Episode 913 Scott Adams - Was LIVE

bum-bum-bum-bum-bum hey Jack come on in yes this is the place to come at this time of night so that you can get all of the cares and tensions of the world drained out of your overstressed body today and for the next oh let's say 45 minutes it's nothing but good times we're gonna put things in perspective we're going to make you feel better make you feel relaxed I feel a little observation for you and I don't know what to make of it yet and it goes like this I was watching Obama do his recommendation for Biden and you know that I've commented how dr.

Burks has up talk now up Talk is where you end the sentence with a little bit of it up so it makes you sound maybe like a violently girl and then when you do the up top you don't sound as confident because you're sort of asking you make you statements but you're making a statements that sounds like a question but have you ever noticed Obama Obama does down talk so Obama's last word is always the the deeper word I'd never noticed that I was watching him today so I'll give you my Obama impression we've got here the back scratcher and have a remote control but you could take your Apple earbuds and you could pair it with your mechanical pen thing listen to him and listen to how he finishes on a confident low note and I thought to myself I think that's really effective and I also asked myself if I do it and I don't know because probably because I'm thinking about it I'll lie there do it or I'll conceal how much I do it or don't do it so maybe you could tell me do I well this is a question so I'm going to up talk the question do I up talk have you ever heard me up talk in what I'm making statements not questions and if you ever noticed me because I really don't know do i down talk on the bat on the last on the last word do I give you a sentence and then I'm talking like this because it makes me sound confident because I'm starting the sentence and you say what's it all about and I finish it fast I finished hard I finish it strong because I'm coming in and I'm just laying it down there and just putting it down there finishing down somebody says no you don't I think you mean no I don't up talk oh look what I did I automatically did a down talk I think I'm going to practice that speaking of people who have interesting ways of speaking one of my favorite TV senators and maybe one of yours as well is senator Kennedy so you know you know I was sent her to Canda t he's got I don't know what state as from he's got an accent it makes him sound I assume it's southern it's a little bit slower it's interesting to listen to and what he's talking between the fact that what he says tends to be very clever often funny him because he says it in a certain way and there's a variation in the way he talks you can't look away when he's on television because something interesting is going to happen and I was watching him he was on martha maccallum show on fox and he was he was making the case for why he thinks essentially that the the virus came from a Wuhan biological lab of some sort as opposed to a web market and one of the things that I do appreciate about our elected officials is that while I I normally hate the fact there's so many of them our own lawyers I feel like we have too many lawyers some lawyers very good you know a few lawyers yeah you want some good advice the lawyers are smart they're solid thinkers but certainly there's too much of a good thing sometimes right I mean you could have too many lawyers and that would argue you know maybe we've reached that level but that said though the ones who are good enough lawyers that they become well known run for run for office and wind tend to be pretty good lawyers and so so it when you watch you to say Lindsey Graham you know argue something on TV or you're watching senator Kennedy they just do a really good job of making a case in a way that other people just aren't as clever so here here's some of the evidence and you can make up your own mind so senator Kennedy says and I think this this is a fact he says as a fact I know that there was a study and an article that alleges this is the fact but I'm gonna say I'm skeptical of this fact I'm not skeptical of his overall conclusion but this fact has me with a little bit of skepticism and the fact is somebody said that there were any bats at the Wuhan web markets and so the implication is the virus could not have spread from the back to a human in the wet market because of the web market because there were no bats there to do that now I feel as if I just feel as if that might not be true maybe there was a bat or two now that doesn't mean it came from the bat us like that I'm just saying that I don't know we would try to make up a cover story that couldn't be possible because there were no bats maybe because whatever they did is pretty remarkable so you almost can't put anything past them but but let's let's take Senator Kennedy's case he alleges that it's known that there were no bats let's say and there was a lab nearby and there's the story in The Washington Post that this says there was some kind of a report a few years ago that that lab had coronavirus it had the virus and it had insufficient safety guidelines and safety protocols and stuff so apparently apparently it was known that that lab had this stuff and that it could get out and it was a known problem that had been written up and there weren't any bats there at the web market we also know that is it true that the the doctors who originally reported this sort of either died or disappeared are there a bunch of people who died or disappeared and didn't Chyna say we can't look into it you know there's no more looking into it and didn't Chyna say that didn't try to say that it wasn't transferable from person to person from human to human it sort of adds up to I don't know how it could be any and they also closed they closed Wuhan at the same time they were saying it was no big deal like they they totally closed their city it's no big deal if you're wondering about the timing I think it was January 23rd they closed Wuhan and the very next day which was probably the next periscope I did I assume I called for closing travel so the moment that China said we're going to close Wuhan I said okay I'm done I do not need to see any additional information if if somebody has some kind of a virus and they blockade their entire city what other questions do you need to ask to know that it's time to close down the airports I mean that's what I said you know you could say to yourself Scott the the experts of the CDC and the World Health Organization and China to which I say did you hear the part about China closed a major city you couldn't even get in or out because of a virus that's killing people if you tell me you need to study this a little bit longer I don't think you heard this part China closed a major city they didn't let people travel in and out no extra study required close the airport so yeah now that some time is going by those of you who some of you sort of remember the moment you remember the you know my rant and now you can see it in hindsight and you can see how how accurate that was anyway so here's some questions for you will president Chi remain in power now obviously has a pretty good grip on the country he's a dictator in practical terms so there's certainly no political process for removing him well I suppose the you know if the if the party wanted to remove them they could but I don't see that as being likely in their system but here's the thing the coronavirus scandal just went from we're accusing you you're denying it to another level wouldn't you say wouldn't you say wouldn't you say we'll get rid of this critic wouldn't you say that China has a big scandal now and that we're past the point of questioning whether whether they're responsible in a very bad way but that's not the real problem for China you know it's bad to have a bad reputation but isn't this going to cause all of the major countries that were victims of this to decouple you know the United States I'm sure is going to decouple I don't know how quickly you know who's gonna pay for it what it looks like but it's the beginning of the end there's not any question that the United States is going to have less business there not more I think the same probably with Japan and I would expect some of the European countries to follow so it seems to me that the only path that China has is economic catastrophe I think the United States will will climb on to this pretty readily you know if you want to feel good about the United States here's a little fact that I heard from Peter Navarro who by the way was excellent on television today melisten to Peter Navarro just talked on a news show I don't know if he's always this good because I haven't really paid attention to him but he gave just one of the best TV interviews you'll ever say I you know it wasn't flashy so maybe nobody's gonna maybe it didn't take note you know maybe nobody noticed but the the clarity of his thought and they and the precision in which he just you know presented things in a simple way for the public was really good a plus Peter Navarro anyway so it seems I don't know I was even talking about Peter Navarro there was some point there but oh yeah I was gonna make you feel good yours here's something Peter Navarro said he was