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Hunter Biden.

He was interviewed on 60 Minutes Over the Weekend.

I can't believe he's doing press.

It seems ill-advised, Pat.

Doesn't it, though?

Yeah, hide.

They're hiding your dad.

He's the president of the United States.

Why are you out in the press?

You can't get him to do a freaking press conference.

We're getting stuff from Hunter.

Yeah.

And

he's the surviving son that Joe Biden never talks about.

It's always about Bo.

And

so

it's kind of sad in a way.

Although I think he got himself into a lot of this stuff.

But he was talking about about the laptop over the weekend on 60 Minutes.

And, you know, it just may be that that was hacked by

Russians or

Chinese or Mongolians.

I'm not sure who hacked it, but somebody might have hacked it.

Here's what he was talking about on 60 Minutes.

Was that your laptop?

For real.

I don't know.

I know, but you know,

I really don't know.

Okay.

What?

Yes or no.

I don't have any idea.

I have no idea.

So it could have been yours.

Of course, certainly.

There could be a laptop.

Certainly.

Yeah, it might be.

It could be that I was hacked.

It could be that

it was Russian intelligence.

It could be that it was stolen from

aliens.

Aliens, yeah.

It could have easily been an aliens.

It could easily, easily have been Plutonians.

Yeah.

Or Martians.

I don't know which.

Someone from Jupiterians, maybe?

Planet Zarkon.

Saturnites.

Could have been Zarkon?

Zarkonians, I think, is what they like to be called.

Well, I'm sorry.

From the planet Zarkon.

I was going to say Zarkon 5.

Oh, okay.

They just call them people from Zarkon.

They don't like the Zarkonians.

There's a long-term war in the solar system.

Long story short,

it could have been.

What?

Wait, what?

Oh, that was a surprise.

That came out of nowhere.

The laptops come and go.

I don't know.

Where are all my laptops?

It could be anywhere.

I was walking down the street the other day, bumped into a giant stack of my own laptops.

They were just all over the streets.

How did they get there?

Russian intelligence?

I don't know.

It could have been anything.

This is one of the worst answers.

And this is something he's had months to prepare for.

Yeah.

And this is the best you could do: maybe it was.

Maybe it was.

I don't know.

Of course, it could be.

I went into a swimming pool the other day.

It was filled with my laptops.

It was just a giant swimming pool of old laptops.

I don't know how they got there.

I have so many laptops.

Russian hacking?

Russian hacking.

Could be Russian hacking.

It could be people from Zarkon.

Could be Zarkodians.

We don't know.

We don't know.

I mean, we're Canadians.

How the damn Canadians could have done this.

I don't know.

I don't know, man.

All I know is I go through eight to ten laptops a day, and I don't know where they go.

They just all disappear and go into

various IT people's hands.

Who knows how to do it?

Every time I get born to an IT person, I just leave it there.

Could it be mine?

Yes.

I don't know.

I don't know.

They can fix laptops.

I was just turning them over.

I thought it was like a half

substance.

Like a toxic sludge.

The geek squad just ate them.

That's what I thought they did.

That's what I thought.

I thought Jeff Fisher worked there, and he just ate them when they came in.

They're so crunchy.

I mean,

who could resist?

I mean, part of us, I do appreciate the fact that the question was asked, and I should sort of lead with that.

However, I will say,

and I argued this during the campaign.

I can understand why you would be skeptical, especially if you're in the media, of like Rudy Giuliani coming out with a found laptop a week before an election.

I can understand why there'd be skepticism on a story like that.

In fact, the storyline of how it got to the IT person that was left there, and then it like, it all seemed very questionable.

All of that being said, no one ever asked Hunter Biden whether it was his laptop before the election.

They didn't even say like, look, okay, I can understand you're not going to confirm or deny every salacious detail here, but can you tell us, did you drop off a laptop at this place?

I mean, that's a totally legitimate question that if he says no to it, at least you'd say, okay, well, he's denying it completely.

They didn't even get him on the record with a denial.

Yeah.

They didn't, all they said was, we can't believe these tactics.

They kept going back to that same, well, all these tactics.

They're just trying to make a scandal right before the election.

Yeah, okay, but did you drop it off with this guy at this address?

Were you ever the one that just happens to be a couple miles from the train station?

You'd be getting off all the time.

The one with all of your emails in it?

Right.

Like, they keep quoting your emails.

How, how do they, how do they do that?

How do they get the video of you doing things?

Canadians.

Deep fake?

Well, I think the Canadians were working with the Russians and the Mexicans.

And they went after my laptop and put a whole bunch of fake emails in there.

Hacked them right into it.

I mean, I'm inexplicable.

