Experts Have Been Wrong A Lot

to have added more coming up. This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is to decode what really matters with passionable intelligence. Make no mistake here a great American Again, The Buck Sexon Show begins an he's a great guy. Now, the answer is yes, we need as sobering a number as that is, we should be prepared for it. Is it going to be that much? I hope not, and I think the more we push on the mitigation, the less likelihood it would be that number.

But as being realistic, we need to prepare ourselves that that is a possibility, that that's what we will say a short period of time, that's happened, right, Can the country handle that in such a short period of time, within a couple of months. You know, thirty thousand a month. You know it will be difficult. I mean, no one is denying the fact that we are going through a

very very difficult time right now. I mean we're seeing what's happening in New York that is really, really tough, and if you extrapolate that to the nation, that will be really tough. But that's what it is, Jim, and we're gonna have to be prepared for that. Welcome to the buck Sex and show everyone. Look, we're gonna do what we always do. Deal with the fact as we know them to be, try to speak the truth, try

to get to what really matters. I mean, no change in that during this period of quarantine, of national shutdown, of pandemic panic, We're going to keep doing what we do. The mission stays the same of this show, despite all of the challenges that are around us and the fear that is rising in the sense that the government has

been playing catch up all along. We need to be honest with ourselves about how the response has been from government at all levels, What could have changed, what could have been different, because it matters for how we deal

with this going forward. There you had doctor Fauci telling us, and I looked at the slide as they released it, and it's pretty amazing when you think about how a week or two ago the administration we were told fifteen days to stop the spread, fifteen days to stop the spread, which led people to think, myself among them, that all right, within fifteen days, we'll get close enough to where we need to be on personal projective measures and all the

equipment that we can begin some lessoning of some of these for the most essential really just the economic measures. It's not going to change our social lives or anything like that, and that would come with some risk, but we would handle those risks and we would try to deal with this on a rolling basis. That was where that was where the administration was a week or two ago. That changed, As I told you on Sunday, they said

we're going with lockdown till April thirtieth. And I remember thinking, how did we go from fifteen days to another thirty days in the blink of an eye. What could they have learned? What could have changed so dramatically? And it's now it's this chart. The assessments that I had seen, you've seen assessments of total deaths from coronavirus in the United States. Over the course of the first wave of this pandemic. I had seen online and look, there's a

ton of stuff out there. Anywhere from fifty thousand ish, which is about what you'd see. That's a pretty that's a bad but mid level bad flu season of additional casualties to what we have from the flu all the way up to the absolute peak of one percent of all US population. Essentially we should be between two and three million, right, So that was the range you're working with.

And in recent weeks it seemed like the administration, because we're doing all these measures, we're getting all this gear. We have some treatments that are not yet working but we are hopeful will work. We would switch to a more state by state strategy and we would have some we would get some of America back to work. That was the plan a week ago. I mean, you know the president with that line, let's not let the cure be worse than the disease. Well what does that mean.

It means let's not let the shutdown cause more devastation and destruct than the actual virus. We went from that a week ago to yesterday being told that this press conference at the Task Force press conference that we should expect one hundred thousand to a quarter million dead even with this full on draconian lockdown situation and affected so many states. Now, really all the most populous states have

some version of lockdown stay at home orders. There's some differentiation, but we also all know that the CDC guidances stay away from people, stay home, don't do anything if you can avoid it. And oh, by the way, this virus is much more contagious, not quite as lethal as the initial assessments, but much more contagious and substantially lethal, and from the medical community, also more unpredictable than we had been led to believe, more unpredictable in the way that

this disease would go. People think that their doctors have been anecdotally calling in and saying telling different news stations and giving interviews where they say, I thought the patient was getting better and then within a matter of hours was gone. That's what's keeping so many people on edge right now about this whole situation. We just don't know, We don't have good answers about so much of what's

going on, and we're losing a lot of Americans. Now I would know that the comparison that I'm seeing now about how we've lost more people to coronavirus than lost in nine to eleven. We lose more. I mean, I'm not, I'm not. This is like the flu person Okay, I haven't been, but particularly now, I mean, this is worse than the flu. Okay, it's worse than the flu as we're used to dealing with that. Obviously, the Spanish influenza pandemic was horrific. But we haven't dealt with anything like

this in a hundred years. We haven't. We haven't seen anything like this in one hundred years. This is this is a one hundred year virus storm that we are going through. Okay, but it feels like so much of this information that's coming forward from the government level is new. Why is it new? Shouldn't we have known this? And I will get into a lot of the rewriting of history now from people are frantically rewriting history all over the media saying that they knew, they saw it, and

of course Trump's a moron, he didn't see it. This is what you're hearing from everybody. It's not true, and there's evidence. Unfortunately, you can look online. You know. I I sit here, and I start from the premise of initial every day honesty with you that this is worse than I expected. It is worse than I expected. And I'm here in New York City very close to in

terms of physical distance, the worst of it. But also I know people that are dealing with this every day, and I'm dealing with it just as as a person in the midst of the quarantine zone with the precaution. Every time I go out to get food, I can't get food delivered. People say, how food? I can't get groceries delivered. It's been impossible. I gotta go out. I gotta get grocery. Every time you touch a button, forget about just touching. Now you walk into an elevator and

you think my breathing in this virus. You think that that wouldn't be the case, right because we had been told that this is about contact, this is about touch, and yet now they're saying, maybe maybe everybody should wear masks in public. Oh only how many weeks, how many months into this, and we're figuring out that is what has been a much more widespread practice in Asia for years of people during the season wearing face mask of

some kind. Maybe that was better for us, My friends, we have been failed by the experts at every level on this. I'm here to tell you that we've been failed by the media. We've been failed by journalists. We've been failed by epidemic task forces and the epidemiologists. Worst of all, we've been intentionally failed. Those were good faith errors for the most part, not with journalists necessarily, but with the other You know, the FDA is a slow,

lumbering giant, does not move quickly. Same with the CDC. It's not that people that didn't want to help. Their organizational structure just wasn't up to it. China's China's shortcomings here are malicious, their intentional, the Chinese Communist Party, and it's it's much worse than we had even thought before. So I will get into I will get into that

today on the show. But I'm I'm a little bit stunned by how much all of the people that are telling us to trust them now and do everything that they say, how much they have gotten wrong, and will I will walk through that with you, and I can only base my assessments. I don't have a network of epidemiologists in wa on China that I can speak to or you know, I'm just going with what is reported on all of this all along, and we have been

failed here by institutions. We need to understand that, and some of you, I'm sure feel like institutions are failing us additionally by putting in place for all these different states, these economic these economic sanctions effectively, I mean these economic shutdowns in order to deal with this virus in a way that perhaps is not worth the long term economic cost if certain states, certain counties that don't have a high level of virus took basic precautions, but also allow

there to be more commerce and more business underway, which would give people a greater sense of normalcy across the country. Although right now, if you even bring this up, you're a monster. As I've said, if you talk, if you try to say, we need to be looking at risk at every step of this because if we make the wrong calls here, the devastation to the country overall, to our future could become insurmountable. So this is a very important time in this nation's history, and yet we're being

told to shut up, do what you're told. The experts know what they're doing, and I don't just mean the experts on health, I mean the economic experts, the government experts. They know what they're doing. Trump, they say, is a moron. But everybody else in the bureaucracy or the the expert class really of you know, economists, politicians, and some within the medical community that they say that they know what to do. Really well, let's let's get into some of

that today. But before I go there, I all seem to say, you know, the motto of the show for now, I can't even count how many years, going on a decade has been shields high, a reference to the phalanx in ancient Greece, notably when I would talk about ancient Greek warfare Hoppala warfare, where you would have people in the phalanx with a hop long shield that's where the term hop light comes from, a large round shield, and they would interlock their shields and they would have to

hold them at shoulder height shields high. And that was how you fought, and that was how you not only defended yourself, but you defend the person next to you. The concept of phalanx, I mean the phalanx warfare and different iterations really continued throughout history. For many, many centuries after ancient Greece, the ancient Romans used it, and then even later on there were there was pike warfare or pike units that use very long spears interlocking spears as

a defense against cavalry charge. So conversation, perhaps that's a history that I've been thinking about lately for another time. But we are in for a very very difficult period here, and it's one that we did not get sufficient warning about. I don't have any masks in my home. You know why, because I figured they're telling us not to take masks off the market because first responders need them. And now I'm looking around and people are saying increasingly, well, you know,

you probably should have some masks. Oh so I listened to the experts, and now I'm one of the I'm one of the chumps that doesn't have a mask. It seems right. I mean, this is this is the thought process I'm much talking about me. This is for everybody now, all right. You know, now we're in quarantine. So if this happened and you had you know, you're I don't have a second home and barely have a home. But if you have some home in the country, a cabin in the woods and you went to it. You're in

much better shape now, you know. We were told don't worry about it. We were told by Di Blasio here in New York, go out, go to crowd, spend money, go to restaurants. People have been top to bottom catastrophic with this. And I see so much finger pointing and running around. You do this, and you do that. I follow the left and the right constantly all day long in media. Nobody really knew how bad this was going to be and what it would do to the country.

