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So I have some bad news.

Some bad news.

Should I start with bad news?

I got good news and bad news.

Let me start with the bad news.

Let me just get it out of the way.

Corona has stopped producing producing beer.

I mean, what?

The only alcohol company that is struggling right now.

I know.

They're like, come on, man.

You couldn't have named it Budweiser.

Come on.

This is exactly like the AIDS diet candy.

If you are my age, you remember when AIDS came out and there was this AIDS diet candy.

It was only advertised on TV.

AYDS.

Yeah, right.

AYDS.

Get AIDS now and lose weight.

Oh my gosh.

You could imagine, you could imagine how poorly that went for them, seeing that one of the big signs was you did lose weight, lots of weight, and then died.

They weren't in business very long.

It was suboptimal, I believe, again, would be

the word there.

Yeah.

So is, do you think Corona survives?

I don't know.

I was watching a show that I had on DVR from a couple of weeks ago, catching up, and there was a Corona commercial in it.

It was like three or four weeks ago, and it actually was jarring.

Like, I, first of all, realized I hadn't seen one in several weeks.

And secondly, I mean, as dumb as it is, it doesn't seem like something you want to ingest at this moment,

at least that people would be excited about.

And there is, you know, there's some polling that people say that, you know, they actually think think it has something to do with coronavirus or whatever but it's not exactly marketing and they're sober when they say that I mean I understand that I don't I don't I don't I don't I'm a whiskey man because you get coronavirus from that beer I understand that.

I don't understand if you're completely sober.

Well, it was funny.

They did release a poll a few weeks ago.

Remember this when this first came out?

They're like, did you know that 41% of people say they will not drink corona beer now that coronavirus is out?

And it was reported everywhere just like that.

And it was like, gosh, are people this stupid?

41% of people are like, oh my gosh.

Yes.

Well, they may be that stupid.

I'm not going to disregard that.

But the poll itself,

when you actually looked at the poll, it was just like, it said 41%

of people would never drink corona beer.

It had nothing to do with because of coronavirus.

They were just saying they didn't like corona beer.

What?

It is a legitimately butchered media narrative that came out there.

When you actually look at the poll, the people who said they wouldn't drink coronavirus said they wouldn't drink it for any reason.

So was this poll taken by the Anheuser-Busch Company, St.

Louis, Missouri?

Pretty effective.

And this poll was taken entirely by people who live in St.

Louis, Missouri.

I don't know what happened there.

All right, let me go to Walter.

I've got some good news for you as well today, but let me go to Walter in Utah.

Hello, Walter.

Glenn, good morning.

How are you?

Very good, sir.

How are you?

I'm just doing great.

I'm just lucky that I'm a subscriber to the Blaze.

I am so

excited for all you and your staff keep trying to do through all of this.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

I guess, Glenn, I'm the father of 12 children, six natural and six miracle of adoption.

Wow, good for you.

So, what's going on in our country is

in its own way, it's kind of distressing to me.

I

am very upset that Washington would even pass that bill,

which I feel is nothing more than a Democratic pork bill,

which we're going to pay for for quite some time.

Yes.

I was tested.

got tested for the virus.

The hotline thought I might have it.

The test came up negative, so that was good news.

Yes.

all right well walter this hasn't been a real cheery phone call but i'm glad that you're not uh that you didn't test uh that you didn't test positive

well

i'm i for me it's cheery i mean in my life i've tried to keep things i'm not a i'm not panicking things happen in this country of ours that uh have been i think a lot more critical at different times

yeah this is a this is a this is a

this may be and end up being our biggest test yet.

And it's it's weird to think that this country could be taken down by a virus.

I mean, this it depends on how we act right now and what we do and what those in Washington do.

Thanks, Walter, for your phone call.

Let me go to Dawn in Tennessee.

Hello, Don.

Hey, good.

Glad to hear you this morning being so cheerful.

I wanted to add that we had Tailgate Church yesterday.

Everybody stayed in.

Tailgate Church.

Yep.

We had the hatches open on the back of the SUVs.

Big speakers brought out of the building.

We used the loading dock as a stage.

Can I tell you the name of it?

Sure.

It's called the River Tribe Cities.

And we're having a big Easter celebration this coming week as well.

And they had some neighbors nearby complain about the loudspeakers and praying and singing, oh my God.

and uh so wait wait wait wait wait

wait a minute wait a minute you had people complaining about the noise yeah they had to complain about the church yeah

you would think that at this point anybody doing anybody outside doing anything you would look at and go whoa whoa what's that you would be excited to see something going on

something

that's right yeah

and even the praise worship team up at the front les who were six feet apart each one individually except for a mother and daughter, because they lived together.

They could sing on the same microphone, and nobody could sing.

Right.

Right.

And wow, it was great.

Good for you.

It was great.

Good for you, Don.

Thank you so much for telling me that.

You know, I really,

I'm so glad I got up this morning and I thought, you know, I really want to talk to the audience today.

I want to see what's happening in their life, yada, yada.

And I really am anxious to hear the good things that are happening in your life because

it was a rough weekend at my house it was a rough rough weekend uh

so i'd like to hear some good news i'd like to hear from you know who's what are you doing with your kids right now uh that is uh

positive what's happening how are you keeping your kids into school oh my god my kids are like this is stupid i don't care if it's stupid i don't care

How are you keeping them into school?

How are you keeping your sanity?

I know

Stu's wife, she went out and she had like a little tailgate party as, oh boy,

yeah, no, I mean,

no, that's right.

So if you're, you know, like, this is the thing.

I've seen a lot of criticism of this, you know, the church thing that the guy just mentioned, where you kind of go on your back

porch or back of your tailgate and, you know, everyone kind of stays away from each other.

I can't imagine that's going to be, I mean, that's the that's within the rules, right?

I mean, that's what that's what I've been, at least my understanding.

I know there's certain areas where they're like legitimately don't go outside for any reason unless you absolutely have to, uh, but that's not the case.

This isn't one of them, no, right, right.

And I mean, I know your wife probably got some heat on going out because she kind of did the same thing.

They were all sitting on the hoods of their car, and they were all away from each other, and they were just talking.

I've seen that from

a bunch of, you know, I've seen that.

It does seem like there's a new culture of you're just supposed to shame everybody that isn't doing the thing that you think should be done.

No, I think it's worse than that.

I think it's worse than that.

I think it's, I mean, now people are starting to snitch on one another.

The one thing, you remember the monologue I did when I think Bush came out with that

policy where the White House

wanted people to, if you see Sam something, say something.

And it was

and it was pretty bad.

And then Obama came in and he really amped it up and it really became kind of a snitch thing and I did this whole monologue on how that's what the Stasi used to do that's that's what makes us different when you hear from people they say the one thing that's nice about Americans that's different about the rest of the world is that we're so trusting of one another we trust people and one of the reasons why is because we've never snitched on each other I mean if somebody's doing something illegal you know you got a crack house next door.

Yeah, I'm probably going to say something.

But, you know, not on other things.

We don't snitch on one another.

We appreciate one another.

We trust one another.

And anything that teaches us to snitch on one another really bothers me.

As Gavin bothers me.

Newsom had just pointed out, snitches get rewards.

Oh my gosh.

That's their new slogan.

Not snitches.

It used to be snitches get snitches.

It's horrible.

No, snitches get rewards.

Get rewards.

It wasn't Gavin Newsom.

I think it was the mayor of Los Angeles I should point out because

it's the worst.

It was the most awkward moment.

Plus, there's also,

listen to this real quick.

This is the clip from the Los Angeles Mayor.

We need to make sure that everybody continues to let us know where those folks are.

If you've observed recurring violations of the safer at home order, please continue to let us know at coronavirus.lacity.org slash business violation.

You know the old expression about snitches.

Well, in this case, snitches get rewards.

We want to thank you.

That's horrible.

That is horrible.

Horrible.

I don't know what I'm more about.

You know, I got up this morning.

Is it just that, like, you know, the idea that basically he wants to turn this into a police state where we're reporting on each other, or the fact that snitches get rewards is the most annoying phrase ever, especially when snitches get riches is available.

It's actually like there is one that rhymes.

Why didn't you choose the one that that rhymed?

Stitches,

snitches get stitches.

Snitches get rewards.

Snitches get a thousand dollars if you call us.