And there's no, I mean, the follow-up of like, could it be yours?

Well, how about, you know, look, they say you dropped off a laptop.

Forget whether this is your laptop or not.

Did you drop one off at this place, at this address, with this phone number and this business name?

Might have been a good question.

Like, can we get?

Yeah.

And obviously, of course, the real reason he's not answering it is because he did.

And it was his laptop.

And the fact that they actually were banning the New York Post's Twitter account over a story that obviously, when you watch this interview, was true.

I mean, we thought it was true before, but obviously this was his laptop.

These things were on his laptop.

And they just decided to ignore it so that at the end of the day, Donald Trump would not be president anymore.

I'm not a person who always says that, but like, it's clear they saw a narrative from 2016.

And I read enough, it's my job to read the left-wing media so you don't have to.

And I read enough left-wing media to see they had constant complaints for the four years of the Donald Trump presidency that they believed, again, this is insane, but I'm going to lay it out for you.

They believe they were too tough on Hillary Clinton in the campaign.

They believe they gave too much oxygen to various scandals like the email scandal.

And they believe the reason hillary clinton lost was kind of their fault because they they decided to be in their view honest and cover these emerging scandals that were being talked about and and that were out there like the email scandal and so they believe this time we can't let that happen again and you some of them talked about it outwardly that like when the when the when the right comes up with their scandal last minute we need to ignore it because last time we did it and look what happened that is the way they viewed 2016.

So in 2020, when this came out,

they did exactly what they said they were going to do for four years, completely ignore it and not even try to vet whether it was a real scandal or not.

And now here we are a year after, or six months after the election, and

they are now admitting that they should have been asking those questions.

Why are they asking them now?

Why are they bothering with it now?

Now that the guy's already president of the United States, now you're going to ask the question about the laptop?

They were so invested in removing Donald Trump with any means necessary that they just intentionally ignored this.

They did.

They talked about it.

They admitted it.

And they executed

that way of doing business

without shame.

Without shame.

And here we see that obviously the ramifications of that is it worked.

Donald Trump isn't president anymore.

So you know that that's going to be their plan every time now.

You've got to believe it.

They're just going to ignore any scandal that is coming from the left.

They just won't pay any attention to it.

They won't give it any oxygen.

It did work this time.

It's hard to argue with that.

They didn't talk about Hunter Biden at all.

In fact, they made it a conspiracy theory.

If you believed anything was wrong with him, that he did anything wrong in Ukraine or China or this laptop thing.

If you believe any of it, it was just a big conspiracy theory.

Well, now all of a sudden they're starting to look into some of it and they're finding out that the guy's a bald-faced liar

and a drug addict who maybe he doesn't remember because he was so drug-addled.

Maybe, maybe he doesn't know because he was so wiped out on drugs.

He admitted that he relapsed as late as during the campaign last year.

During the campaign.

And this sucks, man.

I mean, this is a tough thing for anybody to deal with.

And I'm sure it is.

I'm sure it's hard for Joe Biden to deal with.

His son is a disaster.

His son is a disaster, and that's not easy to deal with.

But it is easy for the media to deal with something like this.

I mean, this is a guy who is returning rental cars with lines of drugs still on the dashboard.

On it.

Again, do your drugs when you rent a car.

Do all the drugs.

I left a line or two for the nice rental company people.

Like a tip?

Yeah, like a tip.

Yeah, I left you.

Snort whatever's on the dashboard.

There's a little lines of Coke there, so enjoy that, won't you?

He's had a really tough time.

He's been impregnating strippers all around the nation.

Exactly.

He's been on like the impregnate stripper tour.

He's been involved with his, you know, with his brother's widow.

Oh, my gosh.

And his brother's widow's sister.

And then the stripper in Arkansas with the baby.

Look, family stuff.

Unbelievable.

Family stuff can be really difficult.

And, you know, they've had a kid die.

There really is a rough road here for the Biden family over the years.

I mean, this has been a really rough, bumpy, ugly road.

And it's not about, even though at times we may mock Hunter Biden, it's really not about that.

It's about the media holding them responsible for their criminal actions.

Did they occur?

We don't know because no one asks the questions.

You know, you could go through Peter Schweizer's book and see a lot of things that I would call criminal.

And they're all documented.

Bunch of things.

Yeah.

And not just with Hunter, but like the whole family.

Whole family.

His brother is another big one in that family.

His brother, his daughter.

Yeah, it's all over the place in that family.

There's lots of corruption.

They've been using power in ways that I don't feel comfortable with for a very long time.

But that is

the media's job is to ask those questions and not wait till April.

You don't ask the question in April.

