The Glenn Beck Program - Another $2 Trillion?! | Guest: Mike Lindell | 3/31/20

Episode Date: March 31, 2020

It’s official: “Tiger King” is absolutely insane! President Trump’s hopes for coronavirus relief are coming true, but where’s the media apology for calling them misleading? And there’s an ...update on the couple who drank fishbowl cleaner. Don’t be relieved that Bernie Sanders’ campaign is tanking: Glenn explains how more socialists are rising up as a second American depression looms. In today’s COVID-19 update, forklifts are loading dead bodies in New York, Ron Paul warns of a power-grab, and President Trump requests another $2 trillion in spending! MyPillow inventor and CEO Mike Lindell was hammered by the media after talking about God. He joins to describe why he’s not afraid to head “into the hurricane.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:34 We're going to start with some audio from Rachel Maddow, then Mike Lindell and Jim Acosta from CNN. That brings us to a critical question. Why is it so many people think that this may not be real? It's bizarre to wrestle with the numbers. We'll do that in one minute. This is the Glymbeck Program. Right now, it's a scammer's world. All around the country, cybercriminals are wiping the Cheeto dust off their bellies,
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Starting point is 00:02:13 Save up to 50% off your first year with an annual subscription now at Norton.com slash Beck. That's Norton.com slash back 50% off your first year. All right, I want to start with some audio first. Let's go with Mike Lindell. Mike Lindell, who is going to be my guest on the Saturday podcast this week, he is the guy who started my pillow. He is an absolute character. This guy was a crack addict.
Starting point is 00:02:53 He invented my pillow. He almost died. He cleans up his life. He's got an incredible life story. And he operates at a very, very high speed. I've never met anybody quite like Mike Lindel. and you will feel the same when you're listening to the podcast this Saturday. By the way, if you're a Blaze subscriber, thank you.
Starting point is 00:03:17 It comes out on Thursday. You'll be able to watch it on Thursday. All right. So Mike yesterday was brought up along with Procter & Gamble and somebody else. They're making all of these new products. So he was thanking the private companies that are now stepping to the plate to help make ventilators and everything else. And Mike's company, My Pillow, is now making masks. And at one point, he said, I just did your mind, Mr. President, and he just hijacked the press conference. And the president
Starting point is 00:03:52 just stood behind him and smiled and went, go ahead, Mike, because that's the way Mike is. Here's what he said. Now I wrote something off the cuff if I can read this. God gave us grace on November 8, 2016, to change the course we were on. God had been taking out of our schools and lives, a nation had turned his back on God. And I encourage you to use this time at home to get back in the word, read our Bibles, and spend time with our families. Our president gave us so much hope where just a few short months ago we had the best
Starting point is 00:04:26 economy, the lowest unemployment and wages going up, it was amazing. With our great president, vice president, and this administration and all the great people in this country praying daily, we will get through this. and get back to a place that's stronger and safer than ever. All right. So there's Mike. We're going to talk to him about this moment in, what, about 90 minutes or so. He's going to be at the bottom of hour three today.
Starting point is 00:04:55 We're going to talk to him live. And then he's going to be on the podcast on Saturday. But the press went crazy for this. Crazy. Oh, crazy Mike talking about God. this is the problem. This is the problem. If we are so lost and we can't even tolerate someone saying,
Starting point is 00:05:21 you know what, we should pray more, if that's just so outlandish, we are lost as a nation because that is what made us great. You want to make America great again? Let's go back to remembering God and his true principles. Now, I'm not talking about religion. I'm talking about God. Franklin's God.
Starting point is 00:05:43 Franklin, when he said, there is a God, he'll judge us so we should serve him. And the best way to serve him is to serve our fellow man. That's the American religion. If we could just get back to that and not mock and ridicule what used to be sacred and still is for millions of Americans. You know, if we would actually take seriously. the call for fast and prayer and everything else, maybe, maybe we would be, maybe we'd be handling this better. I don't believe that this is a, a punishment for God, I think, from God. I think, I think God is, God's like an electric fence, you know, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's
Starting point is 00:06:29 telling you right now, there is electricity through that and don't touch it. If you touch it, you're going to get shocked because that's just the way electricity works. He set this system up to work a certain way. You touch the fence, you're going to get shocked. I told you not to do it. It's not a punishment. You shouldn't have touched the electric fence. He told you not to. That's what's happening to us right now. And we're not living certain principles. And I think we're paying the price for it right now. So that's the first place is the media takes Mike Lindell absolutely apart. But the media is so arrogant that they don't even realize how far off the beaten path they are. Let me go to Rachel Maddow.
Starting point is 00:07:19 Here's Rachel Maddow last week talking about how Trump is wrong. In terms of the happy talk we've had on this front from the federal government, there is no sign that the Navy hospital ships that the President made such a big deal of, the comfort and the mercy, there's no sign that they'll be anywhere on site helping out anywhere in the country for weeks yet. The President said when he announced that those ships would be put into action against the COVID-19 epidemic. He said one of those ships would be operational in New York Harbor by next week. That's nonsense. It will not be there next week. That was last week, and yesterday it arrived.
Starting point is 00:07:59 They had to dredge the river and the harbor to be able to get it in, but somehow or another, they got it in. I'm waiting for the correction and the apology from MSNBC, but it will not come. Then Jim Acosta talked to the president and asked the president a question. Here's what he said. Go ahead. Let's give it a shot. What do you say to Americans who are upset with you over the way you downplayed this crisis? over the last couple of months. We have it very much under control in this country.
Starting point is 00:08:34 The coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. It's going to disappear. It's like a miracle. It will disappear. March 4th. We have a very small number of people in this country infected. March 10th. We're prepared.
Starting point is 00:08:47 We're doing a great job with it. It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away. What do you say to Americans who believe that you got this wrong? And I do want them to stay calm. And we are doing a great job. a great job. If you look at those individual statements, they're all true. Stay calm. It will go
Starting point is 00:09:04 away. You know it is going away. And it will go away. And we're going to have a great victory. And it's people like you and CNN that say things like that. It's why people just don't want to listen to CNN anymore. You could ask a normal question. The statements I made are, I want to keep the country calm. I don't want panic in the country. I could cause panic much better than even you. I could do much. I would make you look like a minor league player. But you know what? I don't want to do that. I want to have our country be calm and strong and fight and win and it will go away. And it is incredible the job that all of these people are doing, putting them all together, the job that they're doing. I am very proud of the job they're doing, that Mike Pence is doing,
Starting point is 00:09:48 that the task force has done, that Honeywell and Procter and Gamble and Mike and all of these people have done. I'm very proud. It's almost. It's almost. a miracle, and it is the way it's all come together. And instead of asking a nasty, snarky question like that, you should ask a real question. And I think he's absolutely right. And so there are people that are asking real questions. And I don't, I mean, we've gone back and forth on this, and we're going to know the answer in a couple of weeks. But I don't understand those people who were disappointed yesterday that the president gave him. in and is buying into these numbers and why he's closing out.
Starting point is 00:10:34 Let me tell you why the president kept things closed. First of all, the two doctors came in to his, into the Oval Office on Sunday and laid out these charts on the resolute desk and said, Mr. President, here are the facts. Here is the projection of what is coming if we stay the course. Here are the projections. if we don't stay the course, here's what we're looking at. And best case scenario, we're looking at probably 100,000 dead, maybe 200,000 dead in the next week, in the next two weeks, if we stay the course. The president saw that and said, I don't think there's a choice here.
Starting point is 00:11:14 There's not. And here's why the president didn't want to be Arthur Newsholm. Who is Arthur Newsholm? Let me take you back to 1918 and the Spanish flu. It's hard to fathom what the Spanish flu was like. Remember, this is at a time where microscopes couldn't see viruses. So you were really talking about an invisible enemy here. They, because scientists couldn't see it.
Starting point is 00:11:44 It killed an estimated 20 to 50 million people. We don't know exactly the number because we couldn't count all of them fast enough. wasn't the systems that we have now. But we do know it killed more than all of the soldiers and civilians killed during World War I. Now, the Spanish flu. It came March 19, 18. The first thing, it showed up like a seasonal flu. It was highly contagious.
Starting point is 00:12:13 It was a virulent strain. The first case was an army cook in Kansas, and he was hospitalized with 104 fever. and it spread through the camp in in Kansas. In no time, in a month, 1,100 troops had been hospitalized and 38 died after pneumonia. It was an estimated three quarters of the French military that was infected in the spring of 1918, half of the British troops. And that wave was not deadly. That wave was, I mean, not particularly deadly. That wave was a lot like this wave.
Starting point is 00:12:56 So symptoms were high fever. It lasted about three days. And it was like the seasonal flu. So what happened? Well, it was the summer of 1918. At the beginning of August, the virus had run its course and everybody said it was over. It was the calm before the storm. Somewhere in Europe.
