Dave Smith and Robbie the Fire Bernstein dissect Dr. Anthony Fauci's defensive reaction to DeMar Hamlin's cardiac collapse, criticizing his refusal to compare vaccine-induced myocarditis risks against football trauma or natural COVID-19 complications. They argue this propagandistic stance mirrors broader institutional failures, from the Iraq War to pandemic lockdowns, fueling public distrust in government narratives. The hosts further condemn Kevin McCarthy's ego-driven political maneuvering over critical issues like opioid deaths and January 6th investigations, suggesting that prioritizing power over public welfare defines a dangerous cultural shift where official stories are increasingly rejected. [Automatically generated summary]
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I only saw, I saw like three of the clips, man.
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So I wanted to open the show talking about an interview clip that we have here from Dr. Anthony Fauci, who I guess is retired, but is still coming around and being listened to by some people for whatever reason.
Crowd Health and Vaccine Claims00:11:31
I had mentioned on the last episode that I felt like that thing with the football player who collapsed on the field and who's more than collapsed, I think actually, like, you know, his heart stopped beating on the field.
That this just felt like somewhat of a turning point in the general consciousness of the way these things were being discussed.
You know, but we, as we discussed, we don't know exactly what happened, not trying to make any claims about it, but just the kind of something interesting in just seeing it becoming more mainstreamed to question whether or not maybe an injury like this could be related to the vaccine.
There's another video that one of the things we talked about on that was like, well, it's just a one-off.
I think you made this point right.
Well, it's just a one-off.
So, you know, if you see more like this, that might be an indicator of something.
And there are some people who are claiming that there's there is some data suggesting that these type of things are way up.
But there's another video now that's going viral of a high school or college basketball player also collapses in a kind of different way, kind of collapsed, almost looked like he might have been fainting, but then was grabbing his chest as he went down.
A lot more so.
It's like a Tom Segura injury turned, I've fallen and can't get up commercial.
Yes, yes.
Well, right.
So it wasn't the same exact thing.
However, my point here isn't even really whether like either of these two injuries were vax related.
That's not really what I think is interesting is the way the conversation is shifting.
In the same sense that when the government, if the government's been, let's say the government told you that we're overhauling the healthcare system.
And if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
And then they overhauled it.
And it turns out you couldn't keep your doctor if you liked your doctor.
Or maybe they told you there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
And then it turns out, you know what I mean?
There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and they just lied to you to get a war that then let's say, you know, they told you in 2007 that the fundamentals of the economy looked great and there was no bubble.
The Fed chairman told you there's no bubble in the housing industry.
And then there was such a big bubble that it caused the worst, you know, economy in nearly 100 years.
And then let's say they told you, you know, there was like a virus that you had to wipe down your groceries in order to not get.
And then that you had to lock down society and that would save lives, but it'll only last two weeks.
And you know, that also turned out to be bullshit.
You know, you have all these things.
And then in 2020, you have an election and there's tens of millions of Americans who say, we don't believe the results of the election.
This election is fraudulent.
You stole it.
You stuffed the ballots and you rigged the machines.
Now, I don't know if that last part's correct, you know, but you can kind of step back and see it as this bigger trend that it's like, oh, yeah, people are kind of just starting to go, I don't trust any of you.
I don't trust any of you.
And of course, the reaction from all of the people in all of these institutions when people didn't believe the results of the 2020 election was like, that's outrageous.
That's appalling that you would not trust us.
However, if you zoom back and just think about the things I just rattled off off the top of my fucking head, you go, no, it's not, it's not ridiculous.
It makes complete sense that they don't trust you.
So that's kind of the lens that I'm looking at this stuff through.
It's kind of like, I think this is, it's, there's something particularly interesting about people starting to entertain the possibility that the vaccine could really hurt people in very profound ways.
There's something interesting about entering that room.
Like that's quite a door to open.
Once you open that door, you're like, holy shit.
What did they do to everybody?
I mean, what did they do?
They pushed this thing like they completely demonized anyone who would dare even ask questions about this stuff.
And so I don't know.
I find this to be just a real interesting little moment.
I don't know exactly what it means.
I think that about a lot of things that are going on today, I think we don't know exactly what this means.
I think, you know, it's probably going to be 10, 15 years before we understand exactly what the hell moment we were living through right now.
Sure feels like it's a big time.
And the fallout from the COVID years is going to have one way or the other, an enormous impact on the culture and the country going forward.
So that was kind of what was in the back of my head as I came across this clip of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
So why don't we watch that unless there's anything you want to add before we watch, Rob?
Well, you were saying hopefully 10, 15 years, we might get a complete data set.
The only thing that I mean could be a pretty clear indicator, I guess, would be if mortality tables of excess death remain up since COVID for like a prolonged period of time.
The problem is they're going to claim, well, that's because the climate got hotter or that's because of permanent changes to our DNA or whatever the fuck else because of the environment, because of pollution or because of COVID.
Erdie trying to claim that with the myocarditis is like, oh, it could be myocarditis because of COVID, unrelated to the vaccine.
