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Speaker 2 Hey, podcasters, welcome to today's program. There's a lot we talk about politics and we start really in Italy with a doctor and actually I think it is a doctor or an emergency room specialist.

Speaker 2 Two different people telling people what it is like in Italy if you're working in the healthcare system. And if you understand what they were saying, you will see why everybody's saying stay home.

Speaker 2 It's about overwhelming the system. It's not about everybody dying.
We have lots on that. We have Nick DiPaolo DiPaulo on today.
Stu gives us a wrap-up of everything political that you need to know

Speaker 2 and the possible canceling of the rest of the primary.

Speaker 2 What?

Speaker 2 All that more on today's podcast. And tonight on Blaze TV at 8 p.m.
Eastern is, of course, Stu Does America. We're going to be looking into

Speaker 2 why Bernie failed, because that's basically what he did. And then after that is the big show.
9 p.m., the big special, coronavirus, some of all fears, all the latest you need to know.

Speaker 2 That is on Blaze TV tonight at 9 p.m. with Glenn Beck.
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Speaker 2 All right, our coronavirus update.

Speaker 2 Coronavirus update today, as of 5:30 a.m. Central Time, all these stats are from Johns Hopkins.
The total confirmed cases worldwide now 126,611. That is up from 114,000 yesterday.

Speaker 2 Total confirmed deaths worldwide, up about 200.

Speaker 2 Patients that have recovered from COVID-19 worldwide, 66,894. 120 countries now have confirmed cases.
That's up from 115 yesterday. And yet, six new ones have come online with suspected cases.

Speaker 2 The good news is the number of people that have this that are requiring hospitalization and 4% of them requiring ICU

Speaker 2 continues its steady drop. It had hovered at about 19%.
So about 20% of people who got this needed to be hospitalized. That number today stands at 12%.

Speaker 2 That's really good news. But this is the key to understanding what the conflict that you're hearing in messages.
Some people say it's nothing to worry about. Some people say it's just like the flu.

Speaker 2 Here's what you need to understand.

Speaker 2 12%

Speaker 2 of the population that gets this will need to be hospitalized.

Speaker 2 We don't have room in our hospitals for 12% of the population, especially if we're all tongue-kissing each other at a Grateful Dead concert. That's why they're saying stay home.

Speaker 2 It's not that you're going to die. It's that we're killing the resources and

Speaker 2 in some cases, quite literally, the doctors who are going to be able to treat.

Speaker 2 In Italy, I started the program. If you missed it, make sure you listen to the podcast today.
You can find it wherever podcasts are found. But listen to the podcast.

Speaker 2 I read two stories from doctors that rolled the dice and took the chance of speaking out that are absolutely terrifying of what the conditions are like now in Italy.

Speaker 2 Italy has the highest population of elderly in all of Europe. That's why Italy is being hit so hard.
And anybody who says, well, it's just old people, really? You're going to be old one day.

Speaker 2 Just old people?

Speaker 2 When you read what the doctors were talking about, how the doctors and nurses are doing everything they can to save people, but they can't. They're turning people away who have had strokes.

Speaker 2 Patients who are on kidney dialysis are losing their lives because of this. They can't do anything else but care for those who are now in ICU.
And ICU is now pretty much the whole hospital.

Speaker 2 This is what's happening in Italy, and this is why we're shutting everything down.

Speaker 2 And they say, don't spread it, stay at home.

Speaker 2 Even though the numbers are looking better every day,

Speaker 2 we are about to get hit with a tidal wave of new cases. You're going to know people that have this.

Speaker 2 You're most likely going to have to stay at home. There's going to come a time where your kids are not going to school and they may not go to school for the rest of the year.

Speaker 2 Why aren't we just closing down that human Petri dish for virus, which is every school in America? Why don't we just shut them down? Because about 44% of our population, they don't have

Speaker 2 the insurance or the system at their work that they can go home and work from home or or go home and get paid.

Speaker 2 When you have that issue, it becomes a massive burden on those families to have the kids at home. We'll hire a babysitter.
Who?

Speaker 2 Who?

Speaker 2 The U.S. now has 1,015 confirmed cases and 31 deaths.
We are going to see that number of the confirmed cases skyrocket soon. As I said earlier in the program, we are about 50 days

Speaker 2 from where China was. We're 50 days behind them.

Speaker 2 I gave you the headlines 50 days ago in China, and it sounds like the headlines today in America. This is going to calm down, but we are in,

Speaker 2 I think, a 50, 60 day period before we really start to see this thing turn the other direction. New news that I have heard today.

Speaker 2 I'm waiting for I'll give it to you tomorrow after we get confirmation on it. It's good news, by the way.
I just want to make sure that we are confirmed on this.

Speaker 2 All right. New Rochelle, New York has now just put a one-mile containment zone by the National Guard in place.

Speaker 2 New Rochelle is the largest cluster of confirmed cases in the U.S. with over 190 suspected cases and 61 confirmed cases.
This is right on the edge of New York.

Speaker 2 All public gatherings have been ordered to be canceled, including school and church gatherings.

Speaker 2 Governor Cuomo has said this is not a quarantine. Individuals are not prohibited from entering or leaving the area.

Speaker 2 National Guard troops will be used to help deliver food to residents, provide traffic control and medical personnel and emergencies, and to assist in cleaning and disaffecting public places.

