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Kevin Bae: Hello, welcome to
still tentatively named. That's

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all I got podcast. I plan on
changing it. I'm not exactly

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sure what I'm going to do, but
that's what it is for now. So

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let's just all live with it and
pretend that it's good. This is

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episode number 10. So, two and a
half months that I've been

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talking, I can't even believe
it's Episode 10. I don't know

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how people do this over 1000s of
episodes, like the no agenda

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show, or even hundreds of
episodes because it's a couple

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of years. But anyway, that's
where I'm at. Happy to be here.

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I'm also doing this live on
YouTube. Well, we'll see how

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that's gonna go live streaming
that one. So that one you'll be

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able to hear all the crazy
noises that might pop up. You

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know what I should transition?
Let's see, when that transition

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that leads me to the first story
but that transition in a way

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that that most people transition
in the modern world. I think I

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need to take a swig of coffee
before I start this one because

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I ran across a story yesterday.
And it's if it's true, if this

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isn't a massive trolling, we
finally gone too far in this

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world. So let me get to it here.
It's a tweet. I got to put on my

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glasses for this asshole. Oh
shit. I put my headphones on

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first. Okay, headphones off.
glasses on. Okay, headphones.

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background. There we go. Now you
can read things. All right.

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Okay, an asshole from the UK.
British asshole. Ollie London

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has transitioned. What's the
transition to? He hasn't done

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the popular one of male
transitioning to female or

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female transitioning to male No.
He's decided to transition to

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being Korean. Or anyone on mine
as British because I identify as

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Korean. That's just my culture.
That's my home country. That's

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exactly how I live now. And I
also identify as German that's

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my Korean name, but not only
that, I just I know it's a

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little bit confusing for some
people. Nobody's ever come out

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as German or Korean. But this is
something that you guys know has

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to be a massive trolling eight
years I've really struggled with

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identity issues with who I am.
You know, or anyone online as

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British because I would ever I
can't. I mean, did you really

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get plastic surgery for this? Or
did he just tape his eyeballs

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back like they like they used to
in the old Charlie Chan movies

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when? What the hell was his
name? He was a Jewish man that

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played Charlie Chan was one of
my father's favorite. Charlie. I

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can't spell. Okay, hit the wrong
stupid button. There we go. I'm

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a little bit off off my usual
sharpness of the first nine

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episodes. Because I'm doing this
on video and live on youtube

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with zero viewers. Well, there's
one there's me. Excuse me as I'm

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watching this happen. Anyway,
Charlie Chen movies. I think

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it's Sydney. Sydney. toller What
was his name? I don't have a

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chat room. I don't have anything
here to help me out here. I

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think I have some of them.

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Alright. Where the fuck is his
name? Here we go. Sydney. Yeah,

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Sydney toller. Were in the
movies. They were just going to.

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He was a white man that taped
his eyeballs back to the movies.

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I love the movies. The movies
are great. And my father. I'm

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half Korean. My father used to I
love to refer to his children as

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my number one, son. Number two,
somebody wasn't like Charlie

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Chan, where he had Rami kids
Charlie Chan had in the movies.

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But my, you know, at the time,
it was just me and my older

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brother. So there were just two
of us. So you would have to stop

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at number two son, and then he
got remarried had two other

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children. So at least he could
go through the process of saying

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number three son, and I don't
think ever referred to our

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sister is number four daughter.
I don't know. But anyway, back

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to Ali London. If If this is
true, are we accepting this

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stuff? As transitioning finally
jumped the shark? Can you just

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claim to be Asian or Korean, in
this case, where that's now his

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culture, which it's obviously
not his culture? I'm half

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Korean, and it's barely my
culture. Anyway, that one just

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pissed me off. Or it made me
laugh, because I can't figure

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out if it's real or not. So this
new setup here, oh, yeah,

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there's the the blog post, oh,
it's uncategorized goddamnit.

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You know, okay. So I've set this
new thing up, where, you know, I

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don't subscribe. And I don't pay
too close attention. Although I

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do. Get some information from
Tim Poole, from his YouTube

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channel. I don't really watch
the videos per se. Because he's,

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he's a millennial is younger
than I am. Obviously, I'm in my

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50s. I'm Gen X. So I like
getting points of view from

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younger people. So I can see,
you know, because they'll look

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at things that are not important
to me. They'll look at whatever

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is important to them. So, you
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and I see his, his setup, you
know, it's kind of cool. He's

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got the little picture and
picture thing there. So how can

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I do this for myself. So I found
some software that will run off

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of my Logitech webcam, and it
actually works on multiple

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devices as well, I can put it on
my laptop, my surface go, I

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could put it on my phone and
have, I could actually have a

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multiple camera shoot within my
office here. Welcome to my

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office, by the way. That is my
kids. And over my right

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shoulder. On the left of the
screen, I think it's showing is

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my you can see the bottom corner
of my Batman Beyond the BB

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poster. I used to be in
television, and we launched a

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web affiliate in Iowa City. And
that is one of the first posters

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I got big fan of Batman Beyond
the need to make a live action

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show of that one. down in the
lower corner. You see it this

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interesting office setup I have
here. One of my dogs beds. You

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know, maybe at some point, I'll
dress this up and show something

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nice but and then you get the
beautiful garbage can over here

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just behind me a couple of my
backpacks, one that I use for

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hiking when I use for travel.
And I'm not even sure what else

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can you see back here. Let me
cut to the big version so I can

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see it. You got my cup of
coffee. Hello. Above me. Over

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there back there is a drawing
that my daughter had. This is my

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back over here. This is my Magna
cum lodhi metal. I didn't even

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know they gave medals back then
for this kind of stuff. But I

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graduated with honors from North
Eastern Illinois University,

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very prestigious. I have a
degree in computer science with

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a minor in Business Law. And
business law actually did me

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some good computer science. You
know, I've always been

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interested in computers and
software. And I learned to code

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like 14 I was terrible at it.
And I was horrible at it when I

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went to college as well.

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I received straight A's in
business law, Business Law,

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mathematics, all that kind of
stuff. But computer science Oh

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my god. I can I can make out
algorithms. But I can code to

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save my life. I don't know if
you can hear my wife in the

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background. She's talking to
somebody Filipinos talk loud.

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They are very, very loud people.
I've been married for over 30

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years. So I can say that
unequivocally that Filipinos are

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loud. Anyway, I can probably
remove that in post for the

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podcast but for the video. It's
live and it's just going to be

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there. So I don't have a built
in noise gate, a hardware noise

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gate for my microphone in my, my
podcast setup, which here this

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is my podcast setup. It's a pod
drag before. Can you see this?

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Okay. fix that now. I screwed
that up. Let's see. And you got

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my microphone here. It looks,
looks nice on video looks like

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like it's serious. I just need
something behind me to make it

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look interesting because this is
really bad. Let's see, that's me

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rambling for 10 minutes, let me
get into the meat of my post.

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I'm going to switch over to
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Because it kind of gets in the
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recording on Saturdays because I
do another podcast financial

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podcast. And it was easier to
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and do it on Saturday because
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So I can put all my my stuff
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podcast on Saturday. Usually
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But now I think I'm gonna just
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for me at least. And now I think
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back into the posts from the
week, let's get rid of Ali.

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There was one that I did not
post. But I read about her over

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the weekend. And this is the
everybody was talking about it

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obviously over the weekend, I
think was on Friday, the Justice

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Department filed suit against
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new voting law. And when you
listen to assistant ag Kristin

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Clark, one of the first things
she says in her opening

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paragraphs, She cites the as if
it's some kind of crime for the

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Georgia Senate to pass a bill
that was three pages long, which

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I think it was only two pages
but anyway. And that the way she

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puts it, it expanded to over 90
pages days later. That makes it

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sound like something drastic
happened in like three days,

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which is not the case it was
about 17 days. They went from

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March 8 to march 25 when the
thing was signed and voted on or

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voted on and signed. Regardless,
this is Kristin Clark comm

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Unknown: plate today alleges
that several provisions of SB

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202 were passed with a
discriminatory purpose in

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violation of the Voting Rights
Act. The Georgia legislature

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passed SB 202 through a rushed
process that departed from

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normal practice and procedure.
The version of the bill that

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passed the State Senate on March
8 was three pages long. days

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later, the bill days later, into
over 90 pages in the house. The

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house held less than two hours
of floor debate on the newly

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inflated sb 202 before governor
camp signed it into law the same

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day. So now it's a crime

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Kevin Bae: to have a bill of one
size debated amendments and

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habit of another size when it's
finally voted on and passed on

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to the executive. What she's not
telling you. Is that okay, the

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Senate portion, the Senate bill
that was passed was I think it

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was two pages was the one that I
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after that was voted on and
passed. There was a totally

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different version that was
presented in the House of

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Representatives in Georgia. It
wasn't like they took the senate

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bill and just added all this
stuff. There were all these

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other things that they were
already working on. So they they

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passed the different version.
They in the in the house. They

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debated they made amendments.
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final bill, which was I think,
95 pages. And yes, it was passed

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on March 25. And Kemp did sign
it on the 25th. Here's governor

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Kemp disputing what our
assistant ag didn't say 50

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Unknown: election bills that
were introduced that were

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consolidated into the final
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them work. They didn't mention
that some of the recommendations

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from the bill came from the
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of Georgia what represent
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democratic counties and several
other lawsuits have already been

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filed against the state dill

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Kevin Bae: recipe. So that's
from channel 11. Here in the

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Atlanta, Georgia area. What a
bunch of crap all of this was.

