How Federalism Helps Kill The Virus

Buck Sexton Show. This is the Buck Sexon Show, where the mission or mission is to decode what really matters with assionable intelligence. Make no mistake, you're a great American Again, the Buck Sexon Show begins. He's a great guy. No, Well, I want those guidelines to go even when we're open and fully operational, and frankly, much of the guidelines, like shaking hands, maybe people aren't going to be shaking hands anymore.

You know. Tony had mentioned to me Tony Fauchais the other day that I don't think he was would be too upset with the concept of nut shaking hands. Who was saying that the fluid cut down, the regular fluid be cut down by quite a bit. If we didn't do that, if we didn't shake hands, you know, the regular flu, which you know you have a lot of deaths and a lot of problems with it too. So I think a lot of a lot of great things are going to when we're open. Just so you just

to finish when we're open. As soon as we open. That doesn't mean you're going to stop with the guidelines. You'll still try and distance yourself, maybe not to the same extent, because you have to lead a life, welcome

the buck sex and show everyone. The President is saying that this is exactly what well, it's really what I've been saying for a week now, which is that we have to accept at some point we're going to be making decisions about this that don't involve just honkering down, battening down the hatches, and refusing to go outside for business for work purposes. This is something that now as we continue to try to find ways to fight against

the coronavirus is gaining even more attraction. President saying, look, we're going to have things in place that will continue to lessen the spread of this virus. But the the thirty day lockdown is doable, the three month lockdown is painful and perhaps catastrophic. You go beyond that, and we're not going to have an economy to restart. And people are understanding that now now that we've seen three point

three about officially unemployed just from this past week. It was a much greater understanding than there had been up to this point, now that we see that the unemployment roles are only going to go up. By the way, it's not just that last week there was really high unemployment. It's that in the weeks ahead, there is nothing but one direction this will go in. You know, usually have a bad, bad employment report and people will say, oh, well, it'll rebound, maybe it was bad weather. We all know

this is just going to drop off a cliff. And so that's why the President yesterday in his press conference was trying to address some of his critics who are saying that he's putting grandma's life in jeopardy for four or one k Everyone is in jeopardy right now. The economy is in jeopardy. This virus puts all of us in jeopardy. I'm here in New York City in quarantine.

There is also a growing recognition that cities are in a worse spot with this, if you are out in areas of the country where you have a lot more social distance just by virtue of the fact that you have to deal with a lot fewer people on a day to day basis. I mean, think about, just just in case you haven't really gone through this, and I know a lot of you who have. You know, more space, more air around you. You already know this without me

telling you. But someone like me when I get down, when I go on the subway, you're usually packed to get into the subway. And this is the reality for millions of New Yorkers, literally millions of people every day. I think three million people are in the New York City subway system every day. And this is why we also have been we've been hit worse than other cities. You look at Los Angeles. Yeah, people, the gym, you know, the bar, the grocery store. There's certainly opportunities for infection.

And one of the big problems, as we're recognizing, is infection in the home, which is why Governor Cuomo yesterday and I'll get into this more later, is saying maybe sending everybody home wasn't in fact the best idea. But in New York city. We are packed like sardines. I don't know why sardines are more tightly packed than other things, but we are packed like sardines. And your shoulder to shoulder on the way into the subway, you know, but to butt back to back on the subway crammed in there.

Probably seen video footage of this. That's the reality. You are as close to people. You are so close to people every day that their bodies are pressed up against you, and you just think that this is normal because this is what everyone's doing. But you're actually in physical contact with strangers every day, lots of them, every single day. So that means that it's really easy. You gotta remember every person you're in contact with, they're all going to

different places. They're all distributed around the city. You know. The subway system alone is like a virus distribution system. So that's important for everybody when we're thinking about how we can get a handle on this disease and what

we can do. If you look at the places where the greatest transmission happens, it's in very close quarters and it's by touch, and all you need is one person on a crowded subway car to sneeze let's say, and those aerosol eyes droplets are there, and the subway is packed,

and you can infect a whole bunch of people. So if you live in West Texas, if you live in more outlying areas of Kansas, you know, places where I know a lot of you who listen to the show do live, you know, out in Oregon, not in Portland necessarily, but the rest of the state. You don't have to deal with as many people. So you're not seeing the same degree of infections. And I think it's very possible that you will not see the same degree of infection

anytime soon in those areas. That said, other cities are getting hit pretty hard right now, New Orleans. It particularly places that are a really large global tourism trade, you know, destination places are getting hit really hard. You know, there's a lot of concern over what's what's going to be the final caseload. In places like Las Vegas, for example, we have huge influx of tourists from all over the world, and as we know, at least in the early stages

of this, there's a direct correlation. There's a direct line between travel from China, from Wuhan in particular, and the areas around it. There's a direct correlation where those routes, places and cities that have a lot of folks visiting

they got hit particularly hard. It's certainly the case with Northern Italy where you have a massive influx of Chinese nationals who for the Lunar New Year were traveling in particular, but also because of the tech style industry in Northern Italy, which is largely now run by and owned by a lot of Chinese interests, it was just a perfect storm

for this virus. So the President is taking the approach that he should here and I know that for a few days there were a lot of libs who are running around yelling about how if you even want to have this conversation, you're doing so because you don't care about Grandma. That's viciously aggressively stupid. And now we see the experts, like even doctor Fauci, are saying, hey, guess what, we are going to need to have a conversation about

what risks we take. And while we are taking risks, there will be the possibility of rebounds that that's a quote from doctor Fauci, rebounds of this virus. But the alternative is just continued total lockdown, which other countries are not going through that are dealing with this. You know, South Korea is not in a state of absolute lockdown the way that New York City is right now, and

the way that some other cities and states are. We're also going to see a lot of tension between state and local governments restricting travel, which you usually never see that, right, I mean in this country. As much as producer Mark and I might make jokes about the New York New Jersey rivalry, there's never anybody in New Jersey who's like, what are you doing crossing the river? You're supposed to

stay over there in New York. And you know, generally we in New York are the ones are telling people from New Jersey what are you doing? But nonetheless, right now we're in a moment of absolute crisis, so much so that you might have state authority, local authorities who are saying no, no, no, you're not allowed to there's no cross state, cross county travel unless you're in an

exempted situation. You're truck driver, you're you know, involved in that life maintenance sector of the economy that's still open. So this is why the patchwork approach. I guess you could call it placed by place. County by county is going to gain a lot of traction here soon because we need areas that can have more commerce to do so, we need to get the parts of our economy. We are a very large country of three and twenty million people. China has a billion people. Is China on lockdown the

whole country? No? Do we think that the Chinese government is more adept at dealing with this? Do we think

that Chinese public health? One thing that I haven't talked to you about before is there is a tremendous amount and this does not really get you will not hear about this from our media, But my contacts in China have been talking to me in recent weeks about how the Eastern medicine, which is the what we generally refer to it as here, there's Eastern medicine that is really very rudimentary and something more along the lines of which

you consider traditional and almost practices of magic. I don't know what you would call it, but it's not base really in science. That leads very much into these wet markets in China where they're selling these different animals. Because you might be thinking why why would anybody eat a pangul in? They don't know what a taste like. Well, in Eastern medicine, there are different animals and eating them

is considered. I mean, one of the more famous examples as something they do with tigers and they make a soup out of a part of a tiger. Rhinoceros horn. This is another one that's very well known. Rhinoceros horn is made out of keratin, the same thing that your fingernails are made out of. And yet there is a

widespread belief across much of Asia. And I say widespread, I'm not talking about people that are university professors in Beijing, but among the less affluent educated populace of China in particular, people think that this is a cure for different diseases. And so that's just it's one I think instructive about how we have these wet markets where you have one hundred different wild animal species all brought together and inhumane

and deeply dangerous circumstances in terms of disease transmission. But also the Chinese public health system is nowhere near our public health system. You see them throwing together all these hospitals really fast, Trust me, you don't want. If you have a choice between being in a Chinese hospital being an American hospital, the National Health Service in Britain is a little scary. I'd probably rather be in Northern Italy, but a European hospital, you'd much rather choose the latter.

So we'll get more into into China and what they're doing right now, because their propaganda campaign is all out. I mean, they really think that they're going to be able to rewrite the history of this pandemic and blame it on America, and we may go back in time and look at this historical moment as a point at which the Chinese began to establish This is their plan that they began to establish true global hegemony because we over extend ourselves financially and they managed to blame us

in a lot of ways for this. You know, there I'll go through, and I know it sounds crazy, but remember the first goal of propaganda for an authoritarian regime a communist country like China. It's not really communist, but it's the Communist Chinese Party or Chinese Communist Party that runs it. The first goal of their propaganda is to convince their own people. Convincing all of us as much. So many of the messages that you see being fired out are meant to give ammunition to the toadies of

the regime back in China. Hey see, this is what the authorities are saying about what happened in America, and they're going at the Americans with this must be kind of true, right, So we have that to discuss. We also have this bill. I mean, there's there's a ton of moving pieces happening right now. Massy Congressman Massey getting a lot of heat over trying to slow things down because he says there's a lot of pork in this Absolutely true. There is a lot of pork in this bill.

There's no question that this is another example of Congress being unable to put aside its parochial interests and just be serious about things in the most serious moment this country has faced. Look, this is worse than nine to eleven. I mean, I'm somebody who joined the CIA because of nine to eleven. I know all about the terrorist groups that were going after us, not just on that day, but four years and years afterwards. I know about plots

that have come to light since then. I know about a lot of plots that didn't get that far along, but that would have been catastrophic that people don't know about. You know, there's there's really very little comparison in my mind between now and then, because we knew we were facing an enemy it was going to be rough, but we knew we would win that, and we know we will win this too. But the casualties that we face

here remained very much a big question. We were never going to have a mass casualty event fighting against realistically, fighting against al Qaeda, fighting against Iraq or Afghanistan. It just wasn't going to happen because of our military superiority here. You know, I still think that the lower end of the spectrum of losses is much more likely for us.

