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The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1314 - Barack’s Very Covid Birthday Party

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September 26, 2022 · 48 min · 10,285 words · 62 timestamped sections

This is the full, timestamped transcript of "The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1314 - Barack’s Very Covid Birthday Party", an episode of The Ben Shapiro Show published September 26, 2022 (48 min, about 10,285 words). It mentions 73 people, works and ideas, including New York, New York, Lori Lightfoot, Randi Weingarten, John Kerry, Hollywood.

What is discussed, and when

0:00 – 5:00: ExpressVPN, Hollywood, John Kerry, Charles Murray
5:00 – 10:00: John Legend, Muriel Bowser, Washington Post
10:00 – 15:00: Lollapalooza, Lori Lightfoot, Char School, Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
15:00 – 20:00: Policygenius, Allstate, New South Wales, Progressive
20:00 – 25:00: Randi Weingarten, Francis Collins, American Federation of Teachers, Legacybox
25:00 – 30:00: Michael Osterholm
30:00 – 35:00: AOC's Green New Deal
35:00 – 40:00: New York, New York, Stamps.com, The Authoritarian Moment, Barnes & Noble
40:00 – 45:00: Reliable Sources, Chicago Tribune, Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, Ella French
45:00 – 48:10: Adam Ciovitz, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Andrew Klavan, Bradford Carrington

Notable quotes from "The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1314 - Barack’s Very Covid Birthday Party"

Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show Today's Show is sponsored by expressvpn I protect my data with a VPN so should you visit expressvpn.com Ben we'll get to all the news in just one moment first your reminder again the internet is not.
about ExpressVPN · at 0:09
Large party for your own 60th birthday and you certainly wouldn't fly in your friends like John Kerry to come in maskless on a private jet in the middle of global warming which…
about John Kerry · at 2:38
Else the people at the top of the elites those the elitists in our society the people in Hollywood and they will abide by the basic rules of success in the United States while…
about Hollywood · at 3:30
See in school you can see in the new polling statistics how this works out so according to the Washington Post two-thirds of Americans now say that once covet passes they plan…
about Washington Post · at 9:54
Obama birthday party is extremely minimal the amount of media attention that has been paid to Lori Lightfoot presiding over Lollapalooza in Chicago and by the way if you think…
about Lori Lightfoot · at 13:36
And then you know what they do they spread the virus really easily okay but Randy Weingarten and this is by the way is the most cynical move it's perfectly obvious what she's…
about Randi Weingarten · at 23:07
Going to have to step in and on a federal level sorry it's adreno Espeon from New York's 13th District he says that the feds are going to have to mandate masks in schools and so people that are not vaccinated are prolonging this pandemic.
about New York, New York · at 24:47
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Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

Lori Lightfoot — Person · 4 mentions · first at 13:41
Randi Weingarten — Person · 3 mentions · first at 23:10
John Kerry — Person · 2 mentions · first at 2:42
Francis Collins — Person · 2 mentions · first at 20:49
Federal government at this point this is the paternalism of the federal government the NIH director Francis Collins he's going even further he says let's just do vaccine…
Charles Murray — Person · 1 mention · first at 3:42
United States while ensure ensuring that everybody else doesn't and this is basically Charles Murray's book coming apart he talks about the fact that you have very liberal…
John Legend — Person · 1 mention · first at 5:02
Is supposed to mask up and watch Grandma die alone but Barack Obama gets to have himself the big party with John Legend singing at the party and everybody partying without the…
Muriel Bowser — Person · 1 mention · first at 8:38
Haircut masculus but she definitely could or mayor Muriel Bowser who is who she listened she had to have a picture masculus with Dave Chappelle like while everybody else was masking up it was super duper important you the regular.
Michael Osterholm — Person · 1 mention · first at 25:47
With the data so Jen saki well this is kind of an amazing thing so Michael osterholm is an advisor to he's a coveted advisor to the Biden Administration Master home and last…
Joe Derosa — Person · 1 mention · first at 38:34
Killing all the olds and then covering it up well now he's in a bit of trouble Melissa DeRosa a fixture next to Governor Andrew Cuomo for months during his coven news…
Brittany Commisso — Person · 1 mention · first at 39:35
Who accused Cuomo of groping her breast in her first public interview in which she identified herself Brittany commisso told CBS and the Times Union newspaper of Albany what…
Ella French — Person · 1 mention · first at 44:21
Side police family and the Cook County Medical examiner's Office identified the officer who died as Ella French a 29 year old who had worked as a Chicago cop since April 2018.
Andrew Klavan — Person · 1 mention · first at 47:14
To podcasts also be sure to check out the other daily wire podcasts including the Andrew klavan show the Michael Knowles show and the Matt wall show thanks for listening the…
Mathis Glover — Person · 1 mention · first at 47:24
Show is produced by Elliot Feld executive producer Jeremy boring our supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford…
Pavel Wydowski — Person · 1 mention · first at 47:25
Executive producer Jeremy boring our supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber…
Bradford Carrington — Person · 1 mention · first at 47:27
Supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam ciovitz…
Justin Barber — Person · 1 mention · first at 47:29
Production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam ciovitz audio is mixed by Mike coromina hair and…
Adam Ciovitz — Person · 1 mention · first at 47:32
Associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam ciovitz audio is mixed by Mike coromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina…
Fabiola Christina — Person · 1 mention · first at 47:36
Edited by Adam ciovitz audio is mixed by Mike coromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina production assistant Jessica Kranz the Ben Shapiro show is a daily wire production copyright daily wire 2021 John Bickley here daily wire.
Jessica Kranz — Person · 1 mention · first at 47:38
Mike coromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina production assistant Jessica Kranz the Ben Shapiro show is a daily wire production copyright daily wire 2021 John Bickley here daily wire editor-in-chief wake up every morning.
John Bickley — Person · 1 mention · first at 47:44
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Adriano Espaillat — Person · 1 mention
Elliot Fell — Person · 1 mention
Jen Psaki — Person · 1 mention
Marty Makary — Person · 1 mention
Matt Walsh — Person · 1 mention
Mike Caromina — Person · 1 mention
Rochelle Walensky — Person · 1 mention
Ryan Saavedra — Person · 1 mention

