00:01:07.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:10.000Now, there are a few holdouts to this, but I think it's important to count the victories while we have them.
00:02:17.000You've got states like California, New York, Oregon, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware.
00:02:25.000These are blue states that have looked at the tea leaves and their political futures, not the science, mind you, but their political futures, and said, now is the time to change the science.
00:02:39.000Now is the time to say what people on the right, shows like this one, have been saying for a very, very long time now.
00:02:46.000Was it Connor was 15 days to slow the spread?
00:02:49.000We've probably been saying this for about, you know, 735 days now, that it was time to end this nonsense.
00:02:57.000Now, I want to start all of this with a clip of a comedian, Heather McDonald.
00:03:04.000And I'm not playing this clip to be crass or to celebrate somebody's pain or injury.
00:03:12.000I hope that this comedian, Heather McDonald, is well.
00:03:18.000But if you haven't seen this clip or heard it yet, it is very telling.
00:03:21.000And the reason I want to start with it is because it feels exactly like what's happening within this larger COVID narrative, this larger mask mandate narrative, everything that's happening in Canada.
00:03:37.000This is the perfect visualization of the regime's narrative.
00:05:32.000We have the very same people that have been jamming extremes down our throats for the last two years, telling us to mask our kids, telling us to vax our kids, which are still stuck on it.
00:05:42.000I'm going to get to that in a little bit.
00:05:44.000Telling us that even at your home, if you're with unvaccinated people, you have to mask up.
00:05:51.000We have the DHS, and I'm going to get into this story in a little bit in more detail.
00:05:56.000The DHS issuing a terror bulletin this week saying that their number one concern are individuals spreading election misinformation and COVID misinformation.
00:06:21.000It's you, regular Americans, that believe that there were serious irregularities in the election or that you believe that the regime's narrative about COVID and vaccinations were politicized.
00:06:33.000You are the top threat, according to the DHS.
00:06:35.000And so we have these same charlatans, these same crooks, these same con men and women now coming out when the science has changed, when the science has not changed, folks, the narrative has changed.
00:06:48.000The political realities staring them down in November have changed.
00:06:52.000And they have the gall to come out and write in the Washington Post that it's time to avoid all extremes when it comes to this next wave.
00:07:02.000Well, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, Dr. Wen, to the Washington Post editorial board, even to the Atlantic, which says it's time to end all COVID restrictions.
00:07:21.000The bad news is this, is that we're not going to forget.
00:07:26.000We're not going to just let this one go by.
00:07:29.000You've stolen two years of the American life.
00:07:34.000You've stolen two years of our children's lives.
00:07:38.000And in places like Los Angeles and New York City, you're still doing it.
00:07:42.000Eric Adams wants the mass mandates for children to continue on, even while other blue states are lifting them.
00:07:50.000The UK has moved up its lifting of restrictions by a week.
00:07:54.000So they are going to lift all restrictions by the end of February.
00:08:00.000And just breaking last night, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island all announced plans to lift COVID-19 restrictions, saying it will increasingly be up to citizens to assess the risk they face from the virus.
00:08:17.000That's according to the Canadian press.
00:08:20.000What you are seeing is the people rising up, the rising up of the citizen, saying we're not going to take it anymore.
00:08:27.000And God bless our trucker friends to the north.
00:08:31.000They were the catalyst for a lot of this sudden change of science.
00:08:40.000And we are going to keep a list of folks that have steered us so terribly wrong, that have damaged the American way of life, that have caused inflation to spiral out of control, that have caused our supply chains to be backed up, that have hurt and harmed our children.
00:08:59.000And we won't forget, and we want accountability.
00:09:02.000And that is the message to the American elite and ruling class that have been so, so horribly wrong.
00:09:12.000How many years have I been telling you about Relief Factor?
00:09:13.000Producer Andrew's right here doing an Iron Man thanks to Relief Factor.
00:09:16.000And truth is, I know there are millions of people.
00:09:19.000In fact, some say over 100 million people struggling with some kind of pain, maybe from exercise or just getting older.
00:09:24.000That can do it, getting older, which is why I'm so impressed with the people at relieffactor.com.
00:09:29.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
00:09:31.000They recently shared with me that they are doubling down and want to literally double their total number of happy customers in the next year.
00:09:39.000If you're struggling with back pain, neck pain, shoulder, hip, or knee pain, even general muscle aches and pain, then I'm suggesting you order their three-week quick start, still discounted, only $19.95.
00:10:08.000Now, is this little breath of sanity something to celebrate and let it all just go away and say, hey, you know, let's let bygones be bygones.
00:10:20.000States like California, New York, Oregon, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, all lifting some sort of mask mandate.
00:10:31.000You've also got Saskatchewan, Alberta, Quebec lifting COVID restrictions.
00:10:39.000You've got the UK moving up its lifting of COVID restrictions.
00:10:43.000Now, some of that certainly is tied to Boris Johnson's political controversies regarding even just today, newly dropped pictures from The Guardian showing him partying during Christmas during the height of the COVID season, which, I mean, it's just further proof that politicians are human beings, folks.
00:11:03.000I don't fault the man for partying during Christmas.
00:11:08.000Steve Kirsch, he runs a great sub stack.
