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00:00:20.000What does it feel like, like pre-making a human, just living a normal life, being a human, to actually, like, what does that transition feel like?
00:01:32.000I mean, oh God, I've eaten so much humble pie, I think, since I became a mom.
00:01:38.000Because you have that, everyone's like, you'll understand when you're a parent, you'll understand when you have kids, and you're like, ah, shut up.
00:01:45.000Because you can't know until you know.
00:02:52.000I've been on this podcast and said I hate Instagram like I don't even know how many times.
00:02:56.000I became like Instagram addict in pregnancy because late at night, the like wholesome third trimester content, I was like, this is what I'm here for.
00:04:36.000They get educated and then they infiltrate universities and they find out all of this research that's been going on and whatever category and whatever thing and then they send all that stuff back to China.
00:04:53.000We fuel their progress through innovation that takes place in America.
00:04:58.000Well, not to mention that it's breaking the brains of all of our youth and turning them into putting TikTok.
00:05:05.000And not to mention that you have kids who now want to become TikTok stars instead of going into STEM. China's like, great, let's make all these young girls successful on TikTok and make it seem like a dream for all of the society that these kids can attain.
00:05:47.000And now OnlyFans is this thing and I haven't even like, I've never even been on it.
00:05:52.000I don't even know, I don't even know what's on there.
00:05:56.000I was having a conversation about this with a friend of mine the other day and he was saying like that he has friends that have girlfriends and wives.
00:06:16.000The average person is not making much.
00:06:18.000But some of these gals that develop these big Instagram pages where they have a million Instagram followers, they're making tens of thousands of dollars every month.
00:06:29.000On OnlyFans and so then they get in a relationship and you know, it's a serious relationship, but you know, you're fingering yourself on This fucking platform for strangers It's like where does that end and what okay if you have a child do you back off them?
00:06:44.000Well, honey, we need money, you know, I mean, it's no big deal You know, my fans are cool.
00:06:48.000They realize that I'm taken and I'm a mom and like it's a I am all for freedom, right?
00:06:55.000I'm all for you being able to do whatever you want to do, but everything comes with a price.
00:07:10.000Or a video is a woman alone in a bedroom with, like, ankle socks and fucking, you know, a jersey on with little baby underwear that she's pulling to the side.
00:07:47.000And then people started demanding them.
00:07:49.000And I was just posting them because I thought it was funny, mostly because it made comedians mad on Twitter that I was using nudity to get followers.
00:08:02.000People were just getting mad that, like, not important people, just people were like, oh, this girl is like, I'm like, who cares?
00:08:09.000But it was funny to me, and it was amusing.
00:08:12.000And then people started demanding them, and then Patreon came around, and then you can have different levels on Patreon, and one of my levels was not, like, vagina pictures, but pictures of my boobs and my butt.
00:08:24.000And I was like, who wants to pay for 40-year-old titties?
00:09:41.000But I'm just saying, like, for a person that's in a relationship or a person that one day is going to be a mom or a person, you're like, that's the thing.
00:10:50.000I had a lot of insight into it, though, and it really...
00:10:55.000I mean, we were laughing hysterically about this the other day because an email came through and this guy was like, can Bridget please take some nice high-resolution pictures of her butthole?
00:11:18.000Part of the reason that I started putting nudes online is be...
00:11:22.000And I've written about this for Playboy and I think it's like one of the few articles that's still up on Playboy of my hundred that were there.
00:11:29.000And it was why I get naked online or why I post nudes online.
00:11:33.000And part of it was I was like real early to sending nudies.
00:11:39.000I would take a picture with a digital camera, upload it to my computer, and then send them via email to guys.
00:11:46.000I mean, I was probably like 23 when the technology became, because I thought it was fun and flirty, and then I realized like, oh shit, this is out there, and I didn't want anybody to have the power over me that they could hold that over my head ever.
00:12:04.000Even though I was a nobody, I don't know what I was thinking.
00:12:08.000But I didn't want anyone to be able to hold it over me.
00:14:30.000And so she was just, I think, pushing for more equality in her mind.
00:14:36.000And and I I understood that, you know, I don't think it was for her like about getting she didn't strike me as that kind of person, at least when I met her.
00:14:46.000It was a very strange scene and I left it.
00:14:53.000I went back to my editor and I was like, I have no idea how I feel about this anymore.
00:15:08.000And that is actually an important opinion piece because you went in with this one idea and then seeing the reality of the situation made you alter your perceptions.
00:15:18.000I mean, even having now breastfeeding and being a mom and being somebody who's just been like my body was a vanity project, I was like, oh, this has utility.
00:20:00.000I went down the rabbit hole of the numbers and when you look at the actual statistics, I'm like, do these people not look at the statistics?
00:20:08.000I think it's like 50% of them end up going to a hospital.
00:24:16.000Even if you get your eggs frozen, even if it's still so much harder the older you get, not to mention, if you look at the numbers for chromosomal abnormalities, it all goes exponentially up the older you get.
00:24:30.000And men need to know that it goes up for their sperm as well.
00:28:18.000You don't feel like you're getting preached to.
00:28:20.000Because that is really who that man is.
00:28:22.000And his songs, these brilliant songs that span decades, He sings them and has this band play them while these immense visuals, and I was told that it was the largest, heaviest stage set in the world.
00:31:36.000And I'm not sure if this is true, so maybe fact check me on this, Jamie.
00:31:40.000But I also heard that somebody who's funding all of these is one of the grandchildren of the Gettys, which makes it even more hilarious if this is true.
00:31:49.000Well, who knows how much funding is involved in crazy glue.
00:33:48.000It would be moving to see how much garbage is on the beach.
00:33:53.000The girls who threw the soup at the Van Gogh, they went on Patrick David's podcast, and he's a brilliant guy, and he asked them, may I ask what your pronouns are?
00:34:05.000And she said her pronouns are she, he, they.
00:34:30.000They just want attention, and they're so happy they're getting attention because they think they're fixing the world by gluing themselves to the wall.
00:34:36.000I would agree, except it's all been institutionalized.
00:34:40.000People have to put this in their corporate emails that they're sending to you.
00:35:42.000It's like one of the things that I've been saying about all these people that are tweeting about injustices on the world, they're doing it on a phone that was made by slaves.
00:37:32.000One of the first articles I ever read in the New York Times Magazine back when it was good, I was in high school, and there was a whole article about how recycling is basically bullshit.
00:37:56.000I mean, there's that project that they're doing with the Pacific Garbage Patch where they're scooping up all that stuff and they're converting it into plastic that they use for items.
00:38:07.000Like you can buy like eyeglasses that were made, the plastic frames and everything were made with the recycled plastic.
