Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 857 Scott Adams： Start Your Morning Right With Some Positivity

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00:00:12.920 Hey everybody, come on in.

00:00:15.560 It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:17.920 Hey, Jack.

00:00:19.320 Good to see you, everybody.

00:00:21.480 You know, I can't tell you how much I look forward to doing this every day.

00:00:26.180 I think it shows.

00:00:27.440 I mean, you probably figured it out by now.

00:00:30.000 But I wouldn't do any of this if I didn't want to.

00:00:32.440 Well, maybe I would, but in the emergency, I probably would.

00:00:35.440 But I do enjoy seeing you all.

00:00:38.220 That is genuine.

00:00:40.220 It is by far, you know, not counting family Christina stuff.

00:00:45.820 It's the best thing I do in the day.

00:00:48.100 And I'm trying to be useful.

00:00:51.420 I think we're doing a good job here.

00:00:54.020 And now, would you please, if you please, join me now for the simultaneous sip.

00:01:02.200 If you're not prepared, you've got a moment to get prepared,

00:01:04.940 and all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein,

00:01:07.940 a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:01:10.880 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:01:12.980 I like coffee.

00:01:14.680 And join me now for the dopamine...

00:01:16.220 No, what is it?

00:01:19.780 Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.

00:01:21.520 How could I forget it?

00:01:23.940 The dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better,

00:01:26.280 including the coronavirus.

00:01:28.200 It's coffee.

00:01:29.760 And you're about to have it simultaneously with people all around the world.

00:01:34.580 Go.

00:01:39.220 Ah.

00:01:41.120 That coronavirus doesn't have a chance.

00:01:45.380 I pity it.

00:01:46.480 I pity the coronavirus.

00:01:47.600 It's trying to attack Earth, doing its best.

00:01:52.420 But we're pretty, pretty good at this.

00:01:54.900 It's amazing how much the standard war analogies work with this virus.

00:02:01.460 Literally, our strategy against the virus is a strategic retreat,

00:02:05.820 which is what we're in now.

00:02:07.040 You know, divide and conquer.

00:02:11.080 That's part of what the strategic retreat is buying us.

00:02:15.020 We're building weapons.

00:02:16.900 There are literally labs all over the world building weapons against a virus.

00:02:23.040 And the worlds have coordinated, allies have formed,

00:02:29.000 the entire, you know, power of humanity,

00:02:32.440 the highest level of power it's ever been.

00:02:35.260 Smartest, more capable, most connected, most determined.

00:02:38.860 And we are focusing on one problem right now.

00:02:43.420 If you were that one problem,

00:02:45.740 and the entire power of humanity formed over 15 billion years,

00:02:53.700 outlasting 99% of species dominating the Earth,

00:02:58.800 I wouldn't want to be on the other team.

00:03:01.860 Because we're going to kick their ass.

00:03:03.380 And it's not going to happen yet.

00:03:07.580 Hold.

00:03:08.500 Wait for the weapons.

00:03:10.300 Weapons are being formed right now.

00:03:12.120 And there are going to be a lot of them.

00:03:13.140 We're going to have our test kits.

00:03:14.480 We're going to have our treatments for people who get it.

00:03:17.620 A little bit later, we're going to have some vaccines.

00:03:20.460 So hold the hill.

00:03:22.340 Hold.

00:03:23.420 And when I say hold, I don't mean just stay healthy.

00:03:26.760 I mean the economy.

00:03:28.900 Hold it together.

00:03:29.780 I mean the psychology.

00:03:31.740 Hold.

00:03:33.380 This is different than a lot of types of crises.

00:03:39.040 If this were a real world war,

00:03:41.820 you might have some question about who's going to win.

00:03:44.480 On this one, we don't have a question who's going to win.

00:03:47.440 We have questions of when and how and what the casualties will be.

00:03:52.120 But we're going to win.

00:03:53.240 That part's not a dispute.

00:03:57.320 So we had an earthquake today in Utah.

00:04:01.140 I guess it just happened to 5.7.

00:04:03.620 That's pretty big.

00:04:05.100 I haven't heard anything about damage.

00:04:06.840 I'm hoping that because it's in Utah,

00:04:08.960 maybe there are fewer large structures, less damage.

00:04:12.740 But good luck to the people in Utah who did not need another problem.

00:04:17.680 So here's something that nobody is complaining about this week for a good reason.

00:04:27.400 Nobody is complaining this week that they don't have meaning in their life.

00:04:32.100 Think about that.

00:04:33.840 I mean, maybe I'm wrong.

00:04:34.920 There's somebody out there who says,

00:04:36.440 Oh, my problem this week is I don't have meaning in my life.

00:04:41.700 I don't see that.

00:04:43.740 And it turns out that my discovery after living enough years

00:04:49.660 is that the only time you have that internal sensation

00:04:53.460 that you have meaning is if you're helping somebody else.

00:04:58.520 Now, it could be that you're building your own power up.

00:05:00.740 You're going to school to be a doctor or something.

00:05:03.940 And you're going to be useful.

00:05:05.920 So that gives you meaning.

00:05:07.560 You're just not helping people.

00:05:09.100 Yeah, but you're preparing to help people.

00:05:11.260 I don't think there's an exception to that.

00:05:14.100 I don't believe that you can find meaning in life

00:05:16.880 by pursuing, I don't know,

00:05:20.100 your sculptures that nobody's going to look at,

00:05:23.360 your paintings that nobody buys.

00:05:25.040 I don't think you can find meaning in life just as an individual.

00:05:30.500 Meaning is the connectivity.

00:05:32.880 It's what you're doing for other people.

00:05:35.400 And one of the things this crisis has reminded us of

00:05:41.780 is what that feels like.

00:05:43.640 Because I don't know about most of you,

00:05:45.960 but were you really engaged in trying to make sure

00:05:49.400 that your fellow humans were surviving,

00:05:53.440 were doing okay?

00:05:55.600 Probably not.

00:05:56.860 Probably we were all just involved with our own selves,

00:06:00.380 and there was really nothing wrong with that.

00:06:02.360 In good times, take care of yourself.

00:06:05.160 That's actually good for the public too.

00:06:07.620 But I think this crisis has just flipped everybody's thinking.

00:06:12.140 Let me read something that I found very inspirational.

00:06:16.640 Which was, this was from Representative Max Rose.

00:06:23.560 And he tweeted that,

00:06:24.800 absolutely amazed by the number of emails I've gotten

00:06:27.520 from retired doctors, nurses, and medical professionals

00:06:30.640 looking for a way to help.

00:06:33.560 If, you know, then he goes on to invite more of them.

00:06:37.560 Now think about that.

00:06:40.040 Retired medical professionals.

00:06:43.000 These are not young people.

00:06:45.580 And they're actually overwhelmed with volunteers.

00:06:50.400 So I would, you know, there's no doubt about it,

00:06:53.780 the most at-risk person would be a medical professional,

00:06:58.920 you know, working with patients in any way,

00:07:01.200 who's also older.

00:07:03.440 And that's what retired medical professionals are.

00:07:06.480 So these are people who are volunteering in waves

00:07:10.960 to attack the beach.

00:07:13.720 I mean, these are people who are just signing up for Normandy.

00:07:16.660 You know, Normandy was a little rougher, but percentage-wise.

00:07:20.060 But you get the point, right?

00:07:21.920 We don't have a shortage of heroes.

00:07:23.820 We actually have an excess of heroes.

00:07:28.120 Just think about that.

00:07:29.460 We have an excess of heroes.

00:07:33.220 That's pretty amazing.

00:07:34.140 So I've got some other positivity that I'll get to,

00:07:39.360 but I'm going to jump around a little bit for a few different things.

00:07:42.140 Sometimes the simulation plays games with you,

00:07:48.040 you know, coincidences and such.

00:07:50.980 And, you know, today's one of those days.

00:07:54.400 Last night, Christina told me a story that I was going to tell today,

00:07:58.960 just sort of a feel-good story.

00:08:01.660 And then there was a headline, unfortunately a sad one today,

00:08:07.300 that Kathy Griffin's mother died.

00:08:09.700 I think she was very elderly.

00:08:11.720 But if you follow Kathy Griffin,

00:08:13.600 and for a moment,

00:08:15.040 just hold your comments about what you think about her.

00:08:17.720 These are emergency etiquette.

00:08:21.080 You know, we're in a crisis,

00:08:22.520 so it's a little different etiquette.

00:08:24.260 We're not going to chew up the enemies.

00:08:26.440 You know, your political enemies,

00:08:27.620 they're not real enemies,

00:08:28.360 but political enemies were on pause for that, right?

00:08:32.400 Just let me finish my story

00:08:33.520 and just hold your opinion of Kathy Griffin for a moment.

00:08:37.540 So she's got a tragedy on top of a tragedy today.

00:08:40.820 It must be just horribly hard for her today

00:08:43.140 because she was very close to her mother.

00:08:46.920 She was part of the act, etc.

00:08:48.780 So I sent her a little message of condolence.

00:08:51.260 But here's the coincidence.

00:08:55.300 Last night, just randomly,

00:08:58.360 Christina said,

00:08:59.320 did I tell you the story about Kathy Griffin?

00:09:01.920 And I said,

00:09:03.400 no, I don't think you did.

00:09:05.080 And here's her story.

00:09:06.500 I think it was 2018.

00:09:08.600 And so Christina and her daughter and her sister

00:09:11.140 were in New York City

00:09:12.220 for recreational reasons.

00:09:15.200 And her sister had tickets to Kathy Griffin,

00:09:18.020 who had a show that night.

00:09:20.300 And on Instagram,

00:09:22.900 you know,

00:09:23.580 Christina just happened to see

00:09:25.880 that Kathy Griffin was promoting her show,

00:09:28.100 and she knew her sister had tickets to the show.

00:09:30.940 So Christina just,

00:09:32.320 you know,

00:09:32.600 sent a direct message through Instagram

00:09:35.320 to Kathy Griffin,

00:09:36.300 who she doesn't know.

00:09:37.880 And as far as I know,

00:09:38.940 Kathy Griffin is not aware

00:09:40.680 of her connection to me.

00:09:42.840 So I'm not part of the story,

00:09:44.480 as far as I know.

00:09:45.140 And she sends a message to Kathy Griffin

00:09:49.280 and says,

00:09:49.900 you know,

00:09:50.300 I'd love to go to your show,

00:09:51.760 but too bad,

00:09:52.780 you know,

00:09:53.140 I'm with my daughter,

00:09:54.620 and, you know,

00:09:55.220 I have to watch her.

00:09:56.980 And Kathy Griffin

00:09:58.000 replied back to Christina,

00:10:00.780 who's a random fan

00:10:02.280 who says,

00:10:02.700 I wish I could go to the show,

00:10:03.980 you know,

00:10:04.240 big,

00:10:04.640 sold-out,

00:10:05.160 probably show.

00:10:07.200 And Kathy Griffin says,

00:10:08.920 maybe we can help get a babysitter

00:10:11.220 and offer free tickets.

00:10:15.200 Think about it.

00:10:17.040 No,

00:10:17.560 Christina does not have

00:10:18.560 an adult daughter.

00:10:20.480 She has a very young daughter.

00:10:23.280 And

00:10:23.380 so Kathy Griffin

00:10:26.020 offered to help babysit,

00:10:28.860 you know,

00:10:29.100 or find somebody

00:10:29.900 to help babysit

00:10:30.740 a complete stranger's

00:10:32.540 kid

00:10:33.840 just offered.

00:10:35.120 So,

00:10:38.980 you know,

00:10:39.280 I'm going to give you

00:10:39.760 some feel-good stories.

00:10:42.200 That's one of them.

00:10:43.720 So,

00:10:44.100 you know,

00:10:44.620 send her a condolence

00:10:45.940 today.

00:10:50.940 The least important news

00:10:52.820 in the world

00:10:53.460 happened last night.

00:10:55.260 There was something called

00:10:56.660 the Democratic primary

00:10:57.740 for several states.

00:11:00.260 And Biden continued

00:11:01.680 to widen his lead

00:11:03.200 on Bernie.

00:11:03.900 Bernie continues

00:11:05.100 to stay in,

00:11:05.900 we think,

00:11:06.340 to push his policies,

00:11:08.060 which is not a bad reason

00:11:09.420 to stay in,

00:11:09.960 because he's been successful

00:11:10.960 in, you know,

00:11:11.960 in getting that to happen.

00:11:16.500 But

00:11:16.940 I've never been

00:11:19.900 less interested

00:11:20.600 in a political event,

00:11:21.880 have you?

00:11:23.480 Have you ever been

00:11:24.280 less interested

00:11:25.060 in such a major

00:11:27.040 political event?

00:11:28.360 You know,

00:11:28.740 I tried to watch the news,

00:11:30.540 and maybe it's because

00:11:31.680 we just figured

00:11:32.560 Biden was going to win,

00:11:33.540 so there's no surprise.

00:11:34.740 It could be that.

00:11:35.860 It could be that.

00:11:36.760 But in normal times,

00:11:37.660 I think it's all

00:11:38.220 we'd be talking about.

00:11:40.120 I, you know,

00:11:40.900 and I'm talking about it

00:11:41.860 because, you know,

00:11:42.900 I know some of you

00:11:43.760 will be interested,

00:11:44.460 but I don't think

00:11:45.660 I've ever been

00:11:46.280 less interested

00:11:47.060 in a major

00:11:48.680 political event

00:11:49.700 than that.

00:11:50.880 I,

00:11:51.540 because we're

00:11:52.220 in this situation,

00:11:53.820 I just,

00:11:54.500 I just can't care.

00:11:55.820 But here's what's

00:11:56.640 interesting about this.

00:11:57.740 the two most

00:12:00.080 influential Democrats

00:12:01.780 right now

00:12:03.460 in terms of this crisis,

00:12:04.700 so, you know,

00:12:05.740 influential of the moment,

00:12:08.100 I would argue

00:12:09.040 are Andrew Yang

00:12:10.040 because of the UBI

00:12:11.700 thing,

00:12:12.660 which certainly

00:12:13.260 is going to get a test,

00:12:14.660 and Bernie Sanders,

00:12:16.460 who has been

00:12:17.600 a very, you know,

00:12:18.820 capable and loud voice

00:12:20.140 for the working families,

00:12:21.560 and definitely part

00:12:22.800 of the productive

00:12:23.520 part of this crisis.

00:12:27.400 I think Bernie

00:12:27.960 and Yang

00:12:29.620 are the two

00:12:30.320 most influential people,

00:12:31.740 and they lost to Biden.

00:12:34.020 Now,

00:12:34.600 tell me what Biden's done.

00:12:37.600 I'm not,

00:12:38.040 I'm not sure

00:12:38.560 it's necessarily

00:12:39.300 his job to do anything

00:12:40.420 except run for president.

00:12:41.800 I mean,

00:12:42.020 so it's not a criticism.

00:12:44.140 I'm just,

00:12:44.700 it's more of a compliment

00:12:45.540 to Bernie and to Yang.

00:12:47.600 In losing,

00:12:49.640 it didn't,

00:12:50.100 it didn't stop them

00:12:51.040 from being patriots.

00:12:52.440 It didn't stop them

00:12:53.320 from being useful.

00:12:54.280 It didn't stop them

00:12:54.940 from helping.

00:12:55.960 It didn't stop them

00:12:56.740 from being powerful voices

00:12:58.140 for our upcoming

00:13:01.000 inevitable victory

00:13:03.260 over the virus.

00:13:05.180 So,

00:13:05.840 thank you

00:13:06.580 to Bernie Sanders,

00:13:08.300 and thank you

00:13:09.260 to Andrew Yang.

00:13:11.380 So,

00:13:12.960 and,

00:13:13.480 you know,

00:13:13.660 I mentioned this yesterday

00:13:14.700 when I did

00:13:15.160 my special evening

00:13:16.760 periscope,

00:13:18.600 maybe I mentioned it yesterday,

00:13:19.700 but,

00:13:20.400 Dana Bash,

00:13:21.840 well-known,

00:13:22.540 one of the most

00:13:23.680 prominent

00:13:24.100 pundit voices

00:13:25.360 on CNN,

00:13:26.700 pointedly and directly

00:13:28.060 complimented the president

00:13:29.640 for his,

00:13:30.960 you know,

00:13:31.240 new leadership style,

00:13:32.640 his revised current one,

00:13:34.880 and I really appreciated that.

00:13:37.440 As,

00:13:37.960 as a citizen,

00:13:39.000 I appreciated that.

00:13:43.220 Here's some more stuff.

00:13:44.460 I wanted to give you

00:13:50.340 some more good news,

00:13:51.340 but I had my notes

00:13:52.820 out of order,

00:13:53.480 so,

00:13:54.220 here you go.

