EP. 90: Punk Rock Resilience | Pete Parada

The Dr. Tyna Show

Dr. Tyna Moore

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week, I sit down with punk rock drummer Pete Parada. Pete was the drummer for Offspring for over a decade and was let go when he refused to be injected with the COVID-19 vaccine.

On This Episode We Cover:

2:09 - Pete and why he was fired from The Offspring

8:35 - Standing up against vaccine mandates and walking away from a career

10:20 - Courage is contagious

14:15 - Social pressure to get the vaccine

17:38 - The power of fear

19:12 - The music industry and how the pandemic impacted it

27:30 - People turning on you if they don’t agree with you

30:15 - Did Pete get any new opportunities from his stance on the vaccine + his new band The Defiant

32:07 - The evolution of the audience experience

34:16 - The bastardization of science

38:00 - What is a PAR-Q

40:25 - mRNA and reverse transcriptase (RT)

42:05 - When can we hear new music from Pete Parada?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You are tuned into the Dr. Tina show with Dr. Tina Moore.
0:05.5	For more, visit DrTina.com.
0:08.5	On this episode of the Dr. Tina show, I'm sitting down with Pete Perotta.
0:12.8	You may or may not know this man, but he is a true pandemic hero of mine.
0:17.1	Pete was the drummer for the band The Offspring and was one of the very few musicians to choose
0:22.1	not to get the vaccine when it was being required in order to go back on tour.
0:26.8	What happened next was utter insanity.
0:29.3	He was let go, from the band with no notice, the media slandered his good name and painted
0:34.3	all kinds of nonsense about him across their outlets.
0:37.8	And he's been made an example of simply for choosing his God-given right to medical autonomy
0:42.6	over his own body.
0:44.8	This was an emotional episode for me.
0:47.8	The sheer rage, I feel, over the injustice the unvaccinated have endured cannot be put
0:53.1	into words and brings angry tears to my eyes.
0:56.6	The punk and music scene in general has largely turned out to be a bunch of poser sense for
1:00.7	Big Pharma, functioning out of fear and herd mentality.
1:04.3	Pete stood his ground and continues to do so, and has been gracious enough to share a story
1:08.5	with us.
1:09.5	Let's jump in.
1:11.4	Pete Perotta, welcome to the Dr. Tina show.
1:13.7	I am so excited to have you here today.
1:15.7	I want you to introduce yourself to my audience so they know what we're dealing with here, because
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