Dr. Jay Varma, the city s former COVID czar, was caught on tape by YouTuber Steven Crowder on the front page of the New York Post this morning. The video released by conservative podcaster Stephen Crowder shows Dr. Varma boasting about violating the city's COVID restrictions.
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00:02:03.000Now a city councilman is calling for an investigation into Dr. Jay Varma after he admitted to ignoring the very rules that he was asking New Yorkers to follow.
00:04:31.000Last week, we brought you the Varma Gates, you know the guy, the COVID czar, underground sex parties.
00:04:37.000But today, and I want to let you know right off the top, if you are in New York City, at noon, City Hall, You are going to have God knows how many people protesting the city and their lockdowns, their mandates, because people lost their jobs, people lost loved ones, people weren't able to visit loved ones, and the piece that you helped create with Mug Club Undercover has inspired city council members to stand up and actually create an event today, a protest.
00:05:00.000Gerald is going to be live from City Hall later today.
00:05:03.000That's noon, if you are in New York City.
00:05:06.000We'll also be talking about a weekend full of endorsements and, you know, an election.
00:05:10.000I don't know if you know this, Election Day is coming up.
00:05:13.000So let me ask you this, before we move on, if you could ask former New York City COVID architect, czar, whatever you want to call him, Jay Varma, the sex guy, if you could ask him one question, what would it be?
00:05:28.000I know it's really hard when you're asking the sex guy.
00:05:32.000Right, because your mind probably goes to all the orgies.
00:05:35.000Which, one thing to the news reporters who kept saying sex orgies, it kind of is assumed with orgy.
00:05:41.000If you say, if there's anything else like an orgy, like I don't know, like a hot dog orgy or a pizza orgy, you would say anything other than sex because orgy obviously presumes that.
00:07:02.000Rightfully criticizes America, where they should be criticized, but then glorifies the Chinese Communist Party, North Korea, terrorists, you know, that have kidnapped and murdered people.
00:07:10.000I think it's weird how he ties himself to MAGA and MAGA communism, when Donald Trump is the most pro-Israeli president that's ever lived.
00:07:19.000MAGA, communism are complete polar opposites of each other.
00:09:21.000I'm going to ask him as a gentleman, oh, look at that.
00:09:24.000He's just looking for... It's the opposite of clickbait.
00:09:26.000And then you have this guy, and this is what happens when people are on the right.
00:09:29.000They try and tar and feather anyone who criticizes anyone, right, who might be seen on the right, or who might be seen as being in the sort of edge troll sphere.
00:09:54.000Um, I knew that we might end up getting featured because the cameras were there and I talked to Donnie and then Donnie started following me on Twitter.
00:10:02.000I was like, oh, he's doing a little OSIN on me, but I didn't know until my friend from the Philippines sent it to me.
00:10:07.000She's like, oh, I'm in a, I just woke up and turned on CNN.
00:10:38.000Was there anything that they didn't show that you wish they had?
00:10:42.000I had like a nice 10-minute conversation with them out in the hallway and they asked me if they thought he was spreading misinformation and should be allowed to do so.
00:10:53.000No, but then I said, it's kind of like when you pretend that refugee camps have a bunch of refugees living in them and then you report that without doing any fact-checking.
00:11:00.000That's misinformation, but I guess you should be allowed to do that too.
00:12:20.000And look, we've burned the boats, left nothing for the swim back.
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00:12:25.000Last Thursday, we here broke a major story on Jay Varma, the architect of COVID policy in New York and For those who missed it, here's just a brief recap.
00:12:37.000For those who've already seen it, you can take a potty break.
00:12:40.000So I want you to take yourself back to March of 2020.
00:13:48.000City Hall in New York City, head on down.
00:13:51.000This story, because of you, was covered by, it's reached tens of millions of people.
00:13:55.000It's kind of hard to gauge online because people rip it and then re-upload it and people don't attribute the folks who, but we know that it's reached pretty much everybody who follows the news cycle.
