00:02:20.000So, Target pulled a costume of a clown on Halloween, for Halloween.
00:02:27.000It's a clown that they say looks like a blackface because it looks like the kids dressed like a minstrel show character or something like this.0.53
00:02:34.000Personally, I think it's silly and I think it's like it's eight years ago all over again.0.96
00:02:41.000That's why I say cancel culture is coming back.0.93
00:02:43.000Target now bending to the whims of the BLM activism type complaints over what is a clown costume because the kid modeling the clown costume happened to have been black.0.53
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00:05:37.000So, a year ago, I was trained to be a therapist at Santa Clara University, but there were some ethical concerns in my program and the field.
00:05:45.000So, I wrote in the Wall Street Journal about what was going on, and I was effectively blackballed from that industry.
00:05:52.000So, I took a break, had a baby, but I'm doing writing and culture and psychology now.
00:06:27.000Here's the costume Kids Glow Under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume Bodysuit, Hide and Eek Boutique L. First of all, Target didn't make this product, some company did.
00:06:40.000And there's only one real issue with it.
00:06:54.000It is literally the checkered pants, the zigzag Halloween features with a small clown hat, but it's orange and black because it's Halloween.0.92
00:07:05.000But because a black kid's doing it, it's racist now.0.98
00:07:08.000Yeah, they clown them up like them teeth, though.1.00
00:08:30.000Like, the point is, those characters are just dressed like bellhops.
00:08:35.000Not like dressing like a bellhop does not make you racist and does not make it a minstrel show.0.63
00:08:40.000The problem is now, because Blackface used bellhop costumes, any circumstance in which a black person is dressed like a bellhop, they're going to call it racist.0.50
00:08:49.000It's the same reason I don't draw swastikas on my face.
00:09:04.000No, but it's at the same angle and it's the same size.
00:09:07.000If anything, the photographer and whoever posed that's what I was thinking.
00:09:10.000The photographer might have known what he was doing, but everyone else, I don't know.
00:09:15.000Look, the costume in and of itself is definitely not racist.
00:09:21.000You put a white kid in there, nobody would have thought anything of it at all.
00:09:25.000It's just because there's a black kid in there.
00:09:28.000I would love to know how many people actually complained.
00:09:33.000Like, is this something that was actually a lot of people, or was it just enough for Target to notice and be like, we don't want this heat?
00:09:42.000Because to be fair, Target doesn't lose anything for taking this out of their inventory or taking it off the website and saying, we're not selling this thing, right?
00:11:51.000He was making fun of people that did blackface.
00:11:54.000Well, I'm sad that Target actually capitulated because I feel like it's just the revival of everything that we saw with cancel culture.1.00
00:14:21.000No, no, no, but there was something that happened with the school where the teacher was like, there are a bunch of little monkeys, and then there was like a black kid in the class, and they were like, whoa, whoa.0.88
00:14:58.000Ian, the thing is, you don't get those people to chill because that's where they get their power from the outrage.
00:15:06.000If they can actually convince other people that what they say they truly believe and that it's actually offensive, that empowers them to attack people.
00:15:51.000She also reads, then he calls the kid at the counter, and then he's like, Yeah, you know, it makes me think she did always refer to a broken bottle as a yeah.
00:15:59.000I'm not going to say that because that's a no no word.
00:16:02.000This is my question because if you say woke is coming back, so if you can convince the masses that just to chill, not the people that are intentionally trying to freak people out, but the masses, they'll be like, All right, all right, I'm done with it.
00:19:09.000They'll buy $500 in ads for the month and have that run.
00:19:14.000For everybody who lives in and around Winchester, which is going to be a couple hundred thousand people, we're going to see maybe three or four cents from that on this show because there's people all over the world.
00:19:26.000Well, there's not that many people in Winchester, and there's a lot of content people watch.
00:19:29.000And that means if a Mr. Beast video plays, he's going to make 53 cents off of that 500.
00:19:35.000So when the ad rates are going down, what you're really seeing is that small businesses are struggling.
00:19:40.000They're not buying ads from their business because they do not have discretionary funds.
00:19:44.000Everything's getting tighter and tighter.
00:19:45.000And we can see this in the back end for ad rates.
00:19:47.000They've been improving a little bit, but since the start of the war, it's been getting bad.
00:19:50.000This means, yo, people are not happy with the state of things.
00:19:54.000And so when that happens, they say, maybe the other guy will do better.
00:19:56.000They don't care about woke, they don't care about Trump or borders.
00:20:00.000A lot of people do, but those are not lowest common denominator issues.
00:20:05.000So if you can animate 27% of the population on immigration, you're going to get a big boost.
00:20:09.000But the Democrats are going to go for the other 73%, that's a bigger boost.
00:20:13.000The lowest common denominator issue is always going to be the economy.
00:20:16.000With that, I think Democrats might actually win.
00:20:19.000I think they have a decent probability.
00:20:21.000It's hard to say because this procedural game the Republicans are playing is nuts.
00:20:41.000Cam Higbee took his stuff down here to fight for it to get it back.
00:20:44.000Fortunately, he did after some pressure.1.00
00:20:47.000But look at the Lindsey Clancy stuff where these women are coming out and throwing ice in their showers, talking about how they too could murder their children.1.00
00:20:54.000And TikTok is like, let it roll, baby.
00:20:57.000And then the people like Spencer Pratt, who are saying this is bad for us, he gets banned.
00:21:10.000I don't know if that means he's all in, but I think they got to change their messaging, the administration, away from the economy's great to we're going to fix the economy because it's too obvious.
00:24:25.000An idea of what the Republican administration could do right now, and let me know if you guys think this is a good idea, subsidizing small businesses for marketing.
00:24:33.000So, like, a small company could get, you put $100 million of federal funds into it, a small company can get $20,000 a year in free marketing on YouTube.
00:24:43.000You don't think that the government's subsidizing free marketing for.
00:24:45.000No, because that'll drive the price of the ads up.
00:24:48.000And that means the private sector will be impossible to run ads.
00:24:53.000Anytime the government dumps money into things, it offsets the market.
00:24:57.000But this is the easiest to explain because YouTube ads are done on what's called a bid process.
00:25:03.000So that means right now, if there's $100 million in the private market that's going into Google, everybody says, I'm willing to pay X amount of cents per conversion.
00:25:13.000A conversion is going to cost you between like 30 and 50 cents, a view can cost you a penny.
00:25:20.000But if you want to get, if you said, I want my ad to run on 8 p.m. live big show, well, guess what?
