WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:04.360 Attention. You're listening to the top huff radio show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.519 --> 00:00:08.400 not bitter talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:12.000 documented to prevent and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:31.719 to the right. Here's your conservative but not Bitter host, Todd Huff. 5 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:36.520 Oh, my friend, I don't know if you have seen this, but 6 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:43.759 according to the most recent odds out there, this is a headline in the 7 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:47.759 Washington Examiner, which is on our Stack of Stuff page on the website tot 8 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:54.799 huffshow dot com, written by Paul Bedard. Here headline says Trump's odds of 9 00:00:55.000 --> 00:01:00.640 winning hit a new high. He's nineteen points over Biden. That's not nineteen 10 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:07.640 points ahead in the polls. That means that according to a political odds maker, 11 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:15.319 which is called an online political odds maker called sports Handle. Sports Handle 12 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:23.319 has found, according to their odds making capabilities, that Trump has a fifty 13 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:33.359 eight point six, yes, point six percent chance of winning the upcoming election. 14 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:38.079 And he's had this lead, not by this many points, but he's 15 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:45.400 maintained a lead since last October. That would be October of twenty twenty three. 16 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:49.959 Biden, by the way, his odds of winning re election, according 17 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:53.400 to this site, are thirty nine percent. So if you take the fifty 18 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:59.920 eight point six percent and you subtract the thirty nine percent and you ran, 19 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:01.480 you got to accommodate a little bit of a rounding here. I know, 20 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:04.760 it's a lot of math. If I got a socialist tuned in here this 21 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:08.960 morning, that shows that Trump is up nineteen percent, He's He's got a 22 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:15.599 nineteen percentage point lead regarding the odds of winning the upcoming election. So that's 23 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:19.240 a big deal. I mean, it's it's look, it's it's odds makers 24 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:23.840 and all that, but it's still an important indication. And when I read 25 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:28.439 these things to you or when I share this, I you know, always 26 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:32.680 on the other side of the of the good news of this, always the 27 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:38.120 risk is that people become complacent, which I know you're not going to, 28 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:44.199 but you know that's that's the threat. That's the risk here is that you 29 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:47.759 look at all these indicators and some people will say, I just I'm not 30 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:52.520 going to go vote I need to, I'm just going to stay home. 31 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:54.159 Trump's got this in the bag. We can't look at it that way. 32 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:58.120 So I want to talk about this today. There's other stuff, plenty of 33 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:01.560 stuff in the stack of stuff today, and we will get to that in 34 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:05.400 due course. 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But 71 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:50.079 what I tell you, it was fifty eight point six approaching fifty nine percent. 72 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:55.120 So they didn't even when they did the math, they didn't even round 73 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:59.079 up and then say that's a twenty point advantage. They they gave Biden the 74 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:04.040 benefit of the down and so that's nineteen point advantage over over Biden's odds. 75 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:06.439 I still think that this is way too close. I mean, that's that's 76 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:12.720 My first take is that there's no way in a sane world, in a 77 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:15.000 sane world, which I know we don't have, so please don't mist understand. 78 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.600 But in a sane world, the odds that Trump should win should not 79 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:21.240 be capped. Well it's not capped, but they shouldn't right now have a 80 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:26.240 ceiling of fifty eight percent. That's the first thing. The second thing is, 81 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:30.920 of course, I think about what we have to do to ensure that 82 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:39.160 this is actually the result, because the left is never going to throw in 83 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:43.199 the towel. The left is never going to give up. The left eats 84 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:46.600 and breathes this stuff. This is their life. I've said that to the 85 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:51.600 left, to the radical left, government is religion. It is government is 86 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:56.319 a worship of God. You know, worship I've shared this on here before. 