The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guest: Jerry Wayne | 3/12/20

Episode Date: March 12, 2020

Coronavirus update: This doesn’t look like a seasonal virus. President Trump closed down travel from Europe, the NBA suspended its season, schools are closing across the nation, and the stock market... was frozen for the second time in a week. But China is back up and running, hopefully for good. And Jerry Wayne, the Michigan worker who confronted Joe Biden over gun control, calls in to tell the full story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello America. Wow. Another bright and sunny day right here in the U.S. of A. Almost a surreal day and surreal night last night. President gives like this spooky movie speech. Then you find out that Tom Hanks and his wife have COVID-19. Then they welcome everybody to, hey, welcome to. Hey, welcome to the NBA.
Starting point is 00:00:30 Going to be a great game. Unfortunately, all of those here in the stadium, you need to go home right now. But everybody's completely safe. Wait a minute. We've already gathered in a large crowd. What is the problem? Well, we find out even more. We have that update.
Starting point is 00:00:45 We also have some breaking news on Andre Telashenko, a guy who was on his way to testify in Congress yesterday, until one senator, gee, I wonder who, said, we don't need this testimony. we'll get to that information that you absolutely need to hear. The Michigan guy who is at the auto plant and Joe Biden said, you're full of crap, he's on the program today. Also, Jeff Brown, a guy who can tell us exactly what's happening with any kind of vaccine or cure or any kind of medicine on COVID-19, actually kind of a bright spot in today's world.
Starting point is 00:01:26 It all begins right now. You're listening to the best of the blue. All right, I want to give you our coronavirus update here quickly. We have confirmed cases now, 127,000. That's up from 126,000 yesterday. Total confirmed deaths, 4,641. That's up about 300. Patients that have recovered, 68,000 plus.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Now 125 countries have confirmed cases up from 120 yesterday. This is the best news. The cases considered serious requiring hospitalization is down again today, down from 12% to 11%. We now have 1,336 confirmed cases here in the United States and 38 deaths. That number is about to go through the roof and you will understand in the next 30 minutes exactly why and what to do about it. all 50 states have at least now one confirmed case or one presumptive case. President Trump banned travel from mainland Europe last night for 30 days. UK travel not currently affected. They seem to be doing pretty well with this. Ban will limit human travel.
Starting point is 00:02:52 Cargo only travel will not face any restrictions at this time. The order is effective as of today, March 12, 2020. President Trump indicated that he will consider other travel bans from any hot spots as a means to follow the CDC recommendations to prevent bringing more infected people into the U.S. Inbound travel to the U.S. is now restricted for over a third of the world's population, including China, the U.K., Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and Iran. But we all know, thank God we have the press.
Starting point is 00:03:26 We all know he's only doing this to Europe because they're different. They look so different in Germany. and Sweden and France. The Congress was told yesterday that COVID-19 is 10 times more lethal than the flu. If that comes as a shock to you, that you haven't been paying attention. That's right now 10 times more fatal than the flu. Containing the influx of infected people coming from other countries is super important, but also social distancing and isolation of the sick.
Starting point is 00:04:07 Bottom line is, Congress was told, this is going to get much worse quickly. The U.S. stock market is taking a beating. We've now into the bear market. We must be doing okay. We already closed once today. We took another breather on the stock market. It was open for maybe 10 minutes before they,
Starting point is 00:04:27 can you stop coughing while I do this, do it? It's really freaking out, man. Excuse me. Can you just check on the stock market? I don't see it up in front of me how we're doing. We took another 10-minute breather. I'm shocked that those things work. But this is something that was put into the stock market as a safety valve just in case panic starts.
Starting point is 00:04:47 Currently down 1,900 points, 8%. How much 8%? We were down as much as 10% this morning. It stopped at 7, then it shot back up to 10. The next time they stop it, if it has to be stopped today, will be at 13% losses. they'll stop it for 10 minutes. Hopefully everybody will gain their senses. And then it officially closes for the day if we ever hit 20%.
Starting point is 00:05:10 So they stop it at 7%, then at 13%, then they stop it for the day at 20. Hopefully we won't get to that. But I will tell you, we are in for a very long haul. This is not something that is going to be over quickly. President Trump also taking a beating in his approval rating. Dailing tracking poll, he stood at 1% net approval. That's approved minus disapprove on February 25th. Yesterday, it just came out.
