It's Cultural Appropriation Month, and we're kicking it off with a trip to the land that puts the mafia in mafia. It's Italy, and it's the land of Mussolini. This week, we're taking a drive to the pasta-loving culture that s given us centuries of dazzling art, from the birth of Venus to Michelangelo's penis, it's Italy! It's June, which marks Culture Appropriation month, where we take you across the globe, learning about and appreciating all the diverse cultures this planet has to offer.
00:02:09.000I can't have my headphones on right now because I can't put it over the Mussolini hat, so people listening on audio, this is the, of course, it's Cultural Appropriation Month.
00:02:18.000You enter in the promo code CULTURE, you get $20 off, lottowithcrowder.com slash MugClub, and you send in your costumes today for Italy.
00:02:25.000We are doing Italy using the hashtag on Twitter, Instagram, LWC Italy.
00:03:50.000And then the Big Hero 6 spin-off is now transgender, buying tampons, and Arizona just passed some major school choice legislation, which is a big win.
00:03:57.000So, look, I think it's going to be a good next couple of months.
00:04:02.000Alright, Gerald A. is here, the best man, the... what are you?
00:04:27.000Because it is called, it's Italy, and I'll be on tour with him.
00:04:29.000Leiderworthcrowder.com slash tour dates because there are developers on the website who apparently don't want to remain gainfully employed.
00:06:52.000That's why he did it right out of the outset, to make us nervous, because we're gonna look like an idiot if we assume what everybody else assumes.
00:06:57.000Yeah, or he was like, I'll throw a softball to him, and we're like, ugh, ooh.
00:08:39.000Isabella Rossellini's a beautiful... There are a lot of good-looking Italian ladies.
00:08:43.000I've heard that name, but I haven't heard Monica... What is it?
00:08:45.000Well, the reason... She's a marvel because she's a good-looking, older Italian woman, whereas, like, Italian women reach their prime at, like, 19.
00:15:25.000But you, you physically can on account of your, you know... That would just be like, that'd be like... Hair releases!
00:15:30.000That'd be like tuning in today, you just tune into Nickelodeon and it's just images of Auschwitz and Warsaw and genocide and it's like, pick up after your dog!
00:17:23.000So that's what they say, well you could get your account back, just like the New York Post could get their account back if they remove the Hunter Biden story.
00:19:24.000His boyfriend and I... So we're going to get some statistics here as to why it's actual medical malpractice and this is a criminal physician.
00:20:33.000Didn't say anything about the doctor's name, didn't dox anybody, I don't understand where they're coming from legally with giving him any kind of punishment at all.
00:20:40.000And by the way, just to be clear, he's also not saying, remember when pride was a sin, meaning homosexual pride month, what he's saying is showing pictures off of your naked torso and telling everybody else, demanding that they declare you beautiful, that was something that people said was, look, come on, look, if a guy were to, if a non-trans guy were to do that, you'd be like, douche!
00:21:17.000It's the same thing with many men who act like women, who are trans women.
00:21:20.000All of a sudden, we're okay with a man fulfilling the negative Barbie stereotype of womanhood that we've been trying to break down with feminism for a bit, but when it's a transgender individual, it's all, uh, brave and beautiful.
00:22:01.000We've talked before about estradiol, estrogen, when you give it to men.
00:22:04.000We know that increases risks of cancer.
00:22:05.000We know that even with women it increases risks of cancer.
00:22:07.000But testosterone specifically, in women, increased testosterone, testosterone replacement therapy, It's linked to increase of all kinds of metabolic disorders, cancer, and this is something really interesting.
00:22:19.000Testosterone increases metabolic diseases like type 2 diabetes in women, but increased testosterone in men reduces it.
00:22:50.000If you don't believe there's a design, Well, you have a very limited window of where hormones are appropriate, and they are allotted in certain amounts in the male body and the female body.
00:23:02.000If you increase testosterone, you have a higher natural end of testosterone in men.
00:23:05.000That decreases your likelihood of type 2 diabetes, metabolic disorders.
00:23:09.000Also, you might say, well, that's because higher testosterone is linked to fat loss.
00:23:12.000But the same would apply to women, right, if it's just a fat loss mechanism.
00:23:16.000But they're still at higher risk of diabetes.
00:23:19.000Which just tells you there is something that we don't fully understand.
00:24:01.000From the largest study to date on sex hormone levels, gene regulation, this is from the University of Cambridge, and is it pronounced Exeter?
00:24:37.000But then Elliot Page, formerly Ellen Page, also got a double mastectomy.