talking about the ventilators and how the American companies were gearing up to rapidly create ventilators and I think which company was but one of the car companies I believe built a ventilator factory that was using their own factory as a retrofit and they started producing ventilators in 11 days in 11 days we spun up a ventilator factory and we're well on the way to producing on I think he said 150,000 ventilators a hundred and fifty thousand ventilators it looks like we'll need about a third of them we'll probably you know take 2/3 of them and you know distribute them to States for store houses and stuff for storage and then we'll probably help other countries but how how proud are you to live in the country that can make a ventilator Factory in 11 days you know remember when we were watching China put up their little instant hospitals and everybody was saying my god we can't do that we'll never build a hospital 11 days like China then we build a ventilator factory in 11 days now bad now I assume I assume it was probably more about assembling parts from other places so it was probably yeah had a lot more to do with assembling than anything else but still 11 days pretty impressive here's what I proposed I just tweeted this before I get out here I prefer proposal when the coronavirus is behind us and sunday will be that we forgive each other be you democrats or republicans be you professionals and experts and doctors be you businesspeople be you citizens i I propose that we just forgive each other for all of our honest mistakes during the fog of war because let's admit there's always somebody's gonna be right but only because there's always somebody on every side of every issue so somebody's gonna be right back lock but nobody knows what's the right thing to do nobody really had quite the right information in the early days no but he's smart enough to know what's the exact right thing to do and the right time to do it so whether we got things right or whether some people got some things wrong there both luck the things we did right a little bit of luck the things we did wrong bad luck because you know you just can't be smart when you don't have data and you don't have a way to get it but that's what I'm talking about honest mistakes if you make honest mistakes I think we should just forgive each other but we should not forgive dishonest mistakes and I don't have any evidence that anybody involved in this country has a dishonest mistake I know you're gonna think so-and-so lied blow the blob and I don't think that's necessarily the case I think some people had bad information and you know took bad information forward but I don't know that anybody had bad intentions in this country however China made a different kind of mistake as far as we can tell now apparently the president is gonna withhold funding from the World Health Organization until he gets an answer and maybe that'll tell us whether China did something let's say intentional versus unintentional but it's certainly looking every bit as if China made a dishonest mistake in other words they they just lied to us and knew it so under those conditions I don't think we have to yell at them and call the beams we don't have to disrespect them but it wouldn't make any sense to have a future with them in which we're continuing to trade because they don't have it they don't have a system that's compatible with our system so whatever it is whatever it is about their system I don't even need to judge it I'm not going to say it's a good system I'm not going to say it's bad I'm not going to say that the Chinese government is good or bad I don't you know I mean I have an opinion but it doesn't matter for what I'm gonna say next and certainly I don't think the Chinese people are anything except awesome people everybody I know from China is pretty pretty amazing so you know but still we can say no hard feelings but our systems don't work together whatever it is that we're doing you know this democracy capitalism you know as much transparency as you can it just doesn't fit with the will get away with anything we can and we're gonna hide as much as we can those two systems don't work now if they were both the same system I don't know would that work who knows maybe maybe you would both be okay with it because you're both doing the same thing but it's not personal you know we don't have to say China we're in a cold war now we don't have to do that we could just say you know we'd love to connect our telecommunications equipment stuff that's made in your country but we also like security and you haven't built anything that has that feature so it's nothing personal we just can't connect to your telecom equipment because you don't have a feature we need the feature is security should you ever have that feature we'd love to talk to you again but I think we should just completely do personalize this thing because you know I don't know what they're thinking but I don't have a bad feeling about anybody in China except you know maybe some of the leaders but let's just not make your personal it's just business if you got a system and we got a system and they just don't talk why force it all right most of you probably saw Obama's endorsement of Joe Biden and I cheekily tweeted this a little while ago this is me imagining a conversation between Obama and some sample Democrats and Obama says going to endorse a candidate today the Democrats in unison say yay is the candidate pretty and Obama says he has a great personality it felt like that's what he was saying did you note that when Obama was describing the greatness of Joe Biden there were two categories one he attended meetings for important stuff now the way Obama says it is Obama put Biden in charge and he got things done but did he I think he attended meetings of things that were going to happen one way or the other that you know that Obama ordered and other people pretty much executed but okay you know he was at the meetings but how much did that did divided initiate he did initiate some stuff I don't remember Obama mentioning it but it seems like Obama was really focusing on his personality am I am I wrong you know he might have said character and you know you need a you need a president you need the president who's got these qualities and the colds are you know and and I'm thinking to myself you're so three years too late because if president Trump's personality quirks were going to ruin the country when we have a sample of that already think about it we've had three and a half years of President Trump and from the very beginning people were saying that personality that character of his yeah the way he thinks and operates those those times he's not going to pass the fact-checking all that personality stuff that's going to cost you it's gonna cost you what would be an example of that three and a half years he's been exactly the same person for three and a half years if it's if it's Obama's biggest three and a half years later he'd better come up with a lips he better come up with an example if that's your biggest complaint is the guy's personality and how that personality will wreck stuff after three and a half years you need to give us an example of that the economy went down because the time Trump told a joke was that it the the unemployment level rose because that time Trump insulted a member of the press right did that happen I don't remember that happening so give us an example you know that so that was such a 2015 way to approach Joe Biden that it made me think there was no no organic enthusiasm did he pick up on that there was that it was like Obama sat down to write an essay and the topic he didn't care about all right please write an essay the advantages of joe biden over the evil orange menace President Trump and you know and Obama sat down as a big old pencil and he's like all right oh he is character it is not the type of fiber we need to be leadership in the country oh I'm not just talking about mayors I can fill up this page not just talking about governors need to fill up the page I'm not just talking about Congress okay they'll be odd to me if I do another sentence like that and I'm just listening to this thing and it looked like the most uninspired essay that was written by somebody who really didn't want to write the essay and the best thing he could come up with is this guy's got a good personality I swear to God yeah damned by favorites I swear to God the the biggest advantage Joe Biden has as a Democratic candidate is that nobody dislikes him think about that have you during this whole process Joe Biden has been you know criticized and insulted and just every way you know every accusation from you know corruption to senility I'd be just everything he's had every charge at him but let me ask you this to his credit have you heard even one person say that he's not a nice guy right even President Trump said in public the other day he's a really nice guy and everybody who's on the other side can't even find anything that they don't like about him but I think the Democrats have mistaken Biden having no reason to dislike him with having the qualities to be President now one of the characteristics of human beings as we're always fighting the last war you've heard that phrase right so and I think it was a Duvall who were saying I don't know if he quoted somebody or this