Starting point is 00:05:42 He is now 11 points underwater. That's a 12 point swing on the online phone-based survey. The president's handling of coronavirus cited as the major reason for the shift in voter attitudes. this is a ridiculous charge, in my opinion. Are there things that we could have done faster? Yes. Are the things we could have done differently? Yes.
Starting point is 00:06:06 But I don't. I mean, he gets blamed for whatever he does. Yesterday, they were, I can't believe he's not doing enough. Okay, we're going to cancel all air travel for anybody wants to come here for the next 30 days from, you know, Europe where it's just exploding. I can't believe he's doing that. know what that's going to come. I mean, he can't win. Joe Biden staffer accuses of Trump of deciding to let coronavirus get out of hand. This is a senior staffer, the digital director of the campaign, tweeted yesterday sure seems like this is getting out of hand, and Donald Trump decided to let it be
Starting point is 00:06:43 this way. The tweet comes as Trump asked all Americans to put politics aside, stop the partisanship, and unify as one nation and one family. Calls for the staffer to apologize. The call for the staffer to apologize, gone unanswered. Nobody's answering that phone, maybe because Joe Biden's expected to answer and he's like, I keep hearing this ringing noise. I don't know what it is. The WHO finally calls COVID-19 a pandemic. We've known this for a while. They actually said yesterday, speculation, I should say, those around suggested that the WHO did not call this a pandemic. a couple of weeks earlier when we all knew what it was. It had fit the official definition.
Starting point is 00:07:31 But the reason why they didn't say that it was a pandemic is because they were afraid that people go, pah, geez, well, if it's a pandemic, there's nothing we can do. The decision came out yesterday to finally call this a pandemic because they're hoping that they can get people from throwing up their arms and saying, see, this is really no big deal. It's a very, very big deal. New obstacles to testing in the U.S. lack of critical region chemicals. This is going to be a mounting problem.
Starting point is 00:08:01 We need certain chemicals. We've been foolish. This really started under Clinton and then just spiraled under control. I've been talking about it now over three decades. This has been a topic of mine saying, we are foolish to give everything to China. They are taking control. of our drugs and if they ever turn into an enemy, they control what we can do. They control the
Starting point is 00:08:31 medicine on the battlefield for America. Now the battlefield is America and it's not bullets. It's the coronavirus and we need our own services and we need critical infrastructure here. But this has been a 30 year spiral out of control. It's going to take us a while. Between 70 million and 150 million Americans they're now saying are going to be infected with this. Fighting to make this 1% a reality, the case fatality rate of 1% is the goal. Let me say that again. Fighting to make 1% death rate a reality is a goal. It's not automatic.
Starting point is 00:09:15 The 1% case mortality rate for COVID-19 is not something that is consistent everywhere. 1% or less is achievable and possible, but it assumes infected people get critical medical care. And every single one of us now has a role to play. And we must take personal responsibility. Your role is very simple. Don't spread the disease. Don't get the disease. Don't expose yourself to large groups.
Starting point is 00:09:50 And I'm going to give you some information here in just a second that will show you this is easier than you think and in some ways harder than you think only if you don't realize it's already here it's already here as we've seen in china Iran Italy case fatality rates 3.5% in China 8% in Iran 6% in Italy are probable with COVID-19 once the hospital systems become overwhelmed There's a goal that each of us should have. Do everything you can to not get infected. Wash your hands. Don't touch your face.
Starting point is 00:10:32 Clean the surfaces that you touch all the time. Socially distance yourself from others. This will happen to you. I've been saying this for a while. We're all going to get this. And the reason why I've been saying it is because I want people to understand, oh, this is never going to happen to me. It's not going to come here.
Starting point is 00:10:49 It's not going to really be a problem. It's going to happen to you. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on iTunes. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. It is, it's Thursday. What a week. What a week.
Starting point is 00:11:16 Every day seems like a year. I was telling somebody yesterday the other day. Last night, I was having a meeting. And I said, you know, then this happened. And then the very next day, this happened. And somebody was sitting in the meeting and went, Glenn, that first thing happened this morning. the other thing happened this afternoon. I'm like, this is the same day.
Starting point is 00:11:37 These things are changing so fast and they're so massive that it's the same day. This is going to accelerate. Welcome to our good friend Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed, who should not be here because he's going to get all of us sick. But I'm not sick. Oh, sure. That's what they all say. That's what they all say. I do feel weird, though.
