Daily Wire Backstageļ¼ The Joe Rogan Experience
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Join Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, Michael Knowles, and The God King, Jeremy Boring, as we discuss the Joe Rogan debacle, cancel culture, and share our insights on our fantastic new film, Shut In.
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I would like to come out and say that I fully favor masking our children.
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And my hope is that the entire right wing will change their narrative on this as quickly as the mainstream media seems to have been in the last 72 hours.
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If you did, you would only be following the data and the science.
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If you shifted, you would only be following the data and the science.
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Can I just say, I'm not sure what frustrates me more.
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The fact that they are claiming credit while changing or the fact that some of them are not even changing.
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Some of them are like, well, you know, like the CDC.
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And to a certain extent, I have to say, okay, well, at least they're committed to the lie.
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Like, they're just going to stick with this thing all the way through.
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And then you have the people who have told a new lie.
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And I think I find the new lie even more despicable because the new lie is that, yes, yes, we're releasing our grip upon the throats of the American people.
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And, yes, we're finally allowing some children to unmask.
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But it's only because we always wanted to, guys.
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And now the data have changed and we've been following the science.
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And honestly, it's because of you guys that it's lasted this long.
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Because if you had followed the science like us, we wouldn't have had to do it this long.
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The real reason why they need to get rid of all the masks now is you can't smoke crack with a mask on.
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So if you want to put the pipe in, you've got to take the mask off.
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What I would say is we now have to thank the truck fudeau movement in Canada.
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We now have to be nice to Canadians because that's obviously one of the things.
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But they're also thinking those trucks come here.
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We're going to have supply side problems out the wazoo.
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Truckers are officially the only Canadians that I support.
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By the way, I'm just going to point out here that under no circumstances do I believe,
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His mom was definitely not in Cuba when she was in Cuba about eight and a half months before.
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And all rumors, to the contrary, are scurrilous and baseless.
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I said on Twitter, he's the bastard son of Castro either way.
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Did you see this one, Hakeem Jeffries, that was going around?
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The Democratic congressman from New York, who is thought by many to be the heir apparent
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to Nancy Pelosi should she not be the speaker anymore.
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And he actually gave a quote where he said that we can finally unmask and let go of all this
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And largely, that's because of the American Rescue Plan.
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If it had not been for the American Rescue Plan and Joe Biden's intervention,
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And all I wanted to do at that moment was reach through the television and commit
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Except I'd be in New York, so I'd be okay, probably.
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This is the part of politics I like, the line and open corruption where
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if you believe this, you deserve everything you get.
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I mean, this virus has done exactly what every virus that has ever existed on the face of the earth.
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It has nothing to do with anything they've done.
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Well, I mean, the joke of it is, by their standard, it isn't going away.
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The actual hospitalization and death rates are higher today than they were when L.A.
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He said it was the worst mistake anyone had ever made.
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What shows you how evil this is, of course, we know this is not unrelated to 2022 in the
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midterm elections, if I could engage in conspiracy theories.
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But when children started killing themselves in record numbers, like, that was not enough.
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And if you brought that up, I mean, I went and spoke at a school board meeting here in
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And I brought up this problem of the psychological effects of masks.
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And that was still at a time when people would laugh at you for, what do you mean, psychological
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But kids were killing themselves at record numbers for a year.
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But you just needed goods over the Ambassador Bridge.
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But there is this aspect, the dishonesty, the incompetence, the lies, that's very annoying.
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And the fact that you, just picking at random here, Fauci and Walensky, they come out, they
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say, and Biden, for that matter, they say, the vaccine will stop you from getting infected
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Then they come out later, they say, actually, the vaccine won't do that.
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Then they come out later, they say, we never told you.
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They said, here's safe smoking kits, which include crack pipes.
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There are pictures all over the internet of it.
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You know what these lies do, and it really is, it's gaslighting of the highest order.
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So Leanna Nguyen, who's been the lockdown, masking, crazy person this entire pandemic.
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Three weeks ago, she was literally asking whether we got to lock the unvaccinated in
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I mean, this is something she was saying three weeks ago.
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So she came out with this column in the Washington Post where she said, well, you know, there's
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There are the people who are pro-mask, there are the people who are anti-mask, and then there
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And it's like, well, you know, there was this intervening period between 2020 and 2022.
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Because I think at the very beginning, nobody knew what to do with this thing.
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At the very beginning, they were saying, you got to lock down because we literally didn't
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It could kill normal, you know, people who are 40.
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Then within two months, we knew that it was mainly killing people who are highly vulnerable
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We knew this within the first six weeks of the disease's course in the United States because
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And so people started saying, well, maybe we should shield the most vulnerable and allow
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And then there was still some debate over, okay, what, if you infect somebody who's old?