It's like more irritating how awkward it is than the fact that he's overturning our entire society.

So last night, I got up this morning and Tanya said, Did you hear the neighbors listening?

I said, What?

She said, Uno had to go outside.

And I opened up the door and somebody was having a party.

She wasn't thinking about calling the police.

Somebody's having a party.

She was, she was annoyed, but she didn't, there was nothing.

We didn't even think about calling the police.

Didn't even think about it.

Right.

Like, why would you?

Certain lines where I think being critical of others' behavior is somewhat appropriate, right?

Like there was the guy who was the bus driver who recorded a video of himself getting pissed off about how people kept getting on the bus coughing he's now dead from coronavirus right like there is like legitimately like lines here where

that makes sense you know but this is ridiculous okay the the guy in the the guy in the subway that was coughing and spitting on people yeah he should have been wrestled to the ground we talked not by me i wouldn't have done it where i touched him but somebody should have wrestled him to the ground right we talked about the woman who was going around and touching all the computers at walmart which was very very strange but like on the other side you have this guy who decided to go swimming in the ocean by himself and he got arrested

drives me nuts that's crazy crazy that's crazy what is wrong with you californians what is wrong with you

i mean you got eventually you have to stand up they're arresting a guy for surfing he was all by himself did you see the doctor that talked about that too

there was a doctor who said uh well you know the the deal is the ocean is full of germs.

What?

The ocean is full of germs?

And only now you've noticed this?

Only now you care?

It's ridiculous.

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Hello, Todd.

Hello.

Good morning, man.

How are you this morning?

Very good.

Where are you calling from?

Well, greetings from the social estate of Lisbon, Maine.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

Yes, I see.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How are things up there?

Well, you know, it's Maine, so if you don't like it, it it'll change in five minutes.

The weather wind's blowing like something.

So

not too much snit not a whole lot of snitching going on around here around here that I've seen, but you know, yeah.

Think things have shut down pretty well.

So, but

Todd, really, I mean, it's in the w in the winter, is there any difference between quarantine and just winter in Maine?

Well, from what I can tell, no.

I mean, even this would be

last longer every year.

Winter hedge letting go this time of year.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But

I've been able to catch up on my dystopian reading.

Oh, what are you reading?

I just started out It Can't Happen Here by

Sinclair Lewis.

Oh, yeah, yeah, good, good.

That won't improve your mood much.

I just want just want you to know.

Todd, thanks for your call.

You know, I'm reading something.

Shoot.

I'm reading something really, really good.

The last.

Hang on.

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Socialist, the new book coming out tomorrow by Glenn Peck.

Was that the book you're reading?

I guess I should promote that one, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I'm reading this new book.

Yeah.

I'm reading The Last Odyssey right now.

If you're looking for a novel, it's really, really good.

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Let's go to Julie in Tennessee.

Hello, Julie.

Hey, Glenn.

I talked to you, I think it was like last week.

And

boy, what a difference a week makes.

Okay.

Yeah, so there's been a lot of things that I've wanted to say to you because I do a lot of research.

I'm probably like

I'm the researcher that you,

you know, like

here at home that you have at your studio, but I'm the silent researcher.

But

I went to the doctor on the second.

And, you know, when you go in, you've got to do your temperature.

They won't let you in if you've got temperature.

So it's a little sticker on you.

So I was cool as a cucumber.

So I thought, you know, okay, this is interesting.

So I posted a little sticker on my Facebook page because my page is mostly humor.

I had a woman, a local person,

on my page, come on, she lives down the street, freak out on me.

Why did you go into the hospital,

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You could have had a, you know, good.

Oh, my gosh.

Blow by it, Julie.

Blow by it.

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We're going to be taking your phone calls, 888-727-BECK.

But I wanted to share some good news and then hear from Pat.

So I have good news from Malaysia.

I thought you guys would like to hear.

I think they got it down.

Malaysia's Ministry for Women, Family, and Community Development has issued a series of online posters on Facebook and Instagram with the hashtag women women prevent COVID-19.

And they have advised the nation's women to help with the partial lockdown by, quote, not nagging their husbands.

And

I'm thinking that's

that could be the one good thing that comes from this.

Well, no, actually, they delayed the start of the WNBA season.

So there's been at least two things

that have come out of it.

The ministry also advised women from refrain being sarcastic if they're asked for help with household chores.

Now, this one I don't even understand.

The women, you have to ask the women to help with the household chores.

Isn't the reverse?

It's a reverse here, right?

We're supposed to not be sarcastic when they're like, can you at least help a little bit around the house?

Oh, sure, I can, honey.

They also urged women to not wear home clothes,

to dress up and wear some makeup.

Yeah, I bet the women are loving that.

Right?

That's good advice.

That's just good, solid advice right there.

Solid advice.

At any time, dress up for your man.

Look decent for your man.

Would you please?

Put a ribbon in your hair.

For the love of Pete, look nice for your man.

Your man looks home.

He works hard all day.

The last thing he wants is for you to look frumpy when he gets home, right?

What are you doing with your day all day?

Boy, these Malaysians get it.

Or don't, if you know what I mean.

Yeah.

Anyway, so, Pat, how are you?

I'm good.

I'm, well, I, you know, I did set off a studio-wide panic on Thursday.

Yes.

Yeah.

You did.

Yeah.

By the time before I got home, I had administrators here calling me and asking me what my symptoms were.

Yeah, I think I mentioned it on the air.

I didn't have a fever.

I didn't have trouble breathing.

I couldn't even be tested for COVID-19.

Yes.

Did you try?

Did you try to be tested?

Yeah, they wouldn't test me.

But I did have bronchitis.

But COVID-19, no.

Well, there is this thing where that, and you and Jeffy in particular are the man's men that always come in no matter what you're doing and you're sick.

And that's no longer cool.

Yeah, it's not cool at all anymore.

It's really cool.

It kind of hit me on Thursday.

I shouldn't have done that.

I should not have.

No, I shouldn't have done that.

It's a different time.

No, it does kind of, it does kind of cause panic.

Before, it was like, look at this guy, man.

He just never gives up.

He's an iron man, this guy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now it's like, what are you doing, man?

You insane?

Yeah.

So that I learned a, I learned an important lesson.

Probably won't be doing that again.

Yeah.

Probably.

Yes, you will.

You think?

Yes, you will.

You think?

Yes.

Yes, you will.

Maybe when this is over.

You will.

Yeah.

But

not during the pandemic.

Not during a pandemic.

Yeah.

Look, I'm only bleeding from my eyes a little.

It's not that bad.

It's just I've got Ebola Light.

It's

a 24-hour Ebola.

Yes, I have Ebola-like symptoms, but it's not Ebola, I'm pretty sure.

Yeah, that's really good.

That's really good.

By the way, Corona is changing their name.

Did you hear about that?

Are they really?

Yeah.

To COVID light.

So

you can go ahead and drink it now because it's 25% fewer calories.

Did you hear that they stopped making it?

Yeah, that's amazing.

I mean, it's that bad.

People are really that repulsed by it.

That's incredible.

I would actually be more likely to buy it as a joke than to, because I mean, obviously the

stand has nothing to do with the coronavirus.

Everyone on earth should know that.

But it would almost be funny to be drinking Corona in like an Instagram picture or something.

It would.

And the other thing that I find kind of interesting is that they're talking about doing the Democrat National Convention in a virtual way this year.

And I don't see how they do it any other way.

How would it even be possible that quickly by July?

There's no way 30,000 people get together in Milwaukee.

There's no way.

And maybe that saves Milwaukee.

Maybe it's a good thing because, you know, Bernie Sanders is the way to win the nomination.

Oh, I think it is a blessing.

Yeah.

I think it's absolutely a blessing for Milwaukee.

I think that's how they survived this thing because the little Bernie Bolsheviks aren't going to be able to gather together and burn down Milwaukee when he doesn't, when he's not the nominee.

Yeah, but the nice thing is, as soon as we start getting on our feet, then the Bernie Bolsheviks will burn down the rest of the country.

You know what I mean?

There is that.

I mean, I just, I really think that there's a couple of things we really have to worry about.

One is our southern border.

Are you hearing anyone talk about this?

Nope.

Nope.

Us.

We've been ranting about it constantly.

No one else seems to be able to pick up on this one at all.

I mean, this is insane.

You know, there's going to be a rush for our hospitals.

