Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 24, 2020


Episode 868 Scott Adams: Grab a Soft Blanket and Get Ready to Relax Before Bed


Episode Stats


Length

37 minutes

Words per minute

154.91548

Word count

5,832

Sentence count

3

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

In this episode, I discuss the Biden Deep Fake, DNA testing for Coronavirus, the Trump pills, and whether or not the coronavirus can be traced back to a specific person. I also discuss whether DNA testing can be done in order to identify the genetic predispositions that make someone susceptible to the virus.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 hey everybody come on in just checking my Twitter to see if anybody's put any
00:00:13.880 questions there for me oh it looks like there are all right do you have your
00:00:24.880 blanket on if you think that this isn't better with a blanket on oh I feel sorry for you sorry
00:00:33.940 I just covered up my sound so did you all see the the Biden deep fake so evidently Joe Biden has
00:00:44.740 been replaced by a digital reproduction a deep fake and it made its debut today I'd call it version
00:00:52.480 1.0 they had they got all of his flaws and you know speaking imperfections in there so I thought
00:01:00.540 that was really good for version one but you could tell by his hand motions too robotic all right the
00:01:08.880 president should do this right right so we don't know what they did with the real Joe Biden but
00:01:15.840 maybe he'll come back I have to assume that he's being kept alive in some kind of a coma like a state
00:01:24.880 somewhere deep below a mountain or not possibly here's the idea for you
00:01:34.320 don't you think that there's a high likelihood there's some genetic propensity to all of this
00:01:44.440 and I don't I don't mean necessarily ethnic I mean that there must be something about some people's
00:01:51.100 bodies that make them a little extra susceptible so what would you think of the idea just put this
00:01:57.900 out there of rapidly testing the DNA do a full sequence I don't know all the right words but you
00:02:05.260 test the DNA of all the people who died from the coronavirus and maybe you don't bother testing the
00:02:13.680 ones that are over 80 because you kind of you kind of know that anything would have taken them out
00:02:18.340 but the people who are let's say under 60 who also died what do you want to know if their DNA has
00:02:27.440 anything in common might be something about their lung receptor or something like that
00:02:31.780 so given that DNA testing is fairly easy and we could test I don't think it would be that hard to
00:02:42.720 test the DNA of people either have already died or start collecting it now and wouldn't we know
00:02:49.080 fairly quickly if there was anything anything they had in common so that's one way we could get back to
00:02:57.420 work we could identify the people who are relatively uh invulnerable nobody's invulnerable but the
00:03:06.060 people who are less the least likely to have problems and say well maybe you guys go back you guys and
00:03:12.860 gals go back first 1.00
00:03:13.860 now um if you're watching if you're having this experience of flipping back between CNN and Fox
00:03:24.000 um there's there's the two movies forming and it's a really funny one this time except you know we
00:03:32.940 might all die if they get the wrong answer that's not funny but uh if you turn on CNN you'll find out
00:03:40.240 that the I'm going to call it the Trump pills so that the pills that Trump keeps talking about as
00:03:49.100 having great promise um if you turn on CNN they don't just that's just not true and they've got a
00:03:59.680 study that says that the Trump pills don't work it's a brand new study then you turn on Fox
00:04:07.360 and expert after expert they'll say oh yeah those Trump pills that work and then you go to NBC
00:04:16.440 and the headline is two people tried to uh take the Trump pill and died from an overdose
00:04:25.140 so maybe it'll kill you there's something wrong with all of these stories and I don't know I don't
00:04:34.500 think I've decoded it at all but here here are a few things first of all the study the study that
00:04:41.360 CNN is saying shows that the Trump pills don't work are different pills so that's the first thing
00:04:50.240 so the thing that CNN says you know is what the president is referring to and then they say here's the
00:04:58.060 study and it doesn't work but wasn't exactly what the president was referring to so I think what they
00:05:05.520 studied and I need a fact check on this but this is just my quick read on this is that the study was
00:05:12.440 for chloroquine but I believe that the one that is presumed to be the good one is a version of that
00:05:19.760 hydroxychloroquine and then there's a second difference which is even the study that said the
