In today’s episode, we bring you captivating discussions about the ever-evolving landscape of health and politics. From a fiery exchange about Trump and the intricacies of a public health crisis, to the perplexing realities faced by those relying on medications like ivermectin, there’s much to explore. Listen as we venture into personal realms, sharing vivid anecdotes and insights from voices unafraid to challenge the status quo. Stay tuned for a candid exploration of the nuanced world we navigate daily.
Look at Tim Walz. The other day he was calling Trump that thing in the Oval Office. And then a couple days later, after the Minneapolis shooting, he was thanking Trump for his phone call expressing concern. Being a normal person. Well, he’s not a normal person.
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Well, no, but that was a normal person thing to do. Oh, for Trump to call Walz was a normal thing. And for Walsh to say thank you for calling. That was a normal basic decency. Yeah, calling him Hitler isn’t a normal thing.
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Calling him that thing in the White House. Exactly. Wow, what a weird time. There’s another story that is just getting a little bit of the CDC thing. You and I haven’t talked about this.
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No, let’s do it.
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All hell breaking loose at Health and Human Services under the guidance of Bobby Kennedy Jr.
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Yeah, buddy.
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Of course, it’s got all the checkboxes, vaccine skepticism. Yep. Here we go. Well, it’s just been reported, the New York Times, now take it for what it’s worth, but the New York Times is reporting that CVS, the country’s largest pharmacy chain. Mm-hmm. is not offering COVID vaccines in 16 states, including Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania, even to people who meet newly restricted criteria from the FDA due to what CVS calls the current regulatory environment.
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That’s the reason. It’s a choice for them? I heard some stories say that they can’t. There’s something they can’t do if it’s not on a list of approved or recommended things from government.
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Right, but they’re almost acting like, well, it’s the environmental regulatory confusion. Eric Erickson is the talk show host out of Atlanta, and he has chronicled his wife’s battle with cancer. Hmm. And Eric tweeted this morning on X, my wife has stage four lung cancer. She is one of the people the COVID vaccine actually helps. Thanks to the current mess at HHS, CVS is unable to get her the vaccine.
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Could Walgreens? I mean, you’re sitting there giving me CVS stories. Yeah, well, can you pay out of pocket for it? Well, Eric can. Aren’t there 27 pharmacies down the road? I think this is just a phony story, as is the whole CDC angst. Because what’s their main complaint? What’s everybody saying? Every mainstream lib news network says we went and found a professor of pharmacology at Berkeley. And here’s his quote. RFK Jr. is the devil. This is terrible. It’s anti-science. What do they always say? It’s politics horning in on science. Guys, didn’t politics horn in on science when you got COVID wrong? Didn’t politics horn in on science? Doesn’t politics horn in on science every time anybody talks about climate? Do not lecture me about politics horning in on science.
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preach preach it preach it brother mark you know i i’ve got an anecdotal story about people ask me about ivermectin because i take it every week and i have for for years my texas bill texas passed a bill on ivermectin letting you get it over the counter in texas just the other day and see i gotta go to the pharmacy to get it and of course you’ll remember the very famous pharmaceutical call seattle yes tell everybody that story you call and they left you a message My doctor accidentally phoned in a prescription for ivermectin to a Seattle pharmacy. By mistake. I had been traveling, and it was a holdover. She calls me, this smarmy pharmaceutical doctor. Oh, you’re not going to get. We’ll play it for you. Let me play it. Let me play this for Mark. Eric, pop it up. This is in the archives. This is an actual voicemail left behind. For me, from a smarmy, condescending, pompous, woke pharmacist in the wokest of all cities, Seattle, Washington, proudly telling me she will refuse to fill my ivermectin prescription.
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Hi, this is *** calling from ***. This message is for Michael. Just letting you know that we received a prescription from your doctor, but unfortunately I am unable to fill this prescription. If you have any questions, our phone number is ***. But just letting you know, there aren’t going to be, there are very few pharmacies that are going to be willing to sell this prescription. So just a heads up. Again, if you have any questions.
