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And serious XM channel 83 one hour from now Colin Wright Colin wrong plenty of both that is great to have you in today. Rick Riley 15 time National Sports writer of the year joins me in about an hour 15. It is great to have you in today. I thought I would start with something.

And I did not watch a lot of television this weekend. I did not do a lot of social media this weekend as I've said dating back to three weeks ago. I think the mental part of this. The psychological part of this is really, really important. That's why I don't believe we live in a police state.

If you want to get in the car and go for a drive in Texas with a cup of coffee with your wife, where your masks go for it. We don't live in a police state. I wear a mask everywhere I go now. And I have for about five, six days. It's the new normal. But here's one of the things and it just there's a lot of doom and gloom. Here's a prime example. So I have a phone like you do, right? And on my phone. There's a little sight I go to every day. It gives me the weather in my little Manhattan Beach in California.

And every 12 hours it changes. I mean, it's something unbelievable. In March, we've had a lot of wind and rain every 15 hours, every 12 hours, it changes. It was going to be nice this week. And about three days ago, it's going to be terrible this week. It's got poor all week. Didn't look like that about five days ago on my phone.

So that's using radar, your local weather person all over America in most cities in the winter and spring when we have real weather, unpredictable weather. Once they go to a seven day forecast, totally inaccurate. They can get about three to four days right. The longer it goes, they're inaccurate. That's with radar.

Time tested radar. So excuse me if I don't buy into local sports reporters or national NFL beat guys telling me football is not going to happen September temp. That's over five months away.

We can't get it right with radar helping us with weather four days out. Our government, you don't have to wear masks. Couple days ago, it's urgent. Everybody wear masks.

The University of Washington has a COVID-19 model. Oh, they readjusted it today. There's a 45% drop in beds needed in America, almost half.

Everything's changing. This is incredibly fluid. Nobody has any answers. The models are outdated an hour after their out. The CDC projected 1.7 million deaths to start.

Come on. Social distancing is a real deal. Keep doing it. Do it soon. Do it often. But we don't live in a police state. If you want to go for a walk, put a cloth around your mouth in the neighborhood and make sure happy. Do it.

So I'm everybody's talking about the NFL. And if the NFL is going to happen and the NFL is not none of us know. Here's what we do know in Europe, Italy. They have flattened the curve New York City at their peak appears to be close to flattening the curve. They may have already done it. Oregon's already beaten the curve. Europe hot spots. New York City. These are hot spots. These aren't like rural Utah, rural Indiana. They flatten the curve. We also know that by late

May gets hot as hell on this country in Texas in the South by June, July. We know that warm weather. Can stem the spread of viruses. But I don't make any predictions. If you want to make a prediction on the NFL, let's get through April and May. Let's just get through it. All right. Nobody knows. I mean radar weather people don't know five days out. Our government flip flops weekly on masks. Don't wear masks. These models. University of

Washington models all over the map. I don't believe any of these models. None of them. I just know that social distancing works. That's what I know. So I wear stuff. Masks in the store I wear when I go for walks I wear. And maybe I look like a total nerd, but I don't care. That's the new normal. Here's the other thing. Don't let Twitter guilt you into believing that you can't be simultaneously empathetic for those who are dying.

And also have a conversation pivoting to the economy. We got to start it back up golf this morning. PGA when out and said, yeah, we got to do some tournaments. No fans were doing them. Thank you golf to grown ups. We're pivoting out a real conversation. Twitter wants to make you feel guilty.

I think it's a good opportunity that you don't wake up every morning and think the world's ending and you don't care about every single thing in every I care about New York City, but America is not New York City. New York City is a city in America.

That doesn't mean like Plano, Texas is going to be New York City or South Dakota is going to be New York City or Oregon is going to be New York City. I don't have the population density or the dynamic subway travel or the shoulder to shoulder living elevators up elevators down.

I don't have empathy for people, but I also realize we need to have grown up conversations on this stuff and people are trying to project like they know stuff. Our government doesn't models don't radar doesn't. Who knows.

Trump came out yesterday as president and said, you know, I think we're going to have a football season. He's a leader. He's trying to be optimistic. I appreciate that. But you know, one thing I've really realized that the people in the media, I'm not going to name any names, but I know a couple people in the media that live on their phones.

Because they're like beat reporters and they live on them. In fact, like strangely on their phone all day. I put my now for hours. Those are the people that tend to be panicking and making bold predictions and don't have a clue. It is not even April 10th.

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