No one with a platform big enough to influence the rest of the nation. There was so much focus. Yeah they're saying it's bad, it's bad, but it was always it's bad and Trump is the problem, and that made people tune out. Nobody was saying a month ago, Hey, if this runs through the United States without anybody taking mitigation measures, it's going to kill two million people. Now I know people have problems. Also, I've seen this with

the modeling. Are they using New York as a baseline for the rest of the country, because that would seem from a statistical standpoint to be very, very poor thinking. New York is the most crowded and largest metropolitan are in the United States place I know very very well. I mean, I understand when you look at the spread of the disease. Here in the city, we are packed on top of each other. Walking on the street, I

often brush up shoulders against people. That's how close you are here every day to strangers, hundreds and thousands of them all the time. You don't have that in most of the country. Even in a place like Washington, DC, the streets are practically empty all the time. Compared to New York, the metro is far fewer people on it. It's a fraction, right, so, and I mean, these are

two places I've lived in. Now we're being told a week ago it was we might have to go back to work, we might have to make some trade offs. And even Fauci was saying, you know, we got to avoid a rebound. But there was And then all of a sudden they crunched the numbers. They said, nope, lockdown, lockdown, or or there's going to be so much death it'll be overwhelming. And anybody who now looks at this and says, wait a second, why didn't we know about this weeks ago?

They weren't able to do this modeling who my friends, this is a period of time where we have to do as much of our own thinking and be willing to question authority as much as we ever have. But first we have to get ready for what is coming in the weeks ahead. I'll get to that. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. I want every American to be prepared for the hard

days that lie ahead. We're going to go through a very tough two weeks and then, hopefully, as the experts are predicting, as I think a lot of us are predicting, after having studied it so hard, you're going to start seeing some real light at the end of the tunnel. But this is going to be a very painful, very very painful two weeks, very very painful two weeks. This is from the President, folks. He's seen all the all

the projections. Now he has been speaking with his team, with his team of experts in this field, and they've gone for maximum closure of the United States in response to what they've seen. Now, is this the right move if they're really, if they're correct, if we really are facing hundreds of thousands of dead, well, what other what other move I guess do you have anyone who says even relaxing this a little bit. The media, the Libs, the left, and a lot of Republicans want just chop

your head off right away. How dare you? People are dying? Okay, that's that's fine. We no one wants people to die. We also want the country to live, right. We also want there to be a society going forward, and that's where some of the tension is. That's what Trump talked about with the trade offs. But nope, if we're really talking about hundreds of thousands of people's that's quite clear, isn't it. We're going to have this shutdown and there's

not going to really be any discussion about it. This is getting troubling as well, because there's not going to be a discussion about civil liberties, about the constitution, about what the government is able to do. Now. I took it as particularly ominous that former President Barack Obama brought up yesterday climate change. Really right, now, we've got news channels with body count tickers at the bottom of the screen,

and you're going to talk about climate change now. Wow, oh, but remember what the appeal of climate change has been all along for the Left is total domination and control of society with an existential hook to it. The world is at risk. You can't you can't compete with the world is at risk. That's what they say, That's that's what they use against you. Well, now, guess what the world is, according to these calculations at risk. It's at risk from the virus, it's at risk of economic collapse.

Do you think that they're going to try to use that for their own expansion of power and authority? And are they really going to just give it back? You know, to borrow from Gladiator when Marcus Aurelius wants to hand over the keys to Rome and then he's just going to give it back. Do you think that that's what the left is going to do now? Yeah, I don't think so. Thanks for listening to The bus Essen Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or

wherever you get your podcasts. Since I messed up that quote a little bit, it's actually from Senator Gracis who says, so after rooms all yours, you'll just give it back to the people. Tell me why, Maximus, Because that was a dying man's last wish, Maximus says, Gladiator is a great movie. If you're looking for a movie to escape all this nonsense, you really can't go wrong with Gladiator. So oh, it's just I wish I could just turn on Gladiator these days and not have to think about

all these things. But here we are, friends, We are in a we are in a very very tough spot as a country. And even if this isn't affecting your area, your county, perhaps even your state all that much, because of what it's doing in other parts of the country. It's we're all dragged into this. We're all in the midst of dealing with this disaster, which just keeps it keeps getting worse. We really haven't gotten any good news in quite a while, and it is not confidence inspiring

at all. That a week ago, it seemed like we were moving toward some duration of economic activity. That's not normalcy, that's not hey, let's throw house parties and forget and not protect vulnerable populations. But there seemed to be an elevated, elevated risk acceptance as a trade off with economic activity. That's what we were talking about, that's what the administration was saying. And then it's just a complete about face.

And now the President ends up telling us things like this, He's telling us that this is going to be really tough.

Play clip six. As a nation, we face a difficult few weeks as we approach that really important day when we're going to see things get better all of a sudden, and it's going to be like a burst of light, I really think, and I hope the strength will be tested in our endurance will be tried, but America will answer with love and courage and iron't lad resolve that this is the time for all Americans to come together and dot. This is the time for all Americans to

come together and do our part. This is the time for all of us to try and rally and show our best selves. That much is true. Where did we Where did we go wrong? Though in the run up to this, we are a country of unprecedented wealth, We are a country of unbelievable material capacity, instantaneous communication in everyone's hands, and we went in the span of a

month from this won't be a big deal. And by the people that are saying that they knew, no one who had the attention of the nation a month ago was saying that this was going to shut down the country right now, indefinitely. No one was saying that, all right, I all I do is watch and read and listen, And that was not the position. In fact, there were a lot of people who were taking the position even three weeks ago, that this was man nothing, This was nothing.

I had people writing into me from the wor show that I do here in New York City who were saying, you're sounding very negative right now. You shouldn't sound so negative. Well, if you're in New York and three weeks ago you thought I was sounding too negative, you probably think right now I don't sound negative enough. Things have gotten very, very bad here. So what do we do about all of this is a big question. Before I get too far down that pathway, I do want to start though,

with how did we get here? You know, we have a lot of time to think about this. We have a lot of just sitting around and not seeing family. I mean, I haven't been able to see my parents in weeks. You know, we have not been able to We're not able to communicate in person with loved ones. Social life, that's a thing that doesn't really exist. I saw that a very I will say a pretty funny tweet from somebody. I don't remember who it was, but it was I wish I developed a hobby other than

going out to eat. That's how I feel too, you know, between going out to eat and reading. The problem with reading is your only hobby. As I read all day for work, So then to read all day for work and then lie down and start reading even more on your own, it can feel a little bit like is this all that I do? But I want to see how it is that we got to this to this

point you are. And also then I'm going to have to deal with some of the line that you're going to hear because people view this as a fight for power and a fight for status in society. In the media, that's what they're that's what they're going to treat this as it's used against the Trump administration. Clearly, I mean, this is the political thermonuclear weapon that the Democrats have

been waiting for. They've tried to create other circumstances and you know, try to try to bring about a situation that would end the Trump pres and see this goes bad, the Trump presidency is over. Unfortunately, if this goes really bad, and I'm not a catastrophist, and you know that I keep saying, will be positive about this, but this could end more than just the Trump presidency. If this goes really badly, we all know, we all should know that. At least I feel like we all shouldn't be able

to have adult conversations as a nation. It's very hard these days because if you say things like, hey, so when we get through the other side of the curve, and we're probably still not going to have some drug that's a miracle for this, We're probably we're definitely not going to have a vaccine. So do we start relaxing some of these procedures then to allow more economic activity?

And say, May or June or July is the person that gives that call then that says, okay, we're going to do We're gonna go back to work America, at least in some places, in some ways, it's that person going to be called the murder the answers yes if it's a Republican. By the way, the moment that somebody says, hey, okay, we've got to try or return to some normalcy here, they're telling you, oh, we'll get on the other side of the curve, and we'll have more things under control

and we'll have better create all this other stuff. Okay, sort of, you know, sort of, we won't have to worry about overwhelming hospitals. But unfortunately, the way this disease goes for a lot of people, it's not like you get on a ventilator and that's a great, great treatment, that's a last ditch effort to keep somebody alive. A lot of people pass away even though they're on the ventilator. So we're still taking risk. We're still taking risk to

life and limb by opening up the economy. Is anyone going to be able to give that order without meaning, you know, hey, we're going to start going back to normal without being called the monster. Well, I can tell you this any Republican, especially at the Trump administration, but any Republican governor, mayor and all of Republican mayors running around for big cities. But who says, as okay, let's let's try to open things up. It's they're committing political suicide.

They know it. So that means it's very hard to have a reasonable discussion about any of this. How did we get to this point? The role of China cannot cannot be overstated at this point when you look at the outbreak and the inability not just to contain it but also to allow other people to prepare for Here's what I think really tipped this scale because the projections, the scary projections about what's going on with the economy. I'm sorry, what's going on with the death rate? Never

mind the economy. That's that's the way we're looking at this right now. The scary projections on death rate were weeks ago out there, and you had this Imperial College study I think that was maybe two weeks ago, and that was the one that said that we had so many people that would that would possibly die in this

country and in the UK. All right, but that was out there, and then even last week the Trump administration was thinking about opening things up, and I figured, okay, well they must see that this isn't We've got this mostly under control. We can take some additional risk. We got to get people back to work. And then then the latest information was, oh, no, we can't do that. That's a horrible idea. A lot of people are at risk, A lot more people are at risk than than was

anticipated by that. So we are in full on lockdown mode for another thirty days. That's a huge switch in one week. I mean, this is what is the government or the government just looking at this? Nobody cares about climate change. You know that we put out a bounty for the leader of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro. We put out a bounty on the guy, like an old West, you know, bring him in, not dead or alive, but you know, bring him in as a narco trafficker. This guy's the

president of Venezuela. I mean people would say Guido, but Maduro is the leader of Venezuela. No one even noticed. How many of you even knew that? I mean I read the news all day long, so I saw this, But I mean even have I even brought it up before. Now We've put a bounty on me, on the leader of a foreign head of state, as a criminal, and

no one even paid any attention to it. So what I'm saying is that the government is only really focused, or rather the vast bulk of government effort and attention is focused in on this problem. It's not like the possible death rate from COVID nineteen would slip through the cracks. So what was the game changer here, What shifted the course of this such that we're now being told it's lockdown, and my friends, it's not lockdown for thirty more days,

it's lockdown for at least another sixty. I mean, if you look at the models, their trend doesn't really come down until July. So it's lockdown for a long time. And we're all being told the economy will just flip right back on like a switch. Just the government will pay you, the economy will flip right back on. I don't believe that, but I also am getting sick of being told that just bringing that up as a concern means that you're you know, you're basically a mass murderer. Okay,

