WEBVTT - He Has A Very Low Voice For A Child! 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:07.880 Washington Broadcast. 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:11.680 Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty and 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:17.279 no he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:27.960 California took a look at two different bills to stop 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.800 boys from playing in girls' sports particultably like at the 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:32.519 high school level and that sort of thing. And they 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:34.320 both got shot down yesterday. And we're going to talk 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.720 to somebody who was there for the argument coming up 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:38.279 later this hour. 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:42.200 It's now more than an eighty twenty issue in America. 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:47.279 The support for males in girls' sports is less than 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:47.960 twenty percent. 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.440 I don't get the politics of this, no kidding anyway. 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.639 So I mentioned this last week and we never got 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.160 around to it. I'm glad we are now, and I'm 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.320 looking forward to Joe's reaction to this. So this is 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.880 ezra Quine of The New York Times on Lex Friedman's 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:06.360 podcast from a couple of weeks ago. And Lex Friedman 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.039 is an interesting guy if you've never heard his podcast. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.360 First of all, they're all two to four hours long, 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:12.800 and I don't know who listens to those whole things, 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.280 But he has people on of all different kinds of 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.200 political stripes and worldviews and stuff like that, and he 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.639 just wants to hear what they think. And he opened 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.640 with this great question for Ezra Kline of the New 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:25.840 York Times, who, if you don't know his act, he 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:33.280 is a columnist, writer, liberal, progressive, not a bomb chucker 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.400 though that's just his I mean, he's a really smart 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:41.600 he's an intellectual, but he's a progressive. And Lex had 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.160 him on to say the first question was basically lay 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.880 out the progressive point of view or the democrat point 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:49.960 of view of the worldview. And I thought, Okay, this 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.559 is fantastic. I'm going to hear this from a smart guy. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.040 And I thought, I am going to listen to this 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.919 podcast in my earbuds as I was like doing laundry 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:00.880 or something like that, and I thought, I am going to, 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.600 like in a relaxed manner, listen to this, see if 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.920 I can find any common ground, like fully understand you 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.160 know where they're coming from, right, not the cable news version, 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.239 but like the intellectual version of how they see the world. 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.840 And I didn't make it more than like thirty seconds 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.320 before I said out loud in my bedroom, Oh, you've 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:21.720 got to be effing kidding me. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.000 So this is how it went. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.600 You can define the left in different ways. I think 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.799 the left has a couple fundamental views. One is that 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:36.680 life is unfair. We are born with different talents, We 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.640 are born into different nations. Right, the luck of being 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.360 born into America is very different than the luck of 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:46.960 being born into Venezuela. We are born into different families. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:52.040 We have luck operating as an ominant presence across our 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:56.400 entire lives, and as such, the people for whom it 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.080 works out, well, we don't deserve all of that. 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:00.680 We got lucky. 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.080 I mean, we also worked hard, and we also had talent, 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.400 and we also applied that talent. But at a very 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.639 fundamental level, that we are sitting here is unfair, and 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:14.200 that so many other people are in conditions that are 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.200 much worse, much more precarious, much more exploited, is unfair. 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.320 And one of the fundamental roles of government should not 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:26.560 necessarily be to turn that unfairness into perfect equality, but 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.480 to rectify that unfairness into a kind of universal dignity. Right, 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:32.360 so people can have lives of flourishing. So I'd say 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.840 that's one thing. He has a very low voice for 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:43.280 a child. Yeah, I'll hold back for now. I see 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.640 what you mean, though my eyes were wide. 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:48.200 You don't deserve that. 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.360 That's when I said in my bedroom, Oh, you gotta 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:51.320 be effing king me. 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:55.760 Wow. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.160 Well, and I want to hear the next part, obviously, 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.520 but he kind of denied his own purpose there at 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.720 the end. And we're not trying to come up with 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:05.720 some perfect equality. 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.600 But yeah, let's hear a little more and then we 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:09.600 can discuss The. 