was his own observation that you are the you're the result of your traumas that you know that who you are is mostly defined by the the biggest problems you had and you know how you got got past them and since the country the Democrats specifically have been undergoing this three and a half a year trauma of being you know in a country in which their most heated nemesis President Trump is the president you got a figure that they're that they're gonna fight the war of the personality war it's the one that lost because they tried to beat him on personality and character and it didn't work yeah that's what the whole grab him by the whatever tape was about your your character is bad we can't have that character so they're coming around again with the old character attack and it feels like Joe Biden was the antidote out to the mental anguish of Trump I just just hold this thought in your head for a moment and you'll see how profound it is or not if you're thinking about Trump what is literally the opposite of him its Biden Biden is almost the literal opposite of Trump I believe that that the Democrats wanted the most opposite person because they had such a high level of hatred for Trump and then whoever ran against him just had to be the most different and when somebody like Mike Bloomberg gets on the stage well it doesn't matter that Mike Bloomberg is considered highly capable and and honest right I mean he was considered highly capable and honest that should have been good enough right and probably Mike Bloomberg said to himself look if we're running against President Trump and I think I have you know all these billionaire credentials and I've been a mayor I mean I've got the resume clearly I have the skills I have the money I'm a reasonable guy you know I'm nice to people I have all the right policies why wouldn't I win and here's what I think he missed I think he missed they he's a billionaire from New York and he's not different enough he's just not different enough it's not good enough that even if he thought Mike Bloomberg had more skill and was nicer it's just not different enough and the most different person was Joe Biden so you could take almost any of the other candidates Amy Klobuchar very capable you know one of the top politicians could still be the vice presidential pick has not been ruled out and by all accounts a very capable you know politician but you know that the story better being beamed to her staff and I know eating the salad with the comb or whatever she was a little bit mean so she wasn't opposite enough of the thing they hated the most about Trump what about Carla Harris well in many ways she was the opposite of but not in personality in personality people thought she could be a little harsh yeah maybe she'd been a little me and she had prosecuted a little too hard so you could see how people would be looking for the farthest from their trauma which was Trump and so Biden I think was just the default all right I told you that some some restaurants might start selling goods directly to the public because they have different supply chains so if you wanted to buy toilet paper and your grocery store didn't have any there's actually a pretty good chance that you could go to your local restaurant that's only doing takeout because they have to close because of the shutdown and say hey can you order be a bunch of toilet paper and they'd say sure will you take a 20% markup 50% whatever it is and then they just buy it and walk it out to the car so I just found out there is one of our local another one of our local businesses is doing this the the first retail house at Livermore in California if it's something that's something they would ordinarily order anyway from a cut of meat salmon or actually toilet paper that's on their list you can buy it over the phone and you just drive up and you show your receipt in the window and they carry it out and put it in your trunk you know you don't have to have any human contact you're behind the glass of your car you just hold up the receipt pop your trunk boom you got yourself some groceries and you never went to the grocery store now what I say this and you know it's really amazing how people are adapting right people the best entrepreneurs just just found new ways to make money and when the old ways come back they're gonna have new ways and old ways so I think I think the the best entrepreneurs are actually finding a way to come and come out of this and here's another idea you know the big guy sports businesses are in a lot of trouble because they can't fill the stay because for the obvious reasons of distance so I was saying that maybe these big sports teams should look at this as an opportunity to build sports from the ground up you know same athletes and same basic rules but instead of building a four in person watching why not build it from the ground up before watching it digitally from a distance in other words the reason that the sports can survive just with television as as great as watching sports on television is it's still not optimized for that here's what you could do for example you could Mike all of the players and all the coaches and all of the refs let's say you're a home and you know maybe you've got an app so you can watch sports and you could choose your channel so you could actually hear the ref you could hear the announcers you could hear the defensive line you could hear that you know everything except the quarterback giving them the calls I guess you'd have to turn that off but it would have to be just football it could be basketball baseball and cetera and and you make it a sort of a party in which let's say you know the other people watching are in your gear too so instead of having the the cheering of the crowd that motivates motivates the players it makes you feel like you're part of something and you know of course you get you get motivated by the cheer of the crowd what if what if just saying the cheer of the crowd was in your headphones and it's the other people at home who are literally sharing at home so they you might be hearing you know let's say just to complete this let's say you're watching it on whatever device and you you know you're watching one of the channels you're listening to the defense of the offense and the players there get it rip this guy apart he always leans left watch this I mean I'm gonna make him lean left and I'm gonna take his legs out anyway and you're listening to it and then there's a play and then you know the app just lets all the cheering from all the living rooms through and and let's say that the just to extend this just a brainstorm and let's say the pliers let's say the players also have an earpiece so that the players can because this is a microphone as well as an earpiece so they've got an earpiece so they can actually hear the cheering so what if they can hear you cheering at home and why not is there there's no technological reason that you couldn't hear everybody cheering from their living room you just have to build the app that does it then you you can imagine that the the players were talking to each other you'd be able to pick up that etc now you might say to yourself well I don't want to listen to these boring athletes and their inane chatter but that's what you're thinking about it develop the old way I'm not saying do business exactly the same way I'm saying tell the players that part of their job is to be interesting Mike them up there there's always going to be a few funny people on every team you don't need all nine players on the field to be witty and entertaining if you've got a hilarious shortstop and then the other is just sort of you know play to him it's the best show in the world how much would you like watching a baseball game where most of the time you're just waiting for something to happen even if you love baseball let's admit it you're waiting for stuff to happen what but while you're waiting you're hearing the the funniest shortstop in the world just ripping apart the other team and just saying honest that this guy's got you know he's got to do two legs and he hasn't had a hit since Tuesday you know whatever it would be very entertaining anyway so the whole point of it is that if you rethought sports as a digital product it would still work you know every bit of it would still work in the life setting once they go back to you know crowds are okay but in the meantime you'd have a better product so they should go back with a better product it should be improved sports when they go back you shouldn't be the you know just wait take a few months off and then just back to it how boring would that be you know did you see the press conference in which Trump got all over that one idiot in the back who would shut up I thought it was his best you know sort of world wrestling performance because you know I I think I think by now even the people who were slow to catch on have figured out that Trump knows what the show is he knows he's putting on a show and he plays that like a show that took people I think his critics it's taken them years to figure that out and even some of them still talk about it like he just lost his temper no that's not what happened he might have been genuinely bad that you know whatever time you're talking about yeah it doesn't matter which time you say that that time you're talking about whatever it was he