Speaker 2 The new Rochelle Superintendent of Schools announced that for the next two weeks, students may miss, and summer school classes will be utilized to make up any missed instruction.

Speaker 2 Meanwhile, colleges and universities all over the country are starting to say, as in Cambridge yesterday, you've got five hours, get your stuff, get out.

Speaker 2 All classes now are starting to be moved online. American lives are going to change.
We,

Speaker 2 this is according to Dr.

Speaker 2 How do you say his name?

Speaker 2 Fat Fashi?

Speaker 2 F-A-U-C-I Fashi.

Speaker 2 He is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He's one of the guys on the Mike Pence team.

Speaker 2 He said, we'd like the country to realize that as a nation, we can't be doing the kinds of things we were doing just a few months ago.

Speaker 2 It doesn't matter if you're in a state that has no cases or just one case. This is the big thing that I am trying to get a handle on what the tripwires are.
I'm looking for tripwires in my own life.

Speaker 2 No one is telling us, but you know, the governments have some sort of tripwire because they're all closing things.

Speaker 2 I just don't know what the milestones are that you have to hit before they start closing things. It may be I can't find the official tripwires because there are no official tripwires.

Speaker 2 It's just somebody going,

Speaker 2 you know what, let's close them now.

Speaker 2 I'd like to know what those are. We can't find them yet.
U.S.

Speaker 2 Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says the biggest intervention should be reserved for areas with clusters of cases, such as Santa Clara, California.

Speaker 2 He echoed federal health officials' advice for people at higher risk.

Speaker 2 He said, I encourage any individual who is elderly or who is medically fragile to think long and hard about going into any large gathering that would involve close quarters and potential spread.

Speaker 2 I personally think this is why Bernie Sanders

Speaker 2 is canceled last night. I don't think it has anything to do with how the election turned out last night.
I think it has everything to do with Bernie Sanders being a prime case

Speaker 2 or a prime target for something like the coronavirus. The same could be said for Joe Biden.

Speaker 2 I think it would be very prudent if

Speaker 2 all of these things stopped dead in their tracks. I feel for the president because the president, it's the only safe space I think he feels he has.
It's the only place in watching him speak at CPAC.

Speaker 2 To me, I understood him so much more.

Speaker 2 And watching the way he observed the audience and watching the way he was

Speaker 2 interacting with the audience, I think this is the only place that he feels like he's in a safe space.

Speaker 2 He knows that the media is going to attack him, but he feels like those large crowds are his friends. And I think those people in those crowds feel like they're his friends.

Speaker 2 I think it's quite clearly his favorite part of the job. I think so too.
Like if you think about a rock star, like they got to sit in the studio all this time, they've got to sign records.

Speaker 2 They've got to go into meetings about promotion. And then they get to play live.
And that's what they love. Right.
And that's what Trump loves.

Speaker 2 And I don't, but I don't think, I think it's deeper than that. It's not that he just loves to do that because I think he does.
He loves that. But I think it's the only place.

Speaker 2 Imagine playing in clubs where everybody was like, oh, geez, they're coming back up on stage. These guys suck.
And then you go to your hometown and you're playing where everybody loves you.

Speaker 2 I think that's a big difference with Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 these guys,

Speaker 2 we have to protect the president.

Speaker 2 And I think Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden should seriously consider how they're doing their rallies.

Speaker 2 It's going to hurt the election, but speaking of hurting the election, could you please write down, Stu, as we go through the election, what the Republicans and the Democrats, what Republicans have already done and the Democrats are thinking about doing on the upcoming primaries.

Speaker 2 Coronavirus Conference in New York.

Speaker 2 Let me say this again. The coronavirus conference in New York

Speaker 2 was just canceled. Doctors spec because of the coronavirus.
Doctors speculate that

Speaker 2 the reason why

Speaker 2 the case fatality rate in Italy is so high is because of age. Italy has the highest confirmed case count outside of China.
The fatality rate is over 5% of total cases compared to just 3% in China.

Speaker 2 It's because Italy has the oldest population in Europe with 23% of the population over the age of 60 compared to 18% in the U.S.

Speaker 2 23 versus 18. Italy's median age is 43.5 compared to 38.3 in the U.S.

Speaker 2 They have tested more than 40,000 residents for COVID-19 and the fatality rate may actually be closer and more accurate than it is in the U.S., at least for Italy, because we are not

Speaker 2 testing enough people yet.

Speaker 2 If we assume that there's a

Speaker 2 1% case fatality rate for COVID-19 and a full year of spread, as we would get with the flu season, 60% of the U.S. population will get sick.

Speaker 2 60%

Speaker 2 of the population will get sick. Now, you compare that to the worst years of World War II and the Vietnam War in terms of U.S.
deaths that year. In 1944, the U.S.
population was 130 million.

Speaker 2 Combat deaths,

Speaker 2 126,000. 1968, the population was

Speaker 2 205 million. Combat deaths, 16,000.
2020,

Speaker 2 331 million Americans today.

Speaker 2 U.S. combat deaths, 120.

Speaker 2 Now, if you compare those, the flu deaths,

Speaker 2 flu deaths, the World War II combat, 126,000, flu deaths, 13,000. If it was COVID-19 today,

Speaker 2 780,000.

Speaker 2 There were only in Vietnam, there were only 16,000 deaths in 1968 from Vietnam. There were 20,000 flu deaths.
We're talking 1.3 million deaths in 1968 comparison.

