Juno News - July 04, 2022


Liberals tease Covid vaccines every nine months


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Length

35 minutes

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191.13261

Word Count

6,794

Sentence Count

413

Misogynist Sentences

13

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Canada's most irreverent talk show. This is the Andrew Lawton Show, brought to you by True North.
00:00:10.740 Coming up, Canadian MPs want to take four-day weekends in solidarity with American women,
00:00:16.640 plus the moving goalposts of vaccination and Anne McElhenney on her new true crime podcast about America's most prolific serial killer.
00:00:24.780 The Andrew Lawton Show starts right now.
00:00:28.000 Hello and welcome along, everyone. This is Canada's most irreverent talk show here on True North.
00:00:34.280 It is Monday, July 4th, 2022. Hope you are having a wonderful day. Hope you had a great long weekend.
00:00:42.320 And I mean, if you, I should start off here, if you work for New Democrat Member of Parliament Rachel Blaney,
00:00:48.900 you are still on your weekend. You're actually getting a four-day weekend.
00:00:52.720 I don't know if you saw this, but the new Democrat MP, I think she's from BC, tweeted out that she has instructed her staff
00:01:00.440 to close their offices on July 4th in solidarity with women in the USA and the world in support of reproductive freedoms
00:01:09.680 and in protest to the lack of access to abortion services.
00:01:14.280 Healthcare must include right to choose. People who are pregnant need to be safe.
00:01:20.360 So there's a lot to unpack here. For starters, people who are pregnant, come on.
00:01:25.000 She mentions women at the beginning and then eventually walks her way back to anyone who's pregnant.
00:01:30.280 So if you're a pregnant man out there, this is in solidarity with you too.
00:01:33.620 And we know basically half the men out there are pregnant in 2022.
00:01:37.480 But also the idea that when the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, in Canada, women are so triggered and parliamentary staff are so triggered
00:01:48.080 that they need a four-day summer weekend just to deal with it.
00:01:53.260 That's what's happening here.
00:01:54.540 So they already had Friday off because of Canada Day, but the Monday they can't go to work.
00:01:59.440 It's too upsetting that Roe v. Wade was overturned.
00:02:01.800 So all of the rest of us that have to work today, I'm thinking, hang on, why was True North not taking solidarity with women around the world
00:02:09.420 for their reproductive rights being taken away or something?
00:02:11.920 I'll celebrate anything. I'll take solidarity with absolutely anyone if I get a four-day weekend in the summer.
00:02:17.160 But no, here I am.
00:02:18.620 So you all have to put up with me today with another show, a 4th of July addition to the show.
00:02:23.520 I will not wish you a happy Independence Day because we did the Dominion Day thing last week.
00:02:27.920 So I'm not sure you're allowed to do Dominion Day and Independence Day.
00:02:31.360 But if you are an American tuning in, I guess I hope you have a good 4th of July.
00:02:37.000 We are in a bit of a different location, if you can't tell, but we're going to plug on, as we always do, on this program.
00:02:44.660 And I want to start off by talking about Jean-Yves Duclos, who's the federal health minister,
00:02:50.100 who's providing himself as the answer to the question, who is a worse health minister than Patty Hajdu?
00:02:56.540 Now, I've got to say, I didn't think anyone could compete in that league,
00:02:59.740 but Minister Duclos is showing great courage in his efforts to be a worse health minister than Patty Hajdu.
00:03:06.700 But at least he's being remarkably transparent.
00:03:09.900 We know that the government is right now seeing absolutely insane wait times at airports.
00:03:16.140 You've got baggage getting hauled up and delayed and lost.
00:03:20.000 And you've got baggage hauls that are loaded up for weeks and weeks and weeks as bags just turn up late
00:03:25.280 because there was no one there to process them.
00:03:27.880 Airport security lines are incredibly long.
00:03:30.620 People are getting flights cancelled.
00:03:32.440 Last week, Air Canada did what they didn't want to do for weeks previously,
00:03:36.780 which was start cancelling summer flights.
00:03:39.420 And the reason is, the government wasn't doing what it needed to do so that these flights could reliably go on.
00:03:45.720 Now, so Air Canada, if you've ever seen, and people tweeted pictures of this,
00:03:50.140 the customer service line at the airport,
00:03:52.280 this is where you go when your flight's been cancelled and you need to rebook at something
00:03:55.460 and they give you like the 30 cent food voucher to get you half a bite of a sandwich or something like that.
00:04:00.840 That's the customer service line.
00:04:02.600 So when your flight gets cancelled because the government couldn't staff the customs office,
00:04:07.760 the government couldn't staff the security line, all of this stuff,
00:04:10.940 it's the airline left holding the bag.
00:04:14.120 Now, I've got a lot of frustrations with Canadian airlines and with Air Canada.
00:04:17.780 So I'm not going to say that they're all lily white,
00:04:19.940 but I will say that I'm kind of sympathetic to Air Canada on this
00:04:23.960 when they say that they can't, they're the ones that get screwed
00:04:27.400 when the government is not doing what it can to keep people moving and to get people through.
00:04:31.980 So Air Canada, they want to make money.
00:04:33.740 They've had to start cancelling flights
00:04:35.600 and they've had to actually do all of this stuff because the government can't.
00:04:40.820 So this is coming days after then
00:04:43.020 and the government is still not claiming that it's the problem here.
00:04:46.640 The government is not admitting that it is at fault.
00:04:50.380 And one point that I'm going to bring up to this effect
00:04:52.520 is all of the intersection that's going on here.
00:04:56.520 It's not one thing.
00:04:57.720 It's CBSA, border officers.
00:04:59.740 It's CAATSA, security officers.
00:05:01.700 It's the flow.
00:05:03.240 It's the vaccine requirements.
00:05:04.880 It's ArriveCan.
00:05:06.440 ArriveCan is here to stay.
00:05:08.420 And the government hasn't admitted this.
00:05:10.280 The government hasn't acknowledged it.
00:05:12.220 Last week, Omar Al-Ghabra, who's the transport minister,
00:05:14.840 talked about all the things they're doing with ArriveCan.
00:05:17.380 And if you look at it, it's clear it's not going away.
00:05:20.920 This thing that was brought in simply for COVID
00:05:23.540 is now becoming a permanent fixture
00:05:25.940 where if you want to enter your own country,
00:05:28.520 you have to log all your details on this app
00:05:30.900 and get a little passcode
00:05:32.080 that you can give to the border officer.
00:05:34.040 And if you don't, you will be fined.
00:05:36.760 So Jean-Yves Duclos, he said,
00:05:38.760 ArriveCan's working.
00:05:40.040 ArriveCan's actually making it quicker for people
00:05:42.480 to go through the customs lines.
00:05:44.280 That's what he says.
00:05:45.000 ArriveCan's actually making things easier.
00:05:47.760 So I've used ArriveCan a number of times.
00:05:49.920 You have to when you're coming back into the country
00:05:51.820 or you get fined.
00:05:53.200 And it used to be about you just log all your information.
00:05:56.160 And now what they're trying to do,
00:05:57.780 and this is what Omar Al-Ghabra was talking about last week,
00:06:00.340 they're trying to integrate it with your customs clearing.
00:06:03.000 So the questions that you have to answer,
00:06:05.360 do you have any fruit and vegetables?
00:06:07.240 Have you been to a farm?
00:06:08.200 Stuff like that is now going to be part of ArriveCan.
00:06:11.680 So what the government gets with ArriveCan
00:06:13.720 is advanced knowledge of those
00:06:16.160 who are coming to Canadian borders.