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This is The text of the ledger
under the legislation from the

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attorney general. So again, what
you know, it's a big deal, three

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pages, to over 90 pages. What's
not mentioned here is what the

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federal government is trying to
pass. And their voting rights

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bill, which is called the for
the people act went now, you

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know, when it's called for the
people, it is not for the

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people, it's for the
politicians, period, end of

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story. I'm sure it's happened
before the Patriot Act, but ever

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since the Patriot Act was
introduced, and passed, every

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single bill that seems to come
out of Congress, whatever it's

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called, it means the exact
opposite. It is not I mean, the

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Patriot Act, this was the least
patriotic bill ever signed into

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law. And, you know, personally,
I voted for George W. I liked

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him. Personally, I like George
W. But the Patriot Act and the

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creation of the TSA, the
Department of Homeland Security.

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It was the least American thing.
The least patriotic law signed,

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it just gave sweeping powers to
the executive to do all kinds of

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crap to the people. And we're
still living with that legacy

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now. over two decades later, or
over two decades, now, almost

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two decades later. I'm a little
bit a little bit ahead of my

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time in the months anyway. So
federal government, they want to

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push through their stupid for
the people act, which will make

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sweeping changes to voting laws
across the country for federal

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elections. They don't have the
power to change things for state

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elections, but the US
Constitution gives them the

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power to regulate federal
elections. But how big is the

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for the people act? You think 90
pages was big. This thing is 888

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pages 888. And much of it has
nothing to do with voting. There

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was an article in the Atlanta
Journal Constitution, by what's

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this guy's name? Jamie, Jamie
Dupree. And in there, he

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highlights this 888 page bill.
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about the election, then
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trying to find I should have
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can't, I didn't do it. I do 00
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during the week. And so I've got
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this crap from my blog. But I
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because it was in here. Here the
Table of Contents alone, for the

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act of the Federal bill was 14
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like ethics, conflict of
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Supreme Court, Congress and the
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also has lobbying disclosure
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fundraising changes, new rules
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and much more. So that if the
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out against the state of
Georgia, and I'm sure they're

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going to file suit against the
state of Texas, and whoever

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else, change voting laws, I
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thing. They need to go after
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was already in the works. What
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and I saw something earlier
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much of this bill was sitting in
waiting in the wings. And they

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were just waiting for the right
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it's full of all kinds of crap
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voting. So they're all being
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talk about the length of the
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what Georgia really wants to do
with voting. And if you if you

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look at it, the the provisions
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law in Georgia, if you look at
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nothing in there. That is
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there that restricts voting, it
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weekend days. You know, they're
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make about not being able to
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of all, it's not true. You can
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you just have to be 150 feet
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polling place. And, honestly,
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of water, or you cannot survive
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even if the weight is two hours
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couple of hours without drinking
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breakfast, drink some water,
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other thing they made a big deal
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drop boxes didn't even exist,
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law prior to COVID. So they
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to COVID. So people could go
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brush up against somebody. So
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for COVID voting expired, the
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away. So they could have just
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even have pass allow with drop
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permanent. So now there will be
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permanently. They just have to
be secure. Now, you're not going

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to just be on every street
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there'll be available 24 hours a
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security. There'll be inside of
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voting takes place. So that way
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be watched, they can have a
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know, it's just a little matter
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is racist about that? If you can
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Dropbox location. And granted,
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them because you don't need
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if we're not dealing with these
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covered. What did I do with it?
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I'll post that one later. Close
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headline was researcher
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really interested in the
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story is that the researcher How
did I put it I said researcher

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meets data researcher publishes
paper examining data researcher

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gets attacked by scientists
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the mud and has to aggressively
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finally, the researcher becomes
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real motivations of her peers.

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publishing some information that
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the findings were inconvenient
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was covering the topic that she
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enormous pressure on her. To
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she found. What else did I say
here? This is what happens when

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you have zero show prep. So in
her story, is on site Science

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Direct comm I shouldn't touch my
face while on camera today. A

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naive researcher published the
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respectable journal. She thought
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and defensible that used only
publicly available data and her

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findings were consistent with
much of the literature on the

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topic. Her co authors included
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statisticians. To her surprise,
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unusual attacks from some
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research community. These
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pursued through normal channels
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research became the target of an
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included insults, errors,
misinformation, social media

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posts, behind the scenes, gossip
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her employer. So the moral of
the story is that, quote,

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unquote, the science, you know,
that everybody wants to follow.

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It can't be trusted, because
it's delivered by human beings,

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human scientists with their own
agendas. People need to look

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critically at the information
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their common sense as to whether
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that transitions to you know,
COVID-19 sorry. As COVID when

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they first started giving
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away from the emotion and the
fear of some new virus, and you

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look at what they were
reporting, which was consistent

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across all reporting outlets, is
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were getting severely ill and
dying, were people who are over

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the age of 65. And I think the
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over 75 and 80. And that people
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being affected, they were having
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dying. Were people with what
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2020 2021, co-morbidities,
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who suffered from inflammatory
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their immune system was already
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compensate for the other issues
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they contracted SARS Coby to and
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as COVID-19, their immune system
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ended up killing them. So when
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that, at those facts, that first
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not get infected with COVID-19.
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infected, then of the 85%, that
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numbers, I don't know what they
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almost this entire pandemic, 85%
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either were asymptomatic, or had
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fatal or life threatening. That
other 15% some of them got,

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seriously ill where it was a
really bad flu, but that they

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didn't have to be hospitalized.
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than half of that. And then
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that was hospitalized. They were
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recovered. And then the tiny
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percentage that were
hospitalized and died. Now those

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are the facts of the pandemic.
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judge for themselves. Am I at
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people, you know, well, yeah,
now the stories are coming out,

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oh, the variant, the Delta
variants, killing all the young

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people sending them to the
hospitals. But they're not

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really publishing the numbers on
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They're just talking about it.

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Primarily, people that are low
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anything, we could have gone up
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But the science, the science,
you can't, you can't trust the

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you were not allowed to take the
facts out and assess your own

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risk, and then act accordingly.
No, you had to, you had to have

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people, not just tell you what
to do. But they came out and

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they shut everything down. This
is why you cannot trust human

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scientists. They can you know,
they may be smarter than some of

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us. You know, they may know more
about the transmission of

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diseases, sure. But give us the
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And then let us make our own
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also where Trump got played. He
got played badly by Dr. Fauci

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and Dr. Burks. He trusted in
them to provide accurate

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information. And Fauci, it turns
out was lying from the beginning

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lying for who knows what reason?
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you know that the NIH has a
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that Fauci is irrevocably or
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pharmaceutical industry.
Whatever, whatever his reasons,

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are, he he lied, he lied about
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masking in particular, he seemed
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hydroxychloroquine seem to be
lying about ivermectin. But you

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take you know, he lied
specifically about masks. At

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least that one we can see for
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admitted that he lied, because
he didn't want the according to

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him. He didn't want the supply
Have masks to not be available

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to frontline workers, nurses,
doctors, whatever. So once you

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get a guy like that out there
lying, okay, instead of just

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telling adults in America in the
United States of America telling

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adults like, Hey, I mean, of
course, adults are stupid

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Anyway, you know, they went out
and bought tons of toilet paper

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because they thought they
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their own assets. Regardless,
you tell the His job is to tell

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us the truth. Whatever he knows,
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and advise, you know, there,
he's supposed to advise the

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President of the United States,
he's saying don't wear a mask,

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saying I'd do anything for you,
which it turns out anyway,

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multiple studies show that it
may not be all that effective at

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preventing infection. So once
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small, you now have to discount
everything else these people say

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you can't trust anything that
comes out of their mouths, you

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have to look at what's the
agenda behind what they're

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talking about. And they may
still under some facts. But you

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have to be able to pull those
facts out yourself and make a

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determination for yourself. And
you know that this is happening

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not just in in COVID. And you
can see from the frontline care

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doctors, COVID care doctors that
are heavily pushing ivermectin,

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and that are adamant that in
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this drug is effective, not just
as a treatment, but also as a

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preventive measure. You can see
what they're going for, with

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following the science and that
it doesn't just apply to COVID.

