Episode 868 Scott Adams: Grab a Soft Blanket and Get Ready to Relax Before Bed
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Summary
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.
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hey everybody come on in just checking my Twitter to see if anybody's put any
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questions there for me oh it looks like there are all right do you have your
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blanket on if you think that this isn't better with a blanket on oh I feel sorry for you sorry
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I just covered up my sound so did you all see the the Biden deep fake so evidently Joe Biden has
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been replaced by a digital reproduction a deep fake and it made its debut today I'd call it version
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1.0 they had they got all of his flaws and you know speaking imperfections in there so I thought
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that was really good for version one but you could tell by his hand motions too robotic all right the
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president should do this right right so we don't know what they did with the real Joe Biden but
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maybe he'll come back I have to assume that he's being kept alive in some kind of a coma like a state
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somewhere deep below a mountain or not possibly here's the idea for you
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don't you think that there's a high likelihood there's some genetic propensity to all of this
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and I don't I don't mean necessarily ethnic I mean that there must be something about some people's
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bodies that make them a little extra susceptible so what would you think of the idea just put this
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out there of rapidly testing the DNA do a full sequence I don't know all the right words but you
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test the DNA of all the people who died from the coronavirus and maybe you don't bother testing the
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ones that are over 80 because you kind of you kind of know that anything would have taken them out
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but the people who are let's say under 60 who also died what do you want to know if their DNA has
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anything in common might be something about their lung receptor or something like that
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so given that DNA testing is fairly easy and we could test I don't think it would be that hard to
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test the DNA of people either have already died or start collecting it now and wouldn't we know
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fairly quickly if there was anything anything they had in common so that's one way we could get back to
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work we could identify the people who are relatively uh invulnerable nobody's invulnerable but the
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people who are less the least likely to have problems and say well maybe you guys go back you guys and
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now um if you're watching if you're having this experience of flipping back between CNN and Fox
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um there's there's the two movies forming and it's a really funny one this time except you know we
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might all die if they get the wrong answer that's not funny but uh if you turn on CNN you'll find out
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that the I'm going to call it the Trump pills so that the pills that Trump keeps talking about as
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having great promise um if you turn on CNN they don't just that's just not true and they've got a
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study that says that the Trump pills don't work it's a brand new study then you turn on Fox
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and expert after expert they'll say oh yeah those Trump pills that work and then you go to NBC
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and the headline is two people tried to uh take the Trump pill and died from an overdose
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so maybe it'll kill you there's something wrong with all of these stories and I don't know I don't
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think I've decoded it at all but here here are a few things first of all the study the study that
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CNN is saying shows that the Trump pills don't work are different pills so that's the first thing
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so the thing that CNN says you know is what the president is referring to and then they say here's the
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study and it doesn't work but wasn't exactly what the president was referring to so I think what they
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studied and I need a fact check on this but this is just my quick read on this is that the study was
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for chloroquine but I believe that the one that is presumed to be the good one is a version of that
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hydroxychloroquine and then there's a second difference which is even the study that said the
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chloroquine didn't seem to make a difference said only by itself but when uh paired with the
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azithromycin even the chloroquine and the azithromycin package did seem promising and they said that should
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be immediately studied some more but the actual thing that is I believe fact check me on this but I
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believe the thing that they're going to study in New York the thing that's you know far more
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effective and promising than the chloroquine the CNN says sort of doesn't work based on that one
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study um it's not really the one that's the different drug so here's here's the challenge
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when the media is talking about the pills that Trump is talking about you got to be careful which
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ones they're talking about because apparently there's something that makes a difference when you
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use them together and it's the hydroxychloroquine not the simple chloroquine that's the one that's
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a good one apparently now what about NBC running this the story that somebody took chloroquine and uh
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and died you know there's nothing funny about that a couple took it and died
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but then you go to the first paragraph and it's actually it was some kind of cleaner for uh for
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fish tanks it wasn't even a pharmaceutical drug they took a pharmacy they took a different drug that just had a
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similar first name that was used for cleaning your fish tank and they died now I think the headline should
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have been a couple mistakes real drugs you know mistakes uh aquarium cleaner for drugs and and dies from
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taking it I mean I feel like that should have been the headline right that they took the wrong thing
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not that they took something that's like the right thing and died that was pretty bad all right um
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there's something very interesting about to happen that I think is going to make you glad
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that you have a president who has his experience see Trump's specific experience and here's the way it
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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
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lawyer and it's something you don't know anything about and you're just a normal person you hire a lawyer