So I think it's like they're always going to have some spin.
What's kind of once again, it's not clear data.
It's not clear that this is because of myocarditis or because of the COVID vaccine.
But live sports are certainly interesting because I can't see the powers at B switching sports to being not live.
Like, how are they going to spin that story?
Like, are they going to shut down athletics completely?
So if that turns out to be a side effect, if it turns out, keywording there.
And if it turns out to be happening at a higher volume, I don't think there's going to be any way for them to keep the cat.
You know what I mean?
Like that, that's out.
There's going to be no way for them to cover that.
And I think, I think obviously you're certainly right that they will attempt to spin it in some way.
But the, you know, there was a Vice piece.
There was some, oh my God, I think I took a snapshot of this.
But I mean, just so like it's, it's, you almost can't even believe it's not satire, but Vice tweeted out.
In a world with global warming, of course, black athletes are falling down because even the minority realize that no one cares about them and their heart just can't handle it, even when they're wealthy and playing sports.
This is the bit that you're doing.
This is what Vice tweeted.
They tweeted this terrifying phenomenon is becoming increasingly common because of climate change.
And the title of the article at vice.com is scientists studying temperature at which humans spontaneously die with increasing urgency.
So, okay, yes, they will try any of this shit, but the point is like, who, who the fuck's going to believe that?
Like, that's the real encouraging thing here.
It's like, that's your propaganda?
Seriously, that's the propaganda you're going with?
Bet.
Okay, run with that one.
Let's see.
Anyway, speaking of propaganda, let's go to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Dr. Fauci, I don't know if you saw it, but on Monday night football this week, DeMar Hamlin, a player for the Buffalo Bills, collapsed on the field.
You're not an NFL expert and you're not an expert on any cardiovascular issues the player might have had.
But what I want to ask you about, Dr. Fauci is, as I want to do in moments like that, I kept an eye on Twitter.
And I can't tell you exactly how many minutes transpired, but it was less than 20 before people on Twitter began to say, well, clearly the vaccine caused his.
All right.
So let's pause this right away.
Here's what's already really interesting about this.
This is what I fucking called on the other show.
And this is exactly what I was saying was the significance of this moment.
Fauci's getting asked about this now in mainstream interviews because they feel like they have to.
They feel like that he's going.
He's saying the same thing I said from his, you know, propagandist point of view, but he's going, you know, I'm seeing on Twitter, this is what a lot of people are saying.
That's kind of the thing.
And now that's, that's the kind of claim that you have to now deal with and at least like address.
And I think there's power in that, that even like he's got to talk about this.
Like the Overton window has now been moved to like discussing like, oh, are people dropping dead from this vaccine?
Now, of course, the way this guy phrased it was the least charitable interpretation saying that with, and you know, there's always, you can always find someone saying anything on the internet, but he's saying, well, within minutes, people were saying this was obviously caused by the vaccine.
Whereas what I saw a lot of too was just people going like, you know, questioning that.
Can we rule that out?
Is it possible that this is what's happening?
But, you know, he took the least charitable, you know, description of what the conversation online was.
But anyway, I just thought right away, it's like, yeah, that kind of right.
There is the point I was trying to make on the last episode, that this is now, this is now in the lexicon of like, what is to be discussed when, when dealing with these, these uh events.
So anyway let's, they're acknowledging the possibility that this was a new technology and that there are unintended health consequences.
They're at least acknowledging that people are acknowledging this possibility that like, people seem to think this.
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Revising Vicious Incentives00:15:44
Um, all right, so let's let's listen to Fauci.
And that had a multiplier effect on twitter, as these things tend to do.
What's your reaction to that?
Well, my reaction is one of concern about is it horror?
Borderline, more than concern.
Yeah, it's horror that misinformation and disinformation uh, when you have a platform like social media that exponentially spreads in its best form, proper and important and value-added information can spread, which is good yes, the thing as a public health person and as a physician and a scientist and my, my identity as a physician,
is the thing that gets pained the most by that, because what that means major is that, yet again, another conspiracy theory, complete nonsense.
Nonsense is going to have some people make a decision for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated, which may cost them their lives.
So that's the thing that's so horrible about it.
And if you want to go out spouting nonsense, conspiracy theories and spreading it all around, fine, except if it results in a person suffering.
Right.
So just pause it right now.
Perhaps just what an unbelievable piece of shit this guy is.
I just like, oh my God, the contempt I have for.
First off, I mean, just whatever.
I don't even know where to start here because there's so much to break down there.
Nobody has been a bigger purveyor of misinformation and disinformation through this whole pandemic than Anthony Fauci.
Nobody.
So the nerve of him to even like start talking about this shit is really something.
Of course, every time he's every time that he's been wrong about every single crucial detail throughout this like tyrannical hellhole of the last three years, that was all like, well, the data changed.
And even though everyone, you know, like who had a head on their shoulders who was paying attention to this shit was right at the time, he's, you know, like that information was, well, it was, it was okay because I don't know, whatever.
