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Speaker 1: Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of My Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Well together everything, so don't don't. We're all gonna die

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Speaker 1: of the coronavirus. Talking about you, the listener, I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about Katie Johnston, Cody Stole, and myself, Robert Evans, who

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Speaker 1: we're all at at. Robert john I'm so sorry. We're

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Speaker 1: in a live show last Sunday behind bastards and we

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Speaker 1: shake a lot of hands, and we hugged a lot

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Speaker 1: of people and we are certainly infected with the coronavirus.

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Speaker 1: We shook a lot of hands. Yeah, so we are.

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Speaker 1: This is it for us? A lot of hands after Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I love you guys, I love you all.

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Speaker 1: I don't trust germs. We're doomed and the only thing

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Speaker 1: to do is to find representative Matt Gates and give

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Speaker 1: them real big hugs. Just make sure we can all

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Speaker 1: be infected together. Yeah, I've always wanted to lick or

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Speaker 1: not Katie or not or not that's right or maybe

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not gonna ruined. Cody's dream of

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Speaker 1: licking Matt Gates is thank you. This fun intro. It

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Speaker 1: is a fun intro. Thinking you're welcome. It serves to

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Speaker 1: let you know that we're talking about coronavirus today and

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Speaker 1: not just like the virus itself as an actual virus,

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Speaker 1: because like it really is not like the craziest thing

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Speaker 1: in the world that's ever broke out, Like we all

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Speaker 1: lived through the AIDS epidemic, or at least a chunk

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Speaker 1: of it, and that's a way wilder disease. But the

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Speaker 1: decisions that Trump administration has made, what it's going to

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Speaker 1: do to the economy, and the impact it's likely to

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Speaker 1: have on the election all very important things to talk about.

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Speaker 1: I first want to deal with the elephant in the room,

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Speaker 1: which is that somehow a container of mints was burst

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Speaker 1: by a machete minutes before starting this episode. That, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was weird, Like I was looking away and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, I hear this machete swing and mints

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Speaker 1: fly throughout the rail. Yeah, look up, and it's just

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Speaker 1: a floating machete. To be careful with your words. Are

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Speaker 1: my favorite one minute ago, I was your favorite a

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Speaker 1: minute ago. It was hovering. But then I opened my

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Speaker 1: other eye and I was like, oh, Robert's doing it.

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Speaker 1: And this ties into the presidential response to the coronavirus,

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Speaker 1: because sometimes bad things happen and no one is at

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Speaker 1: fault at all, because there's that can be done, nothing

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Speaker 1: that he could have been done Differently, I don't like

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Speaker 1: the way this conversation is going, especially while I'm bleeding.

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Speaker 1: That was not as a result of my swing, but

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Speaker 1: it was your machete and cut my finger to protect

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Speaker 1: my dog from getting poisoned by mints, because you hit

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Speaker 1: the mids with the machete. And I'm angry. I'm very angry,

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Speaker 1: not at you, Katie. Not you could not you didn't, Robert,

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Speaker 1: I'm angry. One could argue, one could argue that your

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Speaker 1: one could argue losses that if you had left my hands.

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Speaker 1: One could argue that you should not try to kill

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Speaker 1: my dog and then try to I feel like most

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Speaker 1: people would argue that. But thank you, thank you, they

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Speaker 1: do not kill I'm gonna probably direct this back. We're

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Speaker 1: never going to have a resolution as to who swung

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Speaker 1: the mission fingers, but we do have a lot to

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Speaker 1: get through about the corona. Katie, if coronavirus didn't exist,

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Speaker 1: would you kiss my finger to make it feel bad? Yes?

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Speaker 1: I would, Okay, thank you, Gonna get a kiss Katie

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Speaker 1: is not my favorite. You may continue with your show,

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Speaker 1: Katie and Cody and guest Robert. So thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: us today. Guest Robert, thank you for having met cut

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Speaker 1: no action. Christopher's my name, Daniel knows what's up? Daniel?

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Speaker 1: Not the soundproofing off the wall. Jesus would a train wreck.

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, kati um. Why don't we get started, Robert,

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Speaker 1: you wanted to talk a little bit about the response

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Speaker 1: to the outbreak that we've seen from this administration and

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Speaker 1: how they're handling it. Bingo, Bengo, I'm really at the

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Speaker 1: edge of my seat. You're going to say, well, and

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Speaker 1: that is literally all I wrote. Three thousand, seven eighty

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Speaker 1: nine words, and then I just deleted them all and wrote, well, okay,

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Speaker 1: the Trump done well, he done well, he did it well,

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Speaker 1: A well trained wreck. Do you remember any of this

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Speaker 1: stuff that you deleted? I don't know. I could try

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Speaker 1: to read this essay. Maybe let's from memory. Let's see

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Speaker 1: if I recall it. In two thousand eighteen, the CDC

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Speaker 1: cut of its efforts to prevent global disease outbreaks using

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Speaker 1: its operations in that sphere from forty nine countries to ten.

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Speaker 1: That same year and official with the Global Health Security

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Speaker 1: There's two eighteen pretty pretty recently, right, I forget who

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Speaker 1: to find out. Though. The threat of pandemic flu is

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Speaker 1: the number one health security concern. Are we ready to respond?

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Speaker 1: I fear the answer is no. Now you get warned

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Speaker 1: by that of that, by someone from the Health Security

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Speaker 1: that that being told we're not ready to respond to,

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Speaker 1: action would be taken, right, And it was. Action was taken.

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Speaker 1: The Trump administration actually acted the very next day and

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Speaker 1: shut down the Global Health Security Unit of the National

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Speaker 1: Security Council. Swift action. Very what swipp You can't you

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Speaker 1: can't fault them on speed. You need to start talking

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Speaker 1: to this president like a reverse psychology. Yeah, yes, you

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Speaker 1: definitely want to do like a child. Like a child.

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Speaker 1: There's multiple stories from reputable journalists about how some of

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Speaker 1: his aids have taken that exact tack to try to

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Speaker 1: stop him from damaging things. Yeah, there's a long thread.

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Speaker 1: I feel like there's like a thousand tweets in it.

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Speaker 1: Now of just like quotes from aids and people be

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Speaker 1: like a child so that he doesn't kill us all. Oh,

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Speaker 1: here's here's how they him into reading information that he

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Speaker 1: needs to know. We're going to get is one of

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Speaker 1: my predictions from ten years from now. We're going to

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Speaker 1: get a book from somebody who works in this White

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Speaker 1: House now years and there will be a moment in

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Speaker 1: that book where this person has a new child who's

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Speaker 1: four or five years old, and they learn something dealing

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Speaker 1: with that child's temper tantrum that they apply the next

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Speaker 1: day in the Oval office. That is going to be

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Speaker 1: a thing that we all remember me when this happens.

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Speaker 1: I can only imagine those conversations too, like oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm a new parent and I find that this works.

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Speaker 1: I find that this works with my three year olds. Right,

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Speaker 1: they're cranky and you give them a treat. Yeah, diet coke,

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Speaker 1: diet coke, diet coke. Don't give children diet. Don't drink

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Speaker 1: your bank banky. He doesn't want his banky obviously, Well,

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Speaker 1: button for nukes and then a bigger button for diet

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Speaker 1: coke makes as long as the diet coke buttons bigger

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Speaker 1: will be okay, exactly, all right, tell us more please.

