Pardon My Take - Tom Brady Is Gone + Dr. Anthony Fauci Talking Coronavirus

Episode Date: March 18, 2020

Tom Brady has left the New England Patriots and is signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Hank learns about loss and we speculate on who will replace TB12 for the Pats (2:27 - 20:37). NFL QB roulette has begun, and the Bears will screw it all up somehow (20:37 - 34:55). Hot Seat Cool Throne (34:55 - 47:15) The Director for the National Institue of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci joins us to discuss the novel corona virus and what we can do to help stop its spread, what to expect in terms of a future vaccine, and as the federal response to the virus (47:55 - 86:44). We plead with Darren Rovell to seek help, and wrap things up with guys on chicksYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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some NFL news. Why would happen? Well, you know what, let's just get to the ad and we'll get to that. Uh, he's already doing faces. He's already doing faces. Hank just do soggy sorrows right now. He's already doing faces. I feel like Hank should be wet for this entire interview. Okay, part of my take is brought to you by Cash App. Not only is the easiest place to send money to your friends, it's the safest. We're going to get to that interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci, but the crux of it is you need to be staying inside, social distancing, don't get in big crowds, and guess what? Don't be going and giving, you know, and receiving money everywhere because they're germs on it. That's right. Don't touch your face and also don't touch dead president's

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said, Hey, do you think we should change it up and put Dr. Anthony Fauci at the beginning? And we both paused for a second. We're like, why would we do that? Because Tom Brady is not a patriot anymore. Hank was trying to save lives. I'll give you credit for that, Hank. And Hank was also dipping into the, Oh, was there a sports ball move? Yeah. Out there. We really care about sports. That's interesting. I care about reading. So Hank was telling me earlier that that sock brother Brady leave. We should probably bring that up. What? Your friend, Tom Fresneli, did have a text. So I have it right here. I don't see that text as he's a fraud. He doesn't put me on these little hot texts.

Okay. So this is from a friend, Tom Fresneli. He said, Wow, not only does Tom Brady break Hank's heart, but he does. So can I finish the text? I don't care what he says. Not only does he break Hank's heart, but he does so in a letter forcing Hank to have to read. And there were a lot of words in that night. Read them all. All right. So let's let's actually start. Let's I want to go through your range of emotions and then we'll talk about what it means for a greater. I was hoping Tom Brady was just going to do a decision with only Hank sitting behind him. And then he tells the camera, like I'm taking my talents to Tampa Bay and Hank just like melts into a pile of just tears. Talk about talk about an all time,

hezzy, hey, like fake out by tweeting forever a patriot and then tweeting so many words that you read it. And by the time you're at the end, you're like, wait, oh, he's leaving because I saw forever a patriot. I was like, Oh, here it is. Well, we all were expecting Tom Brady is going to sign with the Patriots. That, you know, why did we even go through this act instead? It's the exact opposite. It's foolish that we've been told for the last like month and a half. Jeff Darlington was saying it to our face. He's not going to be a patriot and we still are shocked. But Hank, please tell us how the morning went. It was a tough morning. I was woken up by my

girlfriend, Relationship Lockwood. She was like, I have some terrible news. I don't know if you want me to tell you. And I thought it was like Corona. Like I couldn't imagine what she was talking about. But I was like, tell me, like thinking it was Corona related. She's probably scared to tell you. Yeah, that's so much worse that we had broken to you. She was like Tom Brady. And I was like, what the fuck? And then I checked my phone saw a bunch of like, Hank, Hank, Hank from Big Cat. I said, Hank, question mark, PFT responded. What did you respond? Well, so we were basically saying that it's better off like the longer Hank can sleep without knowing the better for him. We were in time. We were basically like,

Hank is sleeping right now. It's the last great sleep of his life. He is the little boy has his eyes closed and he's dreaming of Tom Brady. I was saying that your little arms are twitching like a puppy is when they sleep and in your dreams, you're holding up a sign that says, thank you for staying Tom Brady. Right. And then you wake up to Rhea shaking you and it's all bad drink. Yeah. Then basically the piano from see you again started playing. And then that song just played on repeat in my brain for the next like seven hours. I don't know. It's crazy. It's one of those things where it's like, I think Patriots, haters, you guys, like you want like, no matter what, you can never take away like the six. Wait, we're not. Hold on. But people

are acting like Tom Brady leaving the Patriots means that like, I don't know. It's not, it wasn't, it was heartbreaking, but it was more of like, I kind of agree. I reminisced. I was reminiscing more than I was crying in my Cheerios. You're making a good point though, which is, yeah, Tom Brady leaving. It kind of does take away a little bit from the championships because he's not wrapping up his career there. You know, it's kind of weird. Like, what if he goes, he wins a championship in Tampa Bay next year? I'd say that that kind of makes him, is he going in the hall of fame as a Buccaneer or as a Patriot? Okay. So luckily though, it's happened. I mean, hold on, Pierce left, hold on, many left. It's not, but this is not, I don't

think there are definitely some people that like Patriot haters who are like, rejoicing. I think it's just a utterly fascinating, like all time sports debate. It actually goes back to similar to the end of the bulls run. Jerry Kraus famously organizations win championships, not players. Is it Tom Brady or is it Bill Belichick? And I think everyone's always had that debate. And now we get to kind of find out. And I wonder, we got to see how much he signs though, because he's also 40. Like it's not, it's not, it's not even fucked up if he has a bad year and people are like, Oh, the reason he won one of those championships was because of Belichick, because he's old. He's not his pride. It's not entirely fair. You're right. Because it was 20

years, six championships. That's like unprecedented, probably never be done again. So to say like, Oh, they don't like each other. I mean, Belichick's Belichick's note to him brought me to tears. What did he say? I actually missed it. It was like, he is the, he is the peak of like Patriot way. He was a founder of the Patriot way. He was one of the founders. Excuse me, not totally in charge. He won three out of four, three out of four championships his first three years and has won like three out of six in his last at the end. And he was competing the entire time in between. Does it twist the knife at all knowing that he did this on Boston's most sacred holiday of St. Patrick's Day? I mean, the dropkick Murphy's weren't even putting on a live concert for an

audience. And this happens. This is, it's the Irish goodbye. I had a lot of friends. I were like, it's fucked up that we're in quarantine because it's like, they want to go out. They need to drink. It's hard to cope with these type of realities. It was, it was a little messed up. You did it on St. Patrick's Day. It's crazy that it happened in this like alternate, weird world we're all living in right now, which we don't even think is real. And then this happens on top of all of it. And it's the box. And you're like, what is going on? This is crazy. I was saying at the PFT earlier, it actually makes sense that he went to the box during this whole outbreak because it's like, it's all, everything's upside down. We're living in the upside down. Nothing is right. Everything

is, everything makes no sense. So if he just came back to the Patriots and that would be like, oh, that makes sense. Business as usual. Everything's going along the way a logical brain would expect it to. Like it's spring. There's baseball. There's March Madness. There's NBA. There's hockey. Brady's on the Patriots. But now it's the exact opposite. And it's like, that makes more sense than if he signed with the Patriots. Good point. Good point. So I'm going to throw out a few things that went through my head of why he might have done this. And then we'll obviously, I mean, I guess maybe he will say exactly why people will point to the Belichick relationship. I think that's probably unfair because it's like we said 20 years and it's always tough for that long.

Like that's a crazy amount of success for so long that eventually it's got to end, right? I feel like that is the reason. What? I feel like it was something between those two. Yeah. So my, so my question is now, do you think? Not that you blame either one of them, but I think I, I think that's what it was. Well, I think Belichick has proven throughout the years that he will always walk away from a guy a year too early than a year too late. And it probably was a situation where he's like, I'm not going to pay a 42 year old quarterback, $30 million a year for multiple years. When I had him is basically Brady. When Brady started is what is that where you're going with? No, that's what is that we? Belichick is no one thinks he's going to be good.

What you're going with? Yeah. Okay. All right. What about the idea that Bruce Arians is the perfect anti-Belichick because one, he's just going to be like, Hey, dude, you can throw it as much as you want. Two, he probably has been drunk at least in half of the meetings he had with Tom Brady. And three, he famously is like, yeah, we do our work and we go home. It's like the anti, it's like the opposite of the Patriot way. Yeah. Yeah. I think he's fired people for missing like youth sports games. Yes, kids and stuff. Yeah. So he's like, well, I don't know his paint in the TB 12 diet. I know tomatoes, strawberries or no go. Do you think it has anything to do with Tom Brady being Tampa Bay? And that's just like the perfect synergy in

terms of branding? That helps. That definitely helps. I didn't think about that. But you did not think about that. That does help. Let me throw. I got a little scenario for you, Henry. What happens if you want to fight me? You want to fight me? It's very obvious. Tampa Bay, Tom Brady. He is TB 12 and TB. Yeah, right. You should get tuberculosis too. Have a three for. So how about this Hank? Tom Brady makes a Super Bowl next year with the Buccaneers in their stadium in Tampa. They play against the Patriots. Who are you rooting for? No comment. I don't honestly don't know how your fandom is so tied in with Tom Brady that it might even supersede the Patriots. I mean, Tom Brady has given me my entire life when I was seven years old. My life blood

and the maturity process, puberty, all of those things were drastically altered because of Tom Brady. Like he taught all of New England how to be a winner. So it's tough to be like, oh, I'm just going to root for the Patriots because they're the Patriots like Tom Brady and Belichick. But if Belichick went to another team and it was Belichick against the Patriots, it would be the same thing where it's like you owe Belichick so much because he's given you so much. Same thing as for Brady. With Belichick, it'd be like you're rooting for a team against your team with Brady. It's like you're you can convince yourself that you're rooting for the individual. I think right now you're in a very vulnerable state. The world is a weird place.