87 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:01.519 Worship is to consider something ultimately worthy. And to the radical left, 88 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:08.319 there is no greater thing in life as we know it than government. It's 89 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:13.879 their tool to be able to force the rest of us to comply with their 90 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:19.720 nonsensical, radical nonsense. I said, nonsensical and nonsense, how about nonsensical 91 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:25.439 radical gibberish? So we have, of course, it's not the intent of 92 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:28.600 government, but that's what it's being used for today. In fact, if 93 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:31.199 you look at the founding documents, you look at the Constitution, that the 94 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:36.399 government's not supposed to be able to manipulate and coerce us like that. But 95 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:41.600 they do, and we know that they do. We're quite aware of what's 96 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:46.360 going on. But this is why they like it. They think that they're 97 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:50.639 smarter than the rest of us, that they are worthy of having this power 98 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:55.680 and authority. The rest of us need to sit down and shut up and 99 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:59.800 let them take control of things. That's what they think, and that's what 100 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:01.279 they do, and that's why they love it, and that's why they fall 101 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:09.519 at the feet of government and just worship this. Now you can understand that 102 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:15.279 government is important while also understanding that it is not worthy of our worship. 103 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:18.519 It's not worthy of our worship. In fact, that's why I'm a conservative 104 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:22.720 Christian. I think it's important the way that we live this side of heaven. 105 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:28.519 I think it's important that the type of government that we have, the 106 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:33.080 types of laws that are passed. I also think culture is important, So 107 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:35.919 I think that people who are influencing culture, people that are in entertainment, 108 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:41.159 I think that's important. I think that the way that we live our day 109 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:43.639 to day lives, which includes where we work. I think that the woke 110 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:48.440 business culture is a major problem that needs to be addressed. I think there's 111 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:52.120 lots of things that are important, lots of areas that we need to be 112 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:58.679 involved as limited government conservatives, as people who understand that you know, there 113 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:03.480 is there is a best way of doing everything. There is good and bad, 114 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:07.039 there is good and evil, right and wrong. Not everything falls on 115 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:11.559 that continuum. Some things are a matter of preference, of course, but 116 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:18.879 there are things that are objectively right or objectively wrong. And having the things 117 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:22.639 that are objectively wrong crammed down the throats of the American people by force, 118 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:28.759 using government as force is an atrocity. It's an it's an abject evil that 119 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:33.399 has to be stopped, that has to be stopped. And so, my 120 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:37.360 friends, it's why it's important that we win this upcoming election. Trump again 121 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.440 fifty eight percent chance of winning. That should be higher. I remember on 122 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:46.759 the morning of the election twenty sixteen. I remember waking up and people asking 123 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:48.120 me, what do you think our chances are todd and I said fifty to 124 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:52.600 fifty. That's what I thought back in the day, I thought fifty to 125 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:56.240 fifty this could be, this could end for Trump. You know, it 126 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:58.879 was. It's a couple of states. You know, if Trump doesn't get 127 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.759 Pennsylvania and Michigan states like that, then Wisconsin he's not gonna win. Hillary's 128 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:11.039 the president of the United States. And as I talked about last hour, 129 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.600 Merrick Garland, I don't know if she would have continued that nomination that Barack 130 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:20.600 Obama made. She might have made someone else Supreme Court Justice of the United 131 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:24.840 States. I'm not sure. I do know that things would be dramatically worse 132 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:31.840 if Trump wasn't president of the United States in twenty sixteen. Hillary would probably 133 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:37.039 still be president. Think about that, and some ways we could say we 134 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.360 avoided the Bidenomics disaster, but we know that Hillary would have done similar things. 135 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:46.039 This is who these people are. It's what they believe. They're willing 136 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:50.759 to burn this country metaphorically to the ground, to have this country remade into 137 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:56.039 something that they prefer, which is something that is molded in a radical leftist 138 00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:03.320 worldview, and so the elections are important. It's in a way it's staggering 139 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:07.600 to me that Trump's odds aren't even higher than this now I don't know if 140 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:11.320 this takes into account election integrity. I don't know if this takes into account 141 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:18.679 some shenanigans that could take place at any given moment in time after election day. 142 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:22.720 But nonetheless, Trump has a fifty eight percent chance of winning, according 143 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:28.759 to odds makers at sportshandle dot com, which again's in the stack of stuff 144 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:37.120 now, talking about being having things thrust upon us, forced upon US government, 145 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:41.039 being the boss of us. These are all anti American concepts and ideas, 146 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:45.279 but it's what's happened, and it is what happened during COVID. Make 147 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:50.600 no mistake, that's not what happened during COVID was not an American response. 