Saved from the Menace...

First, Jack brings us Twitticisms (title not his choice).  Next, Florida Governor Ron Desantis offers unvaccinated tennis star Novak Djokovic a possible "in" to the Miami Open...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Save from the menace of diseased tennis players. It's one
more thing. And before we get to that, a series
of witticisms from Twitter. I did a bunch of these
on the Armstrong e Getty radio show Twitticisms. If you
will wow that hurt. I made myself gag. Some of

(00:24):
these I'm just redoing so I can use the actual words.
Since I'm podcast, you can say anything and I apologize
if you're bothered by the salty language on any of
these are youth. This is our favorite one. Breaking news,
a man was admitted to the hospital to day with
twenty five plastic toy horses inserted in his rectum. Doctors
have described his condition as staple, which is just that's

(00:47):
a flipping funny joke, man. That cracked me up the
first time I heard it. My life alert bracelet says
avenge me, which I think is really funny. Um boy,
that's a thinking man's joke right there. And women with
sorry gales my eye apologies. Stages of life one birth,
two you gotta be fucking kidding me. Three death? Oh oh,

(01:16):
I like this one. When seasonal depression closes the door,
it opens a window for seasonal allergies. Wow, Wow, why
it's a negative. So this one, just because you say
this all the time, I like this. Logically, the best
time to kick someone is when they're down. You've been
saying that for years, Right, they're right by your feet.

(01:39):
And finally this one, I told my friend she was
drawing your eyebrows too high, and then she looked at
me all surprised. Oh boy, the simple pleasures of Twitter systems.
So if you didn't follow this, the best tennis player
in the world, Novac Joe Kovic, was coming to the

(02:02):
US to play in a tournament and UM and the
Biden administration denied his entry to the US because he
hasn't gotten the vaccine, the COVID nineteen vaccine. Yeah, the
COVID freaking vaccine, which you can still get COVID. We'll
probably protect you against a severe case, but it won't
do you any good in terms of not spreading it.

(02:22):
So there's absolutely no valid reason to keep some tennis player.
And it's not like he's going to be going or
and coffin on a lot of poor people anyway. Well,
has he has? He had it? Because we all know
now that having it is is inoculates you against getting
the bad kind. So why would right, Yeah, well, you
have all the immunity you can get. Yeah, Um, I

(02:44):
don't remember. I want to say he did have it
at one point and practically everybody has. But um, anyway,
I think it's people have had it at this point.
So in a masterstroke Governor Ron DeSantis Florida, he issued
a letter to President Joe Biden this at the end
of last week to grant Djokovic an exemption from US

(03:07):
COVID nineteen vaccination requirements for FERN travelers who wish to
enter the country. Blah blah blah. He couldn't get into
play in the US Open blah blah. Oh it has
been denied, according to GOP Senator Rick Scott of Florida.
But one of the things to Santa Sedan is letter

(03:27):
to the Administration to DHS, for God's sake, was the
time has come to give up the fiction that COVID
vaccines remain a necessary tool to promote public health. Florida's
Surgeon General is issued guidance recommending against the COVID nineteen
vaccines for males eighteen to thirty nine years old. Precisely
the cohort of mister Djokovic, I respectfully ask you grant
an exemption. And then he points out that certain non

(03:51):
citizens must furnish proof of vaccination to travel into the
US by air, according to the CDC. Similarly, the Department
of Homeland Security indicates that certain non Americans wish enter
of the country quote via land ports of entry and
ferry terminals at the US, Mexico and Canada borders are
required to be a fully vaccinated blah blah blah. Dessentis
suggested that under the current rules, Djokovic may be able

(04:12):
to enter the country a boat, and the governor raised
the prospect and asked the administration to confirm that this
is the case. So he can't walk in, and he
can't fly in, but if he just pulls up in
a boat, can he come in? That's funny. In some
the current travel ban has applied to mister Djokovic and
presumably millions of other potential un vaccinate in foreign visitors

(04:34):
just seem completely ungrounded in logic, common sense, or any
genuine concern for the health and welfare of the American people.
That last sentence is unquestionably true. Does anybody listening give
a damn if any furriner comes in unvaccinated from the
VID at this point, well vast majority don't. But so

(04:55):
I was listening to a podcast the other day. It
was some New Yorkers journalists, and somebody who is not
from New York brought up they're talking about COVID and
brought up the idea, does anybody even think about COVID anymore?
And the New Yorkers said, yeah, they still do. Here
they were talking about how on the subway there's probably
a good twenty percent of the people are masked. And
so this guy who was not in New York couldn't

(05:17):
believe anybody was wearing a mask anymore. Was it? Fifteen
minutes later that I attended a meeting I had to
go to in my Burg, that liberal burg that I
live in, And I walked in the door without a
mask on, not even thinking about it at all, not
even close to on my mind. And they said, just
to remind you, this is we still wear masks here,

