9-6-25 The Weekend Hour 1: Secretary Kennedy & Senate Finance Committee Hearing Was A Farce

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The night Michael Brown joins me here the former FEMA
director talk.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, You're doing a
heck of a job.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
The Weekend with Michael Brown broadcasting live from Denver, Colorado.
It's the Weekend of Michael Brown. Glad to have you
joining the program today. I appreciate everybody tuning in. I
hope everybody had a great Labor Day weekend. I had
a great Labor Day week I had a really good week.
I went down to our undisclosed location in New Mexico
and I vegetated, and I checked out of the news
for several days until the last couple of days, and

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then I knew I'd have to come in here, so
I started kind of kind kind of catching up on things.
I did. Get sucked in to the Senate Finance Committee
hearings with Bobby Kennedy Junior, and it reminded me of
an what an absolute farce most not all, but most

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congressional hearings are. I've I want to make sure you
know I've learned in radio. I had a funny conversation
with a with the one of the co owners of
the dry cleaning place where I take my stuff. It's

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owned by a young Korean couple. I'd say they're in
their mid thirties, sweet as can be, nicest people you'd
ever meet. They've got a couple of three or four
Hispanic people working for them. It's quite a menagerie of
Americana in this dry cleaning shop. And it's funny because

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I drive two cars, only two cars. I drive a
BMWM Sport and a Jeep Grand Cherokee. And the Jeep
Grand Cherokee is primarily my dog transportation system. I never
drive my wife's car. I don't drive friends cars. I
drive those two cars and that's it. And I've been

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going to the same dry cleaning place for I don't
know for.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
They've bought it, they've voted now for a couple of years.
I've been going to it for probably I don't know,
eight or ten years. They've owted for the last two years.
And when I went in yesterday, they weren't very busy.
It was kind of a slow week everywhere, it seemed
in Colorado, at least once I got back from New Mexico.
It seemed to be kind of quiet in Colorado, which
was nice. And because it was quiet, she said, can

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I ask you a question? Sure, you know whatever, what's
going on? What do you do for a living? And
now I'm curious because I'm more curious about why they're
asking the question than answering the question. And the purpose
of this story is to talk about perception, because perception

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is reality in most people's minds. And I'm telling you
about perception because I want to tell you a story
that I know I've told you before that I've now learned,
based on this conversation with people in my dry cleaning place,
that you need to reapat things about I don't know,
probably a thousand times before before it sinks into some
people's brains. And I'm not talking about you, but I

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am talking about you over there. They say, well, we
think you own you must own several car dealerships. I laughed,
I'd like, see, I wish I owned several car dealerships,
but no, I don't. I don't own I don't own
any car dealerships. Well, that's interesting because we always see
you getting in a different car when you come in.

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Isn't that fascinating Because most of the time, I would
say ninety percent of the time that I go to
the dry cleaners. It's after I finish my morning program
in Denver and I run by there because it's on
my way home and I drop stuff off. So I
would say ninety percent of the time I'm in this
white BMWM Sport. I may stop by occasionally if I've

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had the dogs out with me, or for some reason
I'm driving the jeep, occasionally drive the jeep. But in
their perception, in their minds, they've seen me drive I
mean four or five, six, seven, eight different cars, and
the honest to goodness believe that I owned. Just north
of where their dry cleaning shop is, along one of
the interstate highways is a series of car dealerships. There's

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a Maserati, there's an Infinity, there's a Fiat. There's a McLaren.
There's a BMW. There's a Mini, there's a Honda. What
am I leaving you, There's a Toyota. I mean, there's
just you know, you know, typical line of car dealerships.
And they thought I owned several of those because they
were absolutely convinced that they've seen me get into many
different cars, and so they thought I owned car dealerships.

