Good News Amid the Coronavirus Chaos | Guest: Dana Loesch | 3/17/20

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Hello, America.

Welcome to the program.

I've got good news for you.

Hard times made us.

And you'll understand what I mean by that by the end of the program today.

You don't want to miss a single second.

A lot of really good things are happening.

You know, the media is still behaving the way the media is.

Everything is Donald Trump's fault.

Donald Trump can do no good.

We have some political news for you on that.

But I really want to start with some good things.

I also would like to tell you: just after one day of my children complaining and whining, there's not enough alcohol in the world that you have,

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I'm going to be honest with you, eight weeks.

We begin with some good news.

Not that, in one minute.

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Well,

I want to talk to you a little bit about the technology of disaster.

Technology of disaster,

second only to China, where the COVID-19 originated,

yesterday we had

a record-breaking

number

of deaths.

Yesterday, we had a record number of deaths and

it was quite interesting to watch.

It was

a day where China had only about 100 and

what was it, 150 Stu?

that had died?

The worst day for China, any individual day, was 150 deaths, deaths, yes.

Now

tell me what happened

yesterday in Italy.

On Sunday.

Yep, last two days in Italy, 368 died in Italy.

Obviously, a much smaller country.

We don't need to note that, but that's a pretty significant number.

And then yesterday was 349.

So the two highest days of any country were Italy the last two days.

That makes the death toll in Italy 2,138 since February 20th, when a 38-year-old man just checked himself into the hospital and tested positive for the virus.

Now, I want to talk to you here about the northern Lombardy region of Italy.

It's taken the brunt of the damage, and it's starting really to show.

Makeshift triage units have popped up, tents full of tired doctors clad in full-body hazmat suits, including the bright green sacks that cover their shoes, and the hoods and the eye gear.

Hospitals are overrun.

Things are being rationed now.

They have to choose who gets this, a 45-year-old man or an 80-year-old man.

It's the worst.

One Italian doctor said, the outbreak has put hospitals under a stress that we have not seen since the Second World War.

War.

War.

It's a word that we're hearing now when we're seeing the spread of COVID-19 through Italy, war, and for a good reason.

On Thursday, a group of healthcare specialists released guidelines for dealing with COVID-19 with what they called

catastrophe medicine.

Catastrophe medicine.

I want to give you a quote.

In context of grave shortage of health resources, the guidelines say intensive care should be given to patients with the best chances of success and the best hope for life should be prioritized.

And that, quote, in the interest of maximizing benefits for the largest number, limits could be put on intensive care units to reserve scarce resources for those who have, first, a greater likelihood of survival, and secondly, who have more potential years of life.

We are in the death panel, except there's no panel.

It's just the person at triage.

Yesterday,

In a hospital, a city in northern Italy, about 200,000 people, they ran out of ICU valves.

Now, this is the closed system, the stopcock-like lever that allows nurses to control the flow of blood or medicine, or in some cases, the contents of feeding tubes.

If you don't have those ICU valves, hospitals are far more dangerous for everybody.

They're part of the

sterilization process.

And attempting to run a medical facility without these is kind of like driving a car without any kind of springs or shocks.

Yeah, it'll last, but not for very long.

Technology

is going to save us.

Stephen Hawking said once, science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease.

That in turn will reduce civil unrest.

Stephen Hawking.

But the technologies that arise are going to be unexpected.

as they always have been the case if we keep our wits about us and we care to look.

Right Right now, everybody's pointing fingers, everybody is yelling at each other, why didn't you do this?

We weren't prepared for that.

Can we just spend a minute and look at what miracles are happening?

Because that's what I want to do for the next few minutes.

Elon Musk said, if anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history because life sucked in the old days.

People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a very young age of some horrible disease.

Let me go back to that hospital I was telling you about in northern Italy.

The one that ran out of ICU valves.

Somebody knew somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody had a local business.

Yes, a local business.

It wasn't a socialist that had the idea.

It was a capitalist, a local business.

They rushed to the hospital with a 3D printer.

And within hours, they had designed and produced new valves.

So far, last we checked, 10 patients are accompanied in breathing by a machine that now uses one of these 3D printed valves.

Technology, an entrepreneur, somebody who just doesn't wait for somebody else.

They're not waiting for the government or bitching about the government.

We don't have enough ICU valves.

They went out and made them.

Now we're still fact-checking and investigating this story.

We received the tip through Twitter and we'll update you as more details emerge.

But

since we discovered the story, it's been confirmed by a reputable Italian newspaper, La Stampa,

who just gave us an update on the story.

The supplier of the ICU valves was upset with the hospital's decision to accept a 3D printed valve and refused to provide any sort of blueprints or files.

The point I want to make here is

about the power of technology.

This is also not just a rebuke of any sort of healthcare apparatus.

I'm not railing against the medical device industry.

Even the supplier of the valves, it's not their fault.

What I want to talk to you about is an article we discovered from an academic journal out of Johns Hopkins.

The article was titled, Impact of Technology on the Emergence of Infectious Diseases.

And it begins like this.

Technological advances during this century have led to unparalleled improvements in comfort, productivity, and lifespan.

The impact of technology on the practice of medicine is among the most salutary changes that has occurred during the 20th century.

You know one thing we didn't see coming?

We didn't see

ICU valves being needed because of COVID-19 and a pandemic, and it would be saved through a 3D printer.

We never saw that coming.

In fact, an entire movement now we didn't see coming.

It's now, it's called Project Open Air.

As I mentioned, we're still vetting this ongoing story, but Project Open Air, by all accounts, is a legitimate organization now that has been heralded by scientists and engineers and academics, including Scott Horton.

He's the director of the Libertarian Institute.

Five days ago, a 40-year-old Portuguese scientist studying neuroscience at Harvard took to Twitter and spread the word about Project Open Air.

It was just then comprised of a small group of Harvard scientists and here's what he said.

We're working on medical devices such as open source ventilators to have fast and easy solutions that can be reproduced and assembled locally worldwide.

If you have any skills Consider helping us.

Join us at projectopenair.org.

In 24 hours, the group had assembled already 500 of the greatest specialists in the fields of engineering, medicine, institutions like MIT, Caltech, Stanford.

It's a week later now and they have 2,500 people.

They're medium, Slack.

The application of the business world, a kind of mega-sized chat room for entire companies or groups.

We use it at Blaze Media and Mercury Radio Arts, another technical innovation that has unexpectedly advanced medicine.

Put this program on the air today.

Here's the thing:

Can we stop complaining about what we don't know?

Let's just start doing what we do know.

Do what we are supposed to do.

Be the people we were born to be.

You know, we're born at this time because, quite honestly, we're special souls.

We were born here with everything that we need and all the equipment we need to be able to take mankind into a more free state, into a better place.

And at the end of this chaos,

after we have buried, hopefully not too many of our friends or loved ones,

the coronavirus will have advanced technology by five years.

That's an awe-inspiring achievement in 2020.

If I may quote John F.

Kennedy, let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.

Together, let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Remember, as we trudge forward, as we spend the next few days and weeks confined in our homes, staring out at an increasingly motionless world,

remember that everything we do, nonetheless, is advancing man.

Man

is either retreating or advancing.

And Americans

have always chosen to advance.

What do you do when you're in so much pain that you can't do the necessary things around the house?

In fact, you can't even sleep half of the time and half the night.

This is a situation that Dawn

found herself in.

She had been a hairstylist for 25 years and she developed this pain.

She was constantly dealing with the pain in her hands and her feet and her back.

She was desperate for anything to take the pain away, but she did not want to take hard drugs.

Then she heard me talking about Relief Factor.

With just in a couple of weeks, all of her pain, every bit of it,

according to her, every bit of it was gone from Dawn's body.

She says she no longer

has to take Relief Factor, but she does because the more she takes as directed, the better she feels.

It worked for her.

It can work for you.

When taken properly, Relief Factor attacks the inflammation that causes much of our pain.

70% of those who go on to take it go on to buy more.

And I will tell you something.

I've taken it and then I've stopped taking it because I was like, okay, I think I'm better now.

I stopped taking it and I'm like, no, no, no, I'm not.

Pain's back.

It's an amazing thing that you never feel in your body and it's all natural.

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I just want to warn you,

we should put this on the label.

It will not help you deal with your kids.

That's a different kind of pain, and that probably will require narcotics for you or some sort of Benadryl for them.

