Part Of The Problem - Dave Smith - They Knew The Whole Time
Aired: 2021-05-25
Duration: 01:00:10


=== Silencing Dissident Voices (10:07) ===

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[00:00:30]  Here's your host, James Smith.
[00:00:33]  What's up, everybody?
[00:00:34]  Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
[00:00:37]  I'm Dave Smith.
[00:00:38]  He is the king of the caulks, Robbie the Fire, Bernstein.
[00:00:41]  What's up, my brother?
[00:00:43]  How are we doing, Dave?
[00:00:44]  Doing good.
[00:00:45]  Look at that.
[00:00:45]  You're in the studio, but not really in the studio.
[00:00:48]  I redesigned it.
[00:00:49]  People were giving me, they were trashing me online that it didn't look like a nice place to live.
[00:00:53]  So I did this instead.
[00:00:55]  This is the gas digital green screen.
[00:00:58]  That's my lover right there.
[00:01:00]  It's another bear where two bears were clashing.
[00:01:02]  That's where I got the AIDS.
[00:01:04]  Hey, look at that.
[00:01:05]  All right.
[00:01:06]  Yeah, I came into the studio to not be in a studio.
[00:01:09]  This seems just ridiculous.
[00:01:13]  So, oh, first off, just want to let people know.
[00:01:16]  I just literally, just before we started this, I just wrapped up recording on Real Talk with Zuby, which was great.
[00:01:24]  Really enjoyed doing that show.
[00:01:25]  Go check that out.
[00:01:26]  He's a real fucking real smart guy.
[00:01:30]  The huge audience.
[00:01:31]  Just really interesting.
[00:01:33]  And we had a great conversation.
[00:01:34]  So please go check that out.
[00:01:37]  All right.
[00:01:38]  So for today's episode, what I wanted to talk a bit about is some of the latest developments in the COVID regime.
[00:01:47]  And particularly in the feud between Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
[00:01:54]  I say Dr. Rand Paul.
[00:01:56]  It's a great matchup.
[00:01:57]  Well, look, man, Rand Paul really has been phenomenal.
[00:02:02]  And I'll say a lot of libertarians, a lot of the Ron Paul people, you know, have had their criticisms of Rand Paul.
[00:02:12]  And I've, you know, I've been a member of that.
[00:02:16]  I've criticized Rand Paul at times.
[00:02:19]  But man, it really does.
[00:02:22]  It is, some of these interactions with Fauci really have been a reminder that we're just really lucky to have this guy in the Senate.
[00:02:28]  Like, thank God there is at least one Rand Paul.
[00:02:31]  And man, he's been really, really good on COVID pretty much this whole time.
[00:02:37]  And, you know, who knows where he would be if he wasn't there, but at least he is, you know, like if he had some cabinet appointment from Donald Trump, he'd be gone now because Biden would come in and replace him with somebody else.
[00:02:55]  And if he wasn't in politics, he, you know, I mean, okay, he might be doing some important stuff.
[00:03:00]  Maybe some blind people would be able to see because he worked on their eyes or something.
[00:03:03]  But all that aside, it is really great having him in the Senate.
[00:03:07]  And if nothing else, there is real value in some of these moments where he's grilling Fauci.
[00:03:13]  And, you know, this often in those exchanges, he's been really demonized in the press, but it's great to have it on record and on tape.
[00:03:25]  And then when the whole narrative falls apart, he ends up looking very good.
[00:03:29]  So on the last show, we were playing that clip of when he was saying that, you know, this is all theater.
[00:03:37]  And of course, then Fauci basically admitted that it was theater.
[00:03:40]  I mean, he said.
[00:03:41]  It's a good purpose, though.
[00:03:43]  It was good theater.
[00:03:44]  Well, that's right.
[00:03:45]  That's right.
[00:03:45]  It was a good theater.
[00:03:47]  He was wearing the masks because he didn't want to send the wrong signals.
[00:03:51]  In other words, not for scientific health related reasons.
[00:03:56]  It's not quite Cuomo's Emmy Award-winning theater, but he's working up to there.
[00:04:01]  Your bullshit Emmys will bring.
[00:04:03]  Well, that's right.
[00:04:04]  You want to start off in the local theater, and then hopefully someday you get up to the big time TV stuff that Cuomo was so great at.
[00:04:13]  So anyway, there's one thing I guess we could start off talking about that I got to say I really loved, and I know you noticed this as well, was that Rand Paul came out and said he's not getting vaccinated.
[00:04:27]  And I just thought that was, you know, it was very courageous at this point to say something like that because he's getting dragged, you know, by the entire establishment for daring to say this.
[00:04:41]  But I just thought, good for him.
[00:04:43]  Good for him.
[00:04:44]  There's so much insanity around this whole pandemic, around the vaccinations.
[00:04:50]  And it was completely reasonable what he said, that he's had COVID, he has natural immunity to it, and he's just, no, he's not doing this.
[00:04:58]  Bravo.
[00:04:59]  He said, until you prove to me that it's necessary, which I think was a good way of looking at it.
[00:05:04]  The problem is that the system wants to pretend that if you don't get it, you're leaving other people to be at risk and that there's no downside to getting it.
[00:05:13]  So do your part and go get it.
[00:05:15]  So this is a major hole in the way that they're trying to present it.
[00:05:20]  Yeah.
[00:05:20]  Yeah.
[00:05:21]  No, I thought he said that very well.
[00:05:23]  And, you know, for people who believe in any amount of freedom, you're like, yeah, look, there are all these people who want to brag about getting the vaccine and actually get it on camera, you know, and air the footage of them getting the vaccine.
[00:05:40]  Like, okay, whatever.
[00:05:41]  I don't begrudge them that.
[00:05:42]  Go get the vaccine if you want to.
[00:05:44]  But good for Rand Paul for why can't he publicly say, no, I'm not getting it.
[00:05:50]  Whatever happened to my body, my choice.
[00:05:51]  Where are those people at?
[00:05:53]  And reasonable claim until you can prove that it's necessary or that I'm at risk for some kind of harm.
[00:05:59]  Why would I go get this?
[00:06:01]  And I was thinking about this.
[00:06:02]  If you were to follow by the CDC's own logic of you can't be in your own house giving a high five to someone you live with.
[00:06:10]  So I've spent zero amount of the time socially distancing.
[00:06:13]  I have not followed any of the guidance.
[00:06:15]  I've been indoors.
[00:06:16]  I've been doing live events.
[00:06:17]  I've been out and about.
[00:06:19]  So if what they've said up until now is true of this thing, then there's no chance that I haven't been exposed to it.
[00:06:25]  There's no chance that I don't have natural immunity.
[00:06:27]  So why would I even consider, why would I even waste my time?
