Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt. The battle to reopen
Speaker 1: America is underway. South Carolina has got its stores and
Speaker 1: beaches coming back into action soon. Florida has opened some
Speaker 1: of its beaches. Meanwhile, New Jersey cops are using drones
Speaker 1: to spy on you in your backyard. Was the NYC
Speaker 1: subway the super spreader of COVID nineteen Sweden says its
Speaker 1: approaches working. Paycheck protection, however, is failing an oral hated
Speaker 1: journals too. That and more coming up. This is the
Speaker 1: Buck Sexon Show, where the mission or mission is to
Speaker 1: decode what really matters with passionable intelligence. Make no mistake
Speaker 1: a great here, a great American Again, the Buck Sexon
Speaker 1: Show begins. He's a great guy. No, We've already built
Speaker 1: sufficient testing capacity nationwide for states to begin their reopenings,
Speaker 1: and I think you'll be hearing a lot about reopenings
Speaker 1: in the coming weeks and months. Most excitingly, in the
Speaker 1: coming weeks, I think you're going to see some very
Speaker 1: dramatic steps taken and very safely. We're putting safety first.
Speaker 1: We may be opening, but we're putting safety first. Welcome
Speaker 1: the Buck sac and share everybody. Hope you had a
Speaker 1: good weekend. Thank you so much for being here. All Right,
Speaker 1: this is where we are now as a country, the
Speaker 1: single most important issue for all of us to decide,
Speaker 1: and we all must have a voice in this one.
Speaker 1: We all have to have an opinion. We should share
Speaker 1: our opinions, we should have our voices heard. When do
Speaker 1: we get to start living our lives again, at least
Speaker 1: in part. I'm not saying we get to go back
Speaker 1: to normal tomorrow or next month, or at this rate
Speaker 1: even next year. I'm just saying we have to start
Speaker 1: pushing for normalcy, start moving in that direction, start deciding
Speaker 1: that this is something that we're going to do, even if, yes,
Speaker 1: it is imperfect and there are risks attached to it.
Speaker 1: I've been saying all along. People need to understand life
Speaker 1: has risk. You leave, you leave your apartment, bad things
Speaker 1: or your house Bess sor I'm in New York's always
Speaker 1: think of apartments. Bad things can happen to you. I'm
Speaker 1: reminded of the scene in the movie Heat, which I
Speaker 1: think just had its twentieth anniversary in the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, where al Pacino tells a would be informant
Speaker 1: a snitch. In fact, either he had killed walking your doggie.
Speaker 1: And he bangs on the table because in the classic
Speaker 1: Pacino moment, he overacts a little bit. I like Pecito,
Speaker 1: but sometimes a little too far. But it is true.
Speaker 1: You can, in fact, it killed walking your doggie, which
Speaker 1: I'm reminded of every time I go outside walking too. Lula.
Speaker 1: Here in the midst of what we're seeing as a
Speaker 1: pandemic worse in New York than anywhere else in the
Speaker 1: country and perhaps even the world, I want to break
Speaker 1: down for you. I finally saw a paper that looks
Speaker 1: at how the subway system may very well have been
Speaker 1: the huge negative factor here for New York. Many of
Speaker 1: us have thought that all along. I've been telling my
Speaker 1: family members that, And there's a lot to unpack there.
Speaker 1: It means a lot for you. If you live in Nebraska,
Speaker 1: what's up kfab Omaha. If you live in Austin, what's
Speaker 1: up KLBJ Austin. If you live in San Diego or Denver,
Speaker 1: or you name it, and you hear about the New
Speaker 1: York City subway research that's been done now on the
Speaker 1: spread of this virus, you might say, Okay, that makes sense,
Speaker 1: and we don't have four million people a day getting
Speaker 1: on the subway, so or four million subway rides, I
Speaker 1: should say, So maybe we're in a very different situation
Speaker 1: than New York. So that's important. Even if you're not
Speaker 1: in the Tri state area, it's important for you to
Speaker 1: hear that analysis. I really dug into it over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Lines up with what I've thought all along. It all
Speaker 1: makes to those of us who know the city, it
Speaker 1: all makes sense, and it will be I think encouraging
Speaker 1: for you in other parts of the country who are saying,
Speaker 1: hold on a second, why can't we open of be
Speaker 1: encouraging for you to hear that if you don't have
Speaker 1: a mass transportation system that the city is completely reliant
Speaker 1: on you are in that that is why you are
Speaker 1: in and will continue to be in much better shape
Speaker 1: than we are here in New York. So, as I
Speaker 1: was saying, we have a lot to dig into today,
Speaker 1: but my biggest, my biggest initial takeaway for all of
Speaker 1: you is that we are getting a reminder here that
Speaker 1: we are seeing something that many of us have known
Speaker 1: all along was going to be a reality. But we're
Speaker 1: only one month into this lockdown and we're getting constant
Speaker 1: reminders that even during a crisis or perhaps especially during one.
Speaker 1: Allowing the government to determine the extent of its own
Speaker 1: powers is a very bad idea. This is a lesson
Speaker 1: we have seen countless times throughout history. But we always
Speaker 1: we always forget it when we're scared, don't we. We
Speaker 1: forget at the moment that it seems we need the
Speaker 1: government to keep us safe and warm, we need the
Speaker 1: government to protect us. The government is always going to
Speaker 1: disappoint you, and I need you to remember, folks, this
Speaker 1: is not about Trump right now, meaning that this analysis
Speaker 1: that I'm giving you on the ineptitude of government, Trump
Speaker 1: is better at what he is doing at his position
Speaker 1: in government than other presidents. True, but there are still
Speaker 1: limitations of government. I think even the President himself would
Speaker 1: admit that, although you know he has a very high
Speaker 1: opinion of his ability, still there are going to be
Speaker 1: shortcomings for the government. The paycheck protection program. I spoke
Speaker 1: to a very good friend of mine over the weekend
Speaker 1: who walked me through in detail what his company is
Speaker 1: going through right now. One hundred thousand dollars of payroll
Speaker 1: they can't meet for the next couple of months. Do
Speaker 1: you think they're and any money from paycheck protection zero dollars,
Speaker 1: no money left in a piggybank. Harvard got to think
Speaker 1: it was nine million, and they've got a forty billion
Speaker 1: dollar endowment. And the government turns around and tell us
Speaker 1: people who are getting who are having to lay off
Speaker 1: their employees, lay off there the people that have built
Speaker 1: these companies, Oh no, sorry, there's no money left for you.
Speaker 1: How is there no money left? And then we're talking
Speaker 1: about a five hundred billion dollars bailout fund for state
Speaker 1: and local governments. My friends, here's really where we are
Speaker 1: on this. The government has shown us exactly why we
Speaker 1: need limitations on its authority, limitations on its power, why
Speaker 1: we have a bill of rights. We've been reminded of
Speaker 1: all this and just the last four to six weeks,
Speaker 1: because you see, the tradeoff isn't give away your rights
Speaker 1: and we'll make everything better. That's not the tradeoff that
Speaker 1: government makes. The tradeoff, especially during a crisis, is give
Speaker 1: away or we will take away your rights, and then
Speaker 1: the thing that we promise you in return will be
Speaker 1: delivered as a half measure and won't be nearly as good,
Speaker 1: or as safe or as helpful as we claim it
Speaker 1: will be. And the moment you have a problem with it,
Speaker 1: We'll tell you. Shut up, peasant, it's a crisis. Go
Speaker 1: back inside. Go look at your empty bank account and
Speaker 1: your children, and your wife and your husband, and your
Speaker 1: aunts and uncles and whoever else you're supporting, your grandkids.
Speaker 1: Go back and look them in the eye and say sorry,
Speaker 1: can't do anything about this. The government told me no work,
Speaker 1: stay indoors. It's getting worse and worse here in New York.
Speaker 1: The situation with the virus is getting better, but the
Speaker 1: overreach and the insanity of the liberal mentality is unfortunately
Speaker 1: growing with every day. Oh wow, you mean that we
Speaker 1: can tell people do as I say or else with
Speaker 1: any aspect of their life. Anything. You can't go outside
Speaker 1: and things unless we say you can. You can't leave
Speaker 1: your home unless we tell you can. We can put
Speaker 1: you under virtual house arrest while you're healthy and have
Speaker 1: done nothing wrong because we say so. You ever have
Speaker 1: the experience that I've had this in in DC many times.
Speaker 1: I've had it in New York too, where there will
Speaker 1: be some motorcade for any president doesn't matter. And the sometimes,
Speaker 1: and I will say it, I have friends who are
Speaker 1: in the Secret Service. I do, but sometimes a Secret
Speaker 1: Service can be deeply imperious and jerks when it comes
Speaker 1: to things like this. I've I've had it happened to
Speaker 1: me a few times where they're unnecessarily snippy when you
Speaker 1: ask Sarah, you know, can I can I cross this?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm always very polite to anybody who's doing
Speaker 1: their job, trust me. But you know you've had that moment,
Speaker 1: you know, can I can I cross the street? I've
Speaker 1: got to get to work or how long will it be?
Speaker 1: Or I'm gonna call my boss? You know, quiet stay
Speaker 1: here till we say so. I mean, I've had that
Speaker 1: interaction with secrets there. I remember once one of them
Speaker 1: told me to move to the left and I moved
Speaker 1: to the left and he said your other left, And
Speaker 1: I said, well, brilliant man, you said left, and that's
Speaker 1: my left if you wanted your left. You know, but
Speaker 1: this is the stuff you deal with the Secret Service.
Speaker 1: Sometimes some of them are great. I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm saying, but I've had a few. But it's a
Speaker 1: little bit like the Praetorian Guard telling you this is
Speaker 1: the way it is. Can't get home too bad. We
Speaker 1: need a six block perimeter for the president. You know,
Speaker 1: we need to have a battalion's worth of agents and
Speaker 1: police and everybody else around with machine guns and everything,
Speaker 1: just in case it's absurd. What I mean really is
Speaker 1: is are the North Koreans para dropping into Central Park
Speaker 1: right now? Get out of here. It's out of control.
Speaker 1: Anyone who's living in DC knows. And you sit there
Speaker 1: and you realize, wow, so this is what really are
Speaker 1: my rights here? Can the Secret Service tell me that
Speaker 1: I can't cross the street, that I have to stand
Speaker 1: on this corner for six hours, can't go to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: can't do anything. I'm stuck here, I can't can I'm
Speaker 1: I'm effectively under arrest because they say so. Now, some
Speaker 1: of you may have had this experience before I have,
Speaker 1: And you say, what really are the limitations of the
Speaker 1: government's authority here? And you start to realize that there's
Speaker 1: that part of you, that deeply human yearning for autonomy
Speaker 1: and freedom and respect, And you say, hold on a second,
Speaker 1: what is really the justification for this? Oh? Because you know,
Speaker 1: the presidential the vice president or whoever it is, is
Speaker 1: less safe by what me The former CIA officer who's
Speaker 1: trying to get home through his apartment, who has no backpack,
Speaker 1: no weapon, no nothing on him whatsoever. Like, what are
Speaker 1: we really doing here? You got to ask yourself. But
Speaker 1: we're all getting a little taste of that feeling right
Speaker 1: now of stay where we tell you you didn't do
Speaker 1: anything wrong, shut up and do what you're told. This
Speaker 1: is this is now the argument that you're getting, especially
Speaker 1: when oh the data, my friends, and I'm I'm not
Speaker 1: going to forget all the journals running around. You just
Speaker 1: want grandma to die. No, the data shows that social
Speaker 1: distancing and basic precautions, of course helpful for preventing the
Speaker 1: spread of COVID nineteen or any respiratory disease. Locking down,
Speaker 1: staying at home, can't go to work, even with mask
Speaker 1: and gloves on, even if you're young and healthy and
Speaker 1: at low risk, school shut down. The data does not
Speaker 1: show these to be good ideas. And you know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. The government is going to want to
Speaker 1: just move past this as quickly as possible in some places,
Speaker 1: and other places are going to double down even more
Speaker 1: because the longer they extend the lockdown, the harder will
Speaker 1: be to look at the data as we have it
Speaker 1: right now and say, hold on a second, you guys
Speaker 1: are doing exactly the right You're doing the wrong thing here.
Speaker 1: We start to loosen, we start to open up a
Speaker 1: little bit, and we see that there's no big spike
Speaker 1: in cases. Well, why have we been doing this for
Speaker 1: over a month? And I mean in New York, it's
Speaker 1: really six weeks. You've been on de facto lockdown. But
Speaker 1: if you ever have a question about what the government's
Speaker 1: really like, just remember right now in New Jersey there's
Speaker 1: law enforcement that are they're using drones, drones that I
Speaker 1: believe are manufactured in China. So just put that in
Speaker 1: your pipe and smoke it. You got drones being manufactured
Speaker 1: and they're being used to spy on people in their
Speaker 1: own backyards to see if they're engaging in sufficient social distancing.
Speaker 1: If you had written this in some kind of dystopian
Speaker 1: novel about the transition to an authoritarian technocratic society or
Speaker 1: technology based society, if you had written that, people say, oh,
Speaker 1: come on, an, we're already there. They're doing it, and
Speaker 1: then they're proud of it. Producer Mark, do we even
Speaker 1: have the Do we have that clip? I sent it
Speaker 1: to you last minute. It's all right if we don't
Speaker 1: have it. No, Yeah, whatever. There's a clip of a
Speaker 1: local newscaster in New Jersey here. I'll tell you I'm
Speaker 1: just as good at it as a newscaster. Oh, look
Speaker 1: at these drones that they're using to enforce social distancing.
Speaker 1: Guess what that should put all of us on edge.
Speaker 1: They're gonna send drones to spy on you in your
Speaker 1: backyard to make sure you're not hanging out with what
Speaker 1: too many family members? You've got twelve people in the backyard.
Speaker 1: This is what they're really doing. We don't even know
Speaker 1: how many people in New York and New Jersey have
Speaker 1: been infected psyology testing. Here's what I can tell you
Speaker 1: about zerology testing. We don't know the real numbers yet.
