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much more coming up. This is the buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American. Ready here a great American Again, The buck Sexton Show begins. Analyston, it seems to me that if we do a really good job, will not only hold the death down to a level that is much lower than the other way

had we not done a good job. But people are talking about July August something like that, So it could be right in that period of time where I say wash it washes through. Other people don't like that term, but word washes through the resist a new normal until I do. And so we'll see what happens. But they think August could be July could be longer than that. But I've asked that question many many times. Even two weeks miraculously, everything is fine. I'll reopen every school in

New York in two weeks. Well, that's what we're planning. We will have specific guidelines that we announced this afternoon. Welcome the Buck Saxon Show. Everybody continuing with our freedom hunt in the time of the coronavirus wuhan virus pandemic, trying to get a sense of how long this is going to last, what preparations we should make. As I've been saying, I'm giving it the fifteen days that the

CDC is asking for. And you had really I think in that and those two sound bites, one was of course Donald Trump, the other was the governor of New York, Governor Cuomo, the full scope of what we're realistically facing. It could be that within a couple of weeks it seems like this is largely under control, though he did describe that as a miracle. It could also be that we are making these provisions, that we're taking all these very drastic, very radical steps all the way into the summer.

I had been thinking June the President said July. If we do a good job, nobody really knows. At this point. Everybody is very, very concerned, and as we enter this phase where we're really going to be dealing with this, we all find ourselves thinking about what's going to come next. Never before in the modern history of the United States, where when we've had a post World War two modern economy,

have we dealt with anything like this. We've never had a situation where we voluntarily decide to just stop doing a whole lot of stuff, stop making things, stop opening stores. Economic activity and economics is really just a system for human decision making in the commercials, in the commercial realm. That's what economic That's what economics are. It is activity by definition, right, you do not have inactivity as something that everyone's concerned with. So we're entering a phase here.

I'm like anything else we've ever seen before, and it's stuff out there. I mean, I'm coming to you from New York City. I know a lot of you are in places around the country where there are far fewer or in some cases maybe your county has zero cases of this so far. So I'm bringing you the perspective of somebody who's in the place that is expected to be in aggregate numbers hit the hardest and have perhaps the greatest disruption of day to day life. So just

remember that as we're going through this. You know, sometimes different areas of the country talk about disaster preparedness, and if they're places that are frequently hit by hurricanes or if they're places that are often subject to tornadoes, they have a very different view on this on that than people that have never dealt with right, earthquakes in California have a very different residence than earthquakes in Maine. I don't know. I don't think Maine's been hit by a

bad earthquake in a long time. It could be wrong. So we have a bunch of things to get to today, including why the CDC failed us in the early phase of this because you know, all the testing, all the testing delays. You know what that was. Federal bureaucracy and regulations tell you about that. Also, the DOJ decided the Muller team, the prosecutors from the DOJ assigned to the Muller team, they decided to dump during the noise, I

call it the whole case of Russian troll farmers. Remember they were going to bring this federal indictment, and then Russian Council actually showed up, which surprised them because this was the whole interference in the election, the huge scheme by the Russians and over a dozen indictments I think it was of Russians who were involved in this in Russia. They just dropped the whole thing right now. Does anyone

think that that was an accident? Does anyone think that they dropped this for any reason right now other than they know that no one's really going to care. We'll spend a bit of time on that. And then also you have Tom Brady top of the Drudge Report right now, big story. Tom Brady is not going to go back to Patriots, He's gonna go play for someone else. This is just all of us, and I get this. This is all of us, and producer Mark and can weigh in on the reality. This is somebody who knows more

about Tom Brady than me. We just want some story to talk about because we don't have sports now, and we can't go to movies, and we can't go to parties, and we can't go to Disney World and we can't so we just want something else to talk about. And so this Tom Brady decision that would usually be a mostly ESPN story or you know, the sports network, sports networks out there, it's getting a lot more focused than it usually would because just something other than Corona and

chew that in my friends. I want to do a good job here of balancing out how much we talk about coronavirus, wuhan virus. I'm sorry, see it's I've heard so much coronavirus that now it just it seeps into my mind. But I want to make sure that we discuss other things too. I want to tell you everything you need to know about this at the federal level, from government action where I think this is all heading and that's necessary at this point. But also I know

you guys are my lifeline. You are the people that you are my end run on social distancing. I don't keep my distance from any of you. I get to talk to all of you every day, So that really is more meaningful in some ways now than it's ever been before. I don't see anybody else. I don't see my family, I don't see my friends. I do have my parents French bulldog with me to Lula, who is very cute but very French, she's very stubborn. It's not always easy to deal with. She makes demands. But that's it.

I mean, here in New York City, we're being told essentially that we should act as if we're all in quarantine. We should act as if we have come into contact with this, even if we have no specific reason to think that that has happened. And so that is really changing the city pretty dramatically. I called a couple of restaurants last night because I wanted to do what I had said I was, or at least I've said it. I think I said it on on wo R. I called a couple of restaurants last night and wanted to

get am. I wanted to get a gift certificate so that I could tell them, Hey, guys, I'm gonna get you know, here's here's some money. Now, here's one hundred buck, one hundred fifty bucks, whatever it is, and I'm not going to use this again. And I'm not going to use this rather until at least July, maybe September. But smaller places, you know, the corporate places, may be able

to hold out of it longer. You know, I think I don't think Chipotle is going out of business anytime soon, right, But places that are sole proprietors sole proprietorships, where they're owned by one person or by a family, those places have very high rents. Here in New York, I try to call some last night already closed, not even staying open for this because if they don't have a robust delivery business, it's very hard to very hard to weather

this store. And you know, there's there's also this this back and forth that you're going to see between wonderful, kind inspiring stories. You know that right now there's all this circulating on social media of people who are in Italy, in Rome, in Milan, and people are out on their balconies because in Italy this is very I'm sure if you've never been, you or if you've ever been, you know what I'm talking about. And they're singing. Whole neighborhoods

are going out to their windows and singing together. And this is this is the heartwarming. This makes you feel like, Okay, we're gonna be all right. But then there's the other side of this too. Right now, we're already seeing the panic buying. We're seeing people hoarding. People are hoarding in ninety five masks. They're hoarding toilet paper, red meat, pasta, other things, eggs. These are things that people are terrified they're not going to have. And what happens if we

do start to have real economic dislocation from this? What happened? I mean, we're already gonna stuffer pain, but I mean in our food supply, what happens if all of a sudden, we're not now farmers say they're going to work, and God bless our farmers. They're not shutting down for coronavirus no matter what. But in the delivery system, especially for very crowded urban areas, is a more precarious thing than

a lot of people realize it. You know, most major grocery stores can get a series of deliveries throughout the day, and that's how they stay That's how those shelves stay stocked, and that's how you've got the stuff you want. If we have enough of a problem here and the quarantine becomes stringent enough and people need to stay home to take care of their kids, you know what happens if our truck drivers have got to stay home because you know, they've got kids, or they got a family member they're

worried about. They've got things they've got to do too. We don't know how this is going to out in that regard, so look, I'm not gloom and do them here, folks. We're gonna be our I team. We're gonna get through it every day. I got to say that. It's important for me to be able to say it, for me to hear myself saying it. But also I think it's important that we've keep that in mind as we look at all the different policies and everything that's going on

right now. This is the most uncertain moment in some ways, at least in terms of the disease spread. This is where we have to just sit and wait. It reminds me a little bit about how there's going to be. You know, there's going to be some days ahead that are like the first days of a battle. That's what it's going to feel like, because there's going to be numbers that come in assuming that the projections are correct.

I mean, I know the New York projections very well because it's really done being done state by state, and you're also seeing states have a larger role in this. You know, states got involved after nine to eleven with counter terrorism fusion centers, and on this on quarantine. State and local governments are very much on the front line and doing things that matter. Whether they're good things or bad things, they're doing things that really do affect your life.

And that's why so I'm focused on New York because I'm in New York. I'm also seeing what's going on in other states as much as I can. But here they're seeing about a twenty percent hospitalization rate, about twenty percent of the people that have been confirmed to have coronavirus.

Now that doesn't mean that twenty percent of people are going to get hospitalized, but twenty percent of the people who took a test because they had the symptoms that made them think they have coronavirus, which is probably a small fraction of those who actually have wuhun virus sorry,

actually gotten this. But if you have a twenty percent hospitalization rate, just based on the established infection number and the rate that it's going up right now, there are very real concerns that you're just going to have people that are going to emergency rooms and they just don't have They literally physically do not have the ventilators necessary to keep these people alive. That's the nightmare scenario. That's what they keep talking about, flattening out the curve. And

we're all becoming familiar with this verbiage now. Things we've never even heard of before, flattening out the curve being one of them. We all know more about disease than I think we've ever known before. I read about it every day, every night, you know, I'm reading books on it, I'm reading news articles. You know, feverishly probably the wrong word to use, but furiously, there we go. But we're all trying to figure out as much as we can

about how this is going to play out. Trump yesterday said it was bad those of you, and I respect that. You know, we have different opinions on a whole host of things. But those of you who last week were writing me to say, Buck, it's not going to be

that big a deal. I hope you're right. You could be right, but we can't take the risk of not thinking it's a big deal for at least the next couple of weeks because the way that this played out in Italy is something we have to avoid here because it'll play out on a much larger We have a population that's five times plus the size of Italy. It'll play out on a scale here that will be jaw

dropping and horrifying. So I'm willing to sacrifice two weeks of economic activities that we don't have fifty thousand dead in a month from this disease. I think that that's, by the way, we're going to start having some very difficult societal conversation, social converse, you know, greater society conversations about what really the trade offs that we're willing to make are. No one's going there quite yet, but we

do lose. And I know everyone yells at everyone for bringing up the flu, but just that's our experience with what is really seasonal and endemic disease, endemic within the people, disease that keeps popping up in the same population. Right, Pandemic all the people, epidemic on the people. All important things to know these days. All come from ancient Greece.