I mean, we're just I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I would like to think of ways that we could try to keep people alive and avoid a depression. But that now makes you makes you a very, very bad person, according to the consensive narrative of journalists, who are the dumbest and worst people in the world. But how did we get to this point where we have such a massive shift in our thinking on this China? The answer is China, not what they have been telling us. What

they haven't been telling us. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. And when you talk about could we have known something different? You know, I think all of us. I mean I was overseas when this happened in Africa, and I think when you look at the China data originally and you said, oh, well, there's eighty million people are twenty million people in Wuhan and eighty million people in Hubei and they come up with a number of fifty thousand, you start thinking of

this more like SARS. Then you do this kind of global pandemic. I mean, I'll just be frank that when I looked at it, I was like, oh, well, this is not you know, as close as those quarters are, you know. So I think the medical community made interpreted the Chinese data as that this was serious but smaller than anyone expected, because I think probably we were missing

significant amount of the data. Now that when we see what happened to Italy and we see what happened to Spain, my friends, Chinese government lied about this, which had huge ramifications. I mean, here's the top expert, one of the people that liberals who are still deranged with their hatred of Trump and focus on that more than really anything else. Right. Now, here's the top expert saying that she looked at this, she looked at the data, and it was her conclusion

was wrong. So I'm here telling you that I also, based on what I was seeing and hearing, I thought that it would be like SARS as well. I mean, not that I have the expertise that she does, but I thought it would be one of these moments where

we have a respiratory scare. There'd be some cases here or there, but it would it would not be anything like we're dealing with now, and that shutting down the economy when this is happening would be you know, the cure would be worse than the disease, what the president said. But no, now we're now we're actually looking at a disease that's far beyond in terms of the losses and the casualties what we thought even even a week or

two ago. How did that happen? Because now we start to have more information about what really happened in China, because you have to remember, if the China knees with their very rapidly produced field hospitals on this matter and all the rest of in their lockdowns and everything. But China is a densely populated country of one billion people. And when you look at the numbers, they claim that

they only had twenty five hundred deaths in Wuhan. Twenty five hundred deaths the real number based upon and this is where the data has been essentially smuggled out now and this is how they're estimating this. There are eighty four furnaces with a capacity over twenty four hours of one five hundred and sixty urns citywide, assuming one cremation takes one hour, they told So they're looking at the

cremation data from funeral homes. And when you do that, the number and this is just in Wuhan, this isn't overall in the rest of China. When you do that, the death rate in Uhan isn't twenty five hundred, it's about fifty thousand. You're going up twenty x what the

Chinese government had been telling the world for weeks. You know, if you tell me that we're facing something similar to the flu and we'll have about the same casualty rate, you know, then it's it's possible to have a conversation about, well, how soon you know how many weeks before we can maybe do this lockdown, let them get ahead. But you've been telling me that it's going to kill twenty times as many people as the flu, which is what we're

now being told. If you're gonna tell me it kills twenty times as many people as the flu, well that's a dramatically different calculation. And we're just being presented with this now, my friends, it is April first. We are in April. The first US case of this was January fifteenth. This has been dragging along for months. So when people tell you, I've been saying this to listen to the experts.

Everybody at every level of this has gotten some of it wrong, and most of the people with the greatest authority and the biggest megaphones have gotten it very wrong. Let's just get this out of our systems now. Let's just be clear about this, because you want to make better decisions in the future. I want to make better decisions. I'm gonna tell you the truth. I have been mercilessly all my own here, beating myself up because I feel

like I should have seen this coming more. And then it will tell all of you with greater certainty how bad this was going to be. I'm mad at myself because of this, and I know, yeah, Deborah Burkes and the people that actually study this, I'm just some guy. I'm just some ex Intel analyst who does it pretty damn good radio show. But you know, I don't have

any special insider expertise into the issue of pandemics. Although I did read a book on pandemics a few years ago, which now everyone's talking about all the time, so I got that going for me. But no, honestly, though, I mean, I'm using a little bit of self deprecation here to defray from what makes me what makes me mad at myself. But I'm angry that I didn't see this coming. And I can't imagine people in the US government, top to bottom aren't also angry even though the information was bad,

even though it's garbage in and garbage out. I should have seen this coming. They damn sure should have seen this coming. And I mean that in all the agencies, all the experts, every level of government failure, failure, failure. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Where did the virus carrying bats

come from? And the paper says this quote. We screened the area around the market and identified two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus. Within a few hundred yards of the wet market was something called the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention. According to public reports, the center used intermediate horseshoe bats for research. Then, about seven miles away was another facility. It was called the Wuhan Institute

of Virology. The Virology Institute also conducted research on intermediate horseshoe bats, the ones that were not sold at the wet Market. South China University scientists concluded that the coronavirus pandemic, the one that people are dying from here, likely came from one of these two government labs in Wuhan. They noticed that a scientist at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention had been exposed to the blood and

urine of horseshoe bats. They also suggested that infected tissue samples from research animals may have wound up in the Wuhan wet market. Tucker Carlson is doing some of the most important commentary on TV these days, during this time when journalists, when the news should be really powerful and really matter, Tucker's thoughts are mattering. Tucker's thoughts are worthwhile a lot of the other stuff you're hearing is just complete,

just either repetitious or it's worthless garbage. Oh, the Navy ship's never going to arrive in New York, Yeah, MSNBC. I looked at it when it did arrive two days ago. So there we have it. But let's get into this situation with China here. I believe, and look, you won't really be able to tell me if I'm right or

wrong about this for years. So this is one of these predictions where I'll tell some of you, hopefully you'll still be listening, Hopefully we'll have millions of people listening to this show in years, and I'll tell you that I said this. People will look back at this as the beginning of the great struggle between the US and China for global hegemony. And it's going to bring us

very close. I'm not saying that a year, might be saying in next two or three years, next five or ten years, it's going to bring us very close to a shooting war with China because the Chinese Communist Party is not going to go down without a fight, and because this now shows us that what happens in China is not in any way cordoned off from the rest

of the world. In a whole bunch of context, you know, they've been engaged in this unceasing theft of intellectual property from the United States for decades now, and we've been trying to help them our approaches, and let's make a better, more prosperous, happier, healthier China and every way that we can. Let's be good neighbors. That's always America's view, right, Let's try to be good neighbors when we can. Sometimes we have to invade places and there's bombs dropped. Then I

understand that. But with China, we're trying to do right by the Chinese government and be good trade partners and all the rest of it. What China's done is, yeah, they've sold us a lot of cheap stuff to make them make their own country a lot wealthier, but they've also been stealing intellectual property and engaged in really nefarious activity for a long time. Okay, Tucker got into the situation of the virus. There are two. Now this is you know, you know where I've been on this. I

keep saying I can't prove it. I can't prove it. But let's look at the facts as we know them. There are two institutes of virology or infectious disease study that are a stone's throwaway from this wet market in Wuhan. Okay, So you have these two facilities. The disease this is according to Chinese research, Okay, the disease that we now are dealing with, and that has shut down the economy. It's a reason that a lot of us are just looking around like how are we in this global nightmare

people game, saying I'm gonna go somewhere. Okay, you better get way off the grid, because this is everywhere. It's in every country, it's in every state, and you know, you never know when someone's coughing if it's an allergy or if it's this. But the the bat, the specific species of bat that it is believed to have been the initial the initial animal reservoir for this virus, and then you have zooonotic transmission. It comes from the animal

to people. But the specific virus here is in a kind of bat, the intermediate guess I can't remember where its intermediate. It's something bad, Mark, do you remember where kind of bat there's there's actually hundreds of types of bats. I think there might even be more more than that,

but there's a lot of bat species. Horseshoe bat. There we go intermediate horseshoe bat, which is the scariest looking little thing you get ever, fine, I mean that little you know, you wouldn't want to see that thing hanging upside down your closet late at night trying to go in there and grab a sleeping cap, right, that would not be good. But this intermediate horseshoe bat that's supposed to be the animal reservoir for this virus didn't. They

didn't have any of them. They didn't sell them. That wasn't a species that they would have had within out there's no colony of them within hours of you know, a natural colony them within hours of the market itself. I think they said the last nine hundred kilometers. That's that's a pretty Now. Granted, they bring in animals, they bring in tigers, and they bring things from all over the world, but you're you're, you're you're bringing in a

bat that's not a native species to the area. There are a lot of bats that are so oh, you gotta unless somebody thinks that like the intermediate horseshoe bat just take so much better in the soup, and that might be possible. I've never had bat soup. I don't know, but it seems fishy does. And it seems a bit strange that you'd have the intermediate horseshoe bat not living

within five hundred miles or so. I mean, that's a bad that's a rough calculation, but whatever, whatever nine hundred kilometers is, it's like six or seven, one hundred, one hundred and nine er. If I could, you know, read a ten k and do math, I probably wouldn't be working media. So a little bit of honesty there. But here's the here's the truth. You look at the species of bat and you say, hold on a second, they

don't have any near there. And they were studying those bats in these two virology institutes whatever they're called, specifically, these two infectious disease institutions, one of which at least is known to have released viruses that it was studying in a pass into the general population. So that's already happened. Now, I don't think. I don't think that China intentionally let this thing out, not yet, meaning you know that maybe

