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Would you look at that?

I mean, if you don't have good security in a place, almost anything can happen.

Anybody can sneak in.

Jeff Fisher entered our studio.

Jeffy's here.

So I figured I'd stop in, say hi.

Chew the fat, perhaps.

Oh, my gosh.

Yes, and remind people that they can follow or subscribe to chewing the fat, which is really good.

So they would go to like a podcast app.

Any place.

They would search for fat.

They would search for chewing the fat.

Oh, but I'm guessing if you search for fat, sure, I'm going to be there.

Okay, just so search for fat, look for Jeffy's face, and then click subscribe.

And yes, thank you.

That's how that works.

Okay, perfect.

And I wish I had a product to hawk, you know, like a cacks of cookies,

some kind of Nancy Plusy Sucks Pad.

Nancy Suckspad, something like that.com.

I've got Moo Moos by Jeffy, but they're sold out right now.

No, no.

Are they?

Yeah, they're all.

Because the Moo Moos by Jeffy line is prestigious.

Huge.

And elite.

And huge.

Yes.

Really big.

If Lena Dunham can have her own little line of fat gal clothes, Moomoos by Jeffy can sell too.

Absolutely.

I think that's fair.

I think that's fair.

So what do you have today

for chewing the fat, John?

Well, you know, one of the things that I found fascinating was that we talked a little bit about it on Pad Unleashed this morning, that NASA is about to launch a spaceship that's supposed to punch an asteroid out of the way.

I love this story.

We're testing Earth defense systems right now.

This is really cool.

The Bruce Willis thing, basically.

Basically, except we're not going to blow it up.

We're just going to push it.

They just want to see if they can, through kinetic energy, move it out of its current path so that if we ever had to do that, to see if this would work.

It's part of these kind of cool.

It's part of the double asteroid redirection test.

And we're launching it in July of this year.

And it's supposed to catch up with the asteroid we've chosen by September of 2022.

And we're going to just run into it and see if we can get it off course.

Are we all at all concerned that they might nudge it the wrong way and push it into the path?

Don't be silly.

Don't be silly.

I'm a little little bit.

That would be bad.

Well, that's what the test is, right?

So hopefully, I mean, this one is far enough away that it's not going.

What if it redirects right at us?

Yeah.

I feel like that's our luck.

I mean, it's honestly what we deserve in this country at this point.

Really?

Yes.

It's basically, I think most of us would be like, you know, we had a good run.

Yeah.

Right.

You know, what are we going to do?

I mean, we're at the point in this whole saga where we're taking Aunt Jemima off the boxes.

Let's just blow the whole thing up.

Plus, once we do it, let's say we can do it.

Are we going to, do we have a couple extra that we're going to have in the garage that we notice, hey, there's an asteroid coming?

Well, I want another one ready in case we redirect it at ourselves.

Right.

At least have another one ready to launch.

I mean, we hear stories all the time, and I say all the time, frequently, that an asteroid came within

100,000 miles of the planet.

And oh my gosh, we didn't see that one.

We just had one that came within, was it 4,000 miles?

It was close.

It was

like a shape.

It was real

Yeah.

It wouldn't have destroyed the Earth, but it would have caused some problems.

And so, I mean,

as in the documentary, Armageddon, Bruce Willisman.

Yes.

I mean, you know, they say in the documentary, the reason that they didn't see that particular asteroid coming was because it was a big-ass sky.

Yeah, that's true.

And that's science right now.

That's powerful.

That is science.

That's powerful.

That is science.

Really well put.

I mean, it's in the documentary.

I mean, did they even try to write

these

in the 90s?

They were just like, I don't know.

Just put, give me a bunch of pieces of paper with catchphrases.

We'll just put glue on a piece of paper and throw them in any random order.

Okay, we got big.

We got ass.

And then

sky.

That's good, though.

At least we're thinking of these things.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I feel like we usually get taken off guard by such matters.

Yeah, I mean, but we have people flying into space all the time now, right?

SpaceX has got people paying money and going up into space.

Virgin Galactic has got people paying money to go up into space.

The blue space.

