However, against my better judgment, I occasionally go through the comment section and find comments that can best be described as smug, cruel, malicious and generally unpleasant to read.

I’ve been a semi-public figure for roughly a decade of my life and these kinds of cruel and hostile comments used to really bother me.

I even go to the lengths of copying the comment, and then write out several iterations of what I thought would be the most pointed, cruel and condescending dismantling of every piece of their argument, as well as their psyche. When I felt satisfied, I would respond with my perfectly cutting and earth-shattering comment and wait for their response.

Recently, however, I was on the receiving end of a cruel, malicious and hostile interaction in person. I was spoken to, by a person in my social circle, in what can be best described as intentionally hostile and rude.

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After meditating on this interaction for a few days I realized that in every interaction I have, there is an opportunity to be one of two ways: I can be the kind of person who is cruel, malicious, and hostile — in comment sections or in reality — or I can be the kind of person who chooses to be kind, generous, and thoughtful.

I realized that the comment section, keyboard warriors we have all become, doesn’t just stop in the comment section. It spreads out into our everyday interactions and it seeps into the DNA of how we choose to communicate with others and can literally ruin a person’s day.

So, in our comment section on “The Jack and Spike Show” YouTube channel, I have committed to being as kind and as thoughtful as I possibly can be. I see it as a challenge, but also as an opportunity to exercise what we all should be striving towards — being a kind, generous and thoughtful person in all aspects of our lives.

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I was on the social media app when I saw a post from a young woman who was just venting. It was her 25th birthday, and she had been called into work, a pretty standard inconvenience in the lives of adults. But as I kept reading I saw her express how hard it was for her to make ends meet as a single mom, making $13 an hour at a call center, and her hope was that she could have spent her birthday with her daughter as opposed to working.

She talked about how she was trying, but she couldn鈥檛 seem to catch a break. I looked at her post history, and I saw that she had been struggling for several years. Her most recent post was how to keep defunct bras from completely falling apart and asking how to repair them. Her history showed someone trying to navigate social services for her daughter, or how to write a letter to the power company asking them to not shut off her power.

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I sent her a DM, and asked if I could send her something for her birthday. She was surprised and sent me her Venmo information. I gave her a couple hundred dollars and a gift card for a company that makes durable bras. (Forgive me for not naming it, I had to Google it.)

A point with the random act of kindness on the internet

Her reply upon receiving my gift was, ‘Thank you so much, now I can buy a cake for my daughter.’ I wished her a happy birthday and proceeded with the rest of my radio show. I didn’t plan on talking about it to anyone, but then Pleasant Paul (Paul Holden) asked me for a commentary, and I felt as if I could use it to encourage others to do the same.

My point is random acts of kindness keep our society functioning, and it can be for anyone, at any time. So do yourself a favor and find someone who could use a random act of kindness and give it away. Not for “karma,” not for the “good vibes” but just because you can.

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I realize that what I am about to say will sound like the beginning of a very boring phone call with your mom, but bear with me.

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About two weeks ago I switched to a “low carb diet” 鈥� I didn鈥檛 do so for weight reasons, or for health reasons. I did it because I wanted to do a specific yoga position which requires an intense amount of focus and ability, lest I pop my kneecap out of its socket and lose my ability to walk. It’s called a “lifted dancer” which sounds more pleasant than it feels. Think of a ballerina standing on her toes while trying to scratch the back of her head with her other foot. Simply put, it’s basically the best way to end up in a cast for six months.

I鈥檝e been trying to do it for months and, after having no luck, I came across a yogi forum that said “cut out a lot of starchy carbs.” So I followed that advice in order to do a random yoga pose that no one would ever see besides me — and maybe the people who can see the inside of my apartment from the parking lot across the street.

What’s my point? Why deny myself delicious carbs for weeks? Why practice walking on my toes for hours in a desperate and obsessed manner so that I might be able to one day touch the back of my head with my foot while standing on my toes? Because human beings need goals. Small, silly, specific, highly personal goals that are only for their own enjoyment.

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We talk so much about mental health and wellness, but rarely are we given outlines for how to manifest that wellness. My tip? Set a simple, silly, specific, highly personal goal and become quietly obsessed with it. I can鈥檛 tell you what the outcome will be, but I can tell you the pursuit of that goal will be more rewarding than any bowl of pasta or any sushi binge. The secret to happiness is this equation: A small goal that promotes a deep obsession.

As someone who just touched the back of his head with his toes, it is highly worth it.

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For tens of thousands of years, human beings have relied on biases for our very survival. Obviously, early humans had a bias against straying too far from a consistent source of water, or a bias against kicking a water buffalo for laughs.