00:14:05.000And we really appreciate that you've done that.
00:14:07.000And that's applying pressure now where some people are wanting to use this as evidence against the city for people who've actually been affected by the COVID policy.
00:14:14.000And you know, Lane, I don't really follow the people who cover this stuff, but you compiled it and you said it was a lot.
00:14:20.000Yeah, I mean, there was others on our team that definitely have been working overtime to make sure that we don't miss anything, but it was national to international.
00:14:32.000The Daily Mail, Independent, CBS, NBC, anybody you can think of on that regard.
00:14:36.000Every local outlet in New York, they're ABC affiliate, CBS, Fox, and there's also, Spectrum News is a thing, but we wouldn't normally include it, but we can.
00:15:02.000So I guess we have a clip here from Spectrum covering it.
00:15:05.000On the front page of the New York Post this morning, former city COVID czar and Bill de Blasio health advisor Dr. Jay Varma, a conservative podcaster, secretly recorded him saying he attended sex parties during the pandemic as he was advising New Yorkers to stay home.
00:15:21.000By the way, the lady with the super hot bod is Brian Stelter's wife.
00:16:11.000Said, uh, Mr. Crowder, the podcaster, has routinely used hidden camera and techniques that would be considered ethical breaches in the world of professional journalism.
00:16:21.000Look, I hear the accusation of ethical breaches from the New York Times.
00:16:53.000Ah, yes, he's got to deposit a couple coins to, you know.
00:16:56.000This story, just so you know, you did such an effective job in not only supporting this, amplifying it, that it even forced people who would never, ever want to cover this company and amplify it, whose names have been omitted.
00:17:11.000Well, I think there's a point to that that does need to be touched on, because people hate us.
00:17:17.000I'm sure Jay Varma is not the least among them.
00:17:19.000But the whole media sphere, people even on our side, everybody hates us.
00:17:23.000Like you said, we're a little bit of an island at some points, but I think that's okay, because we can still do this work because of what you've built here.
00:17:31.000It's amazing when you force someone to cover that would do everything in their power to avoid it but this story it kind of transcends Republican to Democrat to unaffiliated it affected everybody which is why I think if Republicans would run on things like this we would be a lot more successful because you see when people do tell the story Thousands of people left New York City.
00:17:52.000Well, I've said this before it's look when people say If you need a flying spaghetti monster to tell you not to steal it, you're an awful person I said, okay.
00:18:01.000There are cultures where murder what we would consider murder is fine There are certainly cultures where theft and certainly cultures where what we would consider pedophilia are fine, right?
00:18:11.000There are cultural differences in those sort of Varying degrees of crime, but there's one thing.
00:18:16.000So I say it's hard to get the entire world to agree on anything.
00:18:55.000The people who are okay with selling child brides.
00:18:59.000In the plains of certain tribes in Africa, right, where that takes place, would still be pissed if they found out that they were buying a 14-year-old and they thought she was 12.
00:19:11.000That's how universal it is that people don't like being lied to and screwed.
00:19:15.000When you add on top of that, in this instance, that people had to change their lives, that people lost their jobs, that people had to say goodbye to family members who were dying in the hospital because of COVID policies and mandates and lockdowns.
00:20:40.000And reading through this, the one thing, there was a new op-ed that came out in the New York Times this morning, right before we went on air.
00:20:46.000And they're so close to connecting the dots, but they're just missing it.
00:20:49.000They're like, well, this is a big reason why Trumpism is so popular, because of the lack of trust in our institutions and blah blah blah.
00:20:56.000Yes, but they just fail to say there should be a lack of trust in institutions.
00:21:01.000It's like dealing with a sociopath or a narcissist where it's like, it's like, hey, I'm going to do all these things.
00:21:07.000I'm going to lie and I'm going to cheat.