Why from ancient grease, Well, Hippocrates was the first one who wrote about what we think was either a flu or it might have been typhoid, can't really tell, or a combination of both. But that's when we first had these terms pandemic and epidemic, so it stretches back to I think the fourth or fifth century BC. So, my friends, we are going to work through all this again together today, as we always do. It is an honor that you come to me at this time, give me your time,

lend me your ears. I do appreciate it. You are you are my social life. You know, there's all this social distancing right now. Team Buck, you guys are in for me. I mean, I can call people and FaceTime people, but this actually gives me the feeling of connection to the people in this country, to my fellow Americans that I care about. So that's one thing that I'm deeply grateful for. And as you can see, we're all set up. So as long as as long as the internet and

the electricity stays on, this show stays on. So we're gonna be good to go. I'm going to go through some of what was said in a press conference this morning by the President as well as a press conference by Cuomo that I thought was pretty good, and we'll get into some other things. I'll tell you about this Russian troll farm story, which I think is really really interesting. Also why there's been a delay in testing so We've got a jam packed show, no doubt about it, as

we always do. And I may although only you only see this if you watch on Pluto TV channel two forty eight. The first I may have a special guest join me for roll call today. We'll see you might you might be able to hear her little snorts and her little sneezes because she does sneeze sometimes. But we'll see about that. I've got plants. Stay with me. You're in the Freedom hud. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. There will be no more gatherings of fifty plus people.

So if you were hoping to plan a graduation party, you can't do it in the state of New York. You can't go do it in the state of New Jersey, and you can't do it in the state of Connecticut. Casinos, we all have casinos. If I close my casinos, when New Jersey keeps their casinos open, we're going to have the same problem. All casinos will be closed effective eight pm tonight and they will stay closed until further notice. On all these closings, they are all till until further notice.

And hopefully I can coordinate with the other governors so we can have the same opening period and just the way we had the same closing period. Shutting down businesses, shutting down gatherings. This is a usage of state power, not big s state, but of the fifty states, the likes of which I've never seen before, and I don't know what really your modern analogous situation would be. They're telling businesses that they just can't open, they're telling people

they can't come together. Freedom of assembly not so much. There are going to be constitutional questions ahead, that is for sure, especially if this drags out for months, which most people expected. You. That doesn't mean it will happen. But those are some of the extreme measures we're talking about here. There are more extreme measures that are probably coming. 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. We need you right now at the front, and the front is in the places where the coronavirus epidemic is worse. On a personal note, I want to ask you how you're coping. You went to the gym yesterday and Twitter losses. Mind. I don't get it, but we'll move on with our lives. The gyms are all closed now, AlSi, yeah, I know that gyms are closed. Is there any sense that you were late personally to get your arms around what the sacrifices for? No,

everyone is have to make sacrifice. But as our Health commissioner said yesterday, people still in new ways are going to have to get exercise. Whatever scenario we're going to tell people how to stay healthy. It may be a walk, it may be a job, but obviously socially distanced until and unless we get to the point of literally ordering everyone indoors. So this is going in stages. Somehow people are going to have to stay healthy insane through this,

and it's going to take a lot of improvisation, for sure. Yeah, that's for sure. The gym in my building. I live in a very large residential tower in New York City and there's a lot of them here. Gym and my building is closed. I'm wondering if maybe I can sneak in and borrow some free weights because I went on to Amazon. Guess what you can't get on Amazon right now at all? Free weights can't get them delivered to you. Apparently other people have the same idea. I did get

a couple of barbells. If you've got a set of decent barbells at home, you're pretty much good with YouTube. Teach yourself some straightforward exercises, do some compounds, compound lifts with dumbells, you're good to go. Can't get dumbells, though, so I guess I'm gonna have to start doing some at home yoga, homage to the sun, or I don't know, I'll figure something out. Push ups, a lot of push

ups coming my way, I think. Or I'm just going to order a lot of Chinese food until this whole thing passes and not worry about the dad bod coming on fast just in time for summer. But no, seriously, there was there's there's going to be a change in people's lifestyles and what they're used to that will require quite a bit of adjustment. This is not something that we've dealt with before. This is not something that anybody

has any experience with. And I know for a lot of people there, they're daily whatever it is going even if it's going to their local coffee shop, if it's going to the gym every morning, if there's any number of things, you know, going to their favorite diner. These are habits that ground us, that bring us into a sense of normalcy and routine. And these are very powerful things psychologically. There's a lot of power on them. So

we're gonna have to get ready for this. But you notice, and you know, de Blasio of course got a little bit of got a little bit of criticism there for well, Deblasi got criticism for being de Blasio where he's like, everybody can't go to the gym, but I'm gonna go to the gym one last time because I like the ymca. De Blasio's a he's a he's a two minutes on the elliptical guy and then does lots of dynamic stretching.

I'm sure that's how he rolls. So Deblasio, Oh, the President is authorized the deformative three hundred billion dollars of IRS payments. This is one thing I just saw this.

This is one thing that we buy the way need to have happened, all right, the government if we all are waiting to get paid and we all have to worry about this, we the American people, the government can say everybody gets another sixty days before their checks are doing too the IRS, you know, just put it, just put it on our twenty two trillion dollars tab for

now and then everybody can pay it off later. I mean, I've been spending the last couple of weeks trying to pull together my taxes because I'm in the media and you know I do private contractor stuff and all over the place, and I'm just like, this is ridiculous. This is what I gotta be focused on right now. I gotta send them a check every quarter as it is, and now I have to worry about this deadline. It's absurd.

So hopefully that will work. By the way, the stimulus plan they keep talking about stimulus, the only stimulus it's going to have any effect is going to be the stimulus of giving people money to get through the crisis. You're going to see policy disputes arise here. There's some of this is going to bring us all together and some of this is going to pull us apart. There will be policy disputes that are sharper than what we've

seen in a long time, because this is real. People are going to be in danger of losing their homes that they fall behind on their mortgage. I mean, how many Americans, if especially if they work in the service economy and they have no income coming in. How many Americans can go six months without any income? Fifty percent of Americans, according to the polls, would have trouble meeting

a five hundred dollar emergency obligation. I know, I've been an American as an adult, working for years and years who would have had trouble at least with cash in the bank. I mean, yeah, I could have maybe put it on a credit card or run up some kind of a debt. But I know I've gone through life paycheck to paycheck. I know what that's like. It's not fun,

it's not easy. And really, there are two kinds of people in America in a lot of ways, those of us who have lived paycheck to paycheck and understand what that's like, understand those stresses. And as I always tell you, there are people that know what it is to show up to a job where they are not appreciated, where no one really cares that they're there, where they could be fired at a moment's notice, and they have to

make it work. And there are other people that just kind of, you know, get to do whatever they want and mumsey and Daddy will take care of it, or mumsey and Daddy's money. I mean there's a lot of that with millennials too, trust me, well, there's a lot of that with I guess every generation in different ways. But the economic packages will talk about what they're trying to do. One of the big concerns to the market, and I mean the Dow went down with three thousand

points yesterday. A big concern to the market is that the FED has done what it can do, and everyone thinks, oh, okay, well the Fed. You know that the cavalry is here. You know, the FED rides in and saves the day. M It doesn't matter how cheap you make money if people can't spend it because they can't go anywhere because they can't do anything. It doesn't matter how much you lower the borrowing cost. If people aren't borrowing because there's nothing to do with the money. If you gave it

to them, they don't want to do it. We have stopped activity. Economics is activity. That is what this is all about. We have essentially shut down the US economy. Means short of hyperinflation or the you know, the destruction of the US currency, which is a true nightmare scenario, which by the way, is something people talk about as a possibility. Short of that, I mean, this is one of the scarier economic situations we could be in, where

people just aren't doing stuff. People aren't doing stuff, And it also reminds me of how much we are all at the end of this going to owe such a debt of gratitude to the people who make and deliver food the well we think of and we can never give enough respect and love to cops, first responders, firemen. I mean, but everyone knows about their heroics. We don't always appreciate it as much as we should. Everyone knows what they're doing for us day to day, although we

do need to be reminded of that. But there are other people here, you know, there are people who are doing really really critical stuff to keep our lives from feeling like quite honestly, they are in some state of just complete disrepair and keep our lives from feeling like

they are they're falling apart. So I think that is something that we should all remember too, that there are people out there who are doing things for us that are not getting you know, they're not getting the kind of praise, the kind of kudos that many other folks do and one example of this is I think this guy was out in California, but this is true anywhere across the country. And he he goes by the name Jester. I don't know if that's his real name. It's a

cool name. Obviously reminds me of the guy from Top Gun. But here's what he wrote. And I won't you remember this, because you know, I've got their people live in a very large building in New York with hundreds and hundreds

of neighbors. We're all very closely packed in here. And there are individuals who are showing up every day and making sure that this building, you know, that the hot water is on, that the electricity is what it should be, that you know, there are people who are just making sure those goods and services for home life support continue on. And there are people who are picking up the trash and making sure that some normalcy, and not just normalcy,

but things that we really need. I can imagine if, if you know, if people just said, you know what, it's not worth it. I don't care about my minimum wage job bagging groceries anymore. I'm not gonna We're not gonna keep the grocery store open. Sorry, now, now what do we do. I'm gonna try to figure out how to buy direct from If some of you can buy direct from the farmer, you're probably you probably are the farmer,

or you're down the road from him. But a lot of people in the major cities rely on rely on stores to be able to get stuff for us, right. I mean, you see these empty shelves, and it does bring some pretty scary thoughts to mind. What happens when there's just not enough to go around. What happens when all of a sudden the economics affect our ability to get what we need to get day to day. So this is this guy gesture though, and I wanted to read this to you. It's just just on Twitter, but