[00:06:29]  Even if it worked, why would I waste my time going to see a doctor to even administer a shot if by their own logic, I'd be fine, totally fine.
[00:06:38]  Because you're just supposed to follow the science, Rob.
[00:06:41]  You're not supposed to think these things through for yourself or actually look into the science or listen to other scientific voices that are challenging the narrative.
[00:06:51]  And we're going to get back onto that theme here.
[00:06:56]  So let's, in fact, we could transition to that now.
[00:07:01]  And then we'll come back and we're going to play some of Rand Paul, a talk that he gave recently that you thought was really great that I've only listened to little parts of, but I thought it would be interesting to play some.
[00:07:12]  So one of the other major changes here, and there's really been over the last month or so, there's been some real major changes in the amongst the experts about what the scientific consensus is.
[00:07:29]  And it's been one of the major themes that me and you have been talking about over the last year is how creepy and dangerous it is to have this kind of follow the science mentality where we all have to follow, you know, we're all instructed to follow the official science, but you're not allowed to have any critical analysis of the official science.
[00:07:51]  And also, there's tremendous censorship of anyone who presents alternative explanations, even when they're scientists.
[00:08:01]  And I think it's worth remembering that all the worst regimes in history were always following the science according to what their experts were allowed to say.
[00:08:14]  The Nazis were following the science when they said that the Aryans were the superior race and the commies were following the science when they said that they needed to have a completely centralized planned economy.
[00:08:26]  All of this was, in their opinions, following the science.
[00:08:29]  It's just that it had to be the official scientists and that all dissident voices had to be crushed.
[00:08:36]  But that's not the type of society you want to be in.
[00:08:41]  And there's been a lot of this over the last year.
[00:08:46]  A lot of silencing dissident voices.
[00:08:50]  And over the last month, things have really changed in a lot of ways.
[00:08:55]  Like a lot of the things that we were saying just a month ago, just two months ago, all of a sudden now are being said by the CDC and by Joe Biden and by Dr. Fauci.
[00:09:04]  Like all of a sudden, with no change in the science, they've just decided like, oh yeah, no, there is no reason to be wearing outdoor masks or there is no reason for people with immunity to be masked indoors even and stuff like this.
[00:09:22]  But one of the really interesting ones that was, of course, a year ago, a conspiracy theory that would get you pulled down off of social media if you suggested it.
[00:09:36]  And I know, because of our private Facebook group that is no longer, I know that there were videos that were pulled down specifically for suggesting that the origin of COVID was the Wuhan lab and not these wet markets, which is what the official science told us.
[00:09:56]  This was demonized as a conspiracy theory.
[00:10:01]  Although all of a sudden, that has now changed.
[00:10:04]  And now we're allowed to talk about that.

=== The Wuhan Lab Conspiracy (02:25) ===

[00:10:08]  It really is something like straight out of like a George Orwell novel.
[00:10:13]  They're just like all of a sudden they decided, nope, I know we were telling you that this was just a conspiracy theory, but no, no, we never said anything about that.
[00:10:19]  No, no, no, this is a theory.
[00:10:21]  This is a completely reasonable theory.
[00:10:23]  And this has happened little by little because different people who are legit experts have actually been saying that for scientific reasons, most of which I cannot follow.
[00:10:33]  A lot of it has to do with how the virus has been mutating.
[00:10:38]  But they think that it's the like overwhelming most likely origin of the virus was in the lab and not from wet markets.
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[00:12:20]  Anyway, this is something in the latest version of Rand Paul versus Dr. Fauci.
[00:12:27]  Here was a real change in the tune from Dr. Fauci.
[00:12:31]  Let's play the videotape.

=== Funding Dangerous Research (13:04) ===

[00:12:34]  Senator Rand Paul, who you've tingled with in the past, basically suggesting that you and the NIH funded risky research that eventually down the line connected to COVID-19.
[00:12:46]  I don't want to dwell on this for too long, but I did want to give you that chance to react to his comments today.
[00:12:50]  Yeah, I mean, that's actually preposterous.
[00:12:52]  And I mean, to bring something that up is really not helpful.
[00:12:55]  He was saying we funded a kind of research in China that could lead to dangerous research.
[00:13:01]  That's not the case.
[00:13:01]  So what he was saying was just absolutely not true.
[00:13:04]  It's really unfortunate that he brought that up.
[00:13:08]  It really does nothing but cloud the issue of what we're trying to do.
[00:13:12]  So it was just, you know, unfortunate that he said that.
[00:13:16]  It was said in an accusatory way that just made no sense and was not based in any fact at all.
[00:13:22]  That has been the subject of a lot of our fact checking on the coronavirus for the past year.
[00:13:28]  And like you said, there's a lot of cloudiness around the origins of COVID-19 still.
[00:13:34]  So I wanted to ask, are you still confident that it developed naturally?
[00:13:38]  No, actually, that's the point that I said.
[00:13:40]  And I think the real unfortunate aspect of what Senator Paul did is he was conflating research in a collaborative way with Chinese scientists, which was, you know, you'd almost have to say if we did not do that, we would almost be irresponsible because SAW's COVID-1 clearly originated in China.
[00:14:05]  And we were fortunate to escape a major pandemic.
[00:14:08]  So we really had to learn a lot more about the viruses that were there, about whether or not people were getting infected with bad viruses.
[00:14:16]  So in a very minor collaboration as part of a subcontract of a grant, we had a collaboration with some Chinese scientists.
[00:14:26]  And what he could do.
[00:14:27]  All right, pause it for a second.
[00:14:29]  It's almost like an admission.
[00:14:31]  First off, did you hear the Freudian slip where he almost said some Chinese communists and then corrected himself to scientists?
[00:14:38]  I swear that itself was worth it.
[00:14:41]  But I just love this starting with, well, Rand Paul was absolutely wrong.
[00:14:45]  And it's just so unfortunate that he would even suggest something like that.
[00:14:49]  It's just so wrong.
[00:14:51]  And then slowly starting to admit that actually Rand Paul is completely right.
[00:14:57]  And that, yes, now you can either argue that no, we did not work with any Chinese scientists on any gain of function research and that there was none of this research going on that we were funding, or you can argue.
[00:15:13]  And by the way, I am not a scientist and not an expert in this.
[00:15:17]  And I'm actually open to the argument that, oh, there was some really important research being done.
[00:15:23]  Like, I don't, I don't know, maybe.
[00:15:25]  But you can't make both of those arguments.
[00:15:28]  Like, you can't start with, oh, it's ridiculous to suggest that we were working with them on this research.
[00:15:33]  But I mean, we really would have been incompetent if we hadn't been after the SARS outbreak, which started in China.
[00:15:42]  So, of course, we had to work.
[00:15:43]  So basically what he just admitted there is that yes, the NIH did grant money to another group that then gave money to the Wuhan lab.