Speaker 2 Today, 2020, 331 million. The combat deaths, 120.
Flu deaths, 33,100. This

Speaker 2 could take

Speaker 2 1,986,000 Americans. We don't know yet, but if this plays out at 1%

Speaker 2 and it doesn't have the seasonal flu break, that's what we possibly could be facing.

Speaker 2 That overwhelms every system we have.

Speaker 2 And I know this audience knows what overwhelming the system means.

Speaker 2 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 2 I want to read a couple of things

Speaker 2 that were Twitter threads, and they are sweeping the world. It gives you an idea

Speaker 2 of

Speaker 2 what it feels like and what we are facing. You know, I've been saying for the last few days, we're about 50 days behind China.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 it's not that it's getting worse around the world. China is now recovering and all going back to work.
We are behind China. So now what are we going to face? I'm going to give you,

Speaker 2 one of my researchers and writers went back, was listening to the show and went, well, let me look at that. Went back and put everything in a calendar from 50 days ago.

Speaker 2 And when you start looking at the headlines out of China from 50 days ago, we are exactly there. So we are about to go through this giant ramp up.
Do not panic.

Speaker 2 But please

Speaker 2 do the things that you're supposed to do. We are supposed to wash our hands all the time.
We're supposed to not touch our faces all the time.

Speaker 2 We are to stay out of big crowds. Isolate yourself if possible.
Do those things. Please do those things.

Speaker 2 Because when I read what these doctors and nurses are talking about in Italy, you will understand why the government is now saying, do these things.

Speaker 2 You'll understand why, for the first time, we are isolating ourselves. And it's not because we're all going to die.
It's because no matter what system you have, nothing is prepared for this.

Speaker 2 Let me give you the first thread from a well-respected friend and an intensive care nurse

Speaker 2 who is currently in northern Italy.

Speaker 2 Here's the thread. I feel the pressure to give you a quick personal update about what's happening in Italy and give you some direct advice about what you should do.

Speaker 2 First,

Speaker 2 I'm in the most developed region in Italy, and it has extraordinarily good health care.

Speaker 2 I've worked in Italy, the UK, and Australia, and don't make a mistake to think what's happening is in a third world country. It's not.

Speaker 2 The current situation, again from Italy, the current situation is difficult to imagine and the numbers don't explain things at all.

Speaker 2 Our hospitals are overwhelmed by COVID-19 and they are running at 200% capacity. We've stopped all routine, all ORs have been converted to ITUs.
What's an ITU? You know, Stu, look that up real quick.

Speaker 2 I think that is, you know, kind of an elected thing. They are now diverting or not treating all other emergencies like trauma, like strokes.

Speaker 2 There are hundreds of PTs with severe respiratory failure, and many of them don't have access to anything above a reservoir mask. Yeah, intensive treatment unit?

Speaker 2 Okay, so what they're doing now is they're not able to treat. You come into the hospital with a stroke.

Speaker 2 You might as well have stayed home and taken some aspirin because they can't treat you because everything is overwhelmed. Hospitals at 200% capacity.
Patients above 65 or

Speaker 2 younger with comorbidities are now even assessed by,

Speaker 2 or are not even assessed by ITU.

Speaker 2 I'm not saying not tubed. I'm saying not assessed with no ITU staff to attend when they go into cardiac arrest.

Speaker 2 Staff working as hard as they can, but they are starting to get sick and emotionally overwhelmed.

Speaker 2 My friends call me in tears because they see people dying in front of them and they can only offer them some oxygen. Ortho and pathologist are being given a leaflet and sent to see patients on NIV.

Speaker 2 Please stop, read this again and think. What's NIV, Stu?

Speaker 2 We also see the same pattern in different areas a week apart, and there is no reason that in a few weeks it won't be the same everywhere. This is the pattern.
One, a few positive cases.

Speaker 2 First few mild measures, people are told to avoid the emergency department, but still hang out in groups. Everyone says not to panic.
two,

Speaker 2 some moderate respiratory failures and a few severe ones that need to be intubated and tubed. But regular access to the emergency department is significantly reduced, so everything looks great.
3.

Speaker 2 Tons of patients with moderate respiratory failure that over time deteriorate to saturate ICUs first, then NIVs, then CPAP hoods, then even just oxygen. 4.

Speaker 2 Staff get so sick that it gets difficult to cover for shifts, mortality rate spikes from all other causes that can't be treated properly. 10.

Speaker 2 Everything about how to treat people is online, but the only thing that will make a difference are these.

Speaker 2 Don't be afraid of the massively restrictive measures to keep people safe. If governments won't do this, at least keep your family safe.

Speaker 2 Your loved ones with a history of cancer or diabetes or any transplant will not be tubed, even if they are young. By safe, I mean do not attend them, and you decide who does and how to help them.

Speaker 2 Another typical attitude is to read and listen to people saying things like this and that. That's a bad dude.
Then they go out to dinner because you think you'll be safe. We've seen it.
You won't be.

Speaker 2 Take it seriously. It won't be as bad, hopefully, as it is here, but you must prepare.

Speaker 2 All right. And I've non-invasive ventilation.
Okay. That's what you're looking for there.
So

Speaker 2 this, I just got this morning,

Speaker 2 this thread from this nurse. This one is from a doctor, and I really want you to listen to what he's saying here.

Speaker 2 Because I want you to put yourself in the situation

Speaker 2 as it is in Italy. Italy is second only to China, but they think Italy is second only to China because of the age of the people that are there.