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And when I explained to her that no, I've never
driven anything but two different cars, and I know in
those two years it's been those same two cars because
I've owned both cars for let's say I've owned the
BMW four five years and the Jeep for four years,
so it's it's the same car, same cars, but in
their minds, and I'm trying to think, you know, did

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you see me? Maybe you didn't see the car because
it was blocked by a larger car. You didn't see
the BMW because it was blocked by a larger car,
So maybe you thought I was getting into a different community.
There's so many things that go on in our brains
that it was really a lesson for me about perception
and how you see something. And then you start turning

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that around in your brain, and pretty soon that becomes
the narrative, that becomes the storyline, that becomes your reality,
when the reality is anything but that I started to
say earlier. I know I've told you this story before,
and I know I've told you this story before, but
I want to repeat it because that story about what

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you do you must own car dealerships, is a great
example of I don't care how many times I tell
this story, there will be new people in the audience,
you will have forgotten it. You didn't hear correctly the
first time. You only heard bits and pieces of it
because it's radio, and I know how radio works and
people come in and out. But I want to tell

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you about hearing congressional hearings because both when I was
the under Secretary and even before that, when I was
General Counsel and then the Director of Female When I
was you know, in all those positions, I was kind
of the go to person for the White House and
a lot of stuff that had to do with homeland

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security issues, so I was constantly asked to testify about
certain issues. The way these congressional hearings work generally goes
like this. The chairman of this or the chairman of
the subcommittee, whichever it might be. In this case, the
chairman of the Finance Committee, the Senate Finance Committee tells

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the Office of Management and Budget at the same time
that they tell the Office of the Secretary of Health
and Human Services, we went to hold a hearing on
such and such date, and on that date, we want
the Secretary in this case, Bobby Kennedy Junior, to testify,
and we want him to testify about what's going on
with make America healthy again, and maybe they've got four

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or five topics that occurred. This hearing was on Friday.
That precursor to that hearing occurred probably a month ago,
at least two weeks ago, if not longer. And then
omb Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Branch
in the White House starts putting together the testimony. They

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start answering the questions because the senators have asked questions
in advance, so they everyone provides, you know, your opening
statement in writing. You provide written answers to the questions
the senators have provided, and then you appear on the
date for the hearing. You sometimes read your opening statement.

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Sometimes you simply say in you know, does anybody want
me to read it? Or you all have it? Is
that an Now, sometimes you will choose to read it
because you want to make sure that the public hears it,
particularly if it's going to be a televised hearing. So
if it's a televised hearing, you want to read your
opening statement so that the news media that's in that room,

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here's what your opening statement was, as opposed to reading it,
because half the time they're lazy they're lazy asses and
they're not going to read it. So you read your
opening statement and then the questioning begins, and it starts
with the chairman. In this case, a Republican asks the
first question. Then the ranking member, the Democrat you might

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call the vice chair, ask their questions. Now here's the
key to remember. They don't always ask the questions that
they've already presented to you and that you've answered in writing.
They can ask anything they want to. And that's what
happened in this Finance Committee meeting and then went completely off.
The rails ripped that had been provided beforehand. Everybody decided

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to ignore because the Democrats and some Republicans were there
to attack Bobby Kennedy. And that's when the fight started,
and it was freaking hilarious. Text lines open as it
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that hearing next. It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad

(09:32):
have you joined the program. We're talking about the Senate
Finance Committee hearing that occurred this past week in which
Bobby Kennedy Junior, the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
testified about what was going on in the department. Now,
anytime that you go in and you're trying to be
a disruptor, you're trying to change the culture of an organization.

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You're trying to get back mission focused on what it's
supposed to be doing, opposed to what over time government
tends to do, which is languish that you have mission creep.
You start doing things that are really ineffective. There's no oversight,
nobody gives a rats ask what's going on, and bureaucrats
just start doing what they damn well please, and pretty

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soon you have a completely ineffective bureaucracy. Welcome to America
in twenty twenty five. So Bobby Kennedy comes in. Now,
I've told you before that I first met Bobby Kennedy
after nine to eleven when he was running a organization
called Riverkeeper or something. It was an environmental group. He

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was based in New York, and they were all upset
about the Indian Point Nuclear Power plant, which is in
Westchester County, and he wanted he wanted it shut down,
and of course I didn't want it shut down. Nobody
wanted to shut down. But you know, these environmentals wanted
to shut down. But I found I found him to
be reason he would. He wasn't a whack job in

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the sense of I'm going to throw tomato soup in
your face if you don't shut down this plant, or
you know, we're gonna go vomit or anything. He had
his arguments, We disproved his arguments, and we you know,
the plant stayed open for another decade or so before
they finally did shut it down, which was stupid in
my opinion, but nonetheless they shut it down. I don't

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agree with everything about that. Bobby Kennedy believes about anything.
Some things I do, some things I don't. I don't
think you. In fact, I hope you don't believe everything
that I believe. I don't believe everything you believe. Donald
Trump put Bobby Kennedy in to run Healthy Human Services

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because the place is a behemoth. It is a dinosaur.
It employs hundreds of thousands of people all across the coy.
They spend billions of dollars on healthcare, and as Kennedy
pointed out in them in his testimony, we've become one
of the sickest nations on Earth. We throw money at everything. Sometimes.