You know, advising people to wear a mask outside.
That was okay.
That wasn't misinformation or whatever.
Or, you know, a million different things.
Every inch of the way he sold the vaccines or sold the lockdowns or any of that shit was all misinformation and the worst kind of misinformation, the misinformation that actually led to policies that destroyed people's lives.
But I guess I would say, first, notice the technique of how the corporate press operates.
Like the way they ask questions, the way they set things up.
So the thing here is that, right, they feel like they needed to address this.
That's how dominant the conversation about this is.
But where, you know, he does that weird, like newsman language or whatever, which you were already giggling at.
Where he's like, they were already saying this.
How does that make you feel?
It's like, it's just like, why do they talk like this?
And then Fauci says, what does Fauci say?
He goes, well, I find it concerning.
And then he, the interviewer adds, well, horrifying.
And he goes, yes, horrifying.
You know, like he's already like coaching him through.
So you're not there to be adversarial or give any pushback.
You were there to like, here, let me lay this up for you to dunk it.
Like, okay, here, let me set you up.
But Fauci immediately, I mean, like his immediate response is to tell you that as a scientist and as a doctor and as all this, this just hurts because these conspiracy theories and the misinformation and disinformation and this is, and someone could die because of this.
As if like, what are you even talking about?
Like what this, first off, there's no science to back up that somebody's going to die because of this, like that anybody, what, was at this point going to get vaccinated.
I mean, like, what are we even talking about here?
Something like 50% of the adults who got double vaccinated didn't go back to get their booster.
The ones who did and have been boosted and have been reboosted, the people who are like four vaccines in or five vaccines in, well, you think they're not going to take another one because there's conspiracy theories online about something.
Like, I just, what do you even mean?
On top of that, you know, if we're talking about like just the death rate for people in general originally for COVID, right?
Originally.
But now you're talking about, I mean, what percentage of people have had COVID?
What percentage of them have had COVID a couple times?
Like a very large percentage.
What is the death rate for people who have had COVID several times to get COVID and die?
It's got to be like nothing.
Now, what's the death rate for those who have been, you know, triple vaccinated and are going to get it?
Well, actually, you should look into some interesting new studies about that.
But even according, if you are Fauci, right?
Like, if you're claiming these vaccines work so great, there are people out there who have been triple vaccinated and had COVID twice.
What the fuck is the chance they're going to get COVID and die from it?
But the point really is that if you are a scientist and you're a doctor, and you're responding to something like this, the way your response should be is to say like, well, here's why it's incredibly unlikely that this is what happened.
Because when the vaccine interacts with the heart, this is blah, blah, blah, what happens.
And it's and the odds are much higher that it would be from some other thing that had absolutely nothing to do with this.
And this is what you don't just say.
That's what a, that's what a doctor or a scientist would say.
Like they'd give you some scientific explanation.
They wouldn't go, well, as a doctor and a scientist, I just hate conspiracy theories and misinformation and people could die.
That's what a propagandist sounds like, not what a scientist sounds like.
I don't know.
Anything to add on that, Rob?
Yeah, he's specifically calling for censorship.
He's saying the reason why we can't have people with the ability to ask questions is because they'll put forward information like this and people won't follow our official storyline and then people will die.
It is too dangerous for people to be allowed to ask questions.
Right.
Right.
And a question, of course, that like, look, I don't think it's unreasonable to say, and me and you have maintained this this whole time.
And in the last podcast, we said we don't want to jump to conclusions.
We don't support our people jumping to the conclusion that this was the vaccine.
I don't think people should be, I don't, we don't know.
We just don't know like what caused this at all.
But I think it's completely reasonable to say that you'd be crazy to rule it out.
Like if you were looking into what the possibilities of this were, we know that the vaccine can, in, you know, a small percentage of cases, can cause heart problems, you know, inflammation and different issues.
I don't know.
Is it possible?
Certainly seems reasonable to me that you'd ask yourself that question.
So anyway, let's keep playing.
And that's what happens when disinformation disincentivizes people to get proper interventions for a threat like a pandemic.
And in some of these instances, as you well know, Dr. Fauci, there is some shred of evidence myocarditis was related to vaccines.
It is a heart issue.
I'm not a doctor.
You are.
That's a shred of evidence.
A very small shred.
Right.
And explain how then this can get confused.
Of course, in a very, very rare case, some of the mRNA vaccines can cause a self-limiting, almost invariably benign inflammatory response in the heart, which generally resolves in a very short period of time.
But just pause it already right here.
It's beautiful that they even have to go down this path.
This is why I thought this interview, this clip was so great.
It's like, okay, so Fauci basically, in his slimy piece of shit way, just danced around admitting that, yeah, there's a chance.
Yeah, there's a chance.
He goes, he said, he's very careful about the words he uses, but he says, well, in some cases, a very small percentage of cases, which is usually, generally self-limiting and usually benign.
It's like, oh, okay.