Speaker 2 One

Speaker 2 I may be repeating myself, but I want to fight this sense of security that I see outside of the epicenters, as if nothing was going to happen here. The media in Europe are reassuring.

Speaker 2 Politicians are reassuring. But there is little to be reassured of.
Now, this is a doctor who actually attached his name to this. The other guy did not attach his name to it.
This guy has.

Speaker 2 This is the English

Speaker 2 translation of an ICU physician in Italy.

Speaker 2 After much thought about whether I should or what to write about what's happening to us, I felt silence was not responsible.

Speaker 2 I will therefore try to convey to people far from our reality what we are living in in Bergamo in these days of COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaker 2 I understand.

Speaker 2 I need not to create panic, but when the message of the dangerousness of what is happening is not reaching people, I shudder.

Speaker 2 I watched myself with some amazement the reorganization of the entire hospital in the last seven days. When our current enemy was still in the shadow, the wards slowly emptied.

Speaker 2 Elective activities elsewhere were interrupted, intensive care freed up to create as many beds possible.

Speaker 2 All of this rapid transformation brought an atmosphere of silence and surreal emptiness to the corridors of my hospital that we did not yet understand.

Speaker 2 We just waited for a war that had yet to begin, and many, including me, were not so sure it would ever come with such ferocity.

Speaker 2 I still remember my night on call a week ago when I was waiting for the results of a swab.

Speaker 2 When I think about it, my anxiety over one possible case seems almost ridiculous and unjustified, now that I've seen what's happening. Well the situation is now dramatic to say the least.

Speaker 2 Now remember, that was his attitude seven days ago.

Speaker 2 The war has literally exploded and battles are uninterrupted day and night. But now that need for beds has arrived in all of its drama.
One of the

Speaker 2 one after the other, the departments that have been emptied fill up at an impressive pace.

Speaker 2 The boards with the names of the patients or different colors depending on the operating unit are now all red, and instead of surgery, you see diagnosis, which is always the damn same, bilateral, interstitial

Speaker 2 pneumonia. Now, explain to me which flu virus causes such a rapid drama.

Speaker 2 And while there are still people who boast about not being afraid by ignoring directions, protesting because their normal routine is temporarily put in crisis, the epidemiology disaster is taking place, and there are no surgeons, urologists, orthopedists.

Speaker 2 We are all only doctors who suddenly have become part of a single team to face this tsunami that has now overwhelmed us? Cases are multiplying.

Speaker 2 We arrive at the rate of 15 to 20 admissions per day, all for the same reason.

Speaker 2 The results of the swab now come one after another, positive, positive, positive, and suddenly our emergency rooms are collapsing. Reasons for the access always the same.

Speaker 2 Fever and breathing difficulties, fever and cough, respiratory failure. Radiology reports always the same.
Bilateral

Speaker 2 pneumonia, bilateral pneumonia, bilateral pneumonia. All need to be hospitalized.
Someone already

Speaker 2 waiting to be intubated and go to intensive care. For others, it's too late.
Every ventilator has become like gold.

Speaker 2 Those in operating theaters have now suspended their non-urgent activity just to become intensive care

Speaker 2 doctors in places where they did not exist before. The staff is exhausted.

Speaker 2 I see the tiredness on the faces that I didn't know what it was, despite the fact that we were all working exhausting workloads.

Speaker 2 But I saw the solidarity of all of us who never failed to go to our internist colleagues and ask, What can I do for you right now?

Speaker 2 Doctors who move beds and transfer patients, the administrator that gives therapies instead of nurses, nurses with tears in their eyes because they can't save everyone, and the vital parameters of the several patients at the same time

Speaker 2 that all reveal

Speaker 2 an already marked destiny. There are no more shifts, there are no more hours.
Social life is suspended for all of us. We no longer see our families families for fear of infecting them.

Speaker 2 Some of us have already become infected, despite all of the safety protocols.

Speaker 2 That's from one of the leading doctors

Speaker 2 in one of the best areas

Speaker 2 of Italy.

Speaker 2 What's coming here

Speaker 2 may be the same.

Speaker 2 What's coming here, you must not panic. You must do what the CDC

Speaker 2 is

Speaker 2 telling us to do. Self-isolate if you can.
Work from home if you can.

Speaker 2 Don't go out if you can.

Speaker 2 We're struggling with schools right now. People are thinking that schools are a trip line, that, oh, when the school is canceled, well, then that'll be different.

Speaker 2 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 2 Well, our election coverage continues now as we kick it into high gear. We have all of the stats and analysis from Mr.

Speaker 2 Steve Regeer coming up in just a minute, otherwise known as Stu, our executive producer, who loves to crunch the numbers.

Speaker 2 But we also have Nick DiPaolo, who is joining us now. And Nick,

Speaker 2 I know you just couldn't get enough of what was happening last night

Speaker 2 with the election, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 I love, you know, Biden's everything that the Trump hate has accused Trump of being.

Speaker 2 He's not fit to be president mentally.

Speaker 2 He told the woman to shush after he told that guy he's full of S.

Speaker 2 He told the woman to shush. I know.

Speaker 2 He's a misogynist. He's a plagiarizer.
He's an angry old white guy. And he's everything that they accuse.

Speaker 2 Remember what he said about Obama being eloquent and clean, and you make jokes about Indians at gas stations?

