#1445 - Andy Stumpf

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Two, one, Andy Stumpf!

How are you, buddy? I'm good.

Andy Stumpf (0:06)

A lot.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

There's a lot happening. Do you have a hot take on this, Andy?

What's your hot take?

Andy Stumpf (0:12)

I get text messages from people saying, you know, give me the inside scoop as to what's happening and what I should do.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Yeah.

Andy Stumpf (0:19)

And I don't have a good answer. I have the same information sources that everybody else does.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

My concern is not that we shouldn't protect people that are sick and people that are old.

My concern is that these decisions are being done by politicians and that they want to do this so that they can be elected come re-election. They don't want people to be upset at them for not acting. And so they're making these decisions, and they're not showing us exactly how they're going to get out of this. Like when you're shutting down Los Angeles for a month, just the staggering amount of people that are going to be in debt, and there was some number that we looked it up recently of the amount of people that live check to check. It's crazy. It's like half of America.

Andy Stumpf (1:07)

The average American, the stat I saw was that they cannot absorb an expense outside of the normal over $400.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

Right. That's gone. That's already gone. So already most Americans are fucked now just with this dip.

And then they're talking about extending this to April 19th.

I just don't know if they have a plan. I don't know how they're going to buy their way out of this. Like what do you do? How do you help those folks?

Andy Stumpf (1:33)

I mean, I'm the wrong person to ask about that.

But I would hope at least that the politicians, I'm sure there's an aspect always if you are a politician, in the back of your mind, I have to conduct myself in a way where I can get reelected. Like everything is probably viewed through that. But I would hope at least that they're viewing it through the humanity perspective. And as far as the decisions they're making, I don't think anybody knows what to do.

Joe Rogan (1:58)

Yeah, I don't think anybody knows what to do either. They feel like they have to do something, so they're doing something.

We all need to look at Idris Elba, because that guy looks fucking great.

Andy Stumpf (2:08)

He does.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

He's got it. He's got it, and he seems fine.

Tom Hanks, he says he's just kind of tired.

Andy Stumpf (2:17)

I can't make heads or tails of it, because if you go, the longer you spend on your phone, I think the more, or your computer, I think the more confused you'll actually become, because I don't know, to be honest, who's telling the truth and who is not. There's stories of people saying, hey, I tested positive for this. I don't have any symptoms. Hey, I live in Italy. Three people are dead in my hallway, and I got sick and I don't feel that good. And then you watch people walking around in zombie apocalypse suits with mop level four gear on, not listening to how... I was walking on the beach yesterday, and there are people with these huge social bubbles. They don't want to be near each other.

And from what I can tell or from what I'm reading, and again, it's so heads or tails, you basically have to be coughed on or sneezed on or touch the surface that one of these infected people have touched or in close proximity. And there's people on the beach walking around in hazmat suits.

It's a wild time.

Joe Rogan (3:16)

It's a wild time because of that, because there's no clear information and because you're seeing some people that look really healthy, and then you're seeing the stories that come out of Italy. One thing to take into consideration with Italy is Italy has one of the oldest populations. They have a lot of old people and a shit ton of smokers.

Those two factors are huge here because this is a respiratory disease.

Andy Stumpf (3:35)

Well, don't they also have, in comparison to the rest of the world, more generations living in a single household?

Joe Rogan (3:41)

Yes.

Andy Stumpf (3:42)

Which I would imagine is going to be, you know, as those generations move on, you're going to have higher risk people living with people who are low risk but might be transmitting it.

Joe Rogan (3:50)

Yes, that's the real concern. The real concern is you're going to transmit it to your grandma or someone who's sick. There was a guy, it's weird how the news gives you these stories, because there was a guy that was 34 years old that died, and they said he just got back from Disneyland. You're like, fuck, I thought you lived forever once you go to Disneyland. This is crazy, he just got back from Disneyland?