WEBVTT - The War of Testosterone 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:14.920 You are entering the freedom hunt. Welvandi gives a press 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:17.800 conference and people start battling it out over whether he 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:22.360 did say quid pro quos happened in Ukraine. Also Maddis 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:27.200 mox Trump, a major shootout with Mexican drug cartels, and 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:31.040 the war on testosterone ATAM more coming up on The 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:35.080 buck Sexton Show. This is the buck Sexton Show where 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.120 the mission or mission is to decode what really matters 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:44.440 with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American. Ready, you're a 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:51.000 great American. Again, the buck Sexton Show begins. He's a 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:56.960 great guy. Now, welcome to the buck Sexton Show. Everybody. 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.640 Wonderful Friday here in NYC, mid late October really probably 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.720 my favorite time of year in this town. The weather's great, 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:09.080 good things happening here. So very much pleased that you 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:12.000 can be joining us. For people like me who don't 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:13.959 like the super hot weather, this is better. You know, 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:16.720 I get too sweaty, you know what I mean? Producer Brandon, 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.679 producer branded in the house today for producer Mark who 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.200 what is he in like Tahiti or something? Pre is 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:26.560 he on pre honeymoon scouting? Is that or Tahiti? Pittsburgh 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.640 it's all. It's all the same. It's all the same, 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.600 all right. So we've got some important stuff to get 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.400 to today. Oh, a little bit of testimony that comes 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.800 out that a State Department official told Congress that he 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.720 thought that hunter Biden's Ukraine dealings. This is back in 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.240 twenty fifteen. We're a little shady, maybe, but they were ignored. 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:47.880 Of course they were shady. We'll get it. We'll get 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.760 into that for sure. Also, we have a ceasefire between 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:55.720 Turkey and the Syrian Kurds. We've got General Maddis out 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.040 there mocking Trump, which look, Trump mocks Maddis. Maddis can 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.680 mock Trump. We're all I expect everyone to be big 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.040 boys in this world, and that's just the way it is. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.280 We'll talk perhaps about that. We'll have our friend Andy 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.560 McCarthy joining us later on to talk about impeachment stuff, 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.919 and my man Yone Grillo from down in Mexico where 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.640 he's been one of the best international journalists covering the cartels, 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.040 he'll tell us about I mean, there's video out there 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:27.240 that's just it's jaw dropping of cartel members with fifty 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:31.320 caliber rifles getting into gun battles with Mexican police and 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.680 federalis and it's all about the arrest of a major 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.960 cartel member anyway. So there's twelve police officers have been 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.720 ambushed and the last and murdered in the last forty 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.880 eight hours alone in one incident in Mexico. So some 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.440 stuff happening there. So you've got a Friday. We're going 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:48.919 to cover a lot of ground. But I wanted to 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:54.200 start with something that is a little bit of a 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:58.000 departure from what is at the top of the news 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.520 cycle right now, because we'll get into that. Sure, you 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.520 listen to the show, so you know that I will 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.680 cover the most important news stories of the day every day. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.079 But I wanted to switch the switch to the script 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:11.040 also because yesterday I had said to you that I 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.200 was going to cover this topic, and then I did 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.680 not cover this topic. So here's I just forgot. Because 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.440 we're in the midst of rocking and rolling with the show. 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:23.440 It just seemed to me like I had so many 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.040 other things that I had to get to. The war 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.560 on testosterone. I think yesterday I referred to it as 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.840 whether testosterone has an effect on or has any connection 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:39.440 to masculinity. Harvard University Press put out a tweet I 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:45.400 think since deleted that raised the question does testosterone have 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:50.440 a connection to masculinity in any way, shape or form. 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.960 A lot of people looked at this and thought, yes, 0:03:54.880 --> 0:04:00.320 it does. And it's in reference though to a book, 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.280 but a book that's part of a much larger effort. 