00:06:18.420 It's supposed to be as a Canadian citizen,
00:06:20.980 you're supposed to be able to show up at a Canadian border
00:06:22.800 and say, here's my Canadian passport,
00:06:24.880 let me in, and that's enough.
00:06:26.840 Because the government cannot deny you entry
00:06:29.080 to your own country.
00:06:30.060 But they can make your life miserable
00:06:32.180 and they can fine you.
00:06:33.280 And this is what they're doing right now.
00:06:34.860 They're saying, oh yeah, if you come in as a Canadian
00:06:36.780 and you haven't done ArriveCan, we'll let you in.
00:06:39.180 But we're going to make you pay like $5,000
00:06:41.220 for the privilege of entering your own country
00:06:43.800 without using the government's creepy
00:06:45.440 ArriveCan tracking app.
00:06:49.020 And the reason I bring this up
00:06:50.840 is because there should not be barriers
00:06:53.100 to enter your own country.
00:06:54.500 So this is now becoming
00:06:57.340 an electronic travel authorization
00:07:00.180 for Canadians to go into their own country.
00:07:05.380 An ETA is what you're supposed to get
00:07:07.080 when you travel to a foreign country.
00:07:09.860 And now we're effectively making Canadians
00:07:12.420 do this for themselves.
00:07:14.580 And it means that when you go through
00:07:16.100 and you scan your passport or your Nexus card,
00:07:18.220 they already have all of your information
00:07:19.900 because you had to log it ahead of time on the app.
00:07:22.360 Because I've had people say,
00:07:23.180 well, they aren't even asking for my ArriveCan
00:07:24.960 at the border after I've gone through
00:07:26.300 the effort of doing it.
00:07:27.440 They don't need to
00:07:28.280 because you're already in their system
00:07:30.080 and it's linked to your passport or Nexus card.
00:07:32.620 So when they swipe those,
00:07:33.940 all of these things that you put in come up.
00:07:36.100 And yeah, it makes things very convenient
00:07:37.580 if you're the border officer.
00:07:40.500 But what purpose does it serve
00:07:42.060 for a Canadian coming through?
00:07:45.360 The issue is not ArriveCan.
00:07:47.800 The government says ArriveCan's making it better.
00:07:49.880 No, it's adding one more hurdle,
00:07:51.620 one more difficulty.
00:07:52.760 And this thing is not, by the way,
00:07:54.320 reliable for a lot of people,
00:07:55.760 especially folks that aren't as adept at apps
00:07:57.920 or computers that all of a sudden
00:07:59.240 have to go through this process
00:08:00.560 when they're overseas.
00:08:02.000 One big thing is that I will not,
00:08:04.380 and I would encourage all of you
00:08:05.600 to take on this as well,
00:08:07.120 I will not ever hand my unlocked phone
00:08:10.200 over to a border guard.
00:08:12.520 I simply will not do it.
00:08:14.360 People's phones are their lives now.
00:08:16.060 I am never going to hand my unlocked phone over.
00:08:17.940 And it's not that I have anything to hide on there.
00:08:19.400 It's a matter of principle.
00:08:21.180 So I'm not going to get my ArriveCan up
00:08:23.220 and then hand that phone over,
00:08:25.280 which means anytime I do need that printed proof of it,
00:08:28.820 I have to find a printer,
00:08:30.320 which is not easy to do when you're traveling.
00:08:32.880 It's not easy to do when you're in hotels
00:08:34.400 to find that printer
00:08:35.280 because the alternative is having to hand over your phone,
00:08:38.620 which again, I would encourage people not to do.
00:08:41.080 But the whole thing is,
00:08:43.580 right now we're talking about this thing
00:08:45.420 that is only getting more cemented.
00:08:47.520 Government does not do temporary.
00:08:50.340 Which brings us back to vaccination.
00:08:52.400 And I go back to Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos on this,
00:08:55.240 who's already talking about
00:08:56.700 what we feared is happening all along,
00:08:58.820 that fully vaccinated doesn't actually mean anything anymore.
00:09:02.500 But my message today, more specifically,
00:09:05.900 is for those that haven't yet received their first booster.
00:09:10.100 The immunity conferred by a primary series of two doses
00:09:14.040 of vaccines administered in 2021 has now waned.
00:09:19.160 While you might have gotten infected,
00:09:22.400 risk is high.
00:09:23.660 You could get reinfected with all the downfall,
00:09:27.720 including the risk of developing symptoms of long COVID.
00:09:31.180 As health experts and physicians will tell you,
00:09:36.220 it's critical that you go and get the shot
00:09:38.820 that's waiting for you.
00:09:40.180 And the government,
00:09:41.260 which has suspended its vaccine mandate for air travel,
00:09:44.240 may be bringing it back.
00:09:46.240 But oh no, no, no, it won't be if you've had two doses.
00:09:50.240 You'll note that they haven't actually talked
00:09:52.160 about fully vaccinated in a little while.
00:09:55.000 And Jean-Yves Duclos, I use his own comments on this,
00:09:57.520 originally reported in La Presse.
00:09:59.380 They're no longer talking about fully vaccinated.
00:10:02.400 They're talking about up-to-date.
00:10:05.120 Now this is an incredibly important distinction.
00:10:08.060 It's not about having the second dose of a two-dote regimen.
00:10:11.140 It's about your vaccines being up-to-date.
00:10:13.440 And what he says is that fully vaccinated,
00:10:17.020 it no longer works with two doses.
00:10:18.940 He says we have to normalize the science.
00:10:21.980 And normalizing means nine months since your last dose.
00:10:26.980 Nine months since your last dose.
00:10:28.480 So this means that more than once a year,
00:10:31.600 you will have to get a COVID booster until when?
00:10:34.200 Until the end of time for the next five years,
00:10:35.980 the next two years, but nine months.
00:10:37.780 Now NACI, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization,
00:10:41.460 they've said a six-month interval
00:10:44.080 between the second dose and booster dose.
00:10:46.220 So that would be twice a year,
00:10:48.340 every six months perhaps,
00:10:50.040 that you would need to get boosted
00:10:52.100 in order for the government to view
00:10:55.140 that your vaccines are up-to-date.
00:10:59.320 So this means that there's no such thing
00:11:01.920 as fully vaccinated.
00:11:04.480 Because if you just decide,
00:11:05.980 oh, you know, I've been busy working,
00:11:07.320 I haven't gotten a vaccine in the last nine months,
00:11:09.480 and you want to travel,
00:11:10.320 all of a sudden, oh no, I can't
00:11:11.740 because the government says
00:11:12.740 my vaccines aren't up-to-date anymore.
00:11:14.860 And what they're doing here
00:11:18.140 is not even promoting a vaccine.
00:11:20.700 When you need to get it every nine months,
00:11:22.300 this is not a vaccine.
00:11:23.320 It's a chronic health treatment.
00:11:26.780 But what they're doing is setting the stage
00:11:29.360 for this becoming a permanent part of life.
00:11:33.500 The people that stayed home to save lives,
00:11:35.980 that wore their masks,
00:11:36.920 that got their vaccine,
00:11:38.280 that got their second vaccine,
00:11:39.720 that even got boosted,
00:11:41.380 are now being told
00:11:42.560 they're just going to be those dirty,
00:11:43.820 racist, misogynist,
00:11:45.180 anti-vaxxer, unvaccinated people
00:11:47.380 if they haven't gotten their,
00:11:49.200 you know, 17th jab in 2042,
00:11:52.460 or however the math adds up.
00:11:53.920 No, no, no.
00:11:54.420 We'll have our 17,
00:11:55.500 because if everyone's had to have
00:11:56.540 their third jab by now,
00:11:58.100 and we go every six months,
00:11:59.420 your 17th jab will be in like eight years' time.
