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Episode Three Hundred Six: Science · The Death Of Journalism

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Speaker 1: Welcomed episode three hundred and six of the Death of
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Speaker 1: Journalism podcasts. My name is John Zigler. I'm your host.
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Speaker 1: On this week's show, there are more revelations from doctor
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Speaker 1: Founci's COVID era communications. Cambridge University gets caught up in
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Speaker 1: a major academia scandal after being duped by a DEI
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Speaker 1: hire on steroids. Stop me if you've heard this before,
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Speaker 1: but the WNBA is embroiled in another woke controversy. Pulitzer
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Speaker 1: Prize winning podcaster Pablo Torre is back after the La Clippers,
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Speaker 1: and the Washington Post breaks a bizarre story about President
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Speaker 1: Trump and Air Force One. We begin this episode of
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Speaker 1: the podcast with some new revelations regarding doctor Anthony Faunci
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Speaker 1: and his COVID era communications. This is coming from his
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Speaker 1: cell phone and they've gotten a lot of attention, certainly
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Speaker 1: within the right wing echo chamber, and at first I
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Speaker 1: can totally understand why it is. The people were extremely
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Speaker 1: outrage by the latest data dump, which included some texts
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Speaker 1: from doctor Fauci and others within the hierarchy, including Rachel
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Speaker 1: Lenski during the COVID panic. Then indicated that there was
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Speaker 1: a vast difference between doctor Fauci's public statements about the
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Speaker 1: dangers of the vaccine for pregnant women and his concerns
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes. And there's no question that this is
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Speaker 1: a real issue. This is not made up. This if
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Speaker 1: the shoe was on the other foot, if the politics
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Speaker 1: were reversed, there's no question that the legacy media would
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Speaker 1: be all over someone who would be perceived as being
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Speaker 1: a pro Trump figure. Although it's always been confusing regarding
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Speaker 1: doctor Fauci and Trump because at times they've been tied
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Speaker 1: at the hip. And I have said many many times
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Speaker 1: before that the biggest mistake that Trump made during the
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Speaker 1: COVID panic was to put doctor Fauci out there front
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Speaker 1: and center and effectively advocate his residency to doctor Fauci.
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Speaker 1: But if the media wanted to make a huge deal
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Speaker 1: out of this most recent revelation, they absolutely could. However,
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Speaker 1: I do believe upon further review that the conservative maga world,
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Speaker 1: especially online on x Echo Chamber, is indeed making too
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Speaker 1: much out of this from a substantive standpoint. You've probably
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Speaker 1: heard a lot about the statistic that there was an
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Speaker 1: eighty two percent miscarriage rate for pregnancies of women who
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Speaker 1: took the vaccine, those numbers are very convoluted. I'm not
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Speaker 1: an expert on this, but I have been convinced that
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Speaker 1: this issue may be being overblown, potentially dramatically overblown from
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Speaker 1: a statistical perspective. That doesn't change the fact that this
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Speaker 1: is yet another example of doctor Fauci saying one thing
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Speaker 1: in public and saying another thing in private, and that
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Speaker 1: he obviously had a huge self interest making sure that
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Speaker 1: these vaccines were seen as a success. I've gone through
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Speaker 1: this many many times before, where there were a series
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Speaker 1: of I believe essentially conflicts of interest when it came
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Speaker 1: to doctor Fauci and the health industrial complex, the big pharma,
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Speaker 1: you know, basically taking over the government element of what
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Speaker 1: was transpiring at the time, where you have three basic
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Speaker 1: incentives here. You have this desire for science or big
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Speaker 1: science and big pharma to be seen as all knowing,
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Speaker 1: all powerful and magical, and that if the vaccine could
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Speaker 1: immediately get rid of the virus and get our lives
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Speaker 1: back to normal, this was going to be a massive
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Speaker 1: victory for quote unquote science and the power of science
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Speaker 1: and a vindication for people like doctor Fauci. So they
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Speaker 1: were very desirous of that number two, there was clearly
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Speaker 1: a massive political incentive on the part of the Democratic
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Speaker 1: Party because obviously Biden had taken over by the time
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Speaker 1: that the vaccines were widely available. There was a huge
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Speaker 1: desire upon the Democratic Party and they're therefore much of
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Speaker 1: the liberal media for there to be this clear cut
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Speaker 1: situation where we had a massive pandemic under Trump and
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, as if by magic, Biden
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Speaker 1: takes over and the whole thing goes away in a
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Speaker 1: few months. And it's because of this vaccine, they thought,
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Speaker 1: and I think they really believed, and even I thought
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Speaker 1: for a time, because the data indicated that the vaccine
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Speaker 1: for the first couple of months was doing a tremendous
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Speaker 1: job at stopping transmission. I still don't know to this
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Speaker 1: day what caused that remarkable change in the data, whether
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Speaker 1: it was a coincidence, whether or not there was a
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Speaker 1: temporary effect, I have no idea. But the early data
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Speaker 1: was very very good for the vaccine, and then it
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Speaker 1: got very very bad, And people to this day, because
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Speaker 1: the media won't tell them, don't even understand that some
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Speaker 1: of our worst transmission periods, not just in the United
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Speaker 1: States but around the world, came well after as well
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Speaker 1: as deaths came well after the vaccine was widely available.
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Speaker 1: So the idea that the vaccine was highly effective has
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Speaker 1: been debunked a long time ago, despite the fact that
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Speaker 1: the news media will never fully acknowledge this for obvious reasons.
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Speaker 1: So those were the first two reasons. You have the
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Speaker 1: big science, big pharma incentive. Then you have the Democratic
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Speaker 1: Party wanting the vaccines to be seen as an indication
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Speaker 1: that the Democrats know what they're doing. Trump didn't know
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Speaker 1: what he's doing. We saved the world reward us into perpetuity.
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Speaker 1: And then there's the third part, which I've always found
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Speaker 1: to be the most interesting and the least talked about
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Speaker 1: part of the vaccine equation, and that is that there
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Speaker 1: were an awful lot of liberals, mostly liberals, who realized
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Speaker 1: deep down that we had dramatically overreacted to this thing
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Speaker 1: and that we should go back to normal. But you
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Speaker 1: can't go back to normal without an excuse for going
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Speaker 1: back to normal, and that's what the vaccines provided. The
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Speaker 1: vaccines provided a face saving mechanism for those that realized
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Speaker 1: at some level, you know what we overdid. This is
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Speaker 1: this is going on too long. Let's get back to normal.
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Speaker 1: But in order to get back to normal, you would
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Speaker 1: have to do one of two things. You would either
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Speaker 1: have to admit that you were wrong, because why now?
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Speaker 1: That was the big question. Okay, so why now? I
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Speaker 1: talked about this constantly in relation to COVID because once
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Speaker 1: you change the burden of proof from why should we
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Speaker 1: not be living normally? To how do we justify living normally?
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Speaker 1: You know, when you switch that burden ap proof, when
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Speaker 1: you flip that, that is an extremely powerful thing and
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Speaker 1: almost impossible to overcome, especially given the risk aversion that
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Speaker 1: has overtaken society. And that's why I knew schools were
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Speaker 1: going to remain closed for as long as they did,
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Speaker 1: because you had to prove that school was safe, as
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Speaker 1: opposed to prove why it is we shouldn't be having school.
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Speaker 1: And so the why now question was a huge one
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Speaker 1: because if you just decide, all right, you know what,
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Speaker 1: let's stop this without any major change with regard to
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Speaker 1: the health circumstance, or you don't have an excuse for
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Speaker 1: why you did this, at some level you're having to
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Speaker 1: admit we were wrong, we were duped, we panicked, And
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Speaker 1: no one wants to do that because as I've said
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Speaker 1: a million times before it is far easier to dupe
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Speaker 1: someone than to convince them that they have been duped.
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Speaker 1: So since that wasn't an option, the only other possibility
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Speaker 1: was you need to provide a plausible excuse, a face saver,
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Speaker 1: something that these people who want to go back to
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Speaker 1: normal can point to and say, Aha, this is why
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Speaker 1: it's now safe to go back into the water. And
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Speaker 1: that was the vaccine, and that's why people were deeply, deeply,
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Speaker 1: deeply emotionally, psycholizedically, and sometimes financially invested in the vaccine
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Speaker 1: being seen. It didn't really matter what the reality was
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Speaker 1: being seen as effective because it got them off the
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Speaker 1: hook psychologically, it got them off the hook. They could
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Speaker 1: pretend we weren't really duped. We just waited. We were
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Speaker 1: very patient, and we waited until the vaccine came, and
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Speaker 1: the vaccine magically made everything much safer, and that's why
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Speaker 1: we went back to normal when we did. That was
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Speaker 1: all bullshit, and all three of those incentives were very
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Speaker 1: corrupting and caused a lot of I believe, wrongheaded decisions
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Speaker 1: and to this day have allowed a false narrative to
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Speaker 1: take hold that will probably never be corrected. So that's
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Speaker 1: the context for why doctor Fauci publicly was not saying
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Speaker 1: anything remotely negative about the potential impact of the vaccines.
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Speaker 1: He was deeply, deeply, deeply invested on multiple levels in
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Speaker 1: the vaccines being perceived as working. So this I still
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Speaker 1: think is relevant that he's saying something slightly different behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes than he is publicly. If he had private concerns,
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Speaker 1: he should have shared them, especially given obviously the risks
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Speaker 1: involved with a pregnancy that exist under the best of circumstances.
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Speaker 1: Circumstances and what an incredibly important life moment that is,
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Speaker 1: so people ought to know the risks. But Fouts she
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Speaker 1: didn't want to do that because of all the circumstances
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Speaker 1: I've already talked about. He did not want there to
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Speaker 1: be even a shred of doubt about the vaccines, because
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Speaker 1: even a shred of doubt could potentially grow, and if
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Speaker 1: there was too much vaccine resistance, then their fantasy falls apart,
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Speaker 1: their fantasy that the vaccines saved the day and were
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Speaker 1: perfect and stopped transmission and stop death and cause no
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Speaker 1: harm and allowed the Democrats to claim that they had
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Speaker 1: fixed everything and gave a reason and excuse for everyone
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Speaker 1: to go back to normal, that would all be in jeopardy.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not letting Fauci off the hook here. However,
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Speaker 1: I think there's some pretty strong evidence that this is
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Speaker 1: being overplayed in the right wing media. And let me
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Speaker 1: give you what I think is subtly the best evidence
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Speaker 1: of this. Doctor J. Botcheria is currently the NIH director,
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Speaker 1: a job formerly held by doctor Fauci. Doctor J. Bodacheri
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Speaker 1: is a guy I really like and respect. He has
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Speaker 1: appeared on this podcast previously and he's very smart. But
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Speaker 1: he's also got a lot of character, and he's not
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Speaker 1: gonna lie now, being somewhat of a politician, that's what
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Speaker 1: he is now because he's part of the Trump administration,
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Speaker 1: He's not going to lie. But he's also not going
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Speaker 1: to go out of his way to disabuse people of
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Speaker 1: a notion that could be helpful to his side. All Right,
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Speaker 1: I understand that that's real life, that's the nature of politics.
