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It's Pat and Stu for Glenn, who is still a little bit under the weather.
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The breaking news on Brittany Greiner. She's been released now.
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We've traded the Merchant of Death for a WNBA player.
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Which makes... Now, look. First off, I want Brittany Greiner back in the United States.
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I'm glad she's coming home. That is a good part of the story.
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And I'm glad, even though she was, I don't know, in favor of the kneeling or whatever it was.
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She, I don't know. We don't know the truth whether she was guilty or not, but there's
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a good chance she wasn't guilty. She may have been guilty. But regardless, the punishment
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And obviously, the Russians were holding her as a chip to hurt us as this is going on.
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So we understand that, and I'm glad she's coming home. The reason why I don't think it's
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worth focusing on that entirely is because everybody agrees on it. Everybody wants Brittany
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Griner to be here instead of in a Russian, you know, death camp somewhere in Siberia.
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So we all get that. Obviously, there was a priority, and they should have been negotiating
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for her release. Sure. The next part of that, Pat, is the Merchant of Death.
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Now, the Merchant of Death is, he's an arms dealer. And the reason I know a good amount
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about the Merchant of Death, and I will say, there's a chance some of the stuff I know about
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the Merchant of Death is false. And the reason for that is because Lord of War is one of my
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favorite movies. It's a Nicolas Cage movie. It's an obscure Nicolas Cage movie, and I love
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it. It's a great, great movie if you've never seen it. Now, of course, it's got all sorts
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of liberal messaging throughout. It's very anti-gun. It's very anti-war, blah, blah, blah, blah,
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blah, blah. But it's a great freaking movie. And it's the story of this guy. Now, they name
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him something else because they want to take a little liberty with the story. It's based
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on him. It's based on a true story. But this guy, he was kind of a low-level guy, wound up
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trying to be an arms dealer, rose up the ranks of this illicit arms dealer world. And one of
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his big innovations in this moment was at the fall of the Soviet Union, he kind of took
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advantage of the chaos. He went in and negotiated with some of his, he was Ukrainian, I believe,
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and some of his relatives and people he knew that had high-ranking military positions in
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the old Soviet Army. The Soviet Union falls. They're now there with giant stockpiles of weapons.
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The record keeping's not there anymore. There's no oversight anymore from the Soviets. It's over.
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It's dissolving. So he comes in and buys tons and tons of weapons, pennies on the dollar,
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and then resells them to like African civil wars. And he just rakes in the cash. And he goes through,
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you know, a period where, you know, his brother's involved and he, you know, dies and has a huge
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drug problem. And he gets, then this guy gets, the merchant of death gets a big drug problem going,
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marries a supermodel, goes through, I mean, it's an incredible story. It really is worthy
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of a movie. Yes, even a Nicolas Cage movie is worthy of a Nicolas Cage movie. And this guy
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did all sorts of things. I mean, he was responsible for God only knows how many deaths. He was, you know,
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the Liberian Civil War was one of his big, big targets. This is back when Charles Taylor was
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in charge there and was absolutely brutal. And he would funnel weapons to these wars,
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sometimes both sides of the war, just to sell more and more weapons and enrich himself.
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This is a guy who, you know, probably now is loved in Russia because he really,
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you know, emptied the coffers of the Ukrainian army to sell a bunch of stuff of his own down
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in other parts of the world. He was almost caught a million times, eventually was caught in,
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in, I think it was in New York and was put into prison and should remain there forever.
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That's how this story should end. Instead, he's on a flight back to Russia.
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Yeah. And we're getting a solid center with good post-up abilities. So I don't know. It's a weird
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trade. It is. It is a weird trade. Yeah, look, I'm a happy, I'm happy that Brittany Griner is coming
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in. I am too. But then there's another layer of this, Pat, which is, look, do I want Brittany
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Griner back? We've already answered that question. Yes, I do. I don't care about her WNBA career at
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all. I don't, I don't know much about her. I don't care that she's in the WNBA. I don't care
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about the WNBA, but she's an American citizen. I would like her back. However, Paul Whelan's also
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an American citizen and he's been over there for decades. Yeah. And for some reason we got Brittany
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Griner out, but not him. Now you might say we only had a one for one trade and that might be the
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answer to this, but like, I know from a chivalry standpoint, I can make an argument. Okay. Even
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though he's had a much longer road in Russian detention, we still go with, we go with a woman
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for chivalry reasons. I, you can talk to me about that, but Joe Biden can't make that argument. He
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can't even tell what a woman is. This entire side of our political spectrum can't define what a woman
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even is. So you can't make the chivalry argument here. If you can't make that argument, what
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argument is there to bring Brittany Griner back instead of Paul Whelan? What, what argument is
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there? She had CBD and he's accused of being a spy. Well, I mean, maybe that, maybe, maybe that,
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maybe that's true. But I mean, they have already indicated by that. First of all, he's not a spy.