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Contemporarily, we use biases all the time. For example, I have a bias against eating a pint of ice cream after dinner because I am trying to maintain my girlish figure.

For some reason, we have been told that having a bias, particularly in media, is somehow a point of concern or contention. But my argument is as follows: If you can identify the bias, does it really matter? If I know that when I watch or or or , I will be experiencing news through a particular bias or filter.

But does it really mean that content is any less valuable? Not really.

Americans have taken on the habit of being the “thought police.” We constantly try to identify who the “thought criminal” is, and then aggressively gesture at the slightest hint of hypocrisy anytime we are presented with what we perceive to be “a bias.” Why? I hear biased opinions all day that I don鈥檛 like, and to be totally transparent, I don鈥檛 care. I don鈥檛 care if someone loves Trump or hates Ted Cruz. I don鈥檛 care if someone worships the ground Gov. Jay Inslee walks on or they can quote Gov. Gavin Newsom’s most recent MSNBC appearance verbatim.

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I don鈥檛 need someone to like a political figure in the same way that I don鈥檛 need someone to enjoy kale salad over Cold Stone Creamery. What I do need is discussion and conversation to build a new kind of understanding around an issue and fortunately, that starts with people who have strong biases and people who are willing to share those biases openly.

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PARTNERS AT BROADWAY AND DENNY IN SEATTLE VOTED UNANIMOUSLY FOR A UNION

— SB Workers United Seattle (@SeattleSBWU)

Unions can be very beneficial for laborers. Tradespeople need to ensure that they have safe working conditions. Those positions are often held for life. They鈥檙e careers.

A Starbucks union is different. You don’t want to be working at Starbucks for the entirety of your life.

I’ll dip into the old history textbook for this one. In the Soviet Union, they had this theory about politics: that you would work and be happy. You would be OK with limiting your horizons, your career options. If you were in a factory line assembling shoes, you would get joy from manufacturing.

They thought that you were contributing to the collective as a whole. The idea of advancement was a crazy, capitalist, Western idea.

My concern is, when we look at labor unions like Starbucks who are arguing for higher wages, you are psychologically priming people for mediocrity.

I am not saying that being a barista is mediocrity. What I’m saying is that you have to advance in your life. There are other things besides being a barista to which someone can aspire.

Now, do I think that these people deserve a livable wage? Absolutely. But this idea that you’re going to force a company through collective action to give that to you, so you can continue to be a barista, keeps you at the bottom of the chain.

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One of the problems with this is that you are effectively coddling these people into maintaining that position in life.

I would love to see these baristas who enjoy their work start their own businesses. Go out and start a co-op coffee shop. Collectively bargain there.

Do better for yourself than ask a company to capitulate to your demands. Don’t be mediocre.

Do you want to work in coffee for the rest of your life? That鈥檚 wonderful. You make it happen for yourself, and you take that energy into your own enterprise.

That is the most based a human being could be in the free market. Start your own co-op, and then you can rip on Starbucks all day long for their lack of labor regulations. Don’t force them to do so with petulance.

In the coming months, as the collectively bargains, and their demands are inevitably not met, what happens? They strike.

You’re talking about potentially shutting down a bunch of Starbucks locations, even if the majority of people actually want to go to work. You have to fall in line, and then you鈥檙e out of a wage.

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Are we going to be changing our policies? Are we going to be arresting people when they try to steal a flat-screen TV? Are we going to be arresting somebody when they steal $500 worth of goods?

No. We’re going to get an auditor.

The council鈥檚 solution is to commission the city auditor to examine 鈥渢he current state of organized retail crime in Seattle 鈥� and potential opportunities for the City to better address organized retail crime.鈥�

Councilmembers Andrew Lewis and Lisa Herbold that the audit of organized retail crime is in its preliminary stage.

We’re going to pay somebody else to look at our problem and tell us exactly what we’re doing wrong. Because it’s not obvious to me what we’re doing wrong. And it shouldn’t be obvious to you either. That’s why we need to pay an independent person to figure this out for us.

Somebody, please explain this to me: You have a bunch of people selling stolen goods outside of Pioneer Square, and now you’re going to try to get Public Safety and Human Services to take a look.

鈥淲ell, gee, what’s going wrong with retail theft?鈥� Is this some kind of cruel joke?

Normally, what a city auditor does is, for example, identify if a particular school district is performing to standard. If not, then you send in a functional consultant to figure out who’s not following the curriculum. Maybe it’s a lack of materials, a lack of books, or a lack of effective teaching. Then, they bring that report back to the state.

