"Stop Being Such a F*%#ing Baby!" with David Frum
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.5 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 95 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's a funny experience having a thick enough skin to float across the surface of a deluge |
| 0:06.4 | of hatred and bullshit. |
| 0:09.3 | I strongly recommend it if you've never had the opportunity to insulate yourself from a |
| 0:17.5 | whirlwind, a fire hose, a hurricane. |
| 0:22.6 | Two weeks ago now, I was on Joe Rogan's show, |
| 0:25.3 | and we had just one minor exchange in the course of an amicable three-hour-plus interview |
| 0:31.7 | about the risk of myocarditis, heart inflammation in young males as a result of MRNA vaccines. |
| 0:39.5 | And the media picked up on that exchange and blew it out of all proportion saying that I had |
| 0:45.1 | owned Joe in a fiery exchange that had proven him wrong and that CNN was calling him. |
| 0:51.1 | You know, he was playing expert doctor like a kid. |
| 0:55.0 | I mean, it just got ridiculous. |
| 0:57.0 | And as a result of that, then, of course, the backlash of dumdums on Twitter come out |
| 1:04.0 | of the woodwork thinking that, like, I had staged that as some kind of a gotcha moment |
| 1:08.6 | or that I'm behind the headlines that CNN writes or something. |
| 1:11.9 | Nothing could be further from the truth. And what's interesting and surreal about it that you |
| 1:16.1 | might find interesting is that the way that the different means that people reach out to you |
| 1:24.0 | sort of dictate what their tone and even their beliefs are going to be. |
| 1:30.4 | So people who direct message me on Instagram are almost 100%. |
| 1:35.7 | I mean, there have been hundreds, if not thousands by now, almost 100% super, super positive |
| 1:42.2 | saying it's so nice to hear a refreshing voice, to hear someone a bit different, |
| 1:46.1 | it's so nice to see someone push back against Joe. |
| 1:49.3 | You know, it can sometimes feel like a little bit of a same, same kind of ditto climate when these podcasts have people who agree with them. |
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