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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 997 - Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

New data suggest that summer may help tamp down coronavirus; Trump and Chris Cuomo’s wife both have some weird medical suggestions; and Congress continues to vomit out money. Check out The Cold War: What We Saw, a new podcast written and presented by Bill Whittle at https://bit.ly/2z2j1NB. In Part 1 we peel back the layers of mystery cloaking the Terror state run by the Kremlin, and watch as America takes its first small steps onto the stage of world leadership. Go to dailywire.com/subscribe to get started AND get 10% off with coupon code SHAPIRO. That’s dailywire.com/subscribe, coupon code SHAPIRO, and get the rarest of all beverage vessels, times two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

New data suggests that summer may help tamp down coronavirus.

0:03.3

President Trump and Chris Cuomo's wife both have some interesting medical suggestions,

0:06.9

and Congress continues to vomit out money.

0:09.1

I'm Ben Shapiro.

0:09.6

This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

0:14.6

The Ben Shapiro show is sponsored by ExpressVPN.

0:19.2

You have a right to privacy protected at

0:20.9

atspotVPN.com slash Ben. It's ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. All righty. So I definitely do

0:28.1

want to get to everything coronavirus medical suggestion related. But let's be honest about this.

0:36.5

This is all stupid. Okay, like,

0:37.7

it's seriously, seriously stupid. Like, people focusing in on Trump's sort of John Belushi-esque

0:44.7

rantings from Animal House about medical solutions because he sort of understands it and he sort

0:50.2

of doesn't. That is not where people should be putting their focus right now. How about putting

0:54.1

our focus on the fact that like our food supply chains are in a bit of trouble?

0:57.9

I mean, the fact is that farmers are plowing under crop because they can't make money from

1:02.1

selling that crop at a time when food shortages would probably mean riots in the streets.

1:06.6

Restaurants, which were providing a huge market for all of our agriculture, those restaurants are going

1:11.9

under an incredibly rapid rates. That means that you're probably going to be seeing more expensive products on a shelf at a time when people have less money to spend it. It's a real, real problem, right? That's something we should think about. We should be thinking about how are we supposed to reopen in an environment in which the data are so uncertain. And we'll talk about that in a little bit. What the media are focused on is continuing to be the gotcha game of President

1:31.2

Trump's the data are so uncertain, and we'll talk about that in a little bit. What the media are focused on

1:28.1

is continuing to be the gotcha game of President Trump said something dumb at a press conference.

1:33.3

And okay, I mean, all right, I suppose. But if you really believe that that is of vital importance,

1:40.0

then you're out of your mind. And this is the same media that suggested that President Trump

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