Hey guys, welcome to relatable happy Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I am back in the studio. It should sound better if you're watching on YouTube. It should look better.

We had crazy weather last week as you guys know and as we have talked about but now it's all good. It's all good. It's beautiful weather here now and I get to meet back in the studio talking to you guys and the much better set than the one that I had last week.

I'm so excited about today's episode. I know I say that all the time and I really am excited about every episode that I do but today I am talking to a particularly awesome guest and that is Janis Dean. She is the chief meteorologist for Fox News and she typically doesn't wait into politics but over the past year she has been speaking out against the corruption of Andrew Cuomo and how his corruption has negatively affected the elderly population in New York because of the COVID policies that he put in place.

That he put in place that put them more at risk and she personally has has suffered unfortunately her family has suffered from some of his mandates and she has been beating this drum so consistently over the past year and I'm just so thankful and admiring of her bravery and so we're going to have a conversation with her at the last half or the last bit of this episode.

She is an amazing story. She is so articulate and she is so passionate about this and you're also going to leave that conversation feeling uplifted and encouraged because that's just who she is. That's what she does.

Before we start that conversation though I'm going to kind of set us up. I want to talk about what's been happening in New York.

Some of these policies by Andrew Cuomo, the media coverage of it and then compare and contrast that to the media coverage of Ron DeSantis and this is important because as thinking people and in particular is Christians who care about the truth and who care about things like bias, who care about for example the sin of partiality and who want to try to elevate the truth and seek the truth as much as we can as valuable human beings.

We need to care about media bias really whether it goes one way or another you guys know I've said many times I am a conservative. I'm a conservative Christian and so I'm going to always come from that perspective.

You usually know kind of what conclusions I am going to come to and I don't hide that from you guys. I don't pretend to be this middle of the road journalist who is never going to tell you my opinion.

This is an opinion commentary show there seems to be some confusion sometimes and the reviews that I get it literally says in the description that I am I have a Christian conservative worldview which means that I'm never going to try to hide the truth from you or I'm never going to try to be hypocritical or have double standards or do you be duplicitous or deceitful or anything like that but it does mean that I have a particular perspective that is going to color my commentary.

Now when it comes to the news when it comes to journalism they purport to be they pretend to be unbiased they say that they're just bringing us the facts that it has nothing to do with their political leanings that they really are these middle of the road people but I think we've all kind of had a good laugh at that especially over the past few years.

I have no problem with bias I have no problem with opinions as long as you are honest about that as long as you say this is the perspective that I'm coming from and as far as I know every fact that I am giving you is absolutely true but my conclusions are colored by a particular perspective I have nothing wrong with that but it's when the media pretend to be our arbiters of truth or the fact checkers on Facebook these big tech companies pretend to be our arbiters of truth pretend to be.

The prison through which all reality or all experiences all events must go for us to be able to draw or see right conclusions that's when I have a problem when I see such gross and disturbing bias from them in a way that completely obscures reality and the truth and then it's up to people like me and you to dig through a million different stories to try to find what is actually real and I think that's what I have no problem with.

It's actually real and if you want to talk about why one of the reasons why we're so polarized there are many reasons but one of the reasons why we're so polarized today is because it's just easier to read outlets and to watch people and to listen to people that affirm our biases because when we go to the other side it's not like we're getting just you know a challenging perspective we're getting what we feel like is an obscuring of the truth.

I read MSNBC or when I watch MSNBC it's not just that my opinions are challenged it's that I feel that they are not telling the whole story and I'm sure people feel that about outlets on the conservative side as well so it can just get very difficult and people decide I'm not going to wade through the facts.

I'm not going to dig through all the details I am just going to believe every headline that comes my way that confirms my bias and that's a problem.

It takes a lot of work for us to kind of dig through everything to figure out what's going on. I'm going to try my best to do that today with Andrew Cuomo because there has not been fair media coverage of him because he's a Democrat and people like Andrew Cuomo and he was kind of the foil to President Trump while President Trump was in office.

President Trump was supposed to be like this a jester or simultaneously a jester and you know the Joker I guess this this evil corrupt genius that was purposely trying to kill people of coronavirus while at the same time the media depicted him as this like clumsy fool who can never get anything right and then we were supposed to locate Andrew Cuomo the governor of New York and see confidence confidence.

And we were supposed to see success this is how you handle things this is how you handle the virus so he kind of just became Trump's arch nemesis and he became the guy that the media looked to to kind of you know set up on this platform or idolize is the hero of COVID response and really nothing could be further from the truth and that's what we're going to talk about today in pursuit of

reality and pursuit of the truth and pursuit of clarity because that is always important so let's do a little timeline let's back up a little bit start of COVID it's almost been a year we've almost had like a year anniversary to the start of COVID I remember my last

speaking engagement was March 6 before all of it happened I went to LA and I remember being like mildly worried about shaking people's hands and hugging and things like that and the people at the event that I that I was speaking at thought that I was like crazy but I just

didn't know what that point I thought this had like a 25% death rate and I was worried that if I shook everyone's hand or hugged people that I would get sick it was actually in LA that I came home everything shut down

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