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Speaker 3: Now on with the infotainments.
Speaker 5: Some breaking news just out of our newsroom here at
Speaker 5: Fox thirteen. A man is in the hospital after being
Speaker 5: shot in the leg overnight if his police say he
Speaker 5: was shot by.
Speaker 3: His dog. Seriously, I don't think that's right.
Speaker 5: This happened just before four am at a home on
Speaker 5: Whitney Avenue in Fraser Wow. Police say the man was
Speaker 5: lying in the bed with a girl with a gun
Speaker 5: on the bed. Police say his dog jumped up on
Speaker 5: the bed, got is Paul stuck in the trigger and
Speaker 5: ended up hitting the trigger, shooting the man in the thigh.
Speaker 3: Wow accident.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so the dog claims you pretend to throw the
Speaker 6: tennis ball, you stick it in the couch cushion one
Speaker 6: too many times?
Speaker 4: Right, And Dora, I'm supposed to be there in the
Speaker 4: bed next to you.
Speaker 3: And who is this? Huh?
Speaker 4: You cheating bastard.
Speaker 3: When's the last time I went for a walk? Can
Speaker 3: you even remember? Wow?
Speaker 4: Wow, bad boy, bad dog.
Speaker 6: The dog ties him to a chair like reservoir dogs.
Speaker 6: I'm not putting up with this anymore.
Speaker 3: Right Wait? So, uh Jack Michael?
Speaker 2: Do we have that the two rappers were talking and
Speaker 2: gunshots went off?
Speaker 4: That's a candidate for clip.
Speaker 3: Of the year. So I like the way.
Speaker 6: Clearly this news anchor who's got a bit of a
Speaker 6: kent Brockman, Will Ferrell vibe Yah apparently was just handed
Speaker 6: this breaking news not knowing.
Speaker 3: He was about to do a story about a man
Speaker 3: who was shot by a dog at four a m.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so could happens also possible that he was messing
Speaker 6: around with his gun, or she shot him or something.
Speaker 3: They don't want to tell anybody what actually happened.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's that's at least, although you know, it's
Speaker 2: not implausible that if you are living the lifestyle where
Speaker 2: you're lying in bed with quote unquote a girl who
Speaker 2: wrote that story.
Speaker 4: Did they need a woman?
Speaker 3: I would hope.
Speaker 2: And there's a gun laying there for some reason, you
Speaker 2: can't put it on the nightstand even Yeah, you're living
Speaker 2: the sort of lifestyle where.
Speaker 3: Your dog shoots.
Speaker 6: Maybe he or she likes the gun pointed at them
Speaker 6: during their romantic times. Oh good lord, no, I remember
Speaker 6: seeing that in the Sopranos. Remember one of them. Somebody
Speaker 6: liked having a gun to their head during Tawdrey.
Speaker 3: It's way too tawdry.
Speaker 6: No, a dog just shot someone. This is time for
Speaker 6: friend talk. The pastor's rising up, as I predicted. Go ahead, Michael,
Speaker 6: and choices we got in life? Those were your choices?
Speaker 6: Who shadow?
Speaker 3: Somebody got shot? Oh how good? The dirty dead? What
Speaker 3: do I want with my idea? Don't shut me? Everybody, everybody, everybody.
Speaker 4: That's the sort of guy who's in bed with a
Speaker 4: girl and a dodge shot.
Speaker 2: They have a much more relaxed, lighthearted view of shootings
Speaker 2: in the room. On fire, shootings in the room. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not even an accidental shooting at the range or
Speaker 2: outdoors or something.
Speaker 6: We're in a room with a number of people. A
Speaker 6: gun gots off, somebody's been shot. You good, I've been shot?
Speaker 6: It you good? You good?
Speaker 3: Everybody good? Okay, Bess, I was saying, Wow, you've different
Speaker 3: lived a different lifestyle than I have. Who Who shot? Who?
Speaker 7: Somebody shot?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 3: Anyway, what are your plans today?
Speaker 4: You guys are hungry?
Speaker 3: I'm hungry? Yeah? Crazy? Can I want to hear that
Speaker 3: another one?
Speaker 6: Just the beginning part where the anchor gets to the oh,
Speaker 6: because I just find this funny.
Speaker 5: We want to get you to some breaking news just
Speaker 5: out of our newsroom here at Fox thirteen. A man
Speaker 5: is in the hospital after being shot in the leg
Speaker 5: overnight if his police say he was shot by his dog. Seriously,
Speaker 5: I don't think that's right. This happened just before four
Speaker 5: a m.
Speaker 3: He don't know.
Speaker 4: A dog Hitney Avenue in the Fraser Wow.