But there are circumstances. I mean, I've been reading, as a lot of other people have, about the Spanish influenza pandemic of nineteen eighteen, and there are circumstances where this could get a whole lot worse. And get that control what happens when the southern hemisphere goes into winter, by the way, and you have countries with much less developed public health systems that are much poorer but also have

serious population density. There are some places what happens when they are faced with this, and how do we deal with the rebound of it. But the rebound won't be, i should say, the second wave. The rebound would just be a minor an outbreak in addition of what we've already seen here. Fauci addressed this yesterday. The second wave would be what we would see in the fall when this makes a comeback, which it will, so need to

get to that as well. But the fundamental point here is that we now are we're waging two battles simultaneously, all right. Two battles are underway, the fight against the virus, to minimize casualties, to take care of as many Americans as we can get the equipment out there. That's one. The other is to understand the risks, take intelligent risks,

know that it won't be perfect. But we've got to get out there and start going, start going forward with economic activity so that we can do the first thing, because this fight is going to extend for a long time. Someone needs to feed and pay our medical personnel. Someone needs to feed and and well, you know, give the money to keep them fed. But we need to pay for you know, people that are in our supply chain.

Truck drivers, first responders, police fire, I mean, all the all the officials that are holding civilization together right now. They rely on economic activity. Without that economic activity, they can't do what they're doing to fight against the virus. So now we've moved into that phase of recognition, even before we've hit the biggest spike, which is going to be within a couple of weeks. So, like I said, team a lot to get to you today, So strap in for it. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is

the Buck Sexton Show podcast. This is Governor Greg Abbott saying thank you to the truckers who are hauling all the goods and supplies across the Texas that are so desperately needed. Thank you for taking them to the grocery stores so the other stores to make sure that all the shoppers and Texas and our fellow Texans they have these needs for the supplies that you're delivering, and they

wouldn't be there without you taking them there. Thank you for your tireless work to make sure Texans will have all the supplies they need. God bless our truckers and God bless Texas. You know there's that saying attributed to Napoleon that an army marches on its stomach. Well, if we're in right now a war against a virus, we also are marching on our stomachs and the only way that we can keep them full is because of our distro and supply chain, and truckers are the backbone of that.

I know, we have so many of you who listen to this show, either on stations as you criss crossed the country, are also on podcast. Thank you for doing what you do, and you know, every day we'll try to give some shout outs to the people that are the reason why you know, here in New York City, for example, which is so hardly, so hard hit by this. Here in New York City, we only have grocery stores. I mean, if the grocery stores started having shortages, you

would have panic and riots. So the people that are delivering food to the stores here that are making sure that you know, we still have groceries, you know, basic medicine, household goods. And I understand that there's some concern too. People have got to get out of the truck, they got to unload. You know, no one wants to get sick. We all understand, but they're keeping this country going. So we are also an army in America against this virus

that marches on our stomach. And the people that are delivering in and cooking and preparing food as well, people that are still staying open, restaurants that are trying to I mean it's bleak out there. I went for a walk last night down one of the most crowded streets, I mean a place where usually you would be dodging just tourists every two steps and street performers, and especially this time year, no men's land. It was like crossing over from English to German lines in Flanders in the

First World War. I mean, there was nothing out there. Stores all shut down, some of them now boarded up just in case. That's a little bit of an ominous sign. But thank you for keeping all of you out there. Thank you for keeping the stores stocked, because that is essential right now. We've got to keep our medical providers geared up, and we got to keep our stores stocked or else we're gonna have even bigger problems. Thanks for

listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm sure many of you saw the recent report out of the UK about them adjusting completely their needs. This is really quite important if you remember. That was the report that said there would be five hundred thousand deaths in the UK and two point two million deaths

in the United States. They've adjusted that number in the UK to twenty thousand, so half a million to twenty thousand. We're looking into this in great detail. To understand that adjustment, I'm going to say something that's a little bit complicated, but I'm going to try to do it in a way that we can all understand it together. In the model, either you have to have a large group of people who are asymptomatic who have never presented for any test.

In order to have the kind of numbers that were predicted to get to sixty million people infected, or of six million people infected, you have to have a large group of asymptomatics, because in no country to date have we seen an attack rate over one in a thousand. So either we're only measuring the tip of the iceberg of the symptomatic cases, and underneath it are a large

group of people. So we're working very hard to get that antibody test because that's a good way to figure out who are all these people under here and do they exist or we have the transmission completely wrong. So these are the things we're looking at because the predictions of the models don't match the reality on the ground in either China, South Korea, or Italy. We are about five times the size of Italy. So if we were Italy and you did all those divisions, Italy should have

close to four hundred thousand deaths. They're not close to achieving that. So these are the kinds of things we're trying to understand. Models or models. The models do not want up with what we've seen as reality so far. That's doctor Deborah Burkes, who I think has become for some people. I mean, it's Burkes and Fauci obviously who are at the press conference that are both providing a tremendous amount of really useful information, and by the information

is quite useful. We're all making decisions, at least in particularly affected areas. I know for a lot of you, this is mostly right now an economic issue because you're there are counties where there are zero cases of this that are at least known so far, but understand that there will be some cases in a whole lot more counties, and the economic reality of what this is doing in cities is something that affects the whole country. So that's

obviously why we're all in this together. Even if you're in a place where you know, you see two people a week outside your own family, and you don't think that there's any real threat of of COVID infecting you know, your township which has two hundred residents, right, So for those who are in areas like that, I understand you're looking at this like why do we have to Why

is has the response been as extreme as possible? And the real turning point here was Italy, And honestly it was that there were two moments that I saw where my analysis of this had to ratchet up, and it was when we first saw real data out of Italy, and it was very you know, it's very hard with China and looking at all the modeling, and you have so many different factors that come into play when people

are talking about how bad this will be. There are some who very clearly act with some degree of bad faith and do not you know, that they want this to be on the worst side at least for the administration. They want to make sure they can blame the administration, and it needs to be pretty bad for that to be the case. That's we've been aware of that from the beginning. People have been blaming Trump from before there

was even a response. I was on the Bill mar Show and we had had not a single US death from COVID nineteen and they're saying that Trump boxs the response and he's terrible and we're all going to die. And I'm looking at them saying, I don't even understand how we can have this conversation before we know what has happened. But you know, they hate Trump and that's all that really, that's all that really matters to them.

Is very difficult to make assessments, good assessments of this based on the Chinese data, because we know the Chinese are lying, and we know that the Chinese Communist Party is ruthless. I mean, China is a modern state. It's the second wealthiest country in the world now by GDP, and you know, China is a modern state that still has internment camps for the wagers in Western China. So

we understand it's a deeply immoral country. I mean, now they execute people for corruption and no one even really knows what the person did. I mean, there's all kinds of It's a thugocracy, a really powerful one. In fact, it's very similar in a lot of ways to what you have in Russia, where instead in Russia it's concentrated in Putin and his circle of cronies, but it's really Putin. In China, it's just a committee instead of an individual,

but really wields the same absolute power and authoritarianism. And so in the early days they were suppressing information coming out of China as much as they possibly could. So it's very hard to make real determinations. It wasn't until we saw what happened in Italy then it was okay, this is going to be a real threat to our

elderly and immunosuppress populations. And then when President Trump said that we were doing the shutdown of all travel from Europe that night, that was another That was the other shoe dropping for me. All of that said, here we are now deeper into this crisis, and there are still people who are putting out what I would consider to be very irresponsible projections about what is likely to happen.

What is possible to happen is not really relevant. What could theoretically occur is not something that should be widely publicized. You know, what could happen in any given year. A flu virus could mutate and all of a sudden, we have a global pandemic that comes out of nowhere. I mean that it happened tomorrow. So what could is not something that should get nearly the attention. But from the media.

You have two very powerful impulses that affect so much of the way that they're doing their jobs right now. One is there is maybe it's subconscious, although I think in some it's conscious, but a desire for a catastrophe, for catastrophe that they can pin on President Trump. And also just the if it bleeds it leads concept on steroids, things that are scary get clicks. I can't tell you how many stories I see, and it's getting very annoying because I think it's so dishonest and it's just adding

to everybody's anxiety. But you keep seeing these stories about, you know, healthy, healthy, forty two year old dies from COVID nineteen in some American city or you know, here in New York wherever, And then you read in and you find out, well, he's you know, he was somebody who had chronic emphysema and type one diabetes ease or something, and you go, okay, well, I mean, this is still

a tragedy for this person in his family. But they're obviously overselling the risk to the healthy in the in the headline as a means of scaring even more people than are already scared. So there's a lot of irresponsible stuff going on, and doctor Burke's is trying to address that as best she can here by saying, look, we can't even All we do all day is try to look at what's happening and what we can do and how we can mitigate risk, and how we can anticipate

things going even more badly in a certain area. And there's just no way that the projection of two million dead Americans based on this study in the UK and six hundred thousand dead Brits that attracts with what we're seeing right now already happened in Italy. Italy was essentially give this disease in a confined part of a densely populated country, give the disease a solid month of just total rampant spread, no one knows what's going on, and

then try to deal with it. So we would think that that should be you know, the percentages on that would give us a real sense of worst case scenario. And even the Italian scenario doesn't add up to what the UK is seeing. And right now we're taking all these measures. I mean, you don't mean New York is the most crowded part of the United States, the dent most densely populated. If eight point six I think something like that million people to live here, it's a lot.

And you can walk around the streets here and not coming to not be within ten feet of anybody, you know, easily. You can walk around the streets and not even so you can basically walk down the street, not the sidewalk, and cars there's only a few coming by. They'll just drive around you. That's where we already are, so clearly, I mean, I just bring that up because there's massive changes that are underway right now to limit the spread of this thing, and that's not really being taken into

account by those initial moles that we saw. So I think that that's really important for everybody to remember. You know, there's also there are these scientists that have come out at at Stanford, super smart Stanford guys and not Unitas. I know, I feel like I pronounced that like producer Mark. Wasn't that a football coach or a player? Johnny United is just one of the best players of all time, right, one of the Okay, he's a player. Yeah, but this guy is like Eonitis. It's like a Greek name. It's

not Nitis, you know, it's like something close. Anyway, he did the analysis of this that it wasn't really quite as, it wasn't going to be as deadly as everyone had been saying. And then you had two other people at Stanford, a medical researchers who have also crunched the numbers, and they've said that, look, we we ran this. We've run this experiment a little bit in Italy where you've had rampant spread among an elderly population and on a cruise ship.