I think once we actually kick off the NFL season, that will be a different answer. And I'm going to give you I'll be a humongous Tampa Bay ball. Oh, I know. But I'm saying like if it came down to that, I don't think it would be even a question for you. I think it would be you're rooting for the Patriots. And if somehow Tom Brady wins, then it's like at least not the worst thing. Yeah. I here's here's the one thing is Bella. I don't know. I've always been like, I hate, I hate so much when people try and tarnish Brady's legacy. Like that's just defensive instinct. If he lost to the Patriots, they'd be like, Oh, like that would be terrible. That would be terrible to listen to. Think about it. Well, Belichick would win the argument. Right. Which

would be but like, yeah, it would be. It would also have a seventh ring and Belichick would. That's the thing is Belichick of all the teams, like if you're going to pick a Hall of Famer, the greatest of all time to walk away, you got a pretty good guy in charge who's probably had a plan in place for many years. Like he probably is known this day was coming four years. He's prepared for it. It definitely has some plans in place now. Andy Dalton is going to be somehow going to make Andy Dalton an unbelievable quarterback. I mean, the real question and the people that we have to think of in times like these is what are the people that have the Tom Brady 12 jersey as a Twitter avatar and have for the last four years? What are they going to do? Are

you going to change it to a Tampa Bay buck in years? Those people will probably are Patriots. They'll stick around. They're getting rich. Well, I'm actually shocked that nobody's made the connection between Goodell and Brady leaving. Like maybe he was involved. Maybe he encouraged Brady to leave somehow. Here's a weird thing that I don't think anyone has kind of realized right now, because it has been such a weird day, week, whatever you want to call it. Forget Tom Brady, the visual of Tom Brady in a Bucks uniform. How about the fact that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are going to play like six prime time games next year. They're going to be featured in every single game. I need the creamsicles. We're going to watch so many Bucks games on Sunday night,

Monday night. Like it will be, they'll max it out. I think it's like five or six. They will be maxed out Monday and Sunday night. Tampa Bay Buccaneers. What fucking world do we live in? A month from today, April 17th. Schedules. That's going to be big. We shouldn't joke like that will actually be an enormous day with nothing else going on. That's all we have left. As a matter of fact, they should just announce one week at a time. Did you see someone for 16 days or 17 days and give us like, here's okay, we're unveiling the week one schedule and then you get to play in your bi weeks and everything. And then people instead of doing the automatic thing where you get, you look at the schedule and everyone says,

okay, I think my team's going 10 and six this year. They have to update the records along the way of what they're going to go. I like that. Do you see someone had the idea that we should do the draft one pick a day? I love it for the first round. Just start it. Start it whenever you start it, whatever it is, April, whatever. Yeah. And first pick, boom, second pick the next day. So something to talk about every day. Hank was saying earlier today that Tom Brady's departure has taught him a lot about life because he has grown up so like intertwined with Tom Brady and Tom's been such a big part of your experiences as a kid. And now like you went through is really the first time that you that you lost something like that. That's tough. Most people just watch

like this is us and cry, but Tom Brady leaving is that your moment? Yeah. I mean, I would compare it to like, you know, a child, they grew up with their parents. And then after the child is old enough, like out of college, whatever, the parents come forward and are like, hey, like, you know, we never want to tell you this, but we actually don't get along and we're getting a divorce. But at that point, you're so old and it's like, all right, well, you always have this fairy tale like your parents and Mary, but it's like you have a harsh reality of like, this is just how it is. You know, love each other anymore. Mm hmm. Okay. By the way, so so other stories that came out of the Tom Brady shifter, maybe his finest work yet of hopping on you getting you getting you getting

tricked. Oh, I did get it. Oh, I got told hard for a fake shirt. And I said I did. It was because Matt Hasselbeck retweeted into my timeline. You got to look for that. You can't have that blue house, but I can't fucking do that. That's why I got one. Also, technically, that when I saw that too, because when I was technically it was true. Well, I saw that and I was like, my initial reaction was like, there's no way. So I was like, but it is true. But it is true. He is going to the box. But, uh, shifter did the when Tom Brady's where the fucking I'll say this right now. The Patriots where it comes in anger. It was it was it was a love story for the first 10 minutes. The blue jerseys from like the nineties that they haven't worn the throwback

ones. They haven't worn for the last 20 years. They were here. I don't fucking cry. I will cry. What do you think Jules is doing right now? He's working on his reps. He's thinking maybe I'll be the next quarterback. Yeah. So that it does open up a Pandora's box of which quarterback are you going to bring in? Because I don't think that they're just going to go with stit them, right? They got to bring in like I've heard Derek Carr's name thrown around a certain future Hall of Famer now is looking for a job. James Winston. Yeah, which by the way, we should talk about that. We have to discuss what we're going to do with sitting on a corner. Yeah. Yeah, we do. We you could probably get Joe Flacco. No, stop trying to make Joe Flacco. Nick Foles.

Nick Foles is also electric. Yes. I rather Flacco than Foles. Okay. Foles greater than Flacco. Yes. I so so shifter at any point. Shefter had Tom Brady released his own saying I'm not going to be sold. I'm not going to be a patriot anymore. And shefter had a report dovetailing off that that Tom Brady, Adam Shefter reports Tom Brady has not decided yet where he's going to go. That was the report on ESPN. Okay. It was the classic Chris Brassard confirming that LeBron James is going back to Cleveland after LeBron James said he was going back to Cleveland. I think the big loser in this entire transaction is not the Patriots. It's not Hank. It's actually the Los Angeles Chargers because yeah, they could Spanos and the Chargers could have pulled

an all time fuck you move to the owners. You'll remember when they were doing the relocation vote. Yep. And all that stuff. The owners pulled a snake move on the Chargers and fucked him over and fucked him out of the Las Vegas bid and then made them share a stadium be like the second tier roommates with the Rams. If the Chargers had offered Brady equity in the football team after his retirement because I don't think that they can give it to him as he's playing. Every owner in the NFL would have been so pissed off about that. And it would have been the perfect opportunity for some real vengeance. I'm like Count of Monte Cristo shit, but they blew it. You could have done it Chargers. You could have had it all didn't have it all together. And now the Chargers. So all right,

so Tom Brady's on the box. Hank, can you just say that out loud so that we can know that he's not confirmed? I mean, he is not. He is not. He is going to be a buck in here. He's going to be a buck probably going to be a buck in here pending tomorrow. Okay, today. Say what happens tomorrow? You think he's flying official free agent at four o'clock p.m. Okay, so right now free agent James Winston. Oh, by the way, did you when you read their initial tweet, were you like maybe he's just announcing his free agency? There was a point where I was deciphering the tweet and I was confused by I was confused by the Patriots for everything that was very confusing headline. Yeah, I convinced myself because someone was like, I was like, maybe he's just going to retire or maybe because he said

he has, you know, his he has future things going on in football. Maybe that's meant he was going to be an announcer. Oh my god. Yeah. Do you guys remember the the TB times his like fake newspaper that he would put out? He would put out after every single game last year. Do you remember the animal that was in it? It was an alligator. Oh, alligators in native to Tampa, Tampa. And he never explained what the alligator meant, but it was in every cartoon and other news I watched a documentary on giraffes. Okay, that's good. That's awesome animal. Super interesting. Okay, Sean went into the Patriots. So so Tom Brady's a buck. Now we have probably other places that guys need. So James needs a place. Cam Newton needs a place. He was doing his hieroglyphics.

They fucked Cam Newton. Yeah, the Carolina Panthers tweeting like, thanks for the memories when he's still signed to the team. Yes, is diabolical. The so Teddy Bridgewater went to the Panthers. Andy Dalton needs a place. Marcus Mario already went to the Raiders. I don't know where all these I don't know. Where's James going to go? Has anyone I somebody said that he might be a backup. But let me tell you, James is nobody's backup. James is starting quarterback in this league. He let the league in yours. How about the Bears just destroying which is confidence. His hands are so small that every yard that he throws is actually even a longer yard. So he would have led the league by more if he had normal size hands. So can't he's going to be a bear or he's going to

be a patriot or he's not going to be paid. The bottom line is he's nobody's back. He the Mitch thing. I mean, I tweeted that yesterday. The Bears are going to be in on every single quarterback out there and somehow get none of them and completely demolish what little is left of Mitch Trubisky's confidence to the point where well, it's got to be gone now. Well, seeing the reports yesterday, a quarter old Patterson tweeted at Tom Brady saying like, what's good. Right after he announced it. Alan Robinson retweeted who was the odds on favorite get Cam Newton being the Bears. Like it's over. It's bad. So it would be only fitting for the Bears to finish off the the coup de gras of just not getting any of them and being like Mitch is our

start. We feel confident in Mitch. What if the Patriots get Mitch and then probably be probably be a fucking pro. That would be like tomorrow, wouldn't it? I would know what about maybe Derek Carr to the Patriots. And if Derek Carr goes to the Patriots, then maybe James to the Raiders. Oh, Derek Carr also has been linked to the Bears as well. But again, they'll screw everything up. But yes, they only James to the Raiders. And I think they only say that Bears are because they know Mayock has their phone number. Right. So it's like, oh, they've made a deal in the past. An ATM withdrawal. Like, oh, let's just go get some more draft picks from the Bears. Exactly. I will say I turned on when I turned on the NFL Network for like the first thing they

were talking about was Shrager being like, well, you know, Bill Belichick and Nick Saban go way back like the Patriots could trade up and get to a. Yeah, you had the two attacks today. That really tickled. Like that was like the first thing I heard. And I was like, oh, oh, this might not be so bad after all. The I wonder who else like the Chargers were obviously and I'm Brady. I actually heard that the Bears made a late push, which I would have loved to hear Matt Nagy being like, Tom, we would love for you to run some RPOs and like get out on the edge and like really use your mobility. They're like not changing anything of his offense to be like, this is your place. Their late push is just so that they can say we made an effort.