00:05:26.440 chloroquine didn't seem to make a difference said only by itself but when uh paired with the
00:05:33.720 azithromycin even the chloroquine and the azithromycin package did seem promising and they said that should
00:05:42.680 be immediately studied some more but the actual thing that is I believe fact check me on this but I
00:05:51.160 believe the thing that they're going to study in New York the thing that's you know far more
00:05:55.420 effective and promising than the chloroquine the CNN says sort of doesn't work based on that one
00:06:03.800 study um it's not really the one that's the different drug so here's here's the challenge
00:06:10.360 when the media is talking about the pills that Trump is talking about you got to be careful which
00:06:18.680 ones they're talking about because apparently there's something that makes a difference when you
00:06:22.580 use them together and it's the hydroxychloroquine not the simple chloroquine that's the one that's
00:06:31.800 a good one apparently now what about NBC running this the story that somebody took chloroquine and uh
00:06:39.700 and died you know there's nothing funny about that a couple took it and died
00:06:44.420 but then you go to the first paragraph and it's actually it was some kind of cleaner for uh for
00:06:52.800 fish tanks it wasn't even a pharmaceutical drug they took a pharmacy they took a different drug that just had a
00:07:02.380 similar first name that was used for cleaning your fish tank and they died now I think the headline should
00:07:10.880 have been a couple mistakes real drugs you know mistakes uh aquarium cleaner for drugs and and dies from
00:07:21.940 taking it I mean I feel like that should have been the headline right that they took the wrong thing
00:07:27.880 not that they took something that's like the right thing and died that was pretty bad all right um
00:07:34.940 there's something very interesting about to happen that I think is going to make you glad
00:07:43.300 that you have a president who has his experience see Trump's specific experience and here's the way it
00:07:51.960 is I'll give it I'll start by you know a related or unrelated story but I'll tie it in if you hire a
00:08:00.440 lawyer and it's something you don't know anything about and you're just a normal person you hire a lawyer
00:08:07.660 and it's some topic you just don't know anything about you just need the lawyer's help should you take
00:08:12.920 the lawyer's advice well on day one yeah yeah the lawyer knows about it and you don't that's why you got
00:08:23.640 the lawyer so yeah on day one you're going to take the lawyer's advice but here's the secret
00:08:29.560 if you work with enough lawyers in in the business setting the corporate setting you still have to
00:08:37.880 incorporate more variables than your lawyer will so your lawyer is going to say what's legal there's a
00:08:43.240 risk here should I do it well there's a risk but should I do it well you know I maybe say no because
00:08:51.260 there's a risk but the legal risk isn't the only risk in the world there's the risk of losing money
00:08:58.000 the risk of reputation the you know all kinds of risks the risks of how do the employees take it
00:09:03.280 whatever so the boss in these cases has to get the input but knowing that the input is not all the
00:09:11.460 variables so the boss still has to make the adult decision which often can be counter to you know one
00:09:18.060 or more of the experts because that expert is in a domain and let's let's take this to the current
00:09:24.900 situation so if we have a situation where dr fauci says yes keep everything closed for a longer time
00:09:34.460 that's really a medical judgment and the president is balancing other considerations one of them is
00:09:45.680 psychological there's a pretty big psychological cost to this the other of course is just raw lives
00:09:53.500 and sometimes you don't know you know are is there anybody who's smart enough to know if you if you
00:10:00.720 take it this many days the economic impact will be a crossover with more people dying from bad the bad
00:10:08.780 economy than they would have died from the you know there's actually nobody who can do that calculation
00:10:14.140 so the first thing you need to realize if you want to be an adult in the conversation is that nobody
00:10:21.460 knows and if fauci and trump have a different opinion about which of the paths is going to save the
00:10:29.380 most lives or kill the most that's a pretty fair fair difference because neither of them know
00:10:35.660 you really it really is going to come down to this this weird indefinable uh business judgment
00:10:46.340 experience hunch gut feeling instinct you know put it put any kind of words on it but these are
00:10:56.280 decisions that would be made without the benefit of the very information that would allow you to do it