00:38:40.000You know, and that's not providing, you know, it's not putting out bad emissions, but it's also, it's like, where's the batteries coming from?
00:38:48.000I always think of Thomas Sowell and his, like, famous quote, there aren't solutions, there are trade-offs.
00:38:55.000And if you start evaluating everything from that perspective, you can, I feel like, get to more helpful solutions when you know that you're evaluating the trade-offs.
00:40:14.000She's a lawyer, so she has a legal mind.
00:40:17.000And she and I had a really interesting discussion about it.
00:40:23.000She said, you know, this is morally complex, this issue.
00:40:27.000And if you're not kind of confused and torn about it, you're not really thinking deeply about it.
00:40:34.000And I do think with the late term abortions, it's usually horrific instances when they have, it's usually like, it's a very small percentage and it's usually something horrible and tragic.
00:40:47.000Like the mom doesn't, I need somebody, because whenever people say, no, people are doing this in the ninth month, I'm like, okay, I need an example of somebody doing this before I'm just like, oh my God, people are making this decision.
00:41:02.000But I always thought, I had Chris Williamson on my podcast, and he asked me if my views on abortion had changed since I had a kid.
00:41:10.000But I think my views had been changing kind of prior.
00:41:14.000Not changing necessarily, but I always thought it was three months.
00:41:17.000Growing up, I don't know why I thought this.
00:41:19.000I thought it was three months, and then I learned pretty late, it's embarrassing, that it was like five months in a lot of places, and some places, you know, no limits.
00:41:31.000And I'm definitely squishy about that.
00:41:34.000I had a friend in New York and he was kind of fucked up.
00:42:22.000I mean, this was in the 90s, early 90s.
00:42:25.000I don't know what the laws were then or what you were allowed to do or not allowed to do, but he was just so fucked up.
00:42:33.000At the time, I think he's better now, but he had a really bad childhood, physically abused, and he was just a mess, and he just didn't want to deal with the responsibility, and he didn't think he could deal with it.
00:43:40.000If you believe it starts at conception and, like, in that bit, you're kind of interrupting a process that would take place naturally, I understand.
00:44:08.000After that, the support for it drastically goes down.
00:44:12.000So as viability goes up on all of the polls, the support for the abortion kind of goes down because I think now they're keeping babies alive that are like 21 weeks, I think is the youngest.
00:44:57.000You know, we've talked about this before, but there was a...
00:45:00.000When abortion was first made legal in this country, or readily available, there was a direct correlation 18 years later with a decrease in violent crime, you know, and Malcolm VanWalsh talked about this.
00:45:45.000And this is what Ines and I were talking about was like there's two, you know, you're balancing the liberty of the mother versus the life of this unborn child.
00:46:14.000If there's a state where people are voting for this and that's what the people want in their state versus another state, then that is the will of the people in that state, which she thinks is a win for democracy.
00:46:28.000But it is a fascinating thing that we're doing here, this experiment in self-democracy or self-government, where you do have options, where there's different states that do have different laws that apply to almost everything, that applies to drugs, that applies to so many different things you can do and not do.
00:46:47.000Like, for the longest time, Montana didn't have a speed limit.
00:49:08.000Duncan sent me a photograph during the pandemic of the meat aisle at the supermarket that he goes to in, like, Silver Lake, and there was nothing in it.
00:51:42.000Dietary fatty acids and the 10-year incidence of age-related macular degeneration.
00:51:47.000So the objective was to assess the relationship between baseline dietary fatty acids and 10-year incidence age-related macular degeneration.
00:51:57.000After adjusting for age, sex, and smoking, one serving of fish per week was associated with reduced risk of incident early AMD, primarily among patients with less than median linoleic acid consumption, finding similar intake of long-chain-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids.
00:52:17.000One to two servings of nuts per week was associated with a reduced risk of incident So nuts are good.
00:52:47.000I mean, there's healthy fats in nuts, and, like, the things that, you know, the things that people think of as healthy, like, a lot of times are not necessarily healthy, and one of those is seed oils.
00:53:00.000The study provides evidence of protection against early AMD from regular eating fish, greater consumption of, um, I don't know what that word is, uh, Google the negative effects of seed oils.
00:53:45.000There's certain fats that come from vegetables that are really good for you, but those aren't the highly processed ones that were initially designed as industrial machine lubricants, which is what's crazy.
00:53:59.000How industrial seed oils are making us sick.
00:54:19.000And we had him on, and he essentially broke it down.
00:54:21.000And he's a big proponent of olive oil, especially extra virgin olive oil.
00:54:29.000Experts have presented several dietary culprits as possible explanations for rapidly rising rates of chronic disease in industrialized nations, including sugar and saturated fat.
00:54:40.000However, one commonly consumed food found in the diets of millions has received surprising little attention.
00:54:52.000Contrary to what we've been told, industrial seed oils such as soybean, canola, and corn oils are not heart-healthy or otherwise beneficial for our bodies and brains.
00:55:00.000In fact, plenty of research indicates these oils are making us sick.
00:55:07.000Unlike traditional fats such as olive oil, coconut oil, butter, ghee, and lard, industrial seed oils are a very recent addition to the human diet.
00:55:15.000In fact, industrial seed oils, the highly processed oils extracted from soybeans, corn, Wow.
00:56:27.000Here is vegetable oils and trans fats, which include soybean, canola, and cottonseed oils, as well as hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils, undergo extensive heat and chemical processing.
00:56:38.000By the end of that process, they are oxidized, damaged, and cause inflammation to all the tissues in our bodies, including our eyes.
00:56:44.000This is about causes of macular degeneration.
00:57:42.000There's arguments that the real hardcore carnivore people say.
00:57:46.000I think much of that probably has to do with some people have a high sensitivity to these plant defense chemicals that some plants do produce.
00:57:57.000We know that plants produce chemicals that What they do, they're trying to avoid predation.
00:58:06.000So like certain plants, like if you play a recording of caterpillars eating leaves next to plants, they will change their chemical profile.
00:58:26.000They've done these studies where they found that giraffes that are eating certain trees, I think it's the acacia tree, and they're eating it upwind.
00:58:35.000And so as this smell and the sound goes downwind, there's some sort of communication that we don't totally understand amongst plants, but the trees downwind become inedible.
00:58:49.000It's fucking wild, but it's like that's nature preventing...
00:58:53.000Look, the way that Paul Saladino describes it, and I don't totally buy into all that he's saying, but I think a lot of what he's saying makes sense, is that animals, which are almost all edible, their defense is they run away.
01:00:10.000It was like oil was coming out, like crude, like black gold, Texas green.
01:00:16.000I mean, I understand that there's lots of benefits to it and people swear by it, but it seems like, I don't know, I feel like it takes me a long time to digest a piece of steak.