The last thing you want is a team that has a bad quarterback situation to feel like, oh, they didn't even make it an attempt to get the best quarterback of all time. Joe Montana to be on your team. You like Tom Brady like Tom 2013 when you're in your peak, you know, who else we got Jimmy Graham 2013. Let's fucking roll back the clock. Let's do this. This is great impact tight in one. And I can't believe he got nine million. I know it's nothing. He's great. If you like it tight in that's allergic to blocking the bear. Yeah. And catching and getting open. Yeah, you can't do anything anymore. That's true. So it's really he really is my fantasy football draft strategy of just drafting name brands. Like

that guy was good once. Dude, I would draft Eddie George right now. I think I had Andre Johnson on my team in 2017. Speaking of Andre Johnson, Bill O'Brien. Don't let most of the world contracting a deadly disease and Tom Brady switching teams distract you from the fact that Bill O'Brien could not negotiate himself out of his own whole chin. I think Bill O'Brien, the only explanation for him making this trade is he is the world's biggest spike guy. Like he hates the Andre Hopkins and was like, you know what, I fucking hate you. I'm going to make, I'm going to get so little for you that it's embarrassing. Like he could basically walk around saying that's all you're worth. A washed up running back in a second round. He did the same

with Clowney too. Yes. Yes. He is a spike guy. I mean, this is going to be my hot seat. My hot seat was just going to be any talented player on the Houston Texans because I remain convinced to this day that Bill O'Brien is a sleeper agent for Bill Belichick as are all of his former assistant coaches that go out across the country, take jobs, usually in the AFC, implode teams and then come back to ensure the Patriots can get to the Super Bowl faster. I think that's pretty clear that that's what Bill O'Brien is doing. Like he's the only reason he hasn't traded to Sean Watson is because that would just blow his cover entirely. Right. And it was great that Stefan Diggs got traded for significantly more right after and everyone's like, wait, how did this work out

that he got Stefan Diggs got traded for a first, a fifth, a sixth and a fourth. And you're like, you just traded Deandre Hopkins for a second rounder. Yep. We make fun of or I have made fun of in the past the people on Twitter who like, we must protect to Sean Watson at all costs. This is not fair. I think I'm actually that guy now. I think I am now that guy because of what Bill O'Brien is doing to DeSean Watson. It was so cool. Watch him throw passes to Deandre Hopkins. He trusted that he wouldn't he wouldn't drop a single. I don't think don't think he had a drop all year. Did he? I don't know if he did, but he was I don't think that he did. Yeah, it was fun to watch. So yeah, please, he's ruining DeSean Watson's career. Get him on the bears. Well,

though, make sure they treated really well. I imagine that Bill O'Brien was like, all right, we're going to trade to Sean Watson. Then he walked, walked over and he saw Will Ford. He's like, hey, Will, you're going to be our number one. Will Ford said, I got it, coach. I got it. Then he stood up and immediately tore his hamstring. That was it. It fell off the bone. Yeah, that was it. That's the only way it worked. It's crazy what Bill O'Brien's doing. The Texans players were just vocally being like, fuck this. Well, it's very rare in today, like with the information that is out there and the amount of people that have an opinion, it is very rare to have a trade that is 100% universally panned. And that was what happened. Like there wasn't a single person

who was like, you know what? Kind of like where the direction the Texans are going. They're going to run the football with David Johnson. David Johnson. I wonder if Matthew Berry is forgiven. He died at the end of the year. He literally has not turned back on. Yeah. And it was. And I know he was behind a really bad offensive line, but Kenyon Drake had like unbelievable numbers behind the same offensive line. This is huge for Kyler Murray. Yes. So he's got Hopkins and Larry Thicke's Gerald out there. Yeah. And Kirk and Kirk. Yeah. Christian Kirk. I like him. And speaking of Christian Kirk, Cousins got it to your extension too. Because he got Stefan Diggs traded. Yep. Yeah. So he's like, you know what? That's not the choice I would have made. Locker

room restored. We got this. We got this guys. So what are any other any other big news out there that we missed? It's great to have something to talk about. I just thought it was it was high comedy that Cam Newton wrote stop with the word play, writing an actual word play. Yes. Yes. And that weird font. Yeah. And it's weird. Oh, Phil Rivers to the Colts. We forgot about Phil Rivers. Yeah, dad gum it. They need to play those games in the afternoon. I think that's the only thing that's only only analysis like the Colts. Adding Phil Rivers, the Colts will be exactly what they were. They will beat a few teams they shouldn't beat. They will lose some games that they absolutely shouldn't lose. And they'll finish the season somewhere between seven and nine wins.

If I was a cornerback in the AFC South, I'd be very happy with the signing. You're going to get paid in a couple years. Philip Rivers is signed to a one year deal. So you have to ask is this a bridge contract to Andrew Luck feeling good again and coming back. Oh, Phil Rivers is the perfect guy for the Colts like whole DNA the last few years, where I think there's been a moment in every single Colts season where you say, watch out for the Colts. And then there's a moment and then there's a moment that you look back and say, Why did I say that? On top of Bill O'Brien, the Will Fuller thing, they might have said maybe if Will Fuller gets hurt, we'll just sign Randall Cobb. Was it 35? I think the Randall Cobb thing was was directly related to Bill O'Brien saw

Ryan Pace get Jimmy Graham and he was like, Oh, wow, I got to get I got to get a guy from 2014 as well. Yeah, you got to feel like you're making a move. Randall Cobb is by the way, a completely different wide receiver than Deandre Hopkins. Physically, the way that he runs routes. I don't know. Randall Cobb is sneaky, very young. I'm gonna shock you. Well, he's football old. Yes, he's very football old. And he's caught most of his passes probably behind the line of scrimmage and then run forward in which probably doesn't put as many miles on his. Okay, how old is Randall Cobb right now? Honestly, I think Randall Cobb is 31. He's 29. Okay, he does turn 30 before the season starts. I think Deandre Hopkins turns 28 or 29 before this is much, much better, much, much

at football, much. I mean, Deandre Hopkins two years ago was incredible off the charts. Last year, he regressed a tiny bit, but that was because he was so incredible. Like, he's incredible. You got a second round or four. I mean, come on. No, no, be fair. He got a second rounder and they switched fourth rounders. So he moved up like, I don't know, 15 positions. That's true. You're right. You're right. I got to I got to actually, you know, throw out the real prey. He's the best fourth round draft pick negotiator that we've seen so far this March. Oh, Brian, like you, you can't have what a fucking idiot. Deandre Hopkins, I'm just looking at it right now because I just wanted to refresh myself. Doesn't that put it like he had 1500 yards in 2018. He still had 1100 last year.

Like if they go like one in three, though, it shouldn't get fired, right? No, because he's put himself no, no, no, no, no, no, because he'll go one in three. And then he'll well, first of all, he is the GM and the coach. Right. So he could always fire himself as coach and then just be the general manager or the vice versa, which you'd probably rather just take the owner being like, fuck this guy. No, I actually think that there's internal strife in the Texas organization between the head coach and the front office. Bill O'Brien, the coach and the general manager are butting heads with each other. They're not on the same page right now. And I would expect that Bill O'Brien, the coach, would win that battle in the long term. So then they'll bring

in another GM that will be then undermined by Bill O'Brien and then he'll retake his old job again. But Hank, you know what will happen is he'll start the season one and three and they'll walk into his owner's office and it'll be like, Hey, look at the AFC South and the Jags will be one and three and the Titans will be one and three and the Colts will be one and three. You can always win that division. You can always convince yourself you can win that division with nine wins. It's a very shrewd move on O'Brien's part to give himself a promotion in the off season because that really takes away any notion that you'll be fired the next day because the very worst they can do is just take away your new promotion that you just got. So Bill O'Brien

is really fucking good at keeping a job. I wouldn't put it past Bill O'Brien to like in two weeks be like, you know what? I had coronavirus. I made that trade under the influence of coronavirus. So you'd take faxies on it? Like I was I was very, very ill. I'm sorry. By the time you bring up the most important thing going on in the world. Yes. So if you're tuning into your first episode apart, it might take you probably very confused. We're so excited to talk football because we have no sports left. And there were no there was no football played today. No. Just people talking about football. We're excited to talk about people talking about

football, which is a great description of our show to begin with. We should be talking about brackets right now, but we're not. You can watch us, by the way, barstowgold.com slash PMT. Last thing about free agency, then we'll do hot seat culture on and get to Dr. Anthony Fauci. The biggest winner of yesterday, in my opinion, is actually Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield getting Austin Hooper and Jack Conklin. I think we're going to have a bounce back in for Baker Mayfield. Who else do they get? Ganovic. Oh, yeah. Fullback from Denver. That's right. Excuse me, offensive weapon.

That's right. That's right. Okay. So I, this is Baker Mayfield. We're priming ourselves up. You didn't have a tight end last year. And you got case. The line wasn't good. I feel like Case Kingdom is one of the best backups, not in terms of like skill wise, but like one of the best guys to have in a room behind you. Well, he's also a perfect like junkyard Baker Mayfield. They have very similar, you know, run around, make plays happen kind of skill set. I think Baker, watch out, Colin Coward. Watch out. Watch out, bro.

By the way, did you see Colin Coward predicted Tom Brady to every single team except the Bucks? But no, but to be fair, Colin Coward did break the news that Tom Brady had made up his mind. Here's some, that's huge. That scoop was just, that was ripe out there for the taking. Nobody hopped on except for him. Yeah. He was a legacy source, not a football source or something. That was like the official wording of it. Yeah. The source was like a, it's like a A-lister, not a, not a inside football source. Rob. Yeah. Tom Brady senior. Probably. Here were the, here were the tweets ready. Colin Coward, the Indianapolis cults make a lot of sense for Tom Brady in 2020. Colin

Coward explains why put Tom Brady in that cowboy uniform. We get shocked all the time in sports. This looks like it would work. Everything he wants. They have brand, O-line, Arby's, wide receivers, money. Tom Brady's heart is not set on leaving the New England Patriots. Colin Coward explains. Derek Jeter did it the right way. John Elway, Super Bowl MVP exits did it the right way. Now is the perfect time for Tom Brady to retire. Oh, we got a retirement in there. The Tennessee Titans could solve Tom Brady's problems. Colin Coward explains why the Los Angeles Chargers have the best weapons for Tom Brady if he leaves New England. Colin Coward explains why. Jesus. That's actually impressive.

It's impressive. Yes. Impressive. All right. Let's do some hot seat, cool throne. Hot seat, cool throne is brought to you by our friends at Bud Light Seltzer. Hot seat, cool throne always brought to you by our friends at Bud Light Seltzer. We have our Bud Light Seltzer fridge right there. They're delicious. Try it for yourself. See why great tasting Bud Light Seltzer is putting every other hard seltzer on this hot seat. You're going to be quarantined. You're going to be in, you know, social distancing. You're going to be inside a lot. Have yourself a Bud Light Seltzer and enjoy it. It's refreshing. It's delicious. Hank, your hot seat, your cool throne. Look at that. Oh, don't spill on yourself. Hey,

don't drink because you're depressed. That's not good. That's problem drinking. My hot seat is, I got a couple. First one is JJ Watt. Last thing on NFL Free Agency. But Derek, his other brother, signed with Steelers, which means like him and TJ are constantly just going to be like basically talking shit behind JJ's back. He's going to be the odd man out. You know how it is. When there's two of you and there's one somewhere else, you're always constantly going to be like they're just trashing me behind my back. It's like a real life side group chat that you know that they have and that you're not a part of. Plus, the parents are going to be spending way more time in Pittsburgh than they are in Houston. And Uncle Deere, sorry, JJ. Kiss that shit goodbye because that's a

competition. Who are you? Yeah. You're going to be around what, like three times a year? Uncle Derek is, I mean, our Uncle TJ, like that kid probably his first words are going to be TJ. My other hot seat is Vanessa Hudgens. I don't know if you guys saw this, but she is the actress. She was in high school musical back in the day, like former child star. She had probably the coldest coronavirus take I've seen in the last like two days. I feel like people have kind of caught up to the seriousness of it. But she was on Instagram Live being like, oh, I heard it's going to be till July till we can get out. Like that's messed up. Like I know that, you know, people are going to die, but it's inevitable. Wait, so what was her solution? There was no solution.

