uff, as important as the topic is, had an unintended consequence that men don't like to hang out with women or even hire attractive women if they have an option. Because if you hire an attractive woman in the era of Me Too, even if you know you'll be fine, your co-worker might do something wrong. So you're just introducing a danger into the workplace. That's a pretty big one.

Now, will that cause men who are in a position to hire to hire fewer women? I would assume so. Certainly people say it. I've talked to lots of people who will say it right out loud. I'm not going to hire a woman because I'm just going to get sued or my staff will get sued. Somebody's going to get sued.

Now add on top of that the Paycheck Fairness Act. I know, I know, I've got a mostly conservative audience. I get it that you all believe there's no such thing as a wage gap. I get it, and I agree. As far as I know, there is no such thing as a real gender wage gap. But it is widely believed by, I don't know, two-thirds of the world. But as far as I know, there's no evidence of it. There's just bad analyses. They're comparing the wrong things. They're comparing people with less experience. They're not comparing how much people are even trying to get the CEO job, how much do they want it. You know, none of that's in any analysis.

So certainly there's, in my opinion — and I've looked into it enough to have a pretty informed opinion on this, and I have a degree in economics — I don't think there's any evidence that there's a wage gap. My experience shows it's the opposite. Meaning that if you're a woman with exactly the same qualifications as a man, you're gonna get promoted over the man every time. Like every time. Did I mention every time? Equal qualifications, woman and man in a corporate world. Which one gets promoted every time? It's the woman in 2021. Because the corporations need to have more diversity. And I'm not arguing against diversity. I kind of like it. I like diversity. I do think it adds. But it has this impact that a woman in the workplace is like the most valuable asset anybody ever had.

So we're trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist. Now imagine that you're a woman in the workplace and you look at your male co-worker and the male co-worker is making more money than you. What are you going to do? Are you going to say to yourself, oh, my co-worker took more classes, has more experience than this, has worked more years? Are you going to say that? Not once. You'll never say that. If your male co-worker is making more than you, it doesn't matter if there are reasons. You're going to sue your employer or put pressure on them to have an equal pay. Is that because you're a woman and there's something wrong with women? No. You would do the same thing as a man, right? If I were in a situation where I could get a raise by complaining about women getting overpaid, I would do it. All is fair in negotiating for salary.

Do you think your employer wouldn't try to screw you by telling you something to keep your pay low? Of course they would. That's how it works. Your employer tries to keep your pay low. You try to say what you can to get it up. If I could say that women were overpaid and you must make it fair by paying me more, I wouldn't care if that was true. I wouldn't care if I had a good basis for my argument. I'd just throw it in there, see if I get a raise.

So I feel as if this Paycheck Fairness Act has the same potential blowback as the sexual harassment stuff and making men less likely to want to work with women. So let's watch for that.

Biden says he wants to end cancer as we know it. It's within our power. Again, I like it. I like it. I don't know if you're following any of the stuff with mRNA vaccines, but apparently there's some reason to believe that we have some technologies that have a pretty high possibility of taking a big bite out of cancer. I love the fact that Biden says it's a top priority, sort of a moonshot thing. Good leadership, I'd say. I don't know what he's doing about it exactly, but I like that it's up there as a priority because I think we can maybe close it out in the next 10 years as possible.

CNN is calling Biden's lodestar — they like to put a good name on it — that we have to prove to