Books & papers

The Authoritarian Moment — Book · 2 mentions · first at 36:50
The centralization of power in the federal government and the woke agenda this is my book is called the authoritarian moment it is an important book it is a vital read and you…
Coming Apart — Book · 1 mention · first at 3:42
United States while ensure ensuring that everybody else doesn't and this is basically Charles Murray's book coming apart he talks about the fact that you have very liberal…

Companies & orgs

Washington Post — Company · 2 mentions · first at 9:58
Char School — Company · 1 mention · first at 10:07
Masks one sec and wear comfortable clothes more often than before according to a Washington Post Char School poll that points to enduring cultural shifts the Public Health…
Allstate — Company · 1 mention · first at 16:35
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Progressive — Company · 1 mention · first at 16:35
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American Federation of Teachers — Company · 1 mention · first at 23:16
This is by the way is the most cynical move it's perfectly obvious what she's doing the American Federation of teachers Randy Weingarten who spent the last year basically…
Barnes & Noble — Company · 1 mention · first at 37:04
Get my book to number one on that bestseller list it is now available at Amazon Barnes Noble any other major Bookseller the authoritarian moment it's not just about how things…
Daily Wire Studios — Company · 1 mention · first at 37:33
Get 25 off your new membership and be automatically entered for a chance to win a trip for two to the Daily wire studios in Nashville not only will you be meeting Candace…
Times Union — Company · 1 mention · first at 39:37
In her first public interview in which she identified herself Brittany commisso told CBS and the Times Union newspaper of Albany what Cuomo did was a crime and that he needs to…
Young Americans Foundation — Company · 1 mention · first at 39:58
Over the weekend I trended a little bit on Twitter because there's a series of photos of me at the last young America's Foundation event taking a series of pictures and when…
Mediaite — Company · 1 mention · first at 40:41
Problem he apparently took a vacation like two weeks ago so according to mediaite Chris Cuomo is set to begin a week-long vacation from his Prime Time CNN talk show on Friday a…
Chicago Tribune — Company · 1 mention · first at 44:05
Believing that you care deeply about violence against the police on a root level in any case in Chicago Tribune reports one Chicago police officer was murdered another was…
Cook County Medical Examiner's Office — Company · 1 mention · first at 44:17
A traffic stop Saturday night in the west Englewood neighborhood on the South Side police family and the Cook County Medical examiner's Office identified the officer who died…
University of Chicago Medical Center — Company · 1 mention · first at 44:37
The department since August 2014 is fighting for his life in critical condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center Andrew French said his younger sister always thought…
Advocate Christ Medical Center — Company · 1 mention · first at 45:48
The officers were taken to UFC Medical Center the wounded suspect was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn he and one other male suspect were in custody a female…
Taliban — Company · 1 mention · first at 47:50
Editor-in-chief wake up every morning with our new show morning wire on today's episode the Taliban surges across Afghanistan Apple plans to scan people's cell phones for…
Associated Press — Company · 1 mention
CNET — Company · 1 mention
National Institutes of Health (NIH) — Company · 1 mention
New York State Assembly — Company · 1 mention
New York State Senate — Company · 1 mention
The Lancet — Company · 1 mention
USPS — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

Lollapalooza — Product · 2 mentions · first at 13:43
Minimal the amount of media attention that has been paid to Lori Lightfoot presiding over Lollapalooza in Chicago and by the way if you think that this idiotic notion that all…
Reliable Sources — Product · 2 mentions · first at 41:04
Explain how CNN was handling the Chris Cuomo of it all and completely failing here is Brian stelter on reliable sources failing to explain why his own network allowed Chris to…
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally — Product · 1 mention · first at 14:52
Structures but she's in favor of the strictures she's fine you know who's really bad though the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally so here's Anthony fauci very concerned about the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally over in Iowa or South Dakota rather.
New York Times Bestseller List — Product · 1 mention · first at 36:56
Authoritarian moment it is an important book it is a vital read and you can get it right now is number two on the New York Times bestseller list go get your copy now leave a…
Morning Wire — Product · 1 mention · first at 47:48
John Bickley here daily wire editor-in-chief wake up every morning with our new show morning wire on today's episode the Taliban surges across Afghanistan Apple plans to scan…

Concepts & topics

AOC's Green New Deal — Concept · 1 mention · first at 30:20
With all the ipcc assessments about climate change as long as you're not in favor of aoc's green New Deal this means you're a climate denier they're now doing the same crap…
Child sexual abuse — Concept · 1 mention · first at 47:56
Across Afghanistan Apple plans to scan people's cell phones for evidence of child sexual abuse and schools reopen amid more covet concerns join us and get the facts first on the news you need to know with our show morning wire.
School reopening — Concept · 1 mention

Places & events

New York, New York — Place · 6 mentions · first at 24:50
Hollywood — Place · 2 mentions · first at 3:35
Sunset Boulevard — Place · 1 mention · first at 3:47
Apart he talks about the fact that you have very liberal Elites living off of Sunset Boulevard who promulgate social standards they themselves do not hold by and so they become…
South Dakota — Place · 1 mention · first at 15:00
Concerned about the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally over in Iowa or South Dakota rather well I'm very concerned Chuck that we're going to see another surge related to that rally I mean to me it's it's it's understandable that people want to.
New South Wales — Place · 1 mention · first at 18:34
New coronavirus cases this past Saturday with the country's most popular states of New South Wales Victoria and Queensland recording a total of 361 cases of the highly…
Victoria — Place · 1 mention · first at 18:34
New coronavirus cases this past Saturday with the country's most popular states of New South Wales Victoria and Queensland recording a total of 361 cases of the highly…
Queensland — Place · 1 mention · first at 18:35
With the country's most popular states of New South Wales Victoria and Queensland recording a total of 361 cases of the highly infectious Delta variant with about 15 million…
Nashville — Place · 1 mention · first at 37:35
Automatically entered for a chance to win a trip for two to the Daily wire studios in Nashville not only will you be meeting Candace you'll also be getting an inside look at…
Oak Lawn — Place · 1 mention · first at 45:48
The officers were taken to UFC Medical Center the wounded suspect was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn he and one other male suspect were in custody a female…

