
Speaker 1: book for free. We're also giving it away. It's two
Speaker 1: ninety nine. But if people can't afford it, they can
Speaker 1: write us in. We'll get in the book for free.
Speaker 1: So we're just trying to be trying to be a
Speaker 1: useful source of information throughing all this. Yeah, let me know,
Speaker 1: let's bring you back in in a week or two,
Speaker 1: because I want to hear how things are going in Moscow.
Speaker 1: If you're still there, man, we want you back stateside.
Speaker 1: But you know, don't worry. I'll call some of our
Speaker 1: old mutual friends if I have to. We'll get you
Speaker 1: brought back here if need be all right, but if
Speaker 1: you're still in Moscow, I want to hear how things
Speaker 1: are going over there, because they're just at the very
Speaker 1: beginning of dealing with this crisis. Yeah, I'm taking notes
Speaker 1: and I've got some friends here in the business communities,
Speaker 1: so glad to come back to former Navy seal and
Speaker 1: CEO of off Rep Media, Brandon web Brand and my friends.
Speaker 1: Stay safe, We'll talk soon. Thanks for listening to the
Speaker 1: Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast,
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Like
Speaker 1: Soft Butter on Warm Toast. Time to spread some freedom,
Speaker 1: coast to coast. It's time for roll call. It's time
Speaker 1: for roll call. Role call everybody. And if you hear
Speaker 1: some snorting, that's not me. I'm fine. I'm healthy for now.
Speaker 1: Thank god. It's it's Tallula, the family French bulldog that
Speaker 1: I've taken off my parents' hands for the time being,
Speaker 1: who is sitting in my lap. Those of you that
Speaker 1: watch on Pluto TV can see her. She is. She
Speaker 1: is reminiscent of a baby seal, which my mom says,
Speaker 1: I can't call her that because it might hurt her
Speaker 1: self esteem. But she does look like one of those
Speaker 1: baby seals on the Arctic tundra that's trying to avoid
Speaker 1: polar bears. Because she is a very well well fed
Speaker 1: French bulldog. But I want to get to your comments
Speaker 1: and your thoughts. That's why we're getting into the roll call.
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, remember Facebook dot com, slash
Speaker 1: buck Sexton or Teambuck at iHeartMedia dot com. If you
Speaker 1: want an email, I'm talking to bruser Mark. We might
Speaker 1: just hey, Mark, I got an idea. There must be
Speaker 1: some like online answering service that people maybe not. It
Speaker 1: just seems like something that might exist. We should do
Speaker 1: some investigating. Couldn't people couldn't we just set up a
Speaker 1: digital voicemailbox for ourselves if people could call into during
Speaker 1: this time, I can look into it. I would ask
Speaker 1: the tech people, but they're little swamps at the moment. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: they're trying to like keep shows on the air, So
Speaker 1: that's why I don't want to bother them with it.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, if anyone has any ideas out there, how
Speaker 1: about this, I'll crowdsources to the team. What's the best
Speaker 1: way that we could do easy audio call in so
Speaker 1: people could leave messages for the show, you know, share
Speaker 1: their thoughts. I'll answer their questions that way. I think
Speaker 1: that would be a great thing for us to do,
Speaker 1: especially in this time. I literally want to hear the
Speaker 1: voices of the team. So, yeah, it sounds like a
Speaker 1: lot a lot more work for me. Thanks Buck, Producer Mark,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean you're you're dude, You're a beast
Speaker 1: when it comes to the work. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You handle any load we give you, and I handle
Speaker 1: a lot of it. Yeah, that's true. Actually, all right, everybody,
Speaker 1: here we go. We got Durran first up in roll
Speaker 1: call Buck, great show. You said on the Friday podcast
Speaker 1: about alternative for toilet paper. The answer is baby wipes.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, who knew? Make made the switch years ago
Speaker 1: and would never go back shields high, So I am
Speaker 1: familiar with this wipes situation. I do know, however, that
Speaker 1: the wipes can be um a problem for sewage systems.
Speaker 1: They make flushable wipes, even those, Producer Mark. It's not
Speaker 1: that they get stuck in the although you're correct, the
Speaker 1: flushable ones mean that your plumbing won't be messed up.
Speaker 1: But even the flushable ones get stuck in the They
Speaker 1: create something called a fat berg because they canidate and
Speaker 1: they will stick together in the actual sewage system. And
Speaker 1: like in London, for example, they have some I think
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, twenty or thirty feet across or something,
Speaker 1: this giant thing of wipes because they use them there.
