WEBVTT - PENCIL TO PAPER, IT USED TO BE EASIER 0:00:01.060 --> 0:00:05.530 Welcome to the Rogue Recap. Hot takes, cold facts, and 0:00:05.650 --> 0:00:10.070 zero respect for the official narrative. Sit back, roll your eyes, 0:00:10.530 --> 0:00:12.789 and let's recap Rogue Style. 0:00:13.550 --> 0:00:16.770 Well, hello everybody. It is Tuesday, August 25th. This is 0:00:16.810 --> 0:00:19.340 the Rogue Recap. I am Linda McLaughlin. Great to be 0:00:19.380 --> 0:00:22.820 with you as always. Wanted to start the show off 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.740 tonight with something I was trying to talk about yesterday 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.840 and I could not find the story. And of course 0:00:28.860 --> 0:00:30.440 I couldn't find it because I wanted to find it. 0:00:30.460 --> 0:00:32.229 You guys know the rule. If you want to find it, 0:00:32.300 --> 0:00:35.180 it will escape you. And the second you stop looking 0:00:35.220 --> 0:00:37.380 for it, you will find it. So it's exactly what 0:00:37.420 --> 0:00:40.580 happened to me. As our kids are getting ready to 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.199 go back to school and do all the things, I 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:48.710 was looking at some of the requirements of my son 0:00:48.770 --> 0:00:51.830 and even my older kids. And it is so great 0:00:52.090 --> 0:00:56.160 to see that one of the supplies on the supply 0:00:56.180 --> 0:01:00.680 list are pencils and pens and not a stylist just 0:01:00.700 --> 0:01:04.539 to write on a screen. I really feel strongly, as 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:08.580 I mentioned in yesterday's show, about the brainpower that it 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.910 takes to commit your words to a piece of paper 0:01:12.610 --> 0:01:15.190 using your faculties and saying, hey, I want to write this. 0:01:15.250 --> 0:01:18.890 I want to put something down. And I just, I 0:01:18.990 --> 0:01:22.070 could not, I had to find this story for you guys. 0:01:22.130 --> 0:01:27.300 So this is the post about what happens to your brain. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:33.000 I'm citing this neuroscientist, Audrey Vandermeer. And she basically did 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:37.970 this entire study for 20 years talking about how handwriting 0:01:38.550 --> 0:01:44.949 shapes the human brain. So in 2024, she published her study. 0:01:44.970 --> 0:01:49.690 It's called Frontiers in Psychology. And her team used high 0:01:49.750 --> 0:01:55.410 density EEG caps to monitor brain activity in students while 0:01:55.450 --> 0:01:57.930 they were either writing by hand with a digital pen 0:01:58.090 --> 0:02:02.300 or typing on a keyboard. The difference was dramatic. Handwriting 0:02:02.380 --> 0:02:07.700 produced a powerful, I'm quoting, synchronized burst of neural activity 0:02:07.860 --> 0:02:11.880 across widespread regions of the brain, and it linked activities 0:02:11.940 --> 0:02:16.780 involved in memory formation, sensory processing, and deep learning. Now, 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:22.269 by contrast, typing the exact same content cause the cognitive 0:02:22.330 --> 0:02:29.210 network to largely shut down because typing uses repetitive uniform keystrokes. 0:02:29.770 --> 0:02:33.770 It demands little spatial or cognitive effort and it leaves 0:02:33.870 --> 0:02:39.109 key learning centers quiet and disengaged. These neurological differences have 0:02:39.150 --> 0:02:43.250 a direct effect on how we process and remember information. 0:02:44.030 --> 0:02:48.049 Earlier research by Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer at Princeton 0:02:48.110 --> 0:02:52.930 University reached similar conclusions. Students who took notes by hand 0:02:53.030 --> 0:02:59.770 consistently outperformed those using laptops on conceptual understanding tests. Handwriting 0:02:59.830 --> 0:03:05.860 forces active listening, critical thinking, and real-time summarization, while typing 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:10.900 often leads to verbatim transcription with minimal processing. Our brains 0:03:10.980 --> 0:03:15.620 function as part of an embodied biological system, replacing rich 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:21.730 physical actions with effortless digital keystrokes, that may deliver short-term convenience, 0:03:22.190 --> 0:03:26.790 but at