WEBVTT - A&G On Demand Thursday June 18 Hour 2 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.040 How to deal with masked me, among other important things 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.240 will be dealing with this hour. I'm sorry, did you 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.320 just make up a word mask me? It's like acne, 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:28.200 but it's a skin irritation due to wearing your mask 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:32.199 all the time, so they call it mask me. I 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.440 think you're tracking mask I think you're tracking with I don't. 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:40.680 I don't like that. Um As masks become, it looks 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.040 like even more more prevalent around the country. UM More 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:48.680 on that later. Also, a Supreme Court opinion has just 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.760 come out on young undocumented immigrants. I'm seeing breaking news 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:53.800 banners around on my phone and stuff like that. I 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:55.880 haven't had a chance to look at what that is. Yeah, 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.279 I'm trying to go to the places that actually know 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.480 what they're taught thinking about it, because virtually everything you 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.360 hear for the next forty minutes or so on mainstream 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:09.240 media will be incorrect or badly interpreted. We will have 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.319 to dip back into the Joe Biden came out of 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.800 his spiky hole yesterday and did a little talking and 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:21.800 we'll see how that went. Thank you, Oh boy, I'm 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.040 telling you that has an emotional effect on me. Hearing 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.040 that you're hearing a man who is near the end. 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.240 Thank you, thank you. He can barely get his breath out. 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.200 Check him for the COVID. Oh, that reminds me. We 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.960 got a note from a bloke in Phoenix. Where is 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:43.480 it there? It is, I'll just keep him anonymous. You 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:47.600 had to do some flying and uh. And he flew 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:52.200 back and forth um from Phoenix to Salt Lake City, 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.960 and not long after he starts feeling sicker than he's 0:01:54.960 --> 0:02:00.280 ever felt. And while his email is ridiculously long al 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:06.160 cheese three full pages, he describes the drama of trying 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:10.320 to get a COVID test and he's he's trying to 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.080 deal with his county, he's trying to deal with the 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:17.120 CVS that is allegedly allegedly doing tests, and his efforts 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.520 to to just line up a test going for hours, 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.800 days and he's getting the run around. Finally shows up 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.920 at the CVS. It's empty, there's nobody there, but they 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:30.200 say you have to have an appointment. It's like, well, 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.480 can you just do me now you're didn't. Now you've 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.600 gotta make an appointment. So he tries to make an 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.000 appointment and they say and and then he gets kicked 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.440 out of the system and he goes back and they say, yeah, 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.640 the system is not working, and it was just it 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.320 was like your your worst government healthcare nightmare. You can't 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.079 go to the doctor. I thought they were. I thought 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.600 if you had symptoms, they would like run you to 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.600 the tests. I don't think that's enough to depend a 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.480 pretty solid email. I think he would be able to 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:01.160 exploit the uh, you know the opportunities that are out there. Um, 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.560 but it sounds like a nightmare to me. Other places 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.920 you just drive up, I guess. Um. There was an 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.720 attempt in the city of Portland to get a chairs 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.760 going apparently late last night and early this morning, and 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.200 it was broken up quickly by authorities, even in Portland 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.480 because I think they realized if you if they if 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.480 they get a toe hold, then it's just it's a 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.839 nightmare and we don't want to deal with that, even 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:27.720 if we agree with some of their stuff, that'd be 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.320 my guess. Uh, you just you just don't want what 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.400 Seattle is dealing with. And so it was broken up 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.800 very quickly into Portland doesn't at least as of now, 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.400 has no chairs. Wow, but they still have a chairs 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.960 Where Chaz exists in Seattle, it is Chaz, it's somewhat 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:46.200 surprising that that Portland would move so swiftly. Could it 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:51.040 be that they witnessed Freeattle's descent into psychosis? And even 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.320 the way lefties who were in Portland said, that's a 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:58.640 bridge too far. We don't have autonomous zones in Portland. 