might have been genuinely mad but that's not why he acted the way he did he didn't act that way because he was mad he acted that way because it's a show and he knows how to put on the show and he used a genuine emotion and whatever time to to put on the show so today's show was excellent there was this I don't know there's some reporter that must have been from some unfriendly publication and you starts asking questions and Trump tries to shut him down and doesn't really let him to get his question now so the guy's insistent and he won't stop talking and Trump's already gone to the next person the guy just keeps talking and Trump just stops puts the the full Trump you know laser cannon focus on this guy and it just rips them apart and I'm just watching this and I'm thinking I've never enjoyed politics this much you know we say this all the time it to the point where it's it's trite you're gonna miss this I mean you're really gonna miss this because you don't realize how jacked up your body chemistry is we're kind of addicted to it if I'm being honest we're kind of addicted and you might have taken your team you know let's say your team is team Trump and you're like Trump really tore into that guy that was a good day but of course the other team they think that are winning - so unsee you then it'll be like ah did you see that crazy old Trump did some more crazy stuff because he's so impulsive and he can't control himself right and then their ratings go up and everybody has a good time so it's like everybody wins you know the the reason that you know wrestling and sports and all that work is that everybody gets a chance to win you know maybe your team loses today buddy you know you're gonna win later so you win - anyway I thought Trump's show was maybe the finest ever just for like a one out of one moment what his best I'm gonna say let's talk about the the fake controversy of whether Trump is trying to be a dictator and overrule the governor's despite despite the constitutional limitations and the press tried to bait Trump back into that conversation and he he wisely decided that he just you didn't want to have that conversation he doesn't need to he doesn't have to answer it here's why there's no real question about what would happen in the real world so talking to the governor's and talking to Charl well what would you do in this situation and what if this and you know who is really in charge are you in charge you say you're in charge but are you in charge maybe you should talk to him maybe you should fight it now maybe we got a little fight going that's all artificial because neither the governor's nor the president have any question in their mind how this will play out there's no question there's no ambiguity whatsoever among the governor's in the president when you say because here's how it's going to work out whatever is the smartest thing that's what they'll agree to do because remember the visibility on this is extraordinary everything that every governor decides everything the president does the taskforce does we've got 325 million I is looking at it so if if there is such a thing as a good plan and let's say a governor brings it to the president he doesn't have to bring it to the president but let's just say they publicize their plans and let's say the president says oh that one's a problem what's going to happen well the president isn't going to send them the RV and kill them all right the president's going to call them and say look this could be a big problem why are you doing this they'll talk it out the president and well maybe use some pressure by saying look you know we're federal government's giving you a lot of help you got to give us a little you got to give us a little so we'll give you a little might be a little pressure in the end how's it going to work out well in the end the state will give something that's pretty close to what they wanted the president might influence a little bit and that's what you would want it's exactly the way you would want it to go so as long as we're all watching nobody's gonna do something crazy that that the public and the observers would say why are you doing that we're watching we're watching you do that don't do that there's just too many people watching so I don't think there's any risk whatsoever that there's any problem between the governors and the federal government and Trump when it comes right down to it you know when when the phone call is made you know when the legislation has to be you know when the check has to be written it's not going to be a problem and you see you've already seen them all work together well enough that I think you believe that let's see so here's here's a real sign of something so in the news AOC and Senator Schumer got together and they're calling on FEMA to supply funeral funding to families who have lost loved ones to the virus and they say quote disaster funeral assistance would help individuals and households with the death of an immediate family remember now you know I don't know much about the issue but sounds like a good one right so in terms of whether this is a good idea or a bad idea I would say anything anything we can do to help the public at this point is a good idea so separate from the question of whether it's a good idea which I don't want to talk about it's just not interesting yeah because it seems like a good enough idea it's not really controversial but what's interesting about this is that a OC and Schumer wouldn't you say are the sort of top five of effective Trump critics is that a fair statement am i seein Schumer when they get together they're like the best strongest Trump critics and what they spent their time on today was something that needed to be done I'm guessing you know it seems like this is a reasonable thing to ask for and I'm happy that they're serving the public I'm sure their constituents are asking for this so I'm totally on board with what they're asking for here's my here's my point here's my point it's all they had left it's all they had left because as soon as doctor foul she said president Trump did everything we recommended what do you got as soon as President Trump said let's get a ton of money and give it to people directly and then the Democrats said how about even more money and the president said okay and then when we spend all that money the president's literally in public today is saying you you Democrats got to give us more money more money to give to the poor people what do I even say a OSE and Chuck Schumer have left what issue are they gonna because they can't really talk about the economy everybody understands why the economy is the way it is they can't really talk about him handling things wrong because the experts told them what to do and he just did it and they're the ones saying president you have to listen to the experts on climate change I think in a weird way the most positive endorsement I've ever seen a president Trump came today completely accidentally and in a different realm that had nothing to do with him that two of his strongest you know nemec's got together to do something that was simply useful for the public and by the way to their credit so thank you you know I'm sure the families will appreciate that I hope I hope him what comes through but that's all they had left think about that think about think about that was the issue that was left important and I'm glad they did it but it kind of shows that the president is sort of hitting the you know he's pulling the big levers and hitting the big buttons and what's left needs to be mopped up it's not less important but certainly suggests that the president's on the right path all right I promised you 45 minutes of stellar entertainment pretty sure I delivered so tonight by the way did anybody try my technique for relaxation the technique was to remember your last haircut or you know hair salon visit and just imagine yourself go through the steps and how I felt and spelled and and all that stuff so in the comments what the comments catch up just tell me if that worked for you on average before one on various 7500 people die every day we can if we can't afford it okay so I ask the question of people who think we're panicking on this thing to tell me what it would look like for them to be wrong in other words how many people would have to die when we go back to work for somebody who said you know you're you're overselling this thing it's not that big a deal compared to other problems we have you know what level of death would it take for you to look back and say whoa I guess the experts were right this was way worse than the flu is there a number that you would say yeah I was wrong I just wonder what that would be thank you I drink myself to sleep so somebody now my husband wants me to cut his hair if somebody doesn't like haircuts aw that's too bad awesome suggestion it worked like a charm slept like a baby amazingly no panic oh it worked again okay Wow I guess it worked pretty well I'll try it again the sort of thing that you could do more than once all right that's all for now I will talk to you in the morning Dennis Prager posted a letter written by five doctors who think a lockdown was not necessary does that mean anything pretty sure you can find five or five doctors to say anything all right we'll talk about that tomorrow enough of that have a great night

