How COVID Madness Destroyed Children's Lives
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We don't want to say we told you so, but we told you so. From the start, the New York Times and other big media were advocating for the lockdown of schools, but they never once thought of how devastating it could be for the children. Now, just three years later, the New York Times is citing COVID-19 as a source of “chronic absenteeism”, a new student phenomenon. Then in this episode, we explain how California is basically guaranteeing its water shortages forever. You’d think one of the biggest, most successful, technological hubs of the United States would figure out a solution, but nope, CA citizens are continuously stuck in a rut.
Moreover, we discuss how famous Irish singer, Róisín Murphy was canceled for stating the obvious, on her private social media account. This results in another example of why you should never apologize to the Trans mob. Last but not least, we tell the tale of Jimmy Buffet and how he made his money by pretending to be the “everyman”. While we may enjoy and relate to his music from time to time, it’s clear he had problems with commercialization and the very crowd his music is catered to. Then, we end on a light note, sharing a clip of Ann’s stand-up comedy show on the COVID madness. This is an episode you won’t want to miss!
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| 0:00.0 | The apology went on quite a bit, but the bit I found particularly sad was I've had a personal Facebook account for years. |
| 0:07.5 | The morning I made these comments, I was scrolling and I brought up a specific issue. |
| 0:11.6 | It was something that had been on my mind. |
| 0:14.2 | I should have known to that I was stepping out of line. |
| 0:17.7 | Oh, don't step out of line. |
| 0:19.2 | Whatever you do, do not step out of line. |
| 0:21.8 | For this woman, for this hugely successful kind of cool woman that she now, for just expressing an opinion, |
| 0:28.5 | she can't step out of line. You can't step out of line. |
| 0:34.1 | Hello, my name is Anne McElheny. And my name is Ph McAleher. Welcome to the Ann and Phelham Scoop. |
| 0:38.4 | Yes. |
| 0:38.8 | What is happening in the Anne and Film Scoop today, Phelham? Well, we don't want to say we told you so, but we told you so. Finally, the New York Times catches up with what we said from the beginning of the pandemic. Remember, as a pandemic, we had a daily podcast called The the daily virus and we've been saying that the lockdowns and the school closures we're going to destroy the american education system we're going to they're going to encourage children not to go to school they're going to get children out of the habit of going to school it's going going to be devastating for the poorest children. So just three years later, only three years later, the New York Times have caught up with us. Anyway, we'll get to that story. And the drought ends in California, but California has blown away any chance to take advantage of the bounty. More craziness from California. We'll bring you that story. They're basically guaranteeing water shortages forever. |
| 1:29.5 | Forever. |
| 1:29.9 | And I think that's because they like it. |
| 1:31.1 | But anyway. |
| 1:32.0 | And example, 9,427,314 of why you should never apologize to the mob. |
| 1:38.6 | An Irish singer is cancelled for stating the obvious in private. |
| 1:42.9 | And actually, cancelled not for stating the obvious, |
| 1:45.6 | but for apologising, I believe. |
| 1:47.4 | So we'll get on to that. |
| 1:48.9 | And you've probably heard of the crooner, |
| 1:51.5 | Jimmy Buffett, who died this last week. |
| 1:54.2 | The Everyman. |
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