Democrats Are Terrified and Justice Breyer’s Retirement Is Proof ｜ 1⧸27⧸22
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Summary
On today's show, Glenn Beck and Pat and Stu discuss the announcement that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is stepping down at the end of the session, and what that means for the Democratic candidates to replace him. They also discuss the possibility of a woman replacing him.
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We may have a new Supreme Court justice before the end of the year
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Maybe even by fall, because I think the Supreme Court session ends
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So right after that, apparently Stephen Breyer is going to retire
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So the big announcement yesterday was that Stephen Breyer is going to step down as Supreme Court Justice
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Which means there would be an opening at the end of the session
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And I think the session ends, you know, after they make all their pronouncements in the summer
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Some are speculating, it might be, that would get her out of the way, at least, of the administration
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And they could try to find somebody who might help the administration and the administration's likability
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And I think they know that, but I don't know that she goes to the Supreme Court
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Yeah, I would say that one does not, this does not seem likely to me
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Again, a black woman may very well be the most qualified person for the job
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But there's no way to argue that you went through a process where you could determine that
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You're talking about the most important judgeships in this nation's history
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And you just said, I'm just going for essentially aesthetics
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Yes, I'm going to base this decision on skin color
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Gender and skin color are going to be my two first decisions
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I am going to select the best white male to be on the Supreme Court
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Well, I guess that one could maybe slide through
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African Americans make up 12% of the population
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You've eliminated 88% of the population with decision one
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Then approximately half of African Americans are men
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And you're supposed to be trained in the law, I guess
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I love the fact that an ultimatum was laid down for Spotify.
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You got two artists on your site and one of them has to go.
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I don't know if he thinks this is 1969 still, 1970.
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Neil Young demands that Spotify drop Joe Rogan.
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First of all, you should be able to noodle this out.
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They just signed a $100 million deal with Joe Rogan.
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But he told him, you can either have my music on your site or Joe Rogan.
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Because I know Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
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Yeah, they like him as a songwriter and a singer.
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I've had relatives who love Neil Young, live and die with the guy, even though he's obviously
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no conservative, and many of these people are conservatives, but still love the guy.
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Because he was like, you know, I don't know, speaking out against the man back in the day
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You know, he was always bumping up against the government, but now I guess he's all in
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with the government, which is kind of interesting.
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You know, you got this 60s protest singer, and that's really kind of what he was, what you
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And he was sort of counterculture, and now you're all about this administration and everything
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Yeah, I remember back in 2006, with Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, they sang the song
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They were against the man, fighting back against the man.
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Now, of course, the ironically named free speech tour that he was on at the time in 2006,
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The free speech tour now turns into get Joe Rogan off of Spotify.
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There's no way Neil Young is listening to this opinion.
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He's heard that Joe Rogan has said certain things.
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He wants people to not be able to hear those things.
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He doesn't want you or me or anyone in the audience to hear that Joe Rogan likes some
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So how is it misinformation if he's just telling you, here's what worked for me?
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I mean, it's hard to tell what works and what doesn't, especially with COVID, when the
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overwhelming majority, especially Joe Rogan, who's a guy who's in pretty good shape, relatively
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young, you know, doing absolutely nothing probably also works for Joe Rogan, right?
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That's not something that the left a lot of times wants you to hear.
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And you felt sick for a little while and then got better.
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It was miserable for a couple of days, but I lived.
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First, she started with the Merck pill, which didn't do anything for her, but give her bad
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I mean, how many times do you have to anecdotally hear about it working for people before you
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say, huh, maybe we don't understand everything about this?
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Yeah, it's just, it's just the bottom line is, and I keep coming back to this with the
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COVID thing, and we don't need to go deep into it, but it's like we have a lot of tools
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A lot of people think that Ivermectin is a dumb choice for COVID.
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A lot of people think that the vaccine is a dumb choice for COVID.
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You know, we are at least, Pat, six months away from anyone being persuaded on either
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There has not been a single individual persuaded either way in six months, okay?
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I mean, when you look at the vaccination data in Trump counties and Biden counties, it's
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I mean, they rise at all the same paths, and then they diverge, and more blue counties
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Though, to be clear, it's not that dramatically different.
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I mean, people make a big deal out of these differences.
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The majority of both parties have been vaccinated at this point.
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If they believe it's ivermectin, you know what?
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It's not your responsibility to micromanage their health.
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If you think, as was stated in the New York Times recently, that COVID for a vaccinated
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person is less dangerous, less dangerous than the flu.
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This is, it doesn't matter if you, as a conservative, or you, as maybe a COVID skeptic, believe that
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They believe, their sources are telling them, a vaccinated person has less risk than the normal
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Who cares what the opinions of all these other people are?
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The bottom line is, the only people who want restrictions are people on the left, and that's
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The point, the fact that Joe Rogan talks to an audience of mainly younger people who are
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incredibly likely to have no problems with COVID anyway, and tells them to take, let's
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just say it was a completely BS solution to this problem.
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If you go out to your yard, and you start biting on the nearest tree, and pull off a
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good chunk of bark, and you chew it up into little pieces and swallow it, that'll cure
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If you're going to Joe Rogan for your health advice-
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They know he's just a guy talking on a podcast about his opinions.
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Well, that doesn't mean I'm going to run out and do everything he said he did.
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Do you know, Joe, one of the first interviews I heard about COVID was on Joe Rogan's show.
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And it was with Michael Osterholm, who was an advisor to Joe Biden, okay?
