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You're listening to Radio Looks List and I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 78.
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The title of this episode is Goodbye and Good Riddance. COVID crisis brings out true colors of bogus boomer rebels.
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So I hope everybody's been having a good weekend so far. Here we are on Saturday night. It's, well, let's see, it's about 9 20 p .m.
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on Saturday, January 29, 2022. It's great to be with you here today, both on the live stream and also for anyone who is listening to the podcast.
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Thanks for joining me. Really appreciate having everybody here. Well, I guess maybe to start off with here to say,
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I guess it's winter, right? So, you know, here we are, it's the end of January and there's some kind of good and bad in that sort of being in the end of January.
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Now, of course, January and February here in Cincinnati, it's frankly just kind of crummy, boring weather.
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It's just the way it is. You talk to anybody around here, they probably tell you that the January and February are probably some of the least favorite months of the year.
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And, you know, I can understand it. I mean, I'm not a big winter fan myself. I don't like all the dark and all that, but you know, there is always one hopeful thing and that is, well, at least one.
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And that is, I can tell it's staying light later. In fact, I think we've picked up pretty close to 40 minutes of daylight in the evening.
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Of course, December 21st is the shortest day of the year and we pick up approximately one minute in the evening and one minute in the morning.
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So, we've picked up a total of about 80 minutes in terms of additional daylight just in the last roughly 40 days.
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So, that's pretty nice. And you can really see the difference. You know, I sit down and eat supper now and it's still light out and that's pretty nice.
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I always enjoy that. So, that's really great. You know, the other thing that's been great here about January, at least for me, is
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I've had a chance to really get into doing a little bit more in terms of learning about video making and cameras and all of this other stuff, studio setup.
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Yeah, it's just awesome how much I don't know. It's really humbling. You know, sometimes, you know, you just kind of get on here and you start doing things and I realize, you know,
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I've never really been trained in doing this and I've kind of put some things together, things
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I've learned here and there. But I'm finding additional information. There's a lot of great YouTube videos on video making and how to take advantage of various, oh, technology and features that you find on some of the video services like YouTube or Odyssey or Rumble, these kinds of things.
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And I'm learning and I'm taking a course on actually on filmmaking right now.
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It's one I bought about a year ago. I think I may have mentioned that last week. And I mean, I've just only gotten into probably less than maybe 20 % of the way through it.
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But I've learned so much already. I mean, just in terms of camera, ideas about cameras and things like that.
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The lighting that I've got going here now, I was able to finally get my lighting up and going. And man,
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I mean, the lighting is so much better than what it was. I mean, I mentioned that last week. That was the first week that I did with the new lighting setup.
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And last, I was looking at the videos and just comparing my video from last week to the videos in prior weeks and months that I had done.
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And I mentioned this, you know, I always felt like I looked like I was sitting in a cave doing videos by candlelight.
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That's kind of how it was. Well, these things, these lights I got on right now, they're wonderful. I got rid of all the shadows and we can actually see my face, you know, it's not shadows all over my face and that kind of thing.
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And no, it's just, it's been great. And it's really exciting to have an opportunity to grow in that area.
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And I hope it can continue to get better. It reminds me a little bit of, I remember when
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I took German when I was in college, you know, and in this respect, I never expected to find myself doing this kind of thing or even actually finding myself kind of enjoying it.
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And it's really has been a lot of fun to start to learn a whole new language, a whole new, you know, set of ideas in terms of how you run video.
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And there's just so much, I mean, not only is it about learning how to use your cameras, use lighting, these sorts of things, then you get into the whole area of, okay, well, you know, how do you edit videos?
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How do you post videos? You know, what are some things you can do to help your stats online? These kinds of things.
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Sometimes it can seem a little bit overwhelming, but you just got to practice a little bit at a time. I mentioned that last week that I'm not going to be live streaming on YouTube anymore.
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And I'm not right now. I'm live streaming on Facebook and on D live as, as well as on Twitter.
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And I hope to maybe add some additional to additional live streaming outlets at some point, but not right this moment.
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I think what I'm going to do, I'm going to keep my YouTube channel. I want to keep that channel. And what I'd like to do is maybe use it to start posting some shorter videos, maybe doing something on economics or maybe something on maybe some
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Bible lessons, something like this. I do want to keep that channel. I want to keep it active and I want to keep doing it on a regular basis, but I'm not going to be posting news commentary on there because I don't think there's any way that I can talk about the things that I need to talk about in the way that I need to talk about them and put it out there on YouTube, because it's just going to create issues.
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And I don't see any reason to, I don't want to self -censor. I mean, that's, I think the worst thing
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I can imagine. If I'm going to self -censor then, well, then I don't know there's a lot of reasons for me to be doing this.
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I mean, you can find censored news just about anywhere. I want to bring you to the best of my knowledge, what is true and right and correct.
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And I'm not going to not talk about certain things. And unfortunately on YouTube right now, there are just things that you cannot talk about and have any chance of maintaining your channel.
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So that's, so the YouTube live stream is going to go by the wayside, but there's still a lot of other things that you can talk about that I can talk about,
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I believe, that I believe will not create issues on there. So that's why I'm making that change.
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And what I'm doing is I'm taking down my videos, the live streams that I have out there on the YouTube channel, and I'm reposting them right now to Odyssey and to Rumble.