They've stopped now, though.

They're not going to do it?

No,

yeah, Bezos is like, they didn't get one of the government contracts.

Oh.

And they were like, hmm.

So we're not going to.

So they're pouting.

It's slowing down.

Slowing down a little bit.

You're giving all the money to SpaceX and NASA and Branson is getting a little bit of that money and I'm not.

Okay, well, then I'm not going to do it anymore.

Wait,

hate to see him take his toys and go home.

I know.

I know.

I mean, now that he's retiring from Amazon, Basil's, what's he going to do?

He's got nothing to do.

Just sit around and do nothing.

No,

this is important.

Look, we're spending all these trillions of dollars.

We might as well get a cool asteroid thing out of it.

Right?

You know?

Yeah.

I mean, if they would have said, look, we're spending $1.9 trillion on a fleet of asteroid redirection machines.

you know okay

all right

that's what i was hoping it's better than what they really are spending it on that's absolutely at least in theory it could do something that's true and we know that they're going to start spending money again on the uh border wall right i mean well we don't know that but they're talking about it i mean uh Alejandro Majorkas, the DHS secretary, was said in a meeting that they were, well, you're right, that they may restart construction on the open side.

I'll believe that when I see it.

You know,

they are having an issue on the border.

And of course, obviously, as everyone does, know that walls could be effective.

Right.

So

you'd think if they want to actually stop this, that would make sense.

They could blame it probably on Trump.

They should have never stopped it in the first place.

Effective to the point where,

do you remember when Israel used to have the problem with bombs going off on school buses and restaurants?

We'd hear about it at Passover dinners and all kinds of things.

It was happening all the time.

A couple of times a week, you would hear about that.

Then they built the fence.

You know what?

It dropped the incidence of terrorism by 98%.

Yeah.

98%.

They also went about.

I mean, that's amazing.

They also went big time on security as well.

I mean, people talked about that.

I mean, you can't go anywhere.

It's not a one-step process.

No, I understand, but it helps.

They also, I mean, you don't go into any

malls, any office buildings, any restaurants, anything without being

searched and wanna in Israel.

Yeah.

And look,

there's a, an element of low-hanging fruit that the wall gets rid of, right?

It does not stop everybody.

Like, they just showed, a video just came out, I think it was last week, where

smugglers had taken those long iron bars on the wall that we've built, you know, 20 or 30 feet tall.

And they have some sort of, you know, whatever, I guess whatever way you'd cut this in a, you know, welding, you know, I don't know, you know, I don't know how they do it exactly, but they had cut the bottom of the

pole, basically, the post in the wall, and they cut it at the very bottom.

So when you looked at it, it looked normal, and then they could just,

you just move it a little bit, and it would swing open, and you could just walk right through.

Oh, wow.

And they've apparently they found a bunch of these.

Lawbreakers broke the law.

Right.

They broke the law.

But again, that takes a little bit of effort.

It takes some expertise.

I mean,

you know, look, you're not going to stop multi-billion dollar cartels from getting through a fence, but you probably are going to stop a lot of average people trying to cross a board.

Maybe some

lower-level criminals.

And maybe, you know, like you can identify one of these places and know that's where the big wigs are going to be crossing because they have this.

And then you monitor that from a distance and then try to capture them once they come across.

Like, it does make the whole defense easier.

Right.

And that's why the wall makes sense.

It's an inexpensive way to be able to minimize the crossing of the border illegally.

It's not the only solution.

That got to be sort of a talking point.

So everyone's like, build the wall.

And as if that means there's no one who ever crosses the border again.

That's not true.

But you can minimize it.

You can help it.

It's an easy way to enforce the border.

And that's what critics do.

They say, well, the border's not going to stop all these people.

Well, no, it's not going to stop everybody.

And they used to to do the same thing with

deportation.

You can't put 11 million people on a school bus and send them back.

That would be a big school message.

Yeah, we don't have a school bus that big.

You're right about that.

We can start with one.

But you can start and you can make a dent in the problem.

And, you know, you do it over a long period of time and you take a bite.

That's how you eat an elephant, right?