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I think Americans believe that money is the solution to everything.
And it's not even about spending the money effectively. It's
just spending the money. Never had, don't have a metric,
don't have any sort of measurable way to see if
what I'm spending is effective, and it's is it producing
the outcome I want or not? So you put someone
like Bobby Kennedy, and who's a radical. I had a

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history teacher when I was high school. I'll never forget
her explaining that the Founding Fathers were radicals. Now to
a much brained, you know, junior high kid, hearing that
our Founding fathers were radicals was mind boggling to me, really,
And she explained how if you want to move the

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ship of state, you know, one degree left or degree right,
you want to change things, you have to be a
radical because you have to overreach to get the government
to move a little bit. And as she spent I
bet she spent three or four, maybe an entire week
talking about the Founding Fathers as radicals and how it

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takes radicalism to get anything done. Now, radicalism as you
and I both know can be good and bad depending
on what direction you're doing and what your purpose or
your intent is, and how you implement your radicalism. I
consider myself to be a radical, but I'm a good radical.
Bobby Kennedy comes in as a radical. Some things I

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agree with, some things I don't. And all he's trying
to do is make some minor changes in some areas
and some really big changes in other areas. Shouldn't we
be happy about that? The hate that he faced during
that hearing was off the chart. It was mind boggling

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stupid to me. What what what can I say about
the display of the faux outrage, the idiocracy that was
put on display by these political crisis actors who represent
part of the Republican Party. I want to I want
to excoriate Republicans here as much as I do Democrats.

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During this hearing on I think I said fright was
technically on Thursday hearing us. On Thursday, you had Elizabeth Warren,
the nut job from Massachusetts. She was on the warpath.
Foxahannas was on the warpath, and then you had to

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call me from Vermont Bernie Sanders, who is senile shouting
off some stupid stuff. You had the mushy mouth from
Oregon to the goofy bleeding from the stone senator from Colorado,
Michael Bennett. You had the abject ignorant senator from New Mexico,

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Democrat after a Democrat. They were either of demonic, they
were demented, they were diluted, and they made abject fools
of themselves, but they thought they were They were absolutely
oscar winning performances in their mind. And I want you
to hear some of it. If you didn't hear it,
because it's absolutely absurd, suffice it to say that at

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the end of the hearing, every Democrat stormed out of
the room in a huff, and Bobby Kennedy literally leaned
back in his chair and laughed. I thought it was glorious. Now,
normally that wouldn't be appropriate, but in this case, it
was exactly what the situation demanded. Ridicule and derision is

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the only proper reaction that these dufaices, these cretents deserve. Again,
I don't agree with everything. I say it a thousand
times because apparently I need to repeat it a thousand times.
I don't agree with everything that Bobby Kennedy stands for believes,
but I do believe in his mission to up in

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the healthcare system. If you don't think that the healthcare
system is broken in this country, then you're not paying attention.
Or you've never had to see a doctor, you never
had to go to a hospital, You've never been to
an urgent care. Let's start with John Cornyn. John Cornyn
is a senior Senator from Texas. He is, in my opinion,

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a Rhino. Now I'm not really happy, it's none of
my business. But I'm not really happy with his Republican
opponents in the primary in Texas. But that's up to
you Texans. You figure out who you want. But I
don't think John Cornan belongs in the US Senate. He's
a meeting mouth, wishy washy. He's the stereotypical senator that

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runs to tech and tells all those Texans and their
cowboy boots and their big hats, you know what a
diehard conservative is. You know, in fact, look, I got
a six shooter on my waist here, I'm a Texan.
And then he goes back to DC and he votes,
you know, for all of his special interests. Their exchange

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went like this, well, it would help. First day back,
I need to plug in my computer. Yeah, you can
make fun of me. Oh well, good timing. When we
get back, you'll hear from John Cornan and Bobby Kennedy,

