Episode 933 Scott Adams： Let's Have a Laugh About the National IQ Test That Half of the Public is Failing
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, host Scott Adams talks about the coronavirus on the run, a national IQ test being administered in public, and the dumbest thing the media have ever said in public about something that never actually happened.
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Hey everybody. Come on in. Oh, we're going to have a fun one today. What an excellent
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day it is. Well, I think the coronavirus is on the run. Yes, it's on the run. We got
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some tough times, Ed, but I think we're starting to turn the corner a little bit, just a little
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bit. If you would like to fully enjoy this presentation of Coffee with Scott Adams, I
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recommend participating in the simultaneous sip. Now, I know some of you just listen to
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it and say to yourself, I don't have to actually sip at the same time. But I think if you talk
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to the people who do, they will tell you quite unanimously, it's a life-changing experience.
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And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass or a tank or a challenge or a stein, a canteen
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jug or a flask or a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that
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makes everything, including the pandemic, better. It's better than drinking bleach and isopropyl
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All right. So let's just get right to it. So the big fun today is that there's a national
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IQ test being administered. And it is just about the funniest thing I've ever seen in
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my life. Because there are headlines from MSNBC, Vanity Fair, basically all the stupid places.
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So all the really dumb outlets are reporting that they believe that the President of the
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United States stood in front of the country and asked Dr. Birx if she thought it would be
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a good idea to inject isopropyl alcohol and bleach into your veins. That's what they're
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reporting that they think they witnessed. Except nothing like that happened. Now it is true
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that the President was unclear. But if you understand the context, what he meant, made perfect
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sense. And it goes like this. So there have been some recent reports about this type of light,
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a far UV light, special kind of UV light, that could kill virus. And we know that it's a real
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thing on the outside world because they use this light to clean surfaces and hospitals, etc.
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But more recently, somebody had suggested, and there's some videos that I've tweeted around,
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one of them is pinned to my profile right now. Some have suggested that you could put the light
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in a ventilator type tube. And so when you're using the ventilator, you could be simultaneously
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dosing the patient from the inside with UV light. Now, it is suggested that this has some promise
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worth looking into. And the President said, hey, this is something that has some potential.
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All right, that's what actually happened. How dumb would you have to be to hear him speaking? And
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admittedly, he was unclear because he changed topics and then he changed back. Doesn't matter the exact
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words, because no matter what he actually said, how dumb would you have to be to interpret it as he
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was asking in public, should you inject bleach and isopropyl alcohol into your veins? The first tip
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off should have been that nobody would say that. Literally nobody would say that. So this is how the IQ
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test works. If you didn't immediately say to yourself, huh, I wonder if he misspoke. Maybe I
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should get a clarification of what he meant. If that wasn't your first reaction to hearing that,
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you have failed the IQ test. Now, of course, many of you are going to say, no, Scott, they're not really
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dumb. They're just pretending like they heard it that way so that they can pretend to be attacking
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the President based on something that didn't happen. Well, maybe. But watch the responses to
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people when I explain to them what they got wrong. And these are people who went in public
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and said in public that they believe the President was suggesting mainlining with bleach.
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Now, so having the actual story being explained to them, that what he asked was actually a perfectly
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good question, how do they react? Well, it's cognitive dissonance. And so you can watch for just
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for entertainment. If you want to see the best examples of cognitive dissonance, you rarely get
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a set up that's so ideal, and it's also public. And the set up is this. A number of smart, educated
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people, lawyers, doctors, etc., have gone in public, and they put their reputation on the
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line, because if you tweet something, you know, your profile's attached to it, your real name.