A bite at a time.

And part of this is messaging.

I don't know why I was looking at you when I said the elephant thing, Jeffy.

I don't even, I don't understand.

I don't know why either.

You did look right at

you.

You looked right at Jeffy.

Very weird.

But it's part of its messaging, right?

Like, you know, the policies from the Trump administration to the Biden administration,

there have been some changes that they've made.

But in reality, it's much more about people who are, you know, down in Honduras being like, wait a minute, he's saying no matter what, if we get across the border, they're not going to send us back.

Let's try it.

Where Trump was saying, was messaging, hey,

don't come.

Don't come.

We'll send you back.

Right.

And there were some things implemented to

further that, but as we know, like there was a lot of things that Trump tried to do in the border and wasn't able to accomplish.

I mean, you know, he can't just do it on his own.

He did what he could.

Well, on top of which, now, because we, you know, we are against everything that the previous administration did, which is why we put Kamala Harris in charge.

And she is right on top of it.

Oh, because she was elected president, right?

No.

Well, no, no, no, she wasn't.

So the biggest, the first initial crisis of the Biden administration was handed to Kamala Harris.

Yeah, she's right there.

I mean, you can see her.

She does press conferences every day about what's happening and who she's meeting with and how things are taking place.

On the border.

She's down there.

She's down there.

She's not even living in Washington, D.C.

anymore.

Yeah, she's living on the border.

Is she really?

She's in McAllen, Texas right now.

She lives right there.

Yeah.

She hasn't visited.

She hasn't talked about it.

I mean, yesterday, where was she?

Chicago?

Was it Chicago talking about COVID-19 or something?

She went out to California, I think, right?

Yeah, she was in Chicago and then she went to California or vice versa.

I don't know.

But, but she's not dealing with the border.

She certainly doesn't seem to be dealing with what she's been put in charge with.

Right.

And so that's kind of,

well, I don't know if I want her dealing with it anyway.

I know.

It's kind of

torn there.

You know, so that's a tough one to take.

So if people do want to view or hear you eat an elephant one bite at a time, where would they go for that information?

Well, you could go wherever you get your podcast.

Yeah, but how much would I have to pay?

Have you been able to keep the price low, I hope?

How much would I be expected to pay for the chewing potential?

I just want to tell you right now, right now, as we speak,

it's free.

Okay.

So you still have won that battle for the time being?

I promise tomorrow.

That's why you need to go there today.

And I will promise that you'll be

in

if we start charging tomorrow.

If you're a subscriber today on the platform of your choice,

whatever platform, there's a plethora of platforms out there that you can subscribe to, chewing the fat on.

If you do it today, then your grandfathered in will be free for you.

That's great.

And we joke about this, but did you hear that they're changing the subscribe to a podcast thing to follow?

Oh, because too many people think they have to pay for subscribe.

Really?

Yeah.

So they're changing it to follow because people keep, I guess, thinking if they click subscribe, you're going to have to pay.

By saying subscribe, that means that you have to pay.

So if it's still, if your podcast app still says subscribe, it's free, at least for our shows.

I don't know.

Maybe some other shows.

Are your shows too?

Yeah.

Pseudos America, Pat, Gray, Unleashed, the Glenn Beck program.

Free for a while.

Wow.

You've all been battling hard to try to keep the cost down.

I've been trying to get my cost up.

I want to charge, like, I want people who, every subscriber, to pay $1,000 a month, and so far they won't do it.

Oh, wow.

Bastards.

It's selfish.

You know what?

They're these typical rich white people,

white supremacists

who want to keep their money because they feel they've earned it.

I think they're ridiculous.

I think they're all called Caspars now.

Yeah, well, the whiteys.

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I learned something new today, Pat.

Yeah.

What?

It's always important to learn new things.

And I learned something new.

I learned something new about hate today.

Oh.

And I happen to have, and this is not hateful at all, a Nancy Pelosi Sucks Pen that I want to give out to someone who can get the right answer to this question.

Okay.

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Of course, it's a place to get your normal Nancy Pelosi Sucks Pen.

