Today on the Zabe cast who to thunk it but it seems like OJ has figured out these

arguing shows on TV are crap. Andy Poland joins me we talked being adrift about sports, the Jordan

documentary and cruise ships. All that plus a monster parlay on something I had

no idea you could bet on. Your Wednesday dose of normalcy in a global pandemic is locked and loaded so

buckle up and let's go. Oh!

Wednesday, April 1st, 2020. Thanks for joining me. We're not doing April Fool's jokes or pranks today. I don't, I'm not in the mood. I don't know if anyone else is, maybe you are, not me. 2020 has already

been a shit year to start and it's barely even begun. So let's get to it. You know I've been thinking about the nature of optimism

versus pessimism in life a lot lately and certainly now is a real opportune time for one to focus on which

camp you generally fall into and despite my continued optimism about how America will

look by July 1st and how it will look again by September 1st.

I don't really want to give too much voice to that here because in part optimists who turn out being wrong come off as suckers, suckers at best.

At worst they come off as dummies.

As people are like, I don't get it,

I think it's going to be fine, I got a great life, you know,

it's going to be fine.

Because if something is worse than you think it will be.

And if it's a complex thing like this global pandemic is,

well then you get branded as somebody who just doesn't understand it. But if you play the other side you play the pessimist

angle there seems to be less to lose. If you're wrong you can always revert to a

number of factors. You could say well we did a good job of stopping it, or, well, you

know, at least I took this thing seriously. So I kind of think right now in the public

sphere of commentary, the optimist side is getting quite a bit

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