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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbos Show podcast.
Always an absolute honor to fill in for the great
Rush Limbaugh and an opportunity to stay to drive across
my states. Listen to Mark Stein sit in for Rush.
I know Ken is going to be up next thing tomorrow,
and man, it's just it's an incredible thing to watch

(00:21):
what came off of a day of prayer. And as
I'm reflecting upon the actions that the President United States
has taken and Vice President pans and I mean, as
we see to here this moment, there is breaking news
the president. According to the Governor of New York, President
Trump is dispatching a hospital ship to New York because
Kumwod said that, hey, we need to bring the Army

(00:42):
Corps of engineers in to build hospitals. And I think
the President just went one better. How the most advanced
hospitals in the world off your shores and you can
bring people on there who are suffering from the Wuhan flu.
And I am going to call it that because China
doesn't want us too, because the media is repeating, you know,
propaganda points from the Chinese. But you look at this,

(01:04):
this day of prayer that began something that I think
is remarkable, and there's things to be debated, because there's
another piece of breaking news April sixth, five hundred billion
dollars is going to be released into the economy, and
we could debate that. We could go through the policy details.
Maybe that should be done through unemployment. Is it going
to be means testing that. I think that's a conversation
on this program for later. Frankly, I'd love to hear

(01:26):
Rush's take on this. But what I noticed was this
action coming off this day of prayer. And I say
that for a reason because what the president did that
I think is so remarkable compared to what other administrations
have done. Is Number one, he yep, did the day
of prayer. Number two, coming off a day of prayer

(01:46):
where you recognize a higher power, something greater than yourself.
Depending on your religious tradition, what the God you worship?
Mine is I worship the Christian God, and that's my
tradition and that's my deeply held belief. But I think
that creates a different tone. So what you saw was
a president address you and me and everyone in the

(02:08):
nation as citizens, not subjects. He asked us to do things.
He asked us to engage in some sacrifice to homeschool,
to stay out of restaurants and bars, as opposed to
just banning them. Now. Secondly, from a perspective of the
federal government, it's I don't know that it's a president's
job to go into a state and say you will

(02:28):
do this in Kansas, which is the same thing they're
doing in New York, where I'm in the epicenter of this. No,
I'll get into this later in the show. You know,
I've been spending time in northern Idaho, so I came
back to my home of Seattle, which is the epicenter.
I'll tell you some of the juxtapositions are because I
think I think they're stark. But I'm going to bet
that the President gets as much response from the American

(02:51):
people in terms of staying out of restaurants and bars
going through the to go windows. I bet your business
owners just saying, okay, listen, we need to step in
and help stop the spread of the virus. And I
bet that it's going to happen because the President treated
us with respect. He spoke to us as human beings
capable of understanding that we right now need to get

(03:11):
out of the way of this thing so that the
you know, the third governments and other first responders, et cetera,
can do their jobs. I appreciated that. I saw something else.
I saw the President gather the business community and again,
we can debate all the policies, we can debate. Hey
do we say, hey, you can sell some stock, you
can pay us back, etc. But I saw him gather

(03:33):
them to say, look, I get it. There are rounds.
There's the first rounds of layoffs are coming and this
is also breaking news and it's going to be ugly.
And I legitimately legitimately offer my prayers to you. And
if you are on the list of people who are
being laid off, I've been laid off. It sucks. It's horrible.
So I legitimately offer my prayers to you. And we're
going to stick together. You know, there's the five hundred

(03:53):
billion dollars on the way. There's other things on the way.
There's the deferral from the IRS, you know, taxes, you
don't have to pay it back for now days, no interest,
no penalties. But I saw the presidents also bring business
in to say, what can we do together? And I
can't tell you what a stark differentation that is to
other states. And I spoke that I'm at the epicenter

(04:15):
of this in Seattle. This is where this all started.
It all started in one facility and that's been that's
been the hot zone of the hot zone. It's an
elder care center. But the governor in Washington State, Jame Zy,
he just announced on a Sunday night all the businesses
are closed. Restaurants, bars, gyms is closed. Two weeks. That's it.

(04:35):
I've talked to the business community. They didn't get even
a phone call. And you know that the stuff is
being considered. You know, the president and his team have
been considering these things. So this first step nationwide, if
the president to bring the business community in to treat
us as adults, has been phenomenal. And on the phones
at eight hundred two eight two two eight two, I

(04:57):
would love to hear you talk about your experience in
your state. I would like to hear your response to
the President's approach to this. At eight hundred to eight
two to eight eight two. I saw something else, that
is that I saw a president's demand, immediately, demand work
for the helping help for the working people the country.
So he brings in big business, he brings in Marriott,

(05:19):
he brings in the cruise industries, he brings in the airlines.
But his focus is squarely on the majority of society.
His focus is on getting the economy back up. And
I love this remark. I love this remark because it's
antis it's optimism. It's also accurate when we get through this,
and we will get through this, because already, already I'm
starting to read about, you know, there's the accelerated approach

(05:41):
to arresting the virus, the vaccine. I'm reading about possible
cures for the vaccine as companies and free market steps
forward into this. Right. But I saw the President demand
action for you, and again, being at the epicenter of this,
I gotta tell you it's bizarre. I don't sense any
Trump derangement syndrome. Legitimately, I think that the wuhan flew,

(06:05):
and more specifically, the President's response to this, has actually
eradicated temporarily the wuhan flew at the hot zone of this.
But that doesn't change the media. And one thing to
the media, for my friends and family who've been living
under the threat of this in the Seattle area, you're
not helping. Your constant drumbeat of negativity and doom and

(06:28):
your merchandising of despair. It's not helping. And by the way,
I think you may actually being losing moderate democrats in
this who are watching a president respond in these ways.
And there's something else I love too. On the phones today,
hear from truck drivers because the President took an action

(06:49):
that got almost no notice because the press has been
busy doing Orange Man bad. The press has been busy saying, wait,
you can't ban people from China, and then it's wait,
you didn't ban them soon enough, and you can't be
and Europeans, and then ignoring the fact that the Canadians
have closed their borders. They're too busy doing that to
notice that. One of the things that presidented that immediately

(07:09):
was with our truck drivers. He did away with the
regulation that slowed down your ability to drive multiple shifts
and a I hope you're being safe. B I used
for wanted to be a truck driver for years. I
just thought it looked like a great job to see
in the country, being by myself, listening to music and
delivering goods. I want to hear from you guys eight
hundred two eight two to eight eight two, because now
you're able to drive more shifts, and thank God that

(07:31):
you're able to do that. The other thing that we saw,
which we saw a president engage the private market, we
saw a president get together with the pharmaceutical companies and
say what do I need to move, what do I
need to get out of your way? What is the
regulations that's slowing you down? And then to distribute the
ability for other groups to do the testing. There is

(07:52):
a phenomena called the cathedral versus the bizarre. Okay, the
bizarre being like a shopping area or like a market.
The cathedral is sort of the central way of dealing
with it. We will put out the test kits, we
will approve everything that's very very top down right, and
it's extremely inefficient. And I see instead the president opening

(08:12):
up the marketplace of ideas. I understand that he had
a conversation with Jeff Bezos, and you know, speaking of Sandah,
Bezos is no friend of the president, but I think
he'd like to be a friend. I think he's learning
it would be better to be a friend. And I
think Bezos probably legitimately cares about the health of the
country lady, He's hiring a hundred thousand people. They had
a conversation. That's the opening up of the of the conversation,

(08:36):
the marketplace of ideas. So we're starting to see the
results of this, and still the media legs behind in
having any form of respect for what's being done. And
when they do have respect, it's because their drug into it.
I saw this. This was incredible. Steve Manushan is a
very very wealthy guy, very successful man, has a whole

(08:58):
bunch of money, and I see him talking about the
importance of fast food. I had a debate with a
guy online when they shut down the restaurants without warning people,
without giving advanced notice, without talking it out, without saying
this could be a possibility, without engaging industry right when
they did that, To see Steve Manusian mentioned the importance

(09:19):
of fast food, I thought, wait, how's he know this?
I mean, when was the last time he needed a
dollar cheeseburger? Have you been there? I've lived the lifestyle
of I've got one buck or two bucks, and we
had a thing in Suddle called the Bag of Dad.
Do you get to twenty four disgusting hamburgers for like
a buck. But you feed yourself whatever it was that

(09:39):
you were eating, and you cured your hunger. I see
manusition mentioned the importance of fast food to feeding people
and then even go to their apps and mentioned that.
So the juxtaposition is this, at the epicenter of this
of this virus in Seattle, we had a governor who
did the right thing scientifically, in my judgment, he didn't

(10:00):
consult anybody. They just slammed the gates on a Sunday
night and businesses were surprised. Then there's also this, and
you're gonna see this on the West coast. You're gonna
see this. I'd love to know if you're seeing this
in New York. The citizens who pay the taxes, live
in the houses who are going to be put out
of work, they're getting help. The president's announcing this, but

(10:20):
they're being asked to change their behaviors, and they are
changing their behaviors. Right. So with that, the homeless camps
in New York City, on the West coast, in San Diego,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, down in Austin, Texas, I know
you guys are engaging at this incredible tent city experiment, right,
you're doing that as well. They are not being asked

(10:41):
or told or forced to change your behaviors at all.
So when we talk about two Americas, talk about that
because God forbid those camps. People in those camps get
this virus because their immune systems are already out of whack.
The President is doing a great job. I'd like to
hear what's going on in your part of American eight
hundred two two two. It's taught her been filling in
for Russia Limbaugh on the EIB network. So Congressman Louis

(11:04):
Gummert's being blamed for slowing up legislation to help in
the situation. He's gonna join us on Russia's program coming
up about ten minutes, twelve minutes or so. You'll hear
that right here, to explain why he's doing that. The
front lines, you got people. I saw the most amazing
frontline thing in relation to the Wuhan flu. It's just

(11:25):
starting to hit where I've been living, Idahoo, just just beginning,
and I saw a young woman, probably fifteen years old,
working in a grocery store. Someone had spilled some juice.
It's right by the front entrance to this store. Very cold,
winds blowing in. She's down on her knees. She's cleaning
this up, and I saw she just looks so sad.
I said, that looks like that looks like tough duty

(11:46):
today it's cold. That she had tears and her rise.
She said, I've been here for fourteen hours, so it's
a little tough, but it's okay. This is what I'm doing.
And from that at fourteen hours, that's tough when you're
fourteen fifteen years old. I know about the first responders.
We've police officers who are getting this illness. We have firefighters, doctors,
some of them in intensive care. I've seen this. And

(12:07):
then there's also people who are literally legitimately keeping this
country going. Legitimately keeping this country going. The president did
something to relax regulations on truckers. Anything you see in
the store is both seventy percent of it is getting
there via truck. Brian joins us from Austin, Texas. He
is a truck driver. Brian, what's going on out there

(12:28):
in the world of truck drivers in this deregulation the
presidents brought about, well, we're busy, but you know, the
president did deregulate everything. But the companies have not really
I'm an independent contractor, but I still haul for a company.

(12:51):
And you know, I'm only allowed to drive eleven hours
a day in a fourteen hour period. Would you go
more if you could? Is it? How dangerous is it?
Would you go more if you could during this period
of time to help the country? Yes, I would, um.
And most truck drivers that have any experience at all,

(13:12):
they know when you're tired, pull over and go to sleep. Yeah, yeah,
we're we're the safest people on the road, you know.
I know that. Man. I got buddies who are truck drivers.
They can't stand some of the things people do because
you can't stop those things. So the company, the company's
not caught up with these regulations. They know about them.