00:11:02.540 rationally so can you know who do you trust in a in a vague situation where there's a big economic
00:11:12.500 cost there's a psychological cost there's a you know medical cost who you know what kind of person do you
00:11:20.560 trust in that situation and i gotta say trump's got a pretty good skill set for exactly this you know
00:11:30.580 generic situation where the the economics and the psychology and the and the experts you know they may
00:11:39.080 be pointing different directions and you just have to make a decision somebody's going to make a decision
00:11:44.540 it's going to be right it's going to be wrong you know we'll fix it as quickly as we can if it's the wrong
00:11:50.640 one but it's a really really adult decision and this is sort of the this is sort of the reason you don't let
00:11:58.740 anybody be president because we're we're going to be asking trump this will be one of the great
00:12:07.720 decisions of all presidential history if you think about it you know you could say decision to go to
00:12:14.200 war in world war ii but weren't we going to do that anyway you know so you can think of a lot of
00:12:20.340 decisions there were big ones you know the civil war freeing the slaves and um you know civil rights
00:12:29.000 lots of big decisions but i'm not sure if any of those decisions were as uh murky and immediately
00:12:37.880 high stakes as this i feel like the decision to go to war in a world war situation was actually
00:12:45.780 sort of a no-brainer you just it was a matter of when but you kind of knew you were going to get
00:12:51.120 sucked into it um and you know other decisions are a little more obvious that that you're picking the
00:13:00.440 right side but this one is not like that i i don't think that there's anybody who can honestly say
00:13:07.040 oh yeah i'm smart enough to know that you know we gotta end this on tuesday because that's the
00:13:13.120 crossover when it's worse to wait than it is to to go back to work um yeah dropping the atomic bomb
00:13:22.800 that was a pretty big decision and certainly in terms of uh life and death potential anyway this
00:13:31.080 might be in that same category it might actually be that big you know in the worst case scenario now
00:13:37.260 i'm still very much in the camp that the only statistic that matters you're going to see lots of numbers
00:13:48.560 and the only one that matters is the death rate of people under 60 who got the combination of hydra
00:13:58.380 chloroquine and azithromycin so it's all of those combinations so they got to be under 60
00:14:06.960 have no preconditions you know health health problems and also get the drug relatively soon
00:14:14.580 after it was obvious that they had some symptoms if those people are still dying next week
00:14:21.120 uh we got to rethink everything and you know hope that there's another drug behind it that's better
00:14:28.940 etc but if we find that it's either so low that it rounds to zero or it's zero
00:14:34.920 all the weight of all the weight is toward going back to work in a week or so you know what it's a
00:14:44.600 little bit negotiable but we're not talking a month i don't think it's going to happen the other
00:14:49.540 thing is that you can't underestimate the degree to which people will adapt so if you just imagine
00:14:57.680 that you say hey go back to work and everybody acts the same way at work i don't think that's the case
00:15:02.440 do you i think there's going to be a lot of scrubbing down i think there's got to be a lot of
00:15:07.800 wearing face masks you know social distancing within the business you know even if you have to go to
00:15:14.960 work maybe you still make a phone call instead of being in the same room so you can't really
00:15:20.880 put any kind of an estimate of how much a difference that makes the fact that going back to work is not
00:15:27.300 really going back to work the normal way it's a whole different way um so there's that i don't know
00:15:36.200 what they're going to do with travel but let me let me just throw out some possibilities it would be
00:15:41.460 easy to imagine that uh the hotels would be allowed to maybe have people in i don't know
00:15:49.780 half capacity or something so maybe maybe a half capacity and then nobody can you know be in the
00:15:57.860 same space in the lobby or something i don't know maybe there's a way to to get there maybe only for
00:16:03.580 the younger first but i think we'll be able to phase things in and it looks like that's where it's
00:16:07.700 setting now i would like to suggest some apps so i told you about uh project m95.com where if you're
00:16:20.600 looking to get medical equipment or your supplier that's looking to provide it you can you can find
00:16:27.020 each other on there so that's one i told you about the next door app and if you're um over 60