Speaker 1: I'm serious. It's called the fat berg you can look
Speaker 1: it up. It's discussed. It's the grossest thing you'll ever
Speaker 1: see in your life. It's awful. Yeah, it's a real thing.
Speaker 1: To Lula, you don't like fat bergs. Right now, she's
Speaker 1: licking my arm right now. But the good news is
Speaker 1: dogs don't have coronavirus, so we're fine, right, We're fine
Speaker 1: in here right now. Yeah, she's she's hanging out for her.
Speaker 1: It's just like, as long as I get my walks
Speaker 1: and I get fed my fancy food. To Lula has
Speaker 1: no problems. This virus is great for ducks because people
Speaker 1: are home. Oh yeah, there where people. Our owners are
Speaker 1: home all the time. You're right, And I hadn't thought
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, know, she's getting a lot of she's
Speaker 1: getting a lot of attention. She also, I thought this
Speaker 1: was funny. I was a little worried about her this
Speaker 1: morning because hey, hey, hey, no snorting in the microphone.
Speaker 1: I was a little worried about her this morning because
Speaker 1: she was going, sorry for you. She's licking every like
Speaker 1: my hand. I don't know, she knows that she's on
Speaker 1: camera right now. And she was pushing her food bowl around,
Speaker 1: like headbutting it all over the floor of my kitchen,
Speaker 1: and I called my mom. I was like, what what
Speaker 1: is that. I'm a little worried. She's she's like a
Speaker 1: little triceratops, ramming her food bowl across the floor. Why
Speaker 1: would she do that? And my mom goes, Oh, that's
Speaker 1: because she doesn't like the mix you had of the
Speaker 1: wet food and the dry food. So you have to
Speaker 1: redo her breakfast. That's for real. So I had to
Speaker 1: redo her breakfast. She was she was protesting that I
Speaker 1: did not give the proper mix of dry food and
Speaker 1: wet food in her bowl, and so I had to
Speaker 1: redo it. Yeah, that's the spoiled animal. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say. This is why if you get a French bulldog,
Speaker 1: you might as well put a little beret on them,
Speaker 1: because this is how they act. You know. You get
Speaker 1: yourself like a lab or a Rottweiler, or a Rhodesian
Speaker 1: ridge back or a Golden retriever, and they're all of cool.
Speaker 1: Orders love being fed, and I love everybody. I'm so nice.
Speaker 1: You get a Frenchie and the French she's like you
Speaker 1: must earn my love, you must work for it. You
Speaker 1: must give me a perfect food. You must give me
Speaker 1: everything I need, or else I will not give you
Speaker 1: as a disease. That's how two little rolls. All right, Ernest,
Speaker 1: but glad to hear. In your list of alternative locations
Speaker 1: for The Freedom Hunt, Austin was first. I moved here
Speaker 1: from Connecticut about four and a half years ago. I
Speaker 1: went back to see my son in NYC last year,
Speaker 1: and man, was that depressing. Not just seeing him fully
Speaker 1: assimilated in liberal group thing, but the worn out vibe
Speaker 1: of New York Austin is way cool and somehow everyone
Speaker 1: gets along despite the eclectic makeup. Plenty of room for
Speaker 1: you and producer Mark here, producer well, first of all,
Speaker 1: prucer Mark. If the Freedom Hunt had to relocate, just
Speaker 1: forget about you know that missus Mark Ariel has her
Speaker 1: own life and family here and everything else, and that
Speaker 1: I know this isn't just like a snap. But if
Speaker 1: we had to bounce on New York, do you have
Speaker 1: your preferred second Freedom Hunt location? Yeah, any of the
Speaker 1: states that have no state income tax, so Florida would
Speaker 1: be up there. Texas, Texas has no income tax, and sure,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Texas has no state and that acts oh
Speaker 1: big time. Any of those states are fine, I think also, um,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, all right, all right, she's being
Speaker 1: a baby. Now she goes on the ground. Um, I
Speaker 1: think you also have although now she's probably gonna bark
Speaker 1: at me and you know, make a make a lot
Speaker 1: of noise because she knows I'm I'm on the show. Um.