[00:15:53]  So what he's, I think I said this on the last episode, but this is like what he's holding on to now is that, okay, but no, we didn't specifically give that money to them for gain of function research on coronaviruses.
[00:16:08]  Which is like, okay, but money is fungible.
[00:16:13]  You know, and if you're giving money to a lab that's doing that work, then yes, you are funding that work.
[00:16:20]  In a sense, it's literally like, if you like, if you just cut me a check for fifty thousand dollars and I just souped up my studio right and got all new equipment and a whole new background, a whole new design and this whole thing.
[00:16:32]  And you were like wow Rob, you just paid for Dave's uh new podcast studio.
[00:16:37]  And I was like no no no, Rob didn't contribute anything to my podcast, he just paid for my rent.
[00:16:43]  And you're like okay, but it's all the same.
[00:16:45]  So then you just use the money you were gonna pay for rent for the studio, because he covered that it's money is fungible, it doesn't.
[00:16:51]  You can say, I wasn't giving for this, I was giving for that, but if you gave money to the organization that's doing this, then it's all the same thing.
[00:16:59]  It makes no difference what you earmarked the money for um, but anyway.
[00:17:04]  So here's Fauci and the.
[00:17:06]  The other thing.
[00:17:06]  That's quite an admission.
[00:17:08]  There is that, and he's about to say more, but he goes.
[00:17:11]  So she asked him point blank, are you still confident that the origins of this were from?
[00:17:17]  You know that this was not man-made and he says no, and he'll expand on that.
[00:17:21]  So let's keep playing involved in creating the virus, which is the most ridiculous majestic leap i've ever heard of.
[00:17:30]  Um, but no, i'm not convinced uh, about that.
[00:17:34]  I think that we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we find out, to the best of our ability, exactly what happened.
[00:17:42]  Certainly, the people who've investigated say it likely was the emergence from an animal reservoir that then infected individuals, but it could have been something else and we need to find that out.
[00:17:55]  So you know, that's the reason why I said i'm perfectly in favor of any investigation that looks into the origin of the virus.
[00:18:04]  All right, so there is uh, Fauci uh saying that it's it's, he is not convinced that this did not come from a lab, and um, that he's, he's very happy with an investigation, of course.
[00:18:19]  And now there are uh uh calls for another World Health Organization investigation.
[00:18:24]  But I think it's fair to say that part of the reason why Fauci is uh okay with another investigation is that he knows who the investigators are going to be.
[00:18:32]  Or maybe he's already lost control of this narrative, because anyone who works in the field it's actually so obvious to go.
[00:18:39]  Viruses don't develop in this way and even with the WHO they didn't fully control that one.
[00:18:44]  They kicked a guy out of the WHO for saying that it was probably made in a lab.
[00:18:48]  Or maybe they didn't kick him out.
[00:18:49]  I don't know exactly how he was removed, but the old head of the was it the WHO or CDC?
[00:18:53]  One of the two was saying that he thought it was made from From a lab.
[00:18:55]  CDC is the one.
[00:18:56]  CDC.
[00:18:57]  He's no longer in that post.
[00:18:59]  So I think it's more that the Republicans are really holding his feet to the fire on this.
[00:19:04]  So he has no choice but to say, yeah, yeah, go investigate it.
[00:19:07]  And now he's almost just trying to pivot it to, yes, maybe it came from them, but that's not because I was into gain of function research.
[00:19:14]  Yeah.
[00:19:15]  So a few things that I just wanted to point out about this.
[00:19:20]  And number one, and this is why I started the show with giving props to Rand Paul and why we'll end the show on that note as well.
[00:19:28]  Because if you notice in this woman's interview, why is this even being asked of Dr. Fauci?
[00:19:35]  Well, it started with, hey, you've had these clashes with Rand Paul.
[00:19:39]  And this is what he said.
[00:19:40]  And now, just because we have one senator who's willing to tell the truth and ask the important questions, now other journalists, when they get Fauci on, they have to ask him about that too, because it becomes these viral moments that everyone's talking about.
[00:19:57]  And even if they're all, you know, taking Fauci's side, at least all the blue check marks and stuff like that on Twitter, it's still being talked about.
[00:20:06]  And now it's news.
[00:20:07]  Now it's news that a congressman, a senator, excuse me, asked you all this stuff.
[00:20:12]  So that's really valuable.
[00:20:16]  What Fauci is saying here, right, is that he's at least moved to, I'm not certain.
[00:20:24]  I'm not certain about where it came from, which is a pretty big change from where he's been.
[00:20:30]  But to your point about the, well, the CDC, this guy who, I don't know if he was fired, but he was a former, like a real high-level guy who was saying this and is currently saying this.
[00:20:42]  He's just not at the CDC anymore.
[00:20:44]  But China being investigated by the World Health Organization, which is what there's calls for now, and I believe that was the original investigation.
[00:20:55]  I mean, China's given billions of dollars to the World Health Organization.
[00:21:01]  Wouldn't that already just present an obvious conflict of interest where they can't be the ones doing this investigation?
[00:21:09]  That's what I'm missing.
[00:21:11]  It's also not like they instantly said, yeah, there was a problem here, but we're open for transparency and we'd like people to come validate the fact that we had nothing to do with it.
[00:21:20]  It's already, what, 13 months later under very strict Chinese rules of how we can look into this.
[00:21:27]  That's right.
[00:21:28]  And the World Health Organization, of course, was praising China in the immediate aftermath of the COVID outbreak.
[00:21:36]  They're praising them for how they handled it.
[00:21:38]  So really, that's who we have to go do an investigation?
[00:21:43]  I mean, this just seems like pretty flawed.
[00:21:51]  All right.
[00:21:51]  So on this subject, though, there has been a real shift in the narrative.
[00:22:00]  And the day after Fauci made this point, which was yesterday, there was a piece in the Wall Street Journal, and this has been covered in a lot of major outlets.
[00:22:17]  And this is about a new report that was leaked that says that there were sick members of the Wuhan lab in November.
[00:22:34]  And that this was a major, this is a major piece of evidence in the whole question about the origins of COVID.
[00:22:42]  And look, just saying, right?
[00:22:44]  Because I just want to make this clear.
[00:22:46]  It does not seem to me that I have not seen any evidence to suggest that this was like some type of intentionally used bioweapon or something like that.
[00:22:59]  Because there are people who jump to that conclusion when they start hearing the word lab, you know, like, oh, lab, that means this was done intentionally and it was designed to do this.
[00:23:09]  And that, I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that.
[00:23:12]  I haven't seen evidence to rule it out, but I don't think that's the case.
[00:23:17]  Like, I don't, you know what I mean?
[00:23:19]  It seems to me that right now, the most likely explanation for the origin of COVID is the Wuhan lab.