And you know, if this disease just spreads in a confined area, you're looking about one one percent fatality rate and maybe a ten to fifteen percent hospitalization rate something along those lines. Now, that would be just spreading entirely in a confined area with no mitigation measures, with no knowledge of social distancing or anything else that's going on. That's clearly not what we are clearly not what we're facing. And in truth, they're going to find out. There are

a couple of things that are going on now. One is they're going to find out and most experts are saying this, and I and my gut believe this. So I'm going on expert knowledge here. I don't have expert knowledge, but I'm also telling you that this adds up for me, This makes sense for me, and I am the gun. I was reminded yesterday that I've been saying. I think it was in July or August when I was asked what keeps me up at night? And now I remember,

and I said pandemic disease. And I've also a few times said these idiots that are worried about climate change should be worried about pandemic disease. I've said that in the last year. I mean, if those of you listen to the show enough, no that that's the truth. I'm just saying some of us knew that this was a problem. While the lunatics are running around saying the world was

gonna melt because of cow farts. So stepping back for a second, here to what we've seen in the well, you know, with the overall numbers, because now you know CNN yesterday was doing this whole America has more cases than any other country. First of all, bull all right, we have more cases that we know about because China is trying to cook the books and they have been from the very beginning this People keep saying this is

China's Chernobyl. Now Chernobyl was, and the you know, the show is very good, although aise I told you there's a lot of unnecessary poetic license they took. Radiation is not contagious from person to person. You know, someone doesn't get irradiated and then a week later they hugged their wife and the wife will die. That's not how it works. So I don't know why they had to do that. It's scary enough without doing that stuff. So but the reason that Chernobyl was so, you know, it is something

that's so historically powerful in our memory. One because the show was actually quite good, quite well done, but also it was at the end, I mean, the Soviet Empire was already a sclerotic, crappy, inept rule of idiots, and so that just made everyone think, these these morons can't do anything right, you know, and you have the Soviet Afghan War, same idea. These idiots can't even they can't even you know, with throwing everything they've got at these mujahideen,

they can't even beat them. They got Chernoble, I mean, they just look like a bunch of morons, which they were. And so that's how the Soviet Polite Burrow and the Soviet you know, High Committee and all that fell. And you have in China a much bigger issue than Chernobyl really that people are saying, maybe this is a risks. On the one hand, it's an opportunity for China depending

on how bad it is for America. But there's also the systemic risk to Chinese, the Chinese Communist Party's power that is going to put people on edge over there for a while because there must be enough people who know about Then there's also why that's a press information and why you know the wee chat app that everyone uses over there, and there's so much censorship that goes on because if people knew the truth about the Chinese government. They'd say, why do we have these morons in charge?

They're vicious and corrupt and they're not even good at You'd think that a high tech totalitarian regime would be best placed to deal with a pandemic like this and to stifle it. But you know, in Singapore you have essentially a benevolent authoritarianism and they will stifle this thing pretty quickly. In China you have a dictatorial and vicious totalitarianism,

and they were not able to stop this thing. So I'm a big believer though, in us getting more information that will calm people I think a bit going forward, not calm them entirely, but will help help us understand the real scope of this thing and where it's all going. I'll get into some of that. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Do we know yet if getting Corona and surviving Corona means that you are now immune to the disease or is there a

chunks of reinfection. We don't know that for one certain because we haven't done the study to see rechallenges whether they've been protected. But I feel really confident that if this virus acts like every other virus, that we know once you get infected, get better clear the virus, that you'll have immunity that will protect you against reinfection. So it's never one hundred percent, but I'd be willing to bet anything that people who recover are really protected against reinfection,

Doctor Fauci laying it down there. Obviously essential to know that there would be immunity after an infection of this disease, and that's because they're working on a test now and an a body test that would let you know you might have had this and not known. You know, I had a really bad cold at the end of December, for example. I think that's probably too early for this, but maybe I just thought it was a really bad cold, right.

I'm sure some of you have the same thing when they look at the testing, even in South Korea where they've done all this testing, and we've done more testing in eight days in South Korea did in eight weeks. The President has been bringing that up in the last couple of days. But ninety four percent of tests where people had symptoms in South Korea it was not coronavirus. It's a cold, or it's the flu. But there's obviously

a lot of crossover in the symptoms. So if you can find out if you have had this and didn't even realize it, then that takes a tremendous amount of strain off you. Assuming that you have immunity, which is the point he's getting to here, now you can go around and you don't have to worry. And it also means you could be around if they've proven you've got immunity now from this, which they're going to be finding

out soon. He's basically saying it's ninety nine percent. But if you get immunity, then that means that you could be going back to work, going around, you know, people who are elderly and not worried because you wouldn't be at risk of infecting them because you'd be protected from being an infected because you've already been infected. Now, this is this is the case. This is basic immunology stretching back to the earliest days of vaccination and how that

whole process works. I'm just gonna say this right now. Though you know you heard doctor Fauci there if he said, like, I'm very very common, and this is a guy who doesn't he doesn't blow you know, smoke and sunshine or you know, sunshine and rainbows, smoke and sunshine. That wouldn't be good sunshine and rainbows at people. But you've heard

doctor Fauci there. He was very clear about it. And I'm just gonna say this, if we end up finding out and this is just my belief, this is my analysis, But if we find out that somehow this virus is like the only virus that doctor Fauci has ever heard of really where you don't have respiratory infection like this, where you don't have immunity, afterwards, I'm just gonna go on record and say, if we find out you don't have immunity, this was engineered in a Chinese lab, no

question in my mind, there's no there's no way, you know, there's too many pieces that would have to be good. Now, I don't think that's going to end. It be in the case, and I think of the really good news is we will have immunity. But I just want to go on record now, for some reason, this is the one of a thousand for viruses where you don't get immunity. It's because the Chinese built this thing and the monster got out and is attacking all of us. Thanks for

listening to The bus Essen Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. We have to get back to work. Our people want to work. If they want to go back, they have to go back. And we're going to be talking about dates. We're going to be talking with a lot of great professionals. But this is a country that was built on getting it done and our people want to go back to work. I'm I'm hearing it loud

and clear from everybody. So we'll see what happens. We're gonna have a lot more information early next week and we'll be reporting that back. But I just want to leave it with you. We have to go back. This is the United States of America. They don't want to sit around and wait, and they'll be practicing. And by the way, a lot of people misinterpreted when I said

go back. They're going to be practicing as much as you can social distancing and washing your hands and not shaking hands and all of the things that we talk about so much. But they have to go back to work. Our country has to go back. Our country is based on that. The President gets it. His critics are piling on him for this, getting so angry at him. It's absurd. He understands what's at stake here. There will not be an economy. Think of it this way because the war

analogy here can be very helpful. Obviously, war against a virus is not war against enemy human beings. But when you think of a war, what would happen if you destroy your industrial base. We have the best military, the best fighting men and women on the planet, right we

know that we do. We have the best military and obviously the most capable and powerful military in the history of the planet, which is a pretty extraordinary thing when you think about it, right, But if our military was told to go out and fight against an enemy without ammunition, without uniforms, without communications, medical equipment, etc. They wouldn't be able to win. The same is true of the economy that we have here and the industrial base that's dependent

upon economic activity in defeating this virus. That's why they both have to happen. And some of us who have a better strategic sense have been saying this from the beginning, while other people are saying, you want grandma to die, which is such a horrible and offensive thing to say. But Nonetheless, it is a combination of people being afraid, but also a combination of individuals who feel the need right now to establish that they're better than other people,

the virtue signaling. I have people who tell me who aren't even in New York, that I don't have any skin of the game of blue check journals, that I don't understand the pain people are going through. Really, I'm the one who's getting notices all the time from my favorite restaurants, from friends of mine that they're either out of work, that their business is shut down, that they can't go outside, that everyone's scared, they're all frightened for

their parents. You know one thing about New York. If you're not here, you may not know. Yeah, there's a fair number of New Yorkers who go down to Florida as the typical place the New Yorkers go to retire. But a lot of people, multigeneration families are here in this city. I'm here, my parents are here, My grandparents on one side were here, My great grandparents when they

were alive, were here. I mean so, But for a lot of New Yorkers, not only is this hit home for them because they're in quarantine but they know they've got even if they themselves are in lower risk cohorts in terms of their age, they know that there are other people that they care very much about who are here, care about more than anything, and they want to make sure that they're safe. So this is as realistic gets for all of us who are in the of this storm.

The President understands that he's a New Yorker too. He has friends and loved ones and people that matter to him all across the country in a sense, but here in New York City is his home right, So he knows this, and I do think that he's trying to do as much as he can to get us back to work as quickly as he can. And this is just one of these times where we're going to have to listen to the voices that we know are coming at this in good faith and have a strategic mind,

have vision for the future. Those of us that are pushing for more economic activity are looking ahead to what happens in two months while also understanding what's going on over the next two weeks. I'm not dismissing at all, but you don't want to win this battle against the virus spike, right now at the expense of losing the war of America still being a functioning economy that can support all the rest of life, including all the other

health issues that come together. So I think I've made I think I've made my case to you on this. For now, We'll have to continue to see where the data leads us, what it says about the future of where we'll be able to open up in this country.

I think you're going to see this left to the states and to cities, and that's going to be very interesting because there is already a dynamic that is forming right now of more rural and more red areas of the country that are that are less impacted by this less affected, not unaffected, but less affected by the spread of the virus. And they're saying, let us get back to work. We understand social distancing, we understand the precautions to prevent this from spiraling out of control in our

area too. Let us get back to work. Our hospitals aren't overwhelmed, so that we can be a productive part of the economy and pushing the country forward. While New York is stockpiling ventilators and trying to deal with the influx of patients it already has, while Los Angeles and New Orleans and my me in other places are recognizing

that they're also about to get hit pretty hard with this. Right, So this debate will be very interesting and you'll see state and local leadership matter into a lot of us a lot more. You know, usually your state and local leadership well, I guess depends on where you are, but usually it's gonna You're worried about are they taxing you? How are this how's this school system? They don't generally make decisions that have power of life and death over you.