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Speaker 1: And Jay Bodacaria went on Fox News Channel Will Kine show,
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Speaker 1: a guy I know a little bit. I haven't talked
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Speaker 1: to him quite a while, but I generally like and
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Speaker 1: he addressed this issue. I want you to listen very carefully.
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Speaker 1: This is really interesting to me, at least hopefully to
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Speaker 1: you as well, because doctor j. Bodacaria takes on doctor
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Speaker 1: Fauci on this issue of not being transparent and tries
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Speaker 1: very hard to generalize it beyond this issue specifically of
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Speaker 1: the potential risk of the vaccine for pregnancies. He does not,
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Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form, make it clear, does
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Speaker 1: not emphasize the fact, seemingly, at least in my view,
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Speaker 1: tries to avoid the issue of whether or not pregnant
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Speaker 1: women were really put at great risk because they took
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Speaker 1: the vaccines. That's not what he's emphasizing here. He's emphasizing
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Speaker 1: the bigger picture, which is something I agree with him on.
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Speaker 1: This is relevant in the bigger picture, but in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: it's being overblown with regard to the specific issue of,
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Speaker 1: for instance, how many miscarriages there may have been because
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Speaker 1: women were told to get the vaccine. So if you
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Speaker 1: listen carefully to what doctor Bodicherriot does not say in
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Speaker 1: this clip on Fox News Channel, I think it will
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Speaker 1: give you a lot of the essence to what really
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Speaker 1: is and isn't going on here.
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Speaker 2: The new text released from doctor Fauci's phone seems to
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Speaker 2: be a different message privately than what he was telling
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Speaker 2: publicly about the vaccine and pregnant women.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm really glad that his words now can
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Speaker 3: be heard by the American people, and I share your concern.
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Speaker 3: I think that when you have a new product, like
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Speaker 3: the COVID vaccine was back then, you should be careful
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Speaker 3: with pregnant women. And it's shocking to me that he
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Speaker 3: was sharing private thoughts and that when he was out
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Speaker 3: on public and he was not in public a lot,
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Speaker 3: he didn't share those private thoughts with the American public.
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Speaker 3: I mean, to me, the big problem now is really
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Speaker 3: how do you restore trust in public health?
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Speaker 4: How do you restore trust in science?
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Speaker 3: And you know, that's what I've been working toward a day,
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Speaker 3: and I ah to really shift toward a transparent regime
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Speaker 3: where there's scientific debate, scientif discussion, no debates off limits.
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Speaker 3: And I fully expect there to be people that disagree
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Speaker 3: with me. And when I learned that I'm wrong, I'm
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Speaker 3: going to tell the American public that I'm wrong to
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Speaker 3: turn the page from that and that and you have
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Speaker 3: the job.
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Speaker 2: That he once had that puts pregnant women in a
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Speaker 2: really bad position. You're withholding information from them, giving them
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Speaker 2: a recommendation that could potentially harm their baby. I don't
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Speaker 2: know the process when you're the director of something like
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Speaker 2: the in IH, but if you have reservations, shouldn't the
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Speaker 2: public know those reservations.
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Speaker 3: I mean, especially for something like the COVID shots, which
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Speaker 3: were brand new back then. I mean, Antony Fauci was
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Speaker 3: a major figure in trying to get those those COVID
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Speaker 3: shots off, you know, past the finish line. He owed
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Speaker 3: the American public some transparency regarding his own his thoughts.
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Speaker 3: You know, generally it's the FDA that regulates products and
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Speaker 3: checks for side effects and so on. The NIH develops
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Speaker 3: the science that that produces the new vaccines. There's usually
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Speaker 3: like a you know, sort of one lane and another lane.
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Speaker 3: Tony Fautch in some sense, was out of his lane
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Speaker 3: push and then then use that power to tell tell
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Speaker 3: American one thing when when he really thought another.
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Speaker 1: Again, I respect doctor Bodichariot, and if he really believed
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Speaker 1: that this had been some sort of a vaccine related
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Speaker 1: holocaust for unborn children, I'm quite confident that he would
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Speaker 1: have emphasized that point. But he did not, and I
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Speaker 1: thought that that was very very telling. So he held
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Speaker 1: together his honesty and his integrity, and he I think
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Speaker 1: emphasized the most important part of this equation, which was
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Speaker 1: once again, because we're sitting seeing this as a pattern,
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Speaker 1: this is a pattern here with doctor Faugi's communications. There's
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Speaker 1: something very different in what he's saying publicly and what
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Speaker 1: he is saying privately. Now, to be fair, and I've
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Speaker 1: always tried to be fair to everybody, I criticize, that's
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Speaker 1: not inherently illegitimate. I mean, if you're talking with colleagues
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Speaker 1: and you're trying to figure out what's the best way forward,
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Speaker 1: expressing a concern privately and having other people being able
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Speaker 1: to react to that is not inherently illegitimate. You don't
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Speaker 1: have to necessarily depending on how big a concern it is,
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Speaker 1: what the evidence, what the data says, and your equation
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Speaker 1: that you come up with as to, Okay, does this
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Speaker 1: make sense to disseminate this publicly. I think that's all legitimate.
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Speaker 1: But the fact that there's a pattern here, which we
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Speaker 1: have seen constantly, I think is the most relevant part
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Speaker 1: of this. And from a real world perspective, I still
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Speaker 1: believe that this revelation about potential harm to pregnancies and
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Speaker 1: misk and causing a miss carriages is nowhere near as
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Speaker 1: significant as what I think the number one revelation in
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Speaker 1: doctor Faucci's diary was, which is that he openly acknowledges
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Speaker 1: not a small change in what his public statements are
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Speaker 1: as opposed to his private beliefs, but a dramatic change
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Speaker 1: when it came to the actual death rate of people
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Speaker 1: who got COVID. At times, depending on which statement you're
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Speaker 1: referring to and at what time period, Fauci was publicly
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Speaker 1: saying that the death rate for those people who got
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Speaker 1: COVID was up to ten times higher than what he
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Speaker 1: really believed it to be. Sometimes it was about five
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Speaker 1: times higher, sometimes it was about ten times higher. But that,
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Speaker 1: to me is essentially the hall ball of wax. I mean,
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Speaker 1: other than that, Missus Lincoln, how was the play? Because
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Speaker 1: that's the essence of everything. At the beginning of the panic,
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Speaker 1: It's clear from Fauci's diaries that he knew or at
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Speaker 1: least believed that the death rate of those who got
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Speaker 1: COVID was substantially lower than what he was saying publicly,
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Speaker 1: and there was an obvious political incentive and agenda behind
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Speaker 1: the difference between his public statements and his private statements.
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Speaker 1: Had he been basing his public statements on that much
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Speaker 1: lower death rate, everything, everything might have been exceedingly different.
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Speaker 1: And I have always maintained that the evidence we had
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Speaker 1: at the time substantiated this view of a lower death rate,
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Speaker 1: especially among younger, healthier people. I mean, it's a broken record,
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Speaker 1: but I'll mention it one more time. We had the
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Speaker 1: cruise ships. We had two cruise ships which were the
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Speaker 1: perfect petri dish experiment for this situation, taken by surprise,
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Speaker 1: no precautions, no restrictions, confined area, people basically stuck on
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Speaker 1: a ship in closed quarters for an extended period of time.
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Speaker 1: They were kept there away from the public after it
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Speaker 1: was clear that the COVID outbreak had happened. So you
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Speaker 1: could not have asked for better experiments, obviously not for
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Speaker 1: the people that were involved, but for trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out just how dangerous the COVID virus really was. And
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Speaker 1: in one of those situations, seven people died on the ship.
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Speaker 1: In the other ship, another other American ship, zero people died.
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Speaker 1: So seven people out of probably thousands that were on
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Speaker 1: those two ships, with their average age being much higher
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Speaker 1: than normal, although you might argue that they might be
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Speaker 1: healthier than normal because they're out on a cruise ship,
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Speaker 1: especially based upon you know, the average health of an
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Speaker 1: older person in their seventies or whatever. But you could
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Speaker 1: make all sorts of different arguments here. But it's a
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Speaker 1: darn good experiment. And yes, that's a major, major problem
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Speaker 1: that seven people died, but that is not a shut
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Speaker 1: down the world catastrophe that cannot possibly be dealt with
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Speaker 1: in any sort of normal fashion. And yet that was
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Speaker 1: ignored because we went into a panic, and once we
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Speaker 1: went into a panic, we lost our minds, and we
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Speaker 1: made all sorts of ridiculous decisions that were based in
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Speaker 1: fear and in a political agenda. And now finally it's
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Speaker 1: all unraveling because of doctor Fauci's bizarre diary and now
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Speaker 1: his text messages. But I also don't want to lose
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Speaker 1: sight of the truth, and the truth is that, at
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Speaker 1: least statistically, while philosophically I still have huge problems with this,
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Speaker 1: and it is an indication of a much larger issue
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Speaker 1: with regard to Fauci's credibility. I don't see evidence that
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Speaker 1: the vaccine caused a massive number of miscarriages on its own. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm open to that. I'm certainly open to that, but
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Speaker 1: I don't see that evidence yet, and I think if
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Speaker 1: it existed, doctor Bodacharia would have been all over that.
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Speaker 1: Now last week when we talked about this whole issue,
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Speaker 1: I referenced it, it's almost impossible to please anybody on
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Speaker 1: this topic now because the people that are in the
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Speaker 1: COVID contrarian camp tend to be understandably like myself, extremely angry,
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Speaker 1: and they want revenge, they want retribution, they want Fauci
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Speaker 1: in prison, and they think that the vaccines killed all
20:28
Speaker 1: sorts of people. There's really almost no middle ground, and
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Speaker 1: so you get criticized almost no matter what you do.