01:01:57.000Mostly what you're seeing is muscle tissue, and it's a dense, rich, dark red muscle tissue, and it's so rich in protein and vitamins, and it's so fucking healthy for you, but you need fat.
01:03:13.000And how many of those people have industrial seed oils in the cheeseburger and the bun and the fries, which are cooked in industrial seed oils?
01:03:20.000And how many of them are eating Coca-Cola, drinking Coca-Cola all day long, which is filled with fucking seed oils and corn syrup?
01:03:31.000Like, all that shit is what's really bad for you.
01:03:36.000That were done in, I think it was the 1950s or 1960s, where the sugar industry paid scientists to lie about the source of heart disease and connected to saturated fats.
01:04:09.000I remember reading that, like, the whole idea that fat was bad for you is because of the sugar lobbies, and then they just replaced all of the fat with sugar, and then now we have an obesity epidemic, essentially.
01:04:22.000And I do think there's part of the problem with, like, we have a problem.
01:04:27.000I mean, even flying lately, I'm like, oh my god, every single...
01:04:32.000The flight I've been on, they need like seven wheelchairs.
01:04:35.000You know, it just seems more than ever before people are struggling with obesity.
01:04:42.000And I think it's obviously been proven.
01:04:45.000And I think a lot of it, too, is just like confusion about what they should eat.
01:04:51.000I feel like there's so much confusion around food.
01:05:14.000We have the ability for this crap to happen.
01:05:18.000Yeah, well, it happens less and less now because of the internet, because this stuff can get out, but yeah.
01:05:23.000The next year, after several scientific articles were published suggesting a link between sucrose and coronary heart disease, the SRF approved a literature review project and it wound up paying approximately $50,000 in today's dollars for the research.
01:05:37.000One of the researchers was chairman of Harvard's Public Health Nutrition Department, an ad hoc member of SRF's board.
01:05:43.000So they literally paid these scientists to conduct this bullshit study because there was all sorts of articles, scientific articles, suggesting a link between sugar and coronary heart disease.
01:05:55.000They recommended that the industry fund its own studies, which is, then we can publish data and refute our detractors.
01:06:03.000Someone got paid $50,000 to destroy America.
01:07:22.000Impossible Burger is a plant-based burger.
01:07:24.000The key ingredient, a protein called soy, Leghemoglobin, S-L-H for short, derived from genetically modified yeast.
01:07:34.000It's already being sold in restaurants and supermarkets in the U.S. In 2019, the manufacturing company Impossible Foods applied for permission to market the burger in the EU in the U.K. Did the EU let it in?
01:10:55.000And when I was in Japan, in Kyoto, we went to this like fancy dinner and they had these little, they were like minnows that were kind of, they were like french fries.
01:15:29.000I don't want to be responsible for your kid becoming a super genius.
01:15:34.000But AlphaBrain is a nootropic that my company Onnit makes.
01:15:37.000And I'm not saying this because it's my company, because it's nootropics and it's the reason why we started Onnit.
01:15:43.000When Aubrey and I started Onnit 10, 11 years ago, whatever it was, The reason why we started it was because I got fascinated with nootropics.
01:15:51.000And I got into, there's a thing called Neuro One that Bill Romanowski, the football player, developed because he was having problems with CTE and memory loss.
01:16:00.000And so there's certain nootropics, which are nutrients that are the building blocks for human neurotransmitters.
01:16:07.000And you can take those and they can enhance memory.
01:16:11.000A lot of people called bullshit and snake oil, but we funded two double-blind, placebo-controlled studies with the Boston Center for Memory that showed an increase in verbal memory, increase in your reaction times, and essentially it helps your ability to form sentences.
01:16:28.000When I do the UFC, Which is like the time where it's the most memory intensive for me.
01:16:34.000Because I have to recall techniques and moves and when it happened.
01:21:44.000We have like this ongoing bet on Dumpster Fire that he's my nemesis and it started because of my husband who we were doing one of these dumb books someone got us that's like oh you can like connect as a couple and we were jokingly kind of ironically in our Gen X way doing it and it was like what's something you would like always want to do or something like that he was like have dinner with Elon Musk and I was like It was supposed to be something about me,
01:22:10.000and I was like, fuck you, you're gonna have dinner with Elon, not have dinner with me?
01:22:15.000And so it became this ongoing joke because of him being my nemesis, but it's really just- Why is he, what made him a nemesis?
01:22:22.000A, because it's hilarious because I'm a nobody, and he's a genius.
01:22:26.000I'm buying Twitter and sending rockets to space and trying to get to Mars, and I'm screaming in a garage on dumpster fire.
01:23:41.000That Twitter has only enforced left-wing ideologies and they've suppressed any conservative ideologies, even amongst reasonable, kind people that don't share the same ideology.
01:24:06.000What do you mean by parallel economies?
01:24:07.000This is the term that everybody's using, particularly on the right, and it's valid.
01:24:15.000Places like PayPal and financial institutions are saying you can't, you know, if you say this or step out of line, we're going to fine you.
01:24:23.000There's this idea that you're going to have to create a parallel economy in order to function, essentially.
01:24:46.000But then you have these, you know, the silos are forming where it's like, then everyone's over here and everyone who agrees is over here and no one's forced to actually articulate their ideas or disagree with one another.
01:25:01.000It's just everyone like smelling their own farts.
01:31:14.000And one of the things that people are criticizing is apparently Gmail.
01:31:18.000This is an issue that Republicans, when they're sending out emails to get people to vote and for mailing lists, their mails have gone into spam filters.
01:32:09.000Republican Committee in US sues Google over email spam filters.
01:32:14.000Republican National Committee accuses Gmail of discriminating against it by unfairly sending its emails to user spam folders, impacting fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts.
01:32:26.000You know the Gmail or G Drive, Google Drive?
01:32:30.000If you try to put up the Kanye episode of Drink Champs, you know that they had a podcast and this was the original podcast that got Kanye in trouble.
01:32:40.000If someone uploaded that to Google Drive and they deleted it...
01:33:13.000Because in that conversation, he said things that they consider to be anti-Semitic.
01:33:18.000So did you see that article that was going around and it was a big long thread on Twitter and a guy had to post he had to send his pediatrician a photo of his son's genitalia because he had a rash and a lot of time pediatricians now because of COVID will be like send me a picture let me look I can prescribe you something and Google Shut down.
01:35:03.000You can delete images in the background?
01:35:05.000So if you take a picture of, like, you frolicking on the beach and there's some person in the background you don't want in it, you can just circle it and, like, it looks like make that person disappear.
01:35:50.000And they still won't give him all of his images back.
01:35:52.000Not only did he lose emails, contact information for friends and former colleagues, and documentation of his son's first years of life, but his Google Fi account shut down, meaning he had to get a new phone number with another carrier.
