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Michael Burry, he's the guy who was the focus of the big short.

He says

that

this, what we are dealing with right now, the universal stay-at-home, is the most devastating economic force in modern history.

He says it's man-made.

It's suddenly reversed the gains of underprivileged groups, kills and creates drug addicts, beats and terrorizes women and children in violent,

now jobless households, and more.

It bleeds deep anguish and suicide.

That's probably the

most accurate description of what has happened.

We are in a place that none of us saw coming just a few weeks ago.

I have been warning

since this became serious in China that it was not the actual virus that would

be something that we should worry about.

It would be the consequences and the Great Depression that would come after.

And we are headed that way.

But we are also doing things

by choice that we have got to stop doing.

I mean, we've talked about China for years now and the way China enslaves their people.

And they are 1984 and we've been a brave new world.

We're sliding into it thanks to technology.

We're sliding into this

slave state or this surveillance state, Big Brother.

And we're doing it.

We're asking for it now.

There is a

experiment going on with the American people right now.

How far can we push the American people on their civil liberties?

How far can we do it?

Unfortunately,

pretty far.

Pretty far.

We are teaching everyone the wrong lesson.

All of these politicians are learning the wrong lesson from us.

Last Thursday, Google announced its community mobile reports program.

It's completely harmless.

Google is just providing government leaders data on where people are traveling during the pandemic, you know, for your safety.

Now, they say this is all anonymous.

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

Google is providing data for states and counties to help governments understand how well stay-at-home

orders are working, among other things.

Google insists the government cannot track you individually.

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

Here's the latest from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

Kansas, a state,

is tracking individuals using a GPS tracking platform called Unicast.

Kansas is tracking individuals and their locations through their cell phones.

They're using this program to grade counties on their social distancing effectiveness.

So far, 45 out of 105 counties got an F grade.

The state average is is a C.

Unicast gets its location data from other applications on your phone.

So it's not legally required to notify you that you're being tracked by the government of Kansas.

If Kansas can figure this out,

I'm pretty sure the federal government can find the loopholes.

Did we ever give our government,

our our local, our state, our federal government, permission to track us and where we are at all times?

Do you remember the outcry when local police were putting GPS tracking devices underneath the cars of suspects?

Do you remember what we used to say, how wrong that is?

If you don't have a court order?

Now our government is using cell phone data to track people.

You know who else does that?

China.

And we don't seem to care.

Now let me tell you what China is doing.

China has now required

all of their citizens and tell me this isn't coming our way.

I'm telling you this is absolutely coming our way.

They're now requiring their citizens to install an app on their smartphone which dictates whether they're allowed to move around in public.

Each person is assigned a QR code through the app, green, yellow, or red, and that indicates your health status.

Green lets people move around freely.

Yellow means you may be confined to home for seven days.

Red means a two-week quarantine.

So far, the Chinese government has not even told their own people how they classify people.

Reports of people with red codes who have no symptoms of coronavirus, have never been tested for it, are rampant.

By the way, there is no way to get your code changed in China.

But here, I'm sure when Google or whoever else develops this app for the United States, I'm sure there'll be a very simple way so

you can figure out why you've been categorized red or yellow.

Now, China is using this color code app.

It shares the personal data with police.

The New York Times has described this and talked about a similar system in the U.S.

that would be used by the CDC,

hooking up with Amazon or Facebook apps to track the symptoms and then start sharing that data with your sheriff's office.

How long?

Before one of these governors says, you know what, we need a color-coded phone app that tells you when you can leave your home or go go to the store.

How many of how long will it take before one of them hears this story and go, well, that's a good idea.

We need that.

It's for the people's safety.

We are becoming a

police state.

And if you think that these local police departments that are ordering all these drones, the drone companies cannot keep up with the requests for drones from U.S.

police departments.

If you think they're going to give up those drones after this is over, you're fooling yourself.

Now, the Chinese government is offering $300 to anybody who reports on neighbors attending social events, refusing quarantine, running a fever.

Lower payments are offered for information about people trading wild animals, price gouging, you know, hosting family members visiting from another city.

Oh my gosh, those darn communists turning neighbor against neighbor.

Good thing that's not happening.

Oops, it's happening all over the country.

One of the worst things that we exposed last night on our Wednesday night special, if you're a subscriber to the Blaze, you can watch it now.

It's a really good episode.

We talked about China and what they're doing, where this came from,

all of the evidence on how this did come from experimentation in laboratories in Wuhan.

But one of the worst things we talked about here in the United States was the business ambassador program in Los Angeles.

Stu, I don't know if you've heard of this.

This is one of the...

This is one of the worst things I've heard.

We are going to so regret everything that we're allowing to happen right now.

Los Angeles has a business ambassadors program.

They deploy city workers and volunteers with the mayor's crisis response team to businesses that appear to be out of compliance with the emergency order and with a goal of securing voluntarily compliance.

If voluntary compliance is not achieved, the ambassadors then just share information with the city attorney and the LAPD for follow-up.

The business ambassadors have visited 540 non-compliant businesses so far.

144 have received a visit from the LA police.

Businesses are referred to the police for misdemeanor filings.

This is insane.

And if you know anything at all about history, we are just repeating one of the darkest times in American history.

In Minnesota, the government has a hotline that social distance warriors can tattle on their neighbors.

Washington State has a website to report businesses that are violating the stay-at-home order.

If you want to, you know, rat on Bob, the neighbor down the street that's having a barbecue that you weren't invited to, you can go to the website.

They're asking people all over the country.

One lady in Connecticut got a golf course shut down after she saw people on the golf course and she said, people are dying and these people are out on the golf course.

And

the state of Connecticut shut the golf course down because of one lady.

What is wrong with us?

How are we possibly okay with this?

Rhode Island, the governor there, a Democrat, took the National Guard and had him go door to door with state police doing a search of people's houses.

Papers, please.

Do you have anyone from New York in your house?

Yeah.

So we've had some reports from neighbors.

What country are we living in?

And the only reason why this isn't a big deal is because these are Democrat governors that are doing this.

These states that are doing the worst are Democrat governors.

You were worried about a totalitarian state.

I don't know.

What would you say if Donald Trump said, we're going to use the National Guard and we're going to go door-to-door to see if there's anybody from Mexico in these houses?

What do you think you'd say?

Well, you're doing it now.

Your governors are doing it.

Door-to-door searches for somebody who just doesn't belong there.

I'm going to give you the worst time in American history, and

we've already achieved equal status.

Now, how far down this road are we going to go?

Of course, it involves Woodrow Wilson.

I'll give it to you here in just a second.

Wouldn't it be nice if one day we could take all the cyber criminals, line them up in the street, And then beat them with reeds?

Oh, man.

I mean, sure, some of them might be be innocent, but man, that would be good, wouldn't it?

Give me back my uncle's identity as we beat him.

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If you decide that you don't want to,

you know, stay at home, don't worry about it.

Seriously, don't worry about it.

You're going to be, it's fine.

It's fine.

We'll just put an ankle bracelet around your leg.

This has happened before

and it is in an America that scared the living daylights out of Americans and they ran as fast as they could from

progressives.

During World War I, the Justice Department under Wilson

formed the American Protective League.

This is one of those things that you don't ever learn about in school school because, well, it was a progressive that did it.

The American Protective League.

By the end of the war in 1918, it had 250,000 badge-wearing members across the country.

Now, they were looking for enemies, enemies of the state.

Anybody who was saying anything bad about the war, anybody who was saying anything bad about the president or America

or the American Protective League, They spied, they intimidated, they read neighbors' emails, listened in on neighbors' telephone calls, all in an effort to root out the enemy.

