Western Standard - CMS： Legacy media needs to evolve or die

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00:00:29.900 Today, welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. For those of you watching it live today, it is Valentine's Day, so be sure to knock the dust off those personal trimmers and guys be courteous, drink a little pineapple juice. And if it's past and you're watching this on one of the cable channels, I hope you had a good Valentine's Day all the same. Got a good show lined up as always, boy, the issues are just piling up.

00:00:53.420 So again, for those live, hey, use that comment scroll. It's good. I like seeing that interaction. Let's just stay civil with each other. I see Matthew Duffy getting ahead of things, saying, defund the CBC and Catherine Tate CEO. Absolutely. I'm with you there. And others checking in, Mr. Stanley, Wildrose, Scott Campbell, Jordan. Thanks for joining. Get in there, put those comments in. Just stay civil with each other. We don't always have to be at each other's throats.

00:01:18.780 Which is something I'm looking forward to with my guest who's going to come on in a little while. Transgender columnist, Julia Mallott. And yeah, you know, we seem to have a lot of trouble having civil, rational conversation when it comes to trans issues. They're sensitive ones, but she really, you know, we don't always all agree on everything at the same time, but we can talk about these things without being at each other's throats.

00:01:38.580 It's, it's, we don't have to be on the fringes all the time. I think there is some middle ground to be found. So I'm looking forward to that conversation. It's going to be an interesting one. She's, she's very interesting to listen to.

00:01:48.100 All right, let's get on to what I want to get on about today. And yes, it's media and legacy media as usual. I'm going to go back in time a bit for those who remember the 80s and late 70s. If you remember the Buggles, they released a hit single, and this is an earworm, this one. And, you know, video killed the radio star, if you remember it.

00:02:06.100 That was nearly 45 years ago. That song bemoaned the end of radio based stardom for musicians because music videos were hitting the scene. Well, it's getting near half a century since that song came out. And music based radio stations, they're starting to fade away, but it took until now. And it's not video that's taking them out. It's streaming music options like Spotify that led to the change. And the stars aren't gone. They've just moved on to a new platform. I mean, even if every radio station was to shut down today, like her hater, Taylor Swift,

00:02:36.100 would remain a household name and would pack stadiums for her shows. Things have just changed. That's all. Musicians in the early 1980s who weren't willing to embrace videos, well, they were often left behind, especially once MTV became huge. So artists so willing to change at the time found videos provided a whole new platform to reach audiences. So rather than whining at video killed the radio stars, they actually found a new way to make money and they did very well with it. Every technological change brings out people claiming it's going to wipe out jobs or destroy an industry. Now, while tech inspired transitions can be disruptive and

00:03:06.080 harmful. If an inflexible market is out there, you know, but products, industries, they evolve and jobs remain for those willing to do things differently. I mean, myself, I used to work as a surveyor in oil exploration. I've been trained in using a transit and a theodolite. GPS made that mode of surveying pretty much obsolete. And I had the choice to adapt or lose my job. Well, I adapted. Mechanized agricultural practices. I mean, they did put millions of farmer farm laborers out of work.

00:03:32.080 Remember the Jode family and Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. They were initially displaced because of new tractors working the cotton fields. But while new agricultural technology caused a lot of social and economic upheaval for a time, should governments have tried to block the evolution or subsidize people to plant and harvest crops by hand, technological advances have since increased agricultural production to the point where famine is rare in a world with 8 billion people in it.

00:03:56.400 And the evolution caused pain, but it was worthwhile in the long run. And labor balanced itself out as people learn and embrace new skills.

00:04:03.320 Getting back to the arts. Stage performers. I mean, they feared moving pictures would wipe out their industry back at the turn of the 20th century, the start of it.

00:04:11.480 Broadway's still going strong today. Movie stars. They feared television would wipe out their industry.

00:04:15.840 Well, movies and the stars associated with them are still doing quite fine.

00:04:18.860 Artists willing to flex were actually provided with a broader spectrum of performance options.

00:04:23.880 Netflix. They began as a movie rental company. Actually, they delivered DVDs.

00:04:27.900 Then they started a streaming service. Blockbuster, though, they were a movie rental company and they stuck to their guns.

00:04:33.680 Well, Blockbuster went from an industry giant to oblivion.

00:04:37.020 And Netflix is now worth an estimated $240 billion.

00:04:41.000 Changes can hurt and the transition periods can be messy, but the change is inevitable.

00:04:44.840 People need to adapt to change rather than try to fight it.

00:04:48.760 Or worse, people have to try getting the government to fight the change on their behalf.

00:04:53.080 And that brings us to the state of today's news media.

00:04:56.540 Conventional news media has been in a state of steady decline for nearly 20 years now.

00:05:00.280 The collapse of the industry has been accelerating and the recent spate of layoffs in Canada by CTV sort of drove that point home.

00:05:06.200 But instead of seeking rational ways to facilitate the transition of an industry in flux,

00:05:10.320 Trudeau had a temper tantrum during a news conference and he declared,

00:05:14.240 I'm pissed off. At what? How?

00:05:17.700 How long does Trudeau expect a business to continue without a viable business model?

00:05:21.920 Of course, it's a bit much to expect Trudeau to understand even the most basic of business or economic principles.

00:05:26.420 If he hasn't caught a glimmer or sense to those issues, you know, by now he's not gonna.

00:05:30.100 Trudeau's government's been pumping incentives and direct subsidies into legacy media outlets for years, and it's failing.

00:05:35.060 I mean, ostensibly, they're doing it to save an industry deemed too important to fail.

00:05:39.860 In reality, of course, he's more motivated in buying the love of media for his embattled regime.

00:05:44.380 And he has bought a little bit of love.

00:05:46.460 I mean, they're certainly holding the leader of the official opposition to account.

00:05:49.800 But media outlets can't afford to operate under those outdated models.

00:05:52.840 The layoffs and closures are gonna continue.

00:05:55.000 If anything, Trudeau's handouts to media outlets have made things worse.

00:05:58.840 Legacy media outlets, they've quickly become dependent upon subsidies rather than looking at ways to adapt to changing times.

00:06:05.200 Trudeau tried a failed cash grab on social media giants like Facebook, and not only did it fail to garner any money,

00:06:10.700 but it took away a means of drawing traffic to media sites, causing them all, whether large or small, to lose revenue.

00:06:16.780 Yeah, he made it worse.

00:06:18.360 Outlets counting on checks from Facebook, yeah, they're suddenly realizing that money isn't coming.

00:06:22.360 And now they're starting to cut.

00:06:24.060 Look, guys, print newspapers, they're not coming back to where they were again.

00:06:27.200 People aren't gonna pay for classified ads again.