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Speaker 1: So Trump shuts that office down. And this was part

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Speaker 1: of fifteen billion dollars in reductions to national health spending

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Speaker 1: under his administration. And so when the first confirmed coronavirus

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Speaker 1: our national health care infrastructure was wildly unprepared to meet

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Speaker 1: Washington Post reports that in January, Health and Human Services

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Speaker 1: Secretary Alex Asar was quote having trouble focusing Trump's full

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Speaker 1: attention on his coronavirus briefing rather than focus on the facts.

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Speaker 1: Trump repeatedly asked Asar, why did you push me to

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Speaker 1: insert myself into a controversial political issue by as are

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Speaker 1: saying you should address this President. I feel good, feel good.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's happy. This is not surprising. Unfortunately, so health officials

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Speaker 1: desperately warren Trump and his mouth pieces not to say

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Speaker 1: the virus had been contained, because it hadn't. But for

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Speaker 1: folks like Economic Advisor Lawrence could Look continued to repeat

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Speaker 1: the falsehood that the coronavirus in the US had been

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Speaker 1: contained now. Politico has reported that many of Trump's aide

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Speaker 1: it unimportant. One person involved in the administration's response to

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Speaker 1: saner members of the Trump administration started to push for

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Speaker 1: Trump has been advised by some close to him to

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Speaker 1: said Trump thinks it helps him politically to keep doing

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Speaker 1: what he has been doing. Okay, Diligent public health experts

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Speaker 1: and doctors began to warn the country and the government

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Speaker 1: who symptoms matched COVID nineteen. The day this story dropped,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump met with Fox News performers Diamond and Silk

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of talk about like you should never

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Speaker 1: hope for somebody to get sick. If your entire political

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Speaker 1: career has involved, for one thing, urging the defunding of

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Speaker 1: like me swinging a machette around in a room with

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Speaker 1: if I were to breach the poison room and hurt myself,

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Speaker 1: I would deserve it. And I think these people who

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Speaker 1: wasn't important to fund any of these things. I do

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Speaker 1: Fuck them. I don't hope that random old people get sick,

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Speaker 1: but I hope specific people who ghoulishly fucked with the

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Speaker 1: hope they get sick. Yeah, fuck them all right for

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Speaker 1: put out an advertise an advisement for elderly people and

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Speaker 1: by older individuals, overruled them and refused. He stated that

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Speaker 1: the economy. The same experts responded that he should, at

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Speaker 1: there's so many problems with artificially keeping the number down.

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Speaker 1: I only hear more. Robert next, Trump insisted that the

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Speaker 1: outbreak of the coronavirus was something you can never really

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Speaker 1: think is going to happen, exactly when people tell you

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Speaker 1: that it is and then you cut their department. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the officials, the CDC acted with what I would say

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Speaker 1: is shameful, but it's also probably bitterly practical deference to

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Speaker 1: the guy who gets to decide if they get money

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Speaker 1: or not. Director Robert Redfield thanked the president for being

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Speaker 1: a decisive leader, and then Don Trump said this, and

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Speaker 1: this is where I gotta play the clip. And I

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Speaker 1: like this stuff. You know, my alcohol, it's a great

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Speaker 1: I T firm. I think, like a record number of years.

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Speaker 1: He was a great super genius. Dr John Trump. I

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Speaker 1: like this stuff. I really get it. You've been a

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Speaker 1: surprise that I understand every ordered these actors said, how

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Speaker 1: do you know so much about this? Maybe I have

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Speaker 1: a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead

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Speaker 1: of running through president. Oh my god, I'm just so tired.

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Speaker 1: I'm so tired. It's exhausting. Uh yeah, man, at seventy eight,

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Speaker 1: you should have instead of running for president, become a

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Speaker 1: scientist doctor. Yes, because you're good at it. He did

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Speaker 1: by becoming president. Yeah. Now in uh one of the

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Speaker 1: most pain Yeah, it's it's very frustrating. Um So, next

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Speaker 1: after this, Trump referenced the fact that Mike Pence had

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Speaker 1: recently called Washington Governor j Insley to express solidarity and

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Speaker 1: promised support to the state of Washington as it deals

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Speaker 1: with the deadliest coronavirus outbreak in the country. You know,

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Speaker 1: like a like a human being who's in a powerful

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Speaker 1: position nationally would do, regardless of political President Trump was

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Speaker 1: infuriated and insisted at the c d C that Pence

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Speaker 1: should have retaliated against Insley instead, stating, I told Mike

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Speaker 1: Pence not to be complimentary of the governor because that

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Speaker 1: governor is a snake. Oh We're doomed. On the day

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Speaker 1: I wrote this, Vanity Fair published another article about the

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Speaker 1: administer rations response based on interviews with a number of

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Speaker 1: people close to the president. One source told them that

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Speaker 1: Trump is looking to sue the media for its coronavirus coverage.

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Speaker 1: He wants justice to open investigations of the media for

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Speaker 1: market manipulation. Another source told Vanity Fair that Trump is

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Speaker 1: equally furious with his team for not having a ready

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Speaker 1: media response to protect him from this new cycle. How

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Speaker 1: do you sue the media, you know with the law? Oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: silly quote. He's very frustrated. He doesn't have a good

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Speaker 1: team around him. A former White House official said on Friday,

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Speaker 1: he forced out acting Chief of Staff McK mulvaney and

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Speaker 1: replaced him with former House Freedom Caucus chair Mark Meadows.

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Speaker 1: Trump thought the virus was getting beyond Mick. A person

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Speaker 1: briefed on the internal discussion said Trump also complained that

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Speaker 1: economic advisor Larry Cutlow is not doing enough to calm

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Speaker 1: jittery markets. Trump found a willing surrogate and Kelly and Conway,

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Speaker 1: but Conway's dubious claim on Friday the virus is being

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Speaker 1: contained only made the pr situation worse, and Conway making

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Speaker 1: a decision worse shocking. Sorry before because we all believe

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Speaker 1: what Kelly and can when gets trotted out to say,

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised it's not working, that she's not calming the masses.

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Speaker 1: And while there's vanishingly little good news in terms of

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Speaker 1: the president'srceal response to this this outbreak, there's at least

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Speaker 1: ample schadenfreuda because Trump himself is terrified of COVID nineteen

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Speaker 1: and increasingly paranoid that will reach him in his tower

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Speaker 1: of privilege. Quote sociage says. Sources said he's privately terrified

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Speaker 1: about getting the virus. Donald does a famous germophobe. He

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Speaker 1: hates it. If someone is eating nachos and dips a

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Speaker 1: chip Beckett after taking a bite, he calls them double dippers.

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Speaker 1: A prominent Republicans said from a Trump aids Sam Nunberg

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Speaker 1: recalled Trump's response to the last major outbreak in two

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Speaker 1: that's in fourteen. When I worked for Trump, he was

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Speaker 1: obsessed with a bola. Nunberg told me. Stories about Trump's

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Speaker 1: coronavirus fears have spread through the White House. Last week,

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Speaker 1: Trump told aids he's afraid journalist will try to purposefully

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Speaker 1: contract contract coronavirus to give it to him on Air

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Speaker 1: Force one, a person close to the administration told me.

