WEBVTT - I'm Not Doing Anything For A Carrot 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:24.400 Armstrong and Jettie and now he Armstrong and Jetty in 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:25.439 Central New Jersey. 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.000 The FBI is now investigating multiple sightings of swarms of 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:33.440 drones hovering menacingly overhead night after night for the last 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.440 several weeks. The drones have been described as larger than 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.839 what a hobbyist might fly. Some of the drones have 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.080 been spotted close to a military installation and President elect 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:46.200 Trump's Bedminster golf club, where he frequently stays. The FAA says, 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.080 at the request of Federal Security partners, it is prohibiting 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:53.160 drone flights over Picatinny Arsenal Military Base and Trump's golf course. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.920 Well, I hope we're on top of this. Whatever it is. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:01.640 Can you say Picatinny on the air. This definitely has 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:06.200 the feel of it's absolutely nothing or nothing else matters. 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:11.600 It's either something unbelievable or it'll go away and it'll 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:12.280 turn out to em. 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:13.840 I hope we're on top of it. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:19.160 Like I said, why that's crazy, Okay. Jason Riley is 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.000 a brilliant man. He writes for The Wall Street Journal, 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.400 among other places. He's an editorialist. He happens to be 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:28.080 a black man, and he wrote a column recently. He's 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:33.399 talking about President Biden venturing to Angola, Africa, fleeing the 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:42.720 country after the utterly indefensible, dishonest, bipartisan, damaging pardon of 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:47.920 his boy and he mentions that many black Americans trace 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:52.320 their ancestry to Angola, former Portuguese colony, and mister Biden 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.720 spoke of the country's quote shared history an evil of 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.560 human bondage during his remarks, we remember the stolen men 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.360 and women and children who were brought to our shores 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.800 and chains and subjected to unimaginable cruelty. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.320 So far, absolutely true. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.520 The horrors of slavery, whenever and wherever it's existed, are 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:15.120 undeniable and horrific to anybody with the beating heart, as 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.080 far as I'm concerned, particularly as a lover of liberty. 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:24.120 But let us plunge on. And one of my favorite 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.600 parts about this column is that it is it utterly 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.480 refutes so much of the sixteen nineteen project and its premises, 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.520 and that got so much currency. It's still being taught 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:39.200 in school systems around, and it's, you know, like all 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:43.840 great frauds, it's like three quarters true and then that 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.720 last quarter, though, including the premise of the whole damn thing, 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.480 is utterly farcical. The idea that the US was we 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.480 broke away from Britain to make sure we could keep 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.920 having slaves, and then we wrote a constitution to make 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.280 sure we had lots of slaves, and the whole part 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.839 of the country is to keep slavery going. Nothing could 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:04.359 be more dishonest. But anyway, Jason Riley, in writing about Oh, 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.080 his title is will we ever hear the end of 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:08.600 slavery reparations? 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:12.359 Oh? 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.839 Yeah, no kidding. You mentioned that later, But Biden thinks 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.640 the issue needs further study. But few issues in history 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.560 have received more attention. Yeah, the whole further study thing. Seriously, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.760 I wish I could give me five minutes with Black America. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:26.760 Friends. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.160 This is the carrot dangled in front of your nose 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.600 that you will never taste its delicious orange goodness. It 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:38.120 is a political fraud designed to keep you voting in 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:39.160 one particular way. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:40.720 There are going to be no. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:45.040 Reparations of any significant scale in any significant area. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:45.520 Anyway. 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.240 The funny thing about the carrot as a metaphor for 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.240 an enticement is I'm not doing anything for a carrot. 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:53.960 Nothing. I mean, I won't get up out of my 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:54.880 chair for a carrot. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:04:00.880 Well, you're not a donkey, are you? All right, here's 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.520 where it gets really really interesting to me. You want 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.960 to talk about the African slave trade to our part 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:14.520 of the world. More than ninety percent of enslaved Africans 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.000 were sent to the Caribbean and South America between the 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:23.880 sixteenth and nineteenth centuries a year fifteen hundreds to year 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:28.000 eighteen hundreds, more than nine more than ninety percent. Wow, 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:32.760 while about six percent of African captives were sent directly 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.360 directly to British North America, about six percent. 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:43.440 It's definitely true that slave I mean, I'm going way 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.920 back to my grade school years. But slavery was portrayed 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.400 is like a uniquely American thing. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:54.800 Correct, Yeah? Yeah, a horror that we and we alone committed. 