00:13:56.860 Joel Pollack

00:13:57.680 is reporting

00:13:58.380 today

00:14:00.080 that stores

00:14:01.900 are already

00:14:02.720 restocking

00:14:03.320 as hoped,

00:14:04.980 delays in a few things,

00:14:06.380 like certain meats,

00:14:07.680 but eggs are back

00:14:08.740 and plenty of produce.

00:14:10.120 You know,

00:14:10.260 I told you that

00:14:10.800 produce will never

00:14:12.100 be a problem.

00:14:13.760 You know,

00:14:13.920 if you're worried

00:14:14.400 about starving,

00:14:16.220 there's no worry

00:14:17.080 at all

00:14:17.480 because you can't

00:14:19.000 hoard fresh fruit

00:14:20.780 and broccoli.

00:14:22.100 You know,

00:14:22.300 worst case,

00:14:23.080 the worst case scenario

00:14:24.120 is you might have to,

00:14:25.320 you know,

00:14:25.780 eat your vegetables

00:14:26.820 for a week,

00:14:27.740 and even that's not

00:14:28.540 going to happen

00:14:28.920 because the meat's

00:14:29.900 already coming in too.

00:14:31.700 So,

00:14:32.740 the grocery supply chain,

00:14:34.580 as Joel says

00:14:36.080 in his tweet,

00:14:36.600 is amazing.

00:14:38.040 I have a little bit

00:14:39.020 of experience

00:14:39.600 because I had a

00:14:40.360 food company

00:14:41.960 startup for a while,

00:14:43.340 so I got a little bit

00:14:44.620 of exposure

00:14:45.500 to,

00:14:46.200 you know,

00:14:46.500 the whole food

00:14:47.280 distribution

00:14:47.900 plus my restaurant

00:14:48.880 businesses,

00:14:49.920 so I have a little bit

00:14:50.880 more vision

00:14:52.120 on that world,

00:14:53.960 and the thing

00:14:54.820 that I knew early

00:14:55.780 is that it would

00:14:57.200 perform

00:14:57.880 no matter what

00:14:59.360 because the nature

00:15:00.440 of it is that

00:15:01.140 people can stay away

00:15:02.420 from each other

00:15:03.000 physically

00:15:03.500 and still get

00:15:04.540 all the work done.

00:15:05.520 You know,

00:15:05.660 if you're picking

00:15:07.000 the vegetables,

00:15:07.780 you can have

00:15:08.180 lots of space

00:15:08.940 from you

00:15:09.580 and the other people

00:15:10.260 picking vegetables

00:15:11.020 if you plant it

00:15:11.780 that way.

00:15:12.760 You know,

00:15:12.980 if you're in a

00:15:13.420 processing plant,

00:15:14.360 I'm sure you can

00:15:14.900 get enough distance.

00:15:16.240 So,

00:15:16.440 it's the nature

00:15:17.280 of the problem

00:15:17.840 that it would be

00:15:18.440 easy to find people

00:15:19.480 to substitute.

00:15:20.900 It's a very mature,

00:15:22.780 lots of backups,

00:15:24.000 lots of,

00:15:24.520 you know,

00:15:24.720 if this goes wrong,

00:15:25.680 if that goes wrong.

00:15:27.060 Probably our most

00:15:27.860 mature and solid

00:15:29.260 pipeline is our food.

00:15:33.040 And so,

00:15:33.780 you know,

00:15:34.320 knowing that

00:15:34.860 and having a little

00:15:35.460 bit of insight

00:15:36.060 into that world,

00:15:38.060 I've been telling you

00:15:39.240 since the start,

00:15:40.440 it's the last thing

00:15:41.240 you have to worry about.

00:15:42.680 So,

00:15:42.980 don't worry about food.

00:15:44.460 We're going to be okay.

00:15:46.040 Toilet paper,

00:15:47.260 you know,

00:15:48.200 we're starting to see

00:15:49.280 people realize

00:15:50.060 that there wasn't

00:15:50.620 any reason to hoard

00:15:51.540 that in the first place.

00:15:52.960 If nobody had

00:15:53.900 hoarded it,

00:15:55.140 yeah,

00:15:55.320 we'd be fine.

00:15:56.460 It's only the hoarding

00:15:57.700 that caused the problem.

00:15:59.160 And I think the hoarding

00:16:00.000 just caused the stimulus

00:16:01.040 to the toilet paper companies.

00:16:03.260 And they'll catch up

00:16:05.020 pretty quickly.

00:16:05.860 Probably already are.

00:16:08.480 Oh,

00:16:09.000 good.

00:16:09.640 I'm going to read you

00:16:10.700 a whole bunch of

00:16:12.580 at least positive

00:16:14.680 looking trends.

00:16:16.560 So,

00:16:16.960 they're on the list.

00:16:17.820 I'm not going to tell you

00:16:18.700 the source only because

00:16:19.800 I haven't asked permission.

00:16:21.540 But I think,

00:16:22.320 and normally I wouldn't read it

00:16:23.560 because I haven't asked permission.

00:16:25.160 And it was an email.

00:16:26.360 It wasn't public.

00:16:27.760 But because it's

00:16:28.840 the emergency,

00:16:30.700 I'm going to read you

00:16:31.880 the good news.

00:16:32.540 Because you need

00:16:32.980 the good news

00:16:33.780 more than

00:16:35.500 I need some minor

00:16:36.900 old world etiquette

00:16:38.340 about

00:16:38.820 not telling you

00:16:40.440 something that wasn't

00:16:41.100 an email, okay?

00:16:42.200 So we're in emergency etiquette.

00:16:43.900 I wouldn't do this normally.

00:16:45.500 It's just good for you.

00:16:46.600 So without

00:16:47.040 mentioning the source

00:16:48.300 because that's not

00:16:48.900 important at the moment,

00:16:50.460 here are things

00:16:51.820 that are relatively good.

00:16:53.560 It's a relative world, right?

00:16:55.120 You know,

00:16:55.380 this is not winning

00:16:56.240 the lottery good.

00:16:57.060 This is just better than

00:16:57.940 it could have been.

00:17:00.000 So China's closed down

00:17:01.440 its last coronavirus hospital

00:17:03.280 because there are not

00:17:04.400 enough new cases.

00:17:06.160 That's pretty big.

00:17:07.780 Indian doctors

00:17:08.660 successful in treating

00:17:10.200 coronavirus

00:17:11.360 with a combination

00:17:13.000 of drugs.

00:17:14.120 So they're using

00:17:14.780 these drugs called

00:17:15.840 Lepinavir,

00:17:17.480 Retonavir,

00:17:19.100 Oseotamivir,

00:17:20.320 along with

00:17:21.120 chlorophenamin.

00:17:23.560 So the Indians

00:17:25.180 now have a

00:17:26.400 body of

00:17:27.220 experience.

00:17:28.520 It may or may not

00:17:29.540 be the answer

00:17:30.260 because I don't know

00:17:31.940 if I'd heard

00:17:32.420 of most of these drugs,

00:17:34.140 but very valuable.

00:17:36.060 So you're seeing

00:17:36.580 humanity

00:17:38.260 with pockets

00:17:39.720 of knowledge

00:17:40.520 starting to

00:17:41.780 bring that knowledge

00:17:43.320 into one

00:17:44.020 unified

00:17:44.920 meta-brain,

00:17:47.600 if you will.

00:17:48.000 And when that happens,

00:17:48.860 it's going to be

00:17:49.420 amazing,

00:17:50.340 and we're really

00:17:50.840 close to it.

00:17:53.160 Researchers

00:17:53.800 at the

00:17:55.100 Erasmus Medical Center

00:17:56.460 claim to have

00:17:58.260 found an antibody

00:17:59.280 against coronavirus.

00:18:01.700 I'm not a scientist.

00:18:03.460 I don't know

00:18:03.940 what that means,

00:18:05.300 but sounds good,

00:18:06.840 right?

00:18:08.740 A 103-year-old

00:18:10.800 Chinese grandmother

00:18:11.920 made a full recovery

00:18:13.940 after being

00:18:15.580 treated for six days.

00:18:17.120 Now,

00:18:17.900 China has also

00:18:18.700 released to us

00:18:20.420 all the things

00:18:21.620 they tried.

00:18:22.420 So they've

00:18:22.780 released to the world,

00:18:24.320 this is what we

00:18:25.020 found out didn't work,

00:18:26.100 this is what worked.

00:18:27.440 Very valuable.

00:18:28.940 And when the

00:18:29.380 president tweeted

00:18:30.660 a thank you

00:18:31.520 to the Chinese people

00:18:32.560 and to President Xi

00:18:33.820 for their transparency

00:18:35.540 and all the

00:18:36.740 sacrifice they've made,

00:18:38.460 I think it was

00:18:39.020 genuine.

00:18:40.640 And,

00:18:41.060 you know,

00:18:42.260 I certainly am

00:18:43.060 maybe the world's

00:18:44.900 biggest critic

00:18:45.800 of China.

00:18:47.680 There might be

00:18:48.480 people who make

00:18:49.120 more noise about

00:18:49.980 China than I do,

00:18:51.600 but I don't think

00:18:52.360 anybody hates them

00:18:53.120 as much as I do.

00:18:54.120 I'm talking about

00:18:54.620 the government,

00:18:55.260 not the people.

00:18:56.700 And,

00:18:57.560 you know,

00:18:57.800 because I lost

00:18:58.400 the stepson to

00:18:59.240 fentanyl.

00:19:00.540 So,

00:19:00.940 for me,

00:19:01.600 it's personal.

00:19:03.700 But it is

00:19:04.620 nonetheless true

00:19:05.480 that I think

00:19:07.720 China has done

00:19:08.460 the world

00:19:08.960 a solid,

00:19:10.040 a solid favor

00:19:11.340 by working as

00:19:12.260 hard as they have

00:19:13.040 and by compiling

00:19:14.740 that information

00:19:15.480 and sharing it.

00:19:16.360 So,

00:19:16.900 we're way ahead

00:19:17.940 of them

00:19:18.420 because we know

00:19:19.380 what they tried.

00:19:20.800 And that's a

00:19:21.220 gigantic advantage.

00:19:23.060 Apple is reopening

00:19:24.040 all 42 stores

00:19:25.360 in China.

00:19:27.400 I don't know

00:19:28.220 what that means

00:19:28.820 economically so much

00:19:30.220 as what it means

00:19:31.020 psychologically

00:19:31.700 because Apple

00:19:32.940 has a hold

00:19:33.800 on our,

00:19:34.480 you know,

00:19:35.200 our global

00:19:36.320 consciousness.

00:19:37.260 They're just more

00:19:37.760 important than

00:19:38.460 other companies.

00:19:39.620 So,

00:19:39.800 when you see

00:19:40.100 China,

00:19:40.620 you see Apple

00:19:41.340 make any move,

00:19:42.640 the first thing

00:19:43.440 you say is,

00:19:44.020 well,

00:19:44.100 they're the

00:19:44.420 smartest people

00:19:45.020 we know.

00:19:46.320 So,

00:19:46.720 it's probably

00:19:47.140 the right move.

00:19:49.020 And they have

00:19:49.660 a de facto

00:19:50.480 leadership role

00:19:51.720 in the world

00:19:52.320 whether they

00:19:52.840 wanted it or not.

00:19:53.820 So,

00:19:54.080 Apple,

00:19:55.100 good leadership.

00:19:56.200 Thank you.

00:19:58.900 Cleveland Clinic

00:19:59.880 has developed

00:20:00.640 a COVID-19 test

00:20:03.000 that gives results

00:20:03.740 in hours,

00:20:04.480 not days.

00:20:05.920 How big a deal

00:20:06.720 is it

00:20:07.180 that somebody

00:20:08.880 has hacked

00:20:10.160 away to do

00:20:10.860 a test

00:20:11.280 of hours

00:20:11.900 instead of

00:20:12.480 days.

00:20:13.400 Really,

00:20:14.080 really big.

00:20:15.440 Now,

00:20:15.860 I don't know

00:20:16.360 that this

00:20:16.840 can be

00:20:17.820 immediately

00:20:18.260 put into

00:20:18.820 production

00:20:19.220 anywhere else

00:20:19.820 and then

00:20:20.080 scaled up,

00:20:21.000 but it's

00:20:21.840 big.

00:20:23.460 There's good

00:20:23.920 news from

00:20:24.220 South Korea

00:20:24.720 where a number

00:20:25.580 of new

00:20:25.820 cases is

00:20:26.400 declining.

00:20:28.380 So,

00:20:28.840 good job,

00:20:29.420 South Korea.

00:20:30.780 Italy still

00:20:31.460 hit hard,

00:20:32.400 but,

00:20:33.480 you know,

00:20:33.720 the explanation

00:20:34.380 is the elderly

00:20:35.740 population there.

00:20:37.100 I don't think

00:20:37.640 that's the full

00:20:38.200 story.

00:20:38.620 And we'll

00:20:39.680 find out

00:20:40.100 more about

00:20:40.520 that.

00:20:41.020 So,

00:20:41.240 Italy,

00:20:42.460 the good

00:20:43.480 news,

00:20:43.760 bad news,

00:20:44.280 is there's

00:20:44.600 something special

00:20:45.360 about them

00:20:45.940 that makes

00:20:46.400 them in

00:20:47.240 the worst

00:20:47.620 situation,

00:20:48.640 but I don't

00:20:49.060 think that's

00:20:49.440 the whole

00:20:49.720 story.

00:20:53.520 Let's

00:20:53.980 see.

00:20:55.860 Scientists

00:20:56.260 in Israel

00:20:56.860 likely to

00:20:57.800 announce the

00:20:58.400 development of

00:20:59.240 a vaccine.

00:21:01.020 I thought we

00:21:01.740 knew that was

00:21:02.180 coming,

00:21:02.620 so that's

00:21:02.900 good news.

00:21:03.580 Three

00:21:03.840 Maryland

00:21:04.220 coronavirus

00:21:05.000 patients

00:21:05.580 fully recovered

00:21:06.500 and able

00:21:07.880 to return,

00:21:08.680 well,

00:21:09.000 I don't

00:21:09.180 know,

00:21:09.560 that's just

00:21:09.880 three people.

00:21:10.900 Two more

00:21:11.220 Filipinos

00:21:11.960 have recovered.

00:21:13.560 A network

00:21:13.960 of Canadian

00:21:14.580 researchers

00:21:15.120 are making

00:21:15.600 excellent

00:21:15.960 progress.

00:21:17.900 Again,

00:21:18.460 I don't

00:21:18.660 know the

00:21:18.920 details.

00:21:19.320 The San

00:21:19.580 Diego

00:21:19.860 biotech

00:21:20.420 company

00:21:20.700 is developing

00:21:21.320 COVID-19

00:21:22.200 vaccination,

00:21:24.340 working with

00:21:24.920 Duke University

00:21:25.780 and National

00:21:26.540 University of

00:21:27.320 Singapore.

00:21:27.940 Good.

00:21:30.140 It's all

00:21:30.820 hands on

00:21:31.600 board.

00:21:31.900 There's

00:21:34.340 nobody on

00:21:34.860 the sidelines

00:21:35.420 now.

00:21:36.480 I've been

00:21:37.020 saying from

00:21:37.500 the start,

00:21:38.260 this is not

00:21:39.120 a spectator

00:21:40.380 sport.

00:21:41.160 If you're

00:21:41.440 not in

00:21:41.840 it,

00:21:42.700 get in

00:21:43.100 it,

00:21:43.980 one way

00:21:44.460 or the

00:21:44.640 other.

00:21:47.580 All

00:21:48.100 seven

00:21:48.420 patients

00:21:48.840 who are

00:21:49.240 getting

00:21:49.520 treated in

00:21:50.240 a New

00:21:50.800 Delhi

00:21:51.160 hospital

00:21:51.920 have

00:21:52.160 recovered.

00:21:53.200 Here's

00:21:53.720 the most

00:21:54.040 interesting

00:21:54.440 thing.

00:21:55.560 Plasma

00:21:56.000 from newly

00:21:56.600 recovered

00:21:57.060 patients

00:21:57.660 can treat

00:21:58.820 others

00:21:59.240 who are

00:21:59.780 infected.

00:22:00.340 So if

00:22:00.680 you got

00:22:01.100 it and

00:22:01.340 you got

00:22:01.620 over it,

00:22:02.800 they can

00:22:03.260 take your

00:22:03.780 blood

00:22:04.120 serum,

00:22:04.860 your hemoglobin

00:22:06.540 or whatever

00:22:06.840 the hell,

00:22:07.620 I'm no

00:22:07.980 scientist,

00:22:08.920 and they

00:22:09.520 can take

00:22:10.380 it down

00:22:10.620 to somebody

00:22:10.960 who had

00:22:11.500 it and

00:22:12.640 recovered,

00:22:13.480 recovered

00:22:14.100 being the

00:22:14.540 important

00:22:14.800 part,

00:22:15.520 and then

00:22:15.860 give it

00:22:16.200 to somebody

00:22:16.540 else.