There's going to be a rush of people because Mexico didn't take this seriously at all.

There'll be a rush on our border.

And then what are we going to do?

What are you going to do?

Yeah, I'm going to be, I can't wait until they start rushing the border.

and then we are told we're hateful for not letting them all into our hospitals after we've gone past our part of the pandemic.

That'll be a really real delight.

Right.

Interestingly.

And what are you going to, I've heard this, what are you going to do?

Are you going to shoot them?

No.

I've heard that Mexicans are pissed off about the possibility of Americans crossing their border.

Because they've got fewer, you know, they've got a lot fewer cases than we do.

And so they're worried about being infected by us.

Yeah, that's because they're not testing.

I mean, it's easy to not have cases when you don't ask anyone.

Yes, that's true.

Yeah, last week, one of their governors came out and said, this is a rich man's disease.

Poor people can't get it, so we're all safe.

It's legitimately the exact opposite, right?

Like the rich people on earth are the ones able to stay in their individual homes and self-isolate.

It's the people who, you know, like you go, it's the people working at restaurants and grocery stores and

going on mass transit still.

I mean, they're still packing subways in New York City with people going to work every single day.

I got to tell you,

I don't understand that.

I would walk every, I mean, I would walk.

Why would you get into a subway?

Well, no way.

I mean, we didn't want to get into a subway when we lived there, and there was no panic or coronavirus.

And every time you ride the subway in New York, you feel as if you caught a disease just in normal times.

It's totally like your hands are slimy.

There's some coating on your skin.

You don't know what you breathe.

It's a horrible experience.

It really is.

There's a rat gnawing on your ankle.

It's like, it's not good.

Some of the rats are nice, though.

I mean, you get to know them after a few weeks.

It was you and me that were

sitting at the platform watching the two rats?

Yeah, that was us.

I think that was us.

Yeah, we were at the platform one time

and we're waiting for the train and we're just talking for maybe, I don't know, four or five minutes, just

chit-chat.

And

I think Stu said, he's going to win.

And I laughed because we were both, neither of us said anything about it.

We were both watching this rat, these two rats fight over like a, like a hot dog or something that was down on the tracks.

And one of them was about to take the hot dog from the other.

And Stu at that moment said, he's going to win.

I just looked at him.

We have lived here way too long already, man.

When you don't even say to the person standing next to you, they're two rats fighting over food right there, about five feet in front of us.

We've lived here too long.

Way too long.

That's the sign right there.

Yeah, no,

it's been really remarkable to watch.

I mean, they're keeping the subways open because essential personnel, like people who work at hospitals,

have to get to work still.

So that's why they're open.

You're not supposed to be on them unless you're an essential worker.

But essential essential worker covers in New York City a lot of people who are working at restaurants and who are working, you know,

I mean, there's tons of people work at these hospitals, not just nurses and doctors.

And I mean, the rush hour is rush hour, like packed in people right on top of each other.

There's, I saw a picture last week of one where there's one person on the entire train with a mask, and everyone else is just there like it's freaking normal.

You're kidding.

Nobody's, I'd be in a hazmask.

Get one of those.

Oh, me too.

Get one of those city bikes.

Why wouldn't you get a city bike?

Ride your bike.

I mean, even I would.

I mean, I do not ride by.

I don't want any physical.

I'd like people to carry me down into the subway.

Okay.

I don't want to even walk down the stairs to the subway.

I would take one of those bikes.

Even if I worked on the other side of the island, I would take one of those bikes every day.

Possibly.

Although that some of these workers might be coming in from different boroughs, Glenn, that you didn't visit back in the day.

So the subway might be a better.

There's other places?

They just go right there to the park.

Just go to the park and have their person pick them up and drive them.

They need some place.

I don't understand all the homeless.

There's a perfectly good Ritz-Carlton right there on the corner of the park.

You're sleeping in front of it.

Go in.

Get a room.

Go in.

It's got great beds.

What's wrong with you?

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I don't understand what the deal is.

Man.

And they say, I don't get it.

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Real, just quick update.

Boris Johnson is in the hospital.

Boris Johnson, after 10 days of fighting it at 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister of England, has been moved to the hospital.

That's, what do you call it?

A suboptimal?

Suboptimal.

Development?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's not a good thing after 10 days of the virus.

Yeah, they are downplaying it.

They're saying he's just in there for tests.

They're saying he, you know, is not, they're just concerned that he keeps showing symptoms, but he doesn't seem to feel all that terrible.

It's hard to know exactly what the truth is, obviously, in a situation like this, but it's not a good sign 10 days after you're diagnosed to be going into the hospital.

I saw a message from him about, I don't know, four days ago, and

it's hard to tell when he's sick, you know, because he's his hair is all, I mean, he always looks like he just got out of bed.

You know what I mean?

I saw him, and I

thought, is this an old video or is this?

Because, I mean, he always looks that way.

So he looks like himself?

Yeah, that's

it's not exactly a compliment, but uh yeah, I think you're right.

No, it's not, but I mean, you know, when the queen she did this, she did this statement yesterday.

I don't know if you saw it, but you know, she had, she was all perfectly coiffed and sitting, you know,

ramrod straight in her chair, and she had her purse, and you know, she just looked like the queen.

If she comes on and her hair is all messed up,

you know,

you might look at it and go, whoa, she's really sick.

Boris Johnson, you can't tell.

Yeah, I mean, there's a

very good chance that this winds up at the end of it being the most deadly pandemic of the past century.

And to say that you can't notice the difference between whether you have it or not because you're already so sloppy typically is not, it's not, it's not a resume starter.

No, it's not.

It's not.

But by the way, we have a piece of the queen.

I thought what she said was fascinating.

Listen to this.

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I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge.

And those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.

That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet, good-humoured resolve, and of fellow feeling still characterize characterize this country

the problem

i thought she was okay okay stop i don't need any more um i i thought that was really uh interesting uh but not as interesting she looks just like the lady on the canadian quarter have you noticed that

she looks identical to the lady on the quarter i cannot picture what the canadian quarter looks like uh i have to admit despite being a canadian sports celebrity myself yeah she looks just like that lady on the quarter.

I don't know who that is, but she looks very, very small.

Shocking.

It's a shocking development.

All right.

Are you surprised at this?

Because, I mean,

here we are, like they're saying this is the big week, right?

This is the real terrible, awful, no good, very bad week.

As Donald Trump has outlined several times over the weekend,

this is the week they expect things to peak or, you know, they said this week or next week, but

the worst of it,

you know, assuming this all goes well.

I mean,

it's interesting to see people because I don't think people feel

unless you're in that area.

I don't think people feel like that.

But I mean, if you are in that area, I talked to some people in that area this week and they're just terrified.

Freaking out of the house.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Here in Texas, no, not so much.

Not so much.

Yeah, I don't think there's that much.

But I mean, we have.

Yeah, I mean, you know,

it would be different if

most of us lived in an apartment with no grass.

Can you imagine living in one of these cities where you live in an apartment and your kids?

Imagine being Jim Gaffigan.

I wouldn't be surprised if we find him dead at the end of this.

You know, killed by his own hand.

I mean, he's got like 19 children in like 3,000 square foot apartment in Manhattan, which is about twice the size of anybody else's apartment.

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A great battle against an invisible enemy.

We will win and declare a great victory for our country.

All of these are direct quotes from President Donald Trump since March 1st of this year.

He says we're at war with an invisible enemy.

He's right,

but it's not the coronavirus.

We go there in one minute.

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A great battle against an invisible enemy.

All of these things that Donald Trump has said,

they're true and they make perfect sense.

Even Trump's most ardent supporters and his most ardent opponents, both of them,

say this is a once-in-a-generation emergency and we should be on wartime footing.

And the opponents of Donald Trump, many of them, have called for more and more power to be handed to, no,

no, let me get this right.

To be taken by the president to do battles against this invisible enemy.

Everything from commandeering manufacturing plants to logistics to shipping companies, pharmaceutical manufacturing, research, nationalizing the banks.

What is going on?

You said he was a tyrant.

You're opposed to him.

And you're just telling him to do all these things.

No.

And thank God, we have a president that understands the free market.

President that has preferred to form a partnership with private industries to wage the war, turning America's great companies to produce masks and respirators and ventilators and medicine and vaccines, all the things that will ensure our country can and will prevail while keeping them private.