The United States government found their enemies.

Oh,

those local busybodies, man, they carried a badge and they were gonna find the bad guys.

And oh, they did.

175,000 neighbors.

There's 250,000 badge-wearing members.

Almost all of them found at least one enemy.

175,000 citizens were arrested, most of them for little more than saying, I don't care what the hell your badge says.

This is what we're doing again.

We just haven't deputized people.

We're just giving them money.

That's even worse.

The one thing that Americans have always had is a love for our neighbor.

Our neighbor was not the Stasi.

If you don't know what the Stasi is, read my new book, Arguing with Socialists.

The Stasi is the secret police in East Germany.

The socialists love secret police.

They love informants.

They love it.

Any big government has got to turn part of the population against the other part of the population.

Because then you never know.

Then you stop.

It is the next step in political correctness.

Political correctness happens and it's just kind of a thing where it's just, you know,

social shame.

Then it steps up to where you can lose your job.

You can lose your status.

You can lose your place in society.

Then the next thing is you get your friends and your children to rat on you.

You know, mom and dad are still teaching.

Mom and dad still say,

well, we haven't gotten to our children quite yet,

but we're now at the neighbor level.

America, wake up.

This is way, way, way beneath us.

We have much better things to do.

than rat on each other.

What do you say we all roll up our sleeves and put America back to work?

Why Why don't we help each other now and then go back to work in the next few weeks?

I think there's going to be an explosion of goodwill, an explosion of hard work, an explosion of capital being pounded into our economy if we just keep our head together.

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You've got to have something to do.

I have finished all of my, my family is melting down.

Is anybody else?

Anybody?

Anybody?

Anybody?

Anybody for a couple of teenagers?

Can't get anybody to agree on anything.

Nothing.

I'm just ready to just assign jobs.

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Holy cow.

Wow, things are going well, huh?

Man.

Wow.

Okay, so, you know, I feel so bad for anybody who lives in a very small house or an apartment in New York.

I'm surprised they're just not all killing each other at this point.

Yeah.

It is, it is, I have a, you know, I have a nice house with the backyard and everything else, but it is so confining.

It is, it just, three weeks is enough.

You're kind of, you're, you know, it's like,

I got to get out of here.

Yeah.

It is crazy.

Here's the good news, though.

The good news is you only have another 18 months to go, according to Ezekiel Manual.

Just another 18 months, and then we're done with this.

So don't worry about it.

America would never.

America

will

be dead.

We'll all be dead in 18 months.

Yeah, we would.

We would.

We would.

And

there's something.

There's no way that we go back.

They're talking now that, you know, probably in November, we're all going to have to go back in for the winter.

No way.

No.

No way.

People are just not going to do it.

They're going to be like, I don't care.

I'll die.

I am not going to do it.

Three months.

My kids are.

I mean, it's enough.

My kids are out of their mind right now.

I have

a teenage son, teenage son, and he is, he was homeschooled.

He does not like homeschooling.

He needs the social stuff.

He needs to be very active.

Needs to be in school or a prison work chain gang or something, but he just, he hates it.

And he is, he is up until like three o'clock in the morning.

Yesterday, two days ago, Tanya got up at five and he was up at five just watching TV.

You know, the time before he was on the computer.

I mean, we just cannot stop it.

And I, I mean, we have all the computer keyboards and everything locked up in the safe at night and he'll find, he's like MacGyver.

He'll find something to do all night.

And it's just,

it's impossible.

And then when you try to do something as a family, oh my gosh, I cannot take, I cannot,

I have nightmares of the Netflix or the Amazon page with all of the options.

It's a never-ending nightmare because you'll sit down and you'll say, okay, you want to watch this?

And one of them will say, oh, if you're going to watch this, I'm going to go do this.

Yep.

No, no, no, no.

Okay.

All right.

Well, then let's watch this.

Oh, well, if you're the other one, if you're going to watch it, I'm just going to listen to my music and they put their ear pods in.

It's like, oh, good God.

And

they're not even close.

It's like,

you know, one is Doctor Who and the other one is high school musical.

And there's nothing,

nothing that is a bridge between those two.

It's horrible.

Do you just horrible?

Must you watch TV together?

I mean, like, can you just.

Well, I'd like to.

I mean, right now, right now, in the last two days, and Tanya said to me last night, and I said, honey, I'm sorry I can't help.

It was the book thing, and I'm working all the time from home.

And it makes it worse because I'm home and I don't have any time to do anything.

And she's like, honey, we got to do something.

And she said, you know what?

I think just, I'm just going to just give up.

And I'm like, okay, that's not an option.

But right now, I think maybe we have to just relax some of the stuff.

I don't know because

I don't see my kids.

They're in other rooms with ear pods.

They're, you know, whatever.

And it,

oh my gosh.

Okay, take away, take away their music.

Take away YouTube.

Take away, you know, whatever that is that they're doing.

Take it away.

Are you kidding me?

They're almost insane as it is.

Am I the only one dealing with this?

No.

No.

I just think that this is the time for those sorts of pieces.

You know, that leniency is valuable here, right?

I think so too, but I could be very wrong.

I feel like this, like, look, there are reasons to help with long-term

habits, right?

To get them off of all the devices and all of that.

In this situation, you know, you just have to like, all right, well, today they're just on the iPad.

Yeah, but 30 days and it's a habit.

30 days and it's a habit.

Yeah, I don't think it's awful.

We're looking at a lot more than 30 days.

Take them out to the pool.

She got a pool.

Have them go swimming.

Yeah.

Go out and go swimming.

Little brats.

Well, I turned on, I told Tanya, I said, let's heat the pool because it's 60 today.

I said, let's heat the pool.

And she said, heat the pool.

Do you know that?

Because I was like, we're not spending money anyplace else.

We're not going anywhere.

We're not going anywhere.

You know, but you could lose your job.

Yes.

But the kids will be out of the house.

And there's definitely this thing going on, I think, too, with

just like understanding.

Like, obviously, like, you know, we're in, you know, outside in the suburbs in Texas.

It's a totally different situation, as you pointed out, to the city.

And people in New York City, even, it's a totally different situation than people in, like, imagine being in a developing country where you have like 15 people in your house anyway, and you either go out and work or die.

There's no social distancing going on.

15 people in your house and it's 250 square feet.

Right.

Try that.

Yeah.

And here we are, bitching in the cloud first world problem.

Yeah, but I can't get my kids in the pool or up to the movie room.

I have to tell you, I have not,

maybe because I lived in New York, I can relate to

the,

they must be losing their minds.

Imagine being in one of those skyscrapers or just in one of those just ratty, rat-infested, cockroach-infested apartment buildings in New York where you've got 500 square feet and just two children, one child.

I mean, it's got to be crazy, crazy bad.

Yeah.

Where you can't go out into the park or did you hear about, well, who was the, was it in Denver where a father and daughter went out and they were just throwing a softball back and forth to each other.

The social distancing, they weren't around everybody.

They weren't in a team or anything.

It was just a father and daughter.

They arrested the father.

Yeah, dragged him out in handcuffs

in front of his six-year-old daughter.

That is insane.

That's insane.

I don't know what's Colorado.

What the hell is happening to you?

That's got to stop.

I guess

they're trying to apologize.

I would not take that apology.

I would take that to court.

I would take that to court.

I'm getting a little surly.

Yeah, I got nothing but time on my head.

I don't accept your apology, you bastards.

No.

Some of these restrictions, though, they're just anti-American.

They're just unconstitutional.

They are.

And, you know, finally, some people are starting to push back a little bit.