00:27:25.000What's really happening is the government just creates debt where they basically say to these weapons manufacturers, send us a bill, make it, send us a bill.
00:27:34.000And then they do, and that company spends down through their investments or personal coffers.
00:27:38.000Then go to the government and say, We want our money.
00:27:40.000So the government's just like, Okay, they just manufacture it, click the button in his account.
00:27:47.000So they take the money from the business and effectively burn it.
00:27:50.000Not literally, but they're pulling money from you to control the speed of inflation.
00:27:54.000They're not taking your money and then spending it.
00:27:56.000They're spending money they don't have, they manifest, and then taking from you so the market doesn't go crazy.
00:28:01.000And also, tax relief would mean they let the market go crazy.
00:28:04.000And also, as soon as you start doing things like cutting taxes, the whole of the left freaks out because people that own businesses, they own property.
00:28:13.000And the left is already apoplectic about people owning property.
00:28:16.000You would be called, they would look at your total net worth for your business.
00:28:49.000I can't get up and get to work on time or whatever their effing problem is.
00:28:53.000But well, it's just a fundamental misunderstanding of how small business runs because even if you look at how much money we're bringing in a year and you think, wow, that's a lot of money.
00:29:05.000I don't know any small business owner in my town that thinks things are going really great right now.
00:29:25.000Donald Trump's giving tax breaks to his friends.
00:29:28.000The narrative is what they care about.
00:29:30.000And because they don't feel like they're able to make ends meet or they don't feel like it's a fair system, they don't care that there are people that own businesses that are actually on a shoestring budget that are not taking a lot of money home.0.96
00:29:42.000It doesn't mean a goddamn thing to them.0.52
00:29:44.000They look at the amount, they look at your net worth, and I'm not saying you personally, but they look at a business's net worth.0.96
00:29:49.000You know, or a person's net worth because of the business they own.
00:30:03.000But I do want to stress this too for a lot of people.
00:30:06.000The average millionaire, we brought it up on the show before, the average salary of a millionaire in the United States is about $160,000 a year.
00:30:16.000So when you look at Loudoun County, which is the wealthiest county, I think, in the world, the average salary there, the median, is like $150,000.
00:30:23.000And these people own houses that are like $20, $30 million.
00:30:25.000Now, those guys probably make a little bit more than that.
00:30:27.000But people need to understand it's not what they think.
00:30:30.000Millionaires aren't making a million dollars a year.
00:30:32.000They would be billionaires if they're making a million dollars a year.
00:30:35.000Yeah, you want to specify the difference between mega corporations that are trying to take over the world.
00:30:39.000Left and right can agree we don't want that.
00:30:42.000You reposition the argument because you want small business to thrive.
00:30:47.000You want the individual to have autonomy.
00:30:50.000You want small businesses to be the driving force of your economy.
00:30:52.000So if you can inspire people to protect these smaller companies while kind of buffering against Coca Cola, no offense, Coca Cola, whoever owns Coca Cola.
00:31:14.000Well, any megacorp that wants to advertise on a network, if we can somehow invest or buffer the small businesses against that to protect our way of life, I think they don't want to protect our way of life.
00:31:24.000I have to issue a fundamental difference.
00:31:26.000They don't want to protect our way of life, they want to destroy capitalism.
00:31:59.000But the point that I'm making is not that your idea in theory isn't good, it's just that the people that I'm talking about, they're, they're, People are just narrative driven, anyways.
00:32:09.000And they're not going to care about, oh, we need to make sure that the small businesses are taken care of.
00:32:14.000The left has moved significantly away from that.
00:32:17.000The far left wants to absolutely overturn the entire system that we live under.
00:32:22.000And people that are not quite as far left, they're already bowing to the pressure from the far left.
00:32:27.000You say that the people on the far left want to destroy businesses known, just business?
00:33:21.000So, global corporate governance obviously is infecting people's minds through the left mindset of we the people, we the corporate, we the totality.
00:33:31.000But the reality is, small business is the driving force.
00:33:35.000I mean, Ben Franklin was a small businessman.
00:33:38.000These guys are like, so we need to protect it somehow.
00:33:41.000If we control the narrative or something.
00:34:10.000But the fact of the matter is, the left, when they hear, oh, we're going to cut taxes, what they hear is the corporations are getting breaks from the Republicans or from Donald Trump.
00:34:20.000Again, it's Trump helping his friends.
00:34:25.000This is the story from 2020 in May.0.83
00:34:30.000The woman said, You guys are picking on me because I'm trying to feed my kids.
00:34:33.000She was running a Facebook live video Tuesday to sell some of her products when Officer Tyler Demmett came to her store at 9 p.m., about an hour in the video.
00:34:42.000He says on the video, she's in violation of Murphy's order for operating her business past the 8 p.m. curfew and for her and her employing not wearing a mask.
00:34:51.000I am totally being picked on right now.
00:34:53.000You guys are picking on me because I'm trying to feed my kids.
00:37:17.000We have to have at least 30% of the people that are pretty unhappy with their lives and pretty unhappy about their future to get enough people to make a critical mass of people that will be active.
00:37:28.000Because even if you have like 33% of the people that are unhappy with their lives, you know, it's like the actual people that will take action based on that is even smaller.
00:37:37.000So, but it doesn't take a majority of the people to cause a revolution.
00:37:42.000Yeah, because the other 25% of people that are pissed off will just.
00:37:46.000They'll do nothing while the revolution happens because they're so disenfranchised.
00:37:49.000You need, but like, okay, diagnosing the problem foreign interference, foreign banks, foreign corporations trying to destroy American small business to basically buy the country out.
00:38:03.000If they're really, you say they on the left, the far left.
00:38:06.000I'm talking about like agitators that are people that are in the DSA and people that are communists and people that are looking to overthrow our system.
00:38:18.000They want to see the destruction of the capitalist system totally.
00:38:21.000So, the people like talking about banks and stuff like that, they don't come into the equation because they're the people that actually want to keep our system working because they're the ones that lend money.
00:38:31.000They're the ones that have the capital.
00:38:33.000They're the ones that can lend money to business owners and stuff like that.
00:38:36.000The people that want to destroy the system that we live in are people that are communists, people on the far left.
00:38:41.000They're people that don't really have anything to lose.
00:38:43.000But I think the banks would be happy to loan us money to rebuild our nuclear devastation after a war, like the way they loaned to Germany after World War II.