I'm just saying.

10 seconds, station ID.

So, Jade Powell is somebody else that we need to know.

She and her growing army of volunteers are providing free grocery delivery to the sick and the elderly.

This is something that I'm sending over to Mercury One.

I know Mercury One is preparing to do a lot of different things in this.

We really need to take care of the sick, the elderly.

Now's the time.

I think, you know, widows and orphans come to mind.

But Jade decided to start something called Shopping.

Angel.

She's at the University of Nevada in Reno.

She got the idea to organize a few people during the pandemic.

Her mother mentioned, you know, call the elderly neighbors to see if they need anything.

She said, as a pre-med student, I know that people who are older and people who have heart, lung, or immune conditions are especially at risk for getting the virus.

They shouldn't go out.

But what are they going to do?

So she started something called Shopping Angels, and she had

20 members of her medical fraternity.

And

she started going out and saying, hey, can we go grocery shopping for you?

She said, I woke up this morning to 20 voicemails 56 emails we now have people in Connecticut Long Island Sacramento Los Angeles Phoenix Arizona people that want to volunteer can we can we see if we get Jade Powell on because I think this is such a great idea

here she's She's connecting volunteers across the country with people that are in need through email, phone, and Facebook.

Some clients give the angel a shopping list, budget, money to cover the purchase.

Other clients purchase their groceries online, and the shopping angel, all they do is the pickup.

If you want to help on this, find her, shopping angel.

You can find her.

Also, she created a GoFundMe account for those who aren't able to afford the essentials that they might need.

You can just

look

on GoFundMe for shopping angels.

On the GoFundMe page, it's a program designed to provide services for those populations deemed especially at risk.

60 plus, those conditions that impair their immune function, especially vulnerable to contracting this virus, help ease the uncertainty, anxiety, and fear surrounding this pandemic.

We're volunteering our time to physically go and pick up groceries and other shopping necessities.

for those who need to stay within the safety of their own home and do it without any additional cost.

I think this is great.

Also, hats off to the Dollar General store.

The Dollar General store is saying that they're opening their stores, but please, unless you're a senior customer, don't come in on the first hour.

The first hour of the store opening, they'll clean everything.

They got everything washed down.

They want to provide the at-risk customers the ability to purchase the items they need at the beginning of each day so it's not crowded and it's not busy and everybody there is the same age and and and hopefully they won't contract anything.

The retailer said they encourage their customers to plan their shopping trips around this window of time to allow the senior customers to shop first.

I think this is great.

This is the kind of thing that we need to start doing.

How many of us I know there's lots of churches that are doing this now.

Gateway is one of the churches down the street here that is in Dallas, one of the big Dallas churches.

I know they're doing something

where you can volunteer your time and basically be a shopping angel.

Have you organized anything for your church like that?

Are you, if you're going out, this is one of those things that's worth going out?

We are, personally, we are put into our home

and the family is staying put, which is, oh my gosh, great fun.

Oh,

Stu, did you have fun yesterday at home oh it's a it's a joy

it is uh i have i have two teenagers who uh one just had to go to the bathroom uh several times yesterday during work uh because we were cleaning out the garage every day they don't know this yet but every day mom and dad have a new project and it's about a two-hour project You know, not too hard

because there's more things coming like today, an hour of reading until until school starts.

But anyway,

two-hour project.

So yesterday was clean out one of the garages.

So we started.

That two-hour project, which should have been actually about an hour and a half, maybe an hour and a half.

That took a mere four and a half hours yesterday

because one teenager was constantly in the bathroom and the other one was, I don't feel good.

I think I don't, I mean, could I have the coronavirus?

No, you don't have the coronavirus.

Finish the garage.

Look, I think if the coronavirus, what comes out of this is we're able to get out of a lot of housework.

I don't see the negatives here.

I mean, there could be a couple on the side.

Get out of?

Yeah.

Get out of housework?

Well, you use it to get out of it.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah, no, I don't think I told them, you know what?

You know what beats the coronavirus when you have it and you're at home?

Housework.

Turn the vacuum on and start vacuuming.

I don't feel good.

I'll take your temperature after you finish the garage.

Got it?

I think one of the unspoken tragedies of coronavirus is I don't know how I deny doing things on my to-do list anymore.

Because I'm home all the time and I need to.

I no longer have any excuses.

No, it's not good.

It's really, really not good.

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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

Hey, everybody.

The world is changing, and it has very little to do with the coronavirus.

So maybe everyone will believe this one.

I'm so frustrated with people going, ah, you you know, that coronavirus,

it's really not so bad.

Okay.

All right.

Maybe it's not.

Maybe it's not.

And you know what?

If we do our job, it won't be so bad.

And then you can spend the rest of your life going, see, I told you it wasn't so bad.

Just all of us stay home.

All of us do what we're supposed to do and it won't be so bad.

Here is the second wave, and the second wave is a tsunami.

The second wave is the economic ramifications of this.

To let you know how bad that is and some things that the governments all around the world are doing that is really, really disturbing.

The Federal Reserve has cut rates to zero.

We know that.

They also did a troubled assets buyback, which troubled assets, that's TARP.

They did this without it going through Congress or anything else.

They decided that they were going to put a trillion dollars in in buyback.

Now remember, $750

is a billion, $750 billion was the price tag of TARP, but we fixed the banks so they wouldn't go through this again.

Right.

And this time they only need, to begin, they only need a trillion dollars.

So only a quarter of a billion dollars more.

Hey, inflation.

Oh, wait, there is no inflation.

Then, on top of that, they are bailing the banks out to the tune of about a trillion dollars now.

They're giving that money for an extended period of time for three months, and it's zero interest.

Just take the money.

They also yesterday said, by the way, no cash reserves are needed anymore.

Don't worry about cash reserves.

So if you go into your bank and the bank doesn't have any cash, don't worry.

Don't worry.

The Fed will take care of it.

That means they can loan as much money as they want.

They don't have to worry about any cash reserves.

Now

they've entered another $700 billion in quantitative easing.

That means they're just going in and buying more stuff.

Another $700 billion quantitative easing.

Now on top of that, the president just released a new package.

Stu, how much is the, what's the price tag on this one?

They're looking for $850 billion in stimulus.

$850 billion.

That's the Trump number being reported today.

Schumer was asking for $750 billion.

I would assume if Trump comes with $850, Schumer will up that.

I don't think Schumer will stop.

That's not enough.

That's not enough.

I said yesterday it was more than enough, but now it's not enough because Donald Trump's evil.

I do assume that's on the way.

So what is that money going towards?

Various things.

$50 billion

for the airline industry, which is no surprise at all.

There's part of it that looks like it's supposed to be part of the payroll tax holiday, which we don't know the details of that yet.

But

those are the only two big details left.

We're going to have to bail out.

We're going to bail out Boeing.

I wonder if that airline thing is part of Boeing.

We have to bail out Boeing.

Boeing is going to be bailed out because

it makes a lot of defense.

You're going to get a lot of, I believe, stuff related to travel.

I think the cruise industry will wind up getting a nice part of this.

Travel is getting killed.

Let me ask you this.

Killed.

If the government forces restaurants, bars, gyms, movie theaters to shut down, are they responsible for the money lost by restaurants, bars, gyms, and movie theaters?

Will we have to bail them out too?

I mean, every small businessman across the country, are you going to have to bail them out too?

I think you are.

Largely.

I think you are.

Yeah, largely.

I think they will end up doing a lot of that.

Yep.

This is the one thing that is an act of God.

It wasn't anybody's fault.

And how are people going to survive?

Now, Romney, oh, it's a good thing we have Romney.

Because Romney has said what he'd like to do is send everybody a check for $1,000 every month.

Well, that's, you know what that sounds like?

Basic income,

minimum income.

It sounds like the 35 seconds Andrew Yang was allowed to speak in every debate is what it sounds like.

Exactly right.

And let me say this.

We need to step up to the plate right now and tell Congress, no matter what they pass, it should have a 30-day sunset.

You got to renew it every 30 days because you're going to get programs that you're never going to get rid of, ever.

And they're going to pass them in the dead of night, and you're never going to know it.

Stu, who's the best on the blaze looking at these kinds of things?

Is it Horowitz?

Who's the best at watching Washington and all these things?

Yeah, probably.

He's great

from Conservative Review, you're talking about?