Speaker 2 He's everything that they say Trump is.

Speaker 2 May I just say, if you're watching the Blaze TV, you might have noticed that

Speaker 2 you seem to have Nick A.

Speaker 2 Kim Jong-un's head on a pike next to you.

Speaker 2 Oh, I put this up when we do Corona News. I'll take it

Speaker 2 I know it's the wrong country, but close enough for my fans.

Speaker 2 Oh my gosh, he's coughing. Oh, my gosh, he's coughing.
Yes. The coronavirus panic.
Last time you had me on, I'm like, oh, they're just blowing this out of proportion. Now I'm a little bit of a bully.

Speaker 2 Everybody's panicking about Italy. I mean, the average age is 78 in Italy.
All they do is kiss and hug when they meet.

Speaker 2 That's no surprise. Right.

Speaker 2 The Chinese invented pasta. I don't know how that fits in, but come on.

Speaker 2 I will tell you that what's happening in Italy, people don't understand why it's necessarily taking Italy

Speaker 2 by storm. Italy is the oldest population in all of Europe.

Speaker 2 And this is hitting the older populations really, really, really hard. But what you're seeing today, we went over some of the

Speaker 2 doctors that have come out and said, let me describe the situation here. It is truly frightening, Nick.
I mean, they're saying, if you have a stroke, don't come to the hospital.

Speaker 2 You have a heart attack, we can't help you.

Speaker 2 Well, they're just preparing us if Bernie gets in. That's how healthcare is going to go.

Speaker 2 It's the same thing, although he's not going to get in. But I'm getting mixed signals, Glenn.
I'm not that nervous.

Speaker 2 I can't get nervous over a pandemic that can be cured with Purell and washing your hands.

Speaker 2 You know, I mean, I...

Speaker 2 I'm not that nervous. If you're in your late 80s, you know, stay where you are.
It's not like they're out there partying anyways. But how is this worse?

Speaker 2 I know exponentially it's going to grow and stuff, but how is this worse than a regular flu that kills so many people?

Speaker 2 Okay, so here's the problem.

Speaker 2 It's not the fact that it's killing so many people, although it has the potential of doing that.

Speaker 2 What the problem is is our health care systems all around the world, not ours just alone, all around the world are not prepared for 40% of the population to be sick at the same time.

Speaker 2 And so we don't have the medicine, we don't have the supplies. And certainly with the number of elderly people, we just don't have the beds in the hospital and

Speaker 2 the breathing machines and everything else that are going to be required to handle so many people. And so that's what they're doing.

Speaker 2 They're trying to say stay home because the health care system will come under such strain, we will lose people not just from coronavirus, but from heart attacks, from strokes, from diabetes, from people who have kidney failure.

Speaker 2 All of those things are going to compound, and we won't have the staff nor the medicine to be able to deal with it all at once.

Speaker 2 Okay, so the old people go a few years early. I'm just looking out for myself.

Speaker 2 This is how I am. I'm

Speaker 2 not sure if I can do it. You've checked in the mirror, but you're right in the median age of being seriously ill.
Thanks for pointing that out, guy with white hair and a white beard.

Speaker 2 You should be in a bubble right now

Speaker 2 no i know it's funny i keep in my head i'm 28 years old you're exactly right i know and i start looking at the math i know and they're saying 60 and up and i have the attitude of a 78 year old right but you know what's funny glenn i was in chicago uh two weekends ago sold out both shows by the way i'm i shook uh 150 hands i get done doing that i walk in the green room and i go whose slice of pizza is that and they go you can have it i pick it up and eat it

Speaker 2 I wolf it down. I don't wash my hands.

Speaker 2 And I say, oh, this is baloney. But then I get home on Monday.
I wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and my teeth is chattering.

Speaker 2 And my body's, I have a wicked, like a wicked chills. And then I wake up two hours later, my head is soaked.
And that went on for about three days.

Speaker 2 If that would have happened today, you would have absolutely been convinced you had coronavirus. Yeah, and I was all cocky going, this is all blown out of proportion.

Speaker 2 So I go to urgent care and they test me.

Speaker 2 Testing is taking your temperature and sticking a swab up my nose. The guy goes,

Speaker 2 that's where the flu lives. And I'm like, oh, it lives in Wuhan.
What are you talking about?

Speaker 2 It comes back negative for the regular flu. And I said, okay, so

Speaker 2 I must have a common cold or something. But

Speaker 2 I've been, and I got to be honest, I've been under the weather since I got back from Chicago a little bit. But they said I didn't even have the regular flu.

Speaker 2 So I'm confused because now I'm reading stuff like, well, yeah, well, five days later, it can get worse and all this. But I got to get on a plane this week.
You know what I do for a living?

Speaker 2 I have to get on a plane. That might be the better place.

Speaker 2 I was wondering with you where your tripwire was.

Speaker 2 What has to happen before you like... I'm not going to go out into crowds and shake hands because your money is made there.

Speaker 2 We keep going back and forth on we have to be here at the studios or it will dramatically change our product. But we also know if we're all sick, it will also stop the product from being made.

Speaker 2 And so we're debating whether or not, you know, what's the next tripwire? What's the thing that says, okay, you know what? We all have to stay and work from home.

Speaker 2 Well, for me personally, if I stop bleeding from the eyes and ears on stage,

Speaker 2 then I'll tell the 12 people there to get up.