down the line they were thinking about it. But now that we see how this works, now that we see the reality here, imagine the Imagine the strategic advantage the biological warfare agent would give you, because this is a weapon that could be completely Now, to be clear, I

do not think that the Chinese did this purposefully. I do think, well, I know that it came from China, obviously, and I do think there's a high possibility, maybe even now at probability, that it came from that it was being studied and got out of one of these labs, which would also explain at some level the completely corrupt and insanely irresponsible approach Chinese government. It's one thing if you have a virus that pops up somewhere, Okay, you know,

we didn't know how bad it was. But if the virus is the result of your faulty government labs, think about the I mean, not that the Chinese people could sue the Chinese government, think about the liability there. Think about how the international community might be able to turn to China and demand virus reparations. That's a real thing

that could happen. At some point we may say, Okay, China, you know, you get to pay for the trillions of dollars that you have just evaporated of global wealth here. You know they're not going to have the trillions to pay, but they gotta pay something, right that. I'm just saying this could happen in the future if it were so clearly not just something that originated in China. But we're the fault of the Chinese government, which seems to be increasingly likely to have been the case. But now look

at this from a biological weapons perspective. We see what this is doing to our country. It's tearing us apart, it's ripping down our economy, it's killing thousands and thousands of our fellow Americans. It's overwhelming our hospitals. Not a shot fired. Not a shot fired. If a country, let's say, had the Wuhan virus, had COVID nineteen, and also had studied to the point where they knew what suppression, what suppressive measures would work, and they release this and again

this is I'm not saying this is what happened. I'm wargaming. Why a country would want to study and prepare to weaponize this kind of virus if you could release this into a foreign government population and keep it under wraps and have your own population protected because you know either what the necessary intervention is or you know perhaps even what the cure is, or you could even do inoculations for government officials. Just tell them it's for something else.

And this wouldn't be that hard to do, especially in a country like China where's it's authoritarian. It's totalitarian, so they make all government officials, police, military get inoculated, and they keep the and they say it's for something else, and they say it's a standard inoculation. You know, the party can give those orders, and then they when people start showing up in their emergency rooms, the government mandates

a protocol for them. Even if the country that you would you would unleashed this in, which is as simple as just sending a few infected people, very straightforward, right, how you how you would weaponize it in terms of dispersal. Even if you did that, then when your own population

it would bounce back. And people say, this is why they would never This is why you don't want to weaponize a virus, or what if the state facilities have the treatment and you know, their fatality rate instead of being what it looks like this is, which is, you know, one percent, but particularly for older people, Let's say they had even elevated the fatality through continued engineering at the virus,

so it was like a fifty percent fatality rate. I mean, now I'm talking about a straight up weaponization of a virus, but you can bring that down to one percent for your own population. Think about what that does. You'll kill perhaps a few million of the enemy before they even realize what's gone on. Their economy will be in tatters, their society will be ground into dust, and you know, you basically are able to just keep on fighting, keep on going. This we're running, in a sense, a precursor

experiment to that. Right now, we're seeing what happens. And I do think that we need to take very seriously the prospect of the Chinese government being responsible for this through recklessness, not through intentional transmission. I do not think the Chinese government would try to infect its own population with this or would risk that knowing that they would not really be able to control it. That doesn't make sense. But Tucker talked to this last down on his show,

basing it on Chinese research that's already out there. What part of this is not credible? I mean, that's one way that as a former Intel officer, I'd like to ask. I always ask that question, why doesn't the story hold up? Don't tell me what we don't know, Tell me what's wrong about what we already know. I can't come up with anything yet. We know the Chinese government led about it. We know the Chinese government was willing to put everybody at substantially greater risk. So what do we do about

all of this? It's a question nobody has an answer for. Right now. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. We do not know the origin of this virus. We know where the outbreak first began, and it was Wuhan. And you're right, there is a level for biomedical research, the Wuhan Institute of Virology that's just a few miles away. That is the level four

is the highest level of security. We know that at that facility they were researching highly, highly infectious diseases, including coronaviruses, including coronaviruses that derived from back and so they're researching the exact same type of disease that became this pandemic,

and it is a natural question to ask. There had been multiple stories written in the global media about how the security protocols at this will Hunt Institute were lacking, that they weren't very good, that this is you know, this is the sort of place you see in the movies where people go in and the hazmat suits and it's all you know, sealed off, and because they're exceptionally dangerous diseases there, and there is a very natural question to ask of well, did somebody make a mistake where

they studying this virus and did it escape accidentally? And is that part of why the communist government in China tried so hard to cover that cover this up. I'm and Ted Cruz on this one. I didn't know that was his opinion until today, but that's been my feeling on this all along. Wouldn't that make sense then if you're the Communist party, you recognize not only are you going to have to deal with the I look, disease can happen anywhere, right, I mean, no one, no one

blames Lime Connecticut for lime disease. And just because that's the first place where they figured out what this was, the disease carried by dear ticks. You know, no one blames you know, you know West the West Nihile area for West nil virus. It's not about that. But this is different than that. This isn't the place of discovery for something that's just you know, an accident of nature

that that occurred that we're now dealing with. This is a government entity that lied about this because of its incompetence, which goes to a whole other level here and also under and also explains why their propaganda has been so aggressive. But yeah, if if I, if I had gotten reports, if I had known, let's say, a month ago, that they're saying fifty thousand, I mean maybe it's more like seventy five or one hundred thousand dead in one hundred

one city from this one from this virus. If that's what we were dealing with, I think everybody would have figured out real fast that this is something that we have to take very seriously and that this isn't you know, with the flu we do the stiff upper lip we pushed through. We take the best care of vulnerable populations we can, but we know that people people get sick, and people do die tens of thousands a year from

the flu. So the thinking, understandably at the early stages of this was well, based on the numbers we're seeing, it's going to be kind of more like the flu. So we're gonna have to just do our best. But we you know, we should probably move forward. Right. No, that just went. That just got chopped like with a guillotine in the last really, in the last seventy two hours.

I mean, it's been building for the last week or two, but the last seventy two hours, all of a sudden, there's nobody now in the Trump administration who's saying anything other than up, shut it down, shut everything down. So what a what a stunning circumstance. And and and also I want to talk to you about the some of the

organizations here that were wrong about this. And it's not This isn't a like let's just go joy ride in the wreckage of international institutions and various global news brands credibility. This is let's do an accounting for what's really true here. I mean, I've told you that I'm I'm upset that I didn't see this coming more and I saw it coming more than some people, But I didn't know it was going to be this. I knew it was going

to be serious. I didn't know it was going to be locked down the country indefinitely and maybe just you know, we light our economy on fire because we have no choice. I didn't know it's gonna be that serious. But this is where I caul to tell you we're gonna get through this. We're gonna be okay, Everything's gonna be fine. I promise it's all gonna be I mean when I say everything's gonna be fine, it's gonna be tough. We're gonna take losses, and but we will have days when

we can finally go back. You know, I miss being able to do a lot of impersonations on this show. I miss being able to joke around more. I feel like I'm stuck in this one mode and there's so many other things that I want to talk to you all about, and that's why I've been working to try

to do some projects from this. But I just I don't want to be you know, I can't sit here and do you know Hong Kong clown stuff as much as I do enjoy that sometimes while we're going through this, So I hope you all understand and appreciate that it's not it's and it's not that I'm trying to make anyone's day harder. Ever, this this, for me, there's a there's a catharsis tough word to say. Sometimes a catharsis of daily truth diving that I can do with all

of you, and I find that really helpful. I find some comfort in waking up every day and knowing that I get to learn as much as I can about what's happening, use all the resources at my disposal, all the sources that I have, and then present you with the biggest, best version of the truth that I can, and then have your feedback to me through roll call and however else you reach out and know that we're in this constant dialogue about what's really going on, because

if you were, if you and I'm going to do some of it now. When you catalog what has been set out there and what the people that we were depending on to get this right, what they have been saying, what they have been doing all along, you will have a very different view of what it means to quote, listen to the experts. Listen to experts, but always judge what the expertise they're giving you really is. You know,

always judge what the advice is they're handing out. And I'll go through some of where those shortcomings have been. But man, I look forward to the day when I can do you know, silly Bernie voices and all those things. It'll it'll be here sooner than we realize. But right now it's it's tough to get into that headspace. Friends. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever

you get your podcasts. It's shameful. I mean for the United States to be race fading virus which never has a flag, can't have a flags as being the providence of one country is designed to be divisive. It's designed to stigmatize people of Asian descent, and it's certainly not the way the leadership of the United States, the Secretary of State, the President the United States ought to be behaving in the best of times, but certainly not in

a crisis. So that's the former National Security Advisor under Barack Obama Susan Rice, and she is saying here that calling it the Wuhan virus is racist. Now, this is just this is on its own, a dumb thing to say. We keep coming up against this, and I've refrained from doing this. This is kind of the the petty parts in squabbles that I often talk about, you know, talk about trying to avoid I should say, and try to avoid talking about them. But this is the usual, Oh,

don't call it that. It's racist to call it that. And there's a lot of virtue signaling and a lot of other nonsense that's going on right now around that calling it the Wuhan virus is not racist. Okay. The way that we talk aboutfferent places, different diseases coming from different places has nothing to do with race. We all know that the people of Lyme, Connecticut are not all all upset that it's called Lyme disease. This is just not something that not something that we should have to

deal with it. And also I think that there there's an effort to rewrite history that's going on right now that we cannot allow. We cannot allow it to happen. But put aside for a second these stupid comment that

this is racist. And I will say, notice how much less talk we have had, how much less we have heard recently about using the preferred pronouns right, Notice how much less we've heard about mis gendering those when we used to say that this was an absurdity and that society was just collapsing in on itself in terms of the culture being beyond anyone's even even comprehension about what

you're supposed to say, are allowed to say? Those are the squabbles of a society with unprecedented freedom and wealth and happiness everywhere. When you're able to sit around and worry about being mis gendered or worried about these things you're dealing with, well, whatever you think of that, whatever you think of it, it's just indicative of the society does not have. Are those major news stories we'd wrought about, Oh, someone wouldn't use the correct wouldn't use they wouldn't use

a plural? Prone to remember all that? As I've said, I miss I long for and I miss the time when we could sit around and see who was dumb enough to believe that a couple of guys in Maga hats put a noose around Jesse Smullett's neck at one o'clock in the morning on a freezing night on the South side of Chicago, or just in Chicago yelling this is maga country. Right. Nope, that didn't happen, but that

was a major, major news story. Instead, we're in the midst of this and there are still people who are and there's going to be some focus on. You can't just only talk about, even if you're in the news business, only talking about coronavirus. So I try to make some exceptions for that. But here's Susan Rice taking the position again.