it's gone absolutely megaviral, as it should. And here's what he wrote about this. I'm a garbage man. I can't work from home. My job is an essential city service that must get done. It's a tough job, from getting up pre dawn to the physical toll it takes on my body to the monotonous nature of the job. At times, it's hard to keep ongoing. Right now, though, I am feeling a sense of extra pride and purpose as I do my work. I see the people, my people of

my city peeking out their windows at me. They're scared. We're scared, but we're resilient. Us garbage men are going to keep collecting the garbage. Doctors and nurses are gonna keep doctoring and nursery. It's gonna be okay. We're gonna make it be okay. I love my city, I love my country. Be good to each other, and we'll get through this. He's a garbage man, and he knows that

we need him now more than ever her. And that goes for those of you listening to this who are truck drivers making sure that we get milk and eggs to the store. Thank you very much for that. I really do appreciate it. It goes for those who are still delivering mail or work for ups, work for the postal service. It goes for those who work for the airlines who are going through a terrible time right now. But my friends, we all need those airlines to still

be around. We can't have all the airlines just shut down and completely run out of all operating expenses and not be there when this thing passes. It's essential not just for our vacations, for business for commerce. So people are carrying a heavy load right now, and more than ever, anything you can do to show support, and more importantly in some ways, well if you can to help in

some regard, you know, now is the opportunity. Now is the time for some of these ultra powerful, wealthy corporations, you know, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Amazons, Amazon, I saw it just said they're gonna surge up and hire one hundred thousand people for their warehouses and their delivery services because they know, you know, what people really want right now, Amazon delivery. And they're also going to that

people need jobs. So with it. This is everybody has to get involved in some way to help us get through this. Everyone has a role to play. Um. And you know, garbagemen do not get the credit and they do not get the from a lot of people. I think the respect that they are due for making sure that our cities are clean, that that they are sanitary, and that there are places you want to live in. And this is true of suburban neighborhoods and rural neighborhoods too,

unless you take the garbage for the dump yourself. But then you don't have garbagemen they're doing a critical job. They continue to do that job even while everyone else is scared, while their kids are probably at home now not in school, you know, while there, while their wives are worried about what's going on. They're putting themselves out there and they're dealing with refuse, they're dealing with you know,

the post ability of contamination and infection themselves. But God bless them, they're they're keeping our city from just teeming with steaming trash. And you know that we get another pandemic unless we have the garden, unless we have garbage. Been doing their job, So it's very very important, and we thank them and everybody else who's doing the necessary work. Here. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton

Show podcast. So I meant to get to this, but I got sidetracked by the economics and by the announcement of where we are right now and what the administration's packages to try to help deal with the economic pain. Deblasio before he was asked by CNN about his decision to make one last trip to the gym, Deblasio also mentioned the possibility of shelter in place as a as an order play clip nineteen so last night ordered a shelter in place edict for the whole Bay area. Wouldn't

York consider something? We're absolutely considering that. I mean, right now, we have taken a series of steps to reduce the number of people who are circling around, get people a telecommute, obviously, social distancing, closing the schools, which was particularly painful, closing the bars and restaurants. But we're going to look at all other options, and it could get to that, for sure, it could get that the whole country, could get to that for the whole country, he says, shelter in place.

Do you know what's going on in Italy right now? I've told you about the shortages of doctors, ICU beds, ventilators. We've discussed that. Something else that's going on in Italy though in Lombardy, Milan, you know, northern Italian cities and provinces. If you need to leave your house, you have to go online and fill out a permission form and you have to carry that permission form with you if you want to go outside, if you want to go anywhere,

you can do it. For the grocery store, for the pharmacy. It's basically it that's where we are right now in Italy. That's already happening. Shelter in place in New York City would mean everyone is on lockdown. Everyone has to stay in their own space and can only leave for essential goods and services. This is concerning. This is concerning, and beyond that, I have to say, this isn't gonna last, folks. At some point, there will be a revolt against all

these orders. At some point you'll have too many servers at restaurants, too many bartenders, too many airline employees, too many you know. I mean, I can't even name all, you know, arena employees and all these different things that are shut down. Two people saying, if he's being destroyed, maybe maybe I just will. Maybe we want to take the risk. I'm not saying this is the path or this is the thing to do. I am just saying I believe that we will rapidly unless we see this

horrific surge of very serious cases. Remember India, which has a billion people one and twenty five confirmed cases of coronavirus, and they wouldn't be able to hide it if it got into the broader population, because they would have I would have a lot of dead people very quickly. India only has one hundred and twenty five cases a billion people at what's going on there. So we don't have we don't have an endless tolerance for these rules and regulations.

And one thing that I think is going to happen is that the government is going to continue to insist that we listen to them on these dictates and that they if they tell us, for example, shelter in place. What happens in the government says shelter in place, and I'm saying no, I'm I'm gonna go see my girlfriend.

I'm gonna live my life. Sorry. What happens when the government starts sending in is they are are in New York the NYPD to arrest people first to summons, but then they can arrest them for gatherings of more than more than fifty and I think now they're gonna make it gatherings of more than ten is the CDC guidance.

What happens when people say I will not comply. We're heading for a very combustible period unless the government really gets this stuff right and is providing a lot more help than in his hindrance in dealing with this and we're not sure which side of it they're they're gonna fall on quite yet. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Fundamus

at the time, they are strong. In fact, you know, we've had so many business groups and they'll tell you, you know true February January, February is rising. The Atlanta Fed GDP now is shown three percent or three point one percent. We don't have the March data in yet. Yes, I believe that, and I think again, prior policies on low taxes and regulations and trade and oil and energy of health enormously. I believe this is a short term problem. I believe it's a matter of weeks and months. It

is not a matter of years. And regarding the President I was with in this morning, we had our G seven teleconference meeting, and you haven't asked me about that, but he was very calm about the market and it is what it is. We think it's going to get better, but that's you know, we'll see, we'll see how that goes. Keep telling you nobody knows they're doing the best. They can but uncharted territory here, no question about it. We're in a whole different situation than we've ever been in before.

And the usual tools I mean the government, you know, the FED in these other monetary policy instruments that we have, and the FED is the big one. I mean, the FED fired it's Bizuka and coronavirus. Was kind of like, yeah, I'm not gonna do anything with that one. So now what happens, Well, it looks like they're actually talking about the possibility of putting cash into americans pockets very quickly.

My friends. This is kind of like the freedom dividend that Andrey Yang talked about, except it's not a This is an extreme measure. I understand that, but people are talking about it. Manuchnuchan is a smart guy. He's one person who even even anti Trump people in the world of finance that I've talked to people that I hate Trump, they say, well, Manuchin, he's a smart dude. He understands

he understands government. Oh, he understands finance, and he understands how the government plays a role in the financial markets. And so I Manuchan said, look, maybe maybe we've got to get money into people's hands, you know, a thousand dollars, but it's gonna be a lot of money. It's gonna be for a lot of people. How do you distribute that? What do you do for peopleho don't have bank accounts? What do you do for people who don't have ID they're going to show up and say, give me my

check for a thousand dollars for this week. It's not just going to be for people that are already on welfare roles, or it's gonna be for everybody, or it's gonna be for a lot of really hard working people that if they didn't do anything wrong. The fact that restaurants are shutting down, the fact that we're being told that we can't do any economic activity right now, that's not the fault of anybody, anybody period, And it's not anyone's fault right now. I mean they're gonna say it's

Trump's fault. And notice again today and this. Sometimes I say things team more as a reminder to myself on the show and than even me trying to express something necessary for all of you to hear. But I try to keep it as nonpartisan as I can for as long as I can. On this show I do my best because I think it's more important right now that we focus on what's happening and we focus on how to prevent a mass casualty incident. But also we're gonna have to start looking at this like how do we

balance keeping our alive if the economy completely collapses. I mean, if we go through the floor on this thing, we're going to have all kinds of problems apart from this virus. You know, I don't like to take this position or I'm not saying that this means, oh, we shouldn't do the things we're doing. I'm advocating we've got to give the government fifteen days. But if we go through fifteen days and you've got, you know, still fewer casualties, then you would see in a tough flu season. I'm not

saying this will happen. I'm I'm making any predictions. I'm just pointing out the decision tree, the decision pathways that will face if you go through two weeks of this and everyone's feeling the economic pain and also the stir craziness that's going to start setting in. Right, we can't

live our normal lives. Our lives are being put on pause by this, I'll talk to you about things we can do and quarantine later that you know, in some ways this is a weird way to think about it, but maybe take advantage of the time that you have to yourself at home without the obligations of normal life that'll come later on in the show. So we talk about like what video games we should play, what movies

we should watch. But if they're not, people are going to get to a point where they say, I'm not going to live my life this way with the government telling me that we can't do anything anymore because I think that this isn't worth it. That we just have to deal with the reality that, like, yeah, some people are gonna get sick, some people are gonna die. That's where we are. That mentality will become widespread quickly, and the government's going to have to be very nimble about saying,

all right, look, our risk tolerance has changed. Now. If we go two weeks from now and you have and we're gonna know, we're gonna see we have instant communication all over social media, never mind even just the normal media.

