Kevin Bae: Hello, this is the that's all I got podcast episode
nine for June 19 2021 My name is Kevin Bae. I am your illustrious
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the meat, the meat of it. Tomorrow is Father's Day. Does
anybody really care? Does anybody really care? It's
Father's Day. And, you know, you know, I have I have two kids who
would probably cringe if they heard this podcast, earning any
any of the other stuff that I'm doing online. I know, they try
to shut it out as much as possible. And we did celebrate
Father's Day in our house, you know, but it's never been a big
deal to me. And I kind of never understood really why. And then
I looked it up today. Just as as a lark, I'm like, it's gonna be
father's day tomorrow, and I close that browser tab for some
stupid reason. But let's see Father's Day origin. I looked it
up in using Wikipedia everybody's favorite source for
accurate information. I found out that Father's Day,
obviously, was created in an attempt to honor father's like
Mother's Day does it it was created in 1910 by a woman named
Sonora smart dad, and she was born in Arkansas, but she was
living in Spokane, Washington. And she can't tell if she worked
at the YMCA over there. Or she couldn't have lived there
because the YMCA not the YWCA. So she created it to honor her
father, who was a civil war veteran and a single parent who
raised six children. So after hearing some sermon at a church,
she decided that father should have a similar holiday. And she
originally suggested June 5, but the Spokane Spokane ministerial
Alliance did not have enough time to prepare their sermons
for that fifth. So the celebration was deferred to the
third Sunday of June. So that's how we ended up here. But then,
you know, nobody picked up on it was only celebrated in Spokane.
And nationally, nobody really picked up on it. And it didn't
have much success. So it kind of lost its promotion. Nobody
really did anything with it. From 1920. On, she tried to to
resurrect it in the 1930s. And she enlisted the help of trade
groups that would benefit from the holiday. So they gave you an
example in Wikipedia of the manufacturer of ties, tobacco
pipes and other traditional presence to fathers. She tried
it. So it's this is really, this is a commercial holiday. And
yes, she tried to create it to celebrate her father and but
really, this has just been pushed by economic interests and
no real you know, homage to fathers. So it just kind of went
on and off and it wasn't really much of a thing. There was a
proclamation in 1966. So it wasn't nationally declared a
thing until 1966 with Lyndon Johnson issued a presidential
proclamation honoring fathers designating the third Sunday in
June as Father's Day. Six years later, Nixon made it a permanent
holiday. So 1972 I was born in 1966. So if it was just made a
national holiday, and it was proclaimed 90 and when I was
born, the year I was born, that's why I never felt much of
a big deal to me. So it was there. Obviously it was always
there since I was born. But I don't Recall really celebrating
it hardly ever growing up. No, you know, my parents were
divorced from when I was a very young age, I think it was four
when they separated.
So I was with my father on weekends anyway, so we, we
celebrated, but I don't really have any memories of doing much
of anything. So, you know, and even you know, when I, when I
had my kids, yes, we also celebrated Father's Day, but
again, to me, it's like, you know, we went out mostly for
dinner for my own father. With the family. We didn't do
anything specifically for me, which doesn't really bother me
that in my mind, fathers You know, I'm not talking about like
being old fashioned either were like, okay, you gotta get bring
you my slippers. Bring me my pipe. And let me sit in front of
the TV and general watch football day or whatever the
home right now it's summertime. So you'd be watching baseball or
basketball the playoffs are on. But I think most fathers I see,
I don't know about young young guys, young guys are so
different from my generation. You know, I'm in my mid 50s. So
I feel like we're just so different, where, you know, I
took care, I did all this stuff, to take care of my kids change
diapers, made lunches, cooked meals, you know, you know, I
took care of them on a regular basis. I did all the feedings at
night when they were infants. But you know, so so in some
respects, you know, I'm a modern, modern day, father. But
at the same time, I'm an old fashioned father. You know, I
never tried to be my kids best friend. I don't never thought
that that was a good idea. And these days, I feel like the
fathers are trying too much to be buddy, buddy. You know, and I
feel to be like, I don't need a father's day. I just don't need
it. What do I need it for? I already know, I'm a father, I
already know that, you know, I've done the best job that I
could while they were growing up. And the chips have to fall,
where they may, you know, the decisions I made at the time
when they were growing up were decisions I made that I felt
were the best for them at the time, whether I made a mistake
or not, you know, that's all in the past. It's happened, it is
what it is. So I don't need a special day to be honored for
any of that, after all, you know, they didn't ask to be
created. I'm the one that assisted in bringing them into
the world. So what in the world does a father need any thanks
for? What do we need a day? that honors us for? What's the
purpose of it? You know, it to me, it just seems like such an
exercise in narcissism, that, you know, you have to glorify
Me, glorify me for bringing you into the world. It's just such
bullshit to me that, you know, it's fine. You know, my kids
send me a card or whatever, you know, and, you know, maybe once
a while you get a little gift. But I think I think in my mind,
a father would not care about this day. It's utterly
meaningless, because you have to be a father every day. You know,
women are different. Mothers are different. Although my wife is
different. She's I don't she doesn't really give a rat's ass
about Mother's Day either, you know, because to her every day
is Mother's Day, but she's an anomaly amongst women. Anyway,
on to the rest of the story. I was 15 minutes about Father's
Day. That's how much it bugs me. I talked about it. Last week,
two weeks ago, Dr. Brett Weinstein and Dr. Pierre Cory,
they had a they on the Dark Horse podcast had like two and a
half hours of talking about ivermectin, what's happening
with it, why the government's ignoring it and what their
general feelings are as to how effective it is. And why there's
such a big campaign against it. Which they do think it's
effective. By the way, I don't know if I included that. So they
had a two and a half hour thing. And it's a it's a podcast so you
can get it you can get it from search for Dark Horse podcast.