the expense of a deeper cognitive engagement. Final line, 0:03:27.270 --> 0:03:30.769 the solution is simple and timeless. Pick up a pen. 0:03:31.389 --> 0:03:31.859 I was like, man. 0:03:32.010 --> 0:03:36.130 And so last night I kept trying, excuse me, I 0:03:36.170 --> 0:03:39.010 have allergies. You know, last night I kept trying to 0:03:39.130 --> 0:03:41.880 figure out what this woman's name was. Of course, I 0:03:41.900 --> 0:03:45.760 couldn't think of it, this Norwegian, Audrey Vandermeer. And I 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.550 really wanted to convey this story because I'm noticing a 0:03:49.610 --> 0:03:52.470 lot of people talking about this thing called brain fog, 0:03:52.490 --> 0:03:54.400 which I think there's a few sources for that. But 0:03:55.060 --> 0:03:57.780 I also think part of why you can't remember things like, 0:03:58.340 --> 0:04:00.160 you know, we don't do it anymore. We don't remember 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.320 phone numbers. We don't remember addresses, you know. And even 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.620 like if I have a business call, I take a 0:04:05.660 --> 0:04:07.750 pen out. I take my notebook out and I take notes. 0:04:08.550 --> 0:04:13.290 Not because ChatGPT isn't going to get it for me 0:04:13.790 --> 0:04:16.050 on the Google Meets and they have Gemini and it 0:04:16.110 --> 0:04:18.500 records everything and I get all my notes spitted out 0:04:18.510 --> 0:04:21.670 to me. And that's great. Super helpful, right? Because you're like, oh, 0:04:21.710 --> 0:04:23.250 what did he say about blah, blah, blah. And you 0:04:23.270 --> 0:04:24.659 can go back and you can look for it and 0:04:24.700 --> 0:04:28.140 find it. And that's very cool. But one of the 0:04:28.180 --> 0:04:30.740 things that I would like to do is make my 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.780 own notes. Like, you know, so-and-so said this, they seem 0:04:34.820 --> 0:04:37.180 super excited when they said it. Like that's not going 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.790 to be in an AI bot taking notes behind this 0:04:40.970 --> 0:04:43.810 video call. So there are just things that I think 0:04:43.910 --> 0:04:46.460 really do help and You know, I think of when 0:04:46.500 --> 0:04:48.420 I was younger, I used to love to write poetry 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.760 and music and all that kind of stuff. And how 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.989 often I wrote, I mean, I would sit for hours 0:04:53.350 --> 0:04:56.710 writing lyrics and lines and all the things. And then, 0:04:57.270 --> 0:04:58.830 you know, you become an adult and you lose that. 0:04:58.970 --> 0:05:01.469 Even reading, right? Holding an actual book. Like I know 0:05:01.510 --> 0:05:03.969 people love Kindles. I happen to be a big fan 0:05:03.990 --> 0:05:06.190 of books and I'm doing all this reading with my 0:05:06.250 --> 0:05:08.979 son right now for school. And it's so nice to 0:05:09.060 --> 0:05:12.219 hold a paperback book and just go through it and 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.220 read it with him and stop and Even when we're 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.200 like in church on Sundays, you know, and I'll be, 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.760 you know, reading the verse in church and following along, 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.500 you know, with the priest. And I'm like, oh, here 0:05:22.540 --> 0:05:24.760 we are. This is the section we're in. And, you know, 0:05:24.810 --> 0:05:28.610 we read it together. Like there's something to holding a book. 0:05:29.010 --> 0:05:32.690 And I really do think it's not lost on me. 0:05:32.730 --> 0:05:34.630 That's for sure how important it is. And there was 0:05:34.670 --> 0:05:38.560 an article out a couple of days ago in the 0:05:38.700 --> 0:05:43.890 Pennsylvania Capital Star and Education Week. And they also did 0:05:43.930 --> 0:05:47.090 a similar study to this. It says brain scans show 0:05:47.130 --> 0:05:52.630 the improvement teachers see in their students. Researchers put 256 0:05:52.630 --> 0:05:56.880 sensors into a hairnet and had 36 students write words 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.039 by hand and then type the same words they had 0:06:00.060 --> 0:06:03.719 just written by hand on a screen. Writing by hand 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.580 