01:36:05.000Without access to his old phone number and email address, he couldn't get the security codes he needed to sign into other internet accounts, locking him out of much of his digital life.
01:36:16.000And I think in the story, and I'm not going to remember the order of operations, but he found out that he had been flagged for this because it automatically got sent to the police, and the police luckily determined that it was not what Google flagged it as.
01:36:47.000So when the photo of him, where it says who he is and what he does, is a stay-at-home dad in San Francisco.
01:36:57.000He grabbed his Android smartphone, took photos to document the problem.
01:37:03.000His wife grabbed her husband's phone and texted a few high-quality close-ups of her son's groin area to her iPhone so that she could upload to that.
01:37:18.000Does it say what he does as this gentleman does?
01:37:24.000Mark had worked as a software engineer at a large technology company's automated tool for taking down video content flagged by users as problematic.
01:37:34.000He knew such systems often have a human in the loop to ensure that the computers don't make a mistake, and he assumed his case would be cleared up as soon as it reached that person.
01:37:44.000So yeah, two days after taking the pictures, it said he got a blooping notification noise.
01:37:52.000His account had been disabled because of harmful content that was a severe violation of Google's policies and might be illegal.
01:37:59.000That is crazy that they fucking shut down his phone.
01:38:21.000The more eggs you have in one basket, the more likely the basket is to break.
01:38:25.000A few days after Mark filed the appeal, Google responded that it would not reinstate the account with no further explanation.
01:38:34.000Mark didn't know it, but Google's review team had also flagged a video he made and the San Francisco Police Department had already started to investigate him.
01:38:44.000So he actually is hoping that he can get his stuff back from the police because they have a drive.
01:40:13.000And contained a letter informing him that had been investigated, as well as copies of the search warrants served on Google and his internet service provider.
01:40:28.000I determined that the incident did not meet the elements of a crime and no crime occurred.
01:40:33.000Mr. Hillard wrote in his report the police had access to the information Google had on Mark and decided it did not constitute child abuse or expectation.
01:40:42.000You have to talk to Google, Mr. Hillard said, according to Mark.
01:40:45.000Mark appealed his case to Google again, providing the police report, but to no avail.
01:40:49.000After getting a notice two months ago that his account was being permanently deleted, Mark spoke with a lawyer about suing Google and how much it would cost.
01:40:57.000I cited it was probably not worth the $7,000.
01:41:04.000Kate Klonick, a law professor at St. John's University, who's written about online content moderation, said it can be challenging to account for things that are invisible in a photo, like the behavior of the people sharing the image or the intentions of the person taking it.
01:41:17.000False positives, where people are erroneously flagged, are inevitable, given the billions of images being scanned.
01:41:24.000While most people would probably consider that trade-off worthwhile, given the benefit of identifying abused children, Ms. Klonick said that companies need a robust process for clearing and reinstating innocent people who are mistakenly flagged.
01:41:37.000Has this successfully saved abused children?
01:42:27.000But then what I wonder is how can they just send all of your information?
01:42:32.000Right, that has nothing to do with that.
01:42:33.000How is that not a violation of your rights?
01:42:35.000It should be, and he probably does have a case.
01:42:38.000I hope people are reaching out to him because, you know, if it's not worth $7,000 to him, maybe someone will take it on pro bono because that's a fucked up situation for that guy.
01:42:48.000And look, especially people that are hearing this, this is going to steer people away from using an Android phone.
01:42:54.000Apple holds off on plans to scan for child porn.
01:42:57.000Yeah, I remember Apple had been going back and forth on it.
01:43:02.000I didn't know where they landed on it.
01:43:04.000This is in December of 2021. Apple has implemented two new child safety features.
01:43:08.000However, the most controversial one is missing.
01:43:11.000So that's the one where they scan off phone.
01:43:13.000Well, they probably reasonably assume that some people do take photos of their kids when they're naked.
01:43:18.000So one of the videos, when they said there was another video that was flagged, he said it was a video he probably took of his wife breastfeeding his son, and she was probably topless.
01:43:31.000You can't take topless photos, though.
01:43:37.000He's like, that's all I can think of, is it was probably just an intimate moment where my wife was lying in bed with my son, and I wanted to capture it.
01:43:53.000Google flagged parents' photos of sick children as sexual abuse.
01:43:56.000In at least two cases, Google has shut down accounts over pictures of kids containing nudity requested by pediatricians for diagnosing illnesses.
01:44:07.000Yeah, that's a good question though, Jamie.
01:44:09.000I would like to know how successful this is.
01:44:15.000I'm all for catching predators and pedophiles.
01:44:18.000But you have to have someone who would clearly look at that and go, oh, I see.
01:45:19.000You know, I had Gavin DeBecker on, who is a security expert, who explained to me that the original Pegasus that was invented by, I think it was the Mossad, the Israeli government, or someone in the...
01:45:31.000We invented this original way of scanning your phone.
01:45:37.000So what it would be, this is how Jeff Bezos, like the Saudis, got a hold of...
01:45:43.000He was doing something with them and they sent him...
01:45:50.000He clicks on the WhatsApp link and it uploads this Pegasus program to his phone.
01:45:55.000And then because of that, they got access to all of his stuff.
01:45:59.000And I think the story goes, I don't want to fuck this up, but I think the story goes that Jeff Bezos' bombshell girlfriend, her brother is kind of a scumbag.
01:46:44.000So everything you say online, everything you say to your friends, everything you say is capable of being monitored.
01:46:51.000There literally are no secrets anymore.
01:46:53.000The best thing about something like Signal is Signal has an auto-delete function.
01:46:59.000So you could say, I send you a message, so go fuck yourself, Bridget, and that message goes away in five minutes if I decide to do it that way.
01:50:32.000I don't even care how many times he's had COVID. This is just bullshit at this point because we know this and I don't know this like allergy to science that has taken...
01:51:02.000It's letting people know I'm keeping everyone safe.
01:51:05.000I've had my 18 boosters and I still wear a mask.
01:51:08.000I mean, you want to talk about privilege though.
01:51:10.000This is people who are allowed to stay home in their bubble and never leave who are saying this stuff because if you were just like a working class person, you were working through the whole pandemic.
01:51:21.000When we went to see Roger Waters, we all had to wear masks.
01:51:25.000When we went backstage, we all had to wear masks.
01:52:29.000And all through, I think, like, all of this...
01:52:32.000Another thing that makes me optimistic is suddenly CNN the other day was like, how come we're not talking about the children who suffered during the pandemic?
01:53:31.000It's a key developmental period of these children's lives.
01:53:35.000So children that were like two and one and three years old, like little kids that are learning from people's expressions and how they talk, now all of a sudden everyone's got like a block over that.