Sponsors

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Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 former president Barack Obama turned 60 years old and celebrates in masculist fashion we examine the numbers on who wants to return to normal and the vaccine mandates are coming I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show Today's Show is sponsored by expressvpn I protect my data with a VPN so should you visit expressvpn.com Ben we'll get to all the news in just one moment first your reminder again the internet is not always Anonymous you think that things like incognito mode protect you they do not sadly the big Tech Monopoly has decided that they are interested in monitoring all your data selling all your data keeping track of you passing it on to the government how about this how about you re-establish the anonymity you so richly deserve by checking out expressvpn if you've ever wondered how free to access Tech Giants make all their money the answer is they track your searches video history everything

0:48 you click on by building a profile on you and then selling off your sensitive data when you use the expressvpn app on your computer or phone you anonymize much of your online presence by hiding your IP address that makes your activity more difficult to trace and sell to advertisers what's more expressvpn encrypts 100 of your network data to protect you from eavesdroppers and cyber criminals what I like most is how easy it is to use it takes just one click to protect all of your devices which is why expressvpn is rated number one by both CNET and wired revoke big text right to your data so secure your internet with the VPN I trust for online protection visit expressvpn.com pen that's exp r e s s vpn.com to get three extra months for free with my exclusive link go to expressvpn.com Ben right now to learn more alrighty so happy birthday to Obama he's the only person who gets to have a really big birthday party now listen

1:37 here's my feeling about birthday parties or parties of any sort at this point it's a free country do what you want I myself would be happy to have a birthday party for my wife for any of my relatives maskless as you know I don't care my feeling at this point is that every adult in the United States every person in the United States above the age of 12 has had the ability to get the vaccine once you've had the vaccine your chances of dying from covid-19 drop down to very close to zero if you get a breakthrough of the Delta variant and you're vaccinated the high likelihood is that you are going to end up with a mild cold and thus if there's a party and somebody shows up is unvaccinated and that person gets infected by a vaccinated person that one is on them so on a pure principled level I don't care whether Barack Obama has a masculus party but but the entire Democratic infrastructure has decided

2:24 that for the sake of being a good American you must mask up you must you know if you're a vaccinated person you must put on that Mass to protect everybody else if you're a good patriotic American you would not hold a large party for your own 60th birthday and you certainly wouldn't fly in your friends like John Kerry to come in maskless on a private jet in the middle of global warming which by the way did happen John Kerry did take a private jet to Barack Obama's party and uh and then everybody at the party took off the masks and one of the DJs there made the unfortunate error of actually tweeting out the photos and then had to delete all the photos some of the footage was out there already however and and things were unfortunately leaked to the public I say unfortunately even though it's actually quite fortunate because I think it's quite important that the American people know that the elites who tell you

3:14 that you need to mask up the elites who tell you that life can never go back to normal these same Elites do not hold themselves to the same standard at all at all and this has always been the case with the left when when it comes to the left the people at the top of the echelon are not interested in abiding by the rules they promulgate for everybody else the people at the top of the elites those the elitists in our society the people in Hollywood and they will abide by the basic rules of success in the United States while ensure ensuring that everybody else doesn't and this is basically Charles Murray's book coming apart he talks about the fact that you have very liberal Elites living off of Sunset Boulevard who promulgate social standards they themselves do not hold by and so they become rich and they do really well and many of them are married and many of them stay married and then they promulgate values that everybody

3:58 else holds by and those people take those standards seriously and they wreck their lives well the same thing holds true when it comes to things for example like whether to have a maskless birthday party you the peasant are not supposed to have a masculus birthday party in fact one of our writers over at Daily wire Ryan sevedra he tweeted out recently that his grandfather just died alone in the hospital of covid because there have been all of these revised protocols that suggested you couldn't go in and visit a dying loved one who had kovid whether you're vaccinated or whether you're not vaccinated because after all you might spread it to somebody and so they died so people are dying alone in the hospitals again meanwhile Barack Obama is having a party so this is where I start to get uptight not when somebody has a party I don't care I live in Florida a lot of people having parties what I care about is if

4:40 you promulgate a standard where no one else is supposed to have a party just like nobody else is supposed to take a private jet except for John Kerry just like nobody else is supposed to hold by sort of traditional moral standards apparently except for many of the people in Hollywood who actually counter-intuitively do it's the same thing here everybody else is supposed to mask up and watch Grandma die alone but Barack Obama gets to have himself the big party with John Legend singing at the party and everybody partying without the masks here's a little bit of the footage background Barack Obama partying on stage there he is going at it really enjoy himself hugging people on stage and again this isn't an indoor scenario I was reliably informed by the CDC by Rochelle molenski by our most trusted Physicians by Dr Anthony fauci you shouldn't be having events like this I was told and I was told by all the

5:33 Democratic higher-ups in fact Barack Obama fibbed and he said he was going to cancel the party or at least wildly downgrade the size and scope of the party and then of course he just quietly re-upped the party and then all this information started emerging again so you might think that at this point the media would be somewhat critical of this I mean after all Barack Obama's a pretty important person he's the former president of the United States and we've been informed that former presidents of the United States are not just important they are the most important people when Donald Trump puts out a statement on his email list it immediately Rockets around the internet because it's so damned important when Barack Obama has a masculus birthday party you might assume that the media would be like well that's that's odd right I mean that's worthy of coverage well you would be wrong instead you would have the CNN White House

6:17 correspondent saying it's different guys it's different because these are the sophisticated people you are a Rube you're a person who has a nine to five job who still has to go to work you're not somebody who became president of the United States and then made just a butt load of money after having been president of the United States by being a prominent politician you go you you like have a regular job and you need to go to work but that's the problem you you're the problem you peasant you but Barack Obama's not a peasant and the people at his parties they are not peasants right The Peasants have a very different standard than the Lords and Ladies and non-specify and and royalty of unspecified gender who attend Barack Obama's birthday party here's the CNN White House correspondent noting that this is it's a different thing when Barack Obama does then when you do it get a party in your own home for your