00:06:29.720 Families aren't gonna gather around the TV to watch the evening news anymore.

00:06:32.660 Those days are gone.

00:06:33.340 The market isn't gone, though.

00:06:35.120 It's just diluted.

00:06:36.620 And people have so many new means to seek entertainment and information.

00:06:39.520 We just don't need some of the services news outlets are trying to provide.

00:06:43.380 They need to change.

00:06:44.200 They need to flex.

00:06:45.360 I can find the weather forecast for my area or anywhere else in the world within seconds on my phone.

00:06:50.380 So why are TV stations still bothering with meteorologists on staff?

00:06:53.260 That's just one example.

00:06:54.840 I can go directly to websites to find information that I used to have to get from newspapers and broadcast outlets.

00:06:59.160 Now, people still want to read, view, and listen to news and opinion.

00:07:02.620 And they're willing to spend money to do so, as the Western Standard subscription model is proving.

00:07:07.260 But the outlets need to be lean, targeted, and efficient now.

00:07:10.980 No more giant buildings, no large studios, and no printing presses.

00:07:14.040 As with every other industry, the news media will adapt to a working model, though many outlets are going to fall by the wayside during the transition.

00:07:20.720 Subsidizing existing outlets is doing little more than animating a corpse at this point.

00:07:25.280 As with most things, all the government needs to do with media is just get out of the bloody way.

00:07:28.920 It's going to take care of itself.

00:07:30.780 That's unfortunately contrary to the authoritarian nature, though, of the Trudeau regime.

00:07:34.700 Let's hope the next administration knows how to back off.

00:07:38.120 Okay, that's where I was going today, guys.

00:07:40.980 Yeah, just that conference at Trudeau was just too much.

00:07:43.360 I mean, I'm sad about the layoffs.

00:07:44.540 I really am.

00:07:45.020 I don't like seeing lost jobs, but we've got to get real, guys.

00:07:48.340 All right, let's bring in our news editor, Dave Naylor, and see what else is going on out there.

00:07:51.600 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:07:52.720 Good day, Corey.

00:07:53.640 Happy Valentine's Day to you.

00:07:55.240 Oh, thanks.

00:07:56.320 You didn't give me a card or anything, though.

00:07:58.240 Oh, man.

00:07:59.200 You got anything planned for Jane tonight?

00:08:01.240 Well, I'm probably going to have to now.

00:08:05.920 You're an old romantic, aren't you?

00:08:07.600 Oh, yeah.

00:08:09.820 We've had a really busy morning in the newsroom, Corey.

00:08:12.640 It's all sparked by Sean Polzer's story yesterday of wacky environment minister Gilbo saying that they're done spending money on roads and, you know, basically wants everybody to walk.

00:08:26.440 Well, the story took fire and was retweeted by Premier Daniel Smith and Premier Scott Moe and Premier Doug Ford was commenting on it this morning.

00:08:39.320 So this country's in a bit of an uproar over the story.

00:08:44.640 So I think he backed off a little bit today.

00:08:49.100 I know our Sean Polzer was just at a press conference with Premier Smith and asked her about it.

00:08:55.080 So that story will be coming up very quickly.

00:08:59.500 We've got some breaking news leading the site at the moment, Corey.

00:09:02.680 Tamara Leach, along with various other Freedom Convoy organizers, have launched a lawsuit against Justin Trudeau and the federal liberals over the way they were treated and freezing everybody's bank accounts.

00:09:19.400 It was a two-year anniversary of that today.

00:09:21.760 And on that day, Leach and others filed her lawsuit.

00:09:26.800 We've got lots of Alberta versus Ottawa stuff today, including Rebecca Schultz sending off a nasty the Valentine's Day letter to the aforementioned Mr. Gilbo on his comments on methane reductions.

00:09:42.360 And then we've got Alberta intervening against the Trudeau gun bill and specifically their vow to ban, quote, assault style weapons, unquote.

00:09:55.660 Linda Slobodian is talking about the increased immigration rates that the Trudeau government is bringing in.

00:10:04.860 And basically, if you've got a spare bedroom, you may be asked to house a migrant. 0.99

00:10:10.760 The Alberta government unveiled an ambitious new tourism plan today that they hope by 2035, annual spending by tourists in the province will hit $25 billion a year.

00:10:27.760 And we've got a newly released Privy Council report saying that Canadians do not trust Trudeau and Gilbo on their climate change plan.

00:10:38.260 And so I think it's a bit like stating the bleeding obvious, Corey, but you get the feeling that Canadians are almost at the end of their rope with this kind of nonsense.

00:10:48.000 I think they really are, but we've still got such a long rope ahead of us to try and get rid of the government in power.

00:10:53.300 It's going to be a long couple of years yet, I'm afraid.

00:10:56.520 Yeah, but it's, you know, the clock is ticking and we're now less than two years away.

00:11:01.000 True enough. Well, we'll keep working on it and it gives us lots to write about and lots for me to rant about, I guess, so we can look on that bright side.

00:11:08.880 True enough. So don't forget to pick up some flowers from 7-Eleven on the way home.

00:11:13.380 I'll see what I can do. All right. Thanks for the update, Dave. I'll talk to you later.

00:11:17.840 Thanks, Corey.

00:11:18.300 You know, advantages I do have in having a live show, I'll take advantage of my platform and I will say outright, yes, I'm being cheap using what I've got, though, and it's true.

00:11:27.780 Jane, if you're listening today, I love you and I'm lucky to have you and I know it.

00:11:32.240 I don't say it often enough, but this is the day to remind us to kind of think about that and know when we've got it good.

00:11:39.120 So thanks for putting up with me for this long and I'll see what I can find at 7-Eleven.

00:11:44.280 All right. But yes, lots going on out there in the news and our newsroom is busy and running hard as always.

00:11:51.120 So this is thanks to you guys.

00:11:53.280 Let's go to talk a little bit about the media changes and fluxes.

00:11:57.060 We're a subscription based outlet. There's some advertising, but subscriptions are really what's important to us.

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00:12:10.180 Jonathan Bradley, he's up in Edmonton. He's going to be reporting all of those things for us on the legislative front.

00:12:16.380 And we've got people across the country providing columns and news copy to us.

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00:12:24.540 And if you've already subscribed, I really do appreciate it. Thank you for getting on board.

00:12:28.780 So, yeah, let's see what else we've got going on.

00:12:33.460 I mean, as Dave said, you know, in reporting on the obvious, there's little trust in Gilboa's leadership.

00:12:39.300 I mean, the environmental front has really gone mad in so many ways.

00:12:44.480 We've let the extreme at least dominate the discourse.