We're all gonna be able to find out because this stuff along goo viral, you know, if all of a sudden, grandma and grandpa are waiting in an emergency room for twelve hours when they can barely breathe, and then they're being told there's no ventilator for them at a major metropolitan hospital or a major regional hospital, people are gonna say, Okay, we got to keep this social distancing thing going a long time, and you know, the economic fallout from this

is something that we probably have to deal with. But if that's not the case, and if it feels like this is, you're going to have people that push back against the government. And this is gonna this is very this is combustible, it is fiscile, it is we're on the edge here a little bit more than I think a lot of people realize. So, Okay, giving people money a thousand dollars, will that do anything one off thousand dollars not If this is going to last sixteen to

ninety days. There's no one in America for whom a thousand dollars over the next if they have no income, a thousand dollars over the next sixteen to ninety days means they can meet all their obligations. That's just not that's not possible, So it would have to be a lot more money from that, and it means we're gonna run up that federal credit card. There are people who are going to say, you know, this is why we shouldn't be running up deficits. They're right. How many times

have I told you on the show? I know nobody wants to hear this. I know nobody by the way I did. I thought about this yesterday, not that this is like a pat myself in the back situation, because really who cares? But I remember I was asked in roll call, I think, and we could track it down because we have transcripts of the show. I think it was maybe in you know, the last quarter of last year. What really worries me? And I was like climate changes

for idiots, Pandemic disease is a really big problem. This has been there those of us who pay attention to actual science. No, this has been This has been a risk that we are running as a society for a long time. But all right, so now we get back to what we do about this. What the monetary moves will be by the government. They really should I mean Tucker Carlson talked about this last night on his show, and you gotta give Tucker credit. I do. I ever

knows I like Tucker Show. I also think I appreciate that they have me on, but also I think it's just a really good show. I think that Tucker is a freethinker who does a lot of really important and insightful particularly with his monologues, important and insightful things. And he's been saying, take it seriously, guys, take it seriously. This is real. Get ready for it. Some other very big voices in conservative media have been a little too dismissive.

There's a component of this that has to be addressed and maybe more maybe something I can address more later where we're looking at why do people not trust the media? Because the media is not trustworthy? So when a liar, when someone who is dishonest lies about their intentions, lies about their motivations, and you've caught them over and over

and over again. This is the media cries Wolfe scenario that some of us had been worrying about, Like I do wish that there was a cable news network out there that was completely neutral, that we really could believe was neutral, or that was just nonpartisan. That's a better way of saying it's no such thing. There is no such thing. You have Fox as a counterbalance to the left wing insanity, but Fox is mostly in prime time

opinion shows. There are some neutral journalists shows on there that do a very good job of being fair to the facts. But I digress. Okay, the economics of this are going to get very, very tricky. What could turn this whole thing around? A vaccine, a cure. I'm very pessimistic about this. It's going to tell you what, don't There's a lot of media coverage of this right now. I'll tell you why. Here's what Trump said yesterday about

where we are at the vaccine play three. I'm also pleased to report today that a vaccine candidate has begun the phase one clinical trial. This is one of the fastest vaccine development launches in history, not even close. We're also racing to develop anti viral therapies and other treatments, and we've had some promising results, early results for promising to reduce the severity and the duration of the sender of these symptoms. And I have to say that our

government is prepared to do whatever it takes. Whatever it takes. We're doing now therapeutics as they're called essentially treatments, pharmacological

treatments for this virus. That's the more likely near term game changer we could have if you can just create something that slows down the disease progression enough that you don't need people put on ventilators so that they have something that is artificially breathing for them, which is what the big problem is right now with COVID nineteen wu

Hunt virus. That would be a game changer. Vaccine twelve to eighteen months out, my friends, if we're on lockdown for the next twelve to eighteen months, well, we're not going to have an economy. I mean, we can't do that. So it would be nice, but also keep in mind that maybe the vaccine is not maybe the vaccines that have are not that effective. I'm also a believer in we should put out a bounty because it's going to

be the private sector. It's going to be the private sector that figures out what the cure for this will be. I mean, doctor Fauci's out there saying, look, we're moving very fast on the vaccine. That's encouraging, but I don't think anybody wants to be told to shelter in place for the next twelve months. Play six and the vaccine candidate that was given. The first injections for the first

person took place today. You might recall when we first started, I said it would be two to three months, and if we did that, that would be the fastest we've ever gone from obtaining the sequence to being able to do a phase one trial. This has been now sixty five days, which I believe is the record. What it is, it's a trial of forty five normal individuals between the ages of eighteen and fifty five. The trial is taking

place in Seattle. There will be two injections, one at zero day, first one, then twenty eight, so there will be three separate doses twenty five milligrams, one hundred milligrams, two hundred and fifty milligrams, and the individuals will be followed for one year, both for safety and whether it induces the kind of response that we predict would be protective. And that's exactly what I've been telling this group over and over again. So it's happened. The first injection was today.

That's excellent, except we're twelve to eighteen months away from you being able to walk into your local doctor's office or drug store and get something in your arm that realistically will prevent you from getting this disease. So it's good information to have, but it's not going to change

the reality of right now. And even President Trump is saying the economic You know, we have two major areas of vulnerability, the population getting infected with this, right just the pandemic nature or the pandemic that we're going through, and then we also have the economic fallout. And these two things are very obviously intimately related, but they're also separate issues and have to be dealt with and not

not exactly the same policies and proposals. But Trump, who is usually very upbeat, and I appreciate that he's upbeat, but I would also say for people that are going to start, you're gonna hear a lot of trashing at Trump. He didn't, you know, I actually deal with this a

little bit. I've mentioned this many times that Bill Marshaw before anything, before we even knew what was going on, They're saying Trump is awful, he's an idiot, he doesn't care about people dying, which is just Trump's arrangement lunacy. But we're going to see the European governments get crushed by this. It's going to be really bad for them. Are they all incompetent too? Are they all a bunch of you know, trust fund porn star dating, you know,

evil Russia, collusion trader? I mean, all this nonsense they say about Trump, is it true? But all these other world governments do no. I mean, this is the this is the the unseen challenge that has come for this administration, the unforeseeable challenge. But Trump realizes that for the economy, this is a album play latent. Stock market took another hit today. Is the US economy heading into a recession? Well as maybe we're not thinking in terms of recession,

we're thinking in terms of the virus. Once we stop, I think there's a tremendous pent up demand, both in terms of the stock market and in terms of the economy. And once this goes away, once it goes through and we're done with it, I think you're going to see a tremendous, tremendous search that's going to be a national celebration. I mean it's going to be I think it'll be like those photos you see, you know, from Times Square and you know, sailors coming home and everything from right

after World War Two. It won't be on quite that same scale, perhaps, but it's going to be a little reminiscent of that. We're going to have people that just feel like the exultation. Anyway, it'll be there, but we're not there yet, so I don't want to get to ahead of it. You know, the celebratory Margarita, the producer Mark and I are going to have on the streets of Tribecco, and this thing passes. It's months away, maybe six months away. So we have to keep an eye

on what's going on here. The fact that our leadership, some of them seem to take this seriously, and as I've been saying, that's a good thing. That's what I expect, and irrespective of party, I plan to do my part to try to bring attention to those who are making the right moves and aren't viewing this as just a political football to throw around. Here's what Governor Cuomo said about President Trump and Vice President Pence play seven. We

have had a phenomenal increase in testing. We've been able to use our laboratories. Our emergency management team has done a very good job of reaching out to our state labs, getting them on track, getting them coordinated. Our testing numbers are way up, as you'll see next week. By the end of this week, we think we're going to be up to about seven thousand tests per day, which is an exponential increase of what we have done. I made this suggestion to the Vice President. I made it to

the President. I often tell you when I am unhappy with the federal response to this state, the fairness dictates that kudos where kudos a due, and here the Vice President and the President responded very quickly. So I want to thank them for that. That's right, balls and strikes. No time for games, no time for nonsense here, and so I appreciate the Governor Cuomos being an adult about this. Governor Newsom of California has been an adult about this.

Are these are superlibs who usually I'd be fighting tooth and nail and policy issues. Too much at stake here, too important to get this right. They should be praised for doing what's right, saying what they should be saying under the circumstances. And so that's where we are. Now, let's talk about CDC and testing. You're in the freedom hunt.

This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. So we've been told from the beginning by people, especially those who want to criticize the administration at every opportunity, listen to the experts, Listen to the experts, where's the CDC, where's the NSC Pandemic Office. And I've been telling you because I actually know something about the NSC, because I'm XCIA and I used to deal with the NSC on a regular basis.

I mean I had friends at the NSC. In fact, one of my friends from the NSC is now a Fox News host, so you know our correspondent, So you know, I go, I go way back from the NSA at the NSC. The story though we've we've heard is that somehow Trump is responsible for the lag in testing, that they weren't taking this serious use there was a lag in testing. That's just not true. Trump turned around and said, okay, CDC,

let's go World Health Organization. And this is from the watch Post doing a story, investigative story, and what happened with the testing levels? Because I mean it is it is an abomination how slow they were getting those tests out. And I'm gonna move to the whole where are we with respirators, masks, and all these things. We are the most mighty economic engine the world has ever seen. You're gonna tell me we can't get enough masks for people

that are in hospitals, for our doctors and nurses. Oh, I'm sitting around with a you know, a supercomputer in my hand, and I feel like I could order ten more than they'd be here tomorrow. We can't get enough surgical masks done. This is a reminder there's a lot of time for the politics here. I'm gonna try to limit my discussions of them. But chin China makes most of our antibiotics, makes most of our medical devices. We

really think that's a great idea. Huh. Now we're seeing it's not such a great idea, just like we're also seeing with Canada locking down its borders that borders are real and it's not racist to have borders. No, no, it's sane to have borders. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts,

the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. And healthcare workers around America can be absolutely certain that the President and our entire team are going to continue to put the health of America first, and put first our healthcare workers across this country that are meeting the needs of the people of our country. We've got to get them masks, we got to give them ventilators. We got to make sure they have the tools they need to do the job and the tools they need to stay safe.