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Right. Should be clear. He's not. He's definitely not a spy. That's total BS from Russia. But you know,
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you can understand that from a Russian perspective, but they'd rather release her. And maybe that's,
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maybe that's part of it. I don't, they've already indicated that they would negotiate on this point
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in back channels. At least there's been a lot of reporting on that. And so, and really you could
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exchange a spy for a spy too. We've got people in who are held here that we believe were Russian spies
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and they probably were. Um, yeah, but exchange for this guy, I'd be in total favor of a prisoner
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exchange in that eventuality for, for, uh, Paul Whelan. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, just a one-for-one exchange
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spy for spy. Sure. I mean, well, it's not, it's ridiculous to say this because he's not a spy. He's
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not, but, but I, you know, again, I, you sort of understand that. And I, I am a, I really want
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the American citizens that are in, in captivity over there back. Like it's a high priority. We
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should be focusing on it. We should have people on it. We, you know, the same thing happened in
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North Korea. We saw activity there with the Trump administration. I mean, he, he, he focused on this
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a lot, this type of, and he, you know, also tried to get, uh, several, uh, captives back from Russia.
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It's good to see that this is happening, but it just, I mean, maybe I'm being, you, maybe you're
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pushing back here, Pat, and I'm being too skeptical on this. Maybe, maybe I'm wrong, but like, doesn't
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it feel like the only reason Brittany Griner is coming back instead of Paul Whelan is that
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she's famous? Like it does. It does. Am I, am I too cynical on this? No, I thought, I think
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that's probably accurate. It's got a lot more publicity, right? No one knows who Paul Whelan
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is, right? He's been sitting over there for a million years and only his parents seem to
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care about it. And they've been trying to go to the media forever.
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And every once in a while you see a profile story and the story goes away. Brittany Griner
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is somebody that is in, you know, has some level of public profile. And I, I don't know.
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I mean, it just seems like this is just a play by the Biden administration to bring back a
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celebrity, which again, I I'm happy she's coming back, but like, it does not seem like
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And I'm just, I'm looking here. I couldn't remember when he was incarcerated. It was
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2020. So he's been, he's been over there for about two and a half years in jail for two
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This indicates that they don't, they don't even believe he's a spy, right? The Russian
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government is not, if he, they thought he was a spy, they wouldn't sentence him to 16
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years and Brittany Griner 10 for CBD, right? Like, come on. Yeah. We all know that that's,
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that's ridiculous. They don't even believe he's a spy. They know the, look, these people
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are chips. They're negotiating chips for the Russians. And that's almost always the case
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in these situations. And I don't believe, I frankly don't necessarily, you know, believe
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that Brittany Griner even did anything wrong. I mean, I think there's a good chance she
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didn't. Now there's a chance that she did. Obviously like we don't think of, it wasn't
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even CBD. It was supposedly something elevated from that, I believe was the accusation. It
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was, you know, the, it was, I think the argument was at the time that she was using, like, you
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know how you'd use medical marijuana for, for pain management. You know, like that was
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the argument at the time. Now, God only knows what's right and what's wrong here. You know,
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she'll come back and she'll tell. Oh, it was hashish. Hashish, right? Man, there we go.
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Yeah. So, you know, it's a, that probably is a crime there. Was she actually doing it? It's
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possible, right? I mean, she might look at this and be like, yeah, no one's going to do anything
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to me in the United States for this. It's not going to be a big deal. And, you know, what are the
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Russians going to throw out one of these big athletes and put me in prison? Maybe she made
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that calculation. But like once the war heats up, like that calculation's out the window.
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I mean, it should have been out the window at the beginning, but it really makes no sense
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once the war, you know, battles and, and, and, and the buildup to the war starts. Obviously
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they wanted revenge on us. And I think that's quite clear what was going on here, especially
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when you come to the, the punishment angle of it, right? Like it's one thing to get in
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trouble for a crime in a foreign country. This does happen to people, but they did,
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they didn't exactly go light on her. Like a Russian prison camp 10 years, you know, it
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seems a little over the top. A little bit. Yeah. And that's why there was outrage over
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it and there should be, uh, and there should have been, but, uh, it did take them, took them
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a long time to get her out. I mean, she should have been out. If, if Trump were in office,
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I think she would have been out. Well, she might not have even been arrested, frankly,
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but if she were, I'll bet she would have been out in a week. Yeah. I think instead of eight
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or nine months or whatever it's been, that's probably true. I do think he, you know, he
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would have, he would have focused on it. He also had a, a different relationship with
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them. Right. I mean, that would have been interesting to see what happened in that, in
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that case, because obviously the Trump's Russia policy was much, much harsher on Russia than
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Obama's policy was on Russia by far. I mean, it wasn't even close. He, he said things that
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were nice about Putin from time to time and everyone's like, Oh wow, he just loves Vladimir
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Putin. And then you look at his policy and you're like, wait a minute. It doesn't seem
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like he likes Vladimir Putin that much. There never seemed to be much love policy wise.
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He was not soft on Russia at all. The reverse of that. I mean, he reversed soft Russia policies
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that Obama had put into place. Yeah. You know? And I, I mean, I, I guess the, I guess the left
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wing argument to that is, well, those are just the people around him. He, you know, he had
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people like John Bolton around him who were obviously more hawkish and, you know, so maybe
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that was it. He just agreed to what everyone around him was telling him, but I don't know.
