Ep. 863 - Superman Is Now Super Gay
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DC Comics has confirmed that Superman is officially gay. And it's a good thing he's not with Lois Lane. Plus, there's a new comic book character who has a love scene with a dude. And he's gay.
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DC Comics has confirmed that Superman is officially a little light in the loafers.
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The tights, the chiseled body, the lack, if we're honest, of any real sexual tension with Lois Lane.
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But the creatives have now dispelled any doubts.
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The new Superman, much like our entire culture, is super duper gay.
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I do not follow the superhero stuff all that closely.
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But according to DC Comics, John Kent, who is the new Superman.
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He's the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, the original Superman and his beard.
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This is a very important plot point, of course, for the Man of Steel.
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He also, in this new comic, will have a love scene with a dude.
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And the dude has pinkish purple hair and looks a bit on the young side.
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And it just seems to me, well, I had the same reaction that Blake Masters did.
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Blake Masters is a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona.
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And I don't know if he's a comic book fan or anything.
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And this is no offense to people with unusual sexual desires or behaviors or anything like that.
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But why does everything, why is everything gay?
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June, in our liberal liturgical calendar, is Pride Month.
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And for the month of June, at least in the West, you'll notice not in the Middle East or some other places.
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But in the West, every corporation, every institution, every nonprofit, every person becomes gay for exactly 30 days.
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So Blake Masters says, not everything needs to be gay.
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But in a way, everything sort of does need to be gay.
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Because if you're going to insist upon this new moral standard, it's not going to stop at do whatever.
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And that's kind of the libertarian-ish approach.
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Someone said libertine approach to moral philosophy.
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Because every single society has to have some vision of what it considers to be the good.
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This is the thesis of my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
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And so as standards start to change, they're going to change for all of society.
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And I don't mean to call out just the LGBT issue here.
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And if you think that you can just compartmentalize it and put it in one corner of society, you can.
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You're trying for something that never has been and never will be.
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And you see this shifting, very often opportunistic sort of standard beyond the realm of comic book sexual politics and into the realm of sports.
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John Gruden, who I'm reliably informed as the head coach or was the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.
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I'm about as much of a Raiders fan as I am a fan of the Superman comic books.
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But John Gruden was the head coach and he just resigned.
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He had to resign because decade old or even more than a decade old emails, personal emails were leaked.
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And in those emails, he sometimes said politically incorrect things, notably calling the commissioner of the NFL.
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A, I'll clean up the language a little bit, a wuss, a clueless wuss, which every single person knows that he is.
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And even I know that Roger Goodell is a clueless wuss, okay?
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And so this football coach puts that in his emails, private emails.
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And he said other things and he made insensitive comments and now he's got to, got to resign.
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What this is, I think, is bigger than just cancel culture or saying that people should have their private emails protected.
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You know, I think the angle that most conservatives are focusing on with the John Gruden story is that liberal democracy requires there to be a distinction between the public and the private sphere.
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And then in the 1970s, the second wave feminists came in and said the personal is political and all your private stuff is actually public now and we're going to scrutinize all of it and we're going to hold you to account for things you say at home or who does the dishes or what have you.
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There is an aspect of that, sure, but this goes a little bit further.
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And while people are focusing on this comment in one of the emails where he commented on a black player's large lips and they're saying that he's basically, you know, David Duke because he made some racially insensitive comment.
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I think the more telling comments are about sexuality and masculinity where he calls Goodell a big wuss.
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What we're seeing here is a cultural revolution, one that is aimed specifically at anti-masculinity.
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And we're seeing this paired up with a technological revolution, which is namely the surveillance revolution.
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So to bring that back down to earth, what we're seeing is standards changing completely on sexuality.
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And so beyond, you know, your sexual desires or your sexual partners, it's even it's even down to what a man is or what a woman is.
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It's even down to this idea now that masculinity is toxic.
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The word virtue itself is related to the word for man, right?
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I'm reminded of Tony Soprano, a line that would come.
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We've been talking about Tony Soprano recently because it was Columbus Day.
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And one of the lines from that show that keeps coming up is, what have happened to men like Gary Cooper?
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Well, you know, whatever happened to John Wayne, whatever happened to the father knows best, the strong man.
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Now, when we look at at male figures in the culture, they're all a bunch of bumbling idiots, right?
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And their wife has to do everything and take care of them because these guys can barely put their pants on in the morning.
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And a lot of what's in these emails, these John Gruden emails, is locker room talk.