00:11:12.000Something that we often will reference.
00:11:14.000And he had a great article, The 12 Spreaders of Disinformation.
00:11:21.000He calls it my disinformation dozen list.
00:11:24.000And he lists the top 12 people that you need to remember as the country returns to some sort of sanity because they led us down a path of destruction.
00:11:36.000I think a level of destruction that we will probably not fully realize for a generation.
00:11:45.000His first on the list, President Joe Biden.
00:12:33.000Tony Fauci, number three, arguably could be number one or number two.
00:12:38.000Spread disinformation about the sources of the virus, lied about funding it, continues to do so when questioned by Senator Rand Paul, and failed to properly promote early treatments.
00:12:50.000Four, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, also another one of those science has changed, guys.
00:12:58.000Did nothing about effective early treatment protocols.
00:13:01.000Compounded the air by labeling people trying to spread life-saving information as disinformation spreaders.
00:13:07.000Bill Gates funded the misinformation campaign and the fact checkers.
00:14:27.000And there's a reason they're trying to discredit.
00:14:30.000Stephen A. Anderson, the top vaccine safety official at the FDA, deliberately ignored all the VARES and DMED safety signals.
00:14:38.000Gavin Newsom at number 11, and Dr. Richard Planned, California State Senator, who tried to remove all loopholes and personal exemptions from the COVID vaccine school vaccination.
00:16:43.000I don't mean to make it personal, but I mean, obviously, everything that's been happening in the news with mask mandates with the schools, Hochell, Eric Adams, I want the update.
00:16:53.000What's going on right now with masking, COVID restrictions, vaccines in New York City?
00:17:08.000We have a new mayor who has decided to uphold the vaccine requirements that the old mayor put in place.
00:17:15.000So there's still these rules where you can't go to restaurants or movie theaters or Broadway theaters or so many other places without showing your vaccine card.
00:18:50.000My son doesn't have any of those and he doesn't have a card.
00:18:54.000So since the mandate was put into effect, I haven't actually tried to go to very many places other than restaurants that I already know with my son.
00:20:53.000You know yeah, please send me fridays.
00:20:56.000But um yeah, we haven't seen anything from Adams about the mask mandates in the city, but we did see governor Hochle who, I will point out, is unelected.
00:21:08.000She took over after Cuomo was forced out.
00:21:11.000Um, but she has said that this lifting of mask mandates will not include school children, that the uh order for schools is set to expire february 21st, I believe, which is right before our february break and she said that she'll make decisions about what happens to school children after that.
00:21:32.000Of course, that's absurd, because we know the CDC has pointed out, even Fauci has pointed out that children are at a far less substantial risk for covid.
00:21:42.000There have been very small number of deaths in that age group.
00:21:46.000Um, and these kids are being forced to sit with masks on six hours a day, through music class, you know, through pe class, through everything you know, even outside.
00:21:58.000Yeah well, and it's, it's child abuse.
00:22:53.000You know, Libby and I to all all disclosure texting about this.
00:22:57.000We're both for eating uh, a healthier diet, I mean, it's not that it's, but does not New York have more pressing matters before the mayor than vegan lunches on Fridays.
00:23:16.000Yeah, so this sort of harkens back to the glory days of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's leadership in the city when he instituted a tax on sodas.
00:24:51.000But I mean, he looked more passionate about that than talking about crime, talking about backing his police officers in the streets, which has been a, as you well know, an incredible saga for the police force recently with those incredible images of them coming out in support of their fallen comrades.
00:25:11.000And I just, I find it very surprising.
00:25:15.000How are New Yorkers responding to this?
00:25:19.000Are New Yorkers still giving Eric Adams the benefit of the doubt?
00:25:22.000Is they still looking at this as maybe a return to some sort of normalcy after de Blasio?
00:25:28.000I don't think anybody's turning on Adams just yet.
00:25:32.000I do think that it was really horrifying seeing two of our police officers murdered just recently.
00:25:39.000And there was, as you mentioned, that incredible funeral procession basically down the street in Manhattan in support of those officers.
00:25:49.000At the time, after those men were murdered, the president came to New York to talk about it and to try and discuss problems of crime.
00:25:59.000And he really just came out for more gun control.
00:26:02.000And it seems crazy to me that Americans who own their guns legally are consistently getting more and more restrictions on their rights to own weapons while career criminals are able to access guns with absolutely no issue at all.
00:26:19.000And then they use those guns to kill our police officers who are supposed to keep us safe.
00:26:23.000I do think that there's a big problem with crime in the city.
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00:28:15.000You know, I would have probably done theater or something as a kid.
00:28:17.000I just, you know, my conservative parents didn't even think of it as an option, which, you know, probably fine that I ended up playing baseball and football and things like that.
00:28:45.000We're all sick and tired of restrictions, of mandates, of having to make sacrifices of not being able to do the things we love.
00:28:54.000It's been two years and it's really, really tiring for all of us.
00:28:59.000This government has been focused every step of the way on following the best science, following the best public health advice to keep as many people safe as possible.
00:29:24.000I can understand frustrations with mandates, but mandates are the way to avoid further restrictions or having to be restricted as people get vaccinated.