That's what it was like. It was like, well, if I can't get out till July, like just let people die. Listen, I have to get tan somehow. Right. And you're telling, first of all, the salons are all closed down. So that's a problem. So now you're saying I can't even go outside. And then she was immediately like, haha, maybe I shouldn't be doing this and then shut it off. But it was maybe the most tone deaf thing I've seen in like three days. I got to say that the child stars of yesteryear are extremely lucky that social media wasn't around. And like Instagram Live, all that stuff wasn't around because they saved themselves some very bad takes. There still is like a group, a pocket of people out there that are just so

fucking embarrassing. We're doing like the, you know, you're more likely to die in a car accident than coronavirus. Okay, we get that. All right, we get it. We get it. But guess what? This is a little bit different than a fucking car accident. Not important enough to put at the beginning of the show, but important. You almost had us, Hank. You're good, dude. You honestly, when you said that, I was like, wait, is he, is he like that might actually be a good idea? Oh, okay. Do you know how illegal it would be to drive if every time you walked outside and you walked next to somebody that just got into a car accident, you would go out and like run over pedestrian if it was contagious. Yes. If car accidents were contagious. Yes. There would be no cars.

Right. I agree. And then my cool throne is take on me remixes. So one of the benefits of the quarantine is that Nick Rogers, Flo Lewis, the dudes, they make pretty much most of the good ones, but they, they both have jobs like they both like do it on their free time whenever they can send them, they send them both in the past two days have been like, you know, I'm super bored. Here's a bunch of remixes. Fuck yeah. So you got a great stockpile. One of the one of the few positives of this unfortunate coronavirus situation. All right. Is that it? That's it. Okay. Good. Hot seat, cool throne, Hank. Thank you. You're back. Appreciate it. I was never, I never left. My hot seat initially was going to be the Houston, Texas, any talented player that lives in Houston

is going to be gone. I'm just going to say Ryan Fitzpatrick and Phil Pervers because you're not allowed to associate with 10 or more people at the same time. So thoughts and prayers to the family and also hot seat to the Dallas Cowboys because the Redskins drove the price up on a Mari Cooper. Five years. Foolishly making the Dallas Cowboys overpay for him on a five-year, a hundred million dollar contract. All guaranteed. No, but then it ends up that it was a two-year, like 40 million dollar contract, even probably less than that. I'm going to start quote treating every single time he does it. It's so awesome. It was saying that the R words drove the price up so high that the Cowboys had to overpay for him. That is the genius of Dan

Snyder right there is making other very rich, dumb people spend more of their rich, dumb money. Won't hurt you on the field, but it hurts you in your wallet. It's going to catch up to you eventually, Jerry, probably 25 years after you're dead. My cool throne is going to be the Monday night football booth that never was because Jason Witton is now a Las Vegas raider. So he's going to be teamed up. That's another classic move of just picking players that you remember from like Madden when you were in college. Gruden remembers him from the first time he was a coach. Correct. This is name eight. There is something to be said for always picking name brands. Well, I'm sure that I'm sure that Gruden sat down many times in like prep meetings for Monday night football.

And every time he was with the Cowboys, that meeting I'm guessing was with Romo and Jason Witton. Right. And he just get up in the mood and be like, man, this guy as good a football player as he is, he's a more outstanding young man. Yeah. Gruden, if he's picking stocks is like, I want some Nike, give me some Amazon and some Apple. And like, that's it. That's all you got to do. You got to go with the blue chips, man. Yeah. Um, all right. That it. Yep. That's it for me. All right. My hot seats is we talked about it on Monday. Uh, the large penis that gets passed around in links whenever something newsworthy happens. So unfortunately, uh, the gentlemen, the well endowed gentlemen that we all know all too well, uh, a reporter went and tried to find him.

He's dead. Oh, dude, come on. Yeah. You can't do that. You want to use this moment. How have you known that and sending us pictures all day? I just found out literally like 10 minutes ago without how did you find that out? There's a vice article read the vice headline. Yeah. I actually made me look at a where's Waldo picture and search. That one was funny. That one was funny. Uh, bad news about the well endowed man in those coronavirus prank texts. One man has become the unwitting star of a sort of prank test promising breaking information about the COVID-19 crisis. And, uh, this guy went deep. He tracked, he was on all these sites. Uh, and then he finally found the name of the person and the person who took the picture

contacted back from Pantheon productions responded. I'm sorry to hear that woods, the guy's last name was wood. How funny is that? Uh, I'm sorry to hear that. That woods image has been used in such a way. It's quite shameful. Unfortunately, would pass the way several years ago. Oh, okay. So it's a real bummer, man. Yeah, it is. It's a big time bummer. I mean, so it goes. I question that there's some really funny ones that you still got to share probably, but it is a big time bummer. I mean, it's the picture is still objectively funny. Yeah. Maybe, maybe that's, you know, we're honoring him. Yeah. Big cat. The old saying is you really only die the last time somebody says your name. Right. And we never have said his name. Wood.

Wood. Wood. We're keeping it. People say the word would all the time. Yeah. So yeah, it's a bummer, man. I'm gonna agree for a while. I'm going to need some time by myself to distance myself. I'm sure you will. It's gonna socially distance myself. That's very sad. All right. My cool throne, um, is two, two, two cool thrones. One is, uh, we talked about the bears signing Jimmy Graham. The bears also, I think the strategy this offseason was lead the league in something. They have 10 tight ends on their roster right now. What? 10. Stop. Come on. Stop. How many, how many of them are aged backs? 10. 10. They're going to cut some of them. But as of right now, Ryan Pace can proudly walk around House Hall saying, I got 10 tight ends. I think

he heard that old saying like, if you have two quarterbacks, you don't have one. And he thought, well, if I get 10 to something, there's bound to be one of them in there. It's incredible. It's incredible. I mean, a lot of these guys are not going to ever like see you meaningful time or he's building the Chicago bears out of the state of Iowa. Just tight ends. It's just tight ends. So 10. We led the league in something. I mean, to be fair, that's perfect for big 10 countries. Yes, exactly. Load your team up with tight end. What a, uh, real quick, Warren Sharp, if you're out there listening, what personnel is that if you have 10 tight ends on the field? Yeah, like infinity. That would be what, because the running backs is a second number. So if you have 10 tight

ends, I think it's 10. It's 100. It's 100. It'd be a hundred personnel. It's a hundred personnel. It's a hundred personnel. Um, all right. And then the other, uh, the other cool throne is George Phant, because I think this is something we didn't know, or maybe we did know, but we didn't really talk about, but George Phant, obviously he was a free agent and he signed with the, where'd he sign? He signed with the Jets. Jets. The Jets. Gonna protect Sam Darnold. Broadway. Everyone was talking about George Phant, Googling George Phant. George Phant's wife. Her name is Chastity Gooch. Good. Good name. So we just got that out of the way. Cool throne. Got it out of the way. We saw it. We moved on. Not even funny. I can't even do a, literally translates to George Phant's wife.

It's not even a funny thing to talk about. It's just something that we now recognize and we have moved on. Chastity Gooch. Cool throne, George Phant. We moved on. Last cool throne, too, is Penguins. Yeah. I think they're having a moment right now. Yeah. Those two penguins were goals. Waddling around like a little tuxedo. Not six feet apart, though. Yeah, that's true, but they can't get it. But we should have. They can get it. So protect penguins at all costs. We don't deserve them. Yeah, they can. Did you just cough? No. What was that? It was a scratch my nose. Okay. Don't touch your face. I'm not. I did. I've done like 16 purel. Another bonus cool throne is the Buffalo Bills because now that Tom Brady is out of the division, I think you have to say that the Bills

are. Bills country. Bills might be. Although the Dolphins. They might be favored to win. If Tua. They might be the, I'm going to look up the odds right now. I'm just going to say it. If Tua goes to the Dolphins and he's what I think he is, Dolphins might be making some noise pretty soon. I'll just say it. It's funny that we're just passing over the jets, passing over the jets. That's my dolphin noise. That's the noise they're going to be making. Sam Darnold will make a leak. Hank, stop killing me. What are you looking for? I was going to look up the odds. Okay. So the Bills are plus 175 to in the AFCs. Patriots are still minus 110. There you go, Hank. Still odds on favorites.