[00:23:28]  And the most likely explanation for how it got out is that they were really, really sloppy.
[00:23:34]  That's what it seems like to me right now.
[00:23:37]  Now, again, I don't know, and I'm open to new evidence on this, which I think we all should be.
[00:23:43]  But just to be clear, right, when we're saying that the World Health Organization is in no position to be a neutral investigator in this situation, couldn't we just all agree?
[00:24:00]  Would there be one sane human being who could disagree with the idea that we need to figure out what happened here?
[00:24:09]  Like we need to figure out how this happened for several reasons.
[00:24:14]  Most importantly, so it never happens again.
[00:24:18]  Right?
[00:24:19]  Like we need to figure out what's going on here so that we don't do this again.
[00:24:24]  But look, this is legitimately a global pandemic where millions of people have died.
[00:24:32]  You know, a lot of Americans have died.
[00:24:34]  I mean, I don't know exactly.
[00:24:36]  Whatever debates about how many actual COVID deaths were fully COVID deaths and what the incentives were to list things as COVID deaths, all that aside, COVID killed a lot of Americans.
[00:24:47]  A lot of people died from COVID.
[00:24:50]  No, the vast, vast, vast majority of them were sick people, but whatever.
[00:24:54]  That's still really bad.
[00:24:56]  And that deserves on its own to, you know, let's figure out what happened here.
[00:25:02]  Not even in a sense of like people have to be held accountable, but just to know.
[00:25:07]  And then also, if there was any corruption, people need to be held accountable.
[00:25:12]  But also just the fact that it led to, you know, these incredible government overreactions and all of this lockdown tyranny and the destruction of our economy and the destruction of so many schoolchildren's development.
[00:25:26]  I mean, like, if you like, how could anyone not agree that we should get to the bottom of what happened here?
[00:25:33]  And it's very hard to do that in an environment where you're not allowed to ask any of these questions.

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[00:25:38]  And that's been the environment for the last year.
[00:25:41]  I mean, if people had come out like, oh, okay, so now I guess it's okay to talk about this because I'm reading it in the Wall Street Journal, right?
[00:25:48]  And I'm reading about it on the Washington Post and all this other stuff.
[00:25:51]  But there were people who made videos about this theory that it came from the Wuhan lab who were demonetized, who were banned, who were silenced.
[00:26:02]  So there's an issue that every sane person should agree we need to get to the bottom of.
[00:26:09]  And we're in this environment where you're barely even allowed to ask any questions about it.
[00:26:14]  So that seems like everyone could agree.
[00:26:17]  That's a big problem.
[00:26:19]  Yeah, perfect proof that there should be the freedom of speech of people to be able to put forward these theories because if we want to avoid this in the future, well, look at how many people were right for a really long time that we try to ignore, kick off these platforms and call crazy.
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=== Changing COVID Narratives (15:27) ===

[00:28:30]  All right, let's get back into it.
[00:28:32]  All right, so here's the Wall Street Journal.
[00:28:34]  Intelligence, the title is Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab fuels debate on COVID-19 origins.
[00:28:42]  Report says researchers went to hospital in November 2019, shortly before confirmed outbreak.
[00:28:51]  Ads calls for probe of whether virus escaped the lab.
[00:28:56]  So this is, you know, this is what we've now learned: that there were two or three, I think, researchers who were hospitalized in November of 2019.
[00:29:12]  So, okay, on top of like the scientific arguments that have been made about how the virus is mutating and stuff like that, that seem to suggest it came from the lab, it seems like a pretty big piece of circumstantial evidence that right at the time in question, researchers at the lab had gotten sick from this virus.
[00:29:34]  Again, this seems to me like seems to point in this direction.
[00:29:40]  I don't know.
[00:29:40]  Yeah, and how are we first getting this now?
[00:29:42]  Sounds like people have been sitting on that one for a while.
[00:29:46]  Now, of course, a World Health Organization-led team investigated the origins of COVID-19 when they visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology on February 3rd.
[00:29:58]  But again, this has a lot of the problems that I was discussing before: that you have an organization that's getting billions of dollars from China investigating a lab owned by the Chinese communists, as Fauci was going to call them, the Communist Party.
[00:30:13]  Okay.
[00:30:14]  Even if it's total accident, do you think there should be some China accountability for that?
[00:30:21]  Well, I'm certainly open to the idea, but you know what?
[00:30:25]  I think the truth is that there's got to be some American accountability to it, too.
[00:30:31]  Oh, and in the cash?
[00:30:33]  Yeah.
[00:30:33]  I mean, it seems like that it was Fauci who signed off on continuing this research.
[00:30:39]  That right off the bat.
[00:30:43]  Then what do we have to do?
[00:30:44]  After a trial, sure.
[00:30:45]  What do we do?
[00:30:45]  We default on the debt or we tell them we're not trading with them.
[00:30:52]  I don't think it punishes anybody other than the Chinese producers and the American consumers to stop trading with China.
[00:31:02]  And I think it would be a pretty big punishment to the American economy.
[00:31:07]  I'm not against defaulting on the debt, though.
[00:31:09]  That's an interesting one.
[00:31:12]  That would have all types of positive ramifications, namely that they wouldn't lend us any more money and we'd have to cut the size of government.
[00:31:19]  So yeah, I'd be all for that.
[00:31:20]  But to be honest, I would have been for that before COVID ever happened.
[00:31:25]  But to me, that's almost secondary right now to just getting to the bottom of this, getting to the bottom of this and figuring out.
[00:31:33]  I think once you get to the bottom of it and figure out what happened, then the justice aspect of it will start to take care of itself and become a lot easier, if that makes sense.
[00:31:43]  All right, let me read a little bit from the article.
[00:31:45]  Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report that could add weight to the growing calls for a fuller probe on whether the COVID-19 virus may have escaped from the laboratory.
[00:32:07]  The details of the reporting go beyond a State Department fact sheet issued during the final days of the Trump administration, which said that several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn of 2019 with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and commonal seasonal illness.
[00:32:29]  So what you've got here is that our government has known for quite a while at minimum, you know, 100 plus days that there were two or three rather researchers who were hospitalized with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in November or October of 2019.
[00:33:00]  I'm sorry, but being hospitalized with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 at exactly the time, like precisely the time that COVID started spreading, or it predates it by a few weeks, you know, perfect timing for this chain of events.
[00:33:17]  That is a pretty big deal.
[00:33:21]  Pretty big deal.
[00:33:22]  The disclosure of the number of researchers, the timing of their illness, and the hospital visits come on the eve of a meeting of the WHO's decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into COVID-19's origins.
[00:33:38]  Current and former officials familiar with the intelligence about the lab research expressed with the lab researchers expressed differing views about the strength of the supporting evidence for the assessment.