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because here is the astute senior Senator Republican from Texas
that sets the stage for the demonic stupidity idiocracy that
follows afterwards. It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Text line
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Speaker 2 (18:08):
Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of
talk show host Michael Brown.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
The Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you back
on the Weekend with Michael Brown. We're talking about Thursday
Senate Finance hearing with Bobby Kennedy Junior, the Secretary of
Health and Human Services, and what idiocrisy it is? These
yahoos that call themselves United States senators are really nothing
more than a bunch of yahoos that somehow believe that

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shouting and yelling as opposed to I mean, I kept
thinking to myself, do you really give a rat test
about the American healthcare system. Do you really care about
Americans health or are you just so pissed off that
Bobby Kennedy, of all people, Bobby Kennedy Junior and from
an iconic family Democrat family, has been a pointed to

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serve as Secretary of Healthy Human Services by that evil
Donald Trump. And now he's trying to, Oh, maybe we
maybe it's not really necessary that we give a newborn
hepatitis B vaccine because the mother doesn't have he B,
the mother hasn't been using you know, U syringes, and

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maybe we could put that off for a few months
as opposed to pumping a you know, a newborn baby
full of thirty five or whatever. The freaking number is,
thirty five vaccines all at once. Don't get me wrong,
I'm I'm very pro vaccine. All my dogs are vaccinated,
I'm vaccinated, my children are vaccinated. But I do believe

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that we've gone so over the top with so many
vaccines pumped into a newborn child, that it's got to
be a shock to the system. Let's spread it out
a little bit. That doesn't mean you're anti vaccerates mean
you're trying to be reasonable about it. Well, the hearing
turned into an absolute farce and John Corner, the senior

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Senator from Texas, starts it out with this idiocracy. Do
you believe COVID nineteen was politicized?

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, the whole process was politicized, Senator. I mean we
were lied to about everything. We were lied to about
natural immunity. We're allied to about you know, we were
told again and again the vaccines would prevent transmission, they
prevent infection.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
It wasn't true.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
They knew it from the start. It wasn't true because
that's what the animal studies and the clinical trial showed.
We were told that there was science behind cloth mass on.
The CDC allowed the teachers' union to write the order
closing our schools, which hurt working people all over the country,

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and then pretend it was science based all of these issues.
And then I can show you, like for example, Chairman
Wyden was talking about me poviticizing a SIP during COVID.
The probably the most famous scientists on ASIP was Martin
Colder from Harvard, the great now world renowned epidemiologists and vaccinologists,

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and he criticized the COVID booster mandates. They ejected him
from COVID because he wasn't in the orthotoxy. The two
biggest health officials at FDA during COVID, doctor Kruper and
doctor Krause, criticized the Biden mandates beacauseine made you know,
President Biden said in August, I would never take that vaccine,

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the Trump vaccine, and he came in, he mandated it,
and then he fired the two top health officials at FDA,
who said, hey, this thing has not been properly tested.
So the whole process was politicized. And even today so
let me, I'm fifty, so.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
The wope and you and I know the process was politicized.
The six foot distancing rule, social distancing bull crap made up.
We were told the vaccine would prevent transmission. Our governor
in Colorado called us bastards, selfish bastards if we did
not get the COVID, the SARS COVD two shot. I

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refuse to call it a vaccine. So there we get started.
That one line we were lied to about everything should
be the epitaph that is carved into the tombstone of
the farce that we called the COVID pandemic now today's

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I think it's highly questionable whether COVID nineteen was even
a real thing. When you look at some of the
data compiled not by the Trump administration, not by any
conservative think tank, but by the globalist World Health Organization,
You've got to you've got to ask yourself. For example,

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from twenty sixteen to twenty seventeen, we had twenty nine
million flu cases, zero COVID cases. Twenty seventeen to twenty eighteen,
we had forty five million flu cases, zero COVID cases.
Twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen, we had thirty six million
flu cases, zero COVID cases. Twenty nineteen to twenty twenty

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thirty eight million flu cases, zero COVID cases. In twenty
twenty to twenty twenty one, we had fifteen hundred flu
cases and thirty two million COVID cases. Now, how's that possible?
Did the flu just go on vacation during the fall

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in the winner of twenty twenty twenty one, Well, the
answer is obvious, It's not possible. Yet. This is what
doctor Fauci and doctor Burks's foisted on the public in
twenty twenty and twenty twenty one. It is what the
Biden administration continued to push off as truth for years afterwards,
even when we knew that the so called shot for