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.480 We have ten cities and crazy people in bums shooting 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.560 up on corners, stopping traffic regularly, and we let them 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.680 get away with it, right right, But that that would 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.560 be too much apparently, well, okay, that's fine. I mean, 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.040 I prefer they are even less crazy than they are 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.960 because I love Portland. But um, anyway, that's an interesting development. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:26.360 So according to our friends at Scotus blog, uh docca oh, 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.400 the majority said The majority of the Supreme Court said 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:33.359 the decision to determine to terminate DOCCA was arbitrary and 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.839 capricious because the Acting Secretary's decision to terminate the program 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.200 discussed the legality of the benefits associated with DOCCA, but 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:44.440 didn't discuss forbearance the decision to defer removal or whether 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:48.360 there was legitimate reliance on the DOCCA memory blah blah blah. Legally, 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:53.120 so this DOCCA stands for now and what is its 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:57.560 current situation. It's uh, you don't get deported if you 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.279 were brought to the country as a kid, Okay, And 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:04.200 that will law. And the acting Secretary of Homeland Security, 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.600 I think, had called for the end of DOCCA and 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.479 the soup said no, and that will continue to be 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:16.160 the law of the day. Yeah for now. Um. Clarence 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:21.719 Thomas descended he's unhappy under the auspices of today's decision. 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:26.559 Administrations can bind their successors by unlawfully adopting significant legal 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:31.560 changes through executive branch agency memoranda. Oh listen to him. 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:36.000 Bring it. This is a little more pithy. Today's decision 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.279 must be recognized for what it is, an effort to 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:43.560 avoid a politically controversial but legally correct decision. That's old, 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:50.560 Clarence Thomas. Interesting the number out today, This happens every Thursday. 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.240 One point five million workers claimed jobless benefits last week, 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:58.960 marking eleventh straight week of declines, which is a positive 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.840 spin and and it is true, but it's still an 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:10.320 extraordinary number. Um. Yeah, that's new, claims the feel or 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.360 at least you know in my part of the world. 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.760 And from what I read, is that okay, we're opening 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.680 back up. The economy is going again. Um, you know, 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.440 we're we're figuring out the social distancing and masks and 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:22.839 the rest of it. We're trying to do it smart. 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.800 But we're absolutely now moving forward. The idea that one 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:31.200 point five million new people filed that's rough man, that's 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.520 businesses that just ran out of gas. How probably, the 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.440 Fed Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said today he's already said 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.560 that the worst of the economic crisis caused by the 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.760 coronavirus could nearly be over as businesses are reopening across 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.640 the country. We may be reaching a bottom on that 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:52.680 that now. So we're at the bottom right now. I 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:58.080 hope he's right along the bottom lasts. I don't know, Yeah, yeah, 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:02.839 that's that's the question. The V shape recovery versus the 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.240 U shaped jack or the feared hockey stick, or it 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.200 just goes straight for a long time at a low level. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.960 We don't know. We'll have to find out. Can can 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:16.960 I hear our Joe Biden clip again? Wake Up? Obviously 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.160 hands that wake up needs to be a regular part 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:21.840 of the intro to the show. I used to get 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:26.520 in there. Wake Up, wake Up, wake Up is that. 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.120 I'm sorry. I'm trying to understand. The scenario was that 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.880 one man who didn't quite succumb to carbon monoxide poisoning 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.160 urging another man who has to wake up? Is that 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:43.880 the first guy near death apparently wake up. That's a 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.360 gentleman who has found asleep in his car in the garage, 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:50.760 right exactly. Yeah, he hed falling asleep after starting his car, 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.320 and he's at the risk of death. And I'm telling you, 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.720 I'm having a gut caveman reaction to that. I hear 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:02.000 a man near death, I'm serious, and what I want 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.280 to make sure I got his final wishes. What I'd 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.680 really like to know is was there a decision made 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.960 like you talked about tow like really low key at 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.920 things are frantic Pole Show people are being exhausted by 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:15.520 the new cycle. I am. I just talking about it 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.160 with my wife last night. Yes, I said, I just 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.320 can't handle this anymore. The new cycle is killing me. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.280 She said, I don't even look anymore. I know. It's 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.400 just your your brain reaches a point where you just 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.000 can't take any more stimulus, and it's it's a protective 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.560 mechanism um to to ignore it and shut it down 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.800 if it's not like a bear trying to eat one 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.080 of my children. Right now, I have to block it out. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:37.960 I want to can you do of a sabbatical in 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.160 the the entertainment business where you just go away for 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.280 six months? How about folks, listen, we'll be back in 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.040 late October. We're just gonna take a couple of months off. 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.920 But so so we don't go psychotic. But my question is, 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.480 did they coach Biden on that and say extra low 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.360 key yes, or did he just come out and that's 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.320 just what he sounded like yesterday. Well they give him 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.160 a pep talk and say high energy, and he came 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:04.520 out like this, thank you. I tell you what. It 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.080 is clear his strategy is to be old, calming, Joe, 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.319 old bipartisan, middle of the road Gio all this craziness 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.559 Donald Trump place, come on, everybody, return to normal times. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.000 Remember the sixties. Those were a good time, right? Maybe not? 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.079 Maybe that's a bad example. It was the sixties when 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:21.959 I got elected to the Senate for the first time. 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:26.080 Because I'm a hundred anyway, it's it's clearly a strategy. 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.520 But I don't know whether he just went a little 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.520 too far there, or if he's actually got to one 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.000 foot in the grave. He sounds like he's dying, you know, 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.600 a tangent um. I've heard a couple of people point 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.679 this out recently, and it's absolutely true, and I think 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.120 it's worth keeping in mind when we have all these 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.360 discussions when people refer to the sixties, what they really 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:48.520 mean is like sixties seven through seventy three. That's people 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.400 mean when they refer to the sixties. I think you're right. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.439 The bulk of the sixties, sixty through sixty seven, we're 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:59.760 quite placid um and like old tiny America here summer 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:03.719 a of nineteen sixty seven thing was mostly amusing. It's 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.679 really like sixties seven through the early seventies is what 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:11.119 people mean by the turbulent, chaotic hippie music, drugs, craziness, 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:16.080 right bombing sixties. Yeah, yep, agreed um. But I thought 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.720 another thing on the interview with Robert Gates yesterday, former 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:22.120 SEC deaf, former CIA chief worked under geez what seven 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.040 different presidents or something like that, old guy being around 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.320 a long time, and asked, is this as crazy as 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.360 has ever been? And he said, yeah, absolutely, So it's 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.320 not just you know, in the imagination of the young, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.040 No wonder I'm so exhausted. Yeah, it's as crazy as 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:39.120 it's been in a very very long time. Um. I 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.560 found this kind of calming. A Fortune survey of CEOs 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.400 and some of their attitudes right now about changing their 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.280 companies for racial stuff or the economy in different things 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.600 I found quite interesting. Among other things we could get to, 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.560 we also had a number of people weighing in about 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.800 their wives or husbands in the way they react when 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.079 they're doing the uh, the non driving portion of going somewhere, 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.840 the backseat driver. Oh no, myrtle strife. I hate to 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.719 hear that. Our text line is four one to nine 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:23.280 five k f TC art Strong and the Armstrong and 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:32.600 Getty Show. I suppose at some point out to mention 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.360 the Bolton book, that is, is it's Outer or not Outer? Well, 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.360 it's not out officially, but all sorts of copies have been. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.920 It doesn't matter. Nobody reads these books. People dig through 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:44.920 to get the juicy chunks the back of their narrative, 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.760 and everybody talks about them like crazy for two days, 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.480 for for a day and a half, and then nobody 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.400 reads a minute. It goes away. That's what happens book 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.240 after book after book, yeah, so yeah, we'll talk about 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.920 that maybe next segment. Okay, there's some interesting stuff in there. 