This audit is different though. This audit will examine the state of organized retail crime in the city, look at strategies other jurisdictions are using to address the issues, and develop ways the city might potentially better address these types of crime.

I have the craziest idea: What if you just let the police do their job?

The council is trying to put a barrier from blame between them and crime, shifting responsibility from the policies they encourage. Instead, the auditor produces the answers: income inequality, or perhaps lack of affordable housing.

It’s a very clever move. It’s also a political move. This is dirty politics, not something to be celebrated. This is actually a cruel joke.

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I have two thoughts on the officer who was fired from the Seattle Police Department and is now suing the city over his termination.

Fired SPD officer who punched handcuffed suspect to sue city over termination

His name is Adley Shepherd and, if you remember, in 2014, dash camera footage showed him punching Miyekko Durden-Bosley in the back of his police vehicle after she had kicked him while she was being forced into the car.

He was terminated by then-Chief Kathleen O’Toole for violating SPD’s use of force policy. Then he had a three-member disciplinary review board overturn his firing, and instead they gave him a 15-day suspension. Then a King County Superior Court Judge and the Washington State Court of Appeals ruled in 2019 and in 2021, respectively, to vacate the DRB’s decision and uphold Shepherd’s termination.

I don’t like bad cops. I don’t like cops that are reactive. I really despise it. And if you’re a cop, and if some lady kicks you, and then she is in the back of the car, and she has been subdued, and you punch that lady, I’m not sure that you are fit to be an officer and wear the badge.

Now, I could get Seattle Police Officers Guild President Mike Solan on and we can chat about this, because I think that he might have a different perspective on it. And I’m open to have my mind changed on this. This is why I’m of two minds about this.

But Shepherd is suing on different grounds, and this is where it gets really interesting. He is suing on the grounds that he was improperly trained by SPD due to political motivation, and that he was subjected to disparate treatment based on his race because he is a Black man.

Basically, he’s saying that he was improperly trained by SPD because SPD is racist. This is a pretty lefty argument, right? It’s a pretty lefty type deal here, where he is saying that if police are systemically racist, they improperly trained him, which resulted in him thinking it was OK to cold-clock a lady in the back of a cop car.

This is my other thought about this, is that if you’re a cop, part of your job is to realize when someone is a danger to themselves, a danger to others, and a danger to your fellow police officers. This is what went wrong in cases , the man who was literally strangled to death and had a heart attack in New York for selling loose cigarettes. This is exactly what happened , who was beaten so bad that they separated the vertebrae in his neck and then put him in the back of a cop car. This is exactly what happened to George Floyd.

I’m not talking from some hoity toity liberal, crying Democrat perspective. I’m simply talking from someone who has two eyes and two brain cells to rub together, that when cops get reactive, they are bad cops. They are supposed to be the kind of person who says, “let’s not strangle that dude, let’s not beat that guy, and let’s not have our enough weight on this man’s windpipe to strangle him to death.”

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Now, if you want to debate George Floyd, I’m not interested in doing that. You can email us on the show — we can have that debate later. My point is reactive cops are bad cops. But at the same time, what if Shepherd was actually improperly trained by SPD? Does he not have a case by saying, “You guys trained me improperly, I was told that this was totally appropriate, and now you’re telling me that it’s not appropriate?” Is he not entitled to some kind of financial restitution if he was indeed trained improperly by SPD?

Rookies go out with the old graybeards for like a year to learn the ropes. They partner up with somebody else before they go out on their own. I would imagine that the argument that he’s trying to make is that whoever his supervisor was gave him bad direction.

And if that’s the case, and he legitimately thought that he could cold-clock a woman who kicked him, on, he is a fool. But, two, I’m sympathetic to that. Like if somebody told me, “Hey, Jack, by the way, you can swear all you want on terrestrial radio,” and then I go and drop crazy F-bombs and get fired, is that not on my supervisor who told me that I could do that? That’s the argument that I will pose to everybody out there.

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There are two, simultaneous realities about the pandemic that are happening right now.

One of those realities is based in truth: The omicron variant of coronavirus is milder than its precursors, poses less risk of hospitalization, and new drugs to treat COVID-19 will soon hit the shelves.

The army is testing a universal vaccine that鈥檚 going to target all coronavirus variants. The first at-home pill to treat COVID-19 has been approved by the FDA.聽 President Joe Biden is sending out rapid testing kits to every single American.

That is nothing but positive information about COVID-19 this Christmas. It’s cause for celebration, not panic.

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Yet, when I opened my Reddit feed today, all I saw was just that: Panic.

I torture myself by going on NBC, CNN, or Fox News. All I see is craziness about COVID-19.