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I, I think that's, that's what everyone likes to do with Donald Trump. When it's a policy
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that they like, they just say, Oh, well, all the people around him are doing it. And when
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it's a policy they don't like, then it's him by himself doing all, making all the decisions.
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That's just how this works with Donald Trump. He deserves credit for his, his Russia policy.
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It was harsh. It does. And he was actually holding red lines. Unlike the previous administration.
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It would have been interesting to see what does this war even happen if Trump is in office?
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Wow. Brittany Griner did plead guilty to having the cannabis though, or whatever it was that was in
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her bag. It was hashish oil or I don't know something, but was that just because she had to
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to get the lower sentence? And this also brings up the incredibly important question about whether or
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not WNBA stars make enough money because she was only over there to play more basketball so that
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she could supplement her meager income of $229,000, Stu. I love this. This is the one time greed is
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okay, apparently. Yeah. Like $229,000, not enough. She had to go over there and make another, what,
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$500,000 or something to play in Russia. Whatever it is. Yeah. And the complaint there is not that,
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like this greedy one percenter who's already making hundreds of thousands of dollars risked
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all of this and is causing all this international chaos just to make a few hundred extra thousand
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dollars. I can't believe this. If it was a, if it was a white male, that would certainly be the
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storyline. Right. But instead, instead it's like, she's only making $229,000 and she has to go to
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Russia to supplement that income. Does she? Yes. It's not enough. And she can't, she can't support
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her family on $229,000? $229,000 plus endorsements, plus all the other things. So it's probably well
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over a million. Well, way more than that. But yes, that's just the $229,000 in salary. But here's
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the thing. LeBron James makes $41 million. He doesn't, well, first of all, he doesn't deserve
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it either. That's a whole other story. But that's just a side sports point. Yeah, no, you know,
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the NBA brings in a lot more money than the WNBA. In fact, it actually is profitable. What do you
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mean? They only bring in, I mean, it's, it's really close though, because the NBA brings in
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10 million, 10 billion a year, $10 billion. Just the 10 billion. Just 10 billion. The WNBA brings in
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50 million. Are you saying that 10 billion is more than that? Huh? Really? No, I'm not a scientist.
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I don't, I don't know. I mean, are you luring me into? Or a mathematician. No, I'm not a
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mathematician. I don't know. Wow. But it does, to me, the billion thing seems higher than the
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million thing. It does seem that? Yeah. Okay. That's incredible. I didn't realize it was
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that bad. It's an unbelievable disparity. It's an unbelievable gap. And like, look, let's
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be clear. It's the W, it's the NBA subsidizing the WNBA. That's the only reason it continues to
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exist. Yeah. I mean, like, look, it's just like, it's all about money. Like I was watching
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the Cornhole Championships the other day. Oh, those are riveting. They are freaking riveting.
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Riveting. It is legit. They, I saw the other, I was also watching the pickleball, some pickleball
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tournament the other day. Like. On ESPN? On ESPN. Like, you know, they ever occasionally
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do those like ESPN Ocho type events where they're, you know, they drop in those different sporting
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events. And like, these people are also the best at their craft. Right? They, because
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Brittany Griner is one of the best female basketball players in the world, there's a market for
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that. Just like there's a market for the best Cornhole player in the world. It's true.
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Yeah. Yeah, it is. But like the best Cornhole player in the world who might be better at
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Cornhole than Brittany Griner is at basketball is going to make less than Brittany Griner playing
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Cornhole, most likely. Although that's probably getting close, honestly. When it comes to interest,
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I think Cornhole and WNBA are basically on the same plane. But it's true. Like, you know,
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they don't get subsidized. There's no, there's no NBA to jump in and subsidize Cornhole.
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Right. So they got to make it on their own. And look, the champion might make a good chunk
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of cash. I'm going to look at, I'm going to look it up because I don't know how much a professional
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Cornhole player makes. I bet it's in the six figures. Oh my gosh. Okay. Uh, that can't
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be right. Is that right? Cornhole game pays an average salary of $637,000. What? No. That
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can't be true. Can it? No. Ranging from a low of $562,000 to a high of $728,000. I don't
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believe that. No. I don't believe that. No. That's ridiculous. The minimum. No, here we go.
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Professional Cornhole players make between $5,000 and $25,000 per Cornhole season. Okay.
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Right. I don't know where this first article came from, but it is not right. Are you on
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CornholePropaganda.com? What the hell? What information is that? This is like the most pro
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Seems to be some disparity in the world of how much professional cornhole players make.
00:24:54.080
Because the first article I read was $637,000 on average.
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Sometimes when you hear a statistic, you just need to say no.
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It might be closer to between $5,000 and $25,000 per season.
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It seems like it's an additional income is what I would say.
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It's hard to make money playing professional sports unless you happen to be someone like
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Aaron Judge who just got a significant contract.
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And I think I'm going to renegotiate my deal here at The Blaze.
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I'm going to ask for nine years, $360,000 and see what happens.
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Well, if only about $350 million of it was guaranteed.
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We all sat here and looked at like the price of bread and the price of milk and the price
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of cars and the price of rent and homes and everything.
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We all got hit with that and all watched it happen.
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Is that what's happening right now in baseball?
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Xander Bogart's just got 11 years, $280 million to go to San Diego.