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It also apply it applies to
climate change. And I just

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finished the book written by a
former Obama administration

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official. And of course, I
didn't say that either. So I

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don't I can't remember the name
of the book offhand. But in

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there, he talks about climate
science. I'm going to blog post

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that book this week. But he
talks about how the media screws

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this all up and how they just
follow a set narrative. That is

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not the truth. Okay. Chicago
Tribune. That's where I'm from.

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I was born in Chicago. I'm now
living in the lovely state of

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Georgia in the north eastern
suburbs of Atlanta.

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I still read the Chicago Tribune
every day. And they were

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recently purchased by a by Alden
capital. I think they were some

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hedge fund that owns other
newspapers, well known for

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purging these papers after they
buy them. So recently, over the

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last week, the Chicago Tribune
saw a mass buyout of prominent

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colonists and reporters. I think
it was something like 40 of

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them, accepted buyouts prominent
of voices like john Cass,

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Aragorn, Mary Schmidt, Darlene
Glanton. Everybody except Rex,

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Husky. I think that's how you
pronounce his name Husky. That

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guy. I don't read them because
he's just such a boob. But I

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mean columnists that I read that
we're good columnists? I mean,

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john Cass was probably the last
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the Tribune. Even the editorial
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conservative as his cast wasn't
cast really wasn't all that

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conservative necessarily. He to
me was classic Chicago, classic

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Illinois, where we're sort of
moderates. You know, we like

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people to leave us alone. You
know, we like we like to leave

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people alone. And just go about
our lives, you know, but he was

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heavily into the politics of
Chicago. And so now he's just

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posting on his on his own
website, john Cass news calm,

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which I will continue reading
because he is now these. He's

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not constrained by the editors
at the Tribune. He can open up a

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little bit more, which which he
really didn't last column about

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Lori Lightfoot. He really let it
let it fly. Which was, which was

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good because there were things
that I think he covered there

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that he wasn't Able to quite say
while he was a constant in the

434
00:35:03,690 --> 00:35:11,220
Tribune. But the Tribune, okay,
they get rid of 40 columnist.

435
00:35:13,770 --> 00:35:17,220
And then what did they do? They
sent me an invoice, they sent me

436
00:35:17,220 --> 00:35:23,430
an invoice where they raised
raise my subscription rate. not

437
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:28,350
granted this subscription
anyways cheap. But it went from

438
00:35:28,350 --> 00:35:38,580
a buck. It was like a buck a
month I was paying to $7 or

439
00:35:38,580 --> 00:35:43,470
almost eight bucks. I was like,
wait, you got a lot of nerve.

440
00:35:44,940 --> 00:35:48,030
You get rid of everybody that I
read. And then and then you

441
00:35:48,030 --> 00:35:52,140
raise my rate. Now, I called
them up. And you know, this is

442
00:35:52,140 --> 00:35:55,080
what I always do is I'll call
them up and I'll say, I'm going

443
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,390
to cancel because you raise my
rate, and then they always drop

444
00:35:57,390 --> 00:36:01,530
it back down. So now again, I
continue my Tribune

445
00:36:01,590 --> 00:36:04,830
subscription. But for it's it's
for $1 a month, through the end

446
00:36:04,830 --> 00:36:07,470
of the year. So you know, this
happens every six months. I

447
00:36:07,470 --> 00:36:16,050
gotta call them back. But it's
there, you know, with the

448
00:36:16,050 --> 00:36:18,810
tribune what happened over the
years, which is what happened

449
00:36:18,810 --> 00:36:22,140
with a lot of other big city
newspapers that are not the New

450
00:36:22,140 --> 00:36:25,560
York Times Washington Post, is
that they use syndicated

451
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,340
information, syndicated stories.
So they pulled to too many

452
00:36:29,340 --> 00:36:32,280
stories from the Associated
Press, from the New York Times,

453
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:37,740
the Washington Post, even the LA
Times, and, you know, for

454
00:36:37,740 --> 00:36:43,170
national news, things that
weren't in Chicago. So, you

455
00:36:43,170 --> 00:36:45,840
know, some of that stuff. It was
just the stories weren't good,

456
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,440
because they were all very
slanted. You know, I would

457
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,780
still, if depending on the
importance of the news story, I

458
00:36:51,780 --> 00:36:54,840
would still read them. But you
have to really read those

459
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,830
critically, to take out the bias
that's in there so you can get

460
00:36:58,830 --> 00:37:02,430
to the facts of what the story
is. But their local reporting,

461
00:37:02,550 --> 00:37:05,040
the Chicago Tribune is local
reporting was always on point.

462
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,970
And they may have also had a
little bit of a slant to it, but

463
00:37:09,420 --> 00:37:12,870
I'm going to Chicago, but they
covered it. They covered Chicago

464
00:37:12,870 --> 00:37:16,140
very well, they covered a lot of
a lot of the corruption in the

465
00:37:16,140 --> 00:37:21,540
state. So now with all these
columnist and reporters gone,

466
00:37:21,540 --> 00:37:24,990
who knows how that's going to be
I hope their local reporting

467
00:37:24,990 --> 00:37:27,030
continues because I still read
the paper every day.

468
00:37:29,670 --> 00:37:33,390
But the Atlanta Journal, I read
the Atlanta Journal, that is a

469
00:37:33,390 --> 00:37:39,510
really bad paper, even locally,
it's ugly to look at. And, you

470
00:37:39,510 --> 00:37:42,390
know, they do the same thing
that the tribune did with

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00:37:42,570 --> 00:37:47,580
syndicated stories. But the rest
of it, you know, they do a lot

472
00:37:47,580 --> 00:37:52,110
of local coverage. It's
different here, in that the

473
00:37:52,110 --> 00:37:57,240
county structure has more
importance than city sense than

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00:37:57,240 --> 00:38:01,590
city structures. in Chicago. We
don't really talk about the

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counties that much. I mean, Cook
County is one of the is one of

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the largest counties in the
country, population wise. And

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Cook County is where Chicago
was, and it was also where I was

478
00:38:10,590 --> 00:38:15,000
living in one of the northern
suburbs. But we didn't really

479
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,810
talk about county government
much at all, you know, it's

480
00:38:18,810 --> 00:38:22,050
there. And you know, he got the
election for county board

481
00:38:22,050 --> 00:38:24,330
president and stuff, but we
didn't really talk about it that

482
00:38:24,330 --> 00:38:28,530
much. It was more about mayor of
Chicago or where I used to live.

483
00:38:28,530 --> 00:38:32,130
I used to live in a suburb
called Glenview. Even there, I

484
00:38:32,130 --> 00:38:36,120
mean, we talked about the
Glenview police department, you

485
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:40,620
know, the Glenview government
there, which is different here.

486
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So while while they do have city
structures here, as well as the

487
00:38:45,300 --> 00:38:49,050
county, the county seems to take
precedent over everything. And

488
00:38:49,050 --> 00:38:54,030
the way that they report the
news is just kind of like, I

489
00:38:54,030 --> 00:38:56,370
don't know, maybe I just can't
get into the rhythm of it yet.

490
00:38:56,820 --> 00:39:04,350
But it seems so scattershot. And
the editorial page of the

491
00:39:04,350 --> 00:39:07,620
Atlanta Journal is, I mean,
they're they're just there.

492
00:39:08,820 --> 00:39:15,600
They're not middle of the road
to put it that way. And they're

493
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,480
they're expensive, then they
keep bugging me. So I do the

494
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,030
same thing with them. I'll
cancel it and then I will

495
00:39:21,060 --> 00:39:23,880
subscribe back and I'll get it
for like 99 cents for the next

496
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,480
month. But what they wanted to
do is they want to go from

497
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:31,470
charging me 99 cents for a month
to charging me like three bucks

498
00:39:31,470 --> 00:39:36,180
a week. Yeah, I'm not paying
that much for this rag. It's

499
00:39:36,180 --> 00:39:40,200
It's terrible. You know, we'll
see how I continue. I can

500
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:47,580
continue my cancellation and
restarting of my subscription.

501
00:39:49,980 --> 00:39:56,910
Hold on, I just had to burp. So
is this compelling on video? I

502
00:39:56,910 --> 00:39:59,880
can't imagine this is compelling
video at all. This 41 minutes of

503
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:07,500
the Anyway, I shouldn't be down
talking my own my own content. I

504
00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:12,000
went hiking. I had this
beautiful picture of this crazy

505
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:21,000
woman here. This is at subtles
Bridge. I guess it's, I guess

506
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,110
it's a national park. I don't
know it was in. This is a it was

507
00:40:25,110 --> 00:40:28,320
a federal Park. It wasn't a
state park. And I just thought

508
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,960
this picture was kind of funny.
I was searching for places to

509
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:35,880
hike, you know, you know, maybe
20 minutes, half an hour from my

510
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,220
house because I was going to go
hiking on Friday. So I just want

511
00:40:38,220 --> 00:40:42,930
to play someplace close by. So I
discovered this park and this

512
00:40:42,930 --> 00:40:46,890
get this cool old bridge that's
been closed off. And the

513
00:40:46,890 --> 00:40:49,920
framework of it's still
standing. This is just it's just

514
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:57,750
such a weird picture of this
woman who is in full. I don't

515
00:40:57,750 --> 00:41:01,260
know what you would call that.
I'm guessing she's Muslim. She's

516
00:41:01,290 --> 00:41:06,420
got a full dress on sort of with
a headscarf. And then in the

517
00:41:06,420 --> 00:41:09,600
background, you get these three
boys, which are, you know,

518
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,180
climbing on this bridge, which
they're not supposed to be on.