00:22:16.820 And

00:22:16.860 apparently

00:22:17.220 the early

00:22:18.080 indications

00:22:18.560 are that

00:22:19.380 that could

00:22:21.200 make a

00:22:21.520 difference.

00:22:22.880 Now,

00:22:24.360 that's the

00:22:25.780 good news,

00:22:26.280 bad news.

00:22:28.140 Somebody

00:22:28.660 says plasma

00:22:29.300 not hemoglobin,

00:22:30.260 thank you.

00:22:30.580 So just

00:22:32.260 assume that

00:22:32.700 anything I

00:22:33.160 say about

00:22:33.640 the medical

00:22:34.920 technology is

00:22:35.940 probably wrong

00:22:36.600 but directionally

00:22:37.580 accurate.

00:22:40.140 Here's the

00:22:40.980 good news.

00:22:42.040 The more

00:22:42.500 people that

00:22:43.260 get it,

00:22:44.600 the more

00:22:45.940 people will

00:22:46.400 recover,

00:22:47.400 and the

00:22:48.060 more people

00:22:48.500 are available

00:22:49.220 as candidates

00:22:51.020 for giving

00:22:51.780 blood to

00:22:53.600 be part of

00:22:54.140 this newly

00:22:55.000 recovered

00:22:56.160 people giving

00:22:57.160 blood serum

00:22:58.360 to other

00:22:59.580 people to

00:23:00.040 protect

00:23:00.300 them.

00:23:01.640 So,

00:23:02.200 in the

00:23:02.980 beginning,

00:23:03.400 there are

00:23:03.560 not that

00:23:04.040 many people

00:23:04.560 that you

00:23:04.880 could even

00:23:05.340 get to

00:23:06.040 volunteer,

00:23:06.960 but as

00:23:07.400 the crisis

00:23:08.640 worsens,

00:23:09.580 so too

00:23:10.180 will our

00:23:10.640 weapons

00:23:11.040 improve.

00:23:12.080 Not for

00:23:12.720 a good

00:23:13.020 reason,

00:23:13.900 in this

00:23:14.260 case.

00:23:14.900 The good

00:23:15.420 reason is

00:23:15.920 that so

00:23:16.280 many people

00:23:16.680 got it,

00:23:17.660 that now we

00:23:18.080 have a lot

00:23:18.440 of recovered

00:23:18.880 people,

00:23:19.820 and they

00:23:20.080 become the,

00:23:21.320 at least

00:23:21.920 potentially.

00:23:23.000 Everything I

00:23:23.740 say about

00:23:24.260 what might

00:23:25.320 work,

00:23:26.280 just put a

00:23:28.160 big caveat

00:23:28.720 in your

00:23:29.240 mind,

00:23:29.740 we don't

00:23:30.320 know anything

00:23:31.040 right now,

00:23:31.920 but we

00:23:32.400 have strong

00:23:33.060 indications of

00:23:34.460 some things

00:23:35.000 that are

00:23:35.200 really promising,

00:23:36.160 and that's

00:23:36.520 worth noting.

00:23:38.160 All right,

00:23:38.560 I put the

00:23:38.940 slaughter meter,

00:23:39.980 the election

00:23:40.580 slaughter meter,

00:23:41.320 at 60%.

00:23:42.340 I did have it

00:23:44.180 at over,

00:23:45.340 I think my

00:23:45.840 last slaughter

00:23:49.820 meter was

00:23:51.280 around 500

00:23:52.060 or 600%,

00:23:53.180 basically saying

00:23:54.560 that Trump

00:23:55.420 was going to

00:23:55.860 win easily

00:23:56.320 no matter

00:23:56.720 what.

00:23:57.320 So that's

00:23:57.620 what the

00:23:57.920 slaughter meter

00:23:58.460 records.

00:23:59.580 Now it's

00:23:59.800 just my

00:24:00.080 opinion,

00:24:00.480 it's not

00:24:00.780 based on

00:24:01.100 anything.

00:24:01.960 And I

00:24:02.440 marked it

00:24:03.100 down to

00:24:03.360 60%,

00:24:04.260 because the

00:24:06.360 uncertainty

00:24:07.400 of the

00:24:07.820 coronavirus

00:24:08.220 takes what

00:24:09.980 would have

00:24:10.340 been otherwise

00:24:11.120 a fairly

00:24:12.120 slam-dunk

00:24:12.920 re-election

00:24:14.000 for Trump

00:24:14.580 and just

00:24:15.640 introduces

00:24:16.140 variables that

00:24:17.120 can't yet

00:24:18.460 be fully

00:24:19.540 seen.

00:24:21.280 So I'll

00:24:21.660 put it

00:24:21.840 at 60%.

00:24:22.640 There's a

00:24:23.660 50% greater

00:24:25.360 chance that

00:24:26.020 Trump would

00:24:26.760 get re-elected

00:24:27.460 than Biden

00:24:28.280 would win,

00:24:28.920 but you have

00:24:29.780 to put some

00:24:30.140 uncertainty back

00:24:31.240 in there.

00:24:32.840 And of course

00:24:33.600 the slaughter

00:24:33.980 beater gets

00:24:34.420 updated,

00:24:35.640 so it doesn't

00:24:36.360 tell you what's

00:24:36.840 going to happen

00:24:37.200 at the end.

00:24:38.260 It just tells

00:24:38.880 you artificially

00:24:39.780 if nothing

00:24:40.280 changed,

00:24:40.920 this is what

00:24:41.480 it would

00:24:41.680 look like.

00:24:42.920 But something

00:24:43.960 always changes.

00:24:45.680 Something

00:24:46.120 always changes.

00:24:49.740 What if we

00:24:50.420 can't go to

00:24:50.860 the polls?

00:24:52.140 We'll figure

00:24:52.740 it out.

00:24:54.540 Between now

00:24:55.340 and November,

00:24:56.820 I have great

00:24:58.140 confidence that

00:24:59.480 the full weight

00:25:00.400 of the United

00:25:01.300 States' power

00:25:03.300 and energy

00:25:04.020 and focus

00:25:04.840 can figure out

00:25:06.300 how to have

00:25:06.940 an election

00:25:07.420 that doesn't

00:25:07.980 look rigged.

00:25:09.860 I suppose we're

00:25:10.840 going to yell

00:25:11.340 that it was

00:25:11.720 rigged no matter

00:25:12.260 what happens,

00:25:12.840 but I think

00:25:13.880 we can do

00:25:14.300 this.

00:25:15.760 That feels

00:25:16.800 well within

00:25:17.420 our capability.

00:25:18.200 In a wartime

00:25:20.600 footing,

00:25:21.080 which we're

00:25:21.380 in now,

00:25:22.520 November's

00:25:24.160 a long time

00:25:24.740 away.

00:25:26.220 In a normal

00:25:27.080 world,

00:25:27.540 if you said

00:25:27.960 to me,

00:25:28.320 Scott,

00:25:28.880 can we

00:25:29.600 redesign our

00:25:30.520 voting system

00:25:31.200 by November,

00:25:31.980 I'd say,

00:25:32.400 whoa,

00:25:32.840 what have you

00:25:33.140 been drinking?

00:25:34.280 The world

00:25:34.940 can't do

00:25:35.340 anything that

00:25:35.860 fast.

00:25:36.840 We're not

00:25:37.200 going to

00:25:37.440 redesign our

00:25:38.300 voting system

00:25:39.040 before November.

00:25:40.120 That would

00:25:40.340 be crazy.

00:25:40.940 It would be

00:25:41.220 reckless and we

00:25:41.920 couldn't get it

00:25:42.400 done.

00:25:43.360 But that was

00:25:43.960 yesterday.

00:25:45.260 We're on

00:25:45.900 war footing

00:25:46.620 now.

00:25:47.780 Friction has

00:25:48.540 sort of

00:25:49.060 disappeared in

00:25:50.740 terms of

00:25:51.180 political friction

00:25:52.180 and people

00:25:53.400 just carping

00:25:54.120 about what

00:25:54.600 would be the

00:25:54.980 best thing

00:25:55.360 to do.

00:25:56.500 At this

00:25:57.000 point,

00:25:57.740 the time it

00:25:58.540 takes between

00:25:59.100 now and

00:25:59.760 November to

00:26:00.920 figure out how

00:26:01.980 to have a

00:26:02.480 legitimate election

00:26:03.480 in the United

00:26:03.980 States,

00:26:04.560 that's a lot

00:26:05.480 of time in

00:26:07.000 a crisis.

00:26:08.340 If we can't

00:26:09.220 get that done,

00:26:10.680 well, I'll be

00:26:11.160 surprised.

00:26:12.260 I'll be

00:26:12.580 surprised.

00:26:14.320 There's

00:26:16.160 very early

00:26:17.100 indication that

00:26:18.600 people with

00:26:19.320 blood group

00:26:20.200 blood type

00:26:20.900 A might

00:26:22.520 have a

00:26:22.960 greater risk

00:26:23.560 than blood

00:26:24.100 type O.

00:26:25.900 And so I

00:26:26.540 immediately went

00:26:27.420 to my online

00:26:28.320 health records

00:26:29.020 to find out

00:26:29.580 what my

00:26:30.100 blood type

00:26:31.220 was and I

00:26:33.480 couldn't figure

00:26:33.860 it out.

00:26:34.580 So I sure

00:26:35.580 wish I knew.

00:26:37.240 I think I

00:26:38.460 would already

00:26:38.880 know if I

00:26:39.400 were blood

00:26:39.760 type O,

00:26:40.360 right?

00:26:40.800 If you're

00:26:41.160 blood type O,

00:26:42.300 your doctor

00:26:42.980 taps you

00:26:44.260 on the

00:26:44.520 shoulder,

00:26:45.640 maybe I'm

00:26:46.100 wrong about

00:26:46.540 this, but

00:26:47.020 this is just

00:26:47.600 an assumption.

00:26:48.760 If you

00:26:49.080 blood type O,

00:26:49.920 I think

00:26:50.160 somebody taps

00:26:51.240 you on the

00:26:51.600 shoulder and

00:26:51.960 say, you

00:26:52.200 know, it'd

00:26:53.120 be nice if

00:26:53.700 you donated

00:26:54.140 blood because

00:26:55.800 I think O is

00:26:56.720 the one

00:26:56.980 everybody that

00:26:57.980 is in most

00:26:59.040 demand.

00:26:59.940 So you'd

00:27:00.540 probably know

00:27:01.380 if you had

00:27:01.920 blood type O

00:27:02.920 if you're an

00:27:03.680 adult of a

00:27:04.300 certain age.

00:27:05.400 And I don't

00:27:06.360 know that,

00:27:06.840 and so I'm

00:27:07.420 guessing I'm

00:27:07.940 probably A.

00:27:12.680 There's also

00:27:13.580 a, we're

00:27:15.600 getting information

00:27:16.240 that conflicts

00:27:17.080 about whether

00:27:17.920 you can get

00:27:18.480 the coronavirus

00:27:19.120 from a

00:27:20.600 surface as

00:27:21.740 opposed to

00:27:22.260 somebody breathing

00:27:23.000 on you in

00:27:24.440 some fairly

00:27:24.960 intensive way.

00:27:26.620 And the

00:27:28.100 conflicting

00:27:28.640 information is

00:27:29.480 that scientifically

00:27:30.360 the virus can

00:27:32.080 live for a

00:27:32.600 while on

00:27:33.100 surfaces, you

00:27:34.220 know, a day

00:27:34.540 or two,

00:27:34.980 depending on the

00:27:35.500 surface, I

00:27:36.500 think wood is

00:27:37.260 safer than

00:27:37.920 something else,

00:27:39.240 et cetera.

00:27:40.040 But basically,

00:27:41.040 the scientists

00:27:41.460 say, oh, it

00:27:42.120 can definitely

00:27:42.560 live on

00:27:43.080 surfaces.

00:27:44.120 So in

00:27:44.620 theory, you

00:27:45.100 could get it

00:27:45.560 from touching

00:27:46.160 something that

00:27:46.900 somebody else

00:27:47.460 touched.

00:27:48.580 But they

00:27:49.240 also say that

00:27:50.040 there are no

00:27:50.620 confirmed cases

00:27:52.080 where we know

00:27:52.860 somebody got it

00:27:53.640 from that.

00:27:55.000 In other

00:27:55.360 words, everybody

00:27:55.900 who has it

00:27:56.640 has a story

00:27:58.260 of a direct

00:27:58.880 connection with

00:28:00.160 a human being

00:28:00.900 that they were

00:28:01.740 close to,

00:28:02.460 physically close

00:28:03.240 to.

00:28:04.020 So there's no

00:28:04.760 case of

00:28:05.220 somebody who

00:28:05.740 says, you

00:28:06.340 know, I

00:28:07.460 don't have any

00:28:07.980 connection with

00:28:08.620 anybody.

00:28:09.800 I've just

00:28:10.220 been, you

00:28:10.560 know, living

00:28:11.660 my life,

00:28:12.720 keeping my

00:28:13.160 distance, but

00:28:15.020 I haven't

00:28:15.360 washed my

00:28:15.820 hands that

00:28:16.220 much, and

00:28:17.400 I got

00:28:17.680 coronavirus.

00:28:18.960 Now, I

00:28:19.620 don't know

00:28:20.080 how easily

00:28:20.800 we can

00:28:21.340 tell.

00:28:22.500 How easily

00:28:23.520 can we

00:28:24.100 tell that

00:28:26.600 somebody got

00:28:27.260 it from a

00:28:27.720 person versus

00:28:29.320 got it from

00:28:30.240 an object?

00:28:31.440 I don't know

00:28:32.220 that we can

00:28:32.600 tell, and

00:28:33.020 that's why

00:28:33.300 there's some

00:28:33.620 uncertainty.

00:28:34.340 But there

00:28:35.520 are so

00:28:35.860 many cases

00:28:36.440 that have

00:28:37.000 been

00:28:37.140 exhaustively

00:28:37.920 researched

00:28:39.940 because that's

00:28:40.740 the main

00:28:41.080 thing you

00:28:41.380 do.

00:28:41.620 When somebody

00:28:41.920 gets it,

00:28:42.380 you say,

00:28:42.680 all right,

00:28:42.920 who did

00:28:43.180 you talk

00:28:43.460 to?

00:28:43.660 Where were

00:28:44.000 you?

00:28:44.540 And you

00:28:45.160 deconstruct

00:28:45.900 their recent

00:28:46.680 history to

00:28:47.240 find out

00:28:47.660 who else

00:28:48.260 is infected.

00:28:49.120 so we

00:28:50.360 should have

00:28:50.860 kicked up

00:28:51.580 at least

00:28:53.220 some people

00:28:54.780 where you

00:28:55.400 could say,

00:28:55.820 you know,

00:28:57.060 maybe they

00:28:57.760 got it from

00:28:58.120 the surface.

00:28:59.160 Because even

00:28:59.820 if somebody

00:29:00.220 got it from

00:29:00.700 close contact

00:29:01.500 with a

00:29:01.980 human,

00:29:03.420 how do you

00:29:03.840 know you

00:29:04.140 got it from

00:29:04.740 the air

00:29:05.440 droplets flying

00:29:06.360 through the

00:29:06.760 air versus

00:29:07.340 somebody touched

00:29:08.700 a glass of

00:29:09.700 their spouse

00:29:10.300 who had it?

00:29:11.400 How do you

00:29:12.000 know?

00:29:13.120 So at

00:29:15.700 least there's

00:29:16.220 some reason

00:29:17.160 to be a

00:29:17.860 little bit

00:29:18.280 optimistic.

00:29:19.200 The surfaces

00:29:19.900 are not

00:29:21.680 going to be

00:29:22.060 the main

00:29:22.520 source of

00:29:22.980 infection.

00:29:24.060 And I

00:29:24.280 think we

00:29:24.560 can probably

00:29:25.460 confidently say

00:29:26.320 that's true.

00:29:27.660 I think we

00:29:28.120 can confidently

00:29:28.780 say that the

00:29:30.100 main problem

00:29:30.860 is not going

00:29:31.400 to be surfaces.

00:29:32.600 But of course

00:29:33.140 it still exists

00:29:33.800 as a risk,

00:29:34.460 so wash

00:29:34.880 your hands,

00:29:36.260 use your

00:29:37.360 hand sanitizers,

00:29:39.020 and keep

00:29:39.540 your hands

00:29:39.840 away from

00:29:40.140 your face.

00:29:41.000 So I

00:29:41.560 think there's

00:29:42.060 no question

00:29:42.780 that it's

00:29:43.600 a potential

00:29:44.060 problem,

00:29:44.680 so treat

00:29:45.060 it like

00:29:45.380 it's a

00:29:45.680 full

00:29:45.820 problem.