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Just a heads up. So I called her back. And I said, lady, I said, why are you politicizing this? She says, I am not. She was just gleeful. Oh, she was. She was so smug. You’re not going to be able to do it.
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And by the way, I told her it took me about 30 seconds when my doctor got his act together and called the right pharmacy here in the free state of Florida. Unlike that cesspool of Seattle, I got my ivermectin in about 30 seconds, dummy. I said, who are you to tell me? She says, I’m the pharmacist. She says, why do you need ivermectin? I said, it’s none of your business. What do you care? This is my doctor. My doctor called this in. Thank you. And let me give you, can I tell you a quick personal story? Of course. Let me pull the curtain back and get very personal for a moment. Everybody around me has had COVID this week. Mm-hmm. Everybody around me. COVID is kind of making a return. Just get ready. People are getting COVID. I was talking to one of our network executives this morning. His daughter went to a trip somewhere and she came back with COVID. And she’s in bed with the flu. She doesn’t feel good. She’s healthy. We’re treating it like we always should have. Like a bad cold. That’s right. Like a bad cold. My son and his wife have a bad cold. They got COVID. Everybody around me. You know who didn’t get COVID? This guy. This guy. I don’t have COVID, even though people around me have had COVID. Now, by rights, I should have it. You know the only thing that’s different? I take ivermectin and they don’t.
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As a preventive? You’re popping this stuff like M&M’s to keep it away?
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I take it every week. I don’t know. You tell me. I mean, all I know is I take ivermectin. They didn’t. They got COVID. I don’t have it. Do tell. And I’m telling you, I should have it. I should absolutely have COVID. You should totally have it. Now, that doesn’t mean I’m not testing every 45 minutes. Exactly. I mean, I’ve got my nose is about to fall out.
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Keeping Binax in business.
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I got a stack of Binax COVID tests.
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Do you remember when we were having the toughest time finding? This seems like a bad movie we were all a part of five years ago. Do you remember when we had? I don’t know. We had a tough time. And you had like the secret storehouse of tests. And you shipped to Lisa and me about eight or nine Binax tests. I’ve never. I was so grateful because, you know, we all want to know if we had it or whatever.
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And you do realize that by you admitting this, you and I are now going to be castigated and mocked by so many people in our audience who are saying, you two big babies.
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Testing’s not bad. I’d like to know if I have it. Well, first of all, if I got to scream in case of COVID, I can’t come to work in 2021.
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Now, wait a minute, though. Well, wait a minute. This is fascinating. Now, I want to analyze what you just said. Yeah. Because I think the same way you do, because I think we’re kind of normal. I’d kind of like to know if I have it. Do you know? I know. I guarantee you, you open up your phone lines. There are tons of people who do not want to know. They refuse to test.
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But wasn’t that because they knew what would happen if they did, that they would be treated as if they were lepers, treated as if they were going to die? Well, whatever their reason is, I want to know because I don’t want to give it to Tracy.
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I don’t want to give it to people I work with. But I’m telling you, people not testing, that’s become a badge of honor.
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That was a thing. It still is. It still is. You ask your audience. I guarantee you. Look at the text line. It might be a thing with me. Do you want to test? Okay. If I had, what are your basic COVID cough? If that happens to me tomorrow, do I run, go get a COVID test? No, I don’t. Oh, good. You want to give it to Rhonda? No, I’d stay away from people. I figure I got something. If I’ve got a cold or if I got the flu, I’d stay away from people anyway. It would not be my first thing to go test myself for COVID. I would figure I have the 20 times more likely thing of flu or a cold.
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Yeah, that’s probably a rational, level-headed thing. Remember, I’m crazy. I’m a hypochondriac, so I always think I’m dying. Look, when I found out that friends of mine got COVID, I reserved a ventilator. I had one ready on hold. I said, like, my name on it.