519
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,020
But it's just kind of a
juxtaposition of cultures and

520
00:41:16,020 --> 00:41:20,700
people. And the creepiest part
is their hand. Look at this

521
00:41:20,700 --> 00:41:25,350
woman's hand. It's it's, it
looks like a skeleton. I don't

522
00:41:25,350 --> 00:41:30,480
know. It's just it was a freaky
picture. I posted it. And I did

523
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,150
go hiking there with my dog on
Friday. And that was a good

524
00:41:33,150 --> 00:41:36,720
time. You can see that ad on
Instagram. I got a bunch of

525
00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:40,920
photos. Oh, you know what, you
can see it on his his is where I

526
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,650
have all the photos. Yes, I do
have an Instagram account for my

527
00:41:43,650 --> 00:41:51,870
dog. Just for entertainment
purposes. It's called his handle

528
00:41:51,870 --> 00:41:57,630
is at gluteus maximus. His name
is Godfrey. And I think there's

529
00:41:57,630 --> 00:42:00,960
some pictures on mine. My
Instagram is at Kevin Bae.

530
00:42:04,710 --> 00:42:08,310
Moving on, study at the
Cleveland Clinic finds no need

531
00:42:08,310 --> 00:42:11,190
for vaccine in those previously
infected with SARS COVID.

532
00:42:13,980 --> 00:42:17,310
So this is again another one of
the debates raging on and common

533
00:42:17,310 --> 00:42:22,230
sense should tell you if you've
been infected with an illness,

534
00:42:23,070 --> 00:42:28,710
virus and you recover from it.
Your body has produced

535
00:42:28,740 --> 00:42:32,520
antibodies to fight off the
infection. This has been the

536
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:42,930
truth about the human body since
antibodies were discovered. So

537
00:42:42,930 --> 00:42:47,850
you, you get your contract SARS
COBie two, you come down with

538
00:42:47,850 --> 00:42:55,890
COVID-19 you recover. And now
you have your body now has the

539
00:42:55,920 --> 00:43:00,360
ability to recognize this virus
and the variants of the virus,

540
00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:10,860
because you know, the variants
are still over 99.9% the same as

541
00:43:10,860 --> 00:43:14,640
the original virus. So your body
now has the ability to fight

542
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:15,180
that off.

543
00:43:20,460 --> 00:43:24,870
So why would you get vaccinated?
You've already recovered? Why

544
00:43:24,870 --> 00:43:30,000
would you inject yourself with
some foreign medication that you

545
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:37,290
don't need? Like I i've I had
chickenpox. I had I got the

546
00:43:37,290 --> 00:43:40,710
disease I didn't get. I wasn't
vaccinated for it as a child. So

547
00:43:40,710 --> 00:43:44,850
I recently I got chickenpox as
an adult when my son got

548
00:43:44,850 --> 00:43:49,200
chickenpox, so I came down with
that. So now, I am immune to

549
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:53,850
chickenpox. I don't have to
worry about it anymore. You

550
00:43:53,850 --> 00:43:56,490
know, thank goodness, I didn't
have a really severe case as an

551
00:43:56,490 --> 00:44:04,650
adult, but whatever. So what
makes seires Coby to COVID-19

552
00:44:04,650 --> 00:44:10,620
different than the history of
other infections? You know, none

553
00:44:10,620 --> 00:44:14,130
of it makes any sense. But at
least there are studies that are

554
00:44:14,130 --> 00:44:17,610
coming out that showing that you
don't need to do what they are

555
00:44:17,610 --> 00:44:22,260
all being what they're all
pushing us to do. Politics seems

556
00:44:22,260 --> 00:44:25,440
to be infecting reporting of
adverse reactions from COVID-19.

557
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:32,040
So it seems that politics just
covers everything now. And it's

558
00:44:32,730 --> 00:44:36,030
politically desirable to push
COVID-19 vaccines if you haven't

559
00:44:36,030 --> 00:44:40,260
noticed, I don't watch TV news.
I just read my news. And the

560
00:44:40,260 --> 00:44:44,610
push is so strong, that it's
just incredible. If you haven't

561
00:44:44,610 --> 00:44:48,150
noticed the push to get
vaccinated. You haven't been

562
00:44:48,150 --> 00:44:54,570
paying attention. So let's see
in this story from the Wall

563
00:44:54,570 --> 00:44:58,380
Street Journal, there were four
very serious adverse events

564
00:44:58,380 --> 00:45:06,630
following The vaccination so
according to data taken directly

565
00:45:06,630 --> 00:45:11,580
from the vaccine adverse event
reporting system. You got

566
00:45:11,580 --> 00:45:17,130
thrombocytopenia, otherwise
known as low platelets, non

567
00:45:17,130 --> 00:45:20,370
infectious Myo carditis, which
has been in the news, you know,

568
00:45:20,490 --> 00:45:26,730
it's hard inflammation in young
people, deep vein thrombosis,

569
00:45:27,450 --> 00:45:33,000
and there have been 1000s of
people that have died post

570
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:38,910
vaccine. In the government, at
least the US government and I

571
00:45:38,910 --> 00:45:42,450
believe the EU and the UK,
they've all been downplaying

572
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:48,000
deaths, post vaccine. And some
of the stories I've been reading

573
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:54,030
that in the past when vaccine
studies were done prior to roll

574
00:45:54,030 --> 00:45:57,780
out to the population, when
deaths were just in the hundreds

575
00:45:59,340 --> 00:46:06,210
vaccine trials were stopped.
Now, have you noticed too, with

576
00:46:06,210 --> 00:46:12,180
the Johnson and Johnson vaccine
back, back when there was six

577
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:18,870
reports of blood clotting, six
reports of blood clotting over

578
00:46:18,870 --> 00:46:23,070
like six or 7 million doses.
They did almost an immediate

579
00:46:23,070 --> 00:46:29,010
halt. They didn't pick it, pick
it back up for for a couple of

580
00:46:29,010 --> 00:46:32,130
weeks. And you know, then they
started blaming that on the

581
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:41,520
cause for vaccine hesitancy. But
the CDA and the FDA, they seem

582
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,820
to be ignoring all the data
around this and covering it up.

583
00:46:45,210 --> 00:46:48,960
Or, let's say not covering it
up, but just ignoring it. It

584
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:52,170
doesn't get played up in the
News, the news media is they're

585
00:46:52,170 --> 00:46:56,970
totally worthless now. So in the
Wall Street Journal they write.

586
00:46:57,180 --> 00:46:59,760
The implication is that the
risks of a COVID-19 vaccine may

587
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:01,860
outweigh the benefits for
certain low risk populations

588
00:47:01,860 --> 00:47:04,350
such as children, young adults
and people who've recovered from

589
00:47:04,350 --> 00:47:08,730
COVID-19. This is especially
true in regions with low levels

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00:47:08,730 --> 00:47:11,400
of community spread, since the
likely host hood of illness

591
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,520
depends on exposure risk. And
while you would never know it

592
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,590
from listening to the public
health officials, not a single

593
00:47:16,590 --> 00:47:18,930
published study has demonstrated
that patients with prior

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00:47:18,930 --> 00:47:22,530
infection benefit from COVID-19
vaccination, that this isn't

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00:47:22,530 --> 00:47:25,500
readily acknowledged by the CDC
or Anthony Fauci is an

596
00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:29,910
indication of how deeply
entangled pandemic politics is

597
00:47:29,940 --> 00:47:33,390
in science. So, you know, this
isn't a Wall Street Journal op

598
00:47:33,390 --> 00:47:37,890
eds. It's a It's a miracle it
gets published. That's probably

599
00:47:37,890 --> 00:47:40,200
the only place right now where
that's going to get published.

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00:47:42,720 --> 00:47:49,440
The digital dollar This is
dangerous. Oh, that figures?