00:12:03.180 So by 2030,
00:12:04.560 if you haven't had your 17th jab yet,
00:12:06.720 you're going to be one of those
00:12:07.660 unvaccinated, anti-vaxxer,
00:12:09.340 racist, fringe minority types
00:12:10.920 that Justin Trudeau has been warning us about
00:12:12.900 for the last two years.
00:12:15.300 This is despicable,
00:12:17.140 and it's not a vaccination at that point.
00:12:19.120 It serves no public health purpose.
00:12:21.360 They're couching this in terms of science.
00:12:24.180 In terms of science,
00:12:25.360 this is all about following the science.
00:12:26.960 The science says we have to get
00:12:28.300 a fresh COVID jab every nine months.
00:12:30.360 So everyone, you look around right now,
00:12:31.840 everyone's getting COVID again.
00:12:33.540 It's reminding us a lot of what was happening
00:12:35.440 back in December
00:12:36.480 when the Omicron wave was coming,
00:12:39.040 and everyone was getting sick,
00:12:40.140 and they'd have the sniffles.
00:12:41.140 They'd take a couple days off work.
00:12:43.080 It seemed like everyone got it,
00:12:44.400 and then they all moved on.
00:12:46.220 We're going through another one
00:12:47.500 of those periods right now
00:12:48.580 where a lot of people are getting it.
00:12:50.580 They're getting over it very quickly,
00:12:52.140 but they're telling us about all this
00:12:54.120 because they're trying to set the stage
00:12:55.580 for more,
00:12:56.360 for a return of restrictions in the fall.
00:12:58.580 And even when these travel mandates
00:13:01.480 and travel restrictions
00:13:02.480 have been lifted by governments now,
00:13:04.180 you'll know they're only saying
00:13:05.720 they're suspended.
00:13:07.400 They're suspended.
00:13:08.660 We'll have to re-evaluate.
00:13:10.020 It was a few weeks ago
00:13:10.920 that the government said
00:13:11.780 there was a transition underway
00:13:14.000 about what fully vaccinated meant,
00:13:16.040 and it's only been in the last couple days
00:13:17.980 that Jean-Yves Duclos has admitted
00:13:19.440 what that's going to mean.
00:13:21.620 Boosters every nine months
00:13:23.000 or you're not vaccinated.
00:13:25.280 And again, I want to make clear,
00:13:26.280 they've not announced this as formal policy yet.
00:13:28.880 They're floating the little test balloon.
00:13:31.440 They're telling us what they're working on,
00:13:33.080 telling us what they're considering.
00:13:35.680 And they've said,
00:13:36.980 what they have said
00:13:37.620 is that they're going to re-evaluate in the fall.
00:13:40.100 And we know there's going to be an uptick in fall.
00:13:42.500 The closer we get to flu season,
00:13:44.500 every single year people get sick.
00:13:48.400 But all these governments that were saying,
00:13:50.460 no, no, no, we're open for summer,
00:13:51.700 we're dropping restrictions,
00:13:52.960 you know in the fall
00:13:54.000 they're going to be looking at a return of all of this.
00:13:57.080 A return of vaccine passports,
00:13:59.420 a return of vaccine mandates for staff,
00:14:01.900 for traveling, for all of these things.
00:14:03.540 A return of all of these restrictions
00:14:05.800 that right now we're all supposed to believe
00:14:08.980 are all gone,
00:14:09.660 that we're living free,
00:14:10.460 that we beat it.
00:14:11.400 All those people that showed up in Ottawa
00:14:13.160 on Canada Day,
00:14:14.300 they were criticized.
00:14:15.320 What are they even protesting?
00:14:16.400 Life's back to normal.
00:14:17.360 Things have reopened.
00:14:18.260 There are no mandates.
00:14:19.160 There are no passports.
00:14:20.260 Well, the joke will be on you in the fall.
00:14:23.220 When all of this stuff comes back with a vengeance,
00:14:25.500 and the 50% of Canadians who haven't gotten boosted,
00:14:29.000 who got their two shots,
00:14:30.540 are going to be to the federal government unvaccinated.
00:14:34.160 Absolutely absurd.
00:14:36.480 I'm going to change gears entirely here.
00:14:38.240 Speaking of solidarity with the women of the United States,
00:14:42.040 and sorry,
00:14:42.620 people who get pregnant.
00:14:43.940 I don't want to be insensitive here,
00:14:45.840 or phobic of anything.
00:14:47.060 The people who get pregnant.
00:14:48.140 Well, a lot of talk about Roe v. Wade
00:14:50.260 and importing American conflict
00:14:52.900 and American debate
00:14:53.820 and American politics.
00:14:55.100 Look, I love American politics.
00:14:56.820 I love news from around the world.
00:14:58.700 We have enough of our own political battles here.
00:15:01.100 We don't need to start fighting
00:15:02.460 against the U.S. Supreme Court
00:15:03.920 in Canadian Parliament.
00:15:05.800 I wanted to have an adjacent discussion to this, though.
00:15:09.120 One name that you may not know,
00:15:11.240 and you should know,
00:15:12.340 is Kermit Gosnell.
00:15:14.040 Kermit Gosnell is,
00:15:15.340 in the eyes of Anne McElhenney and Phelan McAleer,
00:15:18.440 a tremendous duo of authors and filmmakers,
00:15:21.080 the most prolific serial killer
00:15:23.400 the United States has ever had.
00:15:25.560 And you may think,
00:15:26.160 well, how do I not know that name?
00:15:27.400 And some of you may know that name.
00:15:28.920 He was an abortion doctor.
00:15:30.620 And he did horrific, horrific things
00:15:33.460 to unborn children,
00:15:35.320 some of which he delivered,
00:15:36.640 some of which he didn't,
00:15:38.040 all under the guise of being
00:15:39.980 the friendly neighborhood abortion doctor
00:15:41.800 in a poor part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
00:15:45.960 And when he was eventually charged,
00:15:49.160 and we started to see details of the crimes
00:15:51.480 that this man had committed,
00:15:53.040 no one in the media wanted to pay attention.
00:15:55.920 Why?
00:15:56.280 Because he's an abortion doctor.
00:15:58.840 They didn't want to cast him in a bad light.
00:16:00.760 They didn't want to be controversial.
00:16:02.160 They didn't want to go down that road.
00:16:03.980 And two people who did
00:16:05.120 were Anne McElhenney and Phelan McAleer,
00:16:07.240 who did tremendous work.
00:16:08.420 They literally wrote the book on the guy,
00:16:10.080 which you can see on the screen there,
00:16:11.560 and later turned that into a true crime movie,
00:16:14.440 which I would encourage you to watch.
00:16:16.240 It's not just an important story,
00:16:17.700 but it's first and foremost,
00:16:19.000 a well-done movie
00:16:20.260 and a thriller about a topic,
00:16:22.320 a crime thriller about a topic
00:16:23.840 that very much needed that Hollywood treatment.
00:16:26.240 But of course,
00:16:26.780 I mean, all the Hollywood bigwigs
00:16:28.020 looked away from them.
00:16:29.300 Thankfully, they got a great cast.
00:16:30.860 They had Dean Cain
00:16:31.640 and some other folks as well
00:16:32.880 that stepped up
00:16:34.100 and took part in that movie.
00:16:35.620 Now they are putting new life
00:16:37.580 into this story
00:16:38.400 in a true crime podcast.
00:16:40.240 And they're all the rage right now.
00:16:41.900 The podcast is called
00:16:43.040 Serial Killer,
00:16:44.060 a true crime podcast.