00:21:44.000You told me the path to success was to get a college degree from a good school, and I did it, and now I'm in debt, and you told me to vote the Democrat Party, and they told me they were going to forgive the debt for the Supreme Court so that they can't, and now I have to kill all of you!
00:22:06.000But the media wants to blame the person whose trust has been violated.
00:22:11.000That's why you think it's such a big deal.
00:22:14.000And there are so many people who, even though they have to cover the story because they hear you, they look at you like a broken toy, like a puzzle they have to solve.
00:22:21.000I don't know why these people just, don't they know?
00:22:24.000Why don't they understand that all of these institutions exist to help them, to serve them?
00:22:28.000Because you're the one who's been abused.
00:24:20.000Varma personally responded to the story.
00:24:22.000Now, I know for those who are waiting for an apology, he said, unfortunately, I was targeted by an operative for an extremist Right-wing organization determined to malign public health officials and take down the public health system in America.
00:24:51.000They don't want anything to do with him.
00:24:53.000If he would have just said he wants to malign people, he wants to malign me and sow distrust in institutions, but other public health officials now want to say, hold on a second, I didn't have sex parties.
00:26:07.000In those private conversations that were secretly recorded, spliced, diced, and taken out of context, I referred to events that transpired four years ago.
00:26:37.000You ever watched consumer reporting, like John Stossel used to do for ABC?
00:26:43.000Why was it okay back then, and it's not okay now?
00:26:46.000As a matter of fact, it was so okay, and deemed so necessary, that I believe all states except for 11 have single-party consent states, in large part to protect investigative journalism.
00:26:58.000We are now entering an era where people feel they can weaponize big tech, weaponize social media, and bypass laws, and kill any investigative journalism they don't like.
00:27:09.000There's a reason that you're allowed to record conversations across the country, that it is legally recognized.
00:27:17.000They used to tell you it mattered when they were investigating some corrupt corporation, whether it was Pepsi or it was the Sears catalog, whatever the hell it was.
00:27:25.000But when it involves government officials, well now it's your fault.
00:27:27.000Why don't you trust your institutions?
00:27:29.000I'll tell you exactly why you don't trust your institutions.
00:27:38.000Facing the greatest public health crisis in a century, our top priority was to save lives and every decision made was based on the best available science to keep New Yorkers safe.
00:27:56.000Now, I would be okay with I would say it's not as bad if instead of this fake virtue, again, victim, victim, victim, victim, narcissist, victim, victim, victim.
00:28:26.000If you were to say, look, I was trying to save lives, and in spite of that, I made a mistake, and that would be one thing.
00:28:34.000In other words, if you were to say, in spite of the fact that I was having orgies, and in spite of the fact that I took great joy in banning Kyrie Irving or making sure that Kyrie Irving couldn't play basketball, in spite of the fact that I made people uncomfortable, Socially pressured them to the point that they were forced to take the vaccine.
00:28:51.000All of these measures, I believe, were good for New York.
00:29:03.000Instead, he wants you to believe that all the mistakes he made were for you.
00:29:07.000And it's your fault that you don't trust your institutions.
00:29:12.000I stand by my efforts to get New Yorkers vaccinated against COVID-19, and I reject dangerous extremist efforts to undermine the public's confidence in the need for the effectiveness of vaccines.
00:29:23.000Guys, this is a masterclass, and it's overused because everyone out there talks about, you know, every single pop psychologist, red flags.
00:29:30.000This is someone who actually thinks that they are the hero, they are the victim, and it's your fault for not trusting them.
00:29:38.000Comment below and let these institutions know why you don't trust them.
00:29:43.000You were abused, and so you don't trust.
00:29:47.000It is now incumbent upon the abuser to prove to you that they will no longer abuse you.
00:29:54.000In this case, that they will no longer lock you down, that they will no longer mandate vaccines, that they will no longer eliminate your business, ruin schooling because of a pressure from the teachers unions, which he also admitted, where your children have to deal with those ramifications.