Starting point is 00:12:02 This whole thing is making me feel so weird. Do you feel, I just want things to go back to normal. I mean, I think the last straw was Tom Hanks. I'm like, no, no, come on now. Now it's real. Tom Hanks. It's real all up in here. Now that Tom Hanks has it.
Starting point is 00:12:17 I think Tom Hanks is this generation's Rock Hudson. Yeah, or Jimmy Stewart. No, no, no. No, no. I don't mean it that way. He is our Jimmy Stewart. But I mean Rock Hudson, 1985. nobody was talking about AIDS.
Starting point is 00:12:32 And remember, he did something with Doris Day. In a disease way. He's like Rock Hudson, you're saying. Yeah. Just hear me out for a second. In 1985, no one was talking about AIDS. The president hadn't even mentioned the word AIDS. Nobody was talking about it.
Starting point is 00:12:49 It was this weird, scary disease that was really early on. Nobody knew what it was. But it wasn't mainstream. And it was something that, you know, oh, only homosexuals. get. And then it was, well, maybe just anyone can get it from coughing or kissing. And it just turned in this nightmare. 1985, Rock Hudson does, I don't remember, a special or something with Doris Day, who had been in a million movies with. And he looks horrible. And he was like, what happened to Rock Hudson? I mean, if you don't know who Rock Hudson is, he was a guy, he was, I don't
Starting point is 00:13:27 know, the Tom Cruise kind of guy. He always looked good, never seemed to age, was really in shape, everything else, was, you know, the guy in the 50s and 60s and 70s of, you know, just this heartthrob. But he was gay. Nobody knew it. He's on with Doris Day. Then he goes to France for some radical experimental, you know, cancer treatments. Well, Ronald Reagan was friends with.
Starting point is 00:13:57 Rock for years when he was an actor. And so Ronald Reagan calls him in Francis, says, Rock, are you okay? I just saw this thing. It's that you don't look well. That's when he said, Mr. President, I'll tell you the truth, I have AIDS. First time that Ronald Reagan knew, or really most people knew anybody who had AIDS. And he, a few days later, Rock Hudson comes out and he says, you know, I have AIDS. I'm dying.
Starting point is 00:14:27 Ronald Reagan starts talking about AIDS. And it was the first time that people went, oh, wow, we might know people that are going to die from this. That I think Tom Hanks may be the Rock Hudson of this generation. Because everybody knows and likes Tom Hanks. And, you know, here's Tom Hanks filming with his wife, the new Elvis movie in Australia. and they announced last night he's got COVID-19. Hopefully, dear God, please don't.
Starting point is 00:15:01 Let's not lose Tom Hanks. But just him being sick, I think, that in the NBA last night, I think shook America. Yeah, big time. Yeah. They shook me. I know that. Also, Tom Hanks has type 2 diabetes, I believe. Oh, that's bad.
Starting point is 00:15:17 So that'll be interesting to see how he deals with this. Yeah, that's not good at all. Yeah. You have diabetes that puts you in a higher risk category for death. You know, the other thing is, I don't know if anybody else felt this way. Donald Trump, what he said in his speech last night about Europe was absolutely the right thing to do. Absolutely. Everybody's like, that is just, yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:39 That is just so racist of him. Stop it right now. I thought he only liked Europeans. I thought that was the knock on him. Now he's racist against Europeans. You know, he hates those Germans because they look so different. Anyway, it was absolutely the right thing to do. But I watched that last night and it was one of those things where I thought, oh my gosh, what, I mean, did anybody else watch his speech and think, holy cow.
Starting point is 00:16:06 I said that out loud when he said that. Yeah. Holy cow. I think that two hit a lot of people who are a conservative because it did. We go through this thing where the media is so awful to Trump and so unfair. to him that it's easy to see every single story in this kind of constant plot against Donald Trump, which absolutely exists through all of these storylines, including COVID-19. Like, they have been completely unfair to him.
Starting point is 00:16:34 Absolutely. But like, a lot of people are saying, oh, this is a hoax. They're going after him because they want the economy to crash. This is not a big deal. Donald Trump is not out there trying to sink Donald Trump's presidency. No. Donald Trump is out there on television telling you you can't go to Europe. Well, I guess you can't.
