In this episode, we re talking about the sudden drop in coronavirus infections in the United States and India, and the mystery of why they seem to be doing so well in the fight against it. Plus, the dopamine hit of the day: the thing that makes everything better except the temperature in Texas.
00:00:00.960Hey everybody! Come on in, come on in. You made it to the right place, the best place.
00:00:08.040Of all the places you could be in the virtual world, you found the best one. Pretty darn good.
00:00:17.320So congratulations to you for having a morning that's starting out with success.
00:00:23.100If you'd like to keep the string of successes going, and I know you do, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a canteen, a jug or a flask or a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid I like, coffee.
00:00:38.220And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better except the temperature in Texas.
00:00:47.840It's called the simultaneous sip and it's going to happen now. Go.
00:00:53.100I was wrong again. It's actually getting warmer in Texas after one sip.
00:01:03.200One sip and it's already getting warmer in Texas. Can you believe it?
00:01:10.680Well, let me tell you about the coolest news.
00:01:15.960I don't know why this news just really speaks to me.
00:01:19.860But there's something about this story that I just love.
00:01:25.200So there was a company that repaired gondolas, you know, the little enclosed car that you take up a ski slope on the ski lift kind of thing.
00:01:39.680And at one point, for no particular plan, they decided to start buying up gondolas in case there was ever a reason to use them for something.
00:02:42.940There's something about the idea that's just, I don't know, just speaks to us somehow.
00:02:48.060But the best part of the story is that somebody was buying up gondolas just in case they were needed, but they hadn't figured out what to do with them yet.
00:02:57.260I mean, you can have the best plans and ideas all day long, but if you don't have luck, you probably don't have a successful business.
00:03:48.740Okay, you're going to say because they're secretly using a different drug, like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin or remdesivir or something.
00:03:58.620So you're thinking to yourself that the real story is that they're treating it better, but not according to India.
00:04:07.640India is not saying, yes, we're having good success because we treat it differently.
00:04:15.580If India were doing something that is somehow different, and it had this gigantic, it's a really big effect, like the infections just drop like a rock.
00:04:27.340If they were doing that intentionally because they did something different than other people are doing, we would know about that, right?
00:05:14.860Independent of whether hydroxychloroquine works or doesn't work, and I think the evidence suggests it doesn't at this point.
00:05:21.940Early on, I think you could have called it a good risk management decision to try it because the downside was so low.
00:05:28.340But at this point, we wouldn't know if it worked.
00:05:33.700There's no way we wouldn't know by now.
00:05:36.920So I think you have to assume it doesn't work or doesn't work in a big way.
00:05:41.600But in any event, if India were using it and it worked and it was getting this big result, we would have seen the result a long time ago because they've been using it for a while.
00:07:20.820And I think, well, this is not my guess.
00:07:22.560I think somebody else said this and I just read it somewhere, but it sounded right.
00:07:27.000My guess is that certain people are just more susceptible.
00:07:31.560So if you take a population of 100 million, there might be 10 million who could ever get it, and then they do.
00:07:41.860And then the other 90 million are ones that wouldn't have gotten it, wouldn't have spread it, would not have had bad symptoms, had some natural immunity.
00:07:50.500So we make the assumption that all humans are sort of equally likely to get this thing.
00:08:42.980I have a suggestion that everyone who donated to the Lincoln Project, they need to get one of those conservatorships like Britney Spears has.
00:08:52.940You know, Britney Spears isn't allowed to handle her own money because the thought is people would try to take advantage of her.
00:08:58.520So her father, and now some professional third party, is going to work to handle Britney Spears' money.
00:09:05.920But I feel as though anybody who donated to the Lincoln Project might need a little help.
00:09:12.520Might need a little help identifying scams.
00:09:16.060Because Rob Reiner, for example, I understand, gave money to the Lincoln Project.
00:09:21.380I don't know how happy he is about that investment.
00:09:24.300Somebody said, hey, but they said they would beat Trump, and Trump lost, so it was still a good investment.
00:09:31.380To which I say, there was a study that showed it made no difference.
00:09:35.980And they only spent a minority of their funds on the advertisement, and we don't know where the rest of it went.
00:09:44.600Which makes me want to start my own political action committee.
00:09:48.100Because if you can get massive donations, and you don't have to report what you're doing with it, well, that's a pretty good job.
00:11:24.360And we found out that he only found out the fine people thing was a hoax the same day he was preparing his defense was the first time he knew that the fine people thing was a hoax because of the way it was edited.
00:11:55.460How well informed is somebody operating at this level in society?
00:12:00.760Really well informed, wouldn't you say?
00:12:04.040Don't you think that any of the attorneys that you saw defending or trying to prosecute the president, wouldn't you say it's fair to say they're all really well informed about the news and world events?
00:12:17.320I think that's fair to say, very well informed.
00:12:21.280He found out that the biggest story in the whole frickin' country was a hoax that day.
00:18:33.740So it's fake news that the helicopter was de-icing the windmills.
00:18:38.840It's fake news that the windmills were the main source of the power loss.
00:18:42.900It was all the different power losses, all the different power sources.
00:18:46.180And this guy who's calling out the fake news added his own fake news on top of the fake news.
00:18:54.680That Texas would be expected to have internal de-icing systems, which would suggest that their windmills were placed in the last five years.
00:19:27.660But I'm pretty sure that it was fake news that got debunked by more fake news.
00:19:35.140The truth, as far as I can tell, is that these Texas windmills probably did not all have de-icing built in.
00:19:44.520Probably did need some external help or just wait, I guess.
00:19:48.320And it included the other, you know, gas and other sources.
00:19:53.040Somebody mentioned nuclear, but that would only be if there was something in the transmission part of it after the energy was created, which is possible.
00:20:06.160This one from Axios and then boosted by Fox News.
00:20:11.020Now, how many of you remember that I predicted, I've been saying this for years, actually, that most fake news comes from whichever news group is out of office?
00:20:24.200So that when you've got a Clinton, let's say a Bill Clinton in office, you'll get more fake news from, say, Fox News.
00:20:31.580If you've got a Trump in office, you'll get more fake news from CNN.
00:20:35.720So it's the opposition that creates most of the fake news.
00:20:39.640So I predicted that with Biden in office, you would see more fake news from the right.
00:20:44.920It's a little too early to know that I'm right, but here's an example of it, all right?
00:20:50.660So, and when you see how you've been fooled, it will give you a little bit of empathy for how easily the viewers of CNN are being fooled.
00:21:02.240Because if you watched CNN or you saw this tweet or you watched Axios, you saw fake news.