00:30:11.000It's incumbent upon him To accept responsibility, and no one is beyond redemption.
00:30:16.000No one is beyond redemption, I want to be clear about that.
00:30:19.000We really, really wanted to give these people a shot, and we always do, behind the scenes, go, come on man, level with us.
00:30:26.000It's just like that, come on, level with the fact that you were having drinks with your ex, and you know what was going on, and come on, if we're going to move past this, no, no, why don't you trust me?
00:30:38.000It's the exact same. It is their job to earn your trust. It is not your fault for not trusting them.
00:30:43.000That's why this story went everywhere. And that's why even Bill de Blasio, who worked
00:30:48.000with pharma, I just threw up in my mouth a little vomit, responded saying that he didn't
00:30:54.000really know about what was going on. So I don't think it was a matter of policy.
00:30:58.000If this is appealing to you, just think of this when you think of vaccination.
00:31:19.000I find it disgusting and unacceptable.
00:31:22.000This is someone we trusted as a teammate to tell the people of New York City from his extensive medical background how we could keep everyone safe.
00:31:31.000And that also meant we all had to show integrity and consistency.
00:32:11.000Who has done more harm to the American public health system?
00:32:14.000People that were skeptical about taking a rushed vaccine or people that are supposed
00:32:18.000to be trustworthy that lied to you for years on end?
00:32:21.000It's such a Boy Cried Wolf scenario that there will be a time when there is a real pandemic with a high mortality rate that we need to look to professionals and be like, what do we do?
00:33:03.000So now, and I was going to say, Ginger Snap, you can tell us here, an update, the bipartisan New York City Council, it's Common Sense Caucus, they're having a hearing, they're calling for a special hearing, and today I know they're in New York City at City Hall.
00:33:16.000Right, yeah, so this is a group on the New York City Council of Republicans and Democrats that try to bridge the aisle a little bit and sort of bring New Yorkers together on causes that everyone can agree on, and so there's Outrage from left to right, and what they're doing is calling for that conference today.
00:33:32.000We have a couple clips in here that'll show specifically what they're asking for, but that's where Gerald's at right now.
00:33:49.000Democratic Queens Councilmember Robert Holden sent this letter to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the NYPD calling for a full investigation.
00:34:01.000He's also a super spreader obviously with These orgies, these sex orgies, and everything else that you're not supposed to do, he's doing.
00:34:09.000And he's the leading doctor on this in the city of New York during the shutdown.
00:34:16.000Here's another one, though, that's really fun.
00:34:18.000Republican Councilman Vicki Palladino ripped Varma on her ex-account.
00:34:24.000Your kids' educations were ruined because this man, this piece of human garbage, said it was dangerous.
00:34:33.000While this piece of human garbage was out hosting sex parties with the illegal drugs and everything else.
00:34:40.000Dr. Jay Varma, you are a farce, you need to be prosecuted, and you need to face the consequences of your actions.
00:34:49.000We are calling upon the Adams administration On City Hall steps on Monday at 12 noon, a press conference.
00:34:59.000I want to see everybody there, whether you were a teacher, a first responder, you were a police officer, you were a fireman, a small business owner.
00:37:48.00047 days until November 5th, Election Day.
00:37:50.000A new polling out today points to an overarching theme.
00:37:54.000The race for the White House will likely be one of the tightest contests in modern American history, with Harris and Trump deadlocked across several battleground states.
00:38:04.000In Pennsylvania, the state that could determine the election, a new CNN poll of polls shows the two candidates in a dead heat race with no clear leader.
00:39:00.000Melania's going to be pissed when she finds out that not only did he leave her, he took her name.
00:39:04.000Yeah, well, and she's also going to wonder if he has all that money.
00:39:07.000So, the RCP average as Kamala 49, Donald Trump at 47 nationally.