7:04 kid's birthday that was bad but Barack Obama he's turning 60 and let me just tell you that dude deserves a big birthday party other people said you know this is really being overblown they're following all the safety precautions people are going to sporting events that are bigger than this this is going to be safe this is a sophisticated vaccinated crowd and and this is just about Optics it's not about safety by sophisticated and vaccinated what they mean sophisticated is code for very wealthy and Democrats that's what sophisticated means in White House correspondent for CNN language that's what that means you know this has a pretty predictable effect when all the Elites in a particular society decide that everybody is supposed to live one way and they are supposed to live another this creates wild institutional distrust but it also creates a standard where politicians are incentivized to pursue

7:53 some of the dumbest policies ever so when the media and the Democratic establishment say over and over and over again that masking is going to be the solution to the pandemic when masking pretty obviously is not vaccination is the obvious solution to the pandemic and at this point the solution to the pandemic is let everybody live their own life and then bear the consequences of their own decision making which means that the government really has very little public policy role at this point at all but it has bled down to the American people and this is why this is a story because Barack Obama and the rest of the democratic party and Joe Biden and Dr Anthony fauci and all the various members of the democratic establishment the Lori lightfoots of the world who said you couldn't get a haircut but she needed her hair done that was a very important thing or Nancy Pelosi who said that you couldn't get a

8:35 haircut masculus but she definitely could or mayor Muriel Bowser who is who she listened she had to have a picture masculus with Dave Chappelle like while everybody else was masking up it was super duper important you the regular people are supposed to change your life not just for now forever and they've changed what the standard is supposed to be forever they've set up this incentive structure and this is what pisses me off you convinced a huge number of Americans to believe in things that are not reality and not related to reality you're scaring the hell out of people based on bad data it's one thing to scare the hell out of the unvaccinated and say to them that you have a much higher chance of dying from covid-19 than vaccinated that's true I mean now let's be real about this the the rate of death among Young unvaccinated Americans remains very low I mean compared to any other disease like smallpox or any

9:25 Global pandemic that people have considered a mass killer in the past the grand total number of Americans under the age of 30 or between the ages of 20 and 30 who have died in the United States is still just a couple of thousand people I think it's like 2500 2600 people according to the CDC as of last week but you do have a much better chance of dying if you're unvaccinated than if you are vaccinated for sure for sure okay but they're not just restricting they're crazy standards to the unvaccinated they're extending it to the vaccinated they're basically saying you're supposed to be scared in perpetuity and you can see in school you can see in the new polling statistics how this works out so according to the Washington Post two-thirds of Americans now say that once covet passes they plan to put on masks one sec and wear comfortable clothes more often than before according to a Washington Post Char School poll

10:09 that points to enduring cultural shifts the Public Health crisis may bring about when it comes to crowded places the Nationwide survey finds that more than 4 in 10 U.S adults intend to wear masks in such circumstances after the pandemic that includes more than half of women compared with one in three men okay I will venture to say that this is bad because what we are teaching Americans is that living life in a normal way like seeing the faces of the people around you is either of no matter at all which I don't think is correct or two that you're just supposed to mitigate all risk to the most extreme extents humanly possible even if the data don't support it remember until last March if you asked Anthony fauci whether you should mask up for for example the flu if there should be Mass masking for the flu Anthony would have said no and I'd be curious to find out whether Anthony fauci has changed his opinion if Anthony fauci

10:58 thinks that during a normal flu season we should all mask up now whether this is now a broad-based change with regard to masking or whether it is covet specific whether if you have a cold we're now encouraging everybody during cold and flu season to mask and what exactly is the standard here because it seems like the standard has changed pretty wildly among us adults of all ages majorities expect that they're going to be outdoors more often which is very nice but it's the masking that really is kind of is kind of fascinating so apparently 67 percent of Americans now say they plan to wear masks when they are sick which by the way if you apply that to Children your children will never go to school again okay kids are just little Petri dishes apparently 43 of Americans say long term they plan to wear Max in crowded places like forever also there's a pretty wide partisan Gap here and this is the this is the part that I

11:50 think is really telling who has returned to our normal life who's returned to normal life so as you would imagine Republicans basically have returned to normal life at this point Independents have largely returned to normal life although they're and they're moving more in that direction and Democrats just don't want to return to normal life apparently ever so here's the partisan breakdown on that according to this brand new poll from The Washington Post the question is how much have you returned to your normal pre-coronavirus life if you're not fully returned when do you expect to be able to fully return to your normal pre-coronavirus life only 15 percent of Democrats say they are fully returned to normal which is insane given the fact that a huge percentage of Democrats are fully vaccinated which means they are now at exorbitantly low risk of dying of covid 48 percent of Republicans so three times

12:32 that number say they are fully returned to normal and about twice the number of Democrats as who are in Independence 28 of Independence twice the number of Democrats say that they have fully returned to normal furthermore when it comes to are you going to return to normal in the next three months only 20 percent of Democrats say they're going to return to normal in the next three months in the next month to three months 22 percent of Republicans say they will so if you aggregate that what that means is that about 35 percent of Democrats say they have fully returned to normal or they expect to do so within the next few months fully seventy percent of Republicans say either they are fully back to normal or they intend to in the next few months and some 52 percent of Independents say that they either have fully returned to normal or they expect to in the next few months which means that the Democrats are preaching

13:19 something and and accepting something that is not going to be the long-term answer here right that partisan breakdown is not even abided by by their own Elites okay the criticism it really is kind of incredible the criticism that has been leveled for example against the the Obama birthday party is extremely minimal the amount of media attention that has been paid to Lori Lightfoot presiding over Lollapalooza in Chicago and by the way if you think that this idiotic notion that all these people crowded extremely close together waiving vaccine cards as they walk in somehow kept everybody safe over there that's enough that really is crazy number one if you think that was a serious vaccine car check it wrong number two we now have been told that vaccinated people can pass to each other and to the unvaccinated but that's not stopping Anthony fauci from having some very strong words again it is only directed at politics it is