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And he came on and said, hey, you know, this actually could be bad.
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Like, this one is not like some of these other ones that have come and gone.
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And he said in that interview, we should point out that it's not at all obvious we should
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In that interview, it was in like January or February of 2020.
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So before any of this stuff even hit it, he hit his ear.
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He said, schools, eh, that's probably not a wise choice.
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But in addition to that, Joe Rogan, during the interview, asked him, asked a virologist
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What if you went into a sauna and breathed in the really hot air?
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Now, but now that he said, no, that's not how the body works.
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And Rogan was like, oh, okay, I just heard it online.
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A lot of people probably heard that same rumor at the same time and had it disproved on Joe
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Because he brought it up and was willing to ask a question that some journalist might feel
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And he's not embarrassed to say, sometimes I don't have all the knowledge.
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And instead of treating him as a really, you know, this will be an important thing.
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And, you know, there were times in which he was, I would think, I thought was evasive
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But there were times he brought up things that maybe that audience hadn't heard.
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And maybe it convinced some people of different solutions.
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The bottom line is, just have the guts to go on and talk to the guy instead of silencing
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If you think he's wrong, then go on the show and say that he's wrong.
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And Joe Rogan himself has said he's not a COVID expert.
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In fact, he said, I'm an effing idiot who does a podcast.
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So, you know, everybody listening doesn't just run out and do what Joe Rogan said.
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As Joe Rogan would tell you, if you go out and listen to every piece of Joe Rogan's health
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advice, McMahon's talking about doing drugs like 80% of his shows.
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Does that mean every American listening is going to run out and buy pot and smoke it
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There's this weird thing the left wants to do, silencing speech.
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Because, God forbid, they might be convinced to an opinion that's different than what Neil
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Does he look like the picture of health to you?
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Guy looks like he could keel over at any second.
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But when he was 40, he looked like he could also keel over at any second.
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So you shouldn't listen to Neil Young's advice.
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And you shouldn't listen to Joe Rogan's advice either.
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For, you know, 20 years, he's been saying, do your own research.
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And I will say, you might get the wrong answer if you do your own research sometimes.
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And second of all, you don't have to do this alone.
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You don't need to listen to Anthony Fauci, who might be an infectious disease expert,
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but has no idea what your individual situation is.
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That's a great way of handling these situations.
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And Anthony Fauci hasn't actually had any patients for over 40 years.
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Like, you know, he can say as a public health expert what he believes should be done.
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And those suggestions can be processed by politicians who are supposed to be experts in political science
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and care about their constituents, not just go blindly along with every expert that passes by.
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And while we're talking about who you listen to on any of these issues, you know, listen
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to every take if you want to, and then, you know, figure it out for yourself.
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But if you're just a guy or a woman who thinks Anthony Fauci is the be-all and end-all, I mean,
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that guy has said everything possible on both sides of any of these arguments, essentially.
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And he continues to, we continue to find out new things.
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Fox reported this week that Fauci was told on January 27th, 2020, so two years ago, exactly
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to the day, that his NIAID, NIAID, NIAID department, it was the National Health Institute, had been
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directly funding the Wuhan lab through EcoHealth, a U.S.-based scientific non-profit, and that
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there was a good chance that the virus came from that lab.
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So initially, he understood the fact that it was very possible that the virus originated
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Then, he acted like it was a total conspiracy theory.
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And then, he changed back and said, well, maybe.
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And then, he said, no, it's a conspiracy theory again.
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So, don't tell me Anthony Fauci has all the answers, because he doesn't.
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And he shouldn't have, he shouldn't have the power that he has.
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I mean, look, you know, he's been in office for too long, through too many presidents, should
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But even beyond that, I think more importantly, you point out he said every single thing about
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every single issue at this point, which is basically true.
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I mean, he's been back and forth on a bunch of this stuff.
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And from masks to, you name it, masks, whether or not it originated at the Wuhan lab, the kinds
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of treatments you should be using, the length of time this was going to take.
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One of the big ones that doesn't get talked about enough is him saying, outwardly admitting
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later on, that he lied about what herd immunity would be in this country.
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I mean, that's an absolutely inexcusable thing that should have resulted in his immediate
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He said it was going to be like, ah, 65 or 70% will give us herd immunity.
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And then later on said, well, we knew people would be really, really upset with that and
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would not be able to, would think it was unattainable if it was real 85%, which is what we really
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And that's absolutely inexcusable from a public health official, especially the voice of
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And at the very, very least, Pat, he has long outlived his relevance in the public role.
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It's one thing if you wanted to say he's in, he's got a lot of knowledge and you want to,
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we want to keep him around for his advice behind the scenes.
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Find someone else to go on television and talk about this stuff.
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As I said, it's been at least six months since anyone changed their mind on any of these issues.
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At least, I mean, I think even longer on most of them and Fauci comes out and continues
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to go on mostly liberal television to say the same four things and say that Republicans
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are bad because they're not getting vaccinated at high enough rates and it convinces no liberals
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to get vaccinated and it convinces no conservatives to get vaccinated.
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It convinces no one of anything and he continues to just keep doing it as if it's helping.
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If you actually care about changing somebody's mind, you'd put someone they've never seen
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before out there who can at least attempt to navigate these waters with some sort of fresh
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I think we should name a black woman to the head of the National Institutes of Health.
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I want to eliminate all white men, all white women, all Asians, all Hispanics, and all
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In fact, I would like someone who was born a white male, but now is a black trans woman.