01:54:02.000And there's already they do lots of studies about, like, Like marginalized communities and the summer gap because a lot of kids fall behind over the summer.
01:54:12.000And this was like a very extended two year summer gap for a lot of the people that allegedly all of these people, you know, care about.
01:54:21.000But I'm like, if you cared, you would you would have these kids back in school.
01:54:29.000When they learned that it wasn't scary for everybody, that the real people that were being affected by this in a dangerous way were old people and overweight people and people with compromised immune systems.
01:54:57.000And if you're healthy and if you take care of yourself, it's not as bad as if you're not healthy and not taking care of yourself, but you're not saying that.
01:56:35.000And people don't want to do that because they had these initial positions they took, they dug their heels into the sand, and they pointed fingers at everybody who didn't do what they were supposed to do, and they didn't take into consideration that throughout history, pharmaceutical companies have been full of shit.
01:57:55.000And saying like, oh, science is not actually backing up that this is the correct way to deal with gender dysphoria in minors in particular.
01:58:05.000Well, they're also faced with the real consequences of taking these hormone blockers.
01:58:11.000They're shown all these health risks, all these different things that are happening to kids.
01:58:16.000So these studies are coming out about these hormone blockers.
01:58:19.000Because the narrative was always, you could pause it.
01:58:45.000Well it's also like why do you need if someone is they feel like they're in the wrong gender they feel like they should be a woman or they should be a man if you feel like you identify with a woman you want to identify as a woman why do you have to add stuff to your body that you don't even know what the effect is going to be if you you know I'm saying like yeah that's this you're talking about a different thing like if you identify as a woman and you you feel like you're a woman Just be a woman.
01:59:16.000And if you want, as a grown adult, to try to take hormones to accentuate that or to give you a better feeling of what it means to be a woman, like a woman should have estrogen, I want to take estrogen, that's your right.
01:59:32.000But to impose that on kids when you don't necessarily know And I feel so bad for these parents because their kids are in crisis often and they're getting bad advice.
01:59:44.000They're going to professionals and they're saying, I don't know what to do.
01:59:48.000And they're like, well, let's just go with what the kid wants and I think we should write them a prescription.
01:59:54.000And I know people say it's not that quick, but there's tons.
01:59:58.000I've had detransitioners on my podcast on Watkins Welcome and their stories are so important and they all say there was barely more than like one or two interviews with you know going wherever they went to get there to get started on hormone blockers or started on testosterone or whatever and even one young woman who came on She was saying that she was old enough legally to make the decision,
02:00:26.000but she was still only 20. And I'm like, it's still...
02:00:29.000You know, she's like, I want to take responsibility.
02:00:35.000Your prefrontal cortex isn't even developed until you're like 25. You can't know.
02:00:40.000And like I've been saying too about...
02:00:43.000One of the things I've been kind of radicalized about since I had a kid is...
02:00:47.000In particular, with all of these young people who are being pushed to essentially become sterile in many, many cases when you start taking the blockers and start going down that road, it's not informed consent because you can't know until you know.
02:01:48.000And what I don't understand is how in Europe, where they were kind of trailblazing in a lot of this, they're looking at the science and backing off and saying, we need to put on the brakes.
02:02:01.000Not push this on young children and pump the brakes and stop, you know...
02:02:09.000It's like crazy, but at least they're looking at the science and saying there's not enough evidence to suggest that there's less suicide if you start the gender-affirming care model versus wait and see, which was the old model.
02:02:23.000And now, in the United States, it feels like just...
02:02:29.000Fucking put the foot on the accelerator and go!
02:02:33.000Do you think that's because in the United States the pharmaceutical industry has far more influence on people and society and the way things are done?
02:02:50.000If you have like a movement that's happening from the youth, then and it's every everywhere, even though they want to say that it's not a social contagion, which I'm like this.
02:03:00.000How can you be a person who's like my age and say this isn't a social contagion?
02:03:23.000Well, if you look at the number, the uptick, the uptick is wild.
02:03:28.000What I don't understand is how it's been so...
02:03:31.000And I just rack my brain and I try to have good faith.
02:03:35.000And I don't understand how it's been institutionalized.
02:03:39.000That's what I... You know, even when I was in my, like, birthing class that I had to take online, or it didn't have to, but I took it online, and they were referring to everybody as birthing persons through the whole thing.
02:04:27.000You know as a person that has been pregnant and has given birth, there's a bunch of stuff you're not supposed to take while you're pregnant.
02:06:28.000Because it doesn't encroach into male spaces the way testosterone, like a biological male that decides to become a female encroaches into female spaces and tends to use male behavior,
02:07:18.000In a sense, they don't dominate male spaces.
02:07:23.000If there was some crazy benefit, like a female, a biological female, who takes testosterone and then decides to become a trans man and identifies as a man, but then just starts dominating male spaces, men would be like,
02:07:45.000Like men would get mad, but there's zero pushback.
02:07:47.000Men don't, like Elliot Page, like there was a lot of people that were like ideologically opposed to it or didn't think it was right or thought it was a bad decision, but hey, that's on you.
02:08:10.000You see it, like, and there's a reason for female spaces.
02:08:16.000I interviewed a couple of the women from the Women's Liberation Front, and they're— They're suing some of the California corrections for allowing people to just self-identify into female prisons.
02:08:30.000With penises and getting women pregnant.
02:09:34.000You know, the protesting, it's like trans women will show up and protest some of these feminists, and they'll get aggressive and violent.
02:09:45.000Yes, male, like masculine, like men do.
02:09:49.000Yeah, yeah, because they're biological males and biological males tend to approach situations in a different way.
02:09:56.000We've seen that thing recently where I think it was at a Matt Walsh.
02:10:01.000He was giving a speech and there was these women that were holding up these signs and this trans woman is standing in this lady's face fucking screaming at her.
02:10:25.000But they'll come after people like my friends who are feminists or me online if you're saying like, oh...
02:10:31.000If you're pushing for, you know, this is important about women and women's reproductive health, and they'll be like, you know, it's not fair for you to leave us out of the conversation.
02:10:46.000But it's also just hijacking a whole movement and it's insane to me how quickly the conversation about all this like birthing persons the minute Roe v.
02:10:56.000Wade stopped like oh suddenly we're using women again?
02:12:24.000One of my favorite ones is this trans woman with a beard and wearing a dress that said, some women have penises, and if you don't like that, you could suck my dick.
02:12:32.000That's what we joked about on freaking dumpster fire years ago is that we were so close to suck my dick, bigot.
02:14:16.000Yeah, you would think if you're comfortable in your movement and your choice, like, if someone's like, yeah, I drink, I'm not like, you, you drink?
