anybody see it? I'm not the only one. Yeah, okay, I think one of you saw it too. There were, you know, normally let's say there are 25 stories in the news. I saw out of the 25 or so stories, I must have seen five or six in 25 that were not about the trans community. And I thought to myself, what's going on? I was a little confused because normally what I expect would be all 25 stories would have at least an angle or they would frame it to be about the trans community. And today I think there had to be at least five or six out of 25 that didn't have anything to do with trans. And I don't know why. Like there's no reason for it. Is there a reason to leave it out of those stories? Because we've got an Elon Musk connection because one of Elon Musk's children is trans and so through Elon Musk you connect that to like everything else from climate change to space to everything else. Then there's the Title IX story. Then there's a story about Ellen Page bravely inserting a trans character into one of her products. And I thought to myself, I don't see any trans element of the Ukraine war, which might be why it's, if you notice that the war in Ukraine started out to be, it was like it's all the headlines and it like shrunk and shrunk and shrunk. And today the news on Ukraine is going, could be the same news every day. We're trying to give them more resources. They need more weapons. Russia made some gains but the plucky Ukrainians are holding out strong. But there's nothing about trans in that whole story. And I'm thinking that's probably why it disappeared today. The story is like, ah, there's a city you never heard of. Looks like Russia is going to take a run for it. And that's it. Now imagine if it had been a city full of the trans community. Imagine if there had been only one city in Ukraine that was like the famous place where a lot of people in the trans community went to live. Well this would be a different war, wouldn't it? News would be all over that. And you know I'm mocking it but it's hard to imagine anything that's a smaller problem in the world than the trans situation. And let me be clear, if you're in the situation this might be the biggest problem for you like as an individual. But in terms of our national problems, isn't it among the smallest? If you were to make a list of all the big challenges in America, where would the trans situation be? It would be very, very far down in terms of national problems. In terms of individual problems that might be your top problem or top issue. I don't want to call it a problem.

All right. Speaking of that, do you all know a famous podcaster Ethan Klein? I guess he associates more with the left. And of course you know Dr. Jordan Peterson, who some say is associated too much, some say, with the right. Now I'm not sure that he would agree with that characterization but that's what people say about him. And there's a little dustup here where Jordan Peterson went after Ellen Page because Ellen had said in public, I guess, that she was proud that she was inserting a trans character in The Umbrella Academy or something, some movie project. And I guess Jordan Peterson said, remember when pride was a sin? And then he says Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician. Now the criminal part of course is hyperbole because it's not criminal if the justice system does not consider it a crime, which it doesn't. So you should see criminal as hyperbole and meaning that he's way far against it and maybe he thinks you should think about making it criminal. I won't read his mind. But so that was the story. And I'm not giving you any opinion on the story so it's opinion about the people who have opinions on the story. My opinion is, I like to throw this in every now and then because I can be a confusing public voice, I'm very pro-trans. Which is different from saying therefore I support everything that the trans community wants. No, no. I don't support everything that anybody wants. The left, the right, the trans community. I don't support everything that anybody wants. But I support them completely, meaning that people are people. Let people choose. Let people be free. Do people make the wrong choice? Probably. I can't think of any domain in which people don't make wrong choices. Can you? But we don't let them not make those choices in most cases. We still let them make the choice. I don't think this is different. You know, when you talk about children you're really talking about the parents' choice, right? I'm not suggesting that children make adult choices. That's really not even about trans, is it? I mean it's hard to say that's a trans issue. That's more of a parenting issue. So then why is suicide illegal? Don't ask me. You're talking about school, not parents' rights. I don't think we disagree on any of the stuff about who has the rights to do stuff. I don't think that's worth getting into. We don't disagree on any of that. We're pretty clear about who has what rights or who should have what rights. You know, I think we all want parents to have the dominant rights and all that stuff.

All right. Well the trans issue is certainly interesting but let's see what Ethan Klein said. So Jordan Peterson made this provocative statement: remember when pride was a sin? Now I don't know. I'm not going to try to interpret exactly what he meant there because he's smarter than I am. What would be dumber than trying to interpret somebody's words when the person who said it is smarter than you are? Like that you need a little bit of humility to try to imagine what somebody is thinking if they're smarter than you. And Jordan Peterson is smarter than all of us. And most of us, not you of course, not you, but he's smarter than I am. I kind of have my own take