lit up connections across the entire brain and all the 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:13.020 frequency bands that are tied to memory. produced almost nothing 0:06:13.300 --> 0:06:16.280 in the same regions. So the conclusion was, I mean, 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.380 it was a harsh conclusion, right? Children have to be 0:06:18.420 --> 0:06:21.560 exposed to handwriting in school from an early age so 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.540 that they can build these connections that the brain needs 0:06:24.580 --> 0:06:27.620 for learning and for their memory, you know? And it's like, 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.440 we're not saying no to screens. We're just saying, get 0:06:31.500 --> 0:06:36.270 back to basics. The incorporation of technology is a wonderful thing. 0:06:36.690 --> 0:06:38.969 I mean, truly, like I look at something like Elon 0:06:39.010 --> 0:06:43.830 Musk and Neuralink the ability to have paralyzed people walk again, 0:06:43.890 --> 0:06:47.489 the ability to give blind people the gift of sight, 0:06:48.130 --> 0:06:49.910 you know, whether they never had it or they're getting 0:06:49.950 --> 0:06:55.120 it back. I mean, there are some tremendous progressions and 0:06:55.180 --> 0:06:58.960 advancements in technology. But the idea that we have to 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:03.659 only use technology, only be on a screen, only go 0:07:03.700 --> 0:07:07.130 to AI, I just think we're losing so much of 0:07:07.210 --> 0:07:10.330 our creative faculties. You know, that's a gift from God. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.060 I mean, we are these living beings here. We're here 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.800 for such a short time. I looked at my husband 0:07:16.820 --> 0:07:20.480 a couple days ago and I said, none of this matters. Like, 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.670 it just doesn't. I mean, the generation before us knows 0:07:23.710 --> 0:07:26.390 who we are and maybe a couple generations after us, 0:07:26.450 --> 0:07:30.570 like our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren will remember us, maybe. And 0:07:30.590 --> 0:07:34.590 then that's it, guys, you know? So enjoy these things 0:07:34.650 --> 0:07:38.250 that you have at your disposal now because so much 0:07:38.300 --> 0:07:41.710 of what you think matters doesn't. And so much of 0:07:41.790 --> 0:07:46.060 what you spend time on is so unimportant. You know, 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.940 when you're sitting on your phone, I look at, you know, 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:53.080 this tech neck, this head bob, this bulge on your neck, 0:07:53.620 --> 0:07:56.580 because you don't look up anymore, right? Where people that, 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.210 I mean, had this epidemic a while ago, a little 0:07:59.230 --> 0:08:01.690 bit off the beaten path here, guys, sorry, but it's 0:08:01.750 --> 0:08:04.550 kind of a funny story. Not funny, haha, but oh 0:08:04.570 --> 0:08:06.250 my God, I can't believe this is actually happening. But 0:08:06.270 --> 0:08:09.420 they were doing these stories in China. I guess there's 0:08:09.450 --> 0:08:12.340 a lot of sidewalk work in China. I don't know. 0:08:13.140 --> 0:08:16.560 And they kept having people fall into these manholes and 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.440 these construction zones because everybody was on their phone. And 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.980 I will tell you, as somebody who, you know, spent 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:26.840 a lot of time in New York and still commutes 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:31.240 there from time to time for work, people definitely are 0:08:31.300 --> 0:08:33.880 walking with their head down. It doesn't matter how busy 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:38.059 the street is. They're on subway platforms. Like Guys, you know, 0:08:38.100 --> 0:08:41.199 the third rail, it's electric for real. Like that's not 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.700 just a song. That is a reality when you fall 0:08:43.780 --> 0:08:46.959 on it because you wanted to look at something on Instagram. Like, 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.860 I don't know, just a very sort of strange time 