148 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:56.080 And so there's an article I stumbled across. This is at the Federalist dot 149 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:03.279 com. The headline here, the contrarians were right about COVID hysteria. The 150 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:09.519 contrarians, So those of us who opposed the COVID nonsense can be called contrarians. 151 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:11.879 I would say, I remember saying this back during COVID, the dust, 152 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:16.000 when the dust settles, when the dust subtles, those of us who 153 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:20.080 had questions and criticisms about what happened, how they manage the situation, the 154 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:22.639 things that they forced us to do, the things that they try to do 155 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:28.399 to intimidate us, all these things. We are going to find out once 156 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:31.639 the dust settles, that we were right and that is absolutely what happened. 157 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:35.759 And I want to take a little bit of a quick look here at this 158 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:43.360 piece again as we think about Trump being the person that's statistically the front runner 159 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:46.720 in the election, most likely at this point in time to be president, 160 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:52.840 these sorts of things are what is hanging hanging in the balance more of this 161 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:58.639 type of behavior, these policies and reactions to COVID, These things are embraced 162 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.720 by people who love government, and by the way, they're in both parties, 163 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:07.960 they flock to the left. None of them are conservatives. Some of 164 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:11.559 them are still Republicans because well, for a myriad of reasons I want to 165 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:16.879 I don't want to get to at the moment, but they're not conservatives. 166 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:22.200 These are people who are rhino Republicans or Democrats, and the leftists are the 167 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:24.559 ones that are running the show. Again. They think that they're better than 168 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:28.639 you, smarter than you, and should be ruling over you. So I 169 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:33.759 want to kind of touch on this article because in a way, these two 170 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:41.720 diametrically opposed worldviews, which are embodied by our candidates Biden and Trump, we 171 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:46.360 can go in two absolutely different directions. 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So you look here, you look here 199 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:18.639 at this article at the federalis dot com. The contrarians were right about COVID 200 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:23.480 hysteria, and they were people who had questions, people who said, this 201 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:27.960 is crazy, people who said, what is going on? Where did all 202 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:33.559 of the reasonable people go? What the world happened to my country? Why 203 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.600 are we looking at people not as human beings but rather as people who can 204 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:44.120 transmit germs and disease? What happened? Why are we standing six feet apart? 205 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:47.879 Why are we washing our groceries? Why are we doing all sorts of 206 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:52.879 things? Why are we wearing masks? We've been proven to be right on 207 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:59.200 all of those things. The questions that we had about the safety of the 208 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:07.680 vaccines, all of these things we've been proven right about, been proven right 209 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:11.440 about. I'm not saying that, you know, these are personal decisions, 210 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:15.720 but the way this was handled, the way this was forced on people, 211 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:22.000 the way that the government lost all regard for anything besides besides public health. 212 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:25.559 Of course, the government has an interest in public health, but that does 213 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:30.200 not mean they get to burn down your personal liberties and destroy the economy and 214 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:33.720 the process. I remember, in the days of COVID, talking about this 215 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:38.559 was like a kind of like a three legged stool. You've got constitution, 216 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:41.799 you've got our liberties, you've got the economy, and you've got public health. 