He technically is.

Yeah,

he's great.

He really breaks down the budget and looks at this stuff in great detail.

So

can we enlist him, see if he can come on the show tomorrow, maybe,

and give us a look at all of these things?

Because we really have to pay attention.

We can't do another Patriot Act.

Can't have another.

You don't want passive.

Well, you don't love the flag.

Look at me.

I'm kissing the flag, right?

I'm kissing the flag.

You don't want to kiss the flag?

No, it's bad.

We can't allow that to happen again.

And you guys are, I think, on the same page as me on this, in that, like, this is a serious thing.

A lot of we've seen all around the world, the places that have had success are the ones that have taken real action as early as possible.

So, a lot of this stuff is, you know,

as miserable as it's making all of us, it might be a very good thing.

However, no matter what, after this, we have a serious fight on our hands to make sure the government doesn't grab every bit of this power that they're taking.

We're going to have to.

May I suggest

the new book that comes out in two weeks called Arguing with Socialists.

Because, Stu, you're exactly right.

We have a massive problem on our hand at the end of this.

Because

it's probably necessary to do right now.

And a lot of this is necessary.

Obviously, the more it can be recommendations rather than government just doing this, I think the better.

So it's probably a good idea for all of us to respect it as much as we can.

But watching this happen, I mean, you see, they're going to try to take massive swaths of this newfound power and codify it with some sort of Patriot Act type of bill later on.

Yeah.

How about what they did to

how about what they're

doing to this local Amazon businessman?

He sells things on Amazon, Matt Colvin.

Yeah.

He went around.

He had the foresight.

A couple of months ago to go around to all the businesses and buy up all the hand sanitizer.

You might think he's a jerk for doing that.

I call it foresight.

Yes.

He bought over 17,000 bottles of hand sanitizer.

Amazon and eBay shut him down completely because they were hacked off that he did that.

And, you know, it's their right to do.

You don't have a right to just sell anything you want on their service, on their platform.

But then the government found out about his 17,000 jars, and they came and took them all.

One-third of them.

No,

that's wrong.

One-third of them they took and gave to Kentucky.

The attorney general just confiscated a third and gave them to the attorney general's office in Kentucky to distribute to their people.

And then the other two-thirds were confiscated and given to a church who will distribute the supplies to those who need the products across the state.

The state has a right to come in and buy them.

Yes, but they don't have a right to come in and steal stuff.

To take it.

No way.

No way.

That's his stuff.

It's another example of

civil asset forfeiture.

So

there was a story out about food hoarders yesterday.

Do you guys see this?

Watch for this language, food hoarders, because those are preppers.

And they've been hoarding food.

And so they don't have a right to that food.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

I have a right to the food that I purchased for my family.

I did the right thing.

In fact, I followed the guidelines of the Department of Homeland Security.

I have food and water stored.

This is what happened in Germany in the early 1930s.

They started saying these are people are hoarding.

Now, there's a difference between I want to take the hand sanitizers and buy them all up and then sell them for four times the market value.

Yeah.

I have a hard time with sympathy for this person because you're just a bad, greedy person.

And yet, it's legal.

However,

it is legal.

So I'm just saying I wouldn't want you as my neighbor,

you know, but it's legal.

You have a right to do that.

As Pat said, you don't have a right to necessarily sell it at my store or anybody else's store.

But if you can get people to buy it and you can find somebody that's willing to partner with you to sell it, you know, that's part of the deal with capitalism.

There is a problem with gouging people and going in and buying up everything else and gouging in the time of an emergency.

But there is also something called freedom.

And you have the right to do it.

Yes.

I have an honest idea of the problem.

I mean, there are laws against gouging, though.

Yes, and there should be a lot of people.

There should probably not be.

There should not be.

You know, look,

price gouging is largely a good thing.

So,

in fact, that's what Studos America is about tonight.

We're going to go into the positives

in defense of price gouging.

But one of the things that price gouging does, and it's a wonderful thing, try to hoard supplies when people are price gouging, quote unquote.

I don't like the term.

but when you're, if you wanted to hoard hand sanitizer and it was expensive, you couldn't hoard it, right?

Because you'd only be able to buy the stuff that you needed because it was priced at a point where you couldn't just buy it all up.

So then actually

distributed to people who actually needed it.

So here's the thing.

I had this conversation with my kids and they were asking me, what's the difference between the free market and supply and demand and price gouging?

I said, the difference is

if there is a high demand and you're making it as fast as you can and you have to go into overtime and everything else to make it, you can raise those prices.

Going out, and it's not illegal to do, but going out and just buying everything and then saying, you know what, I control this market entirely.

It's like a monopoly.

And I'm going to control this market and

I'm going to offer it at this this price.

You still can do it, but in the time of an emergency, it's not necessarily a good idea to do it.

It's not

a good person, but it's different than a company who is already distributing saying, look, the demand for this is going up.

I have no problem with

Exxon saying it's harder to get the oil or whatever, this is a bad example today, but it's harder to get X, Y, and Z.

The employees getting them in, it's really hard to do.

Getting the people to ship it is really hard.

So the price is going up.

That's not price gouging.

Yeah.

That is supply and demand.

And I would say I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

I don't think there's anything wrong with what this guy did.

It's mean still.

I don't even think it's mean.

You don't think it's mean?

And the other part is there actually are laws against it, which is to me.

Crazy.

Look,

if you go out and you buy these things and you can sell them, then you should be able to sell them.

What is better?

The fact that he had 17,000 bags of hand sanitizer and Clorox wipes in his garage, or that people could have actually purchased them and had them to use.

Not to mention, we should also point out that this is not a necessary product.

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better.

So this is actually totally a luxury item.

There is no reason to go after this guy.

You hear the hate.

It's criminal that they're going after this guy.

I hear it.

I hear it.

I hear it.

We're both on the street.

That's all on

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Where we should have a rebound from yesterday.

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Yeah, it did start to do that.

And there was a time in which

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Oh, yeah.

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Okay.

All right.

Suboptimal is how I would describe the start of today's market day, Glenn.

Yeah, okay.

Suboptimal.

Somewhere below the perfect optimal outcome is what's happened.

Really?

Yes.

Yeah.

You might want to look at optimal and raise that a little bit.

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Dana Lash, one of the founding members of the Blaze and Blaze TV, is joining us now.

She's got a new book out called Grace Canceled: How Outrage is Destroying Our Lives, Ending Debate, and Endangering Democracy.

She should know a little bit about this as she has probably received less grace than anybody in the media

in quite some time.

Welcome to the program.

Dana, how are you?

I'm doing well, Glenn.

Good to talk with you.

It's been a while.

It's good to be on.

I know, I know.

Good to have you on the program.

I know you're from home.

Are you quarantined now, self-quarantined at home?

I am an introvert, so I am living in paradise right now, and I just look at it like I'm a hobbit in my hobbit hole, and I am grateful that I have a home studio, and I'm able to do everything from my house.

So, I'm living my life.

Right.

And you're going to church digitally and

just kind of homeschooling the kids again?

Yeah, sort of.

Going to church digitally is a new one for me.

That one took a little bit getting used to.

We had our first digital service last Sunday.

The kids start their, my youngest, our kids kind of work-at-home stuff tomorrow.

And I mean, I know that there are parents out there that have, you were talking about your kids cleaning out the garage.

I know there are parents out there that are doing stuff with their kids, and that's awesome.

I mean, we don't even know what day it is right now because the schedule is all disrupted.

But right now, it's crazy.

It'll be good.

It's crazy.

Yeah, it is.

It's nuts.

We've gone from Tanya driving the kids around to play practice and this

school and that event.

And

all the time, it's like she was a shuttle service

to do nothing.

Like the kids are home and it's like, well, who is this creature in the other room?

I don't recognize them.

They're my children.

It's weird how fast things stopped.

That things have stopped.

And I kind of, I like that they're home, though.

My oldest went off to college for the, I mean, he's a college freshman.

He left this fall, this last fall.

And so that was, that was awful.

And I'm actually,

this sounds really bad, but I'm actually kind of grateful for the time.

I feel like, you know, we get a little bit of extra time because I'm sure the world's going to shift back into high gear here soon.

But I'm, you know, I'm happy that we kind of had this little period.

I just, I, with all of the awfulness that's that's happening with this virus and everything, I just, I feel like we're supposed to kind of take this time together and

be a family and do stuff.