Speaker 1: I think that nash On, Tennessee also has very low
Speaker 1: state income tax. But anyway, so so you just you
Speaker 1: just want no state income tax? What is That's all
Speaker 1: I want? Do you know New Jerseys? I only ask
Speaker 1: if you know because then it's tax season and I've
Speaker 1: actually got to figure out. I think New York is
Speaker 1: like eleven New York plus New York City is something
Speaker 1: like eleven percent. I believe that New Jersey is lower
Speaker 1: than what I was paying in New York City because
Speaker 1: I was a Queen's resident. But I'm not sure now
Speaker 1: with all I can't get a new license right now
Speaker 1: because I think the DMVs are closed. So I don't
Speaker 1: even know what to do about Texas next year. Luckily
Speaker 1: that's a next year problem. Yeah, I'm wondering myself about
Speaker 1: getting my taxes done this year. Ernest, Oh, no, he already,
Speaker 1: we already did. Earnest. Zach I was listening to talk
Speaker 1: about how to refer to the Wuhan virus in your show,
Speaker 1: and today you mentioned wu flu. I'd just like to
Speaker 1: point out and you missed a perfect opportunity to call
Speaker 1: it kung flu. Zach I did refer to it as
Speaker 1: kung flu, or at least I said that that's what
Speaker 1: people are referring to it as there's the wu flu
Speaker 1: Wuhan virus. There's a lot of different names out there
Speaker 1: for this, and you know, I think that people need
Speaker 1: to remember it's not disparaging any other culture or country
Speaker 1: we're trying to do. We're just trying to put a
Speaker 1: little bit of take a little bit of the fear
Speaker 1: out of the virus. You know, this is why people
Speaker 1: name things the way they do and do things the
Speaker 1: way they do. In this regard Roseanne, right Buck fairly
Speaker 1: new listener. You mentioned that now the Wuhan virus is
Speaker 1: real because Tom Hanks has tested positive. I have to
Speaker 1: disagree it was real before this. Mister Hanks is just
Speaker 1: a man like anyone else. Just my thoughts, well, Roseanne,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you writing in and welcome. It's great to
Speaker 1: have a new listener. I wasn't saying it was real
Speaker 1: because Tom Hanks tested positive. What I said was it
Speaker 1: has become more real for some people because Tom Hanks
Speaker 1: has tested positive, meaning that now they think. The thought
Speaker 1: process here would be that if somebody as famous and
Speaker 1: rich and influential as Tom Hanks can get this, anyone
Speaker 1: can get this, and so they would take it more
Speaker 1: seriously themselves. It's not I wasn't saying, oh, now Tom
Speaker 1: Hanks has this, so we have to take it seriously.
Speaker 1: I honestly do not care about celebrities really at all.
Speaker 1: I don't even that. I am not impressed by celebrities,
Speaker 1: famous actors, famous politicians, famous and famous musicians, athletes don't care.
Speaker 1: I mean, I respect some of what they do, so
Speaker 1: on my own don't care. So I'm glad we had
Speaker 1: that clarification, Roseanne, Welcome to the team. Ck Hey Buck.
Speaker 1: You know the best part of all sports being canceled
Speaker 1: during this panic fest, the local hockey team games always
Speaker 1: preemptied your show broadcast to lay here nine pm minute
Speaker 1: on who WO, which really ticked me off. So for
Speaker 1: at least the next month or however long, I can
Speaker 1: listen to your wit and wisdom uninterrupted, keep calm, and
Speaker 1: carry on fearlessly in Fort Wayne. Who wo cheers, yeah,
Speaker 1: c K, thanks so much man. I appreciate that I
Speaker 1: now have an additional opportunity to speak to some folks
Speaker 1: because talk radio is still still going strong, and it's
Speaker 1: in some ways more important than ever right now. And
Speaker 1: you know we do not have the same limitations. You
Speaker 1: all listen to me virtually, so we are all safe
Speaker 1: and sound talking to each other doing the show. No, you,
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you this. You will not get wuhan
Speaker 1: virus from listening to the Buck Sexton Show. So that
Speaker 1: is a promise that I can make all of you.