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I'm also going to be posting them, I plan on to BitChute as well. So those three outlets will have all the past videos and Lord willing,
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I will also be posting recordings of the live stream as well on those outlets.
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So enough about that for the time being. So here I am for another week, I'm talking about COVID. Now I don't know about you, but I get thoroughly sick of COVID.
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I really do. I get tired of hearing about it. I get tired of talking about it. And yet it seems like there's just so much compelling information out there on it that I feel like I have to at least talk about it.
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I mean, there are other things going on in the world. I mean, there's, you know, this last week, you know, that we're probably closer to war with Russia than we've been for a long time.
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And we've got this ongoing immigration disaster on America's southern border brought about 100 % by the
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Biden regime. Maybe I should call it the Bergoglio regime, because Joe Biden's just carrying out Pope Francis policies.
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So there's that giant mess that's going on. I think what I plan on doing, because there is some noteworthy news on that this week.
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I'd like to maybe go ahead and write a blog post on that tomorrow on Sunday, the 30th.
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That may be my blog post on Sunday, my weekly blog post. Anyway, there's that whole thing going on.
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Then there's just the big fail of the Biden regime, generally. I mean, this administration is a mess, which isn't surprising because it's an illegitimate regime,
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I believe, and it has been my position since the 2020 presidential election that that election was stolen.
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I think very obviously it was stolen. And so there's that whole issue going on right now. We've got a Supreme Court vacancy.
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There's Stephen Breyer, he retired this week. So there's going to be a spot open there. And of course, the
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Biden folks have stepped right up and they've said that they're going to make sure that it's going to be a black woman and there's nobody else need apply.
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So there's that whole issue. And these are all things that are worth talking about and should be talked about.
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But I decided to do a little bit more of a deep dive on COVID, just because, again, I think that there were some substantial things that came out this past week that I think are at least worth discussing and probably discussing in a little bit more detail.
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I could if I were dealing with maybe multiple topics here today. So let me go ahead and get started with this.
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The first thing I wanted to talk about, and this is just the title of the piece here, that is COVID crisis brings out true colors of bogus boomer rebels.
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It's really been interesting how there is a bit of a pattern developing here where you have people who have this sort of this bad boy persona.
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Oh, you know, we're going to rebel against the establishment. I'm thinking maybe back to some of the old 60s, 70s rockers, some of these people.
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And yet here we are at a time when you've got real authoritarian government bearing down on us, and they have become the man.
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There was that commercial, I don't know, it was a few years ago. And I don't remember even now what company it was for, but it was this dialogue and it was this old man sitting behind a desk.
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And he was like a corporate CEO, big shot or something like this. And he talks about, you know, it was my little way of sticking it to the man, you know, in this young sort of assistant system.
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He says, but sir, you are the man. I thought that was a funny commercial. And that's kind of like what these boomer types have become.
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And I have three examples here of what I'm talking about. One of them is Howard Stern. Now Howard Stern has never been somebody that I've followed.
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And never somebody I cared for. I think he's a very vulgar man. He's certainly far from being a
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Christian or being anybody that would interest me. A little screen share here. Okay, yeah, here we go.
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All right. So here's an article here in, this is on Yahoo News.
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I think Tucker Carlson talked about this too. In fact, I know he did. I think it was about a week back, but Tucker Carlson talked about this very issue.
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And here's the headline. Howard Stern says unvaccinated people shouldn't have access to hospitals if decision was left up to him.
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And this article just gives a few bullet points, some of the low lights of what Howard Stern had to say. So Howard Stern says unvaccinated people shouldn't have access to hospitals.
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So yeah, you should get sick or get hurt. Well, that's just too bad in Howard Stern's view.
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During the Howard Stern show, the host said if it was up to him, the unvaccinated would go home and die. Well, that's a lovely sentiment there.
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Thank you, Howard. We really appreciate that. Stern had previously been vocal about anti -vaxxers being in favor of mandatory vaccination.
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So Howard Stern loves Big Brother. I think that was the whole goal. If you remember in 1984, it wasn't enough just to go along with Big Brother.
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You had to love Big Brother. Well, Howard Stern seems like he loves Big Brother. And here's this guy who's been this shock jock.
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He wants to challenge, I guess, morals and challenge the establishment and make fun of,
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I don't know, all the rubes and fly over country or something like this. And yet, you know, here it comes where we've, like I say, we've got a real case of COVID authoritarianism, threats, credible threats, as they say, from the
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Biden administration of really doing some terrible things that violate not just the
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Constitution, but basic Christian morality in forcing people to take vaccines and imposing vaccine passports and some of this really awful stuff that we read about.
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But Howard Stern's all for that. He thinks that that stuff is just great. He acts like this big tough guy, but then he runs like a scared little girl when it comes to dealing with COVID.
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And of course, then he wants to abuse people who refuse to go along with taking the poison death shot.
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What a pathetic man he is. I'm just absolutely just disgusted with Howard Stern. Now, the next one that I want to talk about, of course, and this actually probably got the most coverage this past week, is
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Neil Young. Of course, Neil Young's the old boomer rocker. I guess he to keep on rocking in the vaxxed world.