But if you're saying, yeah, no one's arguing this usually happens to people who take the vaccine, right?
I don't think anybody's making that argument.
I don't think anybody is saying usually when you take this vaccine, you collapse and your heart stops, right?
Obviously, that's a load of crap.
A lot of people have taken this vaccine.
That does not usually happen.
But this doesn't usually happen.
We're not talking about a story of something that usually happens.
We're talking about something that is a freak thing.
So what he's establishing here now is that it's like, no, no, no, you're not allowed to assume that something that would usually not happen could have happened in this situation.
But he doesn't exactly tell you, no, myocarditis can't be caused by the vaccine.
He's not saying that because he can't really say that.
That'd even be too far for him.
You know what else usually doesn't happen?
Healthy people dying of COVID.
So if we're going to address things that usually don't happen, let's look at kids.
I mean, the ones that you're still recommending get boosted.
So if we're looking at three and four-year-olds, I mean, what's the risk of a serious incident of myocarditis and a young boy versus them dying of COVID?
And when you say it's relatively benign and it relatively curses itself, there's some instances where that's not happening.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, look, like I'd be fine.
It's just like, let's have one standard here.
It's such a great point you're making.
Let's have one standard.
Look, if somebody was going to say, I don't want to take the vaccine because I'm afraid of getting myocarditis.
And Fauci's response to that would be like, look, it's ridiculous to make a medical decision based on an extremely unlikely event.
Okay, that'd be fair enough.
But now we've established it's ridiculous to make a medical decision based on an extremely unlikely event.
Didn't we?
Okay, so now let's start applying that to why you are recommending my six-month-old baby get a vaccine, an mrRNA vaccine.
Okay.
Like let's let's talk about why you're recommending that someone like me who's had COVID twice, a healthy guy in my 30s.
I'm 39.
I'm going to hang on to that for a while as long as I can.
Well, I am.
I actually just went to the doctor and said, I'm in perfect health.
I mean, I must just be genetically lucky because I have not done anything to earn that.
But I'm just saying a person, and by the standards of COVID of what puts you at risk, you know, like I'm certainly in perfect health.
So what are we talking about here?
What do you think the chances are that I'm going to die from fucking COVID?
Come on, get out of here.
It's ridiculous.
I'm more likely to die by 100,000 other things in front of me.
I'm more likely to like, I don't know, it's probably, it's probably on the level of getting struck by lightning.
You know what I mean?
It's like much, much, much more likely to die in a car crash, much more likely to slip and hit my head and die.
You know what I mean?
So again, that's the standard.
But anyway, keep that standard in mind in mind of we can't, you know, something this is just incredibly unlikely.
So that's illegitimate.
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It is very, very rare when you compare that with the negative effects on the heart by myocarditis or pericarditis, which is inflammation of either the heart muscle or the covering of the heart and heart failure and heart medical problems.
Overwhelmingly, COVID itself causes that in a dramatically higher rate than the relatively benign, mild myocarditis.
We're going to have to pause on that one.
Yes, Rob.
Pause on that.
I don't know if you want to take this first.
You could take this one first, but this one.
I'll give you the honors.
This one has to be torn apart because I just hear it too goddamn much.
Do you want to take it or you want me to start?
I think I'm making smaller points.
So I'll let you make your little point first.
This has become the fallback defense of a lot of people who support the vaccine regime and their defense of like, well, this vaccine can cause myocarditis.
They go, well, yes, but here's our out.
Okay.
COVID is more likely to cause myocarditis than the vaccine.
Okay.
The first major problem with that is that it's wrong.
It's not true.
You can go look this up and dive deep.
Don't just read the first Google headline you read.
Alex Berenson's done great work covering this.
Some other people have as well.
It's just not true.
There was like one study that indicated that, but several more better studies with larger sample sizes have come back.
That's not true.
So forget it.
But even if it was true, even if it was true, it's irrelevant.
It's completely irrelevant.
And you know why?
Because the vaccine does not stop you from getting COVID.
So it doesn't matter.
You're still just increasing your risk.
Now, you can argue that that risk is very small and it's unlikely.
Fine.
But they really don't want to live and die by this.
It's very unlikely sword because that also destroys the entire underpinning of every single COVID restriction policy and even the mass vaccination policy by saying, well, it's very unlikely that this will happen to you.
It's like, yeah, that's the point.
But it doesn't matter because it's not, they still fall back on these arguments that are relying upon the lie from 57 lies ago that we've already disproven.
Like that would be a reasonable case to make, number one, if it were true.
But if the vaccine stopped you from getting COVID, which we all know it doesn't.
Almost everyone vaccinated you know has still gotten COVID.
So they're still exposed to the increased risk, whatever that might be from COVID.
And now they're also exposed to the increased risk from the vaccine.
Damage Control for Vaccines00:09:44
So sorry, that logically does not work.
This is such fucking bullshit.
Like, sorry, go ahead.
Anything.
No, I was picking, I was picking up on the vaccine points.
You nailed it.
Makes no sense.
Again, it makes no sense.