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It's your real name. And people are saying in public that they believe that that happened,
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that the President suggested mainlining isopropyl alcohol and bleach. Now, once it's explained
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to you that he was talking about the intubation and UV light, which is actually a thing, there's
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a patent for it, there's a company that's promoting it, it's a real thing. It may not work, but
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that's why he was asking. Once it's explained to you, how do you react? How many of the people
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who thought he said one thing, and then they're introduced to the fact, oh, he was talking about
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this UV light, I get it, makes sense now. How many of those people, once corrected, said
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to me in public, oh, I guess I leapt to an assumption, I made a bad assumption, I should
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have looked into it? None. Nobody will do that. Now, if their brains were operating without
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bias and operating correctly, they would simply take the new information and say, oh, yeah,
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that new information, that makes perfect sense. Okay, yeah, now with that added context, I
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see it. So I was in a conversation with an attorney, in which I trapped him just for fun.
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You know, I introduced the new information. And remember, he's an attorney. Attorneys are
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really good at incorporating new information, sort of what they do, right? If they can't
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do it, who can? And so he gets cornered and he retreats to this, the definition of the word
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injection. So he says, no, Scott, you, clearly he meant injecting the liquids, the bleach and
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the isopropyl. Because you don't inject light, you inject chemicals. Which would probably be
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a big surprise to the plastic injection molding industry, who thinks they're using a device
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to inject plastic? Because injection is a word that can be used generically, or it could be
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used medically. Are we surprised that someone who's not a doctor would use an imprecise medical
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term, which was still perfectly clear? Because ventilation and intubation is sticking something
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into a body. I would call it injecting. You're injecting something into the body. And whether
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it was in the form of a needle, or in the form of a ventilated tube with lights on it, in both
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cases, you're using a tool, the ventilator with the light, or the needle, to introduce an active
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ingredient, either a vaccination or light. So complaining about the word injection is sort
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of all you have left. Once you see that it's obvious, it's obvious that you just misinterpreted
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it. You're like, well, I don't think I misinterpreted it. Nope. I think the president really was, he
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was really suggesting we put bleach into our veins. So I watched Dr. Hahn of the FDA. He was being
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interviewed by Sanjay Gupta and Anderson Cooper. And of course, Anderson Cooper asked Dr. Hahn about
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this situation. Now remember that Anderson Cooper is under the belief that the president suggested
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something just crazy, literally injecting bleach and isopropyl into your veins. What does the
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doctor say? The doctor says, oh yeah, I'm paraphrasing, but the doctor says basically, yeah, light
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therapy, you know, light therapy is a thing. And then Anderson, you have to watch the video. I think
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it's up on their site. Watch Anderson Cooper experience cognitive dissonance. Because when Hahn answers
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the question, it's the first, I think probably the first moment that Anderson realizes that it was
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always about light. And you watch Anderson try to basically rewrite the history in his own head
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until it started making sense. And again, the way cognitive dissonance works is that the person who
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experiences it is unable to incorporate the new information? In other words, he's unable to say,
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oh, oh, are you saying Dr. Hahn that he was talking about the light therapy when he talked about
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injection? Is that what you mean? And Dr. Hahn would have said something like, yeah, I assume that's what
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he meant, because that's a thing. And you inject it down the throat. Obviously, we wouldn't be talking
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about injecting bleach and isopropyl. Where would that come from? That wouldn't even make any sense.
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So you see Anderson's, his look, and I'll try to do an impression of Anderson Cooper finding out
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that his entire premise was on the wrong topic. It should have been light, not bleach and isopropyl.
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And Anderson goes, so are you saying it would be a bad idea to inject bleach? So Anderson
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couldn't incorporate the new information, and it almost broke his brain on live TV. You really have
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to see it. And I've told you before that you can recognize cognitive dissonance because you can
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actually watch a brain reboot. The first time you see it, it'll freak you out. Because once you can
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recognize it, you can recognize it every time you see it. And it looks that same way. You can see the
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person just, their face will scrunch up, and you'll see they're trying to rethink and recast their
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history so that they're not crazy. And then they come up with something that doesn't make any sense at
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all. So Dr. Hahn said, yeah, it's basically talking about light therapy. And then Anderson goes through
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his rebooting and is like, so would you say it's bad to inject bleach? What? He couldn't even stay on
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the topic. He wasn't able to even process it. So watch. So I pinned to my profile the link to the video
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that shows that it's a real product. It's patented. You know, they're trying to sell it. It's not
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tested or it's not, you know, approved, but it's a real thing. And it's based on, you know, fairly
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standard, well-known medical facts. All right. There's a, all the news is funny today.