14:10 only directed at Politics the bad ones it's a moral thing this is why the Obama birthday party matters it is no longer about the science it is no longer about the vectors of transmission it is no longer about even the morality of who is responsible for getting coveted and whether they ought to take responsibility for themselves now the answer is if you do not perform the Pagan rituals that we have prescribed for you then you are bad and if you do perform those Pagan rituals that we have prescribed for you you are good and here's the thing even if you don't perform the Pagan rituals but you say that the Pagan rituals are good then we leave you alone so if Barack Obama has a birthday party violating all these strictures that's okay he preaches the strictures but you know if Lori Lightfoot has Lollapalooza violating all the structures but she's in favor of the strictures she's fine you know who's

14:52 really bad though the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally so here's Anthony fauci very very concerned about the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally uh over in Iowa or South Dakota rather well I'm very concerned Chuck that we're going to see another surge related to that rally I mean to me it it's it's it's understandable that people want to do the kinds of things they want to do they want their freedom to do that but there comes a time when you're dealing with a Public Health crisis that could involve you your family and everyone else that's something supersedes that need to do exactly what you want to do and it's the selectivity of the criticism that is really off-putting here and really demonstrative of if you worship the system then you can do whatever you want you don't have to abide by the rules it's the worship that matters it's the it's the mirroring the sentiment of the most important that matters more than anything else okay

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17:15 leading the way here of course he says that you know we can't just act like nothing is going on okay nobody's acting like nothing is going on you may have noticed that the vaccination rates have gone up you may also have noticed that Republican Governors are very much in favor of people getting vaccinated and Ron DeSantis is being ripped up and down in Florida we'll get some more on DeSantis in just a second his rate of vaccinating the elderly like about people above the age of 65 is actually higher than virtually all of the blue States so what does he mean before we act like nothing is going on like we're acting like something is going on but that doesn't mean you can lock down everybody's freedom but Anthony fauci and the left have set up the standard again the standard is zero coveted they won't admit to you that that's what the standard is and what they're aiming for here is zero covered but that's what

17:55 they're aiming for they're aiming for zero covet they don't care whether you actually follow the rules so long as you say that they are correct for pushing forward and popularizing their foolish rules so here's Anthony fauci saying you know we have to get the pandemic under control now here's the thing no one has the pandemic under control I don't know what he's talking about this notion that if you just mask everybody up that's magically going to fix the pandemic is be lied by the fact that right now Australia is completely locked down and has record Transmissions okay direct from Australia Today quote this is Reuters Australia saw a record daily number of new coronavirus cases this past Saturday with the country's most popular states of New South Wales Victoria and Queensland recording a total of 361 cases of the highly infectious Delta variant with about 15 million people or 60 percent of Australia population under

18:45 a strict lockdown the country also reported five coveted related deaths one of the highest this year New South Wales suffered its worst pandemic day reporting 319 new locally acquired covid-19 cases so they're not doing like those numbers are really low because they've decided to lock everybody in their house but they're still seeing higher numbers in Israel Israel is like fully locked down at this point Israel is giving people booster shots they still saw about 3 900 new cases of Novel coronavirus reported in Israel on Friday the number of patients in severe condition spiked to 324 on Saturday the health Ministry announced Saturday night of the patients hospitalized some 49 Ron ventilators the death toll Rose to 6535 on Saturday night okay so again Israel is seeing a spike everywhere is seeing a spike this this bizarre notion that Anthony fauci knows how to get this if he's known how to get this under control I

19:35 would love to hear how Anthony fauci has gotten this under control at any point during the pandemic like seriously at any point like ah Point not many points one point would be excellent here's Anthony fauci saying he can get the pandemic under control by apparently yelling at Republicans by the way quick note you'll notice they're yelling a lot about Florida they're not saying a damn word about Louisiana why why why aren't they saying Louisiana has a worse Spike than Florida right now in terms of percentage increase why is Louisiana not being mentioned what party is the governor again Democrat here's Anthony fauci let's get this pandemic under control before we start acting like nothing is going on I mean something bad is going on I mean we've got to realize that nobody is saying nothing bad is going on all we're saying is that you cannot force everybody who's followed all the rules and vaccinated and done all the

20:26 right things to stay in their house and lock down and mask up you can't do that it is none of your damn business what the vaccinated do at this point and as far as the unvaccinated it is still a free country and if they wish to put themselves at risk that is now their business at a certain point you have to let adults actually be adults it's kind of crazy I mean you want to talk about the paternalism of the federal government at this point this is the paternalism of the federal government the NIH director Francis Collins he's going even further he says let's just do vaccine mandates let's force people to get the vaccine for me as a non-political person as a physician as a scientist the compelling case for vaccines for everybody is um right there in front of you just look at the data and certainly I celebrate when I see businesses deciding that they're going to mandate that for their employees and as a person who runs the

21:17 National Institutes of Health with 45 000 employees and contractors I am glad to see the president insisting that we go forward requiring uh vaccinations or if people are unwilling to do that then regular testing at least once or twice a week which will be very inconvenient okay they're not just stopping with vaccine mandates for adults they're also going to start pushing this for kids we'll get to that in just one second first let us talk about a great way to preserve your family memories Legacy box it's an affordable way to have the Priceless moments from your aging home movies and photos safely stored in a format you can access and share whenever you want imagine a lifetime of memories right in your pocket even better Legacy box is offering 50 off this very week with Legacy box you can reclaim all the Priceless footage you haven't been able to see in years the service couldn't be simpler use their kit to safely send the

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23:27 to seizures having to go back to work now she says no no I'm very much in favor of a vaccine mandates for teachers I think maybe we should do that after all here's Randy Weingarten I want to be very careful that we have to honor those religious exemptions um but you know there there's ways of which you can do accommodations in all sorts of different ways which is part of the reason you have to work together on these um on these vaccine policies I thought what Joe Biden did in terms of the federal government of saying vaccine and test or test was important and we are supporting that I thought what Bill de Blasio did was very important as well okay so she says by the way that she now wants the teachers to be forced to be vaccinated she said I think the circumstances have changed and the vaccination is a community responsibility and it weighs really heavily on me that kids under 12 can't get vaccinated