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Just kind of a takeoff on one of the titles of one of his songs. But here's a headline. This is from the New York Times. Neil Young posts and removes a letter demanding
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Spotify remove his music. And let's see if we read through here. A letter briefly appeared on Monday on Neil Young's website that asked to remove his music from Spotify, according to Rolling Stone, in protest of the platform streaming of the podcaster
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Joe Rogan, who has been dismissive of the coronavirus vaccine. Well, I don't know if I would say
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Joe Rogan's been dismissive about it. I think that he's asked some good questions. And he's brought some people on that have raised some very good questions.
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And I think brought some very good proof that those vaccines are unsafe and are ineffective.
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I guess maybe that's what this author means by being dismissive. I think when you talk about something being dismissive, it's when you just kind of do it out of hand with no proof, just all sorts of maybe preconceived ideas and not really subjecting your opinions to any kind of critical thought.
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Well, I think Joe Rogan has. And he's brought some of the world's leading experts on vaccinations in and sat down with with them for, you know, for a good three, maybe four hours doing his podcast show.
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I don't know if he's been dismissive. I don't know that I would use that term. But maybe I'm reading too much into that comment.
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I don't know. But anyway, let's here's here's Neil Young's. I guess this is a quote from the letter that Neil Young posted, quote,
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I'm doing this that is requesting that Spotify remove his music. I'm doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines, potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them, end quote.
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Now, Mr. Young wrote, according to Rolling Stone, quote, please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.
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They can have Rogan or Young, not both. Well, I guess the old rocker, he managed to cancel himself.
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It kind of looks like to me he managed to I guess this is self cancellation. We've had this whole thing where you've got some of these social media platforms and they're yanking people off and shutting down their
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YouTube channels and banishing people to the outer darkness with his weeping and gnashing of teeth. Well, Joe, Neil Young did that to himself because here's a here's a story.
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This is just a couple of days later from the first one. This is awesome in New York Times. This is from let's see. Well, from today, the 29th,
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January 29th. And the headline here, it says Spotify is removing Neil Young's songs after complaints of misinformation.
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The singer decided to leave the streaming service because it gives a platform to Joe Rogan, whom scientists have accused of promoting falsehoods about coronavirus vaccines.
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OK, well, which scientists? Because some of the best immunologists, some of the most knowledgeable people on vaccines on the planet have backed
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Joe Rogan and have opinions that are very similar to what he he he talks about and have gone on his show.
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So there are some very prominent scientists that say, yeah, you know, Joe Rogan's pretty much spot on on this. But scientists, you know, as if it's all scientists and no, it's not all scientists.
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Some scientists have accused him of promoting falsehoods, but some scientists have agreed with Joe Rogan and appreciate his stance on it.
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So Spotify said on Wednesday they began removing the singer and songwriters music from the streaming service. You know, and again, you know, this is just a guy, you know, he's
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I've never been a big Neil Young fan. I mean, I've heard some of his stuff. I know some of his songs. He's been around as a singer for a long time.
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You know, he's he's a prominent guy. And again, you know, he's another one of these these boomers tries to be a boomer bad boy.
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And yet, you know, when it comes when push comes to shove, he's on the side of the man. Here's here's a chance to actually stand up and rebel and actually do some good.
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And instead, you know, he just he goes along with the man. And it's pretty sad. You know, this is this is a whole thing that just drives me nuts.
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It's like when I go, I live fairly close to the high school, the local high school here.
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Sometimes, you know, when when school gets out, I'll see kids walking home from school on that. And I've been shocked and disappointed how many times
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I've seen these high school kids walking with masks on long after they're out of school. Sometimes when
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I've gone gotten up to go to work in the morning, I'll see the same thing. I'll see students going to school, and they've all got their masks on.
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I mean, when if I go into a place like they've got these things where these doctor's offices make you wear a mask here, it's all silly theater.
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It's one of the few COVID restrictions that I have to deal with. So I slap a mask on when
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I go in. And I had to go to a clinic this week, just briefly, and I had to put a mask on when
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I just just do it, you know, I'm not gonna make a big stink out of it. But I'll tell you what,
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I don't put it on till I cross the threshold of door, and I take it off right away as soon as I get out.
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I'm not keeping that thing on. And it really bothers me when I see some of these teenagers out there wearing this mask like good, obedient, you know, slaves to big brother.
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I mean, where's teenage rebellion when you could actually use it? I mean, you always hear about teenage rebellion, you know, and, and this type of thing.
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Now, again, there's a case where a little teenage rebellion actually could do some good.
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But instead, so many of them just fold and go along with this and obediently wear their mask, it just drives me nuts.
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It really does. So let's see, we've got, we've got
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Neil Young, he's a bogus boomer bad boy. And then of course, we've got also the case of Joni Mitchell.
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And I think it was just Yeah, in fact, it was just today the story was out. Here's a story from CNN. Joni Mitchell says she will follow
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Neil Young by removing her music from Spotify due to vaccine misinformation. She put a little blurb on her website.
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And this article from CNN quotes it. And she says this irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives.
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The Canadian musician wrote in a statement posted on her website Friday, I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.
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Well, again, you know, who are the global scientific and medical communities? Dr. Fauci, Bill Gates?
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Who? The Vatican? You know, I mean, all of these people that I mean, basically, she's on the side of Darth Vader, you know,
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I think it's just so amazing that somebody like this, I mean, here's, here she is out there.
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And, you know, I think they like to envision themselves as though, you know, if you want to use a Star Wars analogy here, they like to think themselves as the plucky rebel alliance, you know, taking on the empire.
