It's Tuesday, February the 15th, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast

examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

I'm Bill Whalen.

I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow.

I will be your moderator today.

And I literally have a ringside seat to greatness today because we're doing this in person,

not Zoom, sorry, General McMaster. We're doing it live in person. We have a special guest we'll get to in a minute.

So when I say greatness, I'm referring to the historian Neil Ferguson, the economist John Cochran, the geostrategist, Lieutenant General A.R. McMaster.

And today are a very special guest, Barry Weiss. You may know Barry. She is a proprietor of the

common sense newsletter on Substack. And she is also the host of the podcast called...

Honestly. Which you can find on. Everywhere you get your podcasts and honored to be an honorary good fellow for today.

Actually, you're returning good fellow, Barry.

And this is a special day in California.

It's February the 15th.

It is the last day of our state indoor mask mandate.

But what most Californians don't realize is this mandate only applies to those counties.

They do not have a local mass mandate.

So Californians waking up on the morning of February 16th or in for a surprise. Here in Santa Clara

County, there will still be a mass mandate in effect, same as your Los Angeles County.

Barry, you were on a Bill Maher's show on HBO last month, and you said four words that

set off a bit of a fire on cable television.

And what did you imagine that?

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