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Speaker 1: The source also said Trump has asked the Secret Service

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Speaker 1: to set up a screening program and bar anyone who

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Speaker 1: has a cough from the White House grounds. He's definitely

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Speaker 1: melting down over this. The source said. That's a silverlying

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Speaker 1: hot hot take double dippers not into it. Um, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's why he posted that video of Mike Bloomberg looking

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Speaker 1: at his fingers and going back for more. I never

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Speaker 1: wanted to talk about that again. We should we shouldn't

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Speaker 1: have brought up double dipping. And there's talk right now

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Speaker 1: about the administration putting out some form of federal aid

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Speaker 1: for the hospitality, traveling cruise industries, which, depending on how

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Speaker 1: it's done, might be a reasonable idea. Um, and it

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Speaker 1: just now. Jeffrey Stein with The Washington Post tweeted Washington

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Speaker 1: White House likely to push federal aid for shale companies

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Speaker 1: hit by coronavirus slash international energy stock, Trump confident and

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Speaker 1: oil billionaire Harold Ham lost two billion dollars yesterday. Ham

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Speaker 1: reached out to admit, but says he didn't make direct contact.

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Speaker 1: So that's cool. Waiting for that direction by which you

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Speaker 1: would think he's done a good job here, you would, Yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's the one thing he's actually terrified of,

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Speaker 1: but he's still just failing. Uh, would you mind talking

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Speaker 1: to us a little bit? Uh about the Ebola? At

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Speaker 1: least we can compare Trump's response to coronavirus with Obama's

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Speaker 1: response to the ebola break up the book, Will you

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Speaker 1: remember when that crashed the US economy and got wildly

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Speaker 1: out of control because of Barack Obama's incompety had almost forgotten,

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Speaker 1: But then I remember it was just as bad as

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Speaker 1: this is a disaster that we're all still reeling from yes. Um. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The Bullo outbreak in West Africa from about sixteen it

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Speaker 1: was the worst a bullet outbreak in history. It resulted

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Speaker 1: in over eleven thou deaths. The spread of the disease

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Speaker 1: mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Uh. There were

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Speaker 1: very few cases in the United States. Um. They were

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Speaker 1: in um. Which does bring us to but croc no

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Speaker 1: brain Obama. Umballa took the advice of did you just

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Speaker 1: call him but crack Obama? It was going for like

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Speaker 1: a crocl okay but crack no brain Obama. Um. He

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Speaker 1: took his advice from the c d C then headed

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Speaker 1: by Thomas Friedman Rookie Mistake, Brookie Mistake, who was let

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Speaker 1: go in um because of what happened to the previous year. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: so the and the CDC's recommendations were actually Uh, they

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Speaker 1: were based on science. That's important. They were mild, they

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Speaker 1: were calm. Uh. There was his urge to not panic

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Speaker 1: about this because it was concentrated in West Africa. We

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Speaker 1: were sending doctors and nurses over there to treat the people.

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Speaker 1: Um and Uh. There was a big controversy about whether

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Speaker 1: or not to UH institute a travel ban to the area.

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Speaker 1: Health experts recommended not to do that because it actually

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Speaker 1: wouldn't contain it very well and it would make the

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Speaker 1: people who were actually suffering from it in West Africa,

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Speaker 1: they would make them worse off. UM. So he didn't

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Speaker 1: do the thing that the CDC and the health experts

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Speaker 1: recommended that he not do. UM And there were about

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Speaker 1: totally backfired, totally backfire. There eleven cases in the United

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Speaker 1: States total. Um. Uh. Two nurses got in Texas. UM.

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Speaker 1: These were all contained cases. UM. It was handled again

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Speaker 1: very calmly. It's it's interesting because while that was bad, uh,

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Speaker 1: it was not the situation we're dealing with right now. UM.

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Speaker 1: So even comparing them how to contain it, what's the response,

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Speaker 1: The response that you would want from the administration during

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Speaker 1: the abola outbreak isn't the same response for this because

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Speaker 1: they are two different. My wrong? Did have there been

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Speaker 1: claims floated that programs were scaled back under Obama? Because yes,

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, many lies about all the things. UM

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Speaker 1: And as we as you alluded to, a lot of

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Speaker 1: a lot of programs cut, a lot of teams just

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Speaker 1: disbanded that could deal with this. UM. So it's interesting

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Speaker 1: that this was a lesser case of what's going on now, UM,

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Speaker 1: and Obama handed handled it very well. UM, and urge

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Speaker 1: people not to panic because they shouldn't have panicked. UM.

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Speaker 1: And the response from let's say, the right wing punditry

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Speaker 1: and Republicans in general, it's very, very entertaining. We'll get

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Speaker 1: to Donald Trump specifically, but I'm just gonna read a

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Speaker 1: few quotes from people who UM today might be saying

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Speaker 1: something else. UM. For example, the deputy chief of staff

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Speaker 1: to Ted Cruz tweeted before Obama there had never been

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Speaker 1: a confirmed case of ebola in the US. UH, and

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Speaker 1: Ted Cruise lamented that Obama lacked sufficient seriousness about protecting

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Speaker 1: the American people intesting. Ted Cruz currently self quarantined. Why

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Speaker 1: is he self quarantined because he because he might have

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Speaker 1: there's no precautions. It was not taken care of me

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Speaker 1: And everybody shook a bunch of hands at Seepack. Mike Huckabee,

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Speaker 1: who you might know, Muccabee, Mr Muccabee a real yuck

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Speaker 1: up abe on his show. Quote the Ebola scare goes

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Speaker 1: to the heart of a simple question. Do you trust

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Speaker 1: the government if they repeatedly lie to me? I just

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Speaker 1: don't believe them anymore. Kind of did make me trust

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Speaker 1: the government a little bit a little bit more because

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Speaker 1: they handle it really very very few cases. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: like we we reached out internationally to provide aid as

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Speaker 1: we need it, Like things that happened in other parts

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Speaker 1: of the world direct will affect us. Yeah. Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: if you clamp down on that area, um, then it

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Speaker 1: makes anything that happens over here less and then you

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00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: take care of the situation here, um, and then later

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Speaker 1: you can be like, Hi, I'm Barack Obama and I

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Speaker 1: told you so. It sounds like one of those classics

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Speaker 1: situations that nothing can be learned from. It does interestingly

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Speaker 1: real quick, We're just gonna play just about thirty seconds

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Speaker 1: of some more of these people on television. Great, I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to hear what will definitely not be frustrating.

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Speaker 1: I bet it won't be. I bet I love them.