It's like when they, again, it harkens back to like when they were telling us that the vaccines were perfect and prevented you from getting it and prevented you from dying from it, but still the vaccinated needed to be protected from the unvaccinated.
You're like, what the fuck?
I'm sorry.
Like, like any bright fifth grader should be able to go, no, that doesn't work.
Just logically does not work.
All right.
I would wonder why.
I mean, if you had an honest journalist, the question would be, all right, so you're putting forward that it's more likely that a person who has a heart issue, a healthy individual that has an unlikely heart issue, that it was a result of having had Corona and not as a result of the vaccine.
Do you think, though, that it should be better looked at or what evidence do you have to say that it's a result of Corona and not the vax?
Do we have good intelligence?
Like, do we have good studies comparing unvaccinated individuals having a higher rate of heart attacks and not like that would seem to be the comparative study?
Yeah.
So it's interesting just to be like, what are you running with to suggest that this is, it's infrequent, but more likely because of coronavirus and not because of the vaccine.
And then if you were going to say that, right?
I mean.
You would still, if you were being honest, it would force you to at least go like the best to steel man the argument, right?
Like the best argument you could come up with from his position would be, look, you can't rule it out, but it's extremely unlikely that this was a result of the vaccine.
And it's, it was more likely that it was a result of something else.
And the vaccine has done far more good than bad.
And like there are some cases where the vaccine has hurt people, but it saved far more people than it hurt.
Like I don't, I don't think any of this is right, but that would be like the best honest argument you can do.
But instead, he's just going, oh, it's just spreading misinformation that will kill people if you even mention this.
But then we're allowed to talk about how COVID can come.
And by the way, just so you know, the numbers, like the chances of you getting myocarditis from either COVID or the vaccine are incredibly small.
They're both incredibly small.
But notice how it's completely fine to talk about it from COVID.
That's not an issue at all.
No one's going to Fauci and go, yeah, but you only have like a three out of 100,000 chance or something like that of developing it from COVID.
No, no, no.
If it's from COVID, we can talk about this all day long.
We could talk about any of this.
You could talk about the one case where a six-year-old died from COVID and omit the fact that he had leukemia or whatever.
You know, you could talk about that shit all day long.
But as soon as it comes to the vaccine, this is just dangerous misinformation to talk about these very, you know, unlikely things that do happen.
Or I should say rare things that happen.
There's going to be a real crackdown in athletic health supplements.
You see more of these.
That'll be their story.
They'll go, oh, it's the health supplements.
And we're going to be going after all the manufacturers and they'll spin that for a year.
They all changed.
Around 2021, they all started taking different supplements.
Let's keep playing.
The vaccine, which is very, very rare.
So that little thread of proof is that is it possible that he was vaccinated?
And the fact is, someone came out.
And I just read this.
I haven't validated it, but I've read that some physician came out and made the incorrect statement that he had just vaccinated this football player a week earlier to add to the conspiracy that he was recently vaccinated.
And therefore, that's why he collapsed on the field.
When if you look at the film, it's clear that he had a very big, strong person's shoulder go into his chest, which clearly can cause a traumatic injury to the heart.
Let me pause again.
This is where I go, he knows something.
He knows something because he's selling the, oh, very strong person into like every fucking football game.
Now, like I said, there's enough collisions going on in football.
It's possible that, you know, amongst the million collisions that have ever happened in football, that one time, some guy's shoulder pad hit someone's thing at the exact angle.
It was like the five-finger death punch in a kill bill or whatever.
Yeah, it's fucking possible.
But when you're up there selling it, firstly, if a doctor's telling you, hey, a week before I just got the guy boosted, if you're a scientist, you would go, okay, that's a doctor and he's telling you information.
Maybe we should look into that.
If you're instantly, oh, well, there was a big guy who hit him with the shoulder.
I'm like, oh, Fauci knows something.
Fauci's on there trying to address it immediately going, hey, look at that big, big, strong shoulder.
You mean every NFL game?
It's really hard to overstate what a lying piece of shit this guy is for him to like even let this come out of his mouth.
So again, I don't know.
I'll say I'm not a doctor or a scientist.
I've just been a hell of a lot more right about all this stuff than Anthony Fauci.
It's a very low threshold.
But how could you possibly look at what happened here and go, well, yeah, it seems likely something else was going on, right?
Like there's something else other than this was the perfect hit.
Like, but how much Fauci just contradicts his own like stated logic here.
It goes, well, it's very, very unlikely.
It's very unlikely that this was caused by the vaccine.
Like extremely unlikely.
Well, hold on, let me just finish that.
So it's extremely unlikely that this was caused by the vaccine, right?
So we shouldn't even talk about it.
That's dangerous misinformation.
Do you know how extremely unlikely it is that that hit?
It wasn't even like a hard hit.
It's the first time this has ever happened in the NFL.
Certainly, at least in my lifetime, at least in 39 years, this is the first time this has ever happened in the NFL.
There are hits like this every single play, every single play.