Starting point is 00:13:19 up, a mutated strain of the Spanish flu virus emerged, and it had the power to kill healthy, young people, and old people, and middle-aged people. So from September to November of 1918, the death rate from the Spanish flu went through the roof. In the United States, 195,000 Americans died from the Spanish flu in just the month of October. Now, the spread, of the Spanish flu was blamed on the public health officials unwilling to impose quarantine during wartime. In Britain, the guy who got the name of Dr. Death, if you will, was Arthur Newsholm. He knew and had been informed that a full civilian lockdown was the best way to fight the spread of this disease and he knew it and he said, I can't.
Starting point is 00:14:23 There's a war going on and we have to have all of the armaments. We can't stop the war. And so he said, you can stay home if you want, but everyone who is working on the war, which is almost everybody, you've got to carry on. Keep calm and carry on. Arthur Newsholm is the reason why this spread way out of control. That and the Red Cross refusing to use African-American nurses. There was a shortage of nurses at the time because most of them were overseas.
Starting point is 00:15:02 Then they started dying and the Red Cross was still saying, no, we can't have African-Americans work on the floor with sick people. Oh my gosh, you'll get even. more sick. Those are the two reasons. Well, we're not worried about anybody, you know, their skin color when they're a nurse. We got that one down.
Starting point is 00:15:22 The president didn't want to be Arthur Newsholm. And he was right to do it. Because as he said, the worst thing that could happen is to declare victory like they did in 1918, only to have it come back and be worse. More in just a second. We've got to talk about the Tiger King today.
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Starting point is 00:17:41 So, Stu. How do we get past? this, because I don't understand it. Do people think that Donald Trump has been duped? Or do people think that Donald Trump would not do anything to keep the economy going? I'm trying to understand my friends who are really smart. For instance, Steve Dase, he's all over this that we have killed the economy for no reason. Yeah, I just, I don't think he'd characterize it that way.
Starting point is 00:18:21 But yeah, I mean, I know he's, you're right. concerned about the economy and as opposed to this and thinks we just have to factor it into I think the way and we deal with things that are destructive to human life all the time as part of our daily lives it's something we have to recognize and he thinks maybe we've overreacted on this one here's where I keep coming and I know that Steve is is you know he's aware of this as well but the collapse of the health care system just because of the collapse of the health care system, I believe that would lead to socialize medicine.
Starting point is 00:18:56 We would not have a chance of having privatized medicine if that system collapsed because everybody was saying, see, it's not, it's not working. This is giving us a chance to show the private sector and show what it really can do. How do you, how do, how do, how do you explain to people the collapse of the health care system and what that would do, just the ramifications of that. Well, obviously, that would be really bad. You know, one of the course, what people don't talk about is the reason we don't have enough hospital beds in the first place is largely because of socialized medicine, right?
Starting point is 00:19:36 Like back when it all, it stems from a law back in the 70s that was passed because first Medicare and Medicaid were passed. And then they were afraid that hospitals would build too many beds because they knew the government were going to, we're going to, we're going. to pay for a lot of these procedures. So the government limits how many beds are available because you have to go and get approval to get new hospital beds because you never know. You might charge the government too much money for unneeded procedures.
Starting point is 00:20:06 It's kind of like that old Barack Obama tonsill argument he made where, you know, I guess people were just going to be removing tonsils like crazy to screw the government over or something. And so we have actually lost. The number is about half a million hospital beds have been lost in this country since 1974,
Starting point is 00:20:29 which is bizarre. You think we go in the opposite way. Yeah, because your population is growing. And what's really bizarre about that is it's almost like the oil refineries. We're not building any new oil
Starting point is 00:20:50 refineries and haven't since the 1970s. You know, it's, I mean, but it's hospital beds. Right. Hospital beds. Partially, it's because also sort of the victim of capitalism's own success in that there's been so many medical improvements that long hospital stays aren't as necessary as they once were.
Starting point is 00:21:08 So that's also part of the reason. But generally speaking, this is something that, you know, could have been solved by the free market, but it wasn't because the government literally makes you ask them whether you can build a new. hospital and put new beds in it. You have to get their approval. And you have to designate that a certain community needs, quote unquote, needs the hospital. I think people, you know, you see a situation like this and there's a little bit more need than I think the government tried to estimate. All right. Back in just a second. Pat Gray is going to be joining us, the Tiger King. Yes,
Starting point is 00:21:42 the Tiger King coming up. You're listening to Glenn. There is a short-term T-Bill. auction going on right now that is terrifying. The government is selling treasuries like nobody's business, nobody's business. It is going to devalue the dollar. It is why there is a shortage of gold. I can't believe I'm saying this. There is a shortage of gold right now.
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Starting point is 00:23:49 Welcome to the program. Glenn Beck, joined now by Stu Bergier, our executive producer and host of Stu Does America. And Pat Gray, host of his own show, Pat Gray Unleashed. Hello, Pat. Hello, Glenn. Do you remember the couple that ingested the fish tank cleaner? I do. Last week.
Starting point is 00:24:10 Yes. Tell me the story. Tell me the story the best of your recollection. Well, because Donald Trump made it sound like the fish tank cleaner was a cure for the coronavirus. They took it. They ingested it. And, of course, It nearly killed him.
Starting point is 00:24:31 That was basically from the media. All right. So now the Washington Free Beacon has found their names. They established the identities through descriptions in the local news reports. The pair identified as Gary 68, Wanda 61, Free Beacon is withholding their identities at Wanda's request. However, the Federal Election Commission records show that Wanda has donated thousands of dollars to Democratic electoral groups and candidates over the last two years, including Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Emily's List, a group that aims to elect
Starting point is 00:25:08 pro-choice female candidates. And in fact, her most recent donations went in February to a Democratic pact, the 314 Action Fund, that bills itself. Well, I'll tell you what it bills itself as in a minute. But according to the free beacon, Wanda said that she and her husband are both Democrats. They're not Trump supporters. They heard about the potential benefits of chloroquine, chloroquine, an anti-malarial drug in news reports. She said, decided at the spur of the moment to try taking it, but reach for the fish tank cleaner in the pantry that contains chloroquine phosphate, a different and deadly form of the chemical. Oops. She said, we're not big supporters of Trump, but we did see that they were using it in China and stuff.
Starting point is 00:26:04 And we just made a horrible tragic mistake. It was stupid and horrible. We should have never done it. But it's done now. And I've lost my husband. And my whole life was my husband. We didn't think it would kill us. We thought it would help us because that's what we'd been hearing on the news.
Starting point is 00:26:23 We saw Trump on TV on every day. channel and all of his buddies that this was safe, she said. Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure. She said, you shouldn't believe anything that this president says. By the way, the PAC that she donated a lot of money to here recently was the 314 Action Fund that is billed as the pro-science resistance. group. Are they resisting science? Because that would actually fit. I think they are. I think they are. She said, don't believe anything this president says to people. She's in shock still over her
Starting point is 00:27:11 husband's death. We were having the best day before it happened. I made him his favorite lunch, grilled steak and asparagus and red potatoes. We were just having the best Sunday. And that's when I went and got the chloroquine phosphate. Which, is not what the president was talking about. No. Not at all. Yeah. He never told anybody to take the fish tank cleaner.
Starting point is 00:27:34 Don't do that. Right. Nor did he say it was a cure even in the right form of it. He said they were going to test it and he was hopeful. Yeah. Now, you know what's really interesting? And he also said, talk to your doctor. Talk to your doctor.
Starting point is 00:27:48 What's interesting is there's two, there's two quotes from her. First one is from the Washington Free Beacon. She decided at spur of the moment to try taking. it, but reach for the fish tank cleaner, uh, phosphate, blah, blah, blah, different from the chemical. She said, we weren't big supporters, but we did see that they were using it in China and stuff. We made a horrible, tragic mistake. Okay. That's in the Washington Free Beacon.
Starting point is 00:28:13 Here's the interview with NBC. In the NBC, she said, uh, she said, don't take the president's words. Oh my gosh, don't take anything he says. don't believe anything that the president says and his people. So I'm wondering why she didn't say that to the Washington Free Beacon. Or if she was prompted into that, or she's trying to make herself feel less stupid by blaming it on the president of the United States. I'm going with that. Yes. I'm going with the latter.
Starting point is 00:28:50 She's trying to make herself feel less stupid. She also knows who she's. she's talking to when she's talking to them. I mean, the NBC people are going to be more receptive to the don't listen to anything the president says than the Washington Free Beacon is. But, yeah, I missed the speech where the president said, hey, if you have a fish tank, you know what you ought to do. He's run over and grab the cleaner and just ingest it.
Starting point is 00:29:20 And then you'll be protected from the coronavirus. Go ahead and do that. Well, I mean, like, we all know that you can eat fish, but you don't go to your fish tank and eat the fish out of there. No, you don't. Right. You don't just go to fish tank. Like, there happens to be a similar word that happens to be associated with the fish tank. That doesn't make it okay to eat.
Starting point is 00:29:37 No. That's right. It's true. Rule of life. Yeah. I mean, if it really is sad, you know, there's speculation. I know at the beginning of this are like, it just sounds like she just killed her husband. And it's like, well, I don't know if that there's any evidence of that.