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Speaker 1: And it's all really starts at the top. It starts

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Speaker 1: with Obama and lots of bad things are happening to

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Speaker 1: this country. Obama has imported dangerous things into this country

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Speaker 1: since he got there. He's imported socialism here, He's imported

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Speaker 1: into America. The president should be cautious safety first, but

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Speaker 1: we're doing political correctness first. Why has the president done

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Speaker 1: absolutely nothing? Obama's incompetency, his administration's in competency is really

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Speaker 1: shining bright in this one. And if only President Obama

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Speaker 1: would put America first. Well, this president is all about

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Speaker 1: making America safe again. No president ever except Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: ever acted faster. So those are fun um, fun and good,

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Speaker 1: fun and good and great. Frustrated interesting that powerfully powerfully

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Speaker 1: erotic quotes from the powerfully erotic Jesse Waters complaining about

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Speaker 1: Obama importing ebola and socialism to America. So this is

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Speaker 1: a bit frustrating, I would say, Um, compared to their

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Speaker 1: reaction now to an actual disaster, it's way worse than

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Speaker 1: what they were talking about. Again, very few cases in

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Speaker 1: America during the bowl outbreak. They were taken care of,

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Speaker 1: very response. Just reading a headline. The US cases now

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Speaker 1: top twice what I said in the right and California

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Speaker 1: good number panicking officials anyway, not finish. It's because there's

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Speaker 1: so many more than we know. We just don't know

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Speaker 1: because we don't have testing continue. Yeah, Um, just a

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Speaker 1: quick this is a quick quote from Mr Obama after

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Speaker 1: the fact when it was taken care of, and sort

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Speaker 1: of the message that he put forth that was actually

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Speaker 1: fine in it in the twenty one century, we cannot

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Speaker 1: build moats around our country. Is there are no drawbridges

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00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: to be pulled up, we shouldn't try. Some worried about

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Speaker 1: bringing the disease to our shores that we had to.

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Speaker 1: But then he'd commented that we had to make the

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Speaker 1: decisions based not on fear, but on science. You were

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Speaker 1: called October three weeks in which all too often we

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00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: heard science being ignored in sessaialism. Just it's just very

638
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Speaker 1: nice to hear a president listen to science and like Obama,

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Speaker 1: I'm errative, no croc insane, No Obama anyway. Uh. The

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Speaker 1: person that was most upset about a bullet during this period,

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Speaker 1: as Robert alluded to, was Donald J. Trump. Um. I

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Speaker 1: think it's it can get a little tiresome to be like,

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Speaker 1: there's a tweet for everything. Uh, And that's because there's

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Speaker 1: a tweet for everything, every single every single thing, every

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Speaker 1: single thing. It's like this whole experience that we're having

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Speaker 1: is written by somebody to drive us mad, every single thing.

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Speaker 1: In Donald Trump's case, for this specific instance, there are

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Speaker 1: a hundred tweets for this. He tweeted about this so much,

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Speaker 1: he was so often obsessed with is exactly, um, so

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Speaker 1: just I'm just constant tweets. I know for sure that

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Speaker 1: our leaders are incompetent um. Obama just appointed in a

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Speaker 1: Bulazar with zero experience in the medical areas and experience

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Speaker 1: and inspectious disease control a total joke. I wonder who

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Speaker 1: he could refer to today about that. President Obama has

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Speaker 1: a major meeting on the NYC, a Bowl outbreak with

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Speaker 1: people flying in from all over the country, but decided

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Speaker 1: to play golf. He literally did that yesterday. Well he

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Speaker 1: needs to. Yeah, he needs to go to the club

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Speaker 1: and shake some hands and relax with his golf. There's

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Speaker 1: just one more tweet from Donald Trump, and because I

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Speaker 1: think it's perfect, I forgot to read it. Quote Ibola

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Speaker 1: has been confirmed in NYC, with officials frantically trying to

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Speaker 1: find all of the people and things he had contact with.

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Speaker 1: Obama's fault a total incompetent um. We we don't need

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Speaker 1: to read more of them. There are and I'm not

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Speaker 1: exaggerating hundred tweets about this, You're not exaggerating, I know

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Speaker 1: so It's just a little compare contrast on how actual

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Speaker 1: like competent administration with a scientifically literate, considerate president deals

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Speaker 1: with the situation and what the media does in their reaction.

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Speaker 1: And now thank you for that depressing comparisons. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: gotta take a quick break those things that we do

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Speaker 1: for these products that, unlike the Trump administration, will not

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Speaker 1: conflate ebola and co We're gonna if you don't want

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Speaker 1: a bowlah, all of these products are medically guaranteed by

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Speaker 1: the FDA to cure it. Also, when we get back,

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Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about what could happen with

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Speaker 1: the economy, and if you are afraid of the economy

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Speaker 1: taking thinking, maybe invest in some products and services, some

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Speaker 1: products and services like the ones we sell or only

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Speaker 1: those on an angle grinder which you can use to

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Speaker 1: cut through barbed wire fences, razor wire locks, mints. We're

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Speaker 1: going to be right back, guys in your car that

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Speaker 1: the state is okay, Ye, together everything and we're back.

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Speaker 1: My coronavirus that I caught of the live show. Um

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Speaker 1: so I am tasked with talking a little bit about,

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Speaker 1: uh well, the economic impact and potential economic impact the

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Speaker 1: coronavirus and I need to just state that this is

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Speaker 1: not my field of expertise. Uh So do my best here. Um.

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Speaker 1: As most of you guys probably know, the stock market

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Speaker 1: took a big nose dive on Monday of this week,

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Speaker 1: and everyone started to freak out a little bit or

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Speaker 1: a lot. According to c NBC, the Dow dropped seven

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Speaker 1: point eight percent or two thousand and thirteen points, the

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Speaker 1: biggest percent point drop in its history. Starting that quote again,

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Speaker 1: According to the c NBC, the Dow dropped seven percent

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Speaker 1: or two thousand thirteen points, the biggest point drop in

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Speaker 1: its history. That's the s n P five was also

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Speaker 1: down seven point six percent and was lower than it's

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Speaker 1: all time high in February. That if the benchmark, it

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Speaker 1: would fall in bearer market territory for the first time

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Speaker 1: in over a decade. UM. So that was bad. Everyone's panicking.

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Speaker 1: It's not good. It's not good. Um. Thankfully, the markets

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Speaker 1: recovered a little bit Tuesday morning, allaying some of people's

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Speaker 1: worst fears, but not alleviating the very real concern of

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Speaker 1: a potential recession. Also, it is stuff changes. Um. So okay,

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Speaker 1: the big question on everybody's mind is are we heading

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Speaker 1: towards a huge global recession. Different pieces that I've read

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Speaker 1: say different things. Some say we are heading towards one,

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Speaker 1: others say it's just a possibility. They all agree that

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Speaker 1: recessions are hard to predict. So cool. Uh. It really

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Speaker 1: does depend on how this whole thing plays down. Um,

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Speaker 1: but I can say right now is that we are

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Speaker 1: currently far from in America at least far from a

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Speaker 1: real recession. UM. So I don't want people panicking just yet,

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Speaker 1: even though I myself have felt. Yeah, what you're saying,

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Speaker 1: I think, Katie, is that we're good and things will

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Speaker 1: be good forever. Yeah. Perfect, That's exactly what I needed

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Speaker 1: to take away from this, you know. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: would take a while for the effects, uh to really

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Speaker 1: hit our market in a in a long term way.

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Speaker 1: This would have to play out for a very long time. Um.

