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den that it made me think there was no organic enthusiasm. Did he pick up on 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 Obama sat down with a big old pencil and he's like, all right, oh he has character. It is not the type of fiber we need to be…

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llionaire 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, one of the top politicians, could still be the vice presidential pick, has not been ruled out, and by all accounts a very capable politician. But you know that the story about her 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 Kamala Harris? Well in many ways she was the opposite but not in personality. In personality people thought she could be a little harsh. Yeah maybe she'd been a little mean 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 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 me 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 first retail house at Livermore in California. If it's something that 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 when I say this, you know it's really amazing how people are adapting, right? People, the best entrepreneurs 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 the best entrepreneurs are actually finding a way to come out of this.

And here's another idea. You know the big sports businesses are in a lot of trouble because they can't fill the stadium 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 it for in-person watching why not build it from the ground up for watching it digitally from a distance? In other words the reason that sports can survive just with television, 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 mic all of the players and all the coaches and all of the refs. Let's say you're at 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 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, et cetera. And you make it a sort of a party in which let's say the other people watching are in

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your group too. So instead of having the cheering of the crowd that motivates the players it makes you feel like you're part of something and of course you get motivated by the cheer of the crowd. 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 t…

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