Starting point is 00:16:50 It was a little bit unclear. You have four days. You have four days to return. Yeah. And then after that, you're going to have to go through screening. You may be held elsewhere. This is a really big deal. None of our allies were alerted by this.
Starting point is 00:17:10 What's going on in Europe, France is on fire right now. And France is not taking this seriously at all. we have friends tanya told me you know we have friends who went to to france and i said wait a minute wait a minute those people they took their family to france she said yeah and i said all right not going to church if they're going to church not going to church don't want the kids playing with their kids for 14 days they were in france and they what they did was they're like oh my gosh we just decided two hundred dollars round trip to france yeah there's a reason I got all this.
Starting point is 00:17:48 It's tempting. I got all this meat on sale. You know how much, you know how expensive meat is. I got all this meat on sale. I got it for pennies for the pound. And, you know, they're saying that it's spoiled meat's been sitting out in the sun for the last 14 days.
Starting point is 00:18:02 But it came from a lab. Yeah. But it's fantastic. It was so cheap. Yeah, it's cheap for a reason. Yeah. And people aren't taking it seriously.
Starting point is 00:18:11 And that's what Ronald. That's what Donald Trump did last night was start to take it seriously. for the American people and hopefully started to wake them up. But right after he was done, boom, NBA. Boom, Tom Hanks. Yeah. And it's interesting too because CNN can't say now that he's calling this a hoax and he's not taking it seriously.
Starting point is 00:18:30 So instead it changes to now he's a xenophob. So now because he's taking it seriously, now he's a xenophobia and he's not allowing anybody into the United States. It cannot win. No, it's exactly the right thing to do. Now, it is. You have to understand, as we told you yesterday, day the reason why we're not canceling schools that is the easiest thing to do that is that doesn't
Starting point is 00:18:51 seem like the smart thing to do because we all know schools are petri dishes and they have done it through colleges right it's happened to a lot of universities some schools have been canceled so why are they doing it a university is pretty much universally now or it's it's trending that way but you're not seeing schools all over the country cancel 44% of parents cannot stay home with their kids right So we're in this catch 22 where we know that parents are they, what are they going to do? They can't, they may not be able to work from home. They have to work. They have their kids come home.
Starting point is 00:19:31 The entire 44% of households collapse under that. Isn't it true also that very few children are getting this? Yeah, but no, they are getting it. It's like there is, what is it? hepatitis. There's a hepatitis that spreads really easily, not through the blood,
Starting point is 00:19:51 and kids, babies can get it. And they have found that every adult around these babies will get hepatitis and they'll be knocked out. They test the children and the children all have it.
Starting point is 00:20:05 All the babies have it. But it doesn't affect their immune system. It's not manifesting in any way where it's harmful for them. Spanish flu is the opposite of this. In 1918, Spanish flu kind of short-circuited. If you had a strong immune system, it put everything into overdrive. And so all the strong immune systems were breaking down.
Starting point is 00:20:28 So all the children and under 18, they were the real targets. This is the opposite. So they're getting it. It's just not hurting it. It's not hurting them. Can I give you one other update here? Yeah. So for the second time since these rules have put in,
Starting point is 00:20:43 And both of them in this week, we have hit the tripwire of the stock market down 1,700 points again today, including another, the 7% thing on the S&P 500. So there's a 15 minute break and we're in that window for the second time this week at this time. Okay. So I'm going to tell you something that I just don't want to, I just don't want to be a freak out guy. I don't want you to panic. But I wrote to my wife today and I said, honey. I want our money out of the stock market. We've been going back and forth on this.
Starting point is 00:21:18 So amazing. I just texted my wife. Did you? The same exactly. Yeah. I said, honey, I want out of the stock market. We're down 20%. We're down 20%.
Starting point is 00:21:30 That's now bare territory. That's now means that's a sign of recession. And here's why. This is the more facts that come in. We are at least 18 months. away from having a vaccine available available okay now there's going to be ways to fight it it's going to be a bell curve although the other side of the bell seems to be a little lopsided we think at this point that there's not going to be a flu season on this it's just going to keep
Starting point is 00:22:01 going we don't know but we think we don't know but we think you can get reinfected on it and when you do that's even worse china is reopening all of their factories and everything else, people are going back to work. If that remains stable, then we can go, okay, we don't,
Starting point is 00:22:23 once it burns through your system, it's not going to reignite and, and you have to repeat everything all over again. And it would have peaked at, what, 80,000 people, in fact. Yeah. Which is not, if they're telling the truth,
Starting point is 00:22:37 is not that big a deal. So here's the problem. This is going to last us, you know, three to seven months minimum. And we're going to go through other cycles. If we can get through the summer, it's going to come back worse. Look at the pandemics in the past. It's a year into it, a year and a half into it.
