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All right, let's see if we get Ian on the line. This will be a test of the technology. I think we got it. I think we got it. Oh, seriously? Because I know we had a Wi-Fi problem yesterday and it looks like we got a Wi-Fi problem today. Well whatever the problem is, it doesn't look like that's going to get solved. I'll try it one more time but then I think we should maybe give up on this if it does…

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So I've been watching the comments and I just want to call out something that I always talked about: winning attitudes and losing attitudes. And I'm watching a lot of losing attitudes in the comments, specifically people who don't quite appreciate, and I'm going to make them appreciate it now, the power of your talent stack. Because people are sort of saying, oh data analyst, what's that got to do with this? But the whole point is that you knew how to draw blood, you know how to get these tests, you've got what do you say your background was, a biological, bioscience. So he's got a bioscience background. So it basically compiled a whole bunch of skills together including starting a new business initiative to try to help with the coronavirus.

So what do you see? Ian jumping in and I was watching this from the beginning and on day one Ian was saying all right I have this talent stack, how can I help in this coronavirus thing? And then I've been watching as you've grabbed one piece at a time and tried to assemble it into something that would be bigger than the parts. And I've been completely impressed not only at the early data visualization stuff you're doing because initially you were doing data visualization, some of the best ones I've seen on the internet, and then you found that your talent stack gave you all the way to here and actually could be one of the pivotal at least informational parts of what would be the second most important thing we do after masks. So I'm very impressed at what you've done.

And for those of you who don't have the winning mindset, what the hell did you guys do? Let me just say that while you're out in the line to you limit to your tricks because there's always going to be somebody on the air, blah blah, I hear this all the time, hey you're a cartoonist, why are you doing this? But all of those people, you're not very successful I'll bet because if you're worried about staying in your lane and you're worried that people only have one talent, Ian's got more than one talent. Sorry if you only have one talent, maybe you don't understand how that works. But if you put enough talents together you have a superpower and I think this is a perfect example of it.

So Ian thank you for being a patriot and I mean that seriously because in times of crisis not everybody runs toward the fire and you did. On day one you were running toward the emergency. What can I do? And we need more of you and less of the people who are picking. I really appreciate that Scott and I just want to point out before I go that I can't do it all by myself. I have a lot of help from Mikkel Staten and Brianna Knight. They've been helping me get CureHub going and everything's about being on a team, a winning team, and we're all in this together and no one person can make anything work. And I think you've got to treat life like a positive sum game and then you'll start to find some wins all over the place.

Well that's something that's America in a nutshell right there. So thank you so much. Do you want to name a URL that you want people to look at?

Yeah you can go to cure-hub.com and we have a system in place where you can sign up and reserve your spot in line to get an antibody test and then you don't pay anything but you'll get on our mailing list and then as soon as we have the antibody tests approved which should be a couple weeks then we'll let you know and then you can join the study and donate a sample to get tested. We'll test you and yeah that's it.

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All right so thank you. Thank you again. Thanks for being a great guest. I'm going to go on with the rest of my program and I'll catch up with you. Can I do one thing? I missed the simultaneous sip. Can I get another one live? I gotta do it. All right I will give you the first ever second simultaneous sip. And all you need is a cup, Ramona glass, tankard, any kind. You ready? Cheers. Cheers. The s…

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