(13:36):
We got a message over it saying we won't be
doing this at the moment, you know. Yeah, so we're
not allowed to do it. Every All the truck drivers
today are on electronic logging devices, right, so everything you know,
they know exactly where the truck is, how fast it's going,

(13:56):
how many hours and seconds you drove. You know, so
it really, you know, a tight regulated industry. But yeah,
we're not allowed to do it yet. And I do
haul a lot of stuff to Walmart and Sam's distributions.
I go from Laredo to Dallas and back. You know

(14:17):
that's the route I'm on. But yep, you know I
haul a lot of groceries and stuff back. Well, I
want to thank you for what you're doing. I want
to thank you for the information. I wish the companies
could catch up a little bit of than this. Brian,
thank you very much for the phone call. That tech though,
by the way that Brian's mentioning that's coming to your car.
In fact, it's in a lot of the new cars,
a lot of the new SUVs. You don't know this,

(14:37):
but it has the ability to track you now and
by the way, very conveniently to send that to your
insurance companies and send that to your states, you know, patrol, etc.
Sue can be very conveniently ticketed when they've determined via
computer that you shouldn't have breaked that hard or you
made an aggressive turn. Tom in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, you're
on the Rush Limbaugh program also a truck driver. Hey Tom,
welcome to the program. Hey, you know, um, these hours

(15:02):
doesn't really matter right now. We can go into old
regulations right now because all we're hall and all of
us are holloing these domestic loads. Once the boats come
in from Southeast Asia and from Europe, we're gonna need
all the hours we can get and then they can
make that change and then the companies can catch up
because there's gonna be a lot of products that's gonna

(15:23):
be coming into this country. I mean, I'm saying, busy
this with domestic loads, but once and once to the
international loads come in, we're gonna need needs to be
able to drive, drive more, We're gonna need to be
able to work more during the day, and uh, you
have the company. The companies gonna have to catch up
at that point. So you you want the companies to

(15:46):
open up to go with the new regulations. The presidents
has declared he's waived these regulations, so if if he
if he, if they don't do this, we're gonna have
product backed up on the docks and not being able
to get into the stores. That what you're saying now,
Actually we're good with the regulations the way they are
right now. When you need to increase them is when

(16:07):
the international loads start coming back into the country. Got it.
We're all just doing domestic loads right now. That's what
I'm saying. So when the international comes, I got it.
I got it. Okay. See, this is why we need
to talk to church drapers. No one knows this business records.
Thank you very much for the phone call. Tom. Stay
safe out there, and God bless you for keeping the
country rolling. There are people in other industries and I'd

(16:27):
love to hear from you. If you're on the front
lines in any way at eight hundred two eight two
two and eight two, what are you doing to keep
the country moving, because this doesn't happen without that full participation.
I've seen something remarkable, and maybe you've seen this in
your hometown. We were talking about how do you help
small businesses that are shut down that they can't do
the work the intermally do We tossed out this idea

(16:48):
of gift cards. Everybody goes to your favorite restaurant, your
favorite cafe. Mike mamo is talking about donut shops, Mike's
with eib Go find your favorites donut shop, Go find
your favorite coffee shop, and buy a whole ton of
gift cards. You know, estimate the amount of time you'd
normally go there. Let them sit on that money and
when they're back in business, go cashing in the gift cards.

(17:10):
These are things that you could do right now in
your community. Coming along behind what the President said is
that we all have to sacrifice, and that no one
is sacrificing more than business owners because they don't get
right there. It's the checks coming for the American people.
There's the unemployment assistance, there's the waiver of the interests
on the college loans, there's the waiver on the irs.
That all of these actions aimed at people working. The

(17:34):
business owners with the risk they take. They've got inventory waiting,
they've got agreements to pay rent and leases, and they've
got agreements to pay utilities. So what we can do
is go buy these gift cards from these businesses. And
what I saw in my hometown when I pulled the
last night I went by my favorite ice cream shop.
I said, I'm gonna go buy I'm gonna go buy
a bunch of gift cards. You do it at the

(17:55):
drive through window. They're out. They're out of gift cards
because people already done this to keep these guys afloat.
So we can all play this role in this What
to compare the people on the front lines moving the
economy forward. Just take this comparison you with the focus
of the legal analyst at MSNBC is there's a legal

(18:17):
analyst that we'll get into this in detail later. His
focus is how can he criminally charge for negligent homicide?
How can he criminally charge the president of the United States?
And he admits he's always looking for novel ways to
employ homicide laws against people. Compare that to truck drivers

(18:39):
and nurses and doctors. Louie Gormert joined us next on
the Russian EMBA program, Todd Herman filling in on the
EIB network, Ken Matthews being tomorrow Rush Limbaugh way back
where he belongs, where this nation needs him. On Friday,
I bring you up a little later. I'm gonna tell
you what Hillary Clinton just said. Oh do you care?
Listen to this. The president is turned to racist reddi

(19:01):
or descrap from this tract from his failures to take
the coronavirus seriously early on. Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Don't fall for it, you know, Hillary. It's something that
we're going to point out just real quick, is we
don't know if when you type that, you're typing it
with your notion of what an African American accent sounds
like or voice African American voice. We don't know. Maybe
that's in your head because you were the one who

(19:22):
goes out and panters constantly in a racist way. Incredible.
Congressman Louis Gormert joins us on the Russia Lumbob program. Congressman,
welcome to Russia's show. Hey, great to be talking to
get In Todd. Thank you, Yeah, appreciate it. Good to
talk to you again. The New York Post some people
are kind of putting you in the blame seat, saying
that you were slowing down legislation that would help the

(19:44):
American people. And from what I understand, what you've seen
in our ton of technical errors because no one's reading
this stuff. So tell Russia's audience about this, Congressman, Well,
it wasn't just a matter of technical errors. There are
disasters in that bill and they would end up costing
people jobs and amazing. This is a Democrat bill. The

(20:06):
Democrats have the majority in the House that you know,
they put it together. There was a discussion with Manuchino,
but they go after small businesses you know, under Obamacare
they exempted every business with less than fifty employees. In
this they only go after businesses with less than five

(20:26):
hundred employees. The big corporations, the ones with the biggest,
most lavish lobbyists, they attempted those. That's the Democrats. They
exempted all the big business their defense well, you know
a lot of them were already doing what we're trying
to do here. But the trouble is when we're talking
about really small businesses, even if the government reimburses them

(20:49):
for paying people not to work, they are going to
be in desperate well some of them already are in
desperate situations as far as making their rental payment there
or standard monthly payments. So this bill didn't really address it.
But the good thing is, and I'm being sarcastic, a

(21:09):
lot more government, more intrusion from the Department of Labor,
Department of Treasury, mondory checking. You know, it is the
opportunity that the crisis. This is what the Democrats look
the way they look at it. It gives them a
chance to get more government involved. And so anyway, it's

(21:30):
just amazing and going after small businesses. Now, there there
were versions that began changing in Thursday and all day Friday.
We were supposed to voteed Thursday, held over Friday, and
then we finally got what was supposed to be the
last draft around nine pm. I read that one hundred
eight pages and made my notes and whatnot, and then

(21:52):
right before midnight on Friday, we get one hundred and
ten page version. I didn't have time to read because
we started voting before I could read it, before I
could do a side by side. I don't see how
any member of Congress could have read the bill that
we rushed to the floor about twelve thirty Saturday morning
and voted on finished like one am, and so over

(22:15):
the weekend the Democrats were working on what they call
technical corrections, because you're allowed to make technical corrections, even
though we've seen very substantial changes made called technical corrections,
and the way they normally get those in when nobody's around,
the speaker takes the chair, somebody on the floor says,
I ask unanimous consent that we include all these technical

(22:39):
corrections as part of the bill, in this case sixty
two oh one that we passed Saturday morning, and then
the speaker's line is without objections, so ordered and so
when we heard that they were going to do it,
you see of forty six pages of changes that weren't
just technical corrections. Then I left home at three am,

(23:00):
got to Washington at ten before they went in session eleven.
Immediately people start freaking out because I'm at the back
of the house floor. Are you going to object? They
know they can't get it through because they would have
to bring everybody else back to vote if somebody objects,
And I said, yeah, we hadn't even seen the language.
Todd a dirty little secret. They had not finished writing

(23:25):
what they were calling technical corrections. And by the time
they finished, and there was a negotiation all day Monday,
and people were coming to me, all right, what about
this provision? And they wouldn't change some of the worst stuff,
as far as in my opinion and economic experts, of
hurting our small businesses. So some of that was in there.

(23:47):
We did make some changes that would help make it
easier to exempt businesses with left and fifty employees, but
they didn't have the language even prepared that they were
and a U se at eleven AM, which creates another
under for Pelosi. Everybody remembers we have to pass Obamacare.

(24:10):
So we'll find out what's in it. Well, this was
more like, we have got to pass these changes so
that we can finish drafting them. They discrafting them. If
I weren't if I weren't there, they were gonna apparently
they were gonna have to keep working on them. Uh.
They didn't have another speaker that could come in until
around six thirty or so that night, because they were

(24:31):
not expecting to do anything but go in. Uh. Unanimous
can sent these things and be done. So this is
the modern way to operate, and a crisis gives them cover. Uh.
And the question is if if a tree falls in
the woods and there's no Republican there to object, it

(24:52):
doesn't get noted. It just goes right on. But anyway, Yeah,
so caress Is lucamarts with us congressman from Texas went
to the HIG floor to stop the Democrats from an
incredible active bamboozlement. And it was I think it was
Rahm Emanuel who authored the phrase never let a good
crisis go to waste, which he whispered in the President
of Obama's ear. Um. You know, I just I compare

(25:12):
this for people this way. Congressman, I like to take
your guys's world because it's a unique world. A few
people get to go work in Congress and compare it
to the real world. Tell me if this is accurate?
Would this be pretty much like um, if you were
getting if your house, god forbid it burned down and
you get something from your insurance company and it says
sign here, and there's a whole page that says we'll
fill this in later. But if you want your money,

(25:35):
you got to sign here. Ab wait a minute, that
says you'll be filled in later. You could write whatever
you want here. Yeah, but that's what you get to
get your money. Is that a real world example of
what the Democrats tried to do to the American people
at three, you know, at three o'clock in the morning
and you went to stop. Does that match that? That
does match? That's that's that is that correlates nicely? Yes, good,

(25:56):
good example, really good. It's nuts that bubble is though,
if you sign and the insurance company is going to
fill out the details later, that only screws you over
in this case. That here's a big difference. In this case,
it affects everybody in the country. And really, if you

(26:18):
look at what the president was proposing originally like a
tax holiday to help these to help people. I know
there were Democrats saying, but that's prejudiced against that, you know,
those that are out of work, and that's only helping
you know your voters. Well, actually, if you think about it,
and I know a lot of Democrats don't, but if

(26:39):
you think about it, if you're receiving unemployment benefits or
you're receiving welfare, you're receiving all the state and federal
benefits for not working. You're not going to lose your
check for not working. If you decide the next day
I'm not going to work, No, those checks are still coming.
You're still getting those the people that have temporarily laid

(27:02):
off or told we've got nobody coming in, we're closing
for thirty days. Those are the people that are in
danger of not getting their checks. So why wouldn't you
let And of course I love the tax holiday idea.
Post proposed it as an alternative to tart back in
two thousand and eight. And the idea is not a
dime taken out of your check. Everything flows straight to you.