It's a replica of the pen that she used to sign the Donald Trump impeachment

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What a glorious thing to add to that.

So it says even more than the actual pen.

Right, yeah.

You get extra words.

Right, you get extra words.

That's true.

That's great.

So my question is,

when you have

someone who is switching genders

and they get

a surgery,

we would call that gender reassignment surgery, right?

That's what everyone calls it.

Yes.

Okay.

A sex change was kind of the old term.

Then it went to gender change.

Oh, was that hateful?

The sex change thing?

Yes, it was hateful.

So it went to gender reassignment surgery.

Gender reassignment surgery.

So you're being reassigned

a different gender.

Okay.

If you know the answer, don't say it out loud, Pat.

Okay.

There is a, we've now discovered that gender reassignment surgery

is also hateful.

Oh, dang it.

Okay.

Darn it.

So there is a new term that it is okay to say for this particular procedure, what is it?

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I can't wait to hear.

I don't know the answer.

You don't know the answer?

I didn't know it until today.

Triple 8-727B is the answer.

First caller who gets this right will give you a Nancy Pelosi Sux Pen.

Valued at what?

$1,000?

$1,940.

Okay.

That's the one.

Which I believe was the year she was born.

That's why we actually did price it at $1,940, marked down.

We marked it down significantly as a special sale, a special commemorative sale.

Well, the normal retail price is $1,940

because of her year of birth.

So I, because I will say, I didn't know this, and I was fascinated to hear this report this morning about the issues with transgendered kids because there's a lot of hate-filled bills apparently going through Republican states that are limiting in disgusting ways, apparently,

children's access to puberty-blocking drugs.

Stop it.

Don't you know?

To having major surgeries when they're like eight.

Oh, no.

There are some states that think that that's wrong.

And as the report acknowledged, Pat,

there are many people

who have...

I can't.

This world is.

Are you about to burst into tears?

I really am.

I can't even.

They're basically saying that, hey, you know, look,

what doctors say and scientists say is this, not allowing kids to take puberty blockers and to have these surgeries

could hurt the mental health of the child and the family.

So therefore, it's just hatred.

It's, I mean, they were just calling it transphobic bills.

There's transphobic bills going through.

Arkansas was one of the more recent ones.

Transphobic bills going through Arkansas, blocking children from using puberty blockers and having these surgeries.

Like, what?

There's no line to this.

It's like, I would say that

many years ago, right, there would be a conversation maybe about how

any good guesses?

Because we've got a lot of guesses here, but I wonder if we have any that aren't like...

a very offensive jokes.

What line is it?

Oh, no.

Okay.

I think this is a a good one because I was legitimately surprised when I heard it.

I didn't, I've never heard this term before.

I had missed it.

I haven't.

Okay.

Because we have now advanced, though, to the part of this debate where,

remember, I think it was, who was it, Mario Lopez that got in trouble?

Because he said, look, you know, having kids change their sex at...

you know, six, seven, eight years old is obviously ridiculous.

Or no, I think he said four.

I think he said four.

And then he had to come out and apologize because apparently it's not ridiculous to change your sex or your gender at four.

Right?

Right.

Yes.

And he massively apologized for that.

Like he had really screwed up and said something really horrific.

Like a four,

how dare you say a four-year-old can't decide to change their sex?

How dare you?

It's like,

I mean, legitimately, children at four years old will

think they can learn how to fly.

They'll think how

their imaginations are running wild with all sorts of different possibilities.

And if you come to them with the idea that maybe they should be the other gender,

what do you think?

Many of them are going to take you up on that.

And as we've seen, I was talking to Dr.

Deb Rousseau the other day.

She has a book out on this, and she's one of the very brave voices on this who's willing to come out and say what the science actually says,

which is

many, many, many children who go through this wind up regretting it later.

Many people who thought about going through this, at the end of the day, think

are glad that they didn't.

Yeah, I mean, the suicide rates are really high for those who even get the surgery, right?

Aren't they because you're expecting to feel better and more like you?

And then a lot of times they apparently don't.

And they've got really high rates of depression and suicide even after the surgery.