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.600 Left is fundamentally more skeptical of capitalism and part of 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.000 the unchecked forms of capitalism than the right. I think 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:17.920 this is hard to talk about because what we call 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.400 unchecked capitalism is nevertheless very much supported by government. So 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.719 I think in a way you have both, Like markets 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.520 are things that are enforced by government. Whether they are 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.160 you know, how you set the rules of them is 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:30.840 what ends up differing between the left and the right. 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.599 But the left tends to be more worried about the 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:38.120 fact that you could get rich building coal fired power 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.680 plants belching pollution into the air, and you could get 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.839 rich laying down solar panels, and the market doesn't know 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.080 the difference between the two. And so there's a set 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:53.760 of goals about regulating the unchecked potential of capitalism. That 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.640 also relates to sort of exploitation of workers. There's very 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:01.440 fundamental questions about how much people get paid, how much 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.640 power they have. Again, the rectification of economic and other 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.240 forms of power is very fundamental to the left. 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:08.600 Okay, So. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.040 It reminded me, of course, when Obama said, you didn't 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.520 build that, that attitude, and I thought, okay, as Ezra 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.080 Kline just laying that out a little more clearly. I 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:25.599 heard a podcast with this guy. He's got the most 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.320 famous economics podcast in America. I can't remember what his 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.760 name is, but anyway, and he's he leans left, but 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:36.559 he his uh, his take on the whole. Okay, even 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.680 if you've got a situation where where you like, in 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.480 the most blatant example, it's not fair that this person, 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:48.680 you know, they're born with a better brain, their parents 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.160 got him a tutor, they had connections to get him 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.760 into a better school, whatever it is versus someone else. 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.400 How is the government going to weigh in. 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:57.800 To fix it? 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.680 He said? Even if I buy all the lack. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:05.159 Of fairness, in what sense could you structure a government. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.080 That's going to even that out? That doesn't do. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:07.839 More harm than good. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.120 Oh exactly that the last phrase is the key one. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.679 And it is interesting to me to hear somebody who's 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:20.359 obviously fairly intelligent, like Ezra Kleine, be so narrow in 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.680 his vision, so incredibly unwise to not recognize that if 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.239 you empower somebody, I was going to summarize his creed 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.919 with as the following, I'm so smart, I and people 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.400 like me should be in charge of everything because we 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:37.920 will make it good. But a guy who is reasonably 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.719 intelligent to lack the wisdom to see that a government 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:45.120 empowered to right all of these pick a un wrongs 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:50.600 or equalize somehow or other, even if not a perfect equality, 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.200 but like getting us halfway there, that government would be 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:58.360 so awesome and not in the modern word like causing 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:05.039 awe and horror, so powerful and monumentally huge. It would 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.240 be terrifying. How do you miss that? As, Oh, no, 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.960 we would just do the good things, not the bad stuff. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:13.320 Well, right, And then. 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.360 The problem being that where do you draw the line 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:22.320 between unfair advantages that people didn't earn and choices that 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.760 you make. Because lots of people make really really bad 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.280 choices in life. I've made bad choices in life. That 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:32.360 damaged me a lot, and some people keep doing them. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.800 I don't dismiss the ideas. I haven't told my story 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:37.480 about the uber driver I had the other day. Maybe 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.000 I'll do that for the podcast today. But I was 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:44.720 thinking in that trip, which was really sketchy, that this 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.920 poor guy is never going to be able to do 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.239 very well in life. So I got a better brain 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.200 than he did. That is unfair, that's not his fault, 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.600 it's not my credit. But then he got all the 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.720 life choices that people make. And I've seen so many 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.520 small people make horrible life choices. What is the government 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.040 gonna do to even out results there? 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.040 And I've known the proverbial c student. Oh yeah, absolutely, 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:11.200 And I'm not gonna go with the old trope that 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:15.440 but they're very straight smart and blah blah blah. No, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.840 I've known some people who aren't very bright, but they 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:24.840 make good, sound moral decision after decision, and it benefited 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:30.960 quite nicely from those decisions. Anyway, What makes a person, though, 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.240 get in the morning and want to pursue the idea 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.760 of that person has more than that person. 