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Guys, why don't you just post the entire interview here and a truncated version on Spotify/Apple for free?

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I appreciate Matt trying to speed things up a bit at the beginning of this show, but y’all always seem to get stuck on penises, and it’s getting just a bit old. The whole pre-show seems increasingly labored.

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Interesting interview, but the constant "let's not diss the vaccines or else we might be seen as part of the crazy ivermectin crowd" framing is a bit tiring.

The vaccines probably are worth the risk for the elderly and for those with co-morbidities, but once you get away from those groups vaccination is a much more tenuous proposition (https://openvaers.com/).

And ivermectin does work, at least in Mexico ( https://tinyurl.com/v4eb8es6 )and India ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO9cjy3Rydc ).

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katie looks incredibly bored you know we can see you right?

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YES - on Bog Pharma and insurance industry -- authentic American Mafia.

H. pylori is a PERFECT example. A friend's wife was taking stomach acid pills for years. When he suggested a test for H. pylori bacteria her doctor was outraged.

But -- she tested positive and -- has been cured -- a doctor and insurance industry "lost" a profitable patient...

Big Pharma, BTW, for years attacked Australian doctor as a charlatan and a swindler - until their patents expired and than promptly introduced "superior" antibiotic mix...

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Would you please stop releasing subscriber episodes in small pieces? It’s really annoying and incongruous to have go hunt down the pieces. Just post a separate subscriber episode with the complete interview, please.

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"For safety's sake let's eliminate these ten things that are not on message..."

This may be true for the mid level YouTube manager; he may sincerely think in terms of protecting the public's safety. But for the folks at the top it is about the money.

Media receives something like 70% of their revenues from Big Pharma. The chairman of Reuters sits on Pfizer's board (in fact every major media outlet with the exception of CBS has an executive on the board of a Big Pharma company); Bill Gates has massive investments in vaccine companies (which have done quite well, by the way); six NIH employees that were involved in creating the Moderna vaccine stand to make a lot of money from the sale of that vaccine (NIH is a co-holder of the Moderna patent); Google has significant investments in Big Pharma. Congress is bought off by Big Pharma campaign contributions and top regulators land cushy jobs and board positions once they retire (the ubiquitous Scott Gottleib being only one example).

Everyone is bought and paid for. This, not safety, is whence the censorship originates.

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I just want to mention that egging [or the equivalent] a politician is effectively a mock assassination. It is a way of demonstrating "I can get to you if I want to". Replace the egg with a cap gun and you will perhaps see what I'm saying. I don't think this is necessarily something to mine for amusement, all things considered. Thanks.

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That was a remarkably uncritical interview, really disappointing. The broader point you have been making about censorship I absolutely support, and there is plenty to dislike about drug companies. That Zayner cooked up a vaccine is cool and impressive and interesting. But having a randomized controlled trial so that we know a drug actually works is important, and billions of safe doses is a different proposition than one guy managed to not kill himself. You could have pushed back a little here surely? And while drug companies not curing unprofitable diseases is a problem worth fixing opening the floodgates to vulnerable people getting scammed by anyone with a mail-order CRISPR kit is not the first place I'd look for a fix.

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Merck today announced a drug similar to Ivermectin. Lower efficacy & far more synthetic. Ivermectin has a long safety history & like in India with their home kits you can treat immediately like any bug. We could have saved more lives. Censorship kills.

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PLEASE look up FLCCC website! Act like an investigative journalist. It’s the Front Line Covid Critical Care website run by actual respected nonpartisan doctors, and it’s nonprofit. And they talk about that evil drug IVM. They are not anti-VAX. It’s a totally separate issue. If you are sick, India has found and other countries found if you take the stuff early it does help. And it’s one of the safest drugs in the world. Why in the world would you have to guess about this? Look up the website, FLCCC. And it’s a real thing that the vaccine can harm people who are long-haulers. That happened to my fiancé. It set him back several months in his recovery. He keeps a very detailed Excel spreadsheet since he has had long-haul (May 2020) because he is a senior scientist/chemist. The biggest thing that helped him in his recovery journey was in fact IVM. Go to some long-hauler chat rooms and see what sick people are actually saying. Now his current doctor who is a long-haul specialist is recommending several drugs including IVM. Which he’s actually able to get from the pharmacy but now is told insurance won’t cover it because of all this BS. So you know what my senior scientist fiancé has done? He had to go get the horse medicine. Because chemically it’s the same. You have to work out how much to take through your weight. They are forcing people to get the version for horses because they either will not fill prescriptions or they are overcharging people 500%. Please do some actual journalism on this and stop guessing! FLCCC website, look it up! Stop talking about this subject if you don’t know. You thought Russiagate was bad? Merck, the company that created the drug, is now coming out with a brand new drug to treat Covid which they can make tons of money on. And you are guessing why they did not want people to try using their drug which has become GENERIC?? This is exactly what you were talking about with the guest! Hello profit motive! Healthcare should be non-partisan and it is disinformation to tell people it’s only right wingers talking about this drug.

Before my comment gets deleted, look up the website! It was created to help doctors save lives. It’s been up for a year. So much crucial information on it. About what is going on around the world. Doesn’t anyone remember the censored video of Dr. Kory testifying to congress they needed to do serious testing of IVM? From last year?

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where is the end of this interview?

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this dude rocks... but he has to watch out pharma whacks people like its nothing

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Navigational Term

"Twain" literally means "two." As a riverboat pilot, Clemens would have heard the term, "Mark Twain," which means "two fathoms," on a regular basis. According to the UC Berkeley Library, Clemens first used this pseudonym in 1863, when he was working as a newspaper reporter in Nevada, long after his riverboat days.

Clemens became a riverboat "cub," or trainee, in 1857. Two years later, he earned his full pilot's license and began piloting the steamboat Alonzo Child upriver from New Orleans in January 1861. His piloting career was cut short when riverboat traffic ceased at the start of the Civil War that same year.

"Mark Twain" means the second mark on a line that measured depth, signifying two fathoms, or 12 feet, which was a safe depth for riverboats. The method of dropping a line to determine the water's depth was a way to read the river and avoid submerged rocks and reefs that could "tear the life out of the strongest vessel that ever floated," as Clemens wrote in his 1863 novel, "Life on the Mississippi."

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about the "blackmail", how about greymail or darkgreymail

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Love and appreciate the work you are doing. This was great hearing Josiah and can't wait for the full interview. On the issue of censorship, it's nice to hear you guys struggle with this. We live in a very scary time right now because I think what censorship (i.e. you're not "allowed" to say certain things) ultimately shuts down certain discussions and shutting down those discussions leads to the exact kinds of entrenched positions you see now, where you have these insane pro-vaccine people saying don't treat anyone w/out a vaccine and other medicines aren't allowed to even be considered and these insane anti-vaccine people that are saying hyperbolic things like the vaccines have killed more people than covid. It seems to me if we allowed more healthy debate and encouraged it, these two fringe sides would come to some sort of middle. It seems to me that if the goal is to find some truth, then it's just obvious you need to have people that have an opposite position be able to discuss something without fear of reprisal (even if the reprisal seems timid). It seems the only reason you wouldn't want this, is if you are part of one of these fringe edges and you want to further entrench people to your cause through coercion and (eventually?) violence. That's the part that really scares me and is so much bigger than just the covid stuff. But even the fact like we feel we have to defend the idea that free speech might be a beneficial thing just shows how f*'ed up things have gotten...

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