So it's I think I know what it's called, though, now.

Okay, hold on.

You've got a couple of guesses.

You did cheat?

I did cheat.

All right.

Matt in Louisiana, I believe it is.

Matt, what do you think it is?

It used to be sex change.

Then it was gender reassignment surgery.

What is it now?

Well, that's Los Angeles, I'm in.

So you got to get that right first.

Sorry.

You know, I'm just going to go with the old traditional, the old switcheroo.

Yeah, the older switcheroo.

let's just go with that no i promise you the new

unfortunately that is not the answer that would be better i will say like every once in a while one of these like pc terms seems to me to be considerably worse than the previous one the example i would come up with is little people like little people is obviously worse than midget i think it is i think it's way worse i always thought that

but i was afraid to say it's right like they said like like midget

they're like you can't say midget you need to say little people.

That's way more demeaning.

I don't know.

It's condescending.

It does seem like it's condescending.

Again, I understand that like midget wouldn't be the right things.

I don't know.

I don't know what the term.

I don't spend too much time thinking about that.

But you say, oh, by the way, we have a little person here with us today.

Seems bizarre.

It just seems like a terrible term.

And every once in a while.

That does happen.

Like, could it go from gender reassignment to the old switcheroo?

That seems like it's pushing it.

So, no, I don't think that's it.

Christy in New York, you have a guess here.

It used to be sex change, then it turned into gender reassignment surgery.

What is it now?

I think it's gender affirmation surgery.

Gender affirmation surgery is a good one.

Now, that was not the one I heard today, I will say.

But you know what?

That's a good guess.

That's a good guess.

We'll give you a Nancy Pelosi sucks pen anyway.

So let's give that to Christy.

But that's not actually the guess.

That's not actually the correct one.

It's pretty pretty close.

We're getting close.

I thought so.

Okay.

Sam in Pennsylvania.

Sam, what is your guess?

It used to be sex change.

Then it was gender reassignment surgery.

What is it now?

I'll go for gender confirmation.

That's right.

Gender confirmation surgery.

Refirming your actual gender.

Exactly.

You're not reassigning it.

You're not a mistaken one that you were assigned in birth.

And you're not saying you're reassigning means you're changing.

It's not true.

You were always that gender.

They're just confirming your gender with the surgery.

That is legitimately what they're calling it now.

Gosh, Sam, you're brilliant.

Congratulations.

You've won a Nancy Pelosi Sucks Pen.

We will get that out to you as soon as possible.

Thank you, Sam.

Isn't that credible?

That is what they're saying.

That's incredible.

And they actually are like saying that gender reassignment surgery, which was the, it used to be sex change.

Yeah.

Now

it never went to gender change.

It just skipped.

We got rid of sex and we got rid of change.

Then it's reassignment.

and now it's confirmation and it's in like puberty blockers for children

is now

gender confirmation therapy.

Wow.

So they're just you taking medication to block hormones and create hormones and change your gender is now confirming the gender you already were, even though nothing in your body says that you're that gender.

And this is what they do.

This is what they do to make it seem perfectly natural and the right thing to do.

Just like we let them get away with this on the abortion thing.

Rather than aborting a baby, I'm just choosing.

I'm just making a choice.

I'm pro-choice.

What person who is for freedom could be against choice?

And now it's not a reassignment.

It's not a change.

It's confirming what you should be and what you really were all along.

And And I think you've hit on the single greatest piece of propaganda in American history, calling

being for abortion pro-choice.

How the hell did that stick?

It's such a ridiculous argument.

You should not have allowed it.

Like, the only thing that matters is is it a human being or not, right?

Like, you wouldn't say if you were just going to go murder someone that you're pro-choice.

It doesn't make any sense.

Like, you know, if OJ was like, look, I'm just pro-choice.

I didn't like Nicole.

I chose to have her die.

Right.

No one would be like, oh, well, yeah, O.J.

is pro-choice.

Yeah, that makes makes sense.

He's a pro-choice guy.

You know, and murder is such a harsh word.

He did just choose.

He just chose to chose to use that knife in that way.