24:18 okay well how's that going to result what is the clever move that she's making here she understands a lot of places are not going to force the teachers to get vaccinated and so she's going to say if you don't force the teachers to get vaccinated legally speaking they can't come back to school right that is the little game that Randy Weingarten is playing right here but this has become again a democratic talking point there's a Democrat named representative espiot who uh who was pushing over the weekend at least from Illinois and uh and he was pushing the idea that the federal government is going to have to step in and on a federal level sorry it's adreno Espeon from New York's 13th District he says that the feds are going to have to mandate masks in schools and so people that are uh that are not vaccinated are prolonging this pandemic we are feeding the virus when we don't vaccinate or we don't wear a mask and so

25:09 these are particularly uh in schools with the children going back now in September how could we not think of making sure that our kids are protected that they all have to wear a mask at school uh certainly this is a very practical and Lifesaver in my opinion A life-saving measure so the federal government at some point will have to step in have four uh stringent uh policies that will protect everyone so much fun guys so we went from States and localities are going to do it too if a state resists now the federal government is going through this you see how all of this is getting centralized up at the top level and by the way in in variants with the data so Jen saki well this is kind of an amazing thing so Michael Michael osterholm is an advisor to he's a coveted advisor to the Biden Administration Master home and last week we played a clip of him on national TV pointing out that not all masks are

25:57 equivalent and that cloth masks in his opinion do very little to actually stop or [ __ ] the spread of covid-19 via the Delta variants the reason being the viral load of the Delta variant is significantly larger like a thousand times larger than the alpha variant than Alpha so if that's the case cloth ain't doing much so he's like well maybe there's some other types of mass that would work better Oster Holmes comments I I'm not kidding you he's an advisor to the Biden Administration apparently they were taken off YouTube apparently social media is now in the business of censoring advisors to the Biden Administration if they do not mirror the party line with regard to the efficacy of masking which is like that's wild I mean that's crazy and then jensaki decided she'd go to war with osterholm now between osterhome and sake I think osterholm knows more but hirasaki saying well you know some experts think that

26:44 these cloth masks definitely are going to are going to [ __ ] the spread of covid-19 via the Delta variant Oh Well if Jen saki says so then the science has settled apparently let me first say that osterhome is not an advisor to the president to the administration to the White House he doesn't work here he's a private citizen and a medical a public health expert but a lot of Public Health experts are out there speaking and good for them I will say that we are going to continue to rely on the advice of medical experts in the federal government on what kind of masks we all should wear what kind of masks kids should wear and if they change that advice then the Department of Education will be working with schools to make sure that's implemented as a mitigation measure yeah by the way osterholm was a member of president-elect Biden's covid-19 Advisory board so when she says he doesn't work with Biden she means like

27:34 right now not that he hasn't worked with Biden in the past which he has so I guess now you can have him kicked off of YouTube then he's an advisor now he lost all of his legitimacy the minute that he was no longer connected with Joe Biden Marty McCary has a good piece over at the Wall Street Journal about whether kids should be masked he says do masks reduce cover transmission in children believe it or not we could find find only a single retrospective study on the question as results were inconclusive yet two weeks ago the CDC sternly decreed that 56 million U.S children and adolescents vaccinated or not should cover their faces regardless of the prevalence of infection in their Community authorities in many places took the cue to impose mandates in schools and Elsewhere on the theory that masks can't do any harm that isn't true some children are fine wearing a mask others struggle those who have myopia

28:16 can have difficulty seeing because the mask fogs at their glasses Mass can cause severe acne and other skin problems the discomfort of a mass distracts some children from learning by increasing Airway resistance during exhalation masks and leads to increase levels of carbon dioxide in the blood masks can be vectors for pathogens if they become moist or are used for too long by the way none of this is particularly controversial like the who has said this if the possible psychological harm of widespread masking is an even greater worry facial expressions are integral to human connection particularly for young children says Marty macari what about the risk of covid which Mass mandates are intended to ameliorate the CDC reports that for the week of July 31st the rate of hospitalization with covid for children 5 to 17 was 0.5 per million per million which would amount to roughly 25 at patients

29:01 and the CDC says not all these kids were in the hospital for covid viral testing and admission is routine so a lot of these kids were actually put in the hospital for not covered but they had taken a test showing the head covered and so they're covered positive kids children who do develop coveted symptoms are at minimal risk of long covet according to a Lancet study published August 3rd almost all children had symptom resolution by eight weeks providing reassurance about long-term outcomes children have been known to transmit covets as mccarry but far less often than adults do the cdc's mass decrees are perversely permissive as well as needlessly strict cloth masks are nearly as effective as n95s but the CDC ignores the distinction we've been encouraging Americans to wear masks since the beginning of the pandemic but special attention should be paid to the many children who struggle with masks

29:48 this is correct any child who wants to wear a mask should be free to do so but forcing them to make personal health and developmental sacrifices for the sake of adults who refuse to get immunized is abusive okay but the abuse is the point it really is the the goal here is you will abide you will abide by uh we will scare the hell out of you to the point where you will mask up your kid and you will love it and if you if and if you don't want to mask up your kid it's because obviously you don't take covet seriously you're a coveted denier in the same way that the left now claims that even if you agree with all the ipcc assessments about climate change as long as you're not in favor of aoc's green New Deal this means you're a climate denier they're now doing the same crap with covid and you you can point out all the stats you can agree with the level of deadliness you can agree with the efficacy of vaccines

30:30 you can even talk about whether masks are helpful or harmful depending on the circumstances and what kind of masks you can do all of those things but as long as you are not mirroring what the left wants you to mirror you're the bad guy and if you do mirror what they want you to mirror you can do whatever the hell you want you can have a 60th birthday party with all your friends they're maskless so long as you mirror whatever their garbage idea of the day is it really is amazing it is it is not at all about what is best policy it is mostly about just who you yell at and of course right now the person they all want to yell at is uh is Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida still recall that last week the president of the United States Joe Biden attacked Ron DeSantis and said it was just Tara around he couldn't believe Rhonda Sands was getting in the way of school mask mandates now Ronda santhis didn't say that kids