02:14:24.000You must be a fucking alcoholic then, because I quit drinking.
02:15:17.000It's real strange to just openly accept all this stuff without any pushback.
02:15:22.000I think there will be pushback, though.
02:15:24.000Again, I think we're seeing it in Europe, and they were like leaders of this kind of movement, and now it seems like they're coming to their senses a little bit and following science.
02:15:34.000I don't necessarily see that, although we might see it in the midterms.
02:15:41.000Again, people tend to voice their opinion on these things at the ballot when they don't have to voice their opinion.
02:15:48.000And there are a lot of people that are afraid of talking about it.
02:16:50.000You know, you're seeing in New York City, Hochul, like debating that Republican candidate, that guy gained ground.
02:16:57.000Like they're worried about New York becoming Republican, which is wild.
02:17:02.000I was reading last night an article about in Oregon, there is there's an independent woman running and then a Democrat and Republican and the Republican they think might win.
02:17:15.000Biden was in Oregon, like stumping for the Democratic candidate because they're so worried Oregon's gonna have a Republican governor the first time in 40 years.
02:17:58.000The way they're handling crime, the way they're releasing people that are committing violent crimes and then putting them right back on the street, people are freaking the fuck out.
02:19:20.000This is why they might have a Republican governor.
02:19:24.000But like I was saying, the disdain they have for the taxpaying, just hardworking person...
02:19:30.000Where it feels like they will prioritize the criminal before they prioritize the people who just want safe parks for their kids and are paying taxes.
02:19:46.000And, you know, the big conspiracy theory is George Soros is trying to destroy America.
02:19:51.000Funding these left-wing politicians and progressive district attorneys and then he'll fund an even more progressive one to run against them.
02:20:49.000I remember I went to see it with my wife and we were in the movie theater and we were watching The Joker and she was like, this seems a little too close to what's possible.
02:21:06.000Which is like, are they going to predict the future even further?
02:21:09.000Because you've got to remember, the Joker 1 came out before the pandemic, and everything accelerated during the pandemic.
02:21:14.000Remember, they were like, there are going to be shootings in the, because of this movie, there are going to be shootings in the movie theaters, and they came out and nothing happened.
02:22:54.000I generally lean towards like how many people would have to believe this in order for it to be true or keep it a secret in order for it to be true.
02:23:08.000I mean, I think she's working on another book, and I'm not sure if I'm allowed to talk about it, but I believe it's addressing a lot of these policies that are like the kind of idea that you will own nothing, you'll live in a pod, you'll eat bugs.
02:23:21.000But the small business stuff was infuriating because you had things like Walmart allowed to stay open, little local store had to shut down.
02:23:32.000So these little mom and pops all got destroyed.
02:23:34.000And even during the George Floyd riots, I donated...
02:26:53.000Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi was violently assaulted by a man who broke into the couple's home in San Francisco early Friday morning.
02:27:03.000David DePape, 42, said they were investigating a possible motive.
02:27:10.000They were investigating a possible motive.
02:27:12.000The details, San Francisco police responded to a break-in at Paul Pelosi's residence at 2.27 a.m.
02:27:19.000Friday, Chief William Scott said in a news conference, the assailant, who pulled a hammer from Mr. Pelosi and violently attacked him in front of police officers.
02:27:31.000The intruder was in search of Speaker Pelosi, according to a person briefed in the attack, and confronted Mr. Pelosi in the couple's home, shouting, Where is Nancy?
02:28:14.000Don't say conspiracy theories to make it seem like he was crazy.
02:28:17.000Although it could not be confirmed whether the posts were linked to the intruder, Mrs. Pelosi was in Washington, D.C., With her protective detail at the time of the break-in, so she has a protective detail.
02:28:28.000Yeah, but they're rich enough to have security.
02:28:43.000Three San Francisco police officers responding to an emergency call burst into the home of Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the early morning to find her 82 year old husband and an intruder grappling over a hammer.
02:28:55.000Yeah, so he pulled out a hammer, tried to stop this guy.
02:28:58.000Because in San Francisco, it's hard to get a gun.
02:29:00.000As Police Chief William Scott described the scene of a news conference later in the day, the intruder ripped the hammer out of the grip of Speaker's husband, Paul Pelosi, and violently assaulted him with it in front of the officers.
02:30:09.000But I can yell at the Democratic Party and I can tell them where they can at least make one fucking small change to stop pissing me the fuck off every hour right now.
02:30:17.000Stop sending me Stop sending me fundraising requests right now.
02:31:04.000Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the fucking House of the Democratic Party from California, is worth $114.7 million.
02:31:12.000Dianne Feinstein, who doesn't know where the fuck she is right now, the Senator from California, part of the Democratic Party, is worth $87.9 million.
02:38:10.000And it's this woman, Jennifer Briney, she came on my podcast and she was talking about what she does with her podcast, which I really should start listening to, is she gets into like every bill and what's being put into it.
02:38:31.000You know, I asked her, like, how do you get over your biases?
02:38:33.000She's like, I'm just open about my bias because I don't think you can get around them.
02:38:37.000And so she has this podcast where she'll go in and look at, like, some of the crazy stuff that gets passed attached to one bill that's for one thing.
02:38:47.000I just don't understand how, again, that's legal.
02:40:25.000There are so many good examples of just like ridiculous things tacked into bills that are ostensibly for one thing and then it's like, but we need to...
02:40:34.000If people become a part of that system once they get elected and then they go to Washington and they see how it all works and they see what it takes to succeed and that's the job that they're in.
02:40:47.000They're in this business to try to succeed and you want to keep getting elected and you want to keep working with all those people.
02:41:53.000We were talking about the debate, how MSNBC was like, you know, he has a problem forming a sentence, but he doesn't have any cognitive decline.
02:42:44.000What is maddening about this situation with this debate, which I couldn't even...
02:42:50.000People on Twitter were saying it was really bad and, like, it was hard to watch.
02:42:53.000And I think if you have any empathy, this is hard to watch.
02:42:57.000But it's also maddening because how entitled are you as a party that you're just going to be like, you have to vote for this person or you're ableist?
02:43:06.000They're calling people ableist for not supporting...
02:43:18.000And I had Dr. Phil on yesterday, and Dr. Phil was explaining, like, the worst thing that you can do, the worst thing you could do for someone like that, is put him in a position of stress.
02:43:30.000We used to kind of give, like, Biden, we used to make fun of Biden all the time on Dumpster Fire, because he's the most powerful man in the world, and you should, but lately it just feels sad.
02:44:09.000Because people were saying, well, the clips, they're taking them out of context, and if you look at the whole thing, he didn't do that bad, and he made some really good points, and he had some good comebacks.
02:44:20.000I don't like the fact that he wears hoodies everywhere.