Starting point is 00:29:51 assuming that everything was on the up and up, it's just, it is a really tragic story of someone who really was a victim of their own stupidity. And it is really, really sad. But, you know, the way that it's,
Starting point is 00:30:05 you know, it's just so bizarre coming from a person who is making a big political point out of it. I can't imagine if I've just lost my husband that I'd be sitting here going like, the American people should not be complaining, listening to this president. This president is not trustworthy.
Starting point is 00:30:19 And I believe you should donate to it. It just doesn't see. It seems like a very, it's a very shady story. The whole thing. Is it not? It is. I think it is. Yeah. Have you been watching the Tiger King?
Starting point is 00:30:32 I haven't yet. I do want to. Yeah, that sounds like something somebody would say that's been watching the Tiger King. Because that thing is insane. And you find out that, I mean, early on, that the Tiger King, that the Tiger King, is in jail. I think we don't really know. At the beginning, you find out that he's in jail,
Starting point is 00:30:57 and it's because he put a hit out on this woman who is trying to shut his tiger camp down. She's in Florida, and she rescues tigers, and she's putting them in really crappy cages. I mean, his place is nice compared to hers, and she's like, oh, you can't keep animals in cages, and she's got them all in these really crappy cages. Anyway, apparently he was trying to kill her.
Starting point is 00:31:26 But then you find out that her really rich, you know, millionaire husband just disappeared. And they've never been able to find the body. And they say that maybe she killed her husband and fed him to tigers. It's the craziest. You watch this and you're just like, I don't. I've never seen a bigger freak show than this, than this show. It is, it is crazy. Every 10 minutes you think, okay, can't get worse than this.
Starting point is 00:32:02 10 minutes later, it's much worse than this. It is, it's Florida times a thousand. And anybody who's ever lived in Florida understands what I'm saying. Every crazy story ever that you've ever heard, somehow or another is connected to Florida. So, I mean, there's actual murders going on and we're making a reality series out of it? That's the only way we get justice done anymore in this country. Oh, yeah, yeah. Look at the, here's the featured story, the top of the page of the blaze.
Starting point is 00:32:38 Popularity of Tiger King documentary prompts sheriff to ask for leads in cold case of woman's missing former husband. I swear it's the only way we do anything anymore. The legal system just sits around and waits for documentaries now. That's what we do. We're like, oh, wait, what R. Kelly did what? Oh, wow. Look at that documentary. Let's get him in prison.
Starting point is 00:32:57 Oh, Bill Cosby did what? Oh, okay. Now it's time to go after him. Oh, making a murderer is the same thing. Like, you know, this guy had been in jail all this time and it was this cold, you know, the case had already been decided. And then they had to go back through it and look at it again because the documentary came out.
Starting point is 00:33:13 That's how we do it now. the true crime genre just drives our legal system. Do you guys have to just watch at least one episode? Watch just one episode because you have to meet the Carol woman. And the people who are, the people who are making this are genius. Because they'll leave in footage of them, you know, at times like they're driving up to meet her for the first time. And you just hear one of the cameramen or one of the producers go, well, she's dressed appropriately.
Starting point is 00:33:47 And when you see the camera come on her, it's just like, oh, my God. You would not believe that this is as crazy as what's the group that did Spinal Tap and Best in Show? Oh, like a Christopher guest movie or thing? Yeah. Okay. It's as crazy as those people. But that's all made up. That's all for comedy.
Starting point is 00:34:13 It has all of those characters in it. It's insane. It's insane. We were talking about this too, that it's got to be one of the larger sort of shared cultural events in a long time. Because, you know, when these things happen. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:29 Like, you have a totally captive audience. Like, when you hit one of these things, when you're the big documentary that everyone's talking about or the big show that everyone's talking about on Netflix, it's already a big thing. Right.
Starting point is 00:34:40 But now everybody's at home watching television. Yeah. Like, I mean, everyone is streaming Netflix at the same time. You could have 100 million people watch this thing. You probably, it probably will go back to some of those old school TV numbers. Yep. Yeah. Can you imagine if this was happening?
Starting point is 00:34:54 I contend this quarantine could not have happened 15 years ago. If we all had dial-up-up-up? No, yeah, before Netflix and dial-up? Because unless Blockbuster was deemed essential? Yeah. I mean, you could just, you wouldn't, you couldn't. You couldn't have done it. It would drive you insane.
Starting point is 00:35:15 Well, yeah, that's why we're willing to give up our constitutional rights because we've got Netflix now. I'm just watch Netflix. I'm fine. Yeah. I'll stay home and watch Netflix. Right. Can you imagine how big the actual viewership numbers would be if we had the four networks, the three networks or four networks and just regular television, how huge the numbers would be. Now these Netflix numbers have got to be outrageous.
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Starting point is 00:37:02 8009663117. Get the great radio specials. Enter the promo code back at mypillow.com. Arguing with Socialists. a new book from Glenn Beck. Pre-order now on Amazon. So an Australian astrophysicist has been admitted to the hospital. He was trying to design a necklace that would sound an alarm on facial contact. So if you would touch your face or your hand would come close to your face, your necklace would sound an alarm.
Starting point is 00:37:58 He said, you know, I don't really have. any experience in things like this. But I had this idea because I have this part that it would detect magnetic field. And I thought if I built a circuit, it could detect a magnetic field. And we wore magnets around our wrist. It would set off an alarm, blah, blah, blah. However, I accidentally invented a necklace that buzzes continuously unless you touch your face. so I had to scrap that idea.
Starting point is 00:38:36 Now I'm quoting. I had to scrap that idea. And I was a bit bored playing with the magnets. It's the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears. I clip them to my earlobes and then clip them to my nostril. And, quote, things went downhill pretty quickly from there. He said he placed two magnets inside of his nostrils and two on the outside. When he removed the magnets from the outside of his nose, the two inside just stuck together.
Starting point is 00:39:10 At this point, my partner who works at the hospital was laughing at me. I was trying to pull them out, but there's a ridge at the bottom of your nose. You can't get past. After struggling, trying to get the nostrils, trying to get the magnets out of his nostrils for 20 minutes, Quote, I decided to Google the problem. I found an article about an 11-year-old boy who had the same problem. The solution he found was more magnets. Put on the outside to offset the pull from the inside ones.
Starting point is 00:39:40 As I was pulling downward and trying to remove the magnets, they clipped on each other and I lost my grip. Now those two magnets ended up in my left nostril while the other one was in my right. at this point, still quoting, I ran out of magnets. So he got pliers. But every time I got the pliers close to my nose, my entire nose
Starting point is 00:40:04 would shift towards the pliers and the pliers would stick to the magnet. Stick to the magnet. He was admitted to the hospital and I think his inventing days are now behind him. Hello America. Welcome
Starting point is 00:40:31 to the program. I want to start this hour with a look at America's second great depression. Oh, Glenn, you're going to be, it's going to be so much fun. It's not that it's not, it has nothing to do with coronavirus or the economic situation at all. But we're in the throes of it right now. And I'll explain in one minute. This is the Glenn Beck program. So first, let me do, let me, let me spend just a second here on economics.
Starting point is 00:41:04 We have a treasury auction that is going on right now. And what treasury auctions are is they auction off our debt into treasury bills. And, you know, people buy that debt for anywhere from 90, 180 days to 20 years, 30 years. We cannot sell these treasuries. Okay. Nobody's buying them. The demand now is so huge from the government. We have to have money and selling these T bills with less than 1% interest owned to the buyers is helping, you know, the government's coffers.
Starting point is 00:41:46 It's important to remember the government cannot print money. That's what the Fed can do. The Fed is a privately owned bank that has government appointed directors that they, that the banks choose, by the way. So the government can only print debt. And then it raises capital by selling that debt to buyers who expect to be paid back generally with some interest. So the Fed monetizes that debt. They act as a buyer, a private investor, you know, and they take these treasury bills. And right now, investors are looking for someplace to put their money for 90 or 180 days.
Starting point is 00:42:28 and so we are we are just exploding right now in this treasury auction we are we are selling debt like crazy all of it will be due again in 180 days all right so this is this this is how we're funding our government right now but only because the stock market is going crazy the most recent 30 year government bond auction was march 20, It had one buyer. One showed up. And it was the Federal Reserve. So once we get past this short term, we are in so much trouble because no one wants to buy American debt anymore.
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Starting point is 00:45:23 So I want to talk to you about the Great American Depression, the second American Depression. During the 1930s, we all know about the Depression. We know that we had 30% unemployment. It was unlike anything we've ever experienced. And during that time, people started to question the merits of capitalism and progressives of the era, which were proudly socialist, proudly socialist and proudly, many of of them communists, uh, decided that really it was the Soviet system that that would provide some answers. This is before, you know, this is while the New York Times was still hiding all the deaths, uh, from, from Stalin. So membership in the Communist Party grew 10fold during the Great Depression,
Starting point is 00:46:13 from 7,000 members in 1929 to 66,000 in 1939. We didn't elect a communist, uh, but Franklin Roosevelt was clearly a socialist and the biggest socialist we've probably had, maybe up until Barack Obama. The rise of that in the 1930s is exactly the same without the 30% unemployment. I have a book coming out next week, and it is one of the most important books I think we have written. It is arguing with socialists. And we really, we did our homework. We really tried to make this.