217 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:45.319 You have to be mindful of all those things. And the government wasn't. 218 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:49.960 The government was not worried about any of these things. State governments, 219 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:53.880 federal government. I mean, there was a lot of pressure and Trump was 220 00:17:53.920 --> 00:18:00.440 still president at the time. Most of the craziness. Of course, it 221 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.880 was recommendations being made by doctor Anthony Fauci, although he acts like he didn't 222 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:10.160 make these recommendations now, but it was the states. The federal government, 223 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:15.400 to Trump's credit here, never got involved on a federal level doing some national 224 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:18.680 lockdown. They left it up to the states. But man, the states 225 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:22.200 were unbelievable in what they did. We, of course, here in this 226 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:26.839 state, we had a Republican governor, Eric Holcomb who just told us to 227 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:30.839 hunker down. Hoos yours, you hunker down. Meanwhile, he was out 228 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:34.839 living it up, going to Brown County, out there hugging people, making 229 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:37.680 his pizza while telling the rest of us to socially distanced. I mean, 230 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:41.759 it's pathetic what we had to deal with and endure. None of it made 231 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:47.359 any sense. These folks were never held to accounts. It's like they're saying, 232 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:52.359 for those who looked at this and were just duped into believing this nonsense, 233 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:55.200 it's as though they've looked at it and said, Oops, we're sorry, 234 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:56.960 let's move on. I don't think they said they're sorry. Woops. 235 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:02.920 Maybe we'll be better next time. But there's other people that absolutely use this 236 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:07.519 to weaponize this fear against the American people. And it's a sad, sad 237 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:11.759 thing. So I'm going to read a part of this article and this author 238 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:18.440 here, David Harsani, I believe he wrote this, and here's what it 239 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:22.920 says. If you have if you head over to the Federalist entry on Wikipedia, 240 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:27.599 you will find, among other smears of our little operation, a COVID 241 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:34.559 nineteen pandemic misinformation section. It's a sad reminder of how authoritarians misused the idea 242 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:41.680 of quote misinformation to quash debate and control the conversation during the COVID nineteen pandemic. 243 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:48.200 Wikipedia contends the Federalist published many pieces that contained false information, pseudoscience, 244 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:56.880 and contradictions are misrepresentations of the recommendations of public health authorities. According to Media 245 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:02.599 Matters for America, Oh Boy, The entry goes on the Federalist published articles 246 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:07.400 on calling on the government to quickly end social distancing directions into open businesses. 247 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:12.720 Again to begin with the author rights here. Even if Federalist writers had turned 248 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:18.000 out to be completely wrong about lockdowns and social distancing, calculating the trade offs 249 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:22.440 of public policy in forming opinions that conflict with public health officials isn't any kind 250 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:26.720 of quote misinformation. It's the way we debate in an open society. Boy, 251 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:30.000 isn't that the truth? Isn't that the truth? That's something that we've 252 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:34.440 lost as well. And you know, you could combine COVID misinformation, all 253 00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:37.599 that, all that nonsense. You could also say the same thing is true 254 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:41.839 with the way that you're allowed to talk about election integrity, elections, outcomes 255 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:48.319 of elections, and so forth. So I'm looking at the clock here, 256 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:51.920 I've got about a minute left before I've got it. Got a heart break 257 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:56.960 here. So that's not how you Well, what he's describing is how debates 258 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:03.759 should work. What happened during COVID is absolutely not how public discourse should happen. 259 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:08.119 Bad things happen, absolutely horrific things happen when you're not allowed to engage 260 00:21:08.160 --> 00:21:11.200 in these sorts of debates or even ask questions. I can't tell you the 261 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:18.359 number of things I had taken down from social media because I simply asked questions 262 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:23.799 about things, whether it was COVID or whether it's about election results. Asking 263 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:29.039 a question is not a bad It's not a bad thing. Should we not 264 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:33.000 allow people to get information? Let's say, let's say that they ask a 265 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:37.599 question about something that's quote unquote settled science, just for the sake of using 266 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:42.000 their own terminology. Should we not at least try to help them understand the 267 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:45.559 answer. Should people not try to help someone understand the answer more fully so 268 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:51.319 that they have more confidence in the fact that it is quote unquote settled science. 