00:16:34.760 and you think you might need a little help somebody picking something up from the store
00:16:39.560 and groceries or whatever the next door app will let you look at your neighborhood and see anybody
00:16:45.060 who signed up to do that you can see exactly where they are in the neighborhood just go oh
00:16:49.300 it's my uh my neighbor bob and you know his his uh 19 year old daughter is home from college or
00:16:55.320 whatever and so in my neighborhood there are a few people who signed up for that and there was
00:17:00.020 somebody i knew and so i'm i actually uh again had some groceries delivered um by somebody who was uh
00:17:07.600 was a much better immune system than i do so that that's working very well now i i don't this is
00:17:15.600 awkward but i'm going to put it out there anyway for some reason this pandemic has allowed people to
00:17:24.160 say yes it's okay to be a capitalist so you can be a capitalist and you can even make money let's
00:17:31.580 say you're making face masks or you know you're converted your factory to make a you know hand
00:17:37.280 sanitizer nobody's telling them they can't make money right they just can't price gouge so in that
00:17:44.060 spirit so that apparently that is acceptable behavior so long as the behavior is good for the public
00:17:50.300 i will remind you again that my startup has two apps which are just by coincidence perfectly suited
00:17:57.540 for the situation so one of them is called approach and allows you just to track track any two or more
00:18:06.560 people on a map temporarily the same way you if you have food delivered let's say doordash your your
00:18:13.460 app will show the doordash are coming to your house well you can use my app for free it's a free
00:18:19.640 download doesn't cost you anything to use it the only people who ever pay or if they want to brand
00:18:25.000 it and put the name on it that's optional and so anybody who's just wants to be delivering food to an
00:18:31.420 old person checking on an old person or just knowing where each other are just use the app and the beauty
00:18:39.440 of it is it's a it's got a timer on it so you set a whole low on how long you want to watch each other
00:18:44.820 so you just set it for half an hour you don't have to worry that you're you're giving away your privacy
00:18:50.120 it's just just for the transaction and then it times out so it's called approach and it's in all
00:18:57.100 the app stores the other one is called interface that's also in the app stores it allows you to
00:19:04.380 make a video call to an expert in anything now originally months ago we thought oh this might
00:19:12.240 be good for doctors but we had a problem which is to make it really useful for doctors you need to
00:19:20.040 practice across state lines because you can't you couldn't rely on the fact that the one doctor who was
00:19:25.800 available at that moment was also in your stage or practice for yours or license for your state
00:19:31.380 but because of the emergency the that restriction has been dropped at least temporarily so temporarily
00:19:38.340 the app is ideal for that so if there's anybody who's let's say quarantined at home and i apparently
00:19:46.140 there are some medical professionals who are self-quarantined because they had some exposures
00:19:51.940 so if you wanted to uh help out you could set the price to zero so let me be clear about that
00:19:59.720 nobody has to charge for anything you can just say your price to zero it's an emergency if you just
00:20:05.700 want to help you want to give advice maybe your resource maybe you want to find out how to find
00:20:11.340 a buyer for your mask you know any kind of thing like that anything that would connect a
00:20:15.840 an expert with somebody who needs it in the face of the crisis you can use the app set your price to
00:20:23.780 zero um you don't have to but you know if you've lost your job and you have something to add that
00:20:33.140 you think people would pay for i don't think it's immoral to charge for your time if you lost your job
00:20:39.300 and you're trying to pay the bills so but make your own decisions about what is right you can set the
00:20:44.600 price as you like so it's called approach for seeing each other on the map temporarily
00:20:50.240 and interface to have a video call with with an expert and and uh and find them whether you know i
00:20:58.580 have the beauty is you don't have to know their contact information you just find them and set up a
00:21:04.540 call and the the app does all that for you all right um what would you use approach for uh you would
00:21:14.520 use it if let's say you were a neighborhood um young person and you were going to deliver groceries
00:21:21.500 for some elderly people uh as as i did tonight and um i was out of the house taking a walk not with