601
00:47:49,770 --> 00:47:57,480
I'll let that play out. Why
don't I hear that back? Anyway,

602
00:48:00,270 --> 00:48:02,430
the US government seems like
they're gonna come out with a

603
00:48:02,430 --> 00:48:03,660
digital dollar, the

604
00:48:03,659 --> 00:48:06,329
Unknown: Federal Reserve might
want to fix your wallet. By

605
00:48:06,329 --> 00:48:09,989
turning it from this into this.
Though your wallet is still

606
00:48:09,989 --> 00:48:12,749
designed for dollar bills,
Americans have been using cash

607
00:48:12,749 --> 00:48:16,799
to buy things less and less over
the years. That's part of why

608
00:48:16,799 --> 00:48:20,279
the Fed is considering
digitizing the US dollar, giving

609
00:48:20,279 --> 00:48:23,309
people money they can access on
their phone in bypassing

610
00:48:23,309 --> 00:48:25,949
electronic What if you don't
have a phone oh and costly for

611
00:48:25,949 --> 00:48:29,939
businesses. Some see this as a
necessary upgrade to the US

612
00:48:29,939 --> 00:48:33,329
financial system. But others
worry it could potentially up

613
00:48:33,329 --> 00:48:36,179
end commercial banking. There
are some very, very difficult

614
00:48:36,179 --> 00:48:39,599
questions to answer. But I think
we and we are engaged in a

615
00:48:39,599 --> 00:48:43,919
serious program to understand
both the technology and the

616
00:48:43,919 --> 00:48:48,689
policy issues. A central bank
digital currency or CB DC is

617
00:48:48,689 --> 00:48:51,839
exactly what it sounds like a
purely digital form of a

618
00:48:51,839 --> 00:48:55,109
country's money issued by a
central bank that people can use

619
00:48:55,139 --> 00:48:56,099
just like cash.

620
00:48:56,579 --> 00:49:03,659
Kevin Bae: Here's the problem.
You know, if you wanted to stash

621
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:09,089
some cash away for a rainy day,
put it in your home safe put it

622
00:49:09,089 --> 00:49:13,019
in a safe deposit box stuffing
in your mattress. A digital

623
00:49:13,019 --> 00:49:17,549
dollar eliminates all of that.
Not only that, now look at look

624
00:49:17,549 --> 00:49:20,489
at what at what what has
happened over the last two

625
00:49:20,489 --> 00:49:24,029
years, your year and a half
since the pandemic with shutting

626
00:49:24,029 --> 00:49:27,719
people up online. And granted
it's not the government shutting

627
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:34,679
you up. It's YouTube. It's
Facebook, its Twitter. But what

628
00:49:34,679 --> 00:49:38,699
is to stop the federal
government from shutting off

629
00:49:38,699 --> 00:49:44,309
your money spigot once. Cash is
all digital. If they totally

630
00:49:44,309 --> 00:49:51,419
eliminate paper money. They then
the government has a choke point

631
00:49:51,419 --> 00:49:54,719
on your life. They can prevent
you from doing anything. So

632
00:49:54,719 --> 00:50:01,979
let's say you're accused of a
crime Whatever the crime is, and

633
00:50:01,979 --> 00:50:07,049
they say you're a flight risk.
Maybe you are a flight risk.

634
00:50:08,129 --> 00:50:14,369
Maybe you're not. But now, you
won't be able to use that cash

635
00:50:14,429 --> 00:50:18,989
to do anything or go anywhere.
Because they'll just shut it

636
00:50:18,989 --> 00:50:22,559
off. They're saying, okay, we
will control what you're allowed

637
00:50:22,559 --> 00:50:26,459
to spend and where you're
allowed to spend it. So your

638
00:50:26,459 --> 00:50:31,739
digital dollars cannot now no
longer buy you train ticket,

639
00:50:32,789 --> 00:50:39,809
plane ticket. Hotels, you know
what we think you're spending

640
00:50:39,809 --> 00:50:45,269
too much money. say this has
nothing to do with criminal

641
00:50:45,269 --> 00:50:48,719
behavior at all. Let's say this
has public health implications

642
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:56,759
like COVID you're spending too
much money on fast food. Now

643
00:50:56,759 --> 00:51:00,239
your money is only good for
produce, or we think you're

644
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:07,019
eating too much meat. Too much
red meat. So now we're gonna

645
00:51:07,049 --> 00:51:09,599
we're gonna limit you, we're
gonna, you know, we think that

646
00:51:09,599 --> 00:51:15,389
you should only be able to mail
by X, X number of dollars of red

647
00:51:15,389 --> 00:51:20,069
meat a week. There's no limit to
what the federal government can

648
00:51:20,069 --> 00:51:28,109
do to you with a centralized
digital dollar. Now, if it's a

649
00:51:28,109 --> 00:51:30,899
decentralized digital dollar,
and I'm not talking about

650
00:51:30,899 --> 00:51:35,279
Bitcoin, I'm talking about a US
dollar that is decentralized

651
00:51:35,279 --> 00:51:42,719
that is handed out by the banks,
you, you have more control. But

652
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:47,999
still not optimal. Because you
still can't squirrel away some

653
00:51:47,999 --> 00:51:51,509
cash somewhere that nobody knows
about, and have it for an

654
00:51:51,509 --> 00:51:55,439
emergency. I don't know where
this is going. I don't

655
00:51:55,439 --> 00:52:03,059
necessarily like it. You know, I
hear all the arguments about

656
00:52:03,059 --> 00:52:06,629
Bitcoin. It's decentralized. No
government can control it. But

657
00:52:06,629 --> 00:52:15,719
again, you know, Bitcoin is not
backed by any military. So to

658
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:19,199
me, it's only worth what a
government the big governments

659
00:52:19,199 --> 00:52:24,899
of the world say it's worth the
EU, the US the UK, China and

660
00:52:24,899 --> 00:52:31,619
Russia. If they don't recognize
it, if you're not allowed to

661
00:52:32,189 --> 00:52:36,629
convert that currency in the
government, fiat currency is

662
00:52:36,629 --> 00:52:39,569
worthless to you. Yeah, you can
still trade it with other

663
00:52:39,569 --> 00:52:44,669
people. But once you need to go
outside the Bitcoin ecosystem,

664
00:52:46,229 --> 00:52:54,959
you know, and you need to buy
something from you know, normal,

665
00:52:54,959 --> 00:52:58,769
it's with us, but it is normal
society. The government won't

666
00:52:58,769 --> 00:53:01,109
let you you know, you could have
a billion dollars in Bitcoin,

667
00:53:01,109 --> 00:53:06,119
but if they don't let you trade
that for us dollars, you won't

668
00:53:06,119 --> 00:53:15,179
even be able to buy a candy bar
at the store. Okay. Oh, here's

669
00:53:15,179 --> 00:53:19,379
that funny video. This is a
video tweeted and now there's

670
00:53:19,379 --> 00:53:23,519
some colorful language. It's a
black man in the videos. So he's

671
00:53:23,519 --> 00:53:26,459
allowed to say what he wants to
say that the rest of us cannot

672
00:53:26,459 --> 00:53:34,229
say. But he's, he was being
carjacked. And he thwarted the

673
00:53:34,229 --> 00:53:37,289
carjacking. And the funniest
part is take a look at this

674
00:53:37,289 --> 00:53:42,719
guy's gun. Pull my gun down when
they pull up. It's the longest

675
00:53:42,779 --> 00:53:45,869
magazine you've ever seen in
your life and a handgun.

676
00:53:46,349 --> 00:53:53,279
may tell you go jump in my car
pull out and it's a stick nigga

677
00:53:53,279 --> 00:54:05,699
to you. That's the funniest part
to drive a stick. And he just he

678
00:54:05,699 --> 00:54:12,509
stood there to get arrested.
Anyway, that part just cracked

679
00:54:12,509 --> 00:54:19,619
me up. Let me move on. Okay. And
it's a stick can even drive

680
00:54:19,619 --> 00:54:25,919
stick? That was hilarious to me.
Okay, well. Wall Street Journal.

681
00:54:25,919 --> 00:54:35,099
There's a story about how this
businesses adapt and change

682
00:54:35,159 --> 00:54:40,529
according to the cost of labor.
This is well known to anybody

683
00:54:40,529 --> 00:54:45,899
who has operated a business. I
was on the employer side for

684
00:54:45,899 --> 00:54:52,109
over 30 years. And I know
firsthand that employees never

685
00:54:52,109 --> 00:54:55,799
take any of this stuff into
consideration. You know,

686
00:54:55,829 --> 00:55:02,099
employees generally think that a
business owner is Have a

687
00:55:02,099 --> 00:55:04,439
bottomless pit of money that,
you know they're they're

688
00:55:04,439 --> 00:55:08,159
extremely wealthy because they
own a business. Or at least as

689
00:55:08,159 --> 00:55:12,299
generalizing most employees, I
think, these days, they don't

690
00:55:12,299 --> 00:55:15,929
understand what it takes to keep
a business operating, they don't

691
00:55:15,929 --> 00:55:21,989
understand what it takes to make
a single payroll. They don't

692
00:55:21,989 --> 00:55:27,479
understand that, you know, a
business. a business's purpose

693
00:55:27,479 --> 00:55:31,739
for existence is to make a
profit, it's not to do good out

694
00:55:31,739 --> 00:55:34,439
in the world. And that's not to
say a business can't do good in

695
00:55:34,439 --> 00:55:38,399
the world. And that can't be
part of the business. But if the