You don't think if you're governor. I know governors can give someone clemency who's on death row for state charges, but you don't usually think of a governor as making life and death decisions. If you did, I don't think i'd live in New York. I'd probably moved to Texas. Which maybe this is another moment where I realize, Buck,

it's time to move to Texas. You folks in Austin, KLBJ, do do you guys have some you guys have some room for a good patriot service country in the past and wants to come hang out with some folks You know there's a whole bunch of plays. You know, Denver. What about Denver? I love Denver. Maybe you got room for me. I know that's not a particularly conservative city, but I hear wonderful things about it. And we've obviously got a great, great group of people listening to us

in the Denver area. Team Buck Denver is going strong. So maybe that's where we gotta I don't know, profcer Mark, we might have to bust out a map and start thinking about what the escape, what the escape hatches for NYC. You already know my thoughts. Anywhere without state income tax Florida, Yeah, yeah, well Florida, Texas, that works. I think Tennessee also doesn't have. I just I was in Nashville for a weekend. I love that place. There's premiere studios in Nashville there. Oh,

we got a lot of studios in Nashville. We're gonna have a lot. I think there's gonna be a whole a little lot more development of all kinds going on there. So you're going to see some differences at the state level and how this plays out. Governor Cuomo, who's been getting a lot of attention for his daily brief things mostly for his demeanor in them and for the lack of the petty garbage. I mean, Deblasio has I've been saying, he's just, oh my gosh, we're all gonna die. Deblasio

is horrible. He's absolutely horrible. Cuomo has been like, look, we're on it, we're dealing with it. We'll do our best. You know, he's kind of a little more, a little more, you know, he's been more even keeled about it as I've been saying. He's done a good job for what's going on here, and he's under a lot of stress.

It's real, Okay, he's a New Yorker, he understands. Here's what he says about the Because I want to talk about this bill, I don't want to spend too much time on it because we kind of know a lot of what's going on here. It's a usual Washington shenanigans. Here's what he's saying. Play clip five. I'm sorry. Play clip six. The congressional action, in my opinion, simply failed to address the governmental need. I've spoke to all the

officials involved. I spoke to our House delegation, I spoke to our senators, and I believe what they did failed to meet the governmental need. I'm disappointed, I said, I was disappointed. I find it irresponsible. I find that reckless emotion is a luxury, and we don't have the luxury at this time of being emotional about what they did. When this is over, I promise you I'm going to give them a piece of my mind. But I would say to them today, this is an extraordinary time in

this nation, and it's an extraordinary time for government. This was the time to put politics aside, in partisanship aside. This is the time for governmental leaders to stop making excuses and just do your job. Okay, here's what's really going on. And some of that, you know, just do your job. They'll make it say okay, well that's we expect that. That's what people will say about this, But

here's what's really going on. States are supposed I think a lot of states have balanced budgets are supposed to have balanced budgets under understate law. I don't know how many, but I do think there are a number of them to do. As we know, the state and federal income tax day has been pushed back to I believe it's for all states to income tax days and pushed back to July fifteenth, which means what happens to states and

their budgets. States rely, a lot of them rely, yeah, on property taxes, but also on tax of sales, tax, tax of goods and transactions. And guess what they're looking at massive short falls now. And a state like New York in particular, is going to have huge short falls. I'm assuming there'll be others as well. Here's what I

don't know people are listening to this. You're you're in Texas, you're in North Carolina, you're in Minnesota, you're in Indiana, you're in you know, California is going to the same problems, but you're in some places that probably aren't going to get hit as badly with this problem. But here's what's going to happen, right when you have this just this perception of the federal government dumping loads of cash out of helicopters onto people. And in a sense, that is

what is going on, and that is necessary. People that lost their jobs because the government said you don't have a job anymore because of a disease that has nothing to do with you. The government's got to take care of those people, right. This is this you know, it'd be the same way that you know, if we got as I said, we got invaded by a foreign power and the government had to spend a whole lot of money and send a black Hawk and a whole bunch of highly trained seals or something to go get you

because the bad guys had captured you. That's what government does. So that's why that's why we pay taxes, right, That's why we have these systems in place. So what we're going to see, though, is this dumping cash mentality, which is clearly evident in the way that this bill has gone. And as I go to air, Massey is still thinking about, I think, slowing down this process because he's upset about it,

and people are saying, is it a conservative principle? Stand no, I'm sorry, I don't think in my opinion, if you want to know, you know, Congress and Massa Kentucky is saying that he might insist on a quorum and that wo basically would slow the whole process down. To make a point here that there's too much pork in this. In my opinion, you don't lecture somebody on the Constitution while their house is burning down. And that's what's going on right now. Now. I'm not saying that you can't

be critical of what's happened. I'm critical of it. I think Massey should be critical, but I don't think that it's I think it's kind of productive to slow down in any way. People are desperate for cash now. They need that money now, and they're going to be making decisions.

Businesses and individuals who're making decisions based upon what is in their bank account next week when rent is due, so to say, oh, let's sort of wait and we'll see and you know, no, I'm sorry, that is not something that I can you know, I can get behind it.

And also well we'll get into some of some of the other criticism that's out there about this, but it's it's shocking, and it's not shocking, right, I mean, as a human being, you're like, how could anybody use this moment for the ex exploitative means that they are, But you also know that this is this is the way our government functions now. Things only really seem to get done in a crisis. Things only seem to get done when it shouldn't be about politics. That's when it's really

about politics. It's a switch Colo conundrum. Here is Manuchin telling us that the checks are going to go out. Here's what he says, Secretary of the Treasury, play nine. And I want to thank the Senate for their swift action. People literally worked around the clock for five days, and the President and I and others couldn't be more placed with the absolute unanimous support on a bipartisan basis to

get this done. In regards to the checks I announced yesterday from the White House press conference, first all, most of these will be direct deposits, so we call them checks on the mail, but most movie direct deposits. It'll be within three weeks. We are determined to get money in people's pocket immediately, so that will be within three weeks. It seems pretty straightforward. Ryan, What are the objections that Democrats had, Remember when Pelosi was slowing the whole thing up. Well,

we'll need to get to that. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Oh, we did jiu jitsu on it that it went from a corporate first proposal that the Republicans put forth in the Senate to a worker's first, democratic workers first legislation. But let's

first back up, because I was coming here. I saw that nearly a thousand deaths in the United States nine hundred yesterday, So I don't know what the numbers today, but they're saying nearly a thousand deaths in our country, tens of thousands of people. Our Kate, we had tens of thousands of cases. This is a pandemic that we haven't even seen since for over one hundred years in our country. It's really such such a tragedy, so we

had to take important action. We had to take action though that puts families first and workers first, and that's what we did when we did our first legislation. The first two bills were about addressing the emergency directly. She is shameless, isn't she just shameless? Ju jitsu? Nancy Pelosi jiu jitsu? No, that would be even more fun to watch than a Ruth Bader Ginsberg super fierce workout with kettlebells. But but Pelosi is convinced that she got something here.

I'm not really sure what you think she got other than repudiation people saying, what the heck are you thinking? This is a crisis. Time is of the essence. We absolutely, positively, positively cannot delay this anymore. That's you know, that's what where everybody else is on this. But Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile, I was playing all these nonsense games. Now, you know one one point here that I would I would make the jobless numbers are going to keep going up. Manuchin,

who is smart. I mean, he's like Goldman Sachs, lobbyist in chief at the Treasury Department. But he's smart, and he's saying that we can handle this jobless thing in the short term, which has been what I have been saying for the last week, despite all the leftists claiming that I want to throw old people off of cliffs. We cannot sustain this in the long term. Here is Manuchin on that one play ten. We knew the jobless claims number was not going to be a good one,

but I am curious this. So what your thoughts were when you saw that three point two eight three million number. You know, to be honest with you, I just think these numbers right now are not relevant, and you know whether they're bigger or smaller. And the short term, you know, I mean, obviously there are people who have jobless claims. And again, the good thing about this bill is the

President is protecting those people. So you know, now with these plans small businesses, hopefully we'll be able to hire back a lot of those people. Last week, they didn't know if they had protections. They didn't have any cash, they had no choice. Now with this bill passed by Congress, there are protections, and as I said, hopefully those workers will be rehired. But between these three programs, it protects

all of American workers. And by the way, you know, lots of big companies do continue to hire for obviously grocery stores, pharmacies, you know, delivery services. These companies are on overtime, so I know they're hiring people as fast as they can. Let's hope that he's right. I mean, I've been saying that the unemployment numbers are only going to go up, and I think I'm right. But he's saying that because of this this I don't think it's stimulus bill. We should call it a rescue It's a

rescue bill. It's not a stimulus bill. Because of this rescue bill, there may be some decisions made by businesses to keep people on payroll. Maybe we'll have to see, but remember there's going to be a lot of other pe There're gonna be a lot of other businesses that are are concerned and are going to continue to shed jobs, right that this is only going to get worse. And then you get into it, well, how does this whole

thing get really scary? Even if they're doing the right thing by trying to help in this way systemic financial problems which no one wants to talk about. Thanks for listening to the Bus and Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. What did the Senate majority fight for one of the largest corporate bailouts with as few strings as

possible in American history? Shameful? The greed of that fight is wrong for crumbs for our families, and the option that we have is to either let them suffer with no thing, or to allow this greed and billions of dollars which will be leveraged into trillions of dollars to contribute to the largest income inequality gap in our future. There should be shame about what was fought for in this bill and the choices that we have to make.

I mean, AOC is a moron. All you have to do is listen to that one clip, never mind all the others, and she's just it's really to the detriment of the Democrat voters of Queens that she represents them, and they I guess they kind of, you know, in that regard. They traded Crowley for AOC, and I don't know how they can view this as a as a trade up, but maybe maybe they do. I don't know.

