Re-Run | Why Was the COVID Lab Leak Theory Suppressed | Jeff Smith

Heritage Explains

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4.7 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Hello everybody, we at the Heritage Foundation hope you are enjoying these last weeks of summer. We here at Heritage Explains are taking the opportunity for a brief rest during the month of August. Our regularly scheduled episodes will return in September, but until then, we are revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the year so far.

Back in March, I sat down with Jeff Smith to discuss why we should not forget about COVID. Particularly, the way it exposed the rot inside our professional and managerial classes. It’s an eye-opening listen and well worth keeping in mind. Enjoy.

https://www.heritage.org/public-health/commentary/the-lie-the-century-the-origin-covid-19

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0:00.0	Three, two, one, zero, all engine run.
0:06.9	There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.
0:11.5	Without a heritage, every generation starts over.
0:14.6	To remind the current regime.
0:18.8	We, the people, tell the governor what it is allowed to do.
0:22.5	All, all,
0:24.1	actually to get back in their box and stay there.
0:28.2	Lift-off.
0:29.1	We have a left-down.
0:32.1	From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains.
0:45.0	No. Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. Hello, everybody.
0:46.5	We at the Heritage Foundation hope you are enjoying these last weeks of summer.
0:50.8	We here at Heritage Explains are taking the opportunity for a brief rest during the month of August.
0:56.0	Our regularly scheduled episodes will return in September. But until then, we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the past year.
1:03.0	Back in Marsh, I sat down with Jeff Smith to discuss why we should not forget about COVID.
1:09.0	Particularly the way it exposed the rot inside our professional and managerial class.
1:15.3	It's an eye-opening listen and well worth keeping in mind.
1:18.5	Enjoy.
1:21.4	Jeff Smith, welcome back to Heritage Explains.
1:23.7	It's good to be here.
1:24.5	I got to say it's especially good to have you here because when we restarted this show
1:28.3	a little while ago with myself as the host, the first guest to come on was yourself.
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