I mean, it's better than not asking it at all, I suppose.

But you don't wait till April.

This came out before the election.

This should have been talked about, and everybody on earth should have been aware of whether this was Hunter Biden's laptop or not, and everything that was on it.

And just let the American people decide then.

That would have been nice.

Yeah.

If

the American people had the information and they were able to decide whether or not it mattered to them.

But that's the problem.

They chose wrong last time.

Yeah.

And we can't let them choose again because they chose wrong last time.

That's the way they view this.

And it is, it's not a way to get you real information.

I'll tell you that.

The best of the Glenbeck program.

Looking at this

vaccine situation in Florida has been fascinating to watch.

60 Minutes run a big expose.

And it's clear now the media has decided Ron DeSantis is a front runner for president in 2024.

This is now...

They're just doing anything they can to sink this guy at this point.

They've decided they need to make sure they take him down before he can get started.

And you look at DeSantis, who's a guy who was elected in a very narrow election in Florida, very close election, and has seemingly done really well.

I mean, it's really hard to look at his performance and say anything other than that.

They kept things largely open.

They sort of led the country.

We should be clear here.

They didn't exactly leave.

I think they had a mass mandate, but they lifted it in September where Took Texas just did it a couple weeks ago.

They leaned freedom, let's put it that way.

They leaned freedom when dealing with the coronavirus.

And with a very elderly population, one of the oldest populations in America, finished sort of a middle of the pack for

COVID results as far as deaths per million and many other measures, which is impressive.

I mean, I remember when Florida first started having an outbreak early on.

in Miami and other areas, and it was thought to be like, this is going to be really bad because they do have an older population.

And if this starts spreading like crazy, the most vulnerable people are going to be very vulnerable.

Well, it didn't wind up turning out that way.

And Florida performed really well.

And DeSantis, you know, I've heard him

discussed as a professionalized Trump, right?

Where he does a lot of the things Trump does.

But, you know, Donald Trump, for all the things he does really well, was also very interested in like...

calling people on MSNBC ugly, right?

Like that's not what Ron DeSantis does.

He loves mixing it up with the media.

He goes back and forth with them all the time, but it's usually more about issues rather than people's appearances and the sort of stuff that Trump as an entertainer, Trump as a media personality got into a lot.

People like DeSantis because he brings a lot of the same policies, a lot of the same things to the table, but

he doesn't go down those sort of outlier roads that would make that made a lot of even Trump voters uncomfortable.

A lot of the tweeting.

Yeah,

he doesn't participate in...

And it's not like he's understated.

DeSantis likes to mix it up, but he usually is doing it based on issues of governance.

Where Trump, you know, a lot of times, obviously, was much more interested or, you know, as interested in just mixing it up and fighting with the media.

You know, DeSantis likes fighting with the media, but he's usually doing it over something, some sort of policy thing.

So this happened with 60 Minutes over the weekend.

This is, let me give you this clip.

This is, they're trying to figure out basically

why Ron DeSantis

used Publix, which is a big grocery store chain in Florida, as a distribution center for the vaccine.

Now, if you've ever lived in Florida, this would strike you as like super obvious.

Like, there's a Publix on every corner of every street.

In between, if you are on a residential street and there's six houses on it, the last lot is filled with a Publix.

That's how it works in Florida.

Which is a grocery store, right?

It's a grocery store.

Yeah, it's like a Kroger

or Albertson's.

Yep.

It's just really dominant in Florida.

Really dominant in Florida.

Very well known for their very good sub sub sandwiches that certainly didn't add to my weight gain while living in Florida.

And there's one right around the corner from 970 WFLA, our Tampa affiliate.

And we go there.

I mean, I'm pretty sure that's mostly what's responsible for Jeffy's size was the

proximity of that Publix to 970 WFLA.

So here is 60 minutes with a, I mean, they dug deep on this one.

We can't get Hunter Biden to be asked a question about his laptop before the election, but they dug deep into this Ron DeSantis Publix controversy this weekend.

Let's listen.

So why did the governor choose Publix?

Campaign finance reports obtained by 60 Minutes show that weeks before the governor's announcement, Publix donated $100,000 to his political action committee,

friends of Ron DeSantis.

Oh my gosh.

Julie Jenkins Fancelli, heiress to the Publix fortune, has given $55,000 to the governor's pack in the past.

And in November, Fancelli's brother-in-law, Hoyt R.

Barnett, a retired Publix executive, donated $25,000.

Oh, my God.

Publix did not respond to our request for comment about the donations.

Governor DeSantis is up for re-election next year.

I imagine Governor DeSantis' office would say, look, we privatize the rollout because it's more efficient and it works better.