Congrats. Actually, that's probably a smart thing to bet on like Bill Belichick finding a way to, like there'll probably be like eight and a half over under for wins. Just hammer that. Dolphins are 10 to one. You're dolphins. The Dolphins, the Miami Dolphins. All right, PFC, you got an ad before we get to Dr. Anthony Fauci. Yes. Before we get to the good doctor, I want to talk to you guys about a brand new sponsor, new sponsor alert, McCain Potatoes. McCain Potatoes, Dip and Wedges. As a matter of fact, they're a new and unique fry solution that's cut in a V shape and allows users to load them up with toppings and or dips to create a variety of unique appetizers. I love dips. I love appetizer dinners. A lot of times it'll just be like,

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So Dr. Fauci, thank you very much for joining us. First off, how are you doing? I'm sure you're working night and day, 19 hour days, 20 hour days. How are you doing just from a mental perspective with everything that's going on? Well, this is an important challenge. This is what I do. I'm a physician scientist and a public health figure. And this is what I do. It's very stressful. I mean, you cannot imagine because this is a problem that we take very seriously. And it's, you know, an emerging outbreak that you see what happened in China. You see what's happening in Italy. We want to make sure, you know, we have the virus in the United States. We want to make sure by our efforts that we don't have that degree of disease and suffering that the others are

seeing in other countries. That's really our goal. And we're focused like a laser to try and prevent that from happening. So I've seen some people say recently that millennials, the younger generation in particular, is kind of on the front lines of battling this disease and keeping everyone safe and making sure that we can kind of flatten the curve as I've been seeing in the news and not overload our health resources all at once. What would you say to young people out there that might be thinking like I'm young, I'm spry, I'm healthy. If I contract this disease or if I'm carrying it, it's not that big a deal because I don't go visit, you know, my grandparents. I'm not around anyone who's elderly. What would you say to them to let them know how important it is for

them to take precautions? Okay, so let's first start off with the more vulnerable ones. If you look at the data and it's pretty solid data now that has been collected for for now at least two and a half months, first from China, then from South Korea and now from several European countries, particularly Italy and France, that when you look at the totality of the outbreak in a given country, clearly the people who get into trouble, who get seriously ill and who ultimately die, as we've heard about from other countries and even to some extent in our own country, are very heavily weighted towards the elderly and those with underlying serious medical conditions, heart disease, chronic lung disease, diabetes, etc. Those individuals are really quite

vulnerable. If you look at the totality of the population, the younger individuals, people who are the millennials, people who are otherwise young and healthy, generally with some exceptions, you're not completely exempt from a risk, but with some exceptions do well. You may get sick, but you'll recover generally without any significant medical intervention. The problem is we need the young people to help us to protect the vulnerable because when an individual who's young gets infected and either has no symptoms at all or even mild symptoms, that individual will continue the virus spreading in the community. And you know, although you say you have elderly individuals, people who are compromised generally are going to be sequestered. They're not going to

be completely sequestered. So you might inadvertently, even though you feel that you are invulnerable. And I mentioned this at the press conference at the White House today. I mean, when I was young, I did feel, I meant appropriately or inappropriately, like I was invulnerable. We know, first of all, no one's invulnerable, but even if you are doing very well, you have to be a very important part of our national effort to contain the outbreak, but importantly, to protect young individuals. So you're not a passive person in this. You are an important part of the active plan to contain this epidemic. And that's why I said sincerely at the White House that we really do need you. This isn't something that can be successful

without you. Yeah. I mean, it's starting to make sense. I feel like people are starting to gain a little bit of awareness here in the last few days, but every little bit helps. I'm curious, like this, the whole thing, because we've been all sitting at home, you know, just reading about this nonstop. Can you give us in, speak to us like we're eight years old? How does something like this even start? Like, how does this start? How do you, how do scientists realize this is going on? Like, what are the beginning phases of something like a pandemic like this? Well, that's a great question. So let's start with where it comes from. About 75% of all of the new infections that emerged that you may not have seen before are what's called zoonotic. What that

means that is that they're fundamentally animal viruses that for centuries or millennia have adapted themselves to an animal and may not even make the animal sick. Sometimes it does and sometimes not. But because of animal human interface, every once in a while, one of these viruses gets enough evolution, mutation or what have you to allow it to jump species and infect an individual. Now, this happens all the time. Sometimes it's a one-off. It jumps species, makes a human sick, but it doesn't have the capability of efficiently spreading from human to human. So it may make one or two or three people sick, but it doesn't become an outbreak. Every once in a while, all of a sudden that happens, but the virus adapts itself to very efficiently spread from human

to human. And that's when you get an outbreak. I mean, I, in the early part 36 plus years ago, I devoted almost all of my time to HIV AIDS. That's exactly what happened when it jumped from a non-human primate to chimpanzee and then all of a sudden adapted itself to being transmitted from human to human. So it's an animal virus that now has jumped into us as a civilization, as a human species and is really wreaking havoc, as we've seen in China and in some of the European countries and in focal places right here in the United States. That's how it happens. That's crazy. It is. Yeah. It's like, it's one of those things you don't, I don't, at least from my perspective, I had no idea that this was, I obviously knew about SARS, swine flu, MERS,

all these things, but I never realized that's exactly how it happens. It will jump. What, when that first happens and we're talking November is coronavirus, like you hear it out of China and you're like, uh-oh, this is, this is real. Like how fast, I guess my question is, does the science evolve where you start to learn almost everything you know about coronavirus and how it is latching on to people and what the, you know, what the side effects are and everything that's going on behind it. You know, when you're dealing with the real time emergence of an outbreak, every day you learn something new and you take the accumulation of your knowledge to be able to make some decisions, some guidelines, some understanding, develop drugs, develop vaccines.

For example, when the Chinese first recognized this at the end of December, they were saying, oh, it's only from an animal to a human, it doesn't spread from human to human. That was denial, that was denial. As a matter of fact, it was spreading from human to human. So the first thing that the world realizes that this was not a one-off, it wasn't just an animal to a human, it had already adapted itself to spread very efficiently. By the time they got that, what they did not do, and this is a tragedy, they did not do the kind of mitigation that you and I and everybody are talking about right now, about socially and physically separating. What they did, they were having large block parties and festivities in the street, which went a long way to really

spreading the virus very rapidly. But then you say to yourself, okay, how does it get out of China? We live in a world without boundaries because of travel. People travel thousands and thousands and millions and millions of people every single day. And our first case was seeded from someone who was in Wuhan, China, came here and then we knew we had a travel-related case. But what happens is that since it spreads so well from human to human, if you don't contain it right away, and we did a pretty good job in the beginning, but still, all of a sudden you get human to human to human, and then you get community spread. That's the reason why we, in the federal government and with the collaboration of the state and local health authorities, are making the strong

suggestion and guideline about doing things that may seem, and I know it does, seem to the younger people as maybe an overreaction. Why are you telling people to stay out of bars and stay out of restaurants, you know, stay out of crowded places, even in some respects out of sporting events with a lot of crowd? Because what we have learned, and this answers the question you gave me just a few moments ago, what do we learn about this? How long does it take to really learn? The one thing we do know is that this virus really likes to spread in crowded places. The efficiency of spread is amplified when there's a lot of person-to-person contact. So one of the real weapons you have to try and contain the virus is to try and physically separate people

as inconvenient as that is. You know, you have to do it at least for a while to try and stay ahead of the viral spread. I mean, I feel like I know my generation pretty well, and this could be the challenge that we've really been asked to take on is just staying at home. I think that we stay at home harder than any other generation that's ever come before us. So I feel like we're the right ones to kind of be put in that place at this point in history. I had a question about kind of the science of how early you can become contagious after coming in contact with somebody. So if you just say you have person-to-person contact, high five or whatever, you inhale a sneeze or something weird happens, and then just a couple minutes later, I would assume that you would probably test

negative for the virus even at that point. But are you contagious at that point or how long would that take? All right, so let's create a scenario. Someone is infected, right? You brush by them. Likelihood that unless you have close contact, you're not going to get infected. But let's say that person just is as virus in their nose and you walk by that individual and you happen to get infected. You're saying and asking how long before there's enough virus in you for you to infect someone else? And certainly it's not going to be a matter of minutes or even hours because by the time the virus replicates, the median time from the time you get exposed to the time you get symptoms is about 5.2 days. The range is anywhere from 2 to 14 days. So you are not

immediately infected if you happen to get infected at this moment. But within a few days, you will be. Interesting. So you could, you could considerably test negative for the virus, but then it's still developing, replicating inside your own body. Okay, right. Right. You're absolutely correct. So you don't rely completely on testing. I know there's been a lot of talk about testing. What you rely on is protecting yourself and protecting those around you, but to the best of your ability, try to be what they call social distancing. But that really means this physical separation within reason to the extent possible. It's much more stringent with the vulnerable ones, the elderly and those with underlying conditions.

What, now I see a lot of information going around and I think this is one of the dangerous parts of living in 2020 where the internet is there. Everyone can go Google it. There's misinformation. There's, you can find any answer to any question. However you want it answered. I'm wondering from someone like you who actually has all the facts. Can you dispel a couple of the things that I've read? One being this virus will go away in the summer because the virus doesn't like hot weather. And two being, are you immune after you have it? So if you have it, you then are okay and you can go about your life in this idea of herd immunity that some countries were maybe trying to attain. Okay. So I think there's two and a half questions. Yes. We'll take one at a time.

That all of the answers to questions need to be founded and anchored on the fact that this is a unique situation for us. Although you can make an extrapolation that it will act like similar viruses, you can't say for sure. So your first question, will it naturally start to diminish a bit as the weather gets warm? If you look at the experience with influenza and other coronaviruses that are typical common cold viruses, the fact is when the summer comes for a variety of reasons, including people aren't cooped up in a house close to each other, they're usually outside on the beach and walking around or doing whatever they're doing, that you have less of a transmission during the warmest summer months. The basis for that is sound. However,

we cannot be sure that that is going to happen when we experience the full brunt of this virus. It might happen, but we don't know for sure. So the answer is, I hope it does, but we don't know for sure. Okay. Now the second question, just repeat, what was the second question? The second question was, if you get the virus, are you then immune afterwards? I remember now. Okay. So again, if you look at any other viral disease that we have had experience with, once you get infected with a virus and you recover from that virus, you are immune for a prolonged period of time, sometimes for life, with infection with that exact same virus. If it changes dramatically, the protection diminishes. But for the most part, once you're infected with a particular virus,

the next time you get exposed, if you've recovered from that virus, you're protected. Now, that's what you say, well, then that leads to, after a while, either through natural infection, or if we get a vaccine and you actually make a lot of the population immune, you could have herd immunity, which means the virus doesn't have a lot of places to go because most of the people in the population are protected. So you can't get a real revved up outbreak. Now that can get misinterpreted. And I know you've read about that, because you just referenced it. Some people say, oh, what the hell? Why don't we just let everybody get infected and develop herd immunity? That's a dangerous proposition. Because if you do that, a lot of people, mostly the vulnerable,

are going to get sick and they're going to die. And that's what we've seen in the elder population, where the mortality rate was significantly high in the individuals who were in that vulnerable group. So although herd immunity is a good thing, you'd like to develop herd immunity with a vaccine, not by getting a lot of people sick. Interesting. Okay, I have a scenario I'd like to present for you. In the case of a lot of our listeners, they're younger. Let's just say there's a 24 year old male who might live with a couple of roommates right out of college. He starts to come down with some symptoms of the virus. He's coughing, he's running a fever, you know, let's say not too high, 100, 101. What do you recommend somebody like that does?