00:39:13.000538, which is a big, you know, considered pretty reputable.
00:39:16.000Again, has it as a toss-up here at 45.6 for Trump, 48.3.
00:39:20.000The polymarket odds are at Kamala 51, Trump 47.
00:39:24.000So look, this is one of those, like I've said in the past, this is going to go back and forth.
00:39:29.000They had some huge polls that swung after the debate.
00:39:32.000Donald Trump has declined another debate, which makes me think there's really bad internal polling for Kamala Harris, honestly, at this point.
00:39:38.000Because she's kind of gained the momentum that she would from the debate, and it seems like she believes she needs significantly more.
00:39:45.000And as we get into some states, and Ginger Snipp, you really are plugged into this, right?
00:40:10.000People will say, well, they got it wrong in 2016 and so they corrected for the undersampling.
00:40:15.000They still, often, Donald Trump outperformed polls.
00:40:18.000So even if he just performs to the level of the polls or just a couple points better, which would be pretty conservative, it's a huge swing.
00:40:43.000In Georgia right now with this latest poll.
00:40:45.000He's up in a lot of these states, and again, he was down in some of these states that he is now winning, even if by a point or two.
00:40:52.000So the margin of error, if you look at it historically, tends to really mean take it and add about anywhere from two to five points to Trump.
00:41:13.000No, I think your point's exactly correct, is that their internal polling has to be showing some pretty bad stuff for them to be trying to force a hand on this debate, but the media is going to be doing their work for them.
00:41:22.000Like, well, look at the Kamala Harris momentum and blah blah blah.
00:41:26.000They don't want you to go out and vote.
00:41:27.000They want to blackmail you and say, well, we can't win.
00:42:22.000It's all about endorsements, and you have both, Kamala, but Donald Trump as well, receiving some pretty notable endorsements over the weekend.
00:42:31.000Breaking right now, Harris scoring a major endorsement.
00:42:33.000Ann Harris continues to rake in high-powered endorsements, such as the one she received today.
00:42:39.000Donald Trump is scoring a somewhat unexpected endorsement meanwhile.
00:42:43.000In the battle of his celeb endorsements, you'd have to say that Kamala Harris is winning.
00:42:48.000Celebrity endorsements are rolling for both presidential nominees.
00:42:52.000How public figures are boosting campaigns and the impact endorsements could have on the election.
00:44:17.000Says, when it comes to treating federal employees, meaning the IRS, with respect, valuing their service, and investing in their work, Kamala Harris is the clear choice.
00:44:29.000I don't value your work, and I don't respect it!
00:44:31.000Thanks for making it totally clear who I should vote for.
00:44:35.000You know what you think of when you file that return or when you actually find out you've overpaid and they take two years to mail you the check?
00:44:55.000Well, see, I think that they're under the impression that the IRS, and you guys can maybe let them know, that the IRS is popular with most Americans.
00:45:01.000And I think that's because they believe, hey, the IRS combines the already very popular practice of taking money away from you.
00:45:09.000But what you fail to realize is they combine it with doing so at gunpoint.
00:45:34.000And by the way, what she means is there was huge windfall for IRS employees right after the Inflation Reduction Act, including much higher pay for bureaucrats.
00:46:00.000There's been an increase to foreign-born workers, but Americans who've worked here For some, you know, in the same line of work for generations, have been losing jobs.
00:46:08.000But your institutions, who you need to trust, added $80,000 at your dime.
00:46:15.000To a job that they claim is going away because they're cutting taxes.
00:46:29.000There's never been a clear, if you own a business, anyone out there ever, have you ever, for example, paid late on taxes, right, had to extend it?
00:46:50.000If you are someone who has done both, because I've done both, where you've overpaid and they owe you a refund and sometimes you need to file some kind of an extension or you find out that something needed to be paid that you missed, right?
00:47:47.000Speaking of her, by the way, this is my favorite endorsement, is, um, I didn't realize that this was the Paramore, Haley Williams, because the last time I saw her, you know, she didn't look like 65.