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Well, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young and Howard Stern, these guys are not the rebel alliance.
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These guys are the empire, you know, or they're basically the empire stormtroopers. There's nothing plucky or rebellious about anything that they're doing.
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They are the man. And they serve the man. And it's really pretty pathetic. I mean, it'd be one thing if you had, you know, cultivated this image over the last 50 years or so of being being a
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Tony to the corporate elite or something. But these guys, you know, they can say they're the counterculture, you know, they're the rebels, you know, they're these 60s hippies types.
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Well, you know, you guys are just pathetic. You really are. I mean, I'm not trying to say that the 60s hippies were great.
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Or, you know, the kind of things that went on in the 60s were great, they weren't. But I mean, if you cultivate this image, as if somehow you're this rebel, when you actually have a chance to rebel and do some good, and you don't do it, frankly, you just come off as pretty lame.
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And I don't know why anybody should listen to them. Now, lest anybody think I'm just picking on boomers. I'm not,
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I'm actually not a baby. I'm, I actually don't exist. And I didn't know this until not too long ago, but I don't exist.
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I was born in 1966. And the, the usually the cutoff that they use for the baby boomers is 1964.
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So I'm like, almost a boomer, almost, but I'm not quite, I'd actually be technically Gen X is what they would call me.
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I'm on the sort of the old leading edge of Gen X, I suppose. What's kind of interesting about that is, like, when you read things in the popular press, read articles, maybe about business or culture, these kinds of things, they always posit these warring, these two warring tribes, you got the boomers on one hand, they're kind of the old generation.
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And you got the millennials on the other hand, and they're kind of the newer, the new kids on the block, and they're always fighting it out and clashing, you know, and, and, and the millennials are saying, okay, boomer and making fun of their boomer tech, you know, and the boomers are calling the millennials snowflakes and all of this other stuff.
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But what's interesting is Gen Xers don't even exist. They hardly ever even get mentioned.
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It's like, we're not there. Kind of like my parents generation, my parents were actually born right before the start of World War Two.
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So they're not boomers either. They, they fall into what they call the silent generation. I guess the silent generation is silent.
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And then their kids are the same way. Apparently, I don't know. So neither my brother nor I nor any of my people, my friends, people
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I knew when I went to high school, none of us exist. That's kind of kind of interesting. So yeah, so I can sit here and I guess maybe
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I can, can, can talk, talk trash about the boomers. I don't know. I can talk trash about the millennials and I'm neither one of them.
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So I can sit here in my safe space as a Gen Xer that nobody pays any attention to.
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I know sometimes you can make way too much out of the whole generation thing, I think. But it is kind of interesting to see the way people in my age group are usually portrayed in the press as, as almost, like I say, not even existing.
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Or if they do talk about them, they always call them the slacker generation or something like that. So I don't know, maybe I'm a slacker. Maybe that's my problem.
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Anyway. So what was I talking about here? Oh yeah, I was talking about boomer COVID heroes. Yeah, there are actually some, some boomer musicians who are heroes on this are actually on the right side of this whole thing.
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Eric Clapton is one of them. In fact, there was a, a story run, it ran in the Washington post.
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This was from back in November of 2021. So just a few months ago, the headline is what happened to Eric Clapton?
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The guitar legend has long been inscrutable, but as COVID turned his friends and fans puzzled like never before.
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And here the, the article goes, Robert Cray was stunned when he first heard stand and deliver. Eric Clapton, his one -time musical hero who became a mentor and friend had released his first protest song at 56 years of recording only wasn't about George Floyd or global warming
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Clapton's mid -temper of shuffle a collaboration with Van Morrison. And there's another boomer rocker released in December when full anti -lockdown taking aim at the government for trying to control the global pandemic by temporarily shuttering restaurants, gyms, and concert halls.
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And it says what grabbed Cray's attention was the second verse. Do you want to be a free man or do you want to be a slave?
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Do you want to be a free man or do you want to be a slave? Do you want to wear these change until you're lying in the grave?
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Well, you know what? I think those are pretty good questions. Robert Cray and he's, he's black, but he, he wanted to, he was raised an issue of how, how could he compare this whole
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COVID lockdown thing to slavery? Well, actually pretty easily. I mean, both, uh, slavery in the, in the form that it was practiced in the
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United States prior to the civil war and the, uh, the lockdowns are, they, they do have some things in common.
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Now, I mean, slavery is more extreme. I mean, that's certainly true, but some of the elements, I mean, there's, there's the authoritarianism, really a hardcore government control, not just the controls are put in place, but the controls that are threatened to be put in place going forward.
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And yes, I mean, you've, you've gotten, in fact, the, the world economic forum, which sees all of this
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COVID stuff as part of the great reset the world economic forum says that by the year 2030, you're own nothing.
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Well, that's kind of like being a slave, isn't it? If you don't own any property, if you can't, don't own or can't own property, well, somebody owns it.
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It's not you. You know, I guess it'll be Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates and all their, their globalist buddies will own everything.
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And I guess you and I can just ask permission for everything. Well, that's kind of like being a slave. And it kind of appears at any rate that this whole thing with COVID is all about helping usher in that kind of a dystopian technocratic top -down slave kind of society.
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So no, I think Eric Clapton and Van Morrison are absolutely right to talk in those terms. So anyway, yeah, there's that other fact, maybe it was in this article.
