THE BEE WEEKLY: Vaccine Mandates from God, Woke Wrestling, and Kissing in Portland
It's a discussion on vaccine mandates this week on The Bee Weekly. Ethan Nicolle, Adam Yenser, and Kira Davis from RedState talk mandates, woke wrestling, and how it is now legal to kiss in Portland if you are vaccinated. Adam Yenser quizzes Kira and Ethan on whether headlines are real or fake. Kira answers subscriber questions in the subscriber lounge. Check out Kira Davis on her podcast, Just Listen To Yourself. Check out Adam Yenser's YouTube channel and stand-up comedy schedule. The Bee's New Guide to Wokeness is coming out and You Can Join The Launch Team! Some people offered some criticism of The Bee's recent interview with Dr. Mary Grabar on her new book Debunking the 1619 Project. One of the Bee's subscribers is looking for love at the Bee in a Subscriber Dare. It's another Weekly, so the show looks at the Banger and Dud of the Week before diving head first into some weird news. Kira and Ethan are contestants on a new game show called 'Which Headline is Real?' run by Adam. After that, they discuss the vaccine mandates from the God of New York Governor Hochul. There's also the usual salty hate mail. There's bonus hatemail you won't want to miss in the subscriber/YouTube Superfan-exclusive lounge, Kira Davis answers our subscriber-submitted questions, and then all three of our hosts read the top subscriber headlines of the week.
Real life daredevil can masterfully maneuver despite total blindness.
Unfortunately, it's just a dog.
Oregon says it's okay to kiss again, just in case you made a love connection while violently rioting in Portland.
Haunted House accused of being too scary after stabbing kid with actual knife.
The WWE has introduced a super woke wrestler, unfortunately not named Woke Hogan or the ultimate social justice warrior.
Opportunity wasted.
In other dog news, this dog has the longest ears on earth.
And you can see.
The governor of New York says the vaccine is from God, causing atheists to seek exemptions based on lack of religious beliefs.
All this and more on the bee weekly.
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All right, here we are.
We're at the Babylon Bee podcast.
And Kyle's disappeared again.
Poof.
So to fill those giant shoes, you will be Kyle's left shoe, Adam Jenser.
I'm here again.
Thanks for having me.
And Kyle's right shoe will be filled by Kira.
And a fly is here.
And then we have a fly here.
There is a very annoying fly in the studio, but we're professionals.
We're going to work around it.
We're not going to let it throw us off our body.
I'm going to mention it every single day.
It likes foreheads.
It keeps landing on my temples and forehead.
We're off to a great start already, you guys.
It's already the best podcast ever.
Of course.
So quick, I mean, I want you guys to know this.
We have a new book coming out called The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness.
And as a podcast viewer, we know that you guys are, you know, the best Babylon Bee fans or allies or what do you want to call you?
I always hate the word fans.
So you don't have to say allies?
Allies.
Allies.
Babylon Beef.
It's like a woke it.
It sounds like you guys are marching.
Yeah, I guess.
You guys are Babylon Bee adjacent.
Yes.
So the book hits November 2nd, and we're recruiting a launch team.
So, you know, because when books come out, you need those reviews to roll in.
So we'll provide a link in the show notes.
If you can pre-order the book, you're going to get an early digital copy from our publisher, and then the publisher is going to bug the heck out of you to read it as soon as possible so that you're all ready to write those reviews, good reviews, on the day it launches.
So join our launch team, watch the little video Kyle put together and help us out.
Now, we have a YouTube comment from last week.
You may have caught our interview with Dr. Mary Graybar, who was debunking the 1619 project.
And we received a lot of criticism for this interview.
We've been trying some new stuff with interviews.
And every question we asked her was so stupid.
And she's like a smart debunker, you know.
Like I asked her, like, do you sleep in a debunk bed?
And just dumb.
But then what was the dumb question?
And a lot of people are like this.
That poor woman.
So like, for instance, this lady, or what's this one we have here?
YouTube comment we got.
Oh, Mark, not a lady.
She is delightful and far too educated for this particular interview.
It was cute to see her move from stunned surprise to laughter once she realized she was at Animal House, not Stanford.
That's cute.
Now just contact, I mean, behind the scenes, just like we actually told her, we're going to ask you nothing but really dumb questions.
They're actually like, we actually wrote straight questions and then we turned them into dumb questions so they would get a similar answer.
But we warned her ahead of time, it's going to be really dumb.
We're just going to see how it works.
I'm not convinced it worked super great.
How did she react when you told her that?
Did you see the instant regret for agreeing to be a good person?
She was a great sport.
She's like, all right, you know, she's fine.
And she laughed at the end and said she had fun.
But we told her, like, it's okay.
Like, if you, it's actually funny if you look confused or even like a little offended.
Yeah, play it straight.
She was great because she played it straight and it doesn't look like we're like.
I love it.
Well, like Zach Galifenak is when he does Between Two Ferns.
It's like, it's fun when you, it's fun when they play it straight, folks.
So that's the fun part.
So people are all thrown off by that.
Yeah.
Everybody knows what the Babylon beat is.
She's not, she's obviously an intelligent person.
She knew where she was coming.
She didn't leave offended, just so you guys understand that.
No.
More nice guys.
There are very few people I've heard of leaving to be offended.
One or two, maybe.
Who has?
Who has left offended?
Can you say there?
I can't.
Are you allowed to say that?
I can't name it.
We have had a few.
I know there's been one or two.
Yeah, there's a great story.
Someday when I moved on from the company and I can't get sued, I'll have some great stories to tell.
After he's dead.
Just leave it in the will.
Just leave it in the will.
And then, yeah, so Ethan said we can open this will.
We have recordings.
Oh, gosh.
Okay, moving on.
Someday you can share those stories and I'll share Ellen's story.
All right.
Yeah, we'll get together.
Old men on the porch.
Yeah.
Just don't care anymore.
Exactly.
90-something.
This is why it's so sad that Norm McDonald passed.
Yeah.
Because he already tell the story at all.
But imagine that much not caring.
90-something.
That's what David Spade's tweet about after Norm passed in just the hours following.
I mean, I want to just frame it, but it said, Normie, one of the last comedians who just didn't give a F. You know, and it was like, that is the perfect description of who he was.
He just didn't care.
Anyways.
Yeah.
We could talk about Norm for the whole show.
I could.
If we wanted to.
All right.
Well, let's get into a subscriber dare.
Oh, actually, first, make sure you don't miss our FBI sketch we posted this week.
It did, it's doing great.
And it was funny.
A lot of bad, a lot of bad gun safety in it.
We all have our fingers on triggers.
Oh, my gosh.
I get so nervous at your guys' sketches because they always have gun props.
And like, I'm very, like, you know, pro-gun.
Like, I like, I don't go, but I always try to be very safe with them, even when they're like propped.
But then the script is always like, he pushes it against his temple and pulls the trigger over and over again.
Like, there's just no way to.
Adam got to sneak up behind me and put a gun to my temple.
He did, yeah.
Oh, my goodness.
Particular sketch.
Yeah.
And we had a real cop being on the sketch.
He's a huge Babylon B fan.
And our new office assistant here, Bettina, like, hey, I got a buddy.
He's a cop.
He loves you guys.
Can he be in the sketch?
Like, yeah, he looks the most real-looking guy ever.
Yeah.
The most real-looking guy, as opposed to all the other guys.
Yeah, no, we're all, I mean, me and Josh Denny.
We got Josh Denny in there.
Yeah, yeah.
Josh Denny's in there.
And we were in a hot, hot garage.
So you'll notice all the sweat, which is great.
It's very realistic.
Yeah, because we're all supposed to be really nervous and tense because it's like a Mexican standoff.
And we're just draining like sweat.
And there's for subscribers, we have the outtakes, and you can see at the end of it, I'm in the middle of the line.
I just go, my eyes are burning because my sweat was just going in my mouth.
The struggle is real.
And we had a Matrix animation about the mandates, which is doing great.
But it's one of my favorite animations we've done.
It just takes it to the extreme.
I'll have to go check it out.
It's a lot of fun.
All right.
Well, we've got a subscriber dare.
So this is where we do whatever you ask in order to earn your paid subscription.
Basically, it's, you know, you could call this Dance Monkey Dance.
This is Subscriber Dare.
So this is from Krista.
And since this is written by a woman, how about Kira?
Can you read this?
This is from Krista.
Subscriber Dare.
I'm a 29-year-old woman in the midst of dating woes.