00:21:33.480 other people taking a walk and it was handy for me to know when i needed to get back to the house
00:21:40.000 because i could see you know in theory uh she she didn't click on the link but in theory we could
00:21:45.580 have seen each other and made sure that i was there when the groceries came which were left at the
00:21:50.960 doorstep and i washed my hands thoroughly so taking all the precautions i can all right um i'm going to
00:22:00.900 see if you get any questions here on twitter as i asked uh here's the question how many people have to
00:22:07.060 die of the coronavirus before you will start wearing gloves and makeshift face masks i don't know i guess
00:22:15.920 that's an individual choice um is april 1st a good target for restarting i i think we'll know a whole
00:22:25.480 bunch more in another week especially about the meds so every estimate about when things will get better
00:22:34.480 really depend on getting more visibility in the next week so we're in a information war and we are
00:22:41.580 just absorbing information like crazy um okay can i use a bike pump as a ventilator
00:22:50.600 uh any chance of manual ventilators operated by younger volunteers i don't know um you've seen a whole
00:23:02.000 bunch of people who have had ventilator inventions um i i tweeted one around where somebody made a very
00:23:10.120 cheap one because if you get rid of all the extraneous features the things that you you might need but you
00:23:16.260 probably don't and you just make the cheapest possible ventilator it's only just a few parts
00:23:21.880 so you just need a little logic board and and a motor and then you know the device that goes in
00:23:28.740 uh that was a little bit of an oversimplification but apparently you could bring the price way down
00:23:34.560 and start cranking them out if you wanted to uh will this outbreak make the national debt a bigger
00:23:42.320 focus in the future i don't know if anything can make that if we it's the national debt is the
00:23:48.260 weirdest thing because everybody's sure it's important but they're not sure how important or when or what
00:23:54.900 you do about it so we all just sort of act like act like it's not important while we all say it's
00:24:02.300 important it's the weirdest um you know disconnect because there's nobody who doesn't think it's
00:24:10.260 important and yet there's nobody who treats it as it's important it's a complete opposite of how we
00:24:16.620 think about it and what we do um all right let's see
00:24:22.840 uh how about a phone app that listens for sneezes and coughers and then warns you when your phone
00:24:33.680 maybe needs a cleaning well what about the idea of having your phone listened for a coughing
00:24:41.040 because don't you think that the government can listen to your phone if they want to
00:24:45.780 would it would it be the worst violation if you know just just imagine that it's just a computer
00:24:54.600 that's listening so there's no human who's you know listening in your phone it's just a computer
00:24:59.680 and if the computer uh hears in your household through your phone the sound that it identifies as a
00:25:06.800 cough maybe it sends you a text message and says you know hey do you have a cough you know if you do
00:25:16.360 check out this link it'll tell you what to do you could it's not the craziest idea because remember
00:25:23.840 we're in we're in total emergency mode and again no human would be hearing you talk it would literally
00:25:31.940 just be the computer listening for the sound of a cough and that's it it wouldn't be listening for
00:25:36.680 anything else now of course you don't trust it because once it's listening it could do anything
00:25:41.100 but in theory you could actually build that out right uh when will congress move the stimulus forward
00:25:49.380 you know i'm i'm almost too amazed to be angry about the stimulus package are you having the same
00:26:00.600 the same reaction i am because you know again it's the the two movies uh problem because if you go to cnn
00:26:10.020 they were trying to stop a corporate giveaway and they've got a pretty good point and then you go to
00:26:17.020 fox news and the democrats put in a bunch of silly pork then nobody would nobody wants to consider now
00:26:25.480 you know independent of whether they're good or bad ideas they have nothing to do with the
00:26:29.060 the topic at hand and so the republicans are like ah not that so um the fact that our leaders can't make
00:26:41.560 that happen i mean i feel actually somewhat insulted by the the things that were added in so from the
00:26:53.640 democrats i feel it you know from the perspective of the democrats i literally just feel insulted
00:26:59.400 um
00:27:02.280 because right in front of our faces as if we're not watching or we don't care or even after as if it