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and it's some topic you just don't know anything about you just need the lawyer's help should you take
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the lawyer's advice well on day one yeah yeah the lawyer knows about it and you don't that's why you got
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the lawyer so yeah on day one you're going to take the lawyer's advice but here's the secret
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if you work with enough lawyers in in the business setting the corporate setting you still have to
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incorporate more variables than your lawyer will so your lawyer is going to say what's legal there's a
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risk here should I do it well there's a risk but should I do it well you know I maybe say no because
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there's a risk but the legal risk isn't the only risk in the world there's the risk of losing money
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the risk of reputation the you know all kinds of risks the risks of how do the employees take it
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whatever so the boss in these cases has to get the input but knowing that the input is not all the
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variables so the boss still has to make the adult decision which often can be counter to you know one
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or more of the experts because that expert is in a domain and let's let's take this to the current
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situation so if we have a situation where dr fauci says yes keep everything closed for a longer time
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that's really a medical judgment and the president is balancing other considerations one of them is
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psychological there's a pretty big psychological cost to this the other of course is just raw lives
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and sometimes you don't know you know are is there anybody who's smart enough to know if you if you
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take it this many days the economic impact will be a crossover with more people dying from bad the bad
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economy than they would have died from the you know there's actually nobody who can do that calculation
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so the first thing you need to realize if you want to be an adult in the conversation is that nobody
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knows and if fauci and trump have a different opinion about which of the paths is going to save the
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most lives or kill the most that's a pretty fair fair difference because neither of them know
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you really it really is going to come down to this this weird indefinable uh business judgment
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experience hunch gut feeling instinct you know put it put any kind of words on it but these are
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decisions that would be made without the benefit of the very information that would allow you to do it
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rationally so can you know who do you trust in a in a vague situation where there's a big economic
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cost there's a psychological cost there's a you know medical cost who you know what kind of person do you
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trust in that situation and i gotta say trump's got a pretty good skill set for exactly this you know
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generic situation where the the economics and the psychology and the and the experts you know they may
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be pointing different directions and you just have to make a decision somebody's going to make a decision
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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
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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
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anybody be president because we're we're going to be asking trump this will be one of the great
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decisions of all presidential history if you think about it you know you could say decision to go to
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war in world war ii but weren't we going to do that anyway you know so you can think of a lot of
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decisions there were big ones you know the civil war freeing the slaves and um you know civil rights
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lots of big decisions but i'm not sure if any of those decisions were as uh murky and immediately
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high stakes as this i feel like the decision to go to war in a world war situation was actually
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sort of a no-brainer you just it was a matter of when but you kind of knew you were going to get
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sucked into it um and you know other decisions are a little more obvious that that you're picking the
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right side but this one is not like that i i don't think that there's anybody who can honestly say
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oh yeah i'm smart enough to know that you know we gotta end this on tuesday because that's the
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crossover when it's worse to wait than it is to to go back to work um yeah dropping the atomic bomb
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that was a pretty big decision and certainly in terms of uh life and death potential anyway this
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might be in that same category it might actually be that big you know in the worst case scenario now
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i'm still very much in the camp that the only statistic that matters you're going to see lots of numbers
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and the only one that matters is the death rate of people under 60 who got the combination of hydra
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chloroquine and azithromycin so it's all of those combinations so they got to be under 60
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have no preconditions you know health health problems and also get the drug relatively soon
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after it was obvious that they had some symptoms if those people are still dying next week
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uh we got to rethink everything and you know hope that there's another drug behind it that's better
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etc but if we find that it's either so low that it rounds to zero or it's zero
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all the weight of all the weight is toward going back to work in a week or so you know what it's a
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little bit negotiable but we're not talking a month i don't think it's going to happen the other
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thing is that you can't underestimate the degree to which people will adapt so if you just imagine
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that you say hey go back to work and everybody acts the same way at work i don't think that's the case
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do you i think there's going to be a lot of scrubbing down i think there's got to be a lot of
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wearing face masks you know social distancing within the business you know even if you have to go to
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work maybe you still make a phone call instead of being in the same room so you can't really
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put any kind of an estimate of how much a difference that makes the fact that going back to work is not
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really going back to work the normal way it's a whole different way um so there's that i don't know
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what they're going to do with travel but let me let me just throw out some possibilities it would be