You can pull it up. I've got a link in the show notes to this,
I believe or it's on the it's on the blog post page. For this
particular topic. YouTube takes down video discussing ivermectin
by Dr. Pierre Corrie and Dr. Brett Weinstein. So YouTube
takes down the video And they sent him a strike on it. And so
he asked for clarification. And YouTube actually responded that
to qualified doctors, researchers, not quacks. One
that actively sees patients and is currently administering the
drug ivermectin to his patients, and not only to his patients,
but also himself. He takes it as a prophylactic, prophylactic,
prophylactic. However, I'm mispronouncing that, but he
takes it as a preventive measure to prevent himself from having a
severe case of COVID-19. Should he contract the SARS covi to
virus. So not only is he qualified, he's seeing patients
and administering is also taking it himself. So YouTube decides
you're providing misinformation to the public and they took his
video down is unbelievable. It's unbelievable the power that
everybody has given Google companies like YouTube, Facebook
and Apple, Spotify, whatever, the ability to silence a
different point of view, a different opinion by qualified
people. You know, it'd be different if I was telling
people, I have no quote, I'm not a doctor. I'm not a researcher.
So it'd be different. If I'm telling people online to take
ivermectin, this is going to cure you, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah. Okay. You know, unless I'm quoting somebody else
who's qualified, you know, maybe they have the right to say I'm
providing misinformation because I don't know what I'm talking
about. I'm talking out of my ass, but these guys at least
have credentials. And they've taken them down. It just to me,
it's just unconscionable. And I guess now, you know, we get an
idea. Why is because of the money that's behind it. Because
Dr. Pierre quarry also posted a video where he was talking about
ivermectin and the United States, making a deal with
Merck, pharmaceutical company Merck, about an unproven drug
that I guess is trying to mimic or replicate ivermectin, but
just in a different way. Let me get to this here.
Unknown: And that statement is,
Kevin Bae: I mean, we're in the back. Here we go.
Unknown: As one of the world experts in the use of ivermectin
for COVID-19, I feel compelled today to make a statement. And
that statement is in response to the recent announcement by the
US government, that they're entering into a contractual
agreement with Merck, where they're going to commit $1.2
billion of taxpayer money in order to enrich Merck. For a
drug, which has already been the source of a whistleblower
complaint, and which is already failed. In hospitalized
patients, they are now testing and in outpatients when we
already have a drug, which is low cost, safe, widely
available, which has been proven to work in many phases of
disease, not only as outpatients but in patients.
Kevin Bae: So this is just to deal with Mark, this isn't even
the vaccines where the vaccines are still being rolled out. I
know there's been applications to get them approved by the FDA,
not just emergency use. I think it was Pfizer and Madonna. I
can't remember I yeah, but I think both Pfizer materna. Now
I've applied for approval versus emergency use. And as they
stated on the dark horse park podcast, that if there are
viable treatments for COVID-19, that vaccines cannot be
approved. Because what do you need a vaccine for if you have a
viable treatment, and Dr. Pierre Corey and the FLC cc Alliance,
the frontline COVID care doctors I forgot what their acronym
stands for. But you can go look that up. You know, they're
heavily pushing ivermectin as a treatment. And if they're
successful, you know, pharmaceutical companies are
going to lose a lot of money in the future because they're
looking to push these vaccines annually, an annual booster just
like the flu shot. And so this is made worse by now the US
government pushing out billions of dollars to another
pharmaceutical company to come up with a drug that's untested,
that's trying to mimic what ivermectin does. That's, at
least that's according to what Dr. Dr. Correa say. You can go
look this up for yourself at the the flcc. c Alliance. They have
a lot of information. They even have their protocols for
ivermectin. This also brings me to what happened today. Or at
least what I discovered today. Is that near ej fipe. I hope. I
doubt i'm pronouncing her name correctly. And I doubt that I've
done it in the past correctly, but her daughter posted on
Twitter on the 14th. So I just found out about it today. I've
been checking from time to time, but I must have forgotten
earlier in the week, but she posted on the 14th that her
mother's doing better continues to improve. And her story is the
one where they had to go to court to force Elmhurst Hospital
in Illinois to administer ivermectin or not, they didn't
administer it, they allowed they agreed to allow an outside
doctor to come in to administer ivermectin at the time, she was
on a ventilator for over a month. And it seems to me given
what I know now about following these other doctors that if the
hospital was not forced into doing that, she probably would
have already passed away. And she may still pass away because
she's, you know, she was pretty seriously ill. She was in a coma
at the time from what I understand. But after forcing
them to do that, and, and using ivermectin, she's steadily or
slowly improving a little bit at a time. So it's, it's good for
her. And hope, you know, the disgusting part of all it is
that the media dropped it like a hot potato. They covered it when
the court case was there because it was kind of sensational that
somebody pushing, you know, had a lawsuit pushing a hospital to
administer ivermectin when the all the experts in the world,
except for the frontline care doctors COVID care doctors have.