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That's what I would like because that's the only way we can get true diversity.
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We've been talking about the Neil Young Spotify situation where
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But what we take for granted now is Spotify itself.
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That is the most incredible thing that 20 years ago, 15 years ago, really,
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I guess it was just starting to be a thing with, what was the initial?
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And then iTunes, Apple said, hey, you know what?
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Maybe we can make that legal and actually let people stream stuff.
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And then it just exploded into Pandora and Spotify and, you know, a million different outlets.
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But the ability to think of a song and think, wow, I haven't heard that in a long time.
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And five seconds later, you're listening to it.
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This happened to me last night where my wife just said a random word that reminded me of
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And then 10 seconds later, I was listening to that band that was, you know, totally obscure.
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But I was trying to think about how to explain to my kids what my younger life was like listening
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I remember I used to go, I used to drive around the state with my friends who were, you know,
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And we would go and like look for rare releases and like B-sides and remixes and like for,
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you know, overseas releases of albums that had an extra track.
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Like you're searching, you know, you were in a river looking for gold back in the 1800s.
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And you'd luck out and find, you'd find one copy of it.
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You know, like you didn't care because you wanted to get your hands on this.
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Now they have everything they could ever want immediately, a hundred different versions.
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You know, we, we miss how good things are in so many ways these days.
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I think often because of the obvious and important bad things that are going on, we miss a lot
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And it's changed things to the extent where there are certain things that just don't exist
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anymore, like calling 4-1-1 or, you know, going to a music store or, you know, trying
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And I wonder, we haven't worked in music radio for a really long time.
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I don't need to be listening to my favorite radio station and call them and say, hey, would
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you please play the new song by Olivia Rodrigo?
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Well, you, you go to Spotify and you're listening to Olivia Rodrigo immediately.
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We should, we should know you have called station.
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What's the name of the song where it's good for somebody or whatever?
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See, the fact that you know that much is, is already impressive.
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Are you the person I always hear blasting Olivia Rodrigo when you pull into the parking
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And look, there have, there are always ups and downs for this.
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If you owned a music store, you probably don't think this is as wonderful as many of the
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consumers do, but it is incredible what you can get.
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And you can, with a few commercials, get it for free.
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I think, I think Spotify is the one I subscribe to.
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Um, and it's, you know, this is as much music as I could ever want.
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A similar thing has happened with movies at home.
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Last week, we, we, we have a little tradition at my house where the kids come over and we,
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we do movie night, steak and movie night every Friday.
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Now I'm like, Oh my gosh, what are we going to do?
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We, we, I can't, we can't watch anything tonight.
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I don't know what, and I, we, you know, we've got a little room that has about 500 movies
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in it that are on DVD, but I forgot that that's even an option, a thing.
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You can, I mean, there's just, it's too much of a hassle.
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You're thinking about actually going in and putting, it's unbelievable how fast that stuff
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happens to, you know, it was like back in the day you had the iPhone where you just type
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in the, the code and then it was the fingerprint.
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And I remember thinking, why would, why the heck would I need to just do a fingerprint?
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And within a week it was irreplaceable in my life.
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And I'm thinking to myself, wow, they're scanning my face, all this information they have within
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I can't imagine putting my finger on the phone now.
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I mean, I don't know the mechanics of it, but like you, you, maybe you turn your phone
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off and when you turn it back on, you have to type the code instead of the face ID one
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I want to burn Apple to the ground when it happens.
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I think, I think about trying to hire arsonists in China to burn their factories down every
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You're thinking about a killing spree, aren't you?
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It's so, it's, it's just incredible how far these are.
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And you know, I mean like even in times like this where we've had obviously not only the
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battles that we often discuss on, you know, talk radio with the restrictions for COVID
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and all the terrible side effects they have had on our children and all of that, not to
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mention the actual health effects that have gone on and, you know, all the people who have
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suffered and lost loved ones and all the terrible things that have happened over the past couple
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of years, you know, you go back and look at death rates from 10 or 20 years ago and we're
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I mean, we're doing worse than we were a couple of years ago, but still much better than we
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We've, all this stuff is improving all the time and we always miss it, you know?
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I mean, we, we often talk about how, uh, the example I think is the most pressing is, you
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know, since, you know, we were younger and then you can go back to the nineties, for example,
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You go back obviously even further than that with Glenn.
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And, you know, just since those times in our lifetime, we have taken billions of people
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We capital, global capitalism spreading has saved billions of lives.
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The number is so remarkable just in the difference in the last, like about 20 years, the difference
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in the amount of children who die of hunger, right?
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And malaria and various diseases around the globe.
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The difference is something like 18,000 kids a day that used to die now live.
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And if you ask people, has poverty gotten better or worse in your lifetime?
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This has been, I mean, I don't think it's even arguable.
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It's the greatest accomplishment of humankind in the past thousand years, probably.
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And we see nations around the world turning against capitalism, including our own.
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The country that brought capitalism to the globe, proved that it's the best system, became
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the global superpower, now is hiring people who hate it.
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The difference of China moving a little bit into the world of capitalism and then now
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But it's not notable like the United States, who brought this system to the people, brought
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this system to humanity and is now turning against it.
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Which reminds me, since we're talking to Neil Young, we can go to the other side of the
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spectrum and somebody who talked about capitalism, a rock star that you would not expect to sing
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You remember what Bono said about capitalism a few years ago?
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Imagine for a second, this last global recession, but without the economic growth of China and India.
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Without the hundreds of millions of newly minted middle class folks who now buy American and European goods.
