ould fit into that. So I would say the system's kind of broken if it takes you a day to get the thing that you need to get right away.

Now last night I would say that I was, the best phrase would be, writhing in pain. So if you're wondering what it's like to get Omicron after you've had a couple of vaccinations: writhing in pain for I don't know, 10 hours or so. My temperature was dysregulated, so I had the chills so hard that it hurts your muscles, like you're chattering, and then you immediately sweat, and then you immediately go to chills. So I couldn't have a blanket on because it'd be too hot, and I couldn't take it off because it was too cold. And there are only two conditions: blanket on, blanket off. So all night long I would take it on, take it off, take it off. And I don't think I slept more than a couple hours last night. So it was a horrible, horrible night.

However, it turns out that four Advils and two cups of coffee largely cured it. Largely, you know, I'm still quarantined, so I'm gonna take it easy, but I feel fine. So you know, I'm not exaggerating what I said. I was really sick last night. Like, I was really sick. You know, stomach, head throbbing, everything. Next day, I'm fine. So that happened.

Gavin Newsom has COVID. He's more vaccinated than I am, so maybe he'll do better or maybe not. Maybe not.

All right, here's some economic optimism. Does anybody want some economic optimism? Anybody? Economic optimism.

Number one, employment rates still very good. And this will be the ultimate test of the Adams economic theory that I'm naming at the moment: that as long as your employment rate is good, you can kind of figure out everything else. You know, it won't be comfortable, but you're not going to be in desperate starvation streets as long as everybody is working for the most part. And that's our current condition.

But we have unprecedented kinds of inflation and supply chain problems and maybe nuclear wars, energy shocks, and you name it. There is reason to be optimistic today.

Number one, the Shanghai, China lockdowns. They're starting to ease them, which is good news. If they ease them more, then China gets back online. So that puts the supply chain, at least that part of the supply chain, on a little bit stronger basis.

There seems to be a slowdown in the housing market for the purchase of new homes, which apparently is what the Fed wanted. So they raised interest rates to slow down that market and it doesn't get too far ahead of itself, too bubbly. It's pretty bubbly. So that's good news. I mean, it sounds on paper, if you don't study economics, on paper that sounds like bad news. It's like, wait, the value of my house will be less or something. But in the current situation, you don't want any big bubbles, right? You want things to be predictable. So it's better that the housing market cools off. That's all positive. Very positive.

So now we've got the supply chains, which haven't starved us yet, seem to be kicking into place. Now there is, we get warning noises about beef, might have less beef, etc. But don't you think that the alternative protein markets are going nuts right now? If you're in the business of making any kind of alternative protein, I'll bet you're doing okay. So I think there's going to be a whole resurgence in how we eat the whole thing.

Has it ever bugged you how many times food has to change hands before it goes into your mouth? Like, you get that the farmer has to grow it, right? But then it gets washed and put in containers and it's shipped and it gets put on a shelf and then you take it off the shelf and you put it in a cart. You take it out of your cart, you put it on a conveyor. You take it out of the conveyor, you put it in a bag. You put it in the bag, you put it in your thing. You take your thing, you put it in the car. You get out of the car, you put it on the counter, take it out of the bag, put it in the fridge. And then you've got to take it out of the container when you eat it. That is all inefficient.

Something tells me that we're going to figure out how to make food local. Maybe 3D printers. Maybe. Yeah, maybe everybody will just get a big pile of protein and carbs and put it in their printer and have a perfect meal every time. Maybe. Who knows?

Now you might say to yourself, Scott, I will never eat a food that comes out of a printer. To which I say, how's that different than soup? It's no different than soup. It's just a bunch of stuff put in a bowl that tastes good. So just put it in a printer and it just spits out the food a different way. So yes, you can make a 3D printed food extraordinarily tasty.

So that's the good news. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? That the supply chain is getting solved, we just don't know about it? Or is it getting worse and worse and there's going to be some gigantic catastrophe? Because I feel like the news likes to report impending disasters. So I've got a feeling that reporters are looking into the impending disasters and not finding them. Or do they have some kind of orders from the government to not report on it because it would cause a run on certain things and it's better if you didn't know?

Don't you wonder why there's no reporting on the cataclysmic supply chain effects that are right ahead of us? Because these alleged cataclysmic things should be happening over the summer, maybe by the winter. It's pretty soon. So doesn't it make you think that we've already figured out workarounds? Or am I wrong? Maybe we're just getting by with fewer choices and it didn't really make much difference at all. Just some comp