You know, they're pushing ivermectin. So they just dropped
it like a hot potato once. Once the once they succeeded in
getting the hospital to change their ways. They didn't bother
to check up like did did she recover? Is she doing better?
You know, and I tweeted back to the one of the reporters for the
Chicago Tribune, showing him that Oh, she is indeed doing
better. And all I had to do is tweet the daughter.
So there's some improvements here. The media, again, is not
doing its job because they're ignoring the story because it
was a positive story, I believe for the use of ivermectin.
Sticking with COVID, there was a study recent study from Germany,
that showed that PCR tests of people with us 7050 to 75% of
people with positive tests are in fact, not infectious. So once
you learn about the PCR test, and the results it produces,
depending on the cycle threshold used, you can never look at
positive test numbers, again, without knowing what the
threshold number is, which is never reported. When you look at
positive test stories, you know, cases are rising, but you know,
due to the PCR test that they're calling the gold standard. They
never tell you what the cycle threshold is. And Dr. Fauci
himself, fucking Fauci admitted early on on a podcast that any
cycle threshold over 30 is worthless for determining if
somebody is infectious. And I've read other stories where they
say, shouldn't be run over 25 cycles to ensure that you know,
that there's enough viable virus there to actually infect
somebody, but let's go with fucking Fauci. It shouldn't be
over 30. They never tell you what the cycle thresholds are
here in the United States, you can look it up in it. And I
remember reading from the FDA guidelines that they were using
cycle thresholds of over 40, which means that they run this
test over 40 times. And each time you run the test the PCR
test, each time you cycle through the sample. it amplifies
whatever's there. And even the Creator who have the PCR tests,
who is now dead, said that this is not the test that you want to
use for what we're using it for. Because you can find anything
you want. He said you can find latent viruses or latent pieces
of things that are not able to do anything to anybody, but
they're just there in your system and they're they're
harmless. So now this study out of Germany found that 50 to 75%
of the people in their study tests that tested positive were
unlikely to be infectious. And this is basically their summary.
They say, this is from the Journal of infection and I've
got a link on the website. That says in light of our findings
that more than half of individuals with positive PCR
test results are unlikely to have been infectious. RT dash
PCR test positivity should not be taken as an accurate measure
of infectious SARS Koby, two incidents, our results confirm
the findings of others that routine that the routine use of
positive PCR tests results as the gold standard for assessing
and controlling infectiousness fails to reflect the fact that
50 to 75% of the time, an individual is PCR positive, they
are likely to be post infectious.
And this is the bullshit test the goals quote unquote, coal
gold standard that they've been using to shut economies down.
You know, I say it over and over again, you look at Canada, you
look at Australia, you look at the UK, former countries that
you would believe would fight for freedom, are still using
draconian measures over test results that are bullshit. This
should piss the shit out of piss people off like crazy. Moving
away from COVID, President Biden had his meeting with Putin. And
prior to that meeting, a question was asked from a
reporter right, this is off a c span. And remember how tough
President Biden was before when he's debating with Trump and or
maybe it was after that? I don't remember. But he basically
called Putin a killer. You're a killer. What do you say to
Vladimir Putin?
Unknown: Thanks for the first question. I'm laughing too. They
actually i? Well, look, I mean, he is made clear that
Kevin Bae: now he goes into brain freeze. And that's it. I
thought they stopped the tape, but he's just staring.
Unknown: The answer is, I believe he is in the past,
essentially, acknowledge that he was there certain things that he
would do or did do.
Kevin Bae: Tough and walking about
Unknown: when I was asked that question on air, I answered it,
honestly. But it's not much of a I don't think it matters a whole
lot in terms of this next meeting we're about to have. The
second question was really
Kevin Bae: big. Anyway, it was it was a sad state of affairs.
