Wins & Losses - Clay Travis Sits Down With Avik Roy
2 Pros and a Cup of Joe
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🗓️ 21 August 2020
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
This week on Wins & Losses with Clay Travis, Clay is joined by Avik Roy, the President and Founder of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity as well as Policy Editor for Forbes. The two talk about Avik’s educational background, which includes a degree from MIT, as well as medical degree from Yale. The two have a long conversation about the Coronavirus and some of Avik’s viewpoints and opinions. Clay and Avik have a long, intelligent discussion about the many factors of COVID-19, including the scientific, analytical, political, media related and sports related concepts of this entire situation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Winds and Losses with Clay Travis. Clay talks with the most entertaining people |
| 0:07.3 | in sports, entertainment and business. Now here's Clay Travis. |
| 0:18.5 | Welcome in Winds and Losses podcast. I am Clay Travis and we're about to be joined by |
| 0:22.8 | Ovec Roy, who I think you guys are really going to enjoy. He's been doing fantastic work |
| 0:27.8 | looking at the data surrounding the coronavirus, making recommendations on so many different levels, |
| 0:33.7 | been writing for the Wall Street Journal among other locations. We have never actually spoken |
| 0:38.6 | before, but I am impressed by the work that he's done. I found him on social media over |
| 0:43.4 | the last several months and we bring him in now, Ovec Roy. Let me go ahead and start here. |
| 0:48.7 | How can people find you on social media? How can they read your work, Ovec? And thanks for joining us. |
| 0:55.0 | Hey, thanks, Clay. Well, thanks to my eccentric parents. My name is spelled A-V-I-K-N-O-V-I-K-A-V-I-K. |
| 1:02.6 | And that's my Twitter handle, A-V-I-K, just like it sounds, A-V-I-V-I-K. |
| 1:06.8 | All right. So your background as we get into so many different interesting topics that I want |
| 1:10.8 | to discuss with you, but what is your educational background that led you into the profession that |
| 1:17.1 | you have now and what do you do for a living? It's a bit of a zigzag path. My undergraduate degree |
| 1:22.8 | was in molecular biology at MIT. And then I went to medical school at Yale and then instead of |
| 1:28.7 | becoming a doctor or a scientist, I went into biotechnology investing where I invested in |
| 1:33.8 | companies trying to develop new treatments for diseases, vaccines, all that sort of thing. |
| 1:38.3 | And then I got really interested in healthcare reform. And that led me down the rabbit hole |
| 1:42.3 | of healthcare policy and economic policy in general and worked on a bunch of presidential campaigns. |
| 1:47.6 | And now I run a think tank in Austin, Texas called the foundation for research on equal |
| 1:52.3 | opportunity where we come up with ideas to help more Americans climb up the economic ladder of success. |
| 1:58.3 | All right. So I'm fascinated by several different things you've already told us. So what is the |
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