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00:00:00.000 Hey, Jack. Come on in. Yes, this is the place to come at this time of night so that you

00:00:16.880 can get all of the cares and tensions of the world drained out of your overstressed body

00:00:25.260 today and for the next, oh, let's say 45 minutes. It's nothing but good times. We're going to put

00:00:34.820 things in perspective. We're going to make you feel better, make you feel relaxed. I've got a

00:00:42.820 little observation for you, and I don't know what to make of it yet. It goes like this. I was watching

00:00:48.920 Obama do his recommendation for Biden. And you know that I've commented how Dr. Birx has uptalk.

00:01:00.020 Now, uptalk is where you end the sentence with a little bit of an up, so it makes you sound maybe

00:01:06.060 like a violent girl. And then when you do the uptalk, you don't sound as confident because

00:01:11.360 you're sort of asking, you're making statements, but you're making statements that sound like a

00:01:15.740 question. But have you ever noticed Obama? Obama does down talk. So Obama's last word is always

00:01:26.760 the deeper word. I'd never noticed that until I was watching him today. So I'll give you my

00:01:32.220 Obama impression. We've got here the back scratcher and have a remote control. But you could take your

00:01:43.480 Apple earbuds and you could pair it with your mechanical pen. Listen to him and listen to how

00:01:53.760 he finishes on a confident low note. And I thought to myself, I think that's really effective.

00:02:03.820 And I also asked myself if I do it. And I don't know. Because probably because I'm thinking about it,

00:02:13.260 I'll either do it or I'll conceal how much I do it or don't do it. So maybe you could tell me,

00:02:20.760 do I, well, this is a question, so I'm going to uptalk the question. Do I uptalk? Have you ever

00:02:27.700 heard me uptalk when I'm making statements, not questions? And have you ever noticed me,

00:02:34.840 because I really don't know, do I downtalk on the last word? Do I give you a sentence?

00:02:43.260 And then I'm talking like this. Because it makes me sound confident. Because I'm starting the

00:02:48.440 sentence, and you say, what's it all about? And I finish it fast. I finish it hard. I finish it

00:02:53.460 strong. Because I'm coming in and I'm just laying it down there. I'm just putting it down there.

00:02:57.760 Finishing down. Somebody says, no, you don't. I think you mean, no, I don't uptalk.

00:03:06.260 Oh, look what I did. I automatically did a downtalk. I think I'm going to practice that.

00:03:15.500 Speaking of people who have interesting ways of speaking, one of my favorite TV senators,

00:03:25.860 and maybe one of yours as well, is Senator Kennedy. So you know, you know, Senator Kennedy,

00:03:33.660 he's got, I don't know what state it's from, he's got an accent. And it makes him sound,

00:03:39.120 I assume it's Southern. It's a little bit slower. It's interesting to listen to. And what he's

00:03:47.700 talking, between the fact that what he says tends to be very clever, often funny, and because he says

00:03:56.340 it in a certain way, and there's a variation in the way he talks, you can't look away when he's on

00:04:04.460 television because something interesting is going to happen. And I was watching him on, I think it was

00:04:11.900 on Martha McCallum's show on Fox. And he was, he was making the case for why he thinks essentially

00:04:20.680 that the virus came from a Wuhan biological lab of some sort, as opposed to a wet market. And one of the 0.86

00:04:31.640 things I do appreciate about our elected officials is that while I normally hate the fact that so many

00:04:40.580 of them are lawyers, I feel like we have too many lawyers, some lawyers, very good. You know, a few

00:04:49.120 lawyers, you want some good advice. Lawyers are smart, they're solid thinkers. But certainly there's too

00:04:57.040 much of a good thing sometimes, right? I mean, you could have too many lawyers, and I would argue,

00:05:01.120 you know, maybe we've reached that level. But that said, the ones who are good enough lawyers that

00:05:08.960 they become well known, run for office and win, tend to be pretty good lawyers. And so when you're

00:05:20.840 watching, say, Lindsey Graham, you know, argue something on TV, or you're watching Senator Kennedy,

00:05:27.360 they just do a really good job of making a case in a way that other people just aren't as clever.

00:05:33.160 So here, here's some of the evidence, and then you can make up your own mind. So Senator Kennedy says,

00:05:39.200 and I think this, this is a fact, he says as a fact, I know that there was a study and an article that

00:05:46.600 alleges this is a fact. But I'm going to say I'm skeptical of this fact. I'm not skeptical of his

00:05:53.820 overall conclusion. But this fact has me with a little bit of skepticism. And the fact is,

00:06:00.780 somebody said that there weren't any bats at the Wuhan wet markets. And so the implication is,

00:06:08.720 the virus could not have spread from a bat to a human in the wet market because of the wet market,

00:06:14.200 because there were no bats there to do that. Now, I feel as if, I just feel as if,

00:06:21.400 that might not be true. Maybe there was a bat or two. Now, that doesn't mean it came from the bat.