A big part of understanding this in the early days was testing. What went wrong with testing the CDC. The CDC has in place plans for pandemics, and that's irrespective of who the president is. That's just the nature of that seven billion dollars a year federal agency. And there's also the NIH the National Institutes of Health. You have these federal government and they exist for this for now, and they exist so that we could get testing done quickly, so we could better react to and respond to hot

spots of Wuhan virus. And this is now a moment in time where we say, what exactly happened here? The CDC was slow. The CDC was slow because they have all these regulations and they have to approve things for labs, and there was some mistake in the design of their test, and then there was a problem in the manufacturing and CDC messed up. Now, we don't have too much time to sit around and trying to kick the CDC, because

guess what, we need them. But this would be something like if the president said, all right, let's call in an airstrike and he says, you know, let's fire a bunch of Tomahawk missiles from a bunch of cruisers that

we've got. You know, let's fire off Tomahawk missiles and the Navy goes, okay, here we go, and they fire them and then they'll just go about fifty feet and then land in the ocean because there was a design flaw because you know, Lockheed or Raytheon or whoever makes tom Walk missiles I don't even know didn't design them properly. That's not on the president. No, you know, we we have is very very expensive and now, of course our military is one of the few things our federal government

gets right. But you know, this is what happened. The CDC messed up, and the CDC had all these regulations in place and all these other labs. We're saying, okay, well we can do this test and CDC said, oh no, we got to make sure that it's safe before you can do it, or you know, we got to make sure that it fits with the regulations whatever, crazy stuff,

crazy stuff. So this is, you know, this is where the truth does matter, and the truth is that the CDC fell down on the job here and everybody knows. But you're gonna be lied to about that. They're gonna lie to you about this one guaranteed. They're going to

say that this is for political reasons. They're going to claim that Trump wasn't taking its seriously, that the lack of testing from the CDC was or lack of testing that was possible, was the administration's fault, when in reality, the reason there weren't the tests that there should have been in the time period that they should have had them was because the CDC messed up. And that's what That's what was going down. That's what was really happening here.

So let's just understand that. Let's be clear about that. Now, there are elections that are supposed to take place today. For the primary, you have the following story Ohio Supreme Court allows delayed election primary. This is pretty crazy. Early Tuesday, the Ohio Supreme Court denied a legal challenge to the state delaying the primary a candidate in Wood County, had filed the action Monday, alleging the delay of the primary

violated election laws. Only four justices participated in the ruling, which was issued without an opinion after the court ordered the state to respond by one thirty am. Other states quickly filed the motion to dismiss the justice has cast their votes before four am. So you know, I guess we are not going to have a Democrat primary today. I'm trying to figure out what exactly is going on here. I mean, you have the following states that are that

are involved in this. You have, let's see, voters in three states are gonna head are gonna head to the polls today. I mean, look, no one's been paying attention to this. Even Ohio has postponed, but Arizona, Florida, and Illinois have people heading to the polls today despite the coronavirus pandemic. And you know, Ohio Governor Mike Dwine announced that the polls would not open despite a judge's ruling

that the election must go on. So you know this is going to start affecting you know where this is going, right? I think we all understand this right off the bat they're gonna say the Libs, the Democrats. I know, this is getting a few steps ahead of where we are. If the Democrat doesn't end up winning, they're going to say the elections illegitimate. It's already you can count on it right now. You can count on it being the

final narrative if Trump wins reelection. Oh, the primary was messed up because the pandemic, and they're going to say that Republicans, you know, exerted influence on it in some way, or even though these are decisions being made by Democrats. It's kind of like when we hear all about the sexism of not electing Elizabeth Warren, not just president, but not electing Elizabeth Warren as the candidate for the Democrats. And I sit here, I'm like, sixty percent of Democrat

voters are women. Democrats are the ones voting in their primary. Vayding't elect Elizabeth Warren. Why am I being lectured about sexism as a Republican. That doesn't really that doesn't really make much sense. I don't really get that. I don't really agree with that one. So oh, but Elizabeth Warren's still out there playing politics at this moment in time play Club five. No. I think that it was absolutely

irresponsible of the Senate leader to do that. He ultimately called everyone in for a vote tonight, a vote that did not occur because he worked out a deal he had a problem in his own party, a deal that could have been worked out last week, and we have still not moved forward on the coronavirus bill. This makes no sense at all. Is as if he has no sense of urgency about this problem and no sense of

what to do. You know, he started this by asking me, Do I feel better that Trumps at least admitted that there's a problem. Sure, but it's time to act. We should have been acting months ago. And if that message still has not arrived with the President or with Mitch McConnell, then we're in real trouble. What were the Democrats doing two three months ago? Does anybody remember what the Democrats were completely focused on December January? What were they What

were they really read? I feel like they're, oh, that's right, their psycho sham impeachment of the President of the United States. In fact, they were going through that impeachment proceeding oh June, Mitt Romney showing us how strong he is for America. They were going through that while the President was calling together a task force to deal with coronavirus, and I remember CNN, among other places, ridiculing the president while he

was being impeached for just nothing. I mean, the whole thing was a preposterous joke, a disgrace to constitutional powers and separation of powers. The whole thing was just appalling and so dumb. But they were mad at the President because the coronavirus task force wasn't diverse enough. Oh, that's what they were really worried about. This is this is bad news, my friends. So let's not if we're going to start playing the point fingers and blame game, let's

be honest about what was really happening. The President blocked flights from China. Probably should have blocked flights from Europe too, but we didn't know how bad it was going to be in Europe. The president block flights in China when he was told that that was a bad thing to do and shouldn't do it, And now we realized that

definitely helped us out tremendously with this pandemic. The President's done everything that he realistically can do up to this point, and is doing what the experts have been telling him to do. And now you get Democrats that want to blame not just Trump but also and act like he wasn't taking this seriously. How is he not taking it seriously by trying to keep people calm while they're making maneuvers behind the scenes to deal with the crisis. It's absurd.

I mean, you've got journalists that think that when the President says, you know, look, we've got it, We've got this under control, he doesn't mean that the virus is gone and we have to worry about. He's saying, we're doing everything we can, we have our end of the situation under control. But journalists make him, make him explain

that because they're so obsessed with a Trump lies. Trump lies even now, even when people are really worried, even when we're wondering if mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, you know, you're anybody in your life who's are and those of you who are in the high I know a lot of you listening to this now are over

sixty or over seventy, and you're worried. And I understand why you're worried and why I want to do everything I can to spread the word to give the best information possible and encourage governed officials to make the smartest decisions possible, because I want all of us to come through this okay. And part of that, by the way, is also not even ending up in the ICU with a tube down your throat, and people keep talking about

the mortality rate. Being in the ICU for two or three months is going to be a horrible and traumatic experience. We want to avoid people getting this who can have complications, and younger people, and there's going to be more and more stories about this. There are people in their twenties and thirties who get this and they're in really bad shape. There are people who get I mean, I remember Bree

Peyton from the Federalists. She got H one N one and she she was she was an amazing young woman and I used to do work with her at the Hill and she was a writer at the Federalist. She was gone because she got H one n when she was gone in twenty four hours, young, healthy, amazing woman gone. So that was a less dangerous disease than this. Now, most people get H one N one and don't die.

Most people will get this and don't die. But just because you're young and healthy doesn't mean that this is something that you can You never know how your immune system is going to respond to this. You never know what the reality is going to be. So we just gotta keep that in mind. Man. You know we've got we've got some tough weeks ahead. Keep your keep your shield high, keep your head on a swivel, stay frosty.

We're gonna be our eyes. But this is the Buck Sex and Show podcast, all right, we also need to look at the lighter side of it. Sometimes. This is a nurse from Tennessee who I don't know if she listens to the Buck Sexton Show, but we have the same feeling when it comes to the credit card pad. You have to push, push, push, right the little signature, push, push, push. It's like the last thing you want to be doing. There's a pandemic is touching that little pad that everyone's

been touching all day. You know, when rubs their nose, touches the pad, rubs their mouth touches the pad, sneezes on their hand, touches the pad. Is a nurse in Tennessee who spoke for many of us, myself included, when she went to the grocery store recently play clip one, and up until today I have managed to not ever have to do a ramp video on Facebook, but apparently today is my day. Just left the grocery store, and as we all know, the coronavirus COVID nineteen whatever we're

calling it this week has driven people completely insane. And the woman in lawn in front of me, just apropos of nothing, just starts shrieking at the poor little guy, ringing her up that he has just touched his face and that he therefore must wash his hands, just shrieking this to the top of her lungs. So I'm assuming she surely to God must be the head of the CDC, because she says it was such conviction. And by the way, Lady's you're not supposed to touch her face didn't really

matter as much he touches his I digress. The little guy says, I can't wash my hands right now. She says, I wait, great, we'll I'll wait down, guess lady. He says,

I have hand sanitizer. So he takes like a quarter of a little squirt does his little thing on his hands for about a quarter of a second, which basically would have just served to inside a right and maybe kell off two small weak germs, to which the head of the CDC and her kitten covered lab coat nods and fervently agrees that he's saved the universe with that. He kind of refrains from rolling his eyes, which I

think makes him a saint. And then she goes on to whip out her credit card and use the debit pad that every finger licking, booger picking double digit Q idiot has touched all day long after going to bathroom and not washing their hands. And then she just walks on out with her groceries. Who does she sound like when it comes to the credit card pad? This is a nurse, a healthcare practitioner. What have I been telling you?

I don't know. Maybe she's part of team Buck. Maybe she listens to the show, or she just knows what I know and all of you know, when you think about it, that credit card pad is like a germ hotel. That credit card pad is sitting there like, please touch me so I can make you sick. And yet at this time, and we have all these precautions and all these things shelter and placed, Economy's crumbling dogs and cats living together mass hysteria. Not you, Tulula, You're cool with

all that going on. We still have to touch that stupid okay button like three times and then use a little I don't know what you call it, a little plastic pen thing, and she goes on to tell us her final thoughts on this one. Buddy. See, we're aligned on this play clip too, completely oblivious to the fact that everyone who handled this groceries pire to her getting them, has left their little touch and trace of germs all over them. That going down the conveyor belt, they probably

picked up chicken juice and everything else. But thank god that kid used that quarter of a squirt of pure ill. She has saved the day and kept us all safe from the coronavirus. Y'all, it doesn't matter what we do. There's so many stupid people in this world. We're never going to survive anyway. So touch your face, just touch it, just touch it. It's all the slift, a little bit of gallows humor, my friends. We need that these days. We need to be able to also laugh at our situation.