(05:38):
and they handed me a mask, and I looked around
everybody who was wearing a mask. Wow. Is that I
met such a cult thing? I was at a mask
mandatory function? Wow? And I thought, jeez, ninety eight percent
of the country hasn't thought about COVID and months having
taken four airplane rides in the last six days, five days, Um,

(06:04):
there's one person out of twenty five at the airport,
maybe one out of fifty, maybe even one out of
one hundred, come to think of at the airport. How
about on the planet. M Well, you're facing forwards, so
it's a little harder to gage. I've been flying in
out of la a fair amount lately and it's it's
probably ten to fifteen percent. No, No, I'm not denying

(06:30):
the truth of what you're saying. But on my flights,
which were to Florida and back, it was maybe one
out of twenty five. My son's acting class camp thingy
he did ended on Saturday, where they all presented their
monologues or whatever. And they are only like ten kids,
so three of them, so thirty percent of a more

(06:50):
mask you couldn't understand what they're saying or hear them
because they wearing mask, and their entire families because we
all showed up to watch our kids do our things,
we're wearing masks. Good Lord, and I said, you know
this is your real life, So I hesitate to bring
the full force, but um, what the hell? People? Yeah,
and most of the time the people wearing the masks

(07:12):
are wearing the flimsy crappy kind poorly anyway. So not
only are they unnecessary wearing the little paper crappy one
with all the areas around it, you're doing nothing. Wear
a garlic necklace to keep away vampires, or your lucky
shirt or something. You're doing nothing. You've lost your freaking mind.

(07:34):
I can't start doing that. Somebody says, we wear masks here,
It's okay, I'm wearing my lucky shirt, which just makes
as much sense. Well, and in the unlikely event that
your kid got a full dose of COVID from that event,
they're gonna be fine, oh kids, especially, Oh my man,
that's what I'm saying. Yeah, man, people are crazy. I

(07:55):
don't know. We had a cold go through our house
the other day. I didn't check to see if it
was COVID. Might have been. I don't know. Well what
would I had done if it was COVID? Anything any different? No? No, Yeah,
freaking believable. Man. So are some people do you think that?
Are they gonna wear masks forever? That's an interesting question.

(08:16):
I wonder in Asia, a lot of people wear masks
pretty routinely. True. I wonder what they tell their kids,
because their kids have to look around and notice, even
in a town like mine, you're in the minority. You
go anywhere else, there's nobody about you in the mask.
I wonder what they tell their kids that they tell
them the rest of us are all stupid or I mean,

(08:37):
what would you say, they're just with their health? Do
we have any of those people listening? Probably not almost.
You couldn't stand. You couldn't stand listening to us through
the whole COVID thing. If if you have that attitude,
but you'd have to be telling your kids that those
people are being reckless with their health, wouldn't you. Yeah,
I would assume, so, yeah, something like that. Yeah, yeah,

(08:58):
all right. I'm trying not to be stressed by large
numbers of human beings who are utterly incapable of critical thinking.
But it stresses me out, It weirds me out, It
gives me this weird, worried feeling. Yeah it doesn't. Yeah,
I see what you mean, because what else can people

(09:19):
come to believe? Well, and those people have seized power
before and quashed people's freedom and right to earn a
living and the rest of it. They would be more
than delighted to do it again. You know, the right
exercise too much control during the twentieth century for large
parts of it. The left now has proved it is
not only enthusiastic, it's hungry to control people in their lives,

(09:42):
to quash their rights, to tell them how they have
to live. It's scary. Yeah. I don't mind other people
wearing masks outside of what you were just talking about, really,
but man, when you make me wear one, I really
resent that at this point. Seriously, seriously, why are we
doing this? Yeah, and I understand why you're not going

(10:04):
to cause a big star in certain situations, it would
just who has the time? But are you ever attempted? No.
The only time I got into it, I told that
story many times was at the Oakland Zoo. That's the
only time I confronted anybody ever on it, because we
were hungry and one to eat and they weren't gonna
let us eat at the outdoor like hot dog stand,

(10:25):
because would you like me to come and confront you
had they wouldn't let me order without a mask on.
But you could sit down. I said, I'm gonna sit
down at that table right there, it's ten feet away.
I'll have a hot dog and two hamburgers I just ordered,
and they looked at me like he's crazy, he's gonna
hurt somebody. So they gave me my food, which I
felt kind of bad about because they were young people,
just following the boss told him not to serve anybody

(10:47):
without a mask. They weren't making an indecision. A small
underaged woman, you would play the tough guy, but not
if it was a manly man. Misogyny. Clearly, when was
that in the manly man situation? I don't know. I'm
just assuming there were manly men at your other gathering.
Men again, with kids involved in all, I totally get y'all,

(11:10):
who are thinking, no, you gotta say, I'm not wearing
a mask. This is ridiculous because all that's required of
good men for evil to triumph is their silence. On
the other hand, if it's a kid's activity, it's like,
all right, let's just get through this. Yeah you're not.
It's tough to undue crazy too. Well, I guess that's it.