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Speaker 3: That looks over. I'm Saren Oberman, and it.
Speaker 4: Is election days. Did you vote?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 6: Too bad, because it's too late. Democracy is ruined because
Speaker 6: of you, unless you did vote, in which case that nerd. Anyway,
Speaker 6: we've got a great show for you tonight, So let's
Speaker 6: get right into headlines.
Speaker 4: Let's kick things off with some politics.
Speaker 6: Yesterday we talked about a new poll that shows Joe
Speaker 6: Biden doing much worse than you might think. Now another
Speaker 6: poll today shows someone doing much better than you might think.
Speaker 7: So take a look at this twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 7: This is if RFK Junior is in the.
Speaker 4: Mix thirty three percent Biden, thirty five percent Trump, twenty
Speaker 4: four percent Kennedy.
Speaker 8: He is the highest polling independent in decades and could
Speaker 8: potentially take millions of votes from either candidate.
Speaker 5: Twenty two percent one pole, twenty four percent in another.
Speaker 6: That is the kind of numbers we haven't seen since
Speaker 6: Ross Burow.
Speaker 9: RFK Junior is an overwhelming source of misinformation and disinformation,
Speaker 9: A purveyor of vile conspiracy theories and fake science. He's
Speaker 9: linked chemicals in our water supply to gender dysphoria, antidepressants
Speaker 9: to school shootings, and assisted COVID vaccines were a tool
Speaker 9: to control people via microchips.
Speaker 4: That's right. Robert F.
Speaker 6: Kennedy is in a three way race with Trumpump, and Biden,
Speaker 6: which is definitely the worst three way a Kennedy.
Speaker 4: Has ever been a part of it.
Speaker 6: If he gets twenty four percent in the election, it
Speaker 6: would be the best showing for a third party candidate
Speaker 6: since Teddy Roosevelt. And because our FK is anti vax
Speaker 6: it would be the best showing for polio since Franklin Roosevelt.
Speaker 6: On one hand, it could be historic. America could set
Speaker 6: the record for hiring the world's oldest NEPO baby. On
Speaker 6: the other hand, this guy is crazy, and he's not
Speaker 6: like Trump crazy where it's obvious right away. I mean,
Speaker 6: as soon as you see Trump, you're like, oh, yeah, this,
Speaker 6: I know this.
Speaker 4: This is a broken man.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: RFK is like so boring.
Speaker 6: You got to be talking for twenty minutes before you
Speaker 6: realize he just said pesticides make people trans Wow, kill
Speaker 6: bugs and be your authentic self.
Speaker 4: Sign me up.
Speaker 6: And I liked OURFK Junior back when he was the
Speaker 6: like clean water guy, why couldn't we get that RFK?
Speaker 4: Getting this RFK is like.
Speaker 6: Getting a Giuliani post sideburned drip.
Speaker 4: Bottom line, this is not good.
Speaker 6: You got one candidate who doesn't believe in vaccines and
Speaker 6: two others who were alive when they were invented.
Speaker 4: Oh, don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 6: Let's move on, because whoever is president is going to
Speaker 6: have to handle a lot of problems, beginning with an
Speaker 6: interspecies war on the high seas.
Speaker 8: We're back with another killer whale attack in the high seas.
Speaker 4: Orca's sank three boats.
Speaker 8: Off Spain earlier this year, and guess what they are
Speaker 8: at it again. Orca's surrounded this Polish yacht sailing through
Speaker 8: the Strait of Gibraltar, ramming the vessel for forty five
Speaker 8: minutes until it sank. The crew is okay, and experts
Speaker 8: still aren't sure why the whales are being so aggressive.
Speaker 6: Oh, you aren't sure why the orcas are being aggressive?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Maybe because we keep stuffing their blowholes with empty bottles
Speaker 6: of mountain dew code red. I don't know why we're
Speaker 6: surprised this is happening. They're literally called killer whales. Are
Speaker 6: we also surprised when a blue whale is blue or
Speaker 6: a sperm whale guzzle sperm, but.