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And it's an expression that really hit the mainstream when Donald Trump was caught on a secret tape.
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Also, let's not forget, on a hot mic, on a secret tape that had been held for years and years, saying that when you're a celebrity, women let you do whatever you want.
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Well, and at the time, a bunch of pearl clutchers said, oh, my gosh, Donald Trump is openly advocating for rape.
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First of all, he's not talking about sexual assault at all.
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So even even within the context of his joke, he wasn't joking about that.
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He was having a little locker room talk, a little rough talk, which is the way that men sometimes speak.
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And when I say sometimes, I mean all men at some point have talked like this.
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It doesn't mean that if John Gruden is calling, what's his name, Roger Goodell a clueless wuss, doesn't mean that he harbors a deep-seated hatred of homosexuals.
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Or if he makes fun of some guy's lips, it doesn't mean he hates black people.
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It just means he's talking a little bit rough and a little offensively and a little aggressively, which is something that we used to expect from football players and football coaches.
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These are people, football players, who get involved in dogfighting rings.
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These are people who get involved in really tough, they're disproportionately likely to commit crimes, get arrested.
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I mean, there are actually some really bad crimes that football players have committed in recent years.
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Some of them have beaten their wives and girlfriends.
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But the one that we're all supposed to lose our collective sense over is because this guy used some harsh language in emails.
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Because of the technological aspect, the surveillance state.
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Why do we know about Donald Trump's joke to Billy Bush on the Access Hollywood show?
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Because of the surveillance state, it's become more and more and more so.
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Anything you've ever said in your email, in your texts, in your private messages, certainly anything you've ever tweeted, anything you've ever searched for.
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Basically anything you've ever thought, anything you've ever said.
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You know how you talk and then all of a sudden you're getting ads on your cell phone for things that you were just talking about in a normal conversation to someone in real life.
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These things are all pairing up and because the people who have control, because the ruling class are the ones pushing for this cultural revolution, the asymmetries of power here are very, very concerning.
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Because people who dissent from the political orthodoxy of the culture are increasingly going to have their private emails leaked and their private conversations leaked.
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And the worst things they've ever said and done are going to be broadcast and used to ruin their lives.
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And then people who go along with the leftist orthodoxy are going to have even the worst crimes that they can commit excused.
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Speaking of gender roles, new announcement from British Airways.
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British Airways has informed pilots and the cabin crew that they need to stop the hateful language, the hate speech that passengers so often encounter on their airplanes.
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Do you know what hate speech I'm talking about?
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So when you get on a British Airways flight, let's say, I don't know, I keep really blowing my British accents these days, but I don't know.
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Something to the effect of, well, hello there, governor, ladies and gentlemen, welcome on to the flight.
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I assume that's, I haven't flown British Airways.
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But they will, it's very nice, very civilized to say, hello, welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
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And this is because they want to promote, quote, diversity and inclusion.
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According to the Telegraph, the announcement came over the past few weeks.
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And the pilots and the cabin crews were told to use gender neutral language.
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Now, I don't, what gender neutral language are they going to use?
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You're not, you're no longer a lady or a gentleman.
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Presumably you can't be called a man or a woman.
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Because you're, the things that distinguish you, that seem to elevate you above the animals,
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that you're a lady, that you're a gentleman, at least that you're a man or a woman.
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Because we are no longer a society of ladies and gentlemen.
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We are increasingly a barbaric society where we, don't forget the word barbarism just comes
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from this idea of foreigners speaking a language that you don't understand.
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And they all sound like they're saying bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar.
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And increasingly, that's what our society feels like to us.
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People are saying things that don't mean anything.
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We don't view ourselves and the world in the same way.
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You know, Edmund Burke has that famous line in the Reflections on the Revolution in France.
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That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded it.
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And the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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And he talks specifically about how no more will we have that duty, that sense of loyalty,
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You know, this idea that would keep an exalted freedom alive, even in servitude itself.
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And someone asked, what's the surest sign that civilization is on the decline?
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And we were trying to move quickly through these questions.
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But it seems to me the answer is when men stop holding the door, whether it's the door
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to a building or the door to a car, you know, or men stop picking up the tab or when men stop
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treating women with a special sort of respect and vice versa for that matter.
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And the reason for this is that these are the ornamentations of life that represent an entire
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developed, sophisticated, serious social system.
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There is something, I didn't even start doing this until at least in my 20s.
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There's something nice about a man opening up the car door for a woman.