Speaker 2 Right. Or just, come on in, you're already infected.
Come on in.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm selling DiPaulo surgical masks after after the show and right yeah but but i get on i'm gonna get on a plane this weekend and uh you know i'm going to baltimore so now not now my longevity numbers are going down between coronavirus and gunplay i don't know if i'm going to see much

Speaker 2 more is just riddled baltimore is one of the cities in america i think the only city in america that has a bigger population of rats than people

Speaker 2 it's that's true that's it that's exactly true yeah it is it's a it's a it's just a petri dish of something bad to kill you in baltimore it's so germ-infested that

Speaker 2 the coronavirus can't even penetrate Baltimore.

Speaker 2 You know what I mean? They're immune. Right.
The coronavirus comes and the rats eat it.

Speaker 2 Look, I come from longevity. My grandfather was 94, my grandmother.
And so I didn't wear a condom in the 80s at the height of the AIDS epidemic. I had a blast, and here I am.

Speaker 2 So I'm not going to let a bat

Speaker 2 scare me. You are.

Speaker 2 And I looked good back in the 80s. You know what I mean? I was

Speaker 2 a young way. Oh, dude, I got so many women.
I look like a

Speaker 2 That doesn't necessarily mean you were good looking.

Speaker 2 It might mean you had bad eyesight.

Speaker 2 Well, that's true. A couple shots of jackets.
And everybody's like,

Speaker 2 those fours turn into tens. You're a beautiful woman.
Dude, back off.

Speaker 2 I swear that you were a woman. You still are pretty, beautiful.

Speaker 2 I did very well. I didn't look like Butterfucco's dad my whole life.
And

Speaker 2 I look, what am I going to do, Glenn? I'm lucky I got this show because this does bring in a little bit of money thanks to people like you and people who contribute at NPR.

Speaker 2 I'll get to your tote bag later. But the planes, I'm getting on a plane, and that looks like the best place to be isolated right now because all the airports seem to be empty.

Speaker 2 It's going to be me and like three other people on a plane to Baltimore this weekend. So I'm not worried, but I see what you're saying as far as overcrowding at the hospitals and stuff.

Speaker 2 But it's a good time to go to the mall. Nobody's there.
Went into Dunkin' Donuts, nobody in front of me. I have to tell you, I have a friend, I have a couple

Speaker 2 who said, we're traveling the world right now.

Speaker 2 But that's Connie Chung and her husband.

Speaker 2 No, no, no. That's Connie Chung.
No,

Speaker 2 no, a friend of mine actually, and they said they were just in Paris. And they said, no one is anywhere.
You can do anything,

Speaker 2 you know, well, except for shop or go to a restaurant or anything that's open. If you want to see everything,

Speaker 2 I know. You want to see everything outdoors, you can do it right now.
And there's not a soul around anywhere. Once again, the French showing their courage.

Speaker 2 They really are the best, aren't they? We're going to have to save them from this, too. All right.
Nick DiPaolo from NickDip.com. Where are you going to be this weekend?

Speaker 2 Magoombies in Timonium, Maryland, Friday and Saturday night. Don't let the name fool you.
It's a beautiful club.

Speaker 2 Magoombe's?

Speaker 2 I know. Every time I'm on with you, it can't be the Ritz Theater.
It has to be Skidmutts and Buffalo.

Speaker 2 You know, the rubber room. No, no, no.
It's a great club. That sounds Magoomy.
Sounds club.

Speaker 2 Sounds great. All right.
And yeah.

Speaker 2 Thank you so much. Bring your old magic.
Thank you very much, Nick. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 This is the best of the Glen Beck program.

Speaker 2 Hey, here's really exciting news. Dow is down a thousand points today.

Speaker 2 It was up over a thousand points yesterday. We've lost it all, and we'll probably gain it all tomorrow.
I love this.

Speaker 2 I love this.

Speaker 2 It's why you don't freak out.

Speaker 2 You just keep watching things.

Speaker 2 It looks like China is back online. They're expecting now their second hit.
Why do you look at that?

Speaker 2 I'm torn on the China's back online narrative right now.

Speaker 2 President Xi

Speaker 2 did go to Wuhan, which, by the way, has nothing to do with this virus. And if you say it's the Wuhan virus, you're a racist.
That's what you are. He just picked a random city.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he was just visiting, just visiting one of his towns in a mask. That's all.

Speaker 2 You notice you're not hearing that now. Well, I also noticed he was wearing a mask.
Wasn't the whole thing, the masks aren't effective than this.

Speaker 2 Uh, why was President Xi wearing one then when he visited Wuhan? Because anyone who says the masks aren't effective is lying to you.

Speaker 2 Although, I do know somebody that wore what I think is just a feminine hygiene product on their face because they couldn't get

Speaker 2 a mask. Uh, I don't know how that works.
I don't think it does,

Speaker 2 I don't think it does.

Speaker 2 So, uh, I don't know. To me, the idea that they are kind of like, ah, we're back to normal, everything's fine, it doesn't ring true to me yet.
I mean, we don't have, obviously, a vaccine.

Speaker 2 We don't like this stuff could still get spread around. The fact that

Speaker 2 their new cases per day

Speaker 2 number has decreased.

Speaker 2 The curve of the spread of the virus has flattened out, which is great. When I say they're back going away.
When I say they're back online, I mean most of their businesses are back online. Open.

