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Strange times call for improvisation and trying new things. So this week The Ricochet Podcast isn't just a podcast, it's also a Zoom webinar (sorry, the video is only for Ricochet members -- not a member? Join today!). See James Lileks' secret TV studio designed by a dyslexic! Rob Long owns and prominently displays Communist propaganda! Peter Robinson is wearing a sweater! Wait, that's not a surprise. OK, he's floating above San Francisco bay! But enough about the video, more importantly, we've got a great guest this week: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at the Stanford Medical School, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He explains why the numbers we're seeing may not tell the entire story of this pandemic. Also, a new Lileks Post of The Week, My Life as a Google End User, some thoughts about life as we now know it, and some cameo appearances from some actual Ricochet members!
Music From This Week's Show: Sitting In My Room by The Ramones
James Lileks
Peter Robinson
Rob Long
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
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AHEM
According to my video feed, the R behind me was pointed in the proper direction. First time using Zoom; won't happen again. (The backwards R, I mean.)
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Less startling than your head disappearing from time to time.
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@jameslileks , I thought you were behind a window with a giant Ricochet logo plastered on it. So of course it would appear reversed.
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When you hear the good and obviously brilliant doctor speak with humility of how much the medical experts really don't know and how the public should be skeptical about what they are told and what should be done, remember how smug and certain Rob has been about this whole crisis and how we absolutely had to shut down everyone and everything and there was no other choice. Also recall all those times Rob was praising globalism and how he warned about how ill prepared we were for the certain to come viral pandemic...oh, wait, he never did say a word about that. Never mind.
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