00:38:52.000I don't know that a revolution here would be a nuclear revolution.0.97
00:38:56.000But they would love to loan us money just to rebuild our cities because we destroyed them from idiocy.0.98
00:39:00.000They'd be happy to see us rip ourselves apart, I think.0.97
00:39:02.000The thing is, the destruction of the American way of life isn't about destroying buildings and creating rubble.
00:39:13.000It's about overturning who's in authority.
00:39:16.000And they want the people, and when I say they, I mean like communists, they want to take the positions.
00:39:25.000Or China to die, they want them to be curtailed so that they have authority over the global economic system.
00:39:31.000But all of these major nations want each other to exist because they serve each other.0.69
00:39:35.000Yeah, they want the U.S. to be neutered so that they're not so potent.
00:39:39.000Well, the idea is Russia wants to get rich and have us do work for them at a weaker rate.
00:39:44.000It really just comes down to who's going to be doing the cheaper work, right?
00:39:49.000Russia says we want the United States to provide labor for us at 70 cents in the dollar.
00:39:54.000And the U.S. says no, Russia's going to provide for us at 70 cents in the dollar.
00:39:57.000When the US dominates global energy pathways, they can then go to every country and say, you work by our rules now.
00:40:03.000Do you think that robots supplanting the workforce will solve a lot of these problems?
00:40:07.000Oh, so I think we're going to, I think it's going to get substantially worse with the optimist bots coming in.
00:40:14.000The one thing I can say is it's fascinating that the Democrat solution was open the borders, the Trump solution is close the borders, hey, Elon Musk.
00:40:23.000The Democrats were after Elon Musk, they did not like him.
00:40:26.000So Elon's building these optimist bots.
00:40:27.000We've got the new spaceport up in Louisiana.
00:40:39.000So they all sold their Tesla shares at $300, dropping Tesla down to $113 or whatever.
00:40:46.000And then I'm sitting there watching the news, covering the news, and I'm like, Tesla as a company has done nothing to warrant the stock loss.
00:41:13.000I just read something on there that his ultimate goal is to have like 10 starships flying a day.
00:41:20.000You have to move a lot of material into space to be able to build an actual sustainable colony on the moon and then Mars, right?
00:41:30.000Like, you need a boatload of just mega tonnage.
00:41:34.000And you have to put a lot of rockets into space to do that.
00:41:37.000So, if you watch the announcement, the announcement video that SpaceX put out today, the number, the flight frequency that Musk is talking about is just insane.
00:41:48.000So it's not, it probably won't always, it probably won't all just be from Louisiana.
00:41:52.000You're going to have SpaceX, what's called Starbase in Texas.
00:41:58.000They might be launching out of Florida, but he's going to be launching a lot of rockets.
00:42:04.000And when I say a lot, it's like going to be far beyond what most people would assume.
00:42:24.000Today, there are viral videos where a guy, he's in like Times Square and he goes, I'll give you, he said, if I could give you $10,000 or one Bitcoin right now, what should you take?
00:43:22.000And now the estimates are like, oh, well, if you actually watch the market pattern, it's going to go up to 200,000 within the next year or whatever.
00:43:27.000Maybe it's less likely that Jamie Dimond was lying when he said, don't do Bitcoin.
00:43:51.000There's a term for that when you rock the market like that.
00:43:54.000Well, it, If you are manipulating the market intentionally by going on big shows and lying, but there's ways to do it legally and just say, if they were to say, we're going to liquidate a certain portion because we think we're at the top and it might go down, and that's true.
00:44:10.000Then when it goes down, they say, see, we were right.
00:44:12.000We want to reinvest in our opportunity, but they cause it to go down.
00:44:16.000It's like if you got a bowl of water and you're sloshing it to the left and to the right, all the water that's spilling over is being caught in a larger bowl underneath.
00:44:24.000That's the price of Bitcoin going up to the price of gold going up to the price of Bitcoin.
00:44:28.000They sell off high, they buy back low and sell off high and buy back low and sell off high.
00:44:32.000And all those little things, what collects in terms of Switzerland.
00:44:34.000I'm just in reference to like everything we're talking about.0.99
00:44:37.000Just think about how in 2015, everybody was saying you're stupid for buying Bitcoin.0.97
00:44:42.000And then there were people who bought at 20,000, they mortgaged their houses to buy Bitcoin.0.99
00:44:46.000And then when it dropped to 10, they panic sold, being like, oh no, I've lost everything.0.97
00:44:50.000And then five years later, it jumps up to some stupid number.0.94
00:44:53.000Or I think, was it like 2023 or 24?1.00
00:45:25.000There were people in the tech world that knew, at least they understood the value of it, that it was an immutable currency with some form of.
00:46:25.000Because people don't fuck with Israel any longer.0.99
00:46:28.000And if Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone's going to come around and take action.1.00
00:46:40.000Not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews.0.60
00:47:15.000Now, here's the important thing to understand.0.62
00:47:18.000If I said on this show, if American Jews.0.84
00:47:23.000Attach their identity just to Israel, the way things are going in this country with people like Hassan, someone is going to attack them.0.96
00:47:32.000I actually agree with the surface level sentiment.
00:47:35.000People like Hassan and his followers in that video were not expressing what I just expressed.
00:47:39.000My point is, I don't care about Israel.0.55
00:47:42.000If you're Jewish, I don't care if you like or don't like Israel.1.00
00:47:55.000Now, the issue is, Hassan is one of the preeminent espousers of this anti Israel and Jew stuff.0.93
00:48:04.000When his followers are saying it's going to get dangerous, they're not saying, I'm worried what those wackaloon anti Semites are going to do.
00:48:10.000They're literally saying, me and my friends are getting fed up.
00:48:13.000Yeah, there's a difference between a warning and a threat.
00:48:17.000And it's a lot about the way you say it and how you outline it.
00:48:20.000Because if I say, if you step over the line, you're going to get your legs broke, like that's obviously a threat that I'm threatening you that.
00:48:27.000If you do this, something's going to happen to you.
00:48:29.000As opposed to, hey, just so you know, if you step over that line, it will break your legs.
00:49:47.000Federal judges have been issuing rulings contradicting the Constitution for a decade.
00:49:54.000So these people do not operate under the Constitution until we force them to, and they are growing and getting more and more powerful.
00:50:00.000So we have a subversive element in this country, and I fear they are going to start attacking people.
00:50:08.000Let me steal Man Hassan's perspective because I actually brought this up a couple weeks ago that people in the United States, Jewish people that are Americans, refer to themselves as Jewish Americans.0.91
00:50:16.000Maybe they refer to themselves as American Jews.