696
00:55:38,399 --> 00:55:41,339
business itself doesn't make
money, it doesn't exist to do

697
00:55:41,339 --> 00:55:44,849
anything. So that is the first
and foremost purpose of a

698
00:55:44,849 --> 00:55:48,569
business to make money. And it
doesn't matter what the business

699
00:55:48,569 --> 00:55:51,779
does doesn't matter if you're
selling candy doesn't matter. If

700
00:55:51,779 --> 00:55:55,589
you're selling books, it doesn't
matter. If you're selling paper

701
00:55:55,589 --> 00:55:58,259
to print receipts, doesn't
matter if you're selling post it

702
00:55:58,259 --> 00:56:03,089
notes. The purpose is to sell
post the notes and make enough

703
00:56:03,089 --> 00:56:05,579
money to continue going to the
next day. And you know, in case

704
00:56:05,579 --> 00:56:07,949
of these large, large
corporations, their purpose is

705
00:56:07,949 --> 00:56:15,419
to maximize returns to
shareholders. It's just the fact

706
00:56:15,419 --> 00:56:21,299
of life with a business. So in
California, they found according

707
00:56:21,299 --> 00:56:23,309
to the wall street journal that
raising the minimum wage in

708
00:56:23,309 --> 00:56:26,519
California didn't significantly
affect the number of hours

709
00:56:26,519 --> 00:56:33,179
worked per store. But Excuse me,
what did change, as the company

710
00:56:33,179 --> 00:56:36,329
apparently tried to keep its
labor costs down, it changed,

711
00:56:36,809 --> 00:56:41,369
who worked and the hours as the
moon as the minimum wage

712
00:56:41,369 --> 00:56:45,809
increases by $1. According to
the authors of the study, the

713
00:56:45,809 --> 00:56:48,419
number of workers scheduled to
work per week increases by

714
00:56:48,419 --> 00:56:54,059
27.7%, and the hours assigned to
each worker decrease by 20.8%.

715
00:56:54,479 --> 00:56:58,349
For the average employee earning
$11 an hour, losing that much

716
00:56:58,349 --> 00:57:00,569
time in the clock would
translate to a wage reduction of

717
00:57:00,569 --> 00:57:04,979
13.6%. One way this can create
savings for the company,

718
00:57:05,009 --> 00:57:07,409
however, is that workers
generally need 20 hours a week

719
00:57:07,409 --> 00:57:10,409
to qualify retirement plans and
30 hours a week for healthcare.

720
00:57:11,159 --> 00:57:13,829
The authors of the study
calculate that for an average

721
00:57:13,829 --> 00:57:16,859
California store, when
increasing the minimum wage by a

722
00:57:16,859 --> 00:57:21,089
book, the percentage of workers
with weekly hours longer than 20

723
00:57:21,539 --> 00:57:27,149
and 30 decreases by 23% and
14.9%, respectively. So the

724
00:57:28,169 --> 00:57:32,219
revelation here is that a
business that sees an increase

725
00:57:32,249 --> 00:57:36,449
in the cost of labor will find
ways to decrease that cost of

726
00:57:36,449 --> 00:57:40,199
labor. In order to maintain
profit, they will either do that

727
00:57:40,199 --> 00:57:44,369
or they have to raise prices.
That's just the way it goes is

728
00:57:44,399 --> 00:57:45,509
there's no free lunch.

729
00:57:50,969 --> 00:57:57,389
And if you are a follower of
Walter Williams, who passed away

730
00:57:57,389 --> 00:58:02,789
last year, you would know that
the minimum wage, the creation

731
00:58:02,789 --> 00:58:06,749
of the minimum wage is racist.
You want systemic racism, it's

732
00:58:06,749 --> 00:58:14,159
the minimum wage. From Walter E.
Williams, Professor Walter E.

733
00:58:14,159 --> 00:58:17,789
Williams, it's on his website.
It's on his website. Walter E.

734
00:58:17,789 --> 00:58:21,989
Williams comm slash minimum dash
wage dash and dash

735
00:58:22,169 --> 00:58:26,429
discrimination. I've got it
linked on my website. Quote from

736
00:58:26,429 --> 00:58:29,099
there as our nation's first
minimum wage law, the Davis

737
00:58:29,099 --> 00:58:33,509
bacon act of 1931 had racist
motivation. During its

738
00:58:33,509 --> 00:58:35,879
legislative debate, its
congressional supporters made

739
00:58:35,879 --> 00:58:39,959
such statements as quote, that
contractor has cheap colored

740
00:58:39,959 --> 00:58:42,899
labor that he transports and he
puts them in cabinets, and it is

741
00:58:42,899 --> 00:58:46,469
labor of that sort. That is in
competition with white labor

742
00:58:46,469 --> 00:58:50,279
throughout the country. And the
quote, during hearings, American

743
00:58:50,279 --> 00:58:53,369
Federation of Labor President
William green complained, quote,

744
00:58:54,059 --> 00:58:58,199
colored labor is being sought to
demoralize wage rates and quote.

745
00:59:01,829 --> 00:59:04,559
So you want systemic racism,
racism, you don't have to look

746
00:59:04,559 --> 00:59:07,139
very far. All you have to do is
look for the policies that

747
00:59:07,199 --> 00:59:09,749
Democrats and socialists the
democratic socialists are

748
00:59:09,749 --> 00:59:13,439
pushing forward. $15 minimum
wage, there's nothing more

749
00:59:13,439 --> 00:59:17,399
racist than a $15 minimum wage,
especially when you're talking

750
00:59:17,399 --> 00:59:22,019
about the statistics of higher
unemployment among black people,

751
00:59:22,169 --> 00:59:26,339
higher unemployment among Latino
people, higher unemployment

752
00:59:26,369 --> 00:59:32,909
among immigrants that are coming
in a hierarchy minimum wage

753
00:59:34,199 --> 00:59:38,219
prices, those people with few
skills out of the market.

754
00:59:39,389 --> 00:59:41,609
There's just it's just common
sense.

755
00:59:45,119 --> 00:59:48,179
Unknown: A lot of people just
think labor unions are their god

756
00:59:48,179 --> 00:59:53,099
sins. Well, not for everybody.
Let me give you one example. And

757
00:59:53,099 --> 00:59:56,099
that example is really talked
about in a forthcoming book of

758
00:59:56,099 --> 00:59:58,049
mine is called race and
economics. They'll be out

759
00:59:58,049 --> 00:59:59,999
towards the end of March or
something like that. Maybe

760
00:59:59,999 --> 01:00:03,659
April. And in one of chapters, I
talked about the minimum wage.

761
01:00:03,839 --> 01:00:07,319
And I talked about a super
minimum wage called the Davis

762
01:00:07,319 --> 01:00:11,849
bacon act of 1931. And here's
what the Davis bacon Act does.

763
01:00:11,849 --> 01:00:13,439
And it turns out to be very
common

764
01:00:13,500 --> 01:00:14,940
Kevin Bae: that that

765
01:00:14,969 --> 01:00:18,899
Unknown: workers receive what's
called the prevailing wage on

766
01:00:18,899 --> 01:00:23,279
all federally funded and
federally assisted construction

767
01:00:23,279 --> 01:00:28,529
projects. And the Department of
Labor illegally decides that the

768
01:00:28,529 --> 01:00:33,899
prevailing wage is the union
wage in the area or higher. Now,

769
01:00:34,019 --> 01:00:38,849
if you tell a contractor, you
must pay any Carpenter you hire

770
01:00:38,879 --> 01:00:43,739
$25 an hour? Well, what is the
effect of that? Well, it makes a

771
01:00:43,739 --> 01:00:48,839
carpenter who has skills that
are only worth say $12 an hour,

772
01:00:49,319 --> 01:00:54,509
it makes him unemployable. That
is the Davis bacon Act, or any

773
01:00:54,509 --> 01:00:58,409
kind of minimum wage
discriminates against the

774
01:00:58,409 --> 01:01:02,879
employment of low skilled
people. And so of course, unions

775
01:01:02,879 --> 01:01:06,059
give a lot of support of the
Davis bacon act. But if you go

776
01:01:06,059 --> 01:01:08,879
to the Congressional Record, you
see some of the history of it.

777
01:01:09,329 --> 01:01:17,189
March 31 1931, page 6513. You
can read what was argued by

778
01:01:17,189 --> 01:01:21,629
Congressman in support of the
Davis bacon act. One congressman

779
01:01:21,629 --> 01:01:25,589
said is congressman all good see
that contractor over there, he

780
01:01:25,589 --> 01:01:29,759
brings cheap colored labor up
from the south and puts them in

781
01:01:29,759 --> 01:01:35,129
cabins, and it is labor of that
kind that's competing with white

782
01:01:35,129 --> 01:01:38,699
men around America. It's much
more fun, you'll find similar

783
01:01:38,699 --> 01:01:42,299
statements in support of Davis
bacon act by other congressmen.