269 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:55.440 I don't understand. I don't shy away when people ask me questions about, 270 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:59.519 say my belief in God, or my faith in God, about the 271 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:03.799 Bible. Have all the answers, but I don't say you can't ask me 272 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:07.079 that you need to be locked away in prison because you had the question, 273 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:11.480 what in the world you should be silenced on Facebook because you have this question 274 00:22:11.559 --> 00:22:14.960 in this day. Maybe they don't have a doubt, Maybe they just want 275 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:18.400 to understand. It's a remarkable thing that happened, and those of us who 276 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.000 had the questions, those of us who bucked the system, those of us 277 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:25.440 who said, you're out of control. I mean yeah, for the first 278 00:22:25.480 --> 00:22:30.279 few weeks, I think by and large most everybody complied with stuff. But 279 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:33.359 when we realize this is not fifteen days to stop the spread. This is 280 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:38.519 an absolute, heavy handed, out of control, never ending answer to whatever's 281 00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:42.480 going on here, the rest of us decided, or many of us decided, 282 00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:45.720 that we were going to start asking questions. Too. Many people just 283 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:51.160 went along to get along, but it cost them. Some of them were 284 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:55.200 forced to get the shot. It's remarkable what happened here. Timeouts in order, 285 00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:56.640 though, my friends, more on this on the other side of the 286 00:22:56.680 --> 00:22:57.799 break. You're listening to conservative not bitter talking. I'm your host, Tod 287 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:08.799 Huff Back in just a minute. Welcome back to my friends. So continue 288 00:23:10.119 --> 00:23:14.319 talking about this article of The Federalist. You can see it on the stack 289 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:18.880 of stuff. But I want to review again just how wrong the experts were, 290 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:26.880 Just how wrong and misleading the wizards of Smart To steal a phrase used 291 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:34.119 by the late great Rush Limbaugh, how wrong the wizards of Smart were in 292 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:42.599 the pillar of propaganda currently being well, we currently know a science. They 293 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:49.480 use propaganda to push us to believe leftist nonsense, and they did that during 294 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:52.880 COVID. I'm going to go through this article and talk about some of the 295 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:57.920 ways that we that we were right the contrarians, as the author says here, 296 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:03.720 but also so you know, just identified the risks that this is. 297 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:08.640 This is why limited government is a good thing and it's why big government is 298 00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:12.759 a very very bad thing. So, before my friends, we get into 299 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:18.119 that continue that, let me let me take a moment to tell you that 300 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:25.240 Oz and I recently started shopping at my USA shop club dot com. We're 301 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:30.119 glad we did this, and we realize that it's no wonder after shopping here 302 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:34.359 that more than two million American households choose to shop with them each and every 303 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:42.839 month. 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Again, that's my USA shop club dot com. Interested 322 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:19.839 in having Todd speak at your church or event. He's available in more locations 323 00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:25.279 than you may think. Visit Toddhuffshow dot com slash speak for more information. 324 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:30.160 So we're going through just some of the ways some of the ways that science 325 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:37.640 quote unquote science, government failed us, media failed us. All these people 326 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:45.400 who were using these these seven pillars of society to pressure us into doing things, 327 00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:49.960 behaving in ways that were inconsistent with logic. They wouldn't answer our questions, 328 00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:56.000 They tried to bully us. They forced people to get vaccinated. Some 329 00:26:56.039 --> 00:27:02.279 people have dealing with things in the in the wake of that, it was 330 00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:04.319 get vaccinated or get you lose your job. I mean, it got out 331 00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:08.839 of control. We got to that point and as the dust has settled, 332 00:27:10.279 --> 00:27:12.359 which it inevitably we knew it was going to settle. But as the dust 333 00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:17.920 is coming to find, you know, to finally settle, we realized that 334 00:27:17.960 --> 00:27:19.920 those of us who had questions, those of us who had concerns, those 335 00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:25.799 of us who were quote unquote the contrarians on this stuff were proven to be 336 00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:33.440 correct. So going back to the article article here just some of the things 337 00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:37.480 that we found in the wake of the dust settling, or in the process 338 00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:41.680 of the dust settling, social distancing rules we rule. We figured out this 339 00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:47.119 was an interview that Fauci had with the House Select Committee earlier this year, 340 00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:56.160 social social distancing was total nonsense. Fauci told the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus 341 00:27:56.200 --> 00:28:02.200 pandemic that the social distancing guidelines just sort of aared that six feet is going 342 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:04.799 to be the distance. They just picked a number. Let's just say six 343 00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:08.559 feet. That's what happened. That is what science told you. That is 344 00:28:08.599 --> 00:28:12.960 what we built this entire nonsense on. Where you got x is on the 345 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:17.920 floors in supermarkets, you got circles when you're standing in line, don't get 346 00:28:17.960 --> 00:28:21.160 this close to people. You remember it was an election here twenty twenty. 