In Idaho, we've got a group of people led, of course, by a Bundy.

Am and Bundy is getting

people together in Sandpoint, Idaho, and saying, no, we're not going to do this.

We've got people pushing back.

Well, they're not.

Utah is not.

Utah is one of those five states, right?

Do we have the audio of the governor of

South Dakota?

I think this is one of the

best things I have heard in a long, long time.

Let me see.

I'm going to get her name.

I think it's Noam.

Yeah, it's Governor Noam.

Christy Noam, I think.

Yeah.

And

she did a press conference the other day about, you know, because she's getting heat.

All these states are getting heat from all the other governors.

Oh, we closed down ours.

How come you're not closing yours?

Well, they're not having a problem.

They're doing fine.

Their numbers are going down, not up.

Right.

And listen to what she said.

Listen to this.

In this country and in our state, we have a government that is run by, for,

and of the people.

And the people have established national and state constitutions that place specific limits on the role of government in our lives.

Those limits prevent us from taking draconian measures, much like the Chinese government has done and what we have seen.

There also is some limits that keep us from taking some of the actions we've seen European governments take that limit citizens' rights.

Our Constitution ensures the citizens' right is protected.

I agree with the role of the government as set forth in our state and in our national constitution.

I took an oath to uphold these constitutions.

The people themselves are primarily responsible for their safety.

They are the ones that are entrusted with expansive freedoms.

They're free to exercise their rights to work, to worship, and to play, or to even stay home, or to conduct social distancing.

Since the middle of February, I've been very clear that people need to take personal responsibility for their health and the well-being of their families.

South Dakota is not New York City.

And our sense of personal responsibility, our resiliency, and our already sparse population density put us in a great position.

to manage the spread of this virus without needing to resort to some of the measures that we've seen in some of these major cities, coastal cities, and in other countries.

The calls to apply for a one-size-fits-all approach to this problem in South Dakota is herd mentality.

It's not leadership.

My responsibility is to respect the rights of people and the people who elected me to manage our state operations in a way that reflects the realities of what we have here on the ground in our state.

That's fantastic.

I love her.

I love her.

I would like to nominate her for governor of Texas.

I mean, we've been trying to get a hold of Greg Abbott for a while, while, and I don't know why, but Greg is not coming on the program, the governor of Texas.

But where is that from Texas?

Where is that from Texas?

Abbott's done a pretty good job through this.

No, I've not been highly critical of his actions through this.

I mean,

he's left it to the cities.

Yeah, Mason left it to the cities largely.

And, you know, look, people are doing it anyway.

I mean, the interesting part about all this is that, you know, we've talked so much about how the government is going to act and the government is going to, what restrictions are they putting on people.

And people are just doing this because, as the governor here just pointed out, you're responsible for your own safety.

Right.

And so, yes.

It also complicates, I think, the argument

about how we change from what mode we're in now to opening up the economy.

I mean, there's been this debate that's gone on forever: should we have closed the economy, right?

However, the data is all coming out that all of this stuff was going on before we closed it.

Right.

People weren't going to restaurants anyway, right?

So if we would have just left everything open, you cut restaurant traffic by 70%

with no closure and no giant bailout bill making their own decisions.

The economy crumbles anyway, right?

Because people were terrified of going out and doing frivolous things that might endanger them.

So, like, it's a, I mean, this is, this is obviously not easy, but the um we're going to have to force people to go back to restaurants.

It's mandated you go out three times a week to these restaurants.

You will get drunk at a bar.

You will be hammered.

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And God only knows what they're putting in these things.

And there's nobody doing their job in Congress or in the Senate.

We have Representative Thomas Massey, who got massacred, what was it, just last week, for standing up and saying, no, you have to have these people come in and actually debate the bill.

Right now, Nancy Pelosi is passing all of these things.

This is just the leadership in Congress and the leadership in Senate just doing business and railroading all of this stuff through, and it's absolutely unconstitutional.

Thomas Massey, who is being a watchdog of our money and our Constitution, welcome to the program, sir.

How are you?

Thanks for having me on, Glenn.

Yeah, the swamp nearly crushed me 10 days ago.

for insisting that Congress show up for work.

And they're going to try and do it again.

They're trying to pass bills with nobody there.

It's not constitutional.

And tell me why truck drivers and nurses and grocery store workers have to go to work, but Congress doesn't.

It is, it's obscene, Thomas.

It really is obscene.

I mean, I understand if they don't, you know, most of them are old and, you know, are prime candidates for getting this.

So I understand that they don't want to go in, but then fine.

Do it on the phone.

Do it on the internet.

That's what we're all having to do.

Do it on Zoom.

You can do it, Congress.

They're not even looking for ways to do it.

In fact, Nancy Pelosi has said she won't call everybody back because it's just too dangerous.

Glenn, we're telling millions of schoolchildren to go to school online, and Congress can't even hold a hearing online.

It's ridiculous.

And this is what I've said this time.

So they're going to try and do something by UC.

I don't want to get crushed again.

I know I'm going to get crushed again.

But what I've said is vote remotely.

Enable voting remotely for Congress.

If you don't want to show up for work, at least work from home.

But this is about not having any accountability.

And by the way, this loan program, is it appropriate to call it a loan program if you expect 100% of the loans to default?

The banks are not loan originators.

They're grant administrators.

And it's free money.

When you put up a sign and say free money, is it any surprise that you run out of $300 billion the first day?

No, we'll run out of $250 billion.

You know, the White House told me when they were trying to get me to vote for this bill 10 days ago, it's so big, we're making it so big so we won't have to revisit this issue until like July or August.

That's what they told me.

Oh, don't worry.

We've got plenty of money there.

The Fed can leverage it.

You won't have to vote on anything like this again.

And here we are, not even two weeks later, and they're telling us they need, well, the Senate Republicans are saying a quarter of a trillion.

And then Pelosi is saying, no, we need another quarter of a trillion.

So this would be half a trillion dollars, not even two weeks after the first bill.

And they don't want anybody to go on record.

So what's in this bill, Thomas?

Do you have any idea?

I know that they're now saying, the Democrats are saying they won't vote unless, and this kills me, unless we change our voting system in November and we allow

some sort of remote voting for every American.

Yet they won't remote vote for the bill.

Yeah, they can't enable remote voting for 535 members of Congress.

I don't think it's going to go well with the general public.

By the way, that's a state issue.

There are states that have mail-in ballots, and there are states that don't.

There's no reason to nationalize this.

This is something that the states handle.

People need to get out their constitutions and look at them.

And I will tell you something, Glenn.

I see a very grim future here in a few weeks if the governors don't reverse course.

The assembly lines are shutting down.

When you see these jobless numbers, those are people who aren't going to the factories and aren't working.

By the way,

we all like to think that the farmers are still working, and they are for the most part, but most of that food goes through a factory.

that has to be approved by the USDA, et cetera, before it gets to your table.

Those factories are shutting down, Glenn.

There were six slaughterhouses, like giant meat packers, that have shut down.

We're going to have to go to the bottom.

I know that the farmers are now buying up.

I mean, I have cattle on my ranch.

We're stocking up on food, making sure that you have enough so you're not selling your cattle because there's no one to take the cattle and process the meat.

I think we'll have meat shortages.

I think because of lack of workers on the ground, there's lots of farmers.

I talked to a farmer yesterday in North Carolina, said he's ready to pull a crop up.

He doesn't have anybody to do it, and he can't afford to pay anybody to do it because he's not sure he qualifies for the loan because he only hires people two months at a time, three times a year.

Right.

And what are they going to do?

Their loan still isn't going to make people come to work.

You know, you've seen pictures of dairies pouring out milk.