bum-bum-bum-bum-bum hey Jack come on in

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time of night so that you can get all of

the cares and tensions of the world

drained out of your overstressed body

today and for the next oh let's say 45

minutes it's nothing but good times

we're gonna put things in perspective

we're going to make you feel better make

you feel relaxed I feel a little

observation for you and I don't know

what to make of it yet and it goes like

this I was watching Obama do his

recommendation for Biden and you know

that I've commented how dr. Burks

has up talk now up Talk is where you end

the sentence with a little bit of it up

so it makes you sound maybe like a

violently girl and then when you do the

up top you don't sound as confident

because you're sort of asking you make

you statements but you're making a

statements that sounds like a question

but have you ever noticed Obama Obama

does down talk so Obama's last word is

always the the deeper word I'd never

noticed that I was watching him today so

I'll give you my Obama impression we've

got here the back scratcher and have a

remote control but you could take your

Apple earbuds and you could pair it with

your mechanical pen thing listen to him

and listen to how he finishes on a

confident low note and I thought to

myself I think that's really effective

and I also asked myself if I do it and I

don't know

because probably because I'm thinking

about it I'll lie there do it or I'll

conceal how much I do it or don't do it

so maybe you could tell me do I well

this is a question so I'm going to up

talk the question do I up talk have you

ever heard me up talk in what I'm making

statements not questions and if you ever

noticed me because I really don't know

do i down talk on the bat on the last on

the last word do I give you a sentence

and then I'm talking like this because

it makes me sound confident because I'm

starting the sentence and you say what's

it all about and I finish it fast

I finished hard I finish it strong

because I'm coming in and I'm just

laying it down there and just putting it

down there finishing down somebody says

no you don't I think you mean no I don't

up talk oh look what I did I

automatically did a down talk I think

I'm going to practice that speaking of

people who have interesting ways of

speaking one of my favorite TV senators

and maybe one of yours as well

is senator Kennedy so you know you know

I was sent her to Canda t he's got I

don't know what state as from he's got

an accent it makes him sound

I assume it's southern it's a little bit

slower it's interesting to listen to and

what he's talking between the fact that

what he says tends to be very clever

often funny him because he says it in a

certain way and there's a variation in

the way he talks you can't look away

when he's on television because

something interesting is going to happen

and I was watching him he was on martha

maccallum show on fox and he was he was

making the case for why he thinks

essentially that the

the virus came from a Wuhan biological

lab of some sort as opposed to a web

market and one of the things that I do

appreciate about our elected officials

is that while I I normally hate the fact

there's so many of them our own lawyers

I feel like we have too many lawyers

some lawyers very good you know a few

lawyers yeah you want some good advice

the lawyers are smart they're solid

thinkers but certainly there's too much

of a good thing sometimes right I mean

you could have too many lawyers and that

would argue you know maybe we've reached

that level but that said though the ones

who are good enough lawyers that they

become well known run for run for office

and wind tend to be pretty good lawyers

and so so it when you watch you to say

Lindsey Graham you know argue something

on TV or you're watching senator Kennedy

they just do a really good job of making

a case in a way that other people just

aren't as clever so here here's some of

the evidence and you can make up your

own mind so senator Kennedy says and I

think this this is a fact he says as a

fact I know that there was a study and

an article that alleges this is the fact

but I'm gonna say I'm skeptical of this

fact I'm not skeptical of his overall

conclusion but this fact has me with a

little bit of skepticism and the fact is

somebody said that there were any bats

at the Wuhan web markets and so the

implication is the virus could not have

spread from the back to a human in the

wet market because of the web market

because there were no bats there to do

that

now I feel as if I just feel as if that

might not be true maybe there was a bat

or two now that doesn't mean it came

from the bat us like that I'm just

saying that I don't know we would try to

make up a cover story

that couldn't be possible because there

were no bats

maybe because whatever they did is

pretty remarkable so you almost can't

put anything past them but but let's

let's take Senator Kennedy's case he

alleges that it's known that there were

no bats let's say and there was a lab

nearby and there's the story in The

Washington Post that this says there was

some kind of a report a few years ago

that that lab had coronavirus it had the

virus and it had insufficient safety

guidelines and safety protocols and

stuff so apparently apparently it was

known that that lab had this stuff and

that it could get out and it was a known

problem that had been written up and

there weren't any bats there at the web

market we also know that is it true that

the the doctors who originally reported

this sort of either died or disappeared

are there a bunch of people who died or

disappeared and didn't Chyna say we

can't look into it you know there's no

more looking into it and didn't Chyna

say that didn't try to say that it

wasn't transferable from person to

person from human to human it sort of

adds up to I don't know how it could be

any and they also closed

they closed Wuhan at the same time they

were saying it was no big deal like they

they totally closed their city it's no

big deal if you're wondering about the

timing I think it was January 23rd they

closed Wuhan and the very next day which

was probably the next periscope I did I

assume I called for closing travel so

the moment that China said we're going

to close Wuhan I said okay I'm done I do

not need to see any additional

information if

if somebody has some kind of a virus and

they blockade their entire city what

other questions do you need to ask to

know that it's time to close down the

airports I mean that's what I said you

know you could say to yourself Scott the

the experts of the CDC and the World

Health Organization and China to which I

say did you hear the part about China

closed a major city you couldn't even

get in or out because of a virus that's

killing people if you tell me you need

to study this a little bit longer I

don't think you heard this part China

closed a major city they didn't let

people travel in and out no extra study

required close the airport so yeah now

that some time is going by those of you

who some of you sort of remember the

moment you remember the you know my rant

and now you can see it in hindsight and

you can see how how accurate that was

anyway so here's some questions for you

will president Chi remain in power

now obviously has a pretty good grip on

the country he's a dictator in practical

terms so there's certainly no political

process for removing him well I suppose

the you know if the if the party wanted

to remove them they could but I don't

see that as being likely in their system

but here's the thing the coronavirus

scandal just went from we're accusing

you you're denying it to another level

wouldn't you say wouldn't you say

wouldn't you say we'll get rid of this

critic wouldn't you say that China has a

big scandal now and that we're past the

point of questioning whether whether

they're responsible in a very bad way

but that's not the real problem for

China you know it's bad to have a bad

reputation but isn't this going to cause

all of the major countries that were

victims of this to decouple you know the

United States I'm sure is going to

decouple I don't know how quickly you

know who's gonna pay for it what it

looks like but it's the beginning of the

end there's not any question that the

United States is going to have less

business there not more I think the same

probably with Japan and I would expect

some of the European countries to follow

so it seems to me that the only path

that China has is economic catastrophe I

think the United States will will climb

on to this pretty readily you know if

you want to feel good about the United

States here's a little fact that I heard

from Peter Navarro who by the way was

excellent on television today melisten

to Peter Navarro just talked on a news

show

I don't know if he's always this good

because I haven't really paid attention

to him but he gave just one of the best

TV interviews you'll ever say I you know

it wasn't flashy so maybe nobody's gonna

maybe it didn't take note you know maybe

nobody noticed but the the clarity of

his thought and they and the precision

in which he just you know presented

things in a simple way for the public

was really good a plus

Peter Navarro anyway so it seems I don't

know I was even talking about Peter

Navarro there was some point there but

oh yeah I was gonna make you feel good

yours here's something Peter Navarro

said he was talking about the