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easy to imagine that uh the hotels would be allowed to maybe have people in i don't know
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half capacity or something so maybe maybe a half capacity and then nobody can you know be in the
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same space in the lobby or something i don't know maybe there's a way to to get there maybe only for
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the younger first but i think we'll be able to phase things in and it looks like that's where it's
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setting now i would like to suggest some apps so i told you about uh project m95.com where if you're
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looking to get medical equipment or your supplier that's looking to provide it you can you can find
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each other on there so that's one i told you about the next door app and if you're um over 60
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and you think you might need a little help somebody picking something up from the store
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and groceries or whatever the next door app will let you look at your neighborhood and see anybody
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who signed up to do that you can see exactly where they are in the neighborhood just go oh
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it's my uh my neighbor bob and you know his his uh 19 year old daughter is home from college or
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whatever and so in my neighborhood there are a few people who signed up for that and there was
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somebody i knew and so i'm i actually uh again had some groceries delivered um by somebody who was uh
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was a much better immune system than i do so that that's working very well now i i don't this is
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awkward but i'm going to put it out there anyway for some reason this pandemic has allowed people to
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say yes it's okay to be a capitalist so you can be a capitalist and you can even make money let's
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say you're making face masks or you know you're converted your factory to make a you know hand
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sanitizer nobody's telling them they can't make money right they just can't price gouge so in that
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spirit so that apparently that is acceptable behavior so long as the behavior is good for the public
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i will remind you again that my startup has two apps which are just by coincidence perfectly suited
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for the situation so one of them is called approach and allows you just to track track any two or more
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people on a map temporarily the same way you if you have food delivered let's say doordash your your
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app will show the doordash are coming to your house well you can use my app for free it's a free
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download doesn't cost you anything to use it the only people who ever pay or if they want to brand
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it and put the name on it that's optional and so anybody who's just wants to be delivering food to an
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old person checking on an old person or just knowing where each other are just use the app and the beauty
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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
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so you just set it for half an hour you don't have to worry that you're you're giving away your privacy
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it's just just for the transaction and then it times out so it's called approach and it's in all
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the app stores the other one is called interface that's also in the app stores it allows you to
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make a video call to an expert in anything now originally months ago we thought oh this might
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be good for doctors but we had a problem which is to make it really useful for doctors you need to
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practice across state lines because you can't you couldn't rely on the fact that the one doctor who was
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available at that moment was also in your stage or practice for yours or license for your state
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but because of the emergency the that restriction has been dropped at least temporarily so temporarily
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the app is ideal for that so if there's anybody who's let's say quarantined at home and i apparently
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there are some medical professionals who are self-quarantined because they had some exposures
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so if you wanted to uh help out you could set the price to zero so let me be clear about that
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nobody has to charge for anything you can just say your price to zero it's an emergency if you just
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want to help you want to give advice maybe your resource maybe you want to find out how to find
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a buyer for your mask you know any kind of thing like that anything that would connect a
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an expert with somebody who needs it in the face of the crisis you can use the app set your price to
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zero um you don't have to but you know if you've lost your job and you have something to add that
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you think people would pay for i don't think it's immoral to charge for your time if you lost your job
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and you're trying to pay the bills so but make your own decisions about what is right you can set the
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price as you like so it's called approach for seeing each other on the map temporarily
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and interface to have a video call with with an expert and and uh and find them whether you know i
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have the beauty is you don't have to know their contact information you just find them and set up a
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call and the the app does all that for you all right um what would you use approach for uh you would
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use it if let's say you were a neighborhood um young person and you were going to deliver groceries
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for some elderly people uh as as i did tonight and um i was out of the house taking a walk not with
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other people taking a walk and it was handy for me to know when i needed to get back to the house
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because i could see you know in theory uh she she didn't click on the link but in theory we could
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have seen each other and made sure that i was there when the groceries came which were left at the
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doorstep and i washed my hands thoroughly so taking all the precautions i can all right um i'm going to
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see if you get any questions here on twitter as i asked uh here's the question how many people have to
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die of the coronavirus before you will start wearing gloves and makeshift face masks i don't know i guess
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that's an individual choice um is april 1st a good target for restarting i i think we'll know a whole
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bunch more in another week especially about the meds so every estimate about when things will get better
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really depend on getting more visibility in the next week so we're in a information war and we are
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just absorbing information like crazy um okay can i use a bike pump as a ventilator