31:17 aren't allowed to put on a mask in school parents can buy kids in n95 or a kn-95 if they're really that concerned what he said is that kids cannot be mandated to wear a mask in school and so that prompted Biden to suggest that DeSantis was sort of a cheerleader for covid spread which is nuts again the evidence that masked mandates have done a damn bit of good anywhere on Earth not masking mask mandates they've done a bit of good anywhere on Earth is completely missing there's no evidence for this okay so desensis cracked back at Biden over the weekend he says you know so so then by then DeSantis land Biden back and then Biden said governor who as though he'd never heard of DeSantis which prompted DeSantis to uh to smack him pretty pretty hard here do you have a comment about the comment that President Biden made recently I guess I'm not surprised that by I guess the question is what else has he

32:10 forgotten Biden's forgotten about the crisis at our Southern border I can tell you that uh Biden has forgotten about the inflation that's biting the budgets of families all throughout our country Biden has forgotten about the demonstrators who are fighting for Freedom down in Cuba and Biden's even forgotten about the Constitution itself as we saw with what he did with this moratorium well resistance is bad you see forget about this dance just answers is bad it doesn't matter that Florida continues to rank near the middle of the pack in terms of deaths per million outperforming all of Democrats favorite States with the second oldest population in America it doesn't matter that the r on Florida's coveted spread is down pretty significantly over the last couple of weeks and which means that the cases are going to Peak pretty soon and they're already starting to have a lower rate of increase than they had even a week ago

33:01 or a week or two weeks ago none of that matters DeSantis is the bad guy as the CNN medical analyst decided desensis it's all desensis is the problem obviously right so don't get your medical advice from the governor of Florida first of all there's no 1918 flu uh floating around there are a number of tools that a chief executive has so a chief executive can allow localities to mask up uh their population they can certainly allow school districts to mask up kids who first of all many of whom cannot be vaccinated now and protect them he's prevented that a chief executive of the state can allow vaccine mandates from businesses he is preventing that okay so again the the idea that they have they know how to get the center control it's just people won't listen it's the children who are wrong you never had any idea how to keep this under control you failed you continue to fail the only thing that keeps this

33:58 under control is the vaccines which were created by the people you hate most over in big Pharma and the Trump Administration end of story the only thing that has gotten this pandemic under control is that as we saw in January when there were no vaccines there was a huge wave and a crapload of people died and again by the way this particular doctor happens to be wrong according to history.com and he cites the the 1918 flu just has it said that there are still variants that walking around quote history.com direct descendants of the 1918 flu combined with bird flu or swine flu to create powerful new pandemic strains which is exactly what happened in 1957-1968 and 2009 those later flu outbreaks all created in part by the 1918 virus claimed millions of additional lives earning the 1918 flu the odious title of the mother of all pandemics so whoops turns out the CNN medical analyst on CNN as per CNN's usual rule doesn't know

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38:34 Melissa DeRosa a fixture next to Governor Andrew Cuomo for months during his coven news conferences resigned late on Sunday according to the AP on the heels of a report that found Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women leaving the governor without his top Aid as he faces the prospect of impeachment to Rosa who had been one of Cuomo's most fierce Defenders and strategists said in a statement since multiple news organizations serving the people of New York had copen the greatest honor of my life she added quote personally the past two years have been emotionally and mentally trying shouldn't give him more specific reason for her resignation she said I'm forever grateful for the opportunity to have worked with such talented and committed colleagues on behalf of our state scores of Democrats including President Biden have urged Cuomo to leave office or face an impeachment battle he probably cannot win about two-thirds of

39:14 the State Assembly have already said they favor an impeachment trial if he refuses nearly all 63 members of the state senate have called for Cuomo to step down or be removed more punishing news for the governor is expected on Monday when an assembly committee meets to discuss possible impeachment proceedings and CBS This Morning is scheduled to broadcast the first TV interview from an executive assistant who accused Cuomo of groping her breast in her first public interview in which she identified herself Brittany commisso told CBS and the Times Union newspaper of Albany what Cuomo did was a crime and that he needs to be held accountable she said Cuomo reached under her shirt and fondled her when they were alone in a room at the executive Mansion last year and on another occasion robbed her rear end while they posed for a photo she was the first woman to file a criminal complaint against Cuomo by the way I'll

39:53 speak to a quick Twitter Trend here so over the weekend I trended a little bit on Twitter because there's a series of photos of me at the last young America's Foundation event taking a series of pictures and when when there's a woman in the picture with me my hand which is so sort of like around the the person I'm taking a picture with is out to the side so you can see my free hand and the reason for this is what we'll call the Keanu Reeve rule right which is keep the hands off and visibly away right for a very very good reason this would be that reason in any case it appears the end of Cuomo has a problem for himself he may not be the only one who has a problem it turns out Chris Cuomo may have a problem as well so it turns out that Chris now says that he is taking a vacation there's only one problem he apparently took a vacation like two weeks ago so according to mediaite Chris Cuomo is set to begin a

40:43 week-long vacation from his Prime Time CNN talk show on Friday a break the host describes as a previously scheduled absence plan around his birthday he said every year I take my birthday week off I'm looking forward to it again the only problem here is that he just took a little bit of time off like a couple of weeks ago oh this prompted Brian stelter to try to explain how CNN was handling the Chris Cuomo of it all and completely failing here is Brian stelter on reliable sources failing to explain why his own network allowed Chris to cover his brother for months on end and then Chris to ignore the fact that his brother is about to get impeached in the state of New York this has been a conundrum for CNN that has no perfect answer no perfect solution some think CNN made it worse by letting Chris interview his brother when kova 19 was ravaging New York but that was an unprecedented time period and so is this one a famous