(27:27):
And I know there's some people saying, well, if we
just send out a thousand dollars. Check that everybody today.
Then it'll go right to their mailbox immediately. Well, I
don't know about where you are, but where I am.
I send out invitations to a reception January twenty fourth,
and most people had not gotten them three weeks later.
So a better way would be, Okay, your next check.

(27:52):
All of the money's there, nothing is taken out. And
of course I know there's a huge fear in Washington.
There was when I brought it up into thousand and eight.
They're a pride that when the American people see how
much money Washington sucked out him their check, they're going
to get upset and yeah, gonna demand more ability. Oh,

(28:12):
let's we can't have more accountability. I've seen that happen
where people suddenly figure out how much tax they're paying,
and it is a dramatic moment. It's also maybe even
a conversion moment. A congressman, thanks for getting on an airplane.
Thanks for going and stopping this and coming on Russia Show.
It's a Louis Golimer's congressman from Texas. God speeds and
keep protecting us back there. Congressman, we appreciate you coming
on Russia Show. Thanks so much, thank you. Coming up

(28:36):
on the Russia program. Todderman filling in Joe Biden. He's
gonna be the nominee. The President has predicted that Bernie
Sanders is going to step out of the race. Bernie says, no,
maybe they should just redistribute the delegates. Bernie needs to
make that charge. We'll get into the national political scene
as we continue. Tott Herman in for Russia. Limbaugh on
the EIB network US Todd Herman filling in for Russia, Limbaugh,

(28:58):
Ken Matthewson tomorrow and the day we've been waiting for.
Rush returns to the Golden eb microphone on Friday. Where
the nation needs him. We need him talking about the
front lines of the battle against the Wuhan flew and
we know about the first responders, the cops and and
God keep you safe. And I mean it because you
guys interact with people who are really sick. But just

(29:21):
across the country, people are keeping the country going. In
wanted to just tap into that. We talked to truck drivers.
They're obviously keeping the country going, but they don't get
enough attention. Maria from Massapequa, New York. Welcome the Russian
BAS program. You have a unique view on this. Hi Maria,
welcome the Russia Show. Hi, Hi, thanks for taking my call. Um.
You know all this talk about the testing, but behind

(29:45):
the scenes is a lamb. Is the people who lab
that are runner the tests for this coronavirus. And it's
just we're always there to do what's needed to be done.
And it's it's so you asked for who is the
front laps the labs. Is one of the people in
the front Larns. Sorry that doesn't get much mentioned. Let

(30:09):
me I want to stop you for a second. You
sound really emotional about this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm really
passionate about the lab, and I'm really passionate about our profession.
And we're so important, so vital to what is being done. Yeah.
Right here in New York they have the new collective stations.

(30:30):
They're just collecting the samples. Where are they going after that?
They're going to the labs. Yeah, we're running the samples. Yeah,
and I bet it's it's working over time. I gotta
believe you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we've we've always uh
we're you know. I just so I just wanted to
shout out to the lab people that are doing the

(30:51):
job that just don't get the recognition, but the important
role that they're playing. Let me go one further for you, Marie.
Let's just do one thing. Okay, Russia is the biggest
audience in the history or RADI is about twenty two
million people. So everybody repeat up to me. Thank you
lab people. Now listen, you're gonna feel that. You're gonna
feel that right now. Okay, that's appreciate it. It's okay,

(31:13):
so important healthcare, well, we appreciate you. Godspeed, stay healthy.
Thanks for keeping America moving. Maria, we appreciate you very
very much. On the related topic, Rick from Allentown, Pennsylvania,
I didn't think of this front lines. Different sort of
front line, Rick, Welcome to Rush Limbaugh's program. Is Todd
Herman filling in? All right, Todd, great, great job feeling

(31:35):
in for rush Um being a field service guy. Rush
is of the highlight of my day. Yeah, yeah, I
bet he is. He's mine too. Yeah. So talk about
your go ahead, good, it's gonna say, tell your frontline story. Yeah,
we'll just talk about all the doctor's offices. We had

(31:55):
called the Pennsylvania Governor's office to find out if the
copier industry is considered a set so business and we're
basically told no. However, our company is staying open due
to all the machines that we have in doctor's offices
and hospitals that need to then scan transmit documents. And
it's just we're going into these offices in and out

(32:16):
all day long. And it is kind of an alarming
fact that, you know, we don't know what we're coming
across because we had tried to get our company to
order you know, um different protective like face mask and gloves,
and all the suppliers are out of them. Wow. I
didn't think of this, because of course you've got you
to fill this form out and triplicate, etc. So you

(32:37):
guys are in the front lines and this, see this,
This is the America we were talking about. This is
the America where the President brought the businesses into it.
I hope the President, I know he's obviously friends with
Roush and respect for us very much. I hope they'll
hear this. Businesses like yours are on these front lines.
This is an amazing story. Thank you, Rick very much.
I appreciate that. Please be well, please be safe, Please
give your people our things. I want to get real

(32:58):
quickly to Brian. Important main Brian, you're on the Russia
MBA program. Give us a story real quick. Not not
to hurry you, but we're short up on a break here,
so welcome to show. Brian. Yeah, I realized. I just
want to say something. I work for the United States
Postal Service. We're out there for every single day going
to people's homes, confronting people and the and the front

(33:21):
lines here for the people coming to us to give
us their mail. And right now the mail is incredible
as getting more and more package you think about it,
people are doing things online, they're not doing things going
to stores and stuff. Who's getting that we're getting that,
who's delivering that? We are? Yeah, we're saying we're staying open.

(33:41):
And the thing is this, we're an agency, We're a
main state of the United States. We're gonna be there forever.
I'mother spokesman. I'm just a supervisor for them. I just
want to let people know we're there for you. We're
gonna be there for America because that's what it's all about.
And we're there for the American people, and we're gonna
be there. We're gonna be open. We're gonna be there
for you when we thank you for letting us be
there for you, and we appreciate being able to help

(34:04):
you to do whatever is, get your medicines there, all that. Yeah,
we're doing it and we thank you. Okay, I just
want to let you know, I know you gotta go. No, no, listen.
I want to tell one thing. I gotta see one thing.
I may have my disagreements with the USPS management Washington,
d C. I've never met a mail carrier. I don't
love I love it. I love it. Thank your people.
Stay safe, Brian, God love you. I appreciate the phone call.

(34:25):
See this is what I'm talking about when I talked
at the top of the show about the President bringing
into business world. Do you see the way we're all
in this together. I'd love to hear from you throughout
the show. Eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
Of course we'll talk about Biden and Sanders. I want
to hear from the American people who are keeping America
rolling because folks don't get the attention they deserve. God

(34:47):
love all You's tott Herman in for Russia. Limbaugh on
the EIB Network Oh, but breaking news. The President says
he's invoking the Defense Production Acts. Totterman and for Russia, Limbaugh.
We'll talk about what that act is, what it does
next hour. We've been talking to people in the front
lines who are keeping America ticking and going. And Lisa

(35:07):
is in Denver, Colorado. She joins us on Russia's program. Hi, Lisa,
how are you doing great? So you're the wife of
a truck driver. Tell us about that. I'm sitting in
the truck right now. We're driving near Denver. I've been
in the truck with him for four years, ever since,
well you had a heart attack a couple of years ago,
so I won't not let him ride alone ever now. Yeah,

(35:30):
keep my eye on him. So yeah, busy delivering and there.
These regulations have been lifted, but apparently your husband, you
guys are still having to live within these regulations. That
is limiting the amount of time you can drive. Correct. Well,
here's the thing. We do oversize, so what we haul
is not going to be in immediate for the release.

(35:51):
And he did not lift the regulations for all truck drivers.
In order for you to be exempt from the hours
of service, you us to be hauling direct relief. That's
something that will help the coronavirus. Whether it be the
groceries to the grocery store, medical supplies, testing supplies, or
if you're like a bus driver, if you're hauling doctors

(36:13):
or people that are getting quarantine. That kind of got it. Okay,
So that makes sense. I got it. And I'm guessing
these companies don't want to be sued, so they're also
even the companies doing the vital stuff so called, they're
not lifting that. And we're really short on time. I
appreciate you calling in. Stay safe in the truck, stay
safe with the big extra loads. So the Defense Production Act.

(36:33):
We'll talk about that next on Russia Show. Oh what
an incredible honor to fill in for Russia. Limbaugh, Ken
Matthews being to do is typical great work. Tomorrow, Mark
Steim is here. Earlier in the week. We'll get something. Marks.
I had to pull over and laugh. I heard something
Mark said, the amount itself. Russia Limbab will be back
on Friday behind the golden EIB microphone. If I sound ummy,

(36:57):
it's because the President has in something called the Defense
Production Act. And I'll be honest with you. I haven't
read gone through and read this in detail, I can
tell you that when what I've read, there's there's three
sections of this right. It authorizes the president to require
businesses to sign contracts or fulfilled orders deemed necessary for
national defense. Authorized the President to establish mechanisms, regulations, etc.

(37:22):
Order agencies to allocate materials and services facilities to promote
national defense? Am I reading from Wikipedia? I am? I've
also read from the theme of website. The third section
authorizes the president control the civilian economy so that scarce
indoor critical materials necessary to national defense are available for
fighting this. So he's treating this like a battle. It's
gonna be. This is what Mark said, Yes, say Mark

(37:43):
Signum when he wasn't making fun of me for for
fiction to bake up a moose I saw in my property.
I appreciate that Mark. Mark was saying that the same
left that has said forever that the president needs to
be more more thoughts in this, that he needs to
clamp down, harder and harder, that he wasn't doing that.

(38:04):
So they were saying, wait, wait, you're not being hit
larian enough. You need to be you know, the coldham
hitler for these years, you need to be hit larian
more or more hit larian, you need to clamp down.
So now, what are they gonna say. Whether the President
steps in and because does begin to use the legal
muscle of the office to do this, it'd be fascinating
to watch what he does. I think we're gonna be
looking at masks, production that they're gonna be looking at

(38:24):
oxygen tanks, et cetera. I think, you know, since the
President decided to land a hospital ship off the coast
of New York as opposed to spending time to send
the Armory Corp of engineers there to build a hospital,
I mean, I think it's getting to be an extraordinary
and I'm gonna make a prediction. I don't do this
often because I don't like the I don't I don't

(38:45):
consider myself smarteness. We're going and making a bunch of predictions.
I mean, there are broad things you can see. The
left is destroying America. They're building intersectional enemies. They're going
to create a division in society. There's scapegoating portions of society,
which ends in society of collapse. They're creating a low
trust society where people say why I follow the laws
the left doesn't. They're doing all that that's easy to see.
But a specific near term prediction I think the president

(39:07):
is becoming is handling us to such a degree that
I think this becomes a major win for him, which incidentally,
coincidentally enough, means major life saves. Isn't that great when
a good thing politically also is a good thing morally
and from a perspective of lives. And we'll talk about
the details of the policies. I don't know this act
well enough to be honest with you to sit here

(39:28):
and say, oh, I think it's constitutionally dangerous or not.
I don't, And I'm not going to pretend I do,
or that I read it in ten minutes and then
they're formed own expert on this. We've been taking calls
and I'll get to some of the news here to second.
We've been taking calls around the country. I want to
juxtapose something. We've been talking to people who are working
extra shifts in labs of testing for the coronavirus. We've
been talking to truckers who are delivering back and forth,

(39:49):
back and forth bringing domestic goods. We've been talking to
people we didn't think about this in the copier industry,
in the printer industry, because all these forms are getting printed,
they're working over time. We've got a call stay on
because he was on his route. He's a sanitation worker.
He's saying, hey, listen, we're on the front lines. We're
picking stuff up that that can have the virus in it. Right,

(40:10):
of course they are, and they're on the front lines
to this. But here, without a without an exception, everybody
who's called has been in good spirits. Every single person
who makes America has been in good spirits. No, I
got to groceries delivered at home, and I tipped the person.