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Speaker 1: And I found it interesting that Bill Maher, when he
20:38
Speaker 1: did his first HBO show Real Time after the Doctor
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Speaker 1: Fauci Diary, he kind of got criticized by some of
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Speaker 1: the people on my side of this for being kind
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Speaker 1: of soft on Fauci, because, to his credit, Bill Maher
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Speaker 1: was one of the very very very few, certainly liberal
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Speaker 1: members of the mainstream media who dared to push back
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Speaker 1: even a little bit. Now, like most people, he lost
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Speaker 1: his nerve rather quickly, but his inclination at the beginning
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Speaker 1: of the COVID panic was to push back, and he
21:11
Speaker 1: was certainly one of those who, more quickly than others,
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Speaker 1: especially on the left, did eventually push back against the
21:17
Speaker 1: insanity of the COVID panic. And it's been one of
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Speaker 1: the stranger developments of the last several years that I
21:23
Speaker 1: have found myself agreeing with Bill Maher more than almost
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Speaker 1: anybody else in the media, especially when it comes to
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Speaker 1: anything related to COVID. And I'm not somebody who's ever
21:33
Speaker 1: been a fan of Bill Maher. In the past, effective
21:35
Speaker 1: times I've despised Bill Maher because he was absolutely a
21:39
Speaker 1: left wing commentator, not a total loon, but far left
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Speaker 1: of me, and I've always felt like he was not
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Speaker 1: really all that trustworthy. But for some reason, as he's
21:51
Speaker 1: gotten older, I tend to agree with him, certainly, not
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Speaker 1: on everything, but I do think of among the left
21:57
Speaker 1: wing commentators he's by far the best. In fact that
22:00
Speaker 1: Bill Maher and John Fetterman, Democratic senator from Pennsylvania have
22:04
Speaker 1: become essentially the voices of reason in the Trump era,
22:07
Speaker 1: at least the second Trump era is quite remarkable and
22:10
Speaker 1: a bit depressing, and so I found it interesting that
22:13
Speaker 1: mar was getting criticized for being a bit soft on Fauci. Well,
22:17
Speaker 1: he did a second episode on HBO's Real Time, and
22:20
Speaker 1: this time he came out. I don't know it was
22:23
Speaker 1: because of any sort of reaction to his previous episode
22:27
Speaker 1: or not, but he came out swinging against Doctor Fauci
22:30
Speaker 1: on the very same basis that I have done both
22:34
Speaker 1: on this podcast as well as on CNN, where my
22:39
Speaker 1: biggest point with regard to the Doctor Fauci Diaries is
22:44
Speaker 1: his obsession with celebrity and how significant that is when
22:50
Speaker 1: it comes to his decision making and his perverse self
22:55
Speaker 1: interests when it comes to who he's trying to please.
23:00
Speaker 1: And Bill Maher and I seem to be seeing one
23:04
Speaker 1: hundred percent eye to eye on this were lockstep, whatever
23:08
Speaker 1: cliche you want to use, were on the one hundred
23:10
Speaker 1: percent the same page, because here was Bill Maher's scathing
23:13
Speaker 1: commentary on Doctor Fauci and the issue of his obsession
23:18
Speaker 1: with celebrity and why it's significant.
23:20
Speaker 5: But you have to try awfully hard not to notice
23:23
Speaker 5: how much Fauci is energized by being embraced by one
23:27
Speaker 5: particular cultural tribe. It was Julia Roberts who was telling
23:31
Speaker 5: Fauci he was Jesus with a.
23:33
Speaker 4: Petri dish, not Randy Quaid.
23:38
Speaker 5: And that side likes to think of themselves as the
23:42
Speaker 5: purely scienced people. Even though keeping kids out of school
23:45
Speaker 5: that long and traumatizing two year olds with masks wasn't
23:49
Speaker 5: good science, Fauci supported some strange policies for such an
23:54
Speaker 5: esteemed epidemiologist.
23:56
Speaker 4: Natural immunity doesn't count now, meaning.
24:00
Speaker 5: Even if you've had the disease, you still had to
24:02
Speaker 5: get the shot. That sounds more like what Pfizer and
24:06
Speaker 5: Fauci's celebrity friends.
24:07
Speaker 4: Wanted to hear. He let this shit go to his head.
24:11
Speaker 5: Turns out the really dangerous intimate contact wasn't shaking hands,
24:15
Speaker 5: it was kissing ass.
24:21
Speaker 1: And Bill Maher is one hundred percent right. That's the essence,
24:24
Speaker 1: that's the story, that's the narrative really should take hold
24:28
Speaker 1: about doctor Fauci because it reveals so much about who
24:31
Speaker 1: he is as a person and what was influencing his
24:36
Speaker 1: decision making. As I said on CNN, when you're obsessed
24:42
Speaker 1: with celebrity and you believe that the pandemic is the
24:47
Speaker 1: greatest thing that's ever happened to you, because you're finally
24:50
Speaker 1: getting all the accolades you have deserved your entire life.
24:54
Speaker 1: You have no incentive at all to say that the
24:58
Speaker 1: pandemic is over. I mean, that's as clear as day.
25:02
Speaker 1: You want this to go on, either consciously or subconsciously.
25:06
Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter as long as it possibly can.
25:10
Speaker 1: I mean, nobody. If you're dating Christy Brinkley in her prime,
25:15
Speaker 1: you don't want that to add. So that's what effectively
25:20
Speaker 1: what was happened to doctor Fauci during the COVID panic.
25:24
Speaker 1: This was the time of his life. He did not
25:27
Speaker 1: want this to end, and that absolutely positively had major
25:32
Speaker 1: impacts on his decision making, and it also impacted specific decisions.
25:38
Speaker 1: On CNN, I referenced the mask flip. He one hundred
25:42
Speaker 1: percent flipped on masks. From February of twenty twenty to
25:46
Speaker 1: May of twenty twenty, nothing changed, but in February, I believe,
25:52
Speaker 1: maybe maybe in early March, Fauci told sixty Minutes he
25:56
Speaker 1: scoffed at masks, and this was one of a series
25:59
Speaker 1: of interviews had done over the years, scoffing at the
26:03
Speaker 1: efficacy of mask and the containment of virus transmission. It
26:11
Speaker 1: was a joke because anybody with an even basic common
26:14
Speaker 1: sense understands it's ridiculous. It was never going to possibly work.
26:21
Speaker 1: But something changed, not the science, not the data, between
26:26
Speaker 1: early twenty twenty. In May of twenty twenty, something remarkable
26:30
Speaker 1: occurred that nobody in Fauci's position thought was possible. See,
26:33
Speaker 1: they thought that Americans loved freedom and didn't like being
26:38
Speaker 1: told what to do, and certainly didn't want like putting
26:42
Speaker 1: on a mask, being forced to put on a mask
26:45
Speaker 1: that might restrict their breathing and made them look stupid
26:48
Speaker 1: and made it more difficult to communicate, and all sorts
26:52
Speaker 1: of annoyances related to mask usage. But what they didn't
26:57
Speaker 1: understand was that the mask would become an anti Trump
27:01
Speaker 1: virtue signal among left wing elites. That's what happened. The
27:08
Speaker 1: record is clear on this. And so when Fauci's looking
27:12
Speaker 1: around at his fan base, which is left wing elites,
27:15
Speaker 1: because they're looking at him as the guy who you know,
27:19
Speaker 1: is keeping Trump in line and maybe taking him down
27:21
Speaker 1: in an election year, and they're loving doctor Fauci, Well,
27:26
Speaker 1: doctor Fauci wants that love to continue. He has to
27:28
Speaker 1: get on board. He has to get on board the
27:32
Speaker 1: mask train. So he flips not because of data. He
27:36
Speaker 1: flips because of his own personal self interest, which was
27:40
Speaker 1: essentially political, and it was essentially it's you know, it's
27:44
Speaker 1: like a politician giving his voters what they want. They
27:49
Speaker 1: wanted masks to be mandated, and left wingers loved him
27:53
Speaker 1: for flipping on masks. And then of course he tried
27:56
Speaker 1: to rationalize for a very long time his position, but
27:59
Speaker 1: even he couldn't do it because there's no basis in it.
28:02
Speaker 1: There's no data, there's no logic, there's no nothing substantiating
28:07
Speaker 1: that masks work even a little bit, not to mention
28:11
Speaker 1: that we live in an allegedly free country, and you know,
28:15
Speaker 1: mandating masks, especially for children, was against everything we claim
28:19
Speaker 1: to ever believe. So this celebrity issue is not just
28:24
Speaker 1: a situation where you're mocking Fauci for being annoying and
28:29
Speaker 1: for being an egomaniac. There are real world implications of that,
28:34
Speaker 1: and to me, that's the most important part of what
28:37
Speaker 1: we've learned. Of course, we always suspected it if you
28:40
Speaker 1: had any clue about who doctor Fauci was. I mean,
28:42
Speaker 1: it only took one or two of those press conferences
28:45
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the panic to realize what was
28:48
Speaker 1: really going on with Fauci and his ego and why
28:50
Speaker 1: that was a major problem. But now it's as clear
28:53
Speaker 1: as day. There is no debate about it anymore, at
28:57
Speaker 1: least not in the rational world. One last point I
29:01
Speaker 1: want to make, at least for now, with regard to
29:03
Speaker 1: everything that has been learned about doctor Fauci over the
29:07
Speaker 1: last several weeks. And of course he was held in
29:09
Speaker 1: contempt by the United States Senate for his taking the
29:12
Speaker 1: Fifth Amendment in his recent alleged testimony in front of
29:19
Speaker 1: Rand Paul's committee. I have no idea what, if anything,
29:21
Speaker 1: is going to transpire because of that. But one of
29:24
Speaker 1: the things that I've thought a lot about, and I
29:27
Speaker 1: intended to mention last week but I didn't get to it,
29:30
Speaker 1: is this issue of vindication and being right too soon
29:37
Speaker 1: and what that says about our society and the incentive structure,
29:42
Speaker 1: specifically for people who are in the public domain and
29:46
Speaker 1: who are commentators in that public domain. I often think
29:51
Speaker 1: about a statement that Mitt Romney made about his dad,
29:55
Speaker 1: who was a major political figure well before he was
30:00
Speaker 1: his dad telling Mitt that the worst thing you can
30:02
Speaker 1: do in politics is to be right too soon, and
30:07
Speaker 1: he was specifically referring to the Vietnam War, and I
30:11
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of truth to that, and in
30:14
Speaker 1: my own life, for better or for worse, I have
30:17
Speaker 1: staked out a lot of positions earlier than many other
30:22
Speaker 1: people have done, so, sometimes for the better, sometimes for
30:25
Speaker 1: the worse. Sometimes I've been right, occasionally I've been wrong,
30:30
Speaker 1: And I wanted to just kind of go through them
30:32
Speaker 1: real quickly, because I do think it's an interesting case
30:34
Speaker 1: study in how these incentive structures are kind of messed up,
30:40
Speaker 1: because you would think, right that someone who would be
30:44
Speaker 1: right first, if we were living in a remotely rational
30:48
Speaker 1: and logical society where the incentive structures made any sense,
30:52
Speaker 1: that those people would be eventually rewarded or at least
30:55
Speaker 1: not punished. And I guess maybe one of the better
30:59
Speaker 1: exacsamples in recent times is the movie The Big Short
31:03
Speaker 1: right the guy who predicted the market crash, the housing
31:09
Speaker 1: market crash in two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight,
31:12
Speaker 1: and for a long time he suffered because it looked
31:15
Speaker 1: like he wasn't going to be right, and then he was,
31:18
Speaker 1: and by and large it seems like he's been vindicated. Obviously,
31:21
Speaker 1: it was a major movie vindicating him, and he still quoted.