The United States and the entire world, they are engaged right now in a great battle against an unseen enemy.

An enemy that threatens to kill our people, destroy our nation, and our way of life.

And it's an enemy that we have seen and fought before as a people.

We've faced this enemy throughout human history over and over and over again.

We've had to battle it.

All of us are descendants of survivors of the countless previous wars that humanity has had to fight against this hidden enemy of man.

The enemy is a disease.

The enemy is a virus.

But the enemy is not SARS COVID-2 coronavirus.

The virus we're actually fighting against, the unseen, the one that wants to remain unseen, is slavery.

And you can call it what you want: socialism, collectivism, communism, statism, despotism, authoritarianism, whatever you want to call it, it's slavery.

People's individual liberty captured for the benefit and the betterment of everybody else.

Those are all forms of enslaving some men to the will of others.

That's slavery.

A virus is a biological construct.

And doing battle against a virus requires treating both the symptoms caused by the infection as well as finding a vaccine that can destroy the virus as well.

But slavery

is also a political and moral construct.

It's a social disease caused by an immoral idea spread by unthinking, unfeeling human beings who transmit the disease to others, turning them into factories that produce more unthinking, unfeeling human beings.

They take over the lives of more and more people within a society or a country until that country is completely destroyed.

Its defenses exhausted.

And doing battle against slavery requires treating both the symptoms caused by the infection within a society, as well as finding a cure that can destroy the idea itself.

President Donald Trump is absolutely right.

This is a war.

He's also correct that we fought this type of war before.

But this is not a war against the coronavirus.

That, quite frankly, is child's play.

As terrible as it is, COVID-19 is not going to kill us.

It might kill a few of us, but we will prevent the spread.

We will find a cure.

America and the world will survive this pandemic as it has survived millions of others in the past.

Each of us is a descendant of survivors of a thousand biological plagues.

The President is right.

We cannot let the cure for COVID-19 be worse than the disease itself.

And he has the right idea in terms of the outcome here.

We can't let our response to coronavirus destroy the American economy.

Now, when I say the American economy, it seems cold and callous

because that's not really the objective.

To save the economy is not the objective.

A healthy, productive American economy

will enable people to generate wealth and accumulate things

and to be healthier,

to be safer, to be more free.

That's a consequence, that's an outcome.

It's not a cause in itself.

What has enabled the American economy to be the most robust and powerful engine for human ingenuity, productivity, wealth generation?

Individual liberty.

Men free to think, men free to build, men free to fail, to seek new achievements, and to be rewarded for doing so.

And punished by their own actions, the consequence of their own actions.

A natural consequence.

They fail.

They have a right to compete with each other, driving each other to be smarter, to work harder, to find the better way to solve problems.

That's America.

That's not the economy.

That's America.

That's the battle we're in.

That's the battle we're fighting to save.

If the cure for COVID-19 is the slavery of some men for the benefit and betterment of others, then COVID-19 perhaps should take us all.

If the cost of defeating the biological virus is that we

then die on the table to political and moral disease of collectivism,

then Trump's fear will have proved to be right

and the cure will have been much worse than the disease.

I want you to look at what's been proposed.

In the U.S., the government should take over every major industry from healthcare to pharmaceutical companies.

grocery, food delivery, airline, shipping, transportation, construction, take it over.

Banking, take it over.

Stock market, take it over.

On the global scale now, the United Nations is now calling for a permanent 10% global tax on the GDP of every country.

Now they say this is designed to, you know, fight COVID-19.

Permanent, permanent 10% tax to enable the UN to fight future pandemics?

as well as the ongoing pandemic, climate change.

Oh, and poverty and income inequality and and sexism and nationalism and a thousand other isms that are really, really super unfair.

The United States is less than 5% of the world's population, but we represent 25% of the world's GDP.

So the UN is effectively proposing that about 4% of the population transfer 10% of our wealth each year to support the remaining 96% of the human race.

If you don't think that's fair, well, I just call it a progressive income tax.

But I will tell you this,

that leads to our destruction.

And if you think it's unfair, then maybe you should do some rethinking.

Because maybe you've been pushing from the wrong policies here in America, because it kind of feels like the world wants to destroy us.

What's proposed here is nothing short of permanent enslavement of the United States for the betterment and benefit of every other national on earth.

There's no doubt in my mind that humans will survive COVID-19 and will do it in spectacular fashion.

But the plague of collectivism, the idea that some men should be slaves to others, that's the oldest idea in the book.

That some people have some sort of right to lay claim to the intellect and productive energies of others.

That's the real battle here.

That's the true invisible enemy that we must yet again defeat.

Ask yourself this.

Would you have some right to charge into Mike Lindell's My Pillow Bedding Factory and point a gun to him and his workers and force them to produce cotton face masks to avoid being shot?

Now this sounds ridiculous, sounds preposterous, and all rational thinking human beings would clearly see that is immoral and a criminal act, but they don't see it as immoral and criminal in vast amounts of

the world.

That's happening in the world.

And yet there are people here proposing to do that.

They just didn't say you'd get shot, but they're coming in with the full force of the government.

And at the end,

it's whoever has the guns.

Now, maybe some people say, well, I don't want the United States to do that.

I want the UN to do that.

Now, I want somebody, you know, in a blue helmet.

But I'm okay if they have a U.S.

Marshals badge.

Now let me ask you this.

Does Michael Indell have the right to choose to convert his factory over to making cotton face masks at his own expense and to pay his workers to make those masks instead of making pillows?

Yes.

Yes, that is his moral choice.

It's a human being engaged in activity that he believes to be virtuous and right.

And yes, for the love

of all that is holy and profitable.

Just as with COVID-19,

the defeat of all forms of slavery

should be an inevitability.

And yet from every corner of our country, there is a call for the forced enslavement of some people for the benefit of others.

We are on the verge of losing everything that we have always held dear.

On the verge of losing the things that matter

the most to not just us, but what we want our children to be able to have.

A future where they chart their own course.

A future where they can live and grow and be free

and live their dreams.

Yes, experience some nightmares from time to time, but those nightmares won't define them unless they choose the nightmare.

Trump has this exactly right.

We cannot let the cure for COVID-19 come at the cost of our economy.

And if that's the objective, then it's our original principles, individual liberty, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to defend yourself.

Those are the things that need to be defended.

That's how we protect and restore our economy and our country.

That's how we ensure that our children's children will also be descendants of survivors of plagues and pandemics, whether they're biological or the moral kind.

This is why I wrote Arguing with Socialists.

Because I know the fight is on.

And we have to be in that fight and I wrote this not only for you it's easy to read it's very very funny it's in the style of arguing with idiots which was our biggest seller I think

and it's for color it's like a it's almost like a comic book in parts and it's one of those books that you can pick up and read from anywhere

And we did that because I'm riddled with ADD, but also because it was really effective.

We saw in all of the books that we have written,

Inconvenient Book and Arguing with Idiots.

Those two books in this style were the ones that people consumed themselves, learned a lot from, and then gave it to their children or their grandchildren.

And their grandchildren used it in college essays, high school essays, elementary school essays.

And I've heard for years

how those books had been used because they all have footnotes in them, so you don't ever quote me you quote the people who actually said it

we need to arm ourselves with ammunition we need to know that this cure is not being called socialism but this cure is socialism it is the modern monetary theory it is universal basic income

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888-727-BECK, we go to George in Florida.

Hello, George.

Good morning, Glenn.

It's a pleasure to talk to you again.

It's been quite a while.

I don't expect you to remember me, but there were certain chapters in my life where they were dark.

And

through your convictions, and your words, and and your promises

here we are today smiling and

even though

it is so easy to

find the negatives right now people really need to just open their eyes and see all the positives see the big picture so to speak if that makes sense yeah it does it does my wife has been making in fact i should bring this board in my wife's been making a board of all the things that she's grateful for.

And she keeps saying, you should add some of yours.

And I'm like, you've got them.

You got them all covered there.

But there are a lot of really good things.

What's happening in your life, George, right now?

Well, I moved to Florida to be my mother's caregiver.

She's 91.

And with this virus thing, I have to be extra careful, you know, of

myself.

But this past weekend, I went to the park, a park I've gone to for decades, and I sat there and I noticed something very positive.

I saw more family groups together at the park than I've ever seen in the past 20, 30 years.

