Hey anybody out there? You know this is a big day. It's inauguration, and I'm not entirely sure how many of you are going to be on this livestream because it's the wrong time. But better late than never, wouldn't you say?

Let's try. YouTube's having a little trouble connecting here. We'll see if we can improve that. Well, it looks like Periscope is outperforming YouTube today. YouTube's trying to reconnect. You feel bad? Do you hear an annoying buzz? Somebody said I don't hear it.

All right, so it looks like YouTube's not gonna work, but we don't care about that, do we? I don't think we do. Hey Bill, good to see you.

All right, so I've been off the internet more than I've been on it lately because I've been flying. So before we talk about politics, let me tell you what it's like to try to travel during the age of COVID. Not easy. Not easy.

So Christine and I tried to squeeze in the honeymoon that we postponed because of the coronavirus, and I am now many, many miles away from the United States. I'll tell you where I am when I get there. I've got another plane ride and another boat ride before I get to where I'm going.

If you think there's some buzzing on this, I'm going to be ignoring everybody who says that. So whoever says there's buzzing on here, I'm going to start blocking you. Okay? I can't do anything about it. I plug in the microphone, I turn it on. That's everything I can control. So if you've got a problem with it, please sign off, because I can't fix it.

All right, and YouTube looks like it's not gonna work at all, so let me turn that off. Boom.

All right, so the first thing you need to know if you're flying is we needed to get the COVID test before we flew. Those were negative. And then when you reach your destination — in this particular case, I don't have a tan. This is I'm just in the dark. I haven't even been in the sun yet — but when you get to your destination, they hand you another kit. You have to test yourself four days later. And then to get on the plane to come home, yet another test. So I'll have three COVID tests just for one trip, and I'm actually kind of happy about it.

I also saw some data that airplanes have such good filtration systems that the odds of getting something on the airplane is basically zero. So that felt pretty safe.

Now the problem was that I flew United. And if you've ever flown United, you know how that goes. You get there on time, and then United says the flight is delayed because they always do. And then half an hour later they say, ah, it's a minor problem. You know, it's a little minor problem. But half an hour later, and then four hours later — which is what happened yesterday — four hours later they put you on a different plane because they give up.

But here's the funny part. The thing they were trying to fix for over three hours was a software problem. So the plane kept giving software errors, and they would change things and reboot things and they changed the card, and it would just give them new errors. And then they would fix it, and then it would give them a new set of errors. All software.

Now how much do you think I wanted to get on that airplane and be over water for over seven hours on a plane that had never been tested? Because you can't really test the new software when you load it. You can tell if it doesn't give you an error, but all the other things gave errors. So I would say that that was not an ideal situation.

So I did about 12 hours wearing a mask yesterday, which if you have a little asthma like I do, it's like being waterboarded. But it's worth it once you get there.