00:06:28.860 I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that, I don't know, would China make up a cover story

00:06:35.040 that couldn't be possible because there were no bats? Maybe, because whatever they did is pretty

00:06:43.280 remarkable. So you almost can't put anything past them. But let's take Senator Kennedy's case. He

00:06:51.080 alleges that it's known that there were no bats. Let's see. And there was a lab nearby. And there's

00:07:02.120 the story in the Washington Post that says there was some kind of a report a few years ago that that

00:07:08.880 lab had coronavirus, it had the virus, and it had insufficient safety guidelines and safety protocols

00:07:18.600 and stuff. So apparently, apparently it was known that that lab had this stuff and that it could get

00:07:28.700 out. And it was a known problem that had been written up. And there weren't any bats there at the wet market.

00:07:35.620 So we also know that, is it true that the doctors who originally reported this sort of either died or

00:07:44.320 disappeared? Aren't there a bunch of people who died or disappeared? And didn't China say we can't look

00:07:50.960 into it? You know, there's no more looking into it. And didn't China say that, didn't China say that it

00:07:59.760 wasn't transferable from person to person, from human to human. It sort of adds up to, I don't know how it

00:08:09.800 could be. And they also closed, they closed Wuhan at the same time they were saying it was no big deal.

00:08:17.380 They totally closed their city. It's no big deal.

00:08:20.540 If you're wondering about the timing, I think it was January 23rd, they closed Wuhan. And the very next

00:08:28.540 day, which was probably the next periscope I did, I assume, I called for closing travel. So the moment

00:08:37.160 that China said, we're going to close Wuhan, I said, okay, I'm done. I do not need to see any 0.95

00:08:43.520 additional information. If somebody has some kind of a virus, and they blockade their entire

00:08:53.080 city, what other questions do you need to ask to know that it's time to close down the

00:09:01.340 airports? I mean, that's what I said. You know, you can say to yourself, Scott, the experts

00:09:08.560 and the CDC and the World Health Organization and China, to which I say, did you hear the part

00:09:18.800 about China closed a major city? You couldn't even get it or out because of a virus that's killing

00:09:30.920 people. If you tell me you need to study this a little bit longer, I don't think you heard this

00:09:38.160 part. China closed a major city. They didn't let people travel in and out. No extra study

00:09:46.920 required. Close the airport. So, you know, now that some time has gone by, those of you who, some of you

00:09:57.920 sort of remember the moment. You remember the, you know, my rant. And now you can see it in hindsight.

00:10:06.460 And you can see how accurate that was. Anyway. So, here's some questions for you.

00:10:16.100 Will President Xi remain in power? Now, obviously, he has a pretty good grip on the country. He's a

00:10:24.060 dictator in practical terms. So, there's certainly no political process for removing him. Well, I suppose

00:10:33.560 the, you know, if the, you know, if the party wanted to remove him, they could. But I don't see that as

00:10:39.720 being likely in their system. But here's the thing. The coronavirus scandal just went from, we're accusing

00:10:48.500 you, you're denying it, to another level, wouldn't you say? Wouldn't you say, wouldn't you say,

00:10:55.920 wouldn't you say, wouldn't you say, we'll get rid of this critic. Wouldn't you say that China has a big

00:11:09.100 scandal now and that we're past the point of questioning whether, whether they're responsible

00:11:14.260 in a very bad way? But that's not the real problem for China. You know, it's bad to have a bad

00:11:21.140 reputation. But isn't this going to cause all of the major countries that were victims of this to

00:11:27.680 decouple? You know, the United States, I'm sure, is going to decouple. I don't know how quickly,

00:11:34.320 you know, who's going to pay for it, what it looks like. But it's the beginning and the end.

00:11:39.400 There's not any question that the United States is going to have less business there, not more.

00:11:44.340 I think the same probably with Japan. And I would expect some of the European countries to follow.

00:11:51.400 So it seems to me that the only path that China has is economic catastrophe. I think the United

00:11:58.780 States will will climb into this pretty readily. You know, if you want to feel good about the United

00:12:05.040 States, here's a little fact that I heard from Peter Navarro, who, by the way, was excellent on

00:12:12.560 television today. Have you listened to Peter Navarro just talk on a news show? I don't know if he's

00:12:20.180 always this good, because I haven't really paid attention to him. But he gave just one of the best

00:12:27.860 TV interviews you'll ever see. You know, it wasn't flashy, so maybe nobody's going to,

00:12:35.580 maybe it didn't take note, you know, maybe nobody noticed. But the clarity of his thought,

00:12:41.700 and the precision in which he just, you know, presented things in a simple way for the public,

00:12:47.880 was really good. A plus. Peter Navarro. Anyway,

00:12:51.860 so it seems, I don't know, I was even talking about Peter Navarro. There was some point there, but

00:12:59.200 oh, I was going to make you feel good. Here's something Peter Navarro said. He was talking

00:13:04.740 about the ventilators and how the American companies were gearing up to rapidly create ventilators.