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Um, so there's photos have been released, uh, of the Miami, by the Miami beach police of the luxury
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hotel in which, uh, uh, Florida gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Gillum, uh, had been found
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with two other men, right? So here's, here's the way the story is written. All right. If this isn't
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funny, I don't know what is. All right. So this is a, a serious news report or is it? I'll just read
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it. And then you, you can decide if this is a serious sentence or not. So it starts out saying
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the photos released Wednesday show vomit stained and rumpled bed sheets, a box for a party light
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disco ball, spilled white pills on the carpet, and a vial of a drug often used for erectile dysfunction.
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But the newly released photos and officer body cam video shed no further light on what Gillum was
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doing or why he was there last month. Um, do you need any further light shed on what Gillum was doing
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and why he was there? Because the first part of your own paragraph said that there was vomit stain
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and rumpled bed sheets, a box for a party disco light, spilled white pills on the carpet, a vial of
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drug often used for erectile dysfunction where he was found with two gay men. Now, maybe you could say,
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you know, without the body cam of the police officers, how are we going to know what really happened?
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Because I don't think we have enough data. I feel as though we'd really have to do some
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research to find out what was happening in that room. Was it, um, were they doing homework together?
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Because maybe, were they, um, maybe giving each other haircuts? I mean, you can't rule anything out.
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There was nothing on the body cam. So how do you know they weren't just giving each other haircuts?
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Once the police come in, you can't rule that out because there's no body cam, right? Right? All right.
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Um, the other, uh, big fake news is based on real news, but of course the importance put on it is the
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fake part. Uh, Trump owes the bank of China millions of dollars for helping him acquire one of the most
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valuable profit properties. And, and the loan comes due in the middle of the next presidential term.
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Oh no, they got him. Finally, they found out what does China have over the president?
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Because they must have some blackmail because otherwise, why would he try to screw them on
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trade? Unless they were, wait a minute, that doesn't work. If they're, wait, if you're blackmailing
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somebody, do you blackmail somebody to destroy your country? Wait, I'm now, now I'm confused. He's
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blackmailing, no, China's blackmailing Trump to try to get him to renegotiate a trade deal that's
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worse for China. Was that what he was doing? Was, was it, was it their plan to use the bank of China
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to blackmail Trump into not kicking Huawei out of our networks and probably out of the networks of
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anybody we connect to? Huh? I don't know how blackmail works because I think it's supposed to be
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different than that. Like opposite? Like opposite. So that's the first problem is that there's a
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paucity, I say a paucity, an absolute paucity of evidence that the president is going easy on China,
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except that he says nice things about President Xi. Why would he do that? Why would the diplomat in
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chief act diplomatic in public with somebody who wants to negotiate important trade deals? Why would
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a diplomat act diplomatic? I don't know. The only reason I could think of for a diplomat, the president
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in this case, to act diplomatic would be if he's being blackmailed. Duh, obviously, must be being
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blackmailed into being respectful to the leader of another country. Why else would you do it?