And it's like, well,

that wouldn't make sense.

And, you know, we always, if you let's think, take it out of

fully grown adults.

If you were to say a, you know, 10 minutes after birth, the baby's out there crying.

You're like, you know what?

I choose.

I choose no.

Sorry, kid.

I choose no.

We would all say that that's murder.

But 10 minutes before that, we would be like, oh, well, I don't know.

There's a tough line here.

And science says it's not murder.

It's like, what are you talking about?

Yeah.

A fully formed baby 10 minutes before birth is just tissue.

That's just tissue.

It's nothing.

It's just a choice for the mom to make.

10 minutes later, it's an actual human being.

It's completely amazing.

Ridiculous.

Completely ridiculous.

And

the phrase pro-choice

has overturned human logic for half the population.

It is just, oh, everybody knows.

I've said this to people over and over again about abortion.

It's like, if you were to say

a minute after birth, can you kill a baby?

Everybody would say no, right?

I mean, except for very few people.

There are some out there that would probably

singer and Princeton might go still keep going with that.

But generally speaking, you'd say no.

Well, what about a minute earlier?

Well, most people would say no.

I mean, the polls are something like 84, 85%.

You'd say,

absolutely not.

But every Democrat in the hierarchy says yes to that,

at least in theory.

Shouldn't limit the woman's choice at all.

Right.

And it's like, if you were to say someone a minute after birth, a baby was born, and you said, okay, well, and we can kill that, you'd call them a psychopath.

But a minute before, you'd be like, okay, it's the mainstream position of the Democratic Party.

Now,

that's just a crazy, crazy line.

And if you at and the issue here, which is, I think, the most uncomfortable thing about abortion when you talk to normal people who are just like, look, you know, I'm pro-choice.

I don't really want to do it for myself.

But, you know, at some point that minute occurs.

You say, okay, is it three months and one minute as compared to three months?

Is it six months and one minute as compared to six months?

What minute are you changing it from murder to non-murder or the other way around?

It's either it's choice to murder at one minute period at some point in that process.

Might be two, two trimesters, might be three, might be one.

Somewhere you're just saying, like, yeah, last 60 seconds ago, it was fine, but now it's murder.

And at that point, you're making the same bizarre psychopathic choice.

You could mock at birth.

It really is a strange process.

The

mind works in very strange ways.

But luckily, we have gender confirmation surgery here to sort it all out for us.

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You won't believe the difference.

I was

just going on Instagram to post some dumb update about a soda straw

and

I realized that Glenn had just posted something.

And we've been talking about this a little bit this week.

It's been a very strange week around here, I will say, on Monday's show,

about 90 seconds before we came on the air to talk to you.

Glenn, who has been at home doing the show because he's had a back issue the last couple of weeks.

And about 90 seconds before we came on the air,

you know, something happened.

We, we, you know, it was, I will say we were, I was talking in the middle of talking about like the Georgia bill right before we went on the air.

And there was some commotion in the house.

And Glenn basically ran off screen.

And he, and then the next word I got was he was not going to be in at all this week.

And it was, you know, really scary, frankly, really actually really scary.

We later found out what had happened, and Glenn has just posted this on Instagram, that

his wife's brother passed away unexpectedly, kind of,

you know, it was not something that they expected to happen, and it was very, very shocking.

And

he's just posted about that.

He plans on being back on Monday.

And,

you know, I just, I can't express to you how much I know it means to him that everyone is

helping him and his family get through this with their prayers and all the people that have reached out to help them in a really difficult time.

So thank you so much for doing that.

I know we've been able to depend on this audience for sanity for such a long time.

It's been such a luxury that I don't think most people are able to have.

And we've seen this happen to us over and over again in our tough times that the audience has always rallied around.

And we do, I sincerely, really appreciate it.

I know Glenn really appreciates it.

You can read his post up on his Instagram page.

Obviously, Glenn Beck is the thing you'd search for, and you can check it out there.

But, you know, real, real tragedy, and I'm sure he'll give you more on it as we go into next week.

And he returns on Monday to the program to go through all the craziness that is going on in the rest of the world today.

