{"id":15155,"date":"2020-10-19T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T16:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=15155"},"modified":"2020-10-20T11:08:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T15:08:12","slug":"mp3-video-chicago-talk-radio-on-covid-shutdown-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/19\/mp3-video-chicago-talk-radio-on-covid-shutdown-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"MP3 Video Chicago Talk Radio on Covid Shutdown Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot_2020-10-19-USA-Todays-Jim-Bovard-on-how-the-Gov-destroyed-the-economy-in-the-name-of-protection.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15157 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot_2020-10-19-USA-Todays-Jim-Bovard-on-how-the-Gov-destroyed-the-economy-in-the-name-of-protection.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot_2020-10-19-USA-Todays-Jim-Bovard-on-how-the-Gov-destroyed-the-economy-in-the-name-of-protection.png 503w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot_2020-10-19-USA-Todays-Jim-Bovard-on-how-the-Gov-destroyed-the-economy-in-the-name-of-protection-150x81.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a>Radio hosts <strong>Dan Proft<\/strong> and <strong>Amy Jacobson<\/strong> and I had fun smacking Covid-crackdown nonsense this morning on Chicago&#8217;s AM 560. Amazing how much wreckage that mayors and governors have inflicted in the name of public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview below or at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h8bOfS_r-Tw\"> YouTube &#8211;\u00a0 <\/a>my interview starts about 7 minutes in (thanks, JdL)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"USA Today\u2019s Jim Bovard on how the government destroyed the economy in the name of \u201cprotection\u201d\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h8bOfS_r-Tw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio hosts Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson and I had fun smacking Covid-crackdown nonsense this morning on Chicago&#8217;s AM 560. Amazing how much wreckage that mayors and governors have inflicted in the name of public safety. Watch the interview below or at YouTube &#8211;\u00a0 my interview starts about 7 minutes in (thanks, JdL) &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1020,2349,2241,214,158,252,2371],"class_list":["post-15155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chicago","tag-covid","tag-dan-proft","tag-mp3-2","tag-radio","tag-tyranny","tag-whitmer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MP3 Video Chicago Talk Radio on Covid Shutdown Insanity - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/19\/mp3-video-chicago-talk-radio-on-covid-shutdown-insanity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MP3 Video Chicago Talk Radio on Covid Shutdown Insanity - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Radio hosts Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson and I had fun smacking Covid-crackdown nonsense this morning on Chicago&#8217;s AM 560. 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