(40:31):
I gave her. I gave her twenty bucks. You delivered
to the car. You pull a curb, said, you delivered
to the car. She was in great spirits. It's you know,
it's twenty degrees. Is he where's your coach? She goes,
I'm too hot, I'm working too hard to do that.
She's in great spirits. But I want to compare this
and this this. I do want to speak as someone
who is in Seattle, which is the epicenter of where
this began, and all began in one in one elder

(40:54):
care facility is where all the deaths began, and the vast,
the highest proportion, eighty percent or more, are coming from
this one center. So those families are hurting. It's horrific.
But I want to call out the national media. Guess
what you're not doing. You are not helping anybody because

(41:15):
you're panic mongering and you I don't at this point,
I don't even know if you know you're doing it,
but you are at this point divorced from a great
portion of America. Let me give you some examples. You
remember we heard that the that the President had struck,
done away with the dissolved the pandemic Response Team. I'm true.

(41:37):
This has been now debunked by two different people. There
was PBS had their correspondent Yamichi Alcindor say that the
President dissolved the Pandemic Response Team. In a response to that,
a guy who was with the National Security Council, Tim Morrison,
wrote an op ed for the WAPO, and Washington Post
accepted the OpEd where he said this didn't happen. What

(42:00):
the President did is he downsized an agency that had
become bloated and had begun doing other things like you know,
Mission Creep and what he did, was he combined two
portions of an agency so they could streamline responses better.
It was never dismantled, it was never dissolved. That never happened.
And yet it is reported and it's amplified. So PBS

(42:22):
does it. Then it's the New York Times is saying
these things. I gotta tell you to the national immedia,
you're not helping people in the hot zone. My friends
and family who have to go to work, and there's
a people who have to self quarantine. I'm a friend
of mine who's overcoming cancer. He can't be out. You know.
One of my colleagues, I'm broadcasting from KTTH Studios in Shadow.

(42:43):
One of my colleagues, Jason Rantz, is asthma. He should
be self quarantining, right, And this is the hot zone.
You're not helping. Let me give you some other examples. This.
This is shameful. It is I mean, in a legitimate
time of fear, to see the New York Times say
that the President told state governors they're on their own

(43:08):
in terms of getting respirators. That this, they tweeted it,
they reported it. The President said you're on your own. No,
he didn't. This is a direct, demonstrable, purposeful lie. This
is slander. I'm not a lawyer, so I can't say
that it's slander. But it's slander. Is what the President
said was, it's faster. It may be faster, it may

(43:30):
be cheaper. If you buy this stuff on your own.
I'm giving you a waiver. Go around us, get the stuff,
get it for your people. It's the direct opposite. He said,
We've got your back, but it might be faster if
you do this on your own. Let me get out
of the way. Sometimes what great leaders do at moments
is they say, let me get out of the way.

(43:51):
What do I need to move for you? People? Process, perception?
What do I need to move? Is it an issue
of money, is it an issue of people? Is it
an issue of regulation? What do I need to change?
How quickly can we move? So now you see a
President Trump, and we may as conservatives come back later
and say, wow, I don't know about this. You know
this Defense Production Act? I don't know. I don't know,
I haven't read it. But what you're seeing now is

(44:14):
a guy with incredible energy. And now you just compare
I look, Biden, just please, And because my mother's husband's
second husband suffered dementia and in early onset Alzarmer's I
don't joke about it because it's savage. Here's what I
joke about is the press pretending that Joe Biden has

(44:37):
the mental capacity to focus at this degree. Do you
see the focus coming out of the White House. I mean,
we start the show, I see that there's a hospital
ship coming off the coast of New York and the
media they're not They're not going to tount that. But
the the comparison that I am looking at side by
side is the American people on the front lines with

(45:00):
good spirits, scared, but with good spirits. In the media
wants to drumbeat the down. They want a drumbeat that
we're all moved, or that that we're all going to lose,
that we're all going to die. I mean, it's phenomenal.
You have an MSNBC legal correspondent, this is presumably a
lawyer who it is. He's looking for a way to

(45:24):
put the He wants to charge the president with homicide.
He wants to charge him with negligent homicide because, in
this guy's opinion, he didn't respond in the way he'd like.
He didn't respond a quick enough and he says, I'm
always looking for novel ways to use the homicide last
Are you kidding me? Are you he worked? He's an obamaton.

(45:49):
He says that he wants to confront it, wants to
use some homicide laws to hold accountable people who lead
to loss of life. Have you been to play parenthood?
Have you seen their focus on this? Your side is
actively doing this. And you would argue, well, but that's
not life. I get it, that's your ideological position. But folks,

(46:10):
step back for a second and listen to the American
people tell their stories. What are you doing right now?
I'm asking you legitimately, what are you doing right now? Okay,
you're listening to Russia's show. There's this feeling guy Todd
Herman like, I want rush back. He'll be back Friday.
There's something else you're doing. I bet you're working, or
you're homeschooling, or you're cleaning your home, or you're delivering goods,

(46:31):
or you are a cop, you're in your car. I
hope you're allowed to listen to the show. Where's your
attitude at? Are you hanging this around the president? Or
he's saying, oh, he's he's the worst, Orange Man, bad, etc.
Are you saying no, we're going to make this together?
Are you of good spirits? And if you're in a
hot zone, because Sad's not the only hot zone, I

(46:53):
get it. New York's a hot zone. You guys have
become a hot zone. I've talking to people prior to
the show who are in New York and there's sick. Oh,
I'm gonna go get tested. I don't know if I can.
They're in good spirit, they're working, they're in good spirits.
The media is losing, hear me, they're losing already. They

(47:15):
can't change our minds. That they cannot change Trump supporters minds.
They can't. I believe they may be losing the middle
because of the swift action the president's takings, Todd Herman
filling in for Russia limbab on the EIB network. It's
Todd Herman filling in for Russia limbab on the EIB network.
The Defense Production Act the President has invoked in twenty eleven.

(47:41):
This is again Wikipedia, just for you know. I'm just
learning about this, just like you are. Barack Obama, President
used it to force telecommunication companies under criminal penalties. To
provide detailed equipment outlines to the Commerce Department's Bureau of
Industry in Security. Of course, did like the spy on Americans?

(48:02):
What if that came up later when they decided to
spy on a presidential campaign? What if that came up
at all? Oh, we gotta talk about that. Media has
been hiding that in their blur of the effort to
destroy President Trump with the Wuhan flew al right in
my backyard in Lynwood, Washington. Al. You're on the Russia programs,
Todderman filling in hi Al. Hello, Hello Todd, thank you

(48:25):
for taking my call, my pleasure. Yes, I discovered your
local show about six months before you decided to go
over and hunt Moose. That's Tepper and then that's Tepperate.
So you're in the grocery business. You've been that thirty years?
Tell me about this I have In fact, I'm I

(48:46):
worked for a Krogers affiliate that starts with Q and
then I own a little food distributorship and I serviced
the Redmond and Kirkland area and have I've done both
for twenty one years. And in fact, that life care
center is right in between those two. Yeah, that's the
center where the deaths of the deaths have comes. So

(49:07):
what's it like in the grocery business right now? Let's
focus on this because I want people to hear about
your business and because if anything's keeping it going, I mean,
everyone is. This is the thing we have. We have
sanitation workers, we've got cops. They just got a tweet
from a cop. Yeah, you bet. We're on the front line.
So what's it like for your people in this business? Well,
the the morale of the employees is pretty good and uh,

(49:31):
thus far, I have seen no callouts or very few
call outs. Everybody's showing up to work and having a
good attitude. I love the customers. Um, you know when
the when it's a little slower, uh, you know, before business,
I mean business is up fifty percent every day, at
least fifty sixty percent. The grocery store is gutted. Yeah,

(49:56):
when we receive orders, we might get of what we order.
I mean, the warehouses are totally depleted. And my understanding
is it's like this around the country. Yeah, and as
even as the people get into a group, it's like
a you know, at people, I mean, the customers, it's
just this. The psychology is just a panicked friend. Yeah, yeah,

(50:21):
and this this is and see, Al, I know you
live in Washington, and I know that you know about
Jay and Z who the President correctly called a snake
in my judgment, and and and I know you know this,
But this is why it was so stupid and ill
tind of of any governor, not just in across the country.
You don't on a Sunday night say the businesses are closing.
You don't do that. You you transmit that I need

(50:44):
you to make some changes, like the President has done.
You bring business in, You give people a heads up
that this meant becoming. You'd say, hey, you know what,
we're going to ask the businesses to change their hours
to do only to go. You transmit to people, people
are growing ups. They're gonna get it. Okay, there's gonna
be some changes. But when you drop the hammer on
a Sunday night, the restaurants are closing, the bars are closing,
the gyms are closing, the schools are closing. That's what

(51:07):
gets people into panic mode. If you just talk with
them the way the President has, I think it's completely different. Right,
And I don't know about you, but when I heard
from Jan's Lee that he decided to shut these facilities,
the governor of Washington State. I knew it was gonna
cause it panic. Did you see an immediate spike after that? Um,
I don't know that it was. I don't know that

(51:29):
it was. I know of it last Thursday. It busted loose.
It didn't not as Sunday night, as I recall. I've
just I've driven it from Afar and Alison. I appreciate
the phone call. I thank you for what you're doing.
And I've seen that. I've seen the stock. I used
to stock groceries over night. That was a fun job.

(51:50):
By the way, you listen to rock and roll music,
you run as fast as you can through a grocery
store your throw freight. Do you hear the difference? Tune
into the media, look at their websites, see that they
are merchandizing despair to you, that they're taking this as
an opportunity to try to make it the new Russia hoax.
I agree completely with what the President said about that,

(52:12):
and that Russia has talked about that they'll use anything
to get it this president, and really what they want
is to get at you. What they are seeking is
to control your vote by scaring you, and it's not
working and they're losing. Look at the comparison between Americans
keeping America working and Americans in the media attempting to

(52:33):
halt it and scare it and stall it and freak
it out. Chris in Richmond, Virginia. You're on the Russia program,
Todd Herman filling in, Chris, Welcome the Russia Show. Hey man,
how you doing today? Doing great? Man, doing great? So
you're a FedEx driver, You're one of the people keeping
things roll, and tell us what you see in in
the Wuhan flu. Honestly, I've I've seen a spike and

(52:56):
common material such as toll paper, hand sanitizer, towels, medical supplies,
and it seems like just over the last couple of days,
the demand for all of these products has gone way
through the roof. As you know, no one wants to
leave their home, no one wants to go out. So
on the right side of things. That keeps me in
a job. So and that allows me to pay my

(53:17):
bills while still providing the people with you know, the essentials. Yeah,
And I want to ask you something, what's the mood?
What's the mood in the FedEx facilities. I know you're
working over time. I know your package people, the warehouse people,
they got to be working over time. What is the
overall mood? I mean, we're we're still on a pretty
positive mindset. I mean, like I said, you know, we're

(53:39):
our job security is there. So that's that that that'll
keep us in a good mood versus you know, I've
got a roommate who is in the restaurant industry. He's
out of work for two weeks now, right right, so exactly, yep,
that's and that's different. We are still in a good mood. Well,
I appreciate what you're doing and stay in that good mood.
And look, maybe there's this Amazon they need a one
hundred thousand people. And I'm not a big fan of