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.640 And and the fact, well what's most notable to me 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.280 is that everybody on all sides is kicking John Bolton 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.360 for being a weasel. Um. But anyway, more of that 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.320 to come quick aside, The left is so good at 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:17.160 at imposing um, how we talk about things. Uh, they're 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.280 way better than the right. And it's bothered me for 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:23.720 a long time. For instance, I'm in the the lunch 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.520 room getting some caffeine juice and Fox News is reporting 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.880 on the docket decision that just came down, and they 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:36.120 refer to the docket recipients as dreamers, dreamers get to 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.960 stay or whatever. That That is a term, that's a 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:44.240 pr spin term invented by the left to make all 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.400 of this could be against a dreamer of this brilliant. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.520 By the way, we suggested calling doctor recipients precious fairy 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:55.200 dust angels. I mean, that's only slightly more ridiculous than dreamers. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.160 Fox News has adopted that in that verbiage, that nomenclature. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:05.040 That is a win if you're that belief. Yep, Michael 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.640 mentioned his fiancee, uh, making noises while he was driving, 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.800 and he was afraid something horrible had happened. We got 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:14.160 this text my wife taught me. Gasping and grasping the 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:18.400 dash with both hands without explanation, unnerves every driver, including 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.400 this great one. So she's a gasp and grasp the 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.559 dash with both hands. My wife does that fairly regularly. 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.440 My wife has done that too. I have urged her repeatedly. Sweetheart, 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:28.960 if we are in danger, the last thing in the 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.320 world you want to do is lean forward, all right, 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.839 let your let your belt keep you in place. Oh 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:40.079 and not danger, by the way. Uh oh, my gosh. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.160 And then you look around everything like that, and somebody 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.520 spilled an ice cream car ice cream cone. I've had 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.480 that experience anytime we're about to be hit by a track. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.800 Oh no, somebody spilled something in the backseat. Yeah, we 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.240 need we need different sound effects for these things. Exactly 0:13:54.679 --> 0:14:00.440 internal issue, not external threat. Um Fortune Survey of eos 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.240 planned policy changes in response to the current calls for 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.240 racial justice. This is a survey of CEOs around the 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.679 country on a number of topics, but six policy changes. 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.720 Due to the social unrest. There's hardly a website. I've 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.920 been to whether it's genes or music or whatever, where 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.400 they don't have some sort of hashtag we're with the 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:24.120 protests or lots of we support Black Lives Matter, which 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.680 shocks me because if you go to Black Lives Matter website, 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.880 there's all kinds of stuff on there that the majority 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.680 of the country absolutely does not support UM. So it's 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:36.080 interesting to me that mainstream outlets are so free with 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.840 their support of of that. Well, I think just to 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:42.280 stay out of trouble. Every stovetop stuffing and running shoe 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.480 and gene and guitar string is just making it clear 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.400 we're down with it. Are there are people that actually 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.360 look for that and won't do business with a corporation 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.640 that hasn't posted something like because I don't even think 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:54.560 of it. If I need to buy something, that's all 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:59.960 that's privilege. Maybe it is the numbers in white gene, 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.240 is that any wears them tight. That percentage goes up 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.920 as the age goes down. The younger the consumer, the 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.320 more likely they already care about they're looking on the 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.840 website to see if they've made a stand. They have 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:15.200 really internalized the voting with your dollar mantra of a 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.640 lot of things that's why you see the targeting of advertisers. 