Speaker 4: Gave credit to the yacht owners.
Speaker 6: They put up a valiant defense against the orcas by yelling.
Speaker 4: Do you know who my father is? Still, it didn't.
Speaker 6: Work, and nobody knows what to do about this. All
Speaker 6: I know is if orcas are going to keep destroying yachts,
Speaker 6: Jeff Bezos has a yacht.
Speaker 4: And finally, some big news from the tech world.
Speaker 6: Two years ago, the office sharing startup we Work began
Speaker 6: selling stock to the public, and if you had the
Speaker 6: foresight and courage to invest in it at the time,
Speaker 6: I have some terrible news.
Speaker 8: For you now to the stunning downfall of a company
Speaker 8: that was once the most valuable startup in the US.
Speaker 8: This morning, office space rental company we Work is hoping
Speaker 8: to rework its business, filing for Chapter eleven bankruptcy. The company,
Speaker 8: once privately valued at forty seven billion dollars, announcing the
Speaker 8: move overnight after years of controversies and poor performance, shares
Speaker 8: plummeting ninety eight percent since twenty twenty one, trading it
Speaker 8: just eighty three cents yesterday.
Speaker 6: Holy shit, we Work went from a forty seven billion
Speaker 6: dollar company to bankruptcy. Somewhere out there, lawn Musk is
Speaker 6: going ooh, challenge accepted.
Speaker 4: You know what, maybe this is an opportunity.
Speaker 6: America has a homelessness crisis, and We Work has all
Speaker 6: of the empty building space. You see where I'm going
Speaker 6: with this, right, we need to give the WeWork guy
Speaker 6: another one hundred billion dollars on homelessness.
Speaker 4: We're more on We Works collapse. Let's go live out to.
Speaker 6: Their headquarters with Ronnie Chang. Ronnie, Ronnie.
Speaker 4: What a fall from grace for We Work.
Speaker 1: Yes, Sarah, it's so shocking.
Speaker 2: Hooker predicted We Work would fail with such a genius
Speaker 2: invention and office building.
Speaker 1: What a game changer.
Speaker 2: No one had ever thought of working in a building before.
Speaker 2: We're all just out in the rain, our laptops getting soaked.
Speaker 4: What can we learn from a collapse like this.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot of complicated financial technicalities involved, but
Speaker 2: I'd say the main lesson here is don't invest in
Speaker 2: stupid shit, which I know is hard for America since
Speaker 2: most companies are stupid. I mean, remember that Thorano's lady
Speaker 2: with the totalneck. She got like a billion dollars for
Speaker 2: inventing a box full of oaken, glass and blood.
Speaker 1: At least she had something. Okay.
Speaker 2: The crypto people were like, hey, remember those coins Mario
Speaker 2: would collect. Well for fifty grand I can get you
Speaker 2: one without having the punch a turtle. And everyone was like,
Speaker 2: sign me up.
Speaker 6: But Ronnie, to be fair, bad ideas are sometimes how
Speaker 6: you get the good ideas.
Speaker 1: That's a terrible idea, Sarah. Okay.
Speaker 2: The fact is this has been a disgraceful.
Speaker 1: Period for America. This is the land of innovation.
Speaker 2: America had had a son he in mended the light bulb,
Speaker 2: Henry Ford, who invented the assembly line, and Benjamin Franklin,
Speaker 2: who invented being bald while also having long hair.
Speaker 6: All right, so what do we do with all the
Speaker 6: remaining properties that we work as left behind?
Speaker 2: Well, you're in luck, Sarah, because I have a business
Speaker 2: idea of my own. Ask yourself, what do people in
Speaker 2: cities really need?
Speaker 4: Affordable housing?
Speaker 1: Okay, relax MSNBC.
Speaker 2: In practical terms, what people really need above all else
Speaker 2: is a comfortable place to shit.