Starting point is 00:22:57 To me, that says we're going to have significant down for a significant period of time. We're going to go through tough, tough times. Economically? I mean, obviously, as well as the, the actual. Yeah, yeah. I'm talking about economically alone. The whole situation, this is going to change. We will be different people, and I'm talking globally on the other side of this. When this is all past, we will be doing things then that will remain with us forever that we would have never done today. It's going to change the way people work, the way we interact, the software, the systems,
Starting point is 00:23:40 absolutely everything is going to change because of this. And I don't want you to freak out. You should not freak out. If you are young and you have your money in the stock market and you're 40, leave it in the stock market. Leave it in the stock market because you can never predict the top. You can never predict the bottom. Leave it in.
Starting point is 00:24:00 It will eventually come back. If you're somebody, I'm 56, I'd like to be able to say when I'm 65, you know what, I just want to go and do something else. I could be wiped out. You know, if this continues to go on, you can be wiped out. If you're 60, 65, get your money out of the stock market. Take your loss now. It's going to be a rough couple months.
Starting point is 00:24:25 Even when people try to blow it off and they're like, oh, it's just like the flu. First of all, the flu is serious. But remember, let's just say it is like the flu. The flu year one really sucked. I don't know if anyone's noticed that. Year two is. Year two is worse. Year 102 is what we're talking about today.
Starting point is 00:24:42 Right? Like in year 102, well, we've been able to get a handle on it. And I think the same thing is true with this. But year, and we have a much better system now, too. It's, I don't think it's going to be 1918. But we don't. But it is a scary time. It's worse in some ways because of the mobility of the people of the planet.
Starting point is 00:24:58 Right. And the fact, and the fact that, uh, we are seeing now that self-isolation is helpful. but unless the people take it seriously, we are going to go just the way of Germany, just the way of France, just the way of Italy, which is not good in case you haven't been paying attention because the people didn't self-isolate.
Starting point is 00:25:25 And I want to show you later on in the program exactly what that means. You've got to take this seriously right now. You should show the really quick video of Rudy Gobert from the Utah Jazz and how unsuriously he was taking it. Two days later he's got the virus.
Starting point is 00:25:44 The best of the Glenn Beck program. Hey, it's Glenn and you're listening to the Glenn Beck program. If you like what you're hearing on this show, make sure you check out Pat Gray Unleashed. It's available wherever you download your favorite podcasts. This is the first pandemic that can be controlled. This according to the WHO. It is officially now a global,
Starting point is 00:26:14 pandemic. They announced, they made that announcement yesterday. We found out from the president that no travel from Europeans to the United States for 30 days. He's talking about massive packages to the American people, including a tax holiday, or at least deferred, small business loans of up to $50 billion in money accessible. The immediate reaction from the Democrats was, This is ridiculous. We need more food stamps. I mean, it's crazy what's going on. We really have to pay attention to what Congress is doing because, believe me, they will not waste this opportunity.
Starting point is 00:26:58 They will not waste this election or this coronavirus emergency because of the election coming up. And the media is in overdrive trying to make the president look bad. We'll tell you the truth. When he screws up, we'll tell you. When he doesn't, we'll tell you. We want to be fair and objective because this is way too important. If you remember during the election of 2008, there was a guy named Joe the Plummer who said, you know, I've worked hard for my business and, you know, you want to tax me more and give it to other people.
Starting point is 00:27:31 And that's when Barack Obama really kind of outed himself as a guy who believed in the Marxist tendencies of share the wealth. And he had that amazing exchange where he's like, I just think, there comes time where you've made too much money. That didn't stop America from voting for Barack Obama, but it was a wake-up call to many people. I think now, not Joe the plumber, I think there is Jerry the Auto Worker. He's a guy who was meeting with Joe Biden in a group of auto workers just before the primary, and he just asked the vice president a question about taking guns. and the president unloaded on him.
Starting point is 00:28:15 And it was quite an amazing exchange. We have Jerry with us now. And his name is Jerry Wayne. He was on with Dave Rubin yesterday. I called Dave and said, hey, Dave, can you give me Jerry's phone number? Thank you very much for coming on this program as well. Jerry, appreciate it. Yeah, thank you very much.