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Sometimes I hear myself and I just can't believe it.
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And I mean, that's a really cool thing, though, that he recognizes that.
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And, you know, I don't think, certainly Bono's not a conservative.
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But he understands what capitalism has done for this planet.
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And the hybrid, even, of capitalism in China has brought 400 million people out of poverty.
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I mean, we have an author on, I think it's next week, who's written a book.
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He's a Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote a book.
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And it's basically about how China has influenced Hollywood and the other way around.
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You know how, and we hear these stories where they edit things out.
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There was a great one that actually happened today.
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Do I have the, I don't have the text in front of me of it, but it was the end of Fight Club.
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Basically, the end of Fight Club, if you've never seen the movie, is, you know, the main characters of the movie.
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They're standing there looking out the window and they're, which we can only describe as a terrorist revolution, is underway.
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They are getting, they're bombing the financial buildings and watching all the buildings collapse into the ground.
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That's how the, it's a wonderfully uplifting movie.
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In China, right before the buildings blow up, they cut it off and they just put on the screen, like, I can't remember, they're like, thanks to Tyler's advice, or Tyler's tip, the police uncovered the plot and arrested all the people.
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And they were put in jail and were eventually put into lunatic asylums and were released in 2012.
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Like, it's the exact, not only are they editing scenes out of the movie, they're changing the plot to the exact opposite because they want to show that they won.
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And so, anyway, this book is about the influence and what, one of the interesting things that China did with this capitalist expansion, that wasn't never really capitalism by any means, but it was access to markets, is they came over, they dumped tons of money into places like Hollywood, learned how they did everything, and then went back and just started their own film companies that are now making as much money as Hollywood is.
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No longer is American culture dominant around the world, but now a lot of Chinese culture is dominant in many areas of the world.
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And so, they've totally changed that dynamic by basically coming over here and stealing our ideas and going back and replicating them.
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This was obviously part of the plan for a long time, and, you know, President Xi has made things much, much worse.
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But it's interesting to watch that play out because it's going to have really long-lasting implications.
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It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
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So, the Fed has spoken, and as many of us suspected, it looks like they're planning to hike rates as early as March.
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It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
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Do you see this convoy in Canada, this trucker convoy?
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Because, you know, they're protesting the fact that they have to get vaccinated or they lose their jobs.
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I mean, the people in the trucks by themselves can infect thousands.
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We know that truck, from inside of truck to outside of truck passage of COVID-19 is the most common way.
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These truckers have spread this thing far and wide.
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That's my understanding of it from Anthony Fauci.
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So what they've done is they're driving across the whole of Canada, east to west.
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And they have created a convoy 300 miles long now.
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Now, 10,000 truckers from the U.S. were supposed to join them, too.
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But they're having a hard time because a lot of them aren't vaccinated.
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But here's what Justin Trudeau had to say about these truckers.
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The small fringe minority of people who are on their way to Ottawa or who are holding unacceptable views that they're expressing.
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Do not represent the views of Canadians who have been there for each other, who know that following the science and stepping up to protect each other.
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Is the best way to continue to ensure our freedoms, our rights, our values as a country.
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I mean, the way they're pitting, he's doing it.
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You've got these world leaders who are just pitting one of their citizens against the other.
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It's so weird, too, because they have to make for them to act as if this is a terrible fringe movement.
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But if they were small, it wouldn't be anything really to worry about.
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Now, 85 percent of adults in 85 percent of I'm trying to look at the dynamic.
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It might even be 85 percent of people in Canada are vaccinated.
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Which is you're not going to get bigger than that.
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I mean, I mean, are you going to have a higher percentage than that?
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So, you know, they're nine points ahead of us in vaccination rate or behind us, depending on how your view is on this particular issue.
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By the way, it's also at the number where, you know, they all said it was going to be herd immunity.
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Like, this is just a dumb old argument that doesn't make any sense.
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Remember, the Omicron variant came from Botswana.
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It's got nothing to do with how many people we have vaccinated here.
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Less than 10 percent of developing nations are vaccinated.
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We're going to have variants like crazy coming in from all over the world for a long time.
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Understand we're going to be living with this for a while.
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Stop assaulting your audience and your own voters with these accusations.
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We're going to be living with this for a while.
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What you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
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Meantime, Stephen Breyer stepping down as Supreme Court Justice at the end of this session.
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We got we got some suggestions, I think, for some nominees that may go over well.
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We'll get to that and a lot more coming up in one minute.
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It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
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We know by now that there's going to be an opening in the Supreme Court.
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And it happens at the end of the session, which I think is summertime.
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So they're going to replace, obviously, somewhat progressive or left of center justice with another left of center.
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Just how extreme will that person be, I think, is really kind of the question.
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Quite extreme or very, very extreme, I think, are the options right now.
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This is not their time to try to pick a moderate either.
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They're going to go for someone they believe is going to be alive for a long time.
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Well, number one requirement, as we know, African-American woman.
01:26:19.240
Because that's what Biden said he will nominate during the campaign.
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One of the most incredible moments, I think, in American history.
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That we are now actively making decisions based on skin color and gender.
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That is what the president of the United States is making this decision.
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First and foremost, not based on legal qualifications.
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Not even a feigned appearance of making the choice who is the most qualified.
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This person, whoever this might be, may very well be the most qualified person in the country for this job, according to Democrats.
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Obviously, I'm not going to like their policies, most likely, and their reading of the Constitution.