Speaker 1: Right one way, You.
Speaker 2: Don't have to pretend you're gonna buy a.
Speaker 1: Bad claw when you're done. I'm talking about a place
Speaker 1: where I can take a dump, where you can take
Speaker 1: a dump.
Speaker 10: There's no liberal dumps or conservative dumps, just dumps of
Speaker 10: all colors and consistencies, where black girls and Asian boys
Speaker 10: can take a dump in peace without someone jiggling a
Speaker 10: handle every five minute.
Speaker 1: Hey, we're in here. We're all in here.
Speaker 2: And to make it happen, all I need is twenty
Speaker 2: billion dollars and a couple of Glade plugins.
Speaker 1: Because America doesn't need a.
Speaker 2: Place to work, We just need a place to do
Speaker 2: our business, right.
Speaker 10: Thank you, Thank you, God bless America so full of proof, everybody.
Speaker 4: I think we're all transpired. Let me come back.
Speaker 6: I hit the streets to find someone to smoke with,
Speaker 6: so don't go away.
Speaker 3: When you think of New.
Speaker 6: York City, you think of shopping and getting stabbed on
Speaker 6: the subway, but also shopping. So this week I checked
Speaker 6: out the latest product to hit the shelves in this
Speaker 6: great city of ours.
Speaker 4: Check it out, Hey, y'all, it's your old cale Sarah Silverman.
Speaker 4: And I'm back in New.
Speaker 6: York City, where now weed is so legal they have
Speaker 6: stores stores with weed.
Speaker 4: I mean, what is this? Twenty three other states?
Speaker 7: Great?
Speaker 6: But could I find someone to smoke this fancy new
Speaker 6: legal wed with Do you guys smoke pot?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah?
Speaker 6: You buy it from the store now, or do you
Speaker 6: guys still are you loyal to your old dealers?
Speaker 7: Used to have to go all around. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 7: I got a text, you a menu, So now you
Speaker 7: just go down the corner and then.
Speaker 5: There's like a store right there.
Speaker 6: I noticed a couple of you have walkie talkies.
Speaker 4: Is it for work?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Hey, you know, this is Sarah Silverman.
Speaker 6: I just want to let you know that Curtis has diarrhea.
Speaker 4: And he might be a little bit late.
Speaker 6: Okay, well these guys didn't get stoner comedy, but maybe
Speaker 6: i'd find some bud buddies at one of the new
Speaker 6: licensed dispensaries like the Union Square travel agency, where buying
Speaker 6: drugs feels.
Speaker 4: Like, well, a little bit like making an appointment at
Speaker 4: the not so genius part.
Speaker 8: So when you'll legalize, they granted the first licenses, so
Speaker 8: people being fullerly incostrated.
Speaker 7: I love it.
Speaker 6: When I first moved to New York City, the way
Speaker 6: I got weed was I call my dealer, get into
Speaker 6: his Toyota Yaris and have to sit in a smelly
Speaker 6: car while I listen to his band's demo and here
Speaker 6: I mean.
Speaker 4: Are you in a band?
Speaker 8: Not in a band?
Speaker 7: It's refreshing.
Speaker 6: Instead of dealers without professional boundaries, these new dispensaries have
Speaker 6: weed baristas aka bud tenders. I want the giggles and
Speaker 6: the creativity of a sativa with the feeling like I'm
Speaker 6: being held by like a sixteen foot man cradled like
Speaker 6: a baby.
Speaker 8: We have something for that, really, So what's your preferred
Speaker 8: method of consumption?
Speaker 4: Do you have anything that I can.
Speaker 6: Put up anally, like as a full story of some kind,
Speaker 6: not with weed.
Speaker 7: In it, just anything.
Speaker 1: Not here?
Speaker 7: Are you high right now?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 7: I'd like to speak to a manager.
Speaker 1: Please, non high weed dealers.
Speaker 4: What a strange new world.
Speaker 6: At least the customers were just like in the old days.