It hasn't worked better for people of color.

That's true.

Before, I could call the public health director, she would answer my calls.

But now, if I want to get my constituents information about how to get this vaccine, I have to call a lobbyist from Publix.

That makes no sense.

They're not accountable to the public.

Distributing vaccines is lucrative.

Under federal guidelines, Publix, like any other private company, can charge Medicare $40 a shot to administer the vaccine.

Okay, there is so much packed into that clip.

It could take us a whole show to go through.

First of all, the idea that Ron DeSantis is

choosing how to distribute the vaccine based on $100,000 of donations

split over multiple years.

Come on.

Like, this is

insanity.

Why on earth would he care about that?

$100 million, maybe that's influencing him a little bit, but $100,000?

Big deal.

now of course as and this has been talked about by public health officials for a very long time in that if you put if you put the vaccine availability in places that people are familiar with and go to off often anyway they're more likely to get it right like if you need to go to the what did he say oh before i could go to the public health director and they'd answer my calls well who not mine right i've never talked to a public health director before it's much easier publix is much more accountable to me than a public health director they don't even know they don't know who i am i go to publics, I go and I buy food there.

They have to keep their customers happy.

They are very accountable to the people.

And people are in there all the time, are going to see signs for, hey, you can get the vaccine here.

I mean, you know, every year when the flu vaccine, and I'm somebody who gets the flu vaccine typically, usually what happens is I'm in CVS and I see this sign.

I'm like, oh, yeah, I was supposed to get that.

I might as well get it now.

That's usually how I get it.

Because I'm just there and I'm like, I remember that it's there.

And so I go and get the flu vaccine.

Now, again, this is something that is non-controversial.

CVS is distributing the vaccines for COVID all across the country.

Walgreens is doing it.

Why are they doing it that way?

Well, people go into those places.

It's not like trying to, like, if you have to file a government form, like to change your address or, or to, um,

to

the typical stuff that you have to go to town hall for,

even sometimes to register to vote or one of those things.

It's much more arduous than going to the place you go to all the time.

I never know where to go.

You go in the town hall.

There's all these different buildings.

None of it's self-explanatory.

It's always a difficult process to deal with government.

So instead, they put them in Walgreens.

You just walk up there and say, hey, you know, I have my appointments today.

Get the shot.

Get some

hostess products and walk out because those are healthy.

Completely understandable and happening all over the nation.

Florida is not the only one that is distributing vaccine this way in major consumer centers.

That's what the concept is.

Go to a place where people are already.

You don't have to spend millions of dollars advertising because they're going to walk by the signs all the time.

So this goes on.

They try to lock down DeSantis on this obvious scandal,

which is just completely.

He's getting outrageous sums of money from these people.

Yeah, $100,000.

Oh, we should also mention when he goes, oh, it's not working for people of color.

If you don't don't know, Publix is a white's only grocery store.

Yeah, they do.

I didn't realize that was legal.

Yeah.

No, yeah.

They don't allow black people inside of Publix.

Dang.

Bastards.

What do you do?

Why?

Why

do black people, I know they can't get IDs.

They apparently can't get to grocery stores either.

Well, no, they all live in food deserts.

Food deserts.

We found that out from Michelle.

That's right.

Which, by the way, is not accurate either.

We went around Texas.

This is back when I was doing a show.

I loved Texas.

Oh, there's such a great

when you were doing the food deserts in Dallas.

We did a segment called Deserted, and it was on the show I did for the Blaze called The Wonderful World of Stew, which is a weekly show.

So we get to have a little more time to do production on these things.

So we would go out on the field, and I would go, I would find food deserts in Texas.

They were actually designated.

Designated as food deserts.

And then I would go visit all the grocery stores inside the food desert.

Because without fail, they would always have not just one but multiple grocery stores inside

what they called the food desert unbelievable and it's just these are just straight out lies they would say that you know they have because they put out a map they said this is where all the food deserts are and i'm like i'm standing in one i went to one that had a um a target superstore which is a full grocery store inside, a Walmart superstore with an entire grocery store

store inside, a Sam's Club, which has lots of the same types of things, and an Eatsy's, which is like more of a, I don't know, like a craft sort of grocery store that has, you know, it's not a grocery store, it has some prepared foods, but it has like a mix of things.

But you couldn't get like fresh produce at any of those places.

All of them.

I think you get fresh produce at all of them.

And like some of the, some of the places didn't have like, you know, unhealthy processed snack foods.

Like Eatsy's wouldn't have something like that.

But you could get that at Target.

Would.

Walmart Wood, Target Wood.

Yeah.

So all these things.