347 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:25.839 You remember Biden had campaign quote unquote rallies, and none of his things are 348 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:30.319 rallies. People put up with that stuff because that's they hate Trump so bad. 349 00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:34.839 But they would sit in circles, remember this, sitting in circles. 350 00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:40.920 They had some rallies quote unquote rallies where they would sit in their cars listening 351 00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:45.839 to Biden's speak, occasionally honking the horn. I'm you'll never convince me that 352 00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:48.559 the horn honking was anything more than people dozing off and their heads hitting those 353 00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:56.640 horns. There's no way that Biden's speeches could have gotten one authentic horn honk 354 00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:59.920 let alone the hundreds that they got, I think it was people dozing off. 355 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:04.720 You'll never convince me otherwise. So all of this stuff was a result 356 00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:11.680 of to some degree, this concept of social distancing. And now we find 357 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.319 out it just sort of happened. I'm reading from the article here. Now 358 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:19.960 it just sort of happened. Doesn't sound like the vigorous inquiry we were promised 359 00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:26.440 by the self ordained pontiff of silence of science. Yet anyone who dared to 360 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:30.119 tread within say, five feet of another person was accused of being in a 361 00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:34.720 death cult and often censored on social media. That's the truth, right, 362 00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:37.920 You just want grandma to die. No, I don't want grandma to die. 363 00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:45.160 Specifically, don't want anybody to die or to get this. But it 364 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.319 has nothing to do with me getting within six feet of them. And now 365 00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:52.880 we know that article continues here. One of the problems was that Falci could 366 00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:56.519 never admit to being unsure of anything. Remember what he told Americans, quote, 367 00:29:56.519 --> 00:30:00.440 there's no reason to be walking around with the mask. What he said 368 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:06.839 at the beginning, there's no reason. But then months later it's forgotten about 369 00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:10.240 this he wanted us wearing two of them at the same time. I'd forgotten 370 00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:15.160 that, and goggles and gloves, by the way, I still see this 371 00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:18.559 I personally, if you want to wear a mask, it's your prerogative. 372 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:22.759 Go for it. And look, there are some things that maybe people need 373 00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:26.799 that stuff. I'm not a medical doctor. Again, I'm skeptical of all 374 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.640 this. But be that as it may your life. Do what you want 375 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:34.519 to do. But I got to tell you to see people today here and 376 00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:40.119 where I am in central Indiana, which is not like the hotbed of craziness 377 00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:47.000 in this country, although we certainly have pockets maybe Bloomington is. But to 378 00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:49.839 see people driving down the road, and I've seen this in multiple occasions by 379 00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:56.839 themselves in a car, by themselves on the highway or driving through town and 380 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.759 people who have masks on in the car with no one else in there. 381 00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:06.279 I truly I find myself thinking to myself, the government has done a number 382 00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:10.960 on these people. They have done a number on these people. Again, 383 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:12.480 if you want to wear it in public, whatever I saw, I saw 384 00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:19.279 somebody went when when Oz and I went down to southern Indiana helped me out. 385 00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:22.799 Oz, what was it to Madison? I saw some young kid, 386 00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:27.720 I say, a teenage kid, maybe young adult in eighteen twenty something like 387 00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:33.359 that, walking the streets of Madison wearing a mask and there weren't many people. 