And

we play all kinds of stuff.

We play games.

And I do my stuff during a day and then we have the evening.

So it's nice.

We play hide and go seek, except it's a new version just called Hide.

Don't change.

You hide.

Okay, and then you're going to find us?

Nope.

Just go hide.

So

your book is about grace, which seems really timely, especially with there's absolutely no grace extended to people anymore.

There's no grace, especially extended to this president.

Everything he does, he's ahead of the rest of the world and he'll get bashed for it.

And then, you know, when Europe today, they're making all kinds of announcements that Europe is closing all of the borders and they're canceling all flights and you can't, if you're being called home.

Well, that's what he did.

And he was called all kinds of names for it.

Now when the rest of the world is doing it, they're brilliant.

They're all brilliant.

We should be more like them.

Well, we were last week.

Yeah.

Talk to me a little bit about grace

in this time period.

No,

and I think that's right.

And it's not just grace that's kind of missing.

It's also the ability for society to forgive.

There's a cancellation of forgiveness and an outright refusal of redemption.

And

I can't believe that we're even doing this during a pandemic.

I mean, that seems to me that that would be the time that you would exhibit the most grace to your fellow man, that you would try to do the best you could to be a good steward.

And instead, everybody's playing politics and they're really worried about what communist China thinks as it relates to their responsibility in spreading a pandemic.

But

it is.

When I started writing this book, there were a couple of things that contributed to the idea of it.

The first thing was the way my kids reacted to the Parkland Town Hall.

And then the second thing was a Norm McDonald interview, because he's my absolute favorite comedian of all time.

I think he's one of the smartest comedians out there.

He's hysterical.

And he had made a good point that he wasn't defending Roseanne Barr.

He was saying, okay, she did something, she said something wrong.

And she apologized and she's contrite.

And where is the forgiveness?

Isn't that kind of how this goes?

And he's like, nobody wants to apologize anymore because nobody wants to forgive anybody.

And I thought, that's exactly right.

And it contributes to this polar tribalization because it's not about persuading people.

It's about utterly destroying them.

It's more of an politics now is more of an exercise of ego than it is actually trying to move the ball down the field and advocate for one's issues.

And so

that's how the book started.

And I get into all of it.

I talk about the death of nuance, how political conversation is incredibly stupid now.

And of course, there's the Milk, Shake, Death, and Rage Mobs chapter.

And I get into the media's role as well.

So

there's a lot in it.

And

usually, I and I didn't want to write it but I ended up writing it.

It was something that I pitched and I came up with and then I regretted it like, you know, two-thirds of the way in.

But

oh, because the premise is being tested and I was mad about it.

I didn't want to write it.

I was mad.

I actually

at a couple of different points considered just burning it all down and I wanted to write a

ridiculous tow all and shoot it all into the stratosphere and just let the fire of the burning bridges light my path.

That's all I wanted to do.

Probably need to write this book all the more.

Yeah.

It's really, it's really hard because

all you want to do is

pay people back.

Really?

Oh, really?

Yeah, you thought that was fun.

You thought that was funny?

Hmm.

Now you're sitting in that

hot seat.

Oh, look what's coming your way.

it's you just want to pay people back but it's not good when you do

no and you know that just as well as i do how graceless people can be and how relentlessly graceless they can be and um i i you know and i think that that's it because it's a choice i mean to to give grace to someone and i think that there are some people now who are like-minded that think it is uh sanction or that it is complicity or it is just you're just going to go along with it, you're going to accept it.

That's not what grace is at all.

Grace is simply unmerited kindness.

And the people who deserve it the least are the best when you really need to kick it into gear the most.

And

it's, but it is a choice, and it's not my first choice.

I mean, for crying out loud, you know me.

I mean, come on, let's not.

Oh, no, I know.

It's not anybody's first choice.

I mean, come on.

It's but it's really not anybody's first choice.

It is, I mean, it goes against what I would call the natural man.

The natural man defends himself.

The natural man swings back.

You swing at me, my instinct is to swing harder.

And,

you know, the natural man is

an enemy of God.

We are supposed to rise above that animal.

Exactly.

And that's, it's kind of, you know, it really, in so many ways,

it's a form of witness.

And I have to say that I feel that in terms of persuading, because, you know, I've asked myself too, especially as my kids started getting older, my oldest son now, he wants to go into constitutional law.

He did the debate team.

He did the whole, all of it.

And I was actually kind of discouraging him from it, you know, great parenting.

But

I did not want him to think that the only acceptable way to respond or handle discussion in the country and in culture was you have to be so flexed, so hardcore, and be completely emotionless and

believe that any kind of empathy or any kind of, you know, anything is a vulnerability.

Grace isn't a vulnerability.

And I, you know, I really was very cognizant of that.

And I realized

if anything, I need to model it for him rather than expecting the political culture to, because that's not going to happen.

So at least, you know, if he sees me modeling it for him, then, you know, maybe that's at least something, that's a seed planted, you know, and I'll be happy.

But I really, because he has such a good heart, and I know that him and his friends, it's really a lot tougher, I think, for them than it was for me when I was their age.

And I really wanted them to have that example.

And so that was part of the impetus for it.

So

let's go back and talk a little bit about

the media and the way they're handling all of this.

What do you see coming?

You know, we're sitting at a time where the media has so discredited themselves that because everything has been a way to get Donald Trump, people on our side of the aisle are

less

willing to accept that coronavirus is a big deal.

And it is a big deal.

It's not that we're all going to die.

It's just that we all have to do what we're all supposed to do.

And, you know, there was an article, where was it?

Maybe in the New York Times.

I can't remember where it was.

It was in a lefty paper, and it was talking about how there will be more conservatives that die from this

than liberals.

Don't know if that's true or any way to even prove that.

However, their point was because

Liberals are taking this seriously.

But I think this is because of the press.

If the roles were reversed, the exact same thing would be happening in the opposite.

Yeah.

Do you agree or disagree?

I think that's something too that, I mean, I think that they have made it, the way that they have handled this pandemic has, I'm not surprised that they've done it, but I don't know that I'm at the point where I don't think I could ever

universally speaking, I don't think that I could ever recover my respect for so so many in that industry.

I think it's just something that's irrevocable.

It's done.

And the way that they have been so gleefully running as intermediates between what China is insisting,

they're engaging in a propaganda war.

And we have people in our media that are actually assisting them with this.

I just saw a headline that came from Axio, and they were going after

the United States saying that the World Health Organization says to stop calling it the Chinese Chinese corovirus, but Republic coronavirus, but Republicans, including the president, aren't listening.

Yeah, well, you know what?

China also bent the World Health Organization over a barrel and insisted that they exclude Taiwan from international meetings about a pandemic.

And they've also had the World Health Organization praising them just at the end of January for everything that they've done really essentially to help spread this.

So I'm really not going to take them as a source of authority on this.

And it's insane to me that our press, who should just be watching out for the best interests of the voter, are instead actually watching out for the best interests of communist China.

So it's like

the full formalization has happened now.

I mean,

they're at

where they've been heading this entire time.

And the way that they've handled it has been irresponsible, and it's caused people to even question the caution that they should have towards this.

It's caused them to question the recommendations and the guidelines.

And that's absolutely irresponsible.

Irresponsible reporting can get people killed.

Dana, thank you so much for being who you are and taking everybody along on the journey.

Dana does the Dana show on the radio, of course.

You can find her online.

The name of the new book is Grace Canceled.

Might be a good thing to spend and spend the next few days while you're at home.

If you are at home yet, you will be soon.

Just reading and kind of taking a measure of our lives.

Dana Lash.

thank you so much.

DanaLash.com.

You bet.

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Later on today, I hope to have Rob Eno on.

Rob is a guy who works for the Blaze.

He's our media consultant, and I really want to talk to him about Brian Stelter and what he just said.

You want to talk about Grace canceled.

Brian Stelter was on CNN, what was it, yesterday, and he was bitching about how the president's,

was it, surgeon general,

was only complaining about the press.

He got on, he was complaining about the press instead of delivering the facts.

Excuse me?

Brian Stelter, I mean, are you kidding me?

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Brian, so instead of giving the facts what are you doing

complaining just about the president so i just want to point out the hypocrisy quickly and then we'll get to the facts the reason why i want to have brian i mean uh um um

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This could change everything.