And

it's like a, I can't be more than a

square mile for sure.

It's much less than that.

I mean, these are things that you could drive to all four of these places within three minutes.

They're that close to each other, and they're inside the food desert.

And so we went and visited them, and we're like, look, we can't find any broaders here.

And so that's all over the place.

Which is, of course, why they don't talk about food deserts anymore.

I guess not.

Because there really aren't any.

Not in America.

Look, if you're in the middle of nowhere in a rural area, like sometimes that's the case, but that's not the way they.

That's not how they define it.

No.

They're talking about urban areas where you can't get fresh food.

And the idea, once again, is these evil corporations don't like minorities, so they don't put grocery stores near minorities.

Apparently, the minority money is not effective as an incentive.

They don't want it.

Which is ridiculous.

These places are all over the place.

They're all over the place.

They don't care where their money comes from.

No.

They don't care.

They don't care.

So here is Ron DeSantis.

They're trying to trap him on this.

We know the reason why you gave these vaccines to Publix is because

listen to this, Cliff.

It's amazing.

We wanted to ask Governor DeSantis about the deal, but he declined our request for an interview.

Oh, no.

We caught up with him south of Orlando.

Publix, as you know, donated $100,000 to your campaign, and then you rewarded them with the exclusive rights to distribute the vaccination in the city.

So first of all, what you're saying is wrong.

How is that not paid away?

That's a a fake narrative i met with the county mayor i met with the administrator i met with all the folks at palm beach county and i said here's some of the options we can do more drive-through sites we can give more to hospitals we can do the publix and they said we think that would be the easiest thing for our residents but melissa mckinley the county commissioner in the glades told us the governor never met with her about the publix deal

it's wrong it's wrong it's a fake narrative i just disabused you of the narrative and you don't care about the facts because obviously I laid it out for you in a way that is irrefutable.

And so it's clearly not.

Isn't there the near-profit?

No, no, no, you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong.

That's actually a fact.

Okay, so this is, first of all, you could see the Trump,

why Trump fans like DeSantis.

Like, he doesn't care.

He's just going to freaking fire back at you over these things.

Of course, they also edited that clip.

I don't know if we have, do we have full time to run this?

Let's just

listen to some of this.

This is the full clip, the exchange with DeSantis.

Much of this hit the cutting room floor on 60 minutes.

Here's the initial question.

About $100,000.

So, first of all, what you're saying is wrong.

That's a fake narrative.

So, first of all, when we did the first pharmacies that had it were CVS and Walgreens, and they had a long-term care mission.

So, they were going to the long-term care facilities.

They got vaccine in the middle of December.

They started going to the long-term care facilities the third week of December to do LTCs.

So that was their mission.

That was very important and we trusted them to do that.

As we got into January, we wanted to expand the distribution points.

So yes, you had the counties, you had some drive-through sites, you had hospitals that were doing a lot, but we wanted to get it into communities more.

So we reached out to other retail pharmacies, Publix, Walmart.

Obviously, CVS and Walgreens had to finish that mission.

And we said, we're going to use you as soon as you're done with that.

For the Publix, they were the first one to raise their hand, say they were ready to go.

And you know what?

We did it on a trial basis.

I had three counties.

I actually showed up that weekend and talked to seniors across four different publics.

How was the experience?

Is this good?

Should you think this is a way to go?

And it was 100% positive.

So we expanded it, and then folks liked it.

And I can tell you, if you look at a place like Palm Beach County, They were kind of struggling at first in terms of the senior numbers.

I went, I met with the county mayor, I met with the administrator, I met with all the folks at palm beach county and i said here's some of the options we can do more drive-through sites we can give more to hospitals we can do the publix we can do this back out they calculated that 90 percent of their seniors live within a mile and a half of a publix 90 they said we think that would be the easiest thing for our residents so we did that and what ended up happening was you had 65 publix in palm beach palm beach is one of the biggest counties one of the most elderly counties we've done almost 75 percent of the seniors in palm beach And the reason is because you so first of all, two things you take from this.

Number one, he doesn't go from zero to arguing with her at all.

He explains it very calmly.

She keeps firing back and eventually it escalates.

They only put that part in.

They skip the part where it's 90% of people live within a mile of a public,

which is an incredible statistic.

They skip all of that and they make it look like he was giving this just to publics for these donations when, as he lays out clearly, CBS and Walgreens had it first.

And by the way, they still have it.

So, if you don't have a Publix nearby, you have a CVS or a Walgreens, most likely.

It really is.

I mean, the media just don't even care anymore.

They're not even trying.

But a ridiculous segment from 60 Minutes.

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On the mask mandate in Texas, I think a lot of people are surprised that our numbers continue to trend down.