There are hits at least, there's several hits at least as hard as this.
So do you know how, just by the numbers, how incredibly unlikely this would be.
If you're talking about a football game that you're talking about four 15 minute quarters where every single snap of the ball, almost every single snap ends in a tackle, and every single snap has two lines crashing into each other and other people blocking each other and hitting each other harder than this hit.
Every single play, there's 20 hits at least harder than this hit.
So think about extrapolate the numbers from that of every single game.
You're looking at like one in at least one in hundreds and hundreds of thousands.
I'm telling you, you're going to come out to a less likely scenario than myocarditis caused by the vaccine.
If you're saying it was just the hit, that's simply what caused this.
So again, he just completely, all of a sudden, undercut his entire logic.
Now it's fine for him as a doctor to say with certainty, it's obvious what happened here.
It's this insanely unlikely event.
That's what happened.
Now, if you're, if you want to say this guy had some major heart condition that was underlying and wasn't diagnosed, I mean, that's possible.
Like it's possible it's completely unrelated to the vaccine.
And you could even make the argument that it's more likely.
Like he's not even doing a good job of selling the bullshit that he should be selling.
Probably this guy had some type of heart condition.
Lots of people have heart conditions that don't end up getting diagnosed because they're not that people have holes in their heart and fucking don't know about it and go live their life, you know?
Lots of people have this and they develop heart conditions, you know?
And so maybe that's it.
He got, he had a heart condition, a very rare heart condition, and then a guy hit him in it and then it resulted in this.
Okay.
I'm willing to entertain that possibility.
But for him to just say, oh, it was the hit.
It's like, oh, okay.
So it's completely fine to assume that some incredibly rare thing happened here.
That's fine, unless the incredibly rare thing happened to reflect poorly on the vaccine that you've been hawking for the last fucking two years.
Then we can't entertain that possibility.
Man, fuck this guy.
I like with how casually he states, well, obviously it's the hit.
Well, if you think that obviously hits can cause people to collapse and die like that, shouldn't you be ending football?
I mean, if it would save one life and we have kids playing football, we got high school kids, we got college kids, you've got these athletes.
And don't tell me they have to make a living because you close plenty of businesses on account of the fact that people shouldn't be able to make their own decisions about whether or not they want to risk death in order to work a career.
We've already established that if it will save one life.
So, I mean, if you're looking at that and it's just so obvious that somebody's shoulder crashing into someone's chest in that manner can cause a heart attack like that, don't you have an obligation as the Lord of health and science to put an end to football?
Well, Rob, you have to understand that this is the man who will, like, this is the man who will look into a camera and tell you that he never recommended locking anything down.
Like, that's the type of, that's the type of guy this guy is, you know, the guy who would was put up to be the leader.
Like, okay, the fucking, there's a pandemic here.
This is really bad.
It's the challenge of all of our lifetimes, but don't worry, I'm the head scientist in charge and I'm going to give you my recommendation through all of this.
The guy, this is how government works.
The guy who's put up there to do that is the most callous, bold-faced liar.
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We'll just look right into the camera, right into someone's eyes and be completely, completely full of shit and assure them all for what?
To fucking save his ass or protect his legacy or not let this whole fucking scheme be exposed.
But anyway, I guess my final takeaway from all of this is that I'm very encouraged by this.
I just think it's fucking great.
I think it's great that this is even, this is the type of damage control that they're trying to have Fauci and their little fucking corporate hack journalists do.
Like this is the type of like, oh, okay, we got too many people are asking this question.
Too many people are asking this really obvious question.
The one that everyone is at least thinking about.
And let me say, and praying to God is not the answer.
Like, like, I think, you know, as we talked about on the previous show, dear God, you, I, I hope this had nothing to do with the vaccine.
I know a lot of people who I love who have been vaccinated and there's a lot of other innocent people who have been fucking vaccinated.
Dear God, let's hope.
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Well, we have a speaker of the house, it looks like Rob.
So I know you're tremendously relieved.
I was going nuts.
I was like, what am I going to do if government's not operational by Monday?
I mean, if they don't get that thing back up and running, I don't even, my water might turn off.
The roads might close.
I mean, sure, they take the entire summer off, but I mean, what was I going to do?
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, it was a rough, it was a rough time for all of us, a lot of sleepless nights.
But of course, the plan marches on somewhat uninterrupted.
Kevin McCarthy ends up becoming the speaker.
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Really, all that was accomplished out of this.
I mean, I suppose I don't even know exactly the details, but he made some promises.
Politicians' promises are worth less than nothing.
But it embarrassed him.
So I guess Kevin McCarthy being, you know, humiliated and then becoming speaker is all things considered better than him just becoming speaker.
Also, we got some pretty funny fake lip reading videos out of it.
Have you seen any of those?
I have not.
I did see the video of the guy getting grabbed by the by the mouth.
And that seems like, I don't know who the guy, that's the weirdest way to grab another person where I understand separating someone, even though it didn't look like he was going to strike anyone.
