Wake Up Live W/ Christopher DeSimone Ep. 374 - Dan Shearer, Julie Funk

**Will Pena** (0:00)
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**Christopher DeSimone** (0:13)
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**Christopher DeSimone** (0:34)
Good morning, my friends. You're on the Live The Dream Media Network. Geddy Lee's birthday today from Rush. Well played, Patrick. My buddy Jack saw him in, I think Madison Square Garden last night and said it was a hell of a show. So my buddy Jack who's been on the show before, author of Heirs of Auschwitz, also part of the Dungeons and Dragons group. Very important. Dan Shearer, and as Murph says, Arancho Wednesday, my mamma mia.
Then making her debut is Dean Julie Funk from the University of Arizona Veterinary College in Oro Valley. So we're going to talk about the history of the program a little bit, understand how important the work is that they're doing, getting these much needed professionals into the field in a timely manner with a great education, and then the fight for their accreditation, which now gives them a shot to expand in the good work that they're doing. So we'll talk about that with Dean Julie Funk. She's a great interview. She'll be wonderful. Then Bruce and Eb on Inside Track, part of Big Wednesday, John Winchester running for Ld17.
Now, in the midst of everything Shea is dealing with today, what I'd like to do is we're going to do a quick live viewing of the Rand Paul Senate Committee with this piece of trash named Dr. Anthony Fauci. And Bruce was just texting me as we were coming on, that I know you guys are going to be in shock.
Fauci's taken the fifth on everything. Absolutely everything. This is where you need the DOJ to do their work, but Trump won't do it. Because I'm sure some of it leads back to him. Some stuff that people aren't going to dig. Maybe like an Epstein thing. We just had the anniversary of Pam Bondi with all those influencers with their empty binders saying this is going to get filled with Epstein stuff. Remember that? That didn't happen either. So Shay, whenever you're ready to pop that on, that most recent YouTube link I sent you, you just start playing and I'll just shut up. Tilly, Pat Hirsch, Billy Beard, Dan Bingo Cards, Printed and Ready.
Rex we're here, Rancho Wednesday, Dr. Neal, 75 in the barn, still too warm in the morning at the ranch. Common Yellowthroat is greeting the more beautiful song. That's a bird, just let everyone know that. And then good morning to Jamie. Here we go, let's watch Rand Paul with his jackass Anthony Fauci. And he's taking the fifth, my friends.

**Rand Paul** (3:39)
Do you have an oversight or lab investigators? Do they ever appear in these labs to make sure that they were safe labs?

**Anthony Fauci** (3:46)
On the advice of Council, I respectfully declined to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

**Rand Paul** (3:54)
So one of the main theories for those who have looked at this being created in the lab was the idea that could have come from a virus not previously published. Dr. Fauci, are you aware that Dr. Shearer, who worked for the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was said to, and I think in her own words, have over 100 viruses that had not been previously published that could have been close enough relative to create COVID-19. Are you aware of that?

**Anthony Fauci** (4:23)
On the advice of Council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

**Rand Paul** (4:31)
Under your testimony previously, when you denied ever having funded gain of function in China, it was so adamant as to be striking to leave no room for any interpretation of what is or isn't gain of function research.
There's another important question. Did you fund gain of function research in other biolabs around the world?

**Anthony Fauci** (4:56)
On the advice of Council, I respectfully declined to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

**Christopher DeSimone** (5:02)
Beautiful.

**Rand Paul** (5:03)
The one research project that we do know you did fund is the one that Ron Fucchia did. It's important to talk about because this sort of was the beginning of the debate over gain of function. This wasn't just me. I wasn't even aware of the debate 10 years ago. This was other scientists, over 200 scientists at the Cambridge Working Group, signed a protest because they didn't think you should fund the research and they didn't think it should even be published because it was sort of a road map as to how to make a bioweapon. So what they did was the avian flu, and this is important. It may be the most important question we get to here today. The avian flu has about 50% mortality for humans. The good news, though, about animal viruses is they don't infect humans very well. It will infect humans, but doesn't go human to human very well.