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Trey Turner to go to the Phillies, 10 years, $300 million, I think it was.
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But even like secondary level pitchers are getting two years, $30 million.
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The money that is flowing through the sport right now.
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You saw the same thing happen with, you know, people like Deshaun Watson, who, if you watched
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his game this past weekend, I mean, he was a little rusty, but I know the people of Cleveland
00:26:55.680
are hoping that he can earn out that contract because it's a big boy.
00:26:58.660
That's a big contract, fully guaranteed for someone who seemingly at any point can be accused
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of something true or not and will just be suspended in a reactionary fashion immediately.
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There's only a few of those that have ever happened in football, but they're all fully
00:27:29.380
Maybe it is partially because of just these, there was a lot of money sitting around and
00:27:35.520
a lot of these people had it and now they're looking to spend it.
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I mean, the San Diego Padres just seem to have, did they secretly have a money printing machine
00:27:57.560
They have a great, you know, kind of stadium down, right in downtown.
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Though, I will say I've had several people I've talked to because I love San Diego.
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You know, people I've always dealt with there were great.
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So, you fly in, you're in, you're downtown in like, you know, five minutes.
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And they have a really cool area and Petco Park, it's still called Petco Park?
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But it's that, you know, their baseball stadium's right there, right in town.
00:28:32.180
And, but I talked to a couple people who have been there over the years and said, similar to other California cities, it's changed.
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We've gone down this road where you can't really safely walk around the downtown anymore, especially at night.
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Because of the way the homeless problem is being dealt with, the drug problem is being dealt with, the crime problem is being dealt with.
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All of these things that are hitting places like San Francisco and Los Angeles and the other California and West Coast cities are hitting San Diego, maybe to a lesser degree.
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But they're making these cities impossible to even want to visit, let alone live in.
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And they've done that all up and down the West Coast, from Seattle to Portland to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and now, you know, maybe San Diego, too.
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But, I mean, they have ruined all of these Democrat-controlled cities.
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She was there, I think, over the Thanksgiving break.
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And when she was driving back to the airport, she took a video of the scenery that she was driving past.
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It is, I mean, there were just tent cities everywhere.
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And it's incredible that you've turned this beautiful city into a pit like that.
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And they've done it because they don't do anything about their situations with their homeless and the crime.
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Yeah, this is a result of progressive policies.
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I mean, like, look, there's always been people who were homeless.
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There has always been people with drug problems and mental health problems.
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And that's the vast majority of this problem, right?
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It's drug problems and mental health problems and serious ones.
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And, you know, the old way of dealing with this was to not accept it.
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The old way of dealing with this was to say, no, this can't go on.
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And we can't just let people come out and do drugs in open markets right here.
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And the progressives have come in and said, well, actually, you can't do that.
00:31:07.300
You can't stop them because that's their lifestyle and you're criticizing their lifestyle.
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The right way to do it is to affirm them, to help them, to give them shelter if they will take it.
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You know, I can't remember where, what publication this was in, but there was a column about this recently about a woman who lived in San Francisco.
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And she would look out the window and see things getting worse with homeless people and everything.
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And they had an issue with someone who was basically crazy on the streets, but well-known around the area.
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And he was on drugs and he was having all sorts of problems.
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And he wasn't necessarily a harmful, aggressive type.
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He was just, you know, everyone kind of knew he was the nutty guy in the neighborhood.
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And one day he was having a major, major meltdown, major, major problems.
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Police came in, tried to take him in, bring him to a shelter.
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An activist stepped in and they said, no, you don't have to go with them.
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Now, this is a guy in mental health crisis and a drug overdose in progress, basically.
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You don't want to get this treatment, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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When this person heard this, the guy is like, oh, yeah, okay.
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This happens all over the country because of progressive policies.
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You can't just let mental health, drug issues go unchecked.
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And certainly, you know, like, I can see how it would be difficult for, you have a person
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If they commit crimes, you can bring them to jail.
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But it's hard to control a person wandering around the streets doing things until they
00:33:04.740
It's not a challenge to break down a tent city.
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You don't have a right to put tents in the middle of a sidewalk.
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That is just straight out progressive policies that ruin entire corners and sometimes giant
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And it's happening all up and down the West Coast and I'm sure in other places as well.
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But, you know, the Democrat policies are so prevalent on the West Coast that it's just
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really obvious there in those formerly great and beautiful cities.
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San Francisco was one of the greatest cities in the world.
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And it's going to get worse before it gets better because they love their policies.
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If you want your city to look like this, to feel like this, then elect people who are going
00:34:09.360
It's like some issues are a little bit more nuanced, right?
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If you continue to put progressives in power in these cities, this will continue to get
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And it'll start spreading out of the cities to surrounding areas.
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Business owners, there was a, I saw a business, it was like a small restaurant, Italian restaurant
00:34:37.600
in one of these cities that had been burglarized 18 times.
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They walked in, they walked into their wine cellar and stole bottles of wine from an Italian
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So you're getting these giant swaths of a city that are total war zones.
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And what people right now are trying to do is drive around them.
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And sure, you know, you can go to areas of a lot of these cities that are okay.
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That's why we have a population explosion in the state I'm sitting in.