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Not one piece of data has changed since vaccines became widely available.
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The vaccines prevent hospitalization and death for the vast, vast, vast majority of people
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And when it comes to Omicron, we have known that these masks do absolutely nothing.
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We knew that the masks were meaningless from the very, very, very, very, very beginning.
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We glommed onto masks and the government glommed onto masks because they were desperate for
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They knew before anyone had ever conceived of COVID, we knew what cloth masks do and don't
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You remember all of the, I wear my mask to protect you, you wear your mask to protect
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That's if you use the mask precisely, which also no one does.
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If you've been in a grocery store in the last two and a half years, two years, you know
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that when someone who is masked sneezes, they remove their mask.
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Of course they do because it would be disgusting to sneeze into your mask and then have, you
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It's also, of course they do because they don't wear their mask to protect you.
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At this point, if you are wearing a mask, it's either because of coercion or because
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you have been so, yes, delusion that you are so fearful that you do believe that the
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mask is protecting you from my germs, which is not science.
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And to me, that's the part that's offensive because watching politicians lie amuses me.
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That is actually what I get for laughs, you know.
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And I really feel that this has become part of the culture of America.
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It's like, you know, Matt says a man can't become a woman.
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I would never say that, of course, but Matt says it, you know, it's like you get, you
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You come out and you say, you know, I think this Hunter Biden may be corrupt.
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It literally, the truth that is being defined as misinformation.
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If you read their fact checks, many of the fact checks will say, this is accurate.
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But, you know, this is the biggest, I think the biggest lie of all, like the master lie
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here when it comes to this sort of stuff is that they ban conversations or they put critical
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race theory in the schools or they put gender identity garbage in the schools.
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And then when you call them on it, they say, we're not doing it.
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And if we are doing it, it's good that it's happening.
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And they tell these, they say these things simultaneously with a straight face.
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And that's the part that's driving everybody up the wall.
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And they will say these things in the same sentence on all of these topics, on all of
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But if we were saying you'd mask forever, then that would probably be a good thing.
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We should keep in mind, too, that the government is, yeah, they're not going to shut down
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But they've moved on to bigger fish now because now Biden is going to end cancer.
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And the transportation secretary is going to stop all traffic deaths within the next few
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So this is, I'm not attempting to convert anyone except Drew back to Judaism.
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But I do wish to inject a couple of Yiddish words into common use.
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Shtup is the other one that you guys got to be.
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I wasn't going to get to Jeff Zucker quite that bad.
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Can I just say that while we're getting rid of the masking and people are coming to their
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senses about it, it makes it all the more frustrating that the one place in the country
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where you still have to wear the mask all the time and will probably have to always wear
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It's the one place where you never, where there's never any good reason to wear it,
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I've been traveling a lot over the last few weeks.
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And I'm just, I get angrier and angrier every time I get on a plane.
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Because this is so, it's so, everyone involved.
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And it gives the petty authoritarians such pleasure.
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Everybody involved in it knows that there's no reason to be doing this and there never
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What I've noticed on these, it's not airline dependent.
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And it depends where the flight attendants are based.
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Because if you're flying from Texas to Tennessee, you're fine.
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I went out and got myself, I found out that cloth masks specifically.
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I went out and got myself a really fancy cloth mask.
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It's kind of gauzy because I think if they're going to force me to wear a mask, I want them
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I actually spray COVID on the outside of the mask before I get on the plane and just go on.
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Yeah, it was only a few weeks ago that I was on a plane and I got yelled at by the flight
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attendant because I was eating without a mask on, which of course, how can you do them both
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But she explained to me that, no, sir, when you eat, you need to just lower the mask and
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And then you can't take it all the way off because the COVID fumes can come out of your
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I was eating popcorn on the plane, as I'm wont to do, and the flight attendant came by and
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Which of you, I mean, when you eat popcorn, that's like half a second.
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I wonder if there's going to be, I really think there will be a certain percentage of
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the population, maybe 10% of the population that will continue wearing masks forever.
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38% of people say that they still today wear masks every time they go outside.
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You walk around D.C. and everybody's masked, except me.
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I feel like this is a great way to screen who you want to hang out with.
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Like, at this point, at this point, if you're still wearing a mask consistently and you're
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not immunocompromised in some serious way, in which case, like, if you're really immunocompromised,
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you should probably wear a mask, like, before this, after this, for all time.
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But if you're not in that category and you're masking up at this point, I feel like I don't
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It's the biggest onslaught of government and media behind a narrative in probably all of
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But most of it is actually about who you want to hang out with.
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If you're not wearing the mask, you actually deserve to die.
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That is the actual narrative that undergirds the narrative.