You know, the rest of the world got to be laughing at us. And
john Casson of the Chicago Tribune has got it right. They
got to keep Biden alive because Kamala Harris is just awful, an
empty suit, who's got nothing inside? You got to remember that
she didn't even make it to the first primary election for the
Democrats. She was so poorly received that she couldn't even
make it to the first vote. She didn't have any support. So now
we're stuck keeping this corpse alive in order to prevent her
from becoming the first female president. Let's just hope Joe
makes it all the way through. Although I you know, this stuff
that they're passing is is just such a waste of everybody's
time. Oh, I thought I was done with COVID but I'm not because
Jon Stewart was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. I really
can't stand Colbert I've never liked his brand of comedy
whatever the hell it is that he's doing. But Stuart even
though I politically I opposite with Stuart is I've always found
him hilarious. He's got a great delivery knows how to do comedy
and he was on Colbert discussing COVID-19 and whether or not it
was a lab creation. Let me forward through that for a
second.
Unknown: This is what I know about you is I know about you.
We are we are truly dear friends and yet this is the first time
I've seen you in the flesh and 15 that is that is that is
correct. Right. And I am so really happy. And I know we're
all vaccinated, and I'm not going to get COVID but I'm going
to get something ah an unused little bedroom with cables
through the window
Kevin Bae: talking about how tough it was for him to do his
job from his house combating pandemics because in 1980 of
Merck, they talk about how it's a farm medicine is comes I will
say this. So how do you feel about the science now? Here we
go. This is where it gets in. It's funny.
Unknown: I and I honestly mean this, I think we owe a great
debt of gratitude. To science, science, has in many ways helped
ease the suffering of this pandemic. Which was more than
likely caused by science.
Kevin Bae: And he gets the nervous laughter from the
audience they didn't know what to make of it. And they didn't
know it was supposed to be funny until leaned back and put his
finger on it. Oh, no, no, no.
Unknown: Listen, listen. Coffee, I will do that. Don't do that to
you. What do you take for what do you what do you mean by Do
you mean like, there's there's a chance that this is created in a
lab there's investigation or chance?
Kevin Bae: Well, I like evidence. I'd love to hear
Unknown: novel respiratory Coronavirus overtaking Wu Han
China. What do we do? Oh, you know, we could ask the Wu Han
novel respiratory Coronavirus lab. The disease is the same
name as the lab. That's just that's just a little too weird,
don't you think? And then I ask the scientists are like how did
this so wait a minute. You work at the whoo and respiratory
Coronavirus lab. How did this happen? And they're like
pangolin, kiss the turtle. And you're like,
Kevin Bae: it's it goes on for several more minutes. But it was
funny. And it was the first funny thing I've heard on COVID.
You know, whether it was, you know, contrived or not between
him and Cole bear about whether or not this lab credit doesn't
matter. The point is that it was comedy. And comedy done right in
the age of COVID. Where nothing's been funny. Very
little has been funny. Oh, let's see, was listening to I had this
post about warming. I had warm and fuzzy thoughts for the day.
And really, it stemmed from something I read somewhere where
I said, you know, the direction of the country and things that
are happening, I somebody was blaming Trump somewhere online,
and I had a response where I said Trump was the festering
infection that resulted from the virus or progressivism, and
Biden is like gangrene setting in. And we need to chop off a
limb or two in order to stop the infection from killing us. And
it just got me to thinking more. So I just had a long blog post
that had nothing to do with a particular news story. But I
just I needed to point out that if you know right now, we're at
a point where people think Trump is to blame for everything that
has happened in the country, and maybe even before, but since at
least 2016. And it's my opinion, that if you honestly think that
Trump was the problem, that you're stupid, number one, or
you're ignorant, which is not the same as stupid, but almost
as bad, that you're blind, you can't see what's going on in
front of you. That you're in denial, or you're a raging
progressive, you know, more hardcore than, than your normal
progressive, you're more like AOC, progressive. You're
progressive. So that covers it all, or have a severe case of
Trump derangement syndrome. But, you know, I think that we've
been headed down this path for decades. And, you know, I was
born in 1966. It's before the creation of the department of
education that was created in the 70s by Jimmy Carter. And to
me, when the Department of Education was created, that put
federal money into local public schools, and from that point
forward, you can pretty much count down and look at the
deterioration of the public school system. You can even look
at the rise in the case, the rise in childhood obesity from
that point forward, because you got to remember the the
Department of Education Department of Agriculture
started getting into school. lunches. kids didn't used to be
served lunch in school, he used to bring lunch from home. You
know, rich, poor, whatever people brought lunch from home.
So you enter federal dollars. And the government then starts
telling states what to do with their public education in order
to keep that money flowing. So Generation X of which I'm a part
of, I believe we're the last generation to be educated
largely without influence by the Department of Education. It was
there, but it was, you know, it was just beginning when I
started school. When I was in kindergarten, first grade, the
Department of Education was just created. So they were just
starting to get their claws in. So I don't think it really
metascore Miss death. metastasize metastasized until I
was probably in high school or just out of high school.