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Speaker 1: And it's still kind of new, so we don't really

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Speaker 1: know what's going to happen. But well, that said, it

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Speaker 1: already has and will continue to have an economic impact

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Speaker 1: that it is immediately detrimental, at least in the short

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Speaker 1: term to you know, local economies and citizens in different communities,

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Speaker 1: especially people in service industry jobs. And we're going to

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Speaker 1: get into that in a second. But first I just

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Speaker 1: want to break down a little bit what an epidemic

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Speaker 1: recession is. So an epidemic cause recession is different than

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Speaker 1: other recessions because the drop in spending isn't caused by

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Speaker 1: a lack of income per se, but by people not

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Speaker 1: going out and buying things they isolate and fear of

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Speaker 1: contracting the virus or because of forced quarantines and all

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Speaker 1: of that. Uh. And there are different things that can

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Speaker 1: lead to a recession. One is a supply shock, where

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Speaker 1: there's a problem with the production of a product or

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Speaker 1: a service, if you will, like if you have a

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Speaker 1: bad harvest. And then another is demand shock, where there

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Speaker 1: where the demand for a product hand sanitizing or a service. No,

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Speaker 1: no, no no, that's different. That's the worst example you can

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Speaker 1: give for the end of my sentence. You have to

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Speaker 1: let me finish a sentence. Another is demand shock, which

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Speaker 1: is where the demand for a product or service declines.

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Speaker 1: And so here's here's a kind of a long quote

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Speaker 1: but from Axios. But I think it encapsulates things really well.

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Speaker 1: A globe of pandemic sounds deceptively like a supply side problem.

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Speaker 1: China shut down a bunch of factories to halt the

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Speaker 1: spread of infection, and now there's no hand sanitizer to

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Speaker 1: be had, and apple products are back ordered. But that's

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Speaker 1: not all that's happening. We're looking at what a college

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Speaker 1: e con textbook would call a shock to the demand

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Speaker 1: side of the economy, on top of the supply side

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Speaker 1: disruptions kind of both. Um, a demand shock is something

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Speaker 1: like what started when American house prices began to slide

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Speaker 1: downward in two thousand seven and two eight. Because prices

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Speaker 1: were declining, investors got less interested in building new houses,

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Speaker 1: and because prices were declining, homeowners felt poorer and became

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Speaker 1: less likely to make major purchases. Since the pandemic began,

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Speaker 1: global demand for every kind of raw material, from industrial

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Speaker 1: metals to staple crops like wheat and soybanes has dropped.

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Speaker 1: Businesses know that means global spending is going to slow,

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Speaker 1: and so they take measures to prepare, like idling workers

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Speaker 1: and reducing output. Already, the aviation industry, which was initially

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Speaker 1: shifting aircraft from China routes to other opportunities, is just

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Speaker 1: settling for for flying fewer planes and paying fewer workers.

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Speaker 1: Will come back to that. So like I mentioned earlier.

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Speaker 1: Even if this doesn't become a full blown, our worst

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Speaker 1: fear kind of recession, we are already seeing uh its

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Speaker 1: effects in communities that are heavily hit by the virus. UM.

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Speaker 1: So far, the biggest cases with the most economic impact

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Speaker 1: are you know, China in Italy, places like that China,

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Speaker 1: if you will, that's what we have. We refer to

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Speaker 1: them both because we need too so often that sounds

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Speaker 1: pc UM. Obviously, China has been dealing with the economic

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Speaker 1: effects of this the longest, and up until recently, it

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Speaker 1: has had the majority of the cases to deal with.

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Speaker 1: I guess it still does, but it's that number is changing. UM.

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Speaker 1: So it's a good look to that. It's good to

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Speaker 1: look at them for perspective, and it isn't great. Virtually

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Speaker 1: all tourism has stopped, not just within the country, but

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Speaker 1: leaving the country. Data shows international flights booked from China

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Speaker 1: are behind by fifty almost fifty basically in comparison with

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Speaker 1: the same period in Chinese car sales have dropped in February,

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Speaker 1: quarantines have caused massive layoffs. UM. It will be hard

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Speaker 1: to stop China from entering a recession that seems inevitable. Um.

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Speaker 1: And an important thing to note is that if the

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Speaker 1: virus did spread in the States the way it did

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Speaker 1: in China, our economic reality, the fallout would be way

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Speaker 1: more severe. Um. So that's fun in Italy. Um. God.

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Speaker 1: Then there's Italy. Uh. At first this week they announced

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Speaker 1: that seventeen million people would be quarantine, and then they

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Speaker 1: took the absolutely unprecedented step of putting the entire country

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Speaker 1: on lockdown. An entire country is on lockdown, and and

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Speaker 1: and Jesus, can you even wrack your mind around what

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Speaker 1: that means economically for them? I mean, because what we

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Speaker 1: have over there's a combination of quarantine people not being

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Speaker 1: able to work, plus a dramatic drop in to them,

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Speaker 1: I mean tragic, a lot of them, a lot of

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Speaker 1: monzarella not being made, a lot of spicy meat, the ball.

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Speaker 1: How are you going to get your spicy meat a ball?

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Speaker 1: Not being able to do gestures because they spread the coronavirus.

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Speaker 1: How it's fine to keeping Absolutely, I don't even like

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Speaker 1: joking about it because it's so horrific. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: you see these reports over there, and it's really shocking.

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Speaker 1: I mean, all the tourist sites are closed. It really

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Speaker 1: is catastrophic for the economy. I heard a post recently.

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Speaker 1: I read a post recently from an Italian up in

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Speaker 1: northern Italy, um, kind of where the epidem has been worse,

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Speaker 1: and they made a comment along the lines of, like,

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Speaker 1: were talking about it was just like a normal flu,

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Speaker 1: and so we didn't change anything, and we kept going out,

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Speaker 1: and like now a bunch of our parents and grandparents

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Speaker 1: are all dying. It's like, yeah, um, you know, and

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Speaker 1: we didn't spicy meat. Yeah. Yeah. This is a quote

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Speaker 1: from the Washington Post. In Italy, the economic slowdown will

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Speaker 1: be profound. The damage will be measured not just with

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Speaker 1: supply chain interruptions and lost tourism, but with business closures,

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Speaker 1: spiking unemployment, defaulted loans, and the likelihood of major government

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Speaker 1: bail bailouts. Even before the virus's arrival, Italy was poised

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Speaker 1: for a recession and its economy had scarcely grown in

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Speaker 1: twenty years. And people shouldn't panic. We don't want people

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Speaker 1: to panic. That the opposite of what should be happening

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Speaker 1: right now to to stop a recession from happening. But

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Speaker 1: it's indisputable that when major markets are hit. Uh, it affects.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel the ripples worldwide? You feel the ripples worldwide.

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Speaker 1: And even if you are in a place where your

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Speaker 1: president is not a gross clown monster, the government response

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Speaker 1: is more likely than not to be incompetent and slow.

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Speaker 1: And as a general rule, win a disaster hits. And

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Speaker 1: this is something that there's actually quite a lot of

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Speaker 1: scholarship on because it doesn't just apply to epidemics. Applies

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Speaker 1: applies to hurricanes, that applies to tornadoes and applaced earthquakes.

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Speaker 1: As a general rule, worldwide, the state response to your

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Speaker 1: problem will be slow, inefficient, and insufficient, and you will

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Speaker 1: be on your own for taking care of yourself and

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Speaker 1: the people around you. And that is a reality most

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Speaker 1: of us will have. We're seeing. We didn't mention this earlier.