00:12:48.540 I don't think he's winning, but he's really causing a lot of disruption.

00:12:51.440 Gilboa, when he's hinting at basically the federal government's cutting, you know, pushing into municipalities to keep them from building roads because they don't want us to drive anymore.

00:13:02.360 It's crazy. And this, you know, crazy from an environmentalist is nothing new.

00:13:06.320 But when it's the top environmentalist in the country, when it's our environment minister, we should be pretty concerned, guys.

00:13:13.020 This is problematic. Likewise, I mean, he's not in government, but with the NDP, with that private members bill, talking about making it illegal to essentially speak positively about the oil field.

00:13:25.540 I mean, it's not going to happen. The bill's not going to pass.

00:13:28.540 It's private members and it's loony.

00:13:30.200 But just the fact that he thought he could put that in there and, you know, it's taking up the time of our news and our discussion and our parliament is just astounding.

00:13:42.280 The environmentalists have really gone, I don't know, off the rails.

00:13:46.620 So, you know, I'm going to use that to segue into my next guest, which I want to speak about.

00:13:50.900 We're going to talk about something I think has been more polarizing and more sensitive than the environment.

00:13:54.560 And it needs more than anything, some rational discussion because we do have people on the fringes.

00:14:00.900 Those are the ones that make good news copy.

00:14:02.640 Those are the ones that make the most fun for us to tweet at or retweet or or do those sorts of things.

00:14:08.640 But it doesn't lead to productive ends.

00:14:10.560 You know, we have some activists on both sides that really just heat things up.

00:14:15.620 And we don't get any progress, though, when we do that, as fun as it may seem and as much as it makes for good online traffic.

00:14:23.740 So I've got columnist Julia Molotan and she is transgender and she speaks openly of those things.

00:14:31.280 And I just really enjoy her videos and, you know, speaking on political issues in general and on the, yes, the trans issue, because it's just been such a big one the last couple of years.

00:14:39.900 So welcome to the show, Julia.

00:14:41.680 I appreciate you coming on to talk to us today.

00:14:43.900 Thanks for having me.

00:14:45.100 So I saw one of your recent videos.

00:14:47.660 Actually, you were down in the United States or are you still down there right now?

00:14:51.440 I am in Florida right now.

00:14:53.040 This is this is my rental house.

00:14:55.080 OK, right on.

00:14:56.240 And I liked where you went with that, because, you know, that was something I experienced when I was working in Texas.

00:15:01.360 And I love getting down to Texas whenever I can is, yes, some people can be the next are truly as red as they get down there. 0.74

00:15:07.800 But at least they're blunt speaking.

00:15:09.120 They can have the discussions, our own Canadian politeness and our disinclination to get into issues that might be controversial.

00:15:15.820 Actually, again, sort of hinders us.

00:15:18.020 You had a great discussion with a person in a Target store, you're saying.

00:15:22.940 I did.

00:15:23.640 I did.

00:15:23.980 So I come down here pretty regularly.

00:15:25.920 I really enjoy the conversations that I have down in the American South.

00:15:29.360 And yesterday I was at Target picking up some salsa and the woman beside me, she started talking to me about Jesus.

00:15:36.460 And then we quickly went on to Trans Matters and it ended up being maybe a half an hour conversation.

00:15:41.520 And things were said that might be considered politically incorrect in terms of how the topic was handled.

00:15:46.920 But I love that.

00:15:48.120 I love that we can have the chance to authentically connect and that people down here feel comfortable just sharing their mind.

00:15:53.900 Well, yeah, I mean, we're not going to get anywhere if we just don't talk.

00:15:57.600 And, you know, this issue is here.

00:15:59.440 It's front and center.

00:16:00.700 It's big.

00:16:01.600 And we've seen it really hit the news lately with Premier Daniel Smith laying out at least, I mean, the legislation isn't there.

00:16:08.120 But what she feels should be the appropriate restrictions and legislations, particularly regarding minors.

00:16:15.440 I mean, I think that's kind of one of the areas where things have really brought it to a head.

00:16:19.720 I mean, people, when it's adults, you know, they might disagree, but they're not too concerned.

00:16:22.940 But they get very concerned when it comes to minors.

00:16:25.480 And we do treat minors differently than we do with adults when it comes to choices that they make.

00:16:30.320 But at the same time, minors do need protection because not every parent is supportive.

00:16:35.340 Where, I guess, you know, it's a big question, so it'll probably be a bit of an answer.

00:16:38.240 And you've talked a bit about it.

00:16:39.100 Where do you think Premier Smith landed in trying to find the balance there?

00:16:43.440 It's hard to comment in one comment because there's so many different pieces to the legislation.

00:16:48.920 There's pieces that touch social transition.

00:16:50.920 So that's going to be names and pronouns in school and whether that should be allowed without parental consent.

00:16:55.980 There's the sex education piece.

00:16:57.740 But then there's also the medical side, the surgical and hormonal interventions for minors.

00:17:02.880 And then there's the sports piece, too.

00:17:04.580 So we've seen the social transition conversation before in Saskatchewan and New Brunswick, but we really haven't seen the other conversations hit the Canadian policy level until it arose in Alberta two weeks ago.

00:17:15.580 Yeah, so, I mean, when it comes to children, something that comes up and people feel sensitive about it quickly, I think no matter where they land on is parental rights, though.

00:17:24.380 And it seems there's an assumption on the part that parents just shouldn't be trusted with all the information on their children and that the schools should act as gatekeepers from that from them.

00:17:34.160 And I think even trans supportive parents just feel a bit offended, like, hey, hang on a second.

00:17:38.740 I am the one who should be communicating with my child in these important times, not not being held out of the conversation by a school.

00:17:47.160 And I think that's where the big battle is going to be drawn here.

00:17:50.580 I agree with that.

00:17:52.160 There is an attitude amongst some people that this is not a big deal.

00:17:56.040 This is a name and it's a pronoun.

00:17:57.300 And so we don't need to have parents involved.

00:18:00.460 And yet, at the same time, they use an argument that we shouldn't tell parents because, well, what if the parents cause abuse and what if they cause harm when this happens?

00:18:07.520 And having been through a transition myself, I would say this is a big deal.

00:18:11.200 It can be profoundly positive, but it also can be profoundly negative.

00:18:15.980 And so for a school to undertake this with well-meaning intention to support a child, that's not a good thing.

00:18:22.200 This is something that we want the medical community to be standing by the child to provide psychiatric support.

00:18:27.480 We certainly want the parents to be involved to make sure that we understand how this is going to relate to the family.

00:18:32.100 And that isn't what's happening.

00:18:33.940 So that piece of the policy, I certainly think, is prudent.