00:50:19.000If I go to their Instagram page, are they waving Israeli flags?
00:50:23.000Because they're Americans, and that doesn't make a lot of sense.0.55
00:50:27.000I'm not saying it's going to bring violence down on their heads, but I'm saying it concerns me if an American citizen waves the flag of a foreign nation fervently over and over and over again.
00:51:56.000I do not think the U.S. should be funding Israel, especially as they're getting us involved in these stupid wars.0.99
00:52:02.000They're bombing Lebanon when Trump's trying to negotiate with Iran, screwing everything up.0.98
00:52:06.000They're bombing Syria, which is now affecting a NATO partner, Turkey, who's trying to also move in the region, disrupting our negotiations with Syria.
00:58:14.000This is the kind of stuff that people are just like, you know, I what?
00:58:19.000Yeah, it's just whoever gets the ring gets to be Green Lantern.
00:58:22.000No, you're chosen if you're fearless and you have great willpower.0.94
00:58:26.000The point is, I don't care about a black character like Jon Stewart, he's a great character, doesn't matter if he's black.0.96
00:58:33.000And there's a funny uh video, a viral video I saw from this uh, this uh, podcast, there's a bunch of black dudes where name a they had a quiz, name a superhero who doesn't have black in their name or electric powers, and nobody could do it.0.98
00:58:48.000Because, like, for some reason, most black superheroes have electricity powers or black in their name.0.71
00:58:54.000But don't get me wrong, there's a lot of black superheroes that don't.0.82
00:59:00.000And Jon Stewart, as Green Lantern, was one of the iterations of Green Lantern that doesn't have electrical powers or he's not called Black Green Lantern.
00:59:06.000But when they start doing these things, people are like, hey, this is creepy and weird.
00:59:12.000So the first culture war was like, stop doing this.
00:59:15.000Then people started losing their jobs.
00:59:18.000You said a naughty word, you're fired.
00:59:20.000Shane Gills gets fired for SNL for doing an Asian stereotype, even though comedians do it all the time.
00:59:25.000Sarah Silverman got fired from a movie because years prior, when everyone thought it was funny, she did blackface as a gag.
00:59:33.000Now, what I think is happening is we've largely crushed woke.
00:59:37.000I do fear it will come back if Democrats win, but I think the Republicans want it to come back right now a little bit because they want to freak people out, invoke that memory, and then use that to earn points when they don't have anything good to say about the economy.
01:00:55.000We shouted him out when he did the bit.
01:00:56.000He was on Kill Tony, and he said, He was like, man, I had heard, because I don't follow the news a lot, that they had this rave in Israel, this big dance party.
01:01:09.000And then my friends were like, did you see what happened?
01:02:23.000No, they were intentionally making stuff like that five years ago and they were trying to sell it and tell people it was normal, like weird outfits.
01:04:27.000That's why the pride flag added a black and brown stripe.
01:04:31.000Because it's encompassing black people and gay people in the same group, and anything that opposes them or stands in their way, they would get fired or canceled.
01:04:40.000And if they had been like, no, we're not taking this down because we support the young black man's right to dress up like a Sambo clown, that would be virtue signaling.0.99
01:06:22.000They're referring specifically to JD Vance referring to aliens as maybe demons.
01:06:28.000American Alchemy podcast host Jesse Michaels joined Rogan at one point on the issue of Vance, came up specifically his thoughts on aliens possibly being demons.
01:06:38.000He didn't really have a good explanation for that.
01:06:52.000But when Rogan says, I don't understand it, that is where I'm floored because this is a single paragraph thing to read on the internet or from any tweet.
01:07:00.000And the issue of aliens and demons has been extremely prominent in the UFO conversation for the past five years.
01:07:09.000Whether they are aliens from another planet or the things we're experiencing are otherworldly entities of negative influence, i.e., demons, we don't know.
01:07:21.000Christians who have a Christian theological worldview would argue what you think are aliens, you have been convinced, are actually demons.
01:07:31.000They are what we define as demons malicious, malevolent entities that they're whispering in your ear, something that affects.0.94
01:07:37.000It's not particularly difficult to understand.
01:07:40.000And I don't understand how Joe has missed this because it's such an interesting element of the conspiracy, the cover up, the question of what's really going on.
01:07:48.000Guys, I watch so much weird flat Earth dumb stuff.
01:07:51.000I just absolutely love watching all of the conspiracy stuff the Hollow Earth, the Flat Earth, the Agartha, the Icewall.
01:08:01.000This is another really big one that there's a firmament, the Earth is flat, and what you think are aliens are in fact demons.
01:08:07.000But I think they're demons and angels, the aliens.
01:08:10.000Indeed, that's actually the argument that what people think are aliens are actually just people experiencing either a manifestation of an angel or a demon.
01:08:19.000I'll say I don't like, I guess I would call it superstition, but I have met what looked like alien life forms through DMT.
01:08:56.000Kind of like my dad's body, but all I saw was a shimmering white, purple, all the colors of the rainbow shimmering in a hominid body form.1.00
01:09:59.000Well, I was actually dosing DMT, but with like ayahuasca, they inhibit, they destroy the inhibitor's ability to stop you from tripping because your normal state is balls tripping, CDs.
01:10:09.000The, With ayahuasca, the inhibitor is to stop your body from destroying it and passing it through.
01:10:14.000It binds to it so that it can enter your system and go into your brain.
01:10:18.000I don't want to speak out of turn because I need the chemistry in front of me.
01:10:21.000But as far as I know, the ayahuasca, the compilation of plants that they make the ayahuasca with, causes your body to stop inhibiting the DMT trip as opposed to just smoking a bunch of DMT and overriding your ability to stop it.
01:12:51.000Are they going to get a thing from you, or are they going to appear as a glowing, beautiful creature saying, We'll answer any question you want, Ian?
01:13:07.000And so you'll find beautiful, glowing, and he's like, No, no, look, we're not God.
01:13:11.000You can ask us anything, we'll tell you.
01:13:12.000And then they lie to you, and you believe it.
01:13:14.000My experience with psychoactive drugs is that it does make you more spiritually vulnerable.
01:13:20.000And if we're going to believe that there's a God and that there is such a thing as good, and For me, it's Jesus, then it makes sense that you are also going to be vulnerable to evil.
01:13:31.000Yeah, I've been in a lot about detox right now because literally alcohol, they call them spirits.