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Speaker 1: There's just so many things to touch on news stories

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Speaker 1: with this Sacramento today, Like so New York was quarantining

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Speaker 1: the different communities that have a large number of outbreaks.

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Speaker 1: They're saying, Sacramento has just thrown up their hands, and

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Speaker 1: they're saying self quarantine if you have symptoms, and that's

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Speaker 1: the most that they're going to do. And and like

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Speaker 1: you stories about nurses getting infected and not being given

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Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of you have seen that letter

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Speaker 1: floating around Twitter, not having not being allowed to give

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Speaker 1: a test because there aren't tests available. And anyway, I

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Speaker 1: mean it does fit with Sacramento's motto is the city

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Speaker 1: of that's our capital. Anyway, back to the economic stuff. Um,

852
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Speaker 1: so we're not at that point here in the United

853
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: States like literally in China give us a week, but

854
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 1: we are beginning to see its effects. And before I

855
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: get into um, what's happening different cities, I want to

856
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 1: stress that one of the industries that we are seeing

857
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: being hit really hard, it's actually Chinese restaurants. Uh. If

858
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:10,839
Speaker 1: you want, I know, if you guys want to combat

859
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 1: the racist effects of this epidemic, which I hope I

860
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: don't have to spell out to you how that's happening,

861
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: please take yourself out to dinner a Chinese restaurant if

862
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: you're not sick, or order it whatever you want. Don't

863
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: avoid your city's downtown Chinatown district. Uh. Here's a quote

864
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: the Traditional Archway from from l A Times, and this

865
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 1: is in l A, you know, a very progressive, open

866
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: minded city. The traditional Archway that welcomes all to Chinatown.

867
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: Central Plaza and North Broadway and downtown Los Angeles greeted

868
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:44,479
Speaker 1: few visitors last week, The usually vibrant hub for Chinese culture, food,

869
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: and souvenirs more closely resembled a ghost town. It's a

870
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: really sobering feeling that I was not happy to come

871
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: across preparing for this. But it's not surprising. You should

872
00:49:56,600 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: avoid perhaps visiting an old folks home. Sure, if you

873
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: are a younger person in contact with people who travel,

874
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: you should not avoid Chinatown. Do you guys think that

875
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 1: it's just genetic? I don't think you guys do um.

876
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I think they're probably actually assuming

877
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 1: that it's like people that Chinatown is filled with Chinese

878
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,800
Speaker 1: people who visit China regularly. And yeah, that's my guess

879
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: as to the etymology. Actually the opposite is probably true.

880
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 1: People are here trying to make a life here. Yeah.

881
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: I had seen every once in a while Tucker Carlson

882
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: will say something where you're like, oh, that's correct, um,

883
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: And it's insidious. And he because he speaks to the President,

884
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,439
Speaker 1: he did a segment last night about this and about

885
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: the coronavirus and how it's actually a serious thing that

886
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: should be taken seriously, and President needs to do something

887
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:49,799
Speaker 1: about it. Um. During that segment, he referred to it

888
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:53,279
Speaker 1: out loud and in a graphic on screen the whole

889
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 1: time as the Chinese coronavirus. Yeah, they yes, And that's

890
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 1: catching on for the President to say it, because he's going,

891
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:06,240
Speaker 1: he's going to and yeah, it's just it's just something

892
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: that uh's gonna it's gonna get worse. And I hope

893
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:15,800
Speaker 1: that everybody recognizes it and resists it all right. Back

894
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: to uh some of effects other effects here in the

895
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 1: States Seattle. Seattle is currently experiencing one of the largest

896
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,720
Speaker 1: outbreaks in the United States. Officials have been telling people

897
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: to stay in. A friend of um somewhere news are.

898
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: Our friend Margaret who has been some research for US,

899
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: lives in Seattle and was texting me about texting with

900
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 1: me about this either day and and um, she's self

901
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: quarantine and the whole city is apparently you know, also

902
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,240
Speaker 1: like China down a ghost town, you know, government encouraging

903
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 1: people to stay home. And for some people, you know Seattle,

904
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:48,839
Speaker 1: there's a lot of tech industry stuff. For some people

905
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: that's fine. They can work from home. But Seattle is

906
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: also known for its coffee shops. It's a service industry.

907
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 1: And like I was mentioning earlier, you know, this is

908
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 1: the majority of people UM have have jobs. We have

909
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: to show up in person, so what's happening to them?

910
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: These are also the people that are least likely to

911
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:11,399
Speaker 1: have savings to fall back on. UM. In fact, about

912
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: a quarter of Americans have no paid sick days, and

913
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: that's actually something that we could do and need to

914
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 1: do to help offset the economic impact of any pandemic.

915
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:24,799
Speaker 1: But this one, Uh, it's mandatory sick days, and that

916
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 1: is something that the government could could UM enact now

917
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: help after this, But honestly, they needed to have already

918
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:34,280
Speaker 1: done it. I feel like you're acting like the government's

919
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 1: job to protect human health and welfare. I am. I

920
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: am saying that UM also throwing this out here out there.

921
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: Schools are being canceled, people aren't allowed to go to school,

922
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 1: so what how are working parents figuring out child care? Uh?

923
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 1: There's a lot of huge things that you don't think

924
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: about immediately that are vitally important to people's way of life.

925
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:00,919
Speaker 1: It's like if your whole co ture is based around

926
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: maximizing profit at at like yeah, yeah, And and if

927
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:06,800
Speaker 1: if that's like the only thing that matters and the

928
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: people in power, that's the only thing that matters to them, um,

929
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: they will eventually wind up making decisions that actually catastrophically

930
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:16,840
Speaker 1: compromise their ability to to make profits because they're incredibly shortsighted.

931
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 1: The thing about sickly is that that sounds expensive, but

932
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 1: it's not as bad as plague. As a plague, and

933
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: also it's just human decency. And then we look at

934
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: places like Austin, Texas. You guys have seen the news

935
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: south By Southwest has been canceled this year, um, and

936
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, dang, that sucks. I mean that really

937
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: sucks for south By Southwest. That is potentially bankrupting, uh,

938
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:45,840
Speaker 1: the whole organization. So there's that, But then it's Austin

939
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: depends on this this revenue. You know, people that have

940
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 1: been preparing so many stories of people are like, I

941
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,360
Speaker 1: don't know how I'm going to make people people playing

942
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 1: their entire year, but huge numbers of the people who

943
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: live in the city of Austin and like this helps

944
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 1: them get through the year. Also, surprisingly, the entertainment industry

945
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: is also one of the most affected markets. Um. You know,

946
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: they already feeling the impact because the movie, the movie

947
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: industry is worldwide. China is a huge market, and you

948
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: know they're seeing lots of movie theater closures around the

949
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: world in a general decline and intendance, plus cancelations of

950
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: film festivals like this, and all the money that investments

951
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: that have gone into that. Um, people banking on on

952
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: on movies being sold at south By oddly enough, uh,

953
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: through all of this reading canceling sports events. While you

954
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: might want to do that because it helps lows the

955
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: spread of the disease or the virus, I'm sorry, but

956
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 1: it detracts from people's employment opportunities. It makes economic stimulus

957
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 1: really difficult, and it feeds into the idea that the

958
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: economy is feeling, which ends up becoming a self fulfilling prophecies.