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:57.579 when you're unable to use your motor functions without looking 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.579 at your phone. I mean, I watch these kids in 0:08:59.620 --> 0:09:01.160 the neighborhood and they go out for a walk and 0:09:01.179 --> 0:09:05.500 instead of just walking and taking in whatever is around you, 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.200 they're on their phone. Now talking on your phone is 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.479 a different thing. I don't use earbuds anymore because I 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.860 think they're doing something screwy with your brain, but I'll 0:09:13.900 --> 0:09:15.840 hold my phone and talk on the phone. I'll talk 0:09:15.860 --> 0:09:18.600 to my mom or my friends or whoever. But this 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:23.620 idea that we have to constantly be stimulated by a show, 0:09:24.059 --> 0:09:26.280 a podcast, well, unless you're listening to mine, of course, 0:09:26.340 --> 0:09:29.960 but all kidding aside, the idea that you can't, you 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.939 have to look at a screen is the scary thing. 0:09:32.980 --> 0:09:36.449 You want to listen I think the medium of listening 0:09:36.510 --> 0:09:39.170 is a really special skill. I don't think a lot 0:09:39.190 --> 0:09:41.710 of people have it. I think people are always thinking 0:09:41.770 --> 0:09:43.640 about what they're going to say, the next thing they're 0:09:43.660 --> 0:09:45.880 going to say. And I have this thing that I 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:47.540 say all the time, which is, oh, not to interrupt you, 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.699 but to interrupt you, which is like a joke in 0:09:49.740 --> 0:09:52.679 our family. But sometimes I say it because I want 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.990 to go back to something they said previously. And sometimes 0:09:55.070 --> 0:09:57.030 I say it because they're about to move on to 0:09:57.070 --> 0:09:58.369 something else. And I'm like, wait, I just want to 0:09:58.410 --> 0:10:01.040 comment on one thing. Maybe we'll pivot for a minute. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.540 You know, there are times where that works, but there 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.600 are other times where you just need to listen. You know, 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.089 there are times when people are talking to you, not 0:10:08.130 --> 0:10:10.850 because they want your opinion, but because they want you 0:10:10.890 --> 0:10:14.530 to hear theirs. And I just think that all of 0:10:14.630 --> 0:10:18.449 these skills, all of these things that you do they 0:10:18.550 --> 0:10:22.190 really are gravely affected by the choices you make every 0:10:22.230 --> 0:10:27.910 day when it comes to screen time and using your 0:10:28.010 --> 0:10:31.440 abilities as a human being, what God gave you when 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:35.459 you were born. And so anyways, I know I'm down 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:36.780 a little bit of a rabbit trail here, but I 0:10:36.860 --> 0:10:38.560 really did just want to share that with you guys 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.330 because I was doing the show yesterday. I'm like, I 0:10:40.420 --> 0:10:44.070 have to talk to them about this. So Speaking of 0:10:44.170 --> 0:10:46.850 things that you do in your present life and you 0:10:46.890 --> 0:10:49.880 wonder why other people are so horrible, I don't know 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.240 if you guys have ever seen this, but on social 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.620 media and YouTube, they have these guys that go out 0:10:57.220 --> 0:11:00.500 and they help disabled veterans. They help the elderly. They 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.920 help people who are in some sort of situation that 0:11:03.970 --> 0:11:06.670 they are unable to take care of their properties and 0:11:06.710 --> 0:11:08.550 they go and they clean them up. And they do 0:11:08.590 --> 0:11:11.790 these like time-lapse videos where you see them turn these 0:11:11.830 --> 0:11:15.830 like overgrown, tons of weeds, you know, lawns that you 0:11:15.870 --> 0:11:18.650 could like, literally they're as tall as you. And