ventilators and how the American

companies were gearing up to rapidly

create ventilators and I think

which company was but one of the car

companies I believe built a ventilator

factory that was using their own factory

as a retrofit and they started producing

ventilators in 11 days in 11 days we

spun up a ventilator factory and we're

well on the way to producing on I think

he said 150,000 ventilators a hundred

and fifty thousand ventilators it looks

like we'll need about a third of them

we'll probably you know take 2/3 of them

and you know distribute them to States

for store houses and stuff for storage

and then we'll probably help other

countries but how how proud are you to

live in the country that can make a

ventilator Factory in 11 days you know

remember when we were watching China put

up their little instant hospitals and

everybody was saying my god we can't do

that

we'll never build a hospital 11 days

like China then we build a ventilator

factory in 11 days now bad now I assume

I assume it was probably more about

assembling parts from other places so it

was probably yeah had a lot more to do

with assembling than anything else but

still 11 days pretty impressive

here's what I proposed I just tweeted

this before I get out here I prefer

proposal when the coronavirus is behind

us and sunday will be that we forgive

each other be you democrats or

republicans be you professionals and

experts and doctors be you

businesspeople be you citizens i I

propose that we just forgive each other

for all of our honest mistakes during

the fog of war because let's admit

there's always somebody's gonna be right

but only because there's always somebody

on every side of every issue so

somebody's gonna be right back lock but

nobody knows what's the right thing to

do nobody really had quite

the right information in the early days

no but he's smart enough to know what's

the exact right thing to do and the

right time to do it so whether we got

things right or whether some people got

some things wrong there both luck the

things we did right a little bit of luck

the things we did wrong bad luck because

you know you just can't be smart when

you don't have data and you don't have a

way to get it but that's what I'm

talking about honest mistakes if you

make honest mistakes I think we should

just forgive each other

but we should not forgive dishonest

mistakes and I don't have any evidence

that anybody involved in this country

has a dishonest mistake I know you're

gonna think so-and-so lied blow the blob

and I don't think that's necessarily the

case I think some people had bad

information and you know took bad

information forward but I don't know

that anybody had bad intentions in this

country however China made a different

kind of mistake as far as we can tell

now apparently the president is gonna

withhold funding from the World Health

Organization until he gets an answer and

maybe that'll tell us whether China did

something let's say intentional versus

unintentional but it's certainly looking

every bit as if China made a dishonest

mistake in other words they they just

lied to us and knew it so under those

conditions I don't think we have to yell

at them and call the beams we don't have

to disrespect them but it wouldn't make

any sense to have a future with them in

which we're continuing to trade because

they don't have it they don't have a

system that's compatible with our system

so whatever it is whatever it is about

their system I don't even need to judge

it I'm not going to say it's a good

system I'm not going to say it's bad I'm

not going to say that the Chinese

government is good or bad

I don't you know I mean I have an

opinion but it doesn't matter for what

I'm gonna say next and certainly I don't

think the Chinese people are anything

except awesome people everybody I know

from China is pretty pretty amazing so

you know but still we can say no hard

feelings but our systems don't work

together whatever it is that we're doing

you know this democracy capitalism you

know as much transparency as you can it

just doesn't fit with the will get away

with anything we can and we're gonna

hide as much as we can those two systems

don't work now if they were both the

same system I don't know would that work

who knows maybe maybe you would both be

okay with it because you're both doing

the same thing but it's not personal you

know we don't have to say China we're in

a cold war now we don't have to do that

we could just say you know we'd love to

connect our telecommunications equipment

stuff that's made in your country but we

also like security and you haven't built

anything that has that feature so it's

nothing personal

we just can't connect to your telecom

equipment because you don't have a

feature we need the feature is security

should you ever have that feature we'd

love to talk to you again but I think we

should just completely do personalize

this thing because you know I don't know

what they're thinking but I don't have a

bad feeling about anybody in China

except you know maybe some of the

leaders but let's just not make your

personal it's just business if you got a

system and we got a system and they just

don't talk why force it all right

most of you probably saw Obama's

endorsement of Joe Biden and I cheekily

tweeted this a little while ago this is

me imagining a conversation between

Obama and some sample Democrats and

Obama says

going to endorse a candidate today the

Democrats in unison say yay is the

candidate pretty and Obama says

he has a great personality it felt like

that's what he was saying did you note

that when Obama was describing the

greatness of Joe Biden there were two

categories one he attended meetings for

important stuff now the way Obama says

it is Obama put Biden in charge and he

got things done but did he I think he

attended meetings of things that were

going to happen one way or the other

that you know that Obama ordered and

other people pretty much executed but

okay you know he was at the meetings but

how much did that did divided initiate

he did initiate some stuff I don't

remember Obama mentioning it but it

seems like Obama was really focusing on

his personality am I am I wrong you know

he might have said character and you

know you need a you need a president you

need the president who's got these

qualities and the colds are you know and

and I'm thinking to myself you're so

three years too late because if

president Trump's personality quirks

were going to ruin the country when we

have a sample of that already think

about it we've had three and a half

years of President Trump and from the

very beginning people were saying that

personality that character of his yeah

the way he thinks and operates those

those times he's not going to pass the

fact-checking all that personality stuff

that's going to cost you it's gonna cost

you what would be an example of that

three and a half years he's been exactly

the same person for three and a half

years if it's if it's Obama's biggest

three and a half years later he'd

better come up with a lips

he better come up with an example if

that's your biggest complaint is the

guy's personality and how that

personality will wreck stuff after three

and a half years you need to give us an

example of that the economy went down

because the time Trump told a joke was

that it the the unemployment level rose

because that time Trump insulted a

member of the press right did that

happen I don't remember that happening

so give us an example you know that so

that was such a 2015 way to approach Joe

Biden that it made me think there was no

no organic enthusiasm did he pick up on

that there was that it was like Obama

sat down to write an essay and the topic

he didn't care about all right please

write an essay the advantages of joe

biden over the evil orange menace

President Trump and you know and Obama

sat down as a big old pencil and he's

like all right oh he is character it is

not the type of fiber we need to be

leadership in the country oh I'm not

just talking about mayors I can fill up

this page not just talking about

governors need to fill up the page I'm

not just talking about Congress okay

they'll be odd to me if I do another

sentence like that and I'm just

listening to this thing and it looked

like the most uninspired essay that was

written by somebody who really didn't

want to write the essay and the best

thing he could come up with is this

guy's got a good personality I swear to

God

yeah damned by favorites I swear to God

the the biggest advantage

Joe Biden has as a Democratic candidate

is that nobody dislikes him think about

that have you during this whole process

Joe Biden has been you know criticized

and insulted and just every way you know

every accusation from you know

corruption to senility I'd be just

everything he's had every charge at him

but let me ask you this to his credit

have you heard even one person say that

he's not a nice guy right even President

Trump said in public the other day he's

a really nice guy and everybody who's on

the other side can't even find anything

that they don't like about him but I

think the Democrats have mistaken Biden

having no reason to dislike him with

having the qualities to be President

now one of the characteristics of human

beings as we're always fighting the last

war you've heard that phrase right so

and I think it was a Duvall who were

saying I don't know if he quoted

somebody or this was his own observation