00:18:37.500 There's always some discussion amongst people whether this should be consent on behalf of the parents or whether parents should be informed this is happening.

00:18:44.240 I think there's fair debate to be had on that.

00:18:46.360 But the status quo in many schools in Canada right now is that parents are just not part of the process at all.

00:18:51.340 Yeah, well, and you called out some stuff when it comes to, again, I think most people at least are uncomfortable with the thought of irreversible surgeries being done to anybody who's under 18.

00:18:59.600 Because we know that decisions come and go and there's confusion, there's flux.

00:19:04.020 But you did point out that nobody's been calling out, you know, breast augmentation for girls under 18, even though, you know, if it's a non-gender issue, people weren't saying anything or even boys getting reductions.

00:19:16.320 I mean, these are surgical procedures that are elective and ostensibly could wait until after 18 years as well.

00:19:23.100 And, of course, Premier Smith didn't mention that at all.

00:19:25.780 That's just it.

00:19:26.840 I'm personally a proponent of waiting on surgeries because surgeries, of course, can have lots of complications and they are irreversible.

00:19:32.960 So there can be an element of regret, even if you're very confident when you're younger.

00:19:36.840 And there isn't a lot of reason to move forward when you're young.

00:19:40.300 People might want it for affirmation, and I can appreciate that.

00:19:43.820 But how is that different than other affirmation surgeries?

00:19:47.540 People are doing this when they're not transgender because they want a smaller nose, because they want breast augmentation. 0.97

00:19:53.200 And they all have these risks.

00:19:55.500 They all have these complications.

00:19:56.520 So I think a stronger policy would be one that treats them all the same way, that says, if we're comfortable with minors doing this, so be it.

00:20:04.020 I would rather see us not have minors having those surgeries and wait until people are adults.

00:20:10.660 Yeah.

00:20:11.220 Well, here's where I guess a lot of the confusion comes along for a lot of us.

00:20:15.680 That's why I appreciate you being frank and talking about these.

00:20:17.920 I get the opportunity to ask you.

00:20:19.500 I mean, you know, as everybody else, I grew up, I went through puberty.

00:20:22.840 It was a crazed hormonal time, but, you know, a lot of confusion, insecurity, and all that good stuff that came with it.

00:20:29.280 But I was always confidently straight.

00:20:32.500 I was with the majority.

00:20:33.860 It was pretty straightforward.

00:20:34.860 I didn't have to wonder whether I was into this or that.

00:20:37.400 I was just always wondering how I could get into that.

00:20:40.820 But where, in your case, for example, did you start to feel you were confident that you were a trans person?

00:20:47.760 Like, that's where a lot of people are confused.

00:20:50.060 Because we haven't had to experience it, so we don't know, is it really that confident a thing that happens?

00:20:55.480 Or does it evolve over time?

00:20:57.320 What was your experience?

00:20:58.920 I think one of the most complicated things about the current discourse on transgender matters is that there are two different things happening at once.

00:21:05.840 One of them is what we would classically call gender dysphoria.

00:21:08.340 And that's the individual who has a deep-set, severely debilitating feeling that they're not the sex that they are and or that they are the sex that they are, but that it simply doesn't work and that they can't maneuver themselves through society based on the expectations that we place upon the biological sexes.

00:21:25.740 And that was me.

00:21:26.580 I have always felt this way.

00:21:27.780 When I was really young, of course, I didn't have the language for it because this wasn't talked about when I was a little kid.

00:21:32.880 But being so dysphoric, everyone knew that my life wasn't working.

00:21:36.380 I had four different counselors before grade six to try to figure out, why does Jason have no friends?

00:21:41.720 Why does Jason not connect with the boys?

00:21:43.340 It was obvious something was happening.

00:21:45.060 And I found the answer myself when I was 11, even though this was not in the school and this was not in the health care system because I was desperate and I was looking for things online to even explain why I was so different and why I wanted these things that other people didn't seem to want.

00:22:01.060 That's always existed.

00:22:02.060 But that is not the same thing as what we see now in many other cases, which is being transgender has become an identity.

00:22:09.100 It has a flag.

00:22:10.260 So you can also land in that crowd because it gives you a community.

00:22:13.920 It gives you a purpose.

00:22:14.560 It gives you something to latch on to.

00:22:16.040 And I'm not here to say if that's right or wrong.

00:22:18.340 People can have whatever identity they want to have, but that's not the same thing.

00:22:22.560 And when we end up having surgical and hormonal interventions that are not being kind of carefully watched to make sure that they're only the right individuals are taking them on at the right time, we have seen people who end up heading down these pathways and end up afterwards, we find out they had comorbidities or other factors that led to it and they have regret.

00:22:42.220 Well, yes.

00:22:43.120 And, you know, there are truly trans people, you know, and they've been born that way.

00:22:48.480 We can go on until the end of time as to why or how.

00:22:51.420 But as we're seeing today, we also see children go into flux to say some might identify because when we can't tell the difference or they could be identifying as such because they're seeking attention or perhaps for a period of time, they do feel that way.

00:23:03.980 But it's passing. And that's, again, where the big fear of doing anything irreversible comes into the picture.

00:23:10.120 And, you know, if they've settled it by 18, I think most people aren't terribly concerned, but we really worry when we start meddling, whether chemically or surgically with somebody's growth, because, I mean, there could be some serious consequences.

00:23:21.680 Yeah, you're completely right that there are consequences.

00:23:25.040 And what I like to remind people is that on the surgery side, it's pretty safe to wait on the hormone side.

00:23:31.020 There's consequences either way, because if you transition young by going on puberty blockers, then you've affected your pathway and you're going to have implications on your sex life and on your ability to reproduce later on.

00:23:43.920 So we want to do we don't want to do that lightly at the same time.

00:23:47.020 If you don't end up transitioning young and you want to transition as an adult like I did, you're not going to pass.

00:23:52.760 Pass is a word that's used in the transgender community to refer to being able to convince the world that you're the sex that you identify as.

00:23:59.040 And people can tell my voice is lower. There's certain facial elements here that kind of sends the signal.

00:24:03.940 I'm biologically male. And the reality is the world is not always kind to people who don't blend in as one sex or the other in the stereotypes that we associate with it.

00:24:13.780 And so that's also part of this equation. And I think what's missing in a lot of the conversation is that recognition that the kids who are deeply dysphoric,

00:24:22.560 they're latching on to these surgery or not the surgery so much, but the hormones at a young age, because they know that that is their,

00:24:29.040 that's their door. That's the window to be able to achieve passability and just blend in and live the life that they want.

00:24:34.280 And to close that door entirely, to not allow parents to even opt their kids in when parents and doctors feel this is the right fit for a given child.