Speaker 4: What are you guys gonna do when you're high?
Speaker 7: We giggle?
Speaker 6: Yeah, lah laugh and do we get intimate?
Speaker 4: We get intimate and we get brownies. What's brownie?
Speaker 2: Is?
Speaker 4: Is that kind of some kind of sex or chemism?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: It was an actual brownie.
Speaker 7: We're old fashioned.
Speaker 8: Just brownies.
Speaker 4: Well that sounds good.
Speaker 6: That's right up my alley. Can I get high with you?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 4: When it's time to get intimate.
Speaker 7: You know, one of you guys will have to leave.
Speaker 6: Can we choose extrawsh And people aren't just using weed
Speaker 6: to enhance their eating and love making.
Speaker 1: It helps with a lot.
Speaker 7: Of anxiety or just like bet Nerve pushing button where
Speaker 7: you're just like, I don't want to talk to you anymore.
Speaker 6: It's like I feel like you smoke pot and you
Speaker 6: realize that nothing you're worried about matters.
Speaker 4: I mean, basically we're already dead.
Speaker 6: These users were so stoked on their legal weed. It
Speaker 6: seems like anyone could sell it to them notes of.
Speaker 4: Hickory, like anyone at all? What ils are you trying
Speaker 4: to solved with drugs?
Speaker 7: I'm just looking to get higher than it ever been.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just ultimate high, Like, yeah, we can do that
Speaker 6: with this st that's going to be seven hundred and
Speaker 6: thirty eight dollars perni.
Speaker 4: It is expensive, but it is cheaper than therapy. That's
Speaker 4: all in all.
Speaker 6: It's crazy to think that something you can buy now
Speaker 6: for a lot of money in a fancy store used
Speaker 6: to get people sent to prison, and many are still there.
Speaker 6: There are people here that were put in.
Speaker 4: Prison for weed crimes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it would be great if there was a radical
Speaker 6: exchange of wealth with people who have served time for
Speaker 6: something that politicians are making.
Speaker 4: Millions from now.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, I don't know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I'm stoned.
Speaker 6: I still hadn't found anyone to smoke with besides the
Speaker 6: horny brownie lovers, But as usual, New York City didn't
Speaker 6: let me down.
Speaker 4: This is crazy.
Speaker 6: We're actually doing a story about people smoking weed in
Speaker 6: New York.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm smoking weed in ner right now.
Speaker 4: That's crazy and you're doing it. What kind of weed
Speaker 4: is this?
Speaker 10: So this is like sativa as a cookies blend, you know, classic.
Speaker 10: But I get it from a smoke shop.
Speaker 4: You get it illegally from a deli, Well.
Speaker 5: From a smoke shop.
Speaker 7: You gotta be careful with what you give. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, my guy showed me photos of where he grows
Speaker 10: and stuff, so I trust him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he is a picture of it. He It's definitely true.
Speaker 6: Which led me to address the most serious question that
Speaker 6: this issue had raised. I've got a dog at home, Like,
Speaker 6: do you think she loves me? Or do you think
Speaker 6: it's just like I'm the person that feeds her, so
Speaker 6: she just plays ball?
Speaker 1: Your dog is love? And that might be what you need.
Speaker 10: And even if it's not directed to you, that's the
Speaker 10: love you got.
Speaker 5: Like, that's you, your dog.
Speaker 7: So does it matter?
Speaker 6: I guess it doesn't really matter whether you get your
Speaker 6: weed from a fancy dispensary or as part of some
Speaker 6: tragically misguided drug war, as long as you smoke it
Speaker 6: with a friend.
Speaker 4: My dog is love. I could cry. That's so beautiful.
Speaker 5: Love.
Speaker 4: My dog is love. Love made a mess on the carpet,
Speaker 4: and love clean that mess up. It's all love.
Speaker 6: That Cat Hohannan will tell me how human evolution your driven?
Speaker 3: Sell my guest tonight.