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Because all the people from the crappy areas of California keep flying here and never going
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And for some of them, I welcome them with open arms.
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But come here and just don't bring your dumb voting patterns with you.
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As long as you don't bring what you just left with you.
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If you got here and you're like, you know, that Beto guy might be a good governor.
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Well, they are really, really expensive right now.
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Did you see that in New Zealand, they took custody of a baby away from the parents because
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the parents didn't want the baby to receive a transfusion with blood that had vaccine in
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Parents in New Zealand who refused to allow their baby to take a transfusion of blood if
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it contained COVID-19 vaccine now find the state in possession of their child.
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They came in and took custody away from the parents.
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I mean, New Zealand has gone off the deep end on this and so has Australia.
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Other than China, they might be the two worst countries on earth with this COVID situation.
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You do realize how thin the argument is from the left when they say, we just don't want
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anyone to get in between a doctor and their patient.
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We just don't want the government involved at all in medical decisions.
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When they try to make these arguments about the pro-life, pro-choice thing, that's what
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They're sudden and very limited time libertarians.
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It's always fascinating to watch because this is the type of thing that they cheer on.
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Look, you might think that it's ridiculous that you would take it for you.
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I mean, there's got to be blood that's not tainted with vaccine that you could give the
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I would think the parents, but maybe they're not compatible.
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I mean, look, there's tons of people that didn't get the vaccine.
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Millions and millions of them in every country, basically, especially younger ages.
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I mean, the percentages are somewhat low in a lot of countries.
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Now, I mean, it's sort of ridiculous to get involved in this, whether you think the decision
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It's getting more and more where you really don't.
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It's their community property to a lot of these people.
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I mean, you remember the old MSNBC promo with Melissa Harris-Perry, who was a, at the
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time, somewhat high-profile commentator on MSNBC.
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And she came out and kind of gave a pitch like that.
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We need to realize these are not, that this is not the property of the parents.
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We need to realize that this is the property of our community.
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I could tell you right now, Melissa, you do not parent my kids.
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I don't want you having anything to do with the parenting of my children.
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In New Zealand, they put this baby boy in the guardianship of his surgeon and cardiologist
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I mean, you can really push this to the extremes and find cases where you can say, look, I
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I mean, there are tough ones when there's like basic, basic cures for, you know, terrible
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You know, I mean, look, sometimes those are cases of abuse and it's tough to decipher,
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but asking for a blood transfusion from a, from a different person doesn't seem like
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Just how about with the, uh, without, without the vaccine that I, I don't know what's in
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Uh, well, it's a very disturbing to think about needing a medicine in a difficult situation.
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Uh, this is great because if you've got a child with any kind of body image issues, I got exactly
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It's a, uh, a doll manufacturing company and, uh, they've got some great advice for your
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Both Ainsley and Zach love the Tuttle Twins books.
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Uh, and you know, it's one of those things where you kind of get a little parenting done
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So, uh, the popular doll maker American Girl has some advice, uh, for your kids.
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They've got a guidebook that they put together.
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It's only $12.99 and it, uh, has some great advice for children struggling with body image
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And it suggests they ask their doctors for puberty-blocking medication and to seek transgender
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support without parental consent if you don't have an adult you can trust in your life.
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Don't you get all your really serious life advice from doll manufacturers, from doll companies?
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Most of my stuff comes from, you know, when I really have a heart issue.
00:46:40.760
Uh, it's usually American Girl, uh, doll manufacturer.
00:46:44.060
When I was concerned about compounding interest, I went to a sex doll company.
00:46:48.000
And I was like, what should I do, uh, with my mortgage right now?
00:46:53.800
Their advice was, uh, well, I can't say their advice.
00:47:04.980
Well, uh, American Girl has put out a small, a smart girl's guide body image book.
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And, uh, it's on the website again for just $12.99.
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Uh, you know, if you're struggling, uh, your kids are struggling, this is right where you
00:47:28.640
It shows four girls of varying body weights and skin colors.
00:47:37.240
And the subtitle reads, how to love yourself, live life to the fullest and celebrate all
00:47:45.040
You know, and then, and then it tells you if you're struggling, if you're not comfortable
00:47:48.780
with a part of your body, then, you know, you should go get some, some puberty blockers
00:47:56.740
And that way, you know, you'll have a couple of years to decide whether you're comfortable
00:48:00.780
with your body or if you want to change it, you know, through surgery.
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We bought all of our girls, American girl dolls.
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I got, so this is interesting, Pat, because, uh, I have small kids.
00:48:26.600
And, uh, they, my daughter has had, is Ainsley a fan of American girl has, you know, tons
00:48:32.500
She's, you know, for presents and stuff she's bought with her own money.
00:48:36.160
Like, you know, she got the, she, she's even got the Jeep, Pat.
00:48:39.220
She has the entire, I didn't know there was an American girl Jeep.
00:48:44.680
Is it one that it's big enough for her to ride in it?
00:48:52.300
So not, but so then that's a very standard experience.
00:48:55.380
I will say as your kids get older, uh, you have to talk to them about some things that
00:49:04.200
Not like gender transition changes, but just the changes that every boy or girl goes through.
00:49:11.020
And, um, if you are a parent, you know that that can be a little strange and challenging.