959
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:54,959
Speaker 1: Prophecy it's so fun. But you know what, people listen

960
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: to a lot of podcasts when they're co It's true.

961
00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:00,440
Speaker 1: Well that's the other thing that right, that that you

962
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: know what, we're good, We're fine, don't worry about it,

963
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: you know, but it's this is actually an important point

964
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: because streaming revenues are up so UM, yeah, and then

965
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: of course there are there are more industries taking big hits,

966
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,800
Speaker 1: one of which being the travel industries, particularly cruise ships

967
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:25,240
Speaker 1: and aviation. And like the people who work at restaurants

968
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,720
Speaker 1: and stuff that get a lot of tour speceis exactly

969
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: exactly employees the airlines are are rightly freaking out. According

970
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 1: to Axios and other sources, airline executives are warning that

971
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: the slowdown and global travel demand that they're experiencing could

972
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: be worse than nine eleven, and airlines all over the

973
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:44,320
Speaker 1: world are canceling flights because no one wants to travel.

974
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: They're also reimbursing everybody's flights that they especially to Italy.

975
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:49,919
Speaker 1: My boyfriend is supposed to go to Italy this week.

976
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:55,240
Speaker 1: Also because fewer people are traveling, like you're saying, fewer

977
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 1: people in airports, fewer people paying ten dollars for a

978
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,399
Speaker 1: bottle of water and uh, fewer people buying expensive water

979
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: means reduced hours uh and and wages for people who

980
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: work in airport retail. You've also got some strikes going

981
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 1: on with two or some butting stretch with t s

982
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,320
Speaker 1: A workers. You're like, wait a second, no one's picking

983
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 1: any ennance costs for US. I mean, it's wild. This

984
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: is from MPR, the Global Business Travel Association. Estimates that

985
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 1: have coronavirus related travel restrictions continue, whether the travel cutbacks

986
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,800
Speaker 1: are self imposed or ordered by governments, spending on travel

987
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,240
Speaker 1: around the world could drop by more than thirty seven percent,

988
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:31,760
Speaker 1: crossing the industry at whopping forty six point six billion

989
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 1: a month and nearly five hundred and sixty billion in

990
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:37,360
Speaker 1: a year. The last time we saw anything like this

991
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:41,280
Speaker 1: with nine elevens, as Scott Slambrino, the organization's executive director,

992
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: that was a complete shutdown of travel. Thank god, We're

993
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 1: nowhere near that, not yet. Anyway, here's the end of

994
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: the quote. If coronavirus fears continue to lead corporations to

995
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:52,439
Speaker 1: pool sales, staff, consultants, and other employees off the road,

996
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 1: and if leisure travelers cancel weekend getaways and destination vacations,

997
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: the economic cost could be staggering. Cool. That's a lot,

998
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: um good time to book a plane flight to a

999
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 1: warm part of the world. Well, I mean, you know

1000
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 1: you're looking at cheaper plane tickets if you want to

1001
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:16,480
Speaker 1: see this is the time the time to do it. Um,

1002
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: So what about that's stock market crash that we talked

1003
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: about at the beginning of this section. Why shouldn't we

1004
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 1: panick about that? So it's reasonable to be concerned about

1005
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 1: the stock market crash. I mean, we've got horrific stories

1006
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 1: of stock market crashes and what's that done to the

1007
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 1: global economy in the past. Um, And it is reasonable

1008
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 1: to be concerned. But also it's the stock market. It

1009
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: doesn't directly affect the average American immediately unless you have

1010
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:50,280
Speaker 1: a ton of investments. UM. John John Schwartz argues in

1011
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:52,480
Speaker 1: this article that he wrote for The Intercept Um the

1012
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: richest ten percent of US household account for over of

1013
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: American stock ownership. The richest one percent by themselves on

1014
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 1: half of that or stock. Half of Americans don't own

1015
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: stock at all. He also argues that the obsession with

1016
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: the phantom wealth of the stock market UH distracts and

1017
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: prevents us from focusing fixing problems that actually need to

1018
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: be fixed and saving us. Actually, UM, the better off

1019
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 1: the stock market does, the worst off the lower classes do.

1020
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 1: So you know there's that basically because the profits of

1021
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: stockholders are wealth that has been extracted from the working

1022
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 1: class and then handed to the people who already are

1023
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 1: rich exactly. And and our obsession with the stock market,

1024
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 1: watching the stock market, its rises in its dips, makes

1025
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 1: it like a game, and it kind of misrepresents its

1026
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: importance on our every day lives. Um. And again, just

1027
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 1: like I was saying before, self fulfilling prophecy, it becomes

1028
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 1: its own self fulfilling prophecy. So kind of the best

1029
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 1: advice is to take a step back from watching what's

1030
00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 1: happening there um, taking care of yourself, trying to support businesses,

1031
00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 1: your local economy. You know what I mean, because it

1032
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 1: might happen. Actually it is the o e c D,

1033
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 1: the Organization for Economic Cooperation Development, is predicting that economic

1034
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 1: growth will slow in. We know that. I mean, the

1035
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: best advice I can give people is put all of

1036
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: your money into lic O stock, really invest as much

1037
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: in like I think they're gonna I think they're gonna

1038
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 1: blow up Yahoo to No, throw it all, throw a

1039
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: bunch in Altivista to Netscape, right, bitcoin, Bitcoin, throw a

1040
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 1: bunch into bitcoin, it all up in there a stable investments.

1041
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: One last thing on um, this prediction, the probability that

1042
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: economic growth will slow in. This is from the BBC,

1043
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: the world's economy could grow at its slowest rate since

1044
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: two thousand nine this year due to the coronavirus outbreak UM.

1045
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 1: The think tank has forecast growth of just two down

1046
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 1: from two point nine in November, and also said that

1047
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:07,960
Speaker 1: a longer lasting and more intensive outbreak could have growth

1048
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:12,360
Speaker 1: to one. Factories to spend their activities and workers stay

1049
01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: at home to try to contain the virus UM. And

1050
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:21,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's hard, it's tough. So everything I've

1051
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:23,720
Speaker 1: said is true, it's just trying to be measured about it.

1052
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: We'll know that it's really a problem when it starts

1053
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 1: affecting things that are unrelated, different industries, you know. It's

1054
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 1: it's not just that these resources are drying up, it's

1055
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: like that these other things are as well. Um, then

1056
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:40,560
Speaker 1: we're not there yet, and it would take this being

1057
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:42,439
Speaker 1: drawn out for a long time for us to get there.

1058
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:44,919
Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff you've guys have probably heard

1059
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:49,240
Speaker 1: floated around about how the virus we'll probably go away

1060
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:51,280
Speaker 1: in the warmer months, and we don't. We don't know

1061
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: that that's definitively true. But you can look at other

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Speaker 1: viruses like this and the fool when you see that

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Speaker 1: that's true. And why that is is because in part

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Speaker 1: of why that is, there's a couple of reasons. The

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Speaker 1: kind of like physics reason that is is that when

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Speaker 1: you like sneeze and other things that kind of expel

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Speaker 1: germs from your body in warmer weather because of the

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Speaker 1: increased like humidity I think in the air, um, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't go as far um. And then there's obviously people's

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Speaker 1: behavior is different. People's been less time like cramped inside

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Speaker 1: with other people in warm weather um, and they're sweatiers

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Speaker 1: that they have to shower more often, all of that.