00:16:45.720 I caught up last week
00:16:46.740 with Anne McElhenney,
00:16:48.200 the filmmaker, author, producer,
00:16:50.740 and narrator of the podcast.
00:16:52.960 Anne, always good to talk to you.
00:16:54.100 Thanks for coming on today.
00:16:55.700 Thank you so much.
00:16:56.600 I really appreciate being on, Andrew.
00:16:58.260 Now, as I was just saying
00:16:59.420 in your intro there,
00:17:00.680 you pretty much do everything.
00:17:02.480 Books, movies, documentaries, podcasts.
00:17:05.580 True crime, though,
00:17:06.780 this is something that,
00:17:08.220 I mean, it's very trendy now,
00:17:10.280 but you've been doing true crime
00:17:11.720 since before everyone
00:17:12.720 was doing true crime
00:17:13.780 in a lot of ways.
00:17:15.120 Yeah, well, I mean,
00:17:16.220 it's very interesting,
00:17:17.640 true crime,
00:17:18.140 how huge it is, by the way.
00:17:19.260 Obviously, in the podcast world,
00:17:20.700 you have series like NPR's Serial,
00:17:24.940 which was downloaded
00:17:25.620 450 million times,
00:17:28.160 Dr. Death,
00:17:29.340 you know, Dirty John, etc.
00:17:31.240 And we realized, you know,
00:17:32.660 actually, we have a true crime story.
00:17:34.660 You know, the Gosnell case,
00:17:37.200 which at the time
00:17:38.220 when we started doing that story,
00:17:40.360 we interviewed all kinds of people.
00:17:42.300 And we had these tapes
00:17:43.100 of these interviews.
00:17:43.820 And we thought,
00:17:44.520 you know something,
00:17:45.160 this would make an amazing interview.
00:17:46.920 This would be amazing
00:17:47.560 to listen to as a podcast.
00:17:49.880 And it really is.
00:17:51.800 And it's six episodes long
00:17:52.980 and we're launching it,
00:17:54.000 you know, imminently today
00:17:56.080 or tomorrow.
00:17:56.640 I think it's,
00:17:58.320 I don't know what day
00:17:58.960 this is going out,
00:17:59.740 but basically,
00:18:00.440 it'll be Thursday
00:18:02.120 of this week
00:18:03.600 that we're launching.
00:18:04.620 And, you know,
00:18:05.180 it's an extraordinarily important story,
00:18:06.760 particularly at this time
00:18:07.640 in American history.
00:18:09.820 Yeah, and I want to ask
00:18:11.120 about the podcast in a moment,
00:18:12.760 but I want to just go back
00:18:14.060 to the beginning
00:18:14.720 because for people
00:18:15.520 that didn't cover
00:18:16.600 or didn't follow
00:18:17.980 the Gosnell case,
00:18:19.280 it was,
00:18:20.140 I would say,
00:18:20.900 very easy to not do it
00:18:22.320 because there was,
00:18:23.200 as you noted in your movie,
00:18:24.520 in your book,
00:18:25.040 this mainstream media blackout
00:18:26.960 on this thing,
00:18:28.580 which would have been
00:18:29.480 by any other standard
00:18:30.440 and was by any other standard,
00:18:31.760 as you've said,
00:18:32.380 the most prolific serial killer
00:18:34.080 in American history.
00:18:35.760 And it was impossible
00:18:36.960 to get the usual suspects
00:18:38.700 to pay attention to it.
00:18:40.560 Yeah, I mean,
00:18:41.260 you know,
00:18:41.620 it's very interesting
00:18:42.860 what the media can do,
00:18:44.020 you know,
00:18:44.180 they'll say things like,
00:18:44.940 so the New York Times,
00:18:45.840 you know,
00:18:46.080 can say,
00:18:46.740 oh, we covered it,
00:18:47.820 you know,
00:18:48.200 but there's covered
00:18:48.940 and then there's covered,
00:18:50.420 right?
00:18:50.900 So Michael Brown,
00:18:51.960 you know,
00:18:52.560 everyone on the planet Earth
00:18:53.740 has heard of Michael Brown,
00:18:55.180 you know,
00:18:55.440 Trayvon Martin,
00:18:56.360 George Floyd,
00:18:57.120 the whole world
00:18:57.780 has heard those names
00:18:58.560 and these are individuals.
00:18:59.960 This is a case
00:19:00.560 with multiple deaths,
00:19:02.200 you know,
00:19:02.440 a serial killer of children
00:19:03.620 happening not in a backwater
00:19:05.980 in very progressive Pennsylvania
00:19:07.620 and yet the media
00:19:08.560 didn't turn up
00:19:09.320 and they didn't turn up
00:19:10.420 because the subject
00:19:11.180 at the very center of this
00:19:12.180 is the darling of the left,
00:19:13.720 the darling of,
00:19:14.440 you know,
00:19:15.300 leftists
00:19:15.800 is abortion,
00:19:17.060 their sacred cow.
00:19:18.180 So they covered up for it
00:19:19.660 and it's interesting,
00:19:20.440 you know,
00:19:20.580 even the people involved
00:19:21.620 in the case,
00:19:22.220 the assistant district attorneys,
00:19:24.060 they expected the court
00:19:26.020 to be packed with journalists
00:19:27.760 so they actually reserved
00:19:29.200 one of the largest courtrooms
00:19:30.820 in Philadelphia
00:19:32.180 and it was like
00:19:33.400 the Mary Celeste,
00:19:34.420 there was no one there
00:19:35.240 and in any measure
00:19:36.800 of any journalistic measure
00:19:38.880 of any kind,
00:19:40.260 this story
00:19:41.160 had massive importance,
00:19:44.160 you know,
00:19:44.400 even from a public health
00:19:45.640 point of view
00:19:46.300 that there was
00:19:47.020 a medical facility
00:19:47.840 that was this filthy
00:19:48.880 operating in America
00:19:50.180 in this century
00:19:51.400 and hadn't been inspected
00:19:53.580 by anyone
00:19:54.240 from the Department of Health
00:19:55.140 for 17 years
00:19:56.500 even though two women
00:19:57.520 had died.
00:19:58.460 Both of them,
00:19:59.200 by the way,
00:19:59.680 one of them,
00:20:00.360 you know,
00:20:00.680 an African-American woman,
00:20:02.120 the other woman,
00:20:02.780 a refugee from Bhutan
00:20:04.440 who had spent 20 years
00:20:06.000 in a refugee camp
00:20:07.100 in Nepal,
00:20:08.000 you know,
00:20:08.200 that these people
00:20:09.560 had been thrown
00:20:10.160 under the bus
00:20:10.680 by the system
00:20:11.380 in Philadelphia
00:20:12.020 and in Pennsylvania
00:20:13.200 that no one
00:20:14.140 had investigated
00:20:14.760 those deaths.
00:20:15.680 It's incredible.
00:20:16.800 I mean,
00:20:17.060 it's a travesty
00:20:18.400 and by the way,
00:20:19.600 we have no information
00:20:21.820 that would indicate
00:20:22.820 that anything has changed.
00:20:25.680 Well,
00:20:26.180 let me ask you
00:20:26.900 about that,
00:20:27.380 Anne,
00:20:27.460 because I think
00:20:28.040 the most,
00:20:28.920 I mean,
00:20:29.120 if you're a pro-abortion
00:20:30.720 rights person,
00:20:32.040 the most logical
00:20:33.540 response to this
00:20:34.440 is,
00:20:34.640 well,
00:20:34.720 that's not abortion,
00:20:35.700 that was just him.