Last night, if you happen to be one of the people that were watching Stu on his program, Stu Does America, You heard an amazing, amazing

fact just kind of thrown out in the middle of this interview.

Stu?

Yeah, I was talking to Sonny Bunch from Rebellar, who, you know, he's a movie reviewer, and you might know him.

He was going through the effects on the movie business with coronavirus, and he's, you know, all these shows that are being delayed.

You heard the Bond movies being delayed.

Some of the production for all these different things has been canceled or delayed.

And then he mentions that Regal Cinemas has closed down all of their theaters nationwide for the time being due to the coronavirus.

And then he kind of throws out.

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It may just never open up again.

It's like, wait a minute, Regal Cinemas is just not going to open up again?

Isn't Regal one of the largest in the country, if not the largest?

Yeah, it's one of the biggest ones, yeah.

And he said, you know, they may just not, I mean, they have other issues that are going on with their business.

And it's like, what are we going to bail out?

You know, the government's going to throw a lot of money at a lot of different industries here after this thing's over, but who are they bailing out?

Are they bailing out movie theaters?

I mean,

I don't know.

It may be one of those things that we lose like staples of American existence that just never come back after this.

This is

changing the entire experience of being an American when it comes down to many things that we kind of have come to depend on.

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I always talk about the title.

It's Stu Does Something.

Well, coming up, Glenn Does Men.

That's next.

I want to talk to the men of America.

It's been a while since we've talked, hasn't it?

I hope you've been doing well.

I missed talking to you.

It's been impopular to even recognize that men even exist or there's a role to play.

But I'm talking to you today.

I want to just address you to give you a heads up.

Something's happening, and it's happened before, but something that we really haven't seen in America for most of our lifetimes.

In fact, I think that we last saw it about 78 years or so ago.

Most of us don't have a frame of reference for this,

but the minute I say it or play it, you'll understand the reference.

It was 78 years ago that America heard these words: Yesterday,

December 7th,

1941,

a date which will live

in infamy.

So it was 78 years ago that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and America entered World War II.

And the world began to change in a flash.

And it was...

It was one of those events that altered our day-to-day lives overnight.

We were on a path, one that was familiar, one that was sure, and then overnight, gone and reset.

In the blink of an eye.

And you know what we did?

We adapted.

We adjusted.

We changed to a new path and we dug deep.

We found our courage.

We found a way to become new people.

a focused people, a generous and powerful people.

We became the world's production engine with factories filled by men and now for the first time women who stepped up to do what the world needed.

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as a group,

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but because

the nature of real men.

we worked to conquer the natural man to become better.

It was the area, the era where we stood up and we became who we were meant to be, not who we could allow ourselves to become.

And yeah, sure, we had to kill a bunch of bad guys, but

the uniforms were pretty sweet.

The dames of the USO dances, they were dames that didn't blow on some other guy's dice.

You know what I'm saying?

We got to shoot machine guns, blow stuff up.

That didn't suck.

We could smoke and nobody lectured us about smoking.

Nobody complained if we wanted to have a drink after a long days of work or a firefight in Tunisia, a fist fight to settle our arguments.

That wasn't that big of a deal, but that's not what made that great.

That's not what made a man a man.

It was a great era because the world needed men to be men.

We were called back to our natural role.

The world needed warriors to battle against forces of chaos, to hold the line and prevent humankind from sliding into the abyss of socialism, national socialism, and international socialism called communism.

The world needed weapons, bombs, tanks, planes.

It needed powerful, terrible, destructive instruments.

to bring to bear, to help wipe evil from the earth.

We became inventors.

We became protectors, defenders of those things that are worth defending.

And yes, as men, we paid a very heavy price.

Most of our grandparents or great-grandparents never spoke about what it was really like

because

they also had to become killers.

The world needed killers.

We only survived doing what comes naturally to natural man, killing, because

we had trained ourselves through the grace of the Creator to rise above the killing and instead focus on becoming liberators.

But that generation survived and then came back home and helped the world thrive

because they were called to service.

They put rifles in our grandparents' hands, put ribbons on their chests and flags over their coffins.

And now, men, men of America,

it's time again.

Hear my voice.

Consider yourself on notice.

Once again, as it has in the past, the world is in trouble.

And it's your turn now to step forward and serve.

The world is facing a new crisis, one that threatens to push humankind into the abyss.

It's not just the coronavirus, but it starts there.

As of today, you're being called to service, not in some generic way.

You're being called upon to be a man, to play the old role, to be strong, to be a protector.

Yes, to be stoic, brave, and confident doesn't mean you're not going to melt down, doesn't mean you're going to cry from time to time.

But you need to act.

With surety even when you're not sure.

To lead your household, to be helpful and dedicated, to do your part and risk your life and fortune, to protect those around you, not just your family, but your neighbors, to be a part of something larger than yourself, to throw your body into the breach.

And it'll be the doctors, both men and women, the nurses, both men and women, who are going to be the first online.

But this is just the first wave.

It's been a while.

It's been a while.

For For the last few decades, society not just forgot about men, they tried to deny men.

They forgot they needed men.

The world's had it that easy.

We were asked to be gentle and passive.

And there's nothing wrong with being gentle.

Passive?

We were asked to mask our manhood.

That was wrong.

We were told it was toxic.

That's a lie.

The world wanted us to play a different part

because they thought they didn't need men anymore.

Well, things change.

Usually, you need that man overnight.

Let this serve as a wake-up call.

Let this serve

as a calling to become a man.

Welcome back, American men.

As a man, as leader of a household, a family, or a business, it's incumbent upon us to adopt the proper mindset.

And that means the first thing we have to do is force our brain to realize that this is actually happening.

We are facing truly unprecedented disruptions in our normal way of life, at least in the short term, perhaps longer.

Our lives are probably going to have to change for a while.

And some of the things are going to change possibly forever.

As America did during the Spanish flu, the Great Depression, World War II, we have to look at things through a new filter.

And yes, it has been that long since an event of this magnitude has happened, which is why you have to force your brain into the right mindset.

The normalcy bias is a high barrier to overcome.

And that's what a lot of our friends and family members are dealing with right now.

The normalcy bias, they've never seen it this way, so they don't, they don't, it's easier to dismiss this and look for something normal.

It's a natural purpose.

It's built in all of us to save our lives most of the time.

But we don't live in the same world we did just a few weeks ago, and we are not going to be living in a world that we even recognize a few weeks from now.

At this point, you shouldn't be acting as if it might happen.

We should be behave as if it will happen.

Now, that doesn't mean that society is going to collapse and we're going to be facing a zombie apocalypse.

But localized and regional disruptions in food supplies, energy supplies, they are realistic.

They may not happen widespread, but it is realistic.

And the reason why people freak out and panic is because they're not sure.

Well, nothing is going to be sure for a while.

So you have to be the rock.

Prepare yourself for being that rock, making firm, commanding decisions.

Your family is going to be looking to you for leadership and protection.

Be calm.

Listen to others.

Partner with your spouse.

I know this is probably going to be taken out of context.

Glenn's saying that you men are men and women, just go back in the kitchen.

That's not what I'm saying.

Partner with your spouse.

Make clear decisions together for your family.

But when it comes to those you shepherd, be decisive.

Exude confidence, even when you have doubts, because we all do.

Jesus, in his hour, he even had deaths.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Jesus had doubts.

Realize that the government is there to protect the country, the state, the county, etc.

That doesn't mean they're there to protect you.

Don't let your family become a refugee or a statistic.

Nothing here means the role of women is lessened or of less value than it ever has been.

In fact, the world needs them as much, if not more, than us.

You know, I'm just going to stop that.

I'm gonna leave it as much.

We both have separate but equal roles to play.

They're being called to service too.

As you step into their into your new role, they have to step into theirs.

But they need to define that for themselves.

I'm a man.

Let me speak to the men.

The world needs men.

What's worked in other countries to slow down COVID-19 is to to shut everything down, shut shopping down, shut down events, shut down travel, shut down workplaces, quarantine people in their homes.

That prevents the spread.

That prevents people from dying.

That's what we should expect to happen here.

But we are a republic.

We don't want the government doing these things.

We have to do them ourselves.

For several weeks at least, the changes to social behavior, like wearing a surgical mask in public and not shaking hands,

whatever it is,

that's going to be going on until there's a vaccine.