Yes.

Since the mask mandate being pulled, we've gone down another 37% in infections and hospitalizations.

You mean

up 37%.

No, it's actually down.

Down 37%.

Down 37%.

Down 37%.

20.

I just was reading over the weekend, though, that 25 states, I think, had their numbers go up a little bit.

They spiked somewhat.

Yeah, it does seem like there is, we had this really big decrease nationally

from over the past few months, partially as vaccines started, but I don't know how much you can really put on that case.

I think you can look at that from elderly people because there is a really significant percentage of elderly people who have been vaccinated.

Now it's over 70%

of elderly people have at least first shots.

So that's a lot.

It's helping with the death numbers, though the case numbers are, they basically plateaued at about the level of the summer lull before we had that.

Which was how many?

How many is that?

Give me one second here.

I can give you that number.

Because basically, we had a

if you think of the way we've dealt with this thing since the beginning, there's been that first wave, right, where everything was going crazy.

We didn't have any tests, and it was basically New York, New Jersey, Connecticut.

There's some in California, some in Detroit.

New Orleans got hit pretty hard that first wave, but it was mostly a northeast wave, if you want to call it that.

And that was, that had the, you're looking for cases or deaths?

Deaths, let's just do deaths because they're much easier to actually look at.

And because there was no testing in that first wave at all.

But you got to about 2,000 deaths a day, a little over 2,000 deaths a day in that first wave.

Then it came down to around about 600 deaths per day as it came down off of that first wave.

Rose back up in the second wave, which would you think of Florida, Texas, Arizona, that rose up to about 1,000 a day.

Came back down to about 700 a day before this last wave that we had that was really not nearly as intense in any location, but was much more widespread.

It was like a, it was not nearly as bad in New York, for example,

than it was in that first wave.

Didn't it get to 4,000 a day?

But that one got up to a particular point?

Yeah, it got up to about,

it did hit 4,000 in individual days.

The average got to about 3,500.

Okay.

So since then, that was the end of January, it's come all the way down to 833.

So from 3,500, we're down about 75%.

Cases

are stunning.

Yeah.

I mean, it's been

with cases from about 250,000 cases a day at the peak in that third wave, we're now down to about 60,000 cases a day, which is about where we were.

Which Fauci would say, that's unacceptable.

Too high, right?

He'd say too high.

But it's about the lull we had in between the second and third wave of this.

So it was a point where we were looking at this and saying, okay,

you know,

we've done well at this point.

We're not all the way down to maybe where we would like to be, but we've done well.

Now,

since, let's say, the beginning of March, we've basically, that decrease has stopped.

We've hit a plateau at about 60,000 a day, give or take.

Okay, so we haven't dropped to like 50 or 40.

Right.

We have just stayed at 60.

The drop went pretty straight down and then has leveled off about this area.

Yeah.

Now, the good thing is deaths continue to drop.

We don't know if that's going to to continue, but it would make sense that it continues considering we are now vaccinating so many older people.

This is sort of the approach.

If you remember, Pat, back in the early days of the pandemic, there were sort of two competing approaches.

You had the left-wing approach, which was like, lock everything down.

No one goes outside at all, basically, unless you're, you know, unless you're a doctor.

Only doctors on the roads was their plan.

I'm exaggerating a little bit, but not that much.

And then there was the conservative idea, which was, hey, we realize this hits people.

It's really, really bad for older people and not as bad for younger people.

So what if like the younger people went out and were able to do what they could do, take basic steps, you know, social distancing or whatever, you know, wash your hands a lot, do the basics.

But we can keep the economy chugging as much as possible.

And we really do kind of lock down on older people.

You know, so they,

nursing homes, for example, aren't getting tons of visitors, right?

We don't import known COVID-positive patients into nursing homes like Andrew Cuomo was doing.

That was an interesting idea from conservatives.

But we've kind of now achieved largely that vision right now, which is we have 75%

of people 65 plus have at least had one shot.

Now, one shot will get you to about 80% effectiveness with Pfizer and Moderna, which is pretty good.

Which is pretty good.

I mean, it's much 80% is way better than they thought they were going to do with these things at the beginning.

They were hoping to get to 50%.

So they got to 80% with just one shot.

The

AstraZeneca in the UK is mainly their chosen vaccine there, and they're only doing one shot right now.

They're not even going for the 90% effectiveness with the second shot.

They're just like, let's just get as many people as we can to get one shot.

So if you think of it that way, that it's largely effective anyway, 75% already have it.

Over 55% of

the 65-plus population is fully vaccinated in this country already.

It's really, really fast.

So we're doing 3 million vaccinations a a day.