388 00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:38.319 I mean, fine, fine, his prerogative. But folks have been 389 00:31:38.519 --> 00:31:41.960 scared out of their minds into this. And you know what, it's not 390 00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:48.640 just with COVID. It's scared out of their minds about Trump. It's scared 391 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:55.279 out of their minds about capitalism. It's being scared out of their minds regarding 392 00:31:55.960 --> 00:32:00.759 I mean religious people actually running for office because they're going to establish some sort 393 00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:07.000 of a theocracy. I mean, it happens at every turn. It's blown 394 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:12.839 so far out of proportion, and people live in this perpetual state of ridiculous 395 00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:19.279 fear. And how quickly people were willing to throw away everything they knew. 396 00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:22.079 That's one of the things I learned from this. How in the world can 397 00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:29.559 you convince a group of people, especially medical doctors, who had been taught 398 00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:34.640 about viruses and disease, They'd studied these things for all, you know, 399 00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:39.279 and since they went to med school, maybe even before that, And to 400 00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:45.000 convince folks that knew otherwise that this new disease at the time. This new 401 00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:52.400 virus, this coronavirus that caused COVID nineteen, basically violated everything that we knew 402 00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:58.920 about science, everything we knew trans how easily it was to transmit the disease, 403 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:02.480 hurt immunity. We needed much more, many more people to get it 404 00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:07.960 than than before than what we were told initially. We were all these things 405 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:14.359 we were told about about COVID that flew directly in the face of science, 406 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:21.240 and how quickly people were willing to abandon everything. Intelligent, educated people, 407 00:33:21.799 --> 00:33:30.599 in some cases abandon everything to follow what some bureaucrat in our federal government or 408 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:36.119 in our state governments were telling us. It's preposterous and it's scary. I 409 00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:38.039 think they took note of this. I think they realized they took notes. 410 00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:44.200 This is how easy it is to convince thirty percent of the American people to 411 00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:49.240 do anything. If we just have someone with some credential that says they're from 412 00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:53.200 the government and they're here to help, people will believe anything. And that's 413 00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:57.319 what happened during COVID. More to say on this quick time out is in 414 00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:15.480 order, though my friends sit tight back in just a minute. Come back. 415 00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:21.559 My friends just going through going through and doing a little bit of inventory 416 00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:27.000 on what happened during the COVID crisis, how wrong the bureaucrats, how wrong 417 00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:32.639 doctor Fauci was, folks, I jokingly on here sometimes will say things just 418 00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:37.480 a little bit for dramatic effect, a little bit because I know it fires 419 00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:43.280 up the people on the left when they just don't understand people like me or 420 00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:51.360 like us. And sometimes I'll say, you know, we need we need 421 00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:58.639 a you know, we sorry, there was a actually the phone rang in 422 00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:05.039 my ear there that we you know, to you know, I'll say, 423 00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:07.119 to write with adoration and praise. I hope you know that I'm teasing about 424 00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:09.880 that. I mean, I'm I don't want you to be hateful to me. 425 00:35:10.679 --> 00:35:13.920 You can. I just don't read it if it gets that way. 426 00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:19.480 But you know, a little bit of things for fun and dramatic effect. 427 00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:22.360 And also it's like holding a mirror up to the left. The left really 428 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:25.360 thinks these things there were left really thinks. I'm telling you, they think 429 00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:29.519 they're smarter than you. They think they're smarter than me. They really do. 430 00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:32.320 The arrogance and condescension. You could cut it, cut it with the 431 00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:39.159 knife. I mean, it is it is palpable. But I really mean 432 00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:44.760 this. I'm a guy with the microphone, and I was more right on 433 00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:47.679 COVID than doctor Fauci. And I don't mean that in some arrogant I don't 434 00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:54.519 think anything that we concluded here was anything that was outside of just what I 435 00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:59.760 would call common sense and independent thinking. And many of you would say the 436 00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:02.119 same thing, right, I mean, I'm not just I'm not saying I 437 00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:06.480 might say it at some point. I might at some point say I was 438 00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:08.920 the you know, the only person who could see through the nonsense. But 439 00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:14.920 that's again for fun and dramatic effect. But the truth is, we all, 440 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:19.559 many of us saw this, and this was not hard. And man, 441 00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:22.920 if we could only get people to me this is you know, you 442 00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:28.599 got all these things vying for our attention right now. This is where this 443 00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:31.960 is one of the most important things to me. Now, lean in as 444 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:37.000 I'm telling you this. If we could get more people to realize that the 445 00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:44.039 people in authority do not know anything. I'm telling you, they don't and 446 00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:46.639 that may be terrifying for other reasons. Maybe they know some things, right, 447 00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:49.840 I mean, we have people, I know, there's people in the 448 00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.920 military who know their stuff, right, I know that, But when we've 449 00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:57.920 got these people who were called before Congress. Remember we had a Supreme Court 450 00:36:57.960 --> 00:37:04.719 candidate who's now a Supreme Court justice who couldn't define, who couldn't tell Congress 451 00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:08.719 or the Senate. I guess what a woman was because she wasn't a biologist. 