[00:33:50]  One person said it was provided by an international partner and was potentially significant, but still in need of further investigation and additional cooperation.
[00:34:02]  Another person described the intelligence as stronger.
[00:34:04]  Quote, the information that we had coming from the various sources was of exquisite quality.
[00:34:11]  It was very precise.
[00:34:12]  What it didn't tell you was exactly why they got sick.
[00:34:17]  So there you go.
[00:34:19]  You know, it's not confirmed that they had COVID.
[00:34:21]  Of course, it's not like they would have been tested for it, but the evidence is significant.
[00:34:27]  You would think at a minimum.
[00:34:28]  I'm no scientist.
[00:34:29]  I'm no doctor, but I do have some good nervous Jewy credentials.
[00:34:33]  And I would think you got a guy who's working at the, hey, we're going to manufacture deadly virus labs and he gets sick.
[00:34:39]  How do you not have like a very specific safer hospital for those individuals?
[00:34:45]  How like, you know, you think with all this U.S. funding in their research, they could have a lockdown area so that if someone in the, hey, we're going to create deadly virus labs got sick, you don't just send them out to the hospital.
[00:34:57]  Yeah, that's right.
[00:34:58]  That's right.
[00:34:59]  Let me just read a couple paragraphs more.
[00:35:02]  November 2019 is roughly when many epidemiologists and virologists believe that SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the pandemic, first began circulating around the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where Beijing says that the first confirmed case was a man who fell ill on December 8th, 2019.
[00:35:26]  The Wuhan Institute hasn't shared raw data, safety logs, and lab records on its extensive work with coronaviruses in bats, which many consider the most likely source of the virus.
[00:35:40]  China has repeatedly denied that the virus escaped from one of its labs.
[00:35:44]  On Sunday, China's foreign ministry cited WHO-led team's conclusion after a visit to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in February that a lab leak was extremely unlikely.
[00:35:57]  The U.S., quote, the U.S. continues to hype the lab leak theory, the foreign minister said in response to a request for comment by the Wall Street Journal.
[00:36:06]  It is actually concerned about tracing, is it actually concerned about tracing the source or trying to divert attention?
[00:36:14]  So that's the Chinese government's official response.
[00:36:18]  But I don't know about you guys, but what jumped out to me about that paragraph was that, what, that the lab has not shared their information.
[00:36:29]  And that to me is like, if nothing else, shouldn't there be a major pressure campaign?
[00:36:35]  I mean, wouldn't it be pretty easy if Biden and some other leaders were to stand up and go, no, no, no, you absolutely need to disclose all of the information about this lab.
[00:36:46]  I'm sorry, China.
[00:36:47]  This was unleashed on the world.
[00:36:49]  And like, you have to tell us what happened here so we can make sure this doesn't happen again at the very least.
[00:36:56]  So again, like you said, I'm no scientist, but yeah, perhaps it's my nerve, my nervous Jewy energy as well.
[00:37:05]  This seems like just so damn crazy that they would possibly, you would be looking just on the circumstantial evidence that this is, that you're telling me a couple weeks before the first confirmed case of COVID,
[00:37:22]  you have this lab where they're working on coronaviruses and a bunch of the researchers get sick and hospitalized with symptoms that were, you know, similar to COVID-19 symptoms.
[00:37:39]  I mean, if nothing else, that is a slam dunk for we should be, you know, we should have a fuller investigation.
[00:37:47]  But of course, it's going to be the World Health Organization who said they already investigated it and determined that China did a great job, evidently without any of the information.
[00:37:56]  And if they're the World Health Organization, they must be pretty good at this.
[00:37:59]  We probably don't even need to look at it again.
[00:38:01]  Right.
[00:38:01]  Right.
[00:38:02]  You think if the world got together on something, we'd be pretty good at it.
[00:38:05]  Yeah.
[00:38:06]  So it, you know, it's interesting just to see, you know, in real time, so many of these narratives just collapsing.
[00:38:16]  And it turns out, like, you almost, it leaves you wondering, like, what is the full story here?
[00:38:22]  And how fascinating is it?
[00:38:24]  And how different is it from what was being presented to the world and the American people?
[00:38:30]  Just give it one more year and we'll get the whole story.
[00:38:32]  Once no one cares, they let us all out of our homes.
[00:38:34]  We're back to our lives.
[00:38:35]  We forgot about everyone that they killed and how difficult it was.
[00:38:39]  And then they'll just sneak the whole story.
[00:38:40]  It'll be on the fourth page of the journal.
[00:38:42]  Did you see the meme?
[00:38:44]  I retweeted it the other day, but God was pretty funny where it's Rand Paul and Fauci.
[00:38:50]  And Rand Paul is like, Did you fund gain of function research in China that directly led to this pandemic?
[00:38:57]  And then it's Fauci, and he goes, All right, pandemic's over.
[00:39:03]  It really does seem like they're just kind of like, All right, um, how about you could take your mask off?
[00:39:09]  Isn't that cool?
[00:39:10]  Yeah, you guys are asking a lot of questions.
[00:39:11]  How about just we can stop doing this?
[00:39:13]  No, we don't even need to.
[00:39:14]  It's no big deal.
[00:39:14]  We'll send you checks.
[00:39:15]  We'll send you that.
[00:39:16]  You don't even need to stay home.
[00:39:18]  You can go out and you get the money.
[00:39:19]  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:39:20]  Go take your money, spend it wherever you want to.
[00:39:22]  Go kiss strangers.
[00:39:23]  It doesn't matter.
[00:39:23]  It's just the sniffles.
[00:39:24]  Anyway, so it's like, no big deal.
[00:39:26]  Just go ahead, live your life.
[00:39:27]  All of a sudden, the whole narrative seems to be changing.
[00:39:31]  And I think that that's fascinating.
[00:39:34]  You know, it's, it's, there's this is a weird time that we're in right now.
[00:39:38]  There's a case for cautious optimism.
[00:39:41]  It does seem like the bad guys have taken several major blows.
[00:39:50]  And so that's good.
[00:39:51]  But, you know, that's also perhaps when they're cornered and at their most dangerous.
[00:39:55]  So we're approaching a fork in the road here, and we'll see.
[00:39:59]  We'll see what happens.
[00:40:01]  Let's play a little bit from this Rand Paul talk because I've been told there's some good stuff in there.
[00:40:08]  Sort of local business.
[00:40:10]  It's been a tough year, you know, to have a restaurant or a bar.
[00:40:13]  And I'm not sure the government's making it any easier.
[00:40:16]  From my perspective, I think government's job is to keep the peace, keep the law and order, enforce contracts, and try to stay out of the way of business.
[00:40:27]  Not getting already as an ANCAP, you're already like, you commie.