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.560 They're they're aware of the financial power of collective. But 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.880 that's interesting. That's a change, you know, and maybe I 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.000 have Is it for the better? Where I I never 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:28.440 have an I doubt that I'm going to change At 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.400 this point in my life. I don't think about the 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.880 politics of the company's I do business with. I just 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.400 it never crosses my mind. But the next generation it 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.520 might be very important to them. Uh of ceo say 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.120 revenues have already recovered or never dropped. Well, this is 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.880 Fortune magazine, so they're trying to have a positive spin, right, Um, 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:51.160 thirty percent of ceo say revenues have recovered were never dropped. Well, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.520 that's only that leaves out an awful lot of companies 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.320 said they didn't drop them, have not recovered it. Some 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.280 say won't recover in the foreseeable future only four per cent, 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:04.960 but almost half expect the recovery to recur between January 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.840 twenty one in June, so they put the bad news 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.280 at the bottom. But almost half of the cd CEOs 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.800 think the recovery won't occur for like a year and 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:21.000 a half. Not good, No, No, I thought this was 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:24.840 interesting seventies seven percent of ceo say their company's digital 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:30.600 transformation was significantly accelerated during the economic crisis. That rings 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.640 so true. Sure, so you were headed toward this with 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.280 computers and skyping and all this sort of stuff, and 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.800 then all of a sudden, the highest priority get this 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.760 going right now. Well and listen, there's there's a lot 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.320 of inertia, or call it momentum if you want, in 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.080 businessmum momentum. That's right, the president, I'm playing in a 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.640 golf tournament this weekend. That's our team slogan. Momentum. But 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.160 you gotta shout it or write it in all caps 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.280 like the president is. But there's a certain amount of 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:01.320 momentum in business. Things exist just because they have existed. 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.920 They're going to do tomorrow what they did yesterday just 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.000 because they did it yesterday. And with lots of people 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:11.480 either furloughed or or at home, is a little less significant. 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.800 But a lot of businesses are finding out. You know, 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.720 it was a little better with the furloughed people here, 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.720 but not that much better. I think we just won't 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.439 bring them back. You're gonna see sustained unemployment for that 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.800 reason for a long time, and you could argue that 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.040 it's making businesses lean or mean or more effective in 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.439 some cases. Um, but yeah, I think that's really going 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.680 to delay the bounce back because they had to find 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:37.960 out just how important all of us were and some 0:17:38.080 --> 0:18:06.080 of us not so much. I'm talking about us. You 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.240 guys need a cool off, because this is not the time. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.959 We can't handle a world war right now. We're already 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.880 dealing with so many things. Coronavirus, economies are tanking, global 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.399 protests are happening, and at any minute more Hollywood actors 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:25.920 could release one of those black and white videos. Nah. Um, yeah, 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.200 that's right, I've got one of those. That's just terrible. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.200 We need to play later, one of those I'm a celebrity, 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:35.679 you should take me seriously videos. Apparently word has not 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:41.000 penetrated their thick, thick film of self importance that nobody 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:45.840 wants that China versus India, it seems calmish for right now. 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.520 I hope the third and fourth biggest military in the 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.840 world squaring off killing each other over the weekend. Well, 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:53.879 this common time is when they put more nails in 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.280 the bats. Yeah, apparently heard up for the next battle. 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.359 Well yeah, I heard it. Described by a pretty sober 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.800 commentator as a gang war, that they're just they they patrol, 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.879 they see each other occasionally, they you know, maybe shout 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:08.840 stuff at each other, and they hate each other just 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:11.960 because they're on the other side. And these guys just 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.720 they interrupted into fists and sticks and whatever, and they 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:17.320 beat the hell out of each other. And I was 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.520 listening to in the Chinese side one. I don't know 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.000 if the Indians were out numbered or just aren't good 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.840 enough fight or what. I hadn't meant to talk about this, 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:26.880 but I was listening to a podcast yesterday with one 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.679 of what I'm told the best Chinese experts in in 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:35.320 America aren't think tanks constantly in communication with with the Chinese. Uh, 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:40.119 you know, military, etcetera, etcetera, and uh. And this woman said, 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.520 they are going to move on Taiwan. It's just a 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:46.280 matter of when