Speaker 5: Police say the man was lying in the bed with
Speaker 5: a girl with a gun on the bed. Police say
Speaker 5: his dog jumped up on the bed, got is Paul
Speaker 5: stuck in the trigger and ended up hitting the trigger,
Speaker 5: shooting the man in the thigh.
Speaker 3: Wow. Four in the morning. I ain't eating lamb and
Speaker 3: rice anymore. Give me some real freaking food. Was it
Speaker 3: a hunting dog? Boy?
Speaker 6: So there's actual and of course some background checks. We
Speaker 6: don't know any of those things. Gun loopholes, what went
Speaker 6: on there?
Speaker 3: Wow? Wow?
Speaker 2: Well, and if I was going to make a serious
Speaker 2: point about it, that's the very sort of person that
Speaker 2: Democratic prosecutors would never enforce gun laws against. They howl
Speaker 2: for more gun laws constantly. And then the guy who's
Speaker 2: I'm confused. You know what I walked into that didn't I? Yes,
Speaker 2: you know, Perhaps it's best to just move on to
Speaker 2: other fair I don't know why I enjoy giving jiv
Speaker 2: names to features sets of stories, but I do.
Speaker 3: Jack.
Speaker 2: So you get the choice between golden state of confusion.
Speaker 4: Or how markets really work.
Speaker 2: I'll go with a second, much more sober, just because
Speaker 2: the lack of jiviness.
Speaker 4: I'm just curiousity after the dog predic Caul.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So story number one why the US keeps
Speaker 2: losing to China in the battle over critical minerals Because
Speaker 2: everybody knows that the minerals, the rarest the metals everybody's
Speaker 2: talking about that go into.
Speaker 4: So much new technology.
Speaker 2: He or they who control access to those things controls
Speaker 2: the world economy to a large extent. And the obvious
Speaker 2: issue with that is that if we continue to be
Speaker 2: highly dependent on China to come up with those materials.
Speaker 2: We're screwed as an economy the minute they decide to
Speaker 2: tweak us or bring us to our knees. So you
Speaker 2: have this story of the effort to get a big
Speaker 2: giant New America and our allies run graphite mine and
Speaker 2: the goal to challenge China's dominance over the world supply
Speaker 2: of a critical mineral used in everything from electric vehicles
Speaker 2: to submarine hubs. And so this Australia based mining company,
Speaker 2: backed by more than one hundred million dollars of US
Speaker 2: government financing, maybe a worthy goal. Kind of funny, There
Speaker 2: wasn't any discussion of this, but this is what our
Speaker 2: giant government does. Opened a mine in Mozambique and built
Speaker 2: a graphite processing plant in Louisiana, the first of its
Speaker 2: type in the US, and also signed a sales deal
Speaker 2: with Tesla, which is historically brought graphight for cars from
Speaker 2: China for the battery specifically.
Speaker 4: But then things started to go off the rails.
Speaker 2: China, which provides more than ninety percent of the world's
Speaker 2: battery grade graph height supply, jacked up its production.
Speaker 6: How many what did the market? How many stories include
Speaker 6: China supplies ninety eight percent of this or that way
Speaker 6: too many.
Speaker 2: And whether Trump's plans bear fruit or not, and whether
Speaker 2: He's allowed to even get the plans going fully is
Speaker 2: anybody's guess. But this is the very sort of thing
Speaker 2: that he and his ads are trying to wean us from.
Speaker 4: The sort of dependence.
Speaker 2: But anyway, the gist of the story is so China,
Speaker 2: which provides where ninety percent of the world's battery grade
Speaker 2: graph height supply, jacked up its production, flooding the market
Speaker 2: and driving prices so low that this mine, this company
Speaker 2: could not mine profitably.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Last May, the Biden administration delayed new rules that would
Speaker 2: have penalized US buyers from buying Chinese graphight for reasons
Speaker 2: that I don't recall, probably because they were trying to.
Speaker 4: Get hijin ping to do something.
Speaker 2: In Mozambique, farmers resettled from the mining company's mind staged protests,
Speaker 2: shutting down the mining, and the Louisiana plant, now open
Speaker 2: for a year, has yet to make its first commercial sale,
Speaker 2: and the company's stock is plunged by around ninety percent
Speaker 2: since the start of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's really interesting.
Speaker 6: And once again the difficulties of a an authoritarian country
Speaker 6: where one guy can make decisions and a democracy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and as always, there's a lot more detail and
Speaker 2: nuanced to it, but we'll leave it here. I love, love, love,
Speaker 2: love love the free market in so many ways. It's
Speaker 2: lifted billions of people out of poverty, on lace new
Speaker 2: medicines across the globe. It has profit is the reason
Speaker 2: for charity. It's the reason charity exists. You have to
Speaker 2: have more than you need to feed yourself to give
Speaker 2: to charity. Anyway, as we retrench from the dream of globalization, though,
Speaker 2: there are going to be some rainings in of the
Speaker 2: free market, and it's going to be stops and starts.