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I saw it somewhere where Eric Clapton was talking about he will not even appear at concert venues that require vaccines and some other things.
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So yeah, I think it's wonderful that Eric Clapton has stood up, you know, props to him. Good for him. Eric Clapton and Van Morrison were not deceived.
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Now, I don't know if they're necessarily Christians. I'm not saying that they are, but they weren't deceived. And you know, that's good for them.
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You know, who knows? Maybe the Lord's working on them. I don't know. But I mean, it's wonderful to see people in that situation stand up and say, hey, we're not going along with this.
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Good for them. Good for them. I mean, they could simply have taken their millions and, you know, gone along to get along or just stayed out of the public eye, but they've actually stood up.
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They stood up for liberty. And I think I have nothing but praise for them and their stance on COVID.
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Here's another thing on COVID since we're continuing with that theme is Pope Francis. So let's see, good old
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Pope Francis, or good old Jesuit Antichrist Pope here. And what does he have to say here?
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Okay, so here's one story. Here's the headline. It says, Pope Francis, and this is also in the
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New York Times, it says, Pope Francis says access to truthful information on vaccines is a human right. Well, you know, actually,
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I would agree with that. You know, it depends on, I suppose, how you define truthful information.
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And I think, of course, that's really where the ambiguity lies is on the term truthful information, because, of course, the
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Pope is a big pusher of vaccines. And he has been the whole time, you know, he's a
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Jesuit. It's kind of amazing how many Jesuits are out there pushing vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, and all of the ugly authoritarian stuff that goes along with vaccines.
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You know, an organization that's really done a great job covering that has been
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Berean Beacon. I've mentioned that before. That's actually an organization that I support. It's an evangelistic organization that was started by a former
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Roman Catholic priest, Richard Bennett. He was born in Ireland. He was a Catholic priest, I think, for like 28 years or something like that.
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And he was saved, and he came out of Rome, and he ran this wonderful ministry that's still continuing, even though he went to be with the
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Lord, I think, about two years ago now. And they're continuing that work, and they've done some really good work talking about the connection between the
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Jesuits and COVID, the whole COVID crisis, and the vaccine mandates and all this stuff.
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And, of course, Pope Francis has been very aggressive in pushing vaccine mandates.
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Now, what was interesting here is he made these comments this week, and he did so at a, it says, he did so, he was talking to members of the
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International Catholic Media Consortium on COVID -19 Vaccines. And there's a link provided there in the
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New York Times article. And it takes you to this page, it's called CatholicFactChecking .com.
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When you go on this page, you'll see a number of stories on here dealing with support of the whole
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COVID vaccine program. Here's one here, five recommendations by Caritas Internacionales to support the global vaccine campaign.
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Here's another one, the natural immunity against COVID -19 is not a thousand million times more effective than the one acquired after vaccination.
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And there's some other stuff on there. But the one that really kind of caught my attention is actually this story at the top of the page.
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It says, the three most important elements for creating a moral judgment on the vaccines. And this article is actually behind a payroll, so you can't read all of it.
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Like, if you click on it, you see it'll bring up, and you've got to log in, and I don't have a login. But even just a little blurb that they have on there, it's actually pretty interesting.
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Let me read this for you. It's by somebody named Isabella H. de Cavallo. And it reads this, it says, the
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Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith published a note in December 2020, affirming that it was morally acceptable to receive the
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COVID -19 vaccines and reiterating that this choice should be voluntary. Almost a year after this document was published, though, many
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Catholics are still debating and have questions of whether the inoculations are or should be a moral obligation. So I guess they want to set the record straight.
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But here's what I want to tell you, and this is the thing that's really interesting here. Note here where she says, the
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Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. That's actually slightly incorrect. The name of the organization is not the
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Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. It's the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Now, I've talked about this particular organization within Rome before.
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This is a very prominent organization within the Roman Catholic Church, and it's a very old organization within the
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Roman Catholic Church. And the name that's going by now is not the original name that it had.
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The original name for the organization called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is something quite different.
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The original name was the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition.
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So yeah, it's the Inquisition that's lurking behind this. So the
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Roman Catholic Supreme Sacred Universal Inquisition has given us a position paper that basically says the vaccines are pretty awesome.
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And here's the article here. It says, note on the morality of using some anti -COVID -19 vaccines.
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And they go through all of this, and they kind of reason through it. But basically, the summary that was given here on CatholicFactChecking .com,
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the summary, I guess the summary of the whole article that was written by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
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Faith is that the vaccines are morally acceptable. So, you know, there you go. You take it from the
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Inquisition. The vaccines are just awesome. They're wonderful. It's one of the things that, and I've mentioned this before, it's always kind of interesting to me when
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I research the Roman Catholic Church. And the stuff that you come up with in the process of researching the
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Roman Catholic Church always just is jaw -dropping to me. And sometimes it's actually kind of funny.
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When I come across an article talking about the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, I always think of that. There's that skit that Monty Python did years ago.
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, you know. And I guess it seems like these guys pop up in all the weirdest places.
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So you didn't think maybe that the Inquisition was still around, but oh yeah, they are. They're just doing business under a different name.
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But just be comforted by the fact that the Inquisition thinks that the COVID vaccines are morally acceptable.
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That settles it for me. Not. Yeah, in fact, I would say that that's one of those things where if those guys are for it, it's probably a pretty good idea, pretty good indication that whatever they're for is probably a really bad idea.