02:44:22.000I wear hoodies, but this is what I actually wear.
02:45:31.000I'm running for the U.S. Senate because Washington keeps getting it wrong with extreme positions.
02:45:37.000I want to bring civility, balance, all the things that you want to see because you've been telling it to me on the campaign trail.
02:45:43.000And by doing that, we can bring us together in a way that has not been done of late.
02:45:48.000Democrats, Republicans talking to each other.
02:45:50.000John Fetterman takes everything to an extreme and those extreme positions hurt us all.
02:45:55.000Let's take crime as an example because it's been such a big problem.
02:45:59.000Maureen Faulkner accompanied me today to the studio.
02:46:02.000You know that her husband was a police officer in Philadelphia, was brutally murdered.
02:46:07.000John Fetterman, during this crime wave, has been trying to get as many murderers, convicted and sentenced to life in prison, out of jail as possible, including people who are similar to the man who murdered her husband.
02:46:18.000He does it without the rest of the parole board agreeing.
02:46:21.000He's doing it without the families on board.
02:46:24.000These radical positions extend beyond crime to wanting to legalize all drugs, to open the border, to raising our taxes.
02:48:16.000This is new that the Kardashians are supposed to be taking.
02:48:18.000Dr. Oz hit with class action over miracle weight loss supplement claims.
02:48:23.000Yeah, but he was actually forced to testify about this and he admitted that it was not true.
02:48:30.000I had a bit, I was doing it for a while, that he's Oprah's bitch, and that Oprah's this pimp, and that she's like, you know, basically, you're gonna let my girl back on the street, right?
02:48:38.000Because, like, she makes a lot of money off of his show.
02:48:41.000If you have a fucking doctor show, and you say something that is absolutely not true, and you're selling something that's absolutely not a miracle, you probably shouldn't be doing that anymore.
02:48:51.000Find out what he was forced to testify and see if we can find the video.
02:48:56.000Wasn't there some controversy with Dr. Phil too?
02:48:58.000Or is that someone else that I'm thinking of?
02:49:08.000Product safety and insurance during a hearing on false advertising in the diet and weight loss industry, he presented his role clearly as the victim of unscrupulous advertisers' vicious attempts to twist his words to sell diet pills.
02:49:19.000He was perfectly positioned to help Congress curb the tide of deceptive advertising.
02:49:23.000There was only one problem with the doctor's plan.
02:49:25.000Inside the hearing room, the members of the subcommittee had cast him in a different role, not as the victim of scheming fraudsters, but as the fraudster himself.
02:49:36.000For the duration of the hour-long hearing, members of the subcommittee lined up one after another to grill America's doctor for statements he made on the Dr. Oz Show, his daytime cable program on health and wellness, laying into him for endorsements of the miraculous powers of green coffee extract and the fat-burning magic of raspberry ketone.
02:49:55.000From his spot behind the witness table, Oz refused to back down.
02:50:00.000He brandished printouts of scientific studies to defend his statements about various weight loss supplements, And cited transcripts of his TV appearances to show how advertisers had taken his words out of context.
02:50:11.000At one point during the question and answer portion of the testimony, Senator Claire McCaskill, the subcommittee's chair, drew visibly agitated at Oz's evasiveness, blurting out, I've tried to do a lot of research in preparation for this trial, and the scientific community is almost monolithic against you.
02:50:29.000It was a hearing, not a trial, but McCaskill's slip was telling.
02:51:17.000You know, I... I get that you do a lot of good on your show.
02:51:24.000I understand that you give a lot of information that's great information about health, and you do it in a way that's easily understandable.
02:52:19.000I recognize that oftentimes they don't have the scientific muster to present as fact.
02:52:24.000But nevertheless, I would give my audience the advice I give my family all the time.
02:52:28.000And I've given my family these products.
02:52:30.000And when you call a product a miracle and it's something you can buy and it's something that gives people false hope, I just don't understand why you need to go there.
02:52:39.000My job, I feel, on the show is to be a cheerleader for the audience.
02:52:43.000And when they don't think they have hope, when they don't think they can make it happen, I want to look, and I do look everywhere, including in alternative healing traditions, for any evidence that might be supportive to them.
02:52:52.000I will just tell you that I know you feel that you're a victim, but sometimes conduct invites being a victim.
02:53:03.000Now, let's Google whether or not that shit actually works.
02:55:29.000Yeah, but I don't know if they're saying that they use it and promoting that they use it or if other people are pointing to this is what's causing them to lose weight.
02:55:37.000I don't know that any social media influencers are telling people to take these peptides.
02:55:42.000No, I mean, it's shady when you do something like that and then you're like, it's just a squat!
02:55:55.000Semaglutide, sold under the brand names Wegovi and Ozempic, among others, is an anti-diabetic medication used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and long-term weight management.
02:56:52.000Semaglutide treatment effect in people with obesity trials have shown the efficacy of semaglutide for the treatment of obesity.
02:57:00.000In large RCTs, random controlled trials, patients receiving semaglutide 2.4 milligrams lost a mean of 6% of their weight by week 12 and 12% of their weight by week 28. So that's legit.
02:58:01.000Is treatment with semaglutide associated with weight loss outcomes similar to those seen in results of randomized control trials findings?
02:58:08.000In this cohort study of 175 patients with overweight or obesity, the total weight loss percentage achieved were 5.9% at 3 months and 10.9% at 6 months.
02:58:19.000Semaglutide treatment in a regular clinical setting was associated with weight loss similar to that seen in randomized clinical trials which suggest its applicability for treating patients with overweight or obesity.
02:58:31.000I mean, they will figure something out eventually, right?
02:58:34.000Well, this seems at least to be partially successful.
02:58:38.000Study weight loss outcomes associated with semaglutide treatment at doses used in randomized clinical trials for patients with overweight or obesity.
02:59:44.000So, with some people, it's really effective.
02:59:48.000The results of this cohort study suggest that weekly 1.7 milligram and 2.4 milligram doses of semaglutide were associated with weight loss similar to that seen in randomized controlled clinical trials.
03:00:19.000Did they live their life normally and not change anything, or was this a part of an overall health plan where they were trying to improve their health?
03:00:28.000Yeah, was this the only thing they did?
03:00:29.000Or were they like, oh, they also made a lot of lifestyle changes that would cause you to lose weight?
03:00:34.000They ran six miles a day, and they only ate green vegetables and lean meat, and yeah.
03:00:39.000Last time I was here, we were talking about paternity leave, and I was on the fence, and now after having C-section, I am pro-paternity leave.
03:00:47.000At least for a month, I needed the help.
03:00:54.000I couldn't even, you can't lift anything.