784
01:01:42,959 --> 01:01:47,759
The thing is, the Davis bacon
act was written to exclude non

785
01:01:47,759 --> 01:01:52,949
union laborers from construction
projects. And today, the Davis

786
01:01:52,949 --> 01:01:57,509
bacon act is still on the books
support it tooth and nail by

787
01:01:57,509 --> 01:01:58,739
labor unions in general.

788
01:02:01,289 --> 01:02:02,789
Kevin Bae: That tells you
everything you need to know

789
01:02:02,819 --> 01:02:06,989
about systemic racism, and what
people are really willing to

790
01:02:06,989 --> 01:02:14,669
look at when they're talking
about it. And to 2020 elections,

791
01:02:14,669 --> 01:02:20,699
it was found out I found that a
while ago, and I blogged about

792
01:02:20,699 --> 01:02:27,269
it before that the Chan
Zuckerberg initiative interfered

793
01:02:27,269 --> 01:02:32,939
in our elections in 2020. They
sent out hundreds of millions of

794
01:02:32,939 --> 01:02:40,799
dollars across the country to
supposedly to shore up

795
01:02:40,829 --> 01:02:43,799
infrastructure voting
infrastructure during the

796
01:02:43,799 --> 01:02:50,309
pandemic. But just the news
reports that the group poured

797
01:02:50,309 --> 01:02:52,529
millions of dollars into
multiple key Wisconsin

798
01:02:52,529 --> 01:02:55,319
democratic strongholds in the
months leading up to last year's

799
01:02:55,319 --> 01:02:59,069
presidential race, ostensibly in
an effort to shore up voting

800
01:02:59,069 --> 01:03:03,119
systems and infrastructure amid
the pandemic. The organization

801
01:03:03,119 --> 01:03:05,669
was ultimately funded with more
than a third of a billion

802
01:03:05,669 --> 01:03:09,959
dollars by Zuckerberg and his
wife, Priscilla Chan. That money

803
01:03:09,959 --> 01:03:12,269
was funneled to additional
election funding efforts across

804
01:03:12,269 --> 01:03:16,679
the country. They claimed the
following following the infusion

805
01:03:16,709 --> 01:03:19,439
of the cash into Green Bay, the
mayor's office and Chief of

806
01:03:19,439 --> 01:03:22,709
Staff began to take over
election functions. And it's not

807
01:03:22,709 --> 01:03:26,519
that something and that is not
something under the state

808
01:03:26,519 --> 01:03:29,519
statute that they have authority
to do. Because under Wisconsin,

809
01:03:29,519 --> 01:03:32,729
lamesa Municipal clerks, the
county clerk and Wisconsin

810
01:03:32,729 --> 01:03:35,129
elections commissions are the
individuals charged with running

811
01:03:35,129 --> 01:03:42,359
the elections. So we're always
concerned about money in

812
01:03:42,359 --> 01:03:47,069
politics. And mainly it's always
it's been centered around

813
01:03:47,099 --> 01:03:54,629
advertising. That if a group has
advocated for a candidate, that

814
01:03:54,629 --> 01:03:59,759
if there's all this flood of
advertising coming out, that

815
01:03:59,759 --> 01:04:03,989
somehow it's evil, at least
that's in your face. Nobody knew

816
01:04:03,989 --> 01:04:07,949
about this Chan Zuckerberg
initiative. I don't think that

817
01:04:07,979 --> 01:04:11,099
wasn't widely known at all.
until after the election. I

818
01:04:11,099 --> 01:04:13,409
didn't find out about it until
after the facts like what the

819
01:04:13,409 --> 01:04:21,599
hell are they doing? providing
money to local governments to

820
01:04:21,599 --> 01:04:26,249
handle the election. That's
that's, that's a taxpayer has to

821
01:04:26,249 --> 01:04:30,869
be only a taxpayer funded
initiative elections that cannot

822
01:04:30,869 --> 01:04:34,829
come from outside private
businesses that have an agenda.

823
01:04:36,029 --> 01:04:38,249
You know, it's even more clear
now with Facebook shutting

824
01:04:38,249 --> 01:04:41,789
everybody up when it comes to
debate, either for the election.

825
01:04:42,719 --> 01:04:45,419
No, now, now we know that they
have a vested interest in that

826
01:04:45,419 --> 01:04:47,489
election, because they
interfered with it.

827
01:04:52,710 --> 01:04:57,990
And moving to Joe, I can stop
smacking, smacking. It's

828
01:04:57,990 --> 01:05:00,810
something I do unconsciously but
I hear It now that I have to

829
01:05:00,810 --> 01:05:04,440
have headphones on, when I
podcast I hear this all the time

830
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:07,230
and I can't stop myself. Part of
it is to is I think the

831
01:05:07,230 --> 01:05:10,950
microphone the microphone picks
up every you know every little

832
01:05:10,950 --> 01:05:19,350
bit even like dry mouth. That's
got to be really disturbing

833
01:05:19,350 --> 01:05:22,950
triggering to some people to
hear that. We have we had creepy

834
01:05:22,950 --> 01:05:24,240
Joe come up with us whispering

835
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:31,140
Unknown: people are waiting for
relief. I got $1.9 trillion

836
01:05:31,620 --> 01:05:35,070
relief so far, they're going to
be getting checks in the mail

837
01:05:35,070 --> 01:05:35,220
that

838
01:05:35,220 --> 01:05:39,840
Kevin Bae: are consequential
this week for childcare. A lot

839
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:41,670
has been happened already. I
don't think it has anything to

840
01:05:41,670 --> 01:05:43,170
do with this dementia. He's just
a creep.

841
01:05:43,230 --> 01:05:45,900
Unknown: I'm gonna fight like
the weird dude, to get them the

842
01:05:45,900 --> 01:05:49,290
rest of what I think has to be
done. I'm gonna be going around

843
01:05:49,290 --> 01:05:53,370
the country, spending time
making the case to the American

844
01:05:53,370 --> 01:05:57,750
people, that this isn't about a
debt showing and identification,

845
01:05:58,050 --> 01:06:01,410
that this is who I am when I
vote. This isn't just about

846
01:06:01,410 --> 01:06:04,740
whether or not excuse me, you
can provide water for someone

847
01:06:04,740 --> 01:06:07,620
standing in line while they're
waiting to vote. This is such

848
01:06:07,620 --> 01:06:11,700
bullshit. This is about who gets
to judge whether your vote

849
01:06:11,700 --> 01:06:17,670
counted after it's been cast. We
can not dismiss it at all. So

850
01:06:17,670 --> 01:06:19,140
she might and I wrote the

851
01:06:22,409 --> 01:06:25,319
Kevin Bae: route it Why would I
not be out the bill of words

852
01:06:25,319 --> 01:06:32,819
can't find workers at the
beginning yet pay them more $1.9

853
01:06:32,879 --> 01:06:40,049
trillion relief $1.9 trillion in
relief. The IRS still has not

854
01:06:40,049 --> 01:06:45,479
processed my tax return. I filed
in March. I just read a story

855
01:06:45,479 --> 01:06:49,919
where they just finished the
backlog from 2019. Um, wait, you

856
01:06:49,919 --> 01:06:53,399
know, they've I've changed my
entire employment and income

857
01:06:53,399 --> 01:06:59,549
stream. So the last two years
I've had a kind of upheaval in,

858
01:07:00,329 --> 01:07:04,169
in my taxes, where before, you
know, I sort of plan things out

859
01:07:04,169 --> 01:07:09,359
where, you know, I usually had
to pay some on April 14, you

860
01:07:09,359 --> 01:07:12,839
know, cuz I would rather me have
the money than the government

861
01:07:12,839 --> 01:07:16,349
has the money. But in the change
of my employment and the change

862
01:07:16,349 --> 01:07:22,589
in what I'm doing, you know, my
income isn't the same. So I have

863
01:07:22,589 --> 01:07:26,249
no, no, I had no idea what kind
of tax consequences I'm going to

864
01:07:26,249 --> 01:07:30,269
have from the way I currently
have my life structured. So I'm

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01:07:30,299 --> 01:07:32,789
supposed to be getting a refund.
I know the state of Illinois

866
01:07:32,789 --> 01:07:35,789
gave me my refund, which they're
broke already. Somehow they paid

867
01:07:35,789 --> 01:07:40,259
me the federal government
though. Federal Government still

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01:07:40,259 --> 01:07:44,459
holding on to my money. You
know, you check the stupid

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01:07:44,459 --> 01:07:48,419
website. And it says that they
received it and it's processing

870
01:07:48,449 --> 01:07:51,749
but nothing's happening. And you
can't call anybody. It's all

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01:07:51,749 --> 01:07:57,089
automated. Nobody answers the
freakin phone. I contacted my

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01:07:57,359 --> 01:08:01,349
now Georgia representative. They
reached out to the IRS and the

873
01:08:01,349 --> 01:08:04,799
IRS came back and just told them
I'm part of the backlog. So

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01:08:04,799 --> 01:08:09,539
while you know, our illustrious
president is whispering how much

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01:08:09,539 --> 01:08:14,549
money he's sending the people.
Send me mine. process, my

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01:08:14,549 --> 01:08:19,169
fucking return, send me my cash.
Now, I'm supposed to get plus

877
01:08:19,169 --> 01:08:22,169
interest, but still, I would
rather have the money in my

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01:08:22,169 --> 01:08:27,749
pocket. So there's stuff that I
can do with it. And I think is

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01:08:27,749 --> 01:08:32,399
this the last story? Yes, this
is the last story and I was

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01:08:32,399 --> 01:08:36,569
gonna name it. I was gonna name
the podcast episode. President

881
01:08:36,569 --> 01:08:40,349
Kamala Jo, not particularly
clever, but whatever it was in

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01:08:40,349 --> 01:08:43,979
my head. So I may still change
to that right now. It's, it's

883
01:08:43,979 --> 01:08:46,979
called the self identification
has finally jumped the shark,

884
01:08:46,979 --> 01:08:53,279
which is kind of too long. So I
will probably rename it to that.