Speaker 1: It's very hard, and you're trying to extrapolate out to
Speaker 1: a much broader sample, a much broader size population than
Speaker 1: what you're dealing with in the sample. But guess what
Speaker 1: all serology testing, and I'll give you some of the
Speaker 1: numbers on all of its shows that there are vast
Speaker 1: numbers of people beyond the established cases who have been
Speaker 1: exposed to and have COVID nineteen eighty bodies. It's at
Speaker 1: least ten x, maybe more like fifty to seventy five
Speaker 1: x the actual established cases in some places. So there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people that are being told stay
Speaker 1: home who have effectively they don't know it, yet have
Speaker 1: effectively zero risk of getting or spreading this disease, unless
Speaker 1: it turns out you can't be immune from it even
Speaker 1: if you get it. And if that's the case, my friends,
Speaker 1: we got big problems. But I don't think that's that
Speaker 1: would be specific to this respiratory infection, and why would
Speaker 1: that be Why would that be the case, unless, of
Speaker 1: course somebody was tinkering with us somewhere in the lab.
Speaker 1: But that's a conversation for another time, and I do
Speaker 1: mean that we will have that conversation another time. We
Speaker 1: limit government authority, regardless of how benevolent they think their
Speaker 1: intentions are. We maintain individual autonomy, We maintain our freedoms
Speaker 1: on our right to choose how we live our day
Speaker 1: to day lives, not you know, infringing on other people,
Speaker 1: not stealing their stuff, not hurting them. But what we
Speaker 1: see here is that the government that's not sufficient do
Speaker 1: as we say, based on faulty data, based on panic
Speaker 1: because the liberal journal establishment, the Democratic Party, and yes,
Speaker 1: much of the Republican Party got dragged into a moment
Speaker 1: of political panic, and so all the rest of us
Speaker 1: were told stay home, do as we say, or else. Sorry,
Speaker 1: you don't have a paycheck, We'll get you a paycheck. Oh,
Speaker 1: we can't get you the paycheck because we're too stupid
Speaker 1: to shovel as the government. We're too stupid to shovel
Speaker 1: your own money out of a helicopter fast enough to
Speaker 1: you after we've told you you can't work. Welcome to government,
Speaker 1: my friends. It's always been this way. We're just seeing
Speaker 1: once again why this will never change. It's a lesson
Speaker 1: that we keep forgetting, and we are learning it once again.
Speaker 1: You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sex
Speaker 1: and Show Podcast. New Yorkers. You have been extraordinary at
Speaker 1: social distancing, and let me tell you, it has taken
Speaker 1: every fiber of our beings to figure out how to
Speaker 1: do this. Because we're warm, emotional people. We're used to
Speaker 1: being close to each other, we're used to being packed
Speaker 1: into subway cars, and we've had to do the exact
Speaker 1: opposite and figure out how to keep distance. It's not
Speaker 1: natural for us, it's not normal for us, but done it.
Speaker 1: You've done an amazing job. Now, look, thank you everyone
Speaker 1: who's done it the right way, but we still know
Speaker 1: there's some people need to get the message, and that
Speaker 1: means sometimes making sure the enforcement is there to educate
Speaker 1: people and make clear we've got to have social distancing.
Speaker 1: So now it is easier than ever. When you see
Speaker 1: a crowd, when you see a line that's not distanced,
Speaker 1: when you see a supermarket that's too crowded, anything, you
Speaker 1: can report it right away so we can get help
Speaker 1: there to fix the problem. And now it's as simple
Speaker 1: as taking a photo. The Stazi. We're famous in East
Speaker 1: Germany for having informants everywhere. In fact, this was also
Speaker 1: true in the Soviet Union. But the Stasi really applied
Speaker 1: German Prussian efficiency to the process of miking up, putting
Speaker 1: a microphone in every room in every home in society,
Speaker 1: and turning everyone into an informant. And in fact, there
Speaker 1: was a hero within the Soviet Union. I forget his name.
Speaker 1: Now some of you will be tweeting an app or
Speaker 1: texting me I'm sure, or sending me messages in a
Speaker 1: moment about it. But who was a hero held up
Speaker 1: as a boy who ranted on his parents to the
Speaker 1: secret police in the Soviet Union. You know what a
Speaker 1: great hero that was. Now I understand that this is
Speaker 1: unlike the Stazi and the secret police and the KGB
Speaker 1: and all the rest of it, in that no one's
Speaker 1: going to get a photo taken of them social distance,
Speaker 1: lacking the proper social distance outside of a grocery store,
Speaker 1: and be locked up for a long time. But businesses
Speaker 1: are already under tremendous pressure. People are under a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure right now, and we're gonna encourage one another
Speaker 1: to take photos and snitch. Here's the problem. You know
Speaker 1: Garcetti in La you know there's that whole Snitches get
Speaker 1: Stitches a campaign which was bad, which was about people
Speaker 1: not speaking out and telling the cops when someone commits
Speaker 1: a crime. Well, Garcetti has a sort of snitches get
Speaker 1: riches campaign where if you snitch on somebody for not
Speaker 1: social distance or for a business being open, you get money,
Speaker 1: you get a reward, a bounty system in place. There
Speaker 1: are so many problems I have with this, my friends.
Speaker 1: And as I was saying before, it's a reminder that
Speaker 1: government always overreaches if you let it, that government always
Speaker 1: wants more power and more authority. The people in charge
Speaker 1: think they're smarter and wiser and better than they are.
Speaker 1: That's just the nature of government. That's why our government
Speaker 1: is built on restraining power. But the things that we're
Speaker 1: being told to do, now, some of them, I'm seeing
Speaker 1: people running all over New York jogging, I mean running,
Speaker 1: jogging with faces masks on. This is crazy. You don't
Speaker 1: need to jog with a face mask on. You're not
Speaker 1: going to infect anyone when you're jogging because you can
Speaker 1: maintain more than six feet of distance if you're jogging
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Speaker 1: You know, this is not about Democrats Republicans. This is
Speaker 1: about a thing that hit our country, the likes of
Speaker 1: which has never happened to us before. It shouldn't be
Speaker 1: about democrat a Republican, but we know that the left
Speaker 1: has already made it. So we know that they are
Speaker 1: already doing everything they can to make sure that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is not president again because of this crisis that
Speaker 1: he has blamed for, this crisis that it's viewed as
Speaker 1: being his fault. It's on him Nancy Pelosi. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're wondering, am I am I exaggerating us? And
Speaker 1: oh we'll get to Pelosi. Let them eat cake Pelosi,
Speaker 1: or let them eat artisan ice cream. We'll get to her.
Speaker 1: And just a little bit later on in the show
Speaker 1: again on how little she seems to care about the
Speaker 1: destruction that the delay, that she is the she is
Speaker 1: the person, she is responsible for what that's doing to people.
Speaker 1: But here she is saying that this is really that
Speaker 1: the virus is. You know, you hear people say stuff
Speaker 1: like this, and then when I'll say, you know, on
Speaker 1: Twitter or somewhere, I'll be like, hey, you know, Democrats,
Speaker 1: stop saying it's Trump's fault. Is it who says it's
Speaker 1: Trump's fault? I mean, basically the gay facto ahead of
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party Nancy Pelosi, play clip nineteen. The second
Speaker 1: bill was mask, Mask, Mask, and trying to facilitate the
Speaker 1: personal protective equipment that we don't really have as much
Speaker 1: as we need it when we needed it because the
Speaker 1: President wouldn't do Defense Production Act. So the situation we're
Speaker 1: in is largely of his making calling it a hoax,
Speaker 1: saying would magically disappear, not calling upon the Defense Production
Speaker 1: Act to protect the workers who are trying to save
Speaker 1: lives as they risk their own lives in doing so.
Speaker 1: Pelosi doesn't give a crap about workers. She doesn't. If
Speaker 1: she did, how could she explain what she's doing right now,
Speaker 1: holding up money to get people able to pay to
Speaker 1: pay their workers so that payroll can continue to be
Speaker 1: a source of support for millions of workers and their
Speaker 1: families and the businesses that depend on them spending money.
Speaker 1: You know, no one's really thinking about the second and
Speaker 1: third order effects of this shutdown right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: a few people that I come across are, but for
Speaker 1: the most part, my friends, good gosh, do you realize
Speaker 1: how many businesses that exist that employ tens of thousands,
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people are They're not coming back
Speaker 1: for perhaps years, if ever, I'm not just talking about
Speaker 1: small businesses. What does anyone really think that the tourism
Speaker 1: industry and the Caribbean is going to be in good shape?
Speaker 1: Think of how many islands. I know this is that
Speaker 1: we're not talking about generally American American territory here, but
Speaker 1: think of how many people in the Caribbean, or how
Speaker 1: many people on US soil that work in tourism industry
Speaker 1: places down and you know South Beach in Miami and Etta,
Speaker 1: what's going to happen to them? The hotels are empty.
Speaker 1: That means that means that there's no money to pay,
Speaker 1: you know, the maids, the servers, the staff, the chefs,
Speaker 1: the bellhops, you name it, nobody no money. But but
Speaker 1: Pelosi thinks the problem is that is Donald Trump. He's
Speaker 1: trying to get money to them as fast as possible. Look,
Speaker 1: I think the problem is and I know that would
Speaker 1: have it would have been the pressure they created on
Speaker 1: this one. Now they finally had it. They finally had
Speaker 1: the moment where they were able to get Trump to
Speaker 1: go against his instincts. It's the truth. Trump wanted to
Speaker 1: open start. I should say Trump wanted to allow the country.
Speaker 1: Let's be very specific here so that people can't twist
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Oh they'll do it anyway, jerks. But
Speaker 1: Trump wanted to allow states to start moving toward greater
Speaker 1: economic normalcy on Easter Sunday, remember that's what he said,
Speaker 1: they were moving. That he should have that was the
Speaker 1: right move. That would have been the right move. But
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you know, he would have been you know,
Speaker 1: throwing Grahama off the rooftop. If he had done that,
Speaker 1: I mean people would have just the media and the
Speaker 1: Democrats and look, his own experts, his own public health experts,
Speaker 1: who have just have been just wrong, wrong and wrong
Speaker 1: again on this one. Gee, thanks so much. You know,
Speaker 1: this is a bit a bit like when I was
Speaker 1: in the CIA and we had to deal with the
Speaker 1: reality of you know, we missed, we missed nine to eleven,
Speaker 1: and then afterwards, I mean I wasn't there when that happens.
Speaker 1: I can't blame me, but you know, we missed nine eleven,
Speaker 1: and then afterwards we're being asked to make all these
Speaker 1: assessments and calls about things like WMD we missed that
Speaker 1: one too. At what point? At what point do people
Speaker 1: have a right to say, I'm not sure that you
Speaker 1: guys really know what you're doing. I'm not sure you're
Speaker 1: really good at judgment or making calls. Maybe you're good
Speaker 1: at providing basic information. Great, we've gotten that from our
Speaker 1: healthcare the healthcare policy people. Remember I'm always separating out
Speaker 1: frontline healthcare workers who are who are saving lives and
Speaker 1: against the disease for individuals who desperately needed and that's fantastic,
Speaker 1: and that's why I'm screaming and cheering out my window
Speaker 1: every day. And then that the healthcare policy people who
Speaker 1: are the ones making determinations that affect the economy, that
Speaker 1: affect our lives, that affect the Bill of Rights and
Speaker 1: individual freedom and rights and federalism, and you know, those
Speaker 1: people at dad level not impressed. Folks not impressed. And
Speaker 1: I've seen so many conservatives that have just been like,
Speaker 1: it's not the flu. Thanks, that's really helpful. We know
Speaker 1: it's not the flu. What do we do about it?
Speaker 1: Hiding under the bed until the vaccine, which really for
Speaker 1: a lot of people started to feel like that that
Speaker 1: was what they wanted. That's insane. We can't do that.
Speaker 1: The country's falling apart. Trump recognizes that Democrats. I look,
Speaker 1: there are there are a high level Democrats, Pelosi among them.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter how much pain the country goes through, as
Speaker 1: long as Trump doesn't economic pain, as long as Trump
Speaker 1: doesn't win, they'll just come in and say, see what
Speaker 1: he did you, we'll fix it all. We'll fix it all.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. We'll make everything better. Just put
Speaker 1: I mean, really, you know, here's the problem. With talking
Speaker 1: about Biden, They're they're forcing us into some form of
Speaker 1: rhetorical elder abuse here. You know, I've I've been around
Speaker 1: relatives who have started to have dementia and have one case,
Speaker 1: my great grandmother had really serious to mention. I remember,
Speaker 1: I remember her being really scared when I'd be a
Speaker 1: little kid to go visit her. I remember she didn't
Speaker 1: know who I was. And I've seen all that, and
Speaker 1: that's that's heartbreaking for anybody who's been around that and
Speaker 1: seen that with any family member. But we're also in
Speaker 1: this position where we're being told that somebody who clearly
Speaker 1: fades in and out of that kind of you know,
Speaker 1: he lacks a certain mental precision these days with Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is supposed to be the person who is leading
Speaker 1: this country at a very we'll be leading this country
Speaker 1: relatively student at a very difficult time and making decisions
Speaker 1: that impact all of our lives, and we're not allowed
Speaker 1: to talk about that right where, you know that they're
Speaker 1: putting us in a position where you have someone who
Speaker 1: seems to be in the early stages of senility and
Speaker 1: I really mean this, he really seems that way. But
Speaker 1: you know, we don't want to we don't want to
Speaker 1: be dismissive. We're rude about anybody who's dealing with that
Speaker 1: actual problem the broader society. So it's almost like he
Speaker 1: becomes a He's going to have the same victim protection
Speaker 1: the Democrats use for so many other people. Right, he
Speaker 1: gets to go out and talk about how great he
Speaker 1: be in the government, how the lecture all of us
Speaker 1: about Trump is horrible. And if you say, hold on
Speaker 1: a second, this guy seems like he's in the early
Speaker 1: stages of having one too many senior moments, we could
Speaker 1: call it. Then then a lot of other people are
Speaker 1: gonna the Democrats are gonna trun and say to us,
Speaker 1: how dare you look at what you're saying? Do you
Speaker 1: not respect our seniors? Said no, I just you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's amazing people will get up into
Speaker 1: their nineties and have led these incredibly full and amazing lives,
Speaker 1: that's great, and we should honor them and cherish them.