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Speaker 1: But the other reality is if even if that happens,

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Speaker 1: it will return as soon as the weather gets colder. Um.

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Speaker 1: And if you look at it, thank god, nothing's happening

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Speaker 1: in November. Good, thank god. I mean, I hate this narrative.

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Speaker 1: There's this narrative that the Democrats want this to happen,

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Speaker 1: where it's planted to make Trump look bad. No, man,

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Speaker 1: he's doing that by himself. But the reality is is

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Speaker 1: that it's going to go. The potential reality I'm not

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Speaker 1: a I'm not a psychic, is that it will ebb

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Speaker 1: in the summer and Trump will claim victory that did it,

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Speaker 1: and then it'll come back stronger than ever in the

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Speaker 1: fall right before the election. AT's what I really think

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Speaker 1: about this. We don't have to put you on the

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Speaker 1: line for this, but I do think in terms of, like,

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Speaker 1: what is the impact that this has. I'm not hoping

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Speaker 1: that the coronavirus will be bad because it will make

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, um uh look bad and will reduce his

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Speaker 1: chances for reelection. What I am hoping authoritarianism, which we

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Speaker 1: have been dabbling in as a country for the last

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Speaker 1: three years, in change in a way that we have

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Speaker 1: not previously in my lifetime. Um. We you know, we

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Speaker 1: we dipped our toes in the water with with w

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Speaker 1: Bush um. But we are really we are waiting into

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Speaker 1: the deep end now. And authoritarianism can seem like it's

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Speaker 1: working okay for the people who aren't being targeted by

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Speaker 1: the government when things are generally good. When it starts

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Speaker 1: to collapse for everybody is when real problems happen. Because

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Speaker 1: authoritarianism leads to everything we talked about my pro toty ing.

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Speaker 1: It leads to incompetence, it leads to like fear of

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Speaker 1: bringing bad news to the boss, all of these things,

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Speaker 1: and Trump has had been present. What is like all

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Speaker 1: of his problems here to this, our problems he created,

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Speaker 1: like the ship happening in Syria right now, that's because

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Speaker 1: Trump made a change to the situation that made it worse.

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Speaker 1: All of the problems like that his impeachment, that's like

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Speaker 1: him doing stupid shit. Other than that, outside of problems

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Speaker 1: that he initiated and made worse, this has been a

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Speaker 1: reasonably calm time to be president. Um. Historically, this is

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Speaker 1: the first thing that's really happened during his administration that

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Speaker 1: like wasn't his fault. It would have been a problem

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Speaker 1: in no matter who was president. This would have been

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Speaker 1: some ship to deal with. Hillary Clinton had been president,

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Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders, this would have been a problem. Um. What

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Speaker 1: I do hope America gets rather than callously like I

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Speaker 1: hope the coronavirus, you know, makes it hurts his numbers.

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Speaker 1: I hope that this is a wake up call to

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Speaker 1: chunks of America who haven't been paying attention, who have

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Speaker 1: just focused on the stock market, and who realized, like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, letting somebody like this make these calls

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Speaker 1: is the is morally identical to drunk driving. It is

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Speaker 1: doing something with a huge chance of harming other people

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Speaker 1: and hopes like usually it's okay. Usually it's usually just like,

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Speaker 1: letting this asshole rant is fine because the economy is

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Speaker 1: still good. I'm not feeling the consequences of his actions

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Speaker 1: when he comes home drunken. Whatever. Um, it's not fine

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Speaker 1: for the average American right now. This is scaring the

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Speaker 1: ship out of people who are able to ignore what's

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Speaker 1: happening in Siri, who were able to ignore what's happening

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Speaker 1: on the border. And maybe that I think that wake

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Speaker 1: up call is a good thing, and maybe they'll make

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Speaker 1: the same call they made in and if so, at

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Speaker 1: least we can all rest knowing like, well, they fucking

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Speaker 1: made the call. They weren't. There was no hiding it anymore.

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Speaker 1: And I guess if we're looking at silver lining, I'm

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Speaker 1: glad that this isn't a more deadly virus and making

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Speaker 1: its way. I mean, it's it is deadly, and it's

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Speaker 1: threatening our vulnerable populations, and it's horrific, and I'm glad

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Speaker 1: it's kind of cool that it doesn't hit kids, though, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um.

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Speaker 1: The other it's hard to say that, oh, there's um

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Speaker 1: benefit to an economic recession, because there we could have

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Speaker 1: called it the reverse Epstein. Uh. But you know, you

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Speaker 1: see some things being pointed out, like in China, since

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Speaker 1: there's so much people aren't going out, they're not driving

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Speaker 1: their cars, there's less production, their pollution is going down

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Speaker 1: this like, and so there's like they're in the long term,

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Speaker 1: maybe some lives will be saved because people aren't getting

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Speaker 1: poisoned by their climate. Um. You know, cruise ships aren't

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Speaker 1: doing great well. Cruise ships suck for the environment and

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Speaker 1: they're bad for people to people. But you know, it's

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Speaker 1: like it's hard because you're also like, well, there's job losses.

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Speaker 1: What about all these people employed? That sucks their employers

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Speaker 1: sucked to um, But there are other jobs they can get, yes,

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Speaker 1: and and maybe yeah, it's an industry that shouldn't exist.

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Speaker 1: I missed a great opportunity earlier to make an epstein

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Speaker 1: bar virus jokes always the plugged in I tried. It

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Speaker 1: would have been good. It was good. It was still good.

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Speaker 1: You thank you. And that's what I have to say

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Speaker 1: about the economy stuff. This is again my I didn't

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Speaker 1: take economics. I don't know. I think we've outlined what

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Speaker 1: it's doing, what the harms are, why it's worse, because

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Speaker 1: the idiots in charge and what it's going to have impact,

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Speaker 1: it's going to have on the election. And if anyone

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Speaker 1: else wants more from us, they should have listened to

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Speaker 1: the Doctor podcast with doctors. I can recommend you listen

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Speaker 1: to a doctor podcast with doctors. Yes, that is a

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Speaker 1: good idea. They're not going to have as many The

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Speaker 1: House of Pod has an episode range of sides and jokes. No,

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Speaker 1: and they wouldn't have when they probably would have made

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Speaker 1: an Epstein barbarus joke. That beats mine. I'm sorry because

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Speaker 1: it doesn't affect little kids. We all got it right, Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: there we go. All right, guys, thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: this episode of the Worst Year Ever. It's gonna keep

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Speaker 1: getting worse, but then it'll get better. We should do

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Speaker 1: a preming it back in the fall, a pregnant episode,

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Speaker 1: A prepping episode. Yeah that makes more sense than pregnant. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that wouldn't wouldn't be as big a hit. You guys

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Speaker 1: can find us online. Can at Worst Year Pod, Instagram

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Speaker 1: buy things, buy things, fuel the economy. If you want

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Speaker 1: um our shirts protect you from the coronavirus is legally

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Speaker 1: binding washing, wash your hands, dry him on our shirts.

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Speaker 1: There you go. Um some things next week. Unless we've

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Speaker 1: gotten the corono, well we still can do. It wouldn't

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