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When you got to get out of the house, you got to go somewhere.
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That's you and your wife or you and your girlfriend or you and whoever, just some chick.
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If you just each walk to your own door and just get in quickly and turn the car on, you'll
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There's something a little utilitarian, a little, a little savage, if you'll allow me the perhaps
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Take the minute, take the time, take the time for these, these little ornamentations that,
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You know, when we, when we sit down to eat dinner, we can either sit down, put our napkin
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on our lap, say grace, you know, look, look, greet everybody, pour wine, make sure everyone
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has their own food, then pick up our knife and fork and start eating our food.
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Or we can just like shove our faces in our slop buckets and not do any of those things.
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And I guess it would be faster and more efficient and utilitarian to do it in the latter way,
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And that's, that's what, what, it's very sad to see this from British Airways because
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I think we in America always think of the Brits as being a little more sophisticated
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than we are, but their priorities are now out of order.
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And it's not just on the man woman thing on the airplane.
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They're out of order, even with regard to the species.
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So the British Medical Journal has come, as a very respected medical journal, they have
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come out with an editorial suggesting that doctors need to cut treatment.
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Well, I should say doctors and the public health bureaucrats in, who at least in the United
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Kingdom are controlling the, the healthcare system.
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In America, we still have a little bit more of a free market system, but it's, it's probably
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So they say, we need to cut healthcare to people in order to save the planet.
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So you've got to stop providing medical care to human beings so that a rock hurtling through
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The rock doesn't have emotions, but somehow out of care for the rock hurtling through space,
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Here's from the editorial quote, healthcare contributes four to 5% of global greenhouse
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gas emissions in the national health service in the UK.
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62% of these emissions are from its supply chains and 24% from delivery of healthcare.
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Health professionals can be institutional leaders who drive decarbonization in hospitals
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through reducing overdiagnosis and overtreatment in healthcare.
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You know, presumably something is being diagnosed and that's a real healthcare problem.
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So if it's being overdiagnosed, you're saying that too many people are having their, their
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Eliminating waste, streamlining services, and better managing suppliers and procurement.
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All of these efforts will bring us closer to making healthcare more sustainable.
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Okay, so that, that, that's a little weird to me to see that, that, okay, four to 5% of
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carbon dioxide coming out is from the healthcare system.
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So let's, you know, that thing that keeps the people alive and healthy.
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And that way there will be a little less carbon dioxide in the air or something.
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And that, because that somehow that's the sun, that is leading the sun monster to kill
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us, or I don't know, that's at least what they say.
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There's a separate piece in the British Medical Journal beyond this broad editorial.
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This is a separate piece by an author named Ramia Matthew, who goes even further, who
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says that we, we shouldn't even really diagnose and treat cancer because, you know, we, we
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He writes, the pressure to diagnose cancers earlier and earlier is another major contributor
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Over successive years, we've been told to continually lower our threshold for suspecting cancer.
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And we've encouraged, we are encouraged to investigate sooner and more extensively.
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In primary care, most patients with mildly elevated or even high normal platelet counts
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now undergo a barrage of investigations in case thrombocytosis is an early indicator of
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What does the yield of these tests have to be like to make this an acceptable approach?
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And shouldn't we be considering the environmental impact of putting so many patients on a conveyor
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belt of investigations as part of a cost benefit analysis?
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Man, the British Medical Journal has lost the thread.
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You're saying, how, how much are we willing to offend Mother Gaia?
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You know, the, the, the earth nature God, this new pagan idea that we live for the benefit
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How much are we willing to offend the pagan deity of the earth while we diagnose cancer
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How many cancer patients should die to appease the nature gods?
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How many, how many cancer patients is Ramia Matthew and the British Medical Journal willing
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to sacrifice to the nature gods so that the sun monster doesn't kill us at some point in
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I don't like sacrificing people to the pagan gods.
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I'm not afraid of the sun monster in particular.
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And I'm, I'm certainly less concerned about the feelings and health of a rock than I am about
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human beings because I think human beings have dignity and I think they are elevated above
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And I think that actually America, America, that human beings have dominion over the creation
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and that we ought to be good stewards of that, but we ought not to sacrifice ourselves for
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the rocks and the plants and the birds and the fish.
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That's the view of our civilization until about five minutes ago.
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But as Christianity has, has fallen apart as, as the political force and obviously can't
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fall apart generally, but as a political force in the West, it has fallen apart.
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The same old crazy, kooky, pagan ideas have crept back in afterward.