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So I tweeted that, the story about the Bank of China, and it said, this is only a story for people
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don't understand how banks work. So first of all, you know, there's some complication about who got
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the loan and what percentage Trump owns and all that. So it's complicated. It's not, you know, Trump got
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a loan. There's a big business deal with lots of people involved. Trump probably doesn't have any
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control over it at this point. I think he has a minority interest in that. Somebody else has a
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managing control. But here's what people don't know about banking. If you borrow $100,000 from your bank,
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your bank owns you. Your bank owns you. I mean, assuming you don't, if you're not already rich,
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your bank owns you. Because you got to pay that back. And if you don't pay that back, your bank will
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ruin your credit, and your life is going to take a bad turn. Right? So that's if you borrow $100,000
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from your bank. What happens if you borrow, say, a few hundred million? If you borrow a few hundred
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million dollars from your bank, you own the bank. I mean, not actually. But here's the thing. Do you
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think that the Bank of China could ruin a borrower, unless it was obvious that, you know, that they were
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doing what banks do? Now, obviously, a bank can foreclose on a loan if somebody doesn't pay the
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loan. But do you think that the Bank of China could do something nefarious to somebody who is a
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legitimate business person who did hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business with their
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bank? Do you think they can screw that person right in front of the world? If you think so, you
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don't know what a bank is. Right? The most basic thing a bank has to be is trustworthy. If you take
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the trustworthy part out of the bank, what is it? It's a place you lost your money. Right? Because
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if you give your money to somebody that you don't trust, well, that's like losing your money. You might
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just flush it down the toilet. The whole bank idea is that they are uniquely trustworthy.
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That's their whole business model. If they screw somebody who's a multi-hundred million dollar
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borrower right in front of the whole world because, what, he did something that China doesn't like,
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that's the end of the Bank of China. We're not looking at the Bank of China blackmailing Trump.
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You're looking at the Bank of China being on the edge of going out of business. Because if they mess
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with Trump, everybody's going to know it. And banks are fairly generic products, meaning that,
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you know, if you don't get a loan from one person, you can get it from another bank.
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No bank can afford to screw a customer that big in front of the world, especially one that tells the
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world everything that happens. Right? So it's possible China could use some kind of clever manipulation
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to try to put pressure on the president. And then you know what he'd do? Well, there are two
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possibilities. Either this, first of all, he doesn't have control of the loan, so it wouldn't
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work anyway. But let's say there are two possibilities. One is that the Trump organization is still good
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for the money. In other words, they still have the capability of paying back the loan, which I sort of
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doubt in the age of coronavirus. I doubt they do. But there are two possibilities. They either can pay
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the loan back or they can't. If the answer is that they can pay the loan back, does it matter what
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the Bank of China wants to do or call the loan? No, because he'll just take it to another bank.
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If he's capable of having a loan of that size and servicing it, then he's capable of taking it
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anywhere else. And anybody else will say, oh, yeah, we'd love that business. It looks like you can pay
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it back. That's the business we're in, making loans and getting paid back. Now let's take the other
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possibility. Let's take the possibility you can't pay it back. Well, who wins in that case?
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The bank doesn't win. The Bank of China isn't going to be happy if they don't get paid back.
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So, you know, there are levels upon levels upon levels of this. You'd really have to understand
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banking to know what the real ins and outs of it are. And the people writing about this don't.
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So they're just going to say, looks like China can blackmail the president.
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I told you, I think it was yesterday, that I'm predicting that sometime in the next two
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weeks, there's going to be big news. And I mean big news in the sense, big news in the
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sense that there'll be some big good news. It could be good news on the topic we know is
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out there brewing. So that might be some therapeutic works or it might be a new type of test kit or
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something. But I think in the next two weeks, you're going to see, let's say, a medical field
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breakthrough that's relevant to coronavirus. The reason I say that is I've just lived long enough
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that there are some patterns that you see over and over. And given the intense amount of
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innovative, creative effort that's gone into battling the coronavirus, you would expect that
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there'd be a period of maybe six weeks to two months for the smartest, most effective people
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to ramp up whatever it is they're trying to ramp up. So I think you're going to find out that people
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have been working on stuff for a while and they're, and they're going to start introducing
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it and rolling it out. And it might, it could very easily have nothing to do with the obvious
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stuff. For example, imagine if next week we found that, and I'm not predicting this, I'm
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just giving you examples of how it could go. Imagine next week we found that everybody in
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the country was going to get a oxygen sensor, the kind you put your finger in. I've got one
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of those. And you would just check your oxygen every day. And as soon as it dipped below whatever
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number they tell you, maybe dips below 95, maybe dips below something lower, that you would
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immediately talk to your doctor or report it. And if you did, you would probably catch symptoms
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early-ish, you know, not, not in the earliest moments because it takes a while to get to your
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lungs. But if you got it, at least the moment it affects your lungs, what would that do to
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survival? What would that do to being able to take that person off the field and quarantine
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them? Because remember the person who's just getting a little bit of breathing problem, there's
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something unique about the coronavirus in which you don't notice the breathing problem. Apparently
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your body compensates by breathing more quickly to get the same amount of air, but with more
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breaths and you don't notice it necessarily. So, you know, we could have some like little
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technological thing that's really just a manufacturing problem. We also will have better tests. I
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already know of things in the pipeline that I can't talk about, but there, there, there should
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be in the next few weeks some breakthroughs in testing that would allow us to ramp up more
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quickly. So you might see that as well. Um, and I think that the news is going to start
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becoming a little more positive, meaning that, um, you know, the news reports on whatever is
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an exception. So if it's all bad news and people are dying, the news will be about people dying.