(54:01):
Amazon and particularly Jeff Bezos, but but they need one
hundred thousand people they're hiring. That's a point, David. I'm sorry, Chris,
I appreciate the phone call. Do you see the juxtaposition.
The point I'm trying to make with Russia's program is
that there is a concerted different There's a difference. The
newsrooms are they appear dark on the outside, like, oh,

(54:22):
it's all dark. It's all dismal. We're losing the country.
Is everyone's gonna die. On the inside, they're excited on
the inside of the national newsrooms. I guarantee you they're
excited because now we've got them. Now we've finally got
the American people. They can't possibly vote for this man,
but instead they throw us a socialist and a man
who has early onset dementia. And and I don't say

(54:44):
that to be funny, your cruel, it's just a fact.
It's Todd Herman filling in for Rush Limbab on the
EIB network. I'm in trouble now. I touched the microphone
pad with my finger. We actually got our own microphone
pad so that we don't make people sick. Let me
I'm sorry if I do. I sund obsessive about comparing

(55:07):
the media to real people. Let me just I want
to just point one quote out. This is from Kareem
Jean Pierre, who works for move On Dat or remember
when they mattered back in the day, move On when
they were you know, then they were relevant and such.
Compare this, Compare this to the Americans who are calling
Rushi's show today, and we're learning that We're all on

(55:30):
the front lines. I have I have a tweak from
someone saying, Hey, I work at a bank, but we
got to clean the hard surfaces of our bank every
ten minutes. I gotta you know, we're handling cash. We're
all at the front lines of this. That's the point.
This is why I began Russia's show today saying what
I respected about the way he approached talking to the
American people. He approached them this way, saying we are

(55:53):
in this together, not as subjects, as citizens. I'm asking
you to do things rather than I'm forcing you to
do things. It was your mark difference. Now listen to this.
This is the focus of move on dot organ MSNBC.
I wanted to say, the xenophobia and the racism in
outbreaks is such a common thing. We've seen it in
the past health outbreaks that we've seen in this country's history.

(56:14):
The problem is it's coming directly from the President United States.
Does anyone, anyone in the real world, anybody in the
real world have any experience anywhere with someone saying because
this came from from China, from Muhan, well, the Chinese
people in America. Dat to blame anybody, No because people

(56:36):
are saying, what do I need to do to get
over this? How do I need to help my family?
You may be right now, you may be in the
midst of doing something that's a great achievement. You may
not know it in your day to day what you're
doing today. You may right now be doing your greatest achievement.
In fact, Rush took a call from a listener who
asked Rush about his greatest achievement. This is the call

(56:59):
I want you to hear this. My question is, what
would you consider the greatest accomplishment? Oh? Oh, the greatest accomplishment? Uh? Oh, man,
I don't think like that. Um, uh, you know what

(57:19):
you need to get I would love to answer this,
but I need to think about I need to think
about this. Um do you have Do you have anything
and you have any multible choice options in mind that
you are thinking of here that you're hoping I say,
isn't a great accomplishment or is your question just open ended?
I have no idea what it would be. I have

(57:40):
no idea. That's why I asked. Now, see that when
you start coming of accomplishments, I think, I think, uh,
you know, working in one radio show for thirty years
is unheard of. It's an accomplishment? Is it the greatest one?
I don't know. Living? You know, surviving eight years in
New York is a major achievement? Is it my biggest one?

(58:02):
I don't know. Um, turning radio prime time from six
to nine am to noon to three pm? Is that
a major? Yes? It isn't the biggest one. I don't know.
Uh is making a making a radio show as if
not more informative and persuasive and TV? That's big? Uh? Well,

(58:23):
but see saving AM radio. That's that's for others to
determine whether or not that's true. That that that what was?
What was that? Yeah? Yeah, I'm already Yeah, there's a
way that I've saved AM radio. But that's that's that
in the chat, I don't know, Um where consider you're

(58:45):
you're looking at the see I'm getting various help here
in the IFB WHOA, well you you have revolutionary conservative media.
I don't you know. When I've talked, start thinking about
the greatest achievement accomplishment. Hum, that's that's the problem. I
do I side decide to judge this in terms of

(59:07):
the business I'm in, which is radio, not politics. Politics
is not my business. I don't want to make too
big a deal out of that because I don't want
to disappoint a lot of people. But I am in radio.
I have specific requirements that have to be met here,
and if they're not, this show is not on the air,

(59:28):
and you don't know who I am, whatever my politics are.
So the guy serious, I can't just fluff off the
the answer here. I've got to give it some serious consideration,
which which I will do. And Okay, I love the
answer because Russia's going I mean, obviously he is one
in a billion in terms of of of accomplishments, but financially,

(59:50):
professionally in terms of radio. But you don't know at
this moment what it might be. And at MSNBC, their
accomplishment is they work the word racis into a discussion
of the Wuhan virus. At at Biden rally, it's an
accomplishment that Joe Biden didn't call himself Donald Duck at
at at a Bernie Sanders rally. It's it's a victory

(01:00:12):
if if he is able to turn one person in
hypnotize one person into believing that free stuff falls from
the tips of Bernie's weird hair. Those are their major accomplishments.
You could have yours today. You could be making your
major accomplishment today. Right. I want to talk to Joe
in Cattering Kettering, Ohio about the media, the juxtaposition the

(01:00:36):
real Americans versus what's going on in the media, U
Joe Kettering, Ohio. Welcome to Russian buss program. Is Todd
Herman filling in? Hijoe? Well, thank you. It's an honor
to be on Russia's program. And I want to preface
this by saying, I believe that the media is somewhere
between tonscomb and cave slime to start with. Okay, got

(01:00:58):
that out of that. But today I was listening to
the President's conference and they kept harping at him that
calling it the Chinese flu was racist, one of them
even pointing out that someone in the White House had
called it the Congue flu, which actually I kind of like,
I think it fits. But this is and you understand

(01:01:21):
that we had our primary here in Ohio shut down
because of this flu. And I understand this because I'm
not going to give you the name of this, so
don't you don't have to worry about that. But there's
a museum that I deal with, a veterans museum, and
they have World War Two vets that come in there
on the weekends, and I'm damn concerned about their health.

(01:01:45):
One of them was supposed to go to Europe. As
a matter of fact, they're supposed to leave this week
to revisit the battlefields in Belgium wore he was at
and they had to cancel. I mean, so it is
something that does take concern. But everything I've seen on
the federal level, first I was a little questionable about

(01:02:09):
whether we really needed to do these steps. And our
even our state level here, our governor, I think is
doing a good job. Um, I want to I want
to post through all those people that are out of
work right now. Of course I want to point to
my work, and I'm an HVAC has slacked off because
people aren't calling unless they have an absolute emergency. So

(01:02:31):
let me ask you something, Joe, because you made something.
I mean, you made a tremendous number of good points.
I hear again, your concern is in your mind, what
about these World War Two veterans at this museum where
you go and that you deal with us, right, But
then but you also pointed out during the president's press
conference today, he's talking about um some unprecedent, unprecedented, but

(01:02:52):
very big actions to take control of portions the supply chain.
And they're back to calling a virus from China. A
virus from China is racism. And that's the comparison. I'm
trying to make you a real American saying what are
we doing for these veterans who have to go to
this museum. We have taken phone calls from people saying,
you know what about my grocery store, my people working

(01:03:13):
these twelve hours shifts, et c. It's this is why
they're losing. I firmly believe that we had at my
wife thanks for the museum e every Saturday. It's something
we do for the vets. Yeah, and one of the
guys had a birthday Sunday. He's in an old folks home.
We couldn't actually deliver the cake to him in person. Yeah,

(01:03:35):
we had to leave it at the front desk and
let them take it up to them. Yep, yep. And
yet you did it. And Okay, I would need to
boil this down, Joe. I want to thank you for
the phone called because we're coming up against a breaker.
I want to thank you for that what you're doing.
I want to try to boil down what I'm sensing.
Here's what I'm sensing. I am sensing the moment at
which middle of mind persuadable democrats are going to look

(01:04:00):
at this media and say, dear God in Heaven, are
you kidding me? The President is taking this concrete step.
He's moving a hospital ship off of the into the
waters of New York. He's invoking the Defense Production Act.
He's talking about five hundred billion dollars coming out April sixth.
He's talking about all these things. And you want to say,
calling a flu from China a flu from China is racism?

(01:04:23):
I really believe I do that. Persuadable, decent democrats who
are not leftists, and there are a few of them left,
are looking at this media saying your nuts, and worse
than nuts, you're doing an act of harm to the
American people. I think they're losing him because guess what,
the media has no ability to persuade us. None the

(01:04:46):
media understand this national media. You have no sway over conservatives, none. Zero.
We don't care what you think. We just don't because
you've proven yourself to be so biased. Much more to
get to on the Russallimbo program as Todd Herman film
in on the EIB network. As Todd Herman filling in
for Russia them on the IB network. I wanted you
to hear a point of view that I think speaks

(01:05:11):
well to how the president is him. This president gave
a speech today he is invoking the Defense Production Act,
which has been invoked by President Obama. The president's trumpet
at one point look to use a portion of it,
so it's not un president in our history. But I'm
also not going to play the game or I pretend
that I'm an expert on that act, because I'm you know,
on Russia's show a too much of respect for Russia.

(01:05:33):
B I don't do that because it's obvious. You guys
are smart. You're gonna know. I just learned about this.
But I want to compare the actions the president is taking.
The actions he's taking are the actions of a person
who thinks he can win. Do you see the difference
you you compare the media and their actions. Are people

(01:05:54):
who think they can tie, or they can slow down,
or they can bog down, or they can they containt somebody,
or they can apply negativity, they can create an image,
but they're not people who feel they can win. Do
you see the difference. The President's actions are forward, moving
the hospital ship off of New York, the Defense Production Act,

(01:06:15):
the money, and we can disagree about that cash. We've
had several calls. I've got several tweets of people saying,
how do we afford a thousand or two thousand dollars
per person? Hey, I hope it's not per person. B.
I would prefer to extend it through unemployment. That's an
existing source. See, we had Congressman Louis Gomernon earlier who said, hey, look,
let's do this through the payroll tax waiver because then
it goes straight to people's check. You don't need a

(01:06:38):
new bureaucracy, a new tracking. It might even be faster.
So there's a whole method of ways to get there.
And we can debate those policies and where we want government,
et cetera. We can debate how much do we bail
out the airlines, et cetera using tax money? These are
all debatable. Here's what it's not debatable is that, oh
it is, but my observation is the president is acting

(01:06:58):
like a man who believes he can beat this thing. Okay,
that he can beat what he's now calling the invisible enemy.
And I think that's a really smart way to do it,
because if if, if you observe someone's when you're playing
a game against someone, you can kind of tell when
they've given up or they're just going for a tie,
or if I could just tire you out. That's not
the way the president is acting. He's animated us as

(01:07:21):
a guy who thinks he can win, and I think
he can and I think he will. I'm not talking politically.
I'm talking about with with the virus. This is Professor
u Jihad Bishara. He's the director of the infectious disease
units at Peter Tika's Balance in Hospital. I learned about
this from guy that's I think Rush. I think Rush

(01:07:44):
gave him a start in a big radio, Mark Leavent,
and he talks about unnecessary panic that's being foisted the party,
speaking specifically about Israel, but he's also talking globally. He's
been in the business of virology, studying viruses for thirty years,
and this is a quote. I've been in this business
thirty years. I've been through mirrors, sars Ebola, the first