they 0:11:18.690 --> 0:11:21.150 go in and they chop them all down and they 0:11:21.170 --> 0:11:25.050 get these houses and these properties back to what they 0:11:25.170 --> 0:11:27.550 once were, clean up all the trash and so on 0:11:27.570 --> 0:11:29.850 and so forth so that the person living in the 0:11:29.890 --> 0:11:33.540 house maybe can find their way to, you know, keeping 0:11:33.580 --> 0:11:36.040 it that way now, or at least hiring a service 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.339 that maybe previously didn't want to take on such a 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.760 big project. So I read this story today and it's 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.200 in Atlanta and this lawn care crew finds this disabled 0:11:45.220 --> 0:11:48.440 veteran's home and it's just covered in like weeds and 0:11:48.660 --> 0:11:52.990 everything is overgrown. The HOA is fining the poor bastard 0:11:52.990 --> 0:11:55.310 $ 50 a day because his yard's unkept, right? So the 0:11:55.350 --> 0:11:57.830 team shows up, they offer to like mow the lawn, 0:11:57.890 --> 0:12:00.730 clean the whole property completely for free. They just want 0:12:00.750 --> 0:12:04.609 to help. The HOA president who was fining the guy 0:12:04.610 --> 0:12:08.080 $ 50 a day for not keeping up his yard called 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.920 the police. And he says, well, the volunteers, they don't 0:12:10.940 --> 0:12:14.699 have a vendor permit and they're trespassing. I'm like, explain 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:19.069 to me how pathetic your life is. That instead of A, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.300 being glad that what you've wanted all along is finally happening. 0:12:24.140 --> 0:12:27.400 And B, this veteran is getting the service for free. 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.780 You are instead calling 911. I'm pretty sure they got 0:12:31.830 --> 0:12:34.810 better things to do on these people and saying they 0:12:34.830 --> 0:12:37.490 don't have a permit to be on the property. They're 0:12:37.510 --> 0:12:41.140 not building anything. They're not doing anything that could harm 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:45.890 another property. They're literally cleaning it up. That's all they're doing. 0:12:46.490 --> 0:12:49.310 The officer arrives. He hears the story. He tells the 0:12:49.510 --> 0:12:51.370 HOA to take a hike and lets the crew finish. 0:12:52.210 --> 0:12:56.150 But I just, these are the types of people. It's 0:12:56.170 --> 0:12:57.890 like a show I did a few months ago where 0:12:57.910 --> 0:13:01.710 the woman was like another HOA board and it was 0:13:01.730 --> 0:13:05.030 the community pool. And she was saying, you know, it's 0:13:05.070 --> 0:13:08.040 fine for the kids to swim. But when the splashing 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:12.280 becomes aggressive, that's not play anymore. And I'm like, ma'am, 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.610 what is happening that you want to regulate the splashing? 0:13:17.490 --> 0:13:21.610 How bad is your life? What is happening in your life? 0:13:21.770 --> 0:13:24.050 Do you, you don't have one friend? You didn't run 0:13:24.090 --> 0:13:26.230 this idea by anybody and they're like, yeah, it's probably 0:13:26.270 --> 0:13:29.500 not a thing. Maybe just sit on that. These are, 0:13:29.650 --> 0:13:32.880 but this is the stuff, right? Every day people do 0:13:33.059 --> 0:13:39.160 really strange shit. And you're like, I don't understand why 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:45.480 you're getting involved. And it's silly, but it dovetails into 0:13:45.940 --> 0:13:48.859 the deeper issues that we talk about, like the trans stuff, 0:13:48.900 --> 0:13:53.040 where it's like, OK, you're crazy. You want to say 0:13:53.059 --> 0:13:56.270 that you identify as something that you are not. And 0:13:56.309 --> 0:14:00.290 for some reason, you have found a way to make 0:14:00.370 --> 0:14:02.630 money off of this. Either you're an influencer, you're a 0:14:02.650 --> 0:14:05.820 viral sensation, Your doctors are making money off of it. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:07.760 So they're willing to give you your treatments for free 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:09.520 until they're not, but then you're too locked in. So 0:14:09.570 --> 0:14:12.090 then you have to pay for it. Like the systemic 0:14:12.650 --> 0:14:16.410 effect of these people that have mental illness that we 0:14:16.470 --> 0:14:20.150 are now saying, you know, no trans people are people 0:14:20.210 --> 0:14:23.190 and they're humans. I'm not arguing that they're not human. 