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But because we get 50 states with 50 different back to work plans, this is sort of the perfect
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situation because the news is going to look for anything that's new and say, okay, what's
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new and different today? And there'll always be a state that did something new to get back
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to work. It's like, Oh, state of Tennessee did this or that. Let's report on that. So you
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should see an avalanche of good news, good news in terms of going back to work, et cetera.
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So look for avalanche of good news. That's coming. And I don't know if that'll affect the
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stock market, but it should. Um, somebody says, Oh my God, don't take hydroxychloroquine.
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Are you dumb? Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me? So my, my estimates are still
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at hydroxychloroquine. 60% chance it doesn't help. 40% chance it does because we don't know,
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but that's just my estimate. Remdesivir looks lower at this point. You know, maybe that's more
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like a 10 or 20% chance that it works. Some early indication that it didn't work at all,
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but we'll see. You can't really trust anything at this point. Um, speaking of not trusting anything,
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how much jabbering have you seen about how Sweden is doing it differently and Sweden,
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Sweden is having a good results. How much are you hearing that Sweden, Sweden, Sweden compared
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to Sweden? Well, I saw a doctor today who was looking at Sweden and said, uh, Sweden's not doing
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better than anybody else. Apparently Sweden's not doing well at all. So Sweden is doing worse
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than other countries who are sort of similar, Scandinavian countries. Uh, so, and also Sweden
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apparently got a late start, meaning that their infections hit them later. So what you should
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see with Sweden is that they're approaching their peak where the countries that did the lockdowns
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are near or have had their peaks and will start to trail off unless they open up and don't do a
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good job of opening up. Now, what about the news we heard yesterday that, um, almost nobody gets
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this when they're outdoors? How hard would it be to imagine that given, at least in the United States,
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it's summer, given that it's summer, how hard would it be to imagine that just everybody who can move
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stuff outdoors just does it? You just, you just open up all your windows, keep your windows open all day
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and all night. I mean, it probably, you know, could take 70% of the problem away. Um,
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so there's that. Are people still saying it's just the flu? I don't know. Uh, how many deaths
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did we get up to? Are we up to 50,000 deaths? All right. So, um, no matter whether you thought this
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was just like the flu or not, we can all agree that 50,000 deaths in the context of closing down
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the entire economy is a lot. So how many deaths would you get if we opened up the economy? Well,
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if we've got 50,000 now, it would be more, right? Because the rate of infection, all the experts say,
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we'll probably start inching up. So the number of people per day, you know, we'll start going up again.
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If it's already a 50, what would it be by the end of the year? Unless we come up with some new
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treatments? Well, I think it's going to cross a hundred pretty easily. So, um, I'm feeling like
00:30:13.160
the models are not going to look that far off. I'm also still trying to find, uh, net numbers because,
00:30:21.120
you know, my, um, my original, well, the, my prediction is that it would be 5,000 net deaths
00:30:28.100
because you have to subtract the people who are living that would have died in car crashes and
00:30:33.920
stuff if the economy would have been open. So I think we're around there. You know, I don't,
00:30:39.300
I don't think my, uh, prediction will be accurate. I think it will be the most accurate,
00:30:43.520
meaning I'll be closer than anybody else. It just won't be accurate.