Speaker 1: It will not fly into your ear. And I know
Speaker 1: you all know that, but I'm just saying, ed Buck,
Speaker 1: great analysis. I could never do it. At one point
Speaker 1: five though. Okay, Friday, while talking about AOC's comments to
Speaker 1: Brett Bear, you mentioned some well known people who are
Speaker 1: wuhun positive that may have had an easier time getting
Speaker 1: tested than common folk. I noticed two of them were
Speaker 1: in Australia, one was in Canada. Better healthcare. Perhaps I'm
Speaker 1: not a single payer guy. But our system is deeply
Speaker 1: flawed ed. It's you know, you can't really judge a
Speaker 1: system based on one or two people getting one or
Speaker 1: two tests. There have been thousands and thousands of tests
Speaker 1: on in New York State alone now for coronavirus, so
Speaker 1: WOHNT virus, WU flu, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that's really a fair comparison. And look,
Speaker 1: I'd rather be an American hospit I'd rather be in
Speaker 1: a US hospital with any disease than any other hospital
Speaker 1: anywhere else in the world. So that I just I
Speaker 1: think that sort of speaks for itself. I mean, if
Speaker 1: someone says to you, this is life or death, what
Speaker 1: country you're going to be in the hospital? In a
Speaker 1: country for a month? Where do you want it to be?
Speaker 1: Maybe some of you would say Sweden. Maybe some of
Speaker 1: you would say Switzerland or Australia. Fine, I would say America.
Speaker 1: And I'm somebody who is generally skeptical of much of
Speaker 1: the modern medical system because I've dealt with a lot
Speaker 1: of frustrating, a lot of there's a lot of non
Speaker 1: answers and a lot of billing from doctors. I've gotten
Speaker 1: a lot of non answers and a lot of billing.
Speaker 1: That has been my experience, my personal experience with modern medicine.
Speaker 1: So there's that. But yeah, I would choose America. You're
Speaker 1: in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast,
Speaker 1: Carl rites the last two days. It sounds like you're
Speaker 1: drinking the kool aid, my friend. The current absurdity reminds
Speaker 1: me about the media's rants of bodybag counts before Desert
Speaker 1: Storm or the hyperbole of Y two K. I think
Speaker 1: in two or three weeks we'll look back and wonder
Speaker 1: why we're so worried about this now more than ever.
Speaker 1: Shields high, be careful and be well. Carl, Look, I
Speaker 1: think we just disagree on the risk parameters or the
Speaker 1: way we're willing to tolerate risk here. I agree that
Speaker 1: if in two or three weeks this thing isn't what
Speaker 1: they've told us it's going to be, then we got
Speaker 1: to make some dramatic not just not change as so
Speaker 1: much as revert to normal. I'm only giving this thing
Speaker 1: two or three weeks and then I'm going to assess
Speaker 1: where we are, and then personally I'm gonna say, Okay, maybe,
Speaker 1: but given what we've seen in Italy, and given what
Speaker 1: all of the experts, including Trump's experts, are saying now,
Speaker 1: I think we got to give it the two to
Speaker 1: three weeks. I think we have to do that. That
Speaker 1: just seems to me to be common sense at this point.
Speaker 1: So I don't really know how I'm drinking the kool aid.
Speaker 1: I've been a pretty calm voice about this all along.
Speaker 1: I think I've been optimistic about it. Some have even
Speaker 1: criticized me for being maybe more optimistic than they think
Speaker 1: I should have been. But what's the alternative. We're going
Speaker 1: to risk spiking the cases right when the healthcare system
Speaker 1: is fragile, and then have a lot of people that
Speaker 1: die that wouldn't have had to die if we had
Speaker 1: just had a little better preparation and a little bit
Speaker 1: less a spike in time. I just I think that
Speaker 1: I think that the experts that the Trump administration's pulled together,
Speaker 1: I think we give them the fifteen days that they've
Speaker 1: asked for. Here, I think we give them those fifteen days.