I would subscribe if you set me up with Seamus Coughlin or help me find a boyfriend.
Very specific.
Nikki's got a girlfriend.
Okay, well, she has an or, which is help me find a boyfriend.
Attached my eHarmony bio as reference.
Oh, I like that she comes prepared.
She comes with, she's already making her case.
Thank you.
And this is this, I suppose is from her bio here.
This is her bio, Krista.
I have traditional values and want a Christ-centered relationship, no social media, huge fan of freedom, and highly allergic to cats.
Hobbies are church, baking, working out, Dr. Peterson videos, and reading.
Favorite movie, Lord of the Rings.
Podcast recommendations, the Babylon Bee.
Let's make monogamy great again.
That's from Krista.
I think every single guy in our audience is slobbering.
I got she threw in one of her hobbies is working out.
There's no photo, but she does work out.
That's a descriptor.
Smart.
It is smart.
Church, baking.
Like, this is a woman who is going to be able, she likes to read.
She's going to be able to challenge you intellectually and also baking.
She likes Lord of the Rings, the only movie you're allowed to mention at the Babylon B.
Yeah.
Yep.
In fact, the Babylon Bee, maybe we're missing a huge opportunity here.
The B should have a dating service just for Lord of the Rings fans.
Yeah.
So it's like a Lord of the Rings dating app.
Well, part of it, if you become a subscriber, Krista, you're going to be in this group of exclusive people.
And I think that there's a good chance of hooking, you know, eventually you're probably going to have some Babylon Bee babies from all people that have met in the social media part of our site.
Yes.
And reproduced.
I love it.
But they can start a commune and live together.
She's the right age for Patrick.
He's not here today.
You don't hear the cackling.
We're setting up for a sketch.
Yeah, how do we tell if we're funny if Patrick isn't going to be a bad person?
I know, Patrick, it's hard to hear Dan laughing a little.
You know you're doing good if Dan Lance.
All right.
Yeah, definitely.
Patrick is a cutie.
He's a sweetie.
I don't know.
Catholic.
Can you do a Catholic?
It feels like some people think they're satanic.
It's just like, it's a Christian that worships Mary too.
Yeah.
She didn't have anything in here about what denomination she was or even if that mattered to her.
Oh, no, she's Christ-centered.
She wants a Christ-centered.
She's Christ-centered.
And if she listens to Dr. Peterson, then you know that she's got a really good perspective on how other people feel about things.
And she's probably very accepting about people who are different from her.
And she's allergic to cats.
I don't know Patrick's position on cats.
Yeah, that's good that you know she's not going to wind up a crazy cat lady.
She's got there's just a medical reason she can never do that.
You can be a crazy dog lady, though.
I've seen it with my own eyes.
It's not pretty.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, don't you start treating them as humans.
Right.
If you have a stroller for your dog, that is like your dog literally has twice as many legs as you.
Like it can walk.
That's weird in its own way, but usually that focuses around babying one dog, not having 50 different cats.
I should feel like someone.
Yeah, that's a good point.
That's fair, Adam.
All right.
Krista, are you a crazy dog person?
Yeah.
And, Krista, if you're ever in Southern California, we'll set you and Patrick up on a blind date and we'll have hidden cameras and make it a segment of the show.
Be awesome.
All right.
It won't be weird at all.
All right.
So, we're going to look at the banger of the week.
This is the story that did the best this week that killed on social media.
And I actually think it's a pretty funny one.
Usually, they're not that funny.
They're just, you know, sometimes the sometimes not the best story of the week does well.
Banger.
This is a Frank Clummy headline.
Australian hospitals overcapacity with people beaten by police for not wearing masks.
Here's an excerpt from the story.
And we have, there was like a video that came out right of a woman being like choked out for not wearing a mask.
Yes.
Yep.
I think that was the inspiration for this.
While Australia has done well keeping case numbers down throughout the pandemic, their performance fighting the virus has been offset by the number of people getting curb stomped by police.
Well, bugger.
It's way over capacity here, mate.
It's not.
Said one nurse in Sydney.
It's not the south side of London.
By the beard of a beard of a quarter.
We got way too hard accents from Lord of the Rings.
Coming on in here, getting all kind of a female Australian.
I don't know.
It is a hard one.
You committed to this actually.
We didn't demand it of you.
We got way too many wankers coming on in here, getting all cracked up by the blocking coppers, mate.
In American English, this apparently means, well, gosh, darn it.
There's too many people in the hospital, y'all.
By the beard of Abraham Lincoln, we have way too many people coming into this here hospital and getting beat up by the popo, dude.
According to medical professionals in Australia, the concerning rise in people getting absolutely demolished by the police and having to get rushed to the hospital is exacerbated by the fact that hospitals are already overwhelmed with people who get bit by two-story tall spiders, punched by kangaroos, and elbow-dropped by drop bears.
If you want to know more about drop bears, there's a portion in my book, Bears Want to Kill You.
Oh, yes.
Nice.
All right.
And then we have the Dud of the Week.
Now, this doesn't mean this is a bad story.
It means that nobody shared it.
Dud of the week.
I feel like it means the title wasn't clickbaity enough.
Yeah.
I feel like everything that does.
And usually it wasn't about a current event.
Oh, okay.
Also, it's usually one of the ones that are faith-based.
So we get criticized all the time for not being Christians.
Christians we used to be.
The fact is, like, our audience has shifted a lot, and those stories do not get to share.
Now, instead of Christians, you have a bunch of Catholics.
Yeah, we got Catholics coming in here, whatever you guys are.
I know I felt so accusatory.
I, yeah, I'm just not a Catholic.
I'm just plain old Christian.
Okay.
Sorry.
Who wants to take the dud?
I'll do it.
All right.
Do it in an Australian accent.
Oh, boy.
Man who said amen to prayer said in Spanish, not sure what he signed on to.
When you say amen, you're like legally obligated or whatever is said in that prayer, Sullivan explained.
And I barely know a word of Spanish, so I have no idea what he said in that prayer.
And I just told God I agreed with it.
Sullivan said the prayer did seem reverent, and he did catch the word Dios in the prayer.
That means God.
And the reference to Dios seems to be positive.
I mean, I'm probably okay, Sullivan stated.
I'm just not 100% sure the prayer wasn't filled with blasphemies.
Wow, you should have read the last one.
I'm sorry.
I'm going to go back and edit you in.
Thank you very much, everybody.
I'm sure the Australians appreciate that.
Yeah, totally.
They can't watch this.
They're all locked down.
That's right.
They can't probably banned in Australia anyway.
I can't watch any American media because COVID.
It is crazy what's happening there.
It's terrifying.
Let's look at some weird news.
Yay.
This news is weird.
This dog is so skilled that its new owner didn't know it was blind for nearly a year.
Amazing.
A border collie in the UK never puts a foot wrong.
Oh, wait, this is the UK.
Neville puts a foot wrong.
There you go.
And can even navigate around puddles despite his blindness, leaving vets completely baffled by his condition.
Go blow me!
That's what the vets say.
A top UK vet has declared the dog a medical mystery after confirming that the pooch is fully blind.
What's more, Dave's owner, I guess the dog's name is Dave.
Jane didn't even realize he was blind until a year into their relationship.
Relationship?
Weird way to describe a pet owner.
Can you read her quote there in a good British accent?
Me?
Oh, now I got a – I'll try to do hoity-toity.
It's just really strange, Jane said.
He's a blind dog that can't see, that can see.
Maybe it's a sixth sense.
Who knows?
So I'm thinking this is Daredevil.
I like that you go for the upper class British accent.
Yeah, I always go cockney.
It's just strange.
He's a blind dog that can see.
For me, I think, yeah, that hoity-toity thing is more accessible.
But this is why Brits are so good at doing southern accents because it is so close to that cockney right now.
You got to exercise all the same muscles in your mouth.
It's very interesting.
you know what, I'm going to, I'm skeptical.
I think this dog can see.
Yeah, how can they know?
This dog might be the Helen Keller of dogs.
A total fraud.
Oh, wait, she's a fraud?
Oh, this is a thing that's come up now that Helen Keller actually was never blind and deaf and dumb.
That it was all a fraud.
Yeah, you power this series.
This has to come up in the conspiracy theory.
It is a conspiracy theory.
You go to Wikipedia and there's all kinds of crazy stuff out there.
And honestly, I don't even know.
I'm a Reddit lurker.
Like I spend a lot of time just lurking on the subreddits.
And there's a subreddit that is just dedicated to outing Mother Teresa as a horrible human being and outing Helen Keller and her teacher as fraud.
