March 20, 2020 • 9 mins
Tom discusses how the Corona virus outbreak is testing all of us like never before…and why it’s more important than ever for all of us to put our differences aside and work together to beat it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I heard radio presents Tom Broke off now here. This
Whatever you think of modern communications these days, in a
crisis such as the one that we're all going through
right now, modern communications are a godsend. Was a keystroke.
You can tap into the latest from the government, from
(00:20):
the scientific community, from financial institutions, from the cultural institutions,
from the world's far away from America, compare and get
the big picture, find out what's going on. There are
no magic tricks. We simply go to the keyboard, type
in where we want to go and how we want
to get there. And we might as well be in
(00:42):
the White House or at the Pentagon or at the
CIA listening in on what they have to say about
what's going to happen next. You can imagine what it's
like to be in those rooms where you're sworn to secrecy,
and you know, at the same time, just around the
corner there's probably way of listening device of some kind
that it is monitoring not just what you have to say,
(01:05):
but what the situation is here and across America, in China,
especially with the Russians, are up to. We do know
that there are consequences. We are going through a traumatic
situation the likes of which I have not seen in
my lifetime, and I think it's fair to say that
no one alive today has seen anything quite like this,
(01:27):
because it takes the modern communication system to spread it
as fast as it can, and it also takes the
modern communication system to display what we're dealing with, that
nasty little virus and how it gets from one country
to another, from one family to another, and shuts down
(01:48):
the most powerful economy in the world. We do know
that business is way off. Bus Boys now are going
to be bartenders. The system is going to change. Where
you're going to McDonald's, for example, you're not going in anymore.
Only drive up will be accepted. That's true for my
favorite driving as well. It's called Culver's. It's a company
(02:11):
that started in northern Wisconsin and it's now spreading out
across the Midwest and across Florida as well. We can
only hope that those great companies are not going to
be so damaged by what's going on that they'll go
out of business, and that's a real possibility. I do
have a few thoughts. Will not be surprised to hear
(02:33):
about what the President of the United States may be doing.
As he takes this all on, maybe he should be
thinking about expanding from just the White House and the
group that he has around him to the very best
people in America on Capitol Hill and in our institutions.
What is wrong with naming a blue ribbon group? Fred
(02:55):
Smith of FedEx, for example, who's a real authority on
the distribution of goods, get the former head of the
Mayo Clinic now just retired about what's possible when it
comes to the American healthcare system and how it can
be activated. Go as well to institutions across America, none
of which are inclined to back away from helping now
(03:19):
because it's at stake for all of us. How are
we going to survive this, and when we do survive it,
how much damage will be done. That's something that we
have to think about immediately, and we have to think
about it from the bottom of our heels to the
top of our heads. We have to get the entire
body politics involved and how we're going to do this. Obviously,
(03:41):
we are going to establish priorities, and that's already underway.
Older people are more at risk. I keep hearing that,
and I well, that doesn't mean me. But then I
realized I recently turned eight oh eight, and I'm vulnerable
as well, and I'm much more careful about my use
of hands, about sanitation in our house, and I try
(04:03):
to think as well about the best way to protect
our family and, for that matter, for all the goods
that we own. At the same time, we have to
be thinking not just about what's going on in the
hospitals with a specialist who are taking the samples and
testing the blood of all these people. We have to
think about what next, How do we emerge from all this,
(04:25):
what do we learn from it? And if we take
what we learn from it and apply to the future.
There is a possibility, but it's only a possibility that
will head off something like this in the future, because
we're dealing with a new world in which everything travels
at warp speed, and that includes deadly germs the like
(04:47):
of which we're dealing with right now. When we talk
about a virus, it sounds benign, and then when we
look at that image on the screen, we think that
little devil was out to get us all. How did
it begin? How do we get it under control? We've
never gone through anything like this in the modern age,
and we better start right now developing priorities. Plainly, healthcare
(05:12):
is the number one priority. How do we keep the
country healthy. How do we take people who are going
to be required to get us back on our feet
and make sure as they have all the tools and
the skills as they need to do just that. We're
all patients right now, and we're all going to have
to think about how we can participate in getting America
(05:33):
and the Western world for that matter, and China as well,
back on his feet. The entire globe is at stake.
Let's talk about it in just that way. I must
say as a governor of New York, and I'm not
a particularly big fan, but he's been very candid and
very good in his television appearances. I actually talked yesterday
(05:54):
to a farmer out in South Dakota about something else,
and he didn't even raise it. In fact, to the
matter is, as you go to the rural states where
there are fewer people, it's not the problem that it
is elsewhere and the very crowded urban areas, but it
will get to those states as well unless we find
a way to check it. I could not be more
(06:15):
unhappy with the young people who are crowding the beaches
of Florida saying that it's that can to affect me.