that you are the you're the result of

your traumas that you know that who you

are is mostly defined by the the biggest

problems you had and you know how you

got got past them and since the country

the Democrats specifically have been

undergoing this three and a half a year

trauma of being you know in a country in

which their most heated nemesis

President Trump is the president you got

a figure that they're that they're gonna

fight the war of the personality war

it's the one that lost because they

tried to beat him on personality and

character and it didn't work yeah that's

what the whole grab him by the whatever

tape was about your your character is

bad we can't have that character so

they're coming around again with the old

character attack and it feels like Joe

Biden was the antidote

out to the mental anguish of Trump

I just just hold this thought in your

head for a moment and you'll see how

profound it is or not if you're thinking

about Trump

what is literally the opposite of him

its Biden Biden is almost the literal

opposite of Trump I believe that that

the Democrats wanted the most opposite

person because they had such a high

level of hatred for Trump and then

whoever ran against him just had to be

the most different and when somebody

like Mike Bloomberg gets on the stage

well it doesn't matter that Mike

Bloomberg is considered highly capable

and and honest right I mean he was

considered highly capable and honest

that should have been good enough right

and probably Mike Bloomberg said to

himself look if we're running against

President Trump and I think I have you

know all these billionaire credentials

and I've been a mayor I mean I've got

the resume clearly I have the skills I

have the money I'm a reasonable guy you

know I'm nice to people I have all the

right policies

why wouldn't I win and here's what I

think he missed I think he missed

they he's a billionaire from New York

and he's not different enough he's just

not different enough it's not good

enough that even if he thought Mike

Bloomberg had more skill and was nicer

it's just not different enough and the

most different person was Joe Biden so

you could take almost any of the other

candidates Amy Klobuchar very capable

you know one of the top politicians

could still be the vice presidential

pick has not been ruled out and by all

accounts a very capable you know

politician but you know that the story

better being beamed to her staff and I

know eating the salad with the comb or

whatever she was a little bit mean so

she wasn't opposite enough of the thing

they hated the most about Trump what

about Carla Harris well in many ways she

was the opposite of

but not in personality in personality

people thought she could be a little

harsh

yeah maybe she'd been a little me and

she had prosecuted a little too hard so

you could see how people would be

looking for the farthest from their

trauma which was Trump and so Biden I

think was just the default all right I

told you that some some restaurants

might start selling goods directly to

the public because they have different

supply chains so if you wanted to buy

toilet paper and your grocery store

didn't have any there's actually a

pretty good chance that you could go to

your local restaurant that's only doing

takeout because they have to close

because of the shutdown and say hey can

you order be a bunch of toilet paper and

they'd say sure will you take a 20%

markup 50% whatever it is and then they

just buy it and walk it out to the car

so I just found out there is one of our

local another one of our local

businesses is doing this the the first

retail house at Livermore in California

if it's something that's something they

would ordinarily order anyway from a cut

of meat salmon or actually toilet paper

that's on their list you can buy it over

the phone and you just drive up and you

show your receipt in the window and they

carry it out and put it in your trunk

you know you don't have to have any

human contact you're behind the glass of

your car you just hold up the receipt

pop your trunk boom you got yourself

some groceries and you never went to the

grocery store now what I say this and

you know it's really amazing how people

are adapting right people the best

entrepreneurs just just found new ways

to make money and when the old ways come

back they're gonna have new ways and old

ways so I think I think the the best

entrepreneurs are actually finding a way

to come and come out of this and here's

another idea you know the big guy sports

businesses are in a lot of trouble

because they can't fill the stay

because for the obvious reasons of

distance so I was saying that maybe

these big sports teams should look at

this as an opportunity to build sports

from the ground up

you know same athletes and same basic

rules but instead of building a four in

person watching why not build it from

the ground up before watching it

digitally from a distance in other words

the reason that the sports can survive

just with television as as great as

watching sports on television is it's

still not optimized for that here's what

you could do for example you could Mike

all of the players and all the coaches

and all of the refs let's say you're a

home and you know maybe you've got an

app so you can watch sports and you

could choose your channel so you could

actually hear the ref you could hear the

announcers you could hear the defensive

line you could hear that you know

everything except the quarterback giving

them the calls I guess you'd have to

turn that off but it would have to be

just football it could be basketball

baseball and cetera and and you make it

a sort of a party in which let's say you

know the other people watching are in

your gear too so instead of having the

the cheering of the crowd that motivates

motivates the players it makes you feel

like you're part of something and you

know of course you get you get motivated

by the cheer of the crowd what if what

if just saying the cheer of the crowd

was in your headphones and it's the

other people at home who are literally

sharing at home so they you might be

hearing you know let's say just to

complete this let's say you're watching

it on whatever device and you you know

you're watching one of the channels

you're listening to the defense of the

offense and the players there get it rip

this guy apart he always leans left

watch this I mean I'm gonna make him

lean left and I'm gonna take his legs

out anyway and you're listening to it

and then there's a play and then you

know the app just lets all the cheering

from all the living rooms through

and and let's say that the just to

extend this just a brainstorm and let's

say the pliers let's say the players

also have an earpiece so that the

players can because this is a microphone

as well as an earpiece so they've got an

earpiece so they can actually hear the

cheering so what if they can hear you

cheering at home and why not is there

there's no technological reason that you

couldn't hear everybody cheering from

their living room you just have to build

the app that does it then you you can

imagine that the the players were

talking to each other you'd be able to

pick up that etc now you might say to

yourself well I don't want to listen to

these boring athletes and their inane

chatter but that's what you're thinking

about it develop the old way I'm not

saying do business exactly the same way

I'm saying tell the players that part of

their job is to be interesting Mike them

up there there's always going to be a

few funny people on every team you don't

need all nine players on the field to be

witty and entertaining if you've got a

hilarious shortstop and then the other

is just sort of you know play to him

it's the best show in the world how much

would you like watching a baseball game

where most of the time you're just

waiting for something to happen even if

you love baseball

let's admit it you're waiting for stuff

to happen what but while you're waiting

you're hearing the the funniest

shortstop in the world just ripping

apart the other team and just saying

honest that this guy's got you know he's

got to do two legs and he hasn't had a

hit since Tuesday you know whatever it

would be very entertaining anyway so the

whole point of it is that if you

rethought sports as a digital product it

would still work you know every bit of

it would still work in the life setting

once they go back to you know crowds are

okay but in the meantime you'd have a

better product so they should go back

with a better product it should be

improved sports when they go back you

shouldn't be the you know just wait take

a few months off and then just back to

it how boring would that be you know

did you see the

press conference in which Trump got all

over that one idiot in the back who

would shut up I thought it was his best

you know sort of world wrestling

performance because you know I I think I

think by now even the people who were

slow to catch on have figured out that

Trump knows what the show is

he knows he's putting on a show and he

plays that like a show that took people

I think his critics it's taken them

years to figure that out and even some

of them still talk about it like he just

lost his temper no that's not what

happened he might have been genuinely

bad that you know whatever time you're

talking about yeah it doesn't matter

which time you say that that time you're

talking about whatever it was he might