Speaker 2: It's going to be really difficult anyway not to get
Speaker 2: hung up on that, because you could talk about it
Speaker 2: for a year and a half and write five thousand
Speaker 2: page books on it and not cover it. I thought
Speaker 2: this was interesting, how markets really are Jack the rise
Speaker 2: and fall of the Napa Valley of cannabis. When Colorado
Speaker 2: became one of the first states to legalize a recreational marriage.
Speaker 2: You wanna and an enthusiastic county commissioner in Pueblo said,
Speaker 2: he wanted Pueblo to become the Napa Valley of cannabis.
Speaker 2: And they talked a little bit in the Wall Street
Speaker 2: Journal about the situation. Big slaughterhouse had closed years earlier,
Speaker 2: steel mill had been shedding workers. They're really hurting for
Speaker 2: jobs and tax revenue, and a cannabis boom would do
Speaker 2: that for them. The streets were going to be paved
Speaker 2: with gold, recalled one resident. The elementary schools were going
Speaker 2: to be the greatest in the country. Then they talk about,
Speaker 2: you know, the classic meme, how it started, how it's going.
Speaker 2: In the first weeks, the only two shops then licensed
Speaker 2: in the county, round rang Up combined one million dollars
Speaker 2: in sales the first month, Wow, sending fifty six thousand
Speaker 2: dollars in taxes to the county.
Speaker 4: Everybody was just thrilled and happy.
Speaker 2: Decade and high decade later, Pueblo's dreams have gone up
Speaker 2: in smoke. A once thriving industry of retailers, growers, and
Speaker 2: cannabis oil extractors.
Speaker 3: There were more than.
Speaker 2: Two hundred of these businesses in twenty seventeen in that county,
Speaker 2: more than two hundred. It's collapsed. Only forty five remain.
Speaker 2: State records indicate county tax revenue plunge from more than
Speaker 2: seven point one million dollars to four point eight million
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, which is still a pretty significant amount
Speaker 2: of money. And you could argue that they're just thinning
Speaker 2: the herd and the stronger surviving the way it goes
Speaker 2: in capitalism.
Speaker 4: But here's the problem. In California knows this too.
Speaker 2: It's been a huge problem because the rosy rosy promise
Speaker 2: is made to Californians.
Speaker 4: In Colorado is alike.
Speaker 2: Even after legalization, illicit growers and sellers thrived, even right
Speaker 2: in Pueblo. Last year, they accounted for seventy percent of
Speaker 2: the US market according to research companies. The black market dealers,
Speaker 2: unlike licensed ones, face neither Texas nor red tape, so
Speaker 2: they're more efficient and they're cheaper, and it's bad.
Speaker 3: For your brain. That's interesting, man.
Speaker 6: If you're counting on enough people smoking enough pot to
Speaker 6: you know, make your school's great and everything like that,
Speaker 6: that's just that's an interesting thing.
Speaker 2: It is, and it's probably not a sustainable way to
Speaker 2: run a society. Nationwide, only twenty seven percent of legal
Speaker 2: cannabis businesses are profitable, which is down two percent just
Speaker 2: three years ago.
Speaker 3: Did not know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, investment is dried up, restructurings are rising, and in Pueblo,
Speaker 2: sentiment about legal pots swung the other way, fueling a
Speaker 2: backlash against the county's embrace of the industry.
Speaker 4: And again, it's kind of complicated and a lot of
Speaker 4: nuance to it, but it's just it's not nearly the
Speaker 4: dream it was sold to be.
Speaker 3: So I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: And the one the one aspect you should understand it's
Speaker 2: kind of intuitive is that if it's legal, enforcing laws
Speaker 2: against the illegal stuff becomes so complicated because you know,
Speaker 2: half of it, sixty percent of it, depending on where
Speaker 2: you are, is legal. And so what are the comps
Speaker 2: supposed to do if they see a bunch of guys
Speaker 2: smoking pot?
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Speaker 2: We had a conversation last week that I was very
Speaker 2: uncomfortable with, and I felt very guilty about it because
Speaker 2: I concealed a truth during the conversation. Confession being good
Speaker 2: for the soul. I am here to confess it. But
Speaker 2: like all good confessions, they work best in a multiple
Speaker 2: choice format, and so I'm.
Speaker 3: Going to give you multiple choices, but to up.
Speaker 4: The anti, to up the anti, each of the.
Speaker 2: Choices will get successively more evil. Oh boy, and you
Speaker 2: have to choose which one I am actually guilty of.
Speaker 3: I'm so uncomfortable right now.