Speaker 1: I don't think we should make somebody who's ninety five president,
Speaker 1: for example, and I know Biden's not ninety five, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna be basically eighty. I don't think we should
Speaker 1: make somebody who's eighty the president. I even think Trump
Speaker 1: is bored aline on the age thing, but he's just
Speaker 1: he's some kind of I don't know. I mean, the
Speaker 1: guy's got an inhuman level of energy and vitality and
Speaker 1: health for someone his age. I've never I've never never
Speaker 1: seen Trump once, you know, Okay, I know I feel
Speaker 1: like it's too tire, he's out of it, or he
Speaker 1: gets unbelievable. I mean I feel that way sometimes I'm
Speaker 1: thirty Oh gosh, thirty eight almost forgot. But all right now,
Speaker 1: the Pelosi politicization effect here and what we're all going
Speaker 1: through as a result of this, my friends, The claims
Speaker 1: the Democrats are making here, they're gonna run out pretty
Speaker 1: soon of excuses that people can believe in good faith,
Speaker 1: and it will just become clear that they want to
Speaker 1: pile everything they can on the president, even though the
Speaker 1: states are primarily going to be making these decisions. This
Speaker 1: is where you're going to hear a lot about testing,
Speaker 1: the lines about testing, you know, Nancy Pelosi at a
Speaker 1: test test testing, You're gonna keep hearing people talk about this, well,
Speaker 1: what's an acceptable level of testing? And understand this too,
Speaker 1: that that whole system and this was coming from doctor Burkes,
Speaker 1: who's a long time public health policy person whom I've
Speaker 1: got to say, based in the briefings, I have more
Speaker 1: confidence in her than I do in Fauci at this point.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm sure they would say they agree on everything,
Speaker 1: but she just seems a little bit more squared away,
Speaker 1: they mean, than Faucci. Sometimes. She said that, look, we've
Speaker 1: completely changed the Trump administration has completely changed the ability
Speaker 1: to look for look for disease through the mechanisms in
Speaker 1: the testing system that we have. And here's what she's
Speaker 1: saying about that play fifteen. So first, I just want
Speaker 1: to remind everyone that four weeks ago we were working
Speaker 1: off of the pandemic platform that had been developed for
Speaker 1: pandemic FLUS, and we realized, and the President realized, that
Speaker 1: we had to change completely how we were doing testing.
Speaker 1: And that's why we brought in the diagnostic companies that
Speaker 1: really work on novel tests, and brought in the large
Speaker 1: commercial labs. And I think you could see from the
Speaker 1: diagrams yesterday that almost sixty percent of the test to
Speaker 1: date have been done by these large commercial labs. But
Speaker 1: we've also put out an additional seven platforms for additional
Speaker 1: tests to make it possible for hospitals to tests and
Speaker 1: clinics to test. So they've done a lot on this front,
Speaker 1: and I understand that there's this focus now on we
Speaker 1: can't really reopen until we have all the testing in place,
Speaker 1: to which I just say, we're talking about we don't
Speaker 1: know how far this has already spread, and we don't
Speaker 1: know how really how long the incubation period is, especially
Speaker 1: for people who are asymptomatic entirely. I'll get into the
Speaker 1: purology test that I've already been done that show there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people that have this disease or
Speaker 1: have had this disease, have no idea, they feel fine.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tell you right now, if you were
Speaker 1: to ask me, if you were to say, Buck, do
Speaker 1: you think you have antibodies to this? And I'm going
Speaker 1: to get the test as soon as I can, do
Speaker 1: you think you have antibodies to this? Would I would
Speaker 1: bet money that I do at this point, given how
Speaker 1: much time I've spent on the subway and been around
Speaker 1: people and been in places where I know there have
Speaker 1: been people who are one or two individuals removed from
Speaker 1: my immediate vicinity who had COVID nineteen. So yes, I
Speaker 1: think I probably Now I don't know. I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: taking a guess here, but my gut tells me that
Speaker 1: I think I've probably had this. We're being told that
Speaker 1: testing is the key, but keep in mind they don't
Speaker 1: testing to what degree the numbers. The details here matters,
Speaker 1: and that's why you've got Governor Ralph. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if I was the one in the clan robe or
Speaker 1: in the black face Northam. Remember Democrat, folks. His excuse
Speaker 1: here is, I don't know if it was me in
Speaker 1: the clan robe or me in the black face. But
Speaker 1: you know, I get to still be governor of Virginia,
Speaker 1: a state that certainly has a history that would you'd
Speaker 1: understand there'd be a bit of elevated sensitivity about issues
Speaker 1: of race. But if you're a Democrat, you get a pass.
Speaker 1: Get a pass. He certainly got well. But here's what
Speaker 1: he says about testing plate too. The President and Vice
Speaker 1: President is saying over the past few days that the
Speaker 1: US has enough testing capacity for states to begin opening
Speaker 1: back up. If you feel you're ready to go into
Speaker 1: Phase one. Is at the case in Virginia, do you
Speaker 1: have enough tests to do the tests you need to do. Jack,
Speaker 1: that's just delusional to be making statements like that. We
Speaker 1: have been fighting every day for PPE and we've got
Speaker 1: some supplies now coming in. We've been fighting for testing.
Speaker 1: It's a it's not a straightforward test. We don't even
Speaker 1: have enough swabs, believe it or not, and we're ramping
Speaker 1: that up. But for the national level to say that
Speaker 1: we have what we need and to have no guidance
Speaker 1: to the state levels, it's just irresponsible because we're not
Speaker 1: there yet. Now. This guy, you know, he is an MD,
Speaker 1: which is also noteworthy, especially given what he says about
Speaker 1: what happens to a baby that survives an abortion, which
Speaker 1: we all heard him on radio, but we'll talk about
Speaker 1: that some other time. There's no such thing as enough
Speaker 1: testing for the Democrats, because this is going to be.
Speaker 1: What they're claiming now is that it's impossible for states,
Speaker 1: because a supply chain and other issues, to handle testing
Speaker 1: on their own. So any shortfall in testing is the
Speaker 1: federal government's fault, which means that it's Trump's fault, which
Speaker 1: means that in any state that there's any continuation not
Speaker 1: even have to be a spike, a continuation of COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen infections and deaths. It's Trump's fault because of the
Speaker 1: lack of testing that states couldn't handle, and they were
Speaker 1: begging the federal government for it. That is the political attack.
Speaker 1: That's what they're going to do, even though what's enough testing?
Speaker 1: Nobody has the answer. You're in the freedom hunt. This
Speaker 1: is the Sexton Show podcast right now. Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: not doing anything to help my city back on its feet.
Speaker 1: How am I going to pay for basic services? How
Speaker 1: am I going to pay for first responders? How am
Speaker 1: I going to have a restart of my economy if
Speaker 1: my city's going broke? And I know it's happening all
Speaker 1: over the country. You're hearing mayors Republican and Democrat, talked
Speaker 1: to them saying, we're not going to be able to
Speaker 1: make it if we don't get help from the federal
Speaker 1: government because we've just seen a hit on our budgets,
Speaker 1: a hit on our cities, a hit on our people
Speaker 1: that was unestimable, and Donald Trump is silent. Wait a second,
Speaker 1: you mean that last week it was governors and mayors
Speaker 1: to some extent, But governors have all the power. Trump
Speaker 1: has none of the power. Now it's oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: we're all in a sinking ship. We need the federal
Speaker 1: government to give us lots of money. Well, I've got
Speaker 1: to say, you know, maybe it would be useful for
Speaker 1: the states to actually have to live within their budgets
Speaker 1: and live with the realities of what they decided to
Speaker 1: do in different places. I'm not saying there shouldn't be
Speaker 1: any rescue funds, there shouldn't be any help from the
Speaker 1: federal government, but it is worth taking a step back
Speaker 1: to say, well, why why wouldn't a state continue the
Speaker 1: lockdown as long as possible, keeping them keep the lockdown
Speaker 1: for ninety days, one hundred and twenty days the federal
Speaker 1: and then just turn around into the federal government. You know, money, please,
Speaker 1: we want money. We're gonna pay all the people. Well,
Speaker 1: the problem this is, and we're gonna talk about the
Speaker 1: paycheck Protection program, which so far, my friends, I know,
Speaker 1: you know, look, I'm going to always tell you the truth.
Speaker 1: I know the Trump administrations running the paycheck protection program
Speaker 1: with Congress. Remember Congress appropriates the fund that Trump is
Speaker 1: the Trump Administration's putting it out there. So far, it's
Speaker 1: a massive it's a it's a massively insufficient it's not
Speaker 1: a failure. It is a massively insufficient program, which is
Speaker 1: clear because they need two hundred fifty billion more dollars
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty billion more. To Deblasio's point, you
Speaker 1: know what states in localities one now a five hundred
Speaker 1: billion dollar bailout fund. My friends, we are going to
Speaker 1: spend six trillion, eight trillion who knows, to try to
Speaker 1: get us out of this hole. We can't do this,
Speaker 1: it doesn't work. We are putting. By doing this stuff,
Speaker 1: you're pushing closer and closer to that cliff, at which
Speaker 1: point there is a collapse of our financial system because
Speaker 1: the debt that we've accrued is completely unsustainable and people panic.
Speaker 1: So we have a virus panic that could be followed
Speaker 1: by the financial panic unless we start getting a handle
Speaker 1: and all this stuff, and we can't just have the
Speaker 1: federal government writing endless checks for everything. Thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on
Speaker 1: Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Well,
Speaker 1: what it would do is something that we've been requesting
Speaker 1: for the last two weeks, more funding for the small
Speaker 1: business program. This business program has worked very well, more
Speaker 1: than one point six million businesses requested the money to
Speaker 1: pay their employees to pay their rent. Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: has held that up for the last two weeks. We
Speaker 1: have watched and the one question I have watching her
Speaker 1: on Sunday Show named me one productive thing speaker Pelosi
Speaker 1: has accomplished in this pandemic. When President Trump in January
Speaker 1: thirty first put in the band from China, February twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: she asked people to gather together in San Francisco, she
Speaker 1: actually fought the band. When we wanted to put the
Speaker 1: Cares Act together, she came in held it up. Now
Speaker 1: we had a small business program working, She's now held
Speaker 1: up the money. There's seven hundred thousand small business applications
Speaker 1: in right now trying to keep their doors open. Last
Speaker 1: week we watch five million people new numbers for unemployment.
Speaker 1: How many more millions of Pelosi's layoffs will we have
Speaker 1: to endure before She'll put people before politics even at
Speaker 1: this moment to get this agreement. We could have been
Speaker 1: done yesterday, but the Democrats continue to hold up even
Speaker 1: though we have agreed to all the numbers. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: keep it real. Nancy Pelosi is a disaster. We know
Speaker 1: that unethical, disgraceful, a liar, you know, just just your
Speaker 1: adjective that it's all true. Nancy Pelosi is the worst.
Speaker 1: She's the worst. I don't say that that every Democrat.
Speaker 1: There's some Democrats that aren't the worst. Nancy Pelosi is
Speaker 1: the worst, all right. Now, she has made this whole
Speaker 1: process of getting money to people who remember, this is
Speaker 1: not a free market thing. This is the government says
Speaker 1: you are not allowed to work anymore. You are not
Speaker 1: allowed to and we and the government then is stepping
Speaker 1: in to say we will essentially float your money because
Speaker 1: it's the money of we, the American people to you.
Speaker 1: You know, this is like getting an advance from your
Speaker 1: employer almost, right, Well, we'll put money in your hands
Speaker 1: because we're the ones telling you can't work. Right, that's
Speaker 1: on them. There are millions of people who would have
Speaker 1: continued to do their jobs in states that have very
Speaker 1: small COVID nineteen problems if it weren't for the lockdown order. Right,
Speaker 1: so we've already established that Pelosi is a disaster. Pelosi
Speaker 1: cannot be trusted on any of this, even when people
Speaker 1: are really suffering enormously. You know, she's too busy talking
Speaker 1: about you know, test t test take testing. This is
Speaker 1: a big thing, play eleven. So we're way late on it,
Speaker 1: and that is a failure. The president gets an f
Speaker 1: a failure on the testing, but fauci, if it is
Speaker 1: done profitly, it hasn't been And I think when they
Speaker 1: puts it in if it's done, is an admission that
Speaker 1: it hasn't been done. You know where the big failure
Speaker 1: was in testing the CDC, That's where the failure was.
Speaker 1: Initially they had a crap test that didn't work that
Speaker 1: they sent out all over the place. That really hurt
Speaker 1: getting you know, early information about how fast of our spreading.
Speaker 1: But you know, Pelosi's going to blame the president. Of
Speaker 1: course she does. She always does. That's that's really herr.
Speaker 1: Her goals are just to undermine what is all that
Speaker 1: is good and decent and worthwhile in the Republic at
Speaker 1: every opportunity, and she excels at that. Oh she also
Speaker 1: wants to tell you that she didn't give you bad advice,
Speaker 1: you the American people bad advice by saying, yeah, if're
Speaker 1: in the San Francisco area, make sure you go to
Speaker 1: that Chinese These lunar new year's celebration. A great place
Speaker 1: to hang out, right, and let's say early February, great stuff,
Speaker 1: great place to be. Why did Pelosi do that? Play ten?
Speaker 1: If the President underplayed the threat in the early days,
Speaker 1: Speaker Pelosi, didn't you as well? Know what we're trying
Speaker 1: to do is to end the discrimination, the stigma that
Speaker 1: was going out against the Asian American community. And in fact,
Speaker 1: if you will look the recordable show that our Chinatown
Speaker 1: has been a model of containing and presenting the virus.
Speaker 1: So I'm confidence in our folks there and thought it
Speaker 1: was necessary to offset some of the things that the
Speaker 1: President and others were saying about Asian Americans and making
Speaker 1: them a target, a target of violence across the country.
Speaker 1: And Seid, that's forgive me, don't you think. Don't you
Speaker 1: think that when you're out walking without any mass I
Speaker 1: understand this is February, not April when this happened, and
Speaker 1: saying that there's no threat, it's perfectly safe there. Weren't
Speaker 1: you also adding to this perception that there wasn't such
Speaker 1: a threat generally, No, I was saying that you should
Speaker 1: not discriminate against, discriminate against Chinese Americans, as some in
Speaker 1: our administration. We're doing by the way they were labeling
Speaker 1: the flu and that no. Indeed, and again I think
Speaker 1: you if you check the record and as current, you
Speaker 1: will see that Chinatown has been a model in all
Speaker 1: of this. Huh interesting, isn't it? Nancy Pelos just blather?
Speaker 1: But what he did pace you know it? Yeah? Look, Hey,
Speaker 1: credit works due Chris Wallace asking asking a real question
Speaker 1: and pushing on it. I know sometimes he annoys conservatives,
Speaker 1: but he does ask real questions. And you know, Pelosi's
Speaker 1: response here is just blather. It's because of the discrimination, okay,
Speaker 1: because you were worrying about discrimination. You basically were the
Speaker 1: mayor in Jaws ringing the dinner bell at the beach.