That's why when people call at the Wu flu or the Kung flu or the Wuhan virus, or the COVID nineteen, or the SARS cove two which is the precursor virus before the infection which is COVID nineteen, with all these different things, we just need to be able to look at it and say, we got it, We're we're gonna we're gonna be all right, and make fun of it sometimes if you can. There are gonna be songs about this.

There're gonna be people who are going to have to create humor and a This is a very dark time, there's no question about that. But we need to be able to look at this and laugh a little bit. And I really appreciate what this nurse had to say about how just I mean, everyone's so on edge, everyone's so nervous about this, but at the same time, you know, there's only so much you can do. There's only so

much you can do. I mean, if you go around and are terrified of germs, or if you know enough about germs and realize the environments that we all live in, you're coming into contact with staff bacteria, you're coming to contact with mrs. So you're coming to contact with these things all the time, and you're usually fine but like maybe you're not. You know, any of us can die

in any given day for any number of reasons. And I'm not saying that we should have a fatalism like well and it does, it doesn't matter, you know, just go out there and start, you know, licking random door knobs or something. It's a horrible idea, but I do mean that we just need to remember we're all on borrowed time and we're all gonna be okay, but we're also all gonna die, not from this virus, just in general.

That's a that's a true statement, all right. We all have limited time here, so enjoy yourself to the degree that you can enjoy your life right now, even though we're under quarantine and we have these difficulties and we have these challenges. That's something that we should all remember that there's just only so much you can do. Don't stress that much, and try to laugh. Try to laugh when you can. Thanks for listening to the bus sets and show past. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the

radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Switching gears here from talking about the coronavirus, the Wuhan virus, I have to note that David Frum, who is considers himself highly areadye. I've dealt with him and he's occasionally insightful and occasionally occasionally a total bozo. I mean, it depends when you get him. On certain subjects. He makes sense. On other subjects, you're like, right, And he thinks he's brilliant on everything, which is the problem because he's not.

He's going around telling people that no one calls it the Spanish flu anymore, which is interesting. He should probably reach out to the author of Pale Rider the Spanish Flu of nineteen eighteen, the title of the most well known book on the subject, and say, hey, nobody calls it the Spanish flu anymore? What an imbecile. But there's a lot of that going around. People are fighting over stuff, and look, there's going to be a bit of a bit of tension over this. They're gonna be people that

are upset with each other. We're going to be dealing with a lot of short fuses here in New York City. There's some video circulating of people in an apartment block yelling at people on the street to get inside, get inside, flatten the curve. People who need to get air, all right, you can walk on the street, maintain your distance from people.

You're not going to get sick. According to the CDC if you keep more than ten feet away from anybody and you're just outside in the air, just don't touch anything. Don't walk around, let me touch all the door handles, let me wipe my face with them. Don't do that. And you should be okay if you go outside, if you're in the particularly high risk population, don't even take that.

Don't even take that risk. Don't even do that. But you know, or maybe if you're going to go outside, just make sure it's at a time when there's very limited people out on the street and you're not going to share an elevator ride with somebody and you're not you know, things like that. But I told you that there was this other story, and this is classic. This is like the Friday before the long weekend government document dump with the stuff that they don't want anyone to

spend any time digging into, understanding learning about. This is this is just amazing. You will recall some time ago there was this story about the Mueller team indicting the Special Counsel Robert Mullers and Fox News. Well, let me give you the backstory. They indicted Concurred Management and Consulting, LLC and Concord Catering, among three companies and thirteen individuals

charged in February of twenty eighteen by Mueller. Their alleged criminal effort included social media postings and campaigns aimed at dividing American public opinion and sewing discord in the electorate officials set, although no impact on voters was ever demonstrated. So you know, some of us knew what this was right away. I tweeted the following out on February sixteenth, twenty eighteen, in response to the initial filing of this case.

Muller just indicted a bunch of Russians for setting up fake social media accounts and buying Facebook ads to say nasty things about Hillary online. That is what they did, setting up fake Facebook accounts to say mean things about Hillary, and that was charged as interfering in our election and committing fraud against the United States government by these foreigners who were saying mean things about Hillary with Facebook accounts.

That is what was going on. By the way, Hugh Hewitt, who is supposed to be a constitutional conservative sort of and a constitutional scholar responded to me. I didn't respond to him, but they responded to me this way, Buck. The indictment is very clear. This isn't overreach in the least. Do you really think it's okay for a foreign government to do this? Well, Hugh, turns out that it was overreach. I was right you with a law degree. Who teaches

constitutional law? I think at Harvard or something. But I never went to law school. But I also worked the National security so I know what's bs about this stuff and what's not. Turns out that the Muller team dropped the whole thing. Whoop. See not even going to continue charging this in a striking this is Fox News. Whoops, Sorry, just dropped something in a striking and unexpected abandonment of a once heralded prosecution initiated by Special Counsel Muller. This

is stunning stuff. The Justice Department moved Monday to drop charges against two Russian companies that were accused of funding a social media meme campaign to further their quote strategic goal to sow discord in the US political system, including the twenty sixteen presidential election. Late Monday, with jury selection in the case set to begin in just two weeks, a federal judge granted the DOJ's motion to kill the prosecution for several counts of conspiring to defraud US agencies

tasks with combating election interference. The government acknowledged the Russian companies were never likely to actually face punishment anyway, and cited possible national security risks with going forward to trial. Oh so the whole thing, why they even file it. They didn't find that anything new? Whom the national security risks? Yeah? Right, of what the Russian troll farms, This stuff would all have been done on the unclassified Internet. Why can't they

bring this case? It was so bad? This is astonishing. Of the thirteen Russians and three Russian companies charged by Mueller and the social media disinformation effort, Conquered was the sole defendant to enter an appearance in Washington's federal court and contest the allegations. Mueller's thirty seven page indictment said that the actions detailed by prosecutors date back to twenty fourteen. Resident Mueller later brought separate charges against other entities related

to the hack of Democrat emails. President Trump noted that no Russian collision with this campaign. Was ever proven, etc. Etc. Various media outlets hype the indictment, with NPR calling the Russian activities a quote attack on democracy. All right, let's

just unpack this together for a second, shall we. This indictment was supposed to be our Muller brave Muller team and prosecutors striking back at Russia attacking our democracy by having Facebook accounts say mean things about Hillary Clinton online. That's that's really that is the charge. That's what they're talking about election interference, and it's an attack on our democracy. Yet they won't even proceed with this in federal court. Why and oh also, why are they dropping this right now?

Why are they going? Why did they go to this point and then wait for the perfect moment to just say, oh yeah, that whole case we're not going to be a case any or the Mueller prosecution, the whole Muller investigation, which was really run by Weisman, was a fraud, an abject fraud, a disgrace to the country. It was all about Russia, Trump insanity, It was all about giving the media something to chew on. You don't drag people into federal court. I don't care what country they're from. Or

who they work for. You don't drag them into federal court and try to make a case that by saying mean things on Facebook about a political candidate, they have attacked your very system of government. Anyone understands us if they think about it. But that was what the Muller team run out to attack on our democracy. Yeah, it's so important that they don't even go forward with the case after two years. Two years they kept this thing going. They just figured out now that it might not work.

They just figured out now the national security risks. No, but they had to feed this into the system. Yes, we've indicted those Russians who meddled in our democracy. We've indicted those Russians who were doing terrible things that attacked our very system of government. We're going to bring them to justice. No, they're not. They were never going to was never going to happen. So why do they allow this to continue for two years? My friends, we see the truth of this. I tell you that I know

one can predict the future. I have been right about Russia collusion and Ukraine phone call, impeachment, all this stuff every step of the way, because I see it for what it is. It's not because I can predict the future. It's because I understand the president. I know what's really going on and understand these political dynamics. I know what's real in the national security field and what's not because I used to work in it. I know who the

clowns are and know who the serious people are. And this Muller team, the fact that Jeff Sessions let this thing go, I understand why the president, even though I like Jeff Sessions think is a good man, I understand when the president once is prime Mary opponent to beat him in Alabama, I get it. Sessions allowed this whole this just wild beast of the Muller probe loose on

the Trump administration. Think about how much even more prosperous, even more prepared for the future, not just this pandemic, but for the future in general the administration could be if they hadn't had to spend all this time and energy on just lunacy, this absurdity of the Russia collusion narrative and all this other stuff. It was absolutely nuts from the very beginning, and yet they made us suffer through this for over two years. The country. Well, I

was telling you, many of you know this. I was saying at catastrophe cells. But I'm telling you things are good. Now enjoy it. Things are good, now enjoy it. You know those you've been listening to me for even just the last year, I had times where I said, my friends, this is enjoy this country. This might be the best it's ever been. I was telling you to enjoy it because they knew it wasn't gonna last an hour in another phase. So you know, we've been together through the

best of times. We're about to go through some difficult times together team, and that's where we're at. That's where things are. But with this Russia, this Russia nonsense, it's exactly as I thought. They dropped this when everyone's paying attention to other things. The whole charge was ridiculous. It was absurd overreach. They were never actually going to bring any of these people into court and they knew that, so why charge them? What was the point? It was

all narrative building, was all bs. I was right, they were wrong, No surprise. There you're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Who do you want to turn to at this time for personal advice about how to get ready for the future? Well, I got a good buddy who has some thoughts on this one. Brandon Webb. He's a former Navy seal. He was a sniper instructor, actually created the Navy Seal Snipers School. He's

now the CEO of off Rep Media. And he's got a book out, Coronavirus How to Prepare that you can now get on Apple on Amazon. Ran and my friend, great to have you back, Ay back, good to be back as always. So all right, man, what should people

know about their own personal preparations for what we're going through? So, you know, I was, as you know, I've been at this of course at Harvard Business School, and when the Corona, I was there in the February and when Corona started to take off in China, and I put out an article almost almost a month ago on just to how to think about being prepared. And this is something that most Americans should just plan for, regardless of the situation

we find ourselves in right now. Is just having the basics at home in case of any type of natural disaster or pandemic like we're seeing now, and it's just being you know, better prepared. And I remember, you know, my friends in New York kind of giving me a hard time, like, no, do I really need to to go stock up on just this basic stuffs like water and cleaning household cleaning item, toilet paper, stuff like this.