Starting point is 00:47:02 So it was fun to read, easy to read, have all of the answers there. It's our first all full four color book that we have done in probably 10 years, maybe. And we did it. We modeled it after arguing with idiots because that was so popular. and so many people use that. And the kids that I've heard in the last 10 years that said, I did my reports and schools based on that and yada, yada, yada. Because it has a hundred page of footnotes at the back,
Starting point is 00:47:36 you don't ever have to quote me. You quote the New York Times or you quote the socialist or the communists or the radicals themselves because it's all footnoted. We decided to write this because I believe we are in a second Great Depression. and again, it has nothing to do with unemployment yet. Look at the pattern. In the 1930s, socialists or the Communist Party grew tenfold in ten years. The Democratic Socialists of America membership grew almost tenfold over the last decade,
Starting point is 00:48:12 around 5,000 members in 2009 and 55,000 members today. two months ago, UGov and the Economist poll found 60% of Democrats under 30 supported either Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. Those are socialists. If you feel relieved
Starting point is 00:48:35 that Bernie Sanders campaign has tanked over the last several weeks, don't feel relieved. This is the calm before the storm. He's the old guy. The new generation is coming. Bernie is not the vehicle that's going to take socialism fully mainstream, but somebody else will, especially if we have 30% unemployment in this country.
Starting point is 00:49:00 The growing coronavirus, the recession or the depression will only emboldened the socialists. So why is this, why did this grow without, in one of the most prosperous times in our nation's history. How did this grow? Well, nobody talks about it, but it is the pathetic U.S. history and government education that happens in our nation. That's not to say that all history classes are all history teachers suck and are pathetic. There are a lot of, you know, non-Marxist history teachers in public and private education across the U.S., but I don't think they're even getting the right education. In fact, I know it because of the work we do over at Mercury 1. But, typically just talk about the students before a student graduates from high school they might have
Starting point is 00:49:55 two years of u.s history one in middle school and one again in high school maybe if they're lucky they get a year of government but that's it remarkably 82 percent of colleges do not require a single course in u.s history or government so you can earn a degree in the united states and you don't have can earn a history degree and you don't have to study America and American history. Ronald Reagan said in his farewell address in 1989, he said, in informed patriotism is what we want and need. And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world?
Starting point is 00:50:44 We've got to do a better job getting across that America is freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile. It needs protection. And if we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of the eradication of the American memory that could result ultimately in the erosion of the American spirit. He's exactly right.
Starting point is 00:51:12 That's why I wrote this book. Because we have no clue as to who. who we even are. And what the truth is, no one's really making the case. Socialism sucks. It's not enough. The embrace of socialism by the Democratic Party is real evidence that this eradication of the American memory is happening now. We're not taught to appreciate the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution.
Starting point is 00:51:44 And when we don't know these things, we don't know why we came up with the system, that we did, which that system, even though it wasn't called socialism at the time, that system was around. That's what the French tried to do. That's what our pilgrims tried to do. It's what the earliest settlers in America tried to do. When we don't know it, we can't defend it. Then we have a half a century of our universities being run by Marxists, teaching Marxists,
Starting point is 00:52:20 and we call it education and we're dumb enough to pay for this system. We pay Marxists to re-educate our children. It's the craziest thing. So we have inadequate history. We have inadequate civics education. University stuff with the priests of progressive communist religion, churning out new disciples every single day. But there is even a bigger contributing factor.
Starting point is 00:52:51 to the second great depression. And it's a spiritual depression. It is not economic. It is the erosion of the traditional family, the lack of purpose, isolation, the diminishing influence of religion. Something has to fill this void. Our kids are empty. And when they are empty, they'll rush to something that gives meaning.
Starting point is 00:53:19 And we saw this in the 20th century, in the early 20th century. The charismatic prophet of socialism comes around, and he leads the youth. And he leads them even into more despair. America's spiritual anchor has always been Christianity, or the Bible, the God of the Old and New Testament. And that gave us meaning and identity and purpose. And if we don't know these things, then, we get to go find our own truth and our own meaning. Don't follow your God.
Starting point is 00:53:59 Follow your heart. How many of us have spent our lifetime following what we wanted to do only to wake up one morning and realize our life was completely out of control and we just needed to turn it over? We needed a higher power. Every alcoholic that is currently sober is because they finally surrendered to not my way, his way. And to follow your own calling, follow your heart culture, yields feelings above all else. No political philosophy caters to feelings more than socialism. It provides the clear villains,
Starting point is 00:54:42 the rich and the corporations. It provides instant solutions. We'll knock those villains down by seizing the means of production, wielding the power of taxation. Forget praying to God about anything. Just let's get this bill passed. Just pull the lever for your local socialists. Got a student debt that you just can't do. Fine. Wiped away. Can't make ends meet with a minimum wage job. Don't worry. Here's double the money. Having apocalyptic nightmares about climate change, boom, the Green New Deal is here. But it doesn't work and it doesn't fulfill. And once you realize that doesn't work, you become more and more angry. You ever wonder why so many socialists are really angry.
Starting point is 00:55:27 It's because in the absence of God, pressure is put on his replacement to bring fulfillment and it doesn't happen. And so there's got to be somebody standing in the way of making this utopia work. It's those people over there. This is how it ends every time. The desperation that youth feel today is real. It's real. And we haven't hit real.
Starting point is 00:55:57 real unemployment yet. It is critical that we know how to argue against socialism. It's critical. Help us get the word out. My new book comes out next week. You can order it right now at Amazon.com or wherever you get your books. Order it now. Order a couple.
Starting point is 00:56:26 Give one to a friend. make sure you give this to your children, read it to your children, give it to them. It's like a comic book. They'll like it. And we saw with arguing with idiots the impact that it made on the next generation. We've got to teach them the truth. Get arguing with socialists now, new book by me out next week in bookstores, but order it now because we ain't going to be hanging out at bookstores next week anyway. Order it now at Amazon or wherever you buy your bookstores.
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Starting point is 00:58:36 Oh, gosh. Stu, have you seen that the Democrats and Nancy Pelosi are already talking about the next stimulus bill? Aren't they always? They're always talking about the next one. And when you give them one, they're always, have another one down the road. Gosh. Yeah. And they've already spent over.
Starting point is 00:58:52 How is that possible? Yeah. Because, I mean, people don't even have the money from this one yet. And it's interesting because if you spend two trillion dollars, you think that you're not going to have multiple millions of people unemployed, right? I mean, that's the point of this. Like, we all kind of understand like the government is saying, you need to close down your business for this time.
Starting point is 00:59:15 We're all going to stay away from each other and stay home. so every business is going to go out of business unless we do something. Okay. So we do something. And then we're still getting multiple millions of people. I mean, I can't even imagine what's going to happen this Thursday when the weekly numbers come out. Not going to be pretty.
Starting point is 00:59:29 What do you think they are? What do you think are going to be? I think they're going to be bigger than... Bigger than last week. I think you're going to be bigger than last week, don't you? I've not heard any experts talk about this. Yeah, and I haven't either. You know, the point of this bill is that...
Starting point is 00:59:46 Right. In theory, you don't, if you're a small business, you don't fire your employees. Why? Right. Well, you have no revenue. How can you pay them? Well, the government is supposed to give you, quote, unquote, loans in which you are going to pay your employee. Now, if you pay your employee, they don't have to go on unemployment.
Starting point is 01:00:05 And that loan you've been given gets forgiven. So that's no longer a loan. It's just us giving you a bunch of money to pay your employees, which makes some sense in this environment, I suppose. Wouldn't you like to see the fine print on that one? Do you like to see the fine print on that one? Yeah, we know that like with airlines, it means that you can't oppose unions if you take the money. If you take the loans,
Starting point is 01:00:31 you can't oppose any union effort in the future until you pay it all back. So there's going to be probably strings attached to it. It's not going to be pretty. Oh, yeah. It's got to be. It's got to be. Macy's is furlowing 125,000 employees this week. They said yesterday, it's taken a heavy toll on Macy's.
Starting point is 01:00:49 I mean, does Macy's ever return? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, they were really struggling. That's Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and Blue Mercury. 775,000 stores, 125,000 employees nationwide, all being furloughed. And they may not come back. Their first problem is having 775,000 stores and only 125,000 employees.
Starting point is 01:01:14 It's a terrible business model. Each one of them is running five or six stores. That's a terrible idea. Sorry. What are they're going at a business? 775 stores. 125,000. That's a much better idea.
Starting point is 01:01:28 That would be a bad business. We can't figure out theft. People just go in and steal us blind. Walk out without finding a cashier. You're listening to you. I wish I could blame it on the drugs, but I can't. I'm just a bad broadcaster. Anyway, uh, release.
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Starting point is 01:03:41 If they didn't have enough money to, you know, to close their doors and open them the next morning, uh, they would, they would just, uh, loan them the, uh, the money overnight. Only $250 million pledged to the banks. So 500 billion offered, only 250 million needed by the banks. That's good news. But does that mean that the banks are so clogged with cash right now? They literally don't need any? Or is it that the Fed already owns everything?