I mean the people that people that pretend to care so much, or at least I shouldn't say they pretend to care, people that go to extreme lengths to show how much they care to signal their virtue over this virus and the ravaging of the country that it's doing. And those same people will also take time out of their day to lecture you on not calling at Wuhan virus because the politics here hasn't in the politics there

haven't changed. So Susan Rice saying that's one thing. I also though, want to note, why does the Democrat Party in general, why are we seeing so many prominent Democrats who are so willing to swallow Chinese propaganda pretty much wholesale, just just believe the Chinese government's proping enda and continue to repeat it. They are and this is a This is a statement that I think would be I don't

believe an honest person can disagree with this. And I think that there are a lot of liberals who if you push them for an answer, they would they would give the answer that I'm saying. They would here for a lot of journalists and for a lot of Democrats, it is that they should. They are more skeptical. They are more skeptical of the Trump administration's information about COVID nineteen than they are the Chinese governments. They are more willing to believe Shijin Ping and the CCP than they

are Donald Trump and his Coronavirus Task Force. I think that that's true. And they would say that's because of trump ling. I would just say that's because they're Trump's arranged and they're insane. This hasn't changed and there's still this. I mean, the things that were being said yesterday by Bill Crystal, by a whole bunch of pal that goals of mitigation was the whoops, sorry, I just hit the microphone.

Goals of Mitigation was the title of the slide they put up that showed the really scary numbers, goals of mitigation, and the way that people were trying to interpret that was, Oh, they're saying that two hundred thousand dead is a goal. Now know what they're saying is that two hundred thousand instead of two million is a goal. That's what the slide was saying, if you're being an honest human being. But they don't want to be honest human beings. They

just want to dunk on Trump. Whatever it takes, however they can, they will dunk on Trump, and that is in itself troubling, but it just goes to show you that they don't take any sort of glee in slamming the Chinese Communist Party, the government of China, which we now recognize, I think is a danger to the world and really is an opponent of the United States and increasing will just become an enemy of the United States

quite there. Yet, think of how much they were willing to demonize Russia though, and how much time was spent in the media making us all focus attention and you know, attention matters. Perception. Perception drives politics, Politics drives action and national security decision making, and you know, perception leads to war, right. I mean, the media does have a lot of power, still not as much as they used to do, but

they have a lot of power. I think of all the time they spend making us think about Russia and how Russia was such a major challenge for us. We should have all been thinking more about what to do about Russia. And now we're faced with China essentially, maybe inadvertently, but China collapsing the global economy, which is what they'

that's what they're doing right now. The Chinese have collapsed the global economy, the Chinese Communist Party, and there's still much more fear and much more anger from the left about Russia because you know, Hillary should have won the twenty sixteen election than anything you see directed at the Chinese Communist government, the Chinese Communist Party. That's that's disgraceful, but it's where it's where we are. And I'm a big believer, as you know, and let's let's deal with

things as they are. Our media cannot be trusted on these issues. They also cannot be trusted to evaluate their own to give themselves a scorecard. They mocked Trump for saying that. You know, Trump says he's done a good job. But Trump always thinks he's done a good job. That's just who he is, that's in his nature. But the Chinese Communist Party, the media will say, has been saying in recent weeks that they've that China has been doing

a good job with this virus, that we haven't. I wonder if they're going to run stories now about how it don't. Actually China is lying and they've had a ton more people kill than they've been willing to tell the world, which is what we're now finding out, which is also why I think there's this panic, my guests, And if you want to know, I saw a report on this about how the intelligence community has information. Now.

I think what happened is we we somehow got wind from some some source, you know, we we caught through I don't know what the sourcer method would be, but we we caught wind of somebody high up the Chinese Communist Party chain talking to somebody somehow and being like, yeah, we got to find a way to hide we're up there, like you know, eighty thousand dead in Wuhan. We got to find a way to hide this from the people.

You'd think the journalists that have been hoodwinked, that have been bamboozled, swindled, fooled, you'd think that they would be upset at China. No, they're still more upset at the at the Trump administration. And also they want to tell you that they, unlike the Trump administration, they saw this coming all along. Let's examine that proposition. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast. We've heard z commanual that nobody could have seen this coming.

The fact is everybody saw this coming. Everybody saw this coming in early January. So I know it's I know you like me. I'm sorry there, Joe, but that's just not true. In fact, I saw an analysis of Joe Scarborough's Twitter feed from January. I think it was seventeen tweets about impeachment, seven about sports bunch, other about politics. You know how many tweets he put out with his millions of followers about coronavirus in the month of January when there was the first US case. A couple of

weeks to figure this out. I remember end of January. I was on the Bill mar Show and people weren't shaking hands, and we were all taught. We everyone knew that this was a know how tweets zero zero, And doesn't that make you think at some point that maybe he's not telling the truth. Maybe there's a problem here, is this is a lie that the media saw this coming. Joe Scarborough's lying about it. Other people are. They're all trying to rewrite their history right now and claim that

it's not that you know that this was. The Right called it a hoax. They all knew, they all knew. They're also smart, and people are dying, people have blood on their hands on the Right and Trump. Because okay, this is just a series of they're all from this year, so they're all from when we knew this was a crisis, or rather that this was a problem. I should say, I'm just gonna give you a series of headlines. You know,

the national interests. Forget the coronavirus. The flu pandemic of nineteen eighteen killed more people in one year than all of World War One. The Daily Beast, the virus killing US kids isn't the one dominating the headlines. Not coronavirus, National Post new coronavirus maybe no more dangerous than the flu, despite worldwide alarm. Experts patch MD flu death's climb is flu more worrisome than coronavirus? Reuter's doctor suggests worrying about

the common flu, not coronavirus. This is all from end of January early February Washing Post. You're likely to get the coronavirus. Well, if we're likely to get it, then to mind, my thinking was, then a lot of us who are going to get it. You just accept that we're probably gonna get it, and then keep vulnerable population safe. And then we have heard immunity right, and they were telling us that we were all likely to get it.

Now we're all in total quarantine because oh my god, you can't get this because it's gonna kill everybody if if we are too many people if we get this, I mean I could go on. This is a whole sheet. It's amazing. It's making the rounds wired. We should de escalate the war on coronavirus CNN. As the coronavirus spreads, fear is fueling racism and xenophobia. Science the Flu Science Alert website the flu is a bigger threat to people in the US than coronavirus. Here's what to most people

then coronavirus. Here's why as central new coronavirus is likely to go pandemic. But that's no reason to panic or overreact. I just the media was all talking about they were talking about how Trump is a moron, but don't worry about this thing. He's not going to handle a while and he's a moron. But you know this is not going to be that big of a deal. Don't don't overreact. We got this. We talked to the experts. They're all claiming to talk to the experts. Axio Swabi panic about

corona virus but not the flu. I mean, the the mountains of wrong on this would dwarf the Himalayas. From the media, From government officials. Oh wait, here's one of my fair Speaking of government officials, where where did it go? It's one of my favorites. I mean, there's that just astonishing, astonishing from January World Health Organization weighing in on this to say that there was no evidence that there was human to human transmission of this. No evidence of human

to human transmission. This thing spreads like wildfire in closed quarters and increasingly. There seems to be evidence that it spreads pretty well. It spreads pretty well in the air aerosolized droplets. So I just I hate this, this rewriting of history. You know, if you're if you're going to work in the information dissemination business, if you're going to be an analyst or a reporter, you should be honest about where you are. Doctor Burke says she thought it

would be like stars. I thought it was going to be like one of those respiratory viruses that we hear a lot about, and there's some bad cases, but it kind of disappears after a while. And then I thought, okay, well, you know, we'll give a couple of weeks, we'll most of the cases, we'll stamp out, we'll get prepared, and then you know, and now we're being told, no, we're not going back to work. It's not happening for a long time. If you want to go back to work,

a whole lot of people are going to die. And this is this has been the shift, That is the shift in conversation from the administration in the last week alone. Listen to the experts, they said, just listen to the experts. That's all you have to do the experts. I've got all this stuff covered for you. This is we're going to look back on this, and this is the virus equivalent of Pearl Harbor or nine to eleven. I mean, the experts failed on this, and I'm sorry, I'm upset

about this. I'm here in New York. I know people that are terrified of getting this every single day, people that are tending to those who are dying every day from this. I'm reaching out. I'm talking to them as often as I can. How are you doing? How's it going? I mean, it feels very very real here, even if you're just an isolation, even if you're just in lockdown, everything you touch every time you walk outside. And I

want to know where was the CDC on all this? Really, the CDC was so good on this, and I'm just gonna tell you this. You go back. I mean, doctor Fauci, I think, is a good man who's trying his best, and he's obviously got a lot of knowledge about this issue. But you look back at some of the things that we've been told, Okay, should we wear masks or not? We were told that wearing masks wasn't necessary. Another maybe you should wear masks. What have they gotten right about this?