And of course, when it became very real for America, um, you know, things change, right, So you know I'd written that article and that that's when me and the guys who write for software dot com said, you know what, let's let's see if we can put out a quick resource for people, just because a lot of people are wondering like what do I need to have at home, you know, as far as first aid, food, water, that

kind of things. So, um, you know, we wrote the book in a week, and you know, it's a short d book, but it has really useful information and as well as we covered some of the other more important news aspects of this, like the fact that you know China. You know it's going to be interesting because China, it looks like, had this virus in the laboratory and accidentally let it out. Because that's why well you actually think you you've view subscribe to that theory. I've brought that

up on the show. I haven't seen evidence for that. Do you think that this came out of the lab. I talked to a really good friend of mine who was a Tier one operator and worked with the NSA, and I mean it's no secret that the chemical or Biological warfare lab in China is and yeah, the Wuhan Virology Institute, and they've lost viruses before, so that's yeah,

that that is established. And the fact that they immediately are kind of trying to point the finger at the US Army because I think, you know, in whatever it was nineteen eighteen, the Spanish flu did originate out of an army base in the US. But this, you know, I think, you know, it's to be continued, but I from what I I heard, I think that it's you know, the possibility is extremely strong that this is something that the Chinese let get out of hand by it probably

by accident, God forbid. You know, if they were trying to release this right well, I mean, it hit their own population, So you've got to figure that they that, even for the Chinese Communist Party, is not a move

they would make. Yeah. Well, what I heard was, you know, talking to my my friends, one of which worked with NASA, was that this was potentially designed to kind of quell the Hong Kong uprising, right, you imagine, you know, you release this locally on what it does, but it's just you know, it's terrible to think about, but you know, the reality is it's it's a possibility. So well, I mean there are countries in China's one of them that do have I mean, I haven't heard any of this

stuff that you're telling me. You've heard from some of your but you know, you're a guy that does know tron operators and people that are in the intelligence community. And but I can just say that there are countries Russia, China, you know, the US we do research on it. I don't think we're trying to weaponize it, but weaponized um, you know, or bioweapons rather and weaponized research on this is occurring in countries that is a that is a reality.

We know that, Yeah, without a doubt. So um And look, I came to Moscow for a business conference and I'm here now stuck. But seeing you know just how the flow of information it's very restricted in a country like Russia. What are you in Moscow right now? Just today? Yeah, I'm here. Oh, I didn't realize you're coming to us from Moscow. I thought you're here in New York with me. Yeah, no, no, I'm in Moscow. It's eight eight o'clock at night here. So, UM,

it's very interesting. And I'm grateful to live in a country like America where um, you know, we do have access to at least information, um, much more so than in a country like Russia. Because just today, but I saw people like putting on math and like really taking it seriously because the situation Russia is like, well, the

rest of the world has it, we don't. But the fact is even in the Moscow Times said today that you know, there's there's over one hundred cases that they're reporting, and it looks like a hundred is about the point where it's a tipping point where you really can name this thing in anymore. So I think Russia is going to have to deal with their own all right, brand and give me two things that people give me two things that aren't obvious that you talk about in the book.

In terms of preparation, we only got about a minute. Yeah, I mean first aid, some type of household first aid. Even basic stuff, especially if you're dealing with a self quarantine, UM, is extremely important. Water filteration, you know, if you're in a situation where you know you don't have clean water available and you do have to use water out of the faucet. Some types of tablet or filtration devices is

super important. And then you know the food. I can deal without the paper, towels and toilet paper, but those are kind of the big important items. But anyone who subscribes to the site a softwarep can get the e book for free. We're also giving it away. It's two ninety nine. But if people can't afford it, they can write us in. We'll get in the book for free. So we're just trying to be trying to be a

useful source of information throughing all this. Yeah, let me know, let's bring you back in in a week or two, because I want to hear how things are going in Moscow. If you're still there, man, we want you back stateside. But you know, don't worry. I'll call some of our old mutual friends if I have to. We'll get you brought back here if need be all right, but if you're still in Moscow, I want to hear how things are going over there, because they're just at the very

beginning of dealing with this crisis. Yeah, I'm taking notes and I've got some friends here in the business communities, so glad to come back to former Navy seal and CEO of off Rep Media, Brandon web Brand and my friends. Stay safe, We'll talk soon. Thanks for listening to the Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Like Soft Butter on Warm Toast. Time to spread some freedom,

coast to coast. It's time for roll call. It's time for roll call. Role call everybody. And if you hear some snorting, that's not me. I'm fine. I'm healthy for now. Thank god. It's it's Tallula, the family French bulldog that I've taken off my parents' hands for the time being, who is sitting in my lap. Those of you that watch on Pluto TV can see her. She is. She is reminiscent of a baby seal, which my mom says, I can't call her that because it might hurt her

self esteem. But she does look like one of those baby seals on the Arctic tundra that's trying to avoid polar bears. Because she is a very well well fed French bulldog. But I want to get to your comments and your thoughts. That's why we're getting into the roll call. So with that in mind, remember Facebook dot com, slash buck Sexton or Teambuck at iHeartMedia dot com. If you want an email, I'm talking to bruser Mark. We might just hey, Mark, I got an idea. There must be

some like online answering service that people maybe not. It just seems like something that might exist. We should do some investigating. Couldn't people couldn't we just set up a digital voicemailbox for ourselves if people could call into during this time, I can look into it. I would ask the tech people, but they're little swamps at the moment. Yeah. No, they're trying to like keep shows on the air, So that's why I don't want to bother them with it.

I'm thinking, if anyone has any ideas out there, how about this, I'll crowdsources to the team. What's the best way that we could do easy audio call in so people could leave messages for the show, you know, share their thoughts. I'll answer their questions that way. I think that would be a great thing for us to do, especially in this time. I literally want to hear the voices of the team. So, yeah, it sounds like a

lot a lot more work for me. Thanks Buck, Producer Mark, you know, I mean you're you're dude, You're a beast when it comes to the work. You know what I mean. You handle any load we give you, and I handle a lot of it. Yeah, that's true. Actually, all right, everybody, here we go. We got Durran first up in roll call Buck, great show. You said on the Friday podcast about alternative for toilet paper. The answer is baby wipes.

Oh wow, who knew? Make made the switch years ago and would never go back shields high, So I am familiar with this wipes situation. I do know, however, that the wipes can be um a problem for sewage systems. They make flushable wipes, even those, Producer Mark. It's not that they get stuck in the although you're correct, the flushable ones mean that your plumbing won't be messed up. But even the flushable ones get stuck in the They create something called a fat berg because they canidate and

they will stick together in the actual sewage system. And like in London, for example, they have some I think it's like, you know, twenty or thirty feet across or something, this giant thing of wipes because they use them there. I'm serious. It's called the fat berg you can look it up. It's discussed. It's the grossest thing you'll ever see in your life. It's awful. Yeah, it's a real thing. To Lula, you don't like fat bergs. Right now, she's

licking my arm right now. But the good news is dogs don't have coronavirus, so we're fine, right, We're fine in here right now. Yeah, she's she's hanging out for her. It's just like, as long as I get my walks and I get fed my fancy food. To Lula has no problems. This virus is great for ducks because people are home. Oh yeah, there where people. Our owners are home all the time. You're right, And I hadn't thought about that. Yeah, know, she's getting a lot of she's

getting a lot of attention. She also, I thought this was funny. I was a little worried about her this morning because hey, hey, hey, no snorting in the microphone. I was a little worried about her this morning because she was going, sorry for you. She's licking every like my hand. I don't know, she knows that she's on camera right now. And she was pushing her food bowl around, like headbutting it all over the floor of my kitchen, and I called my mom. I was like, what what

is that. I'm a little worried. She's she's like a little triceratops, ramming her food bowl across the floor. Why would she do that? And my mom goes, Oh, that's because she doesn't like the mix you had of the wet food and the dry food. So you have to redo her breakfast. That's for real. So I had to redo her breakfast. She was she was protesting that I did not give the proper mix of dry food and wet food in her bowl, and so I had to redo it. Yeah, that's the spoiled animal. Yeah, I was

gonna say. This is why if you get a French bulldog, you might as well put a little beret on them, because this is how they act. You know. You get yourself like a lab or a Rottweiler, or a Rhodesian ridge back or a Golden retriever, and they're all of cool. Orders love being fed, and I love everybody. I'm so nice. You get a Frenchie and the French she's like you must earn my love, you must work for it. You

must give me a perfect food. You must give me everything I need, or else I will not give you as a disease. That's how two little rolls. All right, Ernest, but glad to hear. In your list of alternative locations for The Freedom Hunt, Austin was first. I moved here from Connecticut about four and a half years ago. I went back to see my son in NYC last year,

and man, was that depressing. Not just seeing him fully assimilated in liberal group thing, but the worn out vibe of New York Austin is way cool and somehow everyone gets along despite the eclectic makeup. Plenty of room for you and producer Mark here, producer well, first of all, prucer Mark. If the Freedom Hunt had to relocate, just forget about you know that missus Mark Ariel has her own life and family here and everything else, and that

