Joe Rogan Experience #1445 - Andy Stumpf

... two, one, and they stomp. How are you, buddy?

Hello. I'm good.

What's going on?

Uh, a lot.

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

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

Yeah.

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

My concern is, uh, 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, they want to do this so that they can be elected come reelection. Th- 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 gonna get out of this. Like, w- when you're shutting down Los Angeles for a month, the ... just the staggering amount of people that are gonna be in debt, and, uh, and, and there's some number that we, we looked it up recently of the amount of people that live check to check. It's crazy. It's like half of America.

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

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. (sighs) I just don't... I don't know if they have a plan. I don't know how they're gonna buy their way out of this. Like, what do you d- how do you, how do you help those folks?

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

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, 'cause that guy looks fucking great. (laughs)

He does.

He's got ... He's, he's got it. He's got it, and there's ... I mean, he seems fine. Tom Hanks, he says he's just kind of tired.

It's, uh, I, I can't make heads or tails of it, because if you-

No.

... if you go the longer you spend on li- your phone, I think the more ... or your computer, I think the more confused you'll actually become, because I don't know, uh, 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, you know, mop level 4 gear on, not listening to, you know, how ... You know, we were ... I was walking on the beach yesterday, and, you know, there's, there are people, these huge social bubbles, they don't want to be near each other.