Speaker 1: Remember that, you know, Oh we'll be open fourth of July.
Speaker 1: That was Nancy Pelosi. Yeah, go to Chinatown. It's great.
Speaker 1: Hang out there during lunar New Year's celebration. Don't worry
Speaker 1: about all the people that have come in from Wuhan,
Speaker 1: No concern there. Who Democrat leader third in line for
Speaker 1: the presidency. Just remember that most powerful Democrat in our
Speaker 1: elected system in the country right now, Nancy Pelosi. Oh,
Speaker 1: but they do a better job running things, Okay, Now
Speaker 1: that I've established that, Nancy Pelosi just still work. Clear,
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi is making this worse for people. She is
Speaker 1: hurting workers, she is hurting the people that need the
Speaker 1: money the most. And that's beyond any doubt, any dispute.
Speaker 1: Now that we've established that, we can also talk about
Speaker 1: how this paycheck protection program not enough, not even close,
Speaker 1: and it look I understand right another sensitivity. I don't
Speaker 1: you know this. I'm a supporter of the administration. I'm
Speaker 1: open about it. Isn't nice that I get to be
Speaker 1: honest about this. I'm a supporter of President Trump and
Speaker 1: his agenda, but I also have to be honest where
Speaker 1: when there's criticism, that's necessary. And I know that we're
Speaker 1: an extremist right now and things are tough. But the
Speaker 1: program that they designed is being abused, it's being exploited,
Speaker 1: and it's not enough money, not even close, and it's
Speaker 1: not confidence inspiring. When by some estimates, I'm seeing five
Speaker 1: percent of businesses got money, ninety five percent of those
Speaker 1: that applied did not get money. How is it that
Speaker 1: a program that's supposed to last ten weeks, within the
Speaker 1: first two weeks has a two hundred and fifty billion
Speaker 1: dollars shortfall. Do they have absolutely no My friends, look,
Speaker 1: these are the numbers. This is reality. Did they have
Speaker 1: no idea how many people were really going to be
Speaker 1: unemployed and also how expensive that labor would be, because
Speaker 1: this is all meant to keep people at their previous
Speaker 1: level of pay by giving different You show your payroll,
Speaker 1: and I spoke to a friend over the weekend who's
Speaker 1: going through this exact process. You show your payroll the government.
Speaker 1: The government says, here's a check for your payroll for
Speaker 1: the next ten weeks. Company after company did not get
Speaker 1: that money, and that's not something that you can just
Speaker 1: keep delaying. They're going to let people go, and those
Speaker 1: individuals then will be at they'll be off payroll. There
Speaker 1: are investors, there are owners that could pull their money
Speaker 1: from these ventures. You know, if you're trying to do
Speaker 1: a startup, if you're trying to raise money, what happens
Speaker 1: now you're missing payroll? Do you think investors are going
Speaker 1: to say, yeah, we know times are tough, let's throw
Speaker 1: more cash to you. While you're running running in the
Speaker 1: red here can't buy product either. Businesses that don't don't
Speaker 1: have money, they if they're giving the money to their payroll.
Speaker 1: For example, they can't buy product even if they could
Speaker 1: stay in business at some level. So what are you?
Speaker 1: What are you left with here? How the government have
Speaker 1: gotten this so wrong? I think we need to ask
Speaker 1: the question. I think we need to understand. The numbers
Speaker 1: on this are are not good. The way that this
Speaker 1: has worked out so far is not confidence inspiring at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know shake Shack, which does make a
Speaker 1: great burger, but it's a big chain. Now they've got
Speaker 1: him in Vegas and New York. I think they got
Speaker 1: them all over the country. They got him in d C.
Speaker 1: I think all over the place. Shake Shack got ten
Speaker 1: million dollars from the coronavirus stimulus funding. This is supposed
Speaker 1: to be for payroll, right, shake Shack got ten million dollars.
Speaker 1: They had to return it. You know why because two
Speaker 1: days two days after rather two days after they got
Speaker 1: that money, they had to return it. Because they raised
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million dollars in equity Harvard University.
Speaker 1: This one's particularly well known right now, forty billion dollar endowment.
Speaker 1: Harvard University got nine million dollars. And now people say buck,
Speaker 1: they've employees too, Yeah, don't you think that they should
Speaker 1: probably be able to weather the storm with their forty
Speaker 1: billion with a b dollar endowmin they really need nine
Speaker 1: million dollars in emergency cash funding. No, because the whole, look,
Speaker 1: the whole higher education system has largely become these universities
Speaker 1: are hedge funds and influenced peddling schemes where people also
Speaker 1: take classes. It's really not about making people the leaders
Speaker 1: of the future and educated them in the way that
Speaker 1: you know, we'll make for a better society, that's all.
Speaker 1: It's just all branding and money and access the elite
Speaker 1: institutions in this country. Now, that's really the whole thing
Speaker 1: is a house of cards. It's beginning to fall apart too.
Speaker 1: You know how many dumbasses I know who went to
Speaker 1: Harvard and Yale, More more than I could even say.
Speaker 1: I could just start naming people, be like this guy
Speaker 1: dumbass didn't do any of his life, This guy jerk
Speaker 1: didn't do anything. Tons of them, Now, a lot of
Speaker 1: them had, you know, Mommy and Daddy gave money or
Speaker 1: went there. You know, legacy stuff is a big part
Speaker 1: of all this. But this this notion that you know,
Speaker 1: if you go to one of these schools, like Harvard
Speaker 1: in particular, and somehow I know people say to be
Speaker 1: oh bunk, you know, but you know this is this
Speaker 1: is a sour grapes thing. I mean, I could have
Speaker 1: gone an ivy League business school. I didn't go because
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was worth it. So them's the facts.
Speaker 1: Actually could have gone a couple of IV League business schools.
Speaker 1: Humble bregg who cares doesn't mean anything. All in them
Speaker 1: was I figured out how to play that system one
Speaker 1: enough to be one of the people chosen to take
Speaker 1: out a quarter of a million dollars in education loans
Speaker 1: beyond college. Right, But Harvard's got a forty billion dollar
Speaker 1: endowment and they want money. The small business, I mean,
Speaker 1: the numbers on this are staggering. The Small Business Administration
Speaker 1: gave one point six million dollar one point six million loans,
Speaker 1: rather not dollars one point six million loans through the
Speaker 1: paycheck Protection Program. There are thirty point seven million small
Speaker 1: businesses in America, according to the Small Business Association, so
Speaker 1: five point four percent received funds before the program ran
Speaker 1: out of money last week, ninety five percent ninety four
Speaker 1: point six percent received nothing. This is what a government
Speaker 1: rescue looks like. The connected the big fish, they eat
Speaker 1: all the fish food before it gets down to the
Speaker 1: bottom of the tank. The little fish that you're trying
Speaker 1: to help, No fish food for them. That's what's happened.
Speaker 1: And Nancy Pelosi is saying, no more food for anybody
Speaker 1: right now until I get what I want. That's what
Speaker 1: she's doing. The numbers don't lie, my friends. Ruth's Chris
Speaker 1: has eighty six million dollars. Now, look, their stakes are excellent.
Speaker 1: And then I understand the employee people, but this is
Speaker 1: emergency funding. Eighty six million dollars in the bank and
Speaker 1: they receive twenty million dollars in the PPP fund intended
Speaker 1: to help small businesses. It's a publicly traded company that
Speaker 1: has almost one hundred million dollars in the bank and
Speaker 1: they get twenty million dollars. I know people who have
Speaker 1: zero in the bank, none, and they're businesses that are
Speaker 1: making money, but they're they're turned off. All their businesses
Speaker 1: have been crushed in the last two months. No money
Speaker 1: in the bank for payroll. You know what happens to them. Sorry,
Speaker 1: government doesn't have any checks for you, my friends. It's
Speaker 1: not acceptable, it's not okay, and it's a reminder of
Speaker 1: what I started out the show with, which is that
Speaker 1: the government is not your friend. It's not going to
Speaker 1: keep you safe and warm at night. That's what the
Speaker 1: freedom hund is for. You're in the freedom hunt. This
Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. All right. To continue
Speaker 1: our conversation about how small businesses are getting the short
Speaker 1: end of the stick right now, we have Will Ricardella
Speaker 1: with us right now. He is from the Washington Examiner,
Speaker 1: where he's an editor. He's following this very closely, and
Speaker 1: we're going back and forth all the time trying to
Speaker 1: update each other. Will. Great to have you on the
Speaker 1: show first time. Thanks for having me on book. All right, man,
Speaker 1: So I was telling everybody that five percent of small
Speaker 1: businesses so far i've gotten cash. What are you seeing
Speaker 1: at the national level? And also then I want you
Speaker 1: to tell us about businesses that you just know personally.
Speaker 1: What are they dealing with right now? Well, at the
Speaker 1: national level, people aren't getting the PPP, they're not getting
Speaker 1: the stop gap. They ran out of money pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: Most a lot of the money was deferred towards unemployment insurance.
Speaker 1: People are guaranteed six hundred dollars a week. Employees who
Speaker 1: are laid off, and it's the wealth creators who seem
Speaker 1: to be getting the short end of this stick. I
Speaker 1: know this. My family has businesses in New York, their restaurants.
Speaker 1: My uncle was unable to get any of the funds
Speaker 1: for the PPP. Most of his workers have left and
Speaker 1: unemployment insurance because they get into extra six hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: They don't even want to stay in the payroll anyway. Well,
Speaker 1: that's remarkable. Explain that, like, why why would they rather?
Speaker 1: How is the incentive structure set up so that they'd
Speaker 1: rather not be on payroll? Because if you sign up
Speaker 1: for unemployment insurance, not only do you get the unemployment
Speaker 1: insurance that the state gives you from the federal bill,
Speaker 1: you get an extra six hundred dollar bonus. This is
Speaker 1: per week. So why would you stay on the payrolls?
Speaker 1: It's now you know this is for a four month extension.
Speaker 1: So let's say you know, you try to open up.
Speaker 1: Now you're not going to get your workers back for
Speaker 1: four months. How do you even open How do you
Speaker 1: transition into a period where you can give people service.
Speaker 1: That's not to mention that people are already terrified. They're
Speaker 1: not going to go into a restaurant. What are we
Speaker 1: to tell me this? What are you the family business here?
Speaker 1: The restaurants you're talking about, Do they think they're going
Speaker 1: to be able to reopen this year? Oh boy, I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a discussion I don't think anybody wants
Speaker 1: to have at this point. That's certainly in the back
Speaker 1: of people's minds. It's terrifying. I mean, this is a business,
Speaker 1: you know. Look, you can extrapolate this into millions Americans.
Speaker 1: My family has been in business now for fifty six years.
Speaker 1: They're worried about losing them. This is a This is
Speaker 1: a biggest employer in the town and the area. It's
Speaker 1: outside of New York City. It serves people who come
Speaker 1: up from New York City or commute, you know, and
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of other jobs in the area.
Speaker 1: So this is shifting a lot of people from payrolls
Speaker 1: onto government unemployment insurance. And when that runs out, what
Speaker 1: are people going to do if a lot of these
Speaker 1: vaut creators are closed, where do people work? They're gonna
Speaker 1: have to stay on unemployment insurance? And what happens to
Speaker 1: the other expenses that for example, the restaurants. I mean
Speaker 1: to drill down to this for a second. What what
Speaker 1: happens to the other expenses, rent, and so on and
Speaker 1: so forth. Right, So if you have this, you know,
Speaker 1: if you have the Cares Act and this PPP and
Speaker 1: that helps business owners stop the gap. It may not
Speaker 1: do it entirely. It's not going to do it long enough,
Speaker 1: and you're not creating any wealth. The reason you have
Speaker 1: this business is so you could pay yourself a salary too.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're just making your utilities your rent,
Speaker 1: what's the point of keeping it open if you have
Speaker 1: to dip into your own savings? What investments can you
Speaker 1: make in the future. So, look, this is killing businesses
Speaker 1: in particular service industry. In a restaurant, who's gonna I
Speaker 1: don't know. You know, you're in New York City. I'm
Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. I'm watching people dive off sidewalks
Speaker 1: when I walk past them. Do you think they're gonna
Speaker 1: want to go sit at a counter at a bar?
Speaker 1: I see people jogging on empty streets, jogging like going
Speaker 1: pretty fast, you know, maybe like seven eight minute miles
Speaker 1: with or eight minute miles with face masks on. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, do you guys think it's gonna happen
Speaker 1: here if everyone else is walking, you know, you're like,
Speaker 1: you're like the speedboat. You can go around the cruise ships.
Speaker 1: You're exactly right. So look, before they even had the
Speaker 1: institute of government lockdowns, people were already moving away from
Speaker 1: going to restaurants. We had a lot less reservations. There's
Speaker 1: a lot less people coming in. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a huge transition to get this to happen again. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to open up in phases or all at
Speaker 1: once now in order for people in order for this
Speaker 1: to be over, perhaps by fall or winter. You'll have
Speaker 1: to open now before people feel confident to go out again.
Speaker 1: There's been so much misinformation spread about this, and the
Speaker 1: government's kind of one size fits all approach helps the
Speaker 1: rich people, the people who have money who work from home,
Speaker 1: work remotely, but it doesn't help working class Americans who
Speaker 1: can't afford to socially distance for two years, who can't
Speaker 1: afford to wear masks and stay away from everybody for
Speaker 1: a year. It just doesn't work for them. So that's
Speaker 1: why you have people protesting. They can't accept those costs.
Speaker 1: Where you have the hoyty toyty folks in Manhattan and Washington, DC.
Speaker 1: They can where a mask and run off the sidewalk
Speaker 1: all day. But a majority of Americans can't do that.
Speaker 1: They can't afford to. And how worried are you? Just
Speaker 1: at that the macro level, we got about thirty forty
Speaker 1: seconds left, but they're talking about now a five hundred
Speaker 1: I think it's five hundred billion dollars bailout fund for
Speaker 1: states and cities. I'm getting the sense that people really
Speaker 1: believe that the government can just write blank checks for everything.
Speaker 1: And it's fine. Well, yeah, so I have an economics background, right,
Speaker 1: you're writing out all this money, you're giving unemployment insurance
Speaker 1: to people that aren't working, and you don't have wealth
Speaker 1: creators creating wealth. I mean, so what happens. You'll have
Speaker 1: massive inflation. People are spending money, it's not backed up
Speaker 1: by any discernible production, and you'll get somewhat of inflation
Speaker 1: even on consumption spending. And look, you have some people
Speaker 1: who are laid off or cutting into their savings. You're
Speaker 1: gonna will well, hold on, I want to actually let's
Speaker 1: continue as the other side of the break for a minute.