(01:08:08):
Golf War and the second, and I don't recall anything
like this. That's the unnecessary, exaggerated panic. We need to
calm people down. People are thinking there's a kind of
virus in the air. It's going to attack every one
of us, and whoever is attacked is going to die.
That's not the way it is. It's not in the air.
This is again him his quote. Not everyone who's infected dies.
Most of them will get better, and not even though

(01:08:29):
they were sick, or we'll have a little bit of mucus,
so he says, in Israel and around the world, again
quoting him, everybody is whipping everybody else up into a panic,
the leaders, via the media and the wider public, and
who in turn then start to stress out the leaders.
We've entered some kind of vicious cycle, exactly exactly. And
when you add to that a media that is animated

(01:08:51):
with a desire to re you, to finally steal an election,
finally force you to vote for someone other than the president,
and they're not going to do that. Just compare that
to the actions of a man who, step by step
is rolling very very quickly into this that again, we
can debate the Policy's fine, we can do that all
day long. I'm happy to have that debate, and we
could do that today and compare the actions of a

(01:09:13):
man acting like he is going to win versus a
media saying we are just here to bog people down.
Dennis in Seattle, Washington, speaking of unnecessary panic. Dennis, you're
on the RUSSA MBA program. Welcome aboard h Dennis. Hello,
I'm a local truck driver up here and I just

(01:09:35):
had a message i'd like to get out to people.
Right now. We're filling half our truck bottle of water,
so we're not delivering toilet paper because we're delivering bottle
of water. And there's nothing wrong with the tap water.
I don't mean to laugh, but it just you see, Dennis,
how you just came in at the right time. You
have a virologist saying, guys, it's not in the air,

(01:09:58):
it's not folding around in the air. It's a projectile.
Someone has to like shed it to you, and yes
it's it's it's deadly for a target population. And then
you you're on Russia show and you are seeing the
signs of this with people buying bottled water. That's timing.
That's great. You keep yourself safe, Dennis. I appreciate you
calling Russia. Show stop by the bottomed water. I have

(01:10:20):
wellwater where we have our place to night. We have wellwater,
so we like that. But the water water's fine, it's fine.
I want to talk to people who watch the president's
speech um next hour. I'd love to get your estimation
of it, how you think it landed, and how you
think of the press's behavior. I want to get one
more quick call in on the front lines, real quick,
Matt from Bellevue, Washington. What are we doing a whole
the Washington calls Matt? You're on the Russian program? Is

(01:10:43):
Todd him filling in? Real quick, Matt? What's going on?
Hey Todd, Yeah, thanks for taking my call. We do
software support. We make software for wineries all over the
country and our wineries, believe it or not. Oh, I
bet you I know what he's gonna say. I bet
you I know what he's gonna say. I've read about this.
There are distill reason wineries who are switching over to
making hands sand tiner sanitizer. I bet that's what he's

(01:11:06):
gonna say, can you imagine the disappointment of calling Russia's show,
getting through the screening process, getting on hold, being on
hold for twenty minutes, and then the phone dies. Ah, Matt,
sorry about That's Todderman filling in for RuSHA. Lumbaugh on
the EIB network. I just want to finish. It's a
caller who got cut off. It's I've been on but
I've called Russia's show twice. I got through twice and

(01:11:28):
somehow got through the screening process. And I know the
thrill when and I'm not all Russia Ball, I'm Totterman,
So I know it's not a thrill to talk to
some guy named Todd. I get that. But when you
finally get on EIB and you don't get to get
your whole statement out, oh my gosh, it can ruin
your day. So I'm gonna finish what Matt was saying
from Belle Washington, who does it support his customers in
the winery business. Keith just tell me that what he

(01:11:51):
was saying is, look, we're staying open and this this
goes to our fundamental point of the part of the
show today. Is it the weaving together of what you
do and what you're doing now is why we win.
He Matt was making the point, Look, we're in it
for wineries. We're staying open because they're staying open because

(01:12:12):
we know. An incredible honor to fill in for a

(01:12:41):
guy's mint so much to me, long long before I
ever thought there'd be an opportunity for me to fill
in the Russia m program. It's just an incredible honor.
Eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. If
you want to join the program, be part of the program.
We've had an amazing day of talking to Americans who
are continuing to keep America or running. I love to
hear from people who observed the President's speech earlier and

(01:13:04):
particularly the behavior the media, because I want to talk
about that. I continue to be I continue to be outraged,
to be frank at the way the media is treating this.
But I see just incredibly good news in this. I
firmly believe that we are winning this battle with the media.
I let me say that another way. I think they're
now losing it, and I know mentally they've lost it

(01:13:25):
long ago because of the Trump Arrangement syndrome. I know
that they mentally lost that a long ago but their
insistence today during the president's press conference to once again
focuses on that Hey saying it's a Chinese virus that
makes you racist. And then there's one person in the
press corps. I saw her tweet when it came out.
I replied to it with these words, I don't believe you.

(01:13:49):
Provide a name. She says that she was behind the
scenes at a Trump event in the White House that
one of the staffers called it the kung fu flu,
and maybe they did. And if she's, you know, horribly
concerned about that at that point, then perhaps you should
say this is a person, because if you're behind the
scenes and people are chatting back there, I'm not aware
of that being off the record. Maybe it is. Maybe

(01:14:10):
you've signed the document that that's all off the record,
the only things said behind the podium or things that
you can report. I bet you could find a way
to get the name out. If that. I don't believe her,
because there's been so much purposeful and a non purposeful
misreporting around this president that I'm now just openly saying
I don't believe you. So if that happened, then name

(01:14:33):
and name. The President said a number of things but
they want to focus on Chinese virus. So the Defense
Production Act, what he's doing is saying, I'm going to
act like a wartime president. I'm going to view this
as a war and so we can do a lot
of good things if we need it. So what this
is really going to do is this is from Fox News,
So ensures the private sector can wrap up manufacturing and

(01:14:55):
distribution of emergency medical supplies and equipment. Okay, so the
president as the authorization to say, hey, you have to
sign these contracts right now, you need to deliver these
things right now. So he has invoked a law that's
been used multiple times before to give him selfless authority
largely around law war. President Obama invoked it to force
companies to give up the diagrams to their communication systems.

(01:15:18):
That's weird. Why would why would Obama want that? It? Also,
the other thing that they said is of course economic.
They're suspending all foreclosures and evictions until the end of April.
That's the Housing Department. How that's going to work for
landlords don't own? And again, we could talk all day
long debating the policies, etc. Russia way back on Friday.

(01:15:38):
So he'll have the ultimate say on the Russian program.
Ken Matthews will share his thoughts in this tomorrow. What
I'm sharing is a president who set on action. Vice
President Pitt said this that they are deregulating some acts
in healthcare that allow will allow a doctor in one
state who's licensed in one state to go work in another.

(01:16:00):
Sort of makes sense. Don't you think you have states
like West Virginia or Idaho who've had far fewer cases,
and they've got plenty skilled doctors, er docs, etc. Who
could or respiratory therapists who could go to other states
and deliver care. Don't you think that makes sense? Those
rules shouldn't exist anyway, right because they're blocking they make
healthcare harder to come by. There's the trillion dollars, and

(01:16:22):
we can talk all day long about our death, national debt,
et cetera. Where this is coming from and how it's
being spent. I'm would point this out that unlike the
banking bailout, this is not a response to companies being
irresponsible with their money. A lot of these companies are
being affected by what the government has said and limits
the government has put on them. So if the government

(01:16:44):
comes along and says you don't get to fly international routes, Well,
that cuts your business down. Then that then cuts down
the people arriving at hotels, and there's this there's this
effect that spreads throughout the industry. That's a government act
causing this. Therefore, or I'm able to look at this
and say, this is different than the big banks who
cooperate with the Clinton administration to give housing loans to

(01:17:07):
people who they knew would never pay them back, couldn't
afford to pay them back, rolled them all up into
these investment derivatives and crash the housing market, and then said, hey,
bail us out. It's a very very different phenomenon and
should be treated differently. I think from our perspective when
I say we're winning in the media, what's the media response. Well,
the New York Times wrote a very helpful article to

(01:17:29):
let you know that the social distancing you may be
helping global warming. Because I know that people who are
on the cusp of losing their job, or of having
to reconfigure their restaurant or their bar, or figure out
do I really get to open my gym in two weeks,

(01:17:51):
I know they're thinking, well, at least the social distancing
is helping with global warming. In the same article, they say,
but maybe not. Maybe you're at you're at home, turn
the heat up, using more of the air conditioning. I
believe that whole thing is a hoax anyway, because it's
always based upon what we exhale carbon, not particulate matter.
It's it's based upon her excellent. That's so we're winning

(01:18:13):
in that front when they're resorting to social distancing is
helping global warming, but it might be harming it. They're losing.
Here's another way they're losing. Just put yourself in the
mind of someone who is deeply affected by the Wuhan flu.
So you have lost. You're not God forbid, you've lost

(01:18:34):
a business, but you fear you're going to lose the business.
Or we had a call in fact, we may talk
with a woman whose husband is in a long term
care fast that we may talk to her in a
bit um imagine being her like affected, she can't go
see her husband. And you have the National Abortion Federation
saying don't let coronavirus stop getting an abortion. Well, yeah do.

(01:18:59):
Maybe that's a reason not to. One of the other
things that the president has announced, and that Mike Pences
announces they want, they want, they're asking, they're not demanding.
They want people and organizations and hospitals to delay to
put off elected surgeries. Yes, yes, we need the nurses
and doctors, and we need the blood specialists and the

(01:19:19):
resciptary therapists and everybody involved in that. We need them
available for the emergency. Why else are we winning? You
look at the Democrat parties main partner in international relations
under Barack Obama. This is remarkable. You remember where you're
Hearbard and said this, Remember when Barack Obama he broke

(01:19:40):
all sorts of laws and for instance, allowing Hezbollah to
ship what did they ship? Did they do cocaine? Or yeah,
they do cocaine. The opioids came from the Taliban, who
Obama also lets ship into our country. He lets Hezbala
move through our southern border, cocaine into our country with
with with human traffickers and sex traffickers through the tunnel
system in a project called Project Cat Sandra. Obama stopped,

(01:20:03):
he didn't, he stopped the indictment of them to get
the Iran deal done. To get the Iran deal done,
Iran is scaling back its terror activities as the Wuhan
flew crippled the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. So even the
partners of the Democratic Party are being affected by this.

(01:20:25):
So the media they're losing, and the bankruptcy of the
Democratic Party is phenomenal. Joe Biden the nominee. No one
accept those purely hypnotized by the letter D. And it
is a beautiful letter. I mean, look at that letter D.
It's got that flat side and then it's you know,
really round them. It's a gorgeous letter. So they're hypnotized

(01:20:46):
by it. They believe Biden can handle this. No one
who has any spent any time watching Biden he knows
for sure whether he is certain that this is not
Ibola and he's not the dictator of Africa, because we
don't know, because he doesn't know, right. And I'm just
illustrating the point. I know, Dementia said, I've seen it.
It's ravaging people. But just to illustrate the point, that's

(01:21:08):
the bankruptcy of this party. One other thing, and someone
said this to me on Twitter earlier. Can you imagine
if AOC or Hillary were in charge right now, instead
of working with private industry, they would have taken it over.
They would have said, first things first, we gotta slap
down some you know, wage controls, etc. We gotta do that.

(01:21:30):
Now we need some equity in this and in it
to be shut down. I think we have the president
we need at this time. I want to talk to
Louise in Raleigh, North Carolina. Raleigh, pardon me, Raleigh, North Carolina. Louise,
you are on the Russia program. It's todd Erhman filling in. Hi. Louise, Hi.
I can't believe I've made it through after all these years.