And that was

amazing.

Yeah, I tell you, George, thanks for your call.

I tell you, I have

I think there's going to be some really good things.

I'm actually going to miss this to some degree.

I like my family not running around, not going places all the time, not having me run here and run there.

And we're home together.

And for me, that's a really big deal that I'm really going to miss.

I like the family time.

I like having my kids at home and me being at home with them.

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We go up to Michigan and Robert.

Hello, Robert.

You're on the Glenbeck program.

Hey, how are you doing, Glenn?

I'm great.

How are you?

Good.

I've got something that I really want to give back to you, though, that you gave me a few weeks back.

And I figure it'd be a good time to give it to you.

And here you go.

All right.

There's a hole in the sky where a tree once was.

Somebody's huge.

There's a hole in the sky where a tree once was.

Somebody's making money.

There.

Now you deal with it.

Man,

thank you very much, Robert.

I appreciate that.

Let me go to April.

Hello, April.

Hi, Glenn.

I'm calling from Michigan, and my mother went into the hospital on March 20th.

Within a matter of days, she was diagnosed with the

coronavirus,

and she got very bad pneumonia and within about five days they had to put her on a vent.

One of the days when we spoke with the doctor he said that her lungs were so bad he called it a cytokine storm and that they didn't feel there was much hope for her.

And I had found some research online that in China they were using high dose intense vitamin C therapy and they had a zero mortality rate.

So we begged the hospital to try this for my mother.

And she was on the vent for six days, and within a day and a half of being on the high-dose vitamin C, her lungs kept opening day by day, and she got off the vent, and everyone thought it was a miracle.

They initially tried the hydroxychloroquine on her and the erythromycin, but she wasn't improving during that.

And what's interesting is one of my husband's colleagues is a physician, and he ended up in the same situation as my mother and was on the vent.

And out of desperation, they decided to try the high-dose vitamin C IVs, and he got off the vent, and he's improving.

And my mother is supposed to be released from the hospital within the next two days, and everyone considers her a miracle.

And I wanted to tell you about this, hoping that other people in the audience who maybe gave up hope might be able to convince their medical staff to try the high-dose vitamin C.

Thank you very much, April.

This is something that they are using in New York.

They're using the high doses of vitamin C.

It has been shown in some cases to be effective, and I'm so glad it worked out for you.

Carol.

Hello, Carol.

You're on the Glenbeck program.

Hi.

Hi, this is Carol from Long Beach, Mississippi.

Hi, I want to.

Okay, what's happening?

Two good things.

One, I'm a home physical therapist, so I was driving to work today, and there was, I drive along the beach, and the amount of people out walking has increased about 30%.

So that's wonderful for the Mississippians.

They're out exercising.

The other thing is our town Lawn Beach, huh?

No, no, go ahead, go ahead.

Oh, our town Long Beach,

families started this, and a lot of the families are doing it.

They ask anybody who wants to participate to put a teddy bear somewhere in a window of your house or in your yard, and then they put the families in cars and, you know, your own family.

And you go with your kids, and the kids hunt for the teddy bears.

And then you change

your position each night, and then the kids want to go back out, the little kids, and try to find the teddy bears.

And

I like that.

It's as if the shelf on an elf was invented by ExxonMobil.

I like that.

Jesse, you're on the Glenbeck program.

Hi.

My name is Jesse Laughlin.

I'm calling from Denison, Iowa.

And I just wanted to say that I actually ended up getting a second job to help my family out because they actually got jobless out of this whole situation.

And

the local businesses like the sit-down restaurants, Cronx, and Family Table, they've been affected tremendously by this.

They're not even sure if they're going to be able to open their doors again because they weren't set up for it.

But there is a plus side to all this.

I mean, there's only four cases in Denison

and everybody's working together to try to keep up with the protocols on the cleaning.

All the businesses are working together on the six-foot distancing, that kind of stuff.

And, you know, we're pulling through it.

I just wanted to also

say that I've been listening to you since 2008.

I'm 30 years old and I've you know I was pretty disappointed that they took you off the air on Fox News.

They didn't take me off the air.

This is always, it doesn't matter.

But anyway, go ahead.

I'm glad that you've been listening.

Thank you so much, Jesse.

And thanks for

the support of all of these years and what you're doing in your own community.

Can I put you on hold?

I want to give you a copy of Arguing with Socialists.

May I do that for you?

Yep.

Sounds good.

Good.

Thank you very much, Jesse.

You know,

it's interesting to see what people, how different people are

reacting to this.

I mean, if you're an extrovert, you are having a really tough time.

I think, honestly, nobody agrees with me, but I think our dogs are having a hard time with this.

I think our dogs are like, well, you people are still here.

I mean, you know, we have our, I get my me time.

I haven't had any me time in a while.

That's what I know.

Uno's looking at me like, it's my me time, okay?

I don't need to see you people all the time.

I'm just.

Are you sure you don't have a cat?

It sounds like a cat.

It does sound like a cat.

Cats got to be scratching their eyes out

to get away.

Which is better than them scratching yours out, which is what they're usually doing.

Yeah.

How are things with the kids, Stu?

Are you guys doing anything different?

Yeah, for sure.

I mean, you know, they're doing homeschooling now, which is

not what we selected as an option.

Even though I think homeschooling is fantastic, it's not for everybody.

So

that is going on, which is certainly a big change.

They're doing a lot.

They've been very adventurous and been doing a lot of new things.

Like, they both...

learned to ride their bikes so far and they both learned to ride their electric scooters

and

they've been doing all they ever think that they're just trying to get away from you it's possible they seem to get faster and faster

they're learning how to grapple out of the second story window too

zach's now a pilot uh he's

like oh

but it is cool i mean like there is a lot of that that goes on i think if you you you know it can be overblown you have this like a battle on social media in particular where you have one side of people saying like, I, you know, this time with your children is such a blessing, and every every single moment of it you should cherish.

And then the other side is like, I've started heroin because they're so awful.

And

there should be a middle ground in there somewhere where you're enjoying

starting the kids on heroin.

Right, yeah.

Because they're fun to watch.

Yeah.

They just kind of slump over and they relax for a while.

You know, it is that thing where.

He's taking a nap.

And part of it is, look, we're just looking for ways to cope.

So people

all say that they're turning into alcoholics at the same time.

And I don't know how that's going to turn out when your kids get a little older and start reading your social media posts about this particular time.

They're probably not going to enjoy it that much.

But, you know, it's part of just a way of coping, right?

The dark sense of humor is part of that coping mechanism.

The kids, though, I feel like, at least my kids, are in that age where they're aware.

of what's going on.

They're aware of why they're home and they know to wash their hands 9 million times a day and all that stuff.

On the other hand,

I feel like they're still in the area seven and eight years old where

they look back at this as kind of probably just a cool time, right?

Like, they're home a lot.

They have a lot of cool things to do at home.

They're spending lots of time with mom and dad that they don't always get.

You know, they're going swimming every day and they're running around outside all the time.

They don't have to go to school.

It's like summer vacation, you know, except maybe we're not going anywhere, no camps and nothing going on.

Right.

It is different, but I think it's something hopefully we're trying to turn it into a time that they actually look look back at positively because they don't know all the horror around them at the moment.

So, you know, at least at that age, I think you can still protect them.

There's definitely going to be long-term societal weirdness that comes out of this, though.

I mean, everything from some people will really go into alcoholism.

That is the legitimate thing.

And

we've talked about the domestic violence problem that seems to be

growing in scary ways.

I mean, you know, kids being separated from their friends and scared.

And there's probably long-term effects that are going to come out of this that, you know, we haven't even, you know, decided to track down yet, let alone actually figure out how to stop.

So it's, I mean, but it's just a strange time.

You know, and I think parents, like a lot of parents, wind up

taking it so seriously as if everything has to be perfect for your kids while they're home.

And it's like, look, this is a weird.

You know what?

They might wind up having, you know, maybe they're eating too many sugary foods.

Maybe they're playing

too many video games.

Maybe they're not getting every single piece of schoolwork done.

Big deal.

Don't worry about it.

I just want everybody to make it to bed without one of them killing the other one.

Keep them alive for this period.

Maybe my expectations are a little too low, but I just want, is everybody still alive?

Yeah.

Good.

Lights out, John Boy.

Yeah.