00:29:50.180 So

00:29:50.700 Democrats

00:29:51.160 are trying

00:29:54.780 to blame

00:29:55.200 Fox News

00:29:55.820 for the

00:29:56.440 slow response

00:29:57.760 by the

00:29:58.160 president,

00:29:58.860 or at

00:29:59.200 least not

00:30:00.440 taking it

00:30:00.920 as seriously

00:30:01.480 as soon as

00:30:02.180 they think

00:30:02.680 he should

00:30:03.020 have.

00:30:03.660 They've

00:30:03.940 got some

00:30:04.380 very clever

00:30:05.020 but misleading

00:30:06.000 memes

00:30:06.580 showing the

00:30:07.560 Fox News

00:30:08.240 hosts

00:30:08.740 downplaying

00:30:10.560 it while

00:30:11.680 the virus

00:30:12.580 was getting

00:30:13.620 worse.

00:30:14.680 Now that

00:30:14.940 certainly

00:30:15.260 happened.

00:30:16.680 So in

00:30:17.060 terms of

00:30:17.680 describing what

00:30:18.980 happened,

00:30:19.520 we all

00:30:19.960 watched it,

00:30:20.600 so there's

00:30:21.120 no question

00:30:21.540 about what

00:30:22.100 happened.

00:30:23.200 But here's

00:30:23.660 the thing.

00:30:25.420 Was this

00:30:25.960 some kind

00:30:26.400 of weird,

00:30:27.180 isolated,

00:30:28.040 conservative,

00:30:29.460 Republican,

00:30:30.400 Fox News

00:30:31.000 watcher

00:30:31.440 problem?

00:30:32.840 Can anybody

00:30:33.660 tell me that

00:30:34.760 there weren't

00:30:35.160 any Democrats

00:30:36.080 in the country

00:30:36.880 or Democrats

00:30:37.740 on TV

00:30:38.260 who also

00:30:39.440 were saying,

00:30:40.140 well,

00:30:40.420 looks like

00:30:40.860 it's just

00:30:41.220 the flu.

00:30:44.380 Does anybody

00:30:45.060 think that?

00:30:46.060 Now,

00:30:46.560 I'm not

00:30:46.920 excusing

00:30:47.620 anybody for

00:30:48.180 anything.

00:30:48.580 That's not

00:30:48.900 my job and

00:30:49.480 I don't want

00:30:49.800 to look back

00:30:50.340 too much.

00:30:51.240 But I would

00:30:51.700 note that I

00:30:53.100 think we were

00:30:53.660 sort of all

00:30:54.280 in this

00:30:54.660 together of

00:30:56.340 people slowly

00:30:58.040 realizing that

00:30:59.100 this wasn't

00:30:59.660 normal.

00:31:01.240 A lot of

00:31:01.980 us went

00:31:02.340 through that

00:31:02.880 phase where

00:31:04.960 we were trying

00:31:05.460 to figure out

00:31:06.000 how bad it

00:31:06.480 was.

00:31:06.760 But I

00:31:08.960 was thinking

00:31:09.740 to myself,

00:31:10.300 who were

00:31:10.580 the earliest

00:31:11.280 voices saying

00:31:13.580 closed travel

00:31:14.720 from China?

00:31:16.400 Were they

00:31:17.280 Democrats?

00:31:18.900 Who was the

00:31:19.680 first person

00:31:20.320 to say

00:31:20.740 closed the

00:31:21.360 airports from

00:31:22.460 China?

00:31:23.700 I think it

00:31:24.540 was me.

00:31:25.920 I'm not a

00:31:26.420 Democrat.

00:31:27.340 Now,

00:31:27.760 I'm putting

00:31:28.400 that out

00:31:28.800 there provocatively

00:31:29.860 because I

00:31:30.280 want somebody

00:31:31.040 to prove me

00:31:32.000 wrong.

00:31:34.040 But is there

00:31:34.880 anybody in the

00:31:35.520 public,

00:31:35.940 I consider

00:31:36.920 myself a

00:31:37.500 public figure,

00:31:38.460 but was there

00:31:38.940 anybody in

00:31:39.380 the public

00:31:40.000 who said

00:31:41.380 loudly,

00:31:43.520 and I was

00:31:44.340 pretty worked

00:31:44.880 up about it

00:31:45.540 on January

00:31:46.200 24th,

00:31:47.080 to close the

00:31:48.200 airports from

00:31:48.720 China immediately,

00:31:49.720 figure it out

00:31:50.340 later,

00:31:50.760 but close the

00:31:51.820 airport now

00:31:52.500 and then figure

00:31:53.720 it out?

00:31:54.440 I don't think

00:31:55.200 anybody said

00:31:55.940 that before I

00:31:56.640 did.

00:31:57.880 Am I right?

00:31:59.260 Who was

00:32:00.040 telling you

00:32:00.520 that the

00:32:01.040 supply line

00:32:04.020 problem could

00:32:05.380 be as big,

00:32:06.100 if not much

00:32:06.960 bigger,

00:32:07.460 than the

00:32:08.160 virus itself?

00:32:08.880 Who was

00:32:09.160 saying that

00:32:09.540 really early?

00:32:11.780 Mike

00:32:12.060 Cernovich.

00:32:13.360 Mike Cernovich.

00:32:14.500 Is he a

00:32:15.200 Democrat?

00:32:16.180 No.

00:32:17.020 Don't think

00:32:17.420 so.

00:32:18.220 I think he's

00:32:19.180 independent,

00:32:19.840 but he can

00:32:20.860 tell you what

00:32:21.300 he is,

00:32:21.580 but he's not

00:32:21.920 a Democrat.

00:32:23.800 Who are the

00:32:25.660 biggest hawks

00:32:26.740 on China

00:32:28.780 really early?

00:32:30.700 So names

00:32:31.140 like Gordon

00:32:31.940 Chang,

00:32:32.540 Lance Bass.

00:32:34.040 I don't know

00:32:35.140 what their

00:32:35.420 political

00:32:35.900 affiliations

00:32:36.660 are,

00:32:37.760 but I don't

00:32:38.260 think either

00:32:39.340 of them

00:32:39.680 are necessarily

00:32:41.700 classic

00:32:42.840 Democrats.

00:32:43.860 I don't know

00:32:44.280 what they are,

00:32:44.800 so I'm just

00:32:45.480 putting that

00:32:45.860 out there.

00:32:46.620 But these

00:32:47.060 are the

00:32:47.300 strongest

00:32:47.620 voices I

00:32:48.300 heard.

00:32:49.700 The people

00:32:50.240 who were

00:32:50.660 on this,

00:32:51.480 thank you,

00:32:52.140 Tom Cotton

00:32:52.640 was the

00:32:53.000 next one

00:32:53.340 I was going

00:32:53.620 to mention.

00:32:54.640 Tom Cotton,

00:32:55.460 who had

00:32:56.760 never been

00:32:57.200 on my

00:32:57.540 radar before,

00:32:58.400 you know,

00:32:58.560 I've heard

00:32:58.880 the name,

00:32:59.700 and sometimes

00:33:00.920 he was

00:33:01.520 against the

00:33:02.000 president on

00:33:02.620 issues,

00:33:03.080 I don't

00:33:03.260 really even

00:33:03.800 remember what

00:33:04.300 they were,

00:33:05.320 but I would

00:33:05.840 say Tom

00:33:06.360 Cotton is

00:33:07.020 showing tremendous

00:33:07.960 leadership on

00:33:10.040 how to think

00:33:11.580 about this,

00:33:12.200 how to be

00:33:12.540 aggressive,

00:33:13.320 how to deal

00:33:14.080 with China on

00:33:14.700 this.

00:33:15.520 So Tom

00:33:16.320 Cotton,

00:33:17.340 he's no

00:33:18.080 Democrat.

00:33:19.360 So I hear

00:33:20.420 what you're

00:33:20.760 saying,

00:33:21.460 I hear what

00:33:21.960 you're saying,

00:33:23.160 Democrats,

00:33:24.420 that Fox

00:33:25.200 News has

00:33:25.680 some

00:33:25.840 explaining,

00:33:27.580 that conversation

00:33:28.600 can happen

00:33:29.160 later,

00:33:29.840 and I invite

00:33:31.120 it,

00:33:31.500 because I

00:33:31.780 think it's

00:33:32.060 actually a

00:33:32.460 useful

00:33:32.680 conversation.

00:33:34.260 You always

00:33:34.820 want to audit,

00:33:35.480 you always

00:33:35.740 want to do

00:33:36.140 an autopsy

00:33:36.760 on anything

00:33:37.140 that worked

00:33:37.620 and anything

00:33:38.020 that didn't

00:33:38.360 work,

00:33:38.700 so let's

00:33:38.980 have that

00:33:39.340 conversation,

00:33:40.460 but let's

00:33:40.820 not pretend

00:33:41.360 this is,

00:33:42.940 the conservatives

00:33:43.940 got it all

00:33:44.600 wrong and the

00:33:45.320 Democrats were

00:33:46.060 smart,

00:33:46.540 because nothing

00:33:46.920 like that

00:33:47.320 happened.

00:33:48.340 Nothing like

00:33:48.960 that happened.

00:33:50.200 So I don't

00:33:51.160 think it serves

00:33:51.720 the country to

00:33:53.820 be trying to

00:33:54.940 frame it that

00:33:55.540 way at the

00:33:56.160 moment.

00:33:56.600 Let's have the

00:33:57.100 conversation,

00:33:57.840 but let's

00:33:58.100 have it

00:33:58.340 later.

00:34:01.220 I canceled

00:34:02.040 two surgeries

00:34:03.420 for myself,

00:34:05.720 so I had

00:34:06.200 two upcoming

00:34:07.180 minor surgeries

00:34:09.040 that I don't

00:34:10.660 know when

00:34:11.000 I'll ever have

00:34:11.460 them.

00:34:12.120 One was so

00:34:12.880 minor it's not

00:34:13.480 worth mentioning.

00:34:15.340 It just would

00:34:15.960 have been

00:34:16.180 stitches and

00:34:17.020 getting rid

00:34:17.660 of a cyst

00:34:19.180 wall.

00:34:19.820 You know,

00:34:21.060 the cyst

00:34:21.440 already is

00:34:22.020 cleared up,

00:34:22.960 but I guess

00:34:23.280 they leave

00:34:23.700 what's called

00:34:25.360 a wall,

00:34:26.660 a little

00:34:26.960 structure beneath

00:34:27.760 the skin that

00:34:28.380 I can't even

00:34:28.820 feel.

00:34:29.520 So I had the

00:34:30.040 most minor

00:34:30.720 surgery planned

00:34:31.500 for that.

00:34:32.040 It was going

00:34:32.360 to be 10

00:34:32.940 minutes and

00:34:33.500 walk out with

00:34:34.140 some stitches

00:34:34.640 to get rid

00:34:35.700 of that.

00:34:36.020 That's canceled

00:34:36.560 until further

00:34:37.240 notice.

00:34:38.200 Then I had

00:34:38.760 far more

00:34:40.160 important surgery

00:34:40.940 that I was

00:34:42.300 going to have

00:34:42.740 on my

00:34:43.080 sinuses

00:34:43.600 that is just

00:34:46.180 postponed

00:34:46.640 forever

00:34:47.800 until further

00:34:49.600 notice.

00:34:50.520 So that

00:34:50.720 one,

00:34:51.980 and interestingly

00:34:53.460 I was contacting

00:34:55.140 my health

00:34:55.960 provider at the

00:34:56.700 same time they

00:34:57.180 were contacting

00:34:57.780 me.

00:34:58.420 Both of us

00:34:59.120 were canceling

00:34:59.740 the surgeries

00:35:00.500 at the same

00:35:01.060 time.

00:35:01.940 Because even

00:35:02.680 if my health

00:35:03.400 care provider

00:35:04.060 had said,

00:35:04.500 yeah,

00:35:04.840 you know,

00:35:05.560 we're not

00:35:06.360 in an emergency

00:35:06.960 yet,

00:35:08.360 let's just

00:35:09.040 keep your

00:35:09.720 surgery on

00:35:10.300 the books

00:35:10.700 and we'll

00:35:11.480 do it next

00:35:11.960 week,

00:35:12.860 I wouldn't

00:35:13.820 have gone

00:35:14.740 ahead because

00:35:15.720 I can.

00:35:16.500 you know,

00:35:17.540 my surgery,

00:35:18.440 the nasal

00:35:18.880 stuff is,

00:35:20.680 you know,

00:35:21.060 it's optional

00:35:21.780 in the sense

00:35:22.420 that I could

00:35:22.880 push it off

00:35:23.440 better than

00:35:23.900 somebody with

00:35:24.560 a heart

00:35:25.540 attack or

00:35:26.020 something.

00:35:27.080 But it

00:35:27.740 would have

00:35:28.000 been really

00:35:28.420 hard.

00:35:29.160 Well,

00:35:29.540 it is going

00:35:29.960 to be.

00:35:30.740 So if my

00:35:31.540 symptoms return,

00:35:34.320 it's going to

00:35:34.940 be a tough

00:35:35.320 time for me,

00:35:36.160 but I was

00:35:36.900 going to cancel

00:35:37.340 the surgery

00:35:37.780 anyway because

00:35:38.320 it's optional.

00:35:39.640 And it's

00:35:40.120 an emergency

00:35:40.640 and if people

00:35:42.120 like me can

00:35:43.080 just get our

00:35:44.420 business out of

00:35:45.780 the health

00:35:46.300 care system

00:35:47.000 and wait,

00:35:47.920 we should do

00:35:48.520 it.

00:35:48.740 So I

00:35:48.940 canceled my

00:35:49.440 stuff.

00:35:50.460 I should

00:35:51.020 tell you

00:35:51.400 that this

00:35:53.160 is just a

00:35:53.540 personal note

00:35:54.240 because I

00:35:54.880 feel like we

00:35:55.400 have a

00:35:55.640 personal

00:35:55.920 connection.

00:35:57.800 I hope

00:35:58.480 you do

00:35:58.740 too.

00:36:00.620 That I

00:36:01.200 had a

00:36:01.600 big worry

00:36:02.400 that went

00:36:03.320 away yesterday.

00:36:04.560 The reason

00:36:05.280 that I had

00:36:05.760 an MRI on

00:36:06.580 my sinuses

00:36:07.180 was not

00:36:07.880 just to get

00:36:08.840 the lay

00:36:09.260 of the land

00:36:09.720 so that they

00:36:10.240 could plan

00:36:10.680 the surgery.

00:36:11.140 it was

00:36:12.100 because there

00:36:12.720 was a

00:36:13.760 suspicion that

00:36:14.540 I had

00:36:15.000 that there

00:36:17.000 was a

00:36:18.120 problem with

00:36:18.820 the brain

00:36:19.500 barrier to

00:36:20.700 my sinus

00:36:21.320 which would

00:36:22.540 have been

00:36:22.940 a pretty

00:36:24.360 big problem.

00:36:25.800 And the

00:36:26.360 CAT scan

00:36:27.360 showed that

00:36:27.860 it might be

00:36:28.220 a problem.

00:36:28.780 The MRI

00:36:29.260 said no

00:36:29.900 problem.

00:36:30.660 Once it

00:36:31.100 could be

00:36:31.400 seen clear

00:36:31.940 the brain

00:36:33.060 barrier was

00:36:33.720 intact.

00:36:34.600 I'd never

00:36:35.080 even heard

00:36:35.400 this as a

00:36:35.860 problem before

00:36:36.520 but apparently

00:36:37.020 if your

00:36:37.500 sinus problem

00:36:38.680 gets to the

00:36:39.460 extreme level

00:36:40.140 than mine

00:36:40.520 did, in

00:36:41.400 some cases

00:36:42.120 the brain

00:36:43.080 barrier is

00:36:43.680 at risk.

00:36:44.840 I'd never

00:36:45.160 even heard

00:36:45.400 of that.

00:36:45.700 I guess

00:36:45.900 from the

00:36:46.200 infections

00:36:46.640 over time.

00:36:47.920 But mine

00:36:48.300 is not.

00:36:50.020 So as

00:36:51.980 of yesterday

00:36:52.860 I found

00:36:53.360 out I had

00:36:53.940 a gigantic

00:36:54.820 thing to

00:36:56.160 worry about

00:36:56.620 that just

00:36:56.920 went away.

00:36:57.880 And I

00:36:58.060 gotta say

00:36:58.580 it made

00:36:59.100 me feel

00:36:59.420 good.

00:36:59.740 I wasn't

00:37:00.020 sharing that

00:37:00.460 with anybody

00:37:00.880 but it's

00:37:02.120 all good

00:37:02.380 news so I

00:37:02.840 can tell

00:37:03.100 you now.

00:37:04.080 All right.