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And you're seeing that even in what used to be a high point of civilization, the United Kingdom.
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This news broke last night while I was on stage at the Ryman, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Last night when we took the stage at the Ryman, there was a chant heard above all of the other
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Three words, you guessed them, let's go Brandon.
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Rang out from the moment the curtain opened up on stage.
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And this is not just happening in Tennessee, and it's not just happening in the United States.
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The revolt against Joe Biden through the euphemism, the euphemistic, the kind of in-joke chant,
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let's go Brandon, has now hit the streets of Rome.
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So I guess the Italians have not gotten the message the way that we do that chant.
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Here is we say, let's go Brandon, you know, but it's confusing because then you got to
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translate from English to more English, to Mimi English, to into Italian.
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Why are they doing this in Rome and elsewhere too?
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I mean, you're seeing similar kind of protests around the world.
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Joe Biden is ostensibly, at least, the president of the United States.
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Well, I think we need to recognize the United States is the leader of the world.
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At the very least, the leader of the West, and at least until very recently, certainly
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And if you've ever traveled outside of the country, especially if you've ever traveled
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outside the country during an American election season, you will notice the degree to which
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the rest of the world looks to the United States for leadership.
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And they are invested in the outcome of the American election.
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And America really is sort of an empire, at least with a lot of soft power.
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And that power is projected everywhere in the world.
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I remember I was traveling in the Middle East during the 2016, right before the 2016 election
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And anywhere I went, anywhere and everywhere I went, people were talking about the American
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And I think these F Joe Biden chants and let's go Brandon chants happening elsewhere in the
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world, they represent broadly the power of the people versus the ruling class.
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And the reason I think this has caught on the F Joe Biden thing and the let's go Brandon
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I really believe that Brandon ought to go, you know, but, but it's also a meme and memes
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are in themselves a representation of the power of the people.
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In 2016, sometimes you would see Trump supporters refer to meme magic.
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This idea that you've got the ruling class here that controls all of the media, that controls
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all of the big tech platforms, that controls the administrative state, that controls much,
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if not most of the elected government, that controls the universities and the schools and
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And then you've got some memes, you know, and then you've got these people who are just
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posting little memes on the internet and making fun of the ruling class and getting their message
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There, there was a meme that came out after the election and it showed, uh, two different
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It showed one, it was like the New York Times building and it said, uh, the title was, who
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And on the New York Times building, it says the entire globalist, neoliberal media, corporate
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establishment, or, and then it had a picture of Alex Jones, the radio host, or a shirtless
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And, and Jones won because Jones was the Trump supporter.
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He was being identified there with Trump and obviously the times and all the rest of them
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So I, I, I think a lot of this has to do with people saying, look, all, all of the official
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power, almost all of it in the entire world rests with the liberal establishment, but we
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We're going to march through even the streets of Rome and chant, let's go Brandon or some
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Now you are seeing a pushback against this, this ugly rule of, of the oligarchic powers that
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During COVID was really when the technocrats and the bureaucrats and the oligarchs came up,
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and said, Hey, we're going to suspend all of your normal life, all of the normal rule
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of law and force you in your homes, force you out of your job, shut down your church,
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force you to muzzle yourself, make you take some experimental drug for a virus that's not
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And they, they just kept changing their, their minds by the day and further and further encroaching
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So there has been some pushback, but it's been slow.
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Maybe you get a Republican governor who says, okay, we're going to not require masks.
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Well, that's good, but other people are requiring masks.
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We're going to, the government is prohibited from mandating masks.
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Well, I don't know, it's maybe, and so increasing, okay, we're not going to mandate vaccines,
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but corporations might mandate vaccines, right?
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Well, Governor Greg Abbott down in Texas doing a great, great job.
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And he just had a very important order come out.
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Governor Greg Abbott is banning any entity in Texas from instituting a vaccine mandate.
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You might remember that a little while ago, Governor Abbott banned the government from
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So the state government could not have a vaccine mandate, but that still left most Texans out
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in the cold because the most Texans don't work for the state government.
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Here's the exact wording, quote, no entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine
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by any individual, including an employee or a consumer who objects to such vaccination
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for any reason of personal conscience based on a religious belief or for medical reasons,
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I hereby suspend all relevant statutes to the extent necessary to enforce this prohibition.
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It also shows us the difference between the libertarian point of view and the conservative
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During a lot of the later 20th century, the libertarian and the conservative point of view
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And the libertarian point of view really dominated that.