Speaker 2: Hey, I Joe Getty have a second wife across town,
Speaker 2: with whom I have two children. She is in a
Speaker 2: legal alien and I keep her in line by threatening
Speaker 2: her with deportation.
Speaker 3: What's okay?
Speaker 6: What's striking about this is you clearly didn't do that,
Speaker 6: but you're going up the landing at worse. They're gonna
Speaker 6: get worse.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, okay, anybody want to go for a or
Speaker 2: you want to go on you want to roll the dice? Anybody, Michael,
Speaker 2: Clearly that's not true, okay, all right, b I am
Speaker 2: now and have been for thirty years an active member
Speaker 2: of the American Communist Party, and have been working to
Speaker 2: subvert the Constitution with every ounce of my energy, up
Speaker 2: to and including acts of violence and sabotage.
Speaker 3: So I think I think you've laid a really good premise.
Speaker 2: Here, because you've got two very bad choices obviously not true.
Speaker 3: Whatever something, What are auld did you do that.
Speaker 7: Am I gonna want to associate with you after this?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Comrade.
Speaker 2: Perhaps again from a conversation last week in which I
Speaker 2: conceal the truth or possibility, say, I had never seen
Speaker 2: Gladiator until this weekend.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, w oh, you saw the movie Gladiator.
Speaker 2: My secret shame Gladiator one you recoded along with every conversation.
Speaker 4: Are you not entertained?
Speaker 3: Has growl?
Speaker 6: I assume you went along with the facts because I
Speaker 6: watched it with my son Henry a couple of weeks
Speaker 6: back before we went to Gladiator two. He loved it
Speaker 6: and it reminded me how much great it was. But
Speaker 6: I said it might be in my top three movies
Speaker 6: of all time, and I did not at that moment
Speaker 6: reveal you know, I've never seen that movie.
Speaker 3: Wow, that was good because I knew.
Speaker 6: The derision that would rain down upon Were you probably
Speaker 6: okay twenty years ago? Yeah, you were in the middle
Speaker 6: of raising kids, So no, of course you didn't see
Speaker 6: that movie because I am a house full of babies,
Speaker 6: including a one year old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't see anything between I don't know whatever
Speaker 2: years twenty ten and like a year ago.
Speaker 7: I am impressed, Joe, because you carried on a full
Speaker 7: blown conversation about that movie, as if you it was
Speaker 7: one of your favorites.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, I read a lot, so I
Speaker 2: pick up clues from the you know, contexts and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. But you know, Jack, you make a good point.
Speaker 2: I remember roughly when the movie came out. Hey, dude,
Speaker 2: you got to see this is great. It's an unbelievable movie.
Speaker 2: Great guy villain. It's like two and a half hours long, and.
Speaker 3: I'm my respons chance or if I'm gonna have a
Speaker 3: couple two three hours, I'm gonna spend.
Speaker 2: It silently staring at a screen when you could hang
Speaker 2: out with your wife or doing something.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, not gonna happen.
Speaker 4: It was fun.
Speaker 3: Nobody could do what Russell Crowe did. I don't know
Speaker 3: what magic he had there, But can you tell me
Speaker 3: you like Gladiator movie?
Speaker 1: Arm Strong and Yetdy the Armstrong and Getty shot.
Speaker 8: I was removed from my varsity girls team and replaced
Speaker 8: by a newly eligible male transfer student who received favorable treatment.
Speaker 8: As a result of this unfair treatment, my teammate Caitlin
Speaker 8: and I wore shirts that said save girls Sports and
Speaker 8: stated that boys and girls are different it's common sense
Speaker 8: xx is not equal x yth Like director made me
Speaker 8: remove my shirt and told me it was like wearing
Speaker 8: a swastika in front of a Jewish person and said
Speaker 8: that I would face disciplinary action if I wore it again.
Speaker 8: My title nine in free speech rights as a female
Speaker 8: matter too.
Speaker 6: That's a high school girl speaking in front of the
Speaker 6: California Assembly about how she was told to take off
Speaker 6: her shirt, asking that she not have to play against
Speaker 6: dudes more or less because it was like a swastik
Speaker 6: in front of a German or a Jewish person.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the dude was taking off his pants in front
Speaker 2: of all the girls in the locker.
Speaker 3: Room and dominating in the sports. Just sick.
Speaker 2: So California's held a couple of hearings lately in the
Speaker 2: Assembly for the purpose of quickly quashing bills that would
Speaker 2: restore girls in women's sports. Josh Hoover's California assemblyman, a
Speaker 2: seventh Assembly district who's privy to the goings on at
Speaker 2: the Capitol, obviously, and actually Josh, first of all, welcome,
Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure. How are you, thanks, guys, great
Speaker 2: to be back, great to have you so were you
Speaker 2: at the hearings.
