slaughtered financially. I just had my ass handed to me, mostly because, you know, getting canceled for this or that. You know, you can't do deals, can't do speaking, just talking about. But as soon as Biden came in, people stopped hating me as much because I wasn't as relevant talking about Trump. And I made one lucky move. I bought a bunch of stocks when they hit their bottom. So suddenly, like anybody who owns stocks, I'm thinking it's looking pretty good. And all the people who don't own stocks, the lower income people, just absolutely got it. And it's not going to let up anytime soon.

So I would think that the number one thing that the Democrats have for them is that they're the ones who are trying to help the normal people get by. That's not happening. That's not happened. But let me give you the plus side. The economy is really screeching. Despite inflation, the economy is just screaming. And it's hard to hire people. I mean, you saw Cramer, financial or investment expert Cramer, you saw him say that this is the strongest economy he's ever seen, maybe since the 60s or something. And I would agree with that. I don't think I've seen a stronger economy if you don't count the inflation. If you don't count that, if you do count it, it's only a great economy for people at the top half, maybe the top 25 percent.

So I just don't know what to think about inflation, but I hate ignoring it. But it looks like we're just gonna tax poor people until it's not a problem anymore. So there's that.

Why are airplanes relatively safe in terms of COVID? I keep going back to that because I feel like everything we need to know about COVID you can learn on an airplane. Am I wrong? Because the thinking is that the reason that air travel is safe enough is not just that people are getting tested and vaccinated, that's helping a lot, but that people are wearing masks on the airplane. This is what the industry would tell you. The experts would say it's because people wear masks on the airplane, except when they eat, and that their ventilation systems are great.

Now that's true. I think airplanes have great ventilation. They have to. And one of the anecdotes of a spread involved a jet that was idle on an airport during a layover and they turned the ventilation off for half an hour. And the speculation is that that half hour they turned off the ventilation is when all the spread happened. Maybe, I don't know.

But so I was feeling pretty smart. I'm reading about this and thinking, okay, okay, I've got a pretty good grip on why these airplanes are working or not spreading. So you got the masks. Good. Don't disagree with me yet. Just wait till I get to the end of this. So you got the masks. Okay, okay, that should make a difference. You got that great ventilation. Good, good. You got the vaccinations. Now all right, all right. And some people have natural immunity. That's good, that's good. And I thought I'd covered all of the bases. Like I'd considered all of the variables.

And then Twitter user named I Heart Pipelines tweeted this. You're going to feel as dumb as I did when you hear this. All right. This is just like a guy on Twitter and he's going to say something and I'm going to read it to you. This is going to make you slap your head and say, oh God, that was obvious. People don't talk on airplanes. That's it. People don't talk on airplanes. As the main cause of transmission is talking. And I'm like, I'm all into the masks and the vaccinations and the ventilation. Now I'm reading about their HEPA filters and I'm thinking, huh, I wonder if it's the ventilation. Is it the filtering or is it the airflow? And I'm like into the science. And then the I Heart Pipelines says, I don't fly much but I don't think people talk much on planes.

You, for being so smart, how in the world did we miss that? Seriously, how did we miss that? Yeah, you're still breathing, but the best thinking is that it's the talking that makes a difference. Is anybody having the same experience? That how did we analyze this and this is the first time I've ever heard this? I've never heard anybody say but you know the main way it gets transmitted is from talking and people don't talk much on airplanes. In fact, the only person you talk to is the person you probably came there with. And if they infected you, you're already infected.

All right. I'm thinking about putting together, if I ever got, I don't know, less lazy, a hoax IQ test. And what it would be is simply a l