Like scam artists.
There's a whole subgenre of people like that.
I had never heard of it.
And they are dedicated to like hunting down her appearances, like picking apart her essays and even her artwork because she did art for a little while and like saying like this is proof that she really could see.
And here's this testimony from this one person who said, oh, I used to talk to Helen all the time.
Like this is not, this was.
We used to go play darts together.
But what if it's like Daredevil?
Like the dog got into some chemicals and like has super other scent.
All the other senses are heightened.
Yeah.
Border collies are super smart though.
Maybe it's just that it how can it step around puddles?
How can it like sense?
But with a sound, you can hear the reverberation off the water.
It's like water.
How did they determine that the dog was blind?
And they know we have the.
Yeah, how did they determine that the dog is blind?
And how did they determine that the dog?
Maybe they have like a smellless, like a scent-free sausage and they hold it right in front of its eyes.
Uh-huh.
And it doesn't react.
Maybe.
Maybe.
I don't know.
Can they make scent-free sausages?
There's probably.
I don't know.
Yeah, that sounds like.
Or they have to plug the nose up.
There's something.
Yeah.
I don't know how you tell an animal is blind.
I don't know.
Obviously, there's a way to do it.
There are smarter people out there than us that do this stuff for a living.
If you put duct tape over its eyes and then see if it still goes over the puddles.
Oh, yeah.
Maybe you could do that.
Put blinders on and see.
Yeah, maybe there's that.
I don't know.
I find it interesting, but I am a little skeptical.
Yeah.
I think the dog is like, anytime people say what they think an animal is thinking or know, they know what's in its brain.
Yeah.
I'm always skeptical.
Yes.
There's a lot of people that claim to have that information.
It's one of those things like crazy dog people do.
They think they know what they're saying.
The dog is thinking about it.
Yeah.
I know my dog is really sad right now, and all the dog is thinking about is like, I know my dog is super blind right now.
Now, will they give it like a smaller dog to lead it around?
Yes.
Get it seeing eye.
Yeah.
But I do find it very strange.
Did you guys write this descriptor or did you pull it from the article?
Everything in this from the article is for that last blow point.
So that, so a year into their relationship.
That's really what a very odd way to describe a pet and pet owner.
I love that.
I love naming pets people names.
We're foster foster dogs in my family, and my kids get so angry when I get like a foster dog or cat.
I name it like Marge or Kevin.
Gary.
They hate, yeah, Gary.
I had, uh, I had uh, I had Betty and uh Barb, the two twin kittens, and my daughter was just so upset.
You know, she wants like patches and polka dots.
And I'm like, nah, it's Betty and Marge.
Kids get a pet that's black and they want to name it Blackie.
Yeah.
Yeah.
My grandmother had like three cats named Blackie.
Like one would die and she was just like, it's Blackie too.
And then she had like about eight that were patches.
She had eight patches.
She just, and she would get cat, she would, the next patches would look like the last patches, right?
So like she never had to, she could always pretend that the cat never died.
Oh, it's like a psychological thing.
Totally.
Never have to accept death.
And each one got progressively more aggressive and strange.
I think just because they were carrying the burden of being like a dead cat, that they just were not nice to be around after a while.
Like, you're, you're damaging these cats, Graham.
Like, just let it be.
My brother had a parakeet and he was trying to figure out what to name it.
And I said, just call it doctor and then find the first name you come to in the phone book.
And so he did that.
Flipped it.
Phone books are these books that had all people's numbers in them back in the day.
Flipped open and he goes, Doctor, and he goes, boom.
And he found the name Wagon Blast.
Dr. Wagon Blast.
Wow.
I love it.
Dr. Wagonblast.
I can't wait to get my next foster animal so I can do that.
Yeah.
I don't have a phone book anymore.
Are there phone books anymore?
I think they still hand them around.
Yeah.
I don't know that anybody uses them anymore.
Yeah.
I mean, what do people put their kids on at the dinner?
They need to start fires with.
Yeah.
Who wants to take the next story?
Want to go?
Sure, I'll do the next one.
A drunk and disorderly Nicholas Cage was mistaken for a homeless man and thrown out of a Las Vegas bar.
Actor Nicholas Cage was caught on camera a few weeks ago being kicked out of a bar in Las Vegas.
It says Cage was initially mistaken for a homeless man, but later he was booted out after getting in an argument with the bar staff.
Cage can be seen in a video wearing leopard print pajamas and trying desperately to put on his flip-flops before being kicked out of the bar.
Look, who hasn't been there?
Who sitting at this table right now has not been in this situation?
You know, we don't have leopard print pajama pants.
Did you see the video?
Did you guys see it?
It's pretty like I would have thought he was a homeless person too.
Well, what I like about it, that sentence, again, this is from the article.
It says he was initially mistaken for a homeless man, but later was thrown out of the bar after an argument, which means when he was a home, when they thought he was a homeless man, they left him there.
And then they realized that's Nicholas Cage.
We got to get rid of him.
Well, he's arguing.
They were like, sir, sir, you can't be here in your pajama pants and flip-flops.
We've seen how he's.
That's kind of what you go to Vegas to do, though.
Just get drunk and get thrown.
Right.
Why can't you?
I love it.
It's going to happen somewhere.
I don't know anything about the bar that he was at.
Like, if it was this classy establishment or something, but you know what?
No one is above decency.
It was a valiant effort.
It was.
We are still trying to get this fly.
No one is above decency, not even the great Nicholas Cage himself.
True.
So he really has.
Have you seen Pig yet?
Yeah.
I didn't see it yet.
He says, I couldn't finish watching it.
My husband rented it the other night.
He got like such amazing reviews.
I didn't.
And he hasn't had a movie with good reviews in forever.
The portion, I had to stop watching it.
I actually, he rented it, and then I went back and tried to watch it myself.
And I stopped halfway through it.
I didn't get it.
I was like, I guess it's a good Nicholas Cage performance because it's not like a super crazy Nicholas Cage performance.
That's disappointing.
Yeah.
Here's my question.
I ask this all the time.
And I may have already asked you this before, but Adam, you're new to me.
So is Nicholas Cage the greatest actor in the world?
Or is Nicholas Cage the greatest Nicholas Cage in the world?
Well, definitely.
I think he's just the greatest Nicholas Cage in the world.
I agree.
Like, why have we decided that this man is one of the best actors on the planet?
I mean, I've seen one or two fantastic performances, but I feel like we've always been wanting him to recreate those one or two fantastic performances.
And those were probably just lucky hits, right?
Like he was playing a version of himself.
Yeah.
Maybe.
But it is interesting that he can do like a good, like he has done good performances, but then he can also do these like crazy performances.
And it makes you wonder, like, was he, was he ever good or was it just like an accident?
I find the question fascinating, and I can't ever get enough answers on it because every perspective is different.
But I, Nicholas Cage, I do find to be a fascinating person.
Well, Andy's one of those people, it's very interesting, like what he says yes to, like, what projects he'll agree to do.
Yeah, see, I didn't see that movie, but the most recent thing I watched with him was on Netflix.
They did the history of swear words.
Oh, yeah.
And it was hosted by Nicolas.
I was watching it.
And it's like, just he decided to do that.
I don't know how to, I mean, I'm always for the Michael Cain School of Acting, which is actors act.
If you get a job, you take the job.
I love that Nicholas Cage is from a very affluent family.
Is he a method actor?
Like, could he have been doing this as research for a remote?
You have to go put on leopard skin.
I don't think he is a method actor.
But he might have been into Vegas.
Yeah.
I mean, he recently played a guy who, like a mushroom-sniffing pig owner.
Is he the one who has like a weird, like, what do you call it, like, tomb for himself?
Like, set up in New Orleans where he's going to be buried or something.
Oh, this I have not heard of.
It's like, I think this is true.
How is that?
Like a 30-minute story.
I don't know anymore.
Lookie.
I can look it up.
You'll have more stories.
Passively, aggressively telling us to move on.
Okay.
You're up, Kira.
All right.
Number three.
You guys will be happy to hear this one.
Oregon is giving people permission to kiss on dates if both are vaccinated.
The Oregon Health Authority on Wednesday revised its position on safe dating practices.
Oh, good.
I've been waiting for this revision for about a year.
So during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now it says it's okay to get intimate with your date as long as you've both been vaccinated.
Oh, but here are some other dating tips, you guys, from the OHA.
They are you can meeting your love interests outdoors and wearing a mask in crowded public spaces.