31:25
Speaker 1: In fact, right now he thinks we're in a massive
31:28
Speaker 1: AI bubble, and we'll see what happens with regard to that.
31:30
Speaker 1: But I think part of why I'm using him as
31:33
Speaker 1: an example is I don't think that his claims about
31:37
Speaker 1: an AI bubble are getting the credibility that maybe they
31:40
Speaker 1: deserve given his track record. I mean, he did this
31:43
Speaker 1: once before and he was right. That doesn't mean he's
31:45
Speaker 1: going to be right again, but I think it ought
31:47
Speaker 1: to deserve at least a little bit more credibility. So
31:51
Speaker 1: I think that example is illustrative of this larger phenomenon
31:56
Speaker 1: that there really isn't a lot of incentive when you
31:59
Speaker 1: think about it, for being right right off the bat,
32:04
Speaker 1: or being right before too much of the rest of
32:07
Speaker 1: the public is, or to being ahead of the curve.
32:10
Speaker 1: And the examples in my life, some of them are trivial, like,
32:13
Speaker 1: for instance, I think I was pretty out there on
32:16
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods. I mean, I created the first Church of
32:19
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods and tiger Woodsgod dot com before tiger Mania
32:24
Speaker 1: really exploded, and I could not have been more vindicated
32:27
Speaker 1: on that. And you know, I don't think that did
32:29
Speaker 1: anything positive for my life or my career. That's for sure,
32:33
Speaker 1: not that it should have, but I'm just using that
32:35
Speaker 1: as a kind of an interesting example to start us
32:38
Speaker 1: off here. I've also been one of those people who
32:41
Speaker 1: very early on was an extreme skeptic of the entire
32:45
Speaker 1: global warming narrative. And you know, there's no question that
32:50
Speaker 1: that's still being talked about. We're having a very hot summer,
32:54
Speaker 1: especially in Europe, so of course the global warming climate
32:58
Speaker 1: change people are never going to admit that they're I
33:01
Speaker 1: believe that those that have been skeptical of man made,
33:04
Speaker 1: catastrophic global warming have been vindicated, but because those that
33:08
Speaker 1: are in charge of the narrative are deeply incentivized against
33:12
Speaker 1: that truth ever coming out, that's a battle that has
33:15
Speaker 1: been certainly not one and maybe has been lost. And
33:20
Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty good example of the downside
33:25
Speaker 1: of being right too soon, because there's a lot of
33:27
Speaker 1: people that get discredited, at least in the eyes of
33:31
Speaker 1: the mainstream, because they were not on board with the
33:34
Speaker 1: entire global warming panic. Now a lot of these have
33:37
Speaker 1: to do with panics, by the way, You're going to
33:39
Speaker 1: notice there was also the Iraq War, which kind of
33:42
Speaker 1: is a weird dynamic because I was very much in
33:45
Speaker 1: favor of the Iraq War, but that was actually the
33:47
Speaker 1: popular position early on. The vast majority of the public
33:51
Speaker 1: was very much in favor of taking out Saddam Hussein
33:53
Speaker 1: and getting rid of WMDs, assuming they existed, and trying
33:58
Speaker 1: to change Iraq from a state sponsor of terror to
34:03
Speaker 1: a country that would be more democratic and less dangerous.
34:07
Speaker 1: And I was one of those that stuck with it.
34:10
Speaker 1: So I guess that being quote unquote right or wrong.
34:14
Speaker 1: I don't know which is the case yet, because I
34:16
Speaker 1: don't think that the full history has been truly, at
34:19
Speaker 1: least not properly written on Iraq. But I did not
34:23
Speaker 1: give up the ghost on that. Most people changed their
34:26
Speaker 1: positions when the war seemed to go very poorly and
34:30
Speaker 1: was a lot messier than we hoped for or expected.
34:32
Speaker 1: It was seen, at least in perception, as a disaster.
34:36
Speaker 1: I fully acknowledge. I fully acknowledged it. In public perception,
34:40
Speaker 1: my support for the Iraq War is seen as being wrong,
34:44
Speaker 1: probably totally wrong. I get that. I don't fully acknowledge
34:48
Speaker 1: that because I look now we're twenty years past it essentially,
34:53
Speaker 1: and I think, okay, yeah, it was a lot more
34:57
Speaker 1: costly than we had hoped or expected, and a lot
35:00
Speaker 1: of mistakes were made one hundred percent. But where are
35:03
Speaker 1: we now. We're fighting a war with Iran, a Rock's rival.
35:08
Speaker 1: We haven't heard from Iraq in basically decades. I mean,
35:14
Speaker 1: the situation in Rock is a hell of a lot
35:15
Speaker 1: better for the peace of the region and the world
35:20
Speaker 1: and for the United States now than it was when
35:23
Speaker 1: Saddam Hussein was in power. I don't think that that's
35:26
Speaker 1: even debatable yet because we've already decided that the Iraq
35:31
Speaker 1: War was a massive mistake. I just don't accept that yet.
35:34
Speaker 1: But a lot of there was an incentive structure for
35:38
Speaker 1: people to abandon the Iraq War, I believe prematurely. Again,
35:42
Speaker 1: I think history will still hopefully tell the true tale
35:46
Speaker 1: in the long run on that situation. I was also
35:49
Speaker 1: very much out there when it came to the issue
35:52
Speaker 1: of the legacy mainstream media being inherently corrupt. I did
35:56
Speaker 1: a documentary film about the two thousand and eight election
35:59
Speaker 1: called Medium outpract This Obama got elected. I think I
36:02
Speaker 1: was completely vindicated on that considering what we've seen from
36:05
Speaker 1: the mainstream news media and it's complete and total collapse
36:08
Speaker 1: in the years since two thousand and eight. That actually
36:12
Speaker 1: was a situation that helped me in the short run,
36:14
Speaker 1: and so maybe I benefited a little bit from being
36:18
Speaker 1: ahead of the curve because that movie did very very well,
36:22
Speaker 1: basically paid for the house that I'm doing this podcast from,
36:26
Speaker 1: so that was a positive. But you know, by and large,
36:31
Speaker 1: I don't know that it really helped me in the
36:32
Speaker 1: long run because I took other positions that we're going
36:35
Speaker 1: to get to momentarily that were not favorable to my career,
36:40
Speaker 1: where I think that I was probably dramatically ahead of
36:44
Speaker 1: the curve. The most obvious example of that is the
36:47
Speaker 1: whole Penn State Joe Paterno Jerry Sandusky fiasco. I was
36:51
Speaker 1: way too ahead of the curve on that I believe
36:54
Speaker 1: I've been vindicated by the facts, but I fully acknowledge
36:57
Speaker 1: that in public perception the opposite is one hundred percent
37:00
Speaker 1: the case, which is maybe the best or the worst
37:02
Speaker 1: example of this phenomenon I'm talking about where we have
37:06
Speaker 1: now created massive incentive structures to go along with the mob.
37:11
Speaker 1: No one wants to stand up against a mob, especially
37:14
Speaker 1: in a panic, because even if you turn out to
37:16
Speaker 1: be right, it's not going to help you, in fact,
37:19
Speaker 1: it might destroy you. And my Penn State Paterno Sandusky
37:23
Speaker 1: experience is probably one of the best or worst examples
37:26
Speaker 1: of that that I can possibly think of. Similarly, I
37:30
Speaker 1: believe I was very much ahead of the curve and
37:32
Speaker 1: when it came to warning people about the corrupt nature
37:35
Speaker 1: of not just the legacy media, but of the conservative media.
37:39
Speaker 1: I called out the conservative media cabal and how it
37:44
Speaker 1: was a business, not a cause. It was a business
37:47
Speaker 1: this disguised as a cause in a way. And this
37:52
Speaker 1: happened mostly in the twenty eleven twenty twelve era, where
37:57
Speaker 1: I believe I was one hundred percent vindicators espectually when
38:00
Speaker 1: it came to, most recently the alliance of Lunacy and
38:04
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson and Candice Owens and Megan Kelly. I mean,
38:07
Speaker 1: no one was out in front of that on the
38:09
Speaker 1: conservative side of things more than I have been, and
38:13
Speaker 1: that didn't help me at all. In fact, that harmed
38:15
Speaker 1: me tremendously. But I believe I've been a hundred percent vindicated,
38:20
Speaker 1: probably more vindicated than I ever thought or wanted to be,
38:23
Speaker 1: because the problem turned out in this modern era of
38:28
Speaker 1: Twitter turned to x and this craze, desire for clicks,
38:32
Speaker 1: and all these crazy people now out of the woodwork
38:36
Speaker 1: and actually having a large enough audience to where they're relevant.