00:30:47.620
Uh, Trump called it the flu. Yeah. Gosh, what are the, what are the odds that a non-medical
00:30:54.680
professional would use the wrong medical term? That's, that's quite surprising.
00:30:59.620
Still $2,000 deaths per day or more. Yeah. What about comorbidity? You know, the comorbidity
00:31:11.840
story is more complicated than we think because everybody has a comorbidity, it seems like. In
00:31:18.940
the United States, I feel like everybody's got something. I was just reading an article by Van
00:31:25.040
Jones in which he was saying, I think he's 50. And he was saying that, um, he has high
00:31:30.680
blood pressure and he's pre-diabetic or something. So he thought he might be one of the, one of
00:31:37.040
the people who would have the greatest risk. And he makes the point that, uh, in the black
00:31:41.460
community especially, there's so much, um, so many other problems that if they get one more
00:31:47.420
thing, you know, it pushes them over the top. So they're having a worse time with it. And
00:31:52.380
definitely we should be looking at how to fix that. Uh, I agree. Uh, you added net the
00:32:02.600
next day. All right. We will, we're deleting all the people who are nitpicking my net and
00:32:11.260
here's why. So you're, you're blocked forever. Um, and all the rest of you who do that will
00:32:16.260
be blocked forever. Here's why. Uh, I did add net after my original prediction, but net is the
00:32:25.740
only smart way to look at it. So adding that, that we should look at it in a smart way is not
00:32:33.440
really much of a difference. And I also made that clarification well long enough ago that it still
00:32:42.320
counts as my prediction. All right. Cause I made that well long ago. There was certainly no point
00:32:49.280
at which I thought that 5,000 gross would be the total death count. So if you thought that
00:32:57.100
maybe I wasn't clear, so you can blame me for being unclear, but there's no situation in which
00:33:03.980
somebody with a degree in economics would look at the gross when that's worthless because we made
00:33:10.700
these changes for the whole point of reducing the net. It's the net that matters. You can
00:33:15.820
look at the gross also for other reasons, but if you're looking at how many people died based
00:33:21.200
on the strategy that we're using, it's going to be that. All right. Um, you literally did
00:33:32.460
though the literally people you literally did though block. So all the people who have false
00:33:42.720
memories of my prediction will get blocked mercilessly blocked. I could do this all day. I have to
00:33:55.380
admit, I've started to get, um, sort of a little dopamine hit from, uh, blocking people.
00:34:05.620
It kind of feels good every time I do it. And there's some kind of blocks that feel better than
00:34:10.520
others, but the ones I'm liking the most are the ones who have a false memory. And then they're
00:34:15.980
accusing me of doing something bad because they have a false memory. Uh, but long time viewers get
00:34:23.220
blocked. Yes, of course they do. Yup. It's bad behavior. Uh, shouldn't you have been clear for an
00:34:39.560
accurate prediction? Yes, I should. As I block you. Yes, absolutely. You're right. Those of you who are
00:34:49.060
saying that being clear is, is better than being unclear. Well, guess what? It's weird, but I, but I
00:34:58.520
agree with you. I actually agree that it's better to be clear. Uh, anybody else want to, want to get
00:35:08.260
weeded out? You know, the great thing about this, uh, this fake news about Trump saying you wanted to
00:35:14.440
inject bleach into people's veins. The, the great thing about that is it surfaces all the trolls.