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01:08:55,109 --> 01:08:58,979
But anyway, I'm sure everybody's
seen this by now. Where

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01:08:59,099 --> 01:09:03,869
President Biden was delivering
remarks about whatever the hell

887
01:09:03,869 --> 01:09:05,729
he was talking about. I don't
know exactly. I don't watch the

888
01:09:05,729 --> 01:09:10,049
speeches. You know, he doesn't
see anything of consequence and

889
01:09:10,049 --> 01:09:13,319
nobody asks him any questions of
consequences. There's not really

890
01:09:13,319 --> 01:09:17,309
much point in watching them. You
know, I will read them later. If

891
01:09:17,309 --> 01:09:19,439
there's text editor or if it's
something important that

892
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:21,599
everybody's making a big deal
out of I'll go watch but this

893
01:09:21,599 --> 01:09:30,119
one is just takes the cake. I've
got to get helicopter travel. We

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01:09:30,119 --> 01:09:32,339
asked you about Florida what
you've learned about Oh, yes.

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01:09:32,339 --> 01:09:38,009
Oh, you forgot something else.
Thank you. I've spoken so smug.

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01:09:38,399 --> 01:09:40,889
Coincidentally, that's rare. I
told him

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01:09:41,670 --> 01:09:45,180
Unknown: of Miami Dade was in my
office yesterday. And I talked

898
01:09:45,180 --> 01:09:48,990
to her today. Not about that,
obviously. And so I had a long

899
01:09:48,990 --> 01:09:53,280
discussion with her today. I've
also spoken with we've come in

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01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:56,190
contact with a Congresswoman
Debbie Wasserman Schultz who has

901
01:09:56,190 --> 01:09:56,850
that district

902
01:09:58,410 --> 01:10:01,800
Kevin Bae: Anyway, what he says
Is that important? The fact is,

903
01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:08,100
is that it's not just Kamala
reminding him, what's wrong with

904
01:10:08,100 --> 01:10:11,460
his staff. He had a book in
front of him about what he's

905
01:10:11,460 --> 01:10:18,540
supposed to talk about. And he
refers to it all the time. Why

906
01:10:18,540 --> 01:10:21,750
didn't they put that in there?
Joe, don't forget to talk about

907
01:10:21,750 --> 01:10:26,190
the Miami building collapse. You
know, I think it's less really

908
01:10:26,190 --> 01:10:28,740
about Kamala Harris jumping in
and say, Joe, you forgot

909
01:10:28,740 --> 01:10:31,770
something. I think it's less
about his dementia. I think it's

910
01:10:31,770 --> 01:10:41,160
more that his staff seems to be
sabotaging him a lot. A lot. All

911
01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:44,970
right, I think I've run out a
topic, they still haven't found

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01:10:44,970 --> 01:10:49,020
a good transition to end an
episode. Because I think it's

913
01:10:49,020 --> 01:10:56,400
mainly because I'm talking to
myself. But anyway, so if you're

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01:10:56,400 --> 01:11:00,750
watching this on YouTube,
congratulations. It's an hour

915
01:11:00,750 --> 01:11:03,930
and 12 minutes. If you're
listening to this on the

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01:11:03,930 --> 01:11:07,530
podcast, congratulations, as
well. I know there's at least 10

917
01:11:07,530 --> 01:11:09,660
of you. I don't know if you're
listening all the way through,

918
01:11:09,660 --> 01:11:14,370
but there's at least 1010 for 10
episodes. I'm going to mention

919
01:11:14,370 --> 01:11:18,540
that this is a podcasting 2.0
compatible podcast. That means

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01:11:18,540 --> 01:11:21,840
if you're listening to this
podcast on a podcasting 2.0

921
01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:25,080
compatible app, you'll have
access to transcripts, chapters

922
01:11:25,080 --> 01:11:29,670
and chapter images. Again, I've
said this before, I i've been

923
01:11:29,670 --> 01:11:32,430
lazy with chapters, I promise,
I'm going to get to this.

924
01:11:33,570 --> 01:11:35,850
Because chapter images really
kind of help when you're talking

925
01:11:35,850 --> 01:11:39,630
about a specific thing. And you
can provide that photo of what

926
01:11:39,630 --> 01:11:42,000
it is you're talking about. It
kind of adds a new dimension to

927
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:45,030
what you're doing or to what to
what people are listening to.

928
01:11:45,270 --> 01:11:50,130
And if you're using a podcasting
2.0 compatible app, what are

929
01:11:50,130 --> 01:11:53,340
those, you can go to the new
podcast apps comm and download

930
01:11:53,340 --> 01:12:00,660
any one of those that cover the
new podcast 2.0 namespace, you

931
01:12:00,660 --> 01:12:03,270
should go there and support them
because they are more important

932
01:12:03,270 --> 01:12:07,200
to the ecosystem of free speech,
and podcasting than either

933
01:12:07,200 --> 01:12:10,710
Apple, Spotify, Google,
Facebook, any of the big

934
01:12:10,710 --> 01:12:13,710
players, it's independent,
podcasting, independent,

935
01:12:13,740 --> 01:12:18,750
reporting independent people out
there telling you what's exactly

936
01:12:18,750 --> 01:12:23,550
happening in different parts of
the world that will deliver you

937
01:12:23,550 --> 01:12:28,140
more truth than you're going to
get from legacy media. So go go

938
01:12:28,140 --> 01:12:35,580
to podcast index that org
support them and get, you know,

939
01:12:35,580 --> 01:12:39,780
one of the new apps because the
apps are fantastic. If you have

940
01:12:39,780 --> 01:12:44,340
any questions or comments, put
them on YouTube there you know,

941
01:12:44,370 --> 01:12:48,750
I think there's a chat there but
nobody's nobody's watching or

942
01:12:48,750 --> 01:12:51,120
listening to that thing right
now. Hopefully people will

943
01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:55,080
transition to that. I don't know
what I'm gonna do this live if

944
01:12:55,080 --> 01:12:57,780
I'm gonna have a set time for
that. I have to figure that out.

945
01:12:58,260 --> 01:13:04,110
But questions or comments send
me an email at mail@kevinba

946
01:13:04,110 --> 01:13:08,220
.com M A I L@kevinbae.com go to
my website Kevin calm My name is

947
01:13:08,220 --> 01:13:15,840
spelled K E V I N last name is 
 as in boy A E kevinbae.com and 

948
01:13:15,840 --> 01:13:20,250
et me know what you think al
o, you can donate to this podcas

949
01:13:20,280 --> 01:13:24,420
, podcast, there's a Donate b
tton on my website. If yo

950
01:13:24,420 --> 01:13:26,700
 feel like sending me a couple 
f dollars, I would appreciate i

951
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:31,350
. I have a I have a merch s
ore, kevinbae.com/merch. And rig

952
01:13:31,350 --> 01:13:33,300
t now they're in there you just
got a couple of T shirts th

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01:13:33,300 --> 01:13:39,090
t are based on the Chicago a
d the place where I grew up. An

954
01:13:39,090 --> 01:13:43,200
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m the pandemic where you can

955
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:46,680
buy t shirts masks, if you fee
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01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:53,850
mine. Anyway, that is anyway, t
at is it for this episode numb

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01:13:54,210 --> 01:13:58,800
r 10. Hopefully I'm making it 
umber 11 on next Monday, and 

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01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:05,250
 will talk to you then where to
watch my cursor go. That was k

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01:14:05,250 --> 01:14:12,180
nd of disturbing the way the
 kick them very loud. Anyway, 

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01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:18,060
hat's it. Maybe I'll find som
thing more entertaining back her

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01:14:22,200 --> 01:14:27,600
. See you next week. Because 
hat's all I got till that reall

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 sold o