38:40
Speaker 1: That even surprised me. I even was surprised by just
38:45
Speaker 1: how popular the crazy people are when it comes to
38:48
Speaker 1: right wing media, and that has harmed me tremendously, even
38:53
Speaker 1: though I think the record is very clear that I
38:55
Speaker 1: was right, probably too soon. Now related to this my
39:00
Speaker 1: position on Donald Trump, because there's no question there was
39:03
Speaker 1: a symbiotic relationship between the broken nature of the conservative
39:07
Speaker 1: media and the rise of Donald Trump. And I've been
39:11
Speaker 1: anti Donald Trump from the very beginning, and I fully
39:16
Speaker 1: realized that within the MAGA world and the conservative media world,
39:21
Speaker 1: this is seen as a loser position. That I've been
39:23
Speaker 1: totally wrong about Donald Trump, because he got elected not
39:26
Speaker 1: once but twice. And yeah, I was wrong about whether
39:29
Speaker 1: he would get elected in twenty sixteen and in twenty
39:32
Speaker 1: twenty four, although I defend my predictions on twenty twenty
39:36
Speaker 1: four because that election, I've correctly predicted fifty of the
39:40
Speaker 1: fifty three contests. The three I got wrong, we're by
39:43
Speaker 1: less than two percent. So I don't know how that
39:45
Speaker 1: could be seen as a horrendous prediction, but one hundred
39:49
Speaker 1: percent I fully acknowledge that in perception, my opposition to
39:53
Speaker 1: Donald Trump as a conservative is seen as me being
39:56
Speaker 1: totally wrong, a little bit like the Iraq War. I
40:01
Speaker 1: am not one hundred percent willing, not even close to
40:04
Speaker 1: one hundred percent willing to acknowledge defeat here, because I
40:08
Speaker 1: still think in the long run, again, a little bit
40:11
Speaker 1: like the Iraq War, in the long run, the Republican
40:14
Speaker 1: Party will rule the Trump era. Now, I'm also fully
40:19
Speaker 1: acknowledging that they will never connect the destruction of the
40:24
Speaker 1: Republican Party in the post Trump era, or maybe even
40:27
Speaker 1: happening theoretically in this midterm election, depending on how things
40:31
Speaker 1: go down. But Maga world will never connect the destruction
40:35
Speaker 1: of the Republican Party in the country because of their
40:39
Speaker 1: support for Donald Trump. They will see their support of
40:42
Speaker 1: Donald Trump as the last attempt to save the Republican
40:45
Speaker 1: Party and the country, so they can't ever be wrong,
40:49
Speaker 1: which is one of the more frustrating elements of this
40:51
Speaker 1: whole situation. But I still believe that that hell is
40:56
Speaker 1: going to be paid, and I don't know exactly when,
40:59
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly how, But the Republican Party and
41:03
Speaker 1: the country are not going to escape unscathed because of
41:08
Speaker 1: this Donald Trump era that has now gone on for
41:12
Speaker 1: ten years and still has at least two more full
41:15
Speaker 1: years yet to go. That then leads me to COVID,
41:19
Speaker 1: which obviously is the reason why I got into this
41:21
Speaker 1: conversation to begin with. I was way ahead of the
41:24
Speaker 1: curve on COVID. I was hardly the only one, but
41:28
Speaker 1: there are very very few people that have actually benefited
41:32
Speaker 1: from having taken the proper position when it actually mattered
41:37
Speaker 1: against the COVID panic. I would say maybe doctor j.
41:39
Speaker 1: Botachari is one of the very few. Trump winning has
41:44
Speaker 1: allowed a few people like Jay Bodacheri and Scott Atlas
41:48
Speaker 1: and a few others to be vindicated and to be
41:52
Speaker 1: at least somewhat rewarded for having been correct on all this.
41:56
Speaker 1: I'm not going to put Robert Kennedy Junior in that
41:58
Speaker 1: camp because I actually think that he was terrible at
42:00
Speaker 1: the beginning of the COVID panic and he's wrong a
42:03
Speaker 1: lot of issues, So that's why I'm not putting him
42:06
Speaker 1: on that list. I just I think he's an outlier
42:08
Speaker 1: in so many different ways, but by and large it's
42:12
Speaker 1: not been great for the COVID contrarian people. I've not
42:16
Speaker 1: seen a lot of tremendous success stories. Hey, you were
42:19
Speaker 1: right about this, and you need to be rewarded. It
42:21
Speaker 1: doesn't happen that way. It's much more likely to happen
42:24
Speaker 1: in the opposite direction, which is that you're going to
42:27
Speaker 1: be seen, even when the fact pattern has completely changed.
42:30
Speaker 1: You're going to be seen as someone who was not
42:33
Speaker 1: on board with the right side at the beginning. And
42:37
Speaker 1: that's almost impossible to overcome in this day and age,
42:40
Speaker 1: especially where no one wants to be unpopular. No one
42:44
Speaker 1: wants to take that's the most important part of this commentary.
42:47
Speaker 1: The incentive structures as such that no one is incentivized
42:51
Speaker 1: to take an unpopular position even when they know that
42:55
Speaker 1: it's very likely the right one, especially when you're involved
42:59
Speaker 1: in a panic. And that's why panics are allowed to
43:02
Speaker 1: take over, because there aren't enough people, at least not
43:05
Speaker 1: in position of influence, that are willing to say, hold on, stop,
43:10
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? Because no one wants to
43:13
Speaker 1: get run over by the jackal pack. And that's what
43:17
Speaker 1: happened during COVID one hundred percent. Couple of other issues
43:22
Speaker 1: that are I think related to this. When it came
43:25
Speaker 1: to the state of college sports, nil instant transfers, radical realignment,
43:31
Speaker 1: expansion of the playoffs. I believe I've been one hundred
43:34
Speaker 1: percent vindicated in my very early and very strong position
43:38
Speaker 1: on that. But I fully acknowledge that while there are
43:41
Speaker 1: a lot more people that agree with me today than
43:44
Speaker 1: they did back when this actually was all being decided
43:47
Speaker 1: and college sports was being destroyed, there's no reward for that.
43:51
Speaker 1: In fact, there are a whole lot of people who
43:53
Speaker 1: think that the you know, those that were fighting against this,
43:57
Speaker 1: this radical change in college sports were just old men
44:00
Speaker 1: and screaming at clouds because they love this new system.
44:04
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna love it in the long run,
44:06
Speaker 1: but they at least love it currently. So I think
44:08
Speaker 1: that's another pretty darn good example of where the incentive
44:11
Speaker 1: structure is all wrong and why we end up creating
44:15
Speaker 1: new systems that are worse than the ones that we
44:17
Speaker 1: had previously. And then there's the issue of AI, and
44:22
Speaker 1: I don't know that I'm really taking a fully contrarian
44:25
Speaker 1: position on AI. I'm certainly one of those that is
44:28
Speaker 1: trying to sound the alarm of the dangers of AI,
44:32
Speaker 1: So I think I'm pretty out there on that. I'm
44:35
Speaker 1: conflicted about the issue of whether or not AI is
44:38
Speaker 1: a fraud or not. And when I say fraud, it's
44:42
Speaker 1: clearly not a total fraud. AI is an absolutely real
44:46
Speaker 1: thing that's going to have a major influence, for better
44:49
Speaker 1: for worse, on our society for many years to come.
44:51
Speaker 1: I'm not debating that, I'm not pushing back against that.
44:55
Speaker 1: But when I say a fraud, you know whether or not,
44:59
Speaker 1: like Sam Altman claims, we're close to creating a genie
45:03
Speaker 1: that can grant wishes that you know, we're going to
45:06
Speaker 1: reach AGI, that it's going to be more intelligent than
45:10
Speaker 1: humans ever have been or ever could be, and it's
45:12
Speaker 1: going to end up ruling our lives. I am skeptical
45:17
Speaker 1: that I've not come to a conclusion about that, certainly,
45:21
Speaker 1: not like I did with regard to pet State Pertarto Sedusky,
45:24
Speaker 1: because it would be a close parallel in those positions
45:27
Speaker 1: as far as contrarian contrarianism is concerned, and there are
45:31
Speaker 1: some pretty smart people that have taken that very contrarian
45:35
Speaker 1: kind of big short position on whether or not AI
45:39
Speaker 1: is ever going to reach AGI. I'm not in that boat,
45:42
Speaker 1: at least not yet. I'm open to it. I've done
45:44
Speaker 1: a lot of research on it, but I also acknowledge
45:47
Speaker 1: I just don't have enough information or knowledge to be
45:51
Speaker 1: able to really make a strong position on this. I
45:55
Speaker 1: don't have confidence that I'm going to, you know, put everything,
45:59
Speaker 1: whatever credibility I have on the line and saying this
46:02
Speaker 1: is all a fraud. Some people are willing to do that,
46:06
Speaker 1: and I'm listening to them. I will say this, part
46:09
Speaker 1: of why I'm skeptical of whether or AI could be
46:12
Speaker 1: a fraud is that there are a lot of big
46:15
Speaker 1: picture parallels to this situation and others that I've discussed,
46:22
Speaker 1: where there are incentive structures that have created a set
46:26
Speaker 1: of circumstances where it is possible that these tech people,
46:29
Speaker 1: these AI people are living in a not just a bubble,
46:34
Speaker 1: but they're living in a cult where they no longer
46:37
Speaker 1: can see reality, and they're deeply, deeply emotionally, psychologically, and
46:41
Speaker 1: financially invested in their own narrative, and nobody in that
46:45
Speaker 1: bubble is willing to tell them that they're wrong. That
46:47
Speaker 1: is a very, very inherently dangerous situation, but it's also
46:52
Speaker 1: still possible they could be right. So I just haven't
46:55
Speaker 1: decided yet on that particular situation, but I thought that
46:59
Speaker 1: the higher issue of now that at least among a
47:03
Speaker 1: huge portion of the population, we have seen COVID contrarians
47:07
Speaker 1: be vindicated by the recent revelations, specifically regarding doctor Fallucci's
47:12
Speaker 1: COVID era communications. I thought that would be interesting context
47:16
Speaker 1: for the bigger picture. And a lot of this does
47:18
Speaker 1: directly deal with the death of journalism, because the death
47:22
Speaker 1: of journalism is in large part because all the incentive
47:25
Speaker 1: structures are wrong. And if we've created incentive structures where
47:29
Speaker 1: you are incentivized to go along with the mob and
47:32
Speaker 1: not push back when there especially as there are a
47:36
Speaker 1: panic and the popular opinion is so strong in one direction,
47:40
Speaker 1: then that's going to cause problems. And we saw it
47:43
Speaker 1: during COVID without a doubt. Now, the doctor Fallaci revelations
47:47
Speaker 1: are so amazing. I've said this before, but I'll say
47:52
Speaker 1: this again for reasons that it will be obvious in
47:54
Speaker 1: just a moment. But they really couldn't be made up.
47:58
Speaker 1: I mean, if you had said, all right, go at it,
48:02
Speaker 1: let your imagination run wild, and tell me you know
48:06
Speaker 1: what you would think would have been in doctor Fauci's diary.
48:10
Speaker 1: I could not possibly have parodied what was actually in there.
48:16
Speaker 1: It was that crazy. Now it's been muted quite a
48:19
Speaker 1: bit by the mainstream news media. They're very willing to
48:22
Speaker 1: move on from this because they're as invested in him
48:26
Speaker 1: as they could possibly be. And so you know, if
48:29
Speaker 1: they're calling him a liar, they're essentially calling themselves liars.
48:33
Speaker 1: And if they say he was wrong, they have to effectively,
48:37
Speaker 1: at least indirectly acknowledge that they were wrong, and they're
48:40
Speaker 1: never going to do that because all sorts of different reasons.