Starting point is 01:04:18 The Treasury bonds and the mortgage-backed CDOs and everything else, and it's willing to accept as collateral from Fed member banks treasuries. The Fed's balance sheet. blah, blah, but you don't need to know this. Here's one thing they just announced. And help me out, Stu, because this gave me an, oh dear Lord moment. Federal Reserve announced the establishment of a temporary FEMA repo facility to help support the smooth functioning of financial markets.
Starting point is 01:04:51 The Federal Reserve on Tuesday announced the establishment of a temporary repurchase agreement facility to foreign and international monetary authorities. to help support the smooth functioning of financial markets around the world, including the U.S., treasury market, let's see, including the U.S., treasury market, and thus maintain the supply of credit to U.S. households and businesses. The FEMA repo facility will allow FEMA account holders, which consists of central banks and other international monetary authorities
Starting point is 01:05:29 with accounts at the Federal Reserve of New York to enter into a repurchase agreement with the Federal Reserve. In these transactions, FEMA account holders temporarily exchanged their U.S. Treasury securities held with the Federal Reserve for U.S. dollars, which then can be made available to institutions in their jurisdictions. This facility should help support the smooth functioning of the U.S. Treasury market by providing an alternative, a temporary source of the U.S. dollars
Starting point is 01:06:00 other than sales of securities in the open market, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So wait, so wait, are we buying back our own treasuries now? Is the Fed going to the central banks around the world and saying, okay, we're going to give you cash, just turn in your treasury and we'll hold your treasury bill? Is that, is that what's that? happening? Are we flooding the entire world with dollars now and buying back our own treasuries?
Starting point is 01:06:32 This is... We're definitely flooding the whole world with dollars. I will say I don't fully understand what you just said, to be honest about it. It seemed like a very complicated transaction, which is probably why it won't make big news when it probably should. Yeah. I'll get back to on this, but I think this is a really big deal. I have a feeling this is a really big deal. Isn't that one of those things that they always said will never happen? Oh, yeah, of course, of course. Why is the Federal Reserve now, are they the bank of all central banks around the world? Is that what's happening now?
Starting point is 01:07:13 I mean, does this, does our central bank own all the other central banks? I mean, what is happening? Ooh, listen, not a problem. No, there's nothing to worry about. about money safe fdic all it's fine it's all good we've got so much money right now you don't have to worry about it you'll be using money dollars we have enough for toilet paper soon are you denying the reality what we have right now which is a bull market you know i've noticed you haven't even mentioned that since it happened uh you know we went no i uh the shortest
Starting point is 01:07:52 we're in american history yes uh we had a really we're in a bull market we are which is hilarious because we lost like 30% and then gained back 20 and then they're like well you're a bull market congratulations i don't think this doesn't feel like a bull market right now but apparently it feels like fake money yeah it feels like fake money yeah my uh the people who i you know have my money in you know the stock market they're calling me every day glenn you're missing you're missing the upside yeah yeah i know I know. Kind of sucks. Gee, remember when I talked about a melt-up? That this kind of feels like that.
Starting point is 01:08:31 Instead of a melt-down, you have a melt-up where stocks go through the roof. Remember I said, you know, Dow 40,000 is possible, and then it will melt down quickly. Yeah, that's kind of, I know, I know. I'm missing it. Darn it. I wish I was in that. Dow 40,000 does not feel... Like it's coming around the corner anytime soon.
Starting point is 01:08:55 Especially in the middle of money? What? With this amount of money? Where do you think that money is? Where do you think all of that money that the, that the, uh, the bank's got? Where do you think they put it? They, they put it in the markets. It's in the markets.
Starting point is 01:09:11 That's what's floating the markets. Is that, I mean, it's not even out really yet, right? I mean, the, the, the idea that it's coming is, yeah. Well, there was that, that was before, though. that was before the bill, right? The Fed money came first. Yeah, I think by a couple of days. Right around the time of the, you know,
Starting point is 01:09:31 the $4 trillion came right around the same time as the, as the, these numbers aren't even real numbers. Like, I feel like when I was a kid, that trillion seemed like a completely made up number. Now it's like, yeah, every other bills, another couple trillion dollars. Even the boring ones are trillions of dollars now.
Starting point is 01:09:50 I know. It's not even a challenge to get up to the trillions. You mentioned it the other day. There was a story that came out that actually mentioned quadrillion as a legitimate option, which was something to do with the derivative markets or something. Yeah, the CDOs, the thing that caused the problem in 2008, the CDOs. That was, I think, $50 trillion in 2008. It is now 250 trillion or a quarter of,
Starting point is 01:10:20 of a quadrillion dollars. I got to get something real quick. What could possibly go wrong? I know that when you just constant... And it's funny because we've been talking about this and there's a big section in your book arguing with socialists that talks about modern monetary theory, which has been kind of this thing that's been tossed around
Starting point is 01:10:41 you know, nerdy intellectual economist circles for a while and it's been a big left-wing push recently. And we've talked about it and analyzed it and said it's not a good idea. And then now we're just kind of doing it. We're just going to give it a whirl. See how it goes. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:10:56 Let's try on that dress and see how it fits. Because that is really where we are right now. And we're just trying this whole different thing. It's exactly what we're doing. It's exactly what we're doing. And I, you know, in the book, we have a whole chapter to modern monetary theory. And, you know, we're explaining why it's so bad. Eh, a little late to that, little late to that game.
Starting point is 01:11:18 We're already doing it. Not a problem. don't worry about it. We didn't realize we're all good. Criticizing the United States of America's economic system when you wrote the chapter. But I guess that's kind of the way it is, you know. Yeah. I have to, last night I started rereading Lords of Finance.
Starting point is 01:11:39 And this is something that came out around 2008. And I read it at the time. And I just have to share some things. with you. The budget deficit in like this like 1923 in Germany, budget deficit almost doubled to around $1.5 billion. To finance this shortfall required the printing of ever-increasing amounts of ever more worthless paper marks.
Starting point is 01:12:08 In 1922, around a trillion marks of additional currency was issued in the first six months of 1923. It was 17 trillion marks. In the whole course of history, no dog has run after its own tail with the speed of the Reich bank. The discredit the Germans throw on their own notes increase even faster than the volumes of notes in circulation. The effect is greater than the cause. The tail goes faster than the dog. They had problems keeping up with paper mills.
Starting point is 01:12:42 Over the next few months, Germany experienced a single greatest destruction of monetary value in human history. By August of 1923, the dollar was worth 620,000 marks. By early November, 630 billion marks to the dollar. A kilo of butter costs 250 billion. A kilo of bacon, 180 billion marks. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Then it goes into what happened? How did this happen?
Starting point is 01:13:15 and it talks about the one official most responsible for the reckless policy of inflation was none other than Rudolf von Havnstein, the sober and dedicated president of the Reich Bank, who had disastrously overseen Germany's wartime finances, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He decided that he was just going to work, you know, alongside the government, but he hated the government and everything else. So he found himself in the classic dilemma of the dutiful civil servant. He's now working for a government which he had little liking, one that was pursuing a social agenda he didn't believe in, and he thought Germany could ill afford. Worst of all, the government had decided to make its best efforts to pay the Allies' demands the so-called policy of fulfillment.
Starting point is 01:14:00 Nevertheless, despite these fundamental disagreements, von Havenstein, acceded to the government's request and allowed the Reich Bank to print money to finance the budget gap. There's two reasons possible for his motives. One, he deliberately engineered the whole monetary explosion as a way of destroying the financial fabric of Germany, a collective of self-immulation designed to prove to the allies that reparations were uncollectable. Or trained as a lawyer, he had learned the banking business during the gold standard era when the rules of monetary policy were dictated by the requirement that the Reichmark be kept convertible to a fixed gold equivalent. and completely in the sea, the world not hitched to gold. Were he to refuse to print the money necessary to finance the deficit, he risk causing a sharp rise in interest rates as the government scrambled to borrow money from every source.
Starting point is 01:14:59 The mass unemployment that would ensue, he believed, would bring on a domestic, economic and political crisis, which in Germany's current fragile state might precipitate a real political convolution. the prominent Hamburg banker Max Warburg, member of the Reichberg bank, blah, blah, blah, whether one wish to stop the inflation and trigger the revolution, or do you continue to just print money? So we are in that exact same scenario right now. Do we stop the heart or do we print money?
Starting point is 01:15:34 Do you want to be responsible for all the jobs that will be lost and a possible revolution? or do you just print money? The last line in this chapter is they all believed that something would come that would change the factors and it would save them. Unfortunately, what came was Adolf Hitler. All right, data breaches can happen to anyone
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Starting point is 01:17:22 Arguing with socialists. First of all, it's democratic. The new book from Glenn Beck. And the other thing, too, is that you can pre-order it now on Amazon. Listening to Glenn Beck. Let me go to Leonard who's listening to us in California. Hello, Leonard. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
Starting point is 01:17:51 Oh my gosh, the great Glenn. Glenn, how are you, Leonard? I'm, well, I'm in California, Glenn, and you and I have talked about California before. Yeah, all right. In fact, Glenn, I don't want to embarrass you, but you owe me. What do you mean I owe you for? I called in and you said, based upon what I said is that California had perfected the denial of due process,
Starting point is 01:18:16 you said, I'm going to have somebody get back to you, Glenn. And I never did? Yeah. What's going on in this state? If people understood, if people in this state looked at it, it's ugly. And it revolves around regulations. Yeah, I know. You know, this time I'm going to say, we're not going to call you back.