00:24:43.200 That's a pretty, that's a pretty hard line position to take in and of itself.

00:24:47.620 Well, I mean, people make a lot of assumptions too. I mean, a child is worried about speaking with the parents about these,

00:24:54.640 these changes or where they may want to go. It may turn out that the parents were actually very supportive.

00:24:58.940 I mean, your children, you're insecure, you worry about things. And I mean, I'm certain that these sorts of issues would be much better coped with,

00:25:06.460 with the participation of your family and your parents, as opposed to keeping it a secret for a long time,

00:25:12.060 which makes you garner a sense that it's something shameful.

00:25:15.120 And that's precisely what I advocate for. We've had periods in the past where it was very difficult to transition,

00:25:20.700 where it was sort of what would be called safeguarded so that trans people can't easily get to it unless the doctors allow them to.

00:25:28.020 And that was a problem sometimes, but then we swung the other way and said, it is self-ID. It is however you feel is correct.

00:25:34.780 We will affirm that. We will never look for any other comorbidities that might be leading into it.

00:25:39.280 And we will just let you lead the charge. And that can be dangerous for anybody, but especially for a child, that can be a dangerous pathway.

00:25:46.500 I would like to see nuance where we bring parents, we bring doctors along, and on a case by case basis, we really say, is this the right fit?

00:25:53.460 In a case like mine, where things are showing up at six years old by 12, 13, maybe I am an okay fit for hormones.

00:25:59.020 And that's probably not a huge risk, but that's not every case. There's lots of other cases that have different comorbidities that play into it.

00:26:06.020 Yeah. And again, things change over time. I mean, something in general that changes over time, lower societal attitudes.

00:26:11.620 I think we're getting better. You know, I tweeted that you were coming on the show yesterday and a few jerks popped into the mix as usual.

00:26:20.460 And then you're always going to deal with that. But if Twitter existed 30 years ago and we even broached this discussion, it would have been bananas.

00:26:29.040 I mean, 30 years ago, even liberals were saying that gay marriage should still remain banned.

00:26:35.700 I mean, the society has become much more accepting.

00:26:38.780 This is, I think, perhaps one of the last bastions now of just learning to accept people to be different. 1.00

00:26:45.300 I don't know if it's the last or not. I've never really thought about what comes next in other domains.

00:26:50.060 I think we're far from done seeing the culture battle on this particular one.

00:26:55.240 I think it's just heating up and we're going to see more of it based on some of the conversations that are happening in the States, who's tended to be about 12 to 18 months ahead of us on this matter.

00:27:03.560 So I expect we're going to see this 2024 and 2025 in Canada.

00:27:08.360 I also don't think that's a bad thing because for a long time we haven't been having this conversation.

00:27:12.460 And I think that builds up the tension and I'm happy that now we have politicians who are talking about it, who are having these conversations so that we can hopefully land on something that is moderate, that really does consider the needs of the gender dysphoric, but also considers the needs of the other intersections of society too.

00:27:28.720 Making sure that parents are involved, making sure that the rights of other individuals are not encroached upon.

00:27:33.760 And I believe that there's a path forward.

00:27:36.520 So, as you said, I mean, there's a lot to unpack.

00:27:39.040 We only have enough, you know, there's never enough time for something this big.

00:27:41.480 But one of the final aspects of what Premier Smith was talking about was when it comes to sports.

00:27:46.480 Now how enforceable or how much we want government getting into things like sports organizations is another debate altogether as well.

00:27:52.240 But that's where the public has seen, I think, some of the absurdities.

00:27:55.720 I mean, where we're being asked to accept something that's getting a little too far outside.

00:28:00.380 I mean, I don't think it's a coincidence that it's a trans person that blew the woman's powerlifting record off the charts, you know, and some other sports that are so inherently physical.

00:28:11.080 I mean, we can't pretend there isn't an advantage for some of the biologically born male individuals in that.

00:28:17.860 And it's not unreasonable to try and accommodate trans athletes while protecting the women's sports, is it?

00:28:24.920 I really like this sports conversation because I think it highlights how nuance needs to be applied to these conversations.

00:28:32.300 The most famous case is Riley Gaines and Leah Thomas.

00:28:34.660 This is professional swimming down in the States in 2021, I believe.

00:28:38.620 And that was unfair.

00:28:40.020 That was kind of ridiculous.

00:28:41.080 That a biological male could win the trophy.

00:28:42.900 And we have seen more and more cases like that.

00:28:44.840 And I think a lot of people sense the inherent unfairness in those circumstances.

00:28:48.880 That being said, that's not the same thing as a grade seven volleyball intramural league, where it's more about camaraderie and teamwork than it is about being the strongest, best volleyball player.

00:28:58.720 And so I would like to see nuance come into that conversation, too.

00:29:02.160 I think that in cases where it is about the competition, fair enough.

00:29:06.920 There could be biological imperatives that play in.

00:29:09.200 But as a child who ended up feeling alienated because I couldn't play with my friends who were all girls because I didn't have the right genitals. 0.76

00:29:17.080 Well, that does increase dysphoria.

00:29:18.600 And I'm not sure that that's appropriate at that amateur educational level either.

00:29:23.200 Yeah, and I think Premier Smith sort of alluded to some degree of that and saying, you know, you don't want to take trans people out of sport altogether because it's something everybody enjoys and you would be excluding.

00:29:33.300 But we just have to have that discussion on where it's most appropriate and where it isn't, which I think you sort of covered.

00:29:38.020 And I appreciate that. It's just unfortunate when we see those extreme examples, as you said, with the swimming and that, and that's what ends up over filtering into the rest of the conversation on trans issues in general, which aren't necessarily bringing things to such extremes.

00:29:51.140 So, I mean, we have to address them all, but some are a little more clear cut than others, I think.

00:29:56.780 Definitely. No, I'm looking forward to the continued conversations.

00:29:59.520 I'm unclear on exactly where Alberta is going to land when it comes to the sports piece. 1.00

00:30:04.940 But I think it's an important conversation to have.

00:30:07.140 I'm just hoping that the path forward is still inclusive, does still create opportunities for people and makes us question, when is sex segregation important?

00:30:15.500 When is it useful to society and when is it maybe a relic of eras gone past that we should be letting go of?

00:30:20.700 And I think in a lot of these sex debates, that can help us to kind of work through how to proceed in a way that has some staying power for the future.

00:30:29.260 Well, I really appreciate your frank discussion with us on this and the discussions you've been having online in general.

00:30:35.620 Before I let you go, where can people find where you put your stuff out there?

00:30:39.420 So, I am on Twitter, or X as we call it these days, under Alotta Malotta, which is very hard to spell.