But I guess I can understand grabbing a guy by his shoulders to like hold him back or whatever.
The mouth.
But literally putting your hand right over the, it seems like he was like leaking government secrets and someone just instantly stepped in to go, nope, and then was like, hey, you're not allowed to say that.
He was like, oh, yeah, Muspus, who was the guy that grabbed him?
It seemed like the guy who grabbed him already didn't like that guy and just saw an opportunity.
He goes, I'm going to fucking fish hook this motherfucker right now.
Yeah, I don't know.
It was very weird.
They were coming over.
It was kind of like McCarthy in this somewhat dramatic looking way walked over and started having this aggressive conversation with Matt Gates and then this other guy get in.
And they were just very pissed off, I guess, that he led this little opposition thing that ended up failing.
Well, it doesn't sound like it completely failed because they're claiming that they got really big concessions that made the process worthwhile.
The biggest one Gates is claiming is, I mean, he's saying with certainty that you will not get these omnibus bills being passed that, you know, that there has to be, I think, a 72-hour reading period.
So he's claiming that that's absolutely definitely come to an end.
We'll see.
I think I also saw claims that there was some sort of a commitment to do a January 6th investigation as to why there wasn't.
I could be wrong on that one.
But I know that was an ask at one point.
I don't know if they got any commitment on that or not.
I did think there was something offensive about the fact.
And I know you've said this about they'll all get together real quick to pass a bill for funding the military or there's certain things when they care, they get it done right away.
And so this was one of those things where it's kind of offensive where it's like the shit that doesn't get done.
But if it's that someone's job, someone's ego is that he's not going into his weekend without the titled position that he wants.
Well, then they'll all stay till midnight on a Friday to get that done.
Yeah.
They had more serious discussions and deliberations about this than they had about spending two plus trillion dollars of your money, you know, in COVID in 2020 or the $6 trillion or the wall or the immigration.
Look at any of these problems.
They're not working until midnight on a Friday.
This is one of the things that I think a lot of Americans understand, whether consciously or, you know, maybe without like intellectualizing it in their head, but just kind of know in their gut.
They're like, look, just ask yourself this question.
What do you think meant more to Kevin McCarthy and the Republican leadership?
Okay.
What do you think they care about more?
That Kevin McCarthy got the votes to be Speaker of the House or that over 100,000 Americans overdose and die every year?
Is there even a debate in your head?
Like, do you think they're even, there's even a question whether they're what they've spent more time on, worked harder for, think about more, cared about more?
And for that matter, all of the people in the corporate press as well, or damn near all of them, all except two, you know, all except Kennedy and Tucker Carlson or something like that, you know?
What do they, what do they care about more?
What do they, what was more of an outrage to them?
That was part of the thing about like January 6th, you know, as we come, we just passed the two-year anniversary about January 6th.
That's one of the things that was like, you know, so revealing about that whole, you know, ridiculousness, you know, that it's like, okay, really what it was January 6th, like some people trespassed on government property where police officers were pulling barricades aside for them and people who haven't been charged were, you know, in the crowd riling them up to do it.
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So, but even leaving that aside, like what, some the government building, there were, there were trespassers in a government building, some proper, some government property was vandalized, someone farted on Nancy Pelosi's desk.
Even give them like the, the, get the steel man argument, like some congress, some congressmen and women were terrified.
And they, you know, these people maybe would have done some real nasty things if they had the opportunity to, that they didn't have the opportunity to, right?
And then, of course, uh, an unarmed girl got shot in the neck and killed, you know, like, well, I don't know, steel man their position as much as you can.
It was terrifying for these congressmen.
The thing about just how much more they care about that than the fact that they ruined tens of millions of people's lives that year, you know, like in the in the previous year of that happening.
It just is so obvious what they cared more about.
Not only did they not care about that, they demonized you if you cared about it, right?
They, they, they didn't care about locking down the economy, but they cared about that.
It's just sickening, you know?
Um, anyway, oh yeah, there were uh, yeah, there were some great Brian said he has one of the lip reading things here.
I'll show you.
I'm a real sucker for these.
I love all of them.
Here, let's, let's play one.
Brian said he has one for us.
A really rich doctor said you were a bummer.
And I think you don't know algebra.
No, we're talking science, bud.
The science of what?
Is that a tiger?
One of your friends promised me I could flick you in your face.
Absolutely.
You may not do that.
Say any cereal name, Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
You're like people in the 12th century.
Why'd you say it like that?
You're a formulated horsepower.
He's a storm cloud.
I don't like you, dude.
There's a tiger.
That's it.
You two guys sent the tiger.
Kate, yeah.
Horrible person, Brad.
I'll report you to Nadine.
I just want your leg bones to be okay.
I brought the tiger.
You got somebody on the so good, dude.
I don't know why.
It's just pure comedy magic.
I just, I love it.
And they get it so good.
Like it looks like it's what they're saying.
It's just fucking great.
Anyway, so that's the most that came out of all of this.
But it was, you know, to the stuff you were saying about the concessions, you know, I wish I could be optimistic about this.