You're going to see pictures of cattlemen shooting their cattle and burying them because they can't afford there's no feed to be had and there's nobody that will process them.

And meanwhile, you're going to have shortages in the supermarket.

By the way, I've got a bill I introduced like five years ago to fix this called the Prime Act that would let local processors process meat and you could sell it with inside the state and

it would allow local processors to fulfill this need so that you don't have farmers killing animals instead of putting them into food.

Thomas,

that is the kind of thinking that we need to get on.

You know, Donald Trump was made fun of because America first, but that is all that is, is think globally, act locally.

Every hippie understands that.

And all you're saying is give the local people a chance to do things without having to go through the federal government.

Let the states do it, the way our Constitution was built.

So

what's the holdup on this one?

Well, you know, ironically, I have the hippies in Congress, have co-sponsored my bill.

It's a collection of conservatives and hippies.

And

the red tape is going to cause people to starve here in a few weeks.

I'm telling you, if something doesn't change, it's going to get ugly.

And the people who are still going to work, the productive members of society, they're going to, when neighbors start taking stuff from other neighbors, and they're they're going to be able to justify it in their mind, right?

They're going to look at a neighbor who's got all this food and say, you know, my kid needs to eat.

That guy hoarded food.

That's not fair.

I'm going to take his stuff.

When people start taking other people's stuff,

then the productive members of society are going to stay home to guard their stuff, and it's going to just grind to a halt so quickly.

And

we are weeks away.

This is quite a charge.

I've been talking about food shortages now for a while, but I don't predict them coming this quickly.

But this is quite a charge because nobody is talking about this.

Where are you getting this feeling, Thomas, that

we are that close to food shortages, significant food shortages?

Talking to Congressman Thomas Massey.

There's an article out yesterday that talks about six of the big giant meat processing plants.

I mean, one of these handles like 1,900 cattle a day shutting down,

you know, because the workers have the virus and they don't have the test to know that which workers don't have it, et cetera, et cetera.

There are articles out there,

and just myself being a farmer, I've got 65 cattle.

And I can tell you the price of cattle is going down.

Meanwhile, the price of meat is going up in the supermarket, and it's

caused because the supply chains are brittle.

And

we need to change course because by the middle of this summer, if something hasn't changed, it's going to be ugly.

So, Thomas,

what should people be doing right now?

They should be telling their governors to turn the economy back on.

They should put a mask on.

They should quit listening to the people who say that masks don't work.

They should put a mask on.

The employers should provide masks.

When you get to work, we need the cheap test quickly.

We need to know who's got some immunity conferred to them because they've had it and recovered.

We need to know who's got the virus and needs to stay home.

Instead of walking down all of the United States,

we just need to ask the ones who are sick to stay home or carrying the virus.

So there were some things.

Yesterday, I was talking because, you know, I own a couple of companies, and I was like, you know, I I don't know why we can't open partially, yada, yada.

And the response immediately was, lawsuits, Glenn.

Lawsuits.

If something happens, someone gets sick, even if they're not getting sick from here, but you've partially reopened things, they can sue you.

And that's true.

I mean, we have to have protection as businesses that we're not going to get sued,

you know, when we go back to work.

Maybe that's a place where we could step in with legislation to say as long as your employer is testing every employee and as long as they're giving you a mask, a brand new mask, when you come to work, that they can't be held liable or something like that.

You know, there could be a place for legislation to get us out of this rut that's getting deeper.

All right, Thomas Massey, hang on the phone for just a second.

I want to take a one-minute break, then I want to come back, and I want to ask you about this voting nonsense from the Democrats.

What else do you know, if anything, is in this bill?

And again,

what should we be doing on the national level?

I think you're right.

The state level is where we need to start because it's where it's really out of control.

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So we are looking at another 6.5 million Americans who have lost their jobs or are applying for unemployment this week.

We are probably right now, Thomas, at another

probably

between 12 and 15 percent unemployment when we see the numbers in the first of May.

And it doesn't seem like it's going to get any better.

And they're still talking about four to eight weeks

under lock and key.

The Congress says they want to give more.

I've been talking to people that are losing their restaurants, are losing everything, have not been able to get in line for a loan because the money is all gone.

Should the government be making these loans?

We shouldn't be doing it because we are encouraging the governors to keep doing what they're doing, which is to shut down the economy.

They're going to end up starving people.

The governors are.

You're already seeing people committing suicides because they can't get medical help or they're locked down.

The bill that Pelosi wants, she wants a 15% increase in SNAP, $100 billion to local governments and $150 billion to hospitals, I think.

So she wants to add another quarter of a trillion to this.

But the problem, you know, it sounds like it's humane and the right thing to do is to give all this money away, but

it doesn't make the food grow.

It doesn't get the factories running.

We're going to run out of things that support life on this planet.

So

how do you balance this?

Because if I, you know, I understand that kind of that to me is critical infrastructure.

Farm, farming, you know, slaughterhouses, food processing, all of that, that.

That's critical infrastructure.

But I wasn't the one who shut my business down.

The government told me to shut it down.

Doesn't the government have a responsibility to reimburse me for all that I lost?

Three weeks ago, I was having the best year of my life.

Now, I don't know if I can even open my business again.

Do I get anything back from the government?

Don't they have a responsibility constitutionally even?

That's a great point.

But here's here's the problem: it's the governors who have shut things down, and it's the federal government who's trying to make you whole.

There's no feedback loop.

The governors are not suffering the maleffects of their policy.

And so

we are sustaining their male effects, and so we've put them in this moral hazard.

So, governors like Ron DeSantis, he had to fall in line like the day after this stimulus thing passed.

He had no other option.

And so, that's the problem.

And we're just pushing these governors to keep doing it.

If the governors had to make people whole for what they are doing,

they would start coming up with sensible policy instead of staying stuck on stupid.

So are there places like New York that should be shut down?

And that is up to the governor of New York.

And

whatever happens there, they have to sustain that in New York.

Every state, every governor has got different policies.

Christine Ohm has got it as a policy that's suitable for her state.

The problem is, the feds are proposing one policy.

If there's a role for government, Glenn, I think it's in getting these masks out there, it's in getting the tests out there, it's in publishing the data, it's in tracking this disease.

And I'm sorry about my line.

Yeah, I don't know if you're at like Chernobyl or where you are, but

let me ask you one question.

Talking to Congressman Thomas Massey, I cannot get an answer on the way down, and I can't get an answer now on the way out.

What are the tripwires?

What has to happen for these states and the government to start recommending that we all go back to work?

You know, the numbers are all trending in the right place.

Okay, great.

We don't want to come back too soon.

I get it.

But can you please find out what the tripwires are, Thomas?

Because no one will give,

it's all arbitrary.

I asked Dr.

Fauci that question a few days ago.

He said it was hospital admissions when they start to flatten out.

But the problem is, as soon as they start to flatten out and they ease off of this mitigation phase, and something flares up, they're going to shut it all back down again.

All right, Thomas Massey, congressman from

the great state of Kentucky, and one of the congressmen that actually has some balls.

Thomas Massey, thanks for being on.

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I want to give you a good news story, something that I thought was really cool.

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His name is Dwayne Henry.

He's a real estate agent out in California, Malibu, Beverly Hills, and he drives a vintage Mercedes-Benz, which has

a ragtop on it, and he had it down, and I think he was with his wife, and they were just trying to get some air, you know, from the shutdown, and they were taking a drive around when he said he heard something go wrong with the engine, so he pulled over.

Dwayne's here to tell us what happened.

Hi, Dwayne.

How are you?

Good morning, Glenn.

Becky.