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sarskov two was not preventing transmission. And of course we
knew if you like me, weren't very good in high
school when it came to biology in chemistry, if you
were like me and probably got to maybe a sea,
if I was lucky in biology, I know the difference
between a bacteria and a virus, and a virus is

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dend teny. Bacteria is much larger.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
You know.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
A bacteria is like a giant boulder rolling off the
rocky mountains. A virus is like a grain of sand
in comparison, and those stupid blue masks, I'm not gonna stop.
You're not gonna stop a virus going through. In this hearing,
Bobby Kennedy Junior told the real truth about vaccines, about

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big Pharma, and that all the lies that were told
to us as Americans by the very organization that he
is trying to get back on track and focus on mean.
We were told to trust the science. I don't trust
the science anymore. I don't trust science anymore, particularly if
it's government science. I want to know where are you

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getting your funding, and is your funding based on You've
already reached your conclusion. So you've got the funding and
you're going to reach the conclusion that your funders want
you to reach. We've destroyed the credibility of the scientific method.
And it was that objective, real truth that the Democrats

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on this stupid committee were so savagely and sometimes comically
dedicated to trying to continue to obscure and hide from
you and I's taxpayers. You got to remember, just as
a reminder, Bobby Kennedy Junior comes, as I said earlier,
from a generationally wealthy American family. He himself is a

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wealthy individual who could have chosen years ago to relocate
himself and his family to overhear an aspen or up
in Jackson Hole or the wilds of Montana and live
out his life on a giant ranch somewhere, But he
consciously chose a path that he knew would make himself
a lightning rod to the corrupt political party in which

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his family played a leading roles for the last seventy years.
He actually chose that path over the wishes of his
actress wife, and despite the outrage that it created among
his own disloyal relatives, not for girls of personal enrichment,
not for fame, both of which he already had in spades.
He didn't need riches, he didn't need fame, he already

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had it. He did it because he cares about the
truth and about the health of Americans. Well, that's good
enough for me in my eyes. That makes him someone
worthy of respect and admiration. He didn't have to do
any of this. Well, what is it that he did.
How was he treated? He wasn't treated as someone who's

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there trying to make change. He was treated as an
absolute someone to be despised. Let's go first to Pocahontas herself.
She was wonderful. If you like idiocracy, this was an
Oscar winning performance.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
You promised that you would not take away vaccines from
anyone who wanted them. You just changed the classification of
the COVID vaccine. I'm not taking them away from or
it takes it away if you can't get it from
your pharmacy.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Well, most Americans are going to be able to get
it from their pharmacy for free dollars. Most Americans will
be able to get it from their pharmacy.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yesterday, and I apologize I don't remember the source, but
one of the news stations that I was listening to
had reached out to Walgreen's corporate and Walgreen's corporate issued
a statement that said, we will continue to provide to anyone,
regardless of your age, regardless of your incount, free of charge,

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the SARS covid. Now they called it the COVID nineteen vaccine,
but I call it the stars COVID two shot. We'll
continue to provide it for your.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Charge is everyone who wants it. That was your promise,
no igunity.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
I never promised that I was going to recommend products.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
For which there is no indication.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Wait, you said, and I know you've taken eight hundred
and fifty five thousand dollars from pharmaceutical company.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Did you hold up the big sign saying that you
were lying when you said that, because you are the
one who said you would not take them away. Now, Senator,
I'm not taking them away from that Secretary.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
You want me to indicate a product for which there
is no clinical tatal centers.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
I was wont Secretary Kennedy said you wouldn't, and now
you did.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
I'm not taking them all. Everybody can get access to them.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
No, they can't walk into a pharmacy the way they
could last month and get access.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
It depends on the state. It depends on the states.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
You know, that's a good point we shouldn't gloss over,
because what we've done in this country is we have
so screwed up, efed up the healthcare system that different states,
depending on Medicare and Medicaid, provide some things and don't
provide other things, and the federal government just sends them
a big giant check every year and they choose what

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they want to spend that on. And so if a
state decides that they're not going to fund a COVID
nineteen shot, that's that's not Bobby Kennedy's fault. No, that's
the state of Colorado, the state of Texas, or the
state of Wyoming. I hear.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
But they can still better. Everybody can get it.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Everybody, by the way, I'd like to know, because I
checked Michael Bennett, and I checked Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren
has taken almost a million dollars from the pharmaceutical companies
in campaign contributions. Michael Bennett, the senior Senator from state
of Colorado has taken three quarters of a million during
his tenure. Hmm, I want who they represent, the pharmaceuticals