Do you recommend that they go in and they get themselves tested? Or for now, do you recommend that they kind of stay in place and see if it gets any worse and reduce their contact with the outside world? Okay, great question, because it's so practical. Now, a couple of days ago, we issued some social distancing type of recommendations, some guidelines that we announced at the press conference, and it specifically direct addresses the question you've asked. So if you are sick, and you feel is a possibility that you might have coronavirus infection, because you do have the symptoms that you just described, stay home, call up your health care provider, be that a physician, a health care worker,

a clinic, inform them of what's going on, don't go out, you don't want to go to an emergency room, you don't want to go to a clinic, and have them and will be much more accessibility of this as the days and weeks go by. What is the best way for you to get tested? Now, since you're now kind of isolating yourself in your own home, what about your roommates? What should they do? That's the same thing as if one family member, so if you consider a roommate a family member, which in many respects the roommate is a family member, the recommendations say that the others in the house should take extra precautions, the kinds of things, wash your hands carefully, don't go in big crowds, you don't have to sequester everybody, but those individuals,

if it turns out that you are positive and you do have coronavirus, then the people who were in close contact with you as a roommate would be, those individuals should then sequester themselves and get tested. But until you know you're positive, they need to take extra precautions. That's the same thing as we recommend for families. So as far as I'm concerned from practical standpoint, you have two or three roommates that like your brothers and sisters. That makes sense. So you mentioned just a second ago vaccines. I saw that their first vaccine trial was given for coronavirus, I think it was either yesterday or the day before. I know that yesterday. So I know for most vaccines, it's what up to a year

trial that you have to make sure there's no side effects, that the vaccine has worked, everything that goes with all the protocols that are in place. Is there any talk about potentially expediting that knowing that it's a pandemic and their lives at risk? And if there's a vaccine, they might try to get it out earlier faster than what they would do if it was just a flu vaccine. Well, great question. But you partially answered it yourself. And that is, there's no way of you knowing this. But the truth is, if this were the typical way of developing a vaccine, it would take several years up to six to seven or more years to get a vaccine that's available for deployment. When I made the statement, as I do often

at these press briefings, that we started yesterday on the phase one trial, there are multiple phases, phase two A to B, and that proves not only is it safe, does it induce the kind of response that you would predict would be protective, and ultimately, does it really protect in a safe manner? At rocket speed, that would take a year to a year and a half. So we've already major league, expedited the process without cutting dangerous corners. So we really are on a very, very fast track to get a vaccine. But even on the fastest track, it's going to take a year to a year and a half. Okay. So is there anything faster than that would be too unsafe?

It'd be dangerous, yeah. No, it would be because, you know, a vaccine, sometimes even everybody thinks, oh, well, no problem with vaccine, you're giving it to normal people. And whenever you're giving any intervention to someone who's a normal person, safety is paramount. Unlike a situation when someone is, you know, seriously ill, and you want to develop a medication, safety is important, but the risk of the person who's already sick is much greater than the risk that you would have in pushing along a trial for the development of the therapy. Got it. Got it. That makes sense. What about the, I saw there was some, and this might be urban legend,

I don't know, so you can tell me, there was some news that possibly taking ibuprofen, if you have symptoms, makes it worse and that people should not be doing that. Yeah, a little bit urban legend and that. I think it was a conflating of some medical issues that go back to the influenza in childhood. There is a rare syndrome called RISE syndrome that when children who get influenza take aspirin, it can give them a neurological syndrome that can be really quite dangerous. So you try to keep aspirin, particularly with children, away from them when they have these respiratory illnesses that might be flu. This has been extrapolated to ibuprofen and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory. There really is no solid

evidence at all. Maybe true, may not, but there's no good scientific evidence that says it can, that ibuprofen can make coronavirus worse. Okay. So what should people take if they feel like they have it or feel like they are experiencing some of the symptoms? The safest thing to get your fever down is Tylenol. Okay. All right. One thing I always like to remind my friends is Tylenol can be very difficult on the liver if you take a lot of it. So what's like a good dose of it? Absolutely. Take it as directed. I mean, if you want to take Tylenol, you really want to take it. No more than every six hours. Okay. That's good to know. One thing that we've also been told, obviously, we're trying to limit

our contact with the outside world as much as possible. Everyone, at least in New York City, is going to be ordering food for takeout. You can't go out to a restaurant anymore, but people are certainly using seamless Grubhub, Postmates, all that stuff. Is there any danger in eating food that was prepared by somebody else? You know, the answer is nothing is 100%, but the danger of someone who's practicing good hygiene. I would imagine, I mean, I've spent to some places that are already doing it. You know, the owners and the staff are really being conscientious about people making sure they wash their hands frequently. They put gloves on those kind of inexpensive gloves that you see

in food service. The chances of getting it transmitted by picking up an order, a takeout order of a pasta or a hamburger or a calamari or whatever it is that you're ordering is much, much, much less than going into a crowded restaurant and sitting down at a table very close to other people. Interesting. Okay. What about walking? Like so, if I'm walking my dog and someone's jogging by me, is there a risk there or is it like? No. Okay. No. I mean, again, in biology, there's never 100%, but one of the least risky things you can do is to get out in the fresh air and walk your dog. Right. Right. Okay. That's good because that's really all we can do at this point. Right. What about just from like a perspective of you

fighting diseases every day? Are you a germaphobe personally? Am I a germaphobe? I'm careful. I don't think I'm obsessed and composed and crazy about it, but I'm careful. Okay. I really am. I wash my hands frequently as often as I possibly can and particularly during seasons and not just coronavirus, but you know, seasons when there's a lot of flu around, I try to stay a little bit distant from people. You know, I don't go over and start whispering in people. If I feel sick, I stay home. If there's a sick person around, I try to physically say distance from them. I think that's natural common sense and not necessarily germaphobic. I gotta say, Dr. Fauci, the one shocking thing with this entire pandemic is I had no idea that you were supposed to wash

your hands for 20 seconds. That's so long. I washed my hands for five seconds. I'm like, all right, I'm done. And then I have to sit there and do it for another 15 seconds. Yeah. I think you, I'm glad you brought it up. Thank you. And it's something that, you know, so many people don't appreciate the natural thing when you wash your hands is like five, six seconds. Yes. I know. You've really, I mean, it's been clear that people have shown that when you have germs, germs being either viruses or bacteria, whatever on your hands, if you just wash for a couple of seconds, you don't get it all off. If you go 20 seconds with soap and water, you can get most fallout, not most, but almost, almost certainly close to all of it off. And you know, they, they,

they say to try and time yourself, you know, sing happy birthday twice and it's 20 seconds, something like that. But just sing the lyrics of a song you like for a little bit makes it easy to do. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I like that advice because I think I'm with big cat. I've just, you know, I, as long as every surface has gotten wet and had soap on it, then I feel like I'm ready to go, but I am taking a little bit longer making sure that I wash for longer. So for you, in particular, I saw the, the press conference, I think it was in the Rose Garden last week. It was you, I consider you to be one of the critical guys that we need to take care of to make sure that we don't, that you don't get sick. I think, you know, in times of national crisis, we've taken steps with our

presidents to make sure that they're not in any danger. But I did notice that everyone was touching that microphone during the press conference. Is there a, are you taking any steps personally? Is a president taking steps to social distance? Yeah, this is becoming an internet special here is the particular of me putting my hand on the microphone and bringing it down. So first of all, you know, I'm five feet six. If I didn't, the president is six four. So if I kept the microphone where he was when he spoke, you wouldn't even see me. So I put the microphone down. But one thing I did not do, you didn't notice it, you wish it and have because you wouldn't be looking for it, is that I did not touch my face, my nose, my ears, my mouth until I went back into the

oval office and down the hall and washed my hands. So that's one of the things you could do if you have to touch something that could be contaminated, even though I had no reason to believe that that microphone was contaminated. I still did not touch my face until I got to a bathroom and washed my hands for 20 seconds. Okay, that's, that makes a lot more sense. So I know you've been asked this and we really appreciate all this time because it's fascinating. Like I actually, you know, I don't want to say I'm fans of, I'm a fan of viruses and pandemics, but they're fascinating. And I hope we never have to deal with one again. But all of this has been fascinating. When it comes to time frame, I know you've been asked this a million times,

but can you at least give us just a general idea of what you're looking at? Like when we can start feeling like things are going in the right direction, because right now it does kind of feel doom and gloom for a lot of people. Right. You know, so again, not to be elusive and to evade your question, it's nothing you're certain for sure. But if you look at the general course of the outbreak in China, they first realized they had something at the end of December. Right now the curve is way down in China. The number of new cases in China are a couple of handfuls when it was hundreds and hundreds and hundreds a few weeks ago. There are more cases coming out of Europe now than coming out of China. But if you look at the time frame of China, you say the mid to end of

December, the beginning of March, it was going way down. So that's two months and maybe two months in a week or two. And it was essentially way, way down. So if you want to talk about from the beginning to the end, you know, it can be anywhere from, you know, six, eight weeks up to just maybe a few more months. Unlikely it's going to be that long. But if you look at the time frame that China and Korea told us, well, you know, you're talking about several weeks. And in this case, for China, it was somewhere between eight and 10 weeks. That doesn't mean that we're going to have to be doing this for that long period of time. It could be. And that's the reason why when the recommendations came out, we said 15 days with the option of relooking at it all the time and

saying, okay, do we need to do another 15 days? Do we need to do another 15 days? Hopefully, and I don't think it's unrealistic to be somewhat optimistic. If we really carefully and successfully implement these mitigation strategies, what we've been talking about over the last several minutes, which does involve the younger generation, if we're successful, we may be able to cut that time down as possible. Right. So I know you don't want to be, yeah, you don't want to be gloom and gloom, but it's in our hands to see if we can get that down. So I agree that, you know, we're definitely up to the challenge as a generation. But there are a lot of people, I think they listen to this show that are younger, who, you know, aren't necessarily financially secure in their

situations. Maybe they work in the service industry and their jobs are being taken away, things like that, or, you know, people are, you know, paid by the hour. And all of a sudden, they feel like they can't miss work because then they miss their paycheck. And if they miss their paycheck, then they can't afford rent for that month. Have you discussed with anybody the importance of making sure that we're taking care of those types of people to make sure that they feel comfortable taking all the right steps necessary to stay home? Okay. So that's a great question, because all of this is part of the big picture of what we need to face. So I'm not an economist, as you know, I'm a physician, a scientist and health provider. But for those who were listening

carefully today, and in the previous days, to Secretary of Treasury Steve Neuchon and to Larry Kudlow, the economic advisor, they have put together a package of substantial, substantial financial relief for people who are going to be out of work, for people who need testing, the testing is going to be free. There's going to be issues of how do we make sure that people who are either affected by coronavirus or in a family in which they need to be able to get out of work to take care of somebody, that those people are going to have some financial relief. I don't know the exact details of it, but I was impressed by the amount of effort and commitment that was put in to help people who are going to be financially impacted by this.