But you're not called to just fight a pandemic.

COVID-19 is just a pin that's popping the bubble.

The bubble is what you really need to worry about because this is a two-wave disaster.

The first wave is a disaster of a deadly disease.

If we don't act, it threatens to kill millions of our friends and family and neighbors all around the world.

Millions.

Because they could literally weld people, seal people into

iron rooms and weld their doors closed in China.

They got past it.

We're not going to do that.

We're not going to follow people with drones.

God help us if the government thinks they have to or

do.

But as bad as the viral pandemic could be, the next wave will be worse.

The economic pandemic that follows threatens to be exponentially worse.

Disruptions to the global supply chain have barely been felt.

Warehouses that feed the grocery stores are starting to run out of food.

We're not going to have a run on the grocery stores.

Don't make it worse.

But they are trying really hard to make sure that they have food and people to ship them.

The consequences are big.

What's happening to the global economy now has never happened before.

Realize that.

Never.

The consequences will be nothing short of revolutionary change.

But we're ready.

We're more than ready.

We're going to be just fine.

We're built for this.

God wrote the script.

Our character description is pretty darn clear.

The world isn't going to end, but we're going through a significant season change.

Ready yourself, be prepared to protect and defend your family, because that is your job.

That's the job everybody's been getting you to try to deny for a long time, but that is your God-given job.

And for once, the world is going to realize they need us to unite, they need us to be men,

and each of us play our role again.

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And that is happening tomorrow night at 9 p.m.

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So, shall we begin with our coronavirus update?

Total confirmed cases worldwide,

up from 171,000 yesterday to 185,461.

Total confirmed deaths worldwide, 7,332.

Up from 651.

Total confirmed recoveries worldwide now 79,000.

That's only up a couple thousand from yesterday, but at least it's up.

162 countries also now have confirmed cases.

That's up.

Four new countries.

Three more now have suspected cases.

6% of active cases are now considered serious.

This is great.

6%,

down from 7 yesterday, down from 19% just three weeks ago.

The U.S.

now has 4,743 confirmed cases and 93 deaths.

That's up almost 1,000 cases and 69 deaths just yesterday.

Only West Virginia does not have at least one active case.

In the U.S., only West Virginia.

That's remarkable.

So, the economy or lives.

This is what we have to pick now.

In a script that's playing out in similar fashion all over the world, governments are forced to pick between saving lives and economic activity.

The U.S.

and Western economies are particularly impacted, especially in the U.S.

70% of our total economic activity is generated via consumer spending.

We are the world's buyer.

They're the producers.

We're the buyers.

When we stay at home, the whole world, when the world, you know, they used to say when the United States catches a cold or sneezes, the rest of the world catches the cold.

This is a real problem.

And across the U.S., small businesses appear to be the hardest hit, especially those that directly serve customers, such as bars and restaurants and dry cleaners.

Those are closing down now.

A study from Case Western University estimates now that nearly 50% of service jobs in the U.S.

are going to be impacted, with as many as a million jobs lost in the next 30 days.

Stu, how's this going to affect the election?

I mean,

who knows, right?

I mean, it's a massive, massive change, and some of the projections look like there's a recession that doesn't bounce back until 2021.

So that means the election is occurring in the midst of a recession.

And that doesn't usually work out well for the incumbent if that's the case.

Of course, obviously things can change, but if that is the case and we wind up seeing massive, massive effects like that, I mean, it is going to change the face of the election without a doubt.

We are

seeing health care system capacity

be flooded around the world.

If there are no protective measures, it floods almost immediately.

They've been saying, you know,

flatten the curve.

We have to find a way to flatten the curve.

That's what everybody is trying to do.

When you flatten the curve by washing your hands,

by staying at home, social distancing, you can get this down to a fatality rate of 1% or less.

If you don't take protective measures, the case fatality rate is 2 or 3%,

and you overwhelm the healthcare system.

Now, this is a problem because we are looking at

a healthcare system that is the best in the world.

You have private businesses now coming in and

stepping to the plate.

It's not the government, it's the private business that is stepping to the plate to help serve and take care of this problem.

But you, at the same time, have now 60% of Democrats say they have a more favorable view of universal health care and socialized medicine than they did just three weeks ago.

So people on this are moving towards socialism.

Italy has both a nationalized system and a private system.

Well, had.

The government just took over all private hospitals, all private medical facilities.

They just nationalized them.

I warn you, nationalization

is coming, and we have to be very careful.

We are entering the most dangerous phase of our republic, I think, in my lifetime.

This is going to either destroy us us or it will give us a chance to reset and renew.

But,

you know, when you're looking at some of the things that are coming out of Washington right now, what was the one you just said to me, Stu?

Romney was offering $1,000

for every American, which is basic universal income.

We don't want that.

But there's another basic universal income that's being shopped around.

Yes, you're talking about the Emergency Family Relief Act of 2020.

That's it.

Yes.

It's got family in it, and emergency, so it's got to be good.

It's got to be good.

And relief.

So

it's got great things in there.

This is coming from Josh Hawley.

Again, it seems like one of the strategies here from Republicans is to kind of outdo the spending of the Democrats here

as far as the stimulus goes.

Nobody wants to be Herbert Hoover.

I guess not.

So this is the Romney plan was with $1,000 per person.

This is $1,446

for a family of three, $1,786 for a family of four, and $2,206 for a family of five would be basically a cash payment until the coronavirus emergency ends,

whatever that exactly means.

Yeah.

Could you read that last line again?

It lasts until when?

Until the coronavirus

emergency would end.

Do me a favor, Stu.

I'm going to give some good news here.

Would you just look up

national emergencies still in effect?

I think people might be surprised by this.

All right, here's some good news.

U.S.

is testing the first of its kind vaccine.

The Blaze reported nearly two weeks ago that there's a new kind of experimental vaccine that is now entering human trials.

The vaccine is unique

in the way that it doesn't use a live virus that is used in traditional vaccines.

This is really good.

Rather, the new approach is to synthetically construct an RNA strand that copies the genetic code of the virus to teach human cells to produce antibodies.

The viruses work by taking over human cells and turning each cell into a virus-producing factory, which is how they replicate.

The synthetically produced RNA strand used in the new vaccine does not self-replicate, but it should still activate antibody production.

Researchers warned that even if the human trials started this week and are successful, it still may be 18 months before the vaccine would be in the CVS.

But 18 months is the fastest by far anyone has been able to put this out.

The Trump administration vowed Monday all barriers would be removed to accelerate testing and production if successful.

So now all non-essential businesses are being considered closing them down.

But who defines what an essential business is?

Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, said the United States must shut down all but essential businesses and government agencies to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

The time has come for extraordinary measures to combat the Chinese coronavirus, Cotton tweeted.

Oh, what a racist.

It seems extreme today, but it will seem obvious tomorrow.

Cotton, chairman of the Economic Policy Subcommittee for the Senate Banking Committee, said he's drafting legislation that would give

cash stipends to workers and their families.

This is what we were just talking about.

Shelter is now in place

in six counties in California.

More expected today, over 7 million Californians have been ordered to a shelter and to shelter in place at home for three weeks.

The order is effective as of midnight last night.

Residents are allowed outside to walk, to acquire food, medicine from local stores, or to travel to medical appointments.

All non-essential activity outside the home is effectively now illegal.

Although law enforcement are being asked to practice patience and provide guidance and warnings rather than arrest people who refuse to comply.

Similar house arrest orders are being considered throughout the county and elsewhere in California, including Alameda County, LA County, Orange County.

In total, including similar activity restrictions in Washington, New York, Pennsylvania, and other locations, an estimated 30 million Americans are currently experiencing some degree of travel or activity restrictions.

So far, the ACLU's only response to COVID-19 is a strongly anti-Trump landing page indicating that Trump will help lead the panic and asking for donations to defeat him in November.

That's of absolutely no help.

By the way, we are just ahead of people.

Everything that anybody says, oh, Donald Trump, he does not do, he's ahead.

Try this.

European Union to close all borders to non-EU citizens.

That sounds like what Donald Trump did last week where he was called a racist and

not doing the right things and

just trying to piss off all of our allies.

This is what they just did.

They wish they would have done it a week before Donald Trump announced it.

Everything that he is doing seems to be all the things that the European Union does too late.

The national supply chain is fine, but how to balance the local needs?