Speaker 3: So I was at the Capitol.
Speaker 9: I wasn't in the hearing room, but I was watching
Speaker 9: on my screen and got to see everything go down
Speaker 9: and how did it go?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 9: So, I mean, you guys played that clip. There was
Speaker 9: just hundreds of amazing student athletes there in support of
Speaker 9: the bills. Obviously, you guys know that Governor Gavin Newsom
Speaker 9: has seen the light on this in some ways, but
Speaker 9: the Democratic supermajority in the California Legislature has decided to
Speaker 9: double down. There were two bills that were heard, So
Speaker 9: AB eighty nine would have required CIF, which is our
Speaker 9: sports body here, to limit high school women's sports to
Speaker 9: biological women.
Speaker 4: And AB eight.
Speaker 9: Forty four would have returned California law to where it
Speaker 9: was ten years ago, which essentially limits sex segregated sports
Speaker 9: to basically buy sex versus gender identity, which is what
Speaker 9: they changed it to about a decade ago.
Speaker 2: Well, if Gavin Newsom had out, I don't want to
Speaker 2: get stuck on Gavin Newsom, but if he had seen
Speaker 2: the light, he would have come out yesterday and made
Speaker 2: a statement about this or prior to the hearings.
Speaker 3: But he did not because he's a Coward.
Speaker 9: One hundred percent totally agree. The Legislative Committee, the Arts
Speaker 9: Committee there voted seven to two to kill both.
Speaker 3: Of these bills back to back. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Let us pull out. It's seventy nine to eighteen this
Speaker 2: issue in America, so.
Speaker 6: It's an eighty twenty issue. I don't even understand the
Speaker 6: raw politics of this issue. It just seems like the
Speaker 6: Democratic Party is so on the wrong side of this
Speaker 6: just terms of staying in office.
Speaker 3: What gives so Jack, you know, one.
Speaker 9: Of the things you've expressed is what are the arguments
Speaker 9: opposing these bills? And that's one of the reasons I
Speaker 9: tuned into the hearing because I wanted to hear what
Speaker 9: the opposition had to say about this. So they laid out.
Speaker 3: Five basic arguments.
Speaker 9: Number One, passing these bills would be an invasion of
Speaker 9: girls privacy because somehow we're going to now require, you know,
Speaker 9: inspections of some kind, even though we did it this
Speaker 9: way for decades prior.
Speaker 3: The entirety of human history.
Speaker 9: Josh, sports are inherently unfair. With another argument they used,
Speaker 9: which really bigs the question why do we even have
Speaker 9: sex segregated sports in the first place? Right, you know,
Speaker 9: you know, Serena Williams famously talked about how you know,
Speaker 9: women's and men's tennis is vastly different games, right, They
Speaker 9: repeatedly said, we have no data, but then they said
Speaker 9: it's not a big issue. And then a couple of
Speaker 9: these are my two favorites.
Speaker 4: There's dreams of data, folks, which you probably know.
Speaker 3: Go on, Josh, sorry, so our last two.
Speaker 9: The Trump administration is the real threat to women, not
Speaker 9: not this issue obviously, but the really incredible one is
Speaker 9: one of my colleagues actually said that the fact that
Speaker 9: these bills were even introduced demonstrates that we are headed
Speaker 9: towards Nazi Germany and fascism in the United States. That
Speaker 9: actually came out of something.
Speaker 4: Wow, Oh my god, Josh, you're a learned man.
Speaker 2: We need we the saying, need to come up with
Speaker 2: a universally agreed upon phrase to describe what you just described.
Speaker 2: And it's the same as introducing, say, gay porn into
Speaker 2: a school library, and then when somebody says, ah, that
Speaker 2: shouldn't be in there, accusing them of being a Nazi
Speaker 2: or a reactionary or what have you, the changing things
Speaker 2: vastly and then accusing those who say that change is
Speaker 2: no good of being the actual change.
Speaker 3: Agent we need to do. How do you describe a
Speaker 3: pretty good jiu jitsu trick? Though?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah. If anybody has a brilliant idea, you can
Speaker 2: text this four one five two nine five KFTC or drop.
Speaker 4: Is an email mail bag at armstrong the getty dot com.
Speaker 2: We're on the road to Nazi Germany because we don't
Speaker 2: let boys play girls volleyball.
Speaker 3: And they said that with a straight face, deadly serious.
Speaker 3: Actually he was deadly serious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, Hitler, he sure was a fan
Speaker 2: of fellows dominating girls' sports.
Speaker 4: That's the first thing he got going. No, I guess no,
Speaker 4: he would be.
Speaker 3: He would be the opposite.
