Rand Paul

Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Thanks for having me.

My pleasure.

Great to be in Austin.

I grew up in Texas, and so we used to come up here for live music.

I went to Baylor, and there was no music, no dancing.

If you wanted to hear some live music, you came to Austin.

So I've been here many times.

Nice.

One of the greatest tragedies, and we knew this within days, was that children weren't getting sick, but that should have been used to our advantage.

Children did not get sick.

No child without a health issue really died.

Right.

My kids both got it.

Right.

But most of them had a very mild illness.

And the point is, is that we knew this in China in the first couple of weeks, and we could have left the schools open.

And some countries left the schools open.

For the most part, Sweden left their schools open and treated this completely different and turned out with a similar – everybody wound up with a similar death rate with primarily the people dying were people who were older and overweight or both.

The argument didn't really hold water, though, because everybody got it anyway.