have been genuinely mad but that's not

why he acted the way he did he didn't

act that way because he was mad he acted

that way because it's a show and he

knows how to put on the show and he used

a genuine emotion and whatever time to

to put on the show so today's show was

excellent there was this I don't know

there's some reporter that must have

been from some unfriendly publication

and you starts asking questions and

Trump tries to shut him down and doesn't

really let him to get his question now

so the guy's insistent and he won't stop

talking and Trump's already gone to the

next person the guy just keeps talking

and Trump just stops puts the the full

Trump you know laser cannon focus on

this guy and it just rips them apart and

I'm just watching this and I'm thinking

I've never enjoyed politics this much

you know we say this all the time it to

the point where it's it's trite you're

gonna miss this I mean you're really

gonna miss this because you don't

realize how jacked up your body

chemistry is we're kind of addicted to

it if I'm being honest we're kind of

addicted and you might have taken your

team you know let's say your team is

team Trump and you're like

Trump really tore into that guy that was

a good day but of course the other team

they think that are winning - so unsee

you then it'll be like ah did you see

that crazy old Trump did some more crazy

stuff because he's so impulsive and he

can't control himself right and then

their ratings go up and everybody has a

good time so it's like everybody wins

you know the the reason that you know

wrestling and sports and all that work

is that everybody gets a chance to win

you know maybe your team loses today

buddy you know you're gonna win later so

you win - anyway I thought Trump's show

was maybe the finest ever just for like

a one out of one moment what his best

I'm gonna say let's talk about the the

fake controversy of whether Trump is

trying to be a dictator and overrule the

governor's despite despite the

constitutional limitations and the press

tried to bait Trump back into that

conversation and he he wisely decided

that he just you didn't want to have

that conversation he doesn't need to he

doesn't have to answer it

here's why there's no real question

about what would happen in the real

world so talking to the governor's and

talking to Charl

well what would you do in this situation

and what if this and you know who is

really in charge are you in charge you

say you're in charge but are you in

charge maybe you should talk to him

maybe you should fight it now maybe we

got a little fight going

that's all artificial because neither

the governor's nor the president have

any question in their mind how this will

play out there's no question there's no

ambiguity whatsoever

among the governor's in the president

when you say because here's how it's

going to work out whatever is the

smartest thing that's what they'll agree

to do because remember the visibility on

this is extraordinary

everything that every governor decides

everything the president does the

taskforce does we've got 325 million

I is looking at it so if if there is

such a thing as a good plan

and let's say a governor brings it to

the president he doesn't have to bring

it to the president but let's just say

they publicize their plans and let's say

the president says oh that one's a

problem what's going to happen well the

president isn't going to send them the

RV and kill them all right the

president's going to call them and say

look this could be a big problem why are

you doing this they'll talk it out the

president and well maybe use some

pressure by saying look you know we're

federal government's giving you a lot of

help you got to give us a little you got

to give us a little so we'll give you a

little might be a little pressure in the

end how's it going to work out well in

the end the state will give something

that's pretty close to what they wanted

the president might influence a little

bit and that's what you would want it's

exactly the way you would want it to go

so as long as we're all watching

nobody's gonna do something crazy that

that the public and the observers would

say why are you doing that we're

watching we're watching you do that

don't do that there's just too many

people watching so I don't think there's

any risk whatsoever that there's any

problem between the governors and the

federal government and Trump when it

comes right down to it you know when

when the phone call is made you know

when the legislation has to be you know

when the check has to be written it's

not going to be a problem and you see

you've already seen them all work

together well enough that I think you

believe that let's see so here's here's

a real sign of something so in the news

AOC and Senator Schumer got together and

they're calling on FEMA to supply

funeral funding to families who have

lost loved ones to the virus and they

say quote disaster funeral assistance

would help individuals and households

with the death of an immediate family

remember

now you know I don't know much about the

issue but sounds like a good one right

so in terms of whether this is a good

idea or a bad idea I would say anything

anything we can do to help the public at

this point is a good idea so separate

from the question of whether it's a good

idea which I don't want to talk about

it's just not interesting yeah because

it seems like a good enough idea it's

not really controversial but what's

interesting about this is that a OC and

Schumer wouldn't you say are the sort of

top five of effective Trump critics is

that a fair statement am i seein Schumer

when they get together they're like the

best strongest Trump critics and what

they spent their time on today was

something that needed to be done I'm

guessing you know it seems like this is

a reasonable thing to ask for and I'm

happy that they're serving the public

I'm sure their constituents are asking

for this so I'm totally on board with

what they're asking for here's my here's

my point here's my point it's all they

had left it's all they had left because

as soon as doctor foul she said

president Trump did everything we

recommended what do you got

as soon as President Trump said let's

get a ton of money and give it to people

directly and then the Democrats said how

about even more money and the president

said okay and then when we spend all

that money the president's literally in

public today is saying you you Democrats

got to give us more money more money to

give to the poor people what do I even

say a OSE and Chuck Schumer have left

what issue are they gonna because they

can't really talk about the economy

everybody understands why the economy is

the way it is they can't really talk

about him handling things wrong because

the experts told them what to do and he

just did it and they're the ones saying

president you have to listen to the

experts on climate change I think in a

weird way the most positive endorsement

I've ever seen a president Trump came

today completely accidentally and in a

different realm that had nothing to do

with him that two of his strongest you

know nemec's got together to do

something that was simply useful for the

public and by the way to their credit so

thank you you know I'm sure the families

will appreciate that I hope I hope him

what comes through but that's all they

had left think about that think about

think about that was the issue that was

left important and I'm glad they did it

but it kind of shows that the president

is sort of hitting the you know he's

pulling the big levers and hitting the

big buttons and what's left needs to be

mopped up it's not less important but

certainly suggests that the president's

on the right path all right I promised

you 45 minutes of stellar entertainment

pretty sure I delivered so tonight by

the way did anybody try my technique for

relaxation the technique was to remember

your last haircut or you know hair salon

visit and just imagine yourself go

through the steps and how I felt and

spelled and and all that stuff so in the

comments what the comments catch up just

tell me if that worked for you on

average before one on various 7500

people die every day we can if we can't

afford it okay so I ask the question of

people who think we're panicking on this

thing

to tell me what it would look like for

them to be wrong in other words how many

people would have to die when we go back

to work for somebody who said you know

you're you're overselling this thing

it's not that big a deal compared to

other problems we have

you know what level of death would it

take for you to look back and say whoa I

guess the experts were right this was

way worse than the flu is there a number

that you would say yeah I was wrong I

just wonder what that would be thank you

I drink myself to sleep so somebody now

my husband wants me to cut his hair if

somebody doesn't like haircuts aw that's

too bad

awesome suggestion it worked like a

charm slept like a baby

amazingly no panic oh it worked again

okay Wow

I guess it worked pretty well I'll try

it again the sort of thing that you

could do more than once all right that's

all for now I will talk to you in the

morning Dennis Prager posted a letter

written by five doctors who think a

lockdown was not necessary does that

mean anything pretty sure you can find

five or five doctors to say anything all

right we'll talk about that tomorrow

enough of that have a great night