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or you. I'll be right back. Welcome back to the
weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me.
Text line is always opened three three one zero three
on your medsay japp keyword micro Michael go follow me
on ex at Michael Brown USA. I'm spending a lot
of time on this topic today because healthcare. To me, healthcare,

(30:46):
much like climate change, is one of those topics that
really consumes a lot of my thinking time, primarily because
we think of the You know, you probably consider yourself
an environmentalist, as you should. You want clean air, you

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want clean water. You want to be able to fish
and hunt and hide and enjoy the outdoors. You want
your children to grow up in a in a on
a planet that is you know, thriving, and health care
is the same way. I want to live as well
as I can as long as I can, and I

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want my children and grandchildren to be able to do
the thing I want you to be able to do
the same. You see sick, unhealthy people and how miserable
their lives are, sometimes through their own fault, sometimes not
their own fault, but both of those topics get bastardized

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to the point where they are used by the pharmaceutical industry,
the healthcare industry, however you want to describe them, or
over here on the climate side, the activists in the
church or the congregants in the church of the climate activists.
Both of these industrial complexes use their systems to profit

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themselves while controlling and limiting your choices, and that brings
out the libertarian in me that says, back off and
leave me alone. I'll make my own healthcare choices with
a physician that I trust, that I believe is independent
and knows his stuff. You know, my wife's father was

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an old country surgeon. He spent his entire lifetime practicing
air quote medicine. What do I mean by that? He
spent his entire lifetime studying and trying to stay abreast
of all of the new technologies, the new drugs, the
new pharmaceuticals, the new thing, the new ways of treating patients,

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and by the time of his death he was probably
one of the wisest, most profoundly intelligent doctors I've ever
known my entire life. Because he was constantly studying, constantly
challenging things, and doctors, young doctors would flock to him
to mentor them or call him in the middle of

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the some surgery, Hey, doc, can you come out and
help me. I've got I've got a patient here in
the er and I need some advice about how to
do something. He could walk in. He could walk in
and look at it at a patient on a on
a table in er and say, well, no, I would
not do that at all. All you really need to
do is just this and boom, save a patient's life.

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He studied medicine for a while in Austria, and he
knew the dangers of socialized medicine. And he preached and
preached and preached to me about the dangers of socialized
medicine because if you can, if you can control someone's health,
you can control their entire life. How many of your

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life choices are determined by an insurance company, or determined
by a drug company, or determined not by the doctor
that you're sitting in that patient room with, but by
the corporate entity that's telling that doctor how to practice medicine.
Over Here on the climate side, you have all of

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the activists who claim that if you don't follow their path,
while you'll live in a planet that's going to die.
You're going to live in a world that will be unhealthy.
You're going to live in a world we're all going
to freeze to death or we're going to burn up.
They can't make up their mind, and that if you
don't drive a certain vehicle, you don't live a certain way,

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you don't eat certain food, then you're contributing to the
ultimate demise of the planet. And so therefore they control
your life. And that brings out the libertarian in me.
Back off, leave me alone. I'll make my own choices,
and I'll make my own informed choices. By the way,
I don't need you telling me. But too many Americans

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who become dumb, fat and lazy and just accept the system. Yes,
maybe I'm don Quixote, maybe I'm tilting at windmills, but
I'll continue to tilt because I believe it's the right
thing to do. And here Bobby Kennedy may be tilting
at windmills, trying to change a vast system that has

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become so complex and so controlling that you have very
little control over some of the healthcare choices that you
need to make. How many times do you have to
go in and get pre approval before you have a
procedure done? So you have to wait and wait and wait.

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And we've got it easy compared to those socialized countries
like the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, where
you may wait and end up dying, but they don't
care because they're just checking the boxes. Kennedy, which I
find ironic. Kennedy wants to change all of that, and

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you can only change it by changing the system and
standing up to these yahoos who are in. Don't get
me wrong, I live by pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceuticals have absolutely changed
my life. But the pharmaceutical industry they control too many senators,
They've got way too much influence. When we get back,

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I want to walk through a few stats with you
in an article written by Alex Berenson that will point
out exactly what I mean. I'll be right.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Back a way every where.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Wil