Strange, strange things, strange times, isn't it, Dwayne?

Oh, my gosh, you're telling me.

Yeah.

So, Dwayne, you're driving around in your car, minding your own business.

What happens to your car?

Well, I started experiencing some mechanical problems with my brakes, and the car was feeling a little sluggish.

So I pulled over like what anyone would do, obviously.

And I pull over on a

in a luxury neighborhood on the streetcar called Charing Cross Road.

Very powerful street.

A lot of celebrity stars live in the area.

So I'll pull over and on the street.

I get out to inspect my car, and I noticed I had smoke coming from the front right tire area.

And a month ago, maybe a month, month and a half ago, I just had the

brake master cylinder rebuilt.

I had the entire braking system in the front redone.

So I'm like, wow, I mean, this is unbelievable.

I just had all this stuff done.

So I popped the hood.

There was no smoke coming from the engine compartment area.

So that was a relief.

So I noticed it was really a braking issue, but I was not exactly sure what the issue was, but I knew it was in the brakes.

Now, are you a, Dwayne, are you a car guy?

Are you a car guy like I am where

I love classic cars, but I don't work on them.

I don't know anything about them.

Or are you kind of the guy who loves to tinker and you know all about it?

You and I are the same.

I'm not a guy that loves to tinker.

I don't know everything about my car.

I've got it for 12 years.

I restored it 12 years ago when I first got it, but I do not know everything about the car.

You know, that's so I let my mechanic deal with that, you know?

Right.

But so, you know, I'm checking this thing out.

It's smoking a little bit.

You know, I'm like, yeah, this is definitely a brake issue.

So I call AAA.

They tell me they'll be out 30 minutes or so, but you're going to have to call for a ride because of the

COVID

pandemic thing we're dealing with.

Yeah.

Well, the motor truck driver will not drive anyone home or to a mechanic shop, so you're going to have to call for a ride.

Okay, fine.

I hang up with hang up with them I call a buddy of mine that lives in the area he says okay I'll come get you

and so while I'm waiting this blue Tesla pulls up Jay Limo gets out of the car I'm like hey what's going on man how you doing he goes I'm doing fine how are you doing what's going on I said

well I think I'm having some brake issues here I'm not really sure at this point I had pulled the hood down prior to Jay's arrival So when I told him I was having brake issues, he goes, well, pop the hood.

Let me look at it.

Okay, I popped the hood.

Unbelievable.

I popped the hood.

Tow truck driver pulls up.

My buddy Jimmy pulls up.

They're trying to figure out what the hell is Jay doing in the hood of my engine compartment working on the car.

He's looking at stuff.

He's looking around.

And he turns to the tow truck driver and he asks if the tow truck driver has a wrench.

The tow truck driver says, yeah, sure.

He goes to his car, grabs a wrench, comes back, gives it to Jay.

Jay's looking around.

He's on one side of the car.

I'm on the other side of the car because we're all practicing this social distance thing, you know.

So Jay takes the nut off to release, I guess, pressure where the fluid, brake fluid, and all this stuff is.

And he's like kind of diagnosing the car, breaking stuff down, telling me this, showing me that.

Wants to know who works on the car.

I tell him, told him who worked on my car.

He goes, well, when you talk to the guy, tell him, I think it's this.

You know, there's this brake issue.

I can smell the pads on the car.

It's probably in the brake drums.

They didn't grind it out properly.

They didn't do this.

They didn't do that.

So I'm like, okay, I'll make a note of that, Jay.

And we're just, it's just so surreal.

I'm looking at Jay, literally in my engine compartment with a wrench, working on my car.

So amazing.

Brandy and I, my girlfriend Brandy and I, my buddy Jimmy and I, the tow truck driver, were all looking at each other in disbelief.

We couldn't believe it.

You know?

Yeah.

And,

you know, we're like, okay.

So this went on for a good long 20 minutes.

And he was just a wonderful guy.

And you hear stories about him all the time being this nice guy.

And he's very approachable.

You know, you can see him out on any given day between Burbank and Beverly Hills, just driving one of his 200-plus cars, you know, classic cars.

And he's just a stand-up guy.

That's how I labeled him.

He's a stand-up guy.

He is.

He's wonderful, though.

I have to tell you, Duane, I've had the honor to meet him a couple of times.

And

my wife called him on one of my birthdays and said, hey, Jay,

could I bring my husband over to your garage and just see some of the cars?

And he's like, oh, absolutely.

And I'll make sure I'm there.

And so it was a surprise for me.

And he was so great, not just with me, but with the kids.

I had two little kids, and they were at the time when their hands always had jam on it um and they were crawling all over his bugatis and everything else and i'm freaking out and he's like oh no don't worry about him he took the kids for like probably 15 minutes and was driving them around in some of the cool electric cars from the turn of the century this guy is the real deal i really like him really like him absolutely absolutely i mean it was a surreal experience for me to meet him personally for the first time.

I've read things about him.

I've heard things about him.

And everything I read were all good things.

And that experience for me confirmed all that in my mind that he's just a stand-up guy.

Yeah, really cool.

Well, Dwayne, Dwayne,

thank you so much.

I went to your website,

which is what, weahomes.com.

I would imagine you're not hurting

looking at some

the homes you represent.

These homes are crazy.

Well, crazy beautiful.

It's the company that I'm attached to.

They represent a lot of the

what one will call celebrities.

Most of them I call stars.

And, you know, they're all luxury properties throughout Beverly Hills, the Malibu.

They have an office in Miami and working on one in New York now.

So they've been around for a while.

They survived.

I mean, they

deal with clients.

Their client, when I say they're, meaning the owners of the actual company, you know, their clientele, from the Tom Brady's to the Tom Cruises to the Ellen DeGeneres, you name it.

Bruce Willis, they represent everybody.

We represent everybody.

You know, so

it's been a lot of fun.

I've been doing it

since the 80s.

And,

yeah,

it's great.

It's great.

So, what are people people that buy a $70 million home like?

Are they just way out of touch, kind of sometimes different?

Are they, I mean, I've read stories about,

I think it's 700 or 702

Central Park, I think it is.

And it's the

first real huge apartment building in New York built around the Great Depression.

And the people that they said came in through it, they wanted elevators that would take them from the living room to the kitchen, so they would have to run sideways.

And they were just talking to these people, and they had no clue as to what real life was really even like.

That's, you know, back in the 1930s.

What are these people like?

I find people that buy in that market are a little different from people that would buy a $500,000 home.

I mean, you come across

the strangest things.

It's important to be a diplomat and have an open mind because, you know,

we agents, we want to close deals, you know.

And,

you know, in terms of the people, we try not to judge.

You know, sometimes it can be a little hard not to.

But yeah, they're a little different.

Can you?

Can you, I mean,

I wouldn't want to hurt you in any way.

So, I mean, you feel free to say no on this, but is there any, without attaching names or any kind of identifying stuff, is there any strange thing that you would care to share that you have experienced in your 30 years?

Well, every transaction is different, that's for sure.

Now, strange, in terms of strange, normally

privacy issues, you know, they want to be very private with their life and their lifestyle.

You know,

that could be bringing in massive trees or foliage or building massive walls walls just for privacy, you know, and

you try to you look at them like, okay, I understand your privacy, but

you sound like you want to,

instead of seeing the house from the front, you want to cover the entire thing up where no one can see it from the front, the back, the top.

I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that, you know, in terms of building.

I mean, you might as well live in a cave if that's the case.

Right.

You know what I mean?

You know, it's just, it just, I don't know.

It's different.

People are different.

Yeah.

People are really, really different.