Starting point is 01:18:44 And then we'll surprise you and have somebody call you back. That way I can continue this trend. Leonard, thanks for your phone call, Rich, in Texas. Hello, Rich. Yes, hello. Hi, how are you? Doing well. How are you? Very good. How can I help you?
Starting point is 01:19:04 Well, I was wondering, what is stopping the president or our government from printing the U.S. note? U.S. dollar? It would be the Federal Reserve, the Federal Reserve bill that was passed in, I don't know, 1913 or whatever Woodrow Wilson signed it into law. Well, because as I understand it, and this is based on a theory I heard last night, that if you look at a dollar bill now, you see at the top that says Federal Reserve note and has a green stamp, green serial numbers. And a U.S. note would have a red stamp with red numbers on it. And there's this theory that Trump is going to be issuing a red stamp. some kind of bill or something to put these dollars back out there, and for every
Starting point is 01:20:02 Federal Reserve dollar that comes back in, they take it out of circulation. Yeah, I wouldn't count on that. And I really hope that our president or Congress or anybody doesn't just start printing new bills. You're listening to Glenn Beck. Oh, hello, America. We know that the progressives, the Democrats have been asking for a third bailout bill.
Starting point is 01:20:41 We haven't even gotten the money out into the system, and they've been planning a third one. But the president just tweeted that he would like another bailout bill. But this one, he wants $2 trillion. So his opening is at $2 trillion for the, next bailout, but this one's for critical infrastructure, which I thought we took care of with the 775 under the reinvestment act that Joe Biden was supposed to look at. Do we not fix those bridges? Now it's $2 trillion for yet another bailout, and I'm sure, I'm sure Nancy Pelosi in the left,
Starting point is 01:21:27 they're going to rein that back in. You know, they're going to be like, hey, hey, let's not be crazy with money. I'm sure that's not going to easily go up to $3 or $4 trillion. God help us all. Our update coronavirus in one minute. This is the Glembeck program.
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Starting point is 01:23:46 The confirmed deaths worldwide, 38,735. 5% of active cases are still considered serious requiring hospitalization. Note that 11% of U.S. confirmed cases require hospitalization, roughly on par with Italy at 12%. The U.S. now has 164,359 confirmed cases and 3,173 deaths. That is up considerably from yesterday. We had 2,400 deaths as of this time yesterday. Less than 0.6% of the total U.S. population has been tested. 15% of that 0.6 of America who have been tested have been diagnosed with
Starting point is 01:24:34 COVID-19. So how did the president make this decision? Apparently, it was Dr. Fachi, the chief medical advisor for the Corona Task Force and his cohort, Dr. Debbie Burks. They went in, apparently, to the Oval office on Sunday, leaned over the resolute desk, and put out all of the papers, and showed all of the charts and then just stood there while the president looked at it. Fouchy said, interestingly, we showed him the data. He looked at the data, got it right away. It's a pretty clear picture. Dr. Debbie Birx and I went in together, leaned over his desk, said, take a look. The president reportedly looked at them, understood the implications, and shook his head and said, wow, I guess we got to do it. Medically, this is the right decision. And I,
Starting point is 01:25:34 stand behind it 100%, Fauci said. From a public health standpoint, we felt strongly that it would have been wrong to pull back at this point. We're scientists, physicians, public health officials, were not economists. We're sensitive to the idea that the economy could suffer, but we weigh that against the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of Americans' life. It was blatantly obvious looking at the data that at the end of the day, if we try to push back prematurely, not only would we lose lives, but it would probably hurt the economy as
Starting point is 01:26:03 well, so we would lose on double accounts. So there was no question as what the right choice was. Now, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland have now joined the states issuing house arrest orders. Maryland and Virginia became the latest states on Monday to enact a stay-at-home mandate amid the coronavirus outbreak except for essential travel for work. Virginia's order is in effect till June 10th, making it one of the longest statewide mandates implemented so far. Maryland's penalties for violating its owners are among some of the strictest in the country, including a $1,000 fine and up to 30 days in jail for repeat offenders. Holy cow.
Starting point is 01:26:47 In total, more than 210 million Americans now effectively live under some form of house arrest or shelter-in-place-type orders with another 50 million facing travel or shopping or eating restrictions. Only six states do not have closed schools. Healthcare workers now using forklifts to load dead bodies into refrigerated trucks in New York. Did you see this video, Stu? Yeah. This video is really disturbing from Brooklyn. It was posted.
Starting point is 01:27:20 Do we have that video? Can we run that here? This video is, it was posted by a guy. in, I think, Brooklyn, who was just walking by, and he said, oh, my gosh, look it. It's this giant 18-wheeler, and they are loading dead bodies into it. It's a refrigerated truck. And you could see the camera start shaking, and he says,
Starting point is 01:27:47 I'm sorry, my hands are shaking, because this is real. This is no joke. This is the Brooklyn Hospital. and he said, this should make you take it seriously. Now, can we play the part of Ron Paul where he says this is not real, I guess? Can we play this?
Starting point is 01:28:12 I want to hear it for myself. Well, I think it's blown way out of proportion to the danger. And it seems that some people benefit from crises like this, people who want more government power and more control over people and want to get big appropriations and get their special deals passed, and that's what's happening now. Everybody's, it's a grab bag. So it's being used, and I don't see it as a problem dealing with one virus.
Starting point is 01:28:40 I think it's dangerous when people get the virus, and they're already sick or elderly and have other conditions. But I think millions of people probably have had the infection and still do, but it's used as an excuse by those who have a special interest to use that. And I think that is sad, but hopefully they'll wake up soon and say, well, it wasn't quite as bad as they thought. And maybe it's a combination of the virus along with another disease or medication or somebody's immune system. That's the problem. How much of that do you agree with, Steele?
Starting point is 01:29:22 I mean, he's totally right that they're going to try to exploit the situation. They are. As much as they can. They've already done it multiple times. And that's certainly going to continue. Two trillion dollar infrastructure bill now. I do think two trillion dollars. That's, that's, this is insane.
Starting point is 01:29:38 Yeah. And that's another one. That's not the two trillion we've already spent or the two bills before that. This is a new one that the president. And again, we should point out, this is not how these things end. Right. As you kind of noted, this is the opening offer from the Republican side on a bill is two trillion dollars.
Starting point is 01:29:54 They'll go for more. the Democrats will go for more. Yeah, I was looking back at, you know, our notes from earlier. And I had this story. This is a big story at the time. Chuck Schumer decided he had to go bold. This is this quote. We need to go big, bold, urgent federal action to deal with this crisis.
Starting point is 01:30:15 The kind of measures we're putting together with will mainline money into the economy and directly into the hands of families that need it. His proposal was for $750 billion. that was for the last bill that wound up at 2.2 trillion Chuck Schumer was asking for 750 billion and it ended at 2.2 trillion.
Starting point is 01:30:36 Now we have the Republican side starting at 2 trillion. What's this one going to end up as? Can't even imagine what this is going to be. How do we, we don't, we don't, how do we, I mean, this is this is really concerning. This is,
Starting point is 01:30:54 really concerning. We are, we have crossed the rubicon, I think. We, we, we, we, we, there's, there's no accountability anymore. It's just, we're going to spend, spend, spend. There's really no party that opposes the spending at this point. I mean, at times in the past Republicans have voiced opposition to the spending, but they don't even voice it anymore. The Democrats obviously have always wanted more of it. So we are going in. to an era now that goes far beyond, you know, Keynesian economics, but to the point of legitimate modern monetary theory. I mean, we really are going to this place where whatever we want, we get by printing more money, let's see what happens. You know, people were making
Starting point is 01:31:41 fun of Rashida Taleb a couple weeks ago for saying that she wanted to get two one trillion dollars coins to pay for the last bill, which again, I don't understand. Wait, wait. Wait, two two one trillion coins? Why not one two trillion dollar coin? I don't know the answer to it. Well, I mean, I do. That's clear. It's clear. I mean, you want two buyers. I mean, the odds of finding one buyer for a trillion dollar coin. Yeah. You know, is hard enough to find one buyer for a two trillion dollar coin. And you cut down all the bargaining power. Hey, buy one, get the second one half price. Oh, yeah. that's true. And I'll say too, if you go in and try to buy something with it, that they're not going to have enough change for $2 trillion coin, likely in most grocery stores.