00:20:36.780 That's not representative
00:20:38.440 of this thing
00:20:39.720 and I remember
00:20:40.300 there was a chilling
00:20:41.240 scene in the
00:20:42.000 movie which was,
00:20:43.540 I believe,
00:20:43.820 almost verbatim
00:20:44.680 from the trial
00:20:45.500 of an abortion doctor
00:20:46.820 testifying about how
00:20:48.140 the stuff that he was doing
00:20:49.640 that we all saw
00:20:50.560 as so brutal
00:20:51.300 and, you know,
00:20:52.820 basically just murderous
00:20:54.500 was actually part and parcel
00:20:56.620 of standard abortion practice
00:20:58.640 in the United States
00:20:59.700 and I would presume
00:21:00.500 in Canada as well.
00:21:01.860 So you can draw a line,
00:21:04.020 it sounds like you're saying,
00:21:05.120 from what Gosnell did
00:21:06.280 to abortion
00:21:07.800 that is legal.
00:21:09.300 A hundred percent.
00:21:10.260 That's a really great question,
00:21:11.540 actually.
00:21:11.740 You're spot on there,
00:21:12.940 Andrew,
00:21:13.160 because, you know,
00:21:14.200 yeah,
00:21:14.540 this is what the pro-abortion
00:21:15.760 activists would say,
00:21:17.100 oh, this is an outlier,
00:21:18.260 this doesn't inform us
00:21:20.140 about anything.
00:21:21.220 It informs us
00:21:21.900 about a lot of stuff.
00:21:23.260 One of the things
00:21:23.860 pro-abortion activists,
00:21:24.900 by the way,
00:21:25.280 say is that,
00:21:26.060 you know,
00:21:26.640 second and third trimester
00:21:27.840 abortions are,
00:21:28.720 like, really extreme
00:21:29.620 and they just don't
00:21:30.420 really happen.
00:21:31.020 Well,
00:21:31.420 even based on
00:21:32.880 pro-abortion activists'
00:21:35.120 own research,
00:21:36.600 we know that
00:21:37.200 second and third trimesters
00:21:38.580 are happening,
00:21:39.760 tens of thousands
00:21:41.560 of them
00:21:42.060 and all those numbers
00:21:43.100 are not exaggerated
00:21:43.820 because all those numbers,
00:21:45.560 you're not required
00:21:46.200 to even report.
00:21:47.500 We know,
00:21:47.940 for example,
00:21:48.500 that Gosnell
00:21:49.500 was routinely doing
00:21:51.400 abortions
00:21:52.280 at the second
00:21:52.780 and third trimester
00:21:53.700 and in his case,
00:21:55.400 he was killing them,
00:21:56.320 but those women
00:21:56.800 were turning up.
00:21:57.900 Those women were turning up
00:21:59.020 who were pregnant,
00:21:59.740 who were very,
00:22:00.720 very, very pregnant.
00:22:02.140 So if they weren't
00:22:02.680 turning up to him,
00:22:03.360 they were going to
00:22:03.620 turn up somewhere else.
00:22:04.780 And there is no suggestion,
00:22:06.980 not in anything
00:22:07.960 I've ever done
00:22:08.900 in this case,
00:22:09.440 working on it
00:22:09.940 for years now,
00:22:11.040 I have never heard
00:22:12.160 of one case
00:22:13.400 of a woman
00:22:14.440 in a fetal,
00:22:15.420 you know,
00:22:15.620 where she had some
00:22:16.080 kind of fetal anomaly
00:22:16.900 or where there was
00:22:17.460 any kind of,
00:22:18.340 anything wrong with the baby
00:22:19.420 or any kind of health issue,
00:22:20.500 never,
00:22:20.960 never an inkling of that.
00:22:22.840 And yet these women
00:22:23.540 were turning up
00:22:24.100 and he was making
00:22:24.680 millions from it.
00:22:25.740 So this does
00:22:26.400 actually open a window
00:22:28.360 to what's going on,
00:22:29.380 what's legal in America
00:22:30.700 and legal,
00:22:31.660 as you say,
00:22:32.100 in Canada.
00:22:33.180 But you also point out
00:22:34.400 a really,
00:22:34.820 I mean,
00:22:35.480 what you just said there,
00:22:36.720 it's so interesting.
00:22:37.600 Like,
00:22:37.700 so that moment in the movie,
00:22:39.140 that moment in the trial,
00:22:41.220 you know,
00:22:41.660 it is verbatim.
00:22:44.360 An abortion doctor
00:22:45.440 called Karen Fusiline
00:22:46.480 came in,
00:22:47.060 gave evidence,
00:22:47.680 was asked,
00:22:48.540 you know,
00:22:48.720 when you're doing this right,
00:22:50.500 how do you do it?
00:22:51.540 And she described it.
00:22:53.120 And I can tell you
00:22:54.340 the journalists
00:22:54.940 that were there that day
00:22:56.420 were scratching their head,
00:22:57.780 including Phelan McAleer,
00:22:58.840 my husband,
00:22:59.580 who was like,
00:23:00.160 oh my God.
00:23:01.240 And when we read that,
00:23:02.500 when I read that transcript,
00:23:03.620 when he told me about that,
00:23:05.820 that was what made us decide
00:23:07.180 to make the movie.
00:23:08.080 That's what made us decide
00:23:09.000 to write the book
00:23:09.640 because we thought,
00:23:10.920 well,
00:23:11.120 we're very informed.
00:23:12.540 You know what I mean?
00:23:13.120 Like,
00:23:13.480 you know,
00:23:13.740 we're not,
00:23:14.320 our heads aren't in the sand.
00:23:15.700 We're very interested in stuff.
00:23:17.000 We didn't know.
00:23:17.840 And if we don't know,
00:23:19.140 who knows,
00:23:20.040 right?
00:23:21.140 So we thought,
00:23:22.000 you know,
00:23:22.260 this is incredibly important
00:23:23.220 to get this kind of information
00:23:24.260 in front of people
00:23:24.900 because people don't know.
00:23:26.220 People genuinely don't know.
00:23:27.300 And I actually think
00:23:27.960 a lot of people
00:23:28.460 who are very pro-abortion
00:23:29.900 don't know.
00:23:31.260 And I know that
00:23:32.180 because of the response
00:23:33.120 we got from the movie.
00:23:34.020 We had people
00:23:34.580 who were pro-abortion
00:23:35.720 who saw the movie accidentally
00:23:37.440 because it was,
00:23:38.160 again,
00:23:38.340 a true crime movie
00:23:39.240 and people love crime.
00:23:40.260 And they were like,
00:23:42.800 oh my God,
00:23:43.300 I didn't know this.
00:23:44.160 I didn't know.
00:23:44.900 I didn't know.
00:23:45.900 And I'm totally changed.
00:23:47.240 I'm totally changed
00:23:48.520 in 90 minutes.
00:23:49.300 We know people.
00:23:50.140 People have written to us
00:23:51.120 and people also tell,
00:23:52.500 we have news reports
00:23:53.720 of people.
00:23:54.500 Patrick Kurelesch,
00:23:55.400 a media entrepreneur
00:23:56.880 here in Los Angeles
00:23:58.140 who wrote and said,
00:23:59.640 in 90 minutes,
00:24:00.400 you totally changed
00:24:01.100 my mind about abortion.
00:24:02.440 So this is the power
00:24:03.300 of this podcast
00:24:05.020 is to shed light
00:24:06.020 on a story.
00:24:07.060 You know,
00:24:07.380 what's going to happen,
00:24:08.460 we presume
00:24:09.060 in the next couple of days
00:24:10.080 is that Roe v. Wade
00:24:10.820 will be overturned
00:24:12.020 in the Dobbs decision.
00:24:14.020 And that's just one thing,
00:24:15.840 right?