And Dwayne, when you're dealing with 50-plus million, they're buying them cash.

At least that's how it works here in our town.

Wow, that's got to be wild.

Duane, thank you so much.

Dwayne Henry, real estate agent out

in the

Los Angeles Beverly Hills area, who

had Jay Leno just pop by to help fix his car.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate it, Dwayne.

God bless.

You know, know, that, I mean, there couldn't be, if you had an old car or an old Mercedes, especially, there, I mean, there would be, there'd be nobody better that you could dream of to stop by than Jay Leno.

That's what he grew up working on.

And that's what got him into cars in the first place were those old Mercedes.

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First, the numbers, total confirmed cases, we're now at 1.5 million, up from 1.4, almost 100,000 added to it.

Total confirmed deaths worldwide, almost at 90,000, up 7,000 yesterday.

The U.S.

now has almost half a million that are confirmed cases, 435,160.

I can guarantee you there are a lot more than that.

14,797 deaths.

That is up almost 2,000 from yesterday.

Nearly 2,000 deaths in the U.S.

makes this the highest death rate day so far for the pandemic in any country on earth.

U.S.

is now officially tested, 2 million people, just over 2 million people, 2.2, making the U.S.

44th in the rate of testing per 1 million in population.

Less than 1% of the population has been tested for COVID-19.

What we have found out now is that the virus spreads nearly two times faster than previously estimated.

This is coming from Los Alamos, the National Laboratory.

They published a study estimating the total number of other people infected by each SARS-CoV-2 carrier.

The research found people infected during the initial outbreak in Wuhan probably passed the virus to an average average of 5.7 others.

That's significant.

That is more than double the 2 to 2.5 other people estimated by the World Health Organization, but we can't take them at their word on anything anymore.

Patients sick with the seasonal flu by comparison will infect about 1.3 people.

If the numbers are accurate, the coronavirus pandemic could only be stopped by a widespread vaccination or built immunity for at least 82% of the population.

That's according to researchers who reviewed the Chinese data from the CDC,

including the mobile phone data that tracked the movement of patients leaving Wuhan.

The WHO is facing significant criticism for downplaying the contagious nature of COVID-19 and China's role in

the cover-up

that could have stopped the spread of this virus, but of course, uh, didn't.

More Western governments now agree the virus likely came from a Chinese laboratory, not from exotic food markets.

Um,

I don't know if this is good news or bad news.

I mean, it's good news that people aren't eating bat soup,

but it's but it's bad news that it came from a laboratory.

We can add now Great Britain to the growing list of governments who are confirming that SARS-CoV-2 virus likely came from the Chinese Communist Party-backed viral research lab.

The U.S., U.K., Israel, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Germany have all reached similar conclusions.

The virus behind COVID-19 was most likely laboratory grown.

That's farther than we went last night on our special.

Last night we did a great special on the Chinese Communist Party and how it's just killing the world.

I want to play a little piece from that special where we went over the evidence that it was actually and confirmed by the Chinese Communist Party before the outbreak that they were doing experiments with these particular bats very close to where they said the bat soup was.

Watch.

In February, two researchers from the South China University of Technology published a paper that was immediately taken down.

Gee, I wonder why.

Let's take a look at their credentials.

Their resume looks pretty darn impressive.

Joint International Research Research Laboratory, South China University of Technology, Hazung University of Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology.

I mean, they're not slouches.

They're not exactly a couple of internet bloggers in their mommy's basement.

Well, maybe they didn't have a big-name supporter.

Maybe they just went rogue.

But it says here they actually had the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Okay, so why did this get pulled?

Well, it's easy.

Their scientific data went to counter the propaganda.

It was a question the Communist Party didn't want to be asked.

Their report detailed that not one single horseshoe bat was sold at the Wuhan animal market.

Let me quote, according to municipal reports and the testimonies of 31 residents and 28 visitors, the bat was never a food source in the city, and no bat was traded in the market.

In fact, the bats responsible for carrying the coronavirus come from an area over 550 miles away from the animal market.

So if the bats aren't from that area and there weren't any of them being sold in the market,

where did the outbreak come from?

Because the data, which now comes from multiple sources, isn't supporting the Wuhan animal market.

The two researchers screened the area and they found two locations near the market where both were known to be studying coronavirus.

One of them is only 300 yards away from the market.

That's the length of three football fields.

So that sounds like a good possibility.

What's the location?

The Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The same exact place the researcher was gathering up horseshoe bats in the video.

That's where they worked.

Now, at this point, it seems pretty obvious, but the researchers sum up their conclusions here.

Quote,

In summary, someone was entangled with the evolution of the the 2019 COVID coronavirus.

And in addition to origins of natural recombination and intermediate host, the killer corona probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.

End quote.

What's amazing about this is we showed you the video last night from the Chinese Communist Party where they have the researchers going out and collecting these bats and saying, hey, we got to be really careful.

Don't get it on your skin or anything because

this is highly contagious.

It's very, very dangerous.

They were saying that.

And it was broadcast on Chinese television by the official state television

in, I think it was in November or early December.

And those are the people that were in those caves taking those bats, saying how dangerous it was.

They work and brought all of that stuff back to Wuhan.

Then there's the breakout.

Fascinating.

It

seems pretty hard to refute, but right now, the Chinese are saying that it was an American military that brought it over to Wuhan, and they have proof because the so-called Wuhan virus was over in South Carolina last summer, and the United States government brought it over to China.

Doesn't sound like we're headed for any place nice, but we could have seen this coming.

Back years ago on this program, we talked about epidemics.

What year was this from, Stu?

2018, May 2018.

2018.

Okay.

And it's Rand Wilson.

His book was Epidemic.

We talked to him just nothing, it wasn't like a big thing breaking out at the moment.

There was a little talk about the, we were right just after the Ebola thing.

You know, there wind up being Ebola patients that came in the United States, even here in Dallas where we're broadcasting.

And we brought him on to kind of talk about

what the next threats could be.

Listen to this clip with

today's context.

So

Ebola, you know, I think we're sitting here and

there's really kind of two schools or two camps.

One that roll their eyes and like, okay, well, everybody always panics and it's always fine.

And the other side that is like, we're ripe for a pandemic.

We're all going to die.

Where is?

Where are we?

Which side is more accurate?

Well, I think the we're ripe for a pandemic is probably correct, although I don't think we're all going to die.

But there are definitely reasons to be concerned about the state of the global public health system.

It is not adequately prepared to deal with a pandemic, whether it's something that comes out of the Congo River basin like Ebola, or whether it comes out of a bird market in China, like a new flu or something like that.

Or like a bird market in China.

Yeah, well, it could be anything, a new flu, something like that.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, this is

really bizarre to listen back to that.

He also went on to talk about

one of the things that worked really well during the Ebola situation was it, you know, as well as an Ebola situation can break out, or it can work out, is that it expanded in areas where we were well received.

Americans could go in and help, right, and try to fight it.

Listen to this clip about that situation.

The United States effectively created Liberia back in the 1800s as a refuge for slaves, former slaves who were returned returned back to Africa.

And

the big moment when 3,000 American troops arrived, you know, the U.S.

favorability rating in Liberia is like 99%.

It was seen as this blessed moment when the great savior had come and really was going to help turn the tide on this virus.

Imagine what happens if this virus pops up in Pakistan or Indonesia or China even,

a place where the 101st airborne would have to fight its way in before it got to fight the virus.

I mean, in the context of you talking about this, the lab and how they hid all these results, this is exactly what he was talking about, right?

There was no way for anyone else to penetrate that society to find out what the hell was actually going on.

So the rest of the world became completely unprepared and did not deal with it.