00:13:10.340 And I forget which company it was, but one of the car companies, I believe, built a ventilator

00:13:16.900 factory that was, you know, using their own factory as a retrofit. And they started producing

00:13:23.560 ventilators in 11 days. In 11 days, we spun up a ventilator factory. And we're well on the way to

00:13:34.340 producing on, I think he said 150,000 ventilators. 150,000 ventilators. It looks like we'll need about

00:13:42.100 a third of them. We'll probably, you know, take two thirds of them and, you know, distribute them

00:13:47.660 to states for storehouses and stuff for storage. And then we'll probably help other countries.

00:13:53.920 But how, how proud are you to live in a country that can make a ventilator factory in 11 days?

00:14:06.140 You know, remember when we were watching China put up their little instant hospitals, 1.00

00:14:10.360 and everybody was saying, my God, we can't do that. We'll never build a hospital in 11 days like

00:14:16.340 China. And then we, we build a ventilator factory in 11 days. Not bad. Now, I assume, I assume it was

00:14:21.880 probably more about assembling parts from other places. So it was probably, you know, had a lot

00:14:26.320 more to do with assembling than anything else, but still 11 days, pretty impressive.

00:14:32.340 Here's what I propose. I just tweeted this before I got out here. I propose that when the coronavirus

00:14:41.000 is behind us, and Sunday it will be, that we forgive each other, be you Democrats or Republicans,

00:14:51.700 be you professionals and experts and doctors, be you business people, be you citizens. I propose that

00:15:01.620 we just forgive each other for all of our honest mistakes during the fog of war. Because let's

00:15:09.360 admit, there's always somebody who's going to be right, but only because there's always somebody on

00:15:14.340 every side of every issue. So somebody's going to be right by luck. But nobody knows what's the right

00:15:20.660 thing to do. Nobody really had quite the right information in the early days. Nobody's smart

00:15:27.920 enough to know what's the exact right thing to do in the right time to do it. So whether we got things

00:15:34.280 right, or whether some people got some things wrong, they're both luck. The things we did right,

00:15:43.360 a little bit of luck. The things we did wrong, bad luck. Because, you know, you just can't be smart

00:15:50.440 when you don't have data, and you don't have a way to get it. But that's when I'm talking about

00:15:55.740 honest mistakes. If you make honest mistakes, I think we should just forgive each other.

00:16:04.100 But we should not forgive dishonest mistakes. And I don't have any evidence that anybody involved

00:16:12.460 in this country has a dishonest mistake. I know you're going to think, so-and-so lied, blah, blah,

00:16:17.860 blah, blah. But I don't think that's necessarily the case. I think some people had bad information

00:16:21.560 and, you know, took bad information forward. But I don't know that anybody had bad intentions

00:16:28.320 in this country. However, China made a different kind of mistake, as far as we can tell. Now,

00:16:38.000 apparently, the president's going to withhold funding from the World Health Organization until

00:16:43.020 he gets an answer. And maybe that'll tell us whether China did something, let's say, intentional

00:16:49.040 versus unintentional. But it's certainly looking every bit as if China made a dishonest mistake.

00:16:58.720 In other words, they just lied to us and knew it. So under those conditions, I don't think we have to

00:17:08.520 yell at them and call them names. We don't have to disrespect them. But it wouldn't make any sense

00:17:15.480 to have a future with them in which we're continuing to trade. Because they don't have a system that's

00:17:21.520 compatible with our system. So whatever it is, whatever it is about their system, I don't even

00:17:28.500 need to judge it. I'm not going to say it's a good system. I'm not going to say it's bad. I'm not going

00:17:33.820 to say that the Chinese government is good or bad. I don't, you know, I mean, I have an opinion,

00:17:39.080 but it doesn't matter for what I'm going to say next. And certainly, I don't think the Chinese people 1.00

00:17:43.820 are anything except awesome people. Everybody I know from China is pretty, pretty amazing. So,

00:17:50.800 you know, but still, we can say, no hard feelings. But our systems don't work together.

00:17:58.400 Whatever it is that we're doing, you know, this democracy, capitalism, you know, as much transparency

00:18:05.960 as you can, it just doesn't fit with the, we'll get away with anything we can, and we're going to

00:18:12.660 hide as much as we can. Those two systems don't work. Now, if they were both the same system,

00:18:18.580 I don't know, would that work? Who knows? Maybe you would both be okay with it, because you're both

00:18:22.760 doing the same thing. But it's not personal. You know, we don't have to say, China, we're in a cold,

00:18:28.380 war now. We don't have to do that. We could just say, you know, we'd love to connect our

00:18:34.240 telecommunications equipment to stuff that's made in your country. But we also like security. And you

00:18:40.680 haven't built anything that has that feature. So it's nothing personal. We just can't connect to

00:18:46.740 your telecom equipment, because you don't have a feature we need. The feature is security. Should