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.880 And you know, I don't answer for the sins of 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.800 my forefathers anymore than they would answer for my sins 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.200 somehow if they had a time machine. And again, none 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.200 of this is ever to deny the horrors of slavery. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.839 That's not the point at all. But and although the 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.720 trans Atlantic slave trade receives far, far more attention today, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.120 the trans Saharan slave trade have you even heard of? That, 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.520 which involved Arabs transporting captives from Black Africa across the 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.320 Sahara Desert and the Persian Gulf to the Islamic world 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.560 of North Africa and the Middle East, involved a larger 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:33.040 number of African slaves and lasted for a much longer period. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:35.680 It is striking. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.040 Harvard scholar Orlando Patterson wrote that quote, the total volume 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:42.280 of African slaves acquired by Muslim masters is greater than 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.680 the total acquired by Europeans and the Americans. Nor mister 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.240 Patterson stress with slavery unique to Africa, Europe, and the 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.440 Islamic world or to a particular stretch of time. Quote, 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:57.560 there is nothing notable peculiar, notably peculiar about the institution 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.000 of slavery. It has existed from before the dawn of 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.919 human history right down to the twentieth century, in the 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.839 most primitive of human societies and in the most civilized. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:08.919 There is no region of the earth that has not 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.440 at some time harbored the institution. Probably there is no 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.040 group of people on Earth whose ancestors were not at 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.280 one time slaves or slaveholders. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:24.719 Oh, almost certainly. Man a lot of human beings throughout history. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:26.719 I saw the number the other day, the total number 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:31.120 of humans that have lived on Earth, forty billion or something, 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.240 whatever it was. Man, most of them had awful lives. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.480 Yeah, just awful. Whether it's healthcare or being a slave, 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:38.520 is just awful. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.480 And I just read an account. I'm not going to 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.800 lay it on you, but the premise of the thing 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.440 was about how the world community and the UN and 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.760 all sorts of people are doing nothing to hold some 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:56.480 of the Islamist groups to account for their slavery right now, 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:01.760 including the slavery of women as has forced brides and 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.760 the rest of it. I'm going to spare you the 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:08.200 worst parts of it, but there is wide spread, horrible 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:12.160 slavery going on as we speak and breathe on earth 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:18.000 right now. Oh sure, right now, China, millions of people, right, Yeah, 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.320 I'm sorry I was talking over you, China, right. This 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.720 is interesting. Earlier this year, Portuguese President Marcello Rebello di 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.320 Suza suggested that his country should pay slavery reparations to 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.600 Angola is the former Portuguese colonies and I mentioned, but 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.360 the current Angolan president shot down the idea. He said, 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.920 it's impossible to make up for what happened in the past. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:43.640 It only creates conflicts, he told reporters. Mister Biden, by contrast, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.600 has insisted the issue needs further study. Blah blah blah. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.200 That's so weak, the opposite of leadership. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.200 I'm gonna pretend to make some noises for something that 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.800 will never happen, to make sure the wokest people out 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.760 there feel like I'm on their side. 0:07:58.120 --> 0:07:58.600 Whatever. 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.720 And he goes into California, New York have set up preparations, 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.280 task forces, a couple other things, and then he says, 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.239 California was never a slave state. 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:11.440 Oh and Titam is just south of San Francisco. Shiloh's 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.840 outside of La Sure. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.880 And its black population didn't reach two percent until the 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:24.160 nineteen forties. Oh wow, Today California is a majority minority 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:29.800 state where Latinos forty percent and Asians fifteen percent far 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:34.440 outnumber Blacks five percent. Why should Asians and Latinos whose 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.960 ancestors were never slave owners, well not slave owners in 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:39.360 the United States of Africans. 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.080 I got to depart. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:44.400 Here from Jason's brilliance and say, whoa dude, so called 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:50.360 Latinos were probably Spanish, had Spanish ancestors. They came to 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.760 the New World and enslaved craploads of people Mayans and 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:58.559 Aztecs and whoever, or or anybody else, or maybe they 0:08:58.600 --> 0:08:59.400 were enslaved. 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:00.000 I don't know. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.880 Oh, but anyway, why should Asians and Latinos, as ancestors 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.720 maybe never own slaves and who themselves have been subject 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.000 to discrimination, be forced to compensate Black people today who 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:11.240 are never slaves. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.560 Well, and I don't know how much of this we've 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.320 talked about for our whole Armstrong and Getty network, because 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.480 we talk about it locally in California a lot. But 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.120 the proposal that is out there in California is giving 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:28.760 everybody who's a descend who's black house, you get a 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:29.360 free house. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:30.559 What is the other stuff? You get? 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.160 Two hundred thousand and eight dollars a year job forever, 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:34.559 just all kinds of. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.480 Like nutty nutty stuff, like so crazy you can't believe 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.199 anybody's even talking about it out loud. 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.520 Jason Riley goes on to say, moreover, those blacks who 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.560 did migrate to the Golden State in the middle decades 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.079 of the twentieth century did relatively well on average urban 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.640 as Fred Siegel wrote, Blacks have long been better off 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.880 materially in LA than in the rest of the country. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.680 As early as the nineteen thirties, Watts had the highest 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.240 rated black home ownership in the country. Blacks benefited from 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.600 the World War two boom Blah blah law nineteen sixty 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.960 four National Urban League Survey rank Los Angeles is the 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.320 best big city in the nation for black employment, housing, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:12.840 and income. Earlier this week, California Assemblyman Kammie mcmarxy said 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.160 he would introduce legislation require University California and the state 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.480 University to give admissions preferences to the descendants of slaves. 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.080 He says, we have a moral responsibility to do what 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.280 we can to write those wrongs, but the real obligation 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:30.040 is to stop discriminating by race altogether, not char change 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.240 who's on the receiving end, which is what his legislation 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.440 would do. Mister Brian and others seeking reparations need to 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.679 decide whether they want justice or payback. 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:40.720 Jason Riley, Tip. 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.839 Of the Cap my friend well someday in California We'll 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.120 have a bullet train that takes you from Gettysburg to. 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:50.800 Appomattox and black folks can ride for free. Is reparations 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:57.800 from something from Asians, from Muslims snatching up more Africans 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.880 than went to the entire Western Hema fear, of which 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:02.720 the US had six percent. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:04.600 Okay, it's a. 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.679 Big day for the whole trans conversation at the Supreme 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:12.240 Court came across the latest numbers on how many people 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:18.760 consider themselves LGBTQ plus in each generation. Oh boy, which 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.760 is kind of interesting. And they have a guess. I'm 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:28.319 pretty easy to guess. Stay tuned as listening to a 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:32.520 podcast the other day was all about how things culturally 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:38.559 lead to legally almost every law, not almost, I'm sure 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:43.160 every law. It was culturally a thing before it was 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.840 legally a thing. And that's kind of where where we 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:51.160 are with this Supreme Court taking up the trans stuff today. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.960 The question is, culturally, do we think children should be 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.800 deciding whether they're boys or girls and then parents having 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:01.280 up operations done on them? 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:03.240 Right? 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.360 Then? I think ninety percent of us think no, they shouldn't. 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:10.800 But Jam Crawford of CBS News, the Legal correspondent she's 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.040 really good. She was outside the Supreme Court building and 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:14.360 talked to a couple of moms. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.559 School teacher Arion Adam Chakhova said her son was sixteen 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.520 when he came out as a trans girl. 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.480 His dad and I were very open to different gender expressions, 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.760 and we just figured that this was an experimental phase, 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.280 and so I was like, yeah, you know, what dress 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.640 however you want, like cool, that's great. 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.079 I was open to all of it. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.520 But then I realized if he went to the doctor, 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:43.080 they were going to prescribe him hormones, and he was 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:44.679 begging for the hormones. 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.360 He was begging for puberty blockers. The doctors told me 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.800 my daughter would commit suicide if I didn't transition her. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.640 The doctors told you that they did. Both women, self 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.560 described liberals, did not let their children take medication, which 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.880 can be irreversible. They said their kids went through intensive psychotherapy, 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.880 and after about eighteen months both children de transitioned. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.079 When you're twenty five, if you decide that's the pathway 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:11.760 you need, then we will of course love you and 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.160 support you and your decision. 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.320 Those doctors are evil. It reminds me. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.440 I said this a couple of weeks ago of the therapist. 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.240 I know that said a lot of the therapists. If 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.760 they get a teen who says, you know, I think 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:27.719 I'm a girl, they send them to a doctor, she argues, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:33.559 convinces and had two teenage people who were talking about 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.360 that and talk to them out of it in like 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:36.160 two minutes. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.680 Yeah, so you can either vastly last majority of kids 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:40.240 grow out of it. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.280 So you either immediately jump on board with the Okay, 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:43.800 you see you might be a girl, you're probably a girl, 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.040 let's go to the doctor, or no, here's what you're probably. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.800 Going through and then they say, oh, okay, yeah. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:54.000 Yeah. It's astounding that. I mean, the quote unquote success 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:58.760 rate of hey, let's talk about this is enormously high. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:04.760 Is that that a large majority of the counseling community 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:08.520 and these perverse doctors they don't even do that well? 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.000 Fitting in with the whole culturally thing that I mentioned 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:17.360 by generation, what percentage of people identify as LGBTQ plus 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:18.720 the silent generation? 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.560 How do you know? You ask him, they don't say anything, 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.240 but you're saying nothing. 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.640 Of the silent generation identifies as lgbtqos. Now, of course 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.360 you can make the argument that they come from a 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:30.880 time where it wasn't okay, and a lot of them 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.000 are not saying they. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.080 Are gay when they are blah blah blah, which might 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:34.480 be true. 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.160 Baby Boomers, it's two point three percent, which is close 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:41.120 to the right number. Generation X four point five percent. Again, 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.520 kind of close to the right number based on like 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.680 gallop poles of what percentage of people are gay or bisexual, 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.040 it's around three percent, they think. Millennials it's ten percent. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.520 Generation Z twenty three percent. 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.480 Right. Well, that's the problem with the alphabet soup and 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.680 particularly the Q part of it, because queer doesn't mean anything. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:07.080 It just means I'm against the status quo man. That's 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:11.880 the that's it means, oppositional to the powers that be. 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:17.119 That's all it means, or the expectations of society. I'm queer, man, 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.400 it doesn't mean anything. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:20.520 Anyway. 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.960 Came across this Twitter feed from a fellow by the 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:24.920 name of Chad Green. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:26.000 Uh. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:26.760 He's a gay fellow. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:28.840 He says, an older trans woman talk to me when 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.160 I was twenty one or so about my interest in transitioning. 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.480 Did we mention that Supreme Court is hearing Yeah. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.600 The case at Tennessee a Tennessee case where Tennessee is 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.440 trying to outlaw these experimental sex change treatments on children, 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.880 and they're hearing the oral arguments today. Anyway, So this 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:45.760 guy says, an older trans woman talk to me when 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.080 I was twenty one or so about my interest in transitioning. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.280 She said, quote, You'll spend the rest of your life 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.040 asking yourself why you gave up being a cute but 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.040 insecure gay man and trapped yourself in the body of 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.240 someone who kind of looks like a woman. Oh, every 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.000 day you'll stare in the mirror, studying every shadow, every 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.040 hint of your former face, convinced that it's shining through. 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.240 You'll try to hide it with makeup, long hair, and 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.320 more makeup, but you'll always see him. Your clothes won't 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.320 fit right. You're too tall, too lanky. Every person you pass, 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.200 you'll imagine is wondering about you. Your voice will always 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.240 feel too deep, too loud, too heavy, but faking it 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.320 will sound fake. You'll notice, they'll notice. You will always 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.920 feel naked in public. If you can't believe it, how 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.080 will a man I'm talking about a lover. Over time, 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.760 you'll find the right tricks, right makeup, right tone right movement, 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.280 you'll forget more and won't notice the I am certain 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:38.320 something awe is off looks, but he'll always be there waiting. 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.320 You need the whole world to believe, but you never will. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.040 And he says, she saved me. The solution for me 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.160 was accepting what I could not change. I was still struggling. 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.400 I was still living with anxiety. I still hated my body. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.200 But was this the answer? Was it really the answer? 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:58.400 It wasn't. I needed time to time and to prioritize 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:03.920 my life more important. Chatlenges came. Part of growing up 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.320 is real resalizing. Sometimes things hurt your life can't stop 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.359 when things are difficult. Gender affirming treatment keeps you stuck 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.159 in never ending acceptance and validation, trying to be what 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.240 you cannot be, armstrong and getty. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.120 Well, guys, a lot of people are getting excited because 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.480 Spotify is sent to release their Spotify Wrapped playlist. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.320 Any day now, Yeah, which will tell everyone what they 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:27.400 listen to most this year. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.760 In fact, the company releases all sorts of data about 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:30.280 their users. 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.120 It's pretty interesting. Check this out first out. 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.000 Sixty percent make a Christmas playlist to enjoy at home. 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.080 Forty percent just take a seat on the floor at 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:41.400 CBS in September and listen. Thirty percent have a Spotify 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:42.080 family plan. 