Speaker 6: As a researcher and author of the New York Times
Speaker 6: bestseller Eve, How the Female Body Drove two hundred million
Speaker 6: years of human evolution. Please welcome, Cat Bohannan, Lett Dominatedrix Barbie.
Speaker 7: I know, I know. Is it kink or is it
Speaker 7: business casual? You don't know. You don't gotta know. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 7: how's that hanging a little to the left?
Speaker 6: Then, so, okay, you set out to prove that the
Speaker 6: human body drove human evolution?
Speaker 4: What did you discover?
Speaker 5: One of the central things I discovered was that we
Speaker 5: are garbage at making babies.
Speaker 7: Just the entire species.
Speaker 5: This is actually a flaming garbage pile. This is the
Speaker 5: technical term, right. Yeah, so you wouldn't think so, right,
Speaker 5: because we have eight billion people in the world, right,
Speaker 5: so you think that we are obviously good.
Speaker 7: At popping them out. But no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 5: Actually, our pregnancies and burghs and postpartum recoveries are harder, longer,
Speaker 5: and more prone to dangerous and crippling and sometimes murdery
Speaker 5: complications than they are in most any other primate, well
Speaker 5: except for a squirrel monkey, and we feel real bad
Speaker 5: for her.
Speaker 7: But also also most other mammals.
Speaker 5: Actually, we do, in fact suck at this, and that
Speaker 5: changes how you understand the story of the female body. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that changes how you understand what all this is for.
Speaker 5: It's not that it is our destiny to make babies
Speaker 5: to be fulfilled or.
Speaker 4: Something wasn't mine.
Speaker 5: Yeah no, no, no, no, I mean I love my kids,
Speaker 5: but I'm good to be done with that. No, it's
Speaker 5: more it's more like it's how we do it, particularly
Speaker 5: as a species, is so bad that there are many
Speaker 5: fail safes. There are many things built into kind of
Speaker 5: brace for impact. Yeah, it's more like that. Yeah, that
Speaker 5: there are ways in which our immune system has adapted
Speaker 5: because the placenta down regulates the immune system. So you know,
Speaker 5: since you don't want to die of infection when you're pregnant,
Speaker 5: maybe your immune system runs.
Speaker 7: A little hot the rest of us the time.
Speaker 5: Right, It may be the case that we breastfeed the
Speaker 5: way that we do. It may be the case that
Speaker 5: we have menstruation the way that we do in each
Speaker 5: case because we are actually just trying not to die.
Speaker 6: Oh, I see, and from what I read that you found.
Speaker 6: What you found was that all of this medical research
Speaker 6: in science has been based on the what do we say,
Speaker 6: cis male sex at birth.
Speaker 4: I'm progressive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's just dicks all the way down, so
Speaker 5: instead of turtles quite exactly exactly, So this is true
Speaker 5: in biological research. This is true in biomedical research. We
Speaker 5: are only studying males, right, And it's basically because this
Speaker 5: thing we call a menstrual cycle, which a biologist would
Speaker 5: call an estrous cycle, is just so messy and complicated. Right,
Speaker 5: So you have this slope of hormones that's doing all
Speaker 5: kinds of things in a female body if you're studying mammals,
Speaker 5: so maybe just don't then.
Speaker 7: Don't want study them. That seemed to be the solution.
Speaker 4: Icy, just yeah, let's not deal with.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's not like there was any sexis couple. I'm
Speaker 5: not saying there isn't sexism. It's more like it's not
Speaker 5: necessarily sexism that was driving it. It's more that there
Speaker 5: was a kind of unspoken agreement in biology, Oh, we'll
Speaker 5: solve this problem, this messy, messy chick problem in rats,
Speaker 5: mostly by not studying the female. Yeah, which means that
Speaker 5: by the time you get to doing biological research that
Speaker 5: might lead to pharmaceuticals, well, then it may not have
Speaker 5: been studied on females at all. And then, in fact,
Speaker 5: many of the medications that are on the market today
Speaker 5: have never been studied on females at all. From rat
Speaker 5: to dog, too often human.