00:18:53.260 you ever have that feature, we'd love to talk to you again. But I think we should just completely

00:18:58.360 depersonalize this thing. Because, you know, I don't know what they're thinking. But I don't

00:19:05.140 have a bad feeling about anybody in China, except, you know, maybe some of the leaders. But let's

00:19:12.720 just not make it personal. It's just business. If you got a system, and we got a system, and

00:19:18.200 they just don't talk, why force it? All right. Most of you probably saw Obama's endorsement

00:19:27.760 of Joe Biden. And I cheekily tweeted this a little while ago. This is me imagining a conversation

00:19:36.820 between Obama and some sample Democrats. And Obama says, I'm going to endorse a candidate

00:19:42.460 today. And the Democrats in unison say, yay, is the candidate pretty? And Obama says, he

00:19:51.540 has a great personality. It felt like that's what he was saying. Did you note that when Obama

00:20:00.220 was describing the greatness of Joe Biden, there were two categories? One, he attended meetings

00:20:10.620 for important stuff. Now, the way Obama says it is Obama put Biden in charge and he got things

00:20:19.600 done. But did he? I think he attended meetings of things that were going to happen one way

00:20:24.880 or the other, you know, that Obama ordered and other people pretty much executed. But okay,

00:20:31.860 you know, he was at the meetings. But how much of that did Biden initiate? He did initiate

00:20:41.060 some stuff. I don't remember Obama mentioning it. But it seems like Obama was really focusing

00:20:48.100 on his personality. Am I wrong? You know, he might have said character and, you know, you need a

00:20:57.960 president. You need a president who's got these qualities. And the qualities are, you know, and I'm

00:21:06.360 thinking to myself, you're so three years too late. Because if President Trump's personality quirks were

00:21:17.840 going to ruin the country, wouldn't we have a sample of that already? Think about it. We've had three and a half

00:21:27.640 years of President Trump. And from the very beginning, people were saying, oh, that personality, that

00:21:36.480 character of his, you know, the way he thinks and operates, those times he's not going to pass the fact

00:21:43.340 checking all that personality stuff. That's going to cost you. That's going to cost you. What would

00:21:50.320 be an example of that? Three and a half years. He's been exactly the same person for three and a half

00:21:56.700 years. If it's if it's Obama's biggest bitch, three and a half years later, he better come up with a 1.00

00:22:03.560 fucking, I'm sorry. He better come up with an example. If that's your biggest complaint is the 1.00

00:22:16.820 guy's personality and how that personality will wreck stuff. After three and a half years, you need to

00:22:24.500 give us an example of that. The economy went down because the time Trump told a joke. Is that it? The

00:22:34.960 the unemployment level rose because that time Trump insulted a member of the press. Right? Did that

00:22:45.580 happen? I don't remember that happen? So give us an example. You know that so that was such a 2015 way to

00:22:57.220 approach Joe Biden, that it made me think there was no, no organic enthusiasm. Did you pick up on that? That

00:23:07.580 it was like Obama sat down to write an essay on a topic he didn't care about? All right, please write an

00:23:15.680 essay on the advantages of Joe Biden over the evil orange menace, President Trump. And, you know,

00:23:25.580 and Obama's sitting down with his big old pencil. He's like, all right, oh, his character is not the type

00:23:33.880 of fiber we need to be leadership in the country. I'm not just talking about mayors. I got to fill up

00:23:44.260 this page. I'm not just talking about governors. I need to fill up the page. I'm not just talking

00:23:51.440 about Congress. Okay, they'll be on to me if I do another sentence like that. And I'm just listening

00:23:59.400 to this thing. And it looked like the most uninspired essay that was written by somebody

00:24:05.080 who really didn't want to write the essay. And the best thing he could come up with is this guy's got

00:24:10.200 a good personality. I swear to God. Yeah, damn by faith praise. I swear to God, the biggest advantage

00:24:17.900 that Joe Biden has as a Democratic candidate is that nobody dislikes him. Think about that.

00:24:24.900 During this whole process, Joe Biden has been, you know, criticized and insulted and just every way,

00:24:35.780 you know, every accusation from, you know, corruption to senility. I mean, just everything. He's had

00:24:43.000 every charge at him. But let me ask you this. To his credit, have you heard even one person say

00:24:52.380 that he's not a nice guy? Right? Even President Trump said in public the other day, he's a really

00:25:02.580 nice guy. Everybody who's on the other side can't even find anything that they don't like about him.

00:25:09.060 But I think the Democrats have mistaken Biden having no reason to dislike him with having the qualities

00:25:18.960 to be president. Now, one of the characteristics of human beings is we're always fighting the last war.

00:25:26.700 You've heard that phrase, right? So, and I think it was Naval who was saying, I don't know if he quoted

00:25:32.680 somebody or this was his own observation, that you are the, you're the result of your traumas.