If your date has potential coronavirus symptoms, the date should be postponed for 10 days.
Wow.
This is, I don't even know what to say because like half of it is funny and half of it is truly, truly pathetic.
Like, this is how infantile our government thinks we are, right?
That you would need to actually release guidelines from the health organization telling you if the person you want to go meet is sick, maybe you shouldn't meet.
Yeah.
You know, I didn't need the health authority to tell me that, but and I sure as heck didn't need the health authority to tell me that I could kiss people in Oregon.
I mean, I've been married 22 years and I've been kissing people in Oregon this whole time.
Not even marriage stopping me.
In Oregon?
Yep, in Oregon.
I just go up there just to kiss people.
Business trips up there.
Just to kiss people.
Vaccinated or do you kiss the unvaccinated?
Unvaccinated.
I haven't been vaccinated this whole year.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, I mean, it's nice they gave me permission to do this.
I mean, it's just so weird.
I don't know how anybody, the Brits did this too, right?
Where they were like, okay, you're free to have sexual relations again if you're both vaccinated and if you both stay in your bubble.
So basically move in together.
It is the strangest thing that anyone would take it seriously that your government tells you when you can kiss another human being and B, not do everything in our power to ridicule at every moment these types of pronouncements.
It is absolutely insane.
Absolutely.
And it's such a weird charade how they keep going through this thing where they're like giving more health guidelines to the people who clearly don't care about these health guidelines.
Like regardless of what side of the vaccine or unvaccinated, they're like, you can't kiss if you're unvaccinated.
It's like those unvaccinated people are already not listening to anything that you've said for the last year and a half.
But they're like, oh, you can't, you shouldn't go to work.
You shouldn't travel.
You shouldn't gather in groups.
These people have already not listened to a single thing you have said.
And they still, someone sits there and types out, we're going to tell them that they have, oh, you know, you can kiss, but don't kiss.
And it's like, none of these people are like, who are you fooling?
Well, I have friends who do.
I have friends who do.
And of course, they're the vaccinated.
They're the people who are.
I have friends who get sick.
Oh, okay.
We can, we can date.
Like, I haven't dated in a year.
Imagine that couple that hasn't been kissing this whole time.
We finally get to do it.
It's like the young Christian couple that saves their first kiss for marriage.
Yes.
We save our first kiss for our vaccination date.
We go to CDS, get that second shot.
You may now kiss your vaccine.
I'm saving sex for herd immunity.
Oh my gosh.
It's just ridiculous.
It is ridiculous.
Like, and I want to laugh, but then on the other hand, it does, it makes me want to weep.
And so many people are okay with this.
And just as they're typing this out, you know, like not a single part of them thinks like, this is just silly.
We don't have any issue this guide.
But it is crazy because you're right.
It's the people who are following all the rules that like who should already be exempt from this because they're theoretically vaccinated.
Yeah.
But they're the ones that get like, they get scared by everything every time they come out with new rules.
Yeah.
And it's just like, it's always weird to me when I like talk to people and like you just find out they're like, oh, well, this week I went out to a bar for the first time in a year.
And I'm like, what?
Wow.
I've been like, like, I've traveled to multiple states and left the country.
I have never stopped moving.
Yeah.
I mean, the day we found out schools weren't going back last year, I have a 14-year-old daughter.
I'll get in the car.
We're going to Texas.
We're going on a road trip.
We just drove around aimlessly for two weeks.
My mother was like my Canadian mother who wants to lock down until eternity was like, you have no idea how many people you killed with that road trip.
Killed half of Texas.
Sorry, Texas.
Haunted House.
Haunted House actor accidentally stabs boy in the foot with knife at Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds.
I don't know how you say Cuyahoga.
Cuyahoga.
Now, they admitted to police that using a knife was not a good idea.
A real knife.
Yeah.
Berriga officers were called to the seven floors of hell haunted house at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds at about 8:15 p.m. for a call of a male stabbed in the foot.
An 11-year-old boy there with a family friend suffered a cut in his left big toe.
So not a man.
Witnesses told officers that one of the roaming outside actors at the haunted house was using a large bowie knife.
That's like the one on Crocodile Dundee.
That's annoying.
I thought it's a knife.
As a prop to scare people.
They said this 22-year-old actor who identified as Christopher Pogosellski was scraping the knife on the ground in front of them.
Began to stab the ground at the boy's feet.
Oh my gosh.
And went through his croc-style shoe.
Do you deserve to be stabbed if you're wearing croc-style shoes?
I feel it's a risk you take.
I like that it says croc-style.
He didn't get the real croc.
No, because that was the Walmart croc.
Crocs.
That won't stop a bowie knife.
No, now we know.
They have to make new crocs that are bowie proof.
Yeah.
He walked up to my son.
Is that how they talk in Cuyahoga?
I don't know.
How do they talk in Cuyahoga County?
Where is Cuyahoga County?
Ohio.
I know Cuyahoga National Park is there.
I walked up to my son and he was holding a knife and his intentions were to scare him.
But my son responded to him by saying, that's fake.
I'm not scared.
But so I guess he took that as a challenge.
He's like, oh, fake.
The staff just kept saying, accidents happen.
Accidents happen.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He accidentally brought a real knife.
This is why black people don't really like to go to like haunted houses and stuff like that.
I mean, my family does.
We're into it, but like we don't put haunted houses in the hood because I honestly, like, honestly, in the hood, somebody will get punched or stabbed or shot.
Like, there's no black person in their right mind that's going to like stand there and let the way some of these haunted houses work is going to let somebody like scare them without like and punch.
A lot of us are armed.
That's like they'll fight.
That's a meme, right?
Is the jump scare meme where like a guy pops out of a trash can.
It's always the black guy that punches him on instinct.
I've always wondered why there weren't more of these incidents in Honda's houses, actually.
And not, this is a case where the actor hurt the customer.
I always think of the customer hurting the actors, right?
Like, because you just react.
And black people don't, that's why they can't, it's really hard to make a black horror movie because it goes against all, again, I, my family, we're a different story, but generally speaking, it goes against all our sensibilities.
We're not going to walk upstairs.
We're going to run out the front door.
But right after, like, I punch you really quick and then run, you know, and I'm not going to run and trip.
I will make sure that my feet are flying.
But yeah, I have always wondered why more violence does not happen in haunted house situations.
And it doesn't say here if the family is suing or.
Yeah, these are really long stories.
Oh, they might be pressing charges.
It's such a long story.
I kind of just quit adding notes.
Yeah.
You can look it up.
Well, we're glad that it was just his foot and let that be a lesson.
I mean, it seems incredible that this is a lesson that has to be learned, but you probably shouldn't use real weapons in a haunted house.
And wear a good closed-toe shoe when you're going through it.
Yes, definitely.
Steel-toe boots.
My favorite haunted house thing that happened when I was a kid, I was probably like 10 or 12.
My little brother, who was like three, He dropped a part of his costume along the way.
So the guy dressed as Freddy Krueger came running up and he goes, You dropped this, you dropped this.
And so he gave it to him.
So from then on, because this was back in the days of video stories, my little brother, whenever he was in the video store, he'd go up to the Freddy Krueger movie and go, It's the nice guy.
He wanted to watch the movie because he's like, that's the guy who helped me out.
In his mind, Freddy Krueger is the nicest guy on earth.
Oh, that's adorable.
Nice.
All right.
Should I do the next one?
Go for it.
The WWE introduced a super woke wrestler and had him lose within five minutes.
Nice.
The WWE took a jab at the woke left last week when it debuted a new up-and-coming pro wrestler who preached unity and declared he didn't need to use his male privilege to win.
In his gimmick, progressive wrestler Joe Gacy told the Florida crowd that the ring is a safe place where differences are settled.
His woke ideology was met with booze from the crowd and he was pinned in less than five minutes.
Gacy continued to express his message of love by hugging his victor after the that's amazing.
This is wonderful.
I love that.
That's the first wrestling story I've ever enjoyed.
I have uh so we were we were actually chatting about my friend and Nick actor Nick Searcy.
Uh years ago, Nick wrote during the tea party years, he wrote a great article for Breitbart, which I still think about all the time.
And it's how he talked, he was really talking about how Christians and conservatives should not be ignoring the culture and how we look down our noses at things like WWE.
Nick's a huge WWE fan.
He's actually been on the show a couple of times, been in the ring.
And he was talking about a tea party character, right?
They had a tea party wrestler and he came draped in an American flag and then he turned out to be a big old racist and he got beat in the ring.