00:30:45.880 But if you search Julia Malotta, you'll find me there as well.

00:30:48.540 I also write a weekly column for the National Post.

00:30:51.300 And I have stuff on Instagram and YouTube also under Alotta Malotta.

00:30:55.760 Those are my baby channels I'm just working on growing.

00:30:58.480 Great. Well, thank you very much for joining us today.

00:31:01.380 I really do appreciate it.

00:31:02.400 I hope we get to talk again sometime soon.

00:31:04.260 Absolutely. Thanks for having me.

00:31:05.860 All right. Thanks.

00:31:06.460 So, that was Julia Malotta.

00:31:08.500 And, yes, she writes in the National Post and she speaks on other things as well, which I appreciated.

00:31:12.880 Health care, you know, issues in general.

00:31:15.820 There's much more to it than just the trans issue, of course.

00:31:18.340 And it's all worth reading and listening to.

00:31:20.620 And one of the elements Julia was talking about in a video was access for her child to getting into health care. 0.99

00:31:27.020 I believe it was for appendicitis.

00:31:29.320 I mean, you know, these are shared concerns parents have that the trans aspect has nothing to do with it.

00:31:35.040 And so, you know, by all means, seek out Julia.

00:31:38.240 Look at what she's talking about.

00:31:39.800 There's she's just a very good journalist out there and it's appreciated.

00:31:43.100 Like I said, we don't, at least speaking for myself, I don't understand these things.

00:31:48.300 I had a straight and narrow course to know where I was going when I grew up, but not everybody is like that.

00:31:53.440 And we're getting better.

00:31:54.380 We've got a lot more work to do on it.

00:31:56.340 But the more we can talk about things, the more we can hopefully try to figure them out.

00:32:00.720 And I really liked that recent video from Julia down in Florida.

00:32:05.640 As I said, the Americans do have a different outlook on things.

00:32:08.500 There's a story I tell often about because I went into quite a bit of a culture shockwit some years ago when I worked down in Texas.

00:32:14.340 And I love Texas, but there's there also, yeah, very blunt speaking and no, not necessarily always tolerant.

00:32:19.220 But there was a place I worked near Grosbeck, Texas.

00:32:21.640 It's out by Waco.

00:32:24.800 And there was a limestone lake and there's a facility on there called the Rainbow Ranch.

00:32:29.600 And it's what you'd think it would be.

00:32:30.780 And this is quite some years ago.

00:32:32.040 And this is in Texas.

00:32:32.800 And you got the rainbow flags.

00:32:34.020 And yes, it was a campground and sort of small resort for LGBTQ people to get together and have a good time and everything.

00:32:41.860 And I was doing my survey work and talking to a neighbor.

00:32:44.620 And he was just a classic Yosemite Sam looking Texan guy with a thick accent and the hat and the snake boots on.

00:32:50.680 And he said a few things about, I guess, the sexuality of his neighbors at that ranch.

00:32:56.900 But then in the same handful of words, he also said, but if anybody ever messes with them, they're going to go through me because those are my neighbors.

00:33:03.360 That's some of the Texan attitude I really loved.

00:33:06.460 I mean, it's along the lines of I disagree with everything they do.

00:33:09.700 OK, I'd rather you didn't disagree, but so be it.

00:33:11.620 But, hey, they have every right to do whatever the heck they're doing over there and you leave them alone because that's their place. 0.89

00:33:17.600 That's their business.

00:33:18.880 Now, as I said, this is where we start getting more complex when it comes to trans issues.

00:33:23.420 I think most of society has come far along with LGBTQ issues, particularly when it's adults.

00:33:29.180 It's when children are involved that we start worrying.

00:33:32.060 We start getting concerned again, because as we know, childhood's a confusing time.

00:33:37.160 And it's we can make some pretty bad decisions in childhood, everything from where you might stick a firecracker to, you know, if I was allowed to get tattoos, I'd probably have had a giant one across my chest when I was 17 or something.

00:33:48.840 So, I mean, we just have to take care.

00:33:52.160 And I don't think, as Julia said, this conversation is going to go on for quite a while.

00:33:55.800 There's no doubt about it.

00:33:56.640 But I think the fact that it's been brought out on the table and some lines were drawn and now we can start talking about it.

00:34:04.500 That's one of the things Premier Smith did.

00:34:06.100 Even if you don't agree with every part of her legislation, if you think it didn't go far enough or it goes too far, at least we're talking about it because it's very important to a lot of people in the schools, to the teachers, to the students, to the parents.

00:34:18.980 And I am getting frustrated, though.

00:34:20.360 And I think that's where a big line was crossed.

00:34:22.120 A lot of activists saying parents don't have rights.

00:34:24.640 Yes, they do, guys.

00:34:26.680 I mean, some of that speech recently, parents don't have rights, they have responsibilities.

00:34:30.520 Well, you can't have responsibilities unless you have the right to do something about it.

00:34:35.940 If you're kept in the dark, how can you be held responsible?

00:34:39.240 So, no, guys, it's not as simple as that.

00:34:41.740 It's not as simple as saying parents don't have rights.

00:34:43.420 Of course they have rights.

00:34:44.960 And it doesn't mean a parent has a right to be abusive.

00:34:47.660 Those households exist.

00:34:49.120 But we do have legislation that exists for abusive parents as well.

00:34:52.120 I mean, most parents, most parents by far have the best interest of their children at heart.

00:34:59.240 And they should be in on the conversation.

00:35:02.720 But, yeah, sometimes it could be bad.

00:35:07.400 Nothing's cut and dry and necessarily that easy.

00:35:09.780 Okay, let's see.

00:35:10.840 I'll cover a few other things as we go through the news on the show today, too.

00:35:14.700 Here's another area.

00:35:16.080 This is coming from the housing minister in a recent report, Sean Fraser, saying that all Canadians share a moral failure for homelessness.

00:35:27.960 And he promised a response to the federal report where, you know, tent cities have been torn down.

00:35:33.140 And there was some housing bureaucrat who came out with a report saying that it's a human right

00:35:37.240 and that it was wrong to tear down the tent cities in Edmonton and places like that.

00:35:40.980 Come on, it's getting ridiculous.

00:35:42.620 And the main thing that still drives me bananas, and I go on about this on the show quite often,

00:35:46.720 is they won't admit where the problem is 99% of the time or 90% fine if I'm going to throw numbers out there.

00:35:55.500 But seriously, mental health and drug addiction, which are often intertwined.

00:35:58.840 Look, most of the addicts out on the streets are, or most of the homeless people on the streets are addicts.

00:36:04.600 Let's quit pussyfooting around it because they start talking, oh, it's a lack of affordable housing.