Overall, plenty of food and medical supplies to stock America's store shelves when measured nationally.

The challenge, however, for some markets is ensuring regional supply chains can keep up with the surge, surge buying caused by local orders for residents to stay put for two to three weeks longer.

Stores like Kroger, Walmart do have regionally located warehouses.

Localized buying sprees as residents stock up for long stints at home can empty regional logistics facilities, requiring retailers to shift stock from one region to another.

We're all going to get it at some point.

Please just be a thinking human being.

That's all we have to do.

It's just be decent and be a thinking human being.

Stu, have you looked up those numbers for me?

Yes, I have.

Yeah.

So we do have a couple in effect still.

You know, know from March 2020 the coronavirus that's for under Trump it was May and

2019 under Trump another in February 2019 under Trump then November 2018 under Trump September 2018 under Trump and December 2017 under Trump then you have

those are all still in effect or all okay but those aren't those aren't coronavirus emergencies I thought we were just in this national emergency oh no I thought you wanted a list of all of them that were still in effect oh no I know I was just thinking that maybe there would be one or two.

Well, there's a lot of

there's November 2015 from Obama, April 2015 from Obama, March 2015 from Obama, May 2014 from Obama, April 2014 from Obama, March 2014 from Obama, May 2012 from Obama, July 2014.

What were these national emergencies that we're still in?

They still haven't stopped?

Where were those in 2014, 2012?

Well,

I mean, the conflict in the Central African Republic is still going on.

Oh, that's still going on.

So is the situation in Burundi?

Those were national emergencies here in the U.S.?

Yeah, situation in Burundi.

It was a national emergency here.

And in Burundi.

Okay.

Our eyes.

It was in both places.

No, I was very affected in my household by Burundi.

July 2011 under Obama.

February 2011 under Obama.

April 2010 under Obama.

June 2008 under Bush, August 2007 under Bush, October 2006 under Bush, June

2006.

These are all national emergencies that are still running.

Still running.

So

the point is, because I'm sure you have just a couple of more.

Yeah, May 2004 under Bush, May 2003 under Bush, March 2003 under Bush, September 2001, of course, under Bush.

Yeah, but

there's nothing really old.

August 17th, 2001, June 2001, November 1997, March 96, October 95, 95, 95, 94, and then there's one back here.

November 14th, 1979 is the oldest.

Okay, so 1979.

The point is, national emergencies never go away.

They never go away.

So

any legislation that is passed while this national emergency continues must have the language changed.

It must be changed, and it must have sunsets in it, like every 30 days, every 60 days.

This will continue.

Anything that is set up by this government will continue.

We're not out of this national emergency because the next wave is the economic emergency.

They can do anything under this national emergency.

It must be phrased properly.

And hopefully, we have a few people in Congress that are aware of this.

Don't fall for the, oh, sick family stuff.

Don't fall for the, oh, it's a patriot thing.

No, no, don't fall for it.

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So, Stu, what are you guys doing with the kids all day?

What are you guys doing?

What I tried yesterday was not fun.

No.

We are, well, we have, this is the last day of their spring break, which was extended a couple of days, and then they go into online learning through the school.

Who's my school with online learning?

Where is this online learning

of which they speak?

Well, there's an internet and computers.

Yeah, I know that.

My school's not doing that.

Why?

I want to know why.

No, uh-uh.

Nothing at all.

You're just off for all

extended periods of time.

They're just off right now.

Yeah.

Yeah, they have online learning.

I think it's

at least four days a week.

I'm not sure if it's five.

And there's assignments and there's video check-ins with the teachers and all that stuff.

It's kind of interesting.

One of the things that they're really worried about apparently is

the internet not really

ever utilized like this before with millions of people all of a sudden using it to work from home.

And they're worried about the stress on the internet.

It's not really ready for this.

They're wondering all the kids at home streaming movies during the day.

You know, the internet was really stronger yesterday.

I have no idea if that was the reason, but that is something that

they have really no idea how it's going to hold up.

Good, good, good.

Glad to hear that.

So that's good.

Glad to hear that.

You know, the nice thing about 5G is when that's it.

By the way, have you seen the nonsense about people like, 5G?

Look at the, look at the effects of 5G

and compare them to the coronavirus.

Oh, my gosh.

Can you stop?

Can you just stop?

Yeah, not 5G, please.

That's not what it is.

But that is, I mean, it's a big change.

Are you sure?

Are you part of the plot?

Well, I I am part of the plot.

That's just me covering it.

It's a big change, though.

I mean, I, I mean, I know my, like, my wife is a, as you may know, very social person.

Uh, yeah, I would say, yeah, she is, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Human interaction, a big part of her life.

Now, I could never speak to another human again in my life and not really be bothered by it.

Not exactly the way she operates.

So, she's now going into this period where she's just home with the kids for, God only knows, months?

Who knows?

That's got, I think she's having a little bit of a tough time with it, as she's kind of talked about.

And I don't know.

It's going to be a lot of people dealing with a

real change in the way their life operates, not just as far as do I get to go to stores or not, but do I get to see another human being or not?

Oh, I think there's going to come a time, and I think it's going to happen quickly,

where people are going to say,

I would lick the

handrail of a moving hospital escalator rather than spend another day

in my home with my gym.

Vivid.

Well, vivid imagery there.

I have been thinking about it.

It's only been one day, and I have been thinking about what I'd rather do.

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Welcome to it.

We have a couple of things.

Stu, did you see the Goldman Sachs came out yesterday, said that

we're going to have zero GDP growth this quarter?

And some are saying, I think it was Goldman Sachs that said it could be as low as negative 5% GDP growth.

A million people losing their jobs in the next 30 days.

That's what they're saying.

This is headed in really bad, bad places quickly.

Yeah,

some people are saying even more.

I mean, I think JP Morgan Chase is saying, this is for quarter two GDP.

JP Morgan Chase, minus 3%.

Wells Fargo, minus 3.3.

Morgan Stanley, minus 4.

Goldman Sachs, minus 5.

IHS minus 5.4.

UCLA minus 6.5.

T.S.

Lombard minus 8.

Pantheon Macroeconomics, minus 10.

Barenberg, minus 11.7% GDP.

Okay, well, we got to stop.

Anyone who's named Barenberg got to stop.

That's

they're not allowed.

Okay, got it.

Have we asked Barenberg?

Yes, what did everyone else say?

No one said anything, you know, past 10.

11.5 for us.

Barenberg has spoken.

I don't even know who you are.

Stop it.

You're bumming me out.

The corporate debt bond.

We've got gun sales are surging.

The IMF says that they're reading a trillion dollars in bailout money.

This is a very, very scary time, and we have to pay attention to what's going on.

I urge you, urge you to order my book, While We All Have Money, Arguing with Socialists.

This, we've spent a long time on this.

It has about 100 pages of footnotes, so you don't have to take my word for it.

I always say, do your own homework.

So a hundred pages or about of just really fine print footnotes.

So all of the facts are there.

So you don't have to quote Glenn Beck.

You can quote the New York Times.

And it takes you through all of the arguments you're going to need, including basic minimum income arguments, which I think is going to be suggested.

Also,

universal health care and a one-payer socialist system.

Arguing with socialists.

Just a couple of weeks ago, I thought, boy, we're right spot on the money with the right topic once again.

But boy, this is taking us for a loop because now I can tell you probably in the next few days,

everyone is going to be spending time at home with their kids.

And may I suggest the Glenn Beck program is a good babysitter.

No, really.

Let them listen to us for a while.

They'll do whatever you say.

Please don't us listen to that scary guy on the radio, please.

We do have Rob Eno with us, who I just wanted to, he's

our media

budsman, if you will.

He watches the media for us at Blaze TV and theblaze.com.

And I just have to start with just one of my least favorite people in the world, Brian Stelter.

And what he was talking about when he took on the, who was it, the Surgeon General, Rob?

Yeah, it was absolutely crazy.

He's trying to say that the Surgeon General is just a mouthpiece for the Trump administration and is not really telling Americans the truth and is just trying to protect Donald Trump.

Yeah, and trying to say all these negative things about the media and not giving any facts.

Well, what about you guys in the media?

Can you just give the facts for the love of Pete?

It was so frustrating to watch these guys.

Right.

Go ahead.

I was going to say this is a real problem.

