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runs, hits, errors. r.p. is on site in dyersville, iowa, at the field of dreams—a stopover on a cross country road trip. he talks with tom scott about COVID: what has worked to return to normalcy, and what hasn't? has the trial and error of returning to normalcy worked? they also discuss the face of the pandemic in the america’s heartland, and the return to school and market predictions.

tom scott is chairman & co-founder of the nantucket project. rp eddy was the architect of the Clinton administration’s pandemic response framework and the United Nations response to the global AIDS epidemic & is CEO of global intelligence firm Ergo.  

rp is co-author of the best-selling award-winning book Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes with Richard A. Clarke, Former National Security Council counterterrorism adviser.

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[00:00:21] OK. Hey, everybody, my name name's Tom Scott. Welcome, Naki, Danieli, Arpey. I think it's Dyersville. I think that's the name of the town is in Dyersville, Iowa, certainly. He is sitting in front of the Field of Dreams field, not far from a corn field. And if you remember the movie, The Little Girl, sell off that bleacher that's over his left shoulder. But to our right, our t tell us a little just before we go to you, Larry Gordon is a good family friend of ours. Larry Gordon produced Field of Dreams and lost a bunch of other movies. He spoke about it at Nantucket Project a couple years ago. And I'm going to send this to Larry. He'll be excited. But tell us how you ended up there. 
 
[00:01:03] We're driving. Good to see you, Tom. By the way, we're driving from New York, Greenwich, all the way to Idaho. And this was there's that there's an app called Trip Planner. And it sort of shows you things in the way. So largely they keep the kids from clawing their faces off. We stopped here on the way. And it's just like the movie, like you drive, you know, good 20 miles through cornfields and cows. And it smells right now like manure, which is, you know, it's not a new smell for me, having grown up in Wisconsin. It's very new from, hey, kids and my wife. And they're like, you know, having little trouble with that. But you come over a bluff and there's snow. You see the lights first. You can see him behind me. They're there, you know, big stadium lights. And then there's the field. And there's not many people here, a lot of them around in the field right now. And it is their house is right behind me, actually. I'll tell you soon. Get a look at it. We can try it later, but that won't work as the focus. But there's the house. I'll get a better shot of it later. And here we are. And it's pretty neat. It's real. I mean, I love this movie and I have a you can tell your friend, the producer that my grandfather, right before he died, he and I, my namesake, he and I and my my then fiancee, now my wife Kelly, spent an evening with him towards the end of his life. We watched Field of Dreams in the movie, as you'll remember, is so emotionally evocative, so beautiful, so touching. It's about fathers and sons as well. And at the end of it, my grandfather was a very, very stoic guy, didn't really like enormous Ernest Hemingway type of character. Talked very little, drank a lot. Pretty hard man. Kind of started crying, which I'd never seen before at the end of the movie and decided to unburden himself to Kelly and I of, I guess, some things in his life that he was. 
 
[00:02:54] You want to explain about how he treated my dad an...