01:17:08.000I could say, I can't answer that question and then just be done with it.
01:17:10.000I'm trying to clarify the question so I can answer it.
01:17:12.000Most normal humans can answer the question.0.99
01:17:14.000Because most normal humans don't think beyond their fucking hand, dude.0.99
01:17:17.000No, because they understand colloquial English.0.99
01:17:20.000That means there is a common understanding of what a word means, and they don't say, Please define every instance of every word, every single sentence.
01:18:36.000When you're open to higher frequencies, but not that it like, and you might say just seeing the demon makes you more demonic, but also you may be able to witness and understand it from a distance by seeing it and then override it and know how to counter it because you've experienced it.
01:18:54.000So I don't know if it's like creates possession necessarily.
01:20:41.000That doesn't tend to ruin your life from day to day, but I can't understand that part of me wants to start smoking just to understand what that's like.
01:22:34.000But I've noticed with drug addiction, even hard, hard, hard, intense addiction, if you cannot do it for a day, you can do that over and over again.
01:22:41.000And then by all of a sudden, you realize you haven't had it for six days, and you're like, okay.
01:22:44.000I mean, anything that you're trying, like when I quit smoking, I just stopped.
01:22:51.000Well, last cigarette I had was before I got on the plane.
01:22:53.000I think it's different for everybody, right?
01:22:55.000Well, I mean, at the end of the day, it's just a decision, right?
01:22:58.000And one of the things that you try and do is you're like, I'm not going to have whatever it is I'm after right now, and I'll put it off.
01:23:04.000And if you can put it off, that one craving, and then hopefully it'll go away.
01:23:09.000Obviously, things that have withdrawal and can mess you up medically is different.
01:23:13.000But if you're dealing with things that you like, you know, like cigarettes or maybe alcohol, if you can put it off, just say, I'm not going to have this.
01:23:20.000I'm not going to have a drink right now.
01:23:22.000I'm not going to have a cigarette right now.
01:23:29.000And I found that I need to rely on a higher power for the urge to drink.
01:23:36.000Because you have alcoholics have an odd mental blind spot when it comes to the craving for the first drink.
01:23:42.000It's like your willpower for other things can be so incredibly strong, but when it comes to alcohol, it can be a split second boop, driving to the liquor store.
01:23:51.000So, East Asians, Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese have ALDH2 variant, which alcohol causes flushing, nausea, and headache and racing heart.
01:29:21.000But apparently, now there's this news.
01:29:23.000Golf Channel is delaying the launch of Big Break and Good Good, which was scheduled to premiere tonight because one of the show's sponsors requested to have its branding removed in the wake of the Callaway Good Good driver ad.
01:29:57.000And I've got like two or three million views now on my post.
01:30:01.000And I'm talking to a pro, and he's like, listen, like, you got to understand, like, the reason why they're talking about what you said.
01:30:06.000I basically said that I play low stakes, and in July, I made a hundred bucks an hour.
01:30:11.000And what these pros are like, they think you're saying you play like a thousand hours and you make a hundred bucks an hour every day you play, and you're playing like nine to five.
01:30:18.000And I was like, yeah, well, I never said that.
01:30:20.000Like, but you got to understand, like, Maybe when you sit, when next time you bring it up, and I immediately said, Why would I stop saying the stuff that makes people talk about me?
01:32:53.000But one of the things that we see commonly is a song will become popular because the studio will line up 100 prominent influencers and they'll say, we'll give each of you $10,000.
01:33:03.000We want you all on the 15th, 16th, and 17th of this month to post a video using this song and dancing to it.
01:33:11.000And then all of a sudden, all their followers are like, they make memes.
01:33:17.000So they'll go to an influencer and say, We want you to do it.
01:33:21.000You are going to steal cookies from your friend or boyfriend or whatever.
01:33:27.000And then you're going to run and you're going to fall down and spill the cookies.
01:33:29.000And then you're going to put a title that says, Me when I try to steal the cookies and it blows up in my face.
01:33:34.000Then you're all going to do it playing the song.
01:33:38.000And then all your followers will start remaking it.
01:33:40.000And all of a sudden the song gets a billion views.
01:33:42.000And then everyone's talking about the person.
01:33:44.000So Gundam style was very much something like that.
01:33:47.000So people think they're like, oh man, this song that hurt is so great.
01:33:50.000Now, don't get me wrong, Sai's fantastic, but it was a campaign.
01:33:52.000I think it might have been Scooter Braun, I'm not sure, but they met with Sai and they said, We are going to run a campaign to make this song number one.
01:34:02.000And, you know, we want the rights, and here's our plan.
01:34:25.000People thought that it was just going viral, but in fact, it was a company making it happen.
01:34:30.000Chase Hughes is the psychologist that talks about mammalian brain because a lot of how we interact is the mammal aspect of us, like dogs, you can do, but it's one of the four pillars of the mammalian hierarchy is popularity, is where you rank in the tribe, and other mammals will see how you rank in the tribe, how the others treat you, and then they'll either like you or dis.
01:34:52.000And I feel like this is what this marketing does.
01:34:53.000If you see that it's popular, Part of your mammalian brain just thinks it's good because it's popular.
01:34:59.000It's worth noting that the outrage about this, right?0.99
01:35:03.000This is part of why the female, I guess, what's it, the hero's journey for females in modern storytelling doesn't really work.1.00
01:35:14.000You can't do something that hurts females and have people respond positively to it.0.61
01:35:20.000You know, you can't have a woman that starts the show and then gets beat down for the second act.0.97
01:38:20.000Try and black out the pain, or you can accept it and then you can pour water on it to make it worse, or you can use vinegar to neutralize the burn or whatever.
01:38:26.000And I don't literally think that's a good idea or anything like that.
01:38:29.000I'm just saying the idea of it was when you've experienced very serious pain, these things roll off your back.
01:38:37.000You know, it's very much, you know, you'll play guitar, right?
01:38:41.000When you start playing guitar for the first time, your fingers, they hurt.
01:38:44.000And then after like, you know, a year, nothing will ever hurt your fingers again.
01:38:50.000And it's funny because I'll even explain it like, You probably can't even tell my fingers are super calloused, but they're so deeply calloused over a long period of time.
01:38:58.000They're just permanently, permanently armored for playing the guitar.
01:39:01.000I just, I, I, to be, to be fair, like if I played guitar for like four hours straight, I'd probably bleed.
01:39:06.000But just in general, nah, I just, you know, first started playing guitar, it hurts.