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uh any chance of manual ventilators operated by younger volunteers i don't know um you've seen a whole
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bunch of people who have had ventilator inventions um i i tweeted one around where somebody made a very
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cheap one because if you get rid of all the extraneous features the things that you you might need but you
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probably don't and you just make the cheapest possible ventilator it's only just a few parts
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so you just need a little logic board and and a motor and then you know the device that goes in
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uh that was a little bit of an oversimplification but apparently you could bring the price way down
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and start cranking them out if you wanted to uh will this outbreak make the national debt a bigger
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focus in the future i don't know if anything can make that if we it's the national debt is the
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weirdest thing because everybody's sure it's important but they're not sure how important or when or what
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you do about it so we all just sort of act like act like it's not important while we all say it's
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important it's the weirdest um you know disconnect because there's nobody who doesn't think it's
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important and yet there's nobody who treats it as it's important it's a complete opposite of how we
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think about it and what we do um all right let's see
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uh how about a phone app that listens for sneezes and coughers and then warns you when your phone
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maybe needs a cleaning well what about the idea of having your phone listened for a coughing
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because don't you think that the government can listen to your phone if they want to
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would it would it be the worst violation if you know just just imagine that it's just a computer
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that's listening so there's no human who's you know listening in your phone it's just a computer
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and if the computer uh hears in your household through your phone the sound that it identifies as a
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cough maybe it sends you a text message and says you know hey do you have a cough you know if you do
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check out this link it'll tell you what to do you could it's not the craziest idea because remember
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we're in we're in total emergency mode and again no human would be hearing you talk it would literally
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just be the computer listening for the sound of a cough and that's it it wouldn't be listening for
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anything else now of course you don't trust it because once it's listening it could do anything
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but in theory you could actually build that out right uh when will congress move the stimulus forward
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you know i'm i'm almost too amazed to be angry about the stimulus package are you having the same
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the same reaction i am because you know again it's the the two movies uh problem because if you go to cnn
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they were trying to stop a corporate giveaway and they've got a pretty good point and then you go to
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fox news and the democrats put in a bunch of silly pork then nobody would nobody wants to consider now
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you know independent of whether they're good or bad ideas they have nothing to do with the
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the topic at hand and so the republicans are like ah not that so um the fact that our leaders can't make
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that happen i mean i feel actually somewhat insulted by the the things that were added in so from the
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democrats i feel it you know from the perspective of the democrats i literally just feel insulted
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because right in front of our faces as if we're not watching or we don't care or even after as if it
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makes sense or it's the right priority they just stick a bunch of unrelated things in the bill and it just
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kills it now don't you feel just literally insulted by that because they're treating us
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like garbage basically like we're not even part we're not the important part of the equation
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it's like oh getting in my little pet funding thing is the important part no it's not really
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it's not really i think the important part is the people so from the democrats perspective
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it's embarrassing and it's um just insulting but i don't think the republicans got it right
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did they because they had this this big sloppy bill with not enough controls on it for what they're
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going to do for the the big corporations and i agree that you know it's a serious seriously you
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know we should consider doing things for big companies if they're employers and and we can make a profit
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off it because remember what the republican plan if i understand it correctly is it's not just giving money
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money to uh big companies i believe we take stock can somebody
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why isn't that turning off sorry i got too many devices in here they're not all turned off
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but the republicans i don't think are doing much better
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because their bill's kind of sloppy and doesn't seem to have the right controls and it makes
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people suspicious that it's going to go to the wrong place i'm not happy about that i mean i can't
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even take sides on this one it looks like both sides just screwed the approach am i wrong doesn't it look
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like neither side really really did the job of the american people i can't even pick sides on this one it
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just looks like a ranking competence um but it's not even the normal kind where maybe we don't notice
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it or they hide it a little bit if they were trying to hide it better i'd have a little bit of respect
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but neither the republicans nor the democrats seem to be hiding the fact that we're not the top priority
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am i wrong about that it does there's there's no pretense anymore we're just not the top priority
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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
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about it because it's i almost can't believe it i guess uh they said it was step one
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yeah and is it impossible to simplify it just seems to me like we ought to find a way to simplify
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let me let me say again something i said earlier but i'll say it better there are a whole bunch of
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bills that we pay that are uh you can't avoid paying for example if you if you live you're paying either
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rent or mortgage you're paying some kinds of insurance and you know energy and phone and stuff