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But they might be the best liberal out there to take the court.
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They cannot claim that, however, because they disregarded 98% of the population before picking.
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Yeah, they've already narrowed it to a black female.
01:27:08.700
So, as long as we're narrowing the field and we're basing it simply on appearance, why not nominate Halle Berry to the Supreme Court?
01:27:21.640
And then you could also make an addendum there that all new Supreme Court justices from here on out must wear a bikini in public.
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Would it be, of course, misogynist and sexist, but...
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Well, as you know, women do not wear bikinis to please men.
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It's just about them feeling good about themselves.
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There's never a thought of how they look, if they look good or bad.
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You would want the Supreme Court justice to feel good about herself.
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And is a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court enough to do that?
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Well, yeah, we're talking about appearance, right?
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And if we're talking appearance, let's do appearance.
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I think this creates some pretty interesting dynamics in the Supreme Court selection.
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Because, first of all, you would probably lean toward picking a more attractive Supreme Court
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Because you might think that things might not look as good later on in life.
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But I will say this might encourage Supreme Court justices to retire early.
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Because maybe they're thinking, I don't want to be out there in a bikini this week.
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Or it may keep them working out into their 70s and 80s, which is also a good thing.
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If we're going to be left-wing about this, let's just go for it.
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And I know that might seem a little shaky for some people in 2023, but Joe Biden is president.
01:29:18.800
Now, Mitch McConnell is not going to approve some left-wing justice.
01:29:28.360
Republicans are going to vote that down if they can.
01:29:31.180
So, what happens in those situations when you have multiple years, usually someone gets
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through, but the president has to try for someone more moderate, right?
01:29:40.520
Maybe in this situation, the president puts up an old fat guy for Supreme Court justice.
01:29:51.980
So, that the Republicans would be more likely to approve them because that would make the
01:30:06.100
So, you think of Mitch McConnell, you're like, well, he's not going to approve a crazy liberal,
01:30:10.980
but what if he approves just someone who looks really bad in a Speedo?
01:30:15.780
So, now the Democrats are associated with this really overweight, wrinkly guy coming out
01:30:22.100
there, talking about liberal policies, and that's associated with this awful Speedo situation.
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If they think this thing through like they should, then they would go along with this.
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And maybe like, you know, you'd think at least there's an opportunity to make this more overt.
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Let's make this a more crystal clear operation for the country to understand.
01:30:53.600
Right now, you're acting as if race shouldn't be important, but you're making it the most
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You're acting as if gender shouldn't be important, but you're making it the most important thing.
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You're clearly talking about the outside appearance of this person.
01:31:10.360
That is a much more sensible way of making these picks.
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You know, you get like a, you get some dude with abs.
01:31:25.160
I picture Chris Pratt from, was it Parks and Rec?
01:31:34.060
And he comes out there and he's just like, he's just going for it.
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And Democrats have finally touched on something here that really works.
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Let's just pick these justices based on their appearance.
01:31:56.060
You have the attractive people who would look good in a bikini who might get favored.
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You have the people who would look terrible in a bikini who might be favored by the opposition party.
01:32:06.500
So you'd have an opportunity for everyone to get in, unlike you do now, when you only have
01:32:13.860
And as we discussed earlier, African-Americans are about 12% of the population.
01:32:18.740
If half of them are black, you're at six or women, they're at 6% of the population.
01:32:24.160
You figure about a third is too young and a third is too old.
01:32:28.320
You've narrowed, you've taken out 98% of the possibilities to make this pick overtly.
01:32:33.640
Then you have to narrow it a little bit further because they have to know the law.
01:32:39.480
So probably been to law school, probably a lawyer.
01:32:49.600
What it appears is that they have given, they have actually taken out all of the population
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except Ketanji Brown-Jackson, who seems to be the pick.
01:32:59.980
We don't know that yet, but she seems to be the overwhelming favorite for the pick.
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She is currently on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
01:33:06.860
She was just recently approved, got a few Republican votes.
01:33:10.140
You know, we kind of went over this earlier, but I would not be surprised to see her sail through
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if that's the direction that they go in because the Republicans are going to look at this and say,
01:33:18.060
we can't really stop it anyway, let's not blow our election up by pulling a Kavanaugh.
01:33:24.560
It would be a little strange to accuse Ketanji Brown-Jackson of a 40-year-old rape.
01:33:32.920
I don't think they would go that direction, but they might be very tough on her in some circumstances.
01:33:37.360
I don't think these are the circumstances that's going to happen.
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But the point is, though, at the very least, we can open this up to everyone if we just
01:33:46.100
We can stretch the field out a little bit here and find some other possibilities.
01:33:51.940
I don't know that people would go for this, but I will say this.
01:33:55.740
At least it's not racist, which the current policy is.
01:34:02.660
I know everyone's going to be like, oh, you just want white people to get.
01:34:05.900
I don't care what color the person is who gets in the Supreme Court.
01:34:11.000
Let's eliminate, just for the sake of argument, let's eliminate all white people.
01:34:14.760
What happens to a good qualified Hispanic nominee this week?
01:34:21.020
How about a good qualified Asian, Indian American?
01:34:35.680
They don't have a chance because Joe Biden decided to make the decision based on skin color
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He's overtly telling you he is making the decision based on race.
01:34:51.660
This close to Martin Luther King Day, what a freaking admission.
01:34:55.180
What an admission by the country to say, you know what?
01:34:57.900
We've rejected the vision of Martin Luther King.