And Nick was like, the people that are watching this show, that is probably the only representative they're going to see of a tea party person.
So you might feel like, oh, that's ridiculous, but it's these cultural representations that for many people are the only perspective they're going to get on who you are.
So you better get in on the entertainment culture.
You better start shaping some of these things because what, how would it change if that tea party guy actually represented an actual, you know, that actual mentality of like just oh, yeah.
So anyways, I always think that's interesting.
And the story reminded me.
Yeah.
I think that's absolutely true.
Yeah.
Because the way Republicans and conservatives are treated because the left controls so much of the media, it is like a caricature of what we really are.
It's just like, it's like I get if people don't, you know, seek out their own source of information or actually talk to people with different points of view.
They think we're just like these monsters, like these angry, crazy, racist, stupid people.
Yes.
It's like none of them are actually like that.
But I do look down my nose at the WWE.
Yeah, it's a Chesterton thing.
He talks about the Penny Dreadfuls, the cheap thriller novels and things back in his day, and how everyone looks down on him.
He kind of talks about, he looks down on the all kind of these hoity-toity novels that are, they're really writing about what the elite of his time think society should be.
Yes.
And these penny dreadfuls, which WWE storylines would fit into that category, I think, are talking about what the writing to they're trying to understand what everybody actually wants and feed that.
Yeah.
It's there's more truth in that than there is in the, you know, whatever's written by the elite of the time.
So that's an interesting thought.
You know, it's not always, I mean, it's a good reflection, but the idea that it takes somebody at WWE to be smart enough to know, like, you know, someone would love to see a super woke wrestler get paid in five minutes.
That was really fun.
I love the male privilege thing.
That he doesn't have to use his bail for that.
Yeah, I love it.
And then he got pinned in five minutes.
I love it.
I wonder if he got a participation trophy for it.
That would be hilarious.
Do we know is this a recurring character?
Are they going to bring him back?
I'm sure.
Yeah, it's probably popular now.
Libs.
This must be from the not the beer.
Libs are now saying minimum wage should not be just $15.
It should be $26.
Holy cow.
They're raising it.
That's crazy.
I never would have thought.
Leftists are arguing that $15 minimum wage is far too low.
Was it like two years ago where they were saying 15?
We're not even at 15 yet in most places.
It's almost to 15 in California.
Instead, many are calling for a $26 minimum wage.
Holy cow.
Indeed, yes.
I don't know how I could.
I mean, because I got paid my babysitter around this amount.
That's crazy.
Today seems like a good time to remind you, wrote lefty Robert Reich, that if wages had kept pace with productivity gains over the last 50 years, the minimum wage would be $24 an hour.
$15 is the floor, not the ceiling, of what working people deserve.
Reich is just one of the many left-wingers calling for a higher minimum wage than the $15 that we were promised.
I've never seen anybody who's so bad at his job as Robert Reich.
Like he is absolutely, I could, I have a degree in theater and I host a podcast.
And I feel like I could talk Robert Reich under the table on economics.
And he's like a highly educated human being.
He could stand up straight under a table.
He's really short.
Ethan.
This is so insane.
This is why I do my podcast.
I'll take the chance to mention this.
Just listen to yourself, Akira Davis, because this is exactly why.
Because people put out these platitudes, right?
And it sounds great.
Why wouldn't you want a single parent who's trying to raise three kids to make $26 an hour?
How can you say no to that?
But you got to dig in underneath to what that $26 an hour means.
Yeah.
I tell this funny story.
I took my 19-year-old son to the dentist a few months ago to have his wisdom teeth pulled out so he was drugged up.
And I promise that this is true.
I don't know why, but we're on the way home and he's sort of coming out of his haze and he's saying silly things.
And I wish I could have recorded him, but I was driving.
And he says, Mom, how do they know like how much medicine to give you so that you're coming out of the haze like right as they're done?
Like, how do they know that?
That's so crazy.
Like, they just timed it perfectly.
And then it was, and I'm like, well, honey, people go to school for years to learn how much medicine to administer for anesthesia.
You know, anesthesiologists is like highly specialized.
It's all based on your weight, what you had to eat, your height, everything.
It's a highly specialized discipline.
And he was like, that's amazing.
He's like, see, I don't get it why people think that everyone's supposed to be making the same.
You should not be making the same amount of money flipping a burger as giving someone medicine.
I was like, you're very right, son.
You're high, but you're right.
But even my totally intoxicated son understood the concept.
Yeah.
Your drugged up child understood economics better than Robert Reich.
Robert Reich.
But it's so easy to get people to vote for that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Everybody.
Well, that's like a lot of leftist ideas.
They sound nice.
It's just instantly, it sounds like, well, wouldn't it be nice?
And wouldn't this instantly help without thinking of any of the long-term consequences or what it does to the whole system?
That's why I do my podcasts.
That's why I'm a conservative now and not a liberal anymore.
Because it was when I had the opportunity to work with the policies that I always thought worked that sounded nice.
And then I got to see how they worked up close.
And I realize, oh, they don't.
That was the, you know, the light bulb moment for me.
It sounds really great.
And everybody will applaud you to say $26 an hour.
You know, no one's going to applaud you for like, well, what happens to the cost of that hamburger?
What happens to the cost of that lady's gas to get to the 26-hour dollar an hour job?
What happens to the wages of the people above her?
How much more are you going to have to pay them?
You know, it's just Robert Reich.
Just shifts.
Listen to yourself.
You want to get into this last one for us, Kira?
Another Oregon story.
A lot going on up there.
Oregon dogs' 12-inch ears earn a Guinness World Record.
An Oregon woman's black and tan coonhound named Nate earned the Guinness World Record for longest ears on a living dog, on a living dog.
When I don't know what you're doing, they keep growing after death.
Dead dog.
You can just stretch him out as he dies.
Okay.
Well, somebody, Dan, can you look up what the longest ears on a dead dog are?
When each of her ears was measured at 12.38 inches long, Olson said she always knew Lou's ears were extravagantly long.
But she only decided to measure them while sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
I wonder.
She's not kissing anyone.
Yeah, I was just about to say, I wonder if she got the memo that she can go out and kiss people again.
It's probably on the list.
It was like one suggested activities from the OHA.
You may measure your dog's early and submit it to the Guinness.
That was only after we determined that dogs could not transmit COVID.
Remember for a while there, we weren't sure.
Worried.
Yeah.
You weren't supposed to take your dog to the dog park.
So it's a coonhound.
I thought it was going to be a basset hound.
Is that similar, though?
It looks similar.
It looks similar.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know the difference.
Yeah.
I'm not getting anything on dead dogs.
Nothing on dead dog.
Oh, well.
There's a lot of just delightful little lines in this story.
The longest ears on a living dog.
They were extravagantly long.
Extravagantly.
And she only decided to measure them because of the COVID pandemic.
While sheltering in place and the COVID pandemic.
Meanwhile, I'm on my third Texas city.
Every line, because I'm in the story.
She really likes this dog.
So these are quotes from this woman.
Their relationship has gone on for a while.
All black and tan coonhounds have beautiful long ears.
Some are just longer than others.
So beautiful.
She was really into the ears.
And then she said, of course, everyone wants to touch the ears.
They're very easy to foam.
Getting uncomfortable.
Just one sighting.
So she struggles with.
You know what?
I'm feeling hashtag me too right now.
Can we go talk?
Well, look at the dog's face.
He looks a little.
Oh, oh, yeah.
Well, those are, yeah, I've seen those dogs.
They do have impressive ears.
He does not look entertained by this.
I wonder if the dog had a stroller.
Okay, here we go.
We're showing the ears off again.
Okay, now this is going to be kind of similar to the last segment we are doing with Adam Jenser.
Real or fake?
Ooh.
Yeah.
So there's a lot of talk about fake news these days.
Everybody's, you know, they try to label misinformation on Facebook.
People fall for like hoaxes and fake narratives all the time.
Sometimes even the bee gets accused of being fake news.
They are fake news, but they are the fake news that you can trust.
But I want to see how good you guys are at picking out real news and fake news.
Okay, wait.
I'm going to tell you.
Yes.
I'm editor-at-large for RedSay.com.
Yes.
We cover.
Did you get it?
I feel like you're going to hit me before you get this.
I know.
See, the thing, the problem is, is that we've got these mics here.
We've got laptops.
And this fly is crap.
I get fly lust, death lust, bloodlust.
It's really, it is like.
Flies have blood?
I don't know.