[00:40:34]  But all right, I guess that is fairly reasonable for most for most normal people.
[00:40:40]  I'm kind of carried away, particularly our governor and the current president.
[00:40:44]  And the current president has exciting news.
[00:40:46]  I don't know if you've heard this.
[00:40:48]  On July 4th, you can gather with two other people that have been vaccinated and you can very quickly pull your mask down for a little bit with them inside.
[00:41:00]  Do you think President Biden gets out at all?
[00:41:02]  I mean, what do you think he thinks?
[00:41:03]  Really?
[00:41:04]  He doesn't think people have already figured out if they've been vaccinated.
[00:41:07]  Guess what?
[00:41:09]  By and large, they have immunity.
[00:41:10]  By and large, they're doing very well.
[00:41:12]  The amount of people being hospitalized or dying after a vaccine approaches zero.
[00:41:17]  It's the same with infection, too.
[00:41:19]  And this is the thing they're not telling you.
[00:41:21]  They're like, oh, we only have a third of the people vaccinated.
[00:41:24]  Well, a third of the people already got it.
[00:41:27]  So we have a bunch of people like myself who got it naturally and have immunity now.
[00:41:32]  Probably about 100 million of us.
[00:41:34]  The official tally is about 32 million people have gotten COVID.
[00:41:39]  But even the CDC, which is very conservative, says for every person who got it, there's two more people who got it.
[00:41:45]  They just didn't know they had it.
[00:41:47]  And if any of you have had it and you have children at home, you were sick and you didn't notice your kids getting sick, about half of them got it anyway because the kids show very few symptoms.
[00:41:57]  But the thing is, this is good news.
[00:41:59]  And this is a good news that's being hidden from everyone as we put on more and more mandates.
[00:42:04]  And as the governor keeps everything locked down in Kentucky, they're ignoring the good news.
[00:42:08]  The good news is a third of us have had it.
[00:42:11]  A third of us have been vaccinated.
[00:42:13]  Of those over 65 years old, 85% have gotten the vaccine.
[00:42:19]  They think we're too stupid to figure this out.
[00:42:21]  Most people over 65 have figured it out.
[00:42:24]  He paused for a second.
[00:42:25]  Every country.
[00:42:26]  So he's right.
[00:42:28]  And it's fascinating that there's zero conversation about natural immunity for all the talk about herd immunity and the percentages that you would need to be at.
[00:42:37]  They're not talking about it at all.
[00:42:38]  I've heard doctors say things as crazy as 90% of people need to be vaccinated.
[00:42:43]  What happened to earlier on?
[00:42:45]  I mean, I might have this number long, but I thought like you need like a 20% infection rate for like herd immunity.
[00:42:50]  And then the other thing that's very interesting, I might not have that right, but I just know that there's a concept of herd immunity.
[00:42:55]  It's not that 100% of people have gotten it.
[00:42:58]  Also, I would venture to guess, just wild speculation, that more of the people that have gotten this are also in the community of people that are reluctant to get the vaccine.
[00:43:08]  People like me that have not socially distanced also don't want to get the vaccine.
[00:43:14]  So there's probably a pretty good chance.
[00:43:15]  I'm not saying it's a perfect, hey, you can say 100 million people have been vaccinated, 100 million people.
[00:43:20]  Like it's not a perfect, like it's not a perfect system, but I'm willing to bet that there's a lot of people that have not been keeping these rules because they distrust the government.
[00:43:30]  They're not going to go get the vaccine and they probably don't need it either.
[00:43:34]  Yeah.
[00:43:34]  Yeah.
[00:43:35]  I think there's definitely a lot of overlap in that Venn diagram for sure.
[00:43:39]  But one of the points that I think, you know, so the thing is this, right?
[00:43:43]  The fact that we've never been allowed to have an honest, frank conversation about COVID or that so many of the people who have have been silenced allows us to not accurately, you know, assess the moment now.

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[00:45:06]  So it was obvious.
[00:45:08]  I mean, we've talked about it on this show and somehow managed to not get booted off, but it was obvious from very early on in this thing.
[00:45:15]  Like I remember the episodes when I was recording, you know, from my in-law's place, like, you know, in March and April, when me and you were reading off the numbers that we had already gotten just from the New York, the New York City Department of Health, where I don't know if you remember this, reading off the New York City Department of Health numbers when they were talking about the COVID deaths.
[00:45:39]  And this was at the time when New York was the epicenter.
[00:45:42]  And they were looking at it and were like, oh, okay, look at the amount that are 85 plus, 90 plus, 65 plus.
[00:45:50]  And this is like the vast majority of people who are dying were old people.
[00:45:53]  And then the information about comorbidities and things like this came out.
[00:45:57]  And you're like, okay, so this is old and sick people who are dying from this.
[00:46:02]  And the point that Rand Paul is making is that the old people have pretty much all gotten vaccinated.
[00:46:09]  I mean, not all of them, but like a huge, huge percentage of them have gotten vaccinated.
[00:46:13]  And so all of the sudden, if you realize that a whole lot of people have gotten COVID already and have natural immunity to it, and it really only kills and seriously, you know, like hospitalizes vulnerable people.
[00:46:31]  And a lot of them have either had it or been vaccinated at this point.
[00:46:36]  All of a sudden, when you start to realistically assess this, the risk is way lower than the fear-mongers would have you believe.
[00:46:46]  And maybe that's why there isn't a problem with these gatherings.
[00:46:51]  Maybe that's why numbers aren't going up in any of the places where they're having these huge gatherings.
[00:46:56]  And I like that Rand Paul echoed the point that we've made on the podcast several times where this tremendous disconnect between Joe Biden being like, Listen, by the 4th of July, if you've all been vaccinated, three of you can get together and maybe even take your mask off for a little bit.
[00:47:11]  And then you just turn on your TV and see like, you know, these sporting events in Texas with like 30,000 people screaming their heads off.
[00:47:19]  And you're like, wait, what?
[00:47:20]  What's going on here?
[00:47:22]  This is just so bizarre, so bizarre to say.
[00:47:24]  Now, let's play a little bit more of Dr. Rand Paul.
[00:47:28]  It's your decision to make.
[00:47:29]  In a free country, you decide what your risks are.
[00:47:32]  Every time you get in a car, every time you ride a bike, every time you get on a motorcycle, whether you wear a helmet, you don't wear a helmet, what you eat.
[00:47:40]  All of these are risks you take.
[00:47:41]  And in a free society, you make them.
[00:47:43]  The government doesn't get to make these decisions.
[00:47:46]  There's no precedent for what Governor Bashir has done closing down restaurants.
[00:47:50]  There's also no authority for it.
[00:47:52]  The state legislator in January revoked his powers, trimmed his sales, and took the emergency statute and said to Governor Bashir, you no longer have the right to do this.