00:37:07.920 New

00:37:08.280 Gingrich

00:37:08.820 said in

00:37:09.820 a tweet

00:37:10.100 a reporter

00:37:10.700 asked me

00:37:11.100 today why

00:37:11.560 conservatives

00:37:12.100 were initially

00:37:12.900 so skeptical

00:37:13.780 of the threat

00:37:15.280 of the

00:37:15.540 coronavirus

00:37:16.020 which many

00:37:17.760 of us

00:37:18.020 were at

00:37:18.620 least in

00:37:18.940 some ways.

00:37:20.980 And he

00:37:21.460 said I

00:37:21.800 tried to

00:37:22.180 explain that

00:37:22.960 one of the

00:37:23.460 dangerous

00:37:23.800 consequences

00:37:24.540 of having

00:37:25.120 a totally

00:37:25.700 dishonest

00:37:26.640 left-wing

00:37:27.880 news media

00:37:28.480 was that

00:37:28.940 most Americans

00:37:29.620 discounted

00:37:30.540 their hysteria

00:37:31.300 as phony.

00:37:33.220 And you

00:37:33.400 know Newt

00:37:34.620 once again

00:37:35.200 one of the

00:37:36.060 keenest

00:37:37.980 observers

00:37:38.540 I think

00:37:40.380 that's true.

00:37:41.100 I mean I

00:37:41.420 don't think

00:37:41.700 it's complete

00:37:42.300 because it's

00:37:43.840 not as if

00:37:44.900 the left-wing

00:37:45.600 news was

00:37:46.240 the only

00:37:46.840 one that

00:37:47.200 got things

00:37:47.780 wrong.

00:37:48.820 Certainly

00:37:49.260 nothing like

00:37:49.840 that.

00:37:50.740 But it's

00:37:52.600 part of the

00:37:52.940 question.

00:37:54.060 I think the

00:37:54.720 news business

00:37:55.420 in general

00:37:56.040 has some

00:37:56.600 questions to

00:37:57.680 answer left

00:37:58.200 and right.

00:37:59.540 But Newt

00:38:00.280 is right.

00:38:01.360 The

00:38:01.580 extraordinary

00:38:03.120 disservice

00:38:04.140 that our

00:38:05.680 news business

00:38:06.760 has been

00:38:08.420 serving up

00:38:09.220 really hurt

00:38:10.440 us in

00:38:10.920 this case.

00:38:11.880 It really

00:38:12.200 hurt us

00:38:12.720 because there

00:38:14.060 was no

00:38:14.460 trust whatsoever.

00:38:16.700 And I'm

00:38:17.160 not sure

00:38:17.500 there should

00:38:17.960 have been.

00:38:18.460 I don't

00:38:18.680 think that's

00:38:19.080 a problem

00:38:19.520 of the

00:38:20.180 public.

00:38:21.320 If anybody's

00:38:22.180 blaming the

00:38:22.760 public for

00:38:23.360 not taking

00:38:23.880 it seriously

00:38:24.580 as soon as

00:38:25.420 they should,

00:38:26.240 I think

00:38:26.580 that's

00:38:26.820 misplaced.

00:38:27.440 I believe

00:38:28.860 that the

00:38:30.460 news destroyed

00:38:31.680 its credibility

00:38:32.680 to the point

00:38:33.460 where we

00:38:35.100 had trouble

00:38:35.560 believing it

00:38:36.140 until it

00:38:36.480 was impossible

00:38:36.980 to ignore.

00:38:39.400 We see,

00:38:40.600 it looks like

00:38:40.960 the government

00:38:41.360 is thinking

00:38:42.180 seriously about

00:38:43.140 sending out

00:38:43.780 direct checks,

00:38:44.820 not really

00:38:46.160 UBI,

00:38:46.880 but sort of

00:38:47.260 looks like

00:38:47.600 that,

00:38:48.260 maybe propping

00:38:48.860 up airlines

00:38:49.480 and small

00:38:49.980 businesses,

00:38:50.980 and Trump

00:38:52.500 seems to be

00:38:53.180 aggressive about

00:38:54.080 this,

00:38:54.920 which is

00:38:55.300 good.

00:38:55.520 I told

00:38:59.720 you yesterday,

00:39:01.080 so last

00:39:01.600 night I

00:39:02.060 gave an

00:39:02.520 update,

00:39:03.620 that I

00:39:04.660 sent a

00:39:04.940 direct message

00:39:05.460 on Twitter

00:39:05.860 to the

00:39:06.460 FCC chair

00:39:07.360 Ajit

00:39:07.920 Pai,

00:39:09.100 I hope I

00:39:09.820 pronounced

00:39:10.100 his name

00:39:10.460 right,

00:39:10.760 I don't

00:39:10.960 know if

00:39:11.160 I did,

00:39:12.300 about the

00:39:13.400 question of

00:39:14.180 doctors

00:39:14.520 practicing

00:39:15.160 across

00:39:15.740 state

00:39:16.020 borders,

00:39:17.160 and he

00:39:17.900 said

00:39:18.160 basically

00:39:18.980 he's on

00:39:19.260 the same

00:39:19.520 page,

00:39:19.980 and has

00:39:20.180 been for

00:39:20.480 years,

00:39:21.200 and the

00:39:21.780 government

00:39:22.040 is working

00:39:22.800 toward that.

00:39:24.460 I don't

00:39:24.800 know the

00:39:25.080 details,

00:39:25.520 I offered

00:39:25.960 to help

00:39:27.020 persuade if

00:39:28.160 there's some

00:39:28.600 person who

00:39:29.240 needs to

00:39:29.560 change their

00:39:29.980 mind,

00:39:31.100 but I'm

00:39:32.100 a little

00:39:32.400 disappointed

00:39:33.020 that that's

00:39:33.600 not already

00:39:34.080 done,

00:39:34.480 because I

00:39:34.880 can't imagine

00:39:35.480 anybody at

00:39:36.040 the federal

00:39:36.540 level disagrees.

00:39:37.800 It seems

00:39:38.120 to be the

00:39:38.640 local state

00:39:40.040 licensing boards

00:39:41.620 are being

00:39:42.380 little tyrants

00:39:43.120 or something.

00:39:43.740 I don't know

00:39:44.280 what's going

00:39:44.660 on,

00:39:44.920 that's my

00:39:45.240 guess,

00:39:46.000 but certainly

00:39:47.360 at the

00:39:47.740 federal level,

00:39:49.280 I'll bet you

00:39:49.800 couldn't find

00:39:50.300 one person

00:39:50.960 who doesn't

00:39:51.460 think this

00:39:51.900 is a

00:39:52.280 tremendous

00:39:52.680 idea,

00:39:53.400 to temporarily

00:39:54.360 get rid of

00:39:54.900 the state

00:39:55.260 restrictions and

00:39:56.120 let U.S.

00:39:56.980 doctors practice

00:39:57.920 anywhere for

00:39:58.520 the emergency,

00:39:59.900 for telemedicine

00:40:01.420 especially.

00:40:02.980 And I just

00:40:05.620 need to know

00:40:06.080 who's saying

00:40:06.500 no.

00:40:07.740 Is there

00:40:08.220 anybody saying

00:40:08.780 no?

00:40:09.080 It could be a

00:40:09.840 case of just,

00:40:10.840 it takes a while

00:40:11.700 to say yes,

00:40:12.540 because you've got

00:40:12.900 to get your

00:40:13.440 ducks in order,

00:40:14.240 you know,

00:40:14.480 maybe you need

00:40:15.120 to research

00:40:16.260 some things

00:40:16.800 before you say

00:40:17.460 yes,

00:40:17.700 but if

00:40:18.740 anybody is

00:40:19.560 resisting this,

00:40:21.040 can you

00:40:21.340 get me

00:40:21.680 that name?

00:40:22.800 If there's

00:40:23.200 any entity

00:40:23.880 or person

00:40:24.600 that can be

00:40:25.320 identified

00:40:25.780 who's on

00:40:26.220 the other

00:40:26.620 side of

00:40:27.040 that,

00:40:28.100 at the

00:40:28.620 federal level,

00:40:29.200 I don't

00:40:29.480 care about

00:40:29.820 the states,

00:40:30.840 but if

00:40:31.160 anybody at

00:40:31.760 the federal

00:40:32.120 level is

00:40:32.700 saying no

00:40:33.140 to this,

00:40:34.320 first of all,

00:40:35.080 I'd like to

00:40:35.400 hear the

00:40:35.600 reason,

00:40:36.640 and if I'm

00:40:37.280 not satisfied

00:40:37.880 with the

00:40:38.300 reason,

00:40:39.300 I'd like an

00:40:40.440 opportunity to

00:40:41.220 persuade,

00:40:42.220 because I

00:40:42.540 don't think it

00:40:43.560 would take me

00:40:43.940 more than 20

00:40:44.520 minutes.

00:40:44.840 You give me

00:40:45.920 20 minutes

00:40:46.480 with whoever

00:40:47.040 is the

00:40:48.080 problem,

00:40:48.580 and I

00:40:48.780 will change

00:40:49.220 their mind.

00:40:50.240 I don't

00:40:50.740 usually use

00:40:51.500 persuasion

00:40:52.260 at,

00:40:53.420 let's say,

00:40:54.520 weapons grade,

00:40:55.740 but it's

00:40:57.320 an emergency.

00:40:58.480 So I would

00:40:59.180 pull out all

00:40:59.800 the stops,

00:41:00.500 assuming there

00:41:01.580 was no good

00:41:02.020 reason for

00:41:02.520 delaying,

00:41:04.680 but there's

00:41:06.200 nothing I

00:41:06.700 would get

00:41:08.120 that done.

00:41:08.720 Give me

00:41:08.960 20 minutes

00:41:09.500 in a room

00:41:09.940 with whoever

00:41:10.420 needs their

00:41:10.920 mind changed,

00:41:11.840 and I'll make

00:41:12.760 that happen

00:41:13.120 for you.

00:41:14.840 I promise.

00:41:18.220 Let's see,

00:41:19.220 what else

00:41:19.760 we got going

00:41:20.240 on?

00:41:24.420 Oh,

00:41:25.140 this is

00:41:26.060 really

00:41:26.280 interesting.

00:41:27.420 I don't

00:41:27.860 know how

00:41:28.120 many of

00:41:28.420 you will

00:41:28.700 remember

00:41:29.040 this,

00:41:29.840 and correct

00:41:30.860 me if I

00:41:31.880 didn't say

00:41:32.340 it, but I'm

00:41:33.080 pretty sure I

00:41:33.580 talked about

00:41:34.000 this some

00:41:35.180 time ago on

00:41:35.700 Periscope,

00:41:36.840 that if we

00:41:37.380 have a

00:41:37.820 ventilator

00:41:38.420 shortage,

00:41:40.060 I asked,

00:41:40.980 is there

00:41:41.320 any way to

00:41:41.900 just make

00:41:43.180 additional

00:41:43.700 tubes,

00:41:44.840 so that

00:41:45.500 two people

00:41:46.060 can use

00:41:46.500 a ventilator

00:41:47.020 instead of

00:41:47.520 one,

00:41:47.780 and then

00:41:47.980 you've

00:41:48.200 instantly

00:41:48.620 doubled

00:41:49.740 your

00:41:50.000 capacity.

00:41:51.220 So that

00:41:51.420 was the

00:41:51.640 first thing

00:41:52.100 I said,

00:41:53.320 which is,

00:41:53.760 is there any

00:41:54.240 way to have

00:41:55.560 a T-connector

00:41:56.720 and have two

00:41:57.360 people use

00:41:57.860 the same

00:41:58.160 ventilator?

00:41:59.060 The other

00:41:59.620 thing I said

00:42:00.180 was,

00:42:00.720 we need

00:42:01.120 some kind

00:42:01.500 of a

00:42:01.780 tutorial

00:42:02.320 to train

00:42:04.340 the untrained

00:42:05.180 in how to

00:42:05.600 use a

00:42:05.900 ventilator.

00:42:06.360 Now,

00:42:06.520 I learned

00:42:06.840 a lot

00:42:07.120 about that

00:42:07.660 since I

00:42:08.100 made that

00:42:08.520 ignorant

00:42:08.960 suggestion,

00:42:09.720 because it

00:42:09.960 was an

00:42:11.280 ignorant

00:42:11.580 suggestion,

00:42:12.480 because I

00:42:13.160 literally don't

00:42:13.720 know enough

00:42:14.100 about that

00:42:14.500 world to

00:42:14.940 be smart

00:42:16.120 about it.

00:42:17.060 But in the

00:42:17.820 emergency,

00:42:18.400 I feel it's

00:42:19.000 good for us

00:42:19.540 to float any

00:42:20.200 idea that

00:42:20.660 needs consideration,

00:42:21.700 and that was

00:42:22.220 one of them.

00:42:23.140 And smart

00:42:24.180 people told me

00:42:24.880 this.

00:42:25.320 They said,

00:42:25.700 oh,

00:42:26.060 Scott,

00:42:26.380 it's two

00:42:27.380 to four

00:42:27.840 years to

00:42:28.580 learn to

00:42:28.920 be a

00:42:29.940 respiration

00:42:31.440 therapist,

00:42:32.000 which is the

00:42:32.860 job that

00:42:33.380 manages the

00:42:34.160 ventilators.

00:42:34.720 There are

00:42:35.420 different kinds

00:42:36.160 of ventilators.

00:42:37.580 You know,

00:42:37.760 you couldn't

00:42:38.500 quickly train

00:42:39.460 somebody to

00:42:40.640 operate a

00:42:41.100 ventilator.

00:42:42.600 And then I

00:42:43.400 asked somebody

00:42:44.060 who actually

00:42:44.760 does that

00:42:45.360 job.

00:42:47.120 So,

00:42:47.920 you know,

00:42:48.260 you don't

00:42:48.500 want the

00:42:48.820 people who

00:42:49.160 don't do

00:42:49.500 the job

00:42:50.040 telling you

00:42:51.320 how hard

00:42:51.740 would it be

00:42:52.080 to learn.

00:42:52.980 So somebody

00:42:53.460 who actually

00:42:53.860 did the

00:42:54.280 job weighed

00:42:55.600 in on

00:42:56.240 Twitter and

00:42:57.400 said,

00:42:57.640 you know,

00:42:58.020 I do this.

00:42:58.820 I'm a

00:42:59.920 respiration

00:43:00.420 therapist.

00:43:01.080 I work with

00:43:01.480 ventilators.

00:43:02.560 And in my

00:43:03.080 opinion,

00:43:04.280 two weeks.

00:43:05.840 Two weeks.

00:43:06.720 So here are

00:43:07.180 the things you

00:43:07.600 need to know.

00:43:08.080 There are lots

00:43:08.420 of different

00:43:08.820 ventilator types,

00:43:10.580 but they are

00:43:11.380 somewhat standard

00:43:12.360 in the sense

00:43:13.080 that if you

00:43:13.500 learned to

00:43:13.980 use one,

00:43:15.100 you would

00:43:15.700 know how

00:43:15.960 to use the

00:43:16.380 others.

00:43:17.180 You know,

00:43:17.360 you'd find

00:43:17.960 the on

00:43:18.360 button and

00:43:18.960 there would

00:43:19.300 be enough

00:43:19.660 in common,

00:43:20.660 sort of like

00:43:21.120 driving a

00:43:21.600 car.

00:43:22.260 If you

00:43:22.760 learned to

00:43:23.120 drive one

00:43:23.580 car,

00:43:24.080 you probably

00:43:24.460 could drive

00:43:24.920 any car.

00:43:26.040 So that's

00:43:26.640 the first

00:43:26.940 thing.

00:43:27.480 You don't

00:43:27.740 need much

00:43:28.920 extra learning

00:43:30.540 for the

00:43:30.980 other types

00:43:31.560 of machines.

00:43:33.760 The second

00:43:34.440 thing is

00:43:35.140 that if

00:43:36.200 you skip

00:43:36.720 all the

00:43:37.060 stuff that

00:43:37.500 you know

00:43:37.820 you don't

00:43:38.340 need during

00:43:39.600 an emergency,

00:43:40.380 you're in

00:43:40.580 good shape.

00:43:41.700 So in

00:43:42.180 a normal

00:43:42.520 world,

00:43:43.200 presumably,

00:43:44.180 you know,

00:43:44.660 your respirator

00:43:45.500 people would

00:43:47.160 need to be

00:43:47.620 as smart

00:43:48.120 as a

00:43:48.860 doctor on

00:43:50.300 that narrow

00:43:50.840 topic,

00:43:51.920 right?

00:43:52.380 I mean,

00:43:52.760 you do want

00:43:53.100 your respiration

00:43:53.720 therapist to

00:43:54.420 know everything

00:43:55.020 a doctor

00:43:55.500 would know,

00:43:56.280 but in

00:43:56.700 that narrow

00:43:57.400 respiration

00:43:58.680 world.

00:43:59.980 But we

00:44:00.700 don't need

00:44:01.100 that.

00:44:02.220 You know,

00:44:02.340 we do have

00:44:02.860 doctors.