And don鈥檛 misunderstand me. I love and appreciate all my brothers and sisters working in health care right now, scrambling to accommodate this spike in omicron cases. Yet the majority of us, those of us who listened to our doctors and made an informed decision about the vaccine, are going to be fine.

The other reality is for those of us who fall victim to what I call the 鈥渢elevised mind鈥� 鈥� who simply consume too much media, and who treat every new report of rising cases as cause for raw, lizard-brained panic.

That is not going to help. Instead, it ultimately undermines what should be confidence in our ability as imaginative, talented human beings to deal with a pandemic 鈥� a problem as old as time itself, and one which we will continue to treat and mitigate, no matter far down the Greek alphabet we go to denote COVID variants.

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With the attempted recall of Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant , I have some thoughts.

Attempt to recall Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant fails

Democracy is a very precious, fragile thing. And democracy, unfortunately, requires a well-educated population. This is the fundamental flaw in a democracy: A democracy fails itself when people are undereducated on an issue, or maybe they’re blinded by their political preferences.

I would say in the instance of this recall, democracy in practice was successful. People went out, they voted, their voices were heard. However, it failed in the sense that someone who allegedly violated COVID-19 protocols by admitting protesters into city hall during a June demonstration, misused council resources to promote her Tax Amazon ballot initiative, and led a protest to Mayor Jenny Durkan’s house was allowed to stay in office.

Smart people, intelligent people, people who are not political activists, would look at that list and they would say, “that’s not someone who should be in politics.” But unfortunately, there are people out there who I will say are stupid, and they are politically motivated. As a result of this, they become useful idiots for political activists. They’re not people who actually want to help their community, but instead want to inject their political preferences into other people’s lives. That is when democracy fails.

I’ll give you another example. Democracy failed during the 2020 presidential election. Now, obviously, the election was not stolen from Donald Trump, and if you believe that, I will debate you on my show. But it failed because we went from Donald Trump to Joe Biden, who is maybe one of the most corrupt, crony politicians to ever exist. What’s unfortunate about it is that what people are getting now is the same neoliberal agenda that people were trying to get away from, both on the right and on the left.

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There are leftists out there who hate this neoliberal agenda that we see from the Biden administration and are deeply frustrated by it, but they voted for Joe Biden anyway because he wasn’t Donald Trump. That is a sad state to be in, where we don’t pick the best candidate for the job anymore. We just pick the least worst candidate, and that’s bad for democracy.

If people do a rudimentary search into Joe Biden’s political career, his voting record is egregious. It’s disgusting. And yet people will throw a defensive line back at me and they’ll say, “well, at least he’s not Donald Trump.” I’m not talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about someone who has 40 years of using his position as a senator to reap nothing but profit and benefit for himself and his friends.

Whether it’s for the recall of a Seattle councilmember or a presidential election, that is how democracy fails.

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After picking from six submitted finalists, the state will be naming its first-ever hybrid-electric ferry “Wishkah.”

Is it time to sell Washington ferry naming rights to raise money?

It’s based off a river in Aberdeen, running from the Olympic foothills southwards into Grays Harbor, and it’s supposed to be a really big deal, right? But I think that if you’re going to name a boat, wouldn’t you want to kind of meme it up a little bit? Wouldn’t you want to kind of put some spice on it? Wouldn’t you want something that really grabs your attention?

were more along those lines, including M/V DB Cooper, Always Late, M/V Sir Floats-A-Lot, Hector the Vector Connector, and Kevin, among many others, although none of those were considered among the finalists.

I understand the desire to name everything in King County and the surrounding areas, or having the name come from a Native American origin. But when I think about it, do we really need to do that?

I am of two minds about this, because I do happen to think that if you’re going to name a ferry, it’s nice to acknowledge the Native American peoples that were out and about and living here before white people came.

But at the same time, it seems a little condescending, doesn’t it? It seems like, “Hey, we stole your land, and hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of you were displaced, and we’ve named a boat after you in form of an apology.” Or, “We feel really bad about it, so here’s a boat named after you.” It seems odd.

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In any case, the new 144-car ferry will debut on the Clinton/Mukilteo route in 2025.

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Seattle’s newest bikeshare provider is expected to hit the streets in 2022, and while I get that everybody likes these programs, I have my reservations.

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I understand that these have been popular in the past. The newest one that’s coming to Seattle is called Veo, and it touts itself as the “first profitable micro-mobility company.” It’s been approved by the Seattle Department of Transportation as the city’s newest bikeshare provider.