(01:21:53):
You did? You did? I'm sorry it's a rank amateur
that Russia isn't here. But what the what do you
want to tell the Russia lum audience? I would just
if I'm sure some people already know this, but maybe
that those who don't. How many aspects of life that
this situation has created problems for. My husband had fine

(01:22:17):
surgery a week ago, just before all of this shut
down and started, and he was taken to a rehab
facility that is now on shutdown and I cannot go
in to see him. I just got back from They
allowed me to stand at the door and speak to

(01:22:39):
him through the glass. Wow. They brought him up in
a wheelchair, and you know, it took everything I had
to try to have a cheerful face for him, you know. Yeah, Louise, Louise,
what's your husband's first name? Gary? Gary? We're both retired.
He's seventy five. I'm seventy one on so let me

(01:23:01):
ask you this, as the younger of the two. Have
you brought him over to the Russia Lumba program? Do
you listen to the show? Oh? Absolutely, every time we
get in the car. We used to deliver pharmaceuticals to
rehab facilities as kind of a strange thing. Here he

(01:23:21):
is in one of those locations we used to delisten to.
So so, so what I want you to do? Real quick? Uh?
Is I as you said? His name is Gary? Right? Yes?
All right? Listen Gary and Raleigh, North Carolina, recovering from surgery.
Your wife, Louise loves you so much, so hard for
her to not burst through that glass here she is

(01:23:42):
talking to the largest radio audience in the world. Um,
just real quick, because we've got to run through a break.
I hate to do that. Just Louise, just how much
do you love Gary? Oh? My gosh, we've been married
almost forty nine years now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't trade for anybody. Well, you're not gonna have

(01:24:05):
to God's with you. God will be with you. Okay,
this will be up you know later there is the podcast.
There's a way that you get this to him, and
let let let Gary know that you got to say
that to a national audience, even with the rank amateur
filling in for Russia. Thanks you for the call. God
go with you, Louise. Congratulations on the forty nine years.
It's Todd Herman filling in for Russia. Limbaugh on the
EIB network US. Todd Herman filling in for Russia. Limbaugh

(01:24:28):
of the EIB Network. Ken Matthews in tomorrow. Thanks Mark
stein Um. Two days this week. Rush Limbaugh himself returns Friday.
Where he belongs and where we need him. Talk to
Tom in Nashville, Tennessee. Tom, you're on the Russian BAB program.
It's Todd Herman filling in. Hi Tom, God, great to

(01:24:49):
speak with you. Thanks for taking my call. I've got
a question and in a comment about our great president,
my question is do you think after this that's some
of these large corporation that have asked people to work
from home, will really make an effort to transition to
that more on a full time basis, Because I tell
you I've I've been driving to work. I work by

(01:25:10):
myself in an office by myself, and the traffic has
been wonderful. And I could really see these companies seeing
the value of their employees working from home. What do
you think about that? Yeah, I couldn't agree more and yes,
I do think they'll do that. I think that part
of this is going to be on the employees. I
think when you're working from home, we're at you. Because
I've done this where I've I've gotten the ability to

(01:25:33):
work from home, and in fact I get to do
that sometimes in radio you have to argue for it,
and you need to make a case for it and
show that you are making an improvement or that you
are at least equally, you know, bringing the same effort,
the same effect, not effort, but the same the same results.
When I worked in tech, it wasn't unusual for us.
You know, we work from anywhere. So you could be

(01:25:53):
out at the lake place and you're working and you
knew you got good at it. You know how you
know when you're good at working from homes when people
don't know you're at home, when when people forget that,
And there's a trick to this in the tech world
is that you go in and occasionally have breakfast. Because
if you're in there early, like seven o'clock in the morning,
added the gym, you make this appearance. Think people think
you're there all day. So that's a way to pull

(01:26:14):
that off. So yes, I do think that this is
an opportunity for that. There's some other changes that I
think will come about. Movie studios are running first run
films in homes. If that takes off, look for them
to maybe find a different way to charge you, because
they'll charge you more money to be able to watch
it from home because you're you'll be hurting their theater
partners and um not bringing in extra revenence, et cetera.

(01:26:34):
But look for that. Also, believe it or not, there's
a smart toilet that is this that may may be
launched because of the Wuhan flu because obviously the shortest
your toilet paper. So that was an answer to that
question you wanted to say something about the president. I do, yeah,
So I think in the end this is actually going
to strengthen his win come November, because I think even

(01:27:00):
Democrats are seeing how he is absolutely the right man
for the job right now. And I you know, you hear,
of course the lying media that they're spewing the same
thing that they always have about racism and whatnot. But
I'm talking to liberal friends and even they're like, yeah,
you know what, I think he's doing the right thing
here and doing the right thing there. They might not

(01:27:21):
love him one hundred percent still, but yeah, I think
he's making a real big difference here and he's gonna
win an even bigger in a November. Contrary with the
media believes that this is going to be his downfall.
I could I couldn't agree more. I think, you know,
obviously we want to keep the Lord in mind in this,
and prayer and mind in this, and that God has
in charge with Let's not forget that. But let's also
remember that if the President continues down this clip the

(01:27:44):
way he's responded to this and arrests this virus in
such a way that you know, the lives are saved. Yeah,
I think we end up with a great, great, great
Trump point. I think it's hid of that way. Thanks
for the call. Tom, I appreciate it very very much.
Sean and Anderson, South Carolina. You're on the Russia Lumba program, Sean,
I appreciate you calling Russia shows. Todderman filling Inhisan Hey, Todd, Hey,

(01:28:04):
So you know, are we going to have hearings on this?
Are we? Tom Cotton was talking about whether when I
asked whether this was something that came out of the
wet markets or whether this was bio engineered, he said
it getting out of the uh, the wet market. So
are we going to have hearings like nine eleven earrings?
And what are the Democrats? I think it puts them

(01:28:26):
in a pro and I hate to be political about it,
but I think it really puts them in a very
bad spot to have to explain why we do need
security on our borders, why we do need to make
sure that our major threat, China is isn't allows just
to do what it's wants to do. I mean, this
is I mean people, you know, and what happens if

(01:28:50):
nothing happens with the with the death count, meaning that
what if this hysteria turns out to be just hysteria
and there's no major I mean, what's going to be next.
There's all kinds of serious questions and well, all already, Sean,
it's your point. Already, we've identified and a lot of

(01:29:13):
us have known this forever, and Russia has talked about
this forever, that you have a dependence on China for
strategic items like your your pharmaceuticals. I mean I have
family members who they have to take these pharmaceuticals. I
think we all do UM to sustain their life, for
their mental health. So much of that's coming from China.
That's that's untenable. You have um, you know, insulin being

(01:29:37):
made or processed in China, and I think it was
ninety five percent of it. That's that's untenable. It's unsmart. Uh,
it's unwise. It's scary knowing that, of course China is
at best coopetition and perhaps you know, or at best
a phrenemy, when in fact they may well be an enemy.
And I think it also adds this is why why

(01:29:57):
is the media not the least bit curious about Joe
Biden's deep attachment to the dictators of China. Why are
they not interested in Hunter Biden's I think it was
I think quoting from member I think it was a
one point five billion dollar kind of bank deal that
Hunter Biden did after he went on a so called
official trip with Joe Biden. Why are they not concerned

(01:30:17):
about that? Why are they not concerned about Joe Biden's
support for the one child policy in China? I mean
he's the likely Democrat nominee. You would think that maybe
this is an opportunity to look at that. But put
Joe Biden in a box. Joe, are you willing now
to limit imports from China? Are you willing now to
have some balance? It's a great point you bring up, Sean.
I do hope that that happens. Thank you for calling
Russia's show all lots to get to. We're not hardly done.

(01:30:39):
In fact, I'll give you an example of the You
think the media is bad here, then I say not
hardly done. I mean we're not even closer done. I'll
give you an example of media across the ponds. You
think our media is bad? Wit to hear what someone
from the Telegraph had to say about older people in
this virus? Is Todd Herman filling in for Russia? Limbaugh
on the EIB network rate honored a fill in for

(01:31:01):
Rush today, and I just I'm getting all sorts of
notes on Twitter from people saying, hey, don't forget that
there are people working in the wireless industry making sure
that people have connectivity in hospitals. That I just got
a note from a guy who runs an internet service provider,
a small one in rural areas, saying, hey, don't forget

(01:31:22):
about us. We're ramping up too. We've got people working
from homes that we're working triple urs. A great portion
of the show we spent talking to Americans who are
keeping Americans rolling because we'll make it through this because
of you. Obviously, the actions the president are taking are
very very important. We'll talk We've been talking about those
as well. But the other theme of the show today

(01:31:43):
has been a juxtaposition between you, the real people in
the worlds and the medium and there their whole continents.
They're not acting like people who think they can win.
They're acting like people who think they can bog down.
What they hope to do is slow down, bog down
and lie their way to a tie at very very best,

(01:32:04):
that's what they hope to do. Talk to Sam in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sam,
you're on the RuSHA Lumba program. Thanks you calling in, Sam.
How you doing good. So I've been told by conservatives
and Republicans that capitalism that if we let capitalism run rampants,

(01:32:27):
that the markets will will adjust accordingly. And if the
markets adjust accordingly, and it just so happens that your
business is crashing, we should let it crash. But somehow
we've injected socialism into capitalism and have put in these

(01:32:49):
circuit breakers to make sure that if the markets are crashing,
then big government comes in and stops it from crashing.
I thought you guys hated socialism. I'm not I'm not understanding.
I thought, Oh, this is neat. Oh, I get it.
You're doing the socratic inquiry thing that you learn in
the community to college. No, that's cool. Let's start here,

(01:33:10):
are you. Let's make sure that we agree in terms school.
I don't know where you went to community coulture. I
just went to community college, that's all. But I got
community Yeah, no, I did. I'm very proud of that.
So I just caught the secatic inquiry thing and that
sort of Colombo thing where you're pretending like you're just
thinking at the top of your head. Let me just
ask you this, Oh, to make sure we are grand terms.
Are you of the opinion that we are in any
way a free market capitalist society. I'm told that that's

(01:33:33):
how we should run this country. No, no, I'm just
asking you a question. I just want to make sure
we are grand terms. Do you think that we're a
free market capitalist society? That's how everybody wants to run
this country? Okay, so I'll try. I'll try one more time. Sam.
There's a lot of ways we can do this. There's
the one way where we have a conversation, and the
other way is where you've said what you said and
then you go. I'd rather have the conversation. I know.
I asked you a question. You've get to it. No, no, no, no,

(01:33:55):
you didn't ask me. You didn't ask me a question.
No no, you went through a soliloquy. You went through
a solid queer. Here's the question. Question. It's very simple.
Do you No, you've yet to ask me a question.
So Sam, we'll try it again one more time. Do
you think that we are in a free market capitalist
society for the most part? Yes? All right, So are
are you invested in the stock market? I am okay,

(01:34:19):
through what means through my work, through my four oh
one k. Oh, so you're four oh one K? What
is that? You're failing to answer that? No, no, I'm not.
I'm answering it. No, no, hey, listen, don't blame me
that I'm better at at a chronic enquiry just because
of my community of college classes. What is a four
oh one k? SAM is a fund that's been put

(01:34:40):
in place by your by your employee? Help? Can you
teach school? Drop out? You know I didn't drop well,
actually did drop out? That's a good point. So what
is a four oh one k? That number means something
four oh one K? Who made that up? Who decides
what's a four oh one k? Again? Go ahead and

(01:35:02):
educate people, because I know you. You tell me clearly.
You called in with a clearer vision. You called in
with a clear vision. You call Oh, I'll answer it,
you're no, no, no, no, I will promise, I'll answer it.
I promise I will. I'm just I want to make
sure that you understand what you're criticizing. Answer your own questions,
because I'll say, you have the everything, all right, So
you don't know why something is a four oh one K?

