It's like it just drives me freaking crazy that I can't go out and play baseball and watch baseball. Baseball.

That's Ben White, political's chief economic correspondent.

I've been watching on the SPN like whatever old stuff they'll show.

I was watching old college gymnastic meets the

other day like anything involving you know one team competing against another if it's

on the television I'll watch it the other day I think like Holland was playing Spain and in women's handball yeah yeah I was flipping

past I was like you know I do not know the outcome of this game I do not know what's gonna happen

and so I watched it in a way we're getting introduced to things that we wouldn't otherwise ever have known too

much about, unless you are a women's handball officiadato.

I am now.

You are now, exactly. And I learned a lot about like the triple lust.

It's beautiful! He made it! He made it!

Triple lust! He made it! He made it!

Triple lust! But that's besides the point.

Welcome to Nerd Cast.

I'm Scott Bland, and today on Nerdcast, the huge actions and programs

the government is spinning up to combat coronavirus and aid the economy, and how none of it is close to enough.

U.S. economy is basically at a standstill.

And we want to know not just when it will reopen, but how and what that will look like and

basically whether we're headed for another massive long-term economic

depression and so Ben White is here to give me an idea.

Yeah I mean this is the question that every economist is debating right now is how quickly can the

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