00:24:42.000Some risks with that include blood clots, bleeding, infection, nerve pain, heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, pneumonia.
00:24:50.000Now, if we go down to the, so we have the cancer risk, we have the metabolic risk from the hormones, and now we have the risk just from the procedure of a double mastectomy, which by the way, it's not as high as the hormones and not as high as the, you know, the fake penis surgery, which we'll get to in a second.
00:25:05.000But it's an entirely elective procedure, just to be clear.
00:25:08.000There's no reason for a doctor to provide that if there is no immediate health requirement, and there isn't beyond, I really don't like my tits!
00:25:15.000Yeah, and they want us to be able to have to pay for that as taxpayers and citizens.
00:25:19.000Not only for our military, because we've had people get that before.
00:25:22.000Chelsea Manning, I believe, was one of those.
00:28:15.000Where are all these consumer reporters?
00:28:16.000This company, man, they're taking it, look, this could cause harm, or tap water in Flint, and I'm not saying that these are illegitimate grievances, but where there's a 50% risk that you pee out of the wrong hole, there's a 25% chance of urethral blockage, there's a multiple increase in likelihood of cancers, of metabolic disorders, that occur nowhere else in nature, and instead, you ban Dr. Jordan Peterson for saying that this is medically wrong?
00:28:45.000Up until very recently, the medical community, all of them, said it was medically wrong.
00:28:50.000And you know what happens when the remainder of the medical community says it's wrong, like Johns Hopkins?
00:29:21.000If you type in vaccination side effects, it will be, did you mean that you want to report misinformation insinuating that there are side effects?
00:29:58.000And I do believe that you are violating the Hippocratic Oath if you are knowingly performing a surgery on someone that will put them into a cancerous, shallow grave.
00:30:08.000And I only say shallow because Elliot Page is very slight.
00:30:26.000So there is the possibility that when things like this happen, like what happened with the article from the New York Post, Ted Cruz was asking that question of them.
00:37:19.000Yeah, so those were the decisions, but the EPA.
00:37:21.000So this is big because they were basically making the EPA their henchman, you know, just sticking with the Italian theme here.
00:37:27.000They'd just come by and be like, it'd be a shame if you got closed down for pollution, right?
00:37:31.000That's the kind of stuff that was really going on with the EPA.
00:37:34.000They really were acting like the mob in some way.
00:37:36.000Wasn't it the EPA that screwed up the Colorado River not that long ago?
00:37:40.000Well, they do a lot of screwing up just because they're bad at their job.
00:37:43.000Here's the issue when you're dealing with the EPA.
00:37:45.000First off, you have to believe, let's go through this.
00:37:48.000I don't want to say the intellectual fallacies, but here, you can just hit a ding as I go through these so people can kind of, okay, you have to go through a few different sets of beliefs to be upset with this decision.
00:38:13.000And you have to believe that we are capable of actually stopping nature's course and preventing those catastrophic results, number four.
00:38:23.000You then have to believe that the only people who are capable of stopping said imminent disasters that are being caused by human beings, about which there can be no disagreement, is the government, number five.
00:38:34.000And then you have to believe of all the government agencies that the most efficient and effective is of course the EPA, number six.
00:38:39.000So if you're mad with this, then that means... Do you believe all six of those?
00:38:45.000Don't call me a climate denier because I say, you know what, maybe it's a little toasty, but I think Greta Thunberg's full of shit.
00:38:50.000By the way, what's the over-under that Al Gore is hanging from a massage chair with a Windsor nut?
00:38:54.000No, he's flying around in his private jet contributing to said global warming, which he said probably would destroy the planet by now, I believe.
00:39:00.000Well, it's alright to leave a giant carbon footprint as long as you're also helping the environment.
00:39:06.000How else will Al Gore and John Kerry skydrag race?
00:41:41.000How about, if you want to talk about destigmatizing it, right, women should all come forward and file these police reports and take these rape kits because I think that men who actually commit forcible rape should be buried next to the prison, okay?
00:42:18.000Well, I did the legwork after Lena Dunham claimed it found the guy and it turned out it wasn't true and then she walked it back afterwards.
00:42:22.000So I'm just always a little bit concerned when someone drops it at some kind of a rally and this is not something where there's a track record, there's no police report.
00:43:10.000If you're in a city that does not allow you to be armed, leave said city immediately.
00:43:15.000And then if you do find yourself in that scenario, God forbid, Well, statistically, most women who are brutally raped, if they know who the perpetrator was, do go to the police.
00:43:42.000AOC, shouldn't she be celebrating the ruling for New York City or the state of New York actually not being able to limit who can get a concealed carry?