00:24:16.020 And of course,
00:24:16.420 what we both know
00:24:17.500 and the abortion people
00:24:18.780 are not saying is
00:24:19.640 this doesn't really
00:24:20.820 change anything.
00:24:21.720 It just throws the decision
00:24:23.380 back to people,
00:24:24.480 for people to decide,
00:24:25.720 which is what should have
00:24:26.340 always been the case.
00:24:27.760 And what will people decide?
00:24:29.160 Like,
00:24:29.300 what will people decide?
00:24:30.520 Unfortunately,
00:24:31.620 I know from Ireland
00:24:32.640 that when people were asked
00:24:34.660 to decide,
00:24:36.140 they overwhelmingly decided
00:24:38.400 in favor of abortion.
00:24:40.600 And I thought that decision
00:24:41.520 was made in ignorance.
00:24:42.620 And I don't mean that
00:24:43.180 in a horrible way.
00:24:44.540 I just mean that I think
00:24:45.300 that the media suppressed
00:24:46.820 the true story,
00:24:47.900 didn't allow voices
00:24:49.020 like mine to be heard.
00:24:50.420 And so people made a decision
00:24:52.220 and they didn't know
00:24:52.720 what they were voting for.
00:24:53.860 So I think this is
00:24:54.520 a really important time
00:24:55.520 for people to get
00:24:56.080 more informed,
00:24:57.560 more information,
00:24:58.800 not less information,
00:24:59.760 would be really helpful.
00:25:01.460 Yeah,
00:25:01.900 and I think the importance
00:25:03.020 of access to these stories
00:25:05.140 is critical.
00:25:05.960 And when you talked
00:25:07.480 about people
00:25:08.000 whose opinions
00:25:08.680 were changed
00:25:09.560 by learning about this trial,
00:25:11.820 do I understand correctly
00:25:13.100 or do I recall correctly
00:25:14.260 that you had a bit
00:25:15.580 of a change
00:25:16.140 in your own outlook
00:25:17.140 in immersing yourself
00:25:18.480 in this as well?
00:25:19.080 Well, yeah,
00:25:19.980 100%.
00:25:21.000 I mean,
00:25:22.240 I was,
00:25:23.480 I mean,
00:25:24.080 you know,
00:25:24.400 I was what people say.
00:25:25.680 I was neutral on abortion
00:25:26.980 prior to getting involved
00:25:28.440 in this story.
00:25:29.260 And by the way,
00:25:29.780 there is no neutrality
00:25:30.780 on abortion.
00:25:31.400 It just doesn't exist.
00:25:32.180 So that means
00:25:32.800 I was pro-abortion
00:25:33.740 prior to this.
00:25:35.140 And I had
00:25:36.000 a complete conversion.
00:25:38.020 I was profoundly shocked.
00:25:39.820 I'm shocked today.
00:25:40.980 To be honest with you,
00:25:41.580 I'm shocked today, Andrew.
00:25:43.140 Like,
00:25:43.380 I've read stuff today
00:25:44.520 that,
00:25:45.440 you know,
00:25:45.840 stuff that I wrote myself,
00:25:47.160 stuff that I discovered myself.
00:25:48.220 I've been looking at
00:25:49.100 some of the interviews
00:25:49.720 we did with some of the people
00:25:50.720 in the podcast.
00:25:51.900 And it brings me to tears
00:25:53.300 to listen to it.
00:25:54.140 Now,
00:25:54.700 years later,
00:25:55.480 and I know this stuff,
00:25:56.720 it's chilling.
00:25:58.120 You know,
00:25:58.640 I have the photographs
00:25:59.360 of the babies
00:26:00.380 that were discovered
00:26:01.040 in the clinic.
00:26:02.040 Most of them
00:26:02.620 were legally aborted.
00:26:03.860 And it's chilling
00:26:05.240 to see the true face
00:26:07.200 of abortion.
00:26:08.980 And it totally changes you.
00:26:10.400 I mean,
00:26:10.520 I just can't,
00:26:11.220 it's the,
00:26:11.920 I think one of the,
00:26:12.980 it becomes unthinkable.
00:26:14.220 Once you understand
00:26:15.000 what abortion is,
00:26:15.720 it becomes unthinkable.
00:26:16.580 And I think one of the,
00:26:18.720 somebody made a,
00:26:19.560 Kevin Hart,
00:26:20.760 not Kevin Hart,
00:26:21.540 no,
00:26:21.980 Chris Rock made a good,
00:26:23.120 made a good joke recently,
00:26:24.420 you know,
00:26:24.900 about abortion.
00:26:25.900 And he said,
00:26:26.520 you know,
00:26:26.980 yeah,
00:26:27.960 there's no such thing really,
00:26:28.940 you know,
00:26:29.280 yeah,
00:26:29.680 I don't think there's any such thing
00:26:30.660 as a safe abortion
00:26:31.340 because always somebody dies.
00:26:34.200 And he said,
00:26:34.820 you know,
00:26:35.120 and he went on to say,
00:26:36.120 you know,
00:26:36.300 I'm not,
00:26:36.860 you know,
00:26:37.560 I'm not so much pro-choice,
00:26:38.900 I'm pro-better choice.
00:26:41.040 I thought that was great.
00:26:42.280 You know,
00:26:42.500 I'm pro-better choice as well,
00:26:43.760 you know,
00:26:44.400 and I like,
00:26:45.680 yeah,
00:26:46.160 in a safe abortion,
00:26:47.100 always someone dies.
00:26:48.300 Someone dies,
00:26:49.360 not something.
00:26:51.640 When I look at the podcast
00:26:53.520 that you have coming out,
00:26:54.680 and I've only heard
00:26:55.440 the premiere episode,
00:26:56.580 as would be expected,
00:26:57.620 it's quite well done.
00:26:58.780 Is your goal
00:26:59.680 to repackage this,
00:27:01.520 to tap into a new audience,
00:27:03.400 or are you,
00:27:04.460 is there more to the story
00:27:05.780 or more insight
00:27:06.500 that you have
00:27:07.160 now that you've sat with this
00:27:08.680 for several years
00:27:09.680 and you've done the book
00:27:11.000 and the movie
00:27:11.640 and now this?
00:27:13.220 It's actually both of those.
00:27:14.280 That's really good.
00:27:15.000 Yeah,
00:27:15.120 it's actually both of those.
00:27:16.200 Yes,
00:27:16.420 reaching a new audience
00:27:17.340 because people who get
00:27:18.400 to hear this story
00:27:19.240 are forever changed by it
00:27:20.900 and in a good way.
00:27:21.760 I mean,
00:27:22.100 you know,
00:27:22.360 we've had,
00:27:22.740 as I said,
00:27:23.120 we've had amazing correspondence
00:27:24.140 for people,
00:27:25.140 but I have had...
00:27:25.640 And you couldn't get your movie
00:27:26.720 in a lot of movie theaters.
00:27:27.780 You couldn't get it on Netflix.
00:27:29.200 I mean,
00:27:29.420 it wasn't getting to a lot
00:27:30.840 of the people
00:27:31.240 that might have been
00:27:32.420 in that position
00:27:33.120 where they could have
00:27:33.640 had their mind changed.
00:27:34.740 Correct.
00:27:35.440 And I do think,
00:27:36.160 you know,
00:27:36.320 that's a huge thing.