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.000 Seventy percent told their dad to use it. 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:45.919 A month later, he said, I can't find the Eagles 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.200 on Shopify that day. 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:54.040 Yeah, my kids are on my Spotify, so all our 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:58.000 listening gets jumbled together, so I get fed stuff I 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.040 never want to listen to, and vice versa. Yeah, there 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.919 is an Apple shaped music service that I have the 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.800 same problem with this. I get my daughter's musical tastes 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:08.840 sent my way. 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.800 Hey Joe, we've compiled a playlist just for you. 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:16.920 Do a Lippa and Taylor Swift. Oh great, thanks, thanks 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.440 for nothing. As problems go, this is a relatively minor one. 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.159 But the way our clock works here, we have to 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.560 take breaks at a mandatory time at the bottom of 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.320 the hour. And so I had a restaurant and I 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:33.280 couldn't finish. This guy's incredibly moving, personalized why I didn't transition? 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:37.439 How glad I am Twitter thread, an older trans person 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:42.160 counseled him not to do it, and he didn't, and 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:48.280 he writes, m M, I'll skip to the end. The 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.720 solution for me was accepting what I could not change. 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.000 I was still struggling, I was still living with anxiety. 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.480 I still hated my body. But was this the answer? 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.080 Was it really the answer? It wasn't. I needed time 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.359 and to prioritize my life. More important challenges came. There's 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.119 no right way to handle this experience. But transition is 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.960 such a permanent and drastic solution, one that is no 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.000 guarantee of peace. The longer you wait, the more difficult 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.120 it is. The faster you rush it, the more likely 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.040 you'll regret it. There's a better way. Part of growing 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.920 up is realizing sometimes things hurt. Your life can't stop. 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.120 When things are difficult, You've got to find a way forward. 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.680 Gender affirming treatment quote unquote keeps you stuck in never 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.480 ending acceptance and validation and trying to be what you 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.639 cannot be. I'm grateful every day I did not transition. 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.280 I didn't give up a future I could never have 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:38.120 imagined for myself. I didn't trap myself. I didn't find 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.560 out too late that it wasn't the answer to my pain. 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.639 Someone who knew told me the truth. That's why I 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:48.280 speak out today. And well done, sir, I appreciate your 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:49.879 candor and your courage. 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.360 It'll be interesting to see what the Supreme Court justices 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:53.960 think of this. I don't know how up on the 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.240 whole trans thing they are. I mean, a lot of 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.240 them are pretty old. It's got to be pretty shocking 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.160 to them, the fact that it's happening. 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:04.720 In Yeah, and there are a lot of these things, 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.640 like the critical race theory, the Black Lives Matter deal, 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.080 it's all related. It's all postmodernism neomarks as well, and 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:15.560 the radical gender theory stuff that the folks who are 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:19.720 trying to promote this are good at selling it. They 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:24.960 soft pedal the ugly stuff, and they really twist and 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:29.320 sugar coat either the data or the good it does, 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:31.720 or that sort of thing. And so if you just 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.720 do a drive by look at some of these issues, 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:37.439 you can really get led down the garden path. And 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:40.080 I'm kind of concerned that that might happen with the justices. 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:42.760 Once you start digging into the stuff, you realize how 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:46.400 insitious it is. Speaking of which, The New York Times 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:51.440 Jeremy Peters wrote a piece, and he happened to say, 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:54.199 to get on the wrong side of transgender activists is 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:58.959 often to endure their unsparing criticism. You're a Nazi, You're 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:03.119 a hater. Blah blah blah uh, and then he mentions 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:06.360 When JK. Rowling said that denying any relationship between sex 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:09.880 and biology was deeply misogynistic and regressive, a prominent group 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:13.720 accused her of betraying real feminism. Angry critics posted videos 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.280 of themselves burning her books. Blah blah blah. Well, Jake 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:20.560 came out and wrote, the rewriting of history begins. Opponents 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:25.119 of gender ideology haven't merely quote endured unsparing criticism. I 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.879 haven't simply been told I betrayed real feminism or received 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:31.720 a few book burning videos. I've been sent thousands of 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:35.240 threats of murder, rape and violence. She talks about her 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:39.600 children being doxed, Oh, my god, threatened. I could write 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.119 a twenty thousand word essay on what the consequences have 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:44.200 been to me and my family, and what we've endured 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:46.920 is nothing compared to the harm done to others. 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.680 That essay would include a wizard and a magical young 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:52.120 boy and be incredibly readable. 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:54.879