Speaker 2 Most of their businesses are open and they're starting a new business.

Speaker 2 They are just concerned now that the rest of the world is getting hit, and so there's nothing to sell to the rest of the world because all they want, seemingly, is toilet paper.

Speaker 2 By the way, talked to somebody early this morning in Rome. You know the one thing they don't have shortages of? Toilet paper.
Just want to point that out.

Speaker 2 They still have toilet paper over in Italy, where things have gone really, really horribly wrong.

Speaker 2 In the political news, I just want to stop here for just a second. The Democrats are now saying that they are thinking about canceling the rest of the primaries.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 There's nothing that screams authoritarian like canceling a primary. Now, I say that knowing that the GOP canceled their primaries.
There is a slight difference.

Speaker 2 There's nobody that was running that was even going to have a chance to beat Donald Trump. With that said, I wish they wouldn't have canceled the primary.

Speaker 2 You know, they said, well, it costs a lot of money. Yeah, well, you know what? There are things we do that cost a lot of money.

Speaker 2 It's a political party. It can't run a freaking primary.
Right.

Speaker 2 I spend a lot of money on lawyers and everything else to keep up with all of the laws. Yeah.
You know, I'd like to be able to say, yeah, you know what? We're just going to suspend those.

Speaker 2 There are things you have to do. And in a republic,

Speaker 2 I don't know,

Speaker 2 finishing an election is one of them. Seems like when most of the name of your party is Republic, you might want to know that.

Speaker 2 And also point out that, you know, obviously Trump isn't running unopposed largely. He does have opponents, however, that we're all going to get blown out in 94 to 6.

Speaker 2 The problem here, though, is think about this next time. Think about the next time when some establishment figure you don't like is president of the United States.

Speaker 2 They're just going to start canceling these things because they want the president to hold it, whether they have a legitimate candidate or not. Forget about the next time.

Speaker 2 How about right now with the Democrats? The Democrats now are talking about canceling the rest of their primaries because Joe Biden's got it. Well, you know what?

Speaker 2 Joe Biden didn't have it three weeks ago.

Speaker 2 It looked like Joe Biden was going to drop out in humiliation three weeks ago.

Speaker 2 And the one thing we can all agree on is the one thing that Joe Biden does not have is it. Like, whatever it is, Joe Biden doesn't have it.
He doesn't have it. It doesn't.

Speaker 2 I have no cognitive decision-making ability, whatever it is, Joe is lacking it in some massive way.

Speaker 2 Imagine if you're a Bernie Sanders supporter and all of a sudden they start talking about canceling the rest. Now, Bernie Sanders is going to do poorly in many of the remaining states.

Speaker 2 However, imagine you're a supporter and they just cancel the rest of them. Even though the race isn't done, he doesn't have

Speaker 2 everything locked up. You already feel like, wait a minute, our guy was ahead and then

Speaker 2 your party just your party just orchestrated this massive comeback and put everybody together to beat our guy. So this is the establishment rigging an election.

Speaker 2 That's how you would feel if you were a Bernie Sanders supporter.

Speaker 2 The last thing you would want to do if you're the Democratic Party and you want to not piss people off that like to burn things down is to give them more ammunition and more gasoline.

Speaker 2 Really stupid, foolish.

Speaker 2 And hurts the Republic in the long run. You should be able to vote for who you want to vote vote for.

Speaker 2 You don't just hand nominations

Speaker 2 out of convenience. They cancel the primaries.
I know. I think that's really bad.
Now, that's just been suggested. It's not actually happening.
And also, I will note,

Speaker 2 their advertised reason for this is, yes, of course, you know, we do see that Joe Biden looks like he's going to win this, but coronavirus is serious, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 2 So it is important to at least note what the reason is, whether you believe it or not. I mean, a lot of it did come from people who wanted Bernie Sanders to drop out.

Speaker 2 And that makes it a lot easier, by the way.

Speaker 2 If Bernie drops out, then what? Then the Bernie Bros, what are they going to say? They're still going to say it was, you know, they were scammed.

Speaker 2 I mean, I've been watching Twitter trending topics here over the past 24 hours.

Speaker 2 Almost the entire time, there's been one about how Bernie was scammed, how they stole it from him, how

Speaker 2 drop out, write in Bernie,

Speaker 2 drop out of the parties, you know, dem exit, all these things from these people. Now, look, Twitter is not real life, as we're seeing in the actual voting booth.

Speaker 2 I mean, Twitter, you can tweet from home while you're eating a hot pocket and watching Netflix.

Speaker 2 You can't vote yet. I have a feeling some of these people are too lazy to put the hot pocket even into the microwave.
Oh, yeah,

Speaker 2 you just wait for it to thaw out a little bit and then just see it. Do you wait? Do you wait for it to thaw out? If you suck on the hot pocket long enough, it starts to melt.
It starts to get softer.

Speaker 2 These are long-lasting very cold mints they taste like pizza

Speaker 2 pizza mints

Speaker 2 that's the problem though i mean i think you can't build your revolution around people who don't get off their couch yeah and that is a big problem that bernie was never able to solve he won young voters with incredibly high percentages but none of them i mean they were it was smaller percentage than last time of the voting populace because they didn't bother to show up for him do you think that or do you think that this whole thing was

Speaker 2 more of a vote against Hillary Clinton and against the establishment last time? But they're not serious. Nobody is serious except a very small handful of core supporters.