And honestly, like this, you notice the countries that did deal with it well, like South Korea, for example, Taiwan, are the countries that trust China the least, right?

They doubted them so strongly, so early that they knew this was going to be bad, and they prepared and went crazy at the very, very beginning.

And they shut everything down, and

they didn't shut everything down.

And some of these, they caught it early enough to be able to do the whole test and track thing.

Not all that could be done here, of course, but it's interesting to see that because it's exactly what he was talking about.

When the United States couldn't

be involved like we were in a place like Liberia,

this this thing blew out of control really fast.

We thought we were involved because we had the WHO.

Yep.

And we pay the WHO far more than any other country for

its salary.

And so we thought that we would be able to trust them.

And a lot of them are Americans, et cetera, et cetera.

We couldn't trust them.

They were deeply embedded with the Chinese government, and they were lying to us and lying to the rest of the world.

That's the real problem here:

we had really dishonest brokers.

I don't know if you saw our Secretary of State speak yesterday, but he was questioned about how is our relationship with China?

And

are we getting good information?

And

how are we dealing with the fact that they appear to not have been telling us the truth?

His answer was fascinating.

He said, this isn't the time.

Look, look, this is not the time to be talking about retribution.

This is the time just to get past this and just to get accurate information.

And I thought to myself, boy, he didn't ask about retribution.

Now, did you mean recriminations?

Or was this a Freudian slip?

Where did you come up with the word retribution?

Because I think there is going to be some retribution here.

I think China is not going to be allowed to

use

this

for positioning, use this to become even more powerful.

I mean, what they're doing to France right now by saying, yeah, sure, we'll help you, but you have to take our 5G network.

I think that's going to backfire on China, seeing that this came from China itself.

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So there is a

couple of stories I want to hit with you.

There's some really good stuff, and I want to hit some good news stories tomorrow.

If you have good news, will you share it with us so we can share it with the rest of the nation tomorrow?

I'd like to do some good news on Fridays and then kind of spoil that with Bill O'Reilly.

By the way, Bill O'Reilly, he did watch The Tiger King.

Oh, really?

He's going to come with his report tomorrow.

Yeah.

Oh, he's pissed off about it.

At you.

He's not happy about it.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

He's not happy about it.

I kind of figured he might not enjoy it.

No.

Yeah, he did not enjoy it.

So we'll cover that with Bill O'Reilly tomorrow.

Don't want to miss that.

When you're talking about good news, are you talking about the new style of

appointments at the doctor we can look forward to?

Because I'm kind of pumped up about this.

It's so much more efficient.

Okay, what other identity

doctor appointments?

Yeah,

it's this really cool idea, and I think it would have worked really well through this crisis.

They're doing this in a lot of countries with single-payer health care now.

And, you know, just because Bernie Sanders dropped out does not mean we can't move this direction.

I know Joe Biden's talking about a big expansion to government health care.

Yeah, sure, sure.

Maybe we can get here too, which is instead of having a, you know, sometimes we've been doing this for a while where you have a doctor's appointment and you go in with a doctor and it's just you and the doctor in the room.

First of all,

why would you do that?

Let me give you a different, exciting idea.

What if I had a cold, Glenn, you had a cold, and let's say a dozen other people had a cold?

Why do we all need to go for 15 or 14 different appointments when we can all go into the room at the same time with the same doctor and he can kind of just do the little spiel once to all of us.

Now, some

of this is coming up.

I'm looking for this.

I know where this is coming from.

This is coming from the new book, Arguing with Socialists.

This is crazy.

It is

on that.

204.

Yeah, I was reading this yesterday, and it's like, this is, I mean, this is what I had never even heard of.

And if you think about it in context of what's going on now, COVID-19, you know, the people, they're only testing people with symptoms, right?

We're not testing asymptomatic people basically at this point because we don't have enough tests.

So they're testing people who think they might have COVID-19.

Of those people, about 20%

do.

So then you're talking about a doctor's appointment with 15 people in the appointment.

Only three actually have COVID-19, but when they walk out, it's really efficient.

All 15 of them will have COVID-19, which sounds wonderful.

I can't wait for this to come here.

Listen, this group appointments of between 10 and 15 people with the same condition have been piloted in Berkshire, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield, Newcastle, all over Great Britain.

It's a, according, according to the NIH, it's a fun and efficient way to meet with your doctor.

Yay!

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Really?

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What?

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It's Thursday.

I'm going to show you the difference between what Blaze TV and Blaze Media does

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Let me just give you this story.

This is from Massachusetts Media.

The gunrunner in Middleborough received a cease and desist letter from town officials after staying open despite a governor's order closing all non-essential businesses during the coronavirus pandemic.

Town manager Bob Nunez confirmed that Middleborough Health Officer issued the retailer an order on Thursday.

While we certainly feel for our business community that's been impacted, this unprecedented global health crisis is no time to defy the governor's orders, and everyone has a part to play in helping slow the spread of this deadly disease.

Okay, it goes on from there.

Now you got it.

Some guy is standing up.

and saying i don't have to close i'm an essential business okay that's that's the way the media will tell the story

I have John Costa on the phone.

We've never spoken before, but I know John Costa's story.

So I'm going to try to, in the next five or six minutes, get him to tell the real story so you understand it with

context.

John Costa, welcome to the program.

How are you, sir?

I am fine.

Thank you for having me.

You bet.

Now, John, I want to take you through.

I'm going to ask you some leading questions here because I want to take you through this story as quickly as I can.

All right.

So can you first tell me, you moved to the United States when you were two with your dad.

Why did you come over here?

Why did you come here?

First of all, my mother was born in River Point, Rhode Island.

Okay.

During the Depression.

And her grandparents didn't like it, so they went back to the Azores and, of course, took her

with them.

And she spent many years there.

with her parents until one day some relatives of ours of ours found out that she was an actual U.S.

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And she wrote to her, and this was like 20-somewhat years later, and she wrote to her, and they told her, You know, you can come to the United States, you are a citizen.

And of course, she wanted to get out of there, even though we weren't that bad off.

My father was an electrician over there in the Azores.

So we were surviving not too bad.

But

at the time, it was Salazar who was the the dictator of Portugal, and he was as socialist as they come.

So they wanted out.

So my mother came to the United States, pregnant with my brother Joseph, and worked at the mills in Rhode Island to make enough money to bring my father and I over to the United States.

And in the Azores at that time, under this socialist dictator, poverty was everywhere except within the government.

The people were arrested and imprisoned.

The families were persecuted on behalf of

the other members that might be speaking out against the governor or the dictator and the government.

They were coerced.

You lost some family members due to poverty under the socialist rule.

So that's how you that's the framework.

And your dad taught you about that.

Am I right in saying that?

My dad didn't ever say much of anything because it everything disturbed him.

And so it was my mother.

She told me about what happened to my aunts and my uncles to the poverty and to the poverty and to the disease and everything.

And this government, they didn't care.

All they wanted was the money in their pockets and nothing else.

Okay.

So then you grow up and you decide to go and

volunteer for service in the Navy and you fight in Vietnam, correct?

No, I did not fight in Vietnam.

I put in for Vietnam and I kept on getting sent to like,

oh,

Little Creek, Virginia, and then they sent me to Massachusetts, Newport, Rhode Island, and they shipped me out to the Sixth Fleet Mediterranean Force, where all we did was play war games.

Numerous of times I put in for it, but I guess I was more important out there than anywhere else.

And when you were in school, you were the kind of guy that would protect the kids from bullies, especially anti-Semitism drove you crazy, right?

It did drive me crazy because I knew I was an immigrant and I was first picked on.