[00:48:04]  If you make an edict, within 30 days, that edict expires unless it's approved by the state legislature.
[00:48:10]  So how did Governor Bashir respond?
[00:48:12]  He sued the state legislature.
[00:48:15]  He found a liberal judge in Frankfurt, surprise.
[00:48:18]  And that judge upheld this.
[00:48:20]  So right now, the state legislature passes a law.
[00:48:23]  The governor objects, and the courts say the law is null and void.
[00:48:27]  Now, this is going to go to the Supreme Court, but this will probably be the most important Kentucky Supreme Court case in our lifetime.
[00:48:35]  They're going to decide whether or not the state legislature has the power to restrict the governor's powers.
[00:48:41]  And realize when they pass their legislation, all they're doing is amending their own legislation for the 1990s.
[00:48:48]  When they passed the emergency legislation, I think almost everybody who was there thought it meant, well, if there was a tornado in Harrodsburg, the National Guard would come with water and blankets and shelter and take care of us for a few days till we got on our feet again.
[00:49:02]  No one would object to that.
[00:49:04]  But nobody thought that a policy lasting a year to limit how many people can be in a restaurant or a hotel or a bowling alley or a hair salon and how you operate your business.
[00:49:14]  No one ever thought that could be done by the will of one person.
[00:49:18]  Nobody who knows the history of our country believes that power should be concentrated in the hands of one person, that anyone should have unchecked powers.
[00:49:27]  I don't care whether it's a Republican or a Democrat.
[00:49:29]  If this were a Republican governor, I'd be telling you exactly the same thing.
[00:49:32]  All right, let's pause it there.
[00:49:34]  And this is where I got to say, man, and Rand Paul really does have, I think, a lot of credibility still, you know, even aside from the fact that he was such a supporter of Donald Trump.
[00:49:44]  But when he tells you that even if a Republican was doing this, I'd be just as opposed to it.
[00:49:48]  I think that is true.
[00:49:50]  And that Rand Paul would be opposed to this type of government overreach, no matter what party was doing it.
[00:49:57]  So look, I understand, you know, some people who listen to this might say, like, look, it is to some degree a tamer version of what we've been saying on this show for a long time.
[00:50:06]  But look, man, that is a United States senator.
[00:50:10]  This video has almost a million views on it, and it just happened.
[00:50:14]  So it'll probably get a ton of views on it.
[00:50:17]  And I just think there's like, there is real value in a sitting U.S. Senator speaking the truth like this.
[00:50:25]  So we'll, you know, we'll see what comes of that Kentucky Supreme Court case.
[00:50:30]  Hopefully it's a victory for freedom.
[00:50:33]  But man, Rand Paul is really just, he's killing it.
[00:50:37]  He's killing it on this COVID front.
[00:50:39]  And it's great, you know, because he kind of knows, and there's a lot of people trashing him for taking this stand, you know?
[00:50:45]  But good for him because he is, the more time that goes on, the more he's being proven, you know, he's been proven right.
[00:50:53]  So God bless Rand Paul.
[00:50:55]  Doing a great job.
[00:50:56]  Dude, I love watching that.
[00:50:57]  When I found that video, it was getting me juiced up.
[00:51:00]  Yeah, I'm excited to go watch the rest of it after the show.
[00:51:04]  I'll make sure to do that.
[00:51:05]  God damn, Rob, you are getting blurrier and blurrier through this whole show.
[00:51:09]  It props to me that I found another loud place to record from.
[00:51:12]  So I'm keeping the tradition alive of distracting environments.
[00:51:16]  Sirens for 45 people shuffling around.
[00:51:20]  I put it in pretty well in here.
[00:51:22]  So, you know, we'll have to yell at some people later.
[00:51:25]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:51:25]  All right.
[00:51:26]  All right.
[00:51:26]  Sounds good.
[00:51:27]  We will.
[00:51:28]  All right.
[00:51:29]  So speaking of, you know, giving Rand Paul props, and I try my best, particularly because, you know, I am hard on libertarians and liberty-leaning people when I feel like they're messing up.
[00:51:42]  And I will continue to be because I think that's an important service.
[00:51:47]  And it just frustrates me.
[00:51:49]  And I find it kind of cathartic to criticize libertarians when they mess up on their messaging.
[00:51:56]  And I've criticized Rand Paul on the show many times.
[00:51:58]  So I feel it, you know, it's kind of, it's on me to let you know when I think he's really getting something right.
[00:52:04]  And he's been really great on this stuff.
[00:52:05]  And by the way, that's how I was, too, with the Joe Jorgensen campaign in 2020.
[00:52:12]  I would say when I thought she did something really good, I highlighted videos of hers that were really great or tweets that were really good.
[00:52:18]  But I'd also, you know, criticize her when she had really terrible messaging, which unfortunately was far too often.
[00:52:24]  However, I did want to say that, look, I've been critical of the Libertarian Party and their messaging.
[00:52:33]  But I wanted to give some credit to them for a tweet that they had the other day, which I got to say I really liked.
[00:52:41]  And it was short and a little bit vague and perhaps could have been better.
[00:52:46]  But the Libertarian Party, National, who I was very critical of for being so silent on the lockdowns.
[00:52:54]  And look, in many ways, it is that it's kind of unforgivable.
[00:53:00]  And it will be something that the Libertarian Party is going to have to dig ourselves out of for quite a while.
[00:53:08]  And the only way to do it is to be really, really good on everything, you know, going forward.
[00:53:14]  But like, you know, look, as I've said many times on the show before, in 2020, the United States of America went totalitarian.
[00:53:25]  I don't see any other way to accurately describe it.
[00:53:28]  We transitioned into being a totalitarian country where all of the sudden governors dictated every inch of the most intimate personal details and what you were allowed to do and not allowed to do.
[00:53:42]  That happened.
[00:53:43]  That's the reality.
[00:53:45]  And in that same year, the Libertarian Party had a presidential campaign, and they did not make being against the totalitarianism the center of their campaign.
[00:53:56]  I just think that's a, I cannot express how much of a huge blunder that is.
[00:54:02]  And I don't think it does anyone any good for me to pretend that that's not the case.
[00:54:07]  For me to say like, well, I'm a team player, so I won't criticize them for this.
[00:54:11]  I mean, that's just, that's not, I don't think that's a smart strategy and it's not how I operate.
[00:54:15]  So that's not what I'm going to do, you know?
[00:54:18]  And the messaging from the Libertarian Party should have so obviously just been all year in 2020 that we're against the lockdowns.
[00:54:27]  And here's why there's no legal authority to have them.
[00:54:29]  And here's how they're destroying lives.
[00:54:31]  And here's how evil it is.
[00:54:32]  And we are so much the party for freedom.