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And we'll leave it at that for now. So let's see, what else do we have here? Oh yeah, it's interesting, you know, in this article, some of these comments that were made by the
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Pope. Oh, here it is. This is an article by one of my, has become one of my standby favorite writers on Rome.
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Now, he's actually a former Roman Catholic priest. As far as I know, he probably is still a
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Roman Catholic. But I think he does some really good reporting on Rome. And he works for Breitbart.
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His name's Thomas D. Williams, PhD. I actually follow him on Twitter. He's got his own Twitter feed.
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And it gives me an opportunity to just kind of alerts me to different stories that he's written because he provides links to all of his stories.
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And he usually writes several stories a week dealing specifically with Pope Francis or things in the
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Roman Catholic Church. And it's a pretty good summary of what
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Pope Francis is doing and thinking. And he writes quite a bit on COVID. Like for instance, here, this is an article.
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This is actually from January 13th. This is a couple weeks back, but here's the headline. Vatican threatens unvaccinated employees as Pope Francis laments layoffs.
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In the most recent article, in fact, I think it was in that Reuters story here, if you read through it, the
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Pope says, oh, we shouldn't be putting those, the unvaccinated into ghettos.
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We shouldn't be doing this kind of thing. But then of course, that's exactly what he does with his mandates.
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Because the Vatican has been very adamant that if someone who's an employee of the
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Vatican is not vaccinated, they cannot come to work. And there have been people that actually quit. In fact, there were some members,
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I think maybe three, at least three members of the famous Swiss guards quit their jobs because they would not receive the vaccine.
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So I mean, there's Pope Francis putting people in the unemployed ghetto with his vaccine mandates, his maniacal vaccine mandates.
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And let's see if we got anything else here. It looks like, well, I think that's about, there's some other stories here, but I don't want to go too long on this particular issue.
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So let's go ahead and move on. Medical news. Now, this is something that was pretty interesting here.
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There were, I think, several developments this past week on COVID that were pretty interesting, and I think well worth taking your time to review some stories.
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Here's one of them. This was put out, this was an interview put out by Steve Kirsch. He's an investigative reporter.
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He's got a Substack newsletter that I subscribe to, and he puts out some good stuff.
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Now, here's one. This is an interview he did with a nurse, an ICU nurse. Her name's
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Tani, what's what, Butner. Tani Butner, RN, observed a 10 times increase in the rate of myocarditis after the vaccines rolled out.
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So, and she talks about this. This is an interview. It's about a 10 -minute interview. I'm not going to play it here, but I will put a link for it in the show notes.
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You may want to check that out. It's very interesting to hear her commentary on things that she's seen as an
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ICU nurse. Then there was a second story. Oh, and by the way, myocarditis, you know, I never really knew much about myocarditis.
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I'd heard about it, but now that this has become kind of a thing with young people, especially young men who have taken the
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COVID vaccine, it's a very serious condition. In fact, from what
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I have read, that 50 % of the people with myocarditis die within five years. So it may be that someone gets myocarditis and maybe they live for now, but there's a good chance they may not live much longer, or they may need a heart transplant if they do want to continue living.
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It's a very serious condition, and it's something that has been brought about by these vaccines.
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All these vaccines that all the scientists tell us we absolutely have to take, and they're safe and effective. Well, nonsense.
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They're not safe, and they're not effective either. I'm going to get to a story. There's an Alex Berenson story here that I'm going to get to in just a minute where he talks about even more data, as if we need it anymore, but there's even more data showing just how ineffective these vaccines really are.
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Now, the second story I wanted to share with you, again, I'm going to put a link in the show notes to this.
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This is from Stu Peters, and it says, worldwide exclusive, embalmers find veins and arteries filled with never -before -seen rubbery clots.
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This is actually something that my dad sent to me. I watched that video this afternoon. I was just appalled by it. And this is an interview.
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It's between a doctor, her name's Jane Ruby, and an embalmer, somebody who does this for a living.
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He's certified and has done this for, I guess, about 20 years or so. And he talks about some of these clots that people are getting.
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He can't even embalm them. He has to remove these clots. And then these clots had this weird, it's a sort of fibrous, kind of a white fibrous clotting material that he's never seen before.
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And at one point in the interview, he talked about this, and he said he's talked with some of his colleagues, and they're seeing this for the first time, too.
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And the supposition is that this is something that's being caused by the vaccine, because this is only showing up, apparently, in bodies of people who were vaccinated.
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And again, it's not that long of a year. It's maybe about a 15 -minute interview or so. But it's pretty shocking to see this interview.
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So I'll go ahead, and again, I'll put that in the show notes for you. Now, I mentioned that Alex Berenson had an article out.
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And Alex Berenson, if you watch, say, if you watch Tucker Carlson, you've probably seen Alex Berenson over the last few months.
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He's been on Fox News quite a bit. He's kind of an interesting guy. I don't know a lot about him.
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I do know he was a New York Times reporter for a number of years. I know he's from New York. He's probably a liberal on a lot of things.
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But he's done really some very, very fine work on COVID and really kind of ferreting out a lot of the
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COVID nonsense. And he had a very stark appearance. He was on Tucker Carlson. I think maybe it was like Tuesday or something.
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It was like earlier this week. And he delivered a very stark warning. And this was the article, actually, he talked about.