00:27:37.300 And we have had time
00:27:38.240 in the meantime
00:27:38.740 to think about this
00:27:40.140 and,
00:27:40.920 you know,
00:27:41.160 and I feel like
00:27:41.900 that the podcast
00:27:42.460 gives something
00:27:43.100 that we haven't,
00:27:43.820 I mean,
00:27:44.040 you know,
00:27:44.600 really touched before,
00:27:45.520 which is really getting
00:27:46.920 to know the characters here
00:27:48.140 that made this,
00:27:49.920 you know,
00:27:50.220 brought this man to justice
00:27:51.420 and they're really worth knowing,
00:27:53.040 you know,
00:27:53.280 like Detective Jim Wood,
00:27:54.400 who's just this fabulous cop
00:27:55.840 who would really renew your faith
00:27:57.700 in,
00:27:57.940 you know,
00:27:58.540 in the justice system,
00:27:59.720 make you realize
00:28:00.340 how incredible
00:28:01.100 these great cops are
00:28:02.540 that are all over the place.
00:28:04.140 And the Assistant District Attorney,
00:28:05.760 Christine Wexler,
00:28:06.920 you know,
00:28:07.120 people like,
00:28:08.080 you know,
00:28:08.280 the crime scene investigators
00:28:09.560 that we speak to
00:28:10.340 and then some of the victims,
00:28:11.420 some of the women
00:28:11.840 who were in that clinic
00:28:12.980 and described what it was like
00:28:14.480 when they thought
00:28:15.380 that they were going to bleed to death.
00:28:16.560 I mean,
00:28:16.760 you know,
00:28:17.380 I think it's,
00:28:18.080 I think there's something
00:28:18.900 very unique
00:28:19.820 about hearing those voices
00:28:20.880 that is very,
00:28:22.340 very valuable
00:28:22.820 and very powerful.
00:28:24.040 It's incredible.
00:28:26.240 It's,
00:28:26.740 yeah,
00:28:27.100 I just think
00:28:27.660 it's a completely different way
00:28:29.040 of coming to that story.
00:28:30.800 And as you kind of
00:28:31.540 have mentioned there,
00:28:32.640 there is this massive audience
00:28:33.860 of people
00:28:34.240 who really love true crime.
00:28:35.440 I'm that person.
00:28:36.120 I am that person.
00:28:37.060 Myself and my husband,
00:28:38.700 date lined at night.
00:28:39.660 We're all the time doing that.
00:28:40.880 Watching these shows
00:28:41.600 with these,
00:28:42.120 you know,
00:28:42.440 and apparently it's,
00:28:43.720 you know,
00:28:44.260 that's the,
00:28:44.960 it's a,
00:28:45.640 you know,
00:28:46.040 the reason why
00:28:46.700 when you turn the television on
00:28:47.820 with all these true crime shows
00:28:48.900 is because they have an audience
00:28:50.320 for these
00:28:50.920 and the audience
00:28:52.620 on the podcast platform
00:28:54.360 is enormous
00:28:55.840 with people tuning in
00:28:57.600 and once they've had their,
00:28:58.560 you know,
00:28:58.760 they've done Dr. Death
00:28:59.940 or they've done Dirty John
00:29:01.040 or they've done Serial,
00:29:02.460 the NPR show,
00:29:03.340 they're ready for the next one.
00:29:04.880 So get ready for us
00:29:06.740 because SerialKillerPod.com,
00:29:08.580 if people go to SerialKillerPod.com,
00:29:10.880 they can access the show
00:29:12.680 and I'd ask people to subscribe.
00:29:15.380 Please leave a review.
00:29:17.060 It's a really powerful story.
00:29:18.560 I mean,
00:29:18.680 as you say,
00:29:19.180 I've been at this for years
00:29:20.340 and I'm always,
00:29:22.140 I'm always gratified
00:29:24.180 by the effect it has on people.
00:29:26.560 You and Phelan
00:29:27.840 always do such a tremendous job
00:29:30.080 at bringing things
00:29:31.800 that are oftentimes
00:29:32.820 very difficult
00:29:33.960 or in other cases,
00:29:35.320 very dense to life.
00:29:36.540 I mean,
00:29:36.680 one notable example
00:29:37.600 was your real,
00:29:39.080 basically real-time
00:29:40.400 podcast reenactment
00:29:42.160 of the Harvey Weinstein trial
00:29:43.760 and I know
00:29:44.200 the Ferguson play as well,
00:29:46.520 great examples of this.
00:29:48.260 And I guess with this podcast,
00:29:50.080 what's your message
00:29:51.500 to people
00:29:52.180 that are inherently
00:29:53.580 going to dismiss it
00:29:54.800 because it's pro-life propaganda?
00:29:56.780 The people that
00:29:57.420 have already made up their mind,
00:29:59.140 there's nothing
00:29:59.760 that's going to shake them,
00:30:00.700 they think.
00:30:01.380 Like,
00:30:01.560 do you think there is something
00:30:02.820 in this that can reach
00:30:03.980 even those people?
00:30:05.440 Yeah,
00:30:05.640 totally.
00:30:06.060 Because,
00:30:06.400 I mean,
00:30:06.600 if you like crime,
00:30:07.620 if you like crime stories,
00:30:08.720 I mean,
00:30:08.820 this is an amazing crime story,
00:30:10.060 even how this guy
00:30:10.840 was discovered
00:30:11.460 that this was
00:30:12.260 a routine drug investigation,
00:30:13.900 I mean,
00:30:14.040 it's really fascinating.
00:30:15.440 I think,
00:30:15.760 you know,
00:30:16.220 yeah,
00:30:16.520 there's lots of things
00:30:17.460 like that.
00:30:18.060 There's also,
00:30:18.520 I think,
00:30:19.100 I think people
00:30:19.680 who maybe have their minds
00:30:20.840 made up about abortion
00:30:21.660 or whatever
00:30:22.000 and think,
00:30:22.380 oh,
00:30:22.480 this is an abortion thing.
00:30:23.380 It's not,
00:30:23.680 there's a lot of,
00:30:24.700 it's a lot about
00:30:25.640 a lot of other things too.
00:30:27.000 And it's a lot about,
00:30:28.740 I mean,
00:30:29.720 for somebody maybe
00:30:30.400 who hasn't come across
00:30:31.360 this story before,
00:30:32.160 they should be,
00:30:32.600 they should be questioning
00:30:33.500 about that.
00:30:34.180 They should be saying
00:30:34.620 to themselves,
00:30:35.640 that should make them
00:30:36.340 really uncomfortable,
00:30:37.000 by the way.
00:30:37.780 The fact that they've never
00:30:38.620 heard of this story before,
00:30:40.340 you know,
00:30:41.320 on that note,
00:30:42.040 do you still meet people
00:30:43.000 that you say Kermit Gosnell
00:30:44.500 and they say who?
00:30:45.520 Is that like,
00:30:46.040 you know,
00:30:46.180 one of the Muppets
00:30:46.780 or something?
00:30:47.620 Absolutely.
00:30:48.340 I totally meet people
00:30:49.180 who have not heard
00:30:50.120 this story.
00:30:51.000 And I think people
00:30:52.040 should be really just,
00:30:53.000 this should be very,
00:30:54.020 very disturbing
00:30:54.780 for people,
00:30:55.620 you know,
00:30:56.060 that the media chose
00:30:57.180 to cover up this story
00:30:58.340 because they didn't like
00:30:59.120 what it said
00:30:59.720 about whatever.
00:31:01.600 The media don't get
00:31:02.760 to make those kind
00:31:03.460 of choices.
00:31:03.980 You need to tell people.
00:31:04.940 I mean,
00:31:05.060 you know that.
00:31:05.580 I'm looking at your book
00:31:06.260 in the background there,
00:31:07.020 The Freedom Convoy.