It feels vindictive at this point with this fly.
Anyways, I want to say, so we cover a lot of fake news.
So I'm going to say, I feel really confident that I can tell the difference.
Okay.
Are we scoring?
Dan, can you keep score?
I'm feeling very confident.
Okay.
I can try.
Let me see.
I can try.
Let me see if I can.
You can type right in the dock.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I'm going to read a headline.
And Ethan and Kira, you have to guess whether it's a real news headline or one that I made up.
All right.
We got to be quick, too.
We can't just sit there forever trying to guess.
Okay.
All right.
So we got to be instinct.
The subtext is: Ethan is bored with this segment.
All right.
Here's the first one.
For the first time ever, Catmai National Park's annual fattest bear contest has ended in a tie.
I'm going with true.
Fake.
Kira is correct.
It is fake.
It's weird because I keep up on bear news too, but I get sent so much.
I get sent so much that they all sound the same.
Well, it's overwhelming.
A Danish artist was paid $84,000 to create two artworks for a museum, so he returned blank canvases and called it take the money and run.
True.
True, I saw it.
Yeah, well, we reported on this at Red State.
Yeah.
All right.
So you both get a point for that one.
My point should be worth more.
Well, you're ahead of me.
Are you demanding reparations?
Yes, well, I get paid less is 0.74 to Ethan's dollar.
Oh, plus that, yeah.
One of the flights bringing refugees to the U.S. from Afghanistan may have inadvertently brought with it an invasive species of fruit slug.
I'm going with fake just because we've already got so many truths.
I'm going to say it's true.
That one is fake.
All tied up now.
Okay.
I like how each fake one is a look into Adam Yenser's mind.
Yes.
Yeah.
Learning a lot about Adam.
Some people are seriously suggesting that the U.S. could avoid defaulting on its debts by issuing a one-time commemorative coin worth $1 trillion.
True.
Didn't Biden suggest this?
I thought.
Fake.
I thought that was like the idea they put Biden on there.
That's true.
Oh, man.
You're a journalist.
That one, I thought you would know.
That one's gotten a little bit pick up pay praises.
All right.
Eminem is opening a restaurant in Detroit called Mom's Spaghetti.
True.
You said it so confidently.
I'll go with fake just in case.
That one is true.
Wow.
Allegedly, they're running commercials for it.
I still suspect it's some sort of publicity stunt or something.
He's doing those things.
He is getting coverage.
Yeah, he's doing like access type commercials.
It's kind of funny, yeah.
A pair of Michael Jordan's old underwear that shows definite signs of use sold at auction for over $2,000.
True.
True.
I saw that, but I didn't catch that it had definite signs.
That was part of use.
That was part of the article.
Definite signs.
It doesn't say what those signs of use are.
The more definite signs, probably the higher value, I'd assume.
Well, maybe.
And at a certain point, no value.
A researcher in Canada found that Rhesus monkeys prefer watching Fox News to CNN.
I'm going to say fake.
I don't know if Canada would admit that.
Yeah, I'll go fake.
That one is fake.
All right.
You guys both got that one.
Yeah, I did think about it.
Yeah.
A Romanian man who was the arm wrestling champion of the world had his title revoked after testing positive for five-hour energy, which is banned in the tournament.
Oh, that's interesting.
I'm going to say it's true.
I'm going with fake.
That is fake.
Oh!
That sounded too close to an Adam Yenser joke.
A hamster in Germany with a cryptocurrency account has been beating many investors by randomly choosing what purchases to make by spinning his wheel.
I think I heard this is true.
I'm going to say true.
That one is true.
Yeah.
It shows you how much it takes to invest in crypto.
Basically, my crypto strategy.
Police in Wisconsin are searching for a stolen statue of Humpty Dumpty sitting on the toilet.
It's Wisconsin.
I'm going to say true.
True.
I was waiting to see if she'd say fake because I knew it was true.
McDonald's revealed in a tweet that the character Grimace was originally supposed to be a piece of bread mold.
Fake.
It's like bad marketing for a place that serves buns.
Yeah.
I'm going fake.
That is fake.
They revealed that he was originally supposed to be a taste bud.
Oh, good.
Yo, that's almost worse.
Yeah.
Oh, my heavens.
I wish I'd never heard that.
Doing kidney.
Yeah.
He's actually a piece of phlegm.
Yeah.
I saw this somewhere before, but it's weird that they made him a taste bud and his name is Grimace.
Yeah.
It's like McDonald's.
That's the face you make when you taste McDonald's food or something.
Fry guys, I want to know now.
They look like COVID.
Yeah.
No, they're supposed to be bread mold.
Okay.
Inflation is forcing the Dollar Tree to sell items for over a dollar.
True.
I'm guessing that's true because I think I've been in there.
Yes, that's I'm a huge dollar store fan and often over the years have wondered when the dollar store brand was going to be beaten by inflation and here we are.
Now it's happening.
A tree of dollars.
What they'll do is they'll say to get around it, what they do is they say most items a dollar.
Yeah, or they spin it.
Like it's a five $1 bills.
Finally, a local Democrat representative in a northern California town who was caught breaking mask rules blamed her behavior on Mercury in retrograde.
What does that even mean?
They say that like when Merc, like people who believe in that stuff believe like when Mercury is in retrograde, like things go crazy and people start behaving weird and stuff.
So she blamed that.
I don't really know, but I'm going to say it's true just because it sounds like something a Democrat would say.
Oh, that's true.
It sounds like something a Democrat would say, and that's why I made it up.
Ah, Adam, you got me.
You got me.
Let's see here.
One.
Italian.
Kira has eight.
And let's see, Ethan.
You have nine.
Oh, my God.
Ethan etched it out by one.
This was rigged.
This was rigged.
The red state editor at large.
I want to recount.
I want an audit.
But, I mean, it's a little hard because some of them you said you heard of before, which I learned a lot of people.
You can't really, you know, there was one or two that he was like, well, I know Adam's sense of humor.
See, I just met Adam's.
And I feel like there's one or two where he listened to what you said first.
And if you said it confidently, then he would be like, oh, that's probably true.
I'm also a white male, so I have that advantage.
You did use your male privilege to win.
Yeah.
What's Ethan's WWE characteristic?
Notice who's judging the results.
Look, you guys, do you see what I'm up against here?
This thing was rigged.
I want another chance.
Next time I come back, I want another chance.
I did tally it.
Would you like me to make a separate test for you?
Yes.
Next time that.
Yes.
And I start with two in the win column already picked up.
I did tally it in my Dominion voting app on here.
Okay.
All right.
Well, Fly is still live, but we press on.
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Now we were going to talk about all this mandate craziness.
I mean, we got, you know, some people, are people overreacting?
Yes.
Both sides?
Yeah.
Our mandates replacing race.
This is something that Kira was talking about.
Is it kind of like the new thing that we're using instead of race?
Because they haven't heard a lot about race lately.
It's like the new way to reason to hate everybody.
Yeah, I feel like when I started my podcast, I started it because I was feeling really frustrated with the way that people, Americans, were talking to each other about race.
I mean, some of your listeners might remember when my first appearance on the B, we talked a lot about those issues.
We kind of got, you know, pretty deep with those.
And I was always feeling sad.
Yes.
It's fine.
That's what I want to talk about.
And I was always feeling sad.
Like, how can we treat each other like this?
You know, there's so many nuances to a person's character, their life.
How can you judge a person's whole life based on what you think you're supposed to believe about somebody based on a Chiron on CNN or something?
And it seemed like if we could find a way to communicate with each other, give each other some grace and some space to say weird things that we could get past this.
And now with the vaccine mandate stuff, where I'm opening Twitter or I'm reading this article or that, and I'm seeing people going, well, look, if you don't get the vaccine, then you shouldn't have any access to any health care at all.
You die, you die.
Nobody cares about you.
And that was how we were breaking down election season, right?
If you vote for Trump, nobody, you die, you die.
Like you, you shouldn't have access to police services.
You shouldn't have access.
Like you've done everything wrong in your life.
I think what I've realized with this vaccine mandate stuff, and I know there's a lot of you out there who have gotten there to this conclusion before me, is that at the end of the day, it's not about race.
It's not about vaccines.
It's not about gender division.
It's about hatefulness and it's about sinfulness.
And we're never going to get to it.
This is why I always say racism can't be solved.
We can work towards solutions and we should, not that we should be happy with it or satisfied with the status quo, but racism is just sin, you know, and so there's only one cure for sin.
And it's the same way.