Speaker 6: I know, I know so many women who went to
Speaker 6: the doctor over and over again with crippling pain, sent home,
Speaker 6: told to take a tilet I'll told that it's in
Speaker 6: their head, and it was endometriosis, which men don't get.
Speaker 4: So this is what listening to you.
Speaker 6: I listened to you on a podcast and you were
Speaker 6: talking about that and talking about how inflammation works different
Speaker 6: in a female body and.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, the lack of studying endo. Oh that is just sexism.
Speaker 5: Actually, unfortunately when and we're just starting to come back
Speaker 5: around and really start to model how that's working. So
Speaker 5: there is some good news on the horizon, but it's
Speaker 5: slow going.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But the reason that we didn't understand that women are
Speaker 5: more likely to wake up on the surgery table is
Speaker 5: because we hadn't properly studied sex differences in anesthesia.
Speaker 7: Now it's rare, don't I know, it's nightmare.
Speaker 4: Fuel, but I don't wake up.
Speaker 7: No, No, it's cool.
Speaker 5: But like it's very very rare, but again, a bit
Speaker 5: of a sex difference there. So the moral imperative of
Speaker 5: studying female bodies is clear.
Speaker 7: But that book would not exist if.
Speaker 5: It weren't for all of the amazing often women and
Speaker 5: people of color scientists who are driving the new research,
Speaker 5: who are finding new things out which are really cool.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, well, first of all, I just want to
Speaker 6: say about the anesthesia. I had throat surgery once and
Speaker 6: they gave me anesthesia and I said it's not enough,
Speaker 6: and then they didn't believe me, and then I proved
Speaker 6: it by explaining Brexit.
Speaker 4: It was around that time they were like, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: she needs a little more juice.
Speaker 6: You know, the amazing things you're finding out as you do.
Speaker 4: The amazing thing sorry that you're finding out.
Speaker 6: I mean, I couldn't believe when I heard you talking
Speaker 6: about breastfeeding and that the nipple has sensors and the
Speaker 6: mouth of the baby has sensors and they communicate and
Speaker 6: if the baby is sick, the nipple will like readjust
Speaker 6: the titty milk right there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is Craig. You want me
Speaker 7: to talk about the upsick because I can.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, upside Oh yeah, it's exactly what it sounds like,
Speaker 5: upsuc k.
Speaker 7: So when okay, so here's a boob.
Speaker 5: Let's say it is fine, I mean or here but yeah, right,
Speaker 5: you know, and so if you are properly latching and
Speaker 5: you're a newborn, you are touching onto this whole boob
Speaker 5: structure kind of lamprey like, right, and you're forming.
Speaker 7: A docking seal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you form a vacuum by sucking in your
Speaker 5: cheeks and roll in the tongue back under that.
Speaker 7: It's actually very invasive to think about it. I had to.
Speaker 7: I'm glad to be ed anyway.
Speaker 5: But yeah, so what you're doing though, is because you're
Speaker 5: moving the tongue under that nipple.
Speaker 7: You newborn, not you, maybe you, but not you.
Speaker 5: Right that you're moving the focus of the.
Speaker 7: It's just physics. You're moving the focus of that vacuum
Speaker 7: back and forth in that enclosed space.
Speaker 5: What that does is it creates a tide, just like
Speaker 5: you've seen on the shores of California, right.
Speaker 7: So you have the milk.
Speaker 5: Coming in and the wave on the top, and underneath
Speaker 5: the tide, of course, you have an undertoe. So what's
Speaker 5: happening is the baby's spit is being sucked back into
Speaker 5: the mom's boob, where it then distributes through her ductyl
Speaker 5: work and is read like some weird ancient code by
Speaker 5: an army of immuno agents and sensors, which then taylor.