I would not hold my breath about the idea that there'll be no more omnibus spending packages.
If I had to bet on it, I bet they will.
If there are investigations into January 6th, I guarantee nothing.
What will come of it?
The best case scenario of what will come of it is like the best case scenario that always comes of these things.
A few things will be revealed that me and you and people like us will be able to pick apart and go, look, doesn't this really shit, you know, like, what was the best thing that came out of the January 6th committees or any of these like grillings or hearings?
Well, it was definitely the number like one and number two people at the Justice Department refusing to say that there wasn't FBI informants or agents involved.
Okay.
So you can pick that apart and be like, look at this.
Look at what's going on here.
That's what comes of it.
Does what comes of it is like anyone's prosecuted or held responsible or anything for that?
No, that's just not.
It's not the way government works.
It's the very nature of this beast.
It's like, you know, if you have a gun in your car that you keep for protection, but you don't have it like registered and you drive, you know, from like Jersey to Philly and get caught with it, you know, you're going to fucking jail.
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You know what I mean?
You're going to, you better fucking be ready to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a lawyer because your life is at risk now.
You may never recover from that.
And oh, government, government isn't soft when it comes to that.
They're ready to be like, nope, sorry.
It's a federal crime now because you crossed this state line with this weapon and you didn't have the right paperwork from us.
So off to a fucking, you know, rape chamber for you to be tortured in a fucking cage.
That's what you get.
But when they fucking, you know, like destroy millions of people's lives, all of a sudden, well, we could ask you some questions or do whatever, but we just, sorry, there's just nothing more we can do.
So it's just, I guess these guys did what they could, the ones who were very, like, they don't, I think, really have the numbers or the power to do much more.
Maybe if it was all, you know, Matt Gates and Bobert or whatever that chick's name is and all that, maybe they would do a little bit more, but they don't really have the fucking numbers to do anything.
And I don't know.
They would maybe do some other awful things.
Who the fuck knows?
But anyway, at least Kevin McCarthy was humiliated by this whole process.
We can at least enjoy that.
All right.
Okay.
So before we wrap up and get out of here, oh my God, there's this fucking video going viral of Jimmy Fallon that I've just seen all over Twitter and shit.
God damn, it is.
Man, I thought there was a major theme for say like the past 10 years or so of around somewhere in the last 10 years, like from 2012 to now, where you're like, it's just every like celebrity has, it's almost like they're in on some game, some joke that we're not in on where they're like, we're all gonna compete to out cringe each other.
Like we all just want to create the cringiest fucking moments that just like are like, oh my God, how would you humiliate yourself like this?
But man, since 2020, it's really, it's skyrocketed.
But this was the latest from Jimmy Fallon on the tonight show.
There was Alpha, then Delta, then Omicron next.
But this latest variant might be the best.
It's XB point 1.5.
Another friend of COVID-19 has arrived.
It's a new strain, but it isn't the same.
Sounds more like Elon Musk's name.
It's XBD 21.5.
You be more even seen red, red, wine.
Put on your mask when you're inside a facility.
It could be a robot from a Star Wars trilogy.
It's XBD 21.5.
Not OMT or MVP.
Okay, stop it.
Stop it from happening to me.
I can't.
I can't anymore.
Put on your mask when you're inside a facility, says Jimmy Fallon, maskless inside a facility.
Anyway, I don't know what.
How is this entertainment?
Like, what is this?
Sometimes you get stretched thin when writing propaganda.
You know what I mean?
They come to you.
You're not into it.
The storyline doesn't make sense.
They're like, we need something.
And they're like, I guess maybe like a BG song.
He can go out there.
He can sing and dance.
I can get people to dress up in shots.
And after Colbert, Colbert, Stephen, Colbert, whatever.
After he got just so intensely ridiculed for that god-awful cringey fucking thing he was doing with the vaccines, the, you know, the song and dance thing.
I can't believe Fallon wasn't just like, ah, dude, let's just.
Do I have to?
Like, let's just not.
Like someone presented that to him and he was like, well, you know, this is maybe we could work on this and like make it a little punchier or something.
Like, what?
I'm just going to get up there with the roots and start singing about the latest.
The roots are black.
How come one person in the band doesn't go, nah, man?
There's no other thing.
The roots are collecting a check.
They're collecting a nice check.
They're like, I will fucking drum away while Jimmy Fallon sings about this vaccine that I'm obviously not getting.
I don't know.
Yeah, it's really something.
I don't know.
I don't really have much of a comment on it.
It's just like, I can't believe these guys are like, it's like, it has nothing to do with what your politics are either.
Like, be liberal or whatever, you know, I don't fucking care.
But like, could you at least be like, how is this?
How do you not feel the cringe in all of this?
I don't know.
Thanks for doing so much for Nate's career.
Do appreciate that.
Thanks, Fallon.
All right.
We're going to wrap there.
Thank you, everybody, for listening.
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Looking very forward to the next ones, Maryland and St. Louis.
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