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The thing that makes everything better, including the damn pandemic. Damn pandemic. Yeah. Join me now. Periscope has this minor bug in it that if you use a certain kind of headset where you can talk and listen, you have to remember to hit a button before you go live or else you can't talk to people. So I had

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to redo it, and that's all it was. Good morning. Good morning. Let me grab my notes. Don't go anywhere.

Today the news looks like it's all repeat news. Let me do the news for today, but I can also do the news for every day for the next three weeks. Are you ready? Here's the news every day for the next three weeks. There are some doctors in Provo who are doing a study on a new potential coronavirus treatment called whatever. They have signed up people, but it's not completely a good study because they don't have a good control group. So we're waiting on that.

Tuesday the news will be there's some doctors and blah blah blah. They're testing some blah blah blah. They're getting some people, blah blah blah. We hope it works, blah blah blah.

I don't believe any of the news about tests anymore, do you? I really don't. Everything that I see about this, they try this and they got some good results, and it's not quite scientific. And you know, it's only 80 people but it looks good. I've got a feeling that none of it's real at this point. It just feels like none of it's real.

Certainly by now if hydroxychloroquine was a big deal, we'd know it by now, right? Would you agree? Would you all agree with this statement? That if hydroxychloroquine was a magic pill, as opposed to just being a little bit useful, which I think is where it's going to end up, we'd know it by now. The same with most of the drugs. If any of the drugs they're testing were really just knocking the crap out of this virus, we'd know it by now.

Let's talk about Obamagate. You know, when Obamagate first started trending as a hashtag, I didn't even know exactly what it was. But I guess it just

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refers to looking into the origins of the Russia collusion hoax. And we know now that Barack Obama apparently at least knew that the wiretap on Flynn had happened. But we don't know what else he knew. What else did he know? I was looking at the trending hashtag, and there was a tweet just a few minutes ago. There was a tweet where it showed the hashtag at 2.6 million, which if you don't follow th…

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