Speaker 7: The milk to suit. If the kid is sick, the
Speaker 7: milk changes. Yeah, m hm, so cool.
Speaker 5: The milk changes, it changes, it does. This is a
Speaker 5: two way communication platform. You know.
Speaker 6: It's so weird because it's like we're like machines were
Speaker 6: like nature. We're like, I don't know, and I look
Speaker 6: at outer space and then I see like the inside
Speaker 6: of a human body.
Speaker 4: It all that kind of.
Speaker 6: Looks the same that wasn't on these cards. I'm salling,
Speaker 6: but oh yeah, I asked you this, right, I like you.
Speaker 6: Thank you. You're doing great too.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Is research getting any better with this stuff?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 7: Yes, and that is the absolutely good news.
Speaker 5: I mean it's often intergenerational. Yeah, there is some resistance
Speaker 5: from the old guard. It's not like that's new to science.
Speaker 5: That's kind of in any industry when you have a
Speaker 5: social shift, when you have a paradigm shift in understanding
Speaker 5: what you're doing.
Speaker 7: So there is some resistance by the people who are
Speaker 7: giving the scientists the grants.
Speaker 5: There is some resistance from the old people because it's
Speaker 5: not nothing to change your mind. What is it to
Speaker 5: be told that for decades you may be a nobel laureate.
Speaker 5: In fact, sometimes you know we're wrong about something.
Speaker 7: That's actually a hard shift, that's hard to do.
Speaker 5: There are many older scientists who are leading the guard,
Speaker 5: but there are some who are not.
Speaker 7: So that's the thing.
Speaker 5: But no new generation coming in doing all the new science.
Speaker 5: And it's like the wild West out there, man, Like
Speaker 5: anywhere you look for a sex difference in mammals, you
Speaker 5: kind of find one, right, which also means that we
Speaker 5: don't entirely know what's going to matter in the long run, right,
Speaker 5: you know, because it's new. It's not just cutting edge science.
Speaker 5: It's like bleeding edge science, right, but it's cool and.
Speaker 7: It's moving forward.
Speaker 4: It isn't necessarily gendered.
Speaker 6: It's gendered in that it's like what your sex at
Speaker 6: birth is. But like you were talking about the male
Speaker 6: and female brain and that they're indistinguishable.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Now don't do this at home.
Speaker 5: But if you do, hold two cadaver brains in your hands,
Speaker 5: if there's a case happens upon you, I can't imagine why.
Speaker 5: But if you were and nobody prepped you to say
Speaker 5: this one came from a biologically male body, this one
Speaker 5: came from a female body.
Speaker 7: There's actually no way for you to know.
Speaker 5: There may be some minor sex differences in myelination, some
Speaker 5: ratio of gray matter in one region, but in the
Speaker 5: exact same brain in another region it'll have the opposite pattern.
Speaker 7: It's more like a sex mosaicism.
Speaker 5: The only way to tell for sure is to literally
Speaker 5: shove them in a blender, sluice them down.
Speaker 7: We've done this. Sluice them down, count.
Speaker 5: The cells and sequence the DNA, and you're gonna have
Speaker 5: to do a number of them, because females who have
Speaker 5: given birth to males may well have some of his
Speaker 5: cells up in their brains just reprolace some wise, like
Speaker 5: some actual wise.
Speaker 7: That's how we know that there's chimerism.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like I have a son and his
Speaker 5: cells are apparently probably in my brain just doing something
Speaker 5: I don't know what, right, Yeah, but that is the
Speaker 5: only way to know, just sequencing the DNA, which is
Speaker 5: some cool you.
Speaker 6: Know, she's really cool, right, Like you talk about science,
Speaker 6: but it sounds.
Speaker 4: Like beat poetry.
Speaker 1: I would say.
Speaker 4: For a book that is all about.
Speaker 6: The female form and the female body and all that stuff,
Speaker 6: you talk a lot about dicks.
Speaker 4: Like why so much dick?