Speaker 1: Stay with me. We'll come back and get back into this.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember
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Speaker 1: who is at the Washington Examiner. He's an editor there.
Speaker 1: He's also a buddy of mine, and his family owns
Speaker 1: businesses here in the New York area, and they're in
Speaker 1: really tough shape right now, as any restaurant business would be,
Speaker 1: given that they're shut down because of government mandates. So well,
Speaker 1: you're talking about the inflationary pressure. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, we undershot with PPP, undershot within
Speaker 1: the first couple of weeks by at least two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty billion, and I think they're just asking for
Speaker 1: that with the idea that in another three or four
Speaker 1: weeks they're gonna say we in another two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty billion. We're on track here to spend at least
Speaker 1: four feels like it's going to be six, maybe seven
Speaker 1: or eight trillion dollars really quickly, right, I mean in
Speaker 1: a matter of a few months. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think that's optimistic. I think it's more like ten trillion. Look,
Speaker 1: how you look, the government shut down these businesses, so
Speaker 1: therefore they owe them some responsibility to stop the gap.
Speaker 1: And you know a lot of these businesses are going
Speaker 1: to take it pay off their bills, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: leave much for them. A lot of their employees are
Speaker 1: going on to unemployment insurance because it's more money they're
Speaker 1: these people are dipping into their savings as well. They're
Speaker 1: not gonna have any money to invest when things open up.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna my families outside of New York City.
Speaker 1: They depend on people who come up from New York City.
Speaker 1: That's not going to happen for a long time. So
Speaker 1: there's going to be less savings, less investment. We're not
Speaker 1: going to hire everybody back. You can't raise your prices
Speaker 1: because there's not as much money out there. And let's
Speaker 1: hope that inflations stays low, that you know, you don't
Speaker 1: have these menu costs and so on where they have
Speaker 1: to change their prices constantly. I don't look, there's so
Speaker 1: much uncertainty that businesses aren't going to invest like they
Speaker 1: used to. I don't see the economy coming back for
Speaker 1: a very long time. Twenty twenty one is optimistic. What
Speaker 1: do you think should be done here? I mean the administration,
Speaker 1: I was telling everybody, Look, Pelosi is just a she's
Speaker 1: just what she's doing is monstrous here by by stopping
Speaker 1: people from getting money that they need right now. And
Speaker 1: it's all politics with her, and she's she's a disgusting
Speaker 1: plutocrat and people should know that. But the administration, you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're not really able to do what they've said
Speaker 1: they're able to do, which is a key people more
Speaker 1: or less with money in their pockets who were employed
Speaker 1: going for word, even though they've opened the money gun
Speaker 1: in a way like we've never seen it before. So
Speaker 1: what do you think they should be doing? Well? I
Speaker 1: think what happened first the problem was uncertainty. Right in
Speaker 1: New York. It was you know, we're going to stem
Speaker 1: the tide for thirty days. We'll open back up in
Speaker 1: April fifteenth. Uncertainty hurt business. Now I think it's the certainty.
Speaker 1: At first you had a government saying, oh, we're gonna
Speaker 1: flatten the curve, and then once that's over, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, we can reopen businesses. Now it's we're
Speaker 1: gonna flatten the curve. The curve is flattened. Now we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to do this until there's a vaccine or indefinitely,
Speaker 1: or you're gonna have to wear a mask for two years,
Speaker 1: or they're not giving any option for people that're like,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of epidemiologists saying, look, they're
Speaker 1: only options hurt immunity. They're not saying, hey, let's let
Speaker 1: kids who have zero risk of this disease go back
Speaker 1: to school. Let's try, you know, let's try to go
Speaker 1: back to regular life. Here, they're saying to businesses in general,
Speaker 1: especially service industry, you can't have more than ten people
Speaker 1: in your business, and you know you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: stay six feet apart, and you're gonna have to wear
Speaker 1: masks and so on. There's no way. Restaurants, well, I
Speaker 1: was about to say, I mean, when people say this,
Speaker 1: they obviously don't know any but the restaurant business, because
Speaker 1: it's all it's all about turning tables relatively quickly, right,
Speaker 1: and the more tables the better. How many people you
Speaker 1: can fit in your restaurant is paramount. For restaurants. Every
Speaker 1: time you put somebody, every you put a button a seat,
Speaker 1: that's money. If you're taking butts out of seats, you're
Speaker 1: taking money away from restaurants. They just can't stay open.
Speaker 1: The bigger the restaurant, the less chance they have of
Speaker 1: staying open. So you know, these are things I don't
Speaker 1: think people thought about it at first. It's much easier
Speaker 1: to flip the switch off than it is to turn
Speaker 1: it back on. And I don't think any of that
Speaker 1: what was given. I don't think they had any appropriate
Speaker 1: data to begin with to justify this. And I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna see it's gonna be I hope I'm wrong, Buck,
Speaker 1: I really do, but I don't think it's going to
Speaker 1: be very good moving forward here the next six months
Speaker 1: to a year at least at least, Yeah, it just
Speaker 1: feels like the spending it either has negative ramifications for
Speaker 1: the government to go deeper in debt than it has
Speaker 1: ever been in a way that no one could have
Speaker 1: ever even anticipated. Right, this is not even with a war.
Speaker 1: You figure, well, at some point this thing will end,
Speaker 1: and you know, there's a little bit of it. And
Speaker 1: also there's a lot of production that goes into a war,
Speaker 1: so you may go into depth. There's all so tremendous
Speaker 1: amount of production and that's going on, and within your society,
Speaker 1: we're going into debt with shutdown production, right, and but
Speaker 1: people don't understand from an economic standpoint, as we have
Speaker 1: a four trillion dollar budget deficit this year, that's taxes.
Speaker 1: People understand, you know. I think I've saw Alexandria custumer
Speaker 1: tests say, oh, the money you get from the PPP
Speaker 1: and the and you know, the stimulus checks, the twelve
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, you don't have to pay back. Well, that's
Speaker 1: not true. It's debt. You have to pay that back
Speaker 1: in taxes. And that's how businesses and people see it.
Speaker 1: Our taxes are going to have to go up, right,
Speaker 1: you know, So that is money that has to be
Speaker 1: paid back. I think people understand that, and that's going
Speaker 1: to hurt long term investing. People aren't going to want
Speaker 1: to invest when they're unsure about how high tax rates
Speaker 1: will go. Government spending is with astronomical before any of
Speaker 1: this happened, and it leaves a lot of uncertainty in
Speaker 1: the economy and it's going to be very hard to
Speaker 1: come back. And I don't think anybody's talking about it.
Speaker 1: I don't think politicians want to talk about it because
Speaker 1: they want to justify the severe draconian lockdowns that they instituted,
Speaker 1: and they don't want any blowback for it. I agree Rocardell.
Speaker 1: Everybody follow him on Twitter. His last name is very
Speaker 1: hard to spell, so I will say it's not an
Speaker 1: easy thing. But if you kind of think about it
Speaker 1: and you do it phonetically and then you think like Italian,
Speaker 1: you'll figure it out, right. Yeah, And you know, just
Speaker 1: google that you can find the restaurants. Google Rocodella, You'll
Speaker 1: find them easily. There we go, will Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for your insights, my friend. We'll have you back soon
Speaker 1: and you take care. Thank you, Buck, But you're in
Speaker 1: the freedom. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. These
Speaker 1: folks are, Let's be honest about what they are. They
Speaker 1: are the Fox News Nazi Confederate death cult rump of
Speaker 1: the Republican Party, and their very existence is a slap
Speaker 1: in the face not only to the healthcare workers on
Speaker 1: the front lines risking their lives every single day, but
Speaker 1: it's also a slap into the face of the people
Speaker 1: who are actually dying from this virus and disproportionate numbers
Speaker 1: black and brown people. These aren't economically disenfranchised folks. These
Speaker 1: are small disowners. These are retirees. These are people who
Speaker 1: want their workers to be sent back to work, not themselves.
Speaker 1: It's a complete nutter farce. It's an astroidturf farce. And also,
Speaker 1: I think it needs to be said, it's also unrepresentative
Speaker 1: of the Republican Party as a whole. I just saw
Speaker 1: a poll that said seventy percent of Republicans want a
Speaker 1: national stay at home order. This person's appalling, utterly appalling.
Speaker 1: But is he writes for The Nation, which is perhaps
Speaker 1: the most disgusting comy rag in any circulation in the
Speaker 1: United United States. So he's a sports writer for it.
Speaker 1: But so he's a sports writer for a commie paper.
Speaker 1: Good job. Everything that he says there is a is
Speaker 1: a vicious and stupid slander. And remember he's talking about
Speaker 1: people who are trying to have their voices raised peacefully
Speaker 1: about government policies that increasingly the data does not support
Speaker 1: the lockdown order. If you really look what's going on
Speaker 1: in Germany, if you really look what has happened Sweden,
Speaker 1: for example, is saying that the model that they've done,
Speaker 1: that they were all we were told Sweden's heading for catastrophe. False.
Speaker 1: Sweden is not in a catastrophe. It's doing better than
Speaker 1: most of the other major European countries. That have been
Speaker 1: hit hard by COVID nineteen not doing as well as Finland.
Speaker 1: But Finland is like Lichtenstein, It's barely a country. It's
Speaker 1: got like two million people that live there. If that okay, fine,
Speaker 1: I gotta find out. It's just saying, because I know
Speaker 1: someone's gonna yell at me, what's the population of Finland?
Speaker 1: Five million? Sorry, okay, it's got five million people. But
Speaker 1: the truth is that Sweden, we were told was going
Speaker 1: to run for it was going to have disaster because
Speaker 1: they were just doing more common sense, be careful, no
Speaker 1: huge gatherings. But businesses can still operate washer hints the
Speaker 1: things that I've wanted us to do all along. Act
Speaker 1: like we're in a really really bad flu season, take
Speaker 1: those kinds of precautions, and not act like everybody's about
Speaker 1: to die from bubonic plague. If they leave their house,
Speaker 1: everyone has to be on lockdown. So the people that
Speaker 1: are upset about this, I mean he's now slandering them,
Speaker 1: saying that they want their workers to go. No. I
Speaker 1: know people who are small business owners here in New
Speaker 1: York and employees who want to go back to their jobs,
Speaker 1: who want to be able to function again, and earn
Speaker 1: a living again, and for the attitude from these some
Speaker 1: of these media elites to be and they're not elite
Speaker 1: as and they're good, but you know they think of
Speaker 1: themselves as better than other people. I just want to
Speaker 1: know what Dave's zeron would say to the four thousand
Speaker 1: cars that showed up and waited in line four hours
Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas over the weekend for food bank assistance
Speaker 1: because they don't have any food and don't have any money.
Speaker 1: Four thousand cars, probably some of them have at least
Speaker 1: a few people in them, right, Probably folks might have
Speaker 1: shown up with their family members. What are those or
Speaker 1: even if they're the families at home, how many individuals
Speaker 1: you think those four thousand cars are representing? And that's
Speaker 1: just one day in Houston, Texas? Right, You've got at
Speaker 1: least an average, let's say, three or four people that
Speaker 1: need food. What are we to make of all of this?
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're telling people that they have to
Speaker 1: wait in line for food because their business has been
Speaker 1: shut down by order the state, and then you have
Speaker 1: smug libs telling them shut up, peasant, go home, watch Netflix.
Speaker 1: Accept it. You can't risk other people by having any
Speaker 1: individual freedom you're not allowed to leave your home and
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to operate your business. I mean the
Speaker 1: whole thing about it. These are people that want their
Speaker 1: workers to go. This guy doesn't it doesn't know anything.
Speaker 1: I mean, people are right for the nation are a
Speaker 1: joke and they're atrocious. So that's they're not they're not
Speaker 1: intellectually worthwhile, they're not nice people, they're not decent people,
Speaker 1: and the Nation is a trash heap. It's like Media
Speaker 1: Matters trash heap. If you work for Media Matters, you're
Speaker 1: part of a trash organization. You're probably a trash human being.
Speaker 1: If you work for the Nation, ninety percent chance you're
Speaker 1: trash human being. But me and meaning you know, you're
Speaker 1: you're smarmie, you don't care about people. You're not nice,
Speaker 1: you're not decent, You're a sanctimonious, smug, worthless lib. It
Speaker 1: just like a look down And everybody with all of
Speaker 1: the condescension because you went to some second or third
Speaker 1: tier liberal arts college in the Northeast, woo fantastic. We're
Speaker 1: all supposed to be so impressed. It's gross. That's gross.
Speaker 1: You know what else is going on the narrative while
Speaker 1: we're being told that if you have a problem with this,
Speaker 1: Remember that guy was talking about the protesters. How dare
Speaker 1: they protest? People don't have food, they don't have jobs,
Speaker 1: they don't have a future right now, And the government's
Speaker 1: acting like a bunch of morons in a lot of places,
Speaker 1: telling us beaches can't be open. Why can't beaches be open?
Speaker 1: Can't operate a store? You know the chances if somebody
Speaker 1: comes into your store for five minutes, And first of all,
Speaker 1: anyone who thinks they're sick should stay home. I mean,
Speaker 1: we have to. We have to operate in society assuming
Speaker 1: that not everyone's acting like a moron. Right. If you
Speaker 1: have a shallow cough and you think you might have
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, quarantine yourself straight up for two weeks. Get
Speaker 1: the test obviously as soon as you can, But quarantine yourself.
Speaker 1: We all know that there are the things that are
Speaker 1: that we're going to do, no matter what the government says.
Speaker 1: It's the government action here that maybe exacerbating the problem,
Speaker 1: making things much much worse. Not then brings me to
Speaker 1: the case study of the subway here in New York City.
Speaker 1: It's a paper out of MIT that looks at the subway.
Speaker 1: This is a working paper by Jeffrey Harris. The subway
Speaker 1: seeded the massive coronavirus epidemic in New York City. Now
Speaker 1: it's an academic paper. Here's what it says. Here's the abstract.