I'm young, I'm here to have a good time. The
fact of the matter is that we're all in this together,
and unless we in effect that don't mean it's physically,
but in effect, culturally and intellectually link arms, we're not
going to emerge from this in a way that we
(06:37):
could be happy of what we did and be sure
that it's not going to happen again. We are at
this point in our lives in America at a real crossroads.
We know that we've been going through a particularly difficult
presidential election in both parties. We have seen our political
system strange would agree that I can't remember, and I've
(07:00):
been covering American politics since nineteen sixty two. We went
to difficult times in the war in Vietnam. Obviously, the
civil rights movement was strained and put to the test
and answered magnificently. Because there's never been anything like this,
it's not something that we can see and put our
hands around and figure out how we can deal with
(07:21):
it and protect not just our family, but our fellow
citizens as well, wherever they live. Whatever they do. This
calls for everyone to step up, and I hope that
when we emerge from it, all will reorganize ourselves culturally
and politically so that we're prepared for the next time
it happens. And trust me, it will happen again. We're
(07:44):
now at a stage in our lives with the American economy,
the American culture, and the American political system is at risk.
And when is at risk, all of us are in
the dock. This is a test not just for all
at It's a test for every individual in this country.
There's never been anything like it. I keep saying there's
(08:06):
never been anything like it, because the fact is there's
not been. And unless we rise to the occasion, we
will have failed our unique place, not just in the
Western culture, but on this person's planet called Earth. It's
time for everyone to find a way to work together
(08:27):
to get over our petty political differences, even in some
instances are cultural and religious differences, and say, mankind is
at stake. What are we going to do about it?
How are we going to use all the best brains
that we have, the wrong that we have, and of
course the technology that is available to us. I've never
(08:50):
seen anything quite like this and didn't expect you, but
here it is. And now turn to your neighbor and say,
I'm in. How about you? Are you in? Are we
gonna get us done together? God? I hope so, because
if we don't, the consequences are really too ugly to
even think about. On that happy note, I'm Tom Broke.
(09:12):
I'll reminding you this is high Heart Radio, and now
hear this and step forward
I heard radio presents Tom Broke off now here. This
Whatever you think of modern communications these days, in a
crisis such as the one that we're all going through
right now, modern communications are a godsend. Was a keystroke.
You can tap into the latest from the government, from
(00:20):
the scientific community, from financial institutions, from the cultural institutions,
from the world's far away from America, compare and get
the big picture, find out what's going on. There are
no magic tricks. We simply go to the keyboard, type
in where we want to go and how we want
to get there. And we might as well be in
(00:42):
the White House or at the Pentagon or at the
CIA listening in on what they have to say about
what's going to happen next. You can imagine what it's
like to be in those rooms where you're sworn to secrecy,
and you know, at the same time, just around the
corner there's probably way of listening device of some kind
that it is monitoring not just what you have to say,
(01:05):
but what the situation is here and across America, in China,
especially with the Russians, are up to. We do know
that there are consequences. We are going through a traumatic
situation the likes of which I have not seen in
my lifetime, and I think it's fair to say that
no one alive today has seen anything quite like this,
(01:27):
because it takes the modern communication system to spread it
as fast as it can, and it also takes the
modern communication system to display what we're dealing with, that
nasty little virus and how it gets from one country
to another, from one family to another, and shuts down
(01:48):
the most powerful economy in the world. We do know
that business is way off. Bus Boys now are going
to be bartenders. The system is going to change. Where
you're going to McDonald's, for example, you're not going in anymore.
Only drive up will be accepted. That's true for my
favorite driving as well. It's called Culver's. It's a company
(02:11):
that started in northern Wisconsin and it's now spreading out
across the Midwest and across Florida as well. We can
only hope that those great companies are not going to
be so damaged by what's going on that they'll go
out of business, and that's a real possibility. I do
have a few thoughts. Will not be surprised to hear
(02:33):
about what the President of the United States may be doing.
As he takes this all on, maybe he should be
thinking about expanding from just the White House and the
group that he has around him to the very best
people in America on Capitol Hill and in our institutions.