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Now I think we're seeing the split a little bit more.
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And so the libertarian point, and you're seeing a lot of neoconservatives and libertarian types
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And they're saying this is an affront to liberty.
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Well, how is it an affront to liberty to say you're not going to have a vaccine mandate?
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Well, they argue because the private business should have the right to mandate vaccines.
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So the government should not infringe on your individual rights, but the private businesses
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Now, the libertarian argument here, I think, is just silly.
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It's like another meme of someone, you know, of that little snake from the Gadsden flag having
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And it's got all the names of corporations on the boot.
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And the little snake is saying, at least it's not the government.
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Well, no, if my way of life, if my traditions, if my liberties are being taken away,
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by some woke corporation, that is no better to me than if the government is taking them
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In many cases, it's worse because I have even less control over the woke corporation than
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So what Abbott is doing is saying, no, we are not just going to get political power as
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conservatives and then not use it and let woke corporations do whatever they want.
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We as conservatives are going to win political power and then wield the political power to affect
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There was a big debate that came up last night on Backstage, and it was a debate over secession.
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Should Texas, for instance, leave the United States?
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Should the right-wing states secede or vice versa?
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Should the Democrat states secede or should we encourage that or should we permit that?
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You know, I agree with Candace Owens on almost everything.
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And Matt Walsh and I often agree on a lot of things.
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But on this one, they were both calling for secession.
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And I was more in line with what Drew, Ben, and Jeremy were saying.
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Namely, first of all, secession is going to involve a civil war.
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And I don't think we ought to clamor, at least for, if a war comes, I guess we have to deal
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But I don't think we should be clamoring for it.
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But furthermore, it just seems to me that although there are many stalwart, strong, tough
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conservatives, like my friends who were on stage last night, who are more open to the
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idea of a Texit or a Cal Exit or a secession, I actually think it's kind of the lib answer
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Meaning, why would I allow half of my country just to go away and become a lib dystopia
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and kill a zillion babies and, you know, wave the rainbow flag of the liberal empire and
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Why would I do that when the alternative is just winning back political power in my own
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country and prohibiting the left from pursuing their radical, destructive agenda?
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The secession argument seems to me to be a little bit of a you-do-you kind of argument.
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Well, okay, I have no right to tell people in California that they can't mutilate children's
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genitals and kill babies and do all sorts of crazy.
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I absolutely do have that right as an American.
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Well, if people want to teach critical race theory in schools in New York, you can have
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If they want to burn the American flag in some godforsaken left-wing state, then that's
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And if they do happen to have the right today, I think we ought to take that right away because
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I don't think that's a good right at all to permit in this country.
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And I think it'll lead to national destruction.
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And I don't think great nations continue to grow and flourish by dividing themselves into
00:35:56.400
You know, we're seeing this speech issue happening right now and it relates to COVID.
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I am flying out moments after I wrapped this show today to Wisconsin with my friend Ted
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And we're going to be doing a verdict live show in conjunction with Young America's Foundation
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And we had a feeling that there would be some shenanigans.
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The school is demanding that we mask for the event.
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Now, I'm not just saying they're demanding that the audience masks.
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And I think that people should basically just avoid that stupid mandate altogether.
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They wanted me and Cruz to mask on stage during the event.
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So we're going to be on stage on camera saying, and that's going to be the event.
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And so in many, in recent years, there have been many attempts to stifle conservative speech
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In this case, they'd just be basically taping our mouths shut.
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You can't expect the speakers, certainly not the speakers to muzzle themselves.
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Now, there's an exemption for education-related arts performances.
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It would seem to me that a very popular podcast with a sitting U.S. senator would count as such.
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But UW-Madison doesn't want to do that because they hate our show and they hate conservatives
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They've given exemptions to liberal speeches, but they don't want to give an exemption to ours.
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So the libertarian point of view, I think, would be, well, okay, what can we do?
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My conservative point of view is, uh-uh, no way.
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We're going to figure out a workaround for this speech today.
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But in the future, I think what we need to do is go in, take political power back, fire
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these administrators, change the rules, and transform that culture and transform that institution
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back towards something resembling a coherent, good American educational institution.
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More people have died from coronavirus in 2021 than died in 2020.
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You might see some conservatives mentioning this on Twitter.
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You're certainly not going to see this from the establishment media.
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You know, I've always thought that the death statistics that are, have been seriously manipulated
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from the very beginning of the epidemic to the point that anyone who died with COVID
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You know, the median and average age of a COVID death in the United States have been north
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And they've been higher than the average life expectancy in the United States.