Speaker 1: I'm not giving them fifty days where meaning that if
Speaker 1: I feel like this thing is not as out of
Speaker 1: control as we've been led to believe it can be,
Speaker 1: and you know, we're all going to be assessing as
Speaker 1: we go through this, and ultimately we all do have
Speaker 1: to be the arbiters of our own personal risk. So
Speaker 1: that's where we're at. Doug Buck and Mark relatively new
Speaker 1: fan of Marx, but Buck, I've been a fan of
Speaker 1: yours since Red Eye and The Shagging Wagon. I got
Speaker 1: you three new listeners and they love your show. Well.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Doug. The most helpful thing you
Speaker 1: can do for us, especially during this time, guys, people
Speaker 1: are looking for, you know, new new programs, new shows,
Speaker 1: new entertainment, you know, and if you're texting friends, emailing them,
Speaker 1: posting on your Facebook, please pass the buck tell them
Speaker 1: about this show. I don't think that there's a better
Speaker 1: radio show out there right now, is actually, given what's
Speaker 1: going on right now, okay other than Rush, but you know,
Speaker 1: especially given what's going on right now in the country,
Speaker 1: I think that this is I think that this work
Speaker 1: that we're doing here matters, and I would love to
Speaker 1: share it with as many people as possible. And I
Speaker 1: really believe in what I do. I'm very confident in
Speaker 1: the product that Mark and I put out every day,
Speaker 1: and we have nothing but the best intentions, and we
Speaker 1: couldn't put in any more effort and hard and soul
Speaker 1: into this for our listeners than we do. So please
Speaker 1: do pass the buck. Tell people about it. You're stuck
Speaker 1: at home, you're texting folks, you know, if they're going
Speaker 1: to tell you, hey, check out the boys on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 1: It's okay. I'm a little bit into it. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you more about that maybe tomorrow or later on in
Speaker 1: the week. Be like, hey, have you listened to the
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. It's a great thing. While you're cleaning
Speaker 1: up the apartment or just getting ready to make dinner
Speaker 1: or whatever it is you got going on, listen to
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. So oh. He also wrote the virus
Speaker 1: comes from China and the economy takes a hit. The
Speaker 1: only way to really defeat Trump is at the economy tanks.
Speaker 1: Given what we know about China, do you think this
Speaker 1: is something they wouldn't do just because they love civil
Speaker 1: rights too much? You know, guys, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: theories out there. Now I need evidence for theories, and
Speaker 1: I don't have any evidence that China would be willing
Speaker 1: to you know, I know. We just talked to Brandon. Look,
Speaker 1: Brandon is a seal with a lot of connections in
Speaker 1: the Special operations It was a seal a lot of
Speaker 1: connections in the Special operations community. Knows a lot of
Speaker 1: people in the Intel community too, and he thinks that
Speaker 1: there's more going on here with China than we've been
Speaker 1: led to believe so far. So we'll see. I don't
Speaker 1: have it yet, though, I don't have the information necessary
Speaker 1: to accelerate or to go deeper on that kind of
Speaker 1: a charge. Eric, Hey Buck, checking in from Team Buck Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, Eric, from Minnesota and some super nice people
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. My fiance and my fiance and I are
Speaker 1: planning and getting married in two weeks. However, bars in
Speaker 1: the area are starting to close for a month due
Speaker 1: to the Wuhan virus. The governor might require. This would
Speaker 1: mean our venue in cater would be forced to cancel.
Speaker 1: What this means for a big day maybe looking for
Speaker 1: a new venue caterer might be looking for a new
Speaker 1: wedding day yet to be seen. What this means for
Speaker 1: the thousands of dollars we've spent and the year plus
Speaker 1: of planning. No clue, Like weddings aren't hard enough until then,
Speaker 1: She'll saw Eric Man my heart goes out to you.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's really challenging and difficult and annoying and frustrating,
Speaker 1: but ultimately, man, you found the woman you're gonna spend
Speaker 1: the rest of your life with. You're gonna get married.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you start a beautiful family, and that's that's
Speaker 1: what actually matters. I know everyone wants a beautiful, picture
Speaker 1: perfect wedding, but you found your life partner and God blessed,
Speaker 1: and that's the most important thing. And you two will
Speaker 1: be together through thick and thin. You're starting out through thin,
Speaker 1: I guess in a sense right now in terms of
Speaker 1: where the world is on coronavirus. But you'll be all right,
Speaker 1: and you found each other and that's what really matters.
Speaker 1: So nothing but the best to you two, God bless
Speaker 1: and I hope that you managed to find a great
Speaker 1: way to do your wedding. If it's postponed or maybe
Speaker 1: you just keep it two hundred ten people. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm I'm not good at planning these
Speaker 1: kinds of things. Team. I hope you've enjoyed the show today.
Speaker 1: I'm try to mix in even more non pandemic analysis
Speaker 1: and talk tomorrow because I know we're gonna all get
Speaker 1: beaten down by that. But we did a bit of
Speaker 1: a mix today. We'll have more tomorrow. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: tend to Tlula now because she's running around my bedroom
Speaker 1: being being, you know, creating a mess and I was
Speaker 1: just digging through stuff in there. All right, everybody shield
Speaker 1: hie