48:44
Speaker 1: And so it's striking to me just how crazy these
48:49
Speaker 1: revelations have been, and almost to the point where you
48:53
Speaker 1: cannot make them up. Well, we have a remarkably similar
48:57
Speaker 1: situation that has just transpired inving Cambridge University, which has
49:03
Speaker 1: traditionally been considered one of the top universities in the world.
49:07
Speaker 1: And this is one of those stories where you've ever
49:10
Speaker 1: you've either heard a ton about it or you've heard
49:13
Speaker 1: nothing about it. So if you happen to be in
49:15
Speaker 1: the camp that's heard nothing about it, here's the basics
49:18
Speaker 1: of the story. So a couple of years ago, they
49:21
Speaker 1: hired a professor by the name of Jason Arday, who
49:25
Speaker 1: happens to be a black man. Although it's not a
49:28
Speaker 1: coincidence that he's a black man in this situation, he's
49:31
Speaker 1: not just a black man, he's a full on black
49:35
Speaker 1: man corn Rose. Weirdly, his skin is like super shiny,
49:41
Speaker 1: and it looks like he wears makeup, so he's kind
49:44
Speaker 1: of giving a little bit of the affectation of being
49:48
Speaker 1: a gay man, but he's apparently very much a heterosexual.
49:52
Speaker 1: And all this is I think relevant to one ends
49:55
Speaker 1: up transpiring. And a few years ago he was hired
49:58
Speaker 1: as the youngest black pon professor in the history of
50:01
Speaker 1: Cambridge University. And this's got a lot of attention even
50:03
Speaker 1: here in the United States, which is going to be
50:06
Speaker 1: very relevant to how the news media has handled the
50:09
Speaker 1: most recent revelations, because it turns out that even a
50:16
Speaker 1: rudimentary investigation into who Jason Arday is and is not
50:23
Speaker 1: would have revealed that he is a complete and total fraud. Now,
50:28
Speaker 1: there's been all sorts of stories in the past where
50:31
Speaker 1: there have been academics who turned out to be frauds,
50:34
Speaker 1: but much like doctor Fauci's diary, this just can't be parodied.
50:40
Speaker 1: This is off the charts. We're not talking about a
50:42
Speaker 1: little bit of fraud. We're talking about every single thing
50:47
Speaker 1: about him, his background, his academic life, his personal profile,
50:54
Speaker 1: almost every element of it is completely fraudulent. Now, the
50:59
Speaker 1: deep tales of this guy's life were like allegedly like
51:04
Speaker 1: a woke, wet dream and boy, the liberal elites bought
51:09
Speaker 1: in hook line and sinker. This guy allegedly had a
51:17
Speaker 1: learning disability via autism. He couldn't speak till eleven, he
51:23
Speaker 1: couldn't read and write till eighteen, and then all of
51:26
Speaker 1: a sudden, he's this academic savant and gets hired as
51:31
Speaker 1: the youngest black professor in the history of Cambridge University.
51:37
Speaker 1: And there's all these videos of especially these middle aged
51:41
Speaker 1: liberal white women kissing his ass and telling him how
51:45
Speaker 1: awesome he is. And when he became a professor at Cambridge,
51:49
Speaker 1: it got a lot of coverage worldwide, again here in
51:52
Speaker 1: the United States. But we've now learned that it was
51:56
Speaker 1: all a fraud. That he had plagiarized much of his work,
52:00
Speaker 1: not a little bit, blatantly plagiarized a lot of his work.
52:05
Speaker 1: He was a terrible professor. His lectures were awful, he
52:10
Speaker 1: was lazy, he didn't do any of the work. His
52:13
Speaker 1: students thought he was terrible. But here's where things get
52:17
Speaker 1: really crazy and scary, because there were several attempts to
52:22
Speaker 1: expose our Day as a fraud, including his personal story,
52:27
Speaker 1: including things like having raised tons of money for charity
52:31
Speaker 1: which apparently didn't happen, running a ridiculous number of marathons,
52:36
Speaker 1: including on a broken leg, that were physically impossible that
52:39
Speaker 1: didn't happen, That his academic credentials didn't check out, again
52:45
Speaker 1: the plagiarism aspect of the whole situation, which used to
52:48
Speaker 1: be a debt penalty in academia. And there were efforts
52:52
Speaker 1: by multiple media members to try to investigate and expose
52:57
Speaker 1: what a fraud this guy was. What was the response.
53:02
Speaker 1: The response was a search and destroy mission on those journalists,
53:08
Speaker 1: including by the police. There was a major police investigation
53:17
Speaker 1: which the police have now apologized for, of one journalist
53:21
Speaker 1: in particular accusing him of harassment of Jason R. Day
53:27
Speaker 1: because Jason Arday didn't want to be asked questions about
53:30
Speaker 1: his past and was claiming that he was being harassed
53:34
Speaker 1: and that his mental health was being put into jeopardy
53:37
Speaker 1: by being asked these questions apparently in a completely and
53:41
Speaker 1: totally appropriate fashion for a journalist, and instead of defending
53:46
Speaker 1: the journalist, the authorities went after the journalist. So, and
53:53
Speaker 1: not only the journalists, but there were people with an academia, students,
53:58
Speaker 1: fellow faculty members who all had had suspicions. But we're
54:01
Speaker 1: terrified to say anything. Why because he's the chosen one.
54:07
Speaker 1: He's a black guy. You can't criticize the black guy
54:13
Speaker 1: because inherently you're a racist. And even when against all odds,
54:19
Speaker 1: these revelations finally come out, they finally get taken seriously,
54:23
Speaker 1: they're highly publicized. There are still people claiming that this
54:28
Speaker 1: is all an attack on our day because he's black.
54:33
Speaker 1: Cambridge University is still not acknowledging fully at all that
54:37
Speaker 1: these these allegations are true. In fact, they've gone out
54:40
Speaker 1: of their way when he finally resigned. This is amazing
54:44
Speaker 1: to me. So this guy, who is as prominent as
54:49
Speaker 1: they come, he's the chosen one, he's protected at all costs,
54:55
Speaker 1: but he resigns without acknowledging the allegations against him are true.
55:01
Speaker 1: Both he and Cambridge are trying to claim, well, he's
55:04
Speaker 1: just decided to resign. I guess because of what all
55:08
Speaker 1: the racist attacks against him. Bullshit, it's all the exact opposite.
55:14
Speaker 1: This is this is how incredibly broken academia is. And
55:18
Speaker 1: it's not just Cambridge, this is all of academia. It's
55:21
Speaker 1: the same culture in the United States as it is
55:25
Speaker 1: at Cambridge, and we're seeing it all over the place.
55:29
Speaker 1: This is just the most obvious and most remarkable example
55:33
Speaker 1: where everyone was terrified to tell the truth about this
55:37
Speaker 1: guy because they knew that within academia, being seen as
55:41
Speaker 1: criticizing the black guy is career death. So it has
55:47
Speaker 1: a massive chilling effect. And we already know that journalism
55:51
Speaker 1: is dying on a daily basis. So it's very difficult
55:55
Speaker 1: to get people of a credible nature to commit recent
56:00
Speaker 1: sources to an investigation like this to begin with. But
56:03
Speaker 1: now when you've got the threat of a police investigation
56:06
Speaker 1: and Cambridge claiming you're racist and you happen to be
56:10
Speaker 1: a white guy, which the key journalist was the most
56:15
Speaker 1: likely scenario is you're just going to drop it. It's
56:19
Speaker 1: just not worth it. Well, thankfully this has at least
56:23
Speaker 1: made it into the public domain. Although the I'll get
56:26
Speaker 1: to in a moment, how the American media is trying
56:28
Speaker 1: desperately to ignore this story because this is just a damning,
56:33
Speaker 1: damning indictment of the entire liberal elite industrial complex, especially
56:39
Speaker 1: within academia. And there's no question that there's a symbiotic
56:43
Speaker 1: relationship between the liberal elite academic industrial complex and the
56:48
Speaker 1: liberal media. And there's no question that the media made
56:52
Speaker 1: our Day into a celebrity. They bought hook line and
56:56
Speaker 1: Sinker into this amazing story that turns out to be
57:01
Speaker 1: completely and totally false. And this guy was essentially Elizabeth
57:06
Speaker 1: Holmes meets Jesse small Led meets Claudine Gay meets Forrest
57:11
Speaker 1: Gump meets Rosie Rouiz. That's how completely and totally fraudulent
57:18
Speaker 1: his story was at every level, including his resignation letter.
57:23
Speaker 1: His resignation letter came back. And this is not always
57:27
Speaker 1: one hundred percent reliable or accurate, but it seems in
57:30
Speaker 1: this particular case that the evidence was overwhelming that his
57:33
Speaker 1: resignation letter was written by AI. You almost can't make again,
57:38
Speaker 1: like doctor Faugie's diary. You cannot make this up. You
57:43
Speaker 1: cannot make this up. Yet somehow, Simon and Schuster is
57:48
Speaker 1: still publishing his book, which is coming out as we speak,
57:52
Speaker 1: which is unbelievable. And it's unbelievable not just because there's
57:56
Speaker 1: been significant, although not overwhelming, public backlash, especially on acts,
58:01
Speaker 1: where this story has dominated much of the last week worldwide,
58:06
Speaker 1: but because of all the things that were left out
58:10
Speaker 1: of his book proposal, or that we're in his book
58:12
Speaker 1: proposal but are not in the book that should be
58:15
Speaker 1: the biggest red flag of all time. There are all
58:18
Speaker 1: sorts of crazy details about his life that are in
58:22
Speaker 1: the book proposal but not in the book. What how why?
58:28
Speaker 1: The only explanation for that is even Simon and Schuster
58:32
Speaker 1: knows this is all bullshit, but they're still going forward
58:35
Speaker 1: with it for whatever reason. I'm I even I as
58:38
Speaker 1: cynical as I am. I am stunned that Simon and Schuster,
58:42
Speaker 1: as of this taping, apparently is going to get away
58:44
Speaker 1: with this, that they're still publishing his book and there
58:49
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be any massive amount of backlash or
58:53
Speaker 1: ramifications or accountability, or no one's getting fired, at least
58:56
Speaker 1: not as of yet. I just I find it unbelievable,
59:00
Speaker 1: and it is a classic example of the complete destruction
59:05
Speaker 1: and collapse of Western civilization. I mean, this could not
59:09
Speaker 1: be more clear, but because he's a liberal darling, and
59:14
Speaker 1: because liberals are deeply invested in this narrative, not just
59:20
Speaker 1: specifically but in general when it comes to a black
59:24
Speaker 1: man with this kind of a hardship story succeeding under
59:28
Speaker 1: incredible duress and against all odds. And by the way,
59:33
Speaker 1: this isn't aside. But I'm now so skeptical of everything
59:39
Speaker 1: that and I don't even hesitate to talk about this,
59:42
Speaker 1: but I posted it on social media. But I am
59:46
Speaker 1: now even more skeptical than I was previously of the
59:50
Speaker 1: Helen Keller story. I know you're probably a zig what
59:53
Speaker 1: does this have to do with Helen Keller. There are
59:56
Speaker 1: a lot of parallels. It's not as dramatic, but there
59:58
Speaker 1: are a lot of parallels between the alleged evolution of
1:00:03
Speaker 1: Jason Arday from a physical disability standpoint and Helen Keller.