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What do they say about you if you feel that way, if you feel that you should die if you
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don't wear a mask, when what a mask is is a useless piece of fear-mongering that has
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It's basically saying if you are a bad boy, if you're not going to listen to the authorities,
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When does an American ever listen to the authorities?
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Well, I mean, it's just a religious adherence tool.
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And all religions require you to make certain sacrifices on behalf of the religion to show
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I mean, I wear a yarmulke to do this, to demonstrate that I'm a Jew, for example.
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And Christians go to church on a regular basis, and they hang out in the Christian community
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The skin in the game when it comes to the religion of government can't be taxes because
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They have to pick something useless in order to demonstrate fealty to the cause.
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I mean, this is really behind a lot of theory of religion and religious practice lies this basic idea.
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But there are certain things that you do, and you don't know why you do them.
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But you do them really because it's a group-building exercise.
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You know, the most popular day of the year in the Catholic Church is Ash Wednesday.
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More than Christmas, more than Easter, people who never show up to Mass, don't have the sacraments,
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they show up because you get the ashes on your head, and you feel like you're in the club,
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and people are searching for meaning and belonging.
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Yeah, I was going to say, Ben, I don't know where you got the idea that Christians go to church,
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Yeah, the most frustrating thing to me with the masking is when we hear people say now
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that we've learned things about it, and so maybe that will change our approach.
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There was someone on The View, I think it was supposed to be the conservative woman on The View
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a few weeks ago who said that she's going to continue wearing a mask
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because of what she's learned about masking, what we've all learned.
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I always knew the basic idea of why you wear a mask.
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So what exactly has anyone learned about masks?
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I did learn some things about the Holocaust on The View the last couple of months.
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That's probably as valuable as what I learned about the masks.
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The mask works for Michael Myers in those movies.
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The only thing we've learned about the masks that we didn't know is how ineffective they are.
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Probably before COVID, I had not thought about the efficacy of a mask,
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it's probably pretty useful in a respiratory pandemic to wear a cloth mask,
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I mean, we still have this thing that is now on my show.
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This is what's important, actually, about the crack pipe story.
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It's why I keep coming back to it, also, because I'm jonesing.
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But with the crack pipe story, what they said on Snopes was,
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here's the claim, here's what's true about the claim, everything.
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Here's what's false about the claim, absolutely nothing.
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What's the point of this ridiculous article, Snopes?
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Snopes is a fact checker partnered with Big Tech,
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any time any of us point out the Biden policy was what it was,
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Facebook stopped you from sharing the free beacon link
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But the good news is, and they've been doing this all along, right?
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I mean, you remember the other Hunter Biden story,
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like the other one with the Biden and crack pipe.
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You remember that one from right before the election
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Well, I mean, one of the things that has become perfectly apparent from big tech
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because Rogan said a couple of years ago during the election
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Ever since then, they've been very angry at him.
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They're very angry that Rogan hosts people like me
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we used to have a pretty anti-cancel culture view,
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If you are a participant in the cancel culture,
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The exception is if you are a member of the mob
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and that is the only thought that ought to be canceled.
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But this is the thing that really bothers me now
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Cancel culture is an outgrowth of the left's strategy
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of defending the indefensible by calling new names.
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Everything socialists have ever done has failed.
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well, if you don't agree with us, you're racist.
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And cancel culture is also through the institutions.
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And that's also why cancel culture is only on the left
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And what they call cancel culture is like when we say,
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And then they'll be like, well, we'll pass a law saying don't do that
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Well, I didn't delegate my child to some teacher
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so the teacher can teach them that boys can be girls
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which is exactly not what this bill is in Florida.
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The operative provision of that bill is two paragraphs long.
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And what the bill basically says is you are not allowed to teach
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in a non-age-appropriate way to primary school kids,
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By the way, I would back this level on K through 12.
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And so Greg Sargent over at the Washington Post,
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He says, well, you know, this makes teachers very nervous.
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And I said on my show, I don't know a group of people in America.
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And now that we know that they're a bunch of Marxist,
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racist wackos, like we should be watching them double time.
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Well, they have two things going in their favor.
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One, they use marketing and we don't use marketing
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I guarantee you a marketing agency came up with that.
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they're so good because they control all the institutions
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And so on the right, we end up being victims of it.
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So we, in the same way that atheists have to affirm God
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because the word contains theest right in it, right?
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On the right, we almost exclusively talk about these issues
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Really for, tested positive is a reference to AIDS
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That story was something like 270 medical professionals
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And we're also always about three or four decades
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of what they used to call comprehensive sex education,
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that you were considered kind of like a puritan.
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then all of this stuff was going to follow behind.
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Because ever since comprehensive sex education came along,
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what we are doing now is that government employees
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They're talking to kids about not just the birds and the bees,
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These are the attitudes you should have about sex.