A day now.

That's incredible.

3.08.

That really is good.

It is really, really good.

And this is largely, by the way, we should point out largely because of the Trump administration.

Right.

In conjunction with

big pharmaceutical companies, the other evil thing, and capitalism.

Those three things working together, getting something that has never, ever.

been seen before in human history.

This vaccine program, how fast they came up with them, how many they got, how effective they are,

how little side effects there have been.

Yeah, it is absolutely incredible.

It's a miracle.

It really is.

It really is.

And I don't know.

I mean, maybe you don't want to get it, but that's fine.

It's still a miracle, and that is fine.

That's just as important here, by the way.

Freedom is really important.

If you don't want to take the vaccine, you shouldn't have to take the vaccine.

Exactly.

No

exceptions to that for me.

I mean, like, if you, if you think I don't want to get the vaccine because I don't like needles, you shouldn't have to get the vaccine.

If you don't want to get the vaccine because

you just don't trust Publix and Ron DeSantis and the way they distributed the vaccine near the sub shop,

that's fine too.

That's really, really important.

And people get really sensitive because they feel as if the government's going to come in and mandate it.

We have not seen that yet, but people are very on top of the passports thing.

There's all these threats of people coercing you to do this.

The product is good enough to just be out there.

It's just believe in your product a little bit.

You came up with something really great.

It's working really well around the world.

Yeah.

And just believe that people are going to want to not get the coronavirus.

And to have not one, but what, four vaccines that are widely in use right now?

Yeah.

Between Pfizer, Moderna.

Johnson ⁇ Johnson, and AstraZeneca.

Yeah, AstraZeneca is not approved here yet, but it is in other parts of the world.

But, I mean, that's incredible.

When before

the data I heard is that the fastest vaccine ever developed was 10 years.

Yep.

And I think it was measles.

There's one, I think, was it mumps or something that was, I had heard four years on.

There's some conflicting information as to what the record was.

At least four times what it took this time.

And look, I love the superhero American story of the development of this vaccine.

I love it.

But I will say, you know, look, mRNA technology had been worked on for 40 years.

You know, they have been working on coronaviruses generally and mRNA for seven years.

Because we've seen a lot of coronaviruses.

They had a really good head start on this.

People talk about, oh, they just rushed it through.

Well, they had a really good, they've been doing research.

It was a top-line research issue.

And I think maybe the most exciting part of all of this

is that this technology, this general, it's like a platform.

And so when they came up with a new variant, right, when these new variants have come out, they've been able to adjust and add and come out with booster shots in weeks because it's just like, it's just they just need to tweak.

It's not, it's a totally different way of coming up with vaccines.

It's not like the old school way.

So the good thing about this is it could, I think it's going to do incredible things for other long-term things that people have struggled with, other diseases that people have struggled with.

And that's really great if that's the way this goes.

But like, we should point out that the Trump administration is, if you want to have political fingers to be pointed, should be pointed to the Trump administration.

They are the ones that shepherded this process through.

It may very well be looked back at as the best thing he did as president.

They're the ones who provided the money.

Yeah, they provided the money.

They fast-tracked

a lot of red tape.

Like, people are like, oh, they rushed the vaccine through.

Well, they fast-tracked the red tape.

Yeah.

And that is like, that's what gets in the way.

We could be much more innovative, but the FDA is always shutting these things down or making it take 10 years.

Right.

And it takes so long because, in part, the FDA approval process is a catastrophe.

Ridiculous.

Ridiculous.

And so instead of going through that, they did something else where you just had an emergency approval.

Emergency youth authorization

instead of the actual approval.

It very much strengthens your case if you're someone who doesn't want to get it because it would be very difficult for a government entity to require

the FDA.

Right.

It would be very difficult for that to happen.

I don't think it would hold up in court.

But But again, there are worries there, and you do have to worry about government overreach when it comes to power on these things.

I'm just talking about the actual science plus capitalism aspect of this, which I freaking love.

I love that part of it.

And why wouldn't you?

Because if you're a Trump fan, this is exactly what he did.

Yeah.

These were the steps he took to make this happen.

And it's important to note, too, that Donald Trump got.

the coronavirus, as we all would remember, right before the election in a really bad way, had a really rough run with it.

And even though he had it before he left office, he got the vaccine.

Yeah.

Like this is Donald Trump choosing to take it after he already had it.

It's questionable whether you would even need it if you had coronavirus.

Like as a COVID-19 survivor myself, I've had to look into these things.

As well as a Canadian sports hero.

And a Canadian sports hero.

The two things I'm known for.

Yeah.