And there's plenty of it.

Plenty of it.

Some of it coming directly from the administration, actually.

During an interview last week with NPR, transgender

Rachel Levine, who is the

deputy secretary of

Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services.

and transgendered, obviously, said bills banning young people from accessing drugs like puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and transgender surgeries, such as elective double mastectomies, as well as bans against males competing in women's sports, are all really challenging to see, she said.

She said, I don't see it as a political issue at all.

I view this as a health equity issue.

It's about fairness and equality, and about specifically health equity, which is part of my portfolio.

So I don't see any risk in in terms of politicizing this issue.

Pretty amazing.

Especially when you consider that we're talking about kids as young as three and four years old making this decision.

And according to the American College of Pediatricians,

which has reported that experts on both sides of the issue pretty much agree,

80 to 95% of children with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria,

quote, accepted their biological sex by late adolescence.

Up to 95% of them who feel like they're trapped in a different gender's body don't feel that way then by the time they've gone through puberty.

That research has been really consistent over the years, too.

It's just shown the same thing over and over again.

So you're going to chance a four-year-old or an eight-year-old or a 12-year-old making that decision that affects the rest of their life

and just make that change when all evidence shows that if you just

help them through that time period, that they're going to accept their

gender as it is.

Yeah, interesting too, because this is, you'd think, okay, why is the left doing this?

They're doing their typical promotion of LGBTQ issues or whatever.

In reality, it's not that simple because what the research shows over and over and over and over again

is that the people you're talking about, the 80 to 95% who decides, you know what, I'm okay being in this type of body, most of them, the vast majority of them, turn out to be gay adults.

So they're actually using the T to crush the G and the and the L.

Which is a really interesting aspect of this.

Yeah.

It really is.

That's exactly what they're doing.

There's There's a poll that came out recently about how many transgendered people there are in the country.

And now they are claiming now there are more transgendered people in the country than there are lesbians in the country,

which seems completely against all evidence.

Yeah.

But that is what they're trying to claim is true as far as polling goes at this point.

And so it seems as if, quite directly in this case, they are encouraging children who would turn out to be gay adults to transition to another gender so they are transgendered instead of gay.

But at least they get, I guess, then they're heterosexual,

right?

That's a great move.

So,

let me take this out here for a second.

So, you are a, you're born a boy again.

Okay, yeah.

Now, the whole thing about being born this way is gone.

The whole Lady Gaga song is now like a conservative talking point because you can't be born this way if you have to get hormone treatment and surgery, right?

Like you're not, you weren't born that way, right?

You have to get all these gender confirmation surgeries to adjust the way you were born because you were not born the way you were supposed to be born, apparently.

So born this way is dead.

Take it off the album, ban it.

Make her change the name of the song.

If she performs it again,

boycott her, okay?

Born this way is dead.

But if you're born, let's just say, let's use old speak here for just a second.

Okay.

If you're born a boy and you later on say, you know what, I'm actually a girl.

You're a girl.

Okay.

And you

have the surgery to become a girl and then you like boys, you are a heterosexual girl.

You would think so, yeah, right?

A heterosexual woman

with probably a Y.

W-O-M-Y-N.

But

you're a heterosexual woman at that point, right?

And the spelling of woman is really important there.

It is.

Yeah, it really is.

It really is.

It tells you something.

It really is confusing.

And I think the issue,

the confusing aspect of it is a feature, not a bug.

The reason that it's confusing is because if you're depending on logic and what people understand to be reality,

another report I was listening to was talking about the same issue and talking about transgender athletes.

And they actually said there's no evidence that a boy who says they're a girl and says their identity is a girl and plays in girl sports has any advantage

over girls in sports.

You're just denying science at that point.

You're just denying reality.

Reality, common sense, science, everything.

We went over these things, a couple of these examples the other day, how Serena Williams lost to the 204th ranked tennis player in a blowout in the middle of her prime, 204th ranked men's tennis player.

Didn't Venus and Serena play a doubles team and get blown out as well?

Yes.

That were men.

Yeah.

They got killed.