Starting point is 00:28:36 I appreciate you having me on. So let me ask you a couple of questions first. are you because we didn't see any of the interaction prior to and the vice president came after you like you were a jerk and an enemy can you tell me was there anything that we didn't see before that that put you in a position to where he thought this guy is just going to attack me no on all the videos i think they captured just about everything some of the videos you got to fish through though to see uh exactly what my question was i was quite respectful and articulate with my question. I took some time to actually to write it and
Starting point is 00:29:17 get to be able to actually move forward on that. Because you were reading it off of your cell phone and did you had an expectation of meeting him or is that it was just in case you had a moment, you wanted to ask this question. Yeah, I had no idea that I was going to be able to ask the question. I just wanted to be prepared in case I did have the opportunity. I mean, how many chances do you get to to do that. Right. Now, you are a long-term auto worker. You're a strong union guy. Are you, was this an honest question? And I mean it this way. There are people who are asking questions because they want to make a point. And then there's others who may make a point while doing it, but they're asking because they really want to know because Joe Biden might have been a candidate that they might have voted for. Are you a guy who has voted for Democrats before?
Starting point is 00:30:08 would consider a Democrat or not? Yeah, so, well, first of all, I'm not an auto worker. I'm a millwright by trade. I'm a union millwright, and yes, you're right. I'm very, very strong with a union. Okay. I really support him. Yeah, I think I was on, yeah, the show last night, I said I didn't vote for Trump last
Starting point is 00:30:30 election. I grew up Democrat, for sure. I don't choose either side right now. I'm just an American. That's all I am. Good for you. Okay. So you ask your question about, you say, you know, he's taking the, take, you're, you're going to be taking our guns.
Starting point is 00:30:51 Can you tell us the question that you actually asked him? I can paraphrase. I don't have it in front of me. That's fine. Yeah. So there's actually two questions in there. One, I was curious about how he was going to keep us working. like we are now. Right now our work is, we're doing really, really well. All the trades are out there
Starting point is 00:31:09 working a ton of hours and putting a lot of money into our pensions. And he wants to come here and say that he can do a better job. So I asked him how he was going to do that. I wanted him to tell me what his plan was to make it even better than what it is right now. It's doing really well at the moment. All right. And then I wanted to see how he was going to obtain our votes. There's a, there's quite a large percentage of people that want to hold their guns. And, And they also want the Democratic Party to represent their unions. And I don't see how you're going to split that right down the middle and get both things done and get the vote. So that's not an adversarial question.
Starting point is 00:31:49 That is, you know, basically I would read that as I want to vote for a Democrat, but I'm worried that, A, you don't have a plan that's going to make things better. You can say that, but I want to actually hear your plan. I want to believe you. And second, I'm really concerned because you guys keep talking about taking. guns. I want a Democrat to win, but you're going to take our guns. Is that when he turned on you? Well, just to back it up a little bit, it's not, I don't care if it's a Democrat, Republican or anything. I just, I want somebody in office with more. But you're willing, it's not like, you Democrats are all going to, it wasn't that. Right. No. Okay. I didn't. Yeah. All right. So, and is that when the tone completely
Starting point is 00:32:30 changed in your mind with him, the gun question? Yeah. Well, the, Well, his first remark, what kind of made me be drawn back a little bit, you know. But I kind of just let him dig his own hole after that. So was it a surprise to you that he reacted that way to you? Yeah, for being a politician, I didn't expect that whatsoever. I kind of expected him to just tell me like, hey, we're not taking questions right now, you know, and just kind of go around the Bush a little bit. But I think he showed up there knowing that, you know, the unions there and then the Democrats usually, you know, win unions and stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:33:13 And I think you wanted to go there just for a quick stunt and get our vote and walk out. I don't think he was prepared for it. So when his aide said, okay, all right, we're going to move on, he hushed, he hushed her pretty sternly. Yeah. What was your reaction to that? I didn't really pay much attention to. I figured, you know, they had their own, you know, professional relationship. They're going to do whatever they're going to do.
Starting point is 00:33:41 That's not what I was there for. I was there to make a stand. Yeah. I was there to call him out on something, and I want him to be able to respectfully articulate what his actual plan is to do it because if you're going to go out and try to take our guns, it's not, we're not going to go easy. So when he said, I'm not going to come for your guns, I own a shotgun. and then he started talking about the AR-14s.