01:35:02.240
We want a person who fits into these narrow set of qualifications based on immutable characteristics.
01:35:11.680
The left has totally abandoned MLK and everything he stood for in his life.
01:35:16.920
Everything he preached, everything he fought for, you know, getting hosed down, having dogs
01:35:25.540
And they just dismiss him now because that's what they base everything on.
01:35:32.700
You are supposed to, according to the left, pay attention to skin color.
01:35:39.400
If you tell them you're colorblind, that's a racist construct now.
01:35:43.360
You can't discriminate based on the color of their skin or the gender that they are unless
01:35:49.620
If you pick the right direction to discriminate, then it's totally fine.
01:35:53.180
And, you know, like, even if you got to the point, which I still think is wrong, by the
01:35:58.140
way, you shouldn't make any choice based on skin color.
01:36:00.580
But if you made this statement and saying, look, we're going to look at everybody.
01:36:03.900
And if we find an equally qualified, I don't know why you do this, but an equally qualified
01:36:09.420
Hispanic and an equally qualified black woman, we're going to pick the black woman.
01:36:12.940
Now, I think that's a disgrace, frankly, that you should not be picking based on that.
01:36:18.180
But, okay, at least you'd be saying they're equally qualified.
01:36:21.440
In this scenario, you're saying we're not going to look at anyone.
01:36:24.660
God forbid we might find someone who's more qualified and we should be picking them.
01:36:28.580
So we're going to eliminate them before we even start looking.
01:36:31.120
All the people who are out there who have different colored skin, all the people out
01:36:34.860
there who happen to have male genitalia, we're going to get rid of all of those people so
01:36:39.820
we don't even look at them because we might just find someone who's more qualified than
01:36:43.940
Ketanji Brown Jackson or whoever else they wind up picking.
01:36:46.760
So we're going to limit it to only black women and then act as if we're doing some big
01:36:57.340
It's certainly not the way I would want to be treated.
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But do you think the average African American says, yeah, I don't want you considering any
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It's unfair to consider a white person for a job.
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I don't think any Americans think that way, except for insane leftists.
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And of course, that's who we have making these decisions.
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Did you see that the Jetsons made some accurate predictions about the future?
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They were like, we need something that's going to rhyme with boy.
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Elroy, which I don't know if there's a lot of people named Elroy at the time.
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By the way, people don't even talk about this enough.
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Well, they apparently made some chilling predictions about the future on this television show that
01:40:11.640
Well, and then they brought it back in the 80s for a while.
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But the Jetsons did, in fact, get some things right.
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Apparently, they present a toy which looks uncannily like Atari's video game asteroids.
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So they made that prediction that happened much, much closer to the airing of the show.
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So Elroy plays similar looking games on the Jetsons, as well as owning a drone, which turned
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Uh, the Jetsons household had a flat screen TV, tablet computers, robot vacuums, and we got
01:40:58.280
Uh, and of course, their housekeeper, Rosie, was the robot maid.
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Jane had to go through a lot of trouble for that household necessity, but, um, apparently
01:41:08.020
only the best of families had the robot, uh, housekeeper.
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Some of the other modern appliances include a voice-activated alarm clock, which we have,
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So Siri sounds a lot more interested when you talk to her than the Jetsons' voice did,
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They have what looks like a 3D printing for homemade meals.
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What else did they, I mean, they got just a ton of things that seem to be, they make,
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George's boss, Cosmo Spacely, remember how mean Cosmo was?
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But, uh, apparently he relaxed on a tanning bed, which we also have.
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And that would, apparently, I didn't know this, uh, tanning beds weren't created until the
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That's interesting, because I know the Simpsons get a lot of credit for making predictions,
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So they, the Biden administration came out with this clip of Tom Hanks, like,
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praising all the fight of the administration and all these wonderful things.
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It was like, you know, the typical campaign type video.
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And, uh, in the Simpsons movie, uh, Tom Hanks voices a video for the government, and he says,
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the government has lost its credibility, so they're borrowing some of mine.
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It's exactly what Joe Biden is doing right now.
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He was making a video for the new Grand Canyon, so, where they blew up a city and left a giant
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hole in the ground for people to come visit, because they needed a new Grand Canyon.
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Frankly, it would be a less disastrous policy than what they did in Afghanistan.
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I mean, uh, are we going to send 8,000 troops to, uh, Ukraine?
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They're already saying that they're going to be in at least the surrounding countries,
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and they've said so far that they're not going to actually send troops on the ground, but
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This is a fascinating story, because it doesn't seem like the Ukrainians are all that worried
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Like, a lot of them are saying, like, you know, yeah, we know the Russians.
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We know what kind of troops they'd have to have there, and these are not the types of
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I mean, Tucker Carlson sort of famously heading this up and being like, why are we so sure we're
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Which, again, I'm no Vladimir Putin fan, so I have a position on that, but still, like,
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it's interesting that it's on the right where that conversation's going on.
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When did the right become friendly with Russia?
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I mean, I think Tucker's argument, from what I can understand it, I haven't seen it all,
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but it seems to be more of like, we should be worrying about our own stuff than we should
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Listen to all your favorite conservative voices.
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Brave enough to live through two of the most difficult years many of us can remember.
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Brave enough to pull ourselves up again and again.
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It's why we keep getting up, no matter how many times we get knocked down.
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It isn't all the way back, but it's getting stronger.
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We may be entering year three of a pandemic none of us wanted or expected.
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Shops and businesses are buzzing again all over the country.