But here's the problem with AOC throwing what it really sounds like a tantrum about corporate interests and how this is all for the corporations. And then this is just the usual talking points for her. She always says the same things about the big bad corporations. Here was the vote in the Senate on this one play clip eleven. Please, we passed this legislation last night, ninety six to nothing.

The Senate can barely even rename a post office ninety six to nothing, much less pass a two trillion dollar emergency package, So I think it's regrettable. Then Nancy Pelosi intervened in our bipartisan negotiations last weekend, and now we've lost almost a week's worth of time of getting this desperately needed aid into the hands of America's families and businesses.

But I'm confident to the House of Representatives will pass it to mar the President will sign it, and then our government will be moving as quickly as possible to get this aid into the hands of families and businesses. Ninety six to zero. How can we be hearing about the big, bad, mean Republicans when every single Democrat in

the Senate voters for this ninety six to zero. Folks, an AOC thinks that this is some terrible Look, there's definitely there's pork in there, there's some things that shouldn't be in there. But you act like this is on the Republicans. This is just the nature of our politics right now, and it's gross. But this is reality. But it's also not really a part as an issue. This is just a Washington issue. They see an opportunity to write a twenty five million dollars check for the Kennedy Center,

and they took it. They saw an opportunity to dramatically expand a lot of aspects of government. They aren't really about this. You know, there's a huge expansion of food stamps, different welfare programs. You know, Democrats got a lot in this that they'll say is all about coronavirus. But these are things that they just want to do anyway. This is just another moment where there's some people that they really only have one speed. I mean aoc. It's the

same class, warfare, inequality, nonsense all the time. It doesn't matter what the topic is or what's happening, She's going to say more or less the same stuff. And you know, Pelosi is really not any better. I mean, she's really just blathering on about nonsense. And Congressman McCarthy pointed out that her whole thing. You know, she's just trying to save face now and it's obvious, and I'm not going to let her do it without taking some heat because

she deserves a lot more than just heat. She deserves to be voted out of office. But it's not going to happen. She represents the lunatic liberals of Marine County, San Francisco incredibly wealthy. It's like, you know, the equip It's the San Francisco equivalent of Malibu, like ultra rich right by the ocean. That's Nancy Pelosi's district. Yeah, she's not getting voted out any time soon. It's also I think where they have one of those clusters where people

don't vaccinate particularly like that's one of those plays. I'm just that it is a side note. But here's REPRESENTI McCarthy play clip twenty two. Speaker herself just said, every day, every week that is wasted on not taking this seriously is a problem. I could not agree more. And yet for days Democrats stalled this bill. How many people were laid off as the Democrats fought to change the election

law or implement the Green New Deal. How many parents while sleep wondering how they're going to make the payments in the next month. How many small businesses set around a kitchen table and had to make that decision. They never had to be about laying their employees off. They are like family. A few minutes ago, the Speaker stood at dyspodium and claimed that House Democrats did what she called a jiu jitsu to change the bill. That is

an outright lie. The fundamental portions of this bill has not changed in Sunday, four months for unemployment was already decided on Sunday. The grant to keep employees hired on small business was already decided on Sunday. Yeah, already decided Pelosi swooped in and tried to use tried to leverage the moment for her own benefit and for her narrow parochial political interests, and it failed. And now she's saying that she did something just to walk away from this.

Everyone's looking at her like, no, you didn't. We know that she didn't. But she's such a liar, liar, liar, pants on fire Pelosi. That is where she is on this. So it is unsurprising, but nonetheless that's the reality of it. You know, I was talking before about the state versus local issue, and there is going to be I think some accountability for different for people who aren't used to making really big decisions in political office, for mayors, for governors.

They they're being forced to make decisions here where people's lives are in the balance, the economy is in the balance of their state. And here's the mayor of New Orleans speaking about how it's Trump's fault that Marty Gras was not canceled due to coronavirus play thirteen. But you're saying, no one from the federal government came to you and urge you to at least cancel or postpone Marty Gras. That's absolutely correct, and not only that it was backed

up with the response of our national leader. When it's not taken seriously at the federal level, it's very difficult to transcend down to the local level in making these decisions. Yes, that's right. Everyone who was supposed to be making these decisions to protect the people of their city or their state. The people that got this wrong. And New Orleans is clearly getting hit very badly, in part because of all

the travel to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. But they got this wrong, and now they're gonnaur around, They're gonna blame the federal government and say that it wasn't being taken seriously by the federal government. Look, we also have fortunately the Internet now and so we know what different state And now I don't have this for you for Mardi Gras. I mean for New Orleans, which you know and I love New Orleans, but that's another place, Producer Mark a part of the NYC escape plan. I don't

know what the state taxes Louisiana. I'm sure it's not that high. I love I love New Orleans. I want to get back there as soon as I can. But the New York City health commissioner. I don't have the New Orleans health commissioner for the first week of February. Is this is a person at the city level, right, who's obviously a Democrat. I mean, every everybody in all these may your cities is pretty much a Democrat. I mean,

the Democrat government is city government. Now there's almost no differentiation. And I mean that's not true everywhere, but in most places you're going to find the mayors of big cities I'm talking about now, it doesn't you know, four Wayne, Indiana. I love you guys in wo wo Land, but you know you're you're kind of an outlier here. I think maybe you know you're talking about fifty to one hundred thousand people in a city. Sure, then maybe you have

a Republican. But anything that's half a million plus two hundred fifty thousand plus, you're probably looking at an overwhelming majority of Democrats who are calling the shots for these cities. And I mean certainly the case in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, Washington, d C. I mean Seattle, I mean, find me a city or San Diego. I mean Anyway, here's the New York City Health Commissioner without the first week of February on Now,

this is a person. Remember, this is not just a politician. This is someone whose job is only to keep people healthy and safe in New York City, safe from disease, safe from things like this pandemic. Here was the public advice of the New York City Health Commissioner on February seventh. Play it. The important thing for New Yorkers to know is that in the city currently their risk is low

and our city preparedness is high. And so we know that this virus can be transmitted from one individual to another, but that it's typically people who live together. That there's no risk at this point in time. We're always learning more about having it be transmitted in casual contact. Right, So we're telling New Yorkers go about your lives, take the subway, go out, enjoy life. But the practice every

day precaution. That's right. The Health Commissioner of New York a month ago said the following, take the subway, go out, enjoy life. No real risk of casual transmission of this. So when people this is part of my thing this week, you know you have a lot of folks out there that are yelling, listen to the experts, listen the experts. Really, there are people who got sick and died in the last month because they listen to experts like this person.

That's just reality. So it's not as easy as just repeating that mantra and all of a sudden, all all other points of view, all other ways of looking at this just fade away into nothing. It's not that straightforward, folks, as we all know. So we'll see what ends up happening with the county by county, state by state approach, and the President is probably gonna announce something pretty substantial on that on Monday. But now we're going to really

see it. And I think this is going to be more of a test of federalism than we've had in this country in a long time. Because states that handle this well, people are gonna say, hmm, maybe it's time to go check that place out. States that are crushed by this, there's going to be a lot of anger and a lot of blame at state and local government. And there are gonna be a lot of Democrats who in charge of these areas, you know, whether whether it's fair or not, that they get blamed. They are going

to get blamed. I mean, you know, de Blasio, I think in part is running around screaming about how everything's on fire and we're all gonna die, just so that you know, when finally people say, wow, you handle this really badly, he's just gonna say I was warning everybody, and I was the one saying it was going to be terrible. So but I also think that we're gonna We're gonna hit a peak in a couple of weeks, but it's gonna be less catastrophic than the predictions were

last week. That's my I wouldn't say a prediction. That's my hope, and I'm pretty I'm confident in my hope. At this point, you're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast High Fekes. I want to bring you up to speed with something that's happening today, which is that I've developed mild symptoms of the creative assessed to say, a temperature and a persistent cough, and on the advice of the chief medical officer, I've taken a test that has come out positive. So I am

working from home. I'm so violating and that's entirely the right thing to do, but being no doubt that I can continue, thanks to the wizardy of modern technology, to communicate with all my top team to lead the national fight back against coronavirus. The Prime Minister of Great Britain and Prime Minister of the UK, he has coronavirus. That's going to be one of those ones where you say, wow,

this really is all over the place, isn't it. I think the wife of Justin Trudeau has coronavirus now as well. I mean Tom, that was like a week or two ago. Yeah, yeah, that was a week or two ago. Tom Hanks says a coronavirus. He seems to be doing fine. I saw some update from him. Who what other famous smart What

are the famous people right now have coronavirus? There were a couple of NBA players, some some like some like Sea level, you know, celebrities almost almost announced it like a little too, you know, a little they're like almost exciting to do. It's a little weird with some of the younger I've seen some people that are like you know, influencers that are like, oh, I have coronavirus, Like uh, that's know. We wish you all the best. But this is not a it's not a competition to see who

can get this thing the fastest. There have been some weird, some weird posts that I've seen on this one, and never mind the ones of people like licking toilet seats. And did you see that, by the way, you know that guy got sick. Yeah, he has coronavirus. Coronavirus? What I mean? What a you know? People? Why lick a toilet in general? Never mind in these times? Yeah, I dude,

I I don't even know. Man. I was one of those people that for years and years, if I had to use a toilet that wasn't in my home, I use one of those like I would build a little um, you know, a little paper towel s, a little a little paper seat for myself. You know. Oh, I won't go outside of the house. Yeah, you're one of those like that guy from American Pie who won't go outside the home. I'm the type of person who asked the leasing offices at his new apartment, do you guys change

the toilet seat before I move in. That's a good call. By the way, there's a lot of places we'll get they'll get cheap on that one, and they won't. You want to You want a fresh toilet seat when you move into an apartment where someone else where someone else has live. But yeah, there's o there's celebrities. Yeah, and there's some NBA players, and we we end up happening there.