It's like, well, everybody has to take the parenting like a father way now.

Like, that's how I, like, if my wife goes away for a weekend to see her mom or something, I want to keep the kids alive.

Like, that's gold one.

Yes.

You know, after that, like, you know, we'll have some fun, we'll do some good stuff.

Like, are they going to get all their vitamins and nutrients that weekend?

Probably not.

That's not probably going to be a priority.

Are they going to get to bed on time?

Maybe, maybe not.

But you try to keep them alive.

That's all we can do at this point.

I think we've got a long time ahead of us.

And if we try to be little, you know, Mr.

and Mrs.

Perfect through this time, you're going to wind up just getting frustrated.

And

then you get short with your kids and angry with yourself, and it just makes everything worse.

So, the problem is that I'm having is that the kids don't, I mean, and I'm not bringing it home to them, I'm not talking about the death and destruction everywhere, but I mean, we are talking about it just, you know, in passing, Tanya and I, and we'll mention stuff, and our prayers are obviously very different.

But my kids, I'm having the problem where I don't think they,

and this is probably more healthy for them, but they don't really, I don't think they're really,

they're not seeing it.

You know what I mean?

We haven't been watching the news.

We'll watch the president at five, but they're not generally watching him.

But it's, it's,

I mean, is anybody else's kids, mine are teenagers, so,

you know, they're just complaining about the usual stuff.

I can't go see my friends.

I can't go do this.

And, you know,

about four times a day, I just want to say, uh-huh.

And people are dying.

Uh-huh.

And the economy is, you know, probably over.

So you're going to be a slave for the rest of your life.

You know, those kind of happy things.

And I always want to respond to them when they're like,

yeah, but we're out of Doritos.

Uh-huh.

And you're probably never going to be able to afford a college education.

So it's all good.

It's all good, kids.

Well, it's all good.

The Doritos thing sounds really terrible.

I hope you're not actually

short on Doritos, really.

Yeah.

Well, the problem is I only bought two

grocery carts full of snacks

about 10 days ago.

And

I have to go back to the store to go get more snacks because we're down to the wasabi beans or peas or whatever.

When I'm breaking those things out, you know there's nothing good.

There's nothing from Frito-Lay or Doritos or anything.

There's nothing left.

When you get down to the wasabi peas, that's you're like, wow.

They're desperate.

They're like homeless people.

You have like a basket of snacks, and the very bottom layer of it is a bunch of like weird Trader Joe's type snacks that are like under the Doritos and the Cheetos.

That if you eat all of that stuff, you start revealing the quinoa chips or whatever the heck those things are.

Exactly.

right.

I got some of those.

I got some of those.

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We have.

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Yeah, my kids are using it for school.

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Yeah.

Yeah, so you know that there's all kinds of hacking problems with Zoom.

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It's Monday, the 6th of April.

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I would urge you to join us on our fast on Friday, Fast in Prayer, and get your family to do it.

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Last night, the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington dropped its death projection for the first wave of the pandemic to 81,766.

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So it's just over 11,000 people fewer they're projecting.

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All right, so our coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins University total confirmed cases worldwide now 1,284,000 that's up over a quarter of a million since Friday.

Total confirmed deaths now 70,000.

That's up 1600 Sorry, 16,100 from Friday.

Total confirmed recovered, 271.

5% of active cases are considered serious, steady from 5% on Friday, down from 19 back at the high in February.

And 11% of U.S.

confirmed cases are still requiring hospitalization, roughly on par with Italy at 12%.

Spain, 17%,

are requiring hospitalization.

We now have 336,851 new confirmed cases.

That is up

almost 100,000.

On Friday, I gave you the death count of 6,000.

Today, it is 9,620.

We now have about 1% of the population tested.

They're saying now, according to the New York Times, that the U.S.

death toll is off a bit, only by about 100%.

COVID-19 deaths in the U.S.

may be undercounted by half.

Inconsistent protocols, limited resources, patchwork of decision-making have led to an undercounting of people with the coronavirus who have died.

Let me give you a couple of examples from the New York Times.

First one, a coroner in Indiana wanted to know if the coronavirus had killed a man in early March, but said her health department denied a test.

Example two, paramedics in New York City say many patients die at home are never tested for coronavirus, even if

they showed all of the signs of infection with death certificates marked as cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, or unknown.

And example three in Virginia, funeral director prepared the remains of three people after health workers cautioned her that they each had tested positive for coronavirus, but one of the three, only one of the three had COVID-19 on the death certificate.

We definitely know there are COVID-19 deaths that are not accounted for.

That's across the country.

They say that it is

100%

off.

The same effect has occurred in Italy, Spain, Ecuador, and China, where the rate at which patients are dying and lack of testing led to chronic undercounting of COVID-19 related deaths.

As reported by the Blaze last week, citing the Wall Street Journal and Al Jazeera, Ecuador healthcare officials in some areas have taken to burning bodies in empty parking lots or burying bodies in mass graves, with most of the deaths, the deaths never tested for COVID-19.

In one Italian village, a mayor reported he had more than 300 bodies, presumed COVID-19, which officials had not picked up or counted in Italy's official numbers.

The Army told us on Friday, then Sunday, we're still waiting, he said.

Virus can contaminate face masks up to seven days.

Oh, geez.

Have we decided on what the face mask thing is, Stu?

Are we?

They did a national recommendation that when you're out in public, you should wear them.

However, they also say that you need to be washing them because if you just keep popping on the same one or handling the mask after you've used it, there may be virus on the mask anyway, so it's not really going to do you much good.

It's like one of the favorite parts about, I mean, look, there's not a lot of positives coming out of this, but one of my favorite stories was the fact that now all of these grocery stores are banning the reusable bags and going back to the disposable bags.

I love that.

I love that.

Because of the virus, which, you know, it's funny because this has been a legitimate problem for a long time.

with reusable bags because people take their bag and they put the meat in the bag and the juice or whatever leaks out and it does all the stuff.

You're supposed to wash it every time.

Every time.

And the fun part about washing it every time is it eliminates any environmental positive that you would get.

So if you don't wash it every time, there's a slight environmental positive, though you're risking your health in serious ways.

If you do wash it out, it's worse for the environment than plastic bags.

So no big deal.

No big deal.

So your face mask could be infected for seven days, but don't worry about it.

The fact check from USA Today, I found interesting.

Finally, they got around to this one.

Did Obama deplete U.S.

national stockpiles of N95 masks?

Did you hear this?

If you're a conservative, you probably heard this.

If you're a liberal, you probably didn't hear this.

Yes.

According to USA Today, now they've finally taken up

the task.

He geared us up for swine flu and hurricane and flooding cleanup operations in 2009.

And then again in 2012, they used all the N95 masks or a lot of them and then never put them back in stockpile.

So didn't replenish.

That's one of the reasons why Donald Trump, he's so bad.

We don't have any masks.

Yeah, that would be somebody didn't put more on the shelf.

That would be Barack Obama.

Yeah, there actually is an interesting story today, too, about how George W.

Bush was obsessed with the pandemics.

He read the 1918 flu pandemic book, which we've talked about before.

It's a pretty, you know, it's probably the biggest.

It's a great influenza.

It's great.

Yeah, it's probably the biggest, well-known, best-known book about the 1918 flu.

And he read it and he was like, look, this is serious.

We need to be prepared for it, even when we don't see it coming, because right around when it hits, it's going to be too late.

And he spent tons of

time and resources preparing the U.S.

government for this.

And then it was whittled away by,

you know, largely Obama.

I mean, it was really a big deal to Bush personally.

It was abandoned once Obama took over.

And, you know, you could make the argument that Trump sh should have

brought all these things back in his first three years.

There's not, you know, there's no blameless person here overall.

But still, Obama seems to be the one who really did not prioritize this as much as you would have hoped throughout this.

And it's costing.

Well, it didn't prioritize, quite honestly, anything.

I mean, when it comes to disaster you don't have a stockpile and then not replenish it if you're using it you have to at the end go back and replenish and they didn't and uh you know i don't blame i don't blame Donald Trump for that and I don't blame Obama for not carrying through with George Bush's thing.

I do blame him for or his administration for not replenishing it.

That's your responsibility.

I mean, you know, we all learn that with our moms.

Can somebody, I mean, you just want to replace the toilet paper, or is that all I live for?