00:25:38.920 That, you know, that who you are is mostly defined by the biggest problems you had and, you know,

00:25:45.940 how you got past them. And since the country, the Democrats specifically, have been undergoing this

00:25:53.960 three and a half year trauma of being, you know, in a country in which their most hated nemesis,

00:26:00.540 President Trump is the president. You got to figure that they're, that they're going to fight the war

00:26:06.500 of the personality war. It's the one they lost, because they tried to beat him on personality and

00:26:12.600 character, and it didn't work. You know, that's what the whole grab them by the whatever tape was

00:26:16.480 about. Your, your character is bad. We can't have that character. So they're coming around again

00:26:23.020 with the old character attack. And it feels like Joe Biden was the antidote to the mental anguish

00:26:33.960 of Trump. Just, just hold this thought in your head for a moment and you'll see how profound it is

00:26:41.100 or not. If you're thinking about Trump, what is literally the opposite of him? It's Biden.

00:26:48.300 Biden is almost the literal opposite of Trump. I believe that, that the Democrats wanted the most

00:26:57.280 opposite person because they had such a high level of hatred for Trump and that whoever ran against

00:27:04.480 him just had to be the most different. And when somebody like Mike Bloomberg gets on the stage,

00:27:10.980 well, it doesn't matter that Mike Bloomberg is considered highly capable and, and honest.

00:27:18.300 Right. I mean, he was considered highly capable and honest. That should have been good enough.

00:27:22.340 Right. And probably Mike Bloomberg said to himself, look, if I, if I'm running against

00:27:27.120 President Trump and I think I have, you know, all these billionaire credentials and I've been

00:27:31.100 a mayor, I mean, I've got the resume, clearly I have the skills, I have the money. I'm a reasonable

00:27:36.480 guy. You know, I'm nice to people. I have all the right policies. Why wouldn't I win?

00:27:41.260 And here's what I think he missed. I think he missed that he's a billionaire from New York

00:27:48.540 and he's not different enough. He's just not different enough. It's not good enough that even

00:27:55.840 if you thought Mike Bloomberg had more skill and was nicer, it's just not different enough.

00:28:01.560 And the most different person was Joe Biden. So you could take almost any of the other candidates.

00:28:11.040 Amy Klobuchar, very capable, you know, one of the top politicians could still be the vice 1.00

00:28:16.740 presidential pick has not been ruled out. And by all accounts, a very capable, you know,

00:28:23.840 politician. But, you know, that the story about her being mean to her staff and, I don't know, 0.94

00:28:30.320 eating the salad with a comb or whatever, she was a little bit mean. So she wasn't opposite enough 0.98

00:28:36.520 of the thing they hated most about Trump. What about Kamala Harris? Well, in many ways,

00:28:43.380 she was the opposite of Trump, but not in personality. In personality, people thought she could be a

00:28:50.220 little harsh. You know, maybe she'd been a little mean. She'd prosecuted a little too hard. So

00:28:55.160 you can see how people would be looking for the furthest from their trauma, which was Trump.

00:29:02.760 So Biden, I think, was just the default. All right. I told you that some restaurants might start

00:29:13.720 selling goods directly to the public because they have different supply chains. So if you wanted to buy

00:29:19.160 toilet paper and your grocery store didn't have any, there's actually a pretty good chance that

00:29:24.140 you could go to your local restaurant that's only doing takeout, because they had to close because

00:29:29.520 of the shutdown, and say, hey, can you order me a bunch of toilet paper? And they'd say, sure.

00:29:36.000 Will you take a 20% markup, 50%, whatever it is? And then they just buy it and walk it out to the car.

00:29:43.160 So I just found out there is one of our local, another one of our local businesses is doing this.

00:29:47.580 It's the First Street Ale House in Livermore, in California. If it's something that's something

00:29:54.860 they would ordinarily order anyway, from a cut of meat, salmon, or actually toilet paper that's on

00:30:02.120 their list, you can buy it over the phone, and you just drive up and you show your receipt in the

00:30:08.540 window, and they carry it out and put it in your trunk. You don't have to have any human contact.

00:30:15.300 You're behind the glass of your car. You just hold up the receipt, pop your trunk, boom. You got

00:30:20.920 yourself some groceries, and you never went to the grocery store. Now, when I see this, and it's

00:30:26.680 really amazing how people are adapting, right? People, the best entrepreneurs just found new ways

00:30:35.480 to make money, and when the old ways come back, they're going to have new ways and old ways.

00:30:39.820 So I think the best entrepreneurs are actually finding a way to come out of this ahead.

00:30:50.580 Here's another idea. You know, the big sports businesses are in a lot of trouble because they

00:30:57.300 can't fill the stands because, for the obvious reasons of distance. So I was saying that maybe the

00:31:05.480 big sports teams should look at this as an opportunity to build sports from the ground

00:31:11.360 up. You know, same athletes and same basic rules, but instead of building it for in-person

00:31:18.320 watching, why not build it from the ground up for watching it digitally, from a distance?