she is gonna move on Taiwan. And 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:48.960 she said she's talked to people in the Chinese military 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.920 who have said, what's America gonna do? They can't stop 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.760 us at this point. Their belief is we don't have 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.879 the will or the ability to stop them from do 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.679 doing that. They don't think we've got the military might 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.399 to stop them from doing something like that, honestly on 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.680 both counts. And she said, whether they're right or wrong, 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:12.080 it's a big dilemma because they could be wrong, but 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:15.000 that means they're still going to do it and uh right, 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:17.040 and it'd be a heck of a thing to find out, 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:19.600 you know, who's right. One of our emailers referred to 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:23.880 a president she is Winnie the Poo's stunt double stunt 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.040 double uh, which I thought was very funny. Um. Yeah, 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:30.360 the idea, well, in terms of could we stop them, 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:33.560 I say no, because, with all due respect to the 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.400 might of the American Navy, it's like, um, if if 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:43.320 I don't know, uh, Staten Island were a rebel territory 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:47.480 of the United States, I mean we could we could 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:50.080 decide all right, let's take it all right now, and 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:53.760 ten minutes later we'd be overrunning it. And if some 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:56.119 other country was unhappy about it, well they wouldn't be 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.440 able to get there in time. It'd be fatal complete. 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:00.760 Then you'd have to like invade it get it back, 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:03.000 and there's no way we have the will to do that. 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:04.720 You know, this fits in a little bit. We're we 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:09.439 would just sanction uh, the Beijing out of them for 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:11.479 the next ten years or whatever. That could be our 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:14.280 only response if I'm gonna be honest about it, boy, 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.160 And then what does that look like? The crazy cyber warfare? 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:18.760 And what does that say to the world? What does 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:20.240 that look like in the world stage? That is an 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:24.520 announcement that, Okay, there are two coequal militaries out there. 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:28.560 Isn't that just a statement of that? No, I don't 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.760 think so, just because of the geographic reality of it. 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:33.440 If you ever look at a map, I mean, China 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:35.400 is this enormous country and then you squint your eyes 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.000 and you see Taiwan is this little island that's right 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:41.080 next to I mean, right there, and they go, but 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:43.720 just gobble it up? Now? Will we let them fully 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:47.040 militarize the South China? See? No way, They've wanted Taiwan 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:50.120 for seventy five years. It's always been a tiny speck 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:53.119 right off of China. They didn't take it before because 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.800 they didn't think they could. According to this person's interviews 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:59.320 with military people, they can now. So that's a that's 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:02.600 a change in uh in situation um. And it kind 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:04.040 of fits in with the Bolton book. We're gonna talk 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:06.480 about little bit the Wall Street Journal. Of course, they 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:09.040 picked out part of the Bolton book where he said, oh, 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:12.000 some things that were somewhat flattering the President Trump. Don't 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:15.359 want those to sneak into the media. But on how 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:18.840 you know, he's happy that Trump recognizes the situation with 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:22.520 China um and Bolton is way more you know, hawk 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:25.439 ish that direction, and he talks about past presidents and 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:27.879 that sort of stuff, But he was, he was on 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:32.760 how we everybody understands this now. Secretary Gates talked about 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:35.520 it yesterday in an interview. The world made a bet 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:40.280 that if we let China run run free their econot 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.360 with their economics, screwing everybody around the world, at least 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:45.879 as their economy grows, they'll become nicer and all that 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:49.600 sort of stuff didn't work. Bad idea it's over didn't 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:51.440 help at all. All they did was build a very 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:54.920 frightening military with a very frightening attitude. But this expert, 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:59.239 this expert, she said, the idea that they would uh 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:01.399 that they that the middle class would take over and 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:03.880 they'd open up and they'd get calmer, was was wrong. 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:06.879 She said. What was also wrong, and in retrospect really wrong. 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:09.480