Is just replacing everybody's toilet paper.

There's a new role underneath the sink.

I mean,

we all got that from our mom.

That's exactly what Barack Obama should have heard.

Latest casually, as we told you earlier today, Corona beer has officially stopped production.

No, it's not that we're that stupid.

Mexico has finally gotten a clue and said that that's not an essential business.

I think there'd be a lot of people that would disagree with that, but they have shuttered the beer business.

Japan and Hong Kong may declare a new state of emergency because the virus has re-emerged.

Both Japan and Hong Kong saw new waves of COVID-19 cases as travel and work restrictions were lifted about 10 days ago.

This couldn't be worse news.

And then the Surgeon General came out and said, this is going to be the hardest and saddest for most Americans' lives.

He said, this is going to be the grimmest period of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

This is, quote, going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9-11 moment.

It's going to be localized and it's going to be happening all over the country.

And I want Americans to understand that.

I want Americans to understand that as hard as this week is going to be, there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Do you have that feeling at all, Stu, that this is going to be the hardest, most grim?

Or I thought you were going to say, is there light at the end of the tunnel is what I'm feeling.

Yeah, no, I mean, do you feel like it's that?

Do you feel this, what he was saying?

Well,

we're going to be

seeing thousands of people die a day.

I mean, remember the beginning, your

whole...

You said this, I think, last week.

It's currently the third largest cause of death in America, right?

Would you say that right now it's third?

Yes.

And if it just stayed stable, didn't grow, just stayed stable, by the end of the month, it would be the number one killer.

The number one pandemic in the last hundred years.

The number one pandemic in the last hundred years.

Yeah.

So I mean, it's been, that's pretty remarkable.

It's been pretty significant.

I mean, again, like, especially my situation is different than probably most of the people listening in that I'm still coming to work every day.

Like I was talking to people this weekend.

They were like, wait, what?

You're still going in?

Like, how is that possible?

You know, in a lot of parts of the country, you know, it's not like it is in New York.

But, I mean, there are several major cities who are about to go through the same thing that New York is going through.

We've bought a little bit of time, hopefully, and some of the resources will get to the right spots.

The president was pretty upbeat about getting the right amount of ventilators and such to each location.

Hopefully, that can actually.

Seattle's sending their vents to New York, which is great.

Yeah, I mean, so hopefully, I mean, I do have a lot of confidence that when the United States decides something's a legitimate thing to focus on, we do pretty well at it usually.

You know, it takes us time sometimes to pick these things up early.

We talked about this with terrorism, right?

Like, you know, we were not necessarily taking it seriously for a long time, and then all of a sudden,

one Tuesday morning, we all kind of like, holy crap, this is a really important thing.

And we took it very seriously after that.

And we tend to do those things, you know, when we really put our mind to it, we do pretty well.

And you can see like the way that these companies are coming together, making you know, building the masks and the face shields and ventilators.

And,

you know, we are, the testing is another one.

I keep, I keep spouting this, and no one seems to care about it.

It's because it was a narrative apparently two weeks ago and no longer applies.

But the idea that the United States had basically no tests at all three weeks ago and is now doing 150,000 a day.

We're up close to 2 million tests already.

We've tested now more than any other

country.

You know, and who knows with China, you'd throw them out because you don't know.

But

we've stepped that up quickly.

We have these rapid tests coming.

And between that and the potential antibody tests, you have a situation where we could get a handle on this and operate our country in a relatively somewhat normal fashion, even before we get a cure or a treatment.

You know, it's amazing because I watched, I told you, I think on Friday that I watched Sky News from England, and there were two stories that stuck out right at the top of the hour.

One was the private sector saying, please let us make ventilators, let us make masks.

The private market was begging the government to allow them to make medical things, and the government wasn't doing it.

The very next story was the government's, and look it up, it's unbelievable, the government's

five-step plan

to be at a hundred thousand COVID tests by the end of this month.

What?

What?

The five-step plan?

I mean, holy mother, you're kidding me.

We're doing a million a day.

And we were the country that was, oh, we have no clue as what.

No, this is the capitalist system.

Yep.

This is the capitalist system.

And, you know,

there's this thing going around about how, oh, there's no libertarians in a pandemic.

It's the opposite.

Everybody turns into libertarians in a pandemic.

The most left-leaning, I want big government people all see when it gets really important, they get rid of all those dumb restrictions, all the licensing issues, all of the long approval processes.

You know, there's these things we talked about, Glenn, a little bit, certificate of need laws, which are laws that say, hey, when you want to build a new hospital, you have to go to the state and say, I think they need a new hospital.

And the state has to tell you, yeah, we agree with you after hearing the opposing opinion from people in the community who know best, namely the competition you'd have in the hospital that already exists.

So they come in and they, of course, don't approve a lot of these hospitals.

The same thing goes with, you know, important medical equipment like MRIs and ventilators, right?

So

they go through this.

They had, at one point,

49 states had these.

They started to whittle away

as Reagan went on.

But I think it was something like 36 states when the pandemic started.

I think it's 15 of those states, most of them, most hard hit by this pandemic, have all waived those laws now so that people can bring in more beds and can bring in more ventilators.

But it does very little use once the pandemic has already begun.

Like, if you had an open system and there were enough beds there already, you wouldn't have to worry about these things last second.

Instead, they're bringing ships in off the coast.

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Really?

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So there's a couple of things that are going on that we should probably talk about.

Don't buy into any of this 5G crap.

I don't know if you've seen it yet.

It's big overseas

in Great Britain.

They're burning down the 5G masts,

the big cell towers,

because apparently 5G

is weakening our immune system.

And so

that's why the Chinese got it because they were the first to be able to have 5G their immune system was so weak and now if you have 5G and your immune system is that's that's what's causing this so they're telling people now to act now and burn those towers down

and

and I don't know is our is Great Britain making cell towers out of like you know old wooden roller coasters or

how exactly are they burning them down most of them you like to make them out of steel Most of them are out of asterno logs, which is a strange thing to build a tower out of.

Once you start them.

Yeah, once you start them.

They don't usually get struck by lightning or set themselves on fire, but once they start burning, they're going.

All that stuff drives me out of my mind.

Out of my mind.

Here's another story.

This one comes out of Massachusetts.

Looks like the governor Charlie Baker

is not real popular in the gun world.

Gun shop owners are not taking kindly to the demand that they close their doors during the coronavirus crisis after he labeled them non-essential.

In March, Baker, a Republican, ordered all non-essential businesses to close their physical workplaces and facilities, both workers and the public, until April 7th.

Last week, he extended that order through May 4th.

The state published a list of businesses and organizations it considers essential that would allow to keep their brick and mortar facilities open.

Notably, not on the roll of essential businesses were gun shops.

However, firearms and ammunition manufacturers, importers and

distribution centers were on the list.

But that hasn't stopped the gun owners.

A guy who runs the Gun Runner, dedicated to your Second Amendment rights,

was on WBZ-TV.

His name is John Costa.

He owns the Gunrunner in Middleborough.

He told WBZ that he not only disagrees with Baker's belief that his gun business is non-essential, but he also stated that he was constitutionally protected to stay open by the Second Amendment.

He said, okay, under the Second Amendment, we have every right to defend ourselves.

And he's not taking any social distancing precautions either.

He says,

you know,

no, I'm sorry, he's not taking those for granted.

He is doing it.

He's saying, I'm letting my customers come to the curb, and I do all my business curbside outside.

So that seems...

I think he's right.

Yeah.

It's interesting to see

the

constitutional lines being drawn here because I have a real problem with the idea the government would be able to tell church that it can't meet under basically any circumstances.

Now, I think if I'm a church, I don't want that to happen right now.

I don't want to have a church.

I want to do it online.

I want to do it.

I know we had someone someone called in.

I've heard there's a few of these that have happened across the country where they're kind of spreading out in like drive-through movie theater sort of patterns and they have big loudspeakers and everyone kind of sits on their back, the back of their car or whatever, and does it that way.

I think that's seemingly totally acceptable.

But like, I think as a church, I think you'd want to be able to protect the people as well as you can and do it online or whatever.

But like, I don't, I think if they decide, you know what, we're going to do it the way we want to do it, no social distancing, like, I don't know that you can,

I don't know that you can stop people from meeting.

You can have regulations.

They have regulations on every church, right?

