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Oh, this would be great ASMR. If you don't know what ASMR is, you've got to Google it. See what I got? Yes, it's Dave Rubin's new book. It's called "Don't Burn This Book." I will be talking to Dave Tuesday and we'll hear more about this, but I'm gonna do my homework first. Hey, how's it going everybody? What a day. Do you remember maybe a week ago I told you that the next couple of weeks would be…

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And of course one of the things that's making it interesting is this General Flynn stuff. Now I hope you're all up to date on this, because there's something so perfect about this if you've been following the whole Flynn saga. Because you know it was early on, it was rumored that he was just sort of framed and they were just trying to take him out or get some dirt on Trump. And I remember when I first heard it I said to myself, well yeah, you know, maybe, but it didn't seem totally credible when I first started. And partly because who does that? Who just decides to take out a general because he's part of a campaign?

And part of it is in the back of my mind I was thinking, if there's somebody you're gonna try to take down, you know, if you had to pick anybody in the world, let's say in the United States, and there was somebody you wanted to take down, and there was somebody that if you tried to take them down you might not have finished the job, who would be the worst person to try to take down and not quite get the job done? Well, maybe a top military trained mind of the United States, possibly a general. That would be a really bad person to try to take out and not quite get it done.

So today the big story is that some of the notes have been revealed. You know, they had notes from the time of the interviews and before. And I think it was lawyer Baker's notes who said — if you haven't seen this story it's just gonna make you laugh because you know everything is a Dilbert cartoon. And ultimately, you know, maybe it's just my filter on the world, you know, and why wouldn't it be? But I just see the world as this giant Dilbert cartoon.

So where the rest of you see important people doing awesome things because they're strangers, you know, you always think those strangers are doing awesome things. It's only the people that you know who are morons and incompetent. And you say to yourself, why is it that everybody I know personally is incompetent? Well, not everybody, but you know what I mean. But yet there are people I don't know, strangers in important jobs, and they're so wildly awesome and competent. Maybe not every time. I'm just saying that sometimes it's a little more like a Dilbert comic no matter where you go. That's my experience. There's no level anywhere, no level where you can get away from it.

Case in point, FBI lawyer — I think he's an FBI lawyer but anyway, as part of this group that was going to talk to Flynn, and he writes a note to himself: "What's our goal? Truth slash admission or to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired?" So if you don't think that in approximately, I think it'll be about six to eight weeks, if you don't think there's gonna be a Dilbert cartoon about the guy who's taking notes at the meetings, but really he shouldn't be taking the notes because for one he might not get it right and then it'd be a record or something that might not even be accurate. I mean that's a risk. Or you could be in the middle of a plot to overthrow the government of the United States and one of your treasonous co-conspirators decides to write a note to himself: "Note to self, is this one of these meetings where we're just..."

Can you just see it? Like if he was at the meeting, I guess you just see this guy to be questioned. Clarification, I'm just a point of order and just I'm wondering if we're committing treason against the United States of America. Yeah, is this our first domino? Or were we just talking to this guy to try to get him fired? I'm just trying to get on the same page. Are we just taking him out, just trying to get him fired, or is this actually connected to our plot to take out the legally elected president of the United States by going through generals first? Literally. And the fact that this guy is at the meeting, like, am I exaggerating? Is this not a Dilbert comic? But there's always this guy.

You can imagine like Brandon and all these other guys who are thinking, you know, I think we got away with it. I think they're thinking, got clean away. Yeah, it was close. It looked like they were sniffing out our trail there for a while. Looked like they were getting close. No, we're good. We got away. We got away.

What they found — what was on the note? You know it's a bad day to be anybody associated with this except for General Flynn. Now there's a punch line to all of this by the way. I've never seen anybody more exonerated. Like if there was some kind of Nobel Prize for being exonerated and like it was a scale and some people were a little bit exonerated — it's like, well, you know, he's not that guilty, let's exonerate him a little bit. You've got to figure that there's a scale of exoneration, right? Well this guy just broke the gauge for the most exonerated you could ever be.

But it gets better. There's a punch line. The punch line's coming. It gets better, I promise. So General Flynn is just having what's got to be one of the best days that anybody ever had in the history of days. I'm just imagining he sends a tweet. Oh, I have dubbed this tweet the tweet of the century. Now Twitter hasn't been around for a hundred years but still I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this tweet from General Flynn is the tweet of the century. And I hope you can see it. All right, so I'll just describe it. So there's no words, there's no text. So what you see is just you're looking at this little woods here and keep watching. Oh that's just the best tweet ever. Oh I could not enjoy this day better.

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So meanwhile Dr. Burke is up laughing about that for a while. Stock market is up. So here's a question that I haven't heard anybody ask. It looks like there are three or four therapeutics for the coronavirus that look promising and I haven't heard anybody ask if we can take them all at the same time. Because I have to admit so far I'm a little bit underwhelmed by the early information we have abou…

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