00:44:03.840 They're going

00:44:04.340 to be

00:44:04.520 nearby.

00:44:06.440 And in

00:44:07.320 an emergency

00:44:07.860 situation,

00:44:09.400 at least

00:44:10.600 one individual

00:44:11.320 thought that

00:44:12.200 you could

00:44:12.480 take somebody

00:44:13.160 who had

00:44:13.460 medical

00:44:13.900 training,

00:44:14.840 let's say

00:44:15.220 an EMT

00:44:15.940 or a

00:44:16.780 nurse,

00:44:17.680 and you

00:44:18.240 could convert

00:44:18.700 somebody who

00:44:19.140 had already

00:44:19.540 got a head

00:44:20.220 start on the

00:44:20.820 medical stuff.

00:44:22.000 You could

00:44:22.360 convert them

00:44:22.880 in maybe

00:44:23.200 two weeks.

00:44:24.040 Now,

00:44:24.220 that's just

00:44:24.540 one person

00:44:25.640 who does

00:44:26.040 the job

00:44:26.500 opinion and

00:44:27.480 feels right.

00:44:29.780 Kind of

00:44:30.140 feels right,

00:44:30.900 doesn't it?

00:44:31.500 But here's

00:44:33.500 the good

00:44:33.780 part,

00:44:34.460 and I

00:44:35.120 continue to

00:44:36.660 be impressed

00:44:37.260 at ordinary

00:44:38.860 heroes stepping

00:44:40.820 up.

00:44:41.420 There was a

00:44:42.140 woman who

00:44:42.580 was a

00:44:43.520 doctor who

00:44:44.620 apparently was

00:44:46.360 part of a

00:44:47.480 study in

00:44:49.540 which they

00:44:49.960 studied the

00:44:50.700 exact question

00:44:51.780 of whether

00:44:52.780 in an

00:44:53.260 emergency you

00:44:54.000 could use

00:44:54.380 one ventilator

00:44:55.200 for more

00:44:55.660 than one

00:44:56.040 person.

00:44:57.220 Turns out,

00:44:58.480 she did a

00:44:59.320 video that

00:44:59.860 she just

00:45:00.200 whipped together

00:45:00.880 for the

00:45:01.340 emergency and

00:45:02.580 it was very

00:45:03.080 well done.

00:45:04.940 It was just

00:45:05.420 done on the

00:45:05.920 cheap,

00:45:06.300 I think probably

00:45:06.840 done with an

00:45:07.760 iPad or

00:45:08.280 something.

00:45:09.320 And she

00:45:09.760 showed very

00:45:10.820 easily how

00:45:12.080 you could

00:45:12.600 convert a

00:45:13.860 one person

00:45:14.560 ventilator into

00:45:15.560 a four person

00:45:16.580 ventilator using

00:45:18.320 stuff that's

00:45:19.140 already at the

00:45:20.120 hospital.

00:45:21.660 So in other

00:45:22.120 words, I guess

00:45:22.560 they already

00:45:23.160 have parts.

00:45:24.580 There's one

00:45:24.940 part that you

00:45:25.420 cut in half

00:45:26.960 to connect

00:45:28.180 two things,

00:45:28.940 but it's a

00:45:29.540 common element.

00:45:30.200 And she

00:45:31.080 showed it.

00:45:31.600 She did a

00:45:32.040 tutorial.

00:45:32.660 It looked

00:45:32.920 pretty simple.

00:45:33.720 It looked

00:45:33.920 like I

00:45:34.280 could have

00:45:34.520 done it,

00:45:34.880 really.

00:45:35.760 And it

00:45:36.440 was a

00:45:37.320 connector for

00:45:38.900 four hoses

00:45:43.680 from one

00:45:44.620 ventilator.

00:45:45.740 Now, does

00:45:47.340 that work?

00:45:48.540 Can one

00:45:49.080 ventilator

00:45:49.780 safely work

00:45:53.300 on four

00:45:54.240 patients?

00:45:54.660 turns out

00:45:56.260 it's been

00:45:57.120 tested.

00:45:58.920 Unfortunately,

00:45:59.920 unfortunately,

00:46:00.520 there was a

00:46:01.120 reason to

00:46:01.520 test it.

00:46:01.980 It was the

00:46:02.400 Vegas shooting.

00:46:03.880 So there

00:46:04.560 was a

00:46:04.860 Vegas doctor

00:46:05.660 who had

00:46:08.000 been familiar

00:46:08.660 with the

00:46:09.320 doctors who

00:46:10.000 did the

00:46:10.360 study.

00:46:10.980 So he

00:46:11.340 had some

00:46:11.740 personal

00:46:12.160 connection to

00:46:13.420 the people

00:46:13.740 who did

00:46:14.000 the study,

00:46:14.600 and suddenly

00:46:15.600 his emergency

00:46:16.560 room is

00:46:17.120 overrun with

00:46:17.920 shooting victims

00:46:18.780 from the

00:46:19.360 Vegas shooting.

00:46:21.060 And he

00:46:22.160 needed more

00:46:22.700 ventilators than

00:46:23.500 he had.

00:46:24.400 And he knew

00:46:25.080 about the

00:46:25.500 study, and

00:46:26.700 so he put

00:46:27.220 that into

00:46:27.640 practice.

00:46:28.300 It had never

00:46:28.660 been tested

00:46:29.220 on a human.

00:46:30.440 It had been

00:46:30.880 tested mechanically,

00:46:32.480 but nobody

00:46:32.920 had ever tried

00:46:33.440 it on a

00:46:33.800 human.

00:46:34.540 He tried

00:46:35.220 it on humans

00:46:36.000 because he

00:46:36.460 had to.

00:46:36.900 It was an

00:46:37.180 emergency.

00:46:38.260 It worked.

00:46:39.860 So that's

00:46:40.440 not a,

00:46:41.220 clearly,

00:46:41.900 that's not any

00:46:42.420 kind of a

00:46:43.040 long-range

00:46:43.880 FDA test,

00:46:45.140 but it

00:46:45.620 worked on

00:46:46.080 humans,

00:46:46.940 and it

00:46:47.580 quadrupled

00:46:48.680 the number

00:46:49.860 of respirators.

00:46:50.580 Now,

00:46:51.040 there's a

00:46:51.820 wild card

00:46:52.380 here.

00:46:53.120 If you

00:46:53.440 have four

00:46:53.840 people who

00:46:54.300 have a

00:46:54.640 virus,

00:46:55.880 and they're

00:46:56.220 on the

00:46:56.500 same respirator,

00:46:58.240 you're sharing

00:46:59.080 air, or at

00:47:00.000 least there's

00:47:00.360 the potential

00:47:00.840 for sharing

00:47:01.360 air, and

00:47:02.220 you would

00:47:03.720 probably reasonably

00:47:04.560 ask yourself,

00:47:05.600 you know,

00:47:08.540 is that going

00:47:09.020 to make

00:47:09.240 anybody worse?

00:47:10.380 Well, as the

00:47:11.080 doctor who did

00:47:11.700 the video said,

00:47:12.600 you would only

00:47:13.160 be using it

00:47:13.860 on people who

00:47:14.480 are confirmed

00:47:15.380 and very sick

00:47:16.280 from the

00:47:17.360 virus.

00:47:17.980 So it's

00:47:18.560 unlikely that

00:47:19.260 they would

00:47:19.560 give each

00:47:19.960 other the

00:47:20.380 virus.

00:47:20.880 I still

00:47:21.360 have that

00:47:21.760 question of

00:47:22.340 whether you

00:47:22.720 could get

00:47:23.140 somebody else's

00:47:23.900 virus, could

00:47:25.160 it make it

00:47:25.540 worse?

00:47:26.640 You know,

00:47:27.020 only a doctor

00:47:27.720 can answer

00:47:28.160 that.

00:47:29.140 But it was a

00:47:30.620 doctor doing

00:47:31.240 the video,

00:47:32.200 and she said,

00:47:33.160 as long as you

00:47:33.720 already have the

00:47:34.440 virus, and it's

00:47:36.320 an emergency,

00:47:37.440 it's not the

00:47:38.280 safest thing in

00:47:38.860 the world, but

00:47:40.040 if it's an

00:47:40.460 emergency, you

00:47:41.420 can do this.

00:47:42.420 So, one

00:47:43.540 doctor in one

00:47:44.380 place, being a

00:47:47.440 hero, said,

00:47:48.820 what can I

00:47:49.420 do?

00:47:50.420 And she

00:47:50.780 made this

00:47:51.220 video, and

00:47:51.940 she shared

00:47:52.920 her special

00:47:53.540 knowledge, and

00:47:54.720 now the

00:47:55.580 ventilator

00:47:56.280 capacity of

00:47:57.160 the United

00:47:57.520 States just

00:47:59.180 quadrupled.

00:48:00.960 Now, remember

00:48:01.640 when I told

00:48:02.100 you that when

00:48:03.420 geniuses get

00:48:04.700 together, and

00:48:05.520 that's what's

00:48:05.940 happening with

00:48:06.480 this coronavirus

00:48:07.660 situation, when

00:48:09.360 geniuses start

00:48:10.520 sharing information,

00:48:11.920 you form a

00:48:12.860 metabrain that

00:48:14.300 will be more

00:48:14.800 powerful than

00:48:15.420 anything we've

00:48:15.960 ever seen, and

00:48:17.120 then when the

00:48:17.600 results start to

00:48:18.780 happen, that

00:48:20.560 they're going to

00:48:20.960 happen really

00:48:21.620 quickly, but it's

00:48:22.460 going to take a

00:48:22.940 while to get to

00:48:23.880 the elbow.

00:48:25.220 This is one of

00:48:26.060 those examples.

00:48:27.580 Did you think

00:48:28.440 before today, did

00:48:30.780 any of you think

00:48:31.780 that you could

00:48:33.160 quadruple ventilator

00:48:34.760 supply in the

00:48:35.620 United States in

00:48:37.220 one day?

00:48:38.120 Did anybody

00:48:38.720 think that?

00:48:39.760 Was there

00:48:40.160 anybody in the

00:48:40.800 world who said,

00:48:41.540 yeah, you know,

00:48:42.340 I think we'll

00:48:43.040 quadruple ventilator

00:48:44.400 supply in one

00:48:45.140 day?

00:48:46.360 Nobody thought

00:48:47.080 that, but we

00:48:48.840 did.

00:48:49.900 We did.

00:48:50.680 Now, I'm giving

00:48:51.400 you the optimistic

00:48:52.280 view there that

00:48:53.580 everybody can do

00:48:54.500 this, and they

00:48:55.260 all saw the

00:48:55.760 video and things,

00:48:57.400 and I hope I'm

00:48:58.420 part of spreading

00:48:59.880 the idea.

00:49:01.520 Now, I

00:49:01.960 didn't, I

00:49:02.960 think I tweeted

00:49:03.900 it, so you

00:49:04.380 could find it in

00:49:05.020 my Twitter feed

00:49:05.640 from yesterday,

00:49:06.760 but I imagine

00:49:08.060 you could Google

00:49:08.840 it, something

00:49:10.800 like, you know,

00:49:11.580 Google ventilator,

00:49:13.020 shared hose,

00:49:14.140 T-connector,

00:49:14.900 coronavirus, it

00:49:16.600 would pop right

00:49:17.120 up, I'm pretty

00:49:17.660 sure.

00:49:18.160 So, anybody

00:49:18.840 looking for that

00:49:19.500 would probably

00:49:19.960 find it easily.

00:49:22.140 So, that's good

00:49:22.920 news.

00:49:23.220 Let's talk about

00:49:23.660 some other

00:49:24.000 technology.

00:49:26.400 There's a

00:49:26.920 report that

00:49:27.780 Palantir, that

00:49:29.700 would be, I

00:49:31.520 believe that's

00:49:32.080 Peter Thiel's, he

00:49:33.940 invested in that,

00:49:34.780 and they, I

00:49:35.740 don't know exactly

00:49:36.380 what Palantir

00:49:37.120 does, it's sort

00:49:37.940 of a mysterious

00:49:38.540 company, but they

00:49:40.000 do something with

00:49:40.820 data, and, you

00:49:43.400 know, digging

00:49:43.820 through large

00:49:44.620 amounts of data

00:49:45.240 to find stuff, and

00:49:47.200 so the report

00:49:47.740 says that

00:49:48.320 Palantir and

00:49:49.240 Clearview AI,

00:49:50.520 that's the app

00:49:51.140 that law

00:49:51.860 enforcement uses

00:49:52.620 to take a

00:49:53.460 picture of you

00:49:53.940 and then they

00:49:54.360 know your name,

00:49:55.840 are among the

00:49:57.160 tech firms now

00:49:57.860 in discussion

00:49:58.380 with the

00:49:58.740 government about

00:49:59.500 implementing

00:50:00.080 widespread

00:50:00.640 surveillance tools

00:50:01.900 in response to

00:50:03.420 the coronavirus.

00:50:04.820 Now, here's

00:50:05.180 another one you

00:50:05.740 didn't see

00:50:06.320 coming.

00:50:07.520 Did you ever

00:50:08.080 see coming that

00:50:09.120 we probably

00:50:10.440 could slap

00:50:11.380 together the

00:50:12.040 technology from

00:50:13.000 existing systems

00:50:14.360 that you could

00:50:17.460 find out who

00:50:18.260 somebody came in

00:50:19.080 contact with by

00:50:20.600 taking a picture

00:50:21.300 of them?

00:50:22.660 It might bring

00:50:23.480 up, you know, I

00:50:24.440 don't know how

00:50:24.900 they would do it,

00:50:25.480 bring up their

00:50:25.940 social connections,

00:50:27.720 find out where

00:50:28.380 they were.

00:50:29.160 I don't know

00:50:29.620 exactly how that

00:50:30.400 works, but it

00:50:33.380 seems promising

00:50:34.040 because identifying

00:50:35.980 people and knowing

00:50:36.920 something about

00:50:37.600 them is the

00:50:38.880 primary thing we

00:50:39.760 need to do to

00:50:40.280 get a handle on

00:50:40.820 this.

00:50:41.340 I've said before

00:50:42.060 that the

00:50:42.420 coronavirus is an

00:50:43.500 information problem

00:50:44.900 disguised as a

00:50:46.360 health problem

00:50:46.980 because if we

00:50:49.080 had enough

00:50:49.500 information, it

00:50:50.260 wouldn't be a

00:50:50.640 health problem.

00:50:52.240 And we're

00:50:52.940 watching the

00:50:53.580 amount of

00:50:54.060 information that

00:50:54.960 we have

00:50:55.460 expanding

00:50:56.520 exponentially.

00:51:00.320 Did you see

00:51:01.140 the Biden

00:51:01.820 live stream?

00:51:03.020 You know, of

00:51:03.280 course the

00:51:03.600 candidates are

00:51:04.160 staying home as

00:51:04.940 they should.

00:51:06.220 And Biden did a

00:51:07.120 live stream in

00:51:08.100 which he looked

00:51:09.140 presidential in

00:51:10.020 front of some

00:51:10.580 flags with a

00:51:11.680 background at a

00:51:13.200 podium.

00:51:14.140 And he gives

00:51:14.980 his serious

00:51:15.540 little address

00:51:16.200 that I don't

00:51:17.080 know if it was

00:51:17.520 written or not.

00:51:18.760 But then he's

00:51:19.340 done.

00:51:21.120 But they don't

00:51:21.880 turn off the

00:51:22.400 camera.

00:51:24.040 And so there's

00:51:24.580 this weird

00:51:25.040 awkward thing

00:51:25.900 where his wife

00:51:26.980 walks onto the

00:51:27.680 camera to, I

00:51:29.320 think, convince

00:51:30.000 him to get off

00:51:31.300 camera.

00:51:32.840 Because he's just

00:51:33.600 sort of standing

00:51:34.180 there awkwardly on

00:51:35.380 camera like he

00:51:36.000 doesn't know what to

00:51:36.540 do, like he's

00:51:37.320 old.

00:51:37.940 That's what it

00:51:38.540 looked like.

00:51:40.880 So his wife

00:51:41.620 comes in and

00:51:42.260 then I don't

00:51:42.660 think Joe Biden

00:51:43.500 knew why she

00:51:44.320 was coming in

00:51:45.040 because he

00:51:45.900 didn't know that

00:51:46.460 he should get

00:51:46.880 off the stage

00:51:47.480 because he was

00:51:47.960 looking weird and

00:51:48.740 awkward and old

00:51:49.540 because the

00:51:50.540 camera was still

00:51:51.140 running and he

00:51:51.620 wasn't doing

00:51:52.020 anything useful.

00:51:54.180 And so he

00:51:55.180 thinks she's

00:51:55.660 going in for the

00:51:56.200 hug so he gives

00:51:57.040 her a hug and

00:51:57.800 she goes along

00:51:59.720 and gives him a

00:52:00.280 kiss and they

00:52:01.860 sort of walk off.