00:43:49.000Wouldn't your friends like to have had a handgun in their purse walking down that dark alley late at night after one of their shifts?
00:43:55.000Shouldn't you guys be all like cheering this decision so you can finally protect yourself?
00:44:00.000Last night they shot somebody in the Upper East Side.
00:44:04.000By the way, they have not named the race of the perpetrator.
00:44:07.000No, but don't worry, he was wearing all black.
00:44:55.000But that being said, we know it without a doubt because it certainly hasn't just gone into effect where a guy's like, oh man, this is great!
00:45:02.000Now, starting this second, I can go and shoot old ladies.
00:45:05.000That's, you know, I'm an originalist in interpreting the law.
00:45:39.000Like, I don't know what he was, honestly, but it's like, okay, it's like there's an Amber Alert, and you go, the car was, uh, it was an automobile, and it had four wheels.
00:46:37.000Will in a bet that it wasn't a Republican, racist, white supremacist in New York City with a registered firearm who shot a 90-something-year-old lady.
00:46:45.000And by the way, the extreme, the extreme extreme is no one should have a gun, right?
00:46:48.000That's the extreme my right, your left.
00:48:18.000You might be wondering how I got here.
00:48:21.000Also, what's really important to note, maybe people don't think of this because we often just think of the welfare state, we think of that as a redistribution of wealth.
00:48:29.000The international military community, and NATO, and UN, that is an international redistribution of wealth, always at the cost of the American taxpayer.
00:48:38.000Not at the cost of the Swedish taxpayer, not at the cost of the German taxpayer.
00:48:42.000When you're talking about international agreements, the numbers are not even close.
00:48:47.000It's thank you United States for allowing us to tag along and not making us states 50 through 90 at this point.
00:49:05.000Tuesday, and then we have Biden talking this morning, NATO's Secretary General announced that Finland and Sweden were one step closer after Turkey dropped its objections.
00:49:14.000And so this started the chatter of, should they be able to join?
00:49:17.000Here's the NATO Secretary General, who I believe is Norwegian, but talking about Finland and Sweden.
00:49:22.000It's easy to get mixed up, again, because these countries are inconsequential in the general history of the world.
00:49:28.000We've just finished a very constructive meeting with President Erdogan, President Nynästö and Prime Minister Andersson.
00:49:39.000And I'm pleased to announce that we now have an agreement that paves the way for Finland and Sweden to join NATO.
00:49:52.000Yeah, I want that way paved with walls and moats.
00:52:11.000So, now Sweden, having not paid Into NATO, for all these years, going like, oh, things looking like they could get rough, we need protection, yeah, but you know how we didn't pay at all, and we bragged about how you guys were paying in the military-industrial complex, and we have all this socialized healthcare?
00:52:38.000So, it's tough to do some numbers because you're talking about the history of NATO, inflation, modern dollars, but in 2020 dollars, 2% of GDP for Sweden would be $10.8 billion a year.
00:52:49.000Finland, that would be $5.3 billion a year.
00:52:52.000So let's just lower that contribution to 1.5%.
00:53:31.000Once you pay your, let's split the difference, 250 billion dollars each in back pay, you know the money that you didn't pay in while we were protecting your sorry ass and you bragged about all of your social programs that you couldn't afford if you had to spend anything on your military?
00:53:45.000You pay the back pay, you walk out, get on your knees, and apologize, and you allow us to paddle you.
00:53:57.000didn't do it for a long time you know what in the United States it's paid 3.5
00:54:00.000you got to pay two and a half at least going forward if not I hope you enjoy
00:54:05.000speaking one of the Soviet languages I think that it's not so sweet Sweden and
00:54:11.000Finland you're finished Wow You've got to tell your dad to do this.
00:54:22.000When I say $811 billion just last year, that's your tax dollars.
00:54:28.000Picture your tax dollars side-by-side with an arrogant Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, an arrogant prick talking about how the United States has this military-industrial complex.
00:57:11.000We don't have a problem, well we have a problem with the Pentagon saying they're still going to perform abortions of course, but we don't have a problem with having an effective military, we have a problem with bureaucracy, we have a problem with red tape, and we have a problem with providing military aid to everybody else in the world.
00:57:51.000And we have more oil than we would know what to do with, by the way, if we just allowed our own country.
00:57:57.000We could be an entirely self-sustaining country.
00:58:00.000The rest of the world could turn into an Acme cartoon-like crisp post-firecracker, and we would be fine.
00:58:08.000You all exist by the grace and the mercy of the United States.