0:14:23.310 --> 0:14:25.950 I'm not arguing that they're not alive. I'm not arguing 0:14:25.990 --> 0:14:28.490 that they don't have feelings and hearts and minds like 0:14:28.530 --> 0:14:31.080 the rest of us. What I am saying is that 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.360 the people that are profiting off of their crazy, And 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.060 then telling the rest of us that we have to 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.380 sign up to be as crazy. That's all bullshit. Like, 0:14:39.900 --> 0:14:42.020 I'm not doing that. I don't know whose idea this 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.610 was that we all had to sign on, but it's 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.490 not for me. You know, you may want to dress 0:14:47.570 --> 0:14:50.730 up and say that you're Lily, but everybody knows you're Luke. 0:14:51.410 --> 0:14:53.870 And as far as we can tell, you still got 0:14:53.890 --> 0:14:56.470 all the parts that Luke was born with. So this 0:14:56.550 --> 0:14:58.950 idea that you want to come into a bathroom or 0:14:59.010 --> 0:15:02.110 come into a changing room or be on the cheerleading team, 0:15:02.150 --> 0:15:04.980 like I'm just so over it, you know? I saw 0:15:05.020 --> 0:15:08.040 this super sad story today about this woman and she 0:15:08.060 --> 0:15:12.740 was talking about, you know, these, how we have to 0:15:12.820 --> 0:15:15.070 like affirm, right? This is their big word. We need 0:15:15.140 --> 0:15:19.030 gender affirmation. And this woman was like, you know, I 0:15:19.110 --> 0:15:23.010 do believe that we should affirm children's beliefs and stop 0:15:23.070 --> 0:15:26.870 telling them that something is wrong with their God-given healthy 0:15:26.930 --> 0:15:31.360 bodies because you guys want to, you want to twist 0:15:31.380 --> 0:15:34.920 them up. You want to tell them something That's not true. 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.060 And so this woman talks about her daughter who, you know, 0:15:39.140 --> 0:15:41.420 she was telling her she's wonderful and you're beautiful and 0:15:41.460 --> 0:15:46.080 all the things. And then she goes to school and 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.440 they're telling her, no, you're right. You are in the 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:53.470 wrong body. You do need hormones. You should have transition surgery. 0:15:53.890 --> 0:15:57.950 She's in high school. So then she goes through all 0:15:57.970 --> 0:16:01.670 of this stuff, all of these lunatic teachers and counselors, 0:16:02.060 --> 0:16:04.480 They're all telling her that she's right and she's crazy. 0:16:04.940 --> 0:16:07.620 And the reason that she feels like this is because 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.120 she's in the wrong body. All this bullshit, right? She 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:16.460 cuts off the parents, gets the drugs, goes on still 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:20.920 believing there's something wrong with her body. Because the affirming 0:16:21.140 --> 0:16:23.740 that she needed was somebody to say, hey, you're great 0:16:23.780 --> 0:16:27.000 just the way you are. You're doing just fine. You're 15, 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.820 you're 16, you're 17. That is a time in your 0:16:29.860 --> 0:16:33.450 life where your hormones are insane. You are changing, you're 0:16:33.470 --> 0:16:35.750 turning into an adult, and you normally do not have 0:16:35.790 --> 0:16:37.870 all your faculties about you most of the time, which 0:16:37.930 --> 0:16:41.050 is why you make such bad decisions. Any normal parent 0:16:41.110 --> 0:16:44.410 is going to say to you, uh-huh, well, you're not 0:16:44.450 --> 0:16:47.080 chopping anything off. You're not taking anything. Have a nice day. 0:16:47.270 --> 0:16:49.900 Go upstairs. Take a minute. If you want to talk 0:16:49.940 --> 0:16:52.980 about it, I'm here for you all day. Happy to 0:16:53.020 --> 0:16:55.300 discuss it. And by the way, which teacher was it 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:56.920 that said they wanted to help you do this? Because 0:16:56.940 --> 0:16:58.280 I'm going to go to the school right now and 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.120 make sure they get fired. That's what needs to happen. 