So, you know, I think my generation is probably the last
generation to not be propagandized by the federal
government and the teachers unions, all that stuff was tied
together. My children who are part of the millennial
generation, they're, they're older millennials. They're not
younger millennials, they're older millennials. My oldest is
reaching her mid 30s. My youngest is in his early 30s.
But I remember when they went to school, I could see this stuff
creeping in. And I was like, What the hell is this? You know,
it started when my kid was my daughter was in grammar school,
when she was in kindergarten, first and second grade. In the
school, they give you a list of supplies, bring these things in
the class, paper towels, pencils, pens, paper, whatever.
But what were they doing with that? It wasn't wasn't supplies
that my daughter gets to keep and use for herself? No. These
supplies were to be distributed and shared across the entire
classroom. So I never know when we figured that out. I never
sent my daughter to school with like, Great pencil, she got no
bargain basement pencils, because what am I going to spend
a lot of money on pencils for, for other kids to use the
pencils. I didn't send her to school, great paper towels, I
bought the cheapest shittiest paper towels we could find?
Because why would I give them paper towels for other kids to
use? Why would I spend my money for that same thing with any of
the other supplies, you know other than crayons, because
who's going to buy something other than Crayola. At least if
you can afford to buy something to buy Crayola, you're gonna buy
Crayola crayons. But all the rest of the supplies, you know,
we bought the cheapest stuff we could find. Because they were
you know, in essence socializing. The private
supplies I was sending to school with my daughter. So I wasn't
happy with that. And then later on, you know, as as they're
trying to teach kids to read and spell and write. You know, she
was coming home with homework, where some of her work was
misspelled. And I was like, What is this? So I you know, I would
correct your spelling, and I would show her Okay, this is
wrong. And this should have been marked wrong, and all this kind
of stuff. So on a parent teachers conference, I, you
know, I went to school, and I asked the teachers like, what
are you doing? She's coming home with work. That is marked
correct, but the spelling is wrong. So I correct it. And the
teacher actually told me that they didn't want to cause
sadness at you know, and she, I guess that, you know, if the
teacher was looking at my face, you must have seen the
confusion. Like, what are you talking about sadness. You're
correcting the mistake, you're supposed to be a teacher, you're
supposed to be correcting spelling, but they were starting
this. I think it was called a whole language approach to
reading and writing, which meant that the kid could do what they
call creative spelling. They could spell the word However,
they wanted to spell it. And however it was, it was there was
no correction being done because they didn't want to lower the
self esteem of the kid in order to teach them how to spell. And,
you know, I looked at our teacher and I said, you know,
I'm correcting her spelling at home, and I'm telling her that
it's wrong and that she should have been marked wrong. She
should have received a lower grade than what she got, because
it wasn't correct. And the teacher just didn't seem to
care. It's like, yeah, you can correct it at home with all you
want. But we just don't do that here because we have a different
method of teaching. And that really was the part that opened
my eyes the widest it wasn't the part was sharing the stupid
supplies, it was that it was like, What? What kind of
teacher? You know, what kind of system teaches kids by letting
them make the mistakes? It just didn't make any sense? How
stupid is that? So it got worse. You know, okay, fine, I can deal
with a little bit of a spelling I, you know, I can I can do
supplemental teaching at home, you know, I shouldn't have to,
but I do it anyway, you know, my children make sure that they
know what they're doing reading and writing, learning how to
spell. When my son entered kindergarten, you know, he
already learned how to read, he was able to read, you know,
rudimentary words and sentences, things that were simple. But he
could read, you know, whatever he was, he was beyond the
kindergarten reading level.
So he's in he's in kindergarten, and on our teachers conference,
you know, a while back that up a little bit. You know, My son is
very sharp, and especially back then, you know, is very sharp
for his age. And he already knew he could read. And he was
telling me that, you know, when he was coming home, he would
tell me that he was reading to the first graders like, Oh,
really? Yeah, he's like, yeah, this, this guy is kid, you know,
trying to read to me, and he couldn't figure it out. So, you
know, I helped him read the words. Now, again, he's telling
me this in a five or six year old person's way of telling, it
wasn't as as clear as I just put it out there. But he was still
letting me know that he was reading to the first graders
when they would come in to read to the kindergarteners. So
again, on a parent teachers conference, I asked the teacher
about this. And she said that, oh, yeah, you know, he would
read to the first graders that they could not read, or couldn't
read the books that they were reading. You know, and I knew my
son was a little bit bored with kindergarten, he just didn't
care for it, there wasn't much for him to do. So I was asking
the teachers like, well, he needs, he needs a little bit
more stimulation, because he's kind of bored. He's reading
beyond, you know, the books that you guys have, he's reading to
your first graders, which are supposed to be reading to the
kindergarteners. So, you know, maybe he needs to be in first
grade that kindergarten if he's if he's beyond what your first
graders are. But they wouldn't do that they wouldn't move him
forward, they, you know, nobody wants to advance children much
anymore, because they're worried about their social development.