I mean, you've laid out how coronavirus is a real problem, but we need facts and not,

you know, just craziness from the media.

If we trusted the media over the past 20 years, maybe people would listen to them more.

Right.

They have caused this problem

or deepened this problem where people just don't know who to trust because we haven't been able to trust them for so long.

They've been making everything about politics for so long.

All right, Rob, the reason why I I have you on has nothing to do with the media.

It has everything to do with

games.

Tanya and I were talking last night.

We want to play some new games with the kids.

And you are a game enthusiast.

How would you describe yourself?

I'm a member of the board game hobby.

It's one of the things that I do to pass my time.

I play three or four or five times.

Or used to play three or four or five times a week when I was in South Carolina.

And now I play probably two times a week with friends and sometimes online.

I've been playing board games since I've got into college.

And it's just, it's a good way to keep your mind going, to meet other people.

And it's really seen a renaissance in the past 10 years.

Millennials, in particular, have grown up where everything is online.

Everything is connected.

And much like how they like, you know, millennials are the people that brought back

33 RPMs and 45.

Yeah.

Real vinyl because it's textural.

They can feel it.

And the same thing with board games.

It's something different that gets people together.

You can put the phone away, although the people that I play with who are probably listening know that I keep my phone on too much when I play because I'm addicted.

But you can put the phone away and you can just sit down and have conversations with people and play.

And it's, and for families in particular, it's a good way to learn other skills that can help you in life.

Okay, so my family hates almost every board game, mainly because they're either Candyland or Monopoly,

and it drives us nuts.

They're either too complex.

We play cards a lot.

We play dice a lot.

You know,

we do that.

We play dominoes.

But we don't play board games because they're usually hokey and stupid.

Can you give me some board games that we're going to want to play as a family?

Right, and I'll give you the top one right off the top of my list of top five board games for families is Catan or what was called Settlers of Catan.

One of the reasons people hate Monopoly is there's a lot of time in between your turn, right, where other people are doing things and you can be eliminated.

So you could be eliminated on maybe turn two

because you've gone bankrupt and everybody else plays for another hour and you're sitting off to the side doing nothing.

Well, the German-style board games, Germany has a long history of board games, German-style or Euro-style board games, in particular, you don't have player elimination.

You're playing through the whole game and you have a way to get to the end of the whole game.

This settler's gasan, it sounds a little hokey, but what you're doing is you're coming onto an island and from one to four players, you can play five to six with

an expansion.

You're building a settlement and a network of

a settlement on an island.

So

you have an island that's got different resources, right?

You can get ore from the mountains, you can get bricks from the clay, you can get sheep from the the pastures, wheat from a field, and wood from a forest.

So this is really good because this

will teach us how to rebuild when everything is destroyed.

I like it so far.

And that's K-A-T-A-N?

K-A-T-A-N?

No, C-A-T-A-N, Katan.

Okay.

It used to be known as CAN.

Oh, like Katan.

Of course it's C.

Right.

Of course it's a C.

It's Katan, Glenn, for the love of you.

And is this available?

Can I go to, well, I can just order it online, right?

You can order it at Amazon, Walmart.

There's a bunch of game stores.

And you can get it at your local game store if they haven't shut down for coronavirus.

Any social media.

Yeah, okay, good, good, good, good.

Okay, next one.

By the way, you say Germans are known for their board games.

Yeah, they're also known for their concentration camps.

So be careful when you're saying, oh, they're great for board games.

Yeah, Raus, Raus, Raus.

Next game.

Well, what

it's the same type of efficiency, right, that they have in the board games.

Exactly right.

So the next one's ticket to ride.

Ticket to ride, if you know how to play rummy, where you're collecting different cards, you say you play a lot of card games, taking either runs or the same suit for a flush.

Ticket to ride, you're collecting colors of cards to build out a train network, right?

So if you have five orange cards, you can lay them down and you can build your five trains on the orange train track.

And you can get points for doing that.

And then the kicker is the neat thing is that you also have secret objective cards that are, I need to get from, say, Boston to Los Angeles, and I get a certain number of points.

Well, your fellow players don't know that you have that game.

This was the first game, Glenn, that broke through

into the mainstream.

It's the first type of this game that you could get by going to your local Target or Walmart.

And now a lot of these

designer-type board games are available even at your local Barnes and Nobles.

But Barnes and Noble doesn't just sell books anymore because everybody buys them on Kindles and you know things like that.

Correct.

But

you can get board games.

They have four or five aisles in some Barnes Noble's now of board games.

And this was the first game that really did that

on a mass market level.

On a mass level.

Okay, ticket to ride.

Third one.

Do you have a third one?

I have a third one.

This one's Space Base.

This is like you.

My parents like

dice games and card games.

And for 25 years, I tried to get my parents into the hobby, right?

I got them Space Base last year.

They play this game two to three times a night.

They may have the most plays of Space Base of anybody on the planet with the amount that they play.

Space.

Wait, wait, wait.

Spacebase?

B-A-S-E?

Spacebase.

Spacebase.

It's a, yes.

It's you're basically commanding and building a fleet of ships and trying to score the most victory points.

When you get to 40 victory points, you win.

So you're trying to build this fleet and you roll dice, right?

And what's neat about it is, say I roll a one and a four.

You will have cards that you have purchased that put the cards on the top of your board and you'll have a bunch of actions on the one or the four slot when I roll the one and the four on the five slot.

So you can do things.

And you can build your fleet, build your system on my turn.

Again, with Monopoly, how you say, you know, my family doesn't like Monopoly, it gets boring.

That's because you're not doing stuff

on other people's turn.

And in this game, you can do stuff on other people's turn.

It's a real fast game.

And, you know, to give a plug to the World Board Gamers Association, I'm actually going to be GMing or general managing the World Championship of this game

in July.

I just realized that in the food chain of life, I am below you now.

When things break down, you're a game master.

I got nothing.

I have no skills.

I can't hunt.

I can't gut.

I can cook a little bit, but I would need some sort of nice gas range.

Do you have a gas range out here?

No, I'm eaten.

Day one,

they're plotting to kill me to eat me.

You are above me in the food chain.

All right.

Anything else we should check out?

I got those three.

I want to check those out.

Is there anything,

maybe you can come back, you know, maybe later this week, but I would love to talk to you about, is there anything that generally teenagers really like that I could pretty much guarantee I can get them back to the table the next night?

You know, if you like adventures, there's a couple of games, not on my list, but a couple of games.

One of them is

One of them is Betrayal at House on the Hill.

You're building out

a haunted house, and you're going and exploring the haunted house as a family.

And it's a cooperative game, so you're all trying to beat it together.

So that's a cool game that teenagers make.

Hang on, just a second.

It's called Betrayal, House on the Hill?

Betrayal at House on the Hill, correct.

Okay.

It's not one of those acting games where we're all like, I hate those things where you're like, okay, I know that didn't.

Okay, good.

No, it's not a role-playing game.

But Your Honor, Quest, there's a lot of cooperative games that are like that.

That's a whole genre of board games.

That's one of the ones that's easy to get into.

You know, you're flipping cards as you go into room.

And, you know, if you really want to go dark during this time, there's a game called Pandemic Legacy.

And Pandemic Legacy is one of the best board games ever made, people say.

And you're trying to stop a pandemic from taking over the world.

And it plays over a series of nights.

Might not be the one you like.

Ooh, I like that.

No, I think that would be good.

I'd like to scare the crap out of my kids.

Go clean the garage or playing Pandemic Legacy.

Remember the game that made you cry last night?

Wait until you see it tonight.

It's much worse.

All right.

Rob, thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

We'll talk to you again.

I'll post these

today.

We'll post these on social media so you have them.

Thank you so much, Rob.

Talk to you later.

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One thing I want to point out to people, because the media has been beating up the Trump administration about how many tests we've had for COVID-19.

And the numbers started off pretty slow.

But really, what they're not recognizing is

how fast this has ramped up since the private sector really got involved here.

We had about 3,500 tests a few days ago, about 3,000, then up to 7,000.

And yesterday, 14,000 tests.

We're now at almost 50,000 people tested, where I mean, you know, within a week or two, we're going to catch up to every country on Earth as far as tests go.

So this sort of outdated information that we're not testing people is not true.

This is really positive progress here.

And this is one of the main things we need to know.

to stop this from spreading any further.

So that's just another point you're not hearing from the media.

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