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More jobs were created in 2021 than in any year in the last 80 years.
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From our toughest times, America has always built a brighter future.
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Brave enough to see the light and be the light we need to rebuild this country.
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That's Tom Hanks for the Biden inaugural committee.
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Oh, one interesting part of that is he says the economy, it's not all the way back, but
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we're getting there all the way back to what all the way back to the guy you said was Hitler,
01:47:12.580
Like back to what you there's an admission there.
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And I'm not saying Tom Hanks said Trump was Hitler, at least that I know of.
01:47:20.340
But like the left and Biden was saying he was the worst guy in the world and the economy
01:47:24.400
And now we're like, hey, we're almost getting back to those days.
01:47:27.920
And we created more jobs than the last 80 years.
01:47:30.540
Well, that's because we lost the most jobs in the last 80 years.
01:47:34.760
And now things are, I mean, at least businesses are open for the most part.
01:47:39.220
I don't know of any American cities that are actually locked down and you can't open your
01:47:47.360
I mean, they're doing this to schools occasionally.
01:47:53.120
Homeschool with no end, no like destated end, just like.
01:47:57.840
Forever homeschool, at least for as long as the pandemic lasts.
01:48:12.940
But we have come a long way from the darkest days of this pandemic.
01:48:16.480
Not because of Joe Biden, but because of the American people who have said, okay, we're
01:48:22.340
And also because of scientists and people all over the medical industry who have come
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up with treatments and things like that, that have improved the situation.
01:48:34.760
And, you know, I mentioned this often, but I was in Florida for New Year's last year, New
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And in Florida, and this is Ron DeSantis ran the state.
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In 2020 into 2021, no, no places were really doing indoor parties for New Year's.
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There was mask requirements, not by the state, but by almost every individual business.
01:49:03.260
So everywhere you walked in, you were still wearing masks because that's what was required.
01:49:09.140
I went back down there this year and stayed in a hotel that not only was, you know, had
01:49:17.200
In 2020 to 2021, they were just closed because of COVID.
01:49:28.420
The Super Bowl last year in Ron DeSantis' Florida had 11,000 people.
01:49:42.680
They have, it was an outdoor stadium with a mask mandate.
01:49:47.360
And it was one where they were actually enforcing.
01:49:49.200
Like at one point, you know, I took a sip of a drink and kept my mask down a little too
01:49:53.960
long and actually got kind of like, hey, sir, put that mask back on, you know.
01:50:00.460
So they were kind of monitoring the crowd at the Super Bowl?
01:50:06.200
Like, you know, they actually did make you put the mask back on.
01:50:10.640
The next Super Bowl in 2022 is happening in California, indoors at full capacity.
01:50:18.000
Now, I don't know what kind of restrictions they're having.
01:50:22.100
I don't think, I don't know if there's a vaccine mandate.
01:50:25.340
I don't know what they've put on for restrictions.
01:50:27.080
It's not to say all of this stuff is gone, but even to just a year ago, it is quite different.
01:50:36.600
Comes with people who believe they're protected by whatever treatment they favor, maybe have
01:50:42.920
And I think Omicron at some level plays into this as well, where it feels like a lot harder
01:50:52.500
So the virus itself has helped this along because it's evolved into a kinder, gentler virus.
01:51:05.420
I mean, there were miserable days having it because I just had it a couple of weeks ago.
01:51:31.760
And now it's, you know, Denmark, I think you mentioned in the UK.
01:51:36.040
Denmark has just taken away all pandemic restrictions, including mask mandates, are gone.
01:51:43.040
And in Great Britain, they're doing the same thing.
01:51:47.200
Oh, and we didn't even, we got to get back to this, the Simpsons clip here.
01:51:52.820
We mentioned the Tom Hanks video before we get into the other COVID stuff.
01:51:55.840
Here is the, from the Simpsons movie with a mid 2000s.
01:52:15.440
The U.S. government has lost its credibility, so it's borrowing some of mine.
01:52:25.160
Now, I'm pleased to tell you all about the new Grand Canyon.
01:52:29.940
It's east of Shelbyville and south of Capital City.
01:52:34.500
It's nowhere near where anything is or ever was.
01:52:37.120
This is Tom Hanks saying, if you're going to pick a government to trust, why not this one?
01:52:44.100
And then, without any irony, the Biden administration is doing the same thing.
01:52:54.380
I mean, Tom Hanks, you know, going back to COVID for a second, when people talk about the beginning of COVID, they say usually three things, which is, you know, the NBA canceled their season.
01:53:04.260
You know, Donald Trump coming out 15 days to slow the spread, making that announcement.
01:53:10.360
Like, that's how important he is to our culture.
01:53:14.600
Because he and his wife were in Australia, right?
01:53:20.240
I was like, holy crap, we're losing Tom Hanks, aren't we?
01:53:25.500
But, yeah, I mean, there is an interesting thing, I think, happening with the dynamics of the politics of COVID, which I think have been fascinating since the beginning.
01:53:37.440
But for most of the time, the people who are skeptical of COVID have argued for a future that was more optimistic, right?
01:53:50.820
You're saying, you know, most people survive and we should open up the economy, right?
01:53:55.060
And that was against the left's view, which was it's really, really bad and we need to lock everybody down.
01:54:01.320
And the future, if we lock everybody down, we'll get past this and we can open things up.
01:54:04.920
But, you know, that didn't seem like it was ever going to be possible.
01:54:08.740
Lately, I've noticed this difference where the people who are skeptical of COVID almost seem like more of the pessimists.
