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tubing. He may have been doing a little tubing when the camera was still on. And here's the funniest part is that the young man, the 21-year-old employee, he also has a side company. When he's not being an assistant in schools he also runs Pirate Magic, a business that throws pirate parties for youngsters while he portrays a character named Captain Silly Bones. Let me give you this advice. Here's…

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l as though that one restriction of nobody in your residence except the residents for a month and we'd be pretty well done. I feel like now you wouldn't get rid of the infection but you might get it down to a low level. Now does anybody disagree with that? Because it's something like over 50 percent of infections. It's worse in the winter when you're indoors. Somebody says I thought we did that. No we didn't really do that. We said don't you know you don't want to socially mingle but I don't think anybody took it seriously inside their own house. I think everybody lets their other family members. I think everybody lets the boyfriend or the girlfriend come over. I feel like inside the house there are no rules and that probably was the main problem. Probably the main problem.

And I would also think that you could solve that with statistics and publicity. If you stopped somebody on the street and said to them what's the main place you get infected, what would the average person say? Think about it. You're probably way more informed than the average consumer just the fact you're watching a live stream about the world in politics. The average person isn't really paying attention to too much news on average. So stop the average person on the street and say to them where do you think most infections happen? What would they say? I'll bet they wouldn't say home. I'll bet most people would say well they closed the restaurants and gyms. It's probably restaurants and gyms. Or they might say must be the workplace because why else would they do the lockdown? But I'll bet it's not. I'll bet if you simply produced enough statistics to say look most of it is because you're letting somebody in your little unaircirculated space who doesn't live there. That's most of it. I think if we just hammered people with I don't know what the real number is like 56 percent is in the home and just keep telling people that. Say it's because you use your app on Tinder right or whatever it is. So that's all I have to say about that.

Now Rasmussen has an interesting poll in which they were asking about people's opinion of some national leaders. You know I've been telling you why is there not like a new national leader and I've said AOC may fill that spot. But here are some names. I'm going to tell you the names that they polled and let me see if you can guess who has the highest favorability at the moment with the public. So this is the entire public. The names they tested were, this is Rasmussen, Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and AOC.

Now add together their two favorable categories, the highly favorable and the normal favorable. And who among those do you believe had the highest favorability? Take a guess. I want to see in the comments how plugged in you are to the national consciousness. Most people are guessing AOC but I think you're guessing that because you think that's going to be the answer because why would I bring it up? I always talk about AOC's persuasion so I feel like I've biased the survey. I think I biased the survey too much. You're trying to guess what it's going to be.

Here's the answer. Kevin McCarthy. Kevin McCarthy. He has the highest favorability of this group. What? How the hell did that happen? Did you see that coming? Now I don't think that neces

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sarily means as much as you might think it would mean. It could mean that he's just less controversial so the others have some specific reasons you're mad at them. But I can't think of a specific reason to be mad at Kevin McCarthy, can you? I can't think of a like a scandal or was he on the wrong side of something? I know it could be that he just hasn't caused any trouble and that people respond t…

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