I mean, that's great to hear. So my last, or I have two more questions, but my second or last question is, in terms of people in groups, like you were saying, that's dangerous to be in groups, we've heard a million different numbers, we heard, you know, it started at 500, then 100, then 50, then 10. What is, like a lot of people probably who listen to this show are treating maybe some of this stuff like a snow day, like let's have some friends over. What is the true, like, Hey, let's limit all these groups to this number. Right. The best thing to do, even though there are no absolutes, these are based on projections and models and things. 10 is the safer number. I would go with 10. Okay. I know the numbers were larger than that in the past,

but we really don't want to undershoot. Yes. I would say 10. And that's really, we're saying, don't, don't throw a party for 10 people. We're just saying, if you're in a space, a confined space with more than 10 people, go somewhere else fast. Exactly. Or don't deliberately go to a place with more than 10 people. Right. I think a lot of people here limit groups to 10 or fewer and think, okay, I can like invite some friends over as long as there are only eight people in my house or something like that. And what you're saying is just, if you're in a, in an enclosed situation with more than 10, then it's time to be maybe looking elsewhere. Exactly. All right. So my last question, then I have one more. Okay. All right. So

seek each question promo code take get $10 off. We're still seek each still advertising. So we're going to shout out seek each great, great people promo code take $10 off. I actually, it's not even a question. I just want to read a tweet to you. It's from our friend. Oh, do you have the same one? I have that same. Yeah. Okay. All right. So you actually do that. And I'll do a different question. Okay. I'll, I'll, I'll pivot. This is from our good friend, Mike Florio. He is, he runs pro football talk website. It's a tremendous website. You probably read it all the time. He, he said that Italian Americans like Mr. Florio should be far less fascinated with Sopranos and far more fascinated with the brilliance, quiet resolve, steady hand of Italian American

Anthony Fauci. And so I just wanted to know what your take on that was. If you wanted to give a shout out back to our favorite Italian American recurring guest, Mike Florio. Well, I, I, it's very nice of him. I thank him very much. I appreciate that. I mean, obviously there are a lot of Italian Americans throughout the country who are doing really, really well. I, I, I appreciate that compliment and thank you very much. Yeah. I mean, he's, he's a big fan of yours. I think it's also like you guys are kind of the same exact stature in, uh, and like build. So he's, he's just, he's a big fan of yours. I think he's probably going to have a poster of you on his wall and his gym being like, that's a real,

that's my real hero right there. Yeah, right. All right. My last question was, um, is it true you're still running three and a half miles a day at age 79? Yes. I've, I've, I've toned down from the fast running I've done with more power walking because, um, you know, a little bit, to be honest with you, when I run and pound, it sort of hurts my back a little. So I walk that distance, takes a little longer, but I walk it on the weekends with my wife and during the week I do it at various places around the Bethesda, Washington area. Unfortunately, over the last several weeks, with the 20 hour days that we've been putting in, I haven't had a chance to do it except on the weekend, but you're,

you are correct. I've been doing this for many years. I started off with marathons and 10ks and then just running for fun. And then I'm still doing it now because it's healthy. I love the idea that because I, I saw it. It was a tweet that went semi viral and it was saying that during your fight against HIV and AIDS, you were running seven miles a day and during your fight against coronavirus, even at age 79, you're doing three and a half miles a day. Do you think at any point the viruses are like feeling a little bit less than because you, they can't even take up all of your energy. You're like, I need, I'll fight HIV for 20 hours and I'll still run seven miles, you know, and I'll come back for more. Like you're, you're a Superman.

Well, I don't think so, but thank you for, I'll be thinking about that. I like that though. Like they can't, you're basically like, you're scaring them off. Yeah, you're like a MJ after a game shooting a thousand free throws. Like that's what you're doing. You fight them all day. And then you're like, you know what, still need to burn off a little calories here. Nothing but net. There you go. I have one suggestion for you and you can feel free to tell me I'm an idiot or no, this is illegal or whatever problem you're going to have with it. But I think that you should actually lie to the American public and say that we can spread this disease to our dogs because if as, as, as bad as it is, and as bad as this even think about Americans would

probably take it more seriously, or at least some people would, if they think that they can go home and get their puppy sick. Well, you know, there has been a report of an isolating virus from a dog. I'm not sure it makes the dog sick, but you know, you should protect everybody that you care for, including your dogs. Yes. Okay. So that sounded to me like, don't get your dog sick. Yes. Stay home. Yes. All right. Well, Dr. Fauci, thank you so much. I feel, I actually do feel, I think there's a lot of anxiety going around and I feel a lot better talking to someone like you and knowing that you're out there, you know, working for the, for the American people and we're going to kick the shit out of this virus. We just got to do, we got to do everything you say, follow all the rules,

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Really good one. Let me see it. I've got another one. I can send back to you. We've been firing these things off the office, right? Oh my God. I won a battle with you earlier today. I blinked first. Oh, I just want to sound. I've already seen this one. Boy, you didn't send it. Because it was in a different group text. I didn't think it was worthy of sending to the man. That's a funny one. No, this is what happens to our brain when we're on quarantine. I mean, what the fuck is going, like, have you guys had that realization, like, we're just never going to be normal again? I mean, hopefully we will. We're all turning into dogs that don't have a job to do, that just are left alone in a room all day.

Our brains are doing the equivalent of a dog licking its paws until they're raw, because they're bored. And we're just in our crates all day. Yes. When you think about it. I mean, I don't know if people saw, but I bought a, like, a 1950s style Kentucky Derby game with a magnet that has the horses just fucking going around the track. And it's trash, but I loved it because it gave me 10. It got me 10 minutes closer to sports coming back. All I need is a little baby step sometimes. Just give me something to look at for 60 seconds. Yeah. If you can, if you can sell a product that somebody will have in their living room

and look at it for more than a minute right now in this economy, you can become a billionaire. By the way, if they, so after we talked to Dr. Anthony Fauci about how vaccines, obviously, there's a lot that goes into them. We got to be careful. If they could maybe go forward, could they come up with maybe a pill that puts everyone in the world to sleep for three weeks? How sick would that be? Yeah, I mean, we could also probably talk about Xanax. No, I'm talking about like, don't wake up. No chance you wake up three weeks. Everyone takes the exact same time. Ted Williams is underneath. Yeah, cryogenically. Just cut our, have everyone get their heads cut

off because you imagine put it in your freezer. Make sure that it's sealed shut when you, when you close the door and then three weeks later, retrieve your head from your freezer, screw it back on. It'd kill everything. It'd kill everything. If we all just went to sleep, but then there would definitely be one dude who would fake take it and fuck with everyone. So the problem is, did that ever like, did everything come out of that? I think the freezer, I think Ted Williams, where his head was stored, like they stopped paying the bills and the freezer was like, got dangerously warm and they had to shut it down. I might have made that up. No, there was something going on. There's something weird. Something along those

lines happened, but show me that 30 for 30. I like that risk that he took. Like, hey, science might be able to bring me back alive. Let's fucking put this thing on ice. No, I want my body to be jettisoned into outer space. Yeah, it's a vacuum out there. Nothing would like rot my body out and then eventually be picked up by aliens where they'd put me in like a breeding zoo and probably be pretty sweet. Yes. Yes. Where's Ted Williams head now? Scottsdale, cryonics facility, the home of Ted will hopes frozen dead, but people will live again. There's 168 people in there. Wow. That's crazy. Do you think when they shut the door, like at the pro football hall of fame, the heads just talk to each other?

Ted Williams gives Walt Disney betting advice. All right. So there was a story about his, how his head was mistreated in the lap. That's unfortunate. Wait, it was like a kill bill situation. I don't know. They probably like dropped it or something. Okay. I think it was one of those like, they were like, Hey, hey, can you put Ted Williams head back up on this shelf? Have you ever watched the intro to the French horror movie? High tension? No. Okay, probably for the best. Sick brag. Just saying. French horror movies. All right. We got two segments, guys on chicks. Darren Ravel needs our intervention first. Ravel's losing it. He's losing. What do you say this time? Because I saw he bragged to somebody about how he had

more sex in high school than they did. Well, he deleted his Anne Frank tweet. Thank God. But he wrote, is it going to take an actual player? I didn't think that one was that bad. I didn't think it was that bad. I understood what he was trying to say. He's just so weird about it. That's just that line of dialogue right there. He deleted his Anne Frank tweet. Thank God. That sounds like that sounds like the intro to the Christmas card that his wife sends out every year. Recapping what's what's going on in this household. Yeah, this year. Yeah, like, yeah, like Tyler lost his first tooth. Max made the little league team. Darren deleted his Anne Frank tweet. Thank God. It was a great year for the rebels. Fuck. Oh, man, people who do

that like newsletter. So weird. Yeah. He wrote, is it going to take an actual player who is being offered millions to tell NFL owners that doing 60 million and 90 million guarantees in this time is an insanely horrible look. Some of your fans are literally wondering how they're going to pay for their next meal. Well, it's true that people that some fans are not in a good place financially like the rest of the United States. But is Darren suggesting that players give their money back some of the money back to the owners so that the owners can then have that money trickle down? I think he's suggesting that we shouldn't do free agency right now during a pandemic. But first of all, it's not unsafe. It's seemingly not unsafe because you can do all the transactions

on the phone, right? To it's a much needed like distraction. Like today was the first day in a week that I didn't think of the coronavirus for like the start of the morning. Yeah. No, I mean, don't get me wrong. I was complaining about Amara Cooper getting a hundred million dollars because I love to bitch at people being more successful than me. I wasn't upset because this is happening during a Corona. No. And he also it's weird that Darren Ravel picked like, hey, man, I don't know if you know, but there are any you could pick any time in NFL history. There are fans of the teams that they don't know where the next meal is coming. I actually do think that this is a very healthy distraction. Like being able to get mad about people I'll never meet