01:39:11.000You're pressing your fingers against the strings.
01:39:12.000And that's an analogy for just life in general.
01:39:15.000Most of these woke people are soft, frail, squishy, the kind that wear gloves to the gym.
01:39:22.000I like, um, the, The archetype of the warrior poet because of that.
01:39:27.000Like they go to combat, they see horror, they lose people in the most vicious way, they kill, and then they come back and they're so calloused, but still they feel like somehow you can use the calloused to your advantage as a protective buffer against nonsense, but also you can see what really matters.
01:40:18.000But here's the important thing I will absolutely, and I have no problem to say, Yes, a man dumped his fiance two weeks after their wedding because he found out she supported Lindsey Clancy.
01:40:29.000And I can argue for a couple of reasons.
01:40:52.000If you came out and were like, I know a guy who ditched his fiance because she didn't flush the toilet, it's not just the one thing that caused it.
01:40:57.000But here's the ultimate reason why I don't care about a fact check.
01:40:59.000This story doesn't move the needle, it's not going to get someone elected.
01:41:34.000If there's this many women who are dying on the hill that this woman is somehow a victim, any reasonable man is going to, especially one that might have children with her, is going to go, hmm?1.00
01:41:59.000I think the pharmaceutical companies are running commercials and telling doctors to push psychoactive drugs on women, largely women, and they drug them from teenagers.0.99
01:42:52.000It should be a more severe penalty to commit a crime while under the influence.
01:42:56.000That being said, I don't want to wash away the fact that the pharmaceutical companies in this country are evil and pump people full of drugs and are burning our civilization to the ground to turn a profit.
01:43:06.000Yeah, and psychiatry is such a mystery too with the way that drugs interact with one another.
01:43:11.000And the fact that she was in an inpatient, she wasn't even diagnosed with postpartum psychosis, she was diagnosed with postpartum major depressive episode.
01:43:20.000Um, but she needed to be monitored over a long period of time.
01:43:23.000You can't just go and say, Oh, yeah, I'm not suicidal and I'm not homicidal and be let out.
01:44:04.000My neighbor has been storing stuff in her garage, and she came over and I asked her about, or she asked me about this, and she is on the whole Patrick did it side.
01:56:23.000There's a couple different things you can do.
01:56:24.000You use sweetened condensed milk, some heavy cream, and just mix it up.
01:56:27.000But you don't got to use sweetened condensed milk.
01:56:29.000I'll just whip cream and I'll use a couple of egg yolks and I put like one teaspoon or tablespoon of maple syrup in it, barely sweet at all.
01:56:38.000It doesn't need it, especially when you put strawberries in it.
01:56:41.000What I can't stand is you buy ice cream and it's like 50 carbs per serving when it doesn't need to have all its sugar in it.
01:58:52.000It might have cost him a couple thousand dollars to generate 10 minutes worth of.0.95
01:58:56.000Yeah, I'm going to show you guys in the uncensored portion of the show because I don't know if you guys saw the fake, the podcast thing I posted where the women turned into pigs.0.92
01:59:40.000The problem is, you have no guarantee what comes out is actually what you asked.
01:59:45.000So it does take a decent amount of work.
01:59:47.000I would argue that each 30 second scene, using references from each other to re render the next one, you could probably, it's going to cost you $8 per 30 seconds.
01:59:57.000But let's say you try three or four times.
02:02:00.000And Howard also said, as a golf fan and a good, good fan, the ad sucked, but the video show was not the full ad, which I think is why this got circulated so much.
02:02:07.000Most people just saw the small clip of it.
02:04:18.000You can follow me at Carter Banks on X, at Carter Banks Official on Instagram, and check out our record label at Trash House Records on YouTube.
02:04:26.000Yeah, let's get into the after show and watch inappropriate stuff.
02:05:29.000Let's talk about how good AI has become, and we'll pull in our good friend Venice AI here, where I've got a bunch of funny videos, and we'll start with this one that makes no sense.
02:09:13.000It was supposed to, like, The prompt was supposed to be that I literally wrote on the whatever podcast, the women start turning into pigs, and then the house starts freaking out.0.86
02:12:05.000You know, I'd like to see the same scenario that you just had, only as soon as they're talking about women just wanting equality, their nose grows like Pinocchio.0.95
02:12:48.000I literally, the prompt was on the whatever podcast a bunch of women are debating when they start turning into pigs and screaming, and the podcast host freaks out.
02:12:56.000I don't know why he's smiling, and it's not the whatever podcast, but I mean, when it nails it, it nails it.
02:13:41.000You know those, you know on Instagram, they have like fake, they have like movie clips and like, I'm going to put this up and be like, I'm going to make a fake movie.
02:13:48.000We should make a fake movie trailer called like The Pigs.1.00
02:13:51.000And it's about this guy and he just turns feminists into pigs.0.99
02:17:15.000Well, it didn't quite make sense because I don't know how they went from the rooftop to that mud or why the mud is at the same level as him.
02:17:21.000But we can re render and try and make it work better.
02:17:39.000I mean, the old AI, you know, a year and a half ago, it would have got it wrong.
02:17:43.000Like the body might have stayed, like the face of the bad guy.
02:17:46.000The bad guy would be the kick for a split second and then it'd be the hero again.
02:17:49.000Well, I was thinking, like, the guy jumps up to do a roundhouse and the body stays facing the bad guy and like his lower half spins around like he's an action figure from the 80s.
02:19:47.000I mean, she's an icon to the drag community.
02:19:51.000I mean, Would it not be fair for whoever's in charge, the president, the speaker of the house, to at least offer to the family, to the pardon family, that she lie in state in the rotunda in her honor?
02:20:10.000I don't know any of the criteria to what does and does not, you know, rate lying in state at the rotunda.
02:20:26.000Something that's like considered, you know, faux pas or whatever to have a, you know, I mean, she is an American icon or was an American icon.
02:20:36.000Um, that's, I don't think that that's in question.
02:20:40.000Um, I mean, the president has said that everyone should fly their flags at half mass for the next week because of Dolly's passing.
02:21:14.000It needs a resolution by the House and Senate or, yeah, case by case basis through a concurrent resolution of the House and Senate or approval by congressional leadership, provided the family consents.
02:21:31.000The decision rests entirely with Congress.
02:21:35.000So you'd need a bipartisan group of people that would say, yeah, we want it.
02:21:38.000It's not a bad idea, but that's something that the president doesn't actually have the ability to do.