Speaker 5: I do? There's a surprising amount of dong in this book.
Speaker 7: That is true. It's true.
Speaker 5: I mean it's like a woman holding a cell phone, like,
Speaker 5: did there need to be that much penis in here?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: Apparently the answer is yes, because vaginas.
Speaker 7: And penis is not for your phone.
Speaker 5: But in this case, vaginas and penises co evolve in
Speaker 5: all species that have them, which means you can't like
Speaker 5: talk about the evolution of the vadge without talking about
Speaker 5: the coevolution of its I don't know, excitable partner, right,
Speaker 5: maybe eager, earnest, earnest partner.
Speaker 7: Yes, they try real hard.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's like a penis, like an inside
Speaker 6: an outside vagina. Don't put them in. No, I don't
Speaker 6: really know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: Now. You actually be surprised how scientifically accurate that question is,
Speaker 5: my dear.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: Actually, when the genitals are forming in those early weeks
Speaker 5: in the wombs, they all form from the same bud essentially,
Speaker 5: and there's a diagram of it in the book, very
Speaker 5: nicely done. Yeah, And they're essentially the same thing for
Speaker 5: a long time, and what becomes the clitterists in a
Speaker 5: typical female tangle.
Speaker 6: When you said clitterish, you know, you know, extends out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: So it's not that it's an inside out vagina, but
Speaker 5: it is true that it is remarkably from the same stuff.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But why should men read your book? Should men read
Speaker 4: your book?
Speaker 7: I think so for their own good. So the thing
Speaker 7: is they can read my book and care about it to.
Speaker 4: Learn about the human body like all the books we.
Speaker 5: Read, or we can cut off their balls.
Speaker 6: This is a great ending point and yet I feel
Speaker 6: I'd like to know if you would like to.
Speaker 7: Expound, I will see. The thing is, let's talk about
Speaker 7: sex and longevity. Yeah.
Speaker 5: The thing is is that there are many ways to
Speaker 5: extend a male mammals lifespan to make them live longer.
Speaker 5: We know that females generally live longer and males don't
Speaker 5: across mammals. But the one thing that you can do
Speaker 5: that's more reliable than just about anything else is.
Speaker 7: Castrated cut off as balls.
Speaker 5: This is and we know this because we have caught
Speaker 5: out thousands of balls. Okay for science, right, So we
Speaker 5: have done rat balls, We have done rodents of all types.
Speaker 7: We have done dogs. You've probably done that.
Speaker 5: Well, you paid a guy, but that adds like a
Speaker 5: year and a half domestic dogs, life.
Speaker 7: Pigs and monkeys and humans. We have the data in humans.
Speaker 5: The Korean court, the Korean Imperial Court, kept very good
Speaker 5: medical records and had unix American men in the mid
Speaker 5: century who were hospitalized, usually for mental illness. And because
Speaker 5: the history of eugenics is horrific, we're also castrated. Very
Speaker 5: good medical records and a Central Asian tradition too. All
Speaker 5: of these castrated males lived longer, healthier lives than their
Speaker 5: regularly bald peers. And I'm not talking about a small gain.
Speaker 5: It's an average of fourteen years.
Speaker 7: So why is that?
Speaker 4: You know, your small's work is phenomenal.
Speaker 5: Why are so many men smuggling too little death nuggets?
Speaker 5: You know, like, why are these the ping pongs of destiny?
Speaker 7: Why are these the actual grapes of wrath? Yeah? So,
Speaker 7: and the answer is we are not entirely sure.
Speaker 5: We have some models, some scientists are doing the work,
Speaker 5: but this is the actual future of gerontology. Figuring out
Speaker 5: why there are sex differences in aging and why cutting
Speaker 5: off balls will make men live longer is how we're
Speaker 5: going to provide better medicine versus men. And I think
Speaker 5: we can all get on board here. American men deserve
Speaker 5: better from medicare than a mass castration plan.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's a very good point. I mean, mic.
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