What is wrong with naming a blue ribbon group? Fred
(02:55):
Smith of FedEx, for example, who's a real authority on
the distribution of goods, get the former head of the
Mayo Clinic now just retired about what's possible when it
comes to the American healthcare system and how it can
be activated. Go as well to institutions across America, none
of which are inclined to back away from helping now
(03:19):
because it's at stake for all of us. How are
we going to survive this, and when we do survive it,
how much damage will be done. That's something that we
have to think about immediately, and we have to think
about it from the bottom of our heels to the
top of our heads. We have to get the entire
body politics involved and how we're going to do this. Obviously,
(03:41):
we are going to establish priorities, and that's already underway.
Older people are more at risk. I keep hearing that,
and I well, that doesn't mean me. But then I
realized I recently turned eight oh eight, and I'm vulnerable
as well, and I'm much more careful about my use
of hands, about sanitation in our house, and I try
(04:03):
to think as well about the best way to protect
our family and, for that matter, for all the goods
that we own. At the same time, we have to
be thinking not just about what's going on in the
hospitals with a specialist who are taking the samples and
testing the blood of all these people. We have to
think about what next, How do we emerge from all this,
(04:25):
what do we learn from it? And if we take
what we learn from it and apply to the future.
There is a possibility, but it's only a possibility that
will head off something like this in the future, because
we're dealing with a new world in which everything travels
at warp speed, and that includes deadly germs the like
(04:47):
of which we're dealing with right now. When we talk
about a virus, it sounds benign, and then when we
look at that image on the screen, we think that
little devil was out to get us all. How did
it begin? How do we get it under control? We've
never gone through anything like this in the modern age,
and we better start right now developing priorities. Plainly, healthcare
(05:12):
is the number one priority. How do we keep the
country healthy. How do we take people who are going
to be required to get us back on our feet
and make sure as they have all the tools and
the skills as they need to do just that. We're
all patients right now, and we're all going to have
to think about how we can participate in getting America
(05:33):
and the Western world for that matter, and China as well,
back on his feet. The entire globe is at stake.
Let's talk about it in just that way. I must
say as a governor of New York, and I'm not
a particularly big fan, but he's been very candid and
very good in his television appearances. I actually talked yesterday
(05:54):
to a farmer out in South Dakota about something else,
and he didn't even raise it. In fact, to the
matter is, as you go to the rural states where
there are fewer people, it's not the problem that it
is elsewhere and the very crowded urban areas, but it
will get to those states as well unless we find
a way to check it. I could not be more
(06:15):
unhappy with the young people who are crowding the beaches
of Florida saying that it's that can to affect me.
I'm young, I'm here to have a good time. The
fact of the matter is that we're all in this together,
and unless we in effect that don't mean it's physically,
but in effect, culturally and intellectually link arms, we're not
going to emerge from this in a way that we
(06:37):
could be happy of what we did and be sure
that it's not going to happen again. We are at
this point in our lives in America at a real crossroads.
We know that we've been going through a particularly difficult
presidential election in both parties. We have seen our political
system strange would agree that I can't remember, and I've
(07:00):
been covering American politics since nineteen sixty two. We went
to difficult times in the war in Vietnam. Obviously, the
civil rights movement was strained and put to the test
and answered magnificently. Because there's never been anything like this,
it's not something that we can see and put our
hands around and figure out how we can deal with
(07:21):
it and protect not just our family, but our fellow
citizens as well, wherever they live. Whatever they do. This
calls for everyone to step up, and I hope that
when we emerge from it, all will reorganize ourselves culturally
and politically so that we're prepared for the next time
it happens. And trust me, it will happen again. We're
(07:44):
now at a stage in our lives with the American economy,
the American culture, and the American political system is at risk.
And when is at risk, all of us are in
the dock. This is a test not just for all
at It's a test for every individual in this country.
There's never been anything like it. I keep saying there's
(08:06):
never been anything like it, because the fact is there's
not been. And unless we rise to the occasion, we
will have failed our unique place, not just in the
Western culture, but on this person's planet called Earth. It's
time for everyone to find a way to work together
(08:27):
to get over our petty political differences, even in some
instances are cultural and religious differences, and say, mankind is
at stake. What are we going to do about it?
How are we going to use all the best brains
that we have, the wrong that we have, and of
course the technology that is available to us. I've never
(08:50):
seen anything quite like this and didn't expect you, but
here it is. And now turn to your neighbor and say,
I'm in. How about you? Are you in? Are we
gonna get us done together? God? I hope so, because
if we don't, the consequences are really too ugly to
even think about. On that happy note, I'm Tom Broke.
(09:12):
I'll reminding you this is high Heart Radio, and now
hear this and step forward
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