00:36:09.420 It's a lack of social housing.

00:36:11.360 It's a lack of this.

00:36:12.180 Look, those are elements once a person gets cleaned up, if they get cleaned up, that they will need a home and they'll need it to be affordable.

00:36:18.380 But that's not what's putting them on the streets.

00:36:20.380 Let's quit pretending that.

00:36:22.180 If we aren't going to outright talk about why they're there in the first place, you're not going to get them off of there.

00:36:29.120 Do you really think the guy pushing the shopping cart down the street with crap running down his leg, talking to the clouds, smoking a meth pipe, is ready for a home?

00:36:40.440 This is a person who really needs help.

00:36:42.740 Absolutely.

00:36:43.820 It's tragic to think of that person trying to live out there when it's minus 30, when they're that debilitated.

00:36:49.500 But it's not a matter of high rent that is keeping.

00:36:52.900 How low would rent have to get?

00:36:54.600 Do you think if rent was $100 a month, that person would be living fine and in a household?

00:37:01.260 Of course not.

00:37:02.100 Because the problem isn't just the rent.

00:37:04.420 That's at best just an aspect of it.

00:37:07.120 But we don't talk about that.

00:37:08.820 We need treatment.

00:37:10.160 And treatment's difficult.

00:37:11.200 It's expensive.

00:37:11.900 It's time-consuming.

00:37:12.700 It's not always successful.

00:37:13.880 But if you don't treat the addicts out there, they're not going to be housed.

00:37:19.840 Not successfully.

00:37:21.400 I was at the signing event, the kickoff one for the petition for Jody Gondek down at City Hall last weekend.

00:37:30.440 And there was, by the way, hundreds and hundreds of people came out to sign, despite legacy media putting out reports saying it was 100.

00:37:38.280 Same old crap out of the legacy media.

00:37:41.560 So either way, while I was out there, I mean, City Hall area, they actually pushed the whole thing to the other side of City Hall.

00:37:47.440 It's funny.

00:37:47.720 They don't do that when the anti-Jew protests come.

00:37:49.580 They just let them stand out in front of City Hall.

00:37:51.240 But Gondek, Calgary's mayor, has kind of let her thoughts on Jews slip pretty clearly already.

00:37:55.940 So I guess we could see that.

00:37:57.340 But either way, hidden away back behind City Hall.

00:37:59.200 It's pretty rough by the library.

00:38:00.420 There's a lot of addicts and a lot of troubled souls back there.

00:38:02.920 And I ran across Calgary columnist Rick Bell, and we were chattering, and we walked back to the parking area together.

00:38:10.000 And then, of course, we're just standing there chatting for another 20 minutes or so.

00:38:12.880 And there was a gentleman sitting on the steps behind us.

00:38:16.320 He had a glass pipe.

00:38:17.620 And about three different times, he just packed it up and huffed who knows what.

00:38:21.260 And he would just nod off again.

00:38:22.560 And then after a little bit, he would get up, and he would pack some water and smoke.

00:38:25.480 He wasn't trying to hide it.

00:38:27.280 You know, getting in there and arresting him for that, no, that's not going to do any favors necessarily either.

00:38:32.340 I mean, I think it's time to get some intervention once people hit the street level with addiction and that.

00:38:36.840 But, I mean, to criminalize, to say the man's a criminal, I mean, you know, he might steal things to feed his habit.

00:38:42.160 Who knows?

00:38:42.660 But that's not the right approach.

00:38:44.940 But also still, you know, pretending that, you know, that this person just needs a lower rent or home is just absurd.

00:38:58.500 Oh, I see I got a commenter whining about, you know, slandering people protesting Israeli genocide.

00:39:02.620 Okay, there's no genocide.

00:39:04.560 Get over it.

00:39:05.440 They're defending themselves.

00:39:06.520 I don't care about Hamas numbers.

00:39:08.140 You know, I will respond to commenters.

00:39:09.540 I don't care about your lying numbers from Hamas about how much the children have been attacked.

00:39:17.000 Hamas is responsible. 1.00

00:39:18.380 Hamas. 0.73

00:39:19.100 And it's anti-Semitism.

00:39:20.660 The anti-Jewish jerks were protesting at Mount Sinai Hospital the other day.

00:39:25.700 It's not anti-Israeli.

00:39:26.740 That's anti-Jew. 0.97

00:39:28.460 And you're thinly varnished BS pretending, oh, I'm just critical of Israel.

00:39:32.140 Oh, spare me.

00:39:33.540 You hate Jews. 0.99

00:39:34.580 And it's really come out these days.

00:39:35.860 And, yes, I will call it out.

00:39:36.860 You say blocking people for disagreeing.

00:39:38.060 No, I block losers with their anti-Jewish stuff.

00:39:42.360 So get used to it.

00:39:44.180 It's not going to stop.

00:39:45.340 Either way, that's part of that discussion.

00:39:48.320 So either way, housing is another big one coming up, though.

00:39:51.080 So the tent cities, you know, is it a human right to have a tent city, a human right to keep that there?

00:39:56.020 No, it's not.

00:39:56.680 It's dangerous.

00:39:58.480 These cities burn down.

00:39:59.880 People overdose in them.

00:40:01.000 There's high crime in them.

00:40:02.240 When the police have moved in on them, they found weapons.

00:40:04.500 They found guns.

00:40:05.740 They found, in Calgary, loads of money in some of them.

00:40:09.080 So, yes, we have issues going on.

00:40:14.140 And it's not a human right.

00:40:14.920 What about the right of the person who lives next to the tent city? 0.98

00:40:17.820 What about the right of the person with a business next to the tent city? 0.92

00:40:21.620 So it's Susie Saluk saying, here in Alaska, we drive them crazy via a marathon between shelters and prison, chasing money with our little no-good addicted and crazy selves.

00:40:32.240 I'm not sure.

00:40:33.320 Susie, your comment is appreciated, but a little incoherent.

00:40:36.980 But then you said, fact, your show.

00:40:38.160 So I guess you don't really want discussion on it.

00:40:40.000 So, again, yes, there is a cycle between prison and homeless shelters.

00:40:49.180 That I agree.

00:40:50.260 So maybe it's time to have facilities built back to institutions for people with mental health issues, institutions for people who need inpatient addiction treatment.

00:41:01.640 We went away from that.

00:41:02.780 We went to this community living idiocy, and it's not working.

00:41:06.200 It's failing.

00:41:07.660 And this enablement cult, and that's what it is.

00:41:09.740 It's a cult.

00:41:10.700 It doesn't matter what comes up.

00:41:13.500 They keep saying, we just need to enable harder.

00:41:15.180 We saw that with Bonnie Henry, the health authority in British Columbia.