I know this isn't just like a snap. But if we had to bounce on New York, do you have your preferred second Freedom Hunt location? Yeah, any of the states that have no state income tax, so Florida would be up there. Texas, Texas has no income tax, and sure, oh yeah, Texas has no state and that acts oh big time. Any of those states are fine, I think also, um, all right, all right, all right, all right, she's being

a baby. Now she goes on the ground. Um, I think you also have although now she's probably gonna bark at me and you know, make a make a lot of noise because she knows I'm I'm on the show. Um. I think that nash On, Tennessee also has very low state income tax. But anyway, so so you just you just want no state income tax? What is That's all I want? Do you know New Jerseys? I only ask if you know because then it's tax season and I've

actually got to figure out. I think New York is like eleven New York plus New York City is something like eleven percent. I believe that New Jersey is lower than what I was paying in New York City because I was a Queen's resident. But I'm not sure now with all I can't get a new license right now because I think the DMVs are closed. So I don't even know what to do about Texas next year. Luckily that's a next year problem. Yeah, I'm wondering myself about

getting my taxes done this year. Ernest, Oh, no, he already, we already did. Earnest. Zach I was listening to talk about how to refer to the Wuhan virus in your show, and today you mentioned wu flu. I'd just like to point out and you missed a perfect opportunity to call it kung flu. Zach I did refer to it as kung flu, or at least I said that that's what people are referring to it as there's the wu flu

Wuhan virus. There's a lot of different names out there for this, and you know, I think that people need to remember it's not disparaging any other culture or country we're trying to do. We're just trying to put a little bit of take a little bit of the fear out of the virus. You know, this is why people name things the way they do and do things the way they do. In this regard Roseanne, right Buck fairly new listener. You mentioned that now the Wuhan virus is

real because Tom Hanks has tested positive. I have to disagree it was real before this. Mister Hanks is just a man like anyone else. Just my thoughts, well, Roseanne, I appreciate you writing in and welcome. It's great to have a new listener. I wasn't saying it was real because Tom Hanks tested positive. What I said was it has become more real for some people because Tom Hanks

has tested positive, meaning that now they think. The thought process here would be that if somebody as famous and rich and influential as Tom Hanks can get this, anyone can get this, and so they would take it more seriously themselves. It's not I wasn't saying, oh, now Tom Hanks has this, so we have to take it seriously. I honestly do not care about celebrities really at all.

I don't even that. I am not impressed by celebrities, famous actors, famous politicians, famous and famous musicians, athletes don't care. I mean, I respect some of what they do, so on my own don't care. So I'm glad we had that clarification, Roseanne, Welcome to the team. Ck Hey Buck. You know the best part of all sports being canceled during this panic fest, the local hockey team games always preemptied your show broadcast to lay here nine pm minute

on who WO, which really ticked me off. So for at least the next month or however long, I can listen to your wit and wisdom uninterrupted, keep calm, and carry on fearlessly in Fort Wayne. Who wo cheers, yeah, c K, thanks so much man. I appreciate that I now have an additional opportunity to speak to some folks because talk radio is still still going strong, and it's in some ways more important than ever right now. And

you know we do not have the same limitations. You all listen to me virtually, so we are all safe and sound talking to each other doing the show. No, you, I can guarantee you this. You will not get wuhan virus from listening to the Buck Sexton Show. So that is a promise that I can make all of you. It will not fly into your ear. And I know you all know that, but I'm just saying, ed Buck, great analysis. I could never do it. At one point

five though. Okay, Friday, while talking about AOC's comments to Brett Bear, you mentioned some well known people who are wuhun positive that may have had an easier time getting tested than common folk. I noticed two of them were in Australia, one was in Canada. Better healthcare. Perhaps I'm not a single payer guy. But our system is deeply flawed ed. It's you know, you can't really judge a system based on one or two people getting one or

two tests. There have been thousands and thousands of tests on in New York State alone now for coronavirus, so WOHNT virus, WU flu, whatever you want to call it. So I don't think that's really a fair comparison. And look, I'd rather be an American hospit I'd rather be in a US hospital with any disease than any other hospital anywhere else in the world. So that I just I think that sort of speaks for itself. I mean, if someone says to you, this is life or death, what

country you're going to be in the hospital? In a country for a month? Where do you want it to be? Maybe some of you would say Sweden. Maybe some of you would say Switzerland or Australia. Fine, I would say America. And I'm somebody who is generally skeptical of much of the modern medical system because I've dealt with a lot of frustrating, a lot of there's a lot of non answers and a lot of billing from doctors. I've gotten a lot of non answers and a lot of billing.

That has been my experience, my personal experience with modern medicine. So there's that. But yeah, I would choose America. You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast, Carl rites the last two days. It sounds like you're

drinking the kool aid, my friend. The current absurdity reminds me about the media's rants of bodybag counts before Desert Storm or the hyperbole of Y two K. I think in two or three weeks we'll look back and wonder why we're so worried about this now more than ever. Shields high, be careful and be well. Carl, Look, I think we just disagree on the risk parameters or the

way we're willing to tolerate risk here. I agree that if in two or three weeks this thing isn't what they've told us it's going to be, then we got to make some dramatic not just not change as so

much as revert to normal. I'm only giving this thing two or three weeks and then I'm going to assess where we are, and then personally I'm gonna say, Okay, maybe, but given what we've seen in Italy, and given what all of the experts, including Trump's experts, are saying now, I think we got to give it the two to three weeks. I think we have to do that. That just seems to me to be common sense at this point. So I don't really know how I'm drinking the kool aid.

I've been a pretty calm voice about this all along. I think I've been optimistic about it. Some have even criticized me for being maybe more optimistic than they think I should have been. But what's the alternative. We're going to risk spiking the cases right when the healthcare system is fragile, and then have a lot of people that die that wouldn't have had to die if we had just had a little better preparation and a little bit

less a spike in time. I just I think that I think that the experts that the Trump administration's pulled together, I think we give them the fifteen days that they've asked for. Here, I think we give them those fifteen days. I'm not giving them fifty days where meaning that if I feel like this thing is not as out of control as we've been led to believe it can be, and you know, we're all going to be assessing as we go through this, and ultimately we all do have

to be the arbiters of our own personal risk. So that's where we're at. Doug Buck and Mark relatively new fan of Marx, but Buck, I've been a fan of yours since Red Eye and The Shagging Wagon. I got you three new listeners and they love your show. Well.

Thank you so much, Doug. The most helpful thing you can do for us, especially during this time, guys, people are looking for, you know, new new programs, new shows, new entertainment, you know, and if you're texting friends, emailing them, posting on your Facebook, please pass the buck tell them

about this show. I don't think that there's a better radio show out there right now, is actually, given what's going on right now, okay other than Rush, but you know, especially given what's going on right now in the country, I think that this is I think that this work that we're doing here matters, and I would love to share it with as many people as possible. And I

really believe in what I do. I'm very confident in the product that Mark and I put out every day, and we have nothing but the best intentions, and we couldn't put in any more effort and hard and soul into this for our listeners than we do. So please do pass the buck. Tell people about it. You're stuck at home, you're texting folks, you know, if they're going to tell you, hey, check out the boys on Amazon Prime.

It's okay. I'm a little bit into it. I'll tell you more about that maybe tomorrow or later on in the week. Be like, hey, have you listened to the Buck Sexton Show. It's a great thing. While you're cleaning up the apartment or just getting ready to make dinner or whatever it is you got going on, listen to Buck Sexton Show. So oh. He also wrote the virus comes from China and the economy takes a hit. The only way to really defeat Trump is at the economy tanks.

Given what we know about China, do you think this is something they wouldn't do just because they love civil rights too much? You know, guys, there's a lot of theories out there. Now I need evidence for theories, and I don't have any evidence that China would be willing to you know, I know. We just talked to Brandon. Look, Brandon is a seal with a lot of connections in the Special operations It was a seal a lot of

connections in the Special operations community. Knows a lot of people in the Intel community too, and he thinks that there's more going on here with China than we've been led to believe so far. So we'll see. I don't have it yet, though, I don't have the information necessary to accelerate or to go deeper on that kind of a charge. Eric, Hey Buck, checking in from Team Buck Minnesota. Oh hey, Eric, from Minnesota and some super nice people in Minnesota. My fiance and my fiance and I are

planning and getting married in two weeks. However, bars in the area are starting to close for a month due to the Wuhan virus. The governor might require. This would mean our venue in cater would be forced to cancel. What this means for a big day maybe looking for a new venue caterer might be looking for a new wedding day yet to be seen. What this means for the thousands of dollars we've spent and the year plus

of planning. No clue, Like weddings aren't hard enough until then, She'll saw Eric Man my heart goes out to you. I'm sure that's really challenging and difficult and annoying and frustrating, but ultimately, man, you found the woman you're gonna spend the rest of your life with. You're gonna get married. I'm sure you start a beautiful family, and that's that's what actually matters. I know everyone wants a beautiful, picture perfect wedding, but you found your life partner and God blessed,

and that's the most important thing. And you two will be together through thick and thin. You're starting out through thin, I guess in a sense right now in terms of where the world is on coronavirus. But you'll be all right, and you found each other and that's what really matters. So nothing but the best to you two, God bless and I hope that you managed to find a great way to do your wedding. If it's postponed or maybe you just keep it two hundred ten people. I don't know.

I don't know. I'm I'm not good at planning these kinds of things. Team. I hope you've enjoyed the show today. I'm try to mix in even more non pandemic analysis and talk tomorrow because I know we're gonna all get beaten down by that. But we did a bit of a mix today. We'll have more tomorrow. I'm gonna go tend to Tlula now because she's running around my bedroom being being, you know, creating a mess and I was just digging through stuff in there. All right, everybody shield hie