I didn't become a citizen until I was 11 years old.

And that's when I became a citizen of this country, this great country, by the way, under naturalization.

And yes, and then while I was in school, especially...

like the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth grade and places like that, we had a lot of foreign, well, not foreign immigrants that came over.

We had Italians, we had Jewish, we had all of this.

And if you were any of those, you were in trouble.

They would come to you, they'd take your lunch, they'd threaten you, and it wasn't just one, it was like in groups.

You wonder why

there's school shootings today and stuff like that.

Well, guess what?

It's the bullies.

But anyways, that's what happened.

And I said to myself, I can't have this.

I'd tell my father, and my father would say, well, kick their butt.

I said, you can't kick butt on a bunch of people.

Well, seek them out one by one.

Advise them of what could happen if they continue to go that route.

So I did.

And guess what?

It worked.

It worked

solved.

So this is the kind of guy that you've been your whole life.

Now, you finally, yeah, you finally get your own gun store.

And

what happens with your first gun store?

When did you,

was it 2000?

When When was that?

My first gun store was in 1986.

1986.

I had to do something out of necessity.

I got hurt at work real bad.

Yes.

Disabled for three years.

Sell my case with the insurance company.

And they tried everything under the sun to say from everything that I was crazy to this to that, that I need a psych, anything they could think of.

to stop supporting me.

So finally I told my wife, Frances,

what am I good for?

I can't go back to the same work I used to do.

I don't know much else.

I didn't have all kinds of, I didn't have all these degrees that these college

people have.

And so I says, there's only something else that I know of and love, by the way, is the firearms industry.

So I decided to open my first gun shop.

All right, so I'm going to.

I'm going to skip.

I'm going to skip ahead here in just a sec because I want to be able to have you tell the important part of the story.

You were in a strip mall, and it was bought out by a Rhode Island company that was highly anti-Second Amendment.

They wanted you out of business.

They had no valid legal reasons to evict.

Then, after 9-11, the anti-gun insurance companies hit them, the landlord, with increases in insurance costs, which were passed directly onto you, and nobody else in that strip mall.

And so you had to leave the gun business.

And then you finally

opened it again in 2008, a gun shop in Middleborough Massachusetts where you are and now the government is saying that you're not an official you're not a an essential business

you have to close even though that's not what the federal government said

what did your governor do

well I've gotten all kinds of threatening letters from them

especially Maura Healy.

I like to call her Moron Healy.

But anyways.

And, oh, she's got my name.

It's going to cost me so much per day for all the time I'm opened and this and that.

And

to this day, I haven't heard anything yet.

I don't know what

her next

little game's going to be.

But we are in serious trouble with this anti-Second Amendment government, the socialists, exactly is what they are.

And I will not stand for it.

I will not close.

They're going to have to drag me out of here or kill me, one or the other.

And that's how I feel about it

now here's the thing that um the the the federal government says that gun stores and and gun ranges etc etc are essential business but your governor removed that line so your governor removed not only the fact that you were essential and could remain open but the governor also then removed your ability from getting any help as a business because you were forced to close.

So all the governor is trying to do is just force you and people like you out of business.

That is correct.

At least that's what it seems like.

That is correct.

He's trying to force us out of business.

I mean, this is the insanity of his plans.

He's allowing package stores to remain open.

Oh, really?

Why do you think that's that?

Because Massachusetts collects a hefty tax from that.

They don't want to lose that.

They want the money in their pocket.

They want to be able to continue to become more and more powerful to put us out of business.

And by the way, that includes everyone.

All they want is the money.

They have no love for us.

They're not worried about the coronavirus.

They're using that as a backdrop to put us Second Amendment people totally gone out of business.

And that's the way it is.

And I will not stand for it.

So, your business, GunrunnerLLC.com and your brick-and-mortar business, how's business, how are people coming in?

Oh, I'm telling,

we had to use a separate line because the phone keeps on ringing.

Number one.

Number two, they keep on showing up at the door.

We don't let anyone in because we're not stupid.

We're not going to let people come into our store and spread

whatever virus they might have.

So they're outside.

They're in the air.

We go to the door.

We talk to them outside.

We find out what they're looking for.

Hopefully, we have it.

Most people come in just for ammo.

Ammo is really bad right now because we can't keep up to the demand.

And my firearms inventory is dwindling like you will not believe.

And just the other day, yesterday, we had to do a

four-hour drive all the way to Westfield Mass to get a hold of one of our distributors because they had what we needed, but they wouldn't be able to ship till a week later.

That's too late.

So we got up.

My wife and I got up early in the morning, real early in the morning, to go all the way to Westfield Mass to pick up all this crucial supply and brought it back yesterday morning.

And we're just about out all over again.

John, you are,

you might feel alone up there in Massachusetts, but I want you to know you're not.

There's a lot of Americans that feel the same way,

that our Second Amendment is sacrosanct.

And I appreciate you standing up.

And I wish you peace and good luck.

Thank you, John.

Thank you so much, Glenn.

You bet.

That's John Costa from thegunrunnerllc.com.

I love John Costa.

I do too.

Isn't that a better way to tell the story than the way the press in Massachusetts is telling just they're making him sound like a complete nut?

He has a reason he's standing up for the Constitution.

He was born and raised to not trust socialists and big governments.

And, you know, at the end of the day, when this is all over and this goes through the court system or whatever, he's got to win these things, right?

He probably wins.

Right.

Oh, well, you know, the biggest part of this is the fact that the governor of the state took them off of essential business.

Okay, all right.

But then to say, you're not at essential business, so you have to close, and I'm removing your kind of business from eligibility to get any kind of funding.

So, in other words, he's dooming and damning these businesses to death.

That's just,

that's dictatorial.

Absolutely dictatorial.

And he will win

when he gets his day in court.

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Thank you so much for listening.

Thank you for

everything that you do.

Thank you for somehow or another making it through this crazy, crazy time with your family intact and you intact.

Thanks for not freaking out being part of the problem.

At least yet,

I could become part of the problem really quickly.

I don't know about anybody else, but I've about had it.

Okay.

I'm ready

to be released.

I'm ready to be released.

Yeah, it was time to go.

It is interesting to see now, I think people are starting to try to figure out any way to get out of the house.

The excitement to go to the gas station or through a drive-through or to a grocery store has never been higher in the United States of America.

Just to see another person

that's not the person, the people that you have been seeing constantly for three days.

Just...

Hello.

You feel like, you know, you always hear mothers say, I just want to talk to an adult.

I just want to talk to an adult.

That's the way everybody in America who's in-home quarantine feels like right now.

Just, I just want to talk to somebody else.

I don't care.

You know what?

You're going to murder me afterwards.

That's fine.

Can we just talk for five minutes first?

Can we just

tell me what you've been doing?

Because I've been doing anything.

What have you seen?

Who have you talked to lately?

I mean, that's the way it is.

I mean, imagine going back to like the little house in the prairie days where like you basically it was just basically you and your your smelly you know family who didn't shower and then occasionally some person would come by and try to kill one of them.

That was like your life.

Right.

I know.

You're like, well, wait, can we talk first?

I mean,

put the tomahawk down for a second.

Tell me about yourself.

Tell me what you've been.

What have you seen lately?

Is there anything going on in the other towns?

How about, you know what?

Let's have a meal.

You cook.

And if it involves one of the children, that's fine.

But you cook.

We haven't been out to a restaurant in years.

Go ahead.

Then you can kill us.

Just one night.

Just one night with different people.

All right.

We'll see you on the radio tomorrow and in the bookstore with the brand new book, Arguing with Socialists.

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