01:54:14.060
Where, like, there's this, you know, there's sort of this idea that, like, we're going to see a really negative outcome from whatever, maybe the vaccines, for example.
01:54:25.280
People who don't like the vaccines are saying, okay, well, the long-term effects of this is going to be really bad and we're going to have COVID is going to get worse.
01:54:32.340
And there's going to be more variants and terrible side effects of that.
01:54:36.880
And now the left is kind of saying, well, we got vaccinated and, like, we're done now.
01:54:41.780
We saw this with Bill Maher and Barry Weiss, this clip that kind of went viral over the past week, where their view is more of, like, what the conservatives were saying, like, a year or two ago.
01:54:51.280
But now it does seem like there's a decent section of those who are arguing against, you know, maybe the vaccines or maybe some of the new pills or, you know, looking around the world and finding a place where cases are spiking and saying, oh, my gosh, it's going awry.
01:55:09.620
And almost arguing for a darker vision of the COVID future than many, at least on the center left, are.
01:55:17.400
And, you know, I don't want to encourage, like, I keep saying this quote because I think it's important, that the New York Times is saying, for vaccinated people, this is less dangerous, less dangerous than the flu.
01:55:29.280
Remember, you used to get thrown off social media for saying that.
01:55:35.140
I don't want to encourage them to think that things are worse than they are.
01:55:40.560
I don't want to convince them, hey, guys, actually, things are terrible.
01:55:48.600
I'm a much more of the viewpoint of, like, you should make your own choices, pick your own risk.
01:55:56.540
Go do whatever you want with your stupid health.
01:55:58.720
We'll go out and we do things that are unhealthy all the time.
01:56:01.300
I don't care if you want, you want, people are like, oh, don't, people are going out there and having horse dewormer.
01:56:06.080
I go, you can actually have horse dewormer for all I care.
01:56:14.420
Because you do what you're, with your life and your health, what you want to.
01:56:20.520
If you want to take ivermectin, you should be able to take ivermectin.
01:56:27.760
Now, it's going to probably have some bad consequences, but that's up to you.
01:56:35.360
But if it makes you feel good, go ahead and do it.
01:56:38.240
I recommend Gravy Train because at least it's, you know, sort of moist.
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And then a little doggy driven wagon train comes through your living room.
01:56:52.920
No, but I do think it is important as the left sort of wakes up and comes to our side
01:56:59.460
that we don't try to convince them to go back to the other side.
01:57:03.200
Like, I don't know what the upside of that, you know, and I keep coming back to this because
01:57:06.580
I keep talking to small business owners who tell me, hey, I've been on this front the
01:57:19.160
And I love that all my conservative friends have been coming into this restaurant since
01:57:32.280
And when 50% of the country is not going out to eat, this business is really hard to run.
01:57:38.000
And we see this from people all over the country.
01:57:42.880
And there are some people who can go out and have a targeted business to just conservatives.
01:57:50.800
But, you know, like, a lot of businesses need to sell things to liberals, too.
01:57:55.080
And if they're not going out to eat, if they're not going out to concert venues, if they're
01:57:59.040
not doing these things, it hurts a lot of conservatives, too.
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I want them to go right to kexy.com and purchase delicious cookies.
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Liberals and conservatives can all agree that they're the best cookies on this planet.
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As a conservative, I can say that side is represented here.
01:58:21.560
And what's amazing is that some of Europe is, probably not Texas, but some of Europe is
01:58:29.540
ahead of even the United States of America in getting back to freedom, which bothers me
01:58:34.820
I mean, Denmark, really, they're going to set the pace for us?
01:58:37.540
How did this not happen here first, where all restrictions are just gone everywhere?
01:58:43.260
And their PM, their prime minister this week said, we say goodbye to the restrictions and
01:58:59.460
I think we've realized it's just not going to be eradicated right now.
01:59:02.220
There may have been a time where if we had, you know, who knows?
01:59:19.140
The medical profession will continue to improve their treatments.
01:59:23.160
You know, we will get to a place where this gets easier and easier to deal with.
01:59:27.240
It's already, again, easier than the flu, according to the New York freaking Times.
01:59:32.880
And you might say, well, I don't like X treatment or Y treatment.
01:59:36.240
The bottom line is the left does believe this stuff.
01:59:42.820
And we should encourage them to embrace that and say, hey, yeah, you're right.
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Let's embrace all of that and get back to normal life.
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You know, we were talking about the Denmark thing where they're removing all restrictions.
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That's despite the fact, by the way, that they still have 46,000 people on average per day being infected.
02:01:50.520
And they're still removing your restrictions and going on with life, which is what we should be doing here.
02:01:55.660
And pretty much in Texas and Florida and probably a lot of Republican-run states.
02:02:01.940
The one thing I can't take, though, is it's usually made by some in-shape person.
02:02:05.700
The argument of, well, why don't we just all get in shape?
02:02:16.120
And we still haven't been able to handle the situation for multiple decades.
02:02:19.500
What makes you think we're going to change now?
02:02:23.560
This is a situation where we live every day and we have the choice between, you know, a double cheeseburger.
02:02:30.180
Or, if we're in really good shape, it might be like sex with supermodels and we still choose the cheeseburger.
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You think we're going to choose to get in shape because of a virus?
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I think it's more likely you just get the vaccine and take your chances.
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Do I want to work out for a half an hour every day, six days a week?
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We all know that that would be a better answer.
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This is the United States of America you're talking about.