0:17:01.740 --> 0:17:04.840 And parents need to be more engaged. They need to 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:09.119 understand the day-to-day that your kids are having at school 0:17:09.740 --> 0:17:13.139 is not learning math and English. They are indoctrinating your 0:17:13.180 --> 0:17:15.440 kids every day. Now, I'm not saying every teacher because 0:17:15.460 --> 0:17:18.330 there are conservative teachers. There's not a lot of them, 0:17:18.369 --> 0:17:22.750 but they're there. And unfortunately, our kids are being inundated 0:17:22.850 --> 0:17:25.710 with this constant nonsense. I saw a guy today also, oh, 0:17:26.090 --> 0:17:27.950 and by the way, full circle on that story, this 0:17:27.990 --> 0:17:31.250 poor girl does all the things, takes all the drugs, 0:17:32.030 --> 0:17:34.790 cuts her family off and then committed suicide because she 0:17:34.830 --> 0:17:38.109 still didn't feel whole. Whatever was wrong in her mind, 0:17:38.530 --> 0:17:43.030 whatever was making her feel like she wasn't enough had 0:17:43.109 --> 0:17:45.960 nothing to do with her being a boy or a girl. 0:17:46.340 --> 0:17:48.780 It had to do with her having some sort of 0:17:48.820 --> 0:17:52.300 feeling of insecurity and her parents should have had the 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.260 right to walk that walk with her. But instead they 0:17:55.300 --> 0:17:59.159 were like, no, you don't have a right to say that. 0:17:59.180 --> 0:18:01.359 We're going to cut you off now because you're not 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:05.270 affirming your child. And now her child is dead. You 0:18:05.290 --> 0:18:07.350 think any of those counselors or teachers give a shit? 0:18:07.950 --> 0:18:09.810 You think they called her and said, hey, we're really 0:18:09.850 --> 0:18:12.230 sorry about that. We made a mistake. We shouldn't have 0:18:12.270 --> 0:18:14.869 told your kid to turn into a boy when she 0:18:14.910 --> 0:18:17.629 was a girl. Maybe she had deeper issues. These people 0:18:17.670 --> 0:18:20.030 have no idea what they're doing or what they're saying 0:18:20.090 --> 0:18:24.500 most of the time. They are literally profiting off of 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:30.030 all of these disgusting, affirmations that they say are necessary. 0:18:30.730 --> 0:18:33.500 It is a lifetime of being on drugs. It is 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:37.400 a lifetime of being on SSRIs and hormones and all 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.080 these other things. And the mountains of money that the 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:45.080 education system and the unions and all these pharmaceutical companies 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.619 are making off of our children is criminal. And as parents, 0:18:48.770 --> 0:18:50.489 we have to stand up to it. It may not 0:18:50.530 --> 0:18:54.830 be popular. You might not be invited to every brunch 0:18:54.890 --> 0:18:57.189 and hangout, you might not be the one that when 0:18:57.210 --> 0:18:59.950 you walk into the meeting at school, they're not excited 0:18:59.990 --> 0:19:03.310 to see you. That's all very possible. But aren't your 0:19:03.350 --> 0:19:06.280 kids worth it? Isn't that something that you care about? 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:11.280 And let's be honest, you know, the medical field is 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.260 not what it once was. You know, there were people, 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.060 I remember my doctor from when I was a kid, Dr. Barrow, 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:17.879 this guy was a soul to the earth. You know, 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:19.220 he was one of those guys, he looked at you, 0:19:19.260 --> 0:19:20.400 he knew what was wrong with you and he told 0:19:20.420 --> 0:19:23.870 you what to do, like awesome, right? But that's not 0:19:24.290 --> 0:19:28.129 What we have now, now the system is so impersonal. 0:19:28.710 --> 0:19:32.930 Now the doctors are so condescending and they could care less, right? 