1:00:10
Speaker 1: And recently I've come across some videos by accident by
1:00:14
Speaker 1: a guy who seems pretty smart and credible, who's done
1:00:17
Speaker 1: a deep dive, and I'm willing to now be very
1:00:23
Speaker 1: open to the idea that at least part of the
1:00:25
Speaker 1: Helen Keller story is fraudulent, that she was effectively being
1:00:29
Speaker 1: used by some people around her that were essentially communists,
1:00:33
Speaker 1: and we're using her as a communist activist. And one
1:00:38
Speaker 1: of the biggest pieces of evidence to me is that
1:00:40
Speaker 1: once her handler died, all of a sudden, Helen Keller
1:00:43
Speaker 1: stopped producing at least as far as I can tell,
1:00:46
Speaker 1: anywhere near the same kind of material that she was
1:00:49
Speaker 1: when her handler was still alive. And so that to
1:00:54
Speaker 1: me is relevant, not because of the truth or lack thereof,
1:00:58
Speaker 1: of the entire Helen Keller narrative, but I think it's
1:01:02
Speaker 1: relevant because when you realize that a fraud of this
1:01:06
Speaker 1: magnitude can be pulled off at Cambridge University with such ease,
1:01:12
Speaker 1: when it was so obvious to everyone around, and yet
1:01:16
Speaker 1: no one was willing to say that the Emperor has
1:01:18
Speaker 1: no clothes, when you realize that that's so possible even
1:01:23
Speaker 1: in this day and age, I don't think you're being
1:01:27
Speaker 1: logical and you're not using your brain if you don't
1:01:31
Speaker 1: reevaluate similar situations, because now it would have been incredibly easy,
1:01:38
Speaker 1: especially during the era of Helen Keller, to get away
1:01:41
Speaker 1: with a fraud like this, And there are remarkable similarities
1:01:45
Speaker 1: between the two stories. But back to Jason our day
1:01:50
Speaker 1: and how the liberal media a lot like Fauci. Their
1:01:54
Speaker 1: first reaction is, now, we can't acknowledge this is one
1:01:57
Speaker 1: hundred percent true. We need to circle the wagons at
1:02:01
Speaker 1: least a little bit. And the worst example I found
1:02:04
Speaker 1: of this was a report on the BBC. Now BBC
1:02:08
Speaker 1: obviously is extremely liberal, you know, used to have a
1:02:12
Speaker 1: sterling reputation, much like Cambridge University used to have a
1:02:15
Speaker 1: tremendous reputation. And here was a report that they posted
1:02:21
Speaker 1: on their TikTok account, which I then posted on X
1:02:26
Speaker 1: where the female reporter does her very very best, in
1:02:31
Speaker 1: essentially textbook fashion, to try to mute the allegations and
1:02:37
Speaker 1: to muddy the waters. And this is classic. This happens
1:02:42
Speaker 1: all the time when the news media wants to be
1:02:47
Speaker 1: able to plausibly say that they covered a story, but
1:02:51
Speaker 1: they don't really cover the story. And in this particular case,
1:02:56
Speaker 1: Jason Arday has so many legitimate and serious allegations against
1:03:01
Speaker 1: him that you literally cannot possibly go through all of
1:03:04
Speaker 1: them in a short two minute or so report. It's
1:03:08
Speaker 1: not physically possible. So he actually benefits from that because
1:03:12
Speaker 1: why because his media benefactors and enablers, they can pick
1:03:18
Speaker 1: and choose what they think the most important allegations are,
1:03:23
Speaker 1: and then they can either mute them or try to
1:03:28
Speaker 1: muddy the water around them. And then they also throw
1:03:30
Speaker 1: in that there are those that are still siding with
1:03:34
Speaker 1: him and that claim all of this is racism. The bogus,
1:03:37
Speaker 1: completely absurd, one hundred and eighty degrees from reality allegation
1:03:42
Speaker 1: that he's being attacked because of racism gets as much
1:03:45
Speaker 1: play in this BBC story as the basic allegations against him,
1:03:50
Speaker 1: and many of the most important elements of his fraud
1:03:54
Speaker 1: are not mentioned at all. So this, this actually, I
1:03:58
Speaker 1: think belongs in a museum of how the media mutes
1:04:04
Speaker 1: a story that they want to go away. They pick
1:04:08
Speaker 1: and choose what they think the safest allegations are. They affiscate,
1:04:14
Speaker 1: they muddy the waters, they create some doubt, and then
1:04:17
Speaker 1: they throw in a racism claim in case that's something
1:04:21
Speaker 1: that you might find compelling enough to go, oh, okay,
1:04:24
Speaker 1: this is just a poor black guy who's being attacked
1:04:26
Speaker 1: because he's black, when it's in fact, one hundred percent
1:04:30
Speaker 1: in the opposite direction. So here's what the BBC reported
1:04:33
Speaker 1: in their best attempt to try to effectively defend the
1:04:36
Speaker 1: indefensible and Jason Arday.
1:04:39
Speaker 6: Why is this professor at one of the UK's most
1:04:42
Speaker 6: prestigious universities giving up his post. Professor Jason Ardi was
1:04:46
Speaker 6: Cambridge's youngest ever black professor when he joined in twenty
1:04:49
Speaker 6: twenty three, but he's been caught up in a row
1:04:51
Speaker 6: after allegations of plagiarism, which is essentially when someone steals
1:04:55
Speaker 6: someone else's work, and questions over some of his stated achievements,
1:04:59
Speaker 6: such as his marriag claims. He insisted he isn't a
1:05:02
Speaker 6: liar and that he's faced an unrelenting level of public
1:05:05
Speaker 6: scrutiny and personal attack. He said some errors in his
1:05:08
Speaker 6: early academic work were because of his autism, and he
1:05:11
Speaker 6: also told The Times there had been a coordinated campaign
1:05:13
Speaker 6: to unseat him, which he argued was racially motivated. The
1:05:17
Speaker 6: allegations came from another academic, Nathan Kaffness, who was sacked
1:05:20
Speaker 6: from his Cambridge role in twenty twenty four after a
1:05:23
Speaker 6: backlash to his views on black people. Last night, Cambridge
1:05:26
Speaker 6: University said it had launched a probe into professor our day.
1:05:29
Speaker 6: Hours later, he announced he was quitting. Some say the
1:05:32
Speaker 6: claims of plagiarism are legitimate, while others argue his treatment
1:05:36
Speaker 6: has been motivated by racism.
1:05:38
Speaker 1: I found that report to just be infuriating, but that's
1:05:43
Speaker 1: the BBC. And that's why it's so difficult to get
1:05:46
Speaker 1: to the truth in a situation like this, because once
1:05:49
Speaker 1: the media is deeply invested as they are in Jason
1:05:52
Speaker 1: our day and in the entire concept of DEI, you
1:05:57
Speaker 1: can never get them to fully admit they were wrong.
1:06:00
Speaker 1: This story should be known by everybody in the world,
1:06:04
Speaker 1: and yes, in America. It's a relevant story in America
1:06:09
Speaker 1: because this is if it's happening at Cambridge, it's happening
1:06:13
Speaker 1: a lot throughout liberal academia in the United States. This
1:06:17
Speaker 1: is just the most dramatic and the most obvious example.
1:06:21
Speaker 1: And yet the American media has done a remarkable job
1:06:26
Speaker 1: of covering this up. Now. I will give credit to
1:06:28
Speaker 1: the New York Times, which has done several significant stories
1:06:32
Speaker 1: on this, not all of which have been great, but
1:06:34
Speaker 1: at least some of which have been credible. But most
1:06:38
Speaker 1: of the legacy mainstream news media has effectively engaged in
1:06:42
Speaker 1: a cover up on this story. And I got chat GPT,
1:06:47
Speaker 1: which is in itself very liberally biased, to essentially acknowledge this,
1:06:53
Speaker 1: which I thought was a credit to chat GPT because
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Speaker 1: I asked chat GPT to break down the coverage of CNN,
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Speaker 1: MS now, ABC, NBC. I did not ask about CBS
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Speaker 1: because CBS has also done some reporting about this and
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Speaker 1: the Washington Post and some other mainstream media outlets, ANDGBT
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Speaker 1: essentially eviscerated the American news media for their lack of coverage,
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Speaker 1: and in the American news media took the exact same
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Speaker 1: tack that to a lesser degree that the BBC did.
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Speaker 1: And something I've talked about previously many times in this podcast,
1:07:36
Speaker 1: where in this modern era, it has never been easier
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Speaker 1: to throw out one online report that no one actually sees,
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Speaker 1: not even do anything on your broadcast outlet, and you
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Speaker 1: have plausible deniability where oh, we reported it. We just
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Speaker 1: didn't think it was all that significant a story because
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Speaker 1: it's you know, at Cambridge, it's not the States. No
1:08:01
Speaker 1: one knows who Jason R. Day is, even though the
1:08:03
Speaker 1: very same media outlets which chat GYBT acknowledged made a
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Speaker 1: huge deal just a couple of years ago of Jason R. Day.
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Speaker 1: They reported on him widely when he became the youngest
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Speaker 1: black professor in the history of Cambridge University because they
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Speaker 1: saw it as Aha, this is a great success story
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Speaker 1: for a black man who has overcome unbelievable obstacles to
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Speaker 1: achieve this remarkable pinnacle of success at Cambridge University, you know,
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Speaker 1: one of the most prestigious universities in the history of
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Speaker 1: the world. So the hypocrisy here is off the charts.
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Speaker 1: But in almost every single situation, all those outlets that
1:08:45
Speaker 1: I gave to chat GBT, they did exactly the same thing.