Now, I’m going to use some choice language here, because eventually we’re going to have 1,500 of these bikes spread across the Seattle area, starting with around 500 as they begin to ramp up. I think that these bikes are hideous. I think they’re ugly. They tried them in Santa Cruz. They tried them in Austin. They tried them in San Francisco. They tried them in Los Angeles. They are ugly, they are often graffitied on, and .

It’s basically like the city has a disease that won’t stop spreading. It is a hideous eyesore to have these car-alternative transportation options. People get injured on them. They’re also costly. I don’t see the benefit of them.

I’m also torn, because on the flip side of this is that we have responsible micro-transportation, car-alternative people who actually like to use these things. And this is a circumstance where it brings back one of my favorite sayings: One person will ruin it for everybody else. You watch when somebody commits a crime on one of these, you watch when somebody assaults somebody else with one of these — it’s bound to happen — that’s why I’m of two minds about it.

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There’s a . You know about the Waukesha incident, where a guy got into his car and drove through a Christmas parade of young children. We’ve all heard the story many, many times. It was a tragic event. It’s very, very sad.

But I am getting increasingly frustrated when I hear people out there say: “Why isn’t the mainstream media talking about this?” I’ve heard this so many times over the last week.

The media is biased, absolutely — don’t get me wrong. But I want to disabuse you of the notion that somehow mainstream media is doing something to cover this up. I feel like this is a really fried and burnt-out talking point, and I am getting tired of it.

I hear this tape almost every single day: “Why isn’t the mainstream media talking about the Waukesha parade suspect? Why are they not talking about this guy? Why are they not mentioning his Facebook posts? Why are they not mentioning his Instagram post? Why is this going on?”

I figured I would do this — I figured I’d back all this up with facts and logic and just kind of destroy this narrative.

I just typed in “Waukesha car crash” — not even “parade incident,” nothing to that effect. You know what the first 200 results were? Take a guess. I got CNN talking about the Waukesha parade crash suspect five days ago. I’ve got another one from the New York Times from six days ago. Two days ago from CBS, ABC News four days ago. I got another one from WGN TV one day ago.

When I hear people say the mainstream media isn’t covering this incident, this act of violence, this reprehensible act, this tragic act, I ask myself: Do you people not read the news? Where is this lie coming from that the mainstream media is not covering this story?

If you want to compare it and contrast it with the Kyle Rittenhouse case, it’s been about a week since this happened. And in the week following Kyle Rittenhouse, do you remember what conservatives were saying? Do you remember what we were all saying?

We were all saying, “don’t rush to judgment, watch the footage.” That was the argument that I heard from my fellow conservatives out there, that “the media is all over this — the media is pouncing all over this.”

Remember, we were so disgusted with the media because they went on his Facebook page, and they went on his Instagram. And they were talking to people that he went to school with, how egregious was that?

Why, now, do you want the same thing in this case? Because they’re doing the exact same thing. They go through the guy’s Facebook page, they find a tremendous amount of anti-Semitic, anti-white rhetoric, they find a tremendous amount of information about him being a violent criminal in the past.

Everybody knows about this case. So where is this odd myth coming from that the mainstream media isn’t covering this?

I’ve got story, after story, after story covering every single detail of this, from the legal aspect of it to the personal aspect of it over the last seven days — every single aspect of it.

So I have to ask you this question: Do you want your media spoon fed to you? Or do you want to do your own research? Do you want to turn on ABC and have wall to wall coverage on this, where they make a bunch of inferences, and they’ve got so-called “experts” on to talk about it ad nauseum? Do you want that kind of hysteria?

Because I didn’t like it when they did it to Kyle Rittenhouse. I thought that it was prejudicial. I thought it was gross. I thought we needed more facts of the case to come out.

Now this case seems even more cut and dry. If it’s this cut and dry, a sociopath who — in my humble opinion — commits a terrorist act against these these poor children and these poor people at this parade, he’s a psychopath who gets in his car and runs into a parade of children. What more do you want us to draw from that? What more do you want to take from that?

Why is this thing coming from all these commentators out there trying to malign mainstream media on this particular issue? There are a lot of things that we could malign mainstream media on, believe you me, but this in particular, it seems like whining. It just reeks of this snowflake-y whining, and I just don’t understand it.

I talked to so many people out there and they said, “man, if they would just give us the facts of the case, then we would be able to to bring the rhetoric and the discourse down in the United States.”

That was the problem with the Rittenhouse case. It was jacked up to 10 and everybody lost their minds. And there are still people out there today who think Rittenhouse is a mass murderer. They’re wrong.

In the case of the Waukesha parade incident, we have somebody who is objectively, in my humble opinion, a mass murderer. What more do you want to tease out of this case?