Speaker 2: He believed boys should anyway, back to the pot so
Speaker 2: they am Nazis. Everybody back to the politics of it.
Speaker 2: I just I just don't get it.
Speaker 6: I would think your average Democrat realizes most of people
Speaker 6: in my you know, around the United States district or
Speaker 6: in California, you're a little area of your town whatever.
Speaker 6: Even the Democrats mostly don't think this is a good idea.
Speaker 3: So why hasn't that happened?
Speaker 9: Well, in fact, and there was a number of people
Speaker 9: that got up to the microphone to express their position
Speaker 9: on the bill, that stated out loud, I am a
Speaker 9: lifelong Democrat, I support these bills. I support, you know,
Speaker 9: protecting women's sports. And that happened over and over again
Speaker 9: at the hearing, and yet every single person in there
Speaker 9: was called the Nazis. So you know, I think it's
Speaker 9: it's pretty shocking. And remember this isn't just the sports
Speaker 9: issue too. One of these bills would also address the
Speaker 9: locker room issue, which basically California law allows locker rooms
Speaker 9: to be used based on your gender identity. When I
Speaker 9: was on a school board previously that our legal council
Speaker 9: actually told us that the only option for people that
Speaker 9: feel uncomfortable in that situation would be able to find
Speaker 9: a private space for the girls changing in those locker rooms.
Speaker 9: That that was the only thing we would be able
Speaker 9: to do as a school district.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the girls need to give way. Michael plays clip eighteen.
Speaker 2: This is Scarlett Johnson of Mom's for Liberty in Wisconsin.
Speaker 10: A biological mail sixteen years old, obvious mail over two
Speaker 10: hundred pounds, who identified as trans was allowed to change
Speaker 10: in the girls' locker room. This boy has alleged to
Speaker 10: strip nude to leer at the girls while they were
Speaker 10: changing these girls. When they complained, the gym teacher told
Speaker 10: them to staff being dramatic.
Speaker 3: It was hard to believe. It was hard to believe that.
Speaker 10: This was happening in Wisconsin, but it absolutely was.
Speaker 2: I'm reminded of our discussion during the last segment or
Speaker 2: two about the moral superiority that progressives feel. I have
Speaker 2: a feeling they would say, you know, I don't care
Speaker 2: if it's eighty twenty. We're going to keep preaching the
Speaker 2: trans women are women until it's eighty twenty. The other way,
Speaker 2: because we're right and we're superior.
Speaker 6: With some example of the gay marriage movement, the polling
Speaker 6: changed on that quite dramatically over years.
Speaker 2: This one is not, though, Oh no, no, In fact,
Speaker 2: it's going in the other direction as more and more
Speaker 2: people get hip to the reality of it. Josh, So,
Speaker 2: a question for you Assembly California Assemblyman Josh Hoover on
Speaker 2: the line right now, and this is your political analyst,
Speaker 2: hat time.
Speaker 4: Is it.
Speaker 2: The voices you heard in the hearing especially that killed
Speaker 2: both of these incredibly important reasonable bills. Is that actual
Speaker 2: ideological fervor do they believe this stuff to their hearts
Speaker 2: or is it that whole intersectionality. If the illegal imigrant
Speaker 2: people don't back us on transgender and the black activists don't,
Speaker 2: you know, don't back the union guys, that'll all fall apart.
Speaker 3: Is it just solidarity or what? Well?
Speaker 9: Look, I think there are some Democrats in the legislature
Speaker 9: that kind of go with the wind, right whichever way
Speaker 9: the political wind is blowing.
Speaker 3: I think Gavin Newsom is that person. Actually now he actually.
Speaker 9: Signed a lot of these bills, right, and then now
Speaker 9: that he's looking at running for president, he's changing his tune.
Speaker 9: But the people in this hearing that voted these bills down,
Speaker 9: a number of them believe this to their core. And
Speaker 9: in fact, at one point, the chair of the committee
Speaker 9: hearing even said that he agrees it's an eighty twenty issue,
Speaker 9: but it's but he still believes that it's the wrong
Speaker 9: thing to do to support these bills. So, you know,
Speaker 9: I think that it really depends on who you're talking about,
Speaker 9: but there are people that truly believe this to their core.
Speaker 3: Well appreciate you coming on today.
Speaker 6: Is specifically the little nugget about somebody claiming we were
Speaker 6: on the way to Nazi Germany if these passed, I mean,
Speaker 6: that's hilarious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's beautiful. Josh. All right, well, keep fighting
Speaker 3: the good fight.