00:35:20.740
So you can just, you can block them as you go. Uh, just make sure the blocking doesn't result in
00:35:33.620
echo chamber effect. Well, it does result in echo chamber effect on my own periscope, but because I
00:35:41.580
expose myself to the news on both sides, no matter how much it hurts, I don't worry about that too
00:35:47.500
much. Um, I have not found a good site for statistics to determine net deaths. I've actually
00:35:55.080
looked a few times, but not, I haven't really worked at it too hard because I was also trying to find out
00:36:00.960
that if you could, if I could determine the net suicide deaths, it's a little hard to determine
00:36:06.860
because they go up this time of year anyway. I guess there are more suicides spring and summer.
00:36:12.580
So it should be going up from the baseline if there had been no coronavirus. Do you still think
00:36:20.280
things will look darkest in June? It will look darkest for the unemployed. Yes, but it will look,
00:36:26.780
uh, June will look optimistic for people who can afford to survive because things are definitely
00:36:34.400
looking up. But if it's June and you don't have a paycheck for three months, the government's
00:36:40.580
puny little check is not going to make you feel that things are going well. Uh, all right. Um,
00:36:55.420
just looking at your comics because I don't have anything else to say. Don't block me, brah. You're safe.
00:37:01.400
Uh, all right. And oh my God, it's even on Fox Business. They didn't read the entire. Are you
00:37:12.740
telling me that Fox News is reporting that, uh, Trump wanted to put bleach in people's veins?
00:37:19.660
I don't think so. This is one of those cases where, uh, you should use the rule that I introduced
00:37:25.940
in my book, Win Bigley. And Win Bigley, no, I introduced it in Loser Think, I think.
00:37:30.940
The, the, uh, the trick is that if the news on just the left or just the right reports something
00:37:39.700
happened and the other side says it didn't, it didn't happen. And you can reverse them. It
00:37:46.120
doesn't matter which side says it happened and which side says it didn't happen. All you need
00:37:51.340
is one side to say that it literally didn't happen. And you can be sure it didn't happen.
00:37:56.780
All right. So, um, you, so already you Breitbart as our, you know, even yesterday, Breitbart,
00:38:04.640
Joel Pollack had a fact check in which he said the president was not suggesting putting bleach
00:38:11.420
into your veins, essentially. Um, um, paraphrasing. And so that meets the test. If you're not getting
00:38:20.060
a universal agreement on the left and right, not an interpretation, but whether a fact even
00:38:26.320
happened, you only need one side to say it didn't happen. And you can be sure it didn't
00:38:32.660
happen. Assuming that we're all looking at the same stuff. If, if there was a difference
00:38:37.620
in the facts, like some people had access to different facts, well, then you might say,
00:38:43.180
okay, there's a reason why there's a difference in the news, but we're all looking at exactly
00:38:48.560
the same facts. So if either side says we're looking at it and it's not there, it's not
00:38:54.400
there. It's not there. All right. Uh, everybody knows they should have three to six months of
00:39:04.240
money saved for bills. Yeah. That's a great idea. If you have enough money, but since, uh,
00:39:10.740
probably half of the country has never made enough money to save enough money, that advice
00:39:16.640
falls a little bit flat. Are you buying any AYTU stock? I am not. Yeah. I don't have any,
00:39:25.580
uh, financial interest in the far UV in case you're wondering. Um,
00:39:32.260
that now has a demonstration of injecting bleach. Oh my God. Um, let's see. Give us a good weekend
00:39:49.580
mindset. Oh, there you go. That was a good question. Are you want a good mindset to go into
00:39:56.020
the weekend? It goes like this. You can never, um, it's easy to underestimate human capability
00:40:08.120
because we tend to look at the people we know, or we look at ourselves and we say to ourselves,
00:40:13.860
well, you know, I couldn't invent a vaccine. I couldn't invest, uh, you know, invent a test
00:40:21.140
kit. I couldn't organize this or that, but there are a lot of capable people in the world
00:40:27.800
and it does take a, you know, a month or two for the, the best among us to get online and get their
00:40:34.680
plans moving. But I think in the next few weeks, you're going to see things that will just make
00:40:40.040
your head explode. It'll be, it'll be so jaw droppingly creative, innovative. Um, we might not
00:40:48.980
know if these new ideas work next week or next couple of weeks, but I'm saying in the next two
00:40:53.840
weeks, you're going to see humanity at its best. In the next two weeks, you will see the human race,
00:41:06.340
the best of us operating at the best, cleanest, clearest, smartest, um, level.