Speaker 1: New York City's multi tentacled subway system was a major disseminator,
Speaker 1: if not the principal transmission vehicle, of coronavirus infection during
Speaker 1: the initial initial takeoff of the massive epidemic that became
Speaker 1: evident throughout the city during March twenty twenty. The near
Speaker 1: shutdown of subway ridership in Manhattan down by over ninety
Speaker 1: percent at the end of March, correlates strongly with the
Speaker 1: substantial rise in doubling time of new cases in this burrow.
Speaker 1: Increase in the doubling time of new cases in the
Speaker 1: burrow maps of subway station turnstile entries superimposed upon zip
Speaker 1: code level maps of reported coronavirus incidents are strongly consistent
Speaker 1: with subway facilitated disease propagation. Local train lines appear to
Speaker 1: have a higher propensity to transmit infection than express lines.
Speaker 1: Reciprocal seating of infection appears to be the best explanation
Speaker 1: for the emergence of a single hot spot in midtown
Speaker 1: West Manhattan's right where I live, by the way, bus
Speaker 1: hubs may have served as a secondary transmission. Why has
Speaker 1: New York been hit so hard? Because we have a
Speaker 1: subway system with millions of people crowded into enclosed areas
Speaker 1: and in some cases for long periods of time. I
Speaker 1: read through this whole study of the weekend. It's exactly
Speaker 1: what I've been telling family and friends for weeks in
Speaker 1: the city. This is what happened. New York had the
Speaker 1: spread of this because it's an international transit hub from
Speaker 1: Europe and from China both. We got it from both,
Speaker 1: and it started to spread rapidly here in the city.
Speaker 1: And it's spread far and wide along the same route
Speaker 1: that the subway goes. And the worst cases were further
Speaker 1: out on the subway line places and far out Queens
Speaker 1: and far out Brooklyn. And it's because the longer you're
Speaker 1: on the train, the more people come on and off
Speaker 1: the train, the more prolonged your exposure, and there are
Speaker 1: more people to expose you too. That's what happened. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been looking at this for a long time. Someone
Speaker 1: like me I'm on the subway during the month of
Speaker 1: the highest spread of the desire, I should say the yeah,
Speaker 1: February when it was spreading effectively, completely unregulated, and no
Speaker 1: one really even knew about it, and then into March
Speaker 1: when everyone realized, oh my gosh, we got a monster
Speaker 1: on our hands here. I was on the subway four
Speaker 1: times a day, two subway rides to do my first
Speaker 1: radio show, two subway rides to do my second radio show,
Speaker 1: every single day. But my subway rides last about ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen minutes because I'm only going on the island
Speaker 1: of Manhattan. I'm not traveling to the outer boroughs, so
Speaker 1: I spent less time. It still is at high risk
Speaker 1: for this disease, by the way, but I spent less
Speaker 1: time on the subway than someone who's coming forty five
Speaker 1: minutes an hour, an hour and fifteen minutes from far
Speaker 1: out in Queens. Guests where you've had the worst pockets
Speaker 1: of worst pockets of disease, you know, the biggest outbreaks
Speaker 1: have been and far out on the subway line, though
Speaker 1: not away from the subway, far out on the subway line.
Speaker 1: And this all makes sense from everything we know about
Speaker 1: this disease. That it first of all, likes dark. It
Speaker 1: likes you know, dark and cool climate. It likes enclosed spaces,
Speaker 1: just like the flute. It likes people being close and
Speaker 1: packed into each other. So you would come on the subway,
Speaker 1: be exposed this virus, and then go home to your community,
Speaker 1: and then spread it to more people in your community.
Speaker 1: And that kept happening and happening and happening all along
Speaker 1: the subway lines. It also explains why Manhattan has had
Speaker 1: far less exposure to this virus so far, understands exposure
Speaker 1: far and less cases of this virus so far than
Speaker 1: other places further from the center of the city and
Speaker 1: commercial activity. And then you know what happened the city
Speaker 1: authorities after the subway had been the primary transmission mechanism,
Speaker 1: which I believe it was, Which is why why are
Speaker 1: we so much worse off than Los Angeles? Here? Los
Speaker 1: Angeles a huge city, millions of millions of people. We've got,
Speaker 1: we've got you know, I can't even do the math,
Speaker 1: but we've got such a worse situation here than Los
Speaker 1: Angeles does. It's not even close. Why would that be
Speaker 1: the case, Well, because Los Angeles doesn't have a mass
Speaker 1: transportation system, and other cities. Yeah, they've had some bad outbreaks,
Speaker 1: but it's not spiraling out of control. They don't have
Speaker 1: a mass transportation system, the New York City subway, which
Speaker 1: is the transportation heart. You can't get anywhere here unless
Speaker 1: you're on the subway. Really, I mean, you can't go
Speaker 1: to work, you can't do it. You'll wait in traffic forever.
Speaker 1: I mean, driving in and out of this city at
Speaker 1: the wrong time is almost impond People do it, but
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's a really difficult, really difficult thing
Speaker 1: to do every day. The subway is the heart of
Speaker 1: the city for commercial purposes, for transit purposes. Subway workers
Speaker 1: more subway workers per capita infected with coronavirus than the
Speaker 1: worst zip codes of the five boroughs. So of course
Speaker 1: subway workers were particularly high risk of getting this because
Speaker 1: the subway was the main mechanism for transmission and they're
Speaker 1: on the subway all the time. So this is what happened.
Speaker 1: And you know what they told us to do once
Speaker 1: that had already spread far and wide on the subway lockdown,
Speaker 1: at home school shut down. Do you know what one
Speaker 1: of the worst things you can possibly do when you
Speaker 1: already have very widespread transmission of this virus is without
Speaker 1: making any distinctions. Tell people who are younger and healthier, now,
Speaker 1: you can't even leave the house. You must stay at
Speaker 1: home all day coughing, touching things, coughing, touching things with you.
Speaker 1: You know, your grandma, your grandpa there, elderly relatives or
Speaker 1: your parents there. Who are you over sixty five? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what the city authorities. That was their plan. Lock
Speaker 1: everybody down at home. The disease had already spread all
Speaker 1: over the city. You're here, They're going to find that
Speaker 1: at least a million people who are exposed to this
Speaker 1: at some level. To get anybody and have anybodies from it,
Speaker 1: that's my guests. We know over one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand cases confirmed, might have been two or three million
Speaker 1: people that have antibodies to this at this point or
Speaker 1: have been have at some level of exposure. And then
Speaker 1: they shut it down. They told everybody to go home.
Speaker 1: You know what I did made it worse. But listen
Speaker 1: to the experts they tell you. Thanks for listening to
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Speaker 1: All right, Team I also wanted to check in on
Speaker 1: our friend in Brooklyn, mister Chadwick Moore. He is with
Speaker 1: us now. He is a commist for Spectator USA, and
Speaker 1: he is like me on Lockdown and also has a
Speaker 1: better beard, which makes me a little bit jealous. But
Speaker 1: good to see you, my friend. Hey, Buck, how's it going.
Speaker 1: Nice to see you. Yeah, I'm you know, I'm hanging
Speaker 1: in there. Just promise me, if you're gonna go jogging,
Speaker 1: you're not going to wear a face mask during the jog. Okay.
Speaker 1: People are losing their minds in this city and it's
Speaker 1: starting to freak me out. Yeah, but then I might
Speaker 1: get reported by the squeal squaded by don't wear a
Speaker 1: face maskball jogging? Aren't you? Aren't you a little bit
Speaker 1: taken aback by? Just how how overt the the nanny
Speaker 1: stadism and then the hall the hall monitorization of America
Speaker 1: has to become In some of these big cities Deblasio Garcetti,
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, if you see somebody I'm lder, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take out, like you know, rulers, or how are
Speaker 1: we gonna do these measurements? Oh, somebody was three feet
Speaker 1: away from somebody else in the grocery store. This is
Speaker 1: just a it's absurd, beyond belief. But I think it
Speaker 1: really does show that unfortunately, this has become it's not
Speaker 1: even that it's just political. Political philosophy has has gotten
Speaker 1: involved in this now where the people that believe the
Speaker 1: state is competent think that the state should be able
Speaker 1: to do all these things right exactly. You know, I
Speaker 1: keep thinking of that Ralph Wigham, meaning like, look, I'm
Speaker 1: helping every time Deblasio tries to pretend like he's doing
Speaker 1: as much as Andrew Cuomo or Eric Garcetti. Look, just
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago, the big story about these mayors,
Speaker 1: especially Eric Garcetti, was the absolute state of their cities
Speaker 1: in terms of the homeless crisis, the death the disease
Speaker 1: type point fever, bubonic plague on the streets of these
Speaker 1: homeless agamment. They were health department disasters these cities. These
Speaker 1: public health worker, city officials, cops, people work in city hall,
Speaker 1: especially in Los Angeles, We're getting diseases that we thought
Speaker 1: were wiped out in the Middle Ages. Now suddenly they
Speaker 1: think that they can control this. It's almost like, you know,
Speaker 1: I guess that they feel they have to iwas ever
Speaker 1: increasing Dracconian measures just to pretend like they're doing something,
Speaker 1: to pretend like they're helping, when by a large what
Speaker 1: are these things actually doing. Nobody usually acknowledge the fact
Speaker 1: that the whole reason why people get sick more often
Speaker 1: in the wintertime is because they're indoors. There's nothing to
Speaker 1: do with the cold making breeding viruses. I mean, they
Speaker 1: do tend to die off for and it's warmer out,
Speaker 1: but it's people being indoors and in close proximity to
Speaker 1: each other, being outdoors and maybe not not large gatherings,
Speaker 1: but these are helping things to do if you're staying
Speaker 1: a way for other people. And also the you know,
Speaker 1: I mentioned the Nanni statism, but we're seeing something that's
Speaker 1: that some conservatives and I will admit some libertarians have
Speaker 1: been have been worried about for a while, and that
Speaker 1: is the the leveraging of the biggest social media platforms
Speaker 1: as really a tool of the state to shut down
Speaker 1: I mean, now you know, Nebraska has had this. A
Speaker 1: bunch of other states I can't think of the top
Speaker 1: I think New Jersey was one of them, but a
Speaker 1: bunch of these states have had social media platforms say no,
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to organize a protest against the lockdown
Speaker 1: measures on our program on Facebook being the case in point,
Speaker 1: because the government says you can't, that any journalists would
Speaker 1: view that as anything other than a huge First Amendment
Speaker 1: red flag. I mean, I know you could say it's
Speaker 1: not the state, it's it's but at the First Amendment,
Speaker 1: I mean, your free speech perhaps a better way to
Speaker 1: put it. This is mind boggling. I mean, now you
Speaker 1: can't even use your you can't even use social media
Speaker 1: platforms to redress, to gather together to redress your government
Speaker 1: for grievances. Exactly. Yeah, it's right now. It's been California, Nebraska,
Speaker 1: and New Jersey. Mark Zuckerberg, the most trustworthy man in America,
Speaker 1: whoever would just loves cud league. Mark said to George Stefanopolus,
Speaker 1: I believe it was just today, or maybe it was
Speaker 1: over the weekend, so that we are removing pages of
Speaker 1: these groups that try to protest now these issues of
Speaker 1: this government overreach. I mean, this is a stuff that
Speaker 1: that really gets people were into political philosophy on the right,
Speaker 1: very fired up and very excited about it. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the definition of these govern overreach measures. Look
Speaker 1: at Michigan, where you can't go fishing by yourself in
Speaker 1: the isolated Upper Peninsula, but you know, and you can't
Speaker 1: buy your own seeds from the hardware store to grow
Speaker 1: your own food, but you can still buy lottery tickets.
Speaker 1: The governor can still have her hair and make up
Speaker 1: done professionally and before she goes on TV for thirteen
Speaker 1: hours a day. But you can't go fishing. It's absolute
Speaker 1: government overreach. These you can't even buy furniture, doesn't want
Speaker 1: you decorating your homes. You can't visit your neighbors or
Speaker 1: family members. So just imagine if something the left really
Speaker 1: cares about saying these social media platforms started saying that
Speaker 1: Antifa couldn't hold their imaginary anti white suprema rallies whatever,
Speaker 1: How would the media be reacting, How would the left
Speaker 1: be reacting. I mean, it just goes to show that
Speaker 1: we know, all along as these double standards that the
Speaker 1: left is certainly the media is in the pocket of
Speaker 1: the government of the left is certainly on their side. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it's it's so egregious. These social media companies, obviously
Speaker 1: they're doing nothing different than they've been doing forever. Which
Speaker 1: is silencing voices on the right that they do not like.
Speaker 1: It used to be individual characters, individual individuals, the individual
Speaker 1: posts from people. Now it's these groups that just want
Speaker 1: to organize to speak their minds, and they now that
Speaker 1: we have this crisis and everyone is freaked out that
Speaker 1: these these giant tech companies are increasingly shameless and admitting
Speaker 1: how much control they have and how much centership they have.
Speaker 1: Google just the other day it was probably admitted that
Speaker 1: they're tracking people's movements by their cell phones in one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty one countries to make sure that they're
Speaker 1: social distancing and staying at home. Clearly that they're being
Speaker 1: they're being enlisted, and it's willing by these companies. All
Speaker 1: of the companies, I'm sure would say that they can
Speaker 1: be regulated by the state. If they didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: there'd be some executive order right that that Facebook or
Speaker 1: Google has to share this data. They are being enlisted
Speaker 1: by the state to control what we can say, to
Speaker 1: prohibit gatherings for specifically for political issues and redress of government,
Speaker 1: and to share our movements with the government. That's that
Speaker 1: seems like this is the stuff that people have been
Speaker 1: talking about for a long time. Yeah, and anyone who
Speaker 1: ever made those comments about well, these are private companies,
Speaker 1: they can do whatever they want. That that I Roll
Speaker 1: and company. This just goes to show how how entwined
Speaker 1: they are with the governments in our states and our
Speaker 1: federal government because they also are building our websites. You know,
Speaker 1: the state governors and the medal governments are happy to
Speaker 1: say that Google is helping them with their unemployment websites,
Speaker 1: with their COVID nineteen websites. So these companies have been
Speaker 1: for a long time entrenched in the state and uh
Speaker 1: and now they you know they can. They are just
Speaker 1: waving in our faces. Because who's really going to get
Speaker 1: upset if a bunch of right wingers in Michigan wanted
Speaker 1: to get together and express their agrievances against the government. Uh.
Speaker 1: You may have also saw that tweet. I think it
Speaker 1: was last week North Carolina. A group in Raleigh wanted
Speaker 1: to organize in the police. The Raleigh Police Department tweeted
Speaker 1: that protesting is a non essential activity. Well, you want
Speaker 1: to get the blood boiling of any constitution, lover, then
Speaker 1: there you have it. And now there's one there's one
Speaker 1: topic that we're just we're switching gears here a little bit.
