not totally criticizing that. As much as I think that freedom of information is good for us in general and it is, this might be one of those special cases where we're better off not seeing it because I doubt that it represents anything like a widespread opinion. If it did then maybe I'd want to see it. If it's just a crazy person babbling I don't want the right-leaning news to say well this represents trans people. Yeah look at this one case of this manifesto. That's how we'll understand trans people from now on. So I don't feel like we're necessarily better off with seeing it. But I don't like the way the government's treating us.

You know what I would have respected? I would have respected saying you know what, we don't want you to see it. I actually would have been perfectly good with that because that would be honest. That would be honest. You know we've seen it. We're going to deal with it. It does tell us something we didn't know. We're not going to show it to you. Believe it or not I would be okay with that. Believe it or not. Because I'm completely okay with there is some information I know you want to know. We're going to keep it from you. We think it's in your best interest.

Now depending on who says it and what the context is I might not believe it. But in this case I would. In this one simple unique case if the FBI said you know honestly we just don't want you to see it I'd be okay with that. Now I can totally understand if people were not. I understand that as well. But I feel like its only use is political. Talk me out of it. Does seeing the manifesto have any use besides political points? I don't think so. I don't think so. And we already know what the point would be, right?

If the government kept it from you you would already know what it says or at least your working assumption would be if they kept it from me my working assumption would be it's some trans person who declared war on Christians. I wouldn't have any data to prove that but that would be my working assumption. And you know I'd be okay with that. I'll be okay with that because I wouldn't really be in the dark. I would just be okay they kept a political football off the field. Yeah that's okay.

And then there's a question of why there seems to be a, I don't know why, why are we treating a potential hate crime against Christians as different than we would treat other hate crimes? But I guess it's a little unconfirmed at this point so that's part of it.

And Tucker also asked the question why don't we ask if antidepressants were involved? Now this question has a lot more salience to me than it might to you because I've actually experienced, as most of you know, when I took some blood pressure meds that were not to my liking I was suicidal and it was just the meds. Literally the day I stopped, boom, everything was fine and everything's been fine every day since then.

And you know what's interesting is that by some other measure you might say but Scott how could you be happier now when you've had a whole bunch of bad things happen to you in the last year? And the answer is I guess I just had the right mindset. You know these allegedly bad things don't seem so bad to me. You know the upside seems so substantial to them. Like this came out, that came out okay. But over the summer when I was on the wrong meds there was nothing that could go right. I just wanted to get out of this world. I just wanted to get out of this world. And when I stopped the meds it went away.

Now it's easy for me to understand how people, and it would be different for individuals, it's easy for me to understand how a drug could make you a murderer. Because if it made you suicidal at the same time you had negative thoughts about something else, the suicidal part could make you a murderer. Because if you don't care about your own life you're not going to care about anybody else's life after you're gone.

So anyway, so we should definitely look at antidepressants. And I thought that that was super brave of Tucker to say it on a TV program which I believe is largely or used to be anyway sponsored by big pharma. Imagine how much balls it takes to say that your advertisers might be causing mass murder. That's like a lot of balls. Now I realize Tucker is in a strong situation career-wise but you've got to have balls the size of a planet to say on the very platform that's supported by big pharma money somebody says no pharma ads on Tucker. And I was wondering about that because I've never seen any. There's probably a reason for that, right? Yeah.

So I think that was a valuable service by Tucker Carlson just sort of putting these ideas out there.

Of course Madonna is going to have a concert in Nashville to raise money for trans rights. I'm not sure she's reading the room right. But can we just agree that any story about Madonna is a story about mental illness? Would you agree with that? I don't know what's happening with Madonna but my working assumption, I'm not a doctor, I'm not a doctor, I can't diagnose her from a distance, but the way she presents is with mental illness. Pretty severe. Pretty severe. You know the kind where if she were not famous and pow