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.600 We need to get them closer together. 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:40.120 What is that? 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:40.920 Well? 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.680 And the means that they use to pursue that goal 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.199 or are often horrible from my point of view. I mean, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.080 if you have a charitable view of the world and 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.360 you think I ought to do something to help those people, 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:55.600 you have my full blessing until it becomes And what 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.320 I am going to do is, at the point of 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.000 the government's gun, take money from people and compel them 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.040 to do these things. Because that's the opposite of generosity. 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:08.679 That's that's that's you know, totalitarianism. I hate to even 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.400 use the word fairness in any context in this because 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.959 it's become such a cliche rhetorical cliche of the left, 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:19.120 because people have an instinctive view of what fairness is 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:24.280 from childhood on. That is, everything should be fair. That's 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.600 at least the ideal. Whereas you know, being born with 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.439 a better brain or a worse brain, or a taller, 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:34.839 good looking or talented or whatever, that the difference among 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.600 people is one hundred percent fair. It's a very definition 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:43.640 of fairness. Nothing has been done by anybody to pervert 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:52.040 the natural unfolding of it. Nobody cheated anybody, right. 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.679 The Jefferson idea of just you go as far as 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.320 your talent and effort will take you. 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:01.280 Right exactly that it's there could be nothing more fair. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:07.520 Then you get dealt a hand in life, and then 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.560 you've got to go from there with the help of 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.319 the people around you and the people care about you, 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.640 and the government protecting your rights. That's why the government exists, 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.720 and off you go. Read Harrison Berger on the Great 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.319 Kurt Vonna Gets Short Story. If you don't have a 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.560 lot of time, read Thomas Sowell's Conflict Divisions if you 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:31.360 have more about this sort of thing. But I hate 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.559 and it breaks my heart that my daughter is autistic 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.520 and life will always be extremely difficult for her. 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:40.560 I hate that. 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:46.760 I adore her, but I wouldn't use the word unfair 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:47.760 to describe that. 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:49.400 It just is. 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.160 I got kicked off of a jury before I made it, 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:57.920 the only time I've ever made it this far to 0:10:58.040 --> 0:10:59.760 like actually get into the courtroom and they start the 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.160 law start asking me questions. And the question that got 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:07.680 me kicked out was looking back to the starting point 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.960 of your life where you've end up now, is it more? Uh, 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.920 the circumstance you were born into are your life's choices. 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.920 And I went with life's choices, and that got me kicked. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.000 Off the jury. 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:23.280 That I think life's choice is unfair, unfair good vlunfair 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.520 good vocal fry from Ezrak Klein. I don't know why 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:29.840 socialism goes with vocal fry. I don't know why those 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.600 two things go together, But I still think life choices 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.720 have more to do with it than where you were born, 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.400 who you were born to in brain power you have 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.640 in terms of where you're gonna end ultimately end up. 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.240 And he obviously does not believe that. 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.679 And then even if you agree with as recline, you're 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:46.760 still at the point of. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.680 How could the government fix that? Anyway? 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:50.079 Well? 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:51.640 Right, And my response to all of it would be 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.440 so what, So now what are you going to do? 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.280 That is always the question at every moment of your life. Okay, 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.400 so now what are you going to do? 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You an email 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.440 or you could text us on that whole thing I get. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.400 I guess part of what drives me crazy is when 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.280 I hear people do that screen they give. They don't 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.640 even throw in a line about life choice as and effort, 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:21.480 not even a line, because it undermines their premise power 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:27.199 wow text line four one five two nine five KFTC unfair. 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.240 Armstrong, Richard slugs. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.480 Don't any of you have the guts a pipe of flood. 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:36.720 I'm a huckleber. 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:49.959 Just my game, all right. 