Speaker 2: I would love to see the Republican Party in California,
Speaker 2: which still exists, by the way, for folks in the
Speaker 2: rest of the country to go with the Trump believes
Speaker 2: in you, they believe in they them. We've got to
Speaker 2: hammer that message anyway. Absolutely than joh it's great to
Speaker 2: have you. Thanks Josh. So a couple of thoughts. Number one,
Speaker 2: There's never been a more disconcerting time for actual Nazis
Speaker 2: who will walk around, you know, and say, maybe they
Speaker 2: got a swastika, and people assume that some anti Elon
Speaker 2: Musk person painted on their car or their jacket or whatever,
Speaker 2: and and and if you can even tell you, look,
Speaker 2: I'm a Nazi, and they are probably greeted with, ohs
Speaker 2: here in favor of booting trans people out of sports. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm a national Socialist. Oh so you support Elon Musk.
Speaker 3: No, ain't nof Hitler is my hero, but people don't
Speaker 3: believe it. Nazi German joje am, I right, high five. No, No,
Speaker 3: that's not my thing.
Speaker 2: No, I'm gonna anti Semite, They would say, I'm again
Speaker 2: I'm confused by the politics, because generally politicians just do
Speaker 2: what's gonna keep them in office. Yes, it's bizarre, troubling
Speaker 2: and refreshing that these people actually vote their principles, and
Speaker 2: their principle is a person can decide one day they're
Speaker 2: a man and the next they're a woman, and that
Speaker 2: magically makes them a woman.
Speaker 6: Look, that's not what Gavin Newsom's doing. Oh so I'm surprised.
Speaker 6: I mean this is like the easiest sister soulship moment ever. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean he's he's turned out. He doesn't need to
Speaker 6: worry about running again in California. So why wouldn't he
Speaker 6: come out, make national news be on Fox all day long?
Speaker 6: If he gave a little speech about why you know,
Speaker 6: dude should mean cirl sports and go against his party.
Speaker 6: I mean, that would have been a huge step forward
Speaker 6: for him on the national stage.
Speaker 3: I can't believe he won't do it. I think he
Speaker 3: is waiting.
Speaker 2: He's thrown a bread crumber two out to enhance his
Speaker 2: reasonable iness bona fides, but he's not going to turn
Speaker 2: on the left of his party in any recognizable or
Speaker 2: undeniable way.
Speaker 4: Until you know he's won the nomination and then when.
Speaker 2: He pivots to the general as presidential candidate in this
Speaker 2: nightmare scenario. Although I've said a million times I would
Speaker 2: love for him to run, I enjoy that so much.
Speaker 6: Seen a lot of candidates overthink it like this and
Speaker 6: not get the nomination. Sure, oh yeah, yeah, Kamala Harris.
Speaker 6: Although Gavy is twice as intelligent as Kamala.
Speaker 4: But anyway, so he.
Speaker 3: So is a cocker Spaniel.
Speaker 2: True, but his tack to the center will be so
Speaker 2: jarring and complete because he has no principles.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: There's part of me that would love to see it.
Speaker 3: God dang it. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4: It's obscene.
Speaker 1: And just.
Speaker 2: Troubling that people can believe something so passionately and so
Speaker 2: completely that nobody believed no body fifteen years ago, and
Speaker 2: hardly anybody.
Speaker 3: Believes it now. But they will die on that hill.
Speaker 6: I don't want to get stuck on this, So my
Speaker 6: last comment on this would be from everything I read,
Speaker 6: the polling shows that among Democrats they believe they need
Speaker 6: to moderate. Yes, and the big money people are saying
Speaker 6: we need to moderate. So I would just think I
Speaker 6: just think it would be such a win, right right.
Speaker 6: Like I said, it is both.
Speaker 2: Kind of positive and horrifying that people are sticking to
Speaker 2: their guns.
Speaker 3: Keep believing Twitter, just do it. Go ahead, keep believing Twitter.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, uh yeah.
Speaker 3: The college students listen to college students. They are wise.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, and your party won't totally go the way
Speaker 2: the mastadon. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: Hang in there, Jack, Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty Show. See arm Strong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3: This is a lifestyle of thing.
Speaker 6: And the one person tweeted out, and I don't know
Speaker 6: anything about this person, but the one person tweeted out,
Speaker 6: I'm never planning on having kids. I'd much rather own
Speaker 6: a portion, have a Portuguese water dog.
Speaker 3: And a golden doodle.
Speaker 6: And then another person responded that with I feel bad
Speaker 6: for people who don't have kids because they believe owning
Speaker 6: a Porsche is going to be more fulfilling. Thought that
Speaker 6: was a pretty good little battle. I just can't imagine
Speaker 6: tweeting that out loud, even back before I had kids,
Speaker 6: never planning on I have kids because I'd much rather
Speaker 6: own a Porsche.
Speaker 3: Doesn't that sound shallow to you?
Speaker 6: Even if you I mean fine, don't have kids, you know,
Speaker 6: But doesn't that sound incredibly shallow to you? I mean
Speaker 6: to use that as an example.