00:27:12.620 makes sense or it's the right priority they just stick a bunch of unrelated things in the bill and it just
00:27:17.980 kills it now don't you feel just literally insulted by that because they're treating us
00:27:28.940 like garbage basically like we're not even part we're not the important part of the equation
00:27:34.940 it's like oh getting in my little pet funding thing is the important part no it's not really
00:27:40.620 it's not really i think the important part is the people so from the democrats perspective
00:27:49.980 it's embarrassing and it's um just insulting but i don't think the republicans got it right
00:27:58.140 did they because they had this this big sloppy bill with not enough controls on it for what they're
00:28:05.100 going to do for the the big corporations and i agree that you know it's a serious seriously you
00:28:13.260 know we should consider doing things for big companies if they're employers and and we can make a profit
00:28:18.940 off it because remember what the republican plan if i understand it correctly is it's not just giving money
00:28:25.260 money to uh big companies i believe we take stock can somebody
00:28:33.580 somebody's lighting up my phone right now um
00:28:39.900 why isn't that turning off sorry i got too many devices in here they're not all turned off
00:28:45.660 um
00:28:48.460 but the republicans i don't think are doing much better
00:28:50.620 because their bill's kind of sloppy and doesn't seem to have the right controls and it makes
00:28:55.900 people suspicious that it's going to go to the wrong place i'm not happy about that i mean i can't
00:29:01.100 even take sides on this one it looks like both sides just screwed the approach am i wrong doesn't it look
00:29:08.140 like neither side really really did the job of the american people i can't even pick sides on this one it
00:29:15.260 just looks like a ranking competence um but it's not even the normal kind where maybe we don't notice
00:29:22.460 it or they hide it a little bit if they were trying to hide it better i'd have a little bit of respect
00:29:29.500 but neither the republicans nor the democrats seem to be hiding the fact that we're not the top priority
00:29:37.980 am i wrong about that it does there's there's no pretense anymore we're just not the top priority
00:29:44.460 i don't even know what to say about it is it it's so mind-boggling i don't even know how to get mad
00:29:50.300 about it because it's i almost can't believe it i guess uh they said it was step one
00:30:00.220 step one is it
00:30:03.660 yeah and is it impossible to simplify it just seems to me like we ought to find a way to simplify
00:30:10.860 let me let me say again something i said earlier but i'll say it better there are a whole bunch of
00:30:15.980 bills that we pay that are uh you can't avoid paying for example if you if you live you're paying either
00:30:24.860 rent or mortgage you're paying some kinds of insurance and you know energy and phone and stuff
00:30:30.940 so those are bills that you're not going to ever walk away from in other words you're never going to have
00:30:37.740 a time in your life when you say you know i don't need electricity and gas i don't need it so that's
00:30:43.340 not going to happen right so all those companies that charges every month for either a standard amount
00:30:50.220 or how much we use they have our names and they kind of own us because they know who you are and they
00:30:59.740 know where you live and they know what you owe them so here's where i'm going with this suppose we said
00:31:05.180 that all of those people who who bill you every month from rent to mortgage to electricity to
00:31:12.460 you know cable etc that they all just have to forgive your bills for two months they just can't
00:31:19.980 collect anything but because these companies have a hook in you they know where you are they bill you
00:31:28.940 you know if you want to have electricity in california there's nowhere else you're going to go
00:31:33.180 you know if you want to get a walk away from your loan well good luck you can't get another loan if
00:31:39.580 you're a deadbeat on the other loan so you're kind of a little trapped with these companies and that
00:31:44.860 means that they could just forgive your costs and tack it on in the future in other words pgd the power
00:31:53.420 company here could say nobody has to pay us for two months just don't pass but at the end of two months we
00:32:01.740 know where you are and even if you move we still we're still going to connect to you and we'll just
00:32:07.580 add ten percent to your bill once the economy gets going it'll just be a little little extra it'll be
00:32:14.380 as if we gave you a loan right so it'll be as if we gave you a loan because you're gonna pay us back
00:32:22.140 because we got our hooks in you you know the bank can always find you the insurance company can find you