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:55.800 Longer you go to hell, I'll put you out of 0:13:55.800 --> 0:14:03.000 your mist. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.640 Don't mind him. He just junk, That's all. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.920 Val Kilmer as doc Holiday in Tombstone, one of the 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.319 great roles in Western history, if not movie history. 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:21.000 So freaking good m he will be missed. Val Kilmer is. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.960 Passed dead at sixty five, got cancer in his forties. Yeah, 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.080 fighting all those years. Yeah. 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:32.440 So we're listening to Ezra Klein described, you know, progressivism 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.720 and why he believes in it and what it is, 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:39.440 and mentioned Thomas Soule's book Conflict of Visions, a very 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.360 very short version of it. He thinks there are two 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.000 sorts of people, the constrained vision of life and the 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.360 unconstrained vision, and I'm going to get to a kind 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.240 of a cool science y thing if we can fit 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.520 it in. But Sol argues that the unconstrained vision relies 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.880 heavily on the belief that human nature is essentially good. 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:01.440 Those with the unconstrained vision distrust decentral processes like the 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.840 free market, and are impatient with large institutions and systematic 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.760 processes that constrain human action. They believe there is an 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:11.640 ideal solution to every problem and that compromises never acceptable. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.640 Collateral damage is merely the price of moving forward on 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.800 the road to perfection, like taking away people's right to 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:23.360 free speech sometime, or like the progressive lady at NPR said, 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.000 sometimes the truth gets in the way of what we 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:30.560 need to accomplish. That's a beautiful example of that. Soul 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.320 often refers to them as the self anointed. Ultimately, they 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.960 believe that man is morally perfectible. Because of this, they 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.080 believe that there exists some people who are further along 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:45.040 on the path of moral development, have overcome self interest 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.640 and are immune to the influence of power, and therefore 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:52.320 can act as surrogate decision makers for the rest of society. 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.360 That's so good, how perfect. 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.200 A description of progressive America is. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.040 That, Yeah, so Ezra Kleine or Elizabeth Warren, whoever they think, 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:03.120 I'm beyond being corrupted. I will I will pass legislation, 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:07.640 come up with rules that only benefit everyone, right, because 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.240 I can't be influenced one way or the other. I 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.440 have no selfishness, I have no self interest whatsoever. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:16.360 And I am morally superior to anyone who disagrees with me. 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.360 Oh my god, it's well, that's the proof that they're 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:23.280 morally inferior, the fact that they disagree with me. That 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.280 is the smugness of progressivism. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.160 That is so good. This is so good. 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.520 A scientists from Iowa State new study reveals how your 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.280 brain reacts to food purchasing decisions can be used to 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:39.640 determine your political affiliation with almost eighty percent accuracy. The 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:48.400 punchline of this is not particularly interesting. I kept waiting for. 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.840 You know, conservatives use the logic part of the brain 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:56.120 to look at prices, and progressives are stupid and they 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:01.560 process things emotionally. They don't know enough to know that yet, 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:07.600 But this is interesting enough. They had people purchase eggs 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.800 with various prices and produced in different ways a bunch 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.439 of different tests, then studied their neural networks. You know 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.399 how they do these days with the light up maps 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:20.200 and the rest of it. Oversimplifying this a bit, says 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.879 the professor of economics. You cannot tell whether someone is 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:24.880 a democrat or Republican when you see them buy free 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.280 range eggs, But if you were to examine their brain activity, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.000 you would see that they are using different parts of 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.359 their brains in that decision. The brain activity predicts the party, 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:36.119 not the purchase. And he says, we know from studies 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:40.920 of twins that about fifty percent of your political ideology ideology. 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:41.840 Is biologically heritable. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.320 Not know that data from your parents allows us to 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.560 infer your political party with sixty nine percent accuracy. So 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:50.520 it's pretty amazing that just the signal from the brain 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:52.840 while you're buying eggs and milk enables us to correctly 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.480 classify your political party about eighty percent. 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.280 Of the time. That's interesting. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.080 Yeah, the different visions, the different sorts of people in 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.080 the world see the world differently, and their brains work differently. 