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uited to solve some other problem? And so the young people are actually so cold that they're saying well you boomers ruined the world for us. Here's a virus that's going to take you out and leave us with your stuff. Maybe not so bad. Wow. Wow. I don't know what to say about that. That's just, it's just mind-boggling. Martha MacCallum on Fox News asked the CMS administrator Seema Verma if there we…

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ies. So you might have a problem where you need a different set of supplies and they're going to be limited because nobody expected the emergency. So maybe there's a world where 3D printers become the emergency plan.

Democrats apparently are handicapping these emergency congressional legislation things that are trying to you know settle the markets and handle the epidemic etc. And the Democrats are adding pork to it. I don't know if it's pork or just stuff they want, slowing it down. And so I see news about this and the news will report well the Democrats collectively tried to add this thing and that's going to slow it down during an emergency. And I thought to myself you show us names. I want to see a one-page slide. This is Congress. Somebody proposed this bill to fund the pandemic one way or the other. These three Democrats proposed things that are slowing it down that are you know maybe they're good things in and of themselves but they couldn't get passed by themselves so they're trying to tack it onto this other thing. This is an emergency. Let's show the public exactly who is slowing things down. Now if they can make their case well maybe they get an audience for that and people say yeah yeah it should be slowed down because we should have had this extra you know element to the bill. Maybe they can make their case. But why don't you know the names? The actual name. The person who is trying to slow down these bills by adding stuff.

Now in a normal world you don't care. It's like I had Democrats are doing this, Republicans are doing this. But this isn't normal. This is an emergency. In an emergency you have to list all of your resources and one of the resources is the American public in social media and the news. Tell us who is slowing things down. Can you give us a picture and the name? News media show us the people. Is that all of them? Do all of the Republicans want these things? I'm sorry do all the Democrats want these items added to the emergency bills? Well that'd be good to know. Or is it there are some specific leaders or specific people who are trying to add these things? Because I need to know their names don't you? Because you're in this now. We're not spectators anymore. We're all in it. This is a global. Show me their names. We'll see what we can do about that.

It's mostly what I got today. You know one of the weird things about this emergency is that 98 percent of my day can be exactly like it always is except for the thoughts. You know my thoughts are sort of preoccupied by this but 98 percent of my day is completely normal. And then two percent of the time I think oh there are some real big problems and they're really close. So I'm in this two worlds mind where everything's normal and it's also a big emergency sort of at the same time. And my head is going phasing back and forth depending on what I'm doing at the moment. So that's weird.

But one good thing that's come out of it, I think I mentioned this before, I'm taking very seriously the building up of my personal immunity. So I've always been you know the fitness advocate and follower but I'm taking it to the next level. So I am seriously getting enough sleep which I've never done before actually. In no time in my life have I ever attempted to get enough sleep. I've never even tried because I'm one of these people who can operate on low sleep and I know it's not good for me but I like being awake. I just prefer it. Yeah I like being in the world. I just don't like sleeping. So in the past I just didn't do much of it. Four hours a night I'm good. I'm fine. But now I'm getting serious about it because it has a big impact on your immunity, your momentary immunity. So I'm getting enough sleep and I'm also taking a walk in the sunshine. I'm doing light exercise. I'm not exhausting myself. That's bad for my knee but a little light exercise. Get out in the sun. Get your vitamin D. It builds up your immunity a little bit. So I'm doing that and I'm eating right and I'm you know doing light weight training etc.

So here's the weird part. I've never felt better. I'm in the middle of a global pandemic but personally if you asked me how do you feel Scott I'd say well I'm a little embarrassed by this but obviously I've never felt better. And even the social distancing, you know

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if I had to choose I would interact more with people. I'm just a natural social creature in some contexts. I'm more of a, you know I need a lot of alone time too. But I'm very happy to interact with people not during my alone time. But have you noticed that the less you deal with people the less stress you have because stress comes, almost 90 percent of stress comes from other people. So I've decr…

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