You know, five and six years old, he can hold his own with,
you know, a six and seven year old that might be in first
grade, or even a seven or eight year old big whoopee Doo,
there's not that much difference in age. But they didn't do
anything. They gave him some busy work. You know, they let
him they gave him some computer time, which at the time, you
know, computers were really worth shit. for education. It's
really just pressing some letters on the keyboard and
watching some animation go by. So that was the one that really
woke me up to it. And I was like, Okay, this is only going
to get worse. So I had to find another option. And that's when
I took my kids to private school. And it was much better.
But what has gotten worse in the public school system? You know,
I think goodness, I sent my kids to private school. And that they
were they graduated, they finished high school prior to
all the crap that's happening today. Because instead of being
concerned about making kids, making sure that the kids can
finish high school with the ability to read and write and do
some math instead, public schools are worried more about
indoctrination. Pushing political agendas like climate
change and critical race theory. Before and the reason you know
this is this is indoctrination is that they're pushing this
stuff before the kids know how to think. They're telling them
what to think before they know how to think. And then that's
the reason they want to put this stuff in their brains. So before
they're able to actually think about something and put it
together like Does this make sense? They push this bullshit
on him. And part of it is, you know, they're taught a false
history the united states You know, look at look at what's
happened to Columbus, Christopher Columbus. Now he's
got nothing to do with the ad states, but just the fact that
Columbus Day is just been vilified, to honor an Italian
Explorer. was the guy perfect? No, did he cause a lot of
problems? Sure. But what they're celebrating is not any of the
mistakes, you don't celebrate mistakes, it's stupid. you're
celebrating the accomplishments. And regardless of what you think
of the man, and maybe what he's done, it was quite the
accomplishment to do what he did, to be an explorer to take a
boat across the ocean to come to another continent, whether he
thought whether he was in the right place or not. None of that
stuff makes a difference. None of it. Or let's take the
founding fathers, for instance.
You know, they're all human beings, they all have flaws. But
those flaws and the problems that they had, do not negate the
accomplishments. It wasn't perfect. But the things that
they did led to where we are today,
the things that they did, provided the foundation to let
these other idiots demonize the founders, that's fine. Now you
can talk shit about the founding fathers and how this, you know
how this country was founded. But what you can't change are
the accomplishments. And this is what they're trying to do. And
that's why they're pushing it into the public schools. Because
to teach, like the 1619 project, as if the country was founded
prior to the revolution,
as if we didn't go to war, with the British, to claim our own
independence. Nothing is smooth, nothing is perfect. Nobody is
perfect. The Founding Fathers weren't perfect. But they
weren't all about just oh, we're just gonna rape and pillage and
commit genocide against the Indians. You know, we're just
gonna hold slaves forever. You know, there's, there was a
healthy contingent of founding fathers that have hoard slavery.
They didn't like the practice of it. But there wasn't much they
could do, because it was not the consensus of the time. But they
fought against it. Many of them fight against that there was
tons of people that were abolitionists, and they weren't
black, they were white. There's more to the history of the
country and the founding. And there's more to celebrate in the
accomplishments than in the mistakes. Because the
accomplishments are what got us here. It will. It's what gives
me the freedom to say what I'm saying right now, to give my own
opinion, to cover the news of the day as I see it. But this is
also why the federal government needs to get the hell out of
public schooling, because they should not be able to push
political agendas in elementary school, if you want to teach the
1619 project that belongs in university, critical race
theory. It belongs in university or at the university level.
Because once you're able to think, and do a little bit of
math, and read and write, and you know, think critically, then
you're, you're better able to discuss the issues. But to push
them into elementary school, I don't even know what age they're
talking about teaching this stuff. But there's no way on
Earth. A kid the age of 1112, even 1516 years old, can really
prop properly put things in context and have the maturity to
be able to discuss those types of topics of imperfect humans. I
don't know if there's a way to fix it. I just know that it
shouldn't. It shouldn't be there. This type of discussion
shouldn't be happening we should get rid of we should abolish is
the Department of Education. We should abolish all public
employee unions because they are organizing against the people
and go back to elementary education as well. mentary
education teaching the basics of reading, writing, doing math,
basic science, but science, not climate change science, basic
science, climate change is too complex a subject for elementary
and high school. You can discuss whether you can discuss the
climate. But discussing human caused climate change does not
belong anywhere above or anywhere below the university
level. You know, in COVID-19 revealed much about our country
and the world. You can see as long as government is shelling
out bread and circuses food and money and keeping the population
placated that we will not fight. We won't even resist their
authoritarianism, authoritarianism or too
comfortable when you're comfortable. You've got no
reason to fight. But with all the money being pushed down our
throats, with all the money being printed. It doesn't seem
to me like this is going to end well. I hope I'm wrong. Because
I don't want bad things to happen. I would like to see
things continue on an upward trend. But you know, history
tells you that it doesn't continue to go up forever.