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.760 Don't hate them, just convince them if you can. Fascinating 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:09.960 you'd hate them a little if you want. 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:16.080 Armstrong and getty. I was removed from my varsity girls 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.240 team and replaced by a newly eligible male transfer student 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.479 who received favorable treatment. As a result of this unfair treatment, 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.320 my teammate Caitlin and I wore shirts that said save 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.159 girls Sports and stated that boys and girls are different. 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.080 It's common sense. Xx does not equal x y. 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.240 Our athletic director made me remove my shirt and told 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.879 me it was like wearing a swastika in front of 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.480 a Jewish person and said that I would face discipline 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.359 reaction if I wore it again. My title nine in 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.720 free speech rights as a female matter too. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.040 That's a high school girl speaking in front of the 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.480 California simply about how she was told to take off 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.560 her shirt, asking that she not have to play against 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.320 dudes more or less because it was like a swastik 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.679 in front of a German or a Jewish person. 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.200 Meanwhile, the dude was taking off his pants in front 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.600 of all the girls in the locker room. 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.960 And dominating in the sports. Just sick. 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:11.040 So California's held a couple of hearings lately in the 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:15.360 Assembly for the purpose of quickly quashing bills that would 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:20.119 restore girls and women's sports. Josh Hoover's California Assemblyman, seventh 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:24.000 Assembly District, who's privy to the goings on at the Capitol, obviously, 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.080 and actually Josh, first of all, welcome, It's always a pleasure. 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.320 How are you, thanks, guys, great to be back. 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:31.600 Great to have you. So were you at the hearings? 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.919 So I was at the Capitol. I wasn't in the 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.120 hearing room, but I was watching on my screen and 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:38.480 got to see everything go. 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.119 Down and how did it go well? 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.520 So, I mean, you guys played that clip. There was 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:48.760 just hundreds of amazing student athletes there in support of 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:51.800 the bills. Obviously, you guys know that Governor Gavin Newsom 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.040 has seen the light on this in some ways, but 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.760 the Democratic supermajority in the California Legislature has decided to 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:01.040 double down. There were two bills that were heard, So 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:05.280 AB eighty nine would have required CIF which is our 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.679 sports body here, to limit high school women's sports to 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:12.200 biological women. And AB eight forty four would have returned 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:15.760 California law to where it was ten years ago, which 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:21.840 essentially limits sex segregated sports to basically buy sex versus 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:24.160 gender identity, which is what they changed it to. 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:25.480 About a decade ago. 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:27.240 Well, if Gavin Newsom had out, I don't want to 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:29.120 get stuck on Gavin Newsom, but if he had seen 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:31.119 the light, he would have come out yesterday and made 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.320 a statement about this or prior to the hearings. 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:34.639 But he did not because he's a coward. 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:39.280 One hundred percent totally agree. The Legislative Committee, the Arts 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:43.280 Committee there voted seven to two to kill both of 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:44.920 these bills back to back. 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:49.840 Unbelievable lad Us poll out it's seventy nine to eighteen 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:52.080 this issue in America, so. 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:53.240 It's an eighty twenty issue. 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.360 I don't even understand the raw politics of this issue. 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:58.600 It just seems like the Democratic Party so on the 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.480 wrong side of this in terms of staying in office. 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:02.400 What what gives? 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:06.600 So Jack, you know, one of the things you've expressed 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:09.960 is what are the arguments opposing these bills? And that's 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:12.160 one of the reasons I tuned into the hearing because 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.399 I wanted to hear what the opposition. 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:14.840 Had to say about this. 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:16.159 So they laid out. 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:17.080 Five basic arguments. 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.600 Number One, passing these bills would be an invasion of 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:24.080 girls privacy because somehow we're going to now require, you know, 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:27.040 inspections of some kind, even though we did it this 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:33.200 way for decades prior the entirety of human history. Josh, 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:36.720 sports are inherently unfair. With another argument they used, which 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.320 really bigs the question, why do we even have sex 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:41.840 segregated sports? In the first place, right, you know, you 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:45.520 know Serena Williams famously talked about how you know women's 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:47.879