41:31 family in the news a governor who soared to the highest Heights last year now falling to the lowest lows self-inflicted wounds and a brother who just wants to do his job just wants to Anchor his show but can he that's the key question wait Chris just wants to do his job in Anchorage that's just what he wants to do weird because it seemed like he wanted to do like a Smothers Brothers routine with his with his brother I love Bryan shelter man reliable sources it's a conundrum with no perfect it's a riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped in enigma wrapped in a conundrum it's like four different Mysteries wrapped in one another intertwined inextricably or it's a conundrum that ends with Chris Cuomo getting fired possible nah CNN is never gonna do that and y'all know it we all know that that's not how any of this works already meanwhile the worst story of the weekend comes out of Chicago again nobody seems

42:26 to care about cops who get killed every day on the job all over the United States this is why it is it is really galling when you hear the Democrats in DC pretend that they care deeply about the police officers who are assaulted on January 6th when I say pretend what I mean is that they probably care about those specific police officers but they don't seem to demand very much about the other police officers all over the United States who are harmed literally every day in the line of fire you know how many police officers were injured like literally hundreds of police officers maybe thousands of police officers injured last year during the black lives matter riots the Democrats have anything to say about any of that not a word not a word January 6th they're all up they're all about because obviously when police officers are injured by people who are right-wing then that is worth noting again if you're only situationally

43:15 against violence against cops this means you're not actually against violence against cops it's the same thing I say about anti-Semitism or racism if you're only situationally against it you're really not against it if if anti-Semitism only bothers you when it's somebody who you politically disagree doing the anti-Semitism you don't care about anti-Semitism if you're a Democrat and you're like I love Rashida taliba no hanomar but man that Marjorie Taylor green is just the worst when it comes to the Jews you don't care about anti-Semitism you're just a liar and when you say I care deeply about the police officers who are hurt on January 6th but I don't care at all like I have nothing to say about the police officers hurt every day on the job and in fact I will just continue to call police officers systemically racist and increase the risk to them by alienating entire groups of Americans from the cops

43:58 and of mollycoddle people who call for defund the police I have a tough time believing that you care deeply about violence against the police on a root level in any case in Chicago Chicago Tribune reports one Chicago police officer was murdered another was critically wounded during an exchange of gunfire with at least one suspect during a traffic stop Saturday night in the west Englewood neighborhood on the South Side police family and the Cook County Medical examiner's Office identified the officer who died as Ella French a 29 year old who had worked as a Chicago cop since April 2018.

44:27 she was the first Chicago police officer to be shot and killed in the line of duty since mayor Lori Lightfoot took office in 2019 the other officer with the department since August 2014 is fighting for his life in critical condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center Andrew French said his younger sister always thought of herself before others he said my sister's always been a person of Integrity she's always done the right thing even when nobody's looking she always believed in people and believed in doing the right thing she's always believed in taking care of people they can't take care of themselves Andrew French and Iraq war veteran said that even before she joined the force his sister was a proponent of therapy or social services over jail time he said she wanted to see people get the help they needed more than just throwing people in jail he said she was a humanitarian she believes in human

45:06 rights she's one of the officers on the force they thought that thought they needed reform because she's seen the front line like I have she's always been a very caring person when I was in Iraq me and her we talked she has some attributes you don't find in the world anymore and she was killed just after 9 pm Saturday near West 63rd and South Bell Avenue when the officers conducted a traffic stop on three people in a vehicle now I've been reliably informed the traffic stops are basically not problematic right that when police approach people during a traffic stop they should maybe be unarmed you know some social workers should show up during the stop someone opened fire on the officers at least one officer returned fire two officers including French and one of the suspects were shot the officers were taken to UFC Medical Center the wounded suspect was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak

45:49 Lawn he and one other male suspect were in custody a female suspect at large after the shooting was arrested later on Sunday so just a terrible horrifying story Lightfoot lamented the pro-law enforcement world's complaints that Society doesn't do enough for cops who feel there are roadblocks to doing their jobs effectively she also lamented critics of the police who have long to announced officers treatment of neighborhoods of color stop just stop this constant Strife is not what we need in the moment the police are not our enemies she said they're human just as we are we have a common enemy it's the guns and the gangs eradicating both is complex we cannot let the size of the challenge deter us we have to continue striking hard blows every day well you know it's a good way to do that not undermining the cops that is a major issue it will continue to be a major issue and it does get cops killed I know

46:32 enough cops on forces all over the United States to know what their experience day-to-day is like and how politicians make it worse for political gain Lori Lightfoot is one of those politicians alrighty coming up we have another hour of the Ben Shapiro show a little bit later today also coming up soon the Matt walsher airs at 1 30 p.m Eastern be sure to check it out over at dailywear.com I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show if you enjoyed this episode don't forget to subscribe and if you want to help spread the word please give us a five star review and tell your friends to subscribe too we're available on Apple podcast Spotify and wherever you listen to podcasts also be sure to check out the other daily wire podcasts including the Andrew klavan show the Michael Knowles show and the Matt wall show thanks for listening the Ben Shapiro show is produced by Elliot Feld executive producer Jeremy boring our

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In order: 0:00 ExpressVPN, Hollywood, John Kerry, Charles Murray; 5:00 John Legend, Muriel Bowser, Washington Post; 10:00 Lollapalooza, Lori Lightfoot, Char School, Sturgis Motorcycle Rally; 15:00 Policygenius, Allstate, New South Wales, Progressive; 20:00 Randi Weingarten, Francis Collins, American Federation of Teachers, Legacybox; 25:00 Michael Osterholm; 30:00 AOC's Green New Deal; 35:00 New York, New York, Stamps.com, The Authoritarian Moment, Barnes & Noble; 40:00 Reliable Sources, Chicago Tribune, Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, Ella French; 45:00 Adam Ciovitz, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Andrew Klavan, Bradford Carrington.

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How long is "The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1314 - Barack’s Very Covid Birthday Party"?

The episode runs 48 min; the transcript is about 10,285 words in 62 timestamped sections.

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About this transcript: the episode's spoken words as captioned on YouTube, split into timestamped sections. Reclip.Me locates every person, work and idea in the text, keeps the time it is first named, and quotes the words around it verbatim. Last updated January 24, 2026.