0:19:33.290 --> 0:19:35.930 They won't take a phone call. They won't, you know, 0:19:36.050 --> 0:19:39.489 come back to you and say, Hey, you know, I'm 0:19:39.510 --> 0:19:42.630 really interested in, in what you're doing or, you know, 0:19:42.750 --> 0:19:44.330 or what's happening with you. I want to know how 0:19:44.369 --> 0:19:47.409 that medicine is working out. And I will tell you recently, 0:19:47.490 --> 0:19:50.119 my husband and I have had the privilege of of 0:19:50.260 --> 0:19:52.780 working with a doctor who gave us his cell phone 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:56.429 number and followed up on our daughter on Sundays. I mean, 0:19:56.470 --> 0:19:58.630 he would call, how's everything going? Is that medicine working 0:19:58.670 --> 0:20:01.389 out for her? And I'm like, this guy's like an alien. 0:20:02.150 --> 0:20:04.790 He's just a different kind of doctor. He still cares. 0:20:05.630 --> 0:20:09.210 And so I was Looking today at this woman, Elizabeth Potter, 0:20:09.650 --> 0:20:12.560 I think she's a surgeon, but she is such an 0:20:12.619 --> 0:20:15.699 amazing doctor. She's the one who filmed herself doing the 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:20.260 call with the insurance company. And she was explaining to 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:24.669 the insurance company the reason why her patient needed the 0:20:24.690 --> 0:20:28.790 breast surgery because she has breast cancer. And she filmed 0:20:28.810 --> 0:20:31.130 the whole call. I think it's like two hours long. 0:20:31.530 --> 0:20:34.500 And it's her trying to get the insurance company to 0:20:34.660 --> 0:20:37.030 approve the surgery so that they'll pay for it. They 0:20:37.070 --> 0:20:42.429 ultimately denied her patient. That's what happened. And the idea 0:20:42.490 --> 0:20:46.469 that the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies have the 0:20:46.609 --> 0:20:53.150 right to deny your patient what they need as determined by, 0:20:54.060 --> 0:20:59.790 you know, the, the doctors, it's insane. I mean, people 0:20:59.810 --> 0:21:02.710 who work in insurance companies and pharmacies, these are not doctors. 0:21:03.130 --> 0:21:06.280 They're not seeing the patients, but ultimately they get the 0:21:06.340 --> 0:21:09.420 final say on what the patient can receive, how it 0:21:09.460 --> 0:21:11.240 can receive it, and how much it's going to cost. 0:21:12.020 --> 0:21:14.760 So anyways, Elizabeth Potter, MD, if you don't follow her, 0:21:14.820 --> 0:21:18.119 please do because she's fantastic. So today she was explaining 0:21:19.180 --> 0:21:24.879 something called CPT. So these are the current procedural terminology 0:21:24.940 --> 0:21:28.910 codes that physicians use to show like how they care 0:21:28.950 --> 0:21:31.080 for a patient, and then that's how they bill for it. 0:21:31.300 --> 0:21:34.119 And Wall Street Apes, who I love, reposted it. And 0:21:34.140 --> 0:21:38.639 he explains that the medical billing codes required by the 0:21:38.700 --> 0:21:42.020 medical system in the United States of America are technically 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:47.060 owned by a nonprofit. The nonprofit makes over $ 300 million 0:21:47.100 --> 0:21:51.820 a year in royalties from the codes. Then they take 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:55.220 that money and they donate them to special interests and 0:21:55.260 --> 0:21:58.649 politicians that they like. So all of this is jacking 0:21:58.670 --> 0:22:00.990 up the price of healthcare. I mean, it's insane. So 0:22:01.010 --> 0:22:02.890 take a listen to her. She's, I just think she's 0:22:02.930 --> 0:22:05.310 hysterical the way she says it. She wants, she's not 0:22:05.330 --> 0:22:07.250 what your take first, but here's what's going on. 0:22:07.990 --> 0:22:10.820 Why is the American Medical Association being sued? And what 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:13.080 do we need to know about it? The American Medical 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:17.000 Association is being sued. for making people pay for the 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:19.419 use of CPT codes. It's something that they copyright and 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:23.580 it's how we as physicians have to communicate about things 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:25.680 that we do that we have to bill for. It's 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:30.050 called current procedural terminology. So CPT codes are something that 0:22:30.070 --> 0:22:31.750