00:31:25.060 In other words, the reason that the sports can't survive just with television, as grain is

00:31:30.960 watching sports on television is, it's still not optimized for that. Here's what you could

00:31:36.700 do. For example, you could mic all of the players and all the coaches and all of the

00:31:43.660 refs. Now, let's say you're at home, and you've, I don't know, maybe you've got an app so you

00:31:47.980 can watch sports, and you could choose your channel. So you could actually hear the ref,

00:31:53.720 you could hear the announcers, you could hear the defensive line, you could hear, you know,

00:31:59.500 everything except the quarterback giving them the calls, I guess you'd have to turn that

00:32:03.180 off. But it wouldn't have to be just football. It could be, you know, basketball, baseball,

00:32:09.100 et cetera. And you make it a sort of a party in which, let's say, you know, the other people

00:32:16.560 watching are in your ear too. So instead of having the cheering of the crowd that motivates

00:32:23.800 the players and makes you feel like you're part of something, and, you know, of course you

00:32:28.060 get motivated by the cheer of the crowd. What if, what if, just saying, the cheer of the

00:32:37.380 crowd was in your headphones, and it's the other people at home who are literally cheering

00:32:43.700 at home. So that you might be hearing, you know, let's say just to complete this, let's

00:32:49.140 say you're watching it on whatever device, and you, you know, you're watching one of the

00:32:52.900 channels, and you're listening to the defense or the offense and the players that are, oh,

00:32:57.160 I'm going to rip this guy apart. He always leans left. Watch this. I'm going to make him

00:33:01.100 lean left, and I'm going to take his legs out. And you're listening to it. And then 0.99

00:33:05.280 there's a play. And then, you know, the app just lets all the cheering from all the living

00:33:10.680 rooms through. And, and let's say that the, just to extend this, just to brainstorm. And

00:33:17.260 let's say the players, let's say the players also have an earpiece. So that the players

00:33:23.340 can, because this is a microphone as well as an earpiece. So they've got an earpiece so

00:33:28.160 they can actually hear the cheering. So what if they can hear you cheering at home? And why

00:33:35.880 not? Is there, there's no technological reason that you couldn't hear everybody cheering from

00:33:41.920 their living room? You would just have to build the app that does it. Then you can imagine

00:33:47.960 that the, the players were talking to each other, you'd be able to pick up that, etc. Now,

00:33:53.240 you might say to yourself, well, I don't want to listen to these boring athletes and their 0.98

00:33:58.500 inane chatter. But that's when you're thinking about it, develop the old way. I'm not saying

00:34:04.960 do business exactly the same way. I'm saying tell the players that part of their job is to

00:34:11.500 be interesting. Mic them up. There, there's always going to be a few funny people on every

00:34:17.600 team. You don't need all nine players on the field to be witty and entertaining. If you've

00:34:23.860 got a hilarious shortstop, and then the others just sort of, you know, play to him, it's the

00:34:29.860 best show in the world. How much would you like watching a baseball game where most of the

00:34:34.020 time you're just waiting for something to happen? Even if you love baseball, let's admit

00:34:37.720 it, you're waiting for stuff to happen a lot. But while you're waiting, you're hearing

00:34:41.380 the funniest shortstop in the world, just ripping apart the other team and just saying, oh,

00:34:47.080 this guy's got, you know, he's got noodle legs and hasn't had a hit since Tuesday, you

00:34:52.120 know, whatever. It would be very entertaining. Anyway, so the whole point of it is that if

00:34:58.160 you rethought sports as a digital product, it would still work, you know, every bit of

00:35:04.300 it would still work in the live setting once they go back to, you know, crowds are okay.

00:35:09.900 But in the meantime, you'd have a better product. So they should go back with a better product.

00:35:14.680 It should be improved sports when they go back. It shouldn't be the, you know, just wait,

00:35:18.740 take a few months off and then just go back to it. How boring would that be? Huh? Did

00:35:23.740 you see the press conference in which Trump got all over that one idiot in the back who 1.00

00:35:30.160 wouldn't shut up? I thought it was his best, you know, sort of a world wrestling performance. 1.00

00:35:40.080 Because, you know, I think, I think by now, even the people who are slow to catch on have

00:35:46.440 figured out that Trump knows what the show is. He knows he's putting on a show and he plays

00:35:53.740 it like a show. It took people, I think, his critics, it's taken them years to figure that

00:35:59.320 out. And even some of them still talk about it like he just lost his temper. No, that's

00:36:04.760 not what happened. He might have been genuinely mad that, you know, whatever time you're talking

00:36:10.540 about, it doesn't matter which time. You say that time you're talking about, whatever it

00:36:14.960 was, he might have been genuinely mad. But that's not why he acted the way he did. He didn't

00:36:22.160 act that way because he was mad. He acted that way because it's a show. And he knows

00:36:28.620 how to put it on the show. And he used a genuine emotion in whatever time to put on the show.