(01:35:23):
You have the answers for everything. So answer your que
your own question, all right. So, since you don't know,
I will explain the I R S decides what qualifies
for four O one K. So let me now do
a follow one question or any or any Americans forced
to invest in the stock market? No? Okay? So what's
a what does a state pension plan? What is that? Again?

(01:35:49):
You're you're you're answering my question, No, Sam, sham. What
we're what we're doing is unraveling what does this state?
What does a state? What does a state pension plan?
Why is it that government has to interject into the
stock market? You know what? We're two steps away from it, Sam,
Once you answer this question, we're there is anyone forced

(01:36:10):
to invest in the stock market? I already said, no okay,
So what is the state pension plan is? You tell me?
You obviously know the answer. Again, answer your own question,
all right. So, Sam, a state pension plan is an
investment advice device for state employees into which the taxpayer

(01:36:32):
is forced to invest. That instrument is then put into
the stock markets, and you are they're forced into the
stock market. There are other ways you're forced to invest
in the stock market, such as the Fair Housing Act
that President Clinton employed with Jamie Gillick, one of the
masters of Disaster, that moved your tax dollars into subsidizing
and underwriting loans for people who had no ability to

(01:36:53):
pay it back. It was cruel to them, it was
cruel to you. Those devices then got rolled up into
a stock market, which is the very very it's a
very big example of lobbying to kill your competition and
to gain special pleading status. That's why it's nowhere near
free market. So to answer your question, if we were
actually in a free market, no one would be forced

(01:37:16):
to invest in the stock markets. You wouldn't have state
pension plans that you're forced to invest in. You wouldn't
have forced instruments like Obamacare, which forced you to purchase
products from companies you don't like for services you don't
need at costs you cannot afford. Companies that are, by
the way, some of the superstars of the stock market.
So it's not anywhere near free market. So to answer

(01:37:36):
your question, yes, in a completely free market, yes you'd
let these companies crash because you wouldn't have special pleader status,
because you wouldn't have too big to fail because you
wouldn't have the intermingling of the big banks, sam who
pay executives to leave their banks. Do you know that
City Bank and other big banks pay their executives to
leave those banks to go to work for the Fed

(01:37:57):
so they can go get the connections in the Fed
give them the sweetheart deals. In a free market economy,
you wouldn't have Jamie Diamond come in when the housing
market crash is because of big government and the intermedial
of lobbyists and go out and buy what used to
be a great bank in Washington State on the cheap
like six cents on the dollar, because Jamie Diamond is

(01:38:17):
mobbed up in ways that no one has the real
right to be around, you know, Washington, DC. So, to
answer your question, sure, in a free market you'd let
the market crash, but we're nowhere near a free market. Also,
in a free market, you'd be able to pick and
choose which investments you took. You wouldn't have riders, and
you need to have this form of employment insurance, that
form of employment insurance, this form of insurance, et cetera.

(01:38:39):
Would be purely competitive. So yes, in a completely free
world of voluntary exchange of value for money. You bet
we let it crash, but we're nowhere near that. So
thank you for the point. That's a great call, Sam,
that we are not anywhere near that, and in a
purely free world, you wouldn't be in the position of
having to underwrites crashes in the housing market or crashes

(01:39:01):
in the insurance market. Great point, Sam. Question Wait, I
just wait, universe, I just I just went through over
a minute of explaining this to you, and you want
to come with another question. Well, you're you're Why are
you not fighting for that? Why are you why are
you doing? What are I not fighting for? Why are

(01:39:22):
you kidding me? Why are you letting socialism? Why are
you letting socialism take over? Why are you not fighting so? Sam?
The market crash? The market crash, Sam? Why are you
not fighting for that? Sam? Don't Sam? Sam? Sam? Sam?
How long have we known each other? I don't hear you.
I don't hear you, Sam, Sam. How long have we
known each other? I've been I've been hearing your show

(01:39:44):
all day and I haven't heard no. No, You've been
hearing Russia show all day, Sam. On a daily basis,
uh from six am to nine am in the morning.
I make the point that we need to get to
a fair tax, which is consumption based, to do away
with the irs so that therefore companies cannot go buy
legislation so that they can force you to purchase their
products or underwrite their products. I make the point daily

(01:40:07):
you and I Sam have known each other for seven
and a half minutes, so please please don't say things
like why aren't you fighting for a thing to which
I've committed by life. I appreciate the phone call, Sam,
great try the graduate's degree. Did a great job? You
did wonderful. It's Todderman filling in for Russia Limbaugh on
the EB network. Goodness. See reviews of Sam's call of

(01:40:29):
if you've missats called into the Little Socratic Inquiry, a
little uh philosophy? Want a one bit dang? This is
on Twitter than be general brother. Sam was just ripped apart.
Grant that he's hearth it, but I wish you guys
that'd actually sit down for a few hours educate Sam.
Education Sam, Thanks and Joe Dell the guest the caller

(01:40:50):
Sam total classic example of educated idiot and not come
up be fair. We don't know if Sam's actually educated.
Vicky in Reno, Nevada. You were on the Russia MBA program,
Todderman filling in glad you are you the keehigh Hi
Hi Todd. I love having you as the rank amateur
fill in for Rush Limbo because you bring the flavor
and perspective from the West Coast and that you have

(01:41:11):
the added dimension of circulating in the rarefied air of
the high tech industry. You know the tech industry are.
And that's why Rush Limbaugh is so effective is he
grew up with the influence of the Midwest and the South,
and he also had the influence of the West Coast
by starting his career there, and he had the influence
of New York City, the Big Kahuna. And so he

(01:41:32):
doesn't just talk down to his listeners from an ivory tower.
He's actually lived with and interacted with him face to face.
That's why he's so effective and loved by so many people.
Comment is, yeah, my comment is about the trucking industry.
We're lucky we don't have Bernie Sanders or Biden or
Elizabeth Warren or anybody in charge, because they've all stated

(01:41:55):
that the very first thing they're going to do is
shut down the fossil fuel industry when they take off,
and we wouldn't have anybody outing anything to any place
because there wouldn't be any fuel to truck date with.
That's brilliant. No, that's exactly right. In fact, what was it.
Biden said he's going to do away with all shale
oil drilling, wants to shut down the dusty he bragged about.

(01:42:16):
He bragged about shutting down industries. And I wonder do
you think Bernie'd actually shut him down? Do you think
he'd seize them and forced the workers to stay there
to service his socialist economy. Oh, that would be a
possibility too, But I don't know if AMC his other
acolytes would stand for that. No, I know, And just imagine.
I mean, folks, you look around you. The hub that's

(01:42:40):
keeping us all going is well. I mean, the American
people are keeping going. If you've heard the calls, and vickim,
I trust you've heard the calls from the FedEx drivers
and the truck drivers, and the people working in the
medical abs and the people working on copy machines and
it people keeping things running. I trust you've heard that.
But this none of it happens without oil. Without patrol.
It just doesn't. Nothing gets anywhere. So it's a great call, Vickie,

(01:43:02):
thank you very much. And what you said about Rush
so true. You can still I mean, you call Russia,
talk to him. You're talking to a guy who's lived it.
And that's that. It is so clear, so far from
the every tower of normal media people. And here he
is at the top of the chain and he maintains
you know that humanity A chuck in Grants, New Mexico.
You're on the Russian Buck program. It's Todderhman filling in Hichuck. Hey,

(01:43:25):
how are you a fellow community college graduate? How are
you today? I dropped out, Sam got that part right,
I did, Oh yeah, yeah. Football ended and I said,
you know what what am I here for? I want
to be a lawyer, but I don't want to take
botany classes. So when football was over, I did. I
dropped out. So but anyway, a community college person, welcome, Chuck.
What did you want to say? Okay, Um? I actually

(01:43:47):
worked for one of the major lab companies. Actually, we
are represented on the President's COVID nineteen Commission, and I'm
actually in the transportation unit and we are responsible for
going to all the individual doctors offices, the urgent cares,
the clinics, and the hospitals, and transporting all of those

(01:44:07):
testing to a main lab facility where the tests are
actually run. And the media has been talking as if
there's no testing going on or it's very limited. That's
simply not true. I am currently transporting COVID nineteen testing
to the main labs for testing hourly today, put in

(01:44:27):
two to three hundred miles a day and visit between
fifty and sixty clinics instabilities, and we are testing right
and left, and very soon it's my understanding that by
the end of the week or the first part of
next week, we will actually have the fast strip testing.
Hospitals are already putting up facilities in their parking lots,

(01:44:47):
so when those are ready, people can drive through, people
can stop in. Things are happening, and the media is
not really being fair and the reporting that things are
moving slow or everything's on the surface. No, they're is
a lot going on. Uh yeah, are they concerned at
all that? Have you heard the media be concerned at
all that the lab coats are white? Because that could

(01:45:08):
be a form of racism right there. He got to
be really careful. Okay. I want to make sure that
we are going to affect, you know, respect green Americans
in the process. Thank you for what you do. You're
another American who's keeping this stuff moving. Fascinating job. Thank you,
Chuck for the phone call. Appreciate it very much. Um,
if you get a chance to review the show, um,
and and go back and not out of listening to me,

(01:45:31):
God forbid you go listen to me a second time.
Just please keep in mind the Americans who are shoulder
into this effort, pushing our economy forward, our lives forward.
Hear the continents. I mean, we had the call from
the woman. Um and gosh, I'm figuring her name, Louise,
whose husband is she can't go see him, he just
had surgery. Did you hear her her cheer and her joy? Okay? Um.

(01:45:55):
The Bible says multiple times, be they not afraid, and
we were we were called many times. Don't don't fear.
I know it's a scary time, but look what's getting done.
Listen to your neighbors, observe their actions. This is America.
It's it's what it's about. Todd Hehrman filling in for Russia,
Limba in the EBB. Now, Oh, what an incredible honor
to fill in for Russia Limbaugh, who will return to

(01:46:18):
the Golden EAB microphone on Friday. Ken Matthews to come
in and do great job tomorrow. Markstein was here earlier
this week, you know, just reflecting on the show. I
remember this meal that my grandfather used to eat, and
first time we had it, we hated it. It was
cabbage and beans and rice and you know where I'm going,
and you know, Grandma would cook that and we'd go

(01:46:40):
over from time to time and eat that. And it
was my grandpa's favorite meal. And why well because he
hated it when he was young, hated it worst thing
it ever eaten, and never look forward to eating it
and used to say, oh no, Mom, not again. And
in the elder years it became something he loved to eat.
And it wasn't health It wasn't that it had kidney problems,

(01:47:03):
so those things happened. It was that it reminded him
of time where they didn't have a lot, and it
reminded him of a time where they didn't know where
the next meal was coming from. Reminded him of a
time where Mom would scrape together what mom could have
in dry goods, and sometimes the rice wasn't there, sometimes
a bean wasn't beans weren't there, but the cabbage was
always there because they grew that on their own. When

(01:47:26):
we would eat it and ask Grandpa, way do you
like this? Wasn't until I was an older adult that
he shared with me. I like it because it reminds
me that my grandma did everything, or my mom did
everything for us. We're in these times, and we'll come
out of these times because this is what we do
as Americans, and it's a great reminder. Todderman in Russa Lumba,

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