00:58:13.000We would have been better off if former Vice President Biden walked up to the summit and said, yeah, yeah, I hear that Sweden and Finland really want to Appropriate response.
00:58:26.000And America's breadbasket is what they call my hips.
01:01:35.000Do you really think your kid, your six-year-old kid needs to see a man talking about his preferences for pads with wings and optional sliding doors for crying out loud?
01:01:48.000Do you really think that's what... You mean the Michelin tire man's trans cousin?
01:03:16.000I didn't learn about their tampons and their pads because I didn't need to as a boy.
01:03:22.000It wouldn't be appropriate for the same reason that I don't think my cousin, who was a girl, was taught about my rigid phallus upon looking at my She-Hulk superhero cards.
01:07:39.000And by the way, really quickly before we go, this is why it's a wonderful thing that in Arizona we're now talking about a school choice bill.
01:08:20.000It means that the money, rather than going to a school, is attached to the student.
01:08:23.000So, in Arizona, what this means right now is, and I'll read a quote here, more than $6,000 to each student for education expenses, including private school tuition, curricular materials.
01:08:35.000This means rather than saying, for example, I don't know what the average per pupil spending is in the country right now, it's somewhere like $12,000, $13,000.
01:08:42.000It changes from year to year, and they average it out.
01:08:46.000This is the average per pupil spending.
01:08:48.000Then, rather than saying this is the average per pupil spending, and you go to this school period with no choice, it's, we're going to attach, and I think we should attach the full amount, if we attach the amount, but we're going to attach a certain amount of that money to the student.
01:09:00.000So rather than forcing the student to go to a school in their district, we give them the credit, and they can go to any school they want, and allow the schools to, Compete for their dollar.
01:09:12.000Now here's another reason that I don't understand why this isn't done in the States.
01:09:17.000It's one thing, one of the very few things, that we get right in Canada.
01:09:20.000Where I lived, I should have gone to Chambly High School.
01:09:22.000I was allowed to go to Centennial Regional High School, which was significantly further.
01:09:26.000I had friends who lived in the street who went to McDonald-Cartier High School, which was even further.
01:09:30.000As long as you were willing to drive, you were allowed to go to multiple schools.
01:09:35.000And people say, well what happens if people just started going to the better school?
01:10:38.000I knew a lot of kids from very rough neighborhoods, though, that ended up going to, like, one of the high schools I went to.
01:10:44.000That was in a better neighborhood, though, just because they knew some... Like, their sister lived in the area, and their brother, and they were able to use that.
01:10:50.000Yeah, but they got a better education.
01:11:07.000Like Steven said, if there's a lot of people that want to go to your school, like any business, you're like, okay, well, we have more demand than we have supply.
01:11:19.000By the way, it's pay-as-you-go, because we're full.
01:11:22.000The good news is, more people want to get into this school, and there's money attached to them, so we know we're going to have the money to expend.
01:11:30.000I think we even did a Change My Mind, or something similar to it, about school choice, and we just didn't end up running it, because every person who thought they were against it, they go, oh wait, that's what a voucher's like?
01:11:47.000The counterpoint to charter schools is that they don't perform any better than public schools.
01:11:52.000And if you try to torture the data long enough, that'll be true.
01:11:55.000But if you look at Thomas Sowell's book where he actually compared charter schools that were located in the same building As public schools, because they had excess space in New York City, they way outperformed the students in the same building.
01:12:07.000It's the most apples-to-apples comparison you can possibly get.
01:12:28.000Well, in other words, if someone lives in a district and the public school that they want to go to that happens to be better, we know that in Texas, your property values change dramatically based on the public school district.
01:12:38.000So it's, oh, it happens to be 500 yards past where you're actually legally allowed to attend that school.
01:12:43.000This removes that and says, well, instead of just your money going to the school that sucks, you can take the money to that school that's only 500 yards further, even if it's a public school.
01:12:52.000So it allows public schools to compete.
01:12:54.000It allows charter schools, private schools to enter into the mix.
01:12:58.000Wouldn't it help, too, if you had high schools that were a little bit, you know, I understand freshman and sophomore year when you're sort of taking the more basic classes that you have to have.
01:13:26.000Realistically, why don't you have these different programs set up at different schools that allow for other people's interests?
01:13:32.000If it's, say, drama, film, working on cars, nursing, whatever, why not cater to that already in high school so you can pivot to that correct market of college?
01:13:43.000Private schools and charter schools do that.
01:13:45.000In other words, they have more sort of what would be considered elective courses where you have your fundamentals.
01:13:49.000and they have other courses that might be more, if a student might have a higher aptitude