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ICE CUBE AND TUCKER GO VIRAL OVER VACCINE CHOICE

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Rapper and actor, Ice Cube, had a revealing conversion recently on Tucker on Twitter, about the backlash he received from Hollywood for turning down a $9 Million paycheck for not taking the COVID-19 vaccine. His honest and eloquent answer to why he stuck to his convictions, has gone viral.

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0:00.0

It's amazing. What a difference a year makes. I mean, when we start to look back at some

0:04.8

of the things that happened and how the language around all of these conversations about

0:09.5

COVID, about pandemics, about vaccines, about lockdowns, it all seems to be shifting. It

0:14.9

feels like the world is waking up and a lot of people that were awake, but weren't admitting

0:18.8

it, are now saying, yep, I was always awake. This week, a lot of attention has been brought

0:24.3

to ice cube. If you remember back in 2021, he was fired off a set. This was what the

0:30.9

tech, the tweet said, ice cube will no longer start in, oh hell no, a perfect title actually

0:36.2

for this. For Sony, after declining requests from producers to get the COVID-19 vaccine,

0:41.5

he was set to be paid $9 million. Now the headlines to talk about, I was basically bragging.

0:45.6

Ice cube seems pretty proud about losing $9 million because he wouldn't get vaccinated.

0:50.8

Tucker Carlson recently caught up with them and had a very interesting interview. Take

0:55.4

a look at this. Why wouldn't you take the Vax? You had a direct order to take it. You

1:02.3

were told to take it. Yeah, I'm not real good with direct orders, but on a whole nothing

1:08.6

you know, it wasn't ready, you know, it was, it was six months, you know, kind of a rush

1:18.1

job and I didn't feel safe. But they told you you were safe. I know what they said. I know

1:28.1

what they said. And I heard them, I heard them loud and clear, but it's not their decision.

1:36.2

There's no repercussions if they're wrong, but I can get all the repercussions if they're

1:40.5

wrong. Was it a tough call for you? No, it wasn't a tough call. You know, I wanted to be an example

1:47.1

for my kids, you know, really make sure they didn't take it either. Show them that I, you know,

1:52.9

I want to stand in my convictions and that I was willing, you know, to lose $9 million

2:00.0

and more because we've probably lost more, you know, since then. The idea is that people who stand

2:06.6

on their convictions are heroes, they're brave, they have principles, you know, they're the people

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