00:31:08.160 If that isn't the best example
00:31:09.720 of exactly what I'm talking about,
00:31:11.320 where something monumental happens,
00:31:13.360 something historic,
00:31:14.200 something of that magnitude,
00:31:15.500 and the whole world
00:31:16.260 aren't reporting on it
00:31:17.180 because they don't like
00:31:18.240 what it says,
00:31:19.320 because it goes against
00:31:20.040 some narrative of theirs,
00:31:21.060 some politics of theirs,
00:31:22.520 that's not good
00:31:23.700 for any of us.
00:31:24.460 No matter what your opinion
00:31:25.440 or your belief in anything is,
00:31:27.660 journalists need to be reporting
00:31:29.340 on what's happening
00:31:30.320 and this was an extraordinary story
00:31:32.180 and it's an extraordinary story
00:31:34.660 about public health,
00:31:35.480 by the way,
00:31:35.860 and the state of public health
00:31:36.940 in the United States
00:31:37.680 where the Department of Health
00:31:39.120 in Pennsylvania
00:31:40.060 got repeated complaints
00:31:42.280 over and over and over
00:31:43.600 of the years
00:31:44.220 of people saying
00:31:44.860 that there were cats
00:31:45.500 in this place,
00:31:46.020 that it was filthy
00:31:46.600 and no one from the Department of Health
00:31:49.680 went to investigate.
00:31:51.100 People should be outraged
00:31:52.060 by that.
00:31:52.540 People, by the way,
00:31:53.220 who support BLM
00:31:54.540 should particularly want
00:31:55.860 to listen to this podcast,
00:31:57.060 by the way,
00:31:57.680 because this clinic
00:31:58.740 particularly catered
00:32:00.280 to minorities,
00:32:01.220 particularly catered
00:32:02.020 to very poor African Americans
00:32:04.120 and people
00:32:05.560 who are supporting
00:32:06.620 Black Lives Matter
00:32:07.340 should really,
00:32:08.360 really care about this
00:32:09.440 because the way
00:32:10.680 these women were treated
00:32:11.540 and the way
00:32:12.300 that the establishment
00:32:13.320 in Pennsylvania
00:32:13.980 treated these women
00:32:14.700 was basically racist.
00:32:17.100 You know,
00:32:17.820 it wouldn't have happened
00:32:18.940 if somebody said to me recently
00:32:20.160 in a nice suburb
00:32:21.800 in Pennsylvania,
00:32:22.760 it wouldn't have happened
00:32:23.520 because it wouldn't be good enough
00:32:25.420 for those white folk
00:32:26.740 but it was good enough
00:32:28.000 apparently for these black women.
00:32:29.540 So I don't know why BLM
00:32:31.120 aren't all over this thing
00:32:32.560 because this is racism.
00:32:35.280 This was some form of racism
00:32:36.640 on top of everything else.
00:32:38.580 Yeah, you're right.
00:32:39.560 BLM feminists
00:32:40.700 should be mortified
00:32:41.580 by this treatment of women.
00:32:43.440 All of these activist groups
00:32:44.740 that should be there
00:32:46.040 that aren't on this
00:32:47.300 and certainly the media.
00:32:48.380 I don't want to say
00:32:48.860 they're as large villains
00:32:50.420 as Gosnell himself
00:32:51.420 but certainly they are villains
00:32:52.920 in this story.
00:32:54.040 And I appreciate the plug
00:32:54.920 in my book
00:32:55.320 but we're here to plug
00:32:56.040 your podcast and Serial Killer
00:32:57.600 a true crime podcast
00:32:59.320 launching this week.
00:33:00.380 Where can people find it?
00:33:01.660 So people need to go
00:33:02.300 to SerialKillerPod.com
00:33:04.120 So SerialKillerPod.com
00:33:06.660 and you can subscribe.
00:33:08.340 It's all free.
00:33:09.780 Have a listen.
00:33:10.760 Please leave a review.
00:33:12.060 That would be really helpful.
00:33:13.720 And then share it.
00:33:15.000 If you think it's interesting,
00:33:16.080 please share it with other people.
00:33:17.360 This is the great thing
00:33:18.180 about podcasts.
00:33:18.980 As you know,
00:33:19.440 there's no borders
00:33:20.420 and they're free
00:33:21.980 and they can go everywhere
00:33:23.880 and it's an amazing way
00:33:24.900 to get information
00:33:25.580 and you can do it.
00:33:26.200 You can have it
00:33:26.800 plugged into the car.
00:33:27.940 You can be listening to it
00:33:28.700 on your way to work
00:33:29.300 and it's jaw-dropping stuff actually.
00:33:31.800 But it's also ultimately,
00:33:33.060 I think,
00:33:33.540 life-affirming
00:33:34.180 and inspiring
00:33:35.460 because of the kind of people
00:33:36.900 that were involved
00:33:37.460 in the investigation
00:33:38.040 who put this guy away forever.
00:33:39.960 And if you find it too heavy,
00:33:41.400 you can also subscribe
00:33:42.220 to the Ann and Phelan Scoop
00:33:43.500 where Ann and Phelan
00:33:44.900 also do recipes.
00:33:46.240 So you can get the serious
00:33:47.600 and the light-hearted as well.
00:33:48.780 That's right.
00:33:49.140 That's right.
00:33:49.600 for this cooking.
00:33:50.320 I just recently
00:33:51.160 was doing a recipe
00:33:52.140 using the air fryer
00:33:53.500 and somebody just literally wrote
00:33:55.060 because the podcast
00:33:55.680 came out today
00:33:56.220 and somebody wrote
00:33:56.720 and said,
00:33:57.540 thinking of buying an air fryer,
00:33:58.800 which one do you have?
00:33:59.460 And I'm thinking,
00:33:59.780 yeah,
00:33:59.960 so anyway,
00:34:00.580 I'm obviously,
00:34:01.120 I'm very big
00:34:01.680 into the air fryer right now.
00:34:03.300 It's been a couple of years
00:34:04.360 since I've had your cooking.
00:34:05.300 I'll have to venture out
00:34:06.420 to California again soon.
00:34:08.820 Ann McElhenney,
00:34:09.460 thank you so much.
00:34:10.240 Great job on the podcast.
00:34:11.460 Congratulations.
00:34:12.420 Okay.
00:34:13.000 Bye-bye.
00:34:13.480 That was my discussion
00:34:14.660 with Ann McElhenney.
00:34:16.160 And if you haven't seen the movie
00:34:18.220 or read the book,
00:34:18.960 I would encourage you
00:34:19.620 to do both
00:34:20.140 and listen to the podcast.
00:34:21.680 It's incredibly important
00:34:22.800 to support independent media
00:34:24.320 and voices telling these stories.
00:34:26.100 And like I said,
00:34:26.700 they're actually just
00:34:27.320 important stories
00:34:28.320 in and of themselves.
00:34:29.140 So my thanks again
00:34:30.460 to Ann McElhenney
00:34:31.360 for coming on the show.
00:34:32.800 That does it for us
00:34:34.020 for today.
00:34:34.800 On the next edition
00:34:36.020 of the program,
00:34:36.580 we'll have my sit down
00:34:37.580 with Pierre-Paul Lievre
00:34:39.020 as part of our
00:34:39.760 Conservative Leadership Series
00:34:41.260 here on the Andrew Lawton Show.
00:34:42.460 And that leaves just a couple
00:34:43.920 of leadership candidates
00:34:44.880 remaining in Scott Acheson
00:34:46.320 and Leslyn Lewis,
00:34:47.260 but we'll get to them
00:34:47.960 in the coming weeks as well.
00:34:50.160 Thanks everyone
00:34:50.920 for tuning into the show.
00:34:51.900 We'll talk to you soon.
00:34:52.920 Thank you.
00:34:53.400 God bless.
00:34:54.000 And good day to you all.
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