Speaker 1: But this this comes from you, Chadwick. So I wanted
Speaker 1: to give you an opportunity to explain what this is
Speaker 1: you want to discuss today. How quote Joe Exotic is
Speaker 1: the greatest living gay role model end quote, Please explain? Well,
Speaker 1: that came from a calm I wrote in the Spectator.
Speaker 1: Joe Exotic is, of course the star of Tiger King.
Speaker 1: That that I'm sure most your audience now you know
Speaker 1: you've been talking about it. Yeah, yeah, Who who would
Speaker 1: have thought that a gay, a gay man in heard
Speaker 1: print glitter who ran a private zoo in Oklahoma would
Speaker 1: have brought the nation together during the biggest crisis in
Speaker 1: our lifetimes. But he seems to have. Uh. Well, it's
Speaker 1: interesting because I love. What I love about him is
Speaker 1: he's the I Sir compared him to. He's the chaotic
Speaker 1: libertine right, and his arch nemesis, the Carol Baskin is
Speaker 1: so perfectly this authoritarian uptight. She's so Hillary Clinton in
Speaker 1: a way, he's so Donald Trump. I think that's why
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of what one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why this show is resonated, because we're still reliving those
Speaker 1: two forces in our society and these two in this
Speaker 1: in this weird microcosm of private zookeeping, so perfectly put
Speaker 1: it together. But one thing that's interesting too is you
Speaker 1: might know, sure, he's got very sordid and grim life.
Speaker 1: You know, there's drugs around him all the time. He
Speaker 1: seduces men constantly, but he's also he throws a wrench
Speaker 1: into the whole gay lobbies narrative that that and this
Speaker 1: is something I've known for a long time, being from
Speaker 1: a rural part of Tennis. See that you know that
Speaker 1: the Red State America, places like Oklahoma are filled with
Speaker 1: these homo hunting bigots, right when actually it's more of
Speaker 1: this sort of in group mentality. It always has been
Speaker 1: that like, yeah, you know, there's gonna be differences, but
Speaker 1: someone like him, he celebrated his community and he's wildly
Speaker 1: homosexual and out there. Um and as it really destroys
Speaker 1: that narrative about about the blanket bigotry of Trump Country
Speaker 1: and Red America. And uh, I just have to ask,
Speaker 1: do you think he's guilty or you think he got
Speaker 1: set up? I think he got set up. I think
Speaker 1: he's another one of these examples I do now I
Speaker 1: think that he um excuse me not covid um. I
Speaker 1: think that he It seems like and we and we've
Speaker 1: seen this with lots of high profile trials lately, like, um,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get some letters when I say this, But
Speaker 1: Harvey Weinstein, and I'm happy to go into why I
Speaker 1: feel that way, and with Roger Stone with a much
Speaker 1: better of these high profile trials where and where government
Speaker 1: resources are poured into investigate something and they got to
Speaker 1: come up with something. They've got to something like over
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of fedbroal cases end up in a
Speaker 1: guilty verdict or plea. I mean in the better vermic car.
Speaker 1: I think it's ninety seven, but yeah, ninety seven. This
Speaker 1: is a fedbroal case. So the fish and wildlife came
Speaker 1: in the FBI. So I don't think it was a
Speaker 1: murderer higher plot against Susan Baskin. I mean that if
Speaker 1: you watch the film, it's extremely flimsy evidence, but with
Speaker 1: the abusing animals, probably seems like he had some tigers
Speaker 1: that he owned were maybe sick or too aggressive, and
Speaker 1: he just took out himself, killed them and buried him.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say this thing the one of the
Speaker 1: only things one of the only things that the American
Speaker 1: people in general will not abide. I mean, you know, murderer.
Speaker 1: Higher people might be able to say, you know, we
Speaker 1: all make mistakes. You know, you serve your time. You
Speaker 1: you abuse and or kill animals like you know, you know,
Speaker 1: in an abusive and abusive way. People are out for you. Man,
Speaker 1: They're coming for you. It is especially I mean especially
Speaker 1: dogs or cats, but tigers, cool animals like that too.
Speaker 1: M The American people will not abide that at all.
Speaker 1: So I think you're right in that the opinion of
Speaker 1: the jury and everything, it wasn't the murder for higher thing.
Speaker 1: That's a little more like, well maybe he did, maybe
Speaker 1: he didn't. It's oh, I'm sorry you were abusing. You
Speaker 1: were abusing these beautiful big cats that you were entrusted with.
Speaker 1: Unacceptable way. But but but hold on a second. There's one
Speaker 1: other thing. What do you have? Oh gosh, I'm like,
Speaker 1: how much trouble do I feel like? Really starting her?
Speaker 1: Do you have a little bit of a counter counter
Speaker 1: the narrative, a counter consensus, I should say, on Harvey Weinstein,
Speaker 1: are you one of those? I do? Yeah? I wrote
Speaker 1: about it too, because I mean, look, he's disgusting, he's
Speaker 1: a scumbag. But if you actually look at what he
Speaker 1: was convicted of, and you look at the charges, so
Speaker 1: you had, you know, something like one hundred women accused
Speaker 1: him of various levels of appropriate sexual behavior, sexual assault
Speaker 1: or whatever that range from lots of different things. It's
Speaker 1: a trial in New York. Only two women, right, they
Speaker 1: were several years old accusations. There were women that after
Speaker 1: they were together, you know, sent him loving text messages.
Speaker 1: I know they had continued relationships. I talked about this
Speaker 1: on my show, So I'm not I'm not about to,
Speaker 1: you know, slam this down and say, oh, we can't
Speaker 1: have his discussion. Yeah. Well, the thing that gets me
Speaker 1: about him is nobody with doubt that he's not a
Speaker 1: disgusting person. But but look at the culture behind that
Speaker 1: sent waynian that was another thing that was a jury
Speaker 1: of public opinion he had. He got twenty three years
Speaker 1: where he said, she said, And when you look at
Speaker 1: the actual charges, it's so of course the media ran
Speaker 1: with convicted of rap in all the headlines New York Times,
Speaker 1: blah blah. Well yeah, but not really. I mean, when
Speaker 1: you think of rape, you think of violent first degree felonies,
Speaker 1: sexual assault. He was actually convicted of like third degree
Speaker 1: statutory rate, but when you read it, it's actually the
Speaker 1: victim felt that they were unable to consent because of
Speaker 1: circumstance or physical the person, the other person's you know,
Speaker 1: physical problems. So basically like she felt she couldn't say
Speaker 1: no because he was fat, because he was powerful, so
Speaker 1: she never said yes. She never said no. You know,
Speaker 1: this is all this is kind of like nippicky stuff.
Speaker 1: But the reason why and I have still remain interested
Speaker 1: in this case is this culture is coming for everyone.
Speaker 1: He just happened to be the worst one. Everyone knew
Speaker 1: this was happening in Hollywood. But every man out there
Speaker 1: if Harvey Weinstein get twenty three years or he said
Speaker 1: she said from several years ago, and the charges are basically,
Speaker 1: he had some grim sexual encounter with someone and she
Speaker 1: didn't say yes, but she didn't say no. And where
Speaker 1: is that needing our culture? You know? I mean, at
Speaker 1: least he did get due process. I've been saying, look
Speaker 1: look at what they've done or whoever. Yeah, and I've
Speaker 1: been starting to cut you off. We have a delay,
Speaker 1: but look at what they've done with with Kavanaugh, and
Speaker 1: now what they've tried to do with Biden. By the
Speaker 1: standard will be weaponized to the utmost when it's politically,
Speaker 1: you know, useful, and it will also be discarded the
Speaker 1: moment that it's it's problematic. And as I've said, the
Speaker 1: standard that they have said with Yancy and I by
Speaker 1: the way, I actually completely I hadn't heard your analysis.
Speaker 1: I completely agree with you. Okay, I think that this
Speaker 1: is I think that this is an and so and
Speaker 1: you and I would get yelled at for this by
Speaker 1: a whole lot of people, but I think we're right.
Speaker 1: I continue to have to say that someone is guilty
Speaker 1: of rape in a circumstance like this, with so little
Speaker 1: evidence to say it's beyond a reasonable doubt. And a
Speaker 1: continuing relationship does not cast sexual relationship willful. Sexual relation
Speaker 1: does not cast any doubt on the allegation that's setting
Speaker 1: up people for down the line. Anybody can, as they say,
Speaker 1: get got by this one. Anybody could be in a
Speaker 1: whole lot of trouble. There's really no way to how
Speaker 1: do you defend yourself someone says, oh that one night,
Speaker 1: you know of the hundreds of times. But anyway, Chadwick,
Speaker 1: I think we've caused enough trouble for today. My friend,
Speaker 1: how are you doing out in Brooklyn? You staying safe
Speaker 1: and staying indoors? I am, you know, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I've worked from homes and not just chains. And you
Speaker 1: know my house looks great. I've been gardening and anything.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what I've noticed as Brooklyn nights
Speaker 1: in my neighborhood are not I'm not gonna snitch by
Speaker 1: any means, but I've noticed they're a little defiance. They're
Speaker 1: not wearing the masks, They're ye out, They're out and
Speaker 1: about the big you are people in Manhattan. The big
Speaker 1: pushback is coming, my friend. We'll have you back on
Speaker 1: to talk about that and more. Chadwick more everyone. Check
Speaker 1: him out at the Spectator USA, follow him on the
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Speaker 1: have antibodies, if that's actually going to protect them from
Speaker 1: getting this virus. Is there a disconnect in the White
Speaker 1: House with this president? Does anybody talk to him about that?
Speaker 1: Does anyone have the courage to stand up to this person,
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Speaker 1: It is for twenty today. But I don't think anyone's
Speaker 1: gonna be making a lot of weed jokes. No one's
Speaker 1: really feeling that right now. Although I bet, I bet
Speaker 1: weed sales in places where it's quasi legal. Remember it's
Speaker 1: never legal in the federal sense, but it's legal in
Speaker 1: the states sense. I bet weed sales have gone very high,
Speaker 1: very high in this whole process, unintended. See what I
Speaker 1: did there, I don't even mean to, but the jokes
Speaker 1: they still happen. Roll call let's do it, hey, Buck,
Speaker 1: this is don I'm one of the essential workers that
Speaker 1: rarely gets to mention delivering grub Hub and door Dash
Speaker 1: out here and right now. But I'm a displaced islander
Speaker 1: escape New York in nineteen ninety nine do the shooting
Speaker 1: on the Long Island Railroad and the First Trade Center bombing.
Speaker 1: I'm almost in the age danger zone for this, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to get out and help the restaurants stay
Speaker 1: alive out here. I felt it was my mission to
Speaker 1: help out keep up the good work and shield time.
Speaker 1: I Man love the show. Well, don thank you for
Speaker 1: doing what you're doing. Man, you are you're helping. You're
Speaker 1: providing a lifeline to these restaurants and the people who
Speaker 1: work in them, and also people in the community. You know.
Speaker 1: The only thing right now that it allows me to
Speaker 1: have really have human contact in my day to day
Speaker 1: other than getting to get to get some chat with
Speaker 1: producer Mark going here is I see somebody. Actually I
Speaker 1: don't even really see them anymore. That's true that they
Speaker 1: do that they drop it at the door. So but
Speaker 1: at least it's a nice little surprise like oh Thai food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's look, we all meet our little things,
Speaker 1: our a little moment of things are not normal. But
Speaker 1: at least they're still ways you can have something to
Speaker 1: look forward to day in and day out. So don
Speaker 1: thank you for doing what you're doing and out there
Speaker 1: in Colorado. Huh hm, Freedom ninety three seven in Denver.
Speaker 1: We love you, guys. Thank you for continuing to listen
Speaker 1: to the show. Mike write saying, hey, bucking producer Mark.
Speaker 1: I work in a large Fort Worth hospital. It is
Speaker 1: a ghost town right now. We have almost nine hundred
Speaker 1: beds and currently have about four hundred patients. Our emergency
Speaker 1: department normally has one hundred and fifty at any one time.
Speaker 1: Now usually has about twenty to twenty five at any
Speaker 1: given time, down sixty five percent in patient volume with
Speaker 1: nearly four thousand employees. I don't see how this hospital
Speaker 1: is going to make it without the Feds paying for
Speaker 1: the service that they shut down. Mike, thank you for
Speaker 1: reaching out. I've been talking about this. I'm gonna continue
Speaker 1: to follow it. The federal government is forcing hospitals in
Speaker 1: the name of in the name of expanding and protecting
Speaker 1: our healthcare capacity, the federal government is forcing some hospitals
Speaker 1: to go bankrupt. That's what's gonna happen here. That's why
Speaker 1: they're they're gonna need to have a huge bailout for
Speaker 1: the hospitals. Everyone's gonna be asking for bailouts. There's no business.
Speaker 1: Hospitals are furloughing employees all over the place. They have
Speaker 1: no money coming in. And most hospitals don't have a
Speaker 1: huge COVID problem. Vast majority of them don't have a
Speaker 1: huge COVID problem. So what are we doing? This is
Speaker 1: the world we're living in right now. Government says we do,
Speaker 1: We don't question Greg. Greetings, Buck, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: having Devin Newness on the show yesterday. I was so
Speaker 1: relieved to hear the pressure continue to run the Russia scam.
Speaker 1: That the pressure continues to run the Russia scam to ground.
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful this effort will eventually to prison time for
Speaker 1: deserving miscrey and such as Brennan, Clapper and Hillary. I
Speaker 1: would also like to see the investigation expanded. How many
Speaker 1: years ago did Shift learn the Russia hoax was just
Speaker 1: a Hillary dream? Yet he pursued character assassination, slander, and
Speaker 1: impeachment under false pretenses with his claims that the Shift
Speaker 1: fabricated phone call content demonstrated a continuing pattern of Trump's
Speaker 1: seeking alliances with other countries to interfere in US elections.