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I saw a headline when I woke up today that made me instantly say, “no, thank you.” I just instantly, out loud — I woke up this morning, I opened my phone, read the news, and I see a headline and just out loud I say: “No, thank you. I am not interested in this. I will not be participating.”

The title of this article from CNN instantly just got right under my skin. It says the . Not three specifically — you can mix and match, as we’ve talked about with Dr. Z many times. But I don’t like the fact that the definition is now changing now. You’re moving the goal post.

Just to get this out of the way: I’m very pro vax. I like vaccines. I think vaccines are great. I went out and I got the J&J vaccine. I would encourage other people to do the same thing after consulting with their physician and making the best medical choice for themselves — blah, blah, blah.

I am rabidly anti vaccine mandates. I’ve said it so many times on this radio program, I now feel like a broken record. Before you start furiously texting me in the text line saying, “Jack Stine, what if this was smallpox?” “Jack Stine, what if this was a measles or mumps outbreak?” “Jack Stine, wouldn’t you be in favor of a vaccine mandate if this was some kind of hemorrhagic fever and bus drivers were driving around bleeding from the eyes like they’ve got Ebola? Wouldn’t you be in favor then?”

I am so sick and tired of that argument because we don’t live in that reality. You might as well be asking me, “Jack Stine, what if aliens landed? Do you think we would bring them cheese pizza or do you think that we would bring them goulash?”

It is a nonsense argument that I do not care to entertain. I’m only going to deal with the pieces of the equation that we have right now.

We have a virus that has something like a 99% survival rate. You got the COVID-19 vaccine, even better.

I do not care if the effectiveness rate goes from 98% to 92%. Oh no, what are we going to do? I don’t care. It makes no difference to me. I went out and I got vaccinated and I am fine with my level of vaccination. I am content with my level of vaccination because it’s my choice.

I think that we’ve lost this idea of boundaries in so many ways. When it comes to COVID-19, there’s been so much hysteria around it. I think we’ve lost understanding what basic freedom and liberty is in the United States. We live in a free country, a so-called free country, and people have the right to make medical decisions on their own.

They don’t need some radio host, they don’t need a Dr. Fauci, they don’t need Dr. Z to tell them what kind of choices to make. They make it on their own, with their own doctor.

I find it irritating that there are so many other news outlets out there that are willing to publish garbage like this from CNN, which plants the idea in people’s brains that they have to go out and get a booster, especially being that we were told — you remember — we were promised that you go out and you get vaccinated and you have your golden ticket and you get to go to the chocolate factory. That’s what I was told.

Now all of a sudden we’re moving the goalpost.

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Aaron Rodgers is not vaccinated because he said that he would have an adverse reaction to Moderna or Pfizer, and he didn’t feel comfortable taking the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

This is what he said, right? Not Jack Stine’s words. These are Aaron Rodgers鈥� words. This is a direct quote from him.

鈥淚’m thankful for my medical squad, and I’m thankful for all the love and support I’ve gotten, but I’ve been taking monoclonal antibodies, Ivermectin, zinc, vitamin C, and DHCQ. I feel pretty incredible.鈥�

Do you guys know how they make monoclonal antibodies? Anybody, for the win tonight?

Vaccinated rabbits.

Read a book. It comes from vaccinated rabbits. You’re still getting the vaccine. It鈥檚 infuriating to me that people hide behind monoclonal antibodies. It’s infuriating to me. It gets me so mad that all these people are so smarmy. Guess where they come from? They vaccinate the rabbits using the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. They take the antibodies that the rabbits produced, and then they pump them into Aaron Rodgers.

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President Joe Biden revealed the new 鈥渟ix step鈥� plan to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID. As a vaccinated person, tired of masks and looming restrictions, I can confidently say I am not in favor of any mandates from any government, state or federal.

Stine: Refusal to get vaccinated is about consent for some

But at the same time, I have made the argument that if a private employer requires vaccination as a condition of employment, fine — being philosophically consistent when it comes to advocating for free markets and freedom of association is easy.

But what do you do when it becomes an OSHA regulation? What do you do when it becomes a federal mandate on the employer to see that you are vaccinated? This is obviously a massive overreach on the part of the Biden administration. But outside of it clearly being an overreach of federal powers, it is a misstep if we actually want to see people get the vaccine.

What we are dealing with here is a question of education and acceptance. How can we expect the most concerned or paranoid among us to comply, if they feel as if they are under attack?

