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s a joke. Could kill you. I'm not trying to. That's certainly not my intention. But we're just going to try to talk about some truth and see what happens. All right. So bail out now if you don't want to be any part of the vaccination persuasion, even accidentally. And I know a lot of you don't like that topic, and I would invite you to come back tomorrow a

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nd I'll talk less about it.

But before that, all you need to enjoy this to the maximum extent is a copper mug or glass, tankard, chalice or stein or canteen, jug or flask. A vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It makes everything better except the coronavirus. Go.

All right. Now I'm going to be easing into the topic. All right. You'll know it when it happens. And I'm going to repeat the warning because people are joining and missed the original warning. But I'll repeat the warning a little bit. But first, did you know that today Akira The Don's album dropped featuring my vocals? And if that sounds weird, it is not. Turns out it's a new genre of music in which Akira The Don takes samples from podcasts and uses that as the lyrical part, and then he adds the musical stuff in the back. And you would be amazed how well that works because the podcasts tend to be content that has some meaning because he chooses it for that purpose. And it's not just mine. I think Jordan Peterson's on there, some other people. And take, check that out. You will be surprised. You will be surprised. It's worth checking out only because, well, even if you didn't care musically, check it out because it's a new genre and it's worth looking at just for that alone.

Well, Larry Elder got hit by an egg by a woman in a gorilla mask when he was campaigning for the governorship of California. And as every smart person is asking today, would this be covered by the news exactly the same if he were a Democrat? Wouldn't all the news be, you know, it's a big racist thing? It's a gorilla mask, he's black, throws an egg at him. Somebody's saying in the comments that the egg missed. Well, if the egg missed, I guess the yolk is not on him.

All right. Yeah, you know, this is one of those hypocrisy things that there's not much depth to the comment. It's just every time you see an example where the news is clearly just propaganda because the way they treat these things is so different left and right that you just can't even take it seriously in any possible way.

All right. Here's a fake news alert. Fake news alert. Great news alert. This comes to me via Twitter and Adam Dopamine. Adam points out that the breathless reporting on Florida's COVID surge seamlessly shifted to stories about Mississippi and Louisiana. Hmm. Why is it that all that talk about Florida sort of just sort of softly while you weren't looking sort of just started talking about two other states? Because the surge collapsed. That's why. The surge collapsed. So whatever Florida is doing, you know they had I guess three surges that were pretty bad, but at the moment it's going pretty well. So watch your fake news try to change your direction. It's a little case of misdirection. Hey, look at this hand. Look at this hand. Forget about this one. Yeah, look at this one. Look at this.

All right. University of California professor is suing the school system because he says he has natural immunity against COVID but they're going to require him to get the vaccination anyway. Now how do you lose that argument? Let's say you're smart enough to be a professor at Berkeley. Right? So it's a top university. If you're a professor at a top university and your argument is pretty ironclad, which is that if you have natural immunity you're better off than people who have two shots, now how does he lose that argument? I mean, maybe seriously, how do you lose it? It feels like that's the most slam dunk argument anybody ever had.

No, maybe it has something to do with you can't verify easily whether somebody has antibodies. I can see maybe they'd require you to have an antibody test. Maybe that's not practical because how do you really know somebody had COVID? They could just say they had it and not get the vaccination. So there might be some practical reasons. But this guy's gonna lose his job for not being protected against COVID when he is more protected than just about everybody on campus. How does he lose this? I mean he might. He might. That's the scary thing. Right? He might actually lose this. I don't know how you could lose it but he might.

Chris Cillizza over at CNN, he's an opinion guy

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, and he wrote this sentence in an opinion piece. It was kind of shocking to see it. He said for the last two weeks or so I have been carrying around an anger bordering on rage regarding the chunk of Americans eligible to receive the vaccine who continued to refuse it. Have you seen that? I don't think I've run into anybody who would admit to having rage about unvaccinated people. Are you seeing t…

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