00:32:26.940 your energy company can find you now the thing the area where you can't do that where you just have
00:32:32.060 to give people money is buying goods you know physical things like a loaf of bread and a new iphone
00:32:39.180 for that people just got to pay and maybe we got to give them money for that but i could see a
00:32:45.340 situation where the government just says all right you just got to suspend payment you know maybe there's
00:32:51.660 some means test where you have to prove you're out of work maybe you have to prove that you you've
00:32:57.260 applied for unemployment something like that so people like me i still pay my bills so pgd would
00:33:03.740 still have i don't know 80 of its revenue could my power company stay in business if for two months
00:33:13.580 it only made 80 of its revenue and then it made up the difference later because it's tacking it on to
00:33:19.420 catch up well it might have a shortfall too but yeah then maybe the government can handle that so
00:33:26.380 the point is there probably are some really clever ways to get where we need to get that's all i'm saying
00:33:39.500 the dangers of virus to everyone not just not just the people with those incomes yes
00:33:45.180 did the golden age jinx us oh i think you're going to be surprised the golden age
00:33:54.540 apparently had a third act and we're in it this is the third act this is the problem that looks
00:34:02.300 unsolvable until you do that's what makes it a good movie there's no doubt we're gonna we're gonna
00:34:09.260 get on the other side of this and we're gonna do it without destroying the economy i i will rest
00:34:15.660 my entire reputation on the following prediction we're not going to wreck the economy and the reason
00:34:23.580 you can be sure of it is that wrecking the economy would definitely be worse than even the number of
00:34:29.420 people that would get the coronavirus i mean everybody sort of agrees with that we're going to
00:34:34.220 know when we've gone too far you know not exactly but we're gonna know we're in the range of oh we
00:34:41.100 this is as far as we can go so don't worry that the shutdown lasts forever all the way to destruction
00:34:50.620 no chance no chance there's there's actually no chance of that at all it will last until it's painful
00:34:58.300 because the more pain that we can reasonably take the better shape we're going to be there's some magic
00:35:04.220 zone where we've taken a little bit of pain and the economy has taken a pretty big hit but not enough
00:35:10.540 that we can't climb out of in a year so there's we're entering the goldilocks zone now the the area
00:35:17.340 in which well that's as good as we can do for protecting people and also protect the economy it's
00:35:23.740 it's in the next you know maybe the week after this you're really into the crossover zone i think
00:35:31.660 and you also have to read the room right you know it doesn't matter what the government wants the public
00:35:37.500 to do if if the government loses our trust people are going to just do whatever the hell they want
00:35:44.460 and there's not enough government in the world that will stop them so they need the people to think
00:35:49.900 that what they're doing is reasonable and they see the same thing we do they they see the the amount
00:35:56.460 of pain and suffering that this coming week is going to have so don't let anybody kid you this coming
00:36:02.940 week it's going to be rough in a lot of different ways but it is the week that we will complete our
00:36:11.500 weapons i believe or be close to it we'll know what works and what doesn't we'll have much better
00:36:17.260 visibility and then we go on offense because in this war so far we have cleverly done a strategic
00:36:25.020 retreat to our homes we've divided so that we can conquer we have built our weapons factories are
00:36:33.820 going up all over the place we've tested our weapons testing them this week we're loading up we are we're
00:36:41.020 stocking up our ammo you know big shipments of these drugs just in case coming our way and we're just about
00:36:49.100 ready to go to war we need test kits we need soldiers we need tents and they're coming it's all coming
00:36:58.460 so you don't have to wonder how it ends you can you can wonder when it ends that's the right question
00:37:05.500 but it ends with us winning and getting back to where we were and better so this is the third act
00:37:13.340 but like every other third act like every other third act it will be solved so um i'm quite proud of
00:37:22.620 the country um i'm quite disappointed with congress at the moment but i think that the force of public
00:37:29.980 opinion will force them to get something done pretty quickly all right that's all i got for now and i will
00:37:36.780 talk to you later