00:47:59.000Here is Paramore singer Haley giving you, not just an endorsement, but, um, well, I have a second clip to show you, so just watch this first one through your fingers.
00:48:08.000Project 2025 is Donald Trump's playbook for the She looks like the bad guy from the bad kid from Karate Kid.
00:48:20.000Now in her mind she looked like ultra cool badass Johnny Cash giving the finger at the grand old Opry
00:49:43.000Like, ah, we're gonna have over 30 people at this concert.
00:49:46.000Sometimes I feel bad for the, like, putting this in the show, because I know nobody's gonna see it until we amplify it, and then a bunch more people will see it.
00:49:53.000I'm like, it's just so stupid and hilarious that it's a catch-22.
00:49:57.000Now, see, here's the thing, and I don't mean, and look, and I don't mean to go to ad hominem, except I do sometimes, but in contrast, Donald Trump was endorsed by, um, here, okay, here's the point that I'm making.
00:50:55.000But it doesn't age well, and this is one thing too, people who are out there into trends, not just fashion, but if you are into trendy ideology, you are going to look back and be embarrassed.
00:51:05.000If you just stick with the fundamentals, principles of personal accountability, of responsibility, of pursuing virtue for the sake of virtue, as far as values, and then, for example, fashion-wise, just don't do something that's going to be out of style, maybe two weeks from now, you won't look back with embarrassment.
00:51:23.000And I just say that to say Paramore, I know that's not her name, versus aging gracefully, the person who endorsed Donald Trump, Danica Patrick.
00:51:33.000I will not be judged to live in America, be an American, be a proud American, say I love America and want to make America great again.
00:52:32.000Yeah, well I was raised in Canada, and so in Canada I would get all these celebrities, like Green Day would go there, I remember Newfound Glory was one of them, certainly Rage Against the Machine, but I remember Bright Eyes, Connor Oberst went there, and they would always say like, I'm moving to Canada!
00:52:43.000I'm moving to Canada if George Bush wins!
00:52:45.000And he did a whole song about it, and I remember yelling out at a Bright Eyes concert, because it's pretty quiet, it's the one time you could because it's kind of acoustic, and I said, Yeah!
00:54:33.000So Patrick actually brought up Taylor Swift's endorsement of Kamala Harris, where she said, you know, I love her music, to be honest, but there's no way that long post was ready right after the debate.
00:54:44.000When people talk about celebrities, the New York Times Siena poll found that Donald Trump is actually more popular than Taylor Swift, where Taylor Swift only had a 44% favorability rating, where Donald Trump had 47.
00:56:43.000Once they break up, and all of a sudden it's like, it's like Rookie of the Year, where he has his arm, everyone's going like, God, Travis Kelce's back!
00:56:50.000Well, he didn't have that mustache until they started dating.
00:56:53.000It's like he was like, here's a disguise.
00:57:00.000Because I can't hear the cheers anymore.
00:57:05.000Donald Trump also earned, this is surprising, an endorsement from the only place I know of in North America, it used to be the only place in North America where you can hear the active Muslim call to prayer across the city, Hamtramck, Michigan.
00:57:18.000The mayor is Amer Galeb, I hope I'm getting that right, saying, That President Trump and I may not agree on everything, but I know he is a man of principles.
00:57:27.000I'll not regret my decision no matter what the outcome would be, and I'm ready to face the consequences for this and for many other reasons.
00:57:32.000I announce my support and endorsement for the former and hopefully the next president of the United States, Donald Trump.
00:57:38.000Just for context, Hamtramck is a pretty big city in Michigan.
00:57:41.000Michigan has a lot of sort of mid-sized cities outside of Detroit.
00:59:19.000Don't kill all the Jews or live like the Flintstones.