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And you can see the headline on this. It says, Israel is overrun with COVID. The vaccines have failed.
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The experiment must stop. And what he does is he goes through and talks about the data from Israel. And Israel is a really great, well, maybe not if you're an
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Israeli, it's maybe not so great. But in terms of if you want to find out, see what the effects of the vaccines are, it probably provides the best data because they have been the most aggressive of any nation in terms of vaccinating their population.
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I'm not going to read through all this. Again, I'll put some of this, I will put this in the show notes. It's a somewhat longish article, but it's actually quite good.
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And as I said, he concludes, these vaccines are dangerous, they're not working, the experiment has to stop.
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And in fact, I'll just read the final paragraph here. He says this, judge solely on the basis of last year's efficacy data, the mRNA vaccines are a failed product and should be withdrawn.
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Now, last year's data, of course, is the most recent because the data he's working with is for 2021.
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And we've got that complete data going all the way up through toward the end of 2021. Israel is having
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COVID cases go through the roof. And they're the most vaccinated nation on earth. And he says the mRNA vaccines are a failed product and should be withdrawn.
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Any future mRNA vaccines against the Omicron variant or any other target need to be tested for safety and efficacy in a large scale clinical trial for years, not months, years.
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This kind of billion -person experiment must never happen again. Amen to all of that. It's over, okay?
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This is what Berenson says. We didn't get the Hollywood ending. Science didn't win. That's kind of a takeoff on Pfizer has this,
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I don't know, they've had this logo. Science will win. You can see it there in the live stream. Science will win.
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Well, not in this case. In fact, he says Pfizer was wrong. Science didn't win. Biology won. But Pfizer's still dedicated to pushing out the propaganda.
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And finally, here's a, oh, in fact, oh, one other thing I wanted to mention about that. Substack has now become, has now come under pressure.
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Interesting. The, you know, Substack is, in fact, I've been publishing a newsletter.
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I haven't really advertised that, but I've been actually publishing all of my blog posts and my videos.
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I've been actually publishing those out to Substack as well as publishing them out to the blog that I've had, the
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Looks Lucid blog on WordPress. I started doing that back in September just to kind of experiment around with the platform.
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I know it's been growing quite a bit. And one of the nice things about Substack or one of the big selling points on it for a long time has been that it is a free speech platform.
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You know, you get crackdowns on all of these other platforms, but Substack has been really dedicated to giving authors, canceled authors, a home.
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Alex Berenson got kicked off of Twitter a few months back, permanently banned. He and some others, and they've been able to go over to Substack and to write and to, you know, build a community, build a following over on Substack.
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Substack now is apparently coming under pressure. This is one of the things that Alex Berenson, in fact, he talked about that this week.
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That reminds me, let me see if I can find this. The great and powerful Chelsea Clinton was out, in fact, leading the charge, piling onto Substack.
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Oh, I do know what's going on. You know, the problem is, is I get on this computer and I've got, I don't, I'm not logged in as using my own
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Twitter account. And I keep meaning to get out of that and get myself into my regular
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Twitter account. So frustrating. Anyway, I'm sorry about that. But there was a tweet that was put out by Chelsea Clinton, where she was complaining about the, about Substack.
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And she was complaining about, oh, people like Alex Berenson are going out and they're making a million dollars or something like this.
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I don't know if he's making that much person, but she was, she was, threw out a figure like two and a half million dollars and saying all of these, these people spreading
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COVID misinformation are making two and a half million dollars a year on, on Substack. And we need to censor this. And oh my goodness, you know, and the alarm bells are going off and all this.
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And of course, you know, Chelsea Clinton, she's not worried about her buddies in the, in the vaccine industry making billions upon billions upon billions of dollars in profit on unsafe vaccines that are killing people.
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And that are also ineffective at the same time. And not only are they making billions of dollars, but at least in the
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United States, I think this is probably true around the world. We have these vaccines, so -called vaccines, inoculations, maybe it would be a better term or injections.
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These, these injections, these, these, you know, like the, the BioNTech and the
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Moderna injections, they are being given under what's called emergency use authorization, which means that these drug companies making billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars in profits are not liable for any of the damage they do to people.
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So if you get this injection, if you're maimed, if you're killed, you or your family have no recourse.
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You can't go to Pfizer, you can't go to Moderna, you can't go to J &J and say, hey, you guys injured me with a defective product.
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You can't do that. You, you have zero recourse, which makes these mandates even more evil because you're mandating people get an experimental medical procedure against which they have no, no recourse if something goes wrong.
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I mean, you wouldn't buy a toaster oven, I don't think, if it didn't have a warranty on it.
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But the government thinks nothing about forcing people to be injected with a substance, which the companies that make it will not stand behind.
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It can, it can seriously injure you or kill you and you have no recourse. But Chelsea Clinton's not worried about that.
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She is very worried though about somebody like Alex Berenson actually making money for all the hard work he does on Substack.
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Yeah, that's, we know where, we know where Chelsea Clinton is. You know, she's right up there with, with Neil Young and, and Joni Mitchell and Howard Stern.
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I guess maybe they can all get together and denounce the, the great unwashed masses who have the temerity to question the
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COVID vaccines. All right. So the last thing I wanted to cover here tonight before we get too long, let's see, what are we running up against?