02:23:59.000I mean, I certainly wouldn't have any kind of, especially considering, like you said, like you mentioned, you know, the greatest export the U.S. has is our culture.
02:24:11.000And she was, you know, beloved worldwide.
02:24:14.000You know, she was very, you know, loved by people of all different political, you know, political stripes.
02:24:23.000And she was very, very good to her community.
02:24:27.000You know, she did, there's a lot of stuff that she did on an individual level.
02:24:31.000And stuff that she did for her community and surrounding communities in the Nashville area.
02:24:37.000So, yeah, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
02:24:39.000And maybe we could, if Riley Moore's watching, maybe he could get the ball rolling, you know?
02:24:46.000But it is something that would, you know, I imagine it would have to happen fairly quickly.
02:24:51.000Her family's probably, you know, if I understand correctly, her cause of death was revealed to be she had a cancer.
02:25:39.000Because to lay them in honor, like, you know, you have to, it is, you know, usually it's when they're recently passed away because, again, you don't want to dig anyone up.
02:25:50.000You don't want to dig someone up to do it.
02:25:52.000It's something that happens before they're put into the ground or entombed or whatever.
02:25:55.000I'd be really surprised if the state of Tennessee didn't already have something cooking as well.
02:26:01.000So that's something to think about, I guess.
02:27:20.000One thing I was thinking you mentioned the women turn into pigs.1.00
02:27:23.000You should do an ode to Homer's Odyssey called The Feminist's Odyssey and do something fun with AI with that.0.94
02:27:32.000Anyways, I'll jump right into my question.0.79
02:27:35.000Mostly for Naomi, but a follow up for the panel.
02:27:38.000Naomi, I appreciate your advocacy and whistleblowing regarding some of the ideological capture that we're seeing in nuanced scientific fields.
02:27:49.000Part of me can understand and even sort of appreciate some of these subjective arguments that they give.
02:27:56.000But I was curious if you were to steel man their position, what objective facts do they typically use?
02:28:04.000And what are the most convincing arguments that you've seen in the pursuit of their ideology?
02:28:08.000Yeah, I think that for the gender stuff in particular, that's the most hot button topic.0.85
02:28:15.000And gender dysphoria is laid out in the DSM, it is a mental illness.
02:28:23.000And there is an intense rise in cases right now.
02:28:29.000So it's no shock that human sexuality is very complex and therapists must be trained really well in being able to listen non judgmentally.
02:28:42.000So they purported that we should be watching porn and reading sadomasochistic erotica in class to help us lower our.
02:30:16.000Yeah, the sex dungeon tour was just a video of a woman going into a sex dungeon and trying out, like being a submissive, and there was flogging and a guillotine and whipping and humiliation.0.97
02:30:32.000She was wrapped up in sulfane and made to jump up and down.0.95
02:31:21.000And also, if somebody's deriving a lot of pleasure off hurting somebody, or they're deriving pleasure from being hurt and being abused, even if it is consensual, I think that we should be able to have a conversation about why that is.
02:31:51.000Like, if you watch porn and you study it, you'll see the difference of people that are pound town where the girl's like, ah, like in pain, and they'll just sell it as that's porn.
02:32:21.000Inherently, I don't think, I don't think because I think, yeah, I mean, I think there was definitely a pro porn message that was in the program.
02:32:30.000Um, and yeah, just like you're saying, you don't know a video on Pornhub if that's a poor girl getting human trafficked, or yeah, to your point, there's amateur videos of loving couples, so it's hard to parse out the distinction for sure.
02:32:45.000And kids, if a kid sees it, they're not going to know what it's supposed to be, no, unless they're told.
02:32:50.000And we were also told in that class to protect teenagers from their parents.
02:32:57.000Like, if, for example, we were given an example if a girl is having anal sex, a 16 year old girl, we should be educating her about the safety of using lubrication and condoms rather than maybe discussing her risky behavior taking.0.95
02:33:23.000Because we have a mental health crisis, and I thought that I have the requisite skills to be helpful, but I wasn't trained in the proper skills to actually be of service in that way.
02:33:34.000So I think that the abstinence argument failed in the 90s and in the 80s.
02:35:30.000So, do you have anything you want to add or a follow up?
02:35:34.000Yeah, just for the panel, just curious kind of what you think the true cause of this kind of dogmatic adherence sounds more like advocacy than exposure.
02:35:48.000It seems like nobody can have rational conversations, even so called experts.
02:35:53.000I'm just curious where that's come from.
02:35:56.000I do think that it's advocacy because I think that, honestly, I think that it's an effort to take innocence from young people.
02:36:08.000And this is something the left actually.
02:36:14.000When you get into like the theorists and stuff like that, people like Foucault and stuff, they reject the idea that children should be innocent or should be treated as innocent.
02:36:26.000I mean, I think that Foucault felt that way because he was a pedophile.
02:36:32.000But there are a lot of people that, you know, maybe they're not actually pedophiles, but still ascribe to the idea that.
02:36:40.000You know, no one's actually innocent, or innocence is a construct, and so they think that children shouldn't be considered innocent.
02:36:52.000I think that's horrifying and terrible.
02:36:56.000And but I think at the end of the day, what it does is it starts to give justification for putting the state in between the child and the parents and stuff.
02:37:14.000It's the ideology of postmodernism, the Frankfurt School.
02:37:20.000It's interesting because the American kind of hiding behind sort of an objective approach with sort of a scientific method, like a pseudo scientific method.
02:38:15.000They attract people that want to, you know, violate children and stuff like that.0.77
02:38:21.000So just because, you know, people often make remarks about, you know, and just because it's the argument that most people are familiar with, people say that, oh, you know, there's a lot of pedophiles in the Catholic Church.
02:38:35.000But it's not because the Catholic Church was unique, right?0.53
02:38:41.000The Catholic Church is what offered existing pedophiles.0.98
02:38:44.000It didn't make pedophiles, it offered pedophiles.0.99
02:38:53.000Nowadays, you see a lot of sexual assault and that kind of stuff going on in schools because the Catholic Church has kind of fallen out of favor.
02:39:01.000And the Catholic Church itself actually has started coming down on priests that do that back in the day.
02:39:08.000They were trying to hush it up and brush it under the rug.
02:39:13.000And so you don't hear about it as much because there are fewer people going to the Catholic Church, first of all.
02:39:18.000Second of all, the Catholic Church itself will come down on the priests.
02:39:21.000So the pedophiles, instead of going into the church or going into the clergy, now they have to go to other places.