[00:54:36]  And it was the perfect opportunity.
[00:54:38]  Not only was it the right thing to do, not only was it the only thing that made sense, if you're a libertarian to stand for, but it would also have been the perfect tool for product differentiation.
[00:54:51]  To look, here's what the third party offers you that the Democrats and the Republicans don't.
[00:54:57]  We are for your right.
[00:54:59]  Your inalienable right to open your business.
[00:55:03]  I mean, there was so much appeal in that message, you know?
[00:55:07]  Anyway, they didn't do it.
[00:55:09]  They really dropped the ball on this.
[00:55:11]  But I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Libertarian Party tweeted out yesterday, they tweeted hashtag lockdown was a trial run.
[00:55:22]  And I was like, ooh, spicy, a little bit conspiratorial, but really bold.
[00:55:29]  And I was like, I like that messaging.
[00:55:32]  Now, I would say it could have been a little bit more precise and perhaps a little bit more perfect.
[00:55:38]  I would have, you know, I would have said, you know, something probably along the lines of like, the lockdowns were criminal and totalitarian.
[00:55:47]  And now that the government's gotten away with this, believe me, there are people planning on using this again in the future and maybe even ramping it up.
[00:55:54]  Something a little bit more along those lines.
[00:55:57]  Who knows?
[00:55:58]  But I liked that.
[00:55:59]  I liked that a lot.
[00:56:00]  And then, you know, and I made sure to retweet it and be like, I'm proud of them for this.
[00:56:08]  And then there were some libertarians that were bothered by it.
[00:56:10]  And they were like, well, now we're going off in a tinfoil hat, you know, conspiracy.
[00:56:15]  Oh, this was a trial run.
[00:56:17]  And I just, I can't imagine that that would bother you if you care about freedom.
[00:56:23]  Like, oh, oh my God, are we implying that there might be some nefarious people involved in the stripping of all of your basic liberties?
[00:56:33]  It's unbelievable that after this last year, someone could even accuse you of being a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist.
[00:56:39]  Oh, what are you saying?
[00:56:40]  They're going to start shutting down churches?
[00:56:42]  It's like, like, what?
[00:56:44]  Yes.
[00:56:45]  Yes, that's right.
[00:56:46]  I was arguing with a few libertarians.
[00:56:48]  We're like, yeah, but this implies that it's all like some big conspiracy.
[00:56:52]  And really what it was was just that there was a crisis and an opportunity and they exploited it.
[00:56:57]  And I'm like, well, by definition, that's a conspiracy.
[00:57:01]  If there's a bunch of powerful people who conspire to exploit a crisis, then that is a conspiracy.
[00:57:07]  And do you think those powerful people after exploiting this crisis wouldn't perhaps try to create another crisis where they can exploit it again?
[00:57:15]  Of course they would.
[00:57:17]  So anyway, I just wanted to give in the spirit of giving props to Rand Paul.
[00:57:22]  I give props to the Libertarian Party.
[00:57:24]  I thought that was a solid tweet.
[00:57:25]  I'd like to see more backing it up that's more just rooted in strict fact.
[00:57:31]  Like this is what happened.
[00:57:33]  This is how the crisis was exploited.
[00:57:35]  This is how they want to exploit it in the future.
[00:57:37]  But we know that people are already flirting with the idea of climate lockdowns, of masking up for the seasonal flu, all of these things we've been covering on this show.
[00:57:48]  What's wrong with talking about this?
[00:57:50]  What's wrong with pointing out what these criminals are actually doing?
[00:57:54]  Again, I think they should follow that up and tweet it with more specifics backing it up.
[00:57:58]  But good for them.
[00:57:59]  I thought that was great.
[00:58:01]  And I prefer a little conspiracy to silence his violence and hate yourself because you're white.
[00:58:07]  So we're heading in the right direction.
[00:58:09]  Yeah.
[00:58:09]  Well, I'd say, you know, I tweeted something like this, but I go, I don't know.
[00:58:14]  Like, personally, I'd much prefer a party that yells conspiracy in the face of totalitarianism than one that's silent.
[00:58:23]  So I agree.
[00:58:23]  Oh, that's great.
[00:58:24]  I agree completely with what you're saying.
[00:58:27]  I'd rather somebody who, you know, jumps to conclusions, but is forcefully, vocally against the worst policies than somebody who's just like, well, I don't want to ruffle any feathers, so I won't say anything.
[00:58:41]  It's interesting to me, too, because I really don't know the inner workings of what goes on behind the Twitter account, but you can see these tweets from the National Libertarian Party that you're like, clearly this one was tweeted by someone else than this one.
[00:58:54]  I don't know.
[00:58:54]  Whoever tweeted this one, that's my kind of guy.
[00:58:56]  We've got to go grab a beer.
[00:58:58]  That's going to be mine, dude.
[00:58:59]  Oh, yeah.
[00:59:00]  It's all you.
[00:59:01]  Don't worry about it.
[00:59:02]  The future is bright, my friend.
[00:59:04]  The future is bright.
[00:59:05]  And look, now as we're getting ready to wrap up, you came back in a full focus.
[00:59:09]  You look great now.
[00:59:10]  Thank you.
[00:59:10]  I've been working on looking good and full focus.
[00:59:14]  All right, Rob, what do you got coming up?
[00:59:17]  Oh, go to my website, RobbieTheFire.com.
[00:59:19]  I'm going to be getting up all sorts of some reports to our dates.
[00:59:22]  We're going to be all over the place.
[00:59:23]  And please go support theblackcaptain.com.
[00:59:25]  It's a full scripted audio series, and libertarians will love it.
[00:59:29]  So go spend your money on it.
[00:59:31]  Absolutely.
[00:59:32]  And of course, listen to Run Your Mouth and follow Robbie on Twitter at RobbieTheFire.
[00:59:37]  Pork Fest, me and Robbie Bernstein are coming to you.
[00:59:40]  Freedom Fest, I'm coming to you.
[00:59:42]  A lot of fun stuff coming up.
[00:59:43]  Me and Robbie have also been planning a bunch of live dates.
[00:59:46]  So we'll let you know those soon.
[00:59:48]  We're going to be doing some live stand-up comedy, hopefully in a town.
[00:59:51]  We could probably announce Brooklyn.
[00:59:54]  We're going to be doing Brooklyn two Sundays coming up.
[00:59:58]  I'll have those dates up soon and we'll tweet it.
[01:00:00]  But if you're in New York, definitely be on the lookout for two Sundays in a row in Brooklyn, you and I.
[01:00:05]  It's going to be fun.
[01:00:06]  All right.
[01:00:07]  Sounds good, my brother.
[01:00:08]  Thanks, everybody, for listening.
[01:00:09]  See you next time.
[01:00:10]  Peace.