00:59:23.000Well, you could say that's modern for Lebanon, but that would also be wrong because it used to be a Christian country, which was extremely modern and extremely vibrant.
00:59:29.000And then, well, you know, Islam took over and it does as Islam does.
00:59:32.000Well, anywhere there's a moderate country that is, you know, historically Islamic, take a moderate country, right, or a country that seems to be doing well, add 10 years.
01:02:23.000Gerald, tell me what is happening down there at City Hall, New York City, because right now it doesn't look all that busy, but I know there's going to be an event later.
01:02:35.000Yeah, so right after we do this, people are going to start coming in probably in the next half hour.
01:02:40.000So we actually had a Democratic City Councilman, make sure I get his name right, Bob Holden, from the Common Sense Caucus call for a press conference because a lot of the city workers around here were still out of jobs.
01:02:52.000They're still being denied access to go back to work because of the COVID mandates put in place by Dr. Varma, the guy that we exposed.
01:03:00.000And they came up to us just a few minutes ago, some teachers for choice, and Congresswoman Palladino,
01:03:06.000I believe, I'm sorry, a councilwoman, Palladino, she came up to us and talked to us
01:03:10.000about some of the issues that they were having.
01:03:12.000There's a lady who was a teacher who had 29 years of service in.
01:03:16.000She was six months away from getting her pension.
01:03:18.000And because she chose not to get the vaccine, they will not let her back in.
01:03:30.000She has to report to work every single day, can't go in, they won't let her in the building.
01:03:33.000She has to report to a rubber room instead, one of these off-site annex buildings where they just kind of house you in a place.
01:03:39.000It's insane that this is still going on and that people are forgetting about it, but what Mug Club has done with this story I didn't know this was still going on in New York.
01:03:46.000for all of these workers to come back out and demand that they drop all of
01:03:50.000these appeals, that they get out of the way and let these people go back to work.
01:03:53.000And I got to be honest with you, Stephen, like I knew that this was going to be a
01:03:57.000big story. I didn't know this was still going on in New York. I didn't know
01:04:00.000people were still being kept out of their jobs. Yeah. All this time later.
01:04:04.000Well, and the story continues, by the way, this week without getting into too
01:05:47.000So we had a Democrat congress—I'm sorry, I'm going to say congressperson until I correct myself—councilman come through and basically were like, hey, are you coming to this thing today?
01:05:56.000So there's going to be two Democrats here, a prominent—the most prominent one being the one that called for this press conference to happen and for people to be putting pressure.
01:06:03.000You're going to hear from a lot of different people.
01:06:05.000But it doesn't matter if you're a Republican or a Democrat right now.
01:06:08.000This issue, they know they went over the line.
01:06:10.000They know they went too far, and they're keeping people from having the opportunity to be employed.
01:06:16.000And Stephen, you've said this many times.
01:06:19.000Varma said, you can't have a job, you can't go to a restaurant, you can't go to school, we'll make it so hard to where you just say F it and you'll get the vaccine.
01:06:32.000I was just talking with one of the people that works for one of the councilmen here and he said, I only got the jab because I had a baby on the way and I didn't have the opportunity.
01:06:41.000I just bought a house, had a baby on the way and I couldn't lose my job.
01:06:52.000Josh is letting me know that we have some breaking news here.
01:06:54.000Yeah, research is telling us that Sigatech has placed disgraced New York City COVID czar Dr. Jay Varma on indefinite leave of absence.
01:07:03.000Oh, by the way, that is the, I believe, is it a pharmaceutical company, a pharmaceutical research company that he currently works with, which is relevant to the next story that centers around this.
01:07:16.000But I guess they kind of cut our... well, in one way cut our knees out from under us because we thought, man, this next one, is it unethical enough that he'll be fired?
01:07:23.000And they already fired him and they haven't even seen the worst part.
01:07:56.000And I did want to ask you about that thing that we discussed here right before, unless you had one last thing to say before we go to Mug Club.