00:52:02.960 And I'm thinking

00:52:03.360 to myself, that

00:52:05.260 could not have

00:52:05.800 been a worse

00:52:06.260 look.

00:52:07.520 That really

00:52:08.440 looked bad.

00:52:09.600 We're going to

00:52:09.840 see a lot more

00:52:10.360 of that.

00:52:13.380 Governor Cuomo,

00:52:15.100 who has been

00:52:15.900 quite a critic of

00:52:16.880 President Trump,

00:52:18.540 is changing his

00:52:20.220 rhetoric a little

00:52:20.800 bit.

00:52:22.100 And he's saying

00:52:22.880 today, quote,

00:52:23.980 his team is on

00:52:24.760 it.

00:52:24.940 So this is

00:52:25.380 Governor Cuomo

00:52:26.280 talking about

00:52:26.940 President Trump.

00:52:28.000 His team is on

00:52:28.820 it.

00:52:28.980 They have been

00:52:29.280 responsive late at

00:52:30.360 night, early in the

00:52:31.180 morning, and thus

00:52:32.460 far they have been

00:52:33.460 doing everything that

00:52:34.420 they can do, and

00:52:35.420 I want to say

00:52:35.880 thank you, and I

00:52:36.640 want to say that I

00:52:37.300 appreciate it.

00:52:38.120 And I think he

00:52:38.740 has some other

00:52:39.180 good words, too.

00:52:40.520 Now, of course,

00:52:42.800 when the dust

00:52:44.680 settles, everybody

00:52:45.460 will be finger

00:52:46.240 pointing and it

00:52:46.840 will get political

00:52:47.480 again, but thank

00:52:49.300 you to Governor

00:52:49.900 Cuomo.

00:52:51.160 Thank you for,

00:52:52.800 I think, exactly

00:52:55.080 the right tone at

00:52:56.660 exactly the right

00:52:57.400 time for a little

00:52:59.200 bit of healing when

00:53:00.180 we need it.

00:53:04.000 There was a

00:53:04.720 report today,

00:53:06.400 anonymous sources,

00:53:07.640 of course, that

00:53:09.080 Mnuchin was

00:53:10.260 warning in some

00:53:11.140 kind of a private

00:53:11.880 meeting with

00:53:12.800 Republican

00:53:14.480 senators, I think

00:53:16.620 it was, or

00:53:18.100 senators, anyway,

00:53:19.420 and he warned

00:53:20.260 that the U.S.

00:53:21.260 could see a 20%

00:53:22.500 unemployment.

00:53:24.640 Yeah, it was

00:53:25.220 meeting with

00:53:25.640 Republican senators

00:53:26.560 yesterday.

00:53:26.940 and somebody

00:53:29.720 there told the

00:53:31.800 media about that.

00:53:33.740 Think about that.

00:53:35.060 There was somebody

00:53:35.760 in that meeting

00:53:36.520 who thought that

00:53:38.280 the well-being of

00:53:40.020 the country was

00:53:41.520 not nearly as

00:53:42.340 important as being

00:53:44.260 a little bitch and

00:53:46.460 tattling about what

00:53:47.600 happened in the

00:53:48.100 meeting.

00:53:49.540 This is some of

00:53:50.480 the worst behavior

00:53:51.680 I've ever seen,

00:53:53.540 honestly.

00:53:54.480 Because the first

00:53:55.380 thing is, what is

00:53:56.820 the word could

00:53:57.580 mean in this

00:53:58.660 context?

00:54:00.220 Do you know

00:54:00.760 when other time

00:54:02.380 we could have

00:54:03.560 20% unemployment?

00:54:04.980 Anytime.

00:54:06.260 I mean, anything

00:54:06.780 could happen.

00:54:07.980 To say something

00:54:08.800 could happen is

00:54:10.700 sort of also saying

00:54:11.720 it's on the high

00:54:12.380 side.

00:54:13.200 He's not putting

00:54:14.020 a percentage on

00:54:15.500 it.

00:54:16.020 But if you take

00:54:16.860 that number out

00:54:17.560 of context, which

00:54:18.600 is what happened,

00:54:20.240 that's a number

00:54:21.000 that could tank

00:54:21.640 the whole economy.

00:54:22.900 This is the kind

00:54:23.580 of rumor that

00:54:25.380 works against the

00:54:26.320 psychology of the

00:54:27.220 economy in such

00:54:28.260 a grotesque way

00:54:29.460 that whoever did

00:54:32.120 this needs to

00:54:32.740 wake up today.

00:54:33.520 And this is what

00:54:34.260 Joel Pollack said

00:54:35.780 in his tweet about

00:54:36.540 this.

00:54:37.940 I'll just read his

00:54:38.680 tweet because I

00:54:39.180 think he captures

00:54:39.760 it right.

00:54:40.080 He says,

00:54:40.420 journalists have a

00:54:41.040 duty to report

00:54:41.860 the news,

00:54:42.440 obviously.

00:54:43.160 So it's not the

00:54:43.700 journalist's fault

00:54:44.500 for reporting this.

00:54:47.080 Even when it's bad

00:54:48.100 for the country,

00:54:48.980 we kind of accept

00:54:50.300 that the news

00:54:51.860 business has a

00:54:53.360 special place.

00:54:54.800 They can tell us

00:54:55.480 good news,

00:54:56.000 they can tell us

00:54:56.500 bad news,

00:54:57.020 we have to figure

00:54:57.620 it out.

00:54:58.000 But once it's

00:54:58.540 news, it's news.

00:55:00.040 So the reporter

00:55:01.640 has a different

00:55:02.340 responsibility than

00:55:03.780 other people,

00:55:04.640 especially in a

00:55:05.440 crisis.

00:55:06.680 And then Joel

00:55:07.120 goes on,

00:55:07.540 he says,

00:55:07.920 but whichever

00:55:08.780 Republican senator

00:55:09.880 leaked this

00:55:10.720 conjecture,

00:55:11.440 because it is

00:55:11.860 just conjecture,

00:55:12.960 and it's the

00:55:13.400 high end of

00:55:13.940 conjecture,

00:55:14.460 which is what

00:55:14.880 makes it so bad,

00:55:16.640 which can only

00:55:17.400 have been made

00:55:18.500 as part of

00:55:19.520 a plea for

00:55:20.100 unity.

00:55:21.260 I'm sorry,

00:55:21.960 let me read it

00:55:22.460 again.

00:55:23.460 But whichever

00:55:23.920 Republican senator

00:55:24.880 leaked this

00:55:25.420 conjecture,

00:55:26.740 which can only

00:55:27.500 have been made

00:55:28.180 as part of

00:55:28.700 a plea for

00:55:29.240 unity,

00:55:29.780 in other words,

00:55:30.400 what Mnuchin

00:55:31.040 was doing was

00:55:32.180 trying to rally

00:55:32.880 people,

00:55:33.420 saying,

00:55:33.760 you know,

00:55:33.920 this could be

00:55:34.360 bad,

00:55:34.720 so we need

00:55:35.060 to be on

00:55:35.340 the same

00:55:35.640 side,

00:55:36.020 a plea

00:55:36.260 for unity,

00:55:37.620 in action,

00:55:39.100 ought to wrestle

00:55:39.920 with his or

00:55:40.480 her conscience

00:55:41.080 this evening.

00:55:42.060 It's not about

00:55:42.940 politics,

00:55:43.560 this is war.

00:55:44.560 Hashtag

00:55:45.000 pull together.

00:55:46.460 Totally,

00:55:46.900 totally agree.

00:55:49.000 You know,

00:55:49.380 normal business,

00:55:50.360 when people

00:55:51.140 are tattling

00:55:53.040 on these

00:55:53.560 closed meetings

00:55:54.580 and running

00:55:55.220 to their sources,

00:55:56.400 in normal times,

00:55:57.300 I don't like it.

00:55:59.020 In normal times,

00:55:59.920 I think it might

00:56:00.500 be damaging,

00:56:01.540 but it's also

00:56:02.280 just part of

00:56:02.920 the baseline

00:56:03.560 political

00:56:04.440 weasel process,

00:56:06.560 and so

00:56:07.240 I don't care

00:56:08.340 about it

00:56:08.700 that much.

00:56:10.240 But we're

00:56:11.040 in a different

00:56:11.680 situation.

00:56:13.440 If whoever

00:56:14.460 did this

00:56:15.160 doesn't know

00:56:16.140 how to modify

00:56:16.800 their behavior

00:56:17.480 in an emergency,

00:56:18.480 they don't

00:56:18.760 deserve their

00:56:19.260 job.

00:56:20.580 Period.

00:56:21.740 So,

00:56:22.820 later,

00:56:23.940 when the dust

00:56:24.480 settles,

00:56:25.480 should we ever

00:56:26.260 find out

00:56:26.740 who this was,

00:56:27.820 I think we've

00:56:28.360 got to ask

00:56:28.920 if we want

00:56:30.620 to keep them

00:56:31.060 on the job.

00:56:31.700 And this is

00:56:32.120 Republican,

00:56:33.300 so let me be

00:56:34.160 as fair as I can.

00:56:35.160 I don't care

00:56:35.540 what party

00:56:36.620 they're in.

00:56:37.480 I would say

00:56:37.980 this about

00:56:38.420 a Democrat,

00:56:39.120 I would say

00:56:39.480 this about

00:56:39.920 an Independent,

00:56:40.720 I would say

00:56:41.120 this about

00:56:41.540 a Republican,

00:56:42.460 and I am.

00:56:43.600 Whoever did that,

00:56:44.620 you really

00:56:45.800 hurt the

00:56:46.160 country.

00:56:47.580 There's no

00:56:47.900 two ways

00:56:48.780 about that.

00:56:50.180 That was

00:56:50.600 a private

00:56:51.040 conversation

00:56:51.740 for private

00:56:52.780 professionals

00:56:53.420 to know

00:56:53.940 what to do.

00:56:54.580 It was not

00:56:55.060 something you

00:56:55.600 tell the public

00:56:56.320 because it's

00:56:57.060 not the way

00:56:57.520 to frame it

00:56:58.100 for the public.

00:56:59.300 The public

00:56:59.680 needs the truth,

00:57:01.300 but let's

00:57:01.700 frame it properly

00:57:02.540 if you're going

00:57:03.020 to give it to

00:57:03.400 them.

00:57:03.540 This was

00:57:03.840 despicable,

00:57:04.760 despicable

00:57:05.320 behavior,

00:57:06.280 and we can

00:57:07.120 do better.

00:57:08.360 Pretty sure

00:57:08.960 we will.

00:57:09.320 I remind

00:57:10.460 you that

00:57:10.980 even though

00:57:12.120 it's impossible

00:57:13.140 to not talk

00:57:14.080 about what's

00:57:14.540 happened,

00:57:15.200 you can try

00:57:16.040 as hard as

00:57:16.480 you want,

00:57:16.820 but you

00:57:17.060 sort of

00:57:17.340 have to,

00:57:18.220 we don't

00:57:18.960 have to

00:57:19.280 focus on

00:57:19.800 it.

00:57:20.760 So that's

00:57:21.180 my last

00:57:21.720 word on

00:57:22.140 that topic

00:57:22.740 because I'm

00:57:23.540 not going

00:57:23.800 to focus

00:57:24.140 on it.

00:57:25.020 Going

00:57:25.360 forward,

00:57:26.760 my

00:57:27.340 expectation

00:57:28.200 for you

00:57:30.260 senators,

00:57:32.020 my

00:57:32.300 expectation,

00:57:33.960 that's

00:57:34.600 higher than

00:57:35.100 wanting.

00:57:36.360 If you

00:57:36.740 had to

00:57:37.000 rank it,

00:57:38.540 there are

00:57:39.120 things you

00:57:39.500 wish you

00:57:39.860 had,

00:57:40.780 and then

00:57:41.820 there are

00:57:42.520 things that

00:57:43.140 you expect.

00:57:45.320 I don't

00:57:46.100 want you

00:57:46.860 to stop

00:57:48.400 leaking to

00:57:49.240 the press.

00:57:49.820 It's not

00:57:50.160 something I

00:57:50.620 want.

00:57:51.820 This is an

00:57:52.660 emergency.

00:57:53.880 I expect

00:57:54.840 it.

00:57:56.240 I expect

00:57:56.780 it.

00:57:58.060 That's all

00:57:58.680 I'm going

00:57:58.900 to say.

00:58:00.040 It's not

00:58:00.420 a want.

00:58:02.460 I expect

00:58:03.100 it.

00:58:04.020 Get on

00:58:04.420 board.

00:58:07.920 Let's

00:58:08.440 see.

00:58:09.120 what else

00:58:10.780 we've got

00:58:11.040 going on

00:58:11.480 here.

00:58:13.600 Here's

00:58:14.040 one that

00:58:14.480 snuck up

00:58:15.100 on me.

00:58:16.420 You know

00:58:16.940 the company

00:58:17.840 Zoom,

00:58:19.040 which is a

00:58:19.800 tremendous

00:58:20.220 product,

00:58:20.880 by the

00:58:21.080 way.

00:58:23.000 I don't

00:58:24.820 glow about

00:58:26.000 too many

00:58:26.500 products.

00:58:28.600 I glow

00:58:29.280 about this

00:58:29.700 one.

00:58:30.180 This is

00:58:30.560 the Apple

00:58:31.220 Air

00:58:32.740 Buds.

00:58:33.400 This is

00:58:33.920 one of the

00:58:34.380 best products

00:58:35.120 ever invented.

00:58:36.220 I could

00:58:37.880 quibble

00:58:38.280 about a

00:58:38.580 couple

00:58:38.740 things,

00:58:39.240 mostly

00:58:39.800 that I

00:58:40.200 lose it,

00:58:41.320 because they're

00:58:42.660 small items.

00:58:43.520 That's my

00:58:43.940 fault.

00:58:44.740 But man,

00:58:45.260 this is a

00:58:45.620 good product.

00:58:46.760 Zoom is

00:58:47.220 like that.

00:58:47.720 Zoom is a

00:58:48.420 video conferencing

00:58:49.200 product that

00:58:50.180 you can very

00:58:50.760 easily send

00:58:51.380 somebody a

00:58:51.900 link.

00:58:52.640 They don't

00:58:52.980 need to know

00:58:53.680 anything or

00:58:54.220 have any

00:58:54.500 special software.

00:58:55.460 They click

00:58:55.800 the link and

00:58:56.360 you're in a

00:58:56.980 video conference.

00:58:58.120 It's got all

00:58:58.520 kinds of

00:58:58.840 features and

00:58:59.320 stuff.

00:59:00.140 Great,

00:59:00.700 great product.

00:59:01.360 And I've

00:59:02.920 been testing

00:59:03.600 a lot of

00:59:04.060 different

00:59:04.300 video conferencing

00:59:05.060 things,

00:59:05.980 because I do

00:59:07.140 podcasts and

00:59:08.200 the podcasters

00:59:09.000 as a guest,

00:59:10.780 and the

00:59:11.280 podcasters all

00:59:11.980 use different

00:59:12.560 software and

00:59:13.220 stuff.

00:59:14.080 No doubt

00:59:14.560 about it,

00:59:15.880 Zoom is the

00:59:17.040 good product.

00:59:18.780 I mean,

00:59:19.040 it's really

00:59:19.420 solid.

00:59:20.060 I love that

00:59:20.620 product.

00:59:21.800 I wish it

00:59:22.740 could do

00:59:23.040 live streaming,

00:59:24.420 but what it

00:59:25.200 does, it

00:59:25.460 does well.

00:59:27.220 But here's

00:59:27.900 the thing.

00:59:28.520 It's an

00:59:28.820 American company.

00:59:31.360 That's good,

00:59:31.920 right?

00:59:32.560 Aren't you

00:59:32.860 glad that

00:59:33.500 Zoom is an

00:59:38.300 American company?

00:59:39.040 So first of all,

00:59:39.620 they're doing

00:59:39.900 well.

00:59:40.880 That's great.

00:59:41.960 It's good that

00:59:42.540 anybody's doing

00:59:43.120 well.

00:59:43.540 Maybe that can

00:59:44.060 partially compensate,

00:59:45.940 at least in

00:59:46.520 terms of stimulus

00:59:47.300 to the economy

00:59:48.040 for the people

00:59:48.700 who are not

00:59:49.020 doing well.

00:59:49.920 So you need

00:59:50.360 some people to

00:59:51.000 do well,

00:59:51.420 and that's

00:59:51.700 great.

00:59:52.820 And it's

00:59:53.320 an American

00:59:53.660 company.

00:59:54.680 But here's

00:59:55.040 the thing.

00:59:57.460 Their engineers

00:59:58.160 are Chinese

00:59:58.900 in China.