00:49:26.480
So I went through, uh, a bunch of like conservative reviews of these types of books because I was
00:49:36.300
worried about, you know, what woke nonsense they would slip into these things.
00:49:41.300
And, uh, when I went through this, one of the ones recommended by all sorts of conservatives,
00:49:48.200
uh, religious people, all sorts, were the American girl doll series.
00:49:54.800
It was a series of all sorts of books like this.
00:49:56.920
Not just about, you know, not about gender transition at all, but just like, okay, puberty,
00:50:02.700
Like these are the types of things you're going to get, you know, hair under your arms,
00:50:07.120
Just to kind of let people, the kids know what's going on.
00:50:10.680
And so I read these, the books from this company about the basics.
00:50:17.940
And they don't have any sign of this kind of stuff in there.
00:50:24.540
I mean, this is not a book that I saw, the body image one, how to love yourself, life to
00:50:34.580
And, uh, it says parts of your body may make you feel uncomfortable and you may want to
00:50:49.580
Every single person on earth has, has parts of their body that make them uncomfortable.
00:50:54.700
You know, I could tell you my gut is one of them.
00:51:01.800
So that doesn't seem to be happening, but I would like it.
00:51:04.720
So, uh, and what was the second part of that, that, uh, you should be comfortable in your
00:51:11.440
It's totally okay if you're uncomfortable and you want to change the way you look.
00:51:15.740
Yes, it's okay if you want to change the way you look.
00:51:18.360
Well, it's so funny because when, when you are overweight and you want to lose weight,
00:51:43.340
I was eight pounds, seven ounces when I was born.
00:51:57.720
But like, that is, they're taking advantage of a really normal human instinct to say,
00:52:03.900
you know, I'd like to look a little bit better.
00:52:09.020
You should be able to take that rationally and in context and maybe make some changes
00:52:15.580
Not cut off your parts because you don't like them.
00:52:19.740
Or stop taking, or start taking life-altering medication that can stop the natural process
00:52:29.560
And doctors who are honest are starting to really speak out about that, fortunately.
00:52:34.940
That, hey, it's not necessarily just this just delays things for a while and then you're
00:52:47.660
You can appreciate your body for everything it allows you to experience and still want
00:52:53.100
If you haven't gone through puberty yet, the doctor might offer medication to delay your
00:52:59.380
body's changes, giving you more time to think about your gender identity.
00:53:12.760
But like they're bringing in experts in these fields to write these books.
00:53:20.600
And, you know, a lot of the stuff that they have is totally, I think, would be cool with.
00:53:27.540
What I liked about it is it didn't get into a lot of those like advanced questions.
00:53:32.880
It was like, okay, here's how the body changes as you get older.
00:53:36.480
Hey, make sure you put on deodorant, kid, you know, because you're going to start stinking
00:53:42.340
Which is, you know, helpful for parents to bring them through.
00:53:49.700
If you don't have an adult you trust, like your parents, I guess.
00:53:56.260
There are organizations across the country that can help you turn to the resources on
00:54:12.020
So this is also some other stuff from the book.
00:54:15.080
The way you show your gender to the world through clothes and behavior is your gender expression.
00:54:23.220
Forget even how ridiculous it is to try to change your gender.
00:54:41.460
That your genitalia has nothing to do with your gender, but your clothes do now.
00:54:46.000
Like, you can't tell anything about the gender of a child from whether they've got
00:54:57.420
However, you can tell if, this is a quote from the book, your gender expression can be
00:55:02.120
feminine, masculine, or somewhere in between and might change.
00:55:05.220
Maybe you'll experiment with bright dresses and long feminine hairstyles.
00:55:09.360
Or you might try baggy shorts, plaid shirts, and a buzzed haircut.
00:55:13.020
Your gender expression should make you feel at home in your body.
00:55:18.500
You don't have a choice whether you'd be at home in your body or not.
00:55:21.980
Even if you alter it with surgery, you're still at home in your body.
00:55:26.640
Being at home in your body is a made-up concern.
00:55:31.140
Like, if you have a problem being at home in your body, you have something that has traditionally
00:55:38.420
been called gender dysphoria, where you're having problems, medical problems, trying to understand
00:55:55.680
You might think because you put on cargo shorts, you're a boy.
00:56:04.560
There is no reason to indulge in this nonsense.
00:56:10.040
There are interesting things to be learned about an individual.
00:56:21.520
You might understand interesting parts about their personality.
00:56:24.880
But there is very little societal value in this pursuit.
00:56:35.440
And when we were doing the Pat and Stu show back in the day, Pat, I remember we used to
00:56:40.760
And, you know, she's a very famous, obviously, LGBT...
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I don't want to say QQIA, because I don't know if she advocates for those things.
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But she was an LGBT advocate for many, many years.
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Obviously, someone who really broke a lot of barriers to people in the mainstream culture.
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And they asked her about the transgender thing.
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And she was trying to let people who just couldn't grasp it understand what it was.
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And what she said, her description of the transgender thing, was that gender, being a transgender person, gender, is a feeling that you feel in your brain.
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And, like, that might be interesting if your sister's going through that.