Speaker 7: Well, if that's their opinion, I'm kind of glad they're
Speaker 7: not reproducing.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty good point right there. But use you.
Speaker 6: I'd rather dedicate my time to art or something. Fine, Okay,
Speaker 6: I still think it's wrong.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just the performative hyper confidence that everybody
Speaker 2: has to have on everything, the idea of saying, you know,
Speaker 2: it's not right for me now, but maybe someday people
Speaker 2: change their minds.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's just that's not gonna get likes, that's
Speaker 4: not gonna get retweets. You gotta be you're an idiot,
Speaker 4: And I'm great.
Speaker 3: No, I just so tiring. I thought I had nothing
Speaker 3: for the podcast. I got two more things to say.
Speaker 9: One.
Speaker 3: I don't want to hurt anybody's It's just a fact.
Speaker 6: I know three women in their mid forties who made
Speaker 6: the choice in life to be childless.
Speaker 3: And really really regret it now. Mm hmm, really really
Speaker 3: regret it now, Like is like makes them cry thinking
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 4: M hm.
Speaker 3: So that's common ish, common ish.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I have a couple of friends that are in that
Speaker 3: exact same boat right now.
Speaker 2: And folks, sometimes for medical reasons or sometimes a marriage
Speaker 2: goes sideways reasons or whatever, and the window closes.
Speaker 4: That's that's very hard for them too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's why I threw in the phrase chose. You know,
Speaker 6: it wasn't a medical thing or something.
Speaker 3: Sure, this was lifestyle. What kind of were we going with?
Speaker 3: I'd rather on a Porsche. Yeah.
Speaker 7: This was like a failed marriage that ended horribly and
Speaker 7: she said, screw it, I'm not doing this anymore.
Speaker 4: And now we're like years down the road.
Speaker 6: And she's like, that is definitely an avantage you have
Speaker 6: a man, because I didn't. I didn't have kids, so
Speaker 6: I was forty five. It was an option for me
Speaker 6: as a dude. Right, she got to find younger woman.
Speaker 3: And what was my other thing?
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, Oh, so I'm picking up my
Speaker 6: son from the high school the other day. This is
Speaker 6: on the cruelty of high scho I'm picking up my
Speaker 6: son at high school the other day, and I got
Speaker 6: my window down and there's this one kid that forever
Speaker 6: whatever reason, that has dress shoes on and he's walking
Speaker 6: across the parking lot. He's like wearing khakis and dress
Speaker 6: shoes and some guy goes, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Hey Jim, look at his shoes, and then they're both
Speaker 2: like aha, like so working so hard to laugh, so
Speaker 2: hard so they can point at somebody and mock them
Speaker 2: and laugh.
Speaker 4: How he's their self esteem by Demeanian right, Yes.
Speaker 6: And you know, as they grown up having lived through that,
Speaker 6: when it was painful for me to be on the
Speaker 6: wrong end of that, it just looked so ridiculous, like
Speaker 6: why would you ever give us what those guys think
Speaker 6: about your shoes? It's too bad anybody does I know everything?
Speaker 6: Like whyle they pretend to Why did they need to
Speaker 6: elevate themselves by trying to make that person feel worse
Speaker 6: because they had to go to their I don't know
Speaker 6: they had to go to the something at the church
Speaker 6: or funeral or who knows why they're wearing dress shoes.
Speaker 3: But it's just it was so like, ha ha look
Speaker 3: at his shoes, ha ha, what a dork? I mean
Speaker 3: it was that my status is now higher than his.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I would love to leave out to gingerbread person for instance,
Speaker 2: and maybe just spend ten minutes on that.
Speaker 4: Someday in like fifth.
Speaker 6: Grade, I almost wanted to go over and talk of
Speaker 6: that guy. He didn't seem to be particular botter, but
Speaker 6: you never know what's going on inside his brain. Let's say,
Speaker 6: don't give those when you're older. You will not It
Speaker 6: will not make any difference whatsoever.
Speaker 3: One of the many reasons why I am so glad
Speaker 3: I'm no longer a nice.
Speaker 2: No kidding, no kidding, or at least you have the
Speaker 2: mind you have now I can go back to high
Speaker 2: school now would be hilarious. People pointing in, laughing over
Speaker 2: everything's really what are you doing whatever? It's just why
Speaker 2: would I freaking care what you think?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: That would be you know, it's funny.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, I wouldn't sentence al Qaeda
Speaker 2: to four years of high school.
Speaker 3: It's too cruel.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, when if you could bring your
Speaker 2: life experience and confidence back for yeah, oh yeah, that
Speaker 2: would be.
Speaker 4: That would be super great in some way ways.
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