So, being a 鈥渟olution oriented鈥� kind of guy, I thought to myself, 鈥渉ow would I have set up a six step plan?鈥�

After consulting with myself, I now realize that the Biden administration would have done better to meet and confer with me on how I would have gone about getting hesitant Americans to accept the vaccine. Quite frankly, I’m impressed with myself. My plan is remarkably cheap, simple, and effective. It is based on one simple idea: This thing we used to do called “talking” or “chatting” with people.

To put it another way, the Biden administration needs to change the messaging and the standards for the vaccine resistant or hesitant.

I have found that in engaging in good faith conversations with the vaccine hesitant, while acknowledging concerns they may have about the vaccination progress, one begins to open up to the possibility of getting vaccinated. And that is the first step.

The second step is engaging with the nuances and variables behind why someone decides to not get vaccinated. Is it a personal choice? Health concern? Religious preference? Have they had COVID? Do they hate needles? Do they want to wait a few months, or years? Factoring this in creates a more accurate picture of the individual reasons for not getting vaccinated.

The third step is to ignore the partisan nature of the vaccination process. I personally do not care how many Republicans or Trump voters haven’t gotten the vaccine — so the White House would do well to stop expressing concerns over members of the House who do not advocate for the vaccine. A member of the House once said “islands can tip over.” I don’t care what fringe elements of our representation say — as it pertains to vaccines. I only care about someone making the best medical choice for themselves.

The fourth step is to get other physicians involved. For many Americans, the image of Dr. Anthony Fauci or telling them to get vaccinated for the 10,000th time is absurd and counterproductive. Get a new set of physicians in the public square acknowledging the concerns of people from the communities they originate from. Have these physicians talk openly about the litany of conspiracies, falsehoods, and statistical anomalies the American public has been exposed to over the last 18 months. This openness and candor would certainly contribute to some increases in vaccination.

The fifth step, and quite possibly the most difficult for many people to accept, is to provide hospitals with more resources from the federal level to handle the surge of unvaccinated COVID patients, and accept it as being an inevitable factor of living in a free and diverse country. People will continue to contract and die from COVID-19. Accept this as a fact and fill the gap for the most dedicated and brave of us: the health care workers. Give them everything they could ever possibly need.

The sixth and final step is to stop the tired and truncated messaging platform the White House has used since January. Stop with the 鈥渟hots in arms鈥� routine, stop with the blaming or shaming of the unvaccinated, and stop with the illusory threshold of 鈥渮ero COVID cases.鈥�

The issue of the unvaccinated now is one of communication and messaging. The Biden administration would do well to cease with this song and dance, and update their standards to fit a new model of dealing with the unvaccinated.

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Stine: If I win the COVID vaccine lottery 鈥� or any lottery

Personally, I think it would be wise for people over the age of 55 to go out and get it immediately, mostly because all of the data would suggest that age range is the most at risk to suffer severe complications from COVID.

With that being said, I understand why someone wouldn’t want to get the vaccine. I don’t even need to justify it here — I just “get it” in the same way that I “get” why someone likes candy corn, even though it is objectively disgusting.

I think that the archetype of a person unwilling to get vaccinated has become something of a myth in the minds of the public at large. A middle aged figure in a dark room, illuminated only by the harsh glow of a numb news aggregate; eyes scanning frantically over anti-vax memes, dancing from meme to meme — shaking their head at the “vaxheads” out there.

“If only they knew the truth,” the figure whispers to themselves, “they would know that this is the plan of the globalists to chip us and make us infertile and lower the IQ of our children so they can continue to steal elections and prevent us from using internal combustion engines. If only they knew the truth, I could help them understand that the lizardman behind the curtain is counting down to midnight.”

I am positive this is what people think a “modern antivaxxer” looks like, sounds like, and thinks like.

But what if it was just a little different?

What if, according , that figure was a young, Republican, uninsured person of color? What if this archetype was closer to a 30-something intake nurse in Dallas, Texas, with three kids and a dog who has no interest in getting the vaccine? What if it was a 20-something Black man in Manhattan who doesn’t see the need to get vaccinated?

Sure, throw a couple of card-carrying loonies into the bag, but ultimately this myth of the entrenched conspiracist is false.

How conservatism has changed over the last four years

When people discuss vaccine mandates, I am positive they do not take into consideration the idea that a Bellingham nurse would be willing to lose her job over that requirement. It probably does not occur to them that for many of the unvaccinated, it has nothing to do with grand or romantic illusions of a conspiracy from interdimensional vampires, but rather a very basic concept: consent.

We would do well as fellow citizens to understand that consent is one of the most important social transactions, and to deny an individual the ability to enthusiastically consent to medical treatment is as ridiculous as forcing someone to undergo any other medical procedure without their express permission.