Every building has to be made, you know,

there's certain regulations that every building has to make to be safe.

And there's those sorts of things you could probably put on churches.

But to say they can't meet, even if it is for a limited time,

is a

really weird constitutional line.

I know I feel weird about it when it comes to guns.

That's what they did in New Orleans after Katrina.

Exactly right.

And the problem is that it's A, the state doing it, not the federal government.

So the states doing it.

Constitution and Bill of Rights

is applied differently in the states

because the states have the quarantine power.

The United States of America, the Fed, does not have the quarantine power.

The states have that.

And if they say all businesses, see, where they're getting in trouble is essential businesses.

And then they're saying that that's not essential.

Well, a lot of people would say faith is essential.

A lot of people would say guns are essential.

And I would tend to agree with them.

On the gun thing, you can only get it at that store.

It's not like faith.

We can get online and we can do things and we can talk and

share that way.

But on guns, if I want to buy a gun, I got to go to the store.

I got to get it.

I'm buying it from them.

Oddly enough, because of regulations, they can't send them to you.

So

you'd have to physically go to the store to get them.

Yeah, that's true.

Exactly right.

It's a weird line, though.

I talked to Jeremy Dice over at First Liberty, and they do, and this is what they do for a living, which is like, you know, making sure that religious rights are protected all around the country.

And he said that, you know, there's a

pretty long history of limited-time quarantine and the ability for states to stop this as long as it's very short and limited in scope.

But it is, it just makes me nervous that they could do it even for a minute.

You know, this is, I understand that this is important.

And I'm, you know, I'm not going to church.

If they opened up my church, I would still watch it online.

I mean, I want to, you know, you want to take these precautions.

It's just I don't understand.

There has to be some sort of,

like, you could see these pastors.

that are getting in trouble now because of doing full-out services.

You could see them going to court after this and winning.

I mean,

the courts have generally speaking supported the state's rights to be able to limit this stuff, but you could see it being overturned.

Oh, and especially in places like we, you know, we talked to that pastor, where was he in Louisiana, where he said, we don't have internet.

You know, our church does not have a big, you know, television broadcast kind of component to it.

We don't have internet.

And a lot of the people that live here in that community,

he serves the underserved community.

And he said, we got to gather or we're not seeing each other.

And so you, what are you going to do?

What are you going to do?

You're telling these people that faith is not essential?

I beg to differ with you on that, but

it's a tough place to be.

I think a really tough place to be.

Seems like if you want to start with essential, maybe

the constitutionally guaranteed rights might be a place to kind of start with and say, hey, these things are pretty essential.

Remember,

what is it, mid-March, where Joe Biden is still encouraging people to go to the polls and vote?

They thought that was pretty essential.

You know, I mean, that's something you could do, absentee, but they still were like, no, go out.

That's no big deal.

Go in Florida and go vote.

It'll be great.

So did you see, Stu, the thing about

how much of the businesses have been closed?

Because we took a wild guess on when we say we've closed down America.

How much of America have we actually closed?

How much is not functioning right now?

Right.

And the reason we were talking about that was because I think in our heads, we think it's like 80 or 90 percent.

Like, just like that's the feeling, or in our hearts, or the feeling that we're getting is 80 or 90 percent closed down.

But we all realize that that can't be accurate, right?

I mean, there's a lot of things functioning.

Most people I know who have jobs that are not like, you know, hands-on jobs, they're working at home.

There's a lot of people who are working at home.

Many of these businesses are continuing to operate.

They're just operating in a totally different way.

So I think I asked you, like, give me a percentage.

What percentage of the economy do you think is actually shut down right now?

And you said...

So I said 30.

Yeah, 30%, which was your estimate, which

I think would be an estimate most people would think.

That's too small.

That was kind of what I wanted to get out of you to see if that's how you felt too.

Because when I really tried to do the math on it, it seemed a lot smaller than I would have originally thought.

Yeah, I gave 30%, and I felt like

that's a price is right number, you know, the closest without going over.

You know, it could be 50 or 60, but since I was the only contestant, you know,

I felt for sure 30%.

And you lost on the price is right, apparently, because you went over.

I did.

It was 29%, is what they are now estimating, which is amazing.

That was really just off the top of your head, 30% guess.

But I mean, I think that's that's an interesting, and I will say, in a weird way, I'm a little optimistic about that number because I,

right?

Like, I, you know, look, can we deal with the economy being shut down for a year?

The answer to that, of course, is no.

We're in

probably never-ending depression in some ways that way.

Can we deal with two months of a 30% decrease?

I mean,

probably,

right?

I mean, it's, it's, I think, with the, you know, look, we're going to have all sorts of long-term problems associated with these trillion-dollar bills they keep throwing out there.

There's no doubt about that.

We're going to have major problems to deal with, obviously, with the actual virus, which is a huge thing, but also, you know, the way that the government is cracking down on things and they're going to be grabbing power like crazy, and there's going to be all sorts of craziness that happens after this.

It's going to be a big fight for all of us.

But I mean, if the economy is really, we lose 30% of it for, let's say, two or three months, you know, you're talking about a GDP drop, which will be devastating in many ways, but it might be something that's not as devastating as in our head where we're shutting down and it's just like empty streets everywhere and burned out buildings that never get rebuilt.

There is that sort of walking dead thing that's in our heads.

And if we can come up with a way to turn this around relatively quickly, maybe there is reason for optimism.

Maybe this thing can come back the way Trump has been talking about it.

So do do you want a pin in

your bubble?

Or

do you want you're ruining my optimism already?

I just finished outlining the case.

So, you want me to let you, I'll let you sit with it for a second.

Okay, let me just think for one second.

Now, okay, there we go.

Here's the downside of this.

I have a feeling that 30%, though, are all of the real entrepreneurial-style businesses.

They're the small business person

who

operates a brick and mortar shop or restaurant or something like that.

You know what I mean?

Oh, yeah.

So all those stores that line all of our downtowns or even in the malls, those things are all closed.

And that's a, you know, that 80%

of the economy is small business.

Yeah, one of the things I said.

So that's a big deal.

Started with that point.

One of the things I thought about is like, we obviously do a lot of online shopping already.

And we're not going to stop buying things necessarily.

We're just going to be be buying those things online instead of in brick and mortar.

How much of that is going to reverse?

Because it was only like 20% of buying was online, which I was surprised.

I thought it would be a little higher than that.

It was going into this.

It was about 20%.

Still 80% of stuff was bought

in brick and mortar stores, apparently.

But that number is going to go up, but it's not going to make up for all the loss.

And the question is, if it comes back and it's now, you know, 50% of stuff is bought online, it's going to be a huge adjustment for

any store.

I mean, look, the whole thing is the landscape is going to change in massive, massive ways because of this.

But

again,

I've been talking, we have a bunch of small business owner friends that

we know.

I'm sure you know them as well, Glenn.

And it's like, you talk to them, and it's just like, they're trying to figure out this program, which is

been a total disaster so far.

It's rolled out in a terrible way.

I don't think they communicated it well.

A lot of these banks don't even have access to these loans yet.

So you know, it's terrible.

You know, they'll give you loans that will pay for, let's say, two months of salary for your workers, but then you have to keep them employed for four months for it to turn into a grant.

So you have this gap there of like, if we don't come back online,

you know, we're in trouble.

The president is saying, like, you know, look,

if it's not enough, we're going to pass more money, which again is a terrifying long-term aspect.

So, I mean, it really is.

It's a mess right now.

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So,

in Spain, there was a guy who was told that he needed to go home

in

Spain and

stay off the streets because of coronavirus.

Police knew knew what he looked like

and

had warned him before.

So he goes home

and just a few minutes later,

police see coming out of his home

a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Obviously a costume of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

And

the guy

walks down the street,

and the police stop him and say,

Didn't we just tell you to go home?

And

the Tyrannosaurus Rex

pretended not to understand the police nor be able to speak.

because of course he was a Tyrannosaurus

Rex.

Police apparently were not fooled by the man in the T-Rex costume.

So, when you hear people say, oh, come on, people aren't that dumb.

Yes, yes, yes, they are.

Yes, they are.

Yes, they are.

But we should point out our brave first responders should walk up to a Tyrannosaurus Rex like that.

It's incredible.

Yeah, they were.

Brave, brave.

Well, they're brave in Spain.

They're very brave.

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