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so those are bills that you're not going to ever walk away from in other words you're never going to have
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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
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not going to happen right so all those companies that charges every month for either a standard amount
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or how much we use they have our names and they kind of own us because they know who you are and they
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know where you live and they know what you owe them so here's where i'm going with this suppose we said
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that all of those people who who bill you every month from rent to mortgage to electricity to
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you know cable etc that they all just have to forgive your bills for two months they just can't
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collect anything but because these companies have a hook in you they know where you are they bill you
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you know if you want to have electricity in california there's nowhere else you're going to go
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you know if you want to get a walk away from your loan well good luck you can't get another loan if
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you're a deadbeat on the other loan so you're kind of a little trapped with these companies and that
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means that they could just forgive your costs and tack it on in the future in other words pgd the power
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company here could say nobody has to pay us for two months just don't pass but at the end of two months we
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know where you are and even if you move we still we're still going to connect to you and we'll just
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add ten percent to your bill once the economy gets going it'll just be a little little extra it'll be
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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
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because we got our hooks in you you know the bank can always find you the insurance company can find you
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your energy company can find you now the thing the area where you can't do that where you just have
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to give people money is buying goods you know physical things like a loaf of bread and a new iphone
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for that people just got to pay and maybe we got to give them money for that but i could see a
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situation where the government just says all right you just got to suspend payment you know maybe there's
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some means test where you have to prove you're out of work maybe you have to prove that you you've
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applied for unemployment something like that so people like me i still pay my bills so pgd would
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still have i don't know 80 of its revenue could my power company stay in business if for two months
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it only made 80 of its revenue and then it made up the difference later because it's tacking it on to
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catch up well it might have a shortfall too but yeah then maybe the government can handle that so
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the point is there probably are some really clever ways to get where we need to get that's all i'm saying
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the dangers of virus to everyone not just not just the people with those incomes yes
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did the golden age jinx us oh i think you're going to be surprised the golden age
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apparently had a third act and we're in it this is the third act this is the problem that looks
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unsolvable until you do that's what makes it a good movie there's no doubt we're gonna we're gonna
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get on the other side of this and we're gonna do it without destroying the economy i i will rest
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my entire reputation on the following prediction we're not going to wreck the economy and the reason
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you can be sure of it is that wrecking the economy would definitely be worse than even the number of
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people that would get the coronavirus i mean everybody sort of agrees with that we're going to
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know when we've gone too far you know not exactly but we're gonna know we're in the range of oh we
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this is as far as we can go so don't worry that the shutdown lasts forever all the way to destruction
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no chance no chance there's there's actually no chance of that at all it will last until it's painful
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because the more pain that we can reasonably take the better shape we're going to be there's some magic
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zone where we've taken a little bit of pain and the economy has taken a pretty big hit but not enough
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that we can't climb out of in a year so there's we're entering the goldilocks zone now the the area
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in which well that's as good as we can do for protecting people and also protect the economy it's
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it's in the next you know maybe the week after this you're really into the crossover zone i think
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and you also have to read the room right you know it doesn't matter what the government wants the public
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to do if if the government loses our trust people are going to just do whatever the hell they want
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and there's not enough government in the world that will stop them so they need the people to think
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that what they're doing is reasonable and they see the same thing we do they they see the the amount
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of pain and suffering that this coming week is going to have so don't let anybody kid you this coming
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week it's going to be rough in a lot of different ways but it is the week that we will complete our
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weapons i believe or be close to it we'll know what works and what doesn't we'll have much better
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visibility and then we go on offense because in this war so far we have cleverly done a strategic
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retreat to our homes we've divided so that we can conquer we have built our weapons factories are
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going up all over the place we've tested our weapons testing them this week we're loading up we are we're
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stocking up our ammo you know big shipments of these drugs just in case coming our way and we're just about
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ready to go to war we need test kits we need soldiers we need tents and they're coming it's all coming
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so you don't have to wonder how it ends you can you can wonder when it ends that's the right question
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but it ends with us winning and getting back to where we were and better so this is the third act
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but like every other third act like every other third act it will be solved so um i'm quite proud of
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the country um i'm quite disappointed with congress at the moment but i think that the force of public
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opinion will force them to get something done pretty quickly all right that's all i got for now and i will