Starting point is 01:32:32 Can you break a $2 trillion corn and they'll say, no, if you, do you have a $1 trillion? How? I don't. Yeah. I don't see. This is going to be, here's the fun part. The one trillion coin is going to be our normal mode of currency. Oh, yeah. You're actually bringing to grocery stores very soon if we don't stop doing this. Yeah, no, it'll be the one with with George Washington's head on it. It'll just, it'll be the quarter, except it'll be etched in by New York prisoners,
Starting point is 01:33:04 $25 trillion. I mean, this is, Glenn, this is unbelievable. I understand we are in the middle of something serious. I don't downplay it. I mean, I think we have a couple weeks here to hopefully see that most of the models seem to peak the worst of this thing in a couple of weeks. If that happens, you know, can we reverse it and all these things? I hope so. But the idea that we can just sit here and just spend our way out of it is not, that's not how this works. You know, there's not going to be a bridge is not going to solve the coronavirus issue. You don't, you don't do it by paving roads. So here's, well, here's what the president may be looking at. Last night, the Fed came out and said,
Starting point is 01:33:53 The job loss could be 47 million people. And unemployment may hit 32%. Again, I don't, we just spent $2 trillion to make sure that didn't happen. Why did we spend the $2 trillion if it were going to, like these, the bill itself, yes, it gives $1,200 to every American in a certain income bracket. it. Everybody knows that part of it because it's the only part anybody's talked about. But it also offers money to small businesses to pay the salary of your employees, the mortgages of your of your businesses. All of the tightly sort of associated costs that would come from your business operating in an environment where you're told you're not allowed to open it.
Starting point is 01:34:45 That's exactly what the bill does for small businesses. And then larger businesses have resources in big loans and all sorts of things that are guaranteed. deed. And the loans to small businesses, if you pocket the money, you have to pay it back. But if you pay it to your employees and you pay it for mortgage and you pay it for operational expenses, the bill is written in a way that those loans will be forgiven, which of course, that's not a loan, right? It's a giveaway with conditions. That's all supposed to be in here. And it's supposed to protect against exactly what you're talking about. It's not supposed to go $40.00. We should know that this week.
Starting point is 01:35:23 shouldn't we? Well, no more about it. If we have a, yeah, I mean, if we have another really horrible, I mean, the problem is, is things like oil, do you realize that oil may actually, they may start paying you to buy a barrel of oil? It may go below zero, the price of oil. And you'd ask, how is that possible? Because they're not stopping production in Russia or Saudi Arabia. And so they're running out of places to hold it. That's why your gas is. These people who bought the gas even a week ago,
Starting point is 01:35:59 they're losing their shirts on the gas. They're charging 99 cents. That's not what they paid for it when they pumped it into the ground. And so they're losing their shirts. But there's so much gas available and everybody's pressuring. Take the gas. Take the oil. Well, at what price do we stop taking oil?
Starting point is 01:36:21 because there's no place to put it. I mean, it is, it's remarkable on what is being done to really, truly, you couldn't design an economic collapse any better than what we're doing all around the world and what all these countries and all of these huge businesses and governments. You couldn't design it any better than it has been designed so far. All right, let me tell you about real estate agents I trust.com. the housing market. Right now, we don't know when it comes back online what's going to happen. Should you save the house? Should you sell the house? What is going to be worth anything? Is it going to be worth more because of the low interest rates?
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Starting point is 01:38:05 Station ID. So, Stu, this is why I watched the Tiger King last night. Because it's true. It just makes you feel so much better about everything else. Because you think, really? You think the government's out of control? Look at these people. Look at it.
Starting point is 01:38:34 cat people. That's a good way of doing it. I think if you can kind of think you watch and you kind of put, you know, it's the same thing we were talking about a little earlier. And you have your ugly friend at the bar with you. You look more attractive. This is kind of your version of it, right? You just sit back and you say, okay, at least I'm not this family.
Starting point is 01:38:53 At least I'm not this group of people. I heard you last night describe Cuomo as the ugly girl that brings an uglier girl to the bar. Yeah, you bring Bill. DeBlasio at the bar. That's why he's doing well. That's why you look good, you know, because Bill de Blasio is so bad. And honestly, it applies to Biden, too. He's bringing the whole crew. Biden looks like he can't even get through a sentence at this point. It's getting worse and worse seemingly by the day with Joe Biden. There's something wrong. There's something wrong. There's something wrong. There's something wrong. And then Cuomo, who at least, like, his actions have been complete failures, right? He said, first of all, he mocked de Blasio and said, we're not going to. We're not. closing the state down. There's not going to be any shutdown order. Three days later, he issued a shutdown order. He has, uh, he, his first attempt at handling this was to, if you remember the stunt where he came out and did a press conference, well, we're going to be making New York brand hand sanitizer with our inmates population. We could do it at a lower cost. And he went through this
Starting point is 01:40:00 whole thing. And he was like, he had his hands and he's like rubbing his hands together. He's like, Ooh, it's a very nice lilac scent and hydrangeas. And then he reaches, in the middle of a pandemic, reaches over and has the guy next to him, smell his hands. Which is not what you're supposed to do. Pandemic. I mean, I know they say don't shake hands. Also, don't sniff them. It seems to be obvious.
Starting point is 01:40:27 You know, yeah, that's something that I've never had to say to somebody. No, I'm not going to sniff your hands. Right. I mean, nobody's ever approached me. and went, smell my hands. No. No. No. No. I don't care who you are. My mother, nobody, my wife, no, I'm not smelling your hands. We may not be a hygienic people, but that we have drawn the line there at the very least. We are hygienic. You know, can we go into that story a bit of, you know, the guy from India that says, hey, you guys are really blessed?
Starting point is 01:40:59 I mean, this is really, we are really hygienic. We are at the top. of our game. We'll have to get to it here in just a second. But it is a guy from India who says, hey, by the way, if you're worried about hand sanitizer, count yourself blessed. If you're worried about, you know, oh, I've got to wash my hands. That means you have clean water. How many of us in India don't have access to any of the stuff you guys are complaining about right now. It's truly a remarkable and refreshing look at that. Also, we have Mike Lerner. Lindell just back from the White House. He's on with us next. You're listening to Glenn. All right. I want to talk to you a little bit about feeling better.
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Starting point is 01:43:33 The incompetence of Donald Trump is on dangerous display. Glen Beck argues the stakes are too high. Americans need a fight together, turn the economic engine back on, and ask, what's more dangerous? The coronavirus or the mainstream media? America's most dangerous virus, the media. Tomorrow at 9 p.m. Eastern, only on Blaze TV. So yesterday, the president was in the Rose Garden, and he had a bunch of CEOs there. Procter & Gamble, CEO was there, a lot of people.
Starting point is 01:44:05 And he talked about how they were all pitching in to help. And the media and Twitter went crazy. I love this one. Trump showcasing executives from all these private companies instead of talking about government efforts is a reflection of how little his administration is doing to respond. on to the coronavirus. But nothing, nothing lit the media up and lit social media up like Mike Lindell. Mike Lindell got up. He's the guy from my pillow. And he's retooling his factories to be able to make masks for the hospitals. That's why he was there. And when he got up to the microphone,
Starting point is 01:44:45 he said, thanks, Mr. President. If you don't mind, I'd like to just make a quick statement. He said, God gave us grace on November 8th to 2016 to change the course. course we were on. God's been taken out of our school and out of our laws, out of our lives. A nation has turned its back on God. I encourage you to use this time at home to get back to the word, to read our Bibles, bring your families back to God. I thought it was incredibly brave and not unusual. Unfortunately, yes, it is in the world of the media. This is from Ali Valshi from MSNBC. Trump just called the My Pillow guy up to the podium in the Rose Garden. You can't make this stuff up. James O'Grady, are you effing kidding me? He had the My Pillow guy on to sell his
Starting point is 01:45:31 garbage product during a pandemic briefing. He wasn't selling anything. No one fights a pandemic better than or more scientifically than the insane My Pillow guy talking about the Bible. It went on and on and on. Mike Lindell is here to respond and tell us how he's feeling today. Mike, I thought you were incredibly brave to say what you said because you knew you were going to take a beating for it. I thought it was eloquent, and I thought it was exactly the right thing to do. Congratulations for doing that, Mike. Well, thanks.
Starting point is 01:46:11 And I had just wrote down some notes. I actually turned to the president because I didn't know if I said, you, I'm going to say something a little off the cuff here. And I didn't, you know, I thought, I didn't think it'd be a tech like that. I really didn't. And boy, I got, I had over, and then I had over 750 some text messages. Of course, them were good, but I didn't even know I had that many people. I had my phone number.
Starting point is 01:46:37 And then there was probably, I mean, people I haven't talked to in 10 years. So I was answering them until 3 in the morning, but I actually, I actually, I actually, I went to the bad media sites and seen what was trying to be put out there. And Glenn, one thing I want to say is I think everyone out there, even from both sides, because so many people that were on the side, even the media that say in these horrible things, there are people over there going, you know what, just like you just said, he wasn't selling anything. And what's wrong with being home with your families?
Starting point is 01:47:10 And that's just his opinion. And a lot of this country, like I told the president, and I said, you know, Mr. And this, we were in the Oval Office for about a half hour after that, him and I. And I said, you know what? I said, these press briefings are so good because people are seeing who you really are, who you know, they're seeing your heart. And all this big news and this crazy attacks out there by the left, I said, I said, I got, I said, here's where it's going, though.