Speaker 2 But America is on people who went out Michigan and said, I'm going to vote for Bernie Sanders. That was.
You knew that Hillary Clinton was going to win. Yeah.
You know what I mean? It wasn't real.

Speaker 2 Right. This is real.
Wait a minute. We vote for him.
He could actually be it, and he's a nightmare. You You know

Speaker 2 when else it was real? Was right after his big Nevada win this year. All of a sudden, it looked like, holy crap, Bernie might actually be the nominee.

Speaker 2 This guy we've been playing Ivan Drago with and Turner, you know,

Speaker 2 hanging out with the hammer and sickle all this time.

Speaker 2 That might be the guy. Should we do something about this? Because we never thought that it would go this far.

Speaker 2 And it seems like voters noticed, and that was the time too, where he's out there talking about Cuba. He's out there,

Speaker 2 you know, going as far left as he can. He's empowered, right? He's in that moment where he's succeeding.
So he didn't back off the Cuba stuff. Why would he? Right.

Speaker 2 Well, then South Carolina said, hey, we don't actually want this. We want something else.
We're going to go through this tonight on Stu, Does America, which we're going through why Bernie failed.

Speaker 2 And I do think you identify there one of the biggest reasons is that people mistook

Speaker 2 the hatred and distaste for Hillary Clinton for enthusiasm for Bernie. Yep.
And in 2016. And they thought, well, look, the party's moving this way.
Everyone wants to be a socialist.

Speaker 2 And there's plenty of people who love that stuff. But on the other side of that, there were just a lot of people who just couldn't stand Hillary Clinton and didn't want to hand her the nomination.

Speaker 2 If she was going to get it, she was going to have to work for it.

Speaker 2 And so they dragged that thing out. And there were so many anti-Clinton votes cast in 2016 in the Democratic primary that people thought there was a movement brewing.

Speaker 2 And as we're seeing here, when Biden, they don't find as offensive as Hillary, that you're seeing that movement dissolve in a big way. It did not work.

Speaker 2 It's a death knell for the Democrats because they're caught between a rock and a hard place now. Yeah.
Who are they?

Speaker 2 We've talked about this back and forth how many times, Glenn. Who would you want to run against if you're...
Who do you want to win the Democratic primary?

Speaker 2 If you want Trump to win, who do you want to win? I don't know. You go back and forth.

Speaker 2 The two main reasons are, obviously, Bernie's a socialist, so Biden appeals more to middle-of-the-road voters. That's one, so that's a route.
You'd rather go for Sanders because he's easier.

Speaker 2 There is an alternative argument there, which is Bernie's got so much energy. Watch out.
You should be scared of him. Bernie's got so much energy.
Well, I think what we're proving here is he doesn't.

Speaker 2 That energy is not there. It does not exist.
It's not real. The energy is not real.
The wokeism isn't real. None of it's real.
It's on Twitter.

Speaker 2 Now, let me switch to Joe Biden because I think Joe Biden is a very interesting character here because he is

Speaker 2 Bernie Sanders. He

Speaker 2 got this.

Speaker 2 It's so hard to

Speaker 2 talk with the Joe Biden theme behind you. Maybe this is running through his head all the time, and why it's so hard for him to talk about it.
I think this is what it sounds like in his head. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I think everything is like.

Speaker 2 So, anyway,

Speaker 2 Joe Biden is out on the campaign trail. Joe Biden is doing what he is doing.

Speaker 2 And I think

Speaker 2 foolishly standing in front of massive amounts of crowds at his age and in the coronavirus time period,

Speaker 2 he's going out there and doing it. But his son

Speaker 2 has now said

Speaker 2 he can't go to court. He can't, man, I am trying so hard to get my financials to the court.
And I've had so many troubles getting those records to you guys now

Speaker 2 because I haven't turned them over again.

Speaker 2 Now the judge is like, you know what, bud? Show up in court.

Speaker 2 Well, his attorney wrote in a court filing, it's unsafe for the defendant to travel right now as travel restrictions have been implemented both domestically and internationally, particularly on airlines due to the coronavirus.

Speaker 2 Setting aside personal endangerment, the defendant reasonably believes that such travel unnecessarily exposes his wife and unborn child to this virus. End quote.
Can you imagine being

Speaker 2 the judge on this one? What would you say?

Speaker 2 I probably am going to reject that claim

Speaker 2 and say, get your ass down here. Yeah.
You know what you could do? Maybe take some of that burisma money and get a private jet and fly it down here so you don't have to worry about contaminating it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you could ask your dad. Maybe your dad's going to be around the area.
Maybe you can fly on one of his jets

Speaker 2 next time you're in the area. Personally, I would say get your ass in the car.

Speaker 2 You can sleep in your car if you want. Yeah, you walk, you could sleep, get your ass to the courtroom.
I've had enough. There is just some risk to that, though, too, because

Speaker 2 you don't want Hunter Biden driving a car. Well,

Speaker 2 that's a different

Speaker 2 problem.

Speaker 2 You never know when he's on a highway that has a strip club near a gas station.

Speaker 2 Even Alex Jones, who was arrested yesterday,

Speaker 2 I guess he was not intoxicated. They thought he was, but he didn't blow the legal limit.
He's just insane. Yeah, he's just nuts, I guess.
But, I mean, that's remarkable when

Speaker 2 Hunter Hunter Biden

Speaker 2 is less safe on the road than Alex Jones.

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