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The Michele Tafoya Podcast

What saved Hollywood: Masks, or Tom Cruise?

The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary, Society & Culture

2.4590 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Ian Miller of Outkick joins Michele to talk about whether masks were ever the answer to protecting us from COVID.  He also weighs in on “Top Gun: Maverick.”   Did the box office smash save Hollywood, as Steven Spielberg has said, and does it even have a chance to win Best Picture?

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0:00.0

Welcome to another edition of sideline sanity with me, Michelle Tafoya, sponsored by Legacy

0:05.5

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0:09.6

pm.investments.com. Legacy p.m. Investments.com. When was the last time you wore a mask? I'm talking

0:18.2

about the ones that they asked us to wear during the pandemic. Have you worn one on a

0:22.2

plane, at a large gathering, or are you saying I will never wear one again, like my 17-year-old

0:29.4

son is saying? And we hope that there's never another mask mandate. Another question, though, is,

0:35.4

did the mask mandates even work?

0:44.4

Did we have data to suggest that masking up was actually going to prevent or solve COVID for us?

0:47.5

We've seen now that the vaccines didn't do what they were promised.

0:57.2

Did the masks do what everyone told us, Dr. Fauci, the CDC, they told us, mask up, save your neighbor, save your family.

1:02.1

And we still see some mask mandates with little kids, which to me is ridiculous.

1:06.7

Well, you know, I've asked myself often, do we have the data?

1:08.4

What does the data look like?

1:20.6

Ian Miller, who went to USC film school and writes a lot about Hollywood but also writes about sports and other things World War I, pizza and politics.

1:22.0

He's without kick.

1:29.2

And he's going to join us to talk about his book, Unmasked the Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates.

1:35.1

And as a bonus, we'll ask the very, very important question.

1:38.7

Has Tom Cruise saved Hollywood?

1:45.2

For nearly three decades, she's reported the action from the sidelines.

1:46.7

She started very young.

1:52.9

She's covered the NBA, NFL, Olympics, and the college football and basketball national championships.

2:01.2

And now, during these insane times in our world, Michelle Tofoya thinks we need a serious dose of sanity.

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