You're about to listen to Daily Wire Backstage with me, Jeremy Boring, Andrew Claven, Michael Knowles, Alicia Krause, and of course, Matt Walsh, stopped by too.

We talked about coronavirus and then more coronavirus and then lockdowns and then more coronavirus and then we made a bunch of jokes. I think you'll enjoy it. Welcome to the Daily Wire Backstage Earth Day from Lockdown Edition. I'm your host Jeremy the lowercase GK Boring and because we are good global citizens who don't want to burn fossil fuels or spread the rona

I'm being joined remotely your host Jeremy the lowercase GK Boring and because we are good global citizens who don't want to burn fossil fuels or spread the rona.

I'm being joined remotely tonight by Ben what coronavirus I just don't like people Shapiro.

Also Andrew oh my God he hasn't died yet, Claven.

And of course Michael he still technically works here, Knowles.

Actually, the truth is that Ben and Drew are, in fact, remote today.

Ben, because we can't afford to lose him, and Drew because we can't afford to ensure him. But other than that, it will be backstage as always. From her basement, we still have the lovely, even during the apocalypse, Elisha Kraus. Hello, Elisha. I am here, although I think this basement is a lot nicer than the Michael Null's broom closet that Ben likes to throw Michael into. Hey, guys, I'm glad you're all still alive and well, mainly Drew. You've been in my prayers every night. And I just wanted to remind everyone that for the members that are watching at home, if you want to ask the guys questions tonight, head on over to dailywire.com, navigate to that show's page, and then be sure to open up the backstage box and type your questions for all of the guys into the chat box over there. And we got a cool

discussion happening after the show tonight. So only members get to ask questions. So if you're

not a member, be sure to head over to DailyWire.com to become a member and ask those questions

for the guys tonight. Thanks, Alicia. You know, I think people are going to want us to talk about things other than the RONAM. It's the news has mostly been depressing for the last month. People are locked in their homes. And, you know, we've done a good job, I think, during our All Access here at the Daily Wire, which we've been doing every day during the

lockdown, to talk about other things, be a little bit more lighthearted. And I want to do that today.

Obviously, it's the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, or as I like to call it, National Tire Burning Day. So maybe we can talk a little bit about, you just got to take it off. What? This? I can't take it. I don't want to get the Rona. Are you kidding me? All right, fine. Fair enough. I think this is like a Class C felony in L.A., but that's fine. We will talk about things other than the COVID-19, but I do think we should start off because we haven't all been together to have a conversation about this since it's been going on. Obviously, since the last time we were together, the world has changed in many ways. And I would argue that it's changed at least twice. First,

we had the onset of COVID-19. Very little was known about it. There was a lot of room for concern.

We took the dramatic actions that we've taken, mostly at the state and local level around the country.

Then we went through the period of just unbelievably rapid job loss. We're still in that period.

The number is 22 million officially right now, but that's just the people who've actually been able to file for unemployment. We all know the real number is 25 million, 27 million, 30 million,

astronomical by any measure. And now we're sort of

moving into this third wave of the crisis. It's five weeks on. We know in large measure what the

initial economic damage is. We know a lot more about the virus than we knew five weeks ago.

We know which models that were pointing us in the right directions, which models may have been sort of overly pessimistic.

And we know what has happened in certain local local pandemic, but there's certainly an epidemic in New York City.

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