What was the sock of the high school soccer

example?

The U.S.

women's soccer team, number one in the world, by the way,

came to Dallas to train, and they played a local Dallas 14 and 15 year old team.

I think they were 13, 14, or 14 and 15, one of the two.

And lost 5-2, which is a blowout.

A blowout in soccer.

It's basically like in football, 800-0.

That's a similar score.

Teenage boys,

like, what, maybe eighth grade, ninth grade, maybe freshmen,

blew out the U.S.

women's national soccer team.

It's just,

it's so far beyond the need for evidence.

Everyone just knows it's true.

We are so far beyond.

Well, that's why there is a WNBA.

If women could compete with men, would there be a WNBA?

No.

No.

No, there would not.

Of course there wouldn't.

They'd just be part of the NBA.

And look, you know, if this ends in there being no WNBA, at least something good came out of it.

Because at that point,

at least we had something that came out of it.

A friend of mine texted me the other day.

He said, I just turned on the women's Final Four, and the announcer says, UConn, just four of 19 on layups tonight.

On layups on layups.

If you're four of 19 on layups, I don't know.

I'm not sure what to tell you.

I'm not sure what to tell you.

That's not to say that, look, some of these female athletes are amazing.

They do incredible things.

Certainly things that I couldn't do.

It's not to say that women are worse athletes than all guys.

If you have some fat guy like me who's going to come in here and can barely run 100 yards in 14 seconds and

and probably collapses 75 yards through it yeah you're going to be able

you know the the prime like they make these dumb analogies like it's the old the old uh um the tennis matchup the famous one um back in the day in the 70s where you had uh

king and you know beating up on like an 80-year-old guy

who was a oh women can beat men look at this 80 year old guy play tennis he can't quite keep up with the world's number one it's like all right i mean,

but it is.

And by the way, Bobby Riggs had beaten, I think Billy Jing King was number two at the time.

Yeah.

And he had beaten the world's number one.

He had beaten Margaret Court just months before that.

And there is some speculation that...

The guy was, what, 63?

That Riggs

did not want to win.

Yeah, again, there was a Jing King.

Whether it's true or not, we don't know.

But again, it doesn't matter.

The point is he was far beyond his prime at the time.

Yeah.

And a lot of this he seemed to be doing for hype reasons.

You know, I mean, if there's been movies made about this now, and that's at least what they indicate that maybe this is more about hype than it was about a real competition between the two.

But I mean, still, it's this is something that you don't, there are some claims you don't even need evidence for.

Some would call them self-evident.

We used to be familiar with this concept.

You know, you can look at every piece of evidence and everyone knows.

Everyone knows men and women are built differently.

That's why they break them apart to compete in sports separately.

To take a person who is a boy and they identify, as Ellen described it famously,

gender identity is more like a feeling you have in your head.

Well, if the feeling you have in your head changes, that doesn't change the fact that you're a lot faster than the people you're competing against.

And is it such a wide, like they keep coming, they fall back on this?

Well, it's not a widespread problem.

It's okay.

Do I believe that most boys

who,

you know, who are trying to

compete against women, right?

Girls, are going to transition their gender to win a high school event?

No.

It's going to be incredibly rare that anyone would ever do that, right?

That is not what we're talking about.

What we're talking about is the fairness of the competition for the girls.

The girls are, it's unfair to them.

I'm not talking about the person who's transgendered here.

I'm talking about the other people competing, the women.

You know, the group that you used to care about?

You know, if you're on the left, the group you used to say needed rights, the group you used to say you actually gave a crap about?

Well, now you're throwing them in the trash.

We already discussed this hour how you're throwing gay people in the trash.

All of these groups that used to be favored now are in second and third and fourth and fifth place.

And they're losing all of these battles to the L's and the G's and the B's and the Ts and all the other letters that get thrown in there.

It's not a sane way to run a civilization.

You have to be able to have a broad agreement on what facts are.

And

I just,

this week has been just this eye-opening, maybe to another degree, where this idea that you can just say things you know

are not true and act as if everyone else who doesn't agree with you is insane.

We see so much of that so often.