I think that we're just always going to gravitate as humans towards bondage, whatever that bondage is.
If it's the bondage of judgments against each other, if it's the bondage of racism, of being a racist and therefore handcuffing yourself that way, or if it's the bondage of letting the government decide for you when you're allowed to kiss somebody, when you're allowed to travel around your state, when you're allowed to have a party with your friends.
I mean, I just think at the end of the day, that this is a sign that human beings are predisposed, predisposed to a base nature, to a lower nature.
And if it's not this, it's going to be something else.
And we're always ready to take our guilt.
And it's easier to be guilty on behalf of a group or to blame, have some other group that you got to blame for all the big problems.
My problems are tiny compared to all these jerks.
And that seems to be now it's the vaccine, the vaccinated.
And it feels like, how could there not be some rational questions with an unprecedented vaccine developed so fast?
I know plenty of medical professionals that are not comfortable with it.
Like most of the people I know who are uncomfortable with it are medical professionals, including my wife, who still reluctantly took it and was in the ER after she took it.
And I know a guy who's an OBGYN.
He's refusing to take it.
My wife, in her small circle of other nurses, knows 10 other RNs that are refusing and will lose their job over this.
So it's like, these aren't irrational hillbillies that are like sitting out conspiracy theorists.
And they're not people that like deny science or don't listen to the doctors.
Some of them, they work in that industry.
Know two nurses personally who one of them eventually got it, one of them hasn't, but they were very nervous about it.
And now they're saying there's a lot of hospitals and healthcare facilities that are worried about losing staff because of the mandates because they have lots of staff that are still reluctant about getting it.
And it's just such a weird thing to want to force on people.
Yeah, up north in the San Francisco area, the police force are, you know, they're working hard to recruit new people because they've lost so many officers.
A lot of them just feel like, well, I've already had COVID, so I already have the antibodies.
Why am I going to take it's like all of the risk of the vaccine with none of the upside of it?
You know, I might as well not take it.
But again, I do believe that our whole summer OBLM where we were just hating each other over race and over Trump and over all of that, it's just morphed to this.
The people who say, oh, the vaccines have become political.
It's those people who have made it political, right?
They told, they're the same people who told us when Trump was still the president that they would never take a vaccine that was developed under Donald Trump.
And then they want us to memory hole that and turn around and say, well, if you have any questions, you're a complete moron and you don't, you don't even have the right to be treated with dignity in this society because you don't want to put a certain thing in your body.
It's just absolute insanity, but that's because it doesn't have anything to do to do with science.
You'll notice that a lot of these people are like the intellectual set.
So it's not your wife, right?
Who is like a very intelligent woman and an educated woman.
It's the academic set who think that they're smarter than her because she's just a nurse and they're on TV or they're a Harvard educated economist, you know, and they think that they have some sort of superior knowledge that the rest of us don't have.
And they don't live in the real world.
So they think they have it figured out.
They think that the people who don't want to take the vaccines are MAGA, red hat, racists, because we already knew that those people were awful.
We always knew they were horrible.
So naturally, these are the people that are keeping our society locked down because we can't get to 100% vaccines, which is like you've always had the right to move around.
You could have been doing it this whole time.
But there's literally nothing stopping you.
But yeah, and now they've just morphed that hatred when in reality, if you're on the ground and you're willing to talk to people who aren't like you and don't live where you live and don't look like you look, you're realizing it's a lot of black people.
It's a lot of Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics make up the majority of the vaccine hesitant right now.
The majority of my black family is not vaccinated.
Not mine, my immediate family, but my extended family.
Absolutely.
And these are people who hate Donald Trump.
So they're not MAGA hat rednecks.
They're black people who are like, well, excuse me for not really trusting the government.
And it's just, I think we are predisposed to this nonsense.
And it's only going to get worse unless those of us who are on the side of common sense can get brave enough to stand up and say, I'm just not going to let you label me that.
Yeah.
When we're tribal by nature, and we saw it for, I mean, it was a huge thing on Twitter and Facebook to have a special avatar that showed that you were a virtuous person, you know, the black one, you had the rainbow one.
And then I saw it as when the masks started happening, the mask became suddenly that had seeped into the real world.
And now it was like the black square on your face or whatever, like I am the virtuous one and you are not.
And now it seems like we're getting into it being the vaccine card.
And the scary thing about that is the government mandating it.
Like imagine those avatars being mandated by the government.
Yeah.
Because that's, because I think that's the next question.
Say the vaccine is perfectly safe.
It's flawless.
Is it still okay for the government to mandate it the way that they're talking about doing to have these passports?
And that's one of the big problems I have with it.
That's why I can't understand people on the other side who I think you can totally believe that the vaccine is safe, that most of the research says, you know, yeah, maybe there's, you know, odd, you know, side effects like all medications have here and there.
You can believe that it's a good thing and everyone should get it, but you should still be able to draw this rational line and this line just in terms of our individual rights and our liberties that this is not a power we should give the government.
The government should not be able to force you to inject something, even if you think someone's stupid for not wanting it, or even if you think, you know, they're wrong for it.
Like we should draw this line of, no, we don't want a government that has that kind of power over us.
Always the tension, right?
If you don't have your freedoms in an emergency, do you really have your freedoms?
And there are more people out there, and I think you could even, you can even read your Bible and find these people there.
There are more people out there who prefer the safety of bondage than the risk of freedom.
And like I have this argument with my socialist mother all the time.
She lives up in Canada.
She lives on an island where they've had exactly two cases.
But every time somebody even gets close to like suggesting a case has made its way to the island, it's like, we've got to lock down everybody.
Everyone's got to stay home.
She's the person that's like shouting at you from across the street if you're not wearing your mask kind of thing.
And there are people who really truly believe that, no, you do have to make some sacrifices of your freedom for the greater good.
But the thing is, is that that never stops.
Freedom is very inconvenient.
And my podcast this week is on a national divorce.
Do we need a national divorce?
And I kind of break down the talking points on that and like get to the practicality of what that would look like.
But one of the things I say is we have this idea that America is supposed to be unified in some way.
We're supposed to reach this magical time when we're all going to be on the same page.
But America is not based on unity.
America is based on freedom.
Freedom is actually kind of the very opposite of unity.
It means you go your way, I go mine, and we respect the boundaries that each other have for ourselves, that we've made for ourselves.
But there are just too many people in this country.
And it's sad, but it's becoming more and more apparent through all the political turmoil of the last, you know, the last two years, especially, but even the last decade and longer, that it's becoming more and more apparent that there are people who just simply never believed in that idea of these things that I thought united us as American.
Like if you can just give up freedom of speech and say, you know, oh, well, I support, you know, text censorship or I support forced use of certain pronouns or I support safe spaces for speech, then you never believed in the value of free speech in the first place.
Oh, you know, if you believe that the government, like the Constitution doesn't say, you know, you have the right to peaceably assemble unless there's a virus.
Right, right.
If you think in an emergency, you can take those things away, then, oh, you simply never believed in that in the first place.
If you believe, you know, like a Twitter mob can destroy someone's life and that someone should be treated as guilty of a crime because someone accused them, you never believed in the right to a fair trial in the first place.
You believe they should be punished because someone else said they did something wrong.
If you can like get yourself to a point like so many of these people have where they say, oh, I don't mind restricting this or infringing this right, you simply, and it's sad, but it is, it shows how divide the country is, that it's hard to see a world where we reconcile with those people because they simply don't believe in these rights and liberties that I thought were what united everyone and say, we're not going to cross that line or we're not going to go there.
And can you imagine?
This is the thing that shocks me or just like baffles me about people that are so on board with the government making mandates about this kind of stuff.
Number one, like we were just talking this morning, will it go away?
COVID's not going away at this point.
We're a year and a half in.
And the idea that like, oh, it's going to end, it's not going to end.
Yeah.
Let's just accept that.
People are going to get it sometimes.
People are gonna.
It's gonna be bad for some people, and now they're gonna have, they're gonna have a gatekeeping mechanism into every aspect of our lives.
Will they give that up?
Like, has the government ever gotten that kind of power and given it up?
No look, we still have the Patriot Act.
I remember when the patriarch Patriot Act was given to us and they were like, this is temporary.
And now we're not even in Afghanistan anymore and we still have the Patriot Act.
So no, of course, they're never going to give up the power.
Yeah, we have.
Uh, make America great again.
Terrorists now.
So we have to watch out.
Well see, there's always something.
And here's the other thing about, about what we're doing.
We're making people responsible for getting sick.
