Episode 28: The time to fight for your freedoms is now.
Can't Cancel Rob Smith
The First TV
5.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The coronavirus pandemic has given authoritarians |
| 0:03.6 | the license to steadily erode our freedoms. |
| 0:06.8 | And if we stop fighting for them, |
| 0:09.1 | we may lose them forever. |
| 0:11.4 | This is Rob Smith, this problematic. |
| 0:13.9 | So I want to think back to a time before the pandemic started, before people even knew what coronavirus was. |
| 0:35.9 | We lived in this wonderful world that we take very much for granted right now. |
| 0:41.9 | We smiled at each other on the streets. |
| 0:44.5 | We didn't wear a mask when we were walking down the streets. |
| 0:47.9 | We didn't wear a mask when we were going into a grocery store. |
| 0:51.0 | We were arguing about quaint things like Donald Trump's tweets or arguments that he would get in with journalists. |
| 0:59.7 | The economy was amazing. |
| 1:02.6 | Everybody, even the people that were pretending that they weren't happy, that Trump was present, |
| 1:07.9 | they were still happy because everybody was making money. |
| 1:10.1 | We were just living life. |
| 1:11.7 | And then this coronavirus pandemic hit. |
| 1:15.8 | And what I want to talk about today is how much this has really upended our society. |
| 1:24.2 | How much this has really upended everything that we know about, |
| 1:28.0 | basically what it is to be human in this world and how there are some people that are in charge right now |
| 1:34.6 | that have a large amount of power that want to do nothing more than to keep everything the way it is |
| 1:44.0 | right now as we are living in the pandemic with these freedoms being eroded, |
| 1:49.2 | with our rights and everything being stripped. |
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