But the point is that Trump, I mean, look, you could say,

you know, it would be very strange decision-making for this to be some nefarious plot that Trump willingly decided to take before he left office.

I mean, I don't know why he would do that.

The point, though, is that this is going in such a good direction.

We've come off of these highs, right?

And I think there's a good chance that we'll get that situation that we talked about as conservatives at the beginning, where

not through policy, but through vaccines, the older population is protected.

So that even if we have flare-ups among the younger

population, we're likely to

lose the high death numbers

from the previous outbreaks.

Yeah, I was reading an article from somebody who

isn't a huge proponent of less restrictions.

And even he was saying,

I can't remember the name, but even he was saying that by Memorial Day, it's going to be hard to say you still need to wear a mask.

He said, we're trending in such a direction now that by Memorial Day, we should be done with that.

And that's great if that's true.

Look, it's great.

You know, it's true here here largely in Texas anyway.

I mean, some of the signs remain in the doors.

There are certain places.

My wife can tell you a list of all of them in this area that will get mad at you if you do not wear a mask.

I bet she could.

Oh, yeah.

If you're ever on her Instagram page, that is about 90% of the content is her talking about what places she can walk into without a mask and they won't harass her.

That's

most of her attention these days.

Our house got destroyed by a flood.

So you have that, and then you have where can she go shopping without a mask?

Those are the two things she thinks about.

But it's true.

I mean,

I have noticed, and we made this point in the air pad at the beginning of this, that really there's been no big difference from

before the announcement and after.

Nothing has changed really in my life.

Maybe now we're starting to see a little bit more of things opening.

Like, I, you know, I'm going to the

America's team, the Toronto Blue Jays, their game against the Rangers today.

So expected 100% capacity.

That's going to be weird.

Yeah, that's something.

I've been to a few sporting events with empty seats.

This is going to be weird if it's actually filled.

But you do have to wear a mask, right?

They do say that, unless you're eating or drinking, which, by the way, I'm at a baseball game I will be doing a lot of, so it's not going to really affect me all that much.

Wanted to play for you this pastor.

He's originally from Poland, but he lives in Calgary, Canada now, and has his parish there.

And some police officers came into his church yesterday on an Easter Sunday and were hassling people without a mask.

And so he kind of took exception to that.

Please get out.

Get out of this property immediately, get out.

Get out of this property.

I don't want to hear anything out of this property immediately.

I don't want to hear a word.

Out!

Out!

Out of this property!

Immediately until you come back with a warrant.

Out!

Out!

Out!

Out!

Out!

Out of this property!

Immediately, out!

Immediately, go out and don't come back.

I don't want to talk to you.

Not a word out of this proper out of this property

I don't care what you have to say out

of this property, you Nazis, out,

out

Gestapo is not allowed here.

Immediately Gestapo is not

allowed,

Do you understand English?

Get out of this property.

Go!

So go!

Go!

And don't come back without a warrant!

Out, Nazi!

Out!

Out!

Now, what does he want from the officers here?

I think he wants them

to stay,

have a cupcake.

Do not come back without a warrant.

Do not come back without a warning.

He continues to call them Nazi Gestapo, communists, fascists.

But they leave.

And how does this work?

They actually leave.

You need to try this next time you get pulled over.

Out!

Get out!

Out!

I don't want to hear you!

Get out!

I'm going to try that.

See how that works.

You get pulled over once a week at least.

So you've got to at least give this a shot.

Seriously, I think that's the thing I'm most fascinated about, how

it actually works.

Yeah.

I mean, of course, they shouldn't be in there doing these things if he wants them to not be there, if they don't have a warrant.

To come in and enforce, I guess the idea was they were enforcing mask policy of some sort.

Yes.

I guess they were having church with no masks.

Right.

Wow.

And he just put the hammer down.

He really did.

Which is amazing.

First of all, it takes a lot of nerve.

Secondly, I mean, I'm not normally in favor of

disrespecting the police officers, but they're,

you know, hassling people with masks with not wearing masks on Easter Sunday in a church.

Yeah, no, look, that's wrong.

I will say also, however, there's a little Jim Crow 2.0 going on here in that, like, if you were to yell at the Nazis that way, that is not the way the interaction would have, would have been.

Well, that is true.

That is true.

I get what's kind of an important point as well.

It is.

I mean, the police take enough abuse from people that I don't like to see that.

But again, you understand people are frustrated.

It's been over a year here of this craziness.

And, you know, look, there's just no reason.

There's no reason to be enforcing these types of things.

Tell people reliable information that they can count on and you won't change every two weeks and let them make decisions for themselves.

And then, if they show up, tell them, get out, get out, get out, get out!

No, no, no, no.