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It might be interesting to try to understand how they feel in their brain.
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But when we're talking about when you go into a hospital and you need to find out if you have ovaries or not, none of that matters.
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It might be interesting to try to understand them from a physician's standpoint.
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It might be interesting from a cultural standpoint or a societal standpoint.
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You might say, wow, that's an interesting quirk.
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But it does not have value when it comes to policy.
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What is important is whether it's a man or a woman, a boy or a girl, male or female.
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How you feel in your brain does not need to be on a government form.
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And it certainly does not need to be explained to a 10-year-old who is already so confused by the freaking Chinese Communist Party through TikTok
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that they're trying to do this stuff and trying to justify keeping it away from their parents.
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What happens when you do make that transition, when you do listen to the American Girls pamphlet,
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We'll get into somebody who tells you about that coming up in one minute.
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Well, it's Pat and Stu in for Glenn right now, and he's not feeling well.
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But I just want you to know, Pat, that being transgender is not an illness
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Yes, sure, it was in all the medical journals up until very recently.
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The book, however, does not discuss any of that.
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That's how it was thought for, you know, all of human history.
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If you're questioning your gender identity or because there's another alternative,
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You're one of the Qs in the LGBTQQIA2 plus community.
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Or, Pat, now this is, again, designed to hit 10-year-olds when they're trying to figure
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Or if you already know for sure that you're trans or non-binary.
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Well, you talk with an adult you trust, like a parent or school counselor.
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That person can connect you with a specially trained doctor who can help you and your family
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At first, you and the doctor might talk about wearing the clothes and using the pronouns
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like he, she, or they that make you feel most like the true you.
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You get to be you and you don't get to be anybody else.
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And if you want to be somebody else, that's not the true you.
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That's why I hate that gender affirming phrase.
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Gender affirmation would be saying, look, honey, I know you feel like you're a boy,
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You're a girl or you're a boy, but you can't transition to the other one.
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Is this the American Girls one or is this another one?
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This is the American Girl book, the one we've been discussing.
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If you haven't gone through puberty yet, they are really targeting.
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This is legitimately targeted to young, young children.
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The doctor might offer medicine to delay your body's changes, giving you more time to think
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And if you've already gone through puberty, a doctor can still help.
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Studies show, studies, Pat, they show that transgender and non-binary kids who get help
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from doctors have much better mental health than those who don't.
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Now, of course, there's an entire industry churning out studies to justify this nonsense.
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However, the overwhelming majority of the research shows the exact opposite.
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People who go through this, most people honestly like...
01:03:20.660
And I think maybe the most interesting research is a control group, which people who wanted to
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Number one, are happy that they didn't go through it.
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And number two, often, a high percentage of them turn out to be gay or lesbian when they
01:03:52.720
So really what you're doing is taking the L's and the G's and deleting them.
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That's why there's a little issue right now between the L's and the G's and the T's.
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You know, they got high placement on this chart.
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And they start adding all these letters on the end.
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And we never go back to the B's and talk about the B's.
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Do you have a book for kids to teach them how to transition?
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I don't personally have one, but I have one that I really love from the American Girl
01:07:05.480
If you're uncomfortable with your body in any way, they'll lead you in the right direction
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Maybe consult about surgery and get your body surgically altered.
01:07:15.880
Because as it says in this first sentence about somebody who went through it, and then,
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But here's the first sentence of a woman who went through it.
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A woman who previously identified as non-binary is suing the professionals that approved her
01:07:37.960
If you're getting a mastectomy, that is not gender-affirming.
01:07:42.980
Especially if you're doing it because, I don't know, cancer.
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You know, like, it's got nothing to do with gender.
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If it's to do with a gender transition, it absolutely is not affirming your gender.
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That affirming thing is really, it's pissing me off.
01:08:05.660
If you have a gender, and you want that to be affirmed, it would be like the thing
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that they would hate, which would be saying, look, honey, you're a boy.
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By the way, you can be a girl and like sports, and you can be a girl who likes cargo pants,
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and you can be a girl who is interested in action movies, that doesn't mean you're a boy.
01:08:36.620
And for some reason, that's now controversial to say.
01:08:40.080
But in a way, it dissolves the entire spectrum of how people are.
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You know, some people are just like, okay, they like to hang with the boys.
01:08:55.080
And we all know girls that were tomboys when we were younger.
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And nobody thought it was bizarre or weird or you didn't make fun of them.
01:09:10.520
Like, trying to say that all those people actually know they're boys.
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They're just girls who, you know, had some more masculine characteristics.
01:09:21.320
If everyone is the same, if all girls dress exactly the same, they make movies called the
01:09:28.840
Like, that was the creepy weird thing about that.
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We want there to be all different types of girls and all different types of boys.
01:09:39.360
What the left wants to do is say, no, we will tell you what gender you are based on your
01:09:48.180
This is from the book, from the American Girl book.
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And again, you know, you don't want, it's called Body Image and it is available now.
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It says, but being transgender isn't a medical transition.
01:10:02.320
It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.
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It's hating who you are and wanting to be something else.
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It's the, they are just legitimately saying the exact opposite of the truth and saying,
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I've got this degree in some made up study that didn't exist five years ago.