Starting point is 01:47:37 And I read them a text I got from a friend of mine who's very much a president of a hater. And here's what it said, and I read it to him and said, Mike, you know I'm not a big Donald Trump fan, but he said, you know what, God bless him. He's doing an incredible job. He's doing a job of a champion here, and I think he's growing on me. And this is what's happening. I think people are going to quit being brainwashed by this horrible crazy media,
Starting point is 01:48:03 and they know who they are. And then the public is going to see this amazing job that our president's doing. But I, you know, Mike. Today I have to get interview after interview today, I'm taking all the bad ones. I think I'm going on the view tomorrow. I'm going on Washington Post this afternoon. I love it.
Starting point is 01:48:23 I want to go right into the hurricane. Finally, I get to speak out for Jesus like I want to. That's great. That's great. So, Mike, tell me about your company is doing. He had you on the stage, along with other CEOs, because you're doing something with your company. Tell me what you're doing.
Starting point is 01:48:42 Well, about two weeks ago, I said, you know what? We got to make masks. I heard there was a need. I reached out to the vice president. He was head of this, you know, this whole thing. And I reached out to his office, and they directed me to Peter Navarro, who, who called me, who texts me right back and then called me. And he says, we have this thing set up as a coalition.
Starting point is 01:49:00 I called them. They were so helpful in finding out specs that I need of these cotton masks. And then I had to outsource, you know, figure out where can get the elastic in our country. And in the meantime, I said, you guys were doing, we're going all in. And we revamped one of my factories, 200,000 square feet. And we put in safety precautions for all my employees where they're checked at the door and they, you know, sanitizer. They can take breaks when they want.
Starting point is 01:49:28 And we went all at bike. Within three days, we were up to 10,000 mass training them. Now I'm running three shifts. And we want to get up to 50,000 by the end of the week. But one of the things that happened, Glenn, was. Wait, wait, wait, 50,000 a day. or at the end of the week? A day.
Starting point is 01:49:46 No, a day. A day. Holy cow. Yeah, we're very good at, we're very good at ramping up in my pillow and used to big numbers. And I have such an amazing team. We had to move sewing machines apart. We did have a very expensive, a die cutter that cuts the fabric. And one of the specs was they wanted 160 thread counter better.
Starting point is 01:50:07 Mine turns out it was 205 doubles, so it's 410. So we overshot the mark. And so there was a lot of things that were, that were set up almost perfect for such a time as this for my pillow to get involved. But one of the things that's happened is I became like a bicycle hub, and I've got a whole team of people. I have 20 people. It's like a task force. We're actually going to put a website up because we're getting, you know, from all over the country, you know, hey, how can I get involved as a business? How can I help? I have five other businesses I dealt with that switched over to getting sewing these masks. and I want to say just the few that were there at the White House, there are so many companies out there that are stepping up,
Starting point is 01:50:47 and it's just amazing to see that. You know, I read one of the guys that said, you know, the fact that the president is showcasing these private industry shows how little his administration is doing. That is the idea of a free market. This is exciting and why we always pull ahead in a crisis, because the free market is, we don't have to wait for the government to requisition things. We just do them.
Starting point is 01:51:18 We find a better way to do them and we get it done. Absolutely. And I want to tell everyone out there, I went to the White House. As you know, you know me, I'm an optimist beyond belief. I went to the White House. And first we had a roundtable thing with a vice president and these other companies and myself. and they're talking about these statistics. He goes, he says to me, says, Mike, this one took, they said it would take a year.
Starting point is 01:51:44 They did it in two weeks. I mean, he's able to take the private sector and the government say, you know what, this one company called up and they, or one governor called him up and said, hey, hey, I can't, the government's blocking us at federally, or the federal day. And he called up the FDA and it got approved in two hours that would have took months. I mean, this is what he's the best at. he here's a common here's common sense problem solution and what it's going to manifest to and it's just no he's built for that i mean i i left there i'm more optimistic now than i was and for me
Starting point is 01:52:17 to go up to you know to double my optimism going wow he's going to go through this i was so i can't tell everyone else is all amazing if this the things are doing he is a guy and i've said this for a long time he loves the crisis he just loves he he he lives for that that that much moment of crisis. He creates chaos, you know, through his Twitter feeds and everything because he loves it. He feasts on it. This is a real crisis. And you can see how he is,
Starting point is 01:52:49 he has stabilized all of the other behavior that usually causes the crisis because he is in a real crisis now. And it's, and he's operating as I think he does when he's building giant, you know, building projects. He can just take on a whole bunch of different tasks and remain steady.
Starting point is 01:53:13 How is he appear to you, his spirits and how is he tired? No, no, I don't think he tires. I mean, he works more harder than anyone ever, I've ever seen, you know, 20 hours out of a, 20 hours out of a 24-hour day. He does have my pillows, so he gets quality sleep. I'll put a plug in there. But he is, it's like you just said it. He lives for this.
Starting point is 01:53:42 He knows he's the best at it. And he is like a big guy running at orchestra, all these different silos at the same time, and cutting through the tape to get this done, to get this done. And it's amazing. And his spirits are good. You know, I think he's, one thing people don't realize about him is he's a, he's a, he's a, He's amazing listener. He takes it all in, and he won't say right at the thing.
Starting point is 01:54:08 It's like a computer taking into his brain, and then God's given in this gift, he just weighs it, and here's the answer, and you're going to have a hard time changing my mind. Once he gives that answer, he's not going to, he knows it's the right thing, and just because you've got other people putting their influence and maybe having their own agenda, once he makes that decision, he's going to get from point A to point B, and there's nothing going to stop, and it's just a matter how he gets there. Did you, with the other CEOs, did you guys talk about the economy and how we're going to turn this thing back on? Yeah, yeah, you know, that's what they were, you know, one of the things is, one of the things of frustrations I got, I brought up.
Starting point is 01:54:49 I said, you know, there's, you see all these places that are open like your Walmarts and grocery stores. And I said, I am, I was sick. And when I walk into one and they don't have people at the door, security saying, hey, put a mask on, use this sanitizer here, or even their own employees within the business. I set it up in my pillow. Why don't they have safety things that they're getting to be open just because they're essential? These people are, I told the president, said, down in Oklahoma, a friend of mine's got House of David, you know, obviously they're not, it's not considered essential that you have a church open,
Starting point is 01:55:25 but yet there's a hardware, or I mean a car parts store where they're all congregated with no mask. The clerk's not wearing a mask. And what's wrong with that picture? I mean, and, you know, we need safe practice for their businesses are there so they can give us confidence. You know, when we go back to our other, the other businesses start open, if these aren't doing, you know, it's showing safe practices. It's just, and we did talk about the economy. That's what the president right now. He's hearing on one hand, millions of people are going to die.
Starting point is 01:55:55 You're saving lives. And he goes, he said, my first thing is to save lives. But he said, he said, but we've got to get people back to work. So we need to get solutions, and that's what he's weighing. And that's what, what we're waiting on now is for the president, he just keeps taking an input. When you're seeing these delays, okay, we'll wait and we'll, you know, we'll push the date off here.
Starting point is 01:56:17 Well, more stuff keeps coming in, more fixes. Right. And then when it's going to be, I believe a day's coming, president's going to go, you know what, we're going to start here. These things we're going to open up here. You're not going to say nationwide, open it up all at once. It'll be, it'll be possible to Pope. and then, you know.
Starting point is 01:56:33 Mike, I've got to run them up against the network break. Thank you so much for what you did yesterday. Thank you for the masks and we'll talk again soon. Mike Lindell from My Pillow. And by the way, Mike is my guest on the podcast. It comes out Thursday night for Blaze subscribers. You'll hear it Saturday on the podcast. If you're not a subscriber to the Blaze,
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Starting point is 01:58:32 You're listening. So it's interesting to me. I guess there's a new study out. Americans are hoarding cash at the fastest pace since Y2K. What does it mean hoarding cash? You mean I ask for the cash from the bank? Is that hoarding cash? I want to have what I own with me.
Starting point is 01:59:09 That's hoarding all of a sudden? That's crazy. Exactly what someone who's hoarding cash would say. That's exactly what we're going. say. Exactly right. Yeah, you got me. I have this old juice bottle that's filled with change.
Starting point is 01:59:25 Does that, is that hoarding cash? I'm curious. Is that a... You know what? I'm beginning to think it might. I'm beginning to think it might. They're going to start cracking down on cash. I mean, God help us.
Starting point is 01:59:36 I, we've, I feel like we moved into a new place here in the last couple of days. I mean, you know, it's, you know, it's, you know, it's, you know, it's, you know, it's been coming. But I think financially, I think we're just, tomorrow, Stu, we should do something on modern monetary theory. Okay. Yeah. Because I think we're just doing it. It's just, we're not debating it. Nobody even knows what it is. It's good a world. I think we're doing it. Let's see how it works out. Right. Because we're trying it right now. We're just printing and spending at a rate that we can't possibly, you know, continue with. The last chapter of my book is on this modern monetary theory. And I've been saying, you know,
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