We're we're blame, we're victim shaming people for contracting a virus that you cannot see and cannot possibly track.
Don't?
How have we gotten to this place where the mere act of you leaving your mask at home is a certain death sentence?
But if you go on twitter, people will be like oh, look at that guy.
He got sick.
He wasn't wearing.
I saw a picture with him not wearing his mask.
Look, if masks were the cure all.
Why are we even arguing over vaccines?
Everyone wearing your mask, boom done you know?
No, it's, it's ridiculous, but we've allowed ourselves to get to this place where we feel comfortable with blaming you just for walking around.
Yeah, and there happen.
I can't tell you where you if you get sick, where you picked up a virus.
I can assume maybe you were in a classroom full of snotty kids and it probably came from there, but it could have literally just come from the lady you were talking to at the grocery store or it was lurking in your house and you just picked up something and, like I, this idea that we are blaming people for a virus.
This isn't.
We're not talking about something like aids, where you could abstain from sex, you could have safe sex, like there are ways to protect yourself from aids right, we're not even talking about that and they would never think of shaming aids victims the way they should imagine vaccinated.
And we're talking about a virus that we we are not responsible for it.
We didn't bring it to the shores of this country, we didn't ask for it and we haven't done anything wrong.
Wow preach yeah, I was just so upset.
Did you get the fly?
I wish this fly is like the fly is what listening like yeah yeah, the fly's a liberal fly, do I think that fly's a liberal?
Oh, you know, uh government Hotschel, how you say it, I don't know how you say Hotschel from New York.
She's the one that took over for Cuomo.
Oh, what happened to him?
I guess he's retired, he just he started his own, uh large gauge nipple ring business.
Uh.
She said we are not through this pandemic.
She's at a church, a non-denominational megachurch.
I wished we were, but I prayed a lot to God during this time and you know what God did answer our prayers.
He made the smartest men and women, the scientists, the doctors, the researchers.
He made them come up with a vaccine that is from God to us, and we must say thank you God, thank you.
She then showed off her necklace that indicated her vaccination status.
That's just like the twitter avatar.
Uh, and then alleging that those who refuse the Covet 19 vaccine aren't listening to go and what God wants.
And then she said, I need you to be my apostles.
This was I needed to go Out and talk about it and say, We owe this to each other.
We love each other.
Jesus taught us to love one another.
And how do you show that love but to care about each other and to say, Please get the vaccine because I love you and I want you to live.
I want our kids to be safe when they're in school.
I want you to be safe when you go to a doctor's office or the hospital and you're treated and are treated by somebody.
You don't want to get the virus in them.
You're already sick or you wouldn't be there.
Two things about this.
One is that, again, how have we gotten to this place now where like to not get the vaccine is certain death?
Right?
I mean, you still have a wages of non-you have a 99.7% chance of surviving COVID if you contract it without the vaccine.
So we're somehow we've allowed ourselves to get to this place where not having it equals certain death.
But the other thing is that I was reading this going, Kathy Hoschel has never set foot in a church.
She has never talked to a Christian human being in her life because this is like a character, caricature.
The way she's talking is like, oh, I imagine this is how Christians talk.
It is.
We all line each other.
Yes, a little sketch.
Like, I get a lot of at Red State in the comments section.
There's all you're always going to find one or two people who are saying the most racist, horrible things.
And you always know they're a troll because they're talking the way they think right-wing Christians talk on websites, right?
Not how we do talk.
They're talking, they're saying every platitude, everything that they imagine.
They're trolling for likes so that they can go, oh, see, look.
But most of the people are like, you make no sense, dude.
What are you?
That's how I was listening to her.
And that's what I was thinking.
I'm like, this is a woman who has a caricature of a Christian in her mind who's probably never set foot in a church, never talked to evangelical Christian or Christian at all, and has this idea that if you just put the word Jesus in front of anything, that we immediately lose every grain of common sense and education that we have.
It's the equivalent of a parent being like, you know, Paw Patrol cares about people, the characters on that show.
So wouldn't you want to do what the guys on Paw Patrol?
Right.
Like it's the same thing as thinking that's going to work on to get my kid to stop biting each other.
This is what socialists do.
Yeah.
They see themselves as the kindergarten teachers of the world.
Yes.
And the fact that they'll even go into a church and use language like this, it says it's a non-denominational mega church.
I don't know what exactly you imagine the opposite.
But the fact whether whether she believes this herself or is just saying it to try to persuade this audience, when they use this language like, you know, the vaccine is from God and we need this and I need you to be my apostles.
Like the left as they've like abandoned religion in this country, their political beliefs really are becoming their religion.
They have the same way like Christians or even devout Jews or devout Muslims have this meaning in their life because they have this higher belief that they aspire to.
For these people who are raised in a secular world, and even if they are like secular Christians or secular Jews who identify that way, but don't have this religious faith, all of these political causes become their like moral cause in life.
And they really do like intertwine this religious devotion to these like these political causes that they have.
And that's like the same devotion that a Christian feels towards God.
They do start to feel this towards their like political party.
Yeah.
I mean, the highest wisdom that you can seek is from the scriptures, but for these people, the highest wisdom is whatever the current experts are saying.
Yeah.
And that's the arbiter.
They've got the revelation.
Literally for them, the arbiter of morality and good and evil.
Like, if you're good, you'll, you'll be on our side on this.
And if you don't, you're evil.
You're bad.
And to them, that's so obvious.
Like, why would you follow some dumb old book?
Yeah.
Right.
It's like having that base that you always go back to to keep you in check from the old.
I quote Chesterton so much.
He says.
It's worthy of it.
You know, a dead thing goes downstream.
Only a living thing can swim against it.
It's true.
To have that basis to go back to the wisdom that, you know, the Bible was written over what, like some like create, like seven or eight, nine thousand years.
Like some 10 million years ago.
Insane.
But I mean, like, the amount from page one to the last page.
If you imagine a book today, if it just came out, it was the Bible, it'd be like somewhere in Athens.
It started being written and we just finished it today.
Like, that's how much wisdom is in those pages that has lasted through that test of time.
And that's the thing.
If you believe wisdom is a real thing that exists and it's timeless, then there's nothing more precious than scripture.
And that's why I'm not going to build my beliefs, my morality, or anything like that on the shifting sands of academia.
I mean, when the caught, when I went to college in the 90s, that is a completely different experience than what my son is having right now at college this year in Chicago.
We have two, the information has changed.
What they feel is acceptable.
We were on a parent call the other day and we all had to introduce ourselves by our pronouns, you know?
But, and I try to tell my son, you can be as woke as you want.
In 20 years, you're going to be me, right?
In 20 years, your kids are going to look at you and go, oh my gosh, dad, you don't even get it.
You don't even know what because our idea of what is right, what is knowledge, what is real, those things shift in the wind.
They shift with how we feel.
It's all based on how we feel.
That's why scripture is so important because God never changes.
Scripture never changes.
I can measure everything against the true and unshifting reality of who God is and what he says is real.
And then that makes, and then that gives you license to not live your life in fear.
Yeah.
Also, right?
Like I can travel around.
I don't have to listen to the God of government to tell me what's safe.
We know what's the most dangerous thing of all is to be living outside of God's will.
So if God's got you traveling all over, you got to do it.
COVID be turnip.
That's like that other Chesterton quote: a living dog can be in the Guinness Book of World Records for long ears, but a dead dog cannot.
Just little quoted.
People don't quote that one a lot, but it's a good one.
Oh, well, we could go on about that one forever.
But we got hate mail to read.
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Good.
I really miss Adam Ford.
This is from, I don't have his name here.
Your headlines aren't even funny.
No.
And not for a lack of original one.
And not for lack of reasons to make fun of us over here on the left.
Your problem isn't material.
It's talent.
Give up.
What if we just stopped and you just ended the battle?
You know what?
He's got a point.
And with that, good night, everybody.
I've never thought of it that way before.
Yeah, I never thought of it.
And it's always people who have nothing going on in their lives, right?
Like, you don't have one of the most popular blogs in the country.
You're writing this from your couch or on your lunch break from your nine to five.
But I love it how they're all.
It's like.
And this is like, he's on the left.
So he's like, you just tell the chicken crossing the road joke, and then he's the chicken walking up to you.
Jokes about chickens.
I don't see any humor in them.
You're the joke.
I don't feel that you can't see it.
You're inside of it.
So you don't see it.
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My late father taught me that when a fly takes off, it jumps either off to the left or to the right and then it goes.
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