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Speaker 1: One maybe two minor online stories and then nothing on air,
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Speaker 1: no repeat, no follow up. And it goes back to
1:08:59
Speaker 1: one of my mantras on this podcast, it's not what
1:09:03
Speaker 1: gets reported that matters, it's what gets repeated. In this
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Speaker 1: fragmented era, you can report one thing one time and
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Speaker 1: it's not going to make a mark. It has to
1:09:13
Speaker 1: be repeated over and over and over again. And this
1:09:16
Speaker 1: always gives these liberal outlets plausible deniability. By the way,
1:09:21
Speaker 1: same thing happens on Fox News Channel when it comes
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Speaker 1: to anti Trump news, right They'll report at one time
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Speaker 1: and then move on and it's not repeated over and
1:09:30
Speaker 1: over again and doesn't make a mark. And so this
1:09:34
Speaker 1: is an incredibly frustrating situation because you can't say they
1:09:38
Speaker 1: didn't report on it at all, They just didn't give
1:09:41
Speaker 1: it nearly the credibility and the magnitude that it deserved.
1:09:46
Speaker 1: This is a huge story when it comes to exposing
1:09:50
Speaker 1: the reality of not just academia, but DEI in general,
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Speaker 1: and how susceptible some of our most prestigiou which institutions
1:10:01
Speaker 1: are to complete and total fraud. And we've seen time
1:10:05
Speaker 1: and time again where complete charlatans have been able to
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Speaker 1: be successful because in large part the media thought that
1:10:15
Speaker 1: they had been vetted, or the media vetted them quote
1:10:18
Speaker 1: unquote because they liked their stories so much. And really
1:10:23
Speaker 1: the essence, this is the part that no one else
1:10:25
Speaker 1: is going to have the balls to say when it
1:10:27
Speaker 1: comes to the Jason our Day story. But here's where
1:10:32
Speaker 1: it really meets the rubber meets the road. Okay, this
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Speaker 1: is the dark part that no one wants to admit.
1:10:39
Speaker 1: The reality is that liberals in academia are extremely agitated
1:10:45
Speaker 1: over the fact that we've now had in this country
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Speaker 1: at least we've had black people treated equally under the
1:10:53
Speaker 1: law for two full generations and that was too late.
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Speaker 1: One hundred percent, that was too late, But for two
1:11:00
Speaker 1: full generations, black people in America have been treated equally
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Speaker 1: under the law, and we have seen remarkably little progress
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Speaker 1: when it comes to their success within academia, and so
1:11:15
Speaker 1: academia has tried desperately to make up for that right.
1:11:21
Speaker 1: So that's why if you are a black person, especially
1:11:24
Speaker 1: if you're in this case a black man, whose narrative
1:11:27
Speaker 1: is just irresistible to the liberal elite, especially liberal middle
1:11:32
Speaker 1: aged white women for some reason, then they're going to
1:11:35
Speaker 1: make sure you're a success, even if you're a complete
1:11:38
Speaker 1: and total fraud. And here's the issue with regard to
1:11:43
Speaker 1: the lack of progress when it comes to black people,
1:11:46
Speaker 1: especially black men in academia. There's really only a couple
1:11:50
Speaker 1: of choices, and liberals can only see this through the
1:11:54
Speaker 1: prism of one of them. And the choice that liberal
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Speaker 1: academia has made is the only reason, the only reason
1:12:04
Speaker 1: that's acceptable for why black men have not progressed dramatically
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Speaker 1: in the last two generations when it comes to academic
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Speaker 1: achievement is because the system is still racist against them.
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Speaker 1: That's the only explanation. Now, I believe there are others.
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Speaker 1: I actually think the system is You might want to
1:12:24
Speaker 1: call it racist against them, but from a completely different perspective.
1:12:28
Speaker 1: I think it's been coddling. I think we've created all
1:12:31
Speaker 1: sorts of perverse and center structures. I think there's all
1:12:35
Speaker 1: sorts of societal problems, cultural problems. I think that there's
1:12:39
Speaker 1: all sorts of rational explanations that explain the lack of
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Speaker 1: progress when it comes to black people in academia that
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Speaker 1: have nothing to do with institutional racism. In fact, if
1:12:49
Speaker 1: there is institutional racism that's to blame, it's in the
1:12:53
Speaker 1: exact opposite direction regarding DEI and affirmative action and the
1:12:58
Speaker 1: soft bigotry of blow expectations. But in the liberal elite mindset,
1:13:04
Speaker 1: it can only be because they are still suffering from
1:13:08
Speaker 1: overt racism inherent in the system, and that that must
1:13:12
Speaker 1: be overcome. It's our job to overcome that, and that
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Speaker 1: desire is so great I believe, I truly believe, because
1:13:22
Speaker 1: they are the true racists. See, I think that elite academics,
1:13:29
Speaker 1: almost all are liberal, are the true racists. They think
1:13:33
Speaker 1: that black people cannot compete equally on their own, so
1:13:37
Speaker 1: they feel as if they are obligated to make sure
1:13:42
Speaker 1: that these people are made into a success, even if
1:13:45
Speaker 1: they don't actually deserve it because it will make them
1:13:49
Speaker 1: feel better about themselves. It is a way for them
1:13:52
Speaker 1: to signal their great virtue, and it is a way
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Speaker 1: for them to make up for what they perceive as
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Speaker 1: inhance currently a racist institutional government or society or culture
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Speaker 1: that has created circumstances where black people are not given
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Speaker 1: a fair shape. Because that's the only way they can
1:14:14
Speaker 1: rationalize this, the only way, and that's how you get
1:14:18
Speaker 1: adjacent our day a complete and total, unqualified fraud becoming
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Speaker 1: a prominent professor at Cambridge University, and this story matters.
1:14:32
Speaker 1: It's not just because it makes liberals look so stupid.
1:14:34
Speaker 1: I'll fully acknowledge. I enjoy that because I hate liberal elites.
1:14:39
Speaker 1: I really knew, especially in academia. I mean, I come
1:14:45
Speaker 1: from a fairly high profile university at Georgetown University. I've
1:14:49
Speaker 1: dealt with a lot of liberal elites in my life.
1:14:52
Speaker 1: Some of them have been friends from time to time.
1:14:55
Speaker 1: But they are so out of touch. They are so
1:14:58
Speaker 1: in my mind, at least unconsciously racist. They have a
1:15:03
Speaker 1: very distorted view of humanity. They are so arrogant. They
1:15:09
Speaker 1: think that they are better than everybody else, and they
1:15:12
Speaker 1: are wrong all the fucking time, and so I enjoy
1:15:18
Speaker 1: I will fully acknowledge I enjoy them getting egg all
1:15:22
Speaker 1: over the face with regard to Jason our day. But
1:15:26
Speaker 1: I also maintain that this story is far more significant
1:15:29
Speaker 1: in America than the news media is pretending that it is.
1:15:33
Speaker 1: I mean, just in the last couple of weeks we've
1:15:36
Speaker 1: seen the University of Michigan is no longer giving letter
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Speaker 1: grades for freshmen at one of their colleges, not the
1:15:44
Speaker 1: entire university, but one of their colleges because of the
1:15:47
Speaker 1: concern for the mental health of freshmen. They are no
1:15:52
Speaker 1: longer giving letter grades. They're giving paths and no credit
1:15:58
Speaker 1: because they don't want to hurt anybody's feelings at the
1:16:01
Speaker 1: University of fucking Michigan. And again, this is not an operation.
1:16:06
Speaker 1: This is just one of the worst examples that's gotten
1:16:08
Speaker 1: some publicity in the last week. Here in California, we
1:16:12
Speaker 1: have professors in the University of California system, which is
1:16:17
Speaker 1: extremely liberal, about as liberal as it gets, pleading pleading
1:16:23
Speaker 1: for the system to bring back the SAT score as
1:16:26
Speaker 1: a way of being able to evaluate high school applications
1:16:31
Speaker 1: because what they're finding is shockingly when you take away
1:16:35
Speaker 1: the sets especially and that No one's mentioned this part,
1:16:38
Speaker 1: but it's absurd that it's not part of the equation.
1:16:43
Speaker 1: When these same kids missed a year or two years
1:16:46
Speaker 1: of school because of the COVID panic and then they
1:16:49
Speaker 1: didn't have to take the SATs to get into college. Gee,
1:16:53
Speaker 1: it's a real shocker that a lot of them can't read, write,
1:16:56
Speaker 1: or do basic math. Even the professors at University of
1:17:02
Speaker 1: California system, which I mean these people, not one of
1:17:05
Speaker 1: them voted for Trump or even thought about voting for Trump.
1:17:08
Speaker 1: These people are as liberal as it possibly gets. And
1:17:11
Speaker 1: even they are now pleading, pleading, please bring back the
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Speaker 1: SAT scores. I mean, that's remarkable, remarkable, but it goes
1:17:23
Speaker 1: to show just how incredibly stupid these people are. They
1:17:26
Speaker 1: thought even without the COVID panic, But when you combine,
1:17:29
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like pouring gasoline on a fire. You've
1:17:32
Speaker 1: got a class of students that missed up to two
1:17:35
Speaker 1: years of school because of a panic and a pandemic,
1:17:40
Speaker 1: and then you don't even require them to take the
1:17:43
Speaker 1: SAT score or the SAT test, and you don't have
1:17:48
Speaker 1: an SAT score to evaluate them on. It's not going
1:17:52
Speaker 1: to be a surprise when they're completely unqualified, when they
1:17:55
Speaker 1: get into college, or that the application process and the
1:17:58
Speaker 1: emissions process is a completely broke because there's no way
1:18:01
Speaker 1: to properly evaluate anybody. And oh, by the way, let's
1:18:05
Speaker 1: be clear there was a racial element to this as well,
1:18:08
Speaker 1: because it's well known within academic circles that Asians and
1:18:11
Speaker 1: white people do better on the SAT score than minority
1:18:16
Speaker 1: students do. So if you get rid of the SAT scores,
1:18:19
Speaker 1: it makes it much more much easier to admit minority students,
1:18:25
Speaker 1: which is technically affirmative action is technically illegal in the
1:18:29
Speaker 1: state of California when it comes to admissions, but that
1:18:31
Speaker 1: doesn't stop them. There's all sorts of ways around that,
1:18:35
Speaker 1: and getting rid of the SAT score was clearly part
1:18:38
Speaker 1: of that agenda. But this is happening all over the
1:18:42
Speaker 1: United States, and academia could not be more broken, and
1:18:46
Speaker 1: the adjacent Our Day story could not more clearly prove that,
1:18:50
Speaker 1: And yet the news media in America has kept the
1:18:53
Speaker 1: vast majority my guess is of people in this country
1:18:57
Speaker 1: in the dark about this incredibly telling and remark story.
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