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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHart Radio.

My guest today is Natalia Barakmer.

Natalia is the producer and director of 15 days, a documentary about the pandemic school closures and the co-founder of Restore Childhood, a nonprofit that was formed during the closures to defeat the school mask and vaccine mandates. So nice to have you on, Natalia. Thanks so much for having me, Carol. So on my other podcast, normally, Mary Catherine Ham and I have a segment called Still Mad, Bro,

and it's about things that we are still mad about, and a lot of them are pandemic-era things.

The fact that schools haven't bounced back, the fact that, you know, they admit things in retrospect

very, very casually that, oh, we all knew that masks didn't work outside. Like, did we? Because

you kept kids in masks outside until like 2022. You're still mad, bro? Am I still mad?

Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, I think what they're doing now is far more nefarious. It felt

like they were just distracting us. It was very, very obvious. Masks did nothing. And in fact,

Randy Weingarten didn't wear masks herself. Oh, I know. Yeah, because she needed to be understood,

but the kids didn't need that.

Yeah. Do you remember when she was at some teacher convention in Puerto Rico just before the mayoral election in New York? And she was busted without a mask on. And we were like masked. Our kids were masked.

And she just covered up and said, oh, you know, I felt uncomfortable having, yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, so am I mad, sure, but mad is only good for fuel.

Like, I really prefer to be active and I'm too busy to be mad.

Right.

Right.

Is going around the world, like selling her book and this false narrative,

trying to feign compassion for Charlie Kirk or victims of extremist political violence. But in fact,

she is inciting it every single minute of the day. Yeah, she calls people who disagree with her

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