Why people got tests early who are celebrities is because they have money on access and they went to private, private testing facilities and said, you know what's it going to cost? And they you know, this is the way, this is the way the world works. Unfortunately, so people were rightly upset about that, but there was no surprise

there really. I mean, that's the way these things are going to happen, the same way that you have now hoarding of chloroquin, not chloroquin phosphate, which is fish tank cleaner, which will kill you, as everybody already knows. Now despite the media saying Trump told them to drink, no he did not. But there is there's hoarding of chloroquine and hydroxy chloroquine, the anti malaria drug that we we're not going to know if that really works probably, I guess

for another week or two. They are using it in New York. But the therapy round of it must be at least a week to ten days before you have any sense of how effective it is. So, but doctors are hoarding that and people are hoarding it, and it is used for other conditions. I think it's used for lupus, and there are a few. I think there's some autoimmune situations where you can use chloroquine to suppress it. So

that's something you're seeing going on right now. And then you also have people who have tried to get and just hold one, like in their closet or something, a respirator for themselves. Our ventilator rather, you know, the ventilator is the machine that breathes for you when you can't breathe Trump speaking on that, I did see that Trump was not happy with. You know, we've been talking about the Defense Production Act and General Motors and what's going

on there. Trump is very displeased with the speed of General Motors. On one Here's what he said. General Motors must immediately open their stupidly abandoned Lordstown Planet Ohio or some other plan and start making ventilators. Now all caps. When the Trumpster puts it in all caps, you know

he's for real. Ford get going on ventilators fast. So the President saying, hey, we we you know, we've been telling people, We've been telling people to have a you know, open mind about working with the private sector without government mandate. Just the private sector stepping up. It's starting to sound like the President may have to say, Okay, now you're now you're getting they're gonna get paid. Right this is

an appropriation of property without compensation. But under the Defense Production Act, you're going to make ventilators, and you're gonna make them now right now. Not not going to finish the line of cars. We'll have to see how these companies have stepped up. A lot of people I know and you know, could look conservatives. We understand that the free market and private industry is where prosperity comes from. So I totally agree and understand with that point of view.

But we've been saying the private sector is stepping up in with some of these companies. We're going to expect some results here soon. I better see some General motors ventilators, you know, getting shipped across the country by the thousands this week. Thanks for listening to the bus sets and show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts, if we get on TV and it gets sensationalized, you stir people up.

It's just it just leads to bad things. That's my point. How we are working. We're just as hard as we possibly can with the full force of government and the full force of private enterprise. And that's the best we can do right now. We all us a country got dealt a bad hand by China. Peter, that is just a waste of time to say that. I'm going to leave it there, Peter Navarro, were just trying to get her hands around the time. We're out of time, and

that's just there. You have a third tier CNN anchor who has never been very bright, being nasty to a presidential economic advisor. I watched the whole about eight minute exchange. She was just a petulant child. She was disrespectful the entire time, which is classic at CNN. I mean I used to just so you know, when I used to go on CNN when I was a paid contributor there before, it was completely insane, like it was crazy, but you could kind of reason with them a little bit. Sometimes

Now they've they've they've lost their minds. I'm actually, I'm not sure. I'm I'm a band from the building as a security risk. But the head of CNN saw me and like gave me a weird look and was like, what are you doing here? Once so I'm pretty sure that I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed that, which is great. I wouldn't go I would I would go on and fight with them, and they know that they don't want

to deal with that. So, but you had a Keeler whatever her name is, being all aggressive here with Peter Navarro, and this is what was going on. She kept saying, you guys have done a bad job preparing. Can you get to the number? Can you get to a million? A million ventilators? And he kept saying, well, hold on

a second, can let's address this. You're making a claim that the administration has done a bad job preparing for this, and then you're saying we need a million ventilators, which keep in mind, no administration ever thought that they needed to have a million ventilators on hand. A million ventilators a lot of machines, folks. These machines cost about I'm not saying we don't have the money for it, but it's a lot of machines that are costs of twenty

to thirty thousand dollars apiece a million of them. Somebody else is going to have to do that math for me. So she's making this claim, and Peter Navarro kept trying to say, look, here's the reality of the situation. It's unprecedented to nobody else. No other administration would have ever you know, if you'd try to get funding for a

million ventilators, people would have laughed at you. I thought you were insane, right, So, and she just kept she kept hammering the point she's trying to play, you know, trying to pander to the CNN audience, which just wants to hear how terrible Trump is and who doesn't care about old people or any people dying for that matter. He just wants to you know, make more money and violate the emoluments clause and all this other psycho crap

that they say all the time. But one part that kept coming up is, you know, he was saying, look, this is China cut six weeks out, and this is just true. China by lying and covering up cut six weeks, six weeks out of America's preparations for this. And if you're going to talk about how you know, how well the administration got ready for this. You have to be fair to the situation and say, well, you know, the Chinese were a big problem here and that other countries.

You know, if this had broken out first in the UK or France, I think there would have been a lot more transparency and a lot more honesty. But the Chinese Communist Party is a bunch of liars who don't care about anything other than their power, and that's a

real issue. CNN's anchor here just kept saying, that's a distraction, you know, It's it's a pretty remarkable circumstance that you're seeing play out, and it's not one that I will forget anytime soon that the liberal news media has an insistence in undermining any good news out of the Trump administration during this panic, while they will simultaneously and wholeheartedly believe any piece of absurd propaganda that China puts out.

This is really all you have to know about their character, seriousness, and intelligence, all of which are deeply lacking. The Chinese government is claiming that they have sent tons and tons palettes of medical supplies to Italy, for example, and they're sending them to other countries, and our news media takes these little propaganda pieces from China and says, you know, look,

China is the one stepping up with global leadership. People who think they're really smart look at these Chinese press releases and they say, oh, wow, China is doing a great job here. Why is in America cutting itself off from the world while China is trying to help. First of all, we're in the midst of the peak of our own or about to hit the peak of our own pandemic, and so yeah, it would seem a bit strange if we're trying to build more ventilators for our

people to be sending a lot of ventilators abroad. But here's the other piece of this that the moron journalist crowd doesn't understand. Put aside from the China's full of lies, we sent, we send aid to China. We tried to help out the Chinese, and in fact that Chinese kind of rejected some of that aid, including from the World Health Organization initially, but rejected American offers of help too.

And then we gave them help, and then they shipped help with medical supplies, and then they've shipped medical supplies to other countries now in just a propaganda effort, and our media reports on this as though, Oh, look at China and stepping up and showing all this leadership. Yeah, China's done a great job, for example, sending testing kits to Spain. Do you know what the percentage of those testing kits? Hundreds of thousands of testing kits they sent

to Spain. Our media is like, look at China stepping up here. The percentage of those kits that work thirty Now you might say, okay, well, at least they have thirty percent working kits. They don't know which kits work and which. Don't think about what that does then to the testing capacity in Spain. They have to run a test to see if they can actually work or not.

They got one hundreds of thousands of tests now from China that they can really use, or if they try to use some of them, they can only use a percentage of them, right, I mean, you know what I think of it this way? How if you're in the middle of a war and I send you a million rounds of ammunition, but only thirty percent of them will actually fire, and you don't know which ones am am I doing you a big, a big favor with that? Do you want to be on the front lines, you know, click, oops,

didn't fire? Do you want to be the doctor that's running a test for somebody that needs to find out before they go back home and possibly infect other people whether or not they have coronavirus? And then you go, oh, you wait four days or five days or twelve hours or whatever it is with the Chinese test, I don't know, and then you find out, oh, no, results inconclusive or

what if the results are wrong? You do we think that we can actually trust these tests being sent from China America because our own media really watches the authoritarianism of China with some envy, you know, the the American progressive movement, American liberals wish that they could do what China does, which is just make people do whatever they want. May you know, once you're in charge of the government, you make people do whatever you want and there's no

questioning it, there's no weight. But we have a constitution. No, don't know. American lives, if they had their way, would do what the Chinese Communist Party does. They would just be nicer, but they would just tell people this is how it's going to go. You know, they see things like the Green New Deal and they say, oh, China could institute that, so well, you know, China would do this, but we have to go through Congress, and we have Republican to get past, and we have a constitution that

people will complain about when we trample it. So there's always been and this this is true. I mean Tom Friedman, some of the top columnists in liberal media for years have been writing about the China model with with with praise, with high praise, and in fact, Nicholas Cage anybody, I don't know if you guys remember that. And you look at the way Bloomberg has been covering China, and there's clearly some kind of weird, cozy relationship between Bloomberg and

China and the ruling powers there. So you know that there's a lot. There's a lot to see here about the way that China is acting and the way that our news media is covering them, And there's there's a lot to be really outraged about because they you know, this is a moment where patriotism and truth matter, and the patriotism of the media is constantly in question. For me and really, they're actually just showing us that they're

rooting for China against the Trump administration. Here would be a fun exercise, and just you could do this as a thought exercise, because you already know the answer. Do you think if you ask your average average seeing an anchor, who is more truthful Donald Trump or an official spokesperson spokesperson for the Chinese Communist Party? Who you know? So any you know the Chinese Foreign Minister Shi Jinping and anybody anyone in at the top level of Chinese government

or Donald Trump? Who is more who is more honest and who is more trustworthy? Ninety nine percent of journalists would say that it's a well, maybe I should's ninety nine percent of the journalists who don't like Trump, which is ninety to ninety five percent of journalists, would say that it's you can trust China more than you can trust Trump. They believe this, you know, they believe this, which just goes to show you what terrible judgment they have and what a bunch of utter morons they are.

And you know, there are people like Nancy Pelosi who are running around acting like we should listen to them because they know something about anything, but Nancy Pelosi knows how to be a cunning opportunist who will do anything she can to stay in power and to utilize power. That's what she knows. And she's a dogmatic lib So whatever whatever the left wing of the Democratic Party wants to do, Nancy Pelosi tries to bring that into reality.

But she's going around saying, for example, we need I mean, here, just play clip twelve. We would hope that the government production of the Defensive of Production Office Agency would be called upon to call upon industry to convert to making ventilators in the rest, testing, testing, testing, mask masks, ventilators, ventilators, ventilators. What's the mystery? We need many more and ventilators just for your information. Is not about making a breathe easier.

It's making a breathe period. It is vital to life and death in many, many, many cases. So we need an unlimited number, let's think of it that way, endless number of ventilators, and just to name one thing, an unlimited number of ventilators. We don't have an unlimited number of anything, but we're going to need an unlimited number of ventilators. That's really her, that's her demand now well, how do we even how do we even do that?