452 00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:13.440 See, the truth is, the truth is a lot of these people 453 00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:19.039 that go to school to be taught by these radical leftists running our university, 454 00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:22.800 who now have the credentials, are telling us right. These are the people 455 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:27.280 who are telling us that sex has nothing to do biological, sex has nothing 456 00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:31.679 to do with with your say, your DNA. These things are much more 457 00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:37.039 complicated than that. No, no they're not. Actually it's actually it's actually 458 00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:43.079 precisely the reason. But see, people, I think sometimes people are afraid 459 00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:45.679 people think that they're stupid. They think that someone who has a bunch of 460 00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:52.119 initials after their name, PhD, NBA, whatever else is naturally smarter. 461 00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:55.480 Folks, I want to tell you, and this is not Please don't misunderstand. 462 00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:59.079 There are smart people in both groups. But if I had to list 463 00:37:59.159 --> 00:38:04.800 out in my mind the smartest people that I knew, the percentage of them 464 00:38:04.920 --> 00:38:08.400 that are not formally educated would I think, Sir Patt, I think a 465 00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:14.920 higher percentage would be in that group. And again, it doesn't mean that 466 00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:22.639 there's not smart people who are educated. Sometimes sometimes people go into to be 467 00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:27.920 educated and they checked their own brain at the door and they say, I'm 468 00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:31.559 just going to be programmed. Whatever they download to me to my brain, 469 00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:38.639 that's what I'm gonna believe. And that is frightening, that is absolutely terrifying. 470 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:43.400 Don't do that. I remember in college. I've shared stories about when 471 00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:47.400 I was a student at American University in Washington, d C. It was 472 00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:52.039 really the first time in college I became vocal in the classroom. I was 473 00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:55.960 the only vocal conservative Christian in our class of I don't know, maybe they're 474 00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:00.800 twenty five of us roughly give or take something like that. And I remember, 475 00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:05.960 I remember it was me versus the class many days, and I say 476 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:10.000 that it was me versus four to six students, and these were typically liberal 477 00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:14.800 students, sometimes even left as students. I mean, we all got along, 478 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:19.440 but it would get intense and it would often be me versus the class. 479 00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:21.280 And I loved it, by the way, I did. I loved 480 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:25.960 it. I absolutely loved it. But I remember one day walking to lunch 481 00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:31.599 after class with a friend named Chris, and we were just talking about something 482 00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:36.800 that inevitably just happened five minutes before in class, and Chris came up to 483 00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:38.840 me and he's like, Todd, you know, you just have so much 484 00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:44.119 common sense, and to which I said, well, Chris, then why 485 00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:47.199 aren't you standing up and agreeing with me more often? Which really was the 486 00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:52.920 beginning of my understanding that a lot of people, you know, when you're 487 00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:55.639 someone who just gets into the mix and starts saying what you believe, I 488 00:39:55.639 --> 00:40:00.199 think sometimes it's easy to think that everybody does that, But that's not what 489 00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:04.000 was happening. People didn't want to have to deal with the drama. They 490 00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:07.079 didn't want to have to be, you know, run the risk of upsetting 491 00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:09.320 people in the class. That wasn't my purpose. But if that was what 492 00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:14.440 happened, by me sharing what I thought, I couldn't, it didn't matter 493 00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:19.920 to me. And you know, it was a compliment for him to say 494 00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:27.039 that, certainly, but it's also prerequisite. It's a prerequisite to deal with 495 00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:30.000 education to not check your brain at the door. If they can't explain it 496 00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:34.800 to me in ways that I understand, if they can't answer my questions. 497 00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:37.559 The fault isn't with me, my friends. The faults are with the people 498 00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:43.280 who are teaching the garbage and the nonsense and the driven. And I've got 499 00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:45.159 to get folks. I enjoy this, I love this. Thank you for 500 00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:47.559 being here with me today. But I've got to run. Stig