00:41:18.020
And it will blow you away. Now that doesn't mean we're out in the woods. I'm just saying that
00:41:24.580
you're going to see something that will, that will inspire you in the next few weeks. And it's only,
00:41:30.220
and I'm only predicting it because of the sort of general pattern of timing of things. You don't
00:41:35.260
expect good news on day one, but because it's an emergency, you don't expect that you're going to
00:41:42.000
have to wait a full year for some good news. My sense of it is just about the next two weeks,
00:41:48.600
there are going to be some delightful surprises. Now, as you know, we've been misinformed about just
00:41:55.180
about everything. You know, we we've been misinformed about, well, just all the data, almost everything,
00:42:01.920
but I think we will be, uh, uh, in better shape within two weeks. That's what I think. Now I'm,
00:42:10.280
uh, like the rest of you, I am super interested in what's going to happen with the, uh, the people
00:42:17.360
who are coming off, uh, house arrest, you know, that the states that are opening up early. I mean,
00:42:23.340
we're all going to watch that really carefully to find out what they do right or wrong. Think about,
00:42:29.220
think about the, uh, the pressure. If you live in one of the states that's opening early,
00:42:37.680
let's say you're a citizen of Georgia and your state is opening early. If you, the citizens
00:42:44.300
screw up and you don't do the basic requirements, you know, wear a mask, wash your hands, social distance,
00:42:52.880
if you don't do the basics, you people in Georgia, you could destroy the world.
00:43:02.080
I don't know if that's, is that, is that too strong? Because if the first states that go back
00:43:09.740
to work, if it doesn't work out, we're going to shut down the economy again and try to figure out
00:43:14.900
what does work. And it might be too late. So the people in Georgia, um, let me say this to you.
00:43:22.880
So our fates kind of rest on you folks being responsible. Can the folks of Georgia act
00:43:34.660
responsibly enough to save the Republic? You know, it's a little bit of hyperbole here,
00:43:42.340
but not a lot. I mean, I don't think I'm stretching it beyond the realm of things that could happen.
00:43:47.120
It certainly could happen that the population of Georgia doesn't take it seriously. Infections go
00:43:54.100
through the roof. The government says, well, we tried, it didn't work, shut everything down.
00:43:59.060
The economy just disintegrates because it's just closed for too long. Civil unrest, you know, the rest.
00:44:08.140
Um, so the, the citizens of Georgia carry with them the, um, the weight of the Republic
00:44:15.880
and, um, and with them, all of our, uh, best intentions, all of our best wishes.
00:44:25.320
Yes. So the people of Georgia, I say to you, you are not alone. You are carrying the country on your
00:44:32.520
back. And if you don't feel that pressure, well, I would like you to feel it. I would like you to
00:44:40.220
feel the pressure. You know, if, if you're thinking of walking out the door without your face mask,
00:44:45.400
because you don't want to walk back upstairs and get it because you left it upstairs,
00:44:49.480
I would like to ask you politely and respectfully, think about walking upstairs.
00:44:57.920
Think about walking upstairs because the weight of the Republic is on your shoulders. And I hope
00:45:05.020
you take it seriously because I know I would. If the situation were reversed, Georgia, I would very
00:45:12.000
much feel as though I was, I was protecting you by my own actions. And right now you will be protecting
00:45:21.220
me and those of us watching and all of us in the country, you will be protecting us with your good
00:45:27.760
intentions and your good actions. So I have, um, I have faith that you will pull that off. So that's
00:45:35.080
my good thought for the day. The good people of Georgia will show us the way. Um, and I think
00:45:42.080
we're coming out of it. I think we're starting to turn it around, starting to look good. And I will