I don't even know what that would look like. Then the numbers unlimited, we're just going to have, So what does that mean? We should have fifty million of them just just hanging around. They don't understand that there's man hours, labor, equipment, material that these things. I mean, Nancy Pelosi has never run a business other than the business of being shady,

opportunistic Nancy Pelosi. She doesn't know anything. She's never worked for a company, she's never spent time learning about basic economics. All she knows is the liberal orthodoxy and how to enact it by playing the media. And well, I mean, the media is in her back pockets, so it couldn't be any easier for her. But yes, that's her, and that we need to have an unlimited number of ventilators. Oh gosh, she is just she's She's the worst, though, don't.

I mean, Davlasi was actually the worst, but Pelosi sometimes gets pretty close for me. All Right, So I want to talk about what we're gonna do this weekend, folks. Enough so we've gotten through all the most important news for today. What are our weekends? And this is the quarantine, Freedom Hunt. Now, so what are the weekends going to look like for all of us? What are you going to be doing? And I've got one one thing that I need to share with you that I think will

be a worthwhile recommendation. We'll bring in producer Mark to hear what he's got going on. Then we'll get to roll call, and then I'll send you off to just regroup, relax, keep calm. This weekend we'll get to all that. So you're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. It's not every day that a zooppeeper with the prison for murder fryar. There are more captive tires in the US then there are in the wild throughout the world. The people are nuts, man, They're all crazy.

I'm sure you all got a story to too. I gotta tell you. I watched two two episodes of this last night with the still mystery lady in my in my life who will team Buck. You'll meet and hear about her at some point. But I watched two episodes of that show Tiger King last night. It is phenomenal. It's so like crazy and weird, and I love animals. I remember being maybe a kindergartener, first grader and telling people,

and mostly just because I was impressed. I think that I knew the word, but that I wanted to be an animal conservationist. I don't think I ever really, And I had watched some of these National Geographic VHS. National Geographic had this great series, this VHS series back in the day when we had VHS tapes that shows you what a graybeard millennial I am. Where they had They had one on sharks that was amazing. They had one

with Jane Goodall and chimpanzees that was incredible. They had these sort of I don't know, these episodes of Natural Geographic back when everything was VHS and you know, or old school cable TV. And I watched those. I watched those tapes until they fell apart. So I loved I Love with the Shark one in particular, which was really amazing because this is back, this is before Shark Week, is before you had all that cool stuff. So and

they kind of overdid Shark Week like they overpromised. After a while, I kept watching Princer Mark it was the last time you watched Shark Week never You've never seen it. I mean, like I've seen commercials and stuff, but it wasn't interesting as much. Fifteen years ago it was pretty cool, but then every year it's just like okay, and like, now we're going to look at like this series of attacks that we don't know if they really happened, but

maybe they did. And these people didn't drown, they were eaten by sharks. You're just like just a lead up to Sharknado. Now, now, I mean, Sharknado is not something I've ever seen. I think Anne Coulter, who's who's a friend of the show, I think she was in Sharknado two. I'm being serious. I think she was too. That sounds right, Yeah, I think she was, which is pretty awesome. He's got a great se as of huber. So anyway, I you know,

the shark stuff is a little bit overdone now. I mean, once you've seen those gray white sharks that killed us, that eat the seals and fly out of the water when they do. That's the most amazing ocean footage I've ever seen of anything. So that's pretty incredible. But anyway, I'm somebody who does like watching you know, these nature shows, actually the Netflix Nature at Night or whatever it's called. It's something at Night about different you know, animal ecosystems.

That was pretty well done. But The Tiger King is about a guy named Joe Exotic mostly there's some other people that are central players too, who raises lion cubs, tiger cubs obviously all I can't even name all the animals that they've got. They've got hundreds of them. And he's got this zoo out in Oklahoma. Now he's in prison. That's in the first episodes. I'm not giving anything away. It's just amazing. I mean, you've got to see this thing, first of all, because the watching him play with these

baby tiger kittens. They're the cutest things you've ever seen, all right, and then you realize that people pay a lot of money to go pet these baby tigers. Producer Mark, what do you think it costs to go to one of these special animal preserves? There's one in Florida, there's one, there's one in Oklahoma. As I said, what do you think it costs to go in and pet the six week old tiger cub? I'm gonna say at least five hundred dollars. Yeah, it's about right. It's like a three

to five hundo it's a lot. Yeah, that's expensive. People pay real and of course they take the selfies with it. And there's a whole thing about Tinder selfies with big cats as a way to get people's attention. So that was a thing people were taking. And you can take photos with the with the big I mean the lions that are you know, five six, seven hundred pounds. I mean these animals are enormous and guess what, very dangerous, which also comes up at some parts in the show.

But it's it's amazing. Yeah. I also, uh, you know, Disneyland is expect like some of these places that you don't realize, like how Disneyland's expensive to go to, isn't it? Oh yeah, very expensive? Have you never been never been a disney Land? Oh my god? Yeah, it's like I'm barely America. What about like Universal any of that stuff? No, do you just not like rides? I didn't do. I didn't really do theme parks. I used to go to Rye Playland a lot as a kid, which is the

most like bootleg theme park. Yeah, to get to New York Park, that place sucks, just like the I mean seriously, when my older brother would put me in the grocery store card and make me go real fast until I scared. I got scared to tell them to slow down. We were little kids. That was more fun than the Rye Playland roller coasters. I mean, what age did you go to Rye play Leg because that's built for like kids? Yeah, like eight, nine, ten. Im My, Hey, I'm not like

a weirdo here. I was going I was a little kid. Yeah, I'm not the thirty eight year old dude was walking around rite playlist and leading the cotton candy like, hey, I want to go all the rads. All right, that's weird to write Playland, but it's not that weird one at Disney, right, Yeah, exactly, I agree. But no, when I was a little kid, I used to go there

and check this stuff out. But I'm telling you, guys this weekend, if you're in quarantine or if we're just trying to lay low for the weekend, Tiger Tiger King is amazing. So far, I've only two episodes in, but it is fantastic. Producer Mark, you and missus Producer Mark should try it. I'm telling you, I think that was on the docket for the weekend. Yeah, you guys should do that one. It's it's nuts like here's it's just

the whole and the people that are involved. I mean, it's when when you find out that somebody has all these animals, you think this must be an interesting show, and then you find out more about the people and you realize it's a really interesting show. Thanks for listening to the bus seton show podcast. Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcast, iHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, roll call, as we head off into our weekend. Man,

this week went by pretty pretty quickly. I've got to say, it's you know, it's tense out there. It's stressful in the country right now. But team, we are going to get through it. Okay, We're gonna be all right, We're gonna rally. Let's get to your thoughts. Hey, Buck, I was completely blown away that you read my email on the show the other day. On Monday Show, you discussed the consequences of the shutdown on the emotional well being of people. As a small business owner myself, the stress

is almost overwhelming. I'm only a couple of checks away from bankruptcy myself. The only comfort I can draw from this is the fact that I understand that I'm not alone. I'm absolutely certain there are tens of thousands of others that share my situation. Pittsburgh is now completely shut down except for life essential businesses, and you have to have a permit in your possession to go to work. Keep up the great Workbuckster. Listening to show is one of

the highlights of my day. Still wearing my nitrile gloves nitral and holding my shields high, rying for an end of this nightmare. Jeff Man, I hear you. I'm so sorry that you're going through this, but you you are among millions. You are among millions, and you know. The one thing about this that I do think it's important for everybody to remember because I know, you know, small business owners in particular, people that are used to doing

the right thing, putting in hard work. They have to live in the reality of what, you know, what their community can sustain, and they've got to do with customers, and you know, it's it requires a lot of people. And I know that when you have a setback with a business like that, people can really feel very Not only does it affect them obviously very deeply, but they

can also internalize and take it personally. Just remember for anybody out there who right now is feeling the financial pain and is concerned and is worried and doesn't know how they're going to support their family and what's going to happen, just remember this, Always keep this in the back of your mind. Your responsibility, your fault for this situation is zero. It's not oh maybe I could have

or a month to go, I should over. Your fault right now for the economic pain that you're feeling because of this pandemic is zero. You have no responsibility whatsoever for what has happened to you your business that is struggling now, or your business that has closed now, or the job that you have lost now. This is not a reflection on you, your capabilities, your hard work, or anything else. This is the virus equivalent of we just got hit with a tsunami that's you know, fifty feet

of solid water and just wiped away whole towns. If you know, if your shop gets wiped away by the tsunami, it is not your fault. So I do think it's important to remember that as we move forward here, and you will rebound because the business that you were running a month or two ago, that was doing well and serving customers that you were proud of is going to be the business that you're running again when we get

through this. You know, maybe you have to call it a different name or something, or maybe you've got to get some you know, new employees, our old employees back, or whatever does you do. But you'll still be that person in a few months when this is up and running, in hopefully sooner than that that you were before this whole thing happened. You've got to remember that, Maria. A topic that I would like to see covered in the midst of coronavirus talks is what Lindsay Graham is up to.