was such a good moment for my brain. I'm not kidding. Like I don't want to be dramatic, but I felt normal today for the first time in what's been like a week of just weird news. And guess what? Tomorrow we're going back into the weird news hole. Yeah, we've been yelling at Hank about Tom Brady and it's felt good to get some of that out. Yeah. Like if it wasn't for this, we'd just be yelling at Bubba for partying all week. That's why I kind of need Tom Brady to like last second go back and be like, no, actually, I'm staying with the Patriots. And then in like five days, do it again back to the box. Well, here's how woke I was on the Tom Brady free agency situation. I truly felt that he was not going to go anywhere. I thought that he might retire during

this free agent spirit, but I thought that he was going to make every team waste as much money on him as possible. Just as like one last thank you to Mr. Kraft and Bill Belichick to just have teams waste their time and spend their wheels and spend the next like these teams that were courting Tom Brady were making plans for the next two, three years of their franchises that would have been all time wasted. If Brady had just decided, you know what? I'm going to go up into the Monday Night Football booth and be a big time Patriots. It's going to be me and Scott Zolak. Dude, Hank thinks that we're not going to play football next year and Tom Brady will never be a buck. I do. That's literally all you're hoping for now. It's not what I'm hoping for. I just like

the way things are going. I notice you're wearing bucks colors subconsciously. I stay with Tom. You litigate that. All right. Should we do guys on chicks? Either way, we need to help Darren Revelle. He's got a problem. I don't know if we have to help. Just chill out there. There's not much you can do with him. He's a lost cause. Oh, he's going to come out with some incredible corona content. Mr. 35. Oh, yeah. Hank and Thiccat. My parents told me they're getting divorced last Sunday. I've been quarantined with them for the past 10 days. Also, my Patriots fan, please tell me where to go from here. Thanks. This might be a blessing in disguise because they're going to have to. What the coronavirus did for your parents is they remade the parent

trap movie. Yes. So they're going to have to spend all their time with each other. Maybe they're going to fall in love again. Yeah. It's probably way more likely that they'll just. No, it's probably your fault. Thank you. Update on the pile. I mean, someone had to say it. Update on the pile post coronavirus cleaning. Going back to the last person, it might be sweet. It doesn't seem sweet now, but like two years from now, three years from now, you're going to have so many more Christmases. So congrats. Yes. True. A lot of Christmases. Christmas doesn't really matter. Tom Brady's a puck. Yeah. What's it like you can afford like Legos and video games? Like it's like.

You tell what you're buying. Well, that was like when I was a kid. I can't get Legos or video games till Christmas. That would be funny if you're like, yeah, dude, I'm 26 now. I can buy my own Legos. I mean, Christmas, I just get underwear all the time. The pile up. I can eat. I can eat lucky charms every day if I want. The pile was checked for mouse poop. Absolutely no mouse poop. So the pile is clean. We cleaned off our desks, which was big. That's a we looked into it and coronavirus surfaces have to be clean. So we made sure we were safe. That the pile, like we said, as soon as basketball comes back, it will be on sale all for a good cause. Hey, quarantines. So with the lockdown, my boyfriend has been much more conscious of his cleaning habits,

good, which is nice. Except today he told me he actually scrubbed his feet in the shower, meaning he never had in the past. Yeah, you know, he says that they can get clean anyways, because that's where the soap ends up. Do all guys think this or is the the actual coronavirus patient zero? The combination of never scrub my feet. So here's the thing, the combination of the soap that trickles down to your feet and the piss that your feet sit in when you pee on yourself in the shower, that eliminates every single germ possible. Every guy knows this. Yeah. Let's just say I think I speak for all men out there. This pandemic, we're learning about a lot about hygiene. A lot of things we didn't know. But you know what?

We're better for it. Like that's a positive. We're looking for positives right now in the world. I now know washing my hands for two seconds does nothing. There are going to be so many guys that come out of this quarantine situation or the shelter in place, whatever they're calling it, that have that like in between shaggy short hair. And they're going to said, you know, what the hell? Why don't just grow my hair out? Yeah, yeah, there can be a lot of dudes this summer growing that long that flow. I was actually thinking about this. Do you think that with the coronavirus like obviously we I hope it ends as soon as possible. But if it if it's the bad case where it goes on for like four or five months, do you think that's long enough to culturally

change us away from ever doing handshakes again? Oh, bows. Like if we just become and then we look back like in 40 years you tell your grandkids like we actually used to hold each other's hands and shake it like our parents talking about smoking cigarettes. Yeah, like we used to just hold each other's hands really awkwardly and trade germs until coronavirus. That would be a big come up for white guys that don't know how to adapt. It would also be massive huge for just the confusion when you do the like, am I going in for the handshake? Am I? It's huge. Yeah, it's what I'm saying. Like white guys, we get stuck in this area. Sometimes we don't know what we're doing. We're just following the lead and it looks awkward every single time. If we just

avoid touching hands altogether, that'd be pretty cool. Yeah. So maybe maybe we're like on the cusp of something here. This would be crazy. There are going to be some unintended cultural changes. But yeah, I know I don't want to feed to answer the question. Someone was Jesus do that for me. Someone tried to someone tried to say that instead of a dap, we should be like you walk up to someone and you you like tap your heart like hi hello. It was the fucking lamest shit I've ever seen. Wow. I'd rather do the dab. I would rather I'd rather fucking tongue kiss you than do this every time. Touch your own chest. Well, you also in my mouth before I touched my heart, spit in my mouth daddy. You also have like a little no offense, but like a small jiggle

situation that when you have a small jiggle, when you hit your chest, the titties bounce. It's a big jiggle. Yeah, I mean this goes on which of the teen is over. Yeah, the quarantine is not going to be doing well for my breasts. Sup. Hey, boys, especially Bubba, I'm a pure masochist through and through masochist, masochist, masochist. You got it. You got it. You got it. I liked that doesn't count. That doesn't count as somebody from Boston that you that hates their life right now. You got it. You got it. My boyfriend knows this, but refuses to hit me while we're having sex. I personally think he should be all about it. But how do I convince him? It's actually okay and he won't actually hurt me. Yeah, I would. We're not touching faces right now. So

yeah, no hitting. Why don't you just hit him? She's a pure masochist through and through. Yeah, but just still no hitting. Yeah, it's weird. I don't know. I feel like you can like, you can like find a group for that. Now I feel really old. Like, don't you have like a group for that or something? We can just hit each other. Fight club. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. Hey, wide cat and Mr. 35, I need your help. It's a wide dog. My boyfriend has gotten too comfortable around me and has recently started to Dutch oven me on a regular basis. What can I do to get him back? Dude, I was thinking about this. Okay, unrelated. We'll kind of relate it to this, adjacent to this. God help any new couples, new couples, like they moved in together the last three months

and they're living in a one bathroom apartment during this quarantine. Yeah, but they're going to be having so much sex that someone's going to get pregnant too. I don't know, man. That's a tough like that first initial. I'm talking like maybe the first initial like we're fucking every day thing is over. So it's like three, four months. And now you're just shitting in front of each other and you got nowhere to go. Yikes. Yeah, well, if you look at it, the there's definitely a gradient curve that comes up in relationship where the number of times you fuck becomes the number of times you shit over time. Right. And the number of times that you shit in that apartment becomes the number of times that you fuck. Right. At the beginning, you're crapping like once a week.

Right. You're holding that in. Right. The first month and then you get to the like that even time where you're the fucking stops and the shitting keeps going. Because then once you get past it, once you're like a year or two in, this is old hat for anyone who's living in an apartment with someone they've been with for a while. Was it the convergence point, the Mendoza line? What do we call that? So yeah, the shit fucking no, someone someone hit us up who has moved in with their girlfriend or boyfriend in the last three months and is now like both home from work dealing with it. Hit us up for next week's guys on checks. I want to hear how that's going. Alright, last one. Hi, Corona cat and COVID commenter. Damn, you got us both. My birthday is today, March 18th.

So it's basically been canceled by this pandemic and I'm sad. It would mean the world to me if you guys gave me, Audrey, a special birthday shout out. Love you guys. Wait, what happened to her? It's her birthday. Her birthday has been ruined by viruses. Happy birthday, Audrey. Yeah. And to everyone else out there. Happy birthday. Yeah, I don't you should actually still, you know what, make everyone FaceTime you do that. It's birthday week. Yeah, it's birthday week. Make them show up in FaceTime. What is it? Telehealth? Telehealth. We're telehealthing guys. Telehealth your friends. Stay safe. And we'll see everyone on Friday. Friday, by the way, quick announcement, got to finish. Love is blind. Love is blind. Friday, we have Mark on the show.

I mean, this show and we might have him in Ruffin Rowdy. Let's just say that we'll see what happens. Love you guys. I'm breaking for the players and the coaches and certainly the fans. This has become one of the biggest sporting events in the world over this three week period every year. But as we all know, there are greater concerns and this is a global pandemic and it was the responsible thing to do for the NCAA and all the different conferences to cancel play. This astounding and unprecedented story continues to evolve. I've had time with Adrian Loginowski. I suggested that we would speak to him soon. I had no idea that it would be this soon. He has just tweeted within the past

community. NBA is suspending the season. I say that understanding that as we speak, the game in Dallas is continuing. Why we're going Dallas, the game is continuing. Of sports, but in the world in general with this coronavirus outbreak, this was the necessary step for the national holidays. Yeah, it's really not a surprise in light of events that have taken place in the last, what, well, 16 hours and it's just amazing how quickly things can move. Because I guess at the beginning of last week, I was going to ask the general manager's meeting, we were asking the commissioner, asking the managers and they were saying they were monitoring the situation and that's what

they've been doing and we're at a stage now when they feel, as they said in the statement, it is no longer appropriate to continue to try to play the games at this time and we are headed into kind of a period of the unknown and hopefully it'll be a period where everybody can get things back on track in this country around the world and get back to the silly stuff which we do, which is hockey, right? It seems like moment by moment we're finding out a new league has terminated its season or canceled the tournament. We're here at the bank of California, stadium, the home of LAFC, both LAFC LA Galaxies suspending their seasons at least for 30 days as MLS came out saying they are taking a pause on their season. We have some breaking news that

Masters has officially been postponed at this time, that announcement we've just made, so let's get some quick reaction on that announcement right now. I'm not surprised. We've got to follow everybody else right now. We're talking about a live, we're talking about a situation where there are too many questions, not enough answers. People can't really get tested for crying out loud through vaccine available or anything like that. There's too many questions and as a result any time you have any kind of event that's going to have a plethora of people around one another, that's something that can be tolerated at this particular moment in time. It's part of my take presented by Bar Stool Sports.