01:00:00.200 So they've

01:00:02.600 done the

01:00:02.920 smarter thing,

01:00:03.580 which is they've

01:00:05.020 lowered their

01:00:05.860 cost of labor

01:00:06.720 tremendously by

01:00:07.920 using offshore

01:00:10.060 experts.

01:00:11.580 So the main

01:00:12.220 engineers for

01:00:14.480 the biggest,

01:00:15.240 most important

01:00:16.000 business

01:00:16.680 communication tool

01:00:18.020 in the United

01:00:18.600 States are

01:00:20.420 Chinese engineers

01:00:21.340 living in

01:00:21.960 China,

01:00:22.560 Chinese citizens.

01:00:23.660 If you were

01:00:26.460 the person

01:00:26.960 who owned

01:00:27.560 Zoom,

01:00:28.520 in other

01:00:29.020 words,

01:00:29.220 you were the

01:00:29.520 company,

01:00:30.100 and you were

01:00:30.380 the engineers

01:00:31.100 who worked

01:00:31.440 there,

01:00:32.240 could you

01:00:32.720 see or

01:00:34.340 capture every

01:00:35.540 bit of high

01:00:36.660 level business

01:00:37.520 and political

01:00:38.400 conversation that

01:00:39.400 goes across

01:00:39.980 that platform?

01:00:41.700 Because I

01:00:43.680 assume the way

01:00:44.300 it works is

01:00:44.960 that when I

01:00:45.960 have Zoom

01:00:46.420 on my side

01:00:47.200 and you've

01:00:47.820 got it on

01:00:48.240 your side,

01:00:48.940 the traffic is

01:00:50.120 going through

01:00:50.560 their servers,

01:00:51.320 is it not?

01:00:51.880 Now it

01:00:52.860 might be

01:00:53.200 encrypted.

01:00:54.520 I hope it's

01:00:55.080 encrypted.

01:00:56.240 But how

01:00:57.140 hard would it

01:00:57.660 be for them

01:00:58.240 to unencrypt

01:01:00.180 it?

01:01:01.580 Not hard,

01:01:02.480 right?

01:01:03.240 Now here's

01:01:04.740 what I hope.

01:01:05.860 I believe

01:01:06.360 the top guy,

01:01:10.120 the founder

01:01:10.480 of Zoom,

01:01:11.280 I believe he

01:01:11.960 was born in

01:01:12.800 China,

01:01:13.100 but he's an

01:01:13.540 American.

01:01:14.320 So he came

01:01:15.080 over here

01:01:15.540 early in his

01:01:16.300 life.

01:01:17.100 So he's just

01:01:17.680 an American.

01:01:18.440 So none of

01:01:19.900 this is about

01:01:20.880 the entrepreneur.

01:01:21.880 Let me be

01:01:22.740 as clear

01:01:23.720 about this

01:01:24.220 as I can.

01:01:25.900 The guy

01:01:26.420 who started

01:01:26.920 Zoom,

01:01:28.000 I don't care

01:01:28.600 where he

01:01:29.020 came from.

01:01:30.180 He's an

01:01:30.560 American.

01:01:32.300 Let's just

01:01:32.940 put a period

01:01:33.500 on that.

01:01:34.700 He's an

01:01:35.140 American.

01:01:36.260 He was

01:01:36.560 doing what

01:01:36.940 Americans do,

01:01:37.700 build great

01:01:38.120 companies.

01:01:38.700 It's a great

01:01:39.100 company.

01:01:39.860 It's really

01:01:40.220 a great

01:01:40.540 company in

01:01:42.160 terms of

01:01:42.440 the product.

01:01:43.760 But he

01:01:44.200 had a

01:01:44.480 vulnerability

01:01:44.960 that was

01:01:46.120 an advantage

01:01:46.700 until now,

01:01:48.220 I think.

01:01:49.340 The vulnerability

01:01:50.020 is that he

01:01:50.640 was using

01:01:51.100 Chinese

01:01:51.740 engineers.

01:01:52.400 Now,

01:01:52.640 can we

01:01:52.980 trust that

01:01:54.320 the Chinese

01:01:54.920 government

01:01:55.460 cannot co-opt

01:01:57.320 engineers who

01:01:58.380 live in their

01:01:58.880 countries?

01:01:59.800 No.

01:02:00.380 You can't

01:02:00.840 trust that

01:02:01.220 at all.

01:02:02.080 You can't

01:02:02.820 trust that

01:02:03.320 at all,

01:02:04.540 unfortunately.

01:02:05.740 Could the

01:02:06.080 Chinese government

01:02:06.960 twist an arm

01:02:08.100 of some

01:02:10.100 engineer who

01:02:10.860 lives in

01:02:11.300 China and

01:02:12.800 works on the

01:02:13.400 Zoom product?

01:02:14.080 Yeah, of course

01:02:14.560 they could.

01:02:15.140 Of course they

01:02:15.760 could.

01:02:15.920 Now, here's

01:02:17.640 my request

01:02:18.440 to the

01:02:20.760 American

01:02:21.340 owners of

01:02:23.080 Zoom.

01:02:24.380 See what

01:02:24.900 you can

01:02:25.160 do.

01:02:26.500 See what

01:02:26.960 you can

01:02:27.220 do.

01:02:29.140 My

01:02:29.620 assumption,

01:02:30.440 and I'm

01:02:32.080 going to be

01:02:32.300 as firm on

01:02:32.900 this as I

01:02:33.360 can, that

01:02:34.580 everybody who

01:02:35.940 is working

01:02:36.380 on this

01:02:36.900 product who

01:02:37.520 is American

01:02:38.140 and wants

01:02:38.560 America to

01:02:39.140 do well and

01:02:40.100 knows how to

01:02:40.700 do the right

01:02:41.180 thing and

01:02:41.720 will do the

01:02:42.240 right thing.

01:02:43.180 Now, I don't

01:02:43.520 know what that

01:02:43.880 is.

01:02:44.740 It could be

01:02:45.220 a case of

01:02:46.260 diligently

01:02:47.580 watching your

01:02:48.500 code to

01:02:49.880 make sure that

01:02:50.520 if anything is

01:02:51.340 changed by

01:02:52.000 somebody in

01:02:52.580 China, you

01:02:53.740 can tell.

01:02:55.580 I'm not smart

01:02:56.480 enough to know

01:02:57.020 what that

01:02:57.500 entails, but

01:02:59.380 in the short

01:02:59.880 run, watch

01:03:01.820 it carefully,

01:03:02.760 please, because

01:03:04.160 the rest of us

01:03:04.880 are going to be

01:03:05.380 watching it.

01:03:06.440 In the long

01:03:07.100 run, you kind

01:03:08.320 of need to

01:03:08.720 bring your

01:03:09.060 engineers home.

01:03:10.600 You kind of

01:03:12.060 need to bring

01:03:12.500 that home,

01:03:12.920 because I

01:03:13.780 think that

01:03:14.140 that's a

01:03:14.560 security, a

01:03:16.700 potential security

01:03:17.860 flaw.

01:03:18.240 I don't know

01:03:18.540 if it is a

01:03:19.200 security problem,

01:03:20.520 but it's a

01:03:21.040 potential one that

01:03:22.560 has enormous

01:03:23.080 consequences.

01:03:24.260 You know, all

01:03:24.560 of the most

01:03:24.940 important business

01:03:25.960 in the United

01:03:26.540 States is going

01:03:27.220 through that

01:03:27.620 platform.

01:03:29.440 Could they put

01:03:30.380 on a sniffer

01:03:31.200 that could pick

01:03:31.860 out keywords

01:03:32.660 and know what

01:03:33.880 to listen to?

01:03:35.440 Yeah, they

01:03:36.100 could.

01:03:37.140 They could.

01:03:37.900 Technologically,

01:03:38.460 they could.

01:03:39.580 But again,

01:03:41.120 the founder is an

01:03:42.020 American.

01:03:43.500 I have every

01:03:44.240 reason to believe

01:03:44.860 he's going to do

01:03:45.320 the right thing,

01:03:46.000 every reason to

01:03:46.600 believe he's on

01:03:47.120 our side

01:03:47.780 completely.

01:03:49.660 So let's

01:03:51.720 assume that

01:03:52.200 they'll take

01:03:52.540 care of that.

01:03:53.240 That's a

01:03:53.420 request from

01:03:55.480 the public.

01:03:56.980 All right.

01:03:58.760 Here's a

01:03:59.280 question I don't

01:03:59.920 know.

01:04:01.580 Does the

01:04:01.880 coronavirus,

01:04:03.600 and this is

01:04:04.260 like a

01:04:05.100 scientifically

01:04:05.860 ignorant question,

01:04:07.020 I would just

01:04:07.540 like to

01:04:07.820 understand this.

01:04:10.780 And it's a

01:04:11.720 general virus

01:04:12.900 question, so

01:04:13.620 it's not

01:04:14.060 specific to the

01:04:14.940 coronavirus, but

01:04:15.860 maybe there's

01:04:16.400 something different

01:04:16.960 about it.

01:04:17.360 It goes like

01:04:17.780 this.

01:04:18.860 If you get a

01:04:20.540 small exposure,

01:04:23.380 let's say you get

01:04:24.060 it on your

01:04:24.400 fingers and then

01:04:25.180 you touch your

01:04:25.740 mouth, and the

01:04:27.340 virus comes in

01:04:28.120 that way, a

01:04:29.200 little trace

01:04:30.100 bit on your

01:04:30.620 finger, trace

01:04:32.060 bit got on

01:04:32.700 your lips and

01:04:34.000 got into your

01:04:34.540 mouth, and then

01:04:35.060 it grew, compare

01:04:36.980 that to, let's

01:04:38.660 say, somebody

01:04:39.120 who was on a

01:04:39.620 cruise ship or

01:04:40.560 in a confined

01:04:41.380 space such as

01:04:42.700 a nursing

01:04:44.380 home, where

01:04:46.240 their exposure

01:04:47.380 might be, I

01:04:48.860 don't know if

01:04:49.180 we know this

01:04:49.640 yet, but more

01:04:50.280 of an aerosol

01:04:51.440 sort of, you

01:04:52.900 know, sort of

01:04:53.380 in the, it's

01:04:54.700 in the room, as

01:04:56.560 opposed to

01:04:57.100 something you

01:04:57.680 touched once and

01:04:59.100 put on your

01:04:59.580 lip and it

01:05:00.360 got in your

01:05:00.820 body.

01:05:02.000 Do both of

01:05:02.900 those affect

01:05:03.440 you the same

01:05:04.020 way?

01:05:05.060 Here's why I

01:05:05.820 ask.

01:05:08.660 Psychosomatically, I

01:05:09.340 had to scratch an

01:05:10.520 itch on my

01:05:10.940 face.

01:05:11.660 I will wash

01:05:12.260 my hands the

01:05:12.960 moment I turn

01:05:13.620 this off.

01:05:17.340 So, physically,

01:05:19.160 do you have the

01:05:20.060 same outcome if

01:05:22.080 you've got a

01:05:22.620 small infection

01:05:23.720 that worked its

01:05:25.160 way into your

01:05:25.700 body, versus

01:05:27.380 you were sort

01:05:28.660 of, you know,

01:05:29.540 marinating in

01:05:31.280 virus?

01:05:32.620 You know, it

01:05:33.020 was sort of

01:05:33.520 coming in your

01:05:34.000 ears and your

01:05:34.580 mouth and

01:05:35.040 your skin.

01:05:36.120 Maybe you're

01:05:36.620 getting it in

01:05:37.180 multiple different

01:05:37.800 ways at the

01:05:38.300 same time.

01:05:39.780 Would you have a

01:05:40.680 better outcome by

01:05:41.900 getting something

01:05:42.560 that grew slowly

01:05:43.800 through one

01:05:44.460 opening, because

01:05:46.160 your body would

01:05:46.940 get the warning

01:05:48.480 faster and have

01:05:49.420 more time to, you

01:05:51.220 know, build up a

01:05:51.780 defense, versus

01:05:53.240 you're just

01:05:53.900 overwhelmed and

01:05:54.620 it's coming from

01:05:55.260 everywhere and

01:05:55.980 then you're dead?

01:05:57.300 Because the reason

01:05:58.140 this is important is

01:05:59.120 it would tell us a

01:06:00.880 lot about

01:06:01.520 mitigation.

01:06:02.060 you know, it

01:06:03.420 would tell me

01:06:03.840 that if I

01:06:04.440 simply stay six

01:06:05.320 feet away from

01:06:05.900 people and

01:06:06.860 don't stay in

01:06:07.380 the same room

01:06:07.900 with people for

01:06:08.520 too long and

01:06:09.160 that sort of

01:06:09.600 thing, that

01:06:10.580 you know, perhaps

01:06:11.580 even if I

01:06:12.560 caught it, perhaps

01:06:14.460 I would get the

01:06:15.260 slow-growing kind

01:06:17.060 that maybe gives

01:06:18.000 me a little time

01:06:18.680 to build up my

01:06:19.980 defenses.

01:06:20.400 So it's just a

01:06:20.940 question.

01:06:23.200 Somebody says our

01:06:23.980 bodies have no

01:06:24.860 defense.

01:06:25.280 Well, that's not

01:06:25.740 true.

01:06:25.980 we build the

01:06:28.120 defense.

01:06:29.860 Yeah, so we

01:06:30.300 recognize it, your

01:06:31.160 body kicks in.

01:06:32.080 I would say that's

01:06:32.800 a defense.

01:06:33.360 People recover

01:06:33.920 from it.

01:06:35.520 Somebody says it's

01:06:36.320 not the same.

01:06:37.480 I don't know if

01:06:37.960 any of you are

01:06:38.500 experts.

01:06:38.940 I'll just read

01:06:39.340 some comments.

01:06:40.720 So somebody is

01:06:41.800 speculating that

01:06:42.460 the size of the

01:06:44.160 viral load matters.

01:06:46.320 And I've heard

01:06:46.720 that, but I'd

01:06:47.800 like to hear it

01:06:48.220 from somebody

01:06:48.660 who's an

01:06:49.220 expert.

01:06:50.120 Because it

01:06:50.680 could be one

01:06:52.820 of the main

01:06:54.000 determinants

01:06:55.060 of where

01:06:56.700 things are

01:06:57.120 going to go.

01:07:00.020 Well, everybody

01:07:00.740 who's answering

01:07:01.280 is saying yes,

01:07:02.400 but I don't

01:07:02.880 know if any

01:07:03.280 of you are

01:07:03.680 experts.

01:07:04.200 So put an

01:07:05.000 asterisk on

01:07:05.620 that.

01:07:06.000 Maybe we'll

01:07:06.360 find that

01:07:06.720 out tomorrow.

01:07:11.740 Those are

01:07:13.140 the points I

01:07:13.680 wanted to talk

01:07:14.260 about.

01:07:15.740 I see the

01:07:16.360 traffic is

01:07:16.800 dropping.

01:07:17.240 You've got

01:07:17.540 other things

01:07:18.020 to do.

01:07:18.660 I hope I'm

01:07:19.100 being helpful.

01:07:20.220 And I

01:07:20.580 will, I don't

01:07:21.820 know when, but

01:07:22.340 I'll probably

01:07:22.780 try to pop on

01:07:23.560 again tonight.

01:07:25.060 We can't

01:07:26.300 get enough

01:07:26.660 of this,

01:07:26.980 can we?

01:07:28.640 All right.

01:07:32.100 I'm just

01:07:32.660 looking at

01:07:33.000 your comments

01:07:33.520 now because

01:07:34.060 I've been

01:07:35.180 sort of

01:07:35.460 looking at

01:07:35.800 my notes

01:07:36.200 until now.

01:07:38.540 Well, I

01:07:39.120 love you

01:07:39.480 too.

01:07:40.780 Stay safe.

01:07:45.740 Dad got

01:07:46.460 it, but

01:07:46.800 only one

01:07:47.400 of three

01:07:47.760 kids did.

01:07:48.500 It happened

01:07:49.020 in my

01:07:49.440 city.

01:07:50.720 Yeah, that's

01:07:51.340 good news.

01:07:51.940 If a

01:07:53.220 family member

01:07:53.980 gets it and

01:07:54.680 only one

01:07:55.320 other family

01:07:55.840 member gets

01:07:56.500 it and you

01:07:57.520 can sense

01:07:59.200 it and

01:07:59.520 separate it

01:07:59.980 then, that's

01:08:00.300 pretty good

01:08:00.680 news.

01:08:04.060 All right.

01:08:04.780 Everybody's

01:08:05.140 saying goodbye,

01:08:05.700 so I guess it's

01:08:06.100 time to go.

01:08:07.040 Thank you so

01:08:07.700 much for joining

01:08:08.220 me.

01:08:08.680 I will see

01:08:09.120 you later

01:08:09.420 today.

01:08:09.740 I will see you

01:08:14.400 talking about

01:08:28.220 you

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 18, 2020

Episode 857 Scott Adams： Start Your Morning Right With Some Positivity

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