With your mention of him on your last podcast, couple with Tucker Carlson's allegations against him and his appearance on Sean Hannity, I think we deserved of the truth of where his allegiance stands. You know, Maria, I look, I'll tell you this about Lindsay Graham. There aren't a lot of people that I'll say this about. Lindsay Graham and I had about a thirty minute conversation, you know, one to one in DC, and I, look, I don't care, I don't I feel like there are a lot of

shows you can go to. You hear a lot of guests. That's why I put in a lot of sound, because newsmaking sound I'll use on this show to tell you what I think is going on. Because you know, you come here for the freedom, hud. You come here for this show, right, You're not coming here because oh I've every day I'm gonna have some member of Congress tell you what we all already you know. But I had a long chat with Lindsay Graham, and I'm somebody that my word is my bond and I really do adhere

to that. And one reason why I've managed to stay on good charms with every company, every media entity that I've worked for, I mean, except for CNM, but that's a political thing, not a professional thing, is because I keep my word and I play a clean I you know, I play a clean game every time. And you know I Lindsay Graham. I shook his hand and he said he would love to come on the show, and you know, I asked him a couple of times, and all right,

I went to his comms person. He didn't come on, and he shook my hand and said he was going to do it and then he didn't do it. I don't like that. I don't like that. Tell me that you're busy and you know, have me talk to your coms. Guy. I don't say I'm maps are going to do something and then not do it. And that's what that's what that's what happened. So I think that that's a character flaw. I really do, especially because I mean not to be that weird guy. But this radio show is bigger than

most of the radio shows that he has done. For example, I mean, there's only a handful of radio shows that have a larger audience than this one, and you know, the ones that they are, the other ones do not. So that's why I sit here and I'm like, okay, so anyway, So I'm just telling you this to be honest about my assessment of whether or not Lindsay Graham is somebody who really means what he says. When someone shakes my hand, they say they're gonna do something and

they don't do it. I remember that, and so that's where that's where I'm at with Lindsay Graham right now. You know, loves to go on and on Fox and talk a big game about things, but he doesn't follow through on a lot of stuff. He's bad on immigration, he talks tough on a lot of stuff and doesn't do anything. And yeah, I mean he stood up for Kavanaugh. But I gotta tell you, anybody with any character or decency or backbound that backbone should have gone the full

Lindsay Graham in that moment. He did, and we got to give him credit for that. But I mean, good heavens man, I mean, the thing that they were doing at Kavanaugh was outrageous. So that's my assessment. I don't know, you know, as Lindsay Graham's somebody whose word, whose word about what he's going to do and where he stands is good. Jury's out for the Buckster on that one, Adam buck I'm worried now that some have gone a taste of the stay at home and do nothing lifestyle.

My lead might lead to a dark path for some. Japan has been seeing this as a subculture for a while. Shields High Well, Adam, I do know that the Democrat Party wants to use this moment to create as much dependency as possible. That that's real that's going on right now.

So I think we have to remember that as we go forward, And I do think that there's a concept that's gaining traction in some quarters that I couldn't quantify it for you, but I think it's real where people think that the government can just write checks and that can be the economy. And this is where there's a lot of talk about, well, if we can give people twelve hundred dollars an unemployment insurance for a few months,

why not have a universal basic income? Why doesn't everyone just get an electronic transfer to a bank account of a thousand and two thousand dollars a month? And that stimul the economy? Wouldn't better for everybody? Well, as we know that you would start to see inflation. By the way, I mean, this is why if you gave everybody a million dollars, a million dollars wouldn't be a million dollars anymore. And this is a concept that you know, the left

doesn't really understand or just pretends not to understand. Also, if you gave people every one a thousand dollars a month, then you know what happens, and they want two thousand dollars a month, and then in a couple of years, it's no everyone needs to have three thousand dollars a month, and you just keep on trying to ratchet up the taxation in order to pay for this redistribution of wealth.

So yeah, it's it's something. But look, I think most of the millions of people right now that are out of work, I mean a vast majority of them want to get back to work. They want to get back to their jobs. People want purpose, they want things to do. It's intrinsic to our nature as human beings to want to have things to do. Darby, I'm a registered nurse

in Dallas. I want to add my two cents. While I agree that many more ventilators are needed, no one that I've heard has addressed who exactly is going to operate these ventilators. They are extremely complicated and can potentially kill a patient. Some doctors and nurses can operate to a certain degree, but it's certainly not all. We don't have anywhere near enough respiratory therapists in my opinion. Keep your shield up, brother, Darby, you're the expert, man. I'm

sure that's true. And look, you know, if you get an air bubble in somebody's IV, it can kill them. I'm sure a ventilator. If someone makes it messes up, it's controlling your breathing, right, I'm sure that that can go bad very fast. So you know, I wouldn't want someone to pull me in. I've got no medical expertise. I want want someone to pull me in and say, hey, you're going to run the ventilator now, right, That would be very bad news. So I don't know. I don't

know what the answer is. I mean, how quickly can we train I don't know how quickly we can even train ventilator operators, technicians, whatever you call them, if we want to. Toby, Hey, Buck, glad you're working through the shutdown. I drive a truck delivering food and dry goods to Walmart stores. Well, Toby, every person listens right now saying high five, thank you, Obe, thank you for what you're doing. Thanks for keeping this the shelves stocked for all of

us and being out there on the roads. You are carrying a burden for your fellow Americans on your shoulders every day. You're doing this right now, and we appreciate it. You know you are. You are being a hero for your people by doing your job. It's true of everybody. Everybody driving a truck. Everybody in delivery and logistics across the country. Right now, John Well, I finally have time to watch your show a completely different experience. I'm an

avid podcast listener. I hope your isolation is going well. Shield's high. Well, now is where I goul to tell you guys, if you haven't already, if you're listening on podcast and you or you're listening on one of our one hundred and sixty oh yeah, affiliate stations across the country, you can watch the show and listen to it as well.

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My godfather turned seventy in July. A month ago. He had to retire on a Friday and turned seventy on a Monday. Now he's putting his retirement on a hold, at least till the end of the year. His whole life, he's done it right. He worked hard and climbed the corporate ladder while raising five kids, two of them adopted. He put away savings and started at four oh one k for retirement. Now it's unclear when he can retire. There's two sides to every coin, and this is the

other side. Thanks Buck, Shields High, Yeah, man, I mean, you know, people think that retirement accounts four oh one ks are for fat cats and no this for people to retire. Very few people have what order are considered to find benefit plans also known as pensions. Very few people overall have that. More people have four oh one ks. I think my numbers on this are correct. So yeah, it affects everybody when the market gets absolutely clavered. It's a very real concern. But I hear you, man. I

hope we get back to work soon. David Buck, I heard you mentioned the team buck community would be a great resource. I agree. How do I reach out to members Facebook. I'm starting a business when this blows over, and I'm looking for a business partner to run sales, please let me know, Shields High, Well, David, you know there's a few there's a few ways that you can do this. There's a few things that would let you contact other folks in the community. I mean one, I mean,

Facebook is certainly a very good, very good resource. I would say, you know, look at our Facebook page and if you post in the kind you know I put posts up there, or you know, Mark will put posts up from the show, and you can just in the comments be like, hey, guys, you know I'm in the I'm in the such and such area. Can you know who else is around me here? Who has any ideas? And it's just a way to get the conversation going. People will see it, they'll respond that's certainly one means

of accomplishing that. We you know, we've thought about setting up some kind of more official fan page. The problem is we just don't really have the staff right now to to keep that going and to moderate it. And then people, you know, someone says something mean someone else,

and now do we have to intervene in others? So just I'd say, comment on one of our posts and say, hey, guys, here's my situation, and you know we have we have you know, or reach with some of these posts of hundreds of thousands of people that are going to see some of the posts that we do. So you know, hopefully some of them will be right in your area, and then that's just a it's a good way to

do it. Um, you know, that's that's one way. And look if somebody has a particular idea or if you know, if some folks want to get together and they want me to give a shout out for an area where we have one of our one of our affiliate stations and people want to get together, and you know, I don't know the Austin and Austin area, Denver, Seattle or Portland or something and something there wants to be some

kind of a team Buck meet up. I can't be there, I can't travel, but I can at least get the word out for a bunch of you if you want to gather together and try to even if you gather together virtually, right, that's what that's what we would do now, social distancing, but you could try to come up with ways to restart businesses and get on again. So yeah, that's that's where we're at right now. I'd say that's

the best way to do it. But as I said, people have gotten people have gotten jobs from people they've met on this show. Employers, people have gotten married from being in the audience of this show, certainly met lots of people that have gone out on dates with I mean, there's it's a community it is, so it's nice, Jerry book, you gotta get a PS four and if your TV has HDR High Dynamic Range built into it, get the

PS four pro. The picture will look amazing. The games you gotta get are God of War and hell Blade. Both are Viking era style games, but with hell Blade play with headphones the sounds are crazy. And of course get the new Call of Duty game Shield's Eye. Well, Jerry, I hope if I do get a PS four, I see you out there in the multiplayer mode and I can school you son, show you how it's done. We'll see.

But that's I'm trying to get through more books, trying to get to a multi podcast that you people have been asking for for a while. We'll see if we'll see if the new Mystery Lady allows me to do some reading and research over the weekend and get this done. But yeah, I think I think we'll get that podcast done to the next week or two, so that'll be great. Greg writes in Buck this is my first time writing. I'm a medical laboratory scientist in Charleston, South Carolina. I

keep talking to places I love. I love charl I'd move to Charleston tomorrow and be happy. Charleston's a great, great town. I'll listen to your podcast every morning. It gets me through the early hours. I appreciate your thoughtful, articulate, and sometimes comical view on current events, your breath of fresh air here on the front line. Shield Hie to

you improve your mark, keep fighting a good fight. Well, Greg, thank you, thank you so much, and you know your your expertise right now is more valued than at any point in my lifetime. So you know, God bless and keep doing what you're doing. And I hope you're able to, you know, enjoy some of the great food scenes still

in Charleston. So there you go. Saul writes in buck Am seven sixty in San Diego added your show last week, and after the first day, I told my wife that I had a new favorite radio host that is incredibly smart and eloquent. The next day I told her you went to Regis and she smiled and said, now it makes sense, because she said, she has met most of my lifelong friends in the class of seventy eight and

they're all top quality people. I'm going to be a kid in the candy store with your podcast playing catchup. Thank you for serving our country both then and now. Dao at Patria Shields High which means God and Country Shields High. That's that's that's the motto of Regis High School, our high school. Saul, first of all, thank you so much. It's great to be on AM seven sixty in San Diego. I'm so proud. That's a that's a wonderful station for us to be on. Mike Slater before me, he's a

great dude. I have nothing but the most professional and personal respect for Mike. He's a really solid, really smart guy, and I'm honored to be following him. And I love San Diego and that whole community. So that's a great station for us and we're so happy about that. Everybody, take care of yourselves this weekend, alright, make sure you rest, make sure you get the necessary you know, mental space for this coming week to take care of yourself. We'll be back on Monday. Shields High