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.040 The book is written by a woman from I think 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:08.960 Brooklyn College, Katrina car Kazis, and she has written a 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:16.200 book that is about testosterone, the Myths of Testosterone, and 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:20.600 she was interviewed in GQ magazine. Remember the basic myth 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.320 and we'll go through some of the details here, is 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.280 that testosterone has anything to do with masculinity. That's really 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.039 the myth that they're trying to tackle. And this is 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.960 how the interview in GQ magazine published this week went, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.480 how do you think the idea that masculinity is rooted 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.640 in biology impacts the ways that our society view gender? 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.560 And the author writes, as me too was heating up. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:47.000 There was a conversation between writers Roth Dolfin and Rebecca Treyster. 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:49.320 She asked him what's the root of this and he 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.200 said testosterone. I think he was joking, but people believe 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:57.080 that and if we accept that gender hierarchies are tied 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.880 to evolution in biology, then it seems impos able to change. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.520 So let's just understand. This is establishing right away what 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:08.599 the purpose of this book is that gender characteristics are 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.200 not only not only are they not deeply rooted in 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.600 us at the cellular level, that there's really no biological 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:19.679 basis for gender differences sex differences. They will say, of course, 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.120 there is a physical difference between a male and a 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.039 female body, but gender difference is intrinsic to the body, 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.320 and therefore, in our psychology that is to be rejected. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.359 And now this is the recurring effort. It's not the 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.039 first time this has happened. And I'll get into that, 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:41.080 to pretend that science backs up this idea that there 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:46.520 is no such thing as a genetic gender difference. Okay, 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.400 and she continues on to this. Remember this isn't GQ magazine. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:53.080 There's trying to put this out there for people in 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.320 the pop culture world who don't know very much, not 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.800 even about science. Very few of us, let's let's be honest, 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.400 very few of us have a science background very much 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.960 about including really this author. By the way of the book, 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.240 I'll deal with that This is another moment that when 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.400 you look at the bio the background of someone who's 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.880 being held up as a visionary in the field, like 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.960 Bill Nye, the science guy. Hey, Bill Nye, the science guy, 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.320 better deal with climate change. I'm a scientist. Man. Turns 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:20.760 out Bill now the science guy. You know what, he 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:26.400 has an undergraduate degree, Producer Brandon, in mechanical engineering. But 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.680 that means he's a climate expert. Undergrad degree, not even 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:34.279 a master's mechanical engineering. So you got that going for you, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:41.480 Bill Nye the science Guy. This author Katrina carkazis who 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.480 who has written a book here on whether testosterone has 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.800 any effect on gender. She is a cultural anthropologist. And 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:51.880 I will admit to you now it probably shouldn't admit 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:53.800 this on this show. I once took a class and 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:58.480 called a cultural anthropology in college, and it was the 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:02.919 ultimate what we called class like joke class. It was 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.000 a class that you took if you knew you were 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.200 going to be hungover on Friday's. This was the class 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.600 that you took because what are you really? What are 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.840 we re learning in cultural anthropology? It's really sociology as 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:18.240 applied to history. So it's just a big it's just 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.560 all a big left wing scan. Really. I'm sure there's 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.600 some relevance, just like there's some stuff in sociology that's 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.200 interesting or relevant, but it has become a discipline that 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.760 is dominated by the left. Cultural anthropology is entirely dominated 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.600 by the left. So she has a PhD in that 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.960 no medical science background, a social science background that's made 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:42.360 to sound a little bit like it's more sciency, and 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.440 then we go on here. In this interview in GQ magazine, 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:50.600 author has asked again about the testoster industry. She writes 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.600 that testosterone often gives men a pass for their negative 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:58.360 behavior and a pass for their success. With Titans of 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.160 Wall Street, for example, testosterone didn't have anything to do 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.360 with those men reaching the highest level in their field. 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.800 There are other structures that elevated men and suppressed women. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.640 If biology and testosterone aren't the explanation, then we have 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.440 much harder work to do of addressing the social causes. 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:19.240 This is very straightforward, folks. The scientific community, which unfortunately 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.680 now is riddled with activists all over the place, and 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:26.440 particularly the social sciences, soft science is posing as real science. 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.440 That's even worse, they are trying to undo what we 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:36.000 already know about biology and science and gender. Then is asked, so, 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.319 if we move away from the idea that biology explains 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.120 the behavior we associate with gender, how could we open 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.000 the definition of masculinity a little wider in our culture? 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.880 I hope that she responds that we can stop attaching 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.320 so many behaviors to masculinity as though they're exclusively the 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.959 province of men, because they often happen to be things 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.920 that are valued, like risk taking or athleticism. Conversely, I 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:59.840 think we're reaching a point where we can shove more 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.600 under the umbrella of masculinity, men staying home and parenting 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.240 their children, or addressing their feelings in public in ways 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:11.040 that are currently understood as non masculine. There are many 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.440 things that are shared human behavior, et cetera. Folks, This 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.599 is all about writing a book, which is part of 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.839 a broader movement, by the way, as you know, the 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:22.480 movement right now, the obsession of the progressive left is 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:27.160 to undo what we already know about gender and gender 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.360 roles and to say that it's a spectrum and it's fluid. 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.040 In fact, I would argue this woman probably has a 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.640 PhD in gender fluidity, which is really what this is 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.880 the active is cause there are men and women are 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:43.360 not distinct in any meaningful way. It's always a social construct. Well, 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.199 if it's a social construct, that means that we can 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.920 reconstruct that part of our society and nothing will stop that. 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.280 Boys aren't a little bit more rambunctious and aggressive in 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.320 the sandbox and don't want to play with dinosaurs and 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.959 dump trucks because they're boys, it's because we make them. 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.760 And girls don't like dresses and don't like things that 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.360 are a little bit more associated with the feminine and 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.760 don't want to know, bake cupcakes or whatever in the 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:08.880 easy bake of it. They don't do that because the 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:13.280 women's because we make them do it. Unfortunately, thousands of 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:17.640 years of human history and who knows how long we 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.920 could go back in our evolutionary history, prove that to 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.959 be untrue. And science, which has xx and x y 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.520 chromosome in every single cell of the human body differentiating 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.920 between male and female, also proves that to be untrue. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.800 And this is not the first time this movement of 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:39.400 erasing genders has been trying to appropriate science for what 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.760 is clearly a social cause. By the way the erasing 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.520 of gender does a lot of things. It's it's part 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:47.640 of radical equality. It often translates this was the Soviet 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.000 Union is very interested in in erasing traditional gender roles. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.880 Gotta have women, Gotta have women in the factories too. 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.600 The state will take care of your babies. This state 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.800 will take who does that sound like? By the way, wow, 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:04.400 have you universal child care for everybody? And only the 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:11.480 rich people will pay for it? The senator from Massachusetts. So, 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.920 gender roles are under attacked by the left for very power, 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.560 very important, very powerful reasons. This is not just an 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.480 intellectual exercise and that which starts in the academy and 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.320 starts with somewhat fringe books or publications like this. Although 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.880 GQ is certainly relatively mainstream, it's very left wing. By 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.480 the way. I've picked it up occasional in the airport, 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:38.240 I was like, oh, it should be g Kami boom. 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.400 But the good news is that there are actual, real 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:45.680 scientists out there, like Heather Heying. I will address her 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:49.840 criticisms of this book, of this denial of biological reality 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.920 that is at the heart of so much progressive gender 0:11:54.160 --> 0:12:07.679 neutrality stuff. I'll base it off of some of her work. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:24.640 All right, So we're talking about testosterone. An unauthorized biography 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.560 a new book that's out there right now which sounds 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.000 like it could be a book with schwartzon egg on 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.679 the cova and he's he's doing the flexing and he's like, hey, 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:35.120 I don't want to Why are you looking at me 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:36.800 like I'm crazy? I'm saying it could You don't know 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.040 what the book's about until you write you must be 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.120 using all the testosterone for the muscle growth. But it 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:44.679 turns out that's not what the books about it all. 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:49.000 The book is written by a left wing PhD academic 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.080 who's trying to tell you that there's no link between 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.480 testosterone and what we think of as male behavior or 0:12:53.520 --> 0:13:00.439 male male tendencies. And the basic argument that is leveled 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:04.800 for this is that because women have testosterone as well, 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.480 it can't be that testosterone causes these things because women 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:12.080 have it too. Well, that's a stupid argument because men 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.800 also have estrogen as well as testosterone. So it's about 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:20.160 the biochemical balance in one system and cellular structure and 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.920 things that, quite honesty, science is really just beginning to 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:27.920 fully understand or research in any capacity. But it's much 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.240 easier to just say, well, testosterone has nothing to do 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.520 with gender roles, has nothing to do with As I said, 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.600 what why are are men more aggressive than women in general? 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:41.680 I mean, look at look at statistics about assaults over 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:43.840 ninety percent. I think it's over ninety five percent. Might 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:45.560 didn't be over ninety nine percent, but it's definitely over 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.320 ninety percent of violent assaults in this country are committed 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.920 by men. All right, So I guess I'm I'm gender 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.000 bashing my own gender right now. We are We are 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.960 more violent than the ladies out there than than females. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.600 Is that social construct or? Is that just because men 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.839 are different than women? It's a very interesting, very interesting question, 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:11.199 isn't it? Also? Why are men generally larger, heavier, physically 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.199 stronger these sorts than women? Is that a social constructors? 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.200 Because men and women? Now you might say, buck, this 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.080 is such a this is ridiculous. We all know these things. Ah, yes, 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:24.000 But the true radical progressives subverts that which you know 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.840 to be true and forces you to bend the knee. 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.920 It doesn't matter how obvious the truth is. In fact, 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.160 it is an exercise of their power to make you 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.560 abandoned things that could not be more intuitive, more obvious, 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.800 more based, in reason and rationality. If they can make 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:43.240 you say men and women are the same, they can 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:47.680 make you say anything. Ah. Now it all starts to 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.040 make sense as a means of remaking society, doesn't it. 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.520 I mentioned to you that there fortunately is still some 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.600 sanity out there in the science world. And this from 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:03.840 an actual biologist named Heather Heying, who has come under 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.800 a lot of attack from the left for a bunch 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:10.280 of reasons, probably because she still bases things in biology 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.560 and science. So she wrote today in a thread, I 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.600 haven't read the book in question, Testosterone and Unauthorized Biography, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.240 but it claims to debunk the idea that testosterone and 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:24.640 masculinity are connected. It is full of confirmation bias. If 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.480 this is true, it has zero evidence of evolutionary or 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:34.000 statistical thinking. Then she goes on into some further detail here. Luckily, 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.240 in a biology department in the mid nineties, declaring that 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.920 females and males behave differently and are assumed to have 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.720 asymmetrical interest was not yet a cancellable offense. See, this 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.720 is all part of cancel culture too. Cancel culture extends 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.600 to science. Say something people don't like, and you have 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.040 to get fired. You can't be a scientist anymore, even 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.480 if it's rooted in scientific fact. The truth can be 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.080 too dangerous to society. In fact, scientific truth can be 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:01.680 too dangerous to society the left believe. Heather goes on, 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.120 here we are in twenty nineteen with an esteemed university press, 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:10.360 Harvard publishing garbage pseudo research, and glossy magazines jumping on 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.000 the let's hate on all that men are and might 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.960 be bandwagon. If this subset of women really thinks that 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.480 female dominated leadership and ways of being are the right 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.520 move into the future, how about they model awesomeness in 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.680 that realm. Instead, what we get from these radical left 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:30.880 feminists is a mix of hateful, uninvestigative, juvenile, snarky pap. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.720 She says that she looked into this question in the 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:42.080 nineteen nineties specifically, and guess what testosterone is very much 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:48.120 responsible for, not just physical changes right deeper voice, beard, 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.200 Hey beard, there we go, producer Brandon, or your beard 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.240 is way more masculine than mine, body hair, all these things. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.080 You see this as a teenager. We know these things 0:16:56.120 --> 0:17:00.880 from just living that testosterone is real and changes things, 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.720 but that also has a change in behavior. They researched this. 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.200 Back in the nineteen nineties, there was this movement to say, oh, 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:10.960 testosterona and shirt. Here we are again being told that 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:17.200 this is not there's no connection at all, and it's 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.600 a denial of reality. And that's what so much of 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.360 left wing based science turns into very quickly, whether it's 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:28.159 climate change or this or people that there's you know 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.000 when you talk about when life begins. There's all these 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.280 different areas where the science is rejected by the left, 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.080 but on gender specifically, they are aggressive about it. The 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.600 left is aggressive about to nine gender, as I told you, 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.720 because if you can eradicate gender roles, you can completely 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:48.920 remake society in a pure Marxist authoritarian mold. That's really 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.359 I know it sounds crazy, but it's the eradication of 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.639 the family because family roles entirely change the state raises children. 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.280 That is the goal here, and they're trying to leverage 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.560 pseudoscience to do it. Oh, so what do we have 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:03.360 coming up? I'm glad we talked about the war on testosterone, 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:08.080 which some people might just say the war on testosterone 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:11.320 is vox dot com, but you know, there's there's a 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.159 war on testosterone that's going on out there in the 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.199 scientific community. I want to talk to you about the 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:21.399 ceasefire in Turkey, will hop though into the latest impeachment 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.719 RUCKUS as well, and this situation in Mexico is just 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:31.080 a reminder that we have a deeply corrupt, unstable, violent 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:34.399 neighbor to our south in Mexico, and there's not a 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.879 whole lot of media coverage of it. And I'd like 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:50.120 to address why that is. He's back with you now, 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.000 because when it comes to the fight for truth, the 0:18:53.119 --> 0:19:14.520 fuck never stops. We started to negotiate, and I think 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.720 that obviously the sanctions and tarifts who are going to 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.479 be very biting. I'm glad we don't have to do it. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.000 We'll be taking them off very quickly as soon as 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.960 this is finalized. But this is an incredible outcome. This 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:32.000 outcome is something they've been trying to get for ten years, everybody, 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.000 and they couldn't get it other administrations, and they never 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.320 would have been able to get it unless you went 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.640 somewhat unconventional. I guess I'm an unconventional person. So there's 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:47.240 a ceasefire that the President his team, really it was 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:53.439 Pence and Pompeo negotiated for Turkey and the Kurds and 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:57.879 the President. They're touting it as a huge, a huge victory. Unfortunately, 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:03.080 shelling is reportedly already underway once again, so there's still 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:07.800 some fighting between Turkish and Syrian forces. The President says, 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:11.240 though this is a I'm sorry Turkish and Kurdish forces, 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:13.960 Kurdish Syrian forces, and President says that this is a 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.280 good thing. And to that I would just I would 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.560 say that the amount of outrage that I've seen generated 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:24.240 on the left and the right over what would really 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:28.000 be a couple of days of fighting. Now, granted it 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:30.080 is between a NATO ally and an ally of ours 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:35.040 on the ground, the Kurdish YPG militia, the Syrian Defense Forces, 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.440 but the amount of outrage and the effort to try 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.840 to make it seem that President Trump is responsible for 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.399 all of what's gone on in Syria, that this civil 