Starting point is 00:34:07 When he said to you, you're a liar, basically. You're a liar. You know, you're saying you brought up the viral video that was on CNN. It wasn't doctored. It was a conversation with CNN. And he absolutely denied that that was even real. Do you think he knew what? Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:34:28 That caught me off guard more than not. him, his initial response, I was, I was expecting him to be like, yeah, we are going to take them and stuff like that. And I tell you, well, I would respect that a lot more than him beating around a bush and trying to back up a little bit. At least then we can have a conversation about it and move forward. You know, and the reason I sat there and he kind of got aggressive with me, but I wanted to listen. And I think that's what America's lacking right now is people actually wanting to listen to each other. And I wanted to give him that opportunity. And I listened to him, and not only did I hear him, but all of America did.
Starting point is 00:35:01 So let me play what he said that was, you know, the viral video. Oh, yeah, they're all doctored. Here's what he actually said. And how do you translate this into anything other than, yeah, I am coming for your gun? Listen. Buy an assault weapon that has multiple rounds or buy an assault weapon that has a hundred rounds. Even though it may not, you can't point to the fact that it in fact had stopped it before. Do you want more of them on the street?
Starting point is 00:35:29 Do we want to do that? So to gun owners out there who say, well, a bind administration means they're going to come from my guns. Bingo, you're right if you have an assault weapon. The fact of the matter is they should be illegal, period. Okay. What's your problem with that, Jerry? And I mean this sincerely, you know, he's just saying it's assault weapon. You can keep your gun, just not that kind of gun.
Starting point is 00:35:54 You know, the reason he wants to go after these quote-unquote assault weapons, these long guns. Why is that? Is it because they're so accurate? Because I tell you what, handguns kill more people than these so-called assault weapons. So if he really care for the American people, don't you think he'd be going after them? Because he's not. And that makes me feel that there's an underlying issue there. And that makes me want to hold on to him just that much more. Now, what is the reaction to you now? Have you had fallout at work, the people that were around you? What is your life been like in the immediate, he just walked away? What did the people around you do? And how are you being affected positively or negatively now in your life?
Starting point is 00:36:41 Well, it's been quite a roller coaster. Yeah, when I was there, there was quite a few people that were not happy with the question that I asked. I was definitely rubbing against the grain there. And I think it was just more important for me to stand up for America than it was the people around me. But I tell you what, since then, I have had a flood of support from my peers and unions across the nation. Really? Yes. In what way?
Starting point is 00:37:07 In saying that some people call me a Patriot, some people are calling me a hero. And if that's what they want to call me, that's great. I'm just a guy. I'm just the guy that wanted to say something on his mind to a peer of mine who happened to be Joe Biden. I think it's important that people know that Joe Biden is nothing more than a peer. Really good point. What's the general takeaway you hope people get from that interaction? There's two things.
Starting point is 00:37:37 One, take time and actually listen to each other, even if it is in opposition because you might learn something. And two, stand up. As an American, it is your job. duty. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Jerry Wayne, the man who confronted Joe Biden and was called full of excrement by the vice president. And he never denied it. Never once. And that called, did he deny he's full of it. Yeah, never. I didn't even catch that, Stu. I should have asked him. Yeah, you're not a very good interviewer, obviously. But I will say, he did not seem to be adversarial. He did not seem at all to have some bigger... I thought those were reasonable
Starting point is 00:38:18 questions. Totally. And there's a certain brand of person who, like, once a YouTube hit, I'm going to have this big YouTube moment with Joe Biden. That was not what that was. Yeah, no. You watch the full interview with him with Dave Rubin. You can find it at Blaze. BlazTV.com. Use blaztcum.com slash Glenn. Promocode Glenn. You're going to save 10%. But Dave Rubin, if you don't know who he is, you need to know who Dave Rubin is. He's just fantastic. And curious, he was a guy who was way on the other side, worked with Jank or Sank or whatever his name is, worked with that guy at Young Turks and woke up and was like, wow, I am standing with the wrong people. And it's truly a remarkable man.
Starting point is 00:39:01 You can check out Dave Rubin on his podcast, wherever you find podcasts. And also, you can get the whole archive and everything else at blazTV.com slash glen. The Blaze Radio Network. On Demand

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