Speaker 1: Thanks for all the great research and guests. Pass my
Speaker 1: regards to Lulah and Producer Mark. She'll tie well. Producer
Speaker 1: Mark will certainly get it to Lula. Right now is
Speaker 1: passed out on the couch in the sunlight. That's her
Speaker 1: favorite thing. She has a good setup. I gotta say,
Speaker 1: you know, it's uh. She rejected. I made her two
Speaker 1: different I cooked for her two different meals over the
Speaker 1: weekend for her dog food, because we don't give her
Speaker 1: dog food. We give her like human food that's men
Speaker 1: for dogs, so not men for dogs, but that dogs
Speaker 1: can eat, you know, chicken and ground beef and things
Speaker 1: like that. She rejected two bowls. Producer Mark. I had
Speaker 1: to make her a third meal before she would actually
Speaker 1: eat it. She she swats the bowl away with her
Speaker 1: nose when she it's like, get this out of my face, peasant,
Speaker 1: bring me real food. Now. What do you do with
Speaker 1: the food that she doesn't eat? Well, Usually she's kind
Speaker 1: of like licked it and sniffed it and it's a
Speaker 1: little gross, so we kind of toss it. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: where I was hoping. Oh okay. I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: I mean, are you trying to be wasteful or anything,
Speaker 1: But usually if the dog is already sniffed it and
Speaker 1: licked at it and everything else. And also yes, I
Speaker 1: mix in, I do have dry food for the dog
Speaker 1: that does not smell particularly good that you put in
Speaker 1: with the chicken and stuff. So like I'm not eating
Speaker 1: that stuff. Well, then I understand why she wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to eat it that stuff scross. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: So she's very she's very snooty or snouty perhaps, as
Speaker 1: the case may be, Adam Buck. Here in Michigan, we're
Speaker 1: seeing the beginnings of we will not comply. Seeing lots
Speaker 1: of fights on social media. Have been involved in a few.
Speaker 1: As you say, the argument always evolves into you want
Speaker 1: to kill Grandma, keep up the swoop and shields eye, yeah, Adam.
Speaker 1: And people are dug in out to their trenches on this.
Speaker 1: They don't want to look at facts and logic. They
Speaker 1: just want to they want to be right, and they
Speaker 1: want other people to do what they tell them to do,
Speaker 1: which is a you know, I think there's a really
Speaker 1: deep philosophical separation between those of us who want want
Speaker 1: personal freedom and want others to have the same and
Speaker 1: those who for whom freedom is a constant threat. Individual
Speaker 1: freedom is a constant threat to their perception of a
Speaker 1: good and ordered society, and they really think that the smarter,
Speaker 1: better people should be telling the other people what to
Speaker 1: do all the time. They're known as liberals, which is
Speaker 1: a bad name for them because they oppose liberty but
Speaker 1: the left. But it's more than just the designation as
Speaker 1: political left. It's really a mindset. I think this is
Speaker 1: a deep, deep separation in the brain between those who
Speaker 1: think that human beings should be able to pursue their
Speaker 1: own destiny and you know, within some limits. Obviously, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not an anarchist who's saying that we should
Speaker 1: have no government and nothing, but that we should have
Speaker 1: day to day choices and freedom, and the other people
Speaker 1: out there who think that anyone's real freedom is a
Speaker 1: threat to their sense of order and safety and safety
Speaker 1: not just meaning physical safety, but their emotional safety, their
Speaker 1: psychological safety. This is, like I've told you the line
Speaker 1: about a Puritan is someone who worries that someone somewhere
Speaker 1: might actually be having a good time. In America today,
Speaker 1: a liberal is a person who someone somewhere is very
Speaker 1: concerned that someone might actually be living a free and
Speaker 1: prosperous life without being told what to do all the time. Also,
Speaker 1: I mentioned this at the top of the show. I
Speaker 1: wanted to get to get back to it. If you're
Speaker 1: looking for books to read, a Homage to Catalonia is
Speaker 1: Orwell's third best work in my opinion, or most perhaps
Speaker 1: most powerful work. It's act. You could argue, I mean
Speaker 1: it's better. Well, no, Animal Farm is amazing for what
Speaker 1: it is. I was gonna say, you can maybe argue
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty four is the best, but Homage Homage
Speaker 1: to Catalonia is nonfiction. It's about George Orwell's time. By
Speaker 1: the way, you asked me for book recommendations. If you
Speaker 1: have not read nineteen eighty four, Animal Farm, and Homage
Speaker 1: to Catalonia one, two, all three, those should be top
Speaker 1: of your read pile right now. To everybody listening, if
Speaker 1: you have not read those books, please read at least
Speaker 1: one while we're all in lockdown. The first one, I
Speaker 1: would say as nineteen eighty four for the adults, maybe
Speaker 1: then how Mage to Catalonia, and then maybe Animal Farm.
Speaker 1: But you should read all of them and they won't
Speaker 1: take you long. Those are books you should all read.
Speaker 1: And but I just noted this, that Orwell. This was
Speaker 1: making the rounds on social media the weekend that Orwell
Speaker 1: had this quote because he hated journalists, because journalists are
Speaker 1: generally very often very bad and self interested in gross people. Quote,
Speaker 1: it was the first time I had seen a person
Speaker 1: this is referring, I think, to communist communist agit prop
Speaker 1: inside of the Spanish Civil War. Oh that's what how
Speaker 1: much the Catalonian is about? Is that Orwell was fighting
Speaker 1: on the side of the Well, fighting on the side
Speaker 1: of the communist against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War,
Speaker 1: And he said it was the first time that I
Speaker 1: had seen a person whose profession was telling lies. Unless
Speaker 1: one counts the journalists, I do not suppose I should
Speaker 1: exaggerate if I said that nine tenths of it is untruthful.
Speaker 1: Nearly all the newspaper accounts published at the time were
Speaker 1: manufactured by journalists at a distance, and we're not only
Speaker 1: inaccurate in their facts but intentionally misleading. So yeah, journalists,
Speaker 1: bad bad, not I do not have a good record
Speaker 1: for truth telling. Just look up Walter Duranti if you
Speaker 1: want to know how much you know they're really there,
Speaker 1: really elite journos. What what kind of ethics they often display?
Speaker 1: So we're we're in roll call. I'm sorry I got
Speaker 1: a little distracted. Um, but as for the swoop, the
Speaker 1: swoop is out of control. I don't know. I might
Speaker 1: have to go. The producer Mark has a has a
Speaker 1: buzz cut, and I might be heading. I might be
Speaker 1: following in his footsteps. Yeah, my wife just cut my hair. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty much balled right now. There we go. Hey,
Speaker 1: how long did it take you when you get to
Speaker 1: the shower to dry that dry that bad boy? Like
Speaker 1: half a second? Yeah, that's where I thought. You need
Speaker 1: a blow dryer and all those tools, don't you. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: all the king's horses and all the king's men. You're in.
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. I will say
Speaker 1: I did cook a lot over the weekend, and we're
Speaker 1: now going to uh, we'll start referring to my special
Speaker 1: the executive chef of all things Buck and Quarantine is
Speaker 1: my girlfriend, current lady lady friend, who we can refer
Speaker 1: to now and code name as snow Princess because that
Speaker 1: is in fact what I call her. Because she's from
Speaker 1: a very snowy, very cold part of the country and
Speaker 1: snow Princess and I made amazing food this weekend and
Speaker 1: we made so I'm always in charge of the red
Speaker 1: meat and the and the protein. At least I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say always in charge, but that's my favorite thing to
Speaker 1: be She's gonna yell me for saying that. I'm just kidding, honey,
Speaker 1: but that's my favorite thing to be in charge of.
Speaker 1: She's in charge of all the fancy. I mean, she
Speaker 1: made chocolate chip cookies from scratch, the best choco hip
Speaker 1: cookies I've ever had. She made burnette sauce for the burgers.
Speaker 1: She made risotto with shrimp. I mean I helped a
Speaker 1: little bit chopping some onions, but she made risotto with
Speaker 1: shrimp and calamari. And I'm just gonna say this. Producer Mark,
Speaker 1: I posted some photos of this for Team Buck to see,
Speaker 1: and the food was all delicious. A lot of Team
Speaker 1: Buck talking smack about calamari. Where do you fall on
Speaker 1: the scale about liking it? Yes, so a funny story
Speaker 1: about calamari When I was a child. You know those
Speaker 1: buffets in New York City where you just get like
Speaker 1: a container, you put a bunch in and then your
Speaker 1: way if you pay that much money. I got a
Speaker 1: bunch when I was a child and thought it was
Speaker 1: onion rings. So then I eat it and I was disgusted.
Speaker 1: But then later on in life I try calamari. It's
Speaker 1: not bad. It's not bad on calamari, like it's not something.
Speaker 1: If it's made, well, fine, I will eat it. I
Speaker 1: like it. If it's made portally, you know that you're
Speaker 1: eating octopus. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna call out
Speaker 1: team Buck right now. A lot of calamari haters out
Speaker 1: there in this audience across the country. I was surprised
Speaker 1: to see all that shrimp. They're cool. What they're cool? Shrimp, calamari,
Speaker 1: no dice, unaccepted. There are some people I know that
Speaker 1: if it was in the water, they don't want it.
Speaker 1: It's disgusting to them. Really Yeah, well that to me,
Speaker 1: I've never come across that. That's that's crazy. What is
Speaker 1: by the way, with with the kosher, it's just no shellfish,
Speaker 1: right yeah, no other fish okay, but no shellfish yet
Speaker 1: that's what I thought. I do not keep kosher. I
Speaker 1: love shrimp, yeah, shrimp plot I mean, shellfish is my
Speaker 1: favorite of the fish. So I'm one of those, Andy,
Speaker 1: but I like to share it because I don't want
Speaker 1: to be shellfish. Oh yeah, I deserve that. Hey, I
Speaker 1: was a load for the for the well, actually I
Speaker 1: wasn't alone this week. Let's let's a lie. Uh. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, I have no I have no I
Speaker 1: have no justification for that bad joke, Andy, Hey buck,
Speaker 1: I have an opinion on meats. There we go, perfect timing.
Speaker 1: You always talk about the best steaks, but I think
Speaker 1: lamb chops are where it's really at. They're like tiny
Speaker 1: tea bones, but twice the meaty succulents. Also, mustache with
Speaker 1: no beard is definitely a bad call. Unless you can
Speaker 1: grow a huge, bushy, old timey mustache, She'll tie from Ohio. Well,
Speaker 1: I can tell you Andy, that is very unlikely. I
Speaker 1: can grow a bushy, old timey mustash. And as for lamb,
Speaker 1: I love lambchops. I love lampshops. I'm I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've actually never made them for myself. I feel like
Speaker 1: there's always some frenching or something you have to do.
Speaker 1: You have to like cut the fat off, and I
Speaker 1: guess the butcher can do that for you. But where
Speaker 1: are you on Lamb chops producer Mark? I love Lamb chops,
Speaker 1: but like you, I've never made them myself. But I
Speaker 1: love Greek cuisine. So I did make veal shop recently
Speaker 1: for the Snow Princess and myself, and it was phenomenal.
Speaker 1: I did do that. But you're gonna get some people
Speaker 1: not liking that. Buck. Oh, I didn't mean veal. I'man
Speaker 1: adult cow because don't eat veal. My bad. Just yeah,
Speaker 1: let's move on, shall we. Virginia, your Biden impersonation is
Speaker 1: the funniest thing I've heard in days. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the laugh. Wait, I just wait. First of all, hold
Speaker 1: on a second. Why No, I'm not gonna get into
Speaker 1: the Veal versus Lamb debate. I'm gonna get going to
Speaker 1: get lit up on social media. Virginia. I'm glad that
Speaker 1: you I'm glad that you enjoy the buying impersonation. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. I don't even know what I did
Speaker 1: to do it, but I just sort of got stuck
Speaker 1: in my head. And you're sure of her World War
Speaker 1: two and the boom, you know, he just starts talking
Speaker 1: about stuff. We'll come together and we'll make it into Yeah,
Speaker 1: David writes in good interview with Jack Carr, I just
Speaker 1: saw that he has Ray Porter doing the audio versions
Speaker 1: of his books. That's a fantastic choice because Ray is
Speaker 1: one of the elite in the business, one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: Now to download all three books. Hey, that's great, man.
Speaker 1: I told Jack Carr, I'm reading right now. I mean
Speaker 1: I'm reading slowly, but I'm reading Savage Son. And Jack's
Speaker 1: a great guy, really strong reputation. For everyone I've talked
Speaker 1: to in the media, military commune, media, military community. I
Speaker 1: think he's a great dude, and he's the real deal
Speaker 1: and such a nice guy. And like so many of
Speaker 1: the true operators that I have known, and even some
Speaker 1: that I was able to work alongside as a little civilian,
Speaker 1: you know, analyst person. UM, very humble about all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Whenever whenever I've come across for you know, with with
Speaker 1: very few I can't even think of an exception. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there are exceptions, but all the Rangers and Delta
Speaker 1: and Seals and pjs that I've come across who have
Speaker 1: been in real combat, um, they're not They're not rocking around,
Speaker 1: flexing all the time. I just that's just that's been
Speaker 1: my experience. They're they're professionals who are silent about their exploits,
Speaker 1: not I shouldn't say silent about it, but who are
Speaker 1: humble about their exploits. There we go Stephen. Um. Oh wait, no,
Speaker 1: hold on, Diane. First, we got to hold Stephen for tomorrow. Remember, everyone,
Speaker 1: go to bucksex and dot com. Check out the website.
Speaker 1: I've got a story there on the New York City
Speaker 1: subway situation that I will I want you to read.
Speaker 1: Diane Buck, what's up with Nancy Pelosi's disconnection with the
Speaker 1: needs of the people currently under duress? She has this
Speaker 1: let them meet kake, apparently with gourmet ice cream attitude.
Speaker 1: My guess is she didn't do well in European history
Speaker 1: to know that approach did not serve public figures well
Speaker 1: in the past. Shields High and Diane, Nancy Pelosi is
Speaker 1: a smug elite lib and that's never gonna change. And
Speaker 1: she doesn't care how disconnected from people's pain she is.
Speaker 1: She's just about Nancy Pelosi and the left wing cause.
Speaker 1: So and look, I don't I don't hate an art
Speaker 1: as an ice cream. I like fancy ice cream and
Speaker 1: I admit it. Okay, I like I like all ice
Speaker 1: cream too much, job of the buck, but fancy ice
Speaker 1: cream I'm good with. But I'm also in tune with
Speaker 1: how people have real challenges. All right, everybody, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for being here. Fantastic to have the team
Speaker 1: with me. We're getting through this team. You noticing that
Speaker 1: we're gonna get through this together. We're getting through it.
Speaker 1: We'll be there, we'll be on the other side of
Speaker 1: this before you know it. Until then, Shields Hi