02:39:28.000So they would go to camp counselors, they become teachers and what have you, because those people go where the access is.
02:39:36.000It's not that teachers have an inclination to assault children or whatever.
02:39:43.000It's that there's access to children there.
02:39:46.000It's not that camp counselors, because they're camp counselors, it turns them into a pedophile.
02:39:52.000Camp counselors or, you know, summer camps have access to children.
02:39:57.000So the actual criminals, the people with those inclinations, they go to where the access is.
02:40:05.000I would wonder, though, about the Catholic, the way that that church was set up that the men couldn't marry and they would be forced to be celibate.
02:40:13.000It doesn't make you after children.0.51
02:40:15.000But then they surround them with young boys and they're like, you can't have sex.
02:40:18.000It doesn't make, look, it doesn't make you want young children.1.00
02:40:23.000I think men want to fuck something.1.00
02:40:25.000And if it's not a woman, you're totally wrong.1.00
02:40:28.000You don't think it's a man, you know?0.82
02:43:23.000And actually, aside from the weird library study in a factory basement and the guy jumping through his table with phasing powers getting beaten, I said he makes a witty joke.
02:43:36.000And then it made him say, I guess I have to get my cardio in some of the time.
02:45:11.000Here, um, with all the controversy surrounding the WNBA and as Cantor and understanding of, I mean, the English language, um, what do you think the response is going to be as it pertains to the W in the WNBA?
02:45:26.000And furthermore, what psychological hoops do you think they're going to jump through when it comes to an S Cantor when they inevitably deny his ability to declare for the WNBA draft?
02:46:59.000You know, so especially with somebody like Brittany Griner, who is, you know, she came into the league at 6'7, you know, was doing tomahawk dunks and stuff.
02:47:09.000And people back then were saying the same thing.
02:47:13.000But the last thing I want to say here is, And I don't know how much you guys know.
02:47:21.000Some of you guys watch sports, some of you don't.
02:47:23.000But as far as the altercation between Natasha Cloud and Ines Cantor, do you think that there's a case for any WNBA player that was ever ejected or fined for heckling a fan during a game, knowing that now it's something that they are willing to overlook?
02:47:47.000So, obviously, I mean, if you look at the NBA, right, as the standard.
02:47:52.000Typically, when a player goes out and heckles a fan, they're instantly thrown out of the game, suspended and fined, right?
02:48:00.000But now, all of a sudden, you know, it's something that the WNBA is willing to overlook just because it was Inez Cantor and not anybody else.
02:48:27.000So, my question is, you know, what does that say for anybody else before then that was ever either thrown out of a game or that was fined or suspended during that time?
02:48:40.000And do they have recourse to get their money back?
02:48:45.000No, they'll just say they would accuse him of the shirt.
02:48:49.000You know, oh, his shirt was antagonistic intentionally and, you know, he knew what he was doing.
02:48:54.000They're going to enforce the rules to their benefit.
02:48:57.000Is that video of Britney Griner reeled him, the one that she's shirtless in?
02:49:10.000Like, what if the secret is 20 years ago they put a bunch of young guys on puberty blockers or chopped their nuts off because they were like, we're going to dominate women's sports?0.88
02:49:17.000It would be a hermaphrodite, you know?0.77
02:53:17.000How do you think the psychology field can actually fix its assessment process so we stop?
02:53:22.000Pushing transition on people who are going to regret it or get worse and start properly identifying who might actually benefit long term because it looks like the excesses of woke 1.0 have already done serious damage to a lot of kids and young adults.
02:53:42.000It can't be ideologically driven, it can't be teaching future clinicians that every single child who comes with gender dysphoria. Is in need of immediate transition.
02:53:56.000I mean, in the DSM, it requires a six month period of intense dysphoria.
02:54:03.000But what I was taught when I was in there was affirm immediately, ask for the new pronouns, ask for the new name.
02:54:13.000And I think that this is also a good clinical example that we need to.
02:54:24.000We need to get the family involved too.
02:54:26.000I think family therapy is really important when it comes to children.
02:54:32.000A lot of the times in these transition cases, the parents are just being bullied by professionals into letting the child take the lead completely with their own medical care.
02:54:46.000But those parents know the children best, and those parents know their biological sex.
02:54:51.000As far as assessment, I think that it's going to be a waiting game.
02:54:57.000I mean, I'm comfortable being in a spot where I don't think that we should be affirming anything under the age of 18.0.53
02:55:06.000I think that if there is persistent gender dysphoria for years upon years, starting from puberty to 18, and then that person wants to pursue medical treatment, right now we don't have any avenue to stop that, to block that.
02:55:23.000But I firmly believe that for minors, therapy should serve to help the child reconcile.
02:55:31.000How they feel with their biological sex.
02:55:34.000Did you say that the DSM 5 says that they need to be suffering in order to qualify from gender dysphoria intensely for six weeks, six months?
02:55:47.000It does seem really short to me to start having medical interventions.
02:55:52.000But, you know, a lot of these kids are coming to, like, for example, we had an internship site that was affiliated with Santa Clara University that was a resource center.0.59
02:56:05.000For trans youth, and so these kids come with their diagnosis already, and it is the job of the therapist on day one to affirm that mental illness and to send them down the path of offering free binders and free tucking underwear or whatever.
02:56:22.000That is not therapy, that's not clinical practice, that is just straight up advocacy.0.70
02:56:29.000And we need to expose what's going on inside the institutions because people don't know, and when When parents have a child in distress, they're trusting professionals and they shouldn't, honestly.
02:56:42.000When you were doing that, did you have the opportunity to even address this, but like say to a kid, hey, why do you feel like that?
02:56:52.000I had the opportunity to once, and I was being directed to do something that wasn't in alignment with my values and what I thought was ethical.
02:57:03.000And so I decided to pass on that client, which was a tough thing to do because I think that I could have helped and benefited the situation.
02:57:11.000But, you know, I'm being, I was a trainee.
02:57:14.000I was being supervised to, to, and told to do a certain thing that I just couldn't do.
02:57:20.000Would you have been fired and blackballed if you decided to just, oh, yeah, avoid their rules and ignore them?
02:58:34.000I think I wouldn't say zero, but I would say make it very, difficult to have maybe hormones slightly before 18, but no surgery before 18 for sure.
02:58:51.000And I do get your point too, because for some of these kids, eventually it will be the right decision for them, you know, for their mental health to transition eventually.
02:59:01.000But it's how do we parse out who that is?