00:41:18.960 BC has had now free and legal hard drugs they've been handing out for a year.

00:41:25.280 And what happened?

00:41:26.480 Overdoses have shot through the roof.

00:41:27.940 It's gotten worse.

00:41:28.620 Every person with a grain of common sense said that was going to happen, and lo and behold, it happened.

00:41:33.520 So how she responded?

00:41:34.660 She was on a press conference the other day saying, we need to make sure to get more heroin to those people on the streets.

00:41:39.480 Yes, free heroin.

00:41:41.120 Because they go with this BS.

00:41:42.660 You know, they won't use the word overdose anymore.

00:41:45.380 They use drug toxicity.

00:41:47.360 They say, you know, we need safer supply.

00:41:49.900 It's supposedly a matter of the drugs being contaminated with something.

00:41:55.200 Guys, heroin in its most pure form will kill you pretty fast.

00:41:59.220 It's pretty toxic.

00:42:00.380 There's no safe meth you can take.

00:42:02.840 You can overdo some of that stuff too.

00:42:05.440 And it's just tiresome.

00:42:10.020 You know, it's not working.

00:42:13.080 But when you get to the point of that sort of discussion, we're not going to get there.

00:42:16.160 Yeah, same sort of thing.

00:42:18.120 Here's another myth going on.

00:42:19.260 You know, antitrust promise is ridiculed.

00:42:21.560 Yeah, the Antitrust Competition Bureau yesterday said they're committed to fighting mergers within the grocery trade.

00:42:27.360 You know, I had the food professor on a little while ago, Sylvain Charlebois.

00:42:32.720 That's his specialty.

00:42:33.780 He talks about these issues.

00:42:35.060 I mean, we've been talking.

00:42:36.060 People have been trying to make the case that grocery retailers are gouging Canadians and citizens.

00:42:41.660 They've been claiming that for years.

00:42:43.040 And every time it's studied, it's found, no, their margins are like 3% to 5%.

00:42:46.980 They aren't gouging.

00:42:48.420 They're as low as they can get.

00:42:50.540 One of the few things that Charlebois kind of agreed on is we could use some more competition.

00:42:55.540 Okay, fair enough.

00:42:56.940 That won't hurt.

00:42:57.500 But when we've got a government that does nothing but constantly attack the grocers, that attacks business, that hikes taxes, and messes directly with mergers and things like that, what new grocery business, large grocery business is going to move into Canada?

00:43:14.720 Why would you want to move into that for a 4% to 5% margin business as it is?

00:43:18.960 They're not going to.

00:43:20.440 Guys, government isn't the solution.

00:43:22.300 It's the problem.

00:43:23.120 And that can be applied to many, many, many things all the time.

00:43:29.500 Speaking of which, yes, Gilboa, there's the beauty.

00:43:31.660 Like I said, you know, he wants to end or reduce the amount of roadways being built so people will stop driving.

00:43:38.840 He's nuts.

00:43:39.820 He's nuts.

00:43:40.780 But we've got civic leaders like Jyoti Gondek who's nutty enough to follow up on him, so we've got to take his stuff seriously, unfortunately.

00:43:46.280 You know, 15-minute cities, not as much of a conspiracy as it sounds like.

00:43:49.500 It's just the way they're going to go about keeping you contained.

00:43:52.220 But, you know, the senior political people won't be contained.

00:43:54.780 They'll still fly over the world.

00:43:55.980 They'll still vacation in tropical places.

00:43:57.940 They just want you to cut back.

00:43:59.920 You tighten your belt.

00:44:01.660 You have a smaller house.

00:44:02.760 You don't have a lawn.

00:44:04.140 You don't have a car because you've got to save the world.

00:44:07.840 But they're so important, they've got to be able to go around and do all those things without you.

00:44:11.640 All right, I'll finish with one more thing.

00:44:12.900 The Super Bowl, I watched it.

00:44:14.400 I had to bet on one team or another just to keep interest because I'm really indifferent between Kansas and San Francisco.

00:44:19.140 My Steelers, they didn't make it there this year.

00:44:21.500 They weren't worthy of it.

00:44:22.320 Fair enough.

00:44:23.220 But all the discussion with Taylor Swift, so what?

00:44:26.340 So what?

00:44:26.680 Hey, if it's bringing new eyes on the game, good on them.

00:44:29.140 I mean, they cut away to her like four or five times throughout the game, maybe 10 or 12 times.

00:44:32.360 I don't know.

00:44:32.640 It's a long game.

00:44:33.340 I don't care.

00:44:34.180 It didn't hurt the game.

00:44:35.000 It didn't harm it.

00:44:35.360 But then I saw some of the looniness that came out.

00:44:37.800 There was some weird woman that came with Taylor Swift, and she had a crucifix on that some people said was upside down. 1.00

00:44:44.840 Maybe it was.

00:44:45.240 Maybe it wasn't.

00:44:45.740 And then she was doing some sort of hand signals, and suddenly they were popping up.

00:44:52.220 She's doing Satanist symbols on there, and this is Satanism out in the open.

00:44:56.240 I mean, what?

00:44:57.480 Are you guys crazy?

00:44:58.340 This is the sort of thing that, if you remember, in the 80s, they were pulling in Frank Zappa and Ozzy Osbourne in Twisted Sister before committees and talking about that.

00:45:08.760 Guys, come on.

00:45:10.040 Lighten up, okay?

00:45:11.460 I don't think Taylor Swift and the rest are going to be spreading crazy Satanism around.

00:45:17.760 It's just beyond the pale these days.

00:45:21.100 But either way, I enjoyed the spectacle.

00:45:24.920 The Super Bowl, I mean, it's also a celebration of capitalism.

00:45:27.840 It's a celebration of high-level athleticism, even if you don't like the political stances of some of the owners and the players.

00:45:34.060 You know, as I said online, too, once in a while, I just want a break.

00:45:36.280 I want something nonpolitical for a bit, and I got that.

00:45:38.440 And now I'm going to be counting down the days until the football season starts again.

00:45:42.620 All right.

00:45:43.060 Well, we covered quite a bit today, guys.

00:45:44.660 Thank you for tuning in.

00:45:45.940 I do appreciate it, and be sure to tune in.

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00:45:53.360 There's all sorts of stuff coming out all the time, and the pipeline will be on a little later.

00:45:58.300 We'll dissect a few more issues with a panel.

00:46:00.900 And, yeah, lots going on, guys.

00:46:03.800 Lots to discuss.

00:46:04.540 We'll find the solutions to all of those issues eventually.

00:46:07.620 Thanks for coming on, and I'll see you next week at this time.

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Western Standard - February 15, 2024

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