03:00:57.000That was one thing that was shocking to me about the recovery from the C-section, that early, like, six weeks.
03:01:05.000I didn't, for some reason, because my mom had five and I don't remember, and so many kids, I don't remember her being, she was younger, though.
03:01:12.000I don't remember her being so laid up, but it was bad.
03:02:06.000It's not wild because it gets much harder.
03:02:09.000And I feel like there's been a lot of constructive pushback against that kind of narrative that women have been sold that you can just kind of wait until your late 30s to have kids because you can't always.
03:02:25.000You might be able to freeze your eggs and you might be able to take some measures, but it's still much, much harder to get pregnant late 30s, early 40s.
03:02:35.000The problem is, like, so many people are just trying to figure out their life.
03:02:39.000Like, they don't necessarily want to have kids when they're young because they're like, God, I have so many dreams and aspirations and career stuff.
03:03:05.000I was 42 years old when I got pregnant with her.
03:03:10.000And I think a large part of the problem, too, is like, People aren't meeting their partners until later as well.
03:03:17.000Well, also, you don't kind of know who you are until later in life.
03:03:21.000Life is so much more complicated now than when people died at 30. Yeah.
03:03:26.000And people didn't necessarily die at 30 because they died of old age at 30. When they talk about people dying really young back in the day, a lot of it is infant mortality that has to be factored in to the percentage of the age.
03:04:38.000Ideally, yes, but that is the kind of, I think, ethos that I would want to create for my business because I would want to encourage people to have families.
03:04:51.000Unless you have a business that's like barely getting by and you have an employee and that employee wants to not work for a year because they want to have a baby.
03:05:02.000And you're like, what are the trade-offs?
03:05:05.000Is the trade-off that you get to keep your career and my business is fucked because I have to pay you and you don't work?
03:07:25.000You can be so lucky to have a job that doesn't really exist, and you get wine on tap, and you get espressos and green matcha tea, and you get to go to the meditation room because you've got to unwind.
03:07:35.000Well, they can afford to give people a year off then because they clearly don't need them.
03:07:41.000But I don't think it should be mandatory.
03:09:04.000Do you know that at certain businesses, there's a business, I don't even want to say the name of the business, but my friend works at this business and they said that male employees get paternity leave of 18 months.
03:09:26.000So he was saying that, look, conceivably, I could knock my wife up once a year.
03:09:31.000Not only that, but during that time, your colleagues, if they get raises and advances, you're not supposed to be denied those raises and advances.
03:10:32.000I mean, I think my cousin, and I mentioned this last time in Germany, they get a year off and then he got nine months off, I think, the male gets.
03:10:42.000Canada has a choice between 12 or 18 months.
03:11:36.000Parental benefits are paid for a maximum of 35 shared weeks plus five weeks of daddy days paid within a year of the birth or adoption of a child.
03:11:46.000In 2022, the weekly benefit rate is 55% of the parents' average weekly insurable earnings up to a maximum of $638 a week before taxes.
03:12:29.000My first two months after having the baby, I was like, feminism was a mistake.
03:12:38.000How long is paternity leave in the U.S.? In the majority of states across the country, expectant new fathers are entitled to a period of 12 weeks.
03:14:19.000That fourth trimester is really something I wish I had known more about before I... It was one of those things that they say, like, the fourth trimester is that first three months when you're postpartum, and it's gnarly.
03:16:04.000The piece I'm writing, when I went down the rabbit hole of colic, I was like, oh my god, they use inconsolable crying babies in Guantanamo to train the operatives to resist torture,
03:17:06.000You're just like, I... But I also think it's kind of a good hazing into parenthood where you're like, there's some things that are just out of my control.
03:17:17.000I didn't know what it was and I'd heard about it and then people in my life who had had it were like, I said something on Twitter and someone was like, I was like, anyone have any suggestions?
03:17:29.000And someone was like, I read this to my husband and he shuddered.
03:17:34.000People who dealt with it have PTSD from it because it's so disturbing just day after day.
03:18:33.000And when I was pregnant, I'm like, why didn't I listen?
03:18:36.000And sure, it wasn't applicable to me, but why didn't I pay attention when my sisters and sister-in-laws and all of my relatives and cousins were talking about what they went through when they had their child, you know, whether they had a C-section or a vaginal birth?
03:18:51.000I just I know they told me these stories and I was just not paying attention at all.
03:18:57.000And now and then I was like, tell me all your stories.
03:19:35.000Well, I look forward to your new perspectives.
03:19:38.000I'm looking forward to your writing and it's just a new way you approach things in your podcast because whenever someone encounters just a radical change in the way they see the world, it's always fascinating for people whose opinions I value and for people that have unique perspectives.
03:19:57.000I wrote this piece, I Regret Being a Slut, recently, and it went huge.
03:20:29.000I had to talk to my therapist about it.
03:20:31.000I'm like, there's this bit, and every time he does it, I'm like, and we talked through it, and it was that that was coming up, was like this regret about being a slut that I didn't feel like, culturally, I should have.
03:20:45.000There's so much like, slut walk, and like, be a proud slut, and just that is the culture that I came up in, free the nipple we talked about.
03:20:54.000A lot of the choices I made where I felt so much shame and regret about.
03:21:02.000And I just want to say thank you for that bit.
03:21:08.000Because that was kind of the beginning of being able to crack.
03:21:12.000Because I'm not like one of those people who sees something in comedy that I don't like and I'm like, you're an asshole!
03:21:17.000If something comes up for me, I'm like, oh, that's interesting.
03:21:23.000And I ended up writing this piece because Louise Perry wrote a book, The Case Against Sexual Revolution, and it kind of framed what I had been feeling, and it's brilliant.
03:21:35.000I think she's so brave for even writing it because there is—I feel like there is a lot of us, like, geriatrics— Or maybe later millennials, some Gen Xers who came up through the sexual revolution and were sold this idea of like,
03:21:51.000you can have sex like a guy and there's no consequence.
03:21:56.000And we're coming back and we're like, it's a trap!
03:22:19.000The fact that, you know, we're talking about introducing hormones into a person's body, introducing hormones on a regular basis to a giant swath of the female population, it shifts the way you view people, the way you see things,
03:23:29.000But this aspect of the sexual revolution in particular, I feel like has left a lot of women feeling empty and like something is missing and that they've been sold a bit of a lie years down the road when...
03:23:46.000Do you think it's like a thing like why do men get to live life like this?
03:24:48.000You know, there's, and the emails I've got from people from that piece, women and men, gay men, It's been really crazy, like really overwhelming actually and remarkable just how much of an actual body count there is in this wake.
03:25:10.000And that's probably one of the reasons why you love writing, that you could write a piece and it can have this sort of profound effect where people do, they read and it resonates with how they feel about stuff.