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And therefore you must agree with me or you're a hate monger.
01:10:36.140
Well, no, if you're transitioning from a boy to a girl, it's because as they say in other
01:10:41.640
parts of the book, you're uncomfortable in your own body.
01:10:45.540
Your body is what you are when it comes to gender.
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And they are saying, well, I'm uncomfortable with that thing.
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Meaning the old thing that you currently are, you don't like enough to continue to be it.
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It's hating who you are and loving some weird progressive version of who you might be.
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This woman who went through this transition and now regrets it and is filing lawsuits against
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the people who convinced her to make the transition.
01:11:36.040
Like she got a lawsuit against social worker Amy Ruff, mental health therapist Mara Burmeister
01:11:42.600
and their respective clinics for approving her for a double mastectomy after two visits.
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After two visits, they convinced her to get a double mastectomy.
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One was in June before her surgery occurred in August of 2020.
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Look, you want to be an adult and you want to go through this.
01:12:29.600
You know, you can make the argument that, okay.
01:12:32.800
But when we're talking about children, these should be crimes.
01:12:35.720
You should not be able to do this to a child who quite obviously does not have the capacity
01:12:49.640
And we're like, oh yeah, you can totally tell what your gender is right now.
01:12:52.720
And, you know, sure it's going to affect the entire rest of your life.
01:12:58.700
And after two years, this woman has already gone back to identifying as a woman.
01:13:10.420
If you could just be patient, you know, maybe you're going through a phase.
01:13:18.120
I mean, you know, it's the same thing of saying like, you know what?
01:13:30.640
Often it is someone who is having mental health challenges that can't quite see reality correctly.
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I was talking to Chad Pratherer on my show the other day.
01:13:42.760
And he said, you know, my definition of mental health is not being able to recognize what is reality and what isn't.
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If you can't recognize what reality is, you don't affirm that.
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You don't say, let's continue to encourage your misunderstanding of what reality is.
01:14:07.900
You don't say, oh, well, you think you can fly?
01:14:09.900
Well, let's attach some wings to your back and see what happens.
01:14:18.980
Glenn just did a podcast, Pat, with a woman who is, and I use woman, honestly, like, with hesitation because I think she's 18.
01:14:29.780
And she went through a transition with all these surgeries and I don't know the full extent of it, but, you know, this, I have to say, you get to these parts and it's like a lot of stuff I don't want to know.
01:14:45.280
But in many cases, it is at least the top surgery.
01:14:48.500
And she, I think she went through it at like 15 or 16 and now is 18 and regrets it.
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She regrets it, regrets it and says, oh my gosh, this is wrong.
01:15:07.440
Her parents weren't like, you'd think, okay, well, you got some crazy liberal parents bringing to a wacko doctor who says, yeah, no, cut off all your parts.
01:15:15.440
Wait, okay, like we can all see, and that scenario does happen often.
01:15:19.100
I mean, probably most commonly, it's that type of situation where the parent is some crazy left-wing nutjob who encourages this behavior and pushes it along and acts like they can brag to all their friends about how they have a new transgendered kid.
01:15:32.840
And they post all the pictures on Instagram and they look like they're the most woke among the crowd.
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And that is really super common when it comes to these cases.
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But this case was parents who were told by the doctor that if she did not have gender-affirming surgery, she would kill herself.
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You can imagine, think of your son or your daughter, how much you love them and how you would do literally anything to stop them from killing themselves.
01:15:56.760
And you start understanding how this stuff happens.
01:15:59.360
You know, the parents said to themselves, oh my God, okay, I guess just do whatever you have to do.
01:16:05.860
I don't care if they alter their body, I just want them here.
01:16:09.100
Now, the part here, which I think is also relatively common, according to the girl, she says she never said that and was not at all at risk of suicide.
01:16:19.420
She says and claims that she never told the doctors that.
01:16:22.680
The doctor told the parent that with their medical expertise.
01:16:28.440
Now, that is, again, to me, a malpractice, a crime, more than a loss of license needs to happen to doctors who are doing that type of stuff.
01:16:47.480
But anyway, they went through this whole thing and now the parents feel terrible.
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Like they were just trying, but they were just trying to help their kid.
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They believed not in the gender transition, but the doctors who said death was on the door step of their child.
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There's an Arkansas town that has been hassled about their nativity scene because that happens every year somewhere.
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There's nothing that says in the U.S. Constitution you can't put a nativity scene on government property.
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It doesn't even get, the Establishment Clause doesn't even get close to that.
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And then, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
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But the important part, the important part is that government, the Congress, cannot establish
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a law that creates a religion that you have to adhere to.
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Yeah, that second part is massively important, just not in the story.
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I mean, like, you really, part of free expression.
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But then the Satanists will always say, well, we have the right to put one up, too.
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We don't have to put up a Satanist display just because there's a nativity scene.
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Now, that was the exact argument you made in the Supreme Court when you argued this case.
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And then I remember when Sotomayor was like, you know what?
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I didn't think you'd get, honestly, Kagan on that one, but you did.
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And you know, a lot of people will draw the argument out.
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Hollywood celebrities are so in their own heads
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You know, this would be, I guess, part of the critique of Jennifer Lawrence, maybe
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