k. But for now let's drink to freedom and the truckers in Canada who are making us proud. And enjoy your simultaneous sip.

Oh yeah. Oh yeah, that was a good one. Surprisingly zesty. Did anybody else find that a little zestier than normal? Was that just me? I don't know. I felt like it was like 10 to 15 extra zest in that one. Could be in my imagination.

Well, in California, as I said, the mask mandate is dropping, at least from the state. We'll see how the businesses deal with it. But kids still have to wear them for two more weeks at least, and then they'll reassess. Why do the children need to continue wearing masks for two weeks? Is it because we followed the science? Is that why? Is it the science? Well no, because the science ignores reality. So if the science makes the speculation that the kids are being masked and they're very comfortable, they're very cautious all of the time except when they're in school, then the science might, and I say might because I don't think there's enough evidence for it, but it might under those conditions suggest that masking children makes sense under the specific condition that when they walk out of the school they're still masking.

But in the real world in which everybody is aware, the kids are massively unmasked from the moment they walk out the door. They're actually unmasked between classes. They actually walk out of the class, they're allowed at least in our town, they're allowed to take off their mask because they're outdoors between the buildings. They're hugging and joking and interacting with each other at close quarters and then they walk into the building and put on their mask. And then they go to lunch and take off their masks. And then they go home and have a sleepover or a Super Bowl party and they mingle without their masks. Now I'm not wrong that under those conditions you don't really have to address the science. It would be one thing if this were some kind of a controlled situation where kids were always in masks. Then you'd say, well we care about these children so much we'll keep them in masks completely until the danger is passed, which would also not be a good idea, but at least it would be consistent. It would at least be consistent with science.

But how in the world does science pretend not to know that the kids are cheating massively on the masks to the point where it couldn't possibly make a difference that they're sitting in their isolated chairs in class in a well-ventilated place? It's just crazy at this point. And I think unforgivable. Honestly, it's unforgivable. You know, the rates of infection are way down, 70 percent less infections, and hospitalizations down 36 to 40 percent. Even Washington DC is dropping mandates. So we're seeing the mandates dropping. How many of you thought we would wear masks forever? Did anybody think that? No. So you did. Some people actually were worried that the masks were a forever thing. Yeah, no, I never worried about that.

Now the vaccine mandates, those are stickier, right? There was no chance the masks were going to be forever, I don't think. But the mandates, they might be. They might be forever. So unless we see some motion there they might be. Rasmussen has a poll that says that 59 percent of Americans support the Canadian truckers. 59 percent of Americans. That's a pretty solid majority, right there, by American standards. It's a solid majority. And what is Prime Minister Trudeau doing about it? How many of you saw Trudeau's press conference about the emergency powers? So I guess the Carpe Dunk Doctor was just saying that imagine thinking that freedom breaking out is a national emergency. That that's actually what's happening.

So how many of you saw the press conference with Trudeau explaining what he was doing? Now if you didn't see it I would strongly recommend it. Something's happening in my house right now that is unexplained. Anyway. Oh, okay. Let me see what kind of trouble I'm in here. First, gotta fix a problem. All right, problem solved. Sorry about that. Or not. We'll see.

So here's what I want to say about Trudeau's emergency powers press conference. Now I want to be very careful when I say this, okay? I want to be very careful when I say this. As you know, my regular audience, I'm a big supporter of the LGBTQ community. So I'm going to say something that if you heard it in the wrong context would sound like I was making fun of the LGBTQ community, which I'm not, right? So that's not what's going to happen. But in terms of looking at our politicians, how they present themselves is part of the story. Would you agree that the way we receive the message from our politicians is part of the story in addition to what the message itself is?

When I watch Trudeau's press conference, I see somebody, and again this is not a criticism, this is an observation. The observation is he looks like he's transitioning. Did anybody else see it? He looks like he's transitioning. Now some of you are saying that I'm seeing in the comments he was acting gay. And I want to make it very clear here to all of you that none of this should be construed as anti-anybody. This is simply an observation which, because he's a leader, it matters how we receive him and how we process it, right? But there's something about his haircut which suggests he's growing it out because who would go on TV with that haircut unless it was part of a larger strategy? Did you see his haircut? I mean it was way beyond the normal haircut. I mean it looked like he's growing it out. And he was talking with, let's say, a mannerism which I had not heard before. This sounded different. Did he not sound different, as in more feminine? And again that's not a criticism. It's an observation. And I'm not, there's no hyperbole here. I'm saying that there was something about his presentation which strongly suggested to me, and it could be because the news has so much news about trans issues, then maybe I'm just primed to see it or something, but he looked like he was transitioning. And it was very distracting. And again I want to be very clear that's not a criticism because if he is transitioning that's h