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.840 war that's killed the half a million people, stretching back 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:56.359 to twenty eleven, twenty twelve, that Trump, who's been in 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:59.080 office only for a few years, and during that time 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:03.080 the violence has been considerably less in the Syrian Civil 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:04.760 War than it was in the latter part of the 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:08.600 Obama administration or even in the really the second Obama 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:11.680 terms when most of the heavy fighting was going on there, 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:17.080 and everything is Trump's fault somehow. The situation of Syria, 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:19.600 which has been unstable. I mean, go back and look, 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:24.639 you'll see that the French were bombing Syria at one point. 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:27.520 The amount of fighting that I mean I'm talking about 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:30.679 back now, and the I think was the nineteen it 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:32.800 was after the First World War in nineteen twenties. Maybe. 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:36.000 I mean, there's been fighting going on in this part 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:38.880 of the world for a very long time. These factions 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:41.119 on the ground are going after each other and have 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:43.800 been for as long as they've been around. It is 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:48.280 just a place where you're going to see continued instability 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:50.760 and violence. There's just no way around that. We promised 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:54.719 the Kurds their own state, or I mean the international 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:56.760 community I should say, promised the Kurds their own state 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:58.600 back in the day, in the time of Woodrow Wilson. 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:02.639 Never actually happened. The Kurds or the largest stateless people 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:05.399 in the world. So there are anywhere from twenty to 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:10.399 forty million people of Kurdish ethnicity and depending on which 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:15.160 number you take, but they're still the largest non stated 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:19.640 or non state minority in the world, and they are 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:23.960 spread out really along Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. That's 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:30.040 where the Kurdish population is mostly found. And we wanted 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:31.280 to give them a state, but we don't have a 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:34.440 state for them, and it's not going to happen anytime soon. 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:37.960 And so the situation now is we've told the Turks 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:40.679 back off, and there might still be some shelling and 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:42.960 some fighting here and there, but it sounds like or 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:46.520 at least there's the possibility that they may really indeed 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:51.359 back off, and the Kurds are building some kind of 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:55.359 alliance with the Assad regime in Syria, which would be 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:59.720 helpful not just for pushing back on Turkish incursions into 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:01.960 Syria in territory, by the way, but also against the 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:06.240 Islamic state. What is a better circumstance that we have. 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:08.480 And by the way, it was fifty soldiers we're talking 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:11.600 about moving. People really have been reporting on this like 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:13.359 like it was Pearl Harbor or nine to eleven, it 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:18.560 was some catastrophic event that would change an era. It 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:20.960 was some fighting in a place where there's been basically 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:25.240 endless fighting stretching back now seven or eight years with 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:30.080 hundreds of thousands of people killed. So why the focus 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:32.880 on this as such a horrific event. And I might look, 0:23:32.920 --> 0:23:35.720 all all war is bad, every casualty is a tragedy. 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:39.080 This is it's a nasty situation of there's no question 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:42.440 about it. And for the US Special Forces soldiers who 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:44.720 were embedded with these Kurds to have to leave them 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:48.720 in this way unexpectedly, I can understand why they feel 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:51.480 very upset about that. But the commander in chief, the 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:53.440 President United States, is trying to make a decision that 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:59.520 will get us out of a mission creep situation in Syria. 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:02.760 And I mean, I remember when it was considered wise 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:06.240 to avoid any US boots on the ground in Syria. 0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:08.359 I remember when that was the conventional wisdom. And now 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:09.720 we have boots in the ground in Syria and we're 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:11.640 being told, well, they won't stay there that long and 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:15.679 and there won't be much of an escalation. Really do 0:24:15.760 --> 0:24:18.119 you trust that? Should any of us trust that? I 0:24:18.160 --> 0:24:22.080 think we all know the answer. You know, Rand Paul 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:25.240 is saying we should get out of there. Trump is 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:27.840 saying we should get out of there. The Democrats would 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:31.440 be saying we should get out of there. Except it's 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:34.560