se that's where the good ones are.

But here's why this is cool. Most of the current CO2 capture technologies — I don't know if you knew this, but they'll capture the CO2 and then it's just this physical stuff that they've got to put somewhere. So they put it in a big hole in the ground. Yeah, just bury it. But apparently if you take that same CO2 out of the atmosphere and stick it in this pond full of these