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It's almost 50 minutes. I guess we got a few more minutes we can go here. The, the last one mentioned was the, the
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Freedom Convoy. This is a kind of a positive story. You know, we get so much that's so frustrating on, on COVID and so many things, you know, it can be, you know, you start talking about this stuff and it just seems like it's just nothing but a steady stream of bad news and almost makes you just want to give up sometimes.
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But God is sovereign. You know, we know that. And, and it's, it's wonderful to see some, some pushback, maybe where you didn't necessarily expect it to come from.
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And so I'm going to talk a little bit briefly in closing here about the Freedom Convoy and that is the, the Canadian truckers standing up against the, the
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COVID tyranny in Canada. And what's interesting, here's an article, this is from Global News.
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This is a Canadian organization and it says a fringe minority and truck convoy with unacceptable views don't represent
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Canadians. Trudeau. And when you read through here, there, there's this big convoy.
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It's several hundred miles long. I don't know. It's what, I don't know how many trucks. It's a lot. It's like a record -setting convoy of trucks that traveled from,
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I believe it's British Columbia and Western Canada. They drove all the way to Ottawa. And I think they got to Ottawa today, the capital of Canada.
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Well, this is from a few days ago. This Trudeau, Justin Trudeau got up there and he gave this press conference and he called him a fringe minority and they hold unacceptable views.
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It's unacceptable, dear fellow, not to want to be injected with an experimental vaccine that can kill you. At least in his eyes, that's an amazing thing.
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You know, I used to wonder when I was a kid sometimes about how tyranny could come to countries, you know, how you could have horrible regimes like, you know, say the communists in the
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Soviet Union or the Nazis in Germany, or maybe going back in history, you know, you think about some really arrogant people that, that existed back in history.
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You know, you think about, oh, maybe Marie Antoinette, you know, let them eat cake. I had a friend of mine tell me that you could actually translate what she said as let them eat brioche.
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I don't know if that's true or not, but I haven't looked at the quote myself. It's kind of interesting to think about, but let them eat cake is,
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I think, an acceptable translation. It really kind of captures the idea of what she said. It sort of is very dismissive.
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Oh, you know, they're just a peasantry. Let them go eat cake and get out of our hair. So yeah, you've got this
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Justin Trudeau fellow. He says they have unacceptable views. Well, that they disagree with him and have very good reason for doing so.
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And see, here's another story. This is from, oh, this is, this is from Reuters. I think this is kind of interesting for a couple of reasons.
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The headline, it says anti -vaccine Canada truckers roll toward Ottawa praised by Tesla's Musk, which is kind of interesting.
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So let's read, read this here. It says Ottawa, January 27th Reuters, Canadian truck drivers determined to shut down central
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Ottawa over a federal government vaccine mandate rolled across the country toward the Capitol on Thursday boosted by praise from Tesla chief executive
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Elon Musk. The protesters are unhappy that prime minister Justin Trudeau's liberal government has imposed a
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COVID -19 vaccine mandate for cross -border truck drivers. So if they come into the United States or they come back into Canada, if they cross the
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US Canadian border, they have to be vaccinated. Industry officials say 90 % of truckers traversing the
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US frontier are inoculated, but a minority have refused saying the mandate contravenes personal freedom.
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Now I have a hard time believing that, that it would be be 90%, if only because there's such a ruckus that's been stirred up over this thing.
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You know, those are government numbers and I'm always skeptical of government numbers. So I mean, who knows?
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I mean, it's possible, but you know, I kind of take that 90 % figure with a bit of a grain of salt. And so here was, was a comment from Musk, Canadian truckers rule tweeted
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Musk, who in September 2020 said he would not get vaccinated for COVID -19 on the grounds that he and his family were not at risk.
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Hundreds of truckers converging on Ottawa from several directions are due to arrive on Friday and aim to park their rigs on Parliament Hill, paralyzing downtown traffic.
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Anyway, well, I guess one of the reasons I mentioned this particular article that kind of caught my eye was some of the comments from, from Elon Musk.
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Of course, Elon Musk is a multi -billionaire. He's one of the richest men in the United States, one of the richest men in the world.
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And you know, someone who's, I mean, obviously he's extraordinarily prominent in business and in finance.
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And it's kind of interesting because he, he seems like he's a little bit of a, of a rebel at times.
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You know, there's a guy that, you know, certainly is, is plugged into, to the world system that we have.
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And yet he seems to, from time to time, come up with a stance that, that kind of leaves, at least surprises me.
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I wouldn't expect somebody in his position to, to say those kinds of things. I mean, could you see Bill Gates saying something like that?
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You know, I don't think so. Bill Gates wants to jab everything that moves. And some of these other billionaire types, you know, these master of the universe types, you know,
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I think of guys like George Soros, for example, or, or some other people. I mean, they love pushing these vaccines, but here's, here's
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Elon Musk. You know, he at least seems to have a certain openness to liberty, to personal liberty.
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I don't know a great deal about him, but I at least appreciate that. And it's good to see somebody in his position standing up and speaking out about that.
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That's very helpful to, you know, maybe you might say have friends in high places. So anyway, good for Elon Musk.
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I'm glad that he took the stance that he did there. Well, that about wraps things up for this week. So thanks so much for spending your time with me here.
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Really, I always enjoy being able to do this program every week. And I hope you got something out of it. Until next time we talk, may the spirit of truth guide you in all truth.