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But we're never allowed to take that into account or suggest that that might tell us something
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We even saw in some cases people who died in a car wreck.
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If they died with the coronavirus, it was called a COVID death.
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If someone could get shot in the head, and then if they died with coronavirus, then they
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And you had public health officials telling us that.
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But because there was a political incentive to inflate these numbers, that's the way the statistics
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So I thought, I don't know, why are, why are now we playing this silly statistics game
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where we're trying to make arguments from really arguments about justice, the justice
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of forced vaccinations, the justice about the mask mandates, the justice about all of this
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Well, there is one reason that these numbers matter.
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It shows you the double standard and it shows you how from the beginning there was never going
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to be any way to argue from the science to convince these people to stop their madness.
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When people were dying under Trump, under the Trump administration, when people were dying
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of COVID, notably in Democrat states, California did very poorly on the virus and New York did
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When Andy Cuomo was sending sick people into nursing homes and killing elderly New Yorkers
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needlessly by the thousands, that was Trump's fault.
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But now that people are dying ostensibly of COVID on Joe Biden's watch, whose fault is it?
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How come it wasn't the Democrat governors' fault when they were dying in Democrat states
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It's the governor's fault because there is no logic to this because this is not about
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the science or even about a coherent political philosophy.
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This is about using and exploiting a virus to attain new political powers and to wield them
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That's what it's been about from the very beginning.
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But from if not day one, at least day two, and really I think from day one of this epidemic,
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Well, a number of other people, not just the rock-ribbed right-wingers working in politics,
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but a lot of other people called this out as well, including Eric Clapton.
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You know, Eric Clapton, one of the great popular musicians of the last 50 years.
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Eric Clapton is not exactly, I don't know, he's not like a MAGA hat wearing, rock-ribbed
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He's expressed some conservative views over the years, but he's also a rock musician.
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I guess he's a little slightly long in the tooth these days.
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So he goes, gets the vaccine, and he has an adverse reaction to it, and it causes him
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He already had a nerve issue, but it causes him some more nerve problems, and he says,
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oh my, and he's talking to his doctors, and they said, ah, yeah, well, you know, this
00:42:16.860
does happen sometimes, and he couldn't play guitar for some period of time, several weeks
00:42:21.140
at least, and so now he's really campaigning against vaccine mandates.
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He's saying he won't play at venues that require the vaccines, and so I think this is
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I tweeted out, and I said, you know, whatever you think of Clapton, the man's got more credibility
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Usually, of the magazines that call for interviews, Rolling Stone is not one of them, and they're
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The headline is, Eric Clapton isn't just spouting vaccine nonsense.
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I do have to thank the author of this piece because he quoted me, I think, pretty faithfully.
00:42:54.500
He actually did express my views on this, but it's amazing that Rolling Stone
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needed some right winger to tell them this, which is, since when are rock and roll stars
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supposed to just go along with the establishment party line?
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You know, I don't, I do not think it's the highest form of art, even though I guess I'm
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technically in a rock band from like, you know, a sort of 1960s rock band, but I don't
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But Rolling Stone does, and a lot of people do in our culture.
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A lot of people love rock and roll, and rock and roll was all about flicking a middle finger
00:43:36.140
to established authority and breaking rules and being subversive, except now you'll notice
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all of it, just about, goes along with the party line.
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Now, part of this is because the radicals of the 1960s became the establishment, and they
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had lots of bad ideas, and they've done a very bad job with society, and that's why you're
00:43:57.840
But those rockers are part of that establishment, and very few of them, some exceptions, Eric
00:44:03.740
Clapton, Van Morrison also has been pretty strong against these vaccine mandates.
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They've come out and said, no, actually, I don't think we should just give all our political
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Actually, no, I'm going to trust my audience to make their own medical decisions, like we
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No, I'm actually going to, I'm going to trust my own listeners to make some basic decisions
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That, that is, I think, the greatest evidence of all that our ruling class, our ruling elite,
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our ruling establishment has, has transformed radically.
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And so if we are going to undo that, I don't think we need to grow our hair out or get a,
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you know, get a ton of like rock tattoos or anything like that, shoot, do a bunch of drugs.
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But what we are going to have to do is question that ruling establishment.
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We're going to have to subvert it in creative ways, and we're going to have to take a very
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long path, just like it did for the radicals of the 60s, a years, decades long path to gradually,
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