Hopefully this is not where things are going to end up.
Let's see here. Juneteenth, this is recent. Biden signed into
law, the new federal holiday called Juneteenth. It's the
wrong day. First of all, Juneteenth is a horrible word.
It just makes no sense. It's not a number. It's not a month.
Let's just throw them together. Juneteenth is supposed to be
June 19. But here are my four reasons. It's a this was a local
event in Galveston, Galveston, Texas, it was basically a media
event, they're celebrating the in the people of Texas, the
final, the last people in Texas being informed that the war was
over and that slavery was abolished. But here's the key
after June 19 1865, Kentucky in Delaware still legally held
slaves in the United States. So slavery was not totally
abolished and totally ended. At that time. The 13th amendment of
the constitution was proposed, but it wasn't ratified yet. It
was ratified on December 6 1865. And it was made part of the
Constitution on December 18 1865. So if you want to
celebrate a date for the end of slavery, those are two good
dates, not the date that people were were informed that the
Civil War was over, especially when two other states did not
end slavery in their states until the 13th amendment took
effect. So this is a problem we have in this country of always
coming up with a wrong date celebrating bullshit. So you
know, we should be celebrating the end of slavery and in even
the 13th amendment didn't totally end slavery because it's
still allowed for slavery for people who are imprisoned. But
for for people outside of prison, it ends it ended
slavery. And it happened at that time. And if so, if we're going
to celebrate this, we should pick the real date. Not a made
up date that makes people feel good about something. And I
don't even know what that is because that correct. Changing
the Constitution is not easy. It's a very it was a very
difficult thing to do. You know, that's why you don't see
amendments today. It's it's so difficult to do. They don't even
bother going down through the process. You know, instead they
try to get the Supreme Court to make a decision. You know, God
forbid Congress pass a law. God forbid they introduce, you know,
another amendment for something.
Moving on to Wow, did you hear that? It was almost like I was
doing a harmony with myself. My throat is gonna be cleared.
There. I just turn off the mic and cleared cleared my throat.
Well, sort of. companies don't want to hire people from
Colorado for remote work. Why? Because Colorado passed a law
that requires companies even with a few employees in the
state to disclose the expected salary or pay range for each
role open role they advertise, including remote positions. The
rules aim is to narrow gender wage gaps and provide greater
trend. Okay, let's try this again. The rules aim is to
narrow gender wage gaps and provide greater pay transparency
for employees. To avoid having to disclose that information.
Though some employers seeking remote workers nationwide are
saying that those living in Colorado need not apply. This is
out of the Wall Street Journal. Oh, and I forgot to provide the
hyperlink.
So if you live in Colorado, you in your you are applying for
remote work, you will if you're a male or female, you will get
equal pay because you're just not going to get hired now. So
zero is equal to zero. Now I already covered critical race
theory and how I don't believe it's something to be taught in
school, but there was I wish people when they tweet stuff
would put the source. I don't have the source. I was, you
know, going through Twitter and I saw somebody post this video
of a black man at a school board meeting somewhere in Illinois,
according to the tweet, but he doesn't say where would it be
nice to know. And he's going through what he thinks about
critical race theory
Unknown: you talk about critical race theory which is pretty much
gonna be teaching kids how to hate each other how to this is
pretty much what's gonna all come down to you don't
deliberately teach kids this Why can't right here got it better
to you? Because he why you don't currently tell a white kid? Oh,
the black people are all down to suppress How do I have to know
how to breathe? If I'm sitting here? Oh
no, no, no daddy now worked my way through college. I sat there
and hustled my butt off to get to God. You don't tell me
somebody? kept me from doing it. Are you serious? Not one my
person ever came to me say was never going to get away because
you know the black people. But guess what I was thinking about
this whole thing is what y'all doing right now is already
something I do in my community right now to speak out against
that because black folks get told by other black folks are
you know, doing a bad thing or let you get out? No, not gonna
do it. Because you're the white the white man, the white man
will keep you down. Well, how did I get where I am right now?
It sounds like me and kept me down. How am I now directing
over folks that look just like you guys in this room right now?
How? What what kept me down what oppressed me. I worked for
myself in office freeze to where I am right now. He will sit here
and tell me this lot of critical race theory.
Kevin Bae: That's an angry man, and rightfully so. And he's, you
know, everything he says there's absolutely true. What are people
doing pushing this shit on people and kids. Kids don't have
the ability to know one thing or another. They don't know their
ass from a hole in the ground. And they submit to authority. So
if their teachers, their parents, their administrators
tell them that well. You know, white people are inherently
racist. It's just in the blood. It's in the system. It's there.