That's perhaps the best way to do this analysis. What did the media get right? I mean, I'm sorry not to media. What are the expert class the World Health Organization massive failure? CDC can't make tests and really is just telling you that you got to wash your hands and keep a distance from people. Not sure about the masks. Nobody was ready with the stockpiles of masks and ventilators necessary. Don't really know what the mortality rate of this thing is.

Certainly don't have a treatment for it or a vaccine. I mean, most of this we keep being full of listening to CDC guidance. It's stay locked the way and wash your hands and try not to breathe too much, don't touch your face. That that they've been steady on should you wear a mask? And depends on how you ask. Are we going to have a treatment for this? Who knows how long will this last? Will there be rebounds,

will there be a second wave? They're not sure. How dangerous is it for people who aren't in high risk age categories and with health issues? They don't know, am am I missing something? And now they're telling us, Oh, No, we're not going back to work and accepting the additional risk that would come from that, because the risk is far too high, because it actually turns out we're not

facing something like the flu. We're facing something that, based on the numbers, is you know, twenty times worse than the flu season. That's that's quite a record that the experts have up to this point. Thanks for listening to the bus sets and show past. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts at the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, this is about the last thing we need right now, but it is breaking news today from

the President's official Twitter account. Upon information and belief, Iran or its proxies are planning a sneak attack on US troops and or assets in Iraq. If this happens, Iran will pay a very heavy price. Indeed, I've been worried about this, that our enemies will see us as the massive tortoise that has retreated into its shell, and they will be circling and then they will try to strike,

even enemies that themselves are wounded. Right now, Remember the Mullahs, they don't respond to the needs of their own people. They don't care that an estimated fifteen thousand people have died from COVID nineteen in Iran. And if even it feel terrible for the Iranian people, Chinese people, their governments are just horrific. And it's not it's being a horrific governments.

It shouldn't be a surprise to anybody that Chinese have been so terribly dishonest and disgraceful about this whole situation. I remember when I say the Chinese, just for the records, that CCP, the Chinese Commist Party. I'm not talking about one billion Chinese who just want to go about their days, love their families and go to sleep at night, like I get it. But the CCP is the same organization that you know, it's the same government that still presides

over over a million weekers in concentration camps. They ended, but they had for a long time, the one child policy, forced sterilization, forced abortion. I mean, it's a deeply immoral government. It's not even amoral, it's immoral. It is an evil government. And so that means that there's a lot that they're willing to do and a lot that they're willing to justify in their conduct, or rather perhaps they don't feel the need to justify much of anything. So that's that's

where this is right now. The Chinese government doesn't care that the world is well. The Chinese government doesn't care what's happened to its own people as long as it can maintain power. And the Iranian government may be trying to externalize or or you know, draw attention away from its failures with an attack on US trips. Think about this.

The Iranians you're getting getting by COVID nineteen right now, They're losing people all over the place, and they're assuming that the president's tweet is correct, the information is accurate. They're planning of tax on the US now. Maybe nothing happens here, but they should know better. I mean, I'll tell you this. Anybody that pokes America right now, that goes after I mean, do you think anybody would would question a really heavy response. I mean, the response would

have to be more than proportional. The response would have to be punitive. If someone comes after American interests when we are on lockdown from this virus, and I mean comes after US and tries to kill Americans right now, our response should be fearsome and should be sending a message well beyond what we would see in normal times, and I would leave it to this administration to figure out what that is. I have no doubt that that

would also be Trump's Trump's move. You know, governments are run by people, and people have emotions and people have feelings. It's not mechanical. And we are going through the biggest crisis we have had since the Second World War right now, and Iran wants to play games be very unwise. Look, there's going to be there's going to be a series. There will be a series of major geopolitical shifts that occur just over the course of this virus over the

next twelve months. There are going to be things that happen that no one can predict right now. But in retrospect, there'll be seismic shifts that everybody say, how did we miss that? Maybe it is the downfall of the Iranian regime. Maybe it is finally my friend Gordon Chang wrote the Coming Collapse of China back in the early two thousands. Maybe the Chinese Communist Party finally comes under real pressure. I think that's unlikely. If anything, they're ascendant and probably

an even stronger position. But we don't know, you know, we don't know. Well, what if the WUHAN numbers are mirrored in other parts of China and there's a real popular sense of enough is enough? You just again, I'm telling you that there's going to be age or geopolitical shifts over the next twelve months. One of the worst ones for US would be if it turns out that

the US is no longer the reserve currency. And I know this is a a little bit of a digression from what we're talking about her here, but I just have to think. You know, I own some cryptocurrency, not a lot, because I don't have a lot of money. I own some cryptocurrency, and I would just if you're not seeing cryptocurrency skyrocket. Now, you got to wonder when when is that going to happen? It feels like the whole thing was kind of a scam, doesn't it. I

don't know. Some of you're gonna get mad at me for saying that, but oh, yes, you know blockchain technology, Yeah that's cool. But as cryptocurrency is valuable as people were being led to believe a few years ago, oh man, those were the day as well? Was it three years ago? Now? In December, the cryptocurrency was just skyrocketing and the country was at peace and things were good. And I think about the first three years the Trump administration, I almost

tear up. It was such a we've had. This show has been so good, We've grown so fast. I feel like we've done I've been so proud of the work that we've been putting in here, the work product that I I should say, yeah, everyone works hard. I don't mean that, but I mean, you know, I'm proud of what we've done as a show. And it's just been an amazing time in American history and American life. And I knew it,

and I think I told you this. I sat down, I told my mother in December, right around when I told you that, I had had that premonition which I've played for you on the show, of something really bad it's going to happen in twenty twenty. And I didn't know what it was. So it's not really that useful. It's kind of like been lot determined to attack America

back in two thousand, Okay, where how and when? But I knew something really bad was going to happen just because things were too good, things were too prosperous, too peaceful, too happy in despite all the Russia and all the stuff that the lives were yelling about. And I sat down and I looked at my mom and I just said, I just want to go on. I just want to say this that my life is is good enough, peaceful enough, happy enough, fulfilled enough that I know this will not last.

But if this were my every day, I would want for nothing basically, you know. And they I still want a family and kids. I mean, so there's some things that we're missing in a sense, but it's just in terms of general happiness in being. And it was largely driven I think by a sense that we were all this country was in such a good place. There was an optimism, a positivity that was out there all over

the place. And I bring that up now one it's just a point of nostalgia to remind myself and hopefully to remind all of you that that is a place whereas a nation we have been recently and we can get back there. I don't know how long it will be, and it's going to be a struggle. And the same thing I always say about anybody that's having contractors or construction repair done of any kind. Whatever they tell you, it's going to be three times that long. I think,

unfortunately that it's a pretty good rule of thumb. I think, unfortunately that's going to be true about us getting back to where we were as a country. But I also think that we need to be reminded sometimes of how good things have been so that we know that they're not going to stay like this, and they can be. It is possible to have a country where everyone's wages are going up, and not everybody, but you know, in general,

wages are going up. We're not at any big wars, we're not under threat of major terrorist attacks, we're not suffering from a pandemic. Where we live in a time of tremendous abundance and security and amazing food and amazing culture and access and technology. And you know that was and you know that I was saying, enjoy it. Other shows are round, you know, they're destroying the country and

this is terrible, and people yelling about everything. You know that that's what they were doing when things are really good. I'm I don't do that. I was telling you that things were really good and that we should have enjoyed them. We had struggles we had fights, we had things that we needed to focus on, but you know, overall and now, I can't tell you that I'm worried. In fact, I go back and forth between wanting to tell you what I think is really happening and not wanting to just

sort of add to that. It's it's a delicate balance. I've been talking to the people closest to me about it every day when I go on this show. I mean, I feel such an obligation to those of you who

listen to the huge numbers of people. It's a it's a very powerful and really to me sacred thing to be able to be in the Freedom Hut and which is now in my home because we all have to be on home lockdown and be able to talk to people all across the country and have you hear my voice, and whether I'm rolling along with you if you're driving a truck or a car, or in your living room or hanging out in the kitchen while you're cooking, and trying to inform you and just keep you company, and

you're all keeping me company too. Doing this feels like this is my human connection right now. But I try every day to make sure that I'm making the best usage of your time every day we do this show. And it's really a challenge right now to hit that balance between where do I think this is going and how do I keep us all feeling positive and inspired to go forward. And you know, I've had some mornings here where it's been really tough. I've woken up and

I've thought, how how do I approach this one? What do I do? Not just with the show, but you know, it feels a little bit like you're you're in prison in a sense. I mean it's in very nice prison. You've got your refrigerator and your Netflix and your you know whatever. But I still have my purpose, which is to do this. But all the other things around in my life, those always enriched this show. And I know a lot of you have the same thing going on.