So, my recommendation is, for the unvaccinated in your life: Talk to them. Let them know how much you care about them and their health. Let them know that you understand and empathize with their concerns or lack of enthusiasm, and connect. And if they still say, “no thank you,” accept that answer and do with it what you will.

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Gov. Inslee announces vaccine lottery for military personnel, veterans

It would change my life. I could put a down payment on a shack in King County, adopt a couple of kids, donate it all to charity, or lose it all on in a debaucherous weekend in Vegas. I could fly in a private jet or have a live-in butler to cater to my every need.

I could buy hundreds of Macaws and put them in gold-plated cages and teach them all to sing “Just the Two Of Us,” and only “Just the Two Of Us.” I could finally hire a Ronald Reagan impersonator to wrestle a Mikhail Gorbachev look-alike, while a low-rent Kiss cover band plays “Rock and Roll All Nite.” I could literally live the dream that I have always wanted to live.

But I think that is the problem with lotteries. There is a tremendous amount of potential for someone to lose themselves from suddenly being endowed with hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.

Stacy Jo Rost and I went into great detail as to how money, and by extension power, has the ability to potentially corrupt even the most unsuspecting of people. Listen in:

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For example, I’ll talk to socialists, Marxists, people who like Marvel movies — anyone with whom I think holds a horrible, uninformed, and tasteless opinion. I think of it as mental exercise, in which I don’t try to debate the individual, but rather I try to take in and empathize with their position — whatever it might be.

However, I have noticed a strange consistency in conversation with people who hold radical social agendas. There is often no data. None. Mostly it’s just a lot of hot takes and proclamations as to the “unfairness” of a system. Not always, but often enough for me to notice this is a habit with my friends on the left.

Recently on 成人X站 Nights, I had on to discuss the platform. I was happy to talk to Reverend Davis-Lovelace and would have her on again, any time. But at one point, I asked something to the effect of, “How much money are you asking for?” and “How would you pay for this?”

To my surprise, I did not get a clear answer on these simple questions.

This wasn’t a debate and certainly wasn’t time for a “gotcha” moment, but I couldn’t help but notice that this simple question went completely unanswered.

If I could give a piece of advice to people when they discuss their position on an issue: Have more than just a policy in mind, have some numbers to present, have something to cite, give me something to latch on to. Otherwise, what do I have to focus on? That we should cancel the rent for some people, at some amount, for some untold duration, to some effect?

To all of my lefty friends out there, take a page out of my playbook. When you show up to chat with a person who is genuinely curious about the way you see the world, have some data and state your case.

I’m all ears.

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I have witnessed a disingenuous rhetorical technique from my contemporaries within right-wing circles, in which they discuss the facts of the case, while also commenting on the deceased’s past. I witnessed this far too many times from my comrades in talk radio and, frankly, I find it deeply disturbing.

Judge sets bail at $100,000 for three officers charged in death of Manuel Ellis

For example, in the case of George Floyd, all too often one of my compatriots in right-wing media would refer to George Floyd’s criminal past, his many incarcerations, and his drug use. I see the same technique currently being executed against Manny Ellis. It is a rhetorical tactic that has no practical use in our attempt at discovering the facts of the case or in discussing the complexities of the case.

This technique is often used to distort or alter the perception of the case and broaden the range of discussion to the point where the initial question becomes lost. That question was and is: Did Manny Ellis deserve the treatment he received based on our understanding of the law?

I do not care about his criminal past, and I do not care about his drug use. My only concern is to discover whether his rights as a citizen were violated by our public servants. Anything else is a bad-faith attempt to poison the well of discourse around our relationship to the state.

In last night’s “Inside Stine’s Mind,” Stacy Jo Rost and I discussed a new technique in approaching difficult and sensitive issues, something called “listening.” It is this neat trick wherein we take the time to understand how a person views the cases of Manny Ellis or George Floyd — at both a personal and communal level. In this way, not only do we connect with people who we might fundamentally disagree with, but we also build empathy and tolerance for positions we might otherwise dismiss, based on presuppositions or prejudices against a person’s past.

What is courage?

In a distorted world, a firm sense of clarity can come from reducing the range of rhetoric around several key questions: How do I feel about the way Manny Ellis was treated? Where do my biases lie for or against the police? And would I expect similar treatment based on what the facts of the case present to us?

Anything else is useless gossip and conjecture.

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This was prompted by an email from a listener, who chose to describe a recent guest on 成人X站 Nights as a “coward.”

Given what , and I know about being a ‘semi-public figure,’ we discussed the ramifications of getting outside your comfort zone, and how courage comes in many forms. It is not just limited to the words one uses, but rather the actions one takes to improve their own life, and the lives of those around them.

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