It's there to hold black people down. It's there to hold other
people of color down. They're going to they're going to grow
up thinking that that's true. So they will institutionalize race
and racism. They will make racism systemic. But it's going
to be systemic against white people and racism period,
whether it's against white people, black people, Asian
people, or half breeds like me, it's wrong. And that crap needs
to end. We need to we need to get that bullshit out of
schools. And out of the general discussion if you want to
discuss critical race theory as a theory. It belongs at
university. But as I was I was definitely lazy this week. When
it came to blogging, I still did post a bunch of stories. But in
general, I was kind of disconnect. I was burned out by
the news burned out by COVID burned out by Biden Singh
pueden, burned out by Kamala Harris being stupid. And, you
know, last couple of weeks I went on hikes. So I'm new to
Georgia. And, you know, I, I'm from the Chicago area where
there aren't a whole lot of places to hike. If you're
hiking, you're just really walking down some trail. It's
more like strolls rather than real hikes. So last week, I went
on a hike at four years ago park it was okay. It was a nice park.
But it was still it was a little bit too civilized. There were
too many people around. And so this week I found another one.
It's called Don Carter State Park. And I don't recommend
anybody go there because I liked it way too much. So stay away
because when I went there early Thursday morning, and I went
with my dog, Godfrey, the one that you heard bark earlier, did
you hear embark was that on the other podcast? I can't remember
now. This is the third podcast I've just done in a row for
different things. he barked during one of them. But anyway,
he's a Labrador Retriever. And so I went on this hike. And it
was really nice. I only saw one other person on the trail. And
it was occluded. There was some good elevations for walking
around. You know, it was an actual hike through the woods,
we had to you know, it made me tired, I had to walk. You know,
it's like, it's right off of Lakeland air. So you're kind of
walking around little creeks and stuff that feed the lake. So
you're going up, you're going down. And so it's it was a very,
it was definitely a moderate hike, it was not just a stroll
through the park, which was nice. And it was quiet. So it's
just me in the woods. And my dog where I you know, I found a
little sort of like a beach area, just off the trail in the
lake. So my dog could actually go in the water and take a swim,
which he hadn't done in in over a year since we moved. He used
to go swimming at there was a park district dog park near my
house that had a big pond. So I would throw a giant ball in
there and he would swim a lot. So this is the first time he's
been swimming in a year. And it was nice. So you can it was very
cathartic. You know, and I lot of people when they hike, they
like to go hike to a destination and take, you know, those
Instagram photos of this site or that site or, you know, this
little tourist thing or that tourist thing that me I I like
to hike like I drive, I prefer the actual act of hiking. So the
walking part of it and keeping pace and just listening to the
sounds I don't I don't have any headphones in I'm not listening
to music or podcasts or anything. I'm literally just
walking with my dog through the woods, hiking up and down
climbing over logs and you know, fallen trees over the trail. And
just hearing the sounds around me and just tuning out. It was a
it was very cathartic. I was very hopeful for
just tuning out all the news because I really been burned out
the last week with the news. So much so that in the mornings,
I'd been reading a book versus reading the paper, at least for
half an hour, you know, I'll still kind of thumb through the
newspaper to get what's happening around me. But the
first half hour I'm reading a book which is so you know, it
was just a good way to just kind of decompress because the news
is really been pissing me off lately. I'm hoping the current
week will be better. I might go to a peach farm check out some
peaches you know, get some fresh peaches I've been in Chicago,
you can get a good beach. No matter almost no matter where
you buy it from. I've you know, I've been on the search for so
here. At least during peach season, we go to this little
produce stand that's been maybe a couple miles from my house.
And it's literally just a tiny mom and pop produce stand. And
they have fresh vegetables and they have fresh peaches there.
I've been buying for every week just to eat them. And I haven't
had a bad one yet. They've all been they taste like peaches. So
you know the ones that I would get in Chicago were always
either under ripe. Or just if they were ripe. They were just
flavorless they didn't have anything. So there's some peach
farms, not that far from where we live now. And you know, I
might just take a drive over there this week and see how
those Go. Get some fresh that at least fresher off the tree than
what I'm buying from the produce. And even though those
are fantastic anyway, it would just be nice. Just be nice to
see. So that's my complaint. Those are my complaints for the
week. Have a good Father's Day if you're celebrating Father's
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weekend and talk to you next week. You know false starts. I
record this live basic basically live to to to a SD card. I'd
like to say live to tape but nobody tapes this live to SD
card
and I hit the button and I couldn't remember what my own
theme music was and I think I thought I hit the wrong button
but I hit the right button. So I'll close it out now. Here we
go. Ever happy weekend. Bye bye. The title of the music of the
theme music is right there on my iPod track. See it right they
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