Maybe you're still doing a lot of you're probably still doing your jobs, either remotely, or maybe you're going in and you're on the front line in some capacity, either

on logistics or the fight against the virus. You know, maybe you're you're doing all those things, but we're now missing those other those other components that enrich our day to day experience and make us make us better at the things that we do to produce, make us better at the things that are our work product, whatever that may be, whether it's showing up and scanning groceries, if you're a podcaster yourself, if you're a you know, a nurse, if you're a truck driver, if you're a you know,

a finance guy, whatever, all these things. So there's going to also have to be sometimes here where I just speak to you, you know, from the heart, about about what I'm feeling and what I see going on, because I think I think we all need that, and you know I haven't. I will not. I'll make you this promise. I will not give into despair, and I will not ever come on this show and allow my concerns about what's happening to mean that I started to take us

down a path where I'm leaning on you. I'm here to present it, to present you with truth and stories and facts that help you, entertain you and push us all forward. But I'm just saying that I never before have I felt like striking the balance between speaking truth and not being a pessimist was so challenging. And maybe this is something I'll return to tomorrow with some more time.

I know we will win, and I feel like everyone's saying this and we need It's one of those things you need to keep hearing, you know, you know how even if you know you're not you know, you know you didn't do the best job in a sports game or something, but your parents are there and after as they say, you know, you did a great job. You know you fought hard, and if you know that's you know, it's kind of true, like you did fight hard, but

maybe you didn't have the best game. Maybe you missed the you know, maybe you missed a couple of passes you should have called, or you you know, you whiffed at home play, whatever it may be. But you still

need to hear that. We all need to hear that we're gonna be okay and we're gonna get through this, even though we know there are big challenges ahead, big challenges from the virus, from the economy, from the government response to it, our relationships as a society with each other, the strain that this is putting on us set at every level. This is going to be a test like

we've never really had before. And I'm also I think I think it's important that we get psychologically geared up for this is this is not even gonna We're not even going to really see daylight on this, so to speak, until June, and that's the earliest, and that's when things will maybe start to settle down a little bit. That's really what I'm feeling right now. Now. I've said that for a while, I said on the w OUR show, and I think I said it on this show too. Sorry,

sometimes I can't remember which two radio shows a day. Now, I can't remember exactly what I've said on which show, but I definitely said, you know, producer Mark and I will be having margaritas on the street in June. That was an I was at least three weeks ago, I think I said that. And it's looking increasingly like June, maybe July, but June seems like a pretty good start.

You know, this end of April lockdown thing, Okay, they're going to bring the curve down, but they're not gonna they're not going to open things up in a meaningful way in May and risk and risk having then the number of skyrocket again. The only thing that really changed, the only real game changer we have here is if somebody comes up with a real silver bullet treatment against this.

If you ever prayed for anything, and you and you believe that that that is helpful for things in this worldly in this worldly kingdom, please pray for that, and that will be I've I don't think I've ever cried from a news story before, from joy. I don't think I've ever cried tears of joy. We get a treatment that knocks this thing out, and I will go on air and probably talk to you about it, and I'll be crying tears of joy. That's That's how much of a change it will be for this country and for

the whole world. So and I there's a part of me that just has to believe that we'll get there sooner than later. We have so many smart individuals, so much research and work going on. A part of me believes we've got to get there. So that's the most optimistic feeling I have right now. You're in the This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. All right, roll call, let's do it. JJ kicks us off here with Hey, Buck, I see your bobcat and raise you a palace cat? Or is it a palace palace? Have you seen them?

They're ridiculously adorable looking, but are so vicious they'll laugh at you as they slowly flay the skin from your face if you do not pet them correctly. Check them out. Thanks for keeping us safe and warm at night. I've never heard of a palace Have you heard of this, producer Mark, I have not? Oh, also called a manual manual is a small wild cat with a broad but fragmented distribution in the grasslands and step of Central Asia. Huh.

It's kind of like a like a Mongolian bobcat. Sort of doesn't look like something I want of these as pets. Palace cats, this is this is just from Wikipedia. This is not from any real research. It's see you know, and people. If you're like, you're just doing Wikipedia, I'm like, yeah, I'm not doing a radio show. I gotta I gotta tell you something. Palace cats, while adorable to look at, should not be kept as pets. Not only is it difficult for them to survive at low altitudes, but they

are truly wild animals. A palace cat kept as a pet would be miserable. It would make you miserable too. Um Okay, well, I mean they look they look really cute. I gotta say it's kind of like a big, fluffy, grumpy cat. Producer Mark. You might have a new pet. You might have a new pet. No, I don't like cats. Buck, Well, this cat wouldn't like you. How about that. I don't think it would like anybody, Buck. Yeah, I think it's probably true. Apparently they they rip your face off. So yep, alrighty,

here we go. All right, Ian, long time Daily listener, just wanted to tell you to to drop a line and hang in there. I can tell by Buck's tone in the first five seconds on Monday that things are getting really bad. Hope you guys know that your family's in our thoughts. Yeah, thank you. Ian. It has been

very tough here, it has been. Monday was rough. Monday was a rough day, and especially because last week I started to think, all right, we're gonna batten down the hatches, we're gonna start getting people back to work the fifteen days, and then it's none, No, it's not the fifteen days. It's it's another thirty days. We're not going back to work. We're not taking that risk at all. I felt a

little bit like whiplash. I'll be honest, that was a little you know, I was like, all right, I was ready to put a face mask on and start showing up to the office again, and I think I thought, all right, this is what we're gonna start doing. Nope, not happening. On Monday, you discussed the lack of preparation from the CDs see and how we're basically hoping for

a miracle from those pharmaceutical companies. Oh wait, hold on one second, and I'm gonna I'm gonna come back and address the rest of your roll call here in just a moment. But yeah, no, we are. We are hoping for something of a miracle from the CDC. That much is I'm sorry, from the pharmaceutical companies. Rather, that much is definitely true. Thanks for listening to the Bust. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or

wherever you get your podcasts. All right, continuing with this roll call note from Ian, I agree with your analysis book. Here in Colorado, the drunk companies and the hospitals have been the favored attack, the thing that gets attacked of our Democrat governor. While criticism and specific cases has been deserved, I find it very rich that the industry the left has been demonizing for the last fifteen years is now expected to be our saviors. All of a sudden, we

don't hear anything about profit margins and drug prices. The irony is rich. It's just unfortunate that it took a crisis like this to expose it, not that it would ever be pointed out in the corporate media. Take care of yourselves. Thanks for continuing your show through all this. I know we'll make it out. I don't know what things will look like when we do, but I know

we'll make it. Shields II Ian, You're a wise fellow, and I appreciate you writing in, and I agree with you that the demonization of big Farma, especially given how we are turning to big Farmer now and saying please save us. Basically that's really where we are. I mean, the only way that this doesn't stretch really through this year, and I mean til the end of the year and take us into a place where we're in a slightly better position but still dealing with this twelve months from now,

is if Farmer comes up. I mean, we're still this disease is not just going away. And all the talk about mitigation measures and distancing and everything, I guess we're gonna have to keep doing that for six, nine twelve months. Maybe not at the same extreme of shutdown we are and right now, but I'm not sure. As I've been saying, well, well why not. If the logic is we can't afford it, We're gonna lose. We're gonna lose far too many lives

unless we have the extreme shutdown scenario. Okay, well, are we not going to be losing lives in June and July and August? Well, anyway, I know, stiff upper lip, we'll make it through. We'll make good choices, We'll be all right. But yeah, I really hope that the people that are studying this, and there's some big farmer companies and some of these world class minds that are on it, I hope they realize that this is this is their chance. This is the chance for science to save civilization. Really,

that's what that's what we're seeing. I don't think we're gonna total clops of civilization over this. That's a little extreme, but you know what I mean, there should be a huge win, a huge, huge win. Okay, man, I want to get ahead of myself, but that would be that

would be the happiest, the happiest thing ever. Um, we should know more about chloroquin and about some of these other treatments that are underway in the next couple of weeks, and even if they're mostly useful, even if they're mostly good, that would be that would be a big improvement before we are right now. Chad, Hey Buck, great show, love

your use of language. Quick prediction. I see the US handling China, handing China a bill for all the costs and expenses caused by the COVID nineteen outbreak and all but elimiting our national debt with China. Shield Taigh Team Roy Chad, Chad, I said this did on the show, so you're kind of getting ahead of where I was that. I could see demands from the international community for China

to pay reparations. The Chinese government now they won't pay it, but I could see a movement toward that, especially as we get more information about just how dishonest the Chinese have been in this process and what that has meant for the world. I just think it's very very clear that the Chinese government is directly responsible for a lot of the carnage and the destruction that we're seeing all over the world. So I don't see a way around that.

And there's you know, it's an immoral regime that made an immoral choice. And now we're all paying that. We're all paying the price for that. We're all paying the price for it. And you know, the people that have been saying for a while that China is not some government that we should cozy up to. That. You know who is the first president in decades that wanted to

confront China. Let's give credit words due. It was Donald Trump, who is the first president to come along from either party and really say this nonsense with China on the predatory trade practices and all the rest has to stop. It's Donald Trump. Yeah, remember there, all the trade war is going to know. The trade war didn't ruin us. Chinese government is ruining us right now through this virus. Roy. Hey, Buck,

just look at your picture of Sixth Avenue. I moved my youngest daughter from New York City down here to Texas last year. I'm glad we've got her here in Texas hanging there, Buck every day? Roy? Yeah, Roy, thanks man um. I I don't know have you know. My whole family's here. We're all in New York City. So we're all on lockdown. Not a not a fun place to be. And uh, you know the people who work, you know, maintenance, and you know people who are you know,

the handyman for the building that I live in. Things. Everyone's wearing face masks. Now I don't have a face mask. I gotta get one. Go online. I can't find one, can't bother them in stores. I gotta find now, I gotta go on the whole after being told no, no face mask. Now it's oh no, get a face mask. But it's kind of too late, you know. Don't hoard toilet paper. I feel like it's only a matter of time before oh sorry, we got about a four week

weight on toilet paper now. So if you were a hoarder, you're gonna be fine, But the rest of us are gonna be I don't know. Taking really like excessive showers every day. Yeah no, I'm glad you got your daughter out of New York City. Yet, I gotta tell you, I don't think this. I don't think New York City is ever really going to be the same because now people now this is real to people, and they're not going to want to live in such close quarters, they're

not gonna want to deal with the subway. They're not gonna want this anymore. That's gonna have a huge effect. And we're also getting much more comfortable with working from home, with telecommuting, with leveraging technology for the purposes of professional productivity. I think that's that's going to have a real mark. That the leave a real mark, or be a real change, leave a mark. Sorry, that's not really the way I meant to say that that's going to be a real change.