00:36:34.900 So today's show was excellent. There was this, I don't know, there was some reporter that must

00:36:41.080 have been from some unfriendly publication. And he starts asking a question and Trump tries

00:36:46.460 to shut him down and doesn't really let him get his question out. So the guy's insistent

00:36:50.760 and he won't stop talking and Trump's already gone to the next person and the guy just keeps

00:36:55.060 talking and Trump just stops, puts the full Trump, you know, laser cannon focus on this

00:37:03.480 guy and just rips him apart. And I'm just watching this and I'm thinking, I've never enjoyed politics

00:37:10.500 this much. You know, we say this all the time to the point where it's trite. You're going

00:37:19.160 to miss this. I mean, you're really going to miss this. Because you don't realize how

00:37:24.800 jacked up your body chemistry is. We're kind of addicted to it. If I'm being honest, we're

00:37:30.960 kind of addicted. And you might have taken your team, you know, let's say your team is

00:37:35.680 team Trump and you're like, ah, Trump really tore into that guy. That was a good day. But

00:37:41.020 of course, the other team, they think they're winning too. So on CNN, it'll be like, ah, did

00:37:47.420 you see that crazy old Trump did some more crazy stuff because he's so impulsive and he 0.98

00:37:51.200 can't control himself. And then their ratings go up and everybody has a good time. So it's 0.96

00:37:56.680 like everybody wins. You know, the reason that, you know, wrestling and sports and all that

00:38:02.600 work is that everybody gets a chance to win. You know, maybe your team loses today, but

00:38:06.940 you know, you're going to win later. So you get your win too. Anyway, I thought Trump's

00:38:12.960 show was maybe the finest ever, just for like a one-on-one moment. One of his best, I'm going

00:38:22.240 to say. Let's talk about the fake controversy of whether Trump is trying to be a dictator

00:38:28.700 and overrule the governors despite the constitutional limitations. And the press tried to bait Trump

00:38:39.040 back into that conversation. And he wisely decided that he just, he didn't want to have

00:38:43.940 that conversation. He doesn't need to. He doesn't have to answer it. And here's why.

00:38:52.700 There's no real question about what would happen in the real world. So talking to the governors

00:38:58.700 and talking to Trump about, well, what would you do in this situation? And what if this,

00:39:04.220 you know, who's really in charge? Are you in charge? You say you're in charge, but are

00:39:08.260 you in charge? Maybe you should talk to him. Maybe you should fight it out. Maybe we got

00:39:11.660 a little fight going. That's all artificial. Because neither the governors nor the president

00:39:18.280 have any question in their mind how this will play out. There's no question. There's no ambiguity

00:39:25.040 whatsoever among the governors and the president. Wouldn't you say? Because here's how it's going

00:39:31.980 to work out. Whatever is the smartest thing, that's what they'll agree to do. Because remember,

00:39:39.320 the visibility of this is extraordinary. Everything that every governor decides, everything the

00:39:45.280 president does, the task force does, we've got 325 million eyes looking at it. So if there is such

00:39:54.400 a thing as a good plan, and let's say a governor brings it to the president, he doesn't have to

00:40:00.380 bring it to the president, but let's just say they publicize their plans, and let's say the

00:40:05.560 president says, whoa, that one's a problem. What's going to happen? Well, the president isn't going

00:40:11.540 to send them to the army and kill them all, right? The president's going to call them and say, look, 0.98

00:40:17.820 this could be a big problem. Why are you doing this? They'll talk it out. The president will maybe

00:40:23.080 use some pressure. He might say, look, you know, the federal government's giving you a lot of help.

00:40:28.820 You got to give us a little. Got to give us a little. So we'll give you a little. Might be a

00:40:34.200 little pressure. In the end, how's it going to work out? Well, in the end, the state will get

00:40:40.680 something that's pretty close to what they wanted. The president might influence a little bit.

00:40:48.200 And that's what you would want. It's exactly the way you would want it to go. And so as long as we're

00:40:52.640 all watching, nobody's going to do something crazy that the public and the observers would say,

00:40:59.640 why are you doing that? We're watching. We're watching you do that. Don't do that. There's

00:41:03.560 just too many people watching. So I don't think there's any risk whatsoever that there's any

00:41:09.480 problem between the governors and the federal government and Trump when it comes right down

00:41:14.280 to it. You know, when the phone call is made, you know, when the legislation has to be, you

00:41:20.700 know, when the check has to be written, it's not going to be a problem. And you've already

00:41:25.680 seen them all work together well enough that I think you believe that. Let's see.

00:41:32.780 So here's a real sign of something. So in the news, AOC and Senator Schumer got together

00:41:44.660 and they're calling on FEMA to supply funeral funding to families who've lost loved ones

00:41:51.380 to the virus. And they say, quote, disaster funeral assistance would help individuals and households

00:41:57.940 with the death of an immediate family member. Now, you know, I don't know much about the issue,

00:42:04.400 but it sounds like a good one, right? So in terms of whether this is a good idea or a bad idea,

00:42:09.500 I would say anything, anything we can do to help the public at this point is a good idea. So

00:42:16.180 separate from the question of whether it's a good idea, which I don't want to talk about,

00:42:22.680 it's just not interesting because it seems like a good enough idea. It's not really controversial.

00:42:26.760 But what's interesting about this is that AOC and Schumer, wouldn't you say, are in the sort of

00:42:34.060 top five of effective Trump critics? Is that a fair statement? AOC and Schumer, when they get

00:42:42.360 together, they're like the best, strongest Trump critics. And what they spent their time on today

00:42:48.980 was something that needed to be done, I'm guessing. You know, it seems like this is a reasonable thing

00:42:53.880 to ask for. And I'm happy that they're serving the public. I'm sure their constituents are asking

00:42:59.980 for this. So I'm totally on board with what they're asking for. Here's my point. Here's my point.

00:43:06.680 It's all they had left. Because as soon as Dr. Fauci said, President Trump did everything we

00:43:19.220 recommended, what do you got? As soon as President Trump said, let's get a ton of money and give it

00:43:28.720 to people directly. And then the Democrats said, how about even more money? And the president said,

00:43:35.980 okay. And then when we spend all that money, the president's literally in public today is saying,

00:43:42.380 you Democrats got to give us more money, more money to give to the poor people.

00:43:46.740 What do AOC and Chuck Schumer have left? What issue are they going to, because they can't really

00:43:55.380 talk about the economy. Everybody understands why the economy is the way it is. They can't really talk

00:44:00.540 about him handling things wrong because the experts told him what to do, and he just did it. And they're

00:44:06.480 the ones saying, President, you have to listen to the experts on climate change. I think,

00:44:11.880 in a weird way, the most positive endorsement I've ever seen of President Trump came today

00:44:19.860 completely accidentally, and in a different realm that had nothing to do with him, that two of his

00:44:25.900 strongest nemeses got together to do something that was simply useful for the public. And by the way,

00:44:34.720 to their credit. So thank you. I'm sure the families will appreciate that. I hope FEMA comes through.

00:44:41.880 But that's all they had left. Think about that. Think about, think about that was the issue that

00:44:50.980 was left. Important, and I'm glad they did it. But it kind of shows that the president is sort of

00:44:56.820 hitting the, you know, he's pulling the big levers and hitting the big buttons. And what's left

00:45:02.860 needs to be mopped up. It's not less important, but it certainly suggests that the president's on the

00:45:10.080 right path. All right. I promised you 45 minutes of stellar entertainment. Pretty sure I delivered.

00:45:18.540 So, tonight. By the way, did anybody try my technique for relaxation?

00:45:30.480 The technique was to remember your last haircut or, you know, hair salon visit, and just imagine

00:45:40.540 yourself going through the steps and how it felt and smelled and, and all that stuff. So in the

00:45:47.340 comments, if, you know, when the comments catch up, just tell me if that worked for you.

00:45:51.040 Okay. On average, before a wound on virus, 7,500 people die every day. We can, we can't afford it. Okay.

00:46:02.840 So, I asked the question of people who think we're panicking on this thing to tell me what it would

00:46:11.220 look like for them to be wrong. In other words, how many people would have to die when we go back to

00:46:16.800 work? For somebody who said, you know, you're, you're overselling this thing. It's not that big a deal

00:46:22.440 compared to other problems we have. You know, what level of death would it take for you to look back

00:46:29.180 and say, whoa, I guess the experts were right. This was way worse than the flu. Is there a number

00:46:35.180 that you would say, yeah, I was wrong? I just wonder what that would be.

00:46:44.740 Thank you. I drink myself to sleep, says somebody. Now my husband wants me to cut his hair.

00:46:53.820 Oh, somebody doesn't like haircuts. Oh, that's too bad.

00:46:56.260 Awesome suggestion. It worked like a charm. Slept like a baby.

00:47:07.240 Amazingly, no panic.

00:47:12.200 Oh, it worked again. Okay.

00:47:14.860 Wow, I guess it worked pretty well.

00:47:16.700 I'll try it again. It's the sort of thing that you can do more than once.

00:47:20.020 All right, that's all for now. I will talk to you

00:47:22.260 in the morning.

00:47:25.960 Dennis Prager posted a letter written by five doctors

00:47:28.380 who think a lockdown was not necessary.

00:47:33.320 Does that mean anything?

00:47:34.580 I'm pretty sure you can find five doctors

00:47:36.460 to say anything. All right, we'll talk about that tomorrow.

00:47:38.720 Enough of that. Have a great night.

00:47:40.380 Bye.

00:47:43.300 Ciao.

00:47:45.280 Bye.

00:47:48.440 Bye.

00:47:49.540 Bye.

00:47:53.780 Bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 15, 2020

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