I have to see. I have to see where it all goes. Christy and Pete Buck love the show. My wife and I listen every day. We are truck drivers all over our great country hauling medical, food and supplies from coast to coast. Life is good. Yeah, different, but good. We know the extended lockdown is hard, but your show Monday was way too depressing. We all get it. It sucks, but you got to stay up at the facts. But also remember we are a great country. We will survive.

There's enough doom and gloom hang in there. Life is good. We need to keep doing our job. We need you so we can keep doing our job. Christie and Pete Man I'm sorry if Monday I was a little too little, too little, too down. It was just a tough day here, and it's a tough day here in New York given what we've been told. You know, the whole city's under quarantine, and we got thirty days of this and it's, uh,

it's scary out there, man. I mean every morning I wake up and I have this moment where I think my breathing okay to have a fever, you know, every morning, and it's not strange. I know plenty of people now who have been in I have been in close and continued contact with somebody who has COVID nineteen. I know

plenty of people. So it's just a matter of time before some people that I know have it, and I you know, hopefully at that point there will be the hospitals will be better able to deal with this, and hopefully anyone I know who gets it won't even have to go to a hospital. But yeah, I know, look, guys, I gotta say positive. It's it's hard. You know. I do a New York specific show and then I also do this show. But this is you know, this is

the main show. This is my three hour syndicated broadcast every day, and I know for a lot of you, you're not dealing with this the same way that we are here in New York. So it's it can be a bit of a it can be a disconnect, right

And I'm not I don't know. I'm not on the prediction business anymore, for sure, But I'm not convinced that I'm not convinced that this is going to spread to the rest of the country the same way with a lot of the authorities, I should say, spread in a New York like fashion to the rest of the country, which seems to be baked into some of the models. But maybe not, maybe not, who knows? Who knows? Rick rights, Hey Buck, yesterday you were talking about the Tiger King.

For similar viewing, you might want to check out Fatal Attractions. It's currently on Hulu. It's a series about people who make questionable choices for pets, tigers, bears, hippos, even a hyena. Interesting stuff. Shields high Rick. I saw The eight hundred oh No The Elephant, The Elephant in the Living Room, which is a documentary about a guy who has like disability from back pain and lives in a trailer in Ohio and has two I think eight hundred pound African

lions in his backyard. So not somebody that you would generally think would have two full grown African lions as pets, but he does. And that's the show I've seen. I think that Fatal years ago. I think I saw that Fatal Attractions series. The one thing first of all, Fatal Attraction itself is a movie that every guy should watch and end gal But it's it's it's kind of instructive viewing. You want to you know, you see crazy, he can go bad, and weighs romantic relationships. It's it's important to

know what's out there. Sometimes I'm just saying Fatal Attraction is a good movie. But of all the animal choices that people make, the one of the of the exotic animals as pats, the one that I find just the most mind boggling is the highly venomous snake. You know,

that's all. And a lot of times it's like they'll have some some British guy somewhere who's like, oh, like I just really want to I want you to spitting cobra, And I just thought it'd be like a cool pet, And so I went to like this guy online and like I got it, and then I had a spit in cobra and oh then you know, cry Key, it's just like it like spat me on and then it bit me hand and then I was like, oh my god, I'm gonna die. And you're like, yeah, it's a spitting cobra.

You don't want that in your home. It's a very I don't care if it's in one of those little you know, they always have it too, in like a terrarium with some kind of a top on it. And then they find out that they're, you know, eight foot long killing machine that has the ability, in the case of a spit in cobra, to shoot venom at a considerable distance directly into your eyes. That that's a really stupid thing to have in the home. Yeah, who could

have seen it? Kame mate, It just bit me on and they had a good day Auntie venom and oh man at hit You're like, yeah, I'm sure it hurt a lot. That would be the last. But all these options Producer Mark, Tigers, Bears, hippos, hyena. You gotta have one. You keep asking me this, Yeah, I know, because we like to put you on the spot and hear you're

grumpy noises. I don't make grumpy noises. That was a I mean, if you're asking me one ridiculous So I don't understand why anybody would want anything like that as a pet. Well, all these people have all of them. I'm sorry. People. Everyone should sick to dogs, cats, maybe a guinea pig. I've always thought guinea pigs are kind of underrated. They're pretty cute. Yeah, you don't like him? Are you? Are you a their big rats? Are you their big rats? Guy? Why would I want a rat

in my house? Wow? Guinea pig owners address in the subject line, you're outrage to producer Mark's attention. If I want to see rats, that just go on the New York City subway. I think of all those animals, you know, hippos. This is one of those fun trivia questions that everybody knows. Now. Hippos, I think are the top three for killing people in Africa of all animals. Hippos are very dangerous and very Yeah, hippos are very dangerous and very aggressive, which you don't

think of because you see another hungry, hungry hippo. The game which probably a lot of people are playing, these days. But if you get near a hippopotamus, they run pretty fast on land, and they're large, and they have tusks, and they're really nasty and they will they will do bad things to you. And in the water they're very aggressive. I've been compared to a hippo many a time, but I'm not nasty and I won't hurt you. Well, and whoever said that I will fight them for your producing

than Yeah, don't let the scoop pool you. I've got some skills. Matthew, Hey Buck, just want to let you know that my girlfriend I have a cat that we named Bucky after the Marvel character. She started calling him Buck Sexton because I listen to you so much. We love you in North Carolina. Keep up the great work, shields high. Well, that's a Hugh John or Matthew, thank you so much. Hopefully that cat Buck is poised, suave, sophisticated, wise, but also considerate and well mannered. That would be a

great a great cat. Indeed, you're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Hey Buck, all those people going after michae Lindell, they're just jealous because they're not getting the attention he's getting and they're not helping like he is. Shout out to all my brother and sister trucker's out there. Shout out to you and Mark, keep up the great show. Shields. Hi well, jeff Man, thank you so much for being out there on the

roads and keeping us supplied. Every time I go to the grocery store here, which is really the only place I go there on a drug store. That's it. I got two places I can go to get supplies here, and every time I go, I am thankful there is there are stuff on the shelves, and it's there because you and your brother and sister truckers bring that stuff here into New York even though we're under quarantine. And you know, I think things here would get so ugly

so fast. If people really thought that there was going to be they were gonna be widespread shortages of essentials and staples, they would they would get very sketchy already the NYPD, this is terrible, MYPD as Oh God, trying to remember how many I think it's two thousand, close to two thousand officers who marked, you know the numbers. I think maybe it's eighteen hundred officers who are out it's some huge number of officers who are out. A

lot of enough Corona. I have COVID nineteen and a lot of others think they might, so MYPD is way down fifteen Oh wow, fifteen percent, Producer Nick says of the overall force. The overall force is almost forty thousand, So you guys can do the math on that. That's a few thousand who are out. Ah, gosh, that's not good, Angela. Hey Buck, I'm listening to your podcasts from yesterday. I'm worried about you. Sorry, you're stuck where you are and

you're feeling caged in. It's strange here too, in southern California. But at least we can drive around a little bit, which helps a lot. No destination to go to, but just the fresh air and sunlight are a nice change from being indoors. Anyway, Glad you're still able to do the show. Know that we're out here listening. Take care, And this would be a really good time to start picking out what state you're going to move to when all this is over. Yeah, you're telling me, Angela, New York.

New York is not feeling like a good choice these days. No way around that. Neither New Jerseys in rough shape too. I would know because of New Jersey really is Northern New Jersey feels like all a suburb of New York City. They don't like to think about that way, but that's the truth. Ed wondering if you saw Tucker Carlson's piece on Chinese doctors thinking that this Wuhan virus came from the virology lab in Wuhan. You mentioned that about four

weeks ago. Yeah. Ed, I've been thinking this all along, as you know, I've been pretty consistent on this. And I did see Tucker's piece and it was excellent and is asking the ascent questions right now, and yeah, there you go. Team. Also, please do if you haven't written in before you guys are you guys are my team Buck Cavalry. You are the lifeline that we have to the outside world here in the Freedom Hunt. So please do send us your thoughts Facebook dot com slash Buck Sexton,

even if it's just a line or two. Also, we'll do another Facebook live this week. In fact, I'll do a Facebook live tonight at nine o'clock Eastern, how about that? Right after the syndicated show. So I'll do a Facebook live tonight, and that will be a way that we can all hang out and talk to each other. Christy Buck, a week or two ago you mentioned the possibility of sporting a man Bun. I would advise against that. Also, we would love to have you in Denver, shield side. Well,

thank you so much, Christy. And Denver is definitely a place when I when I flee the Big Apple when this thing is over, if I flee, Denver is definitely high on my list of places that I would consider a permanent relocation too. I hear such fantastic things about Denver as a city, but it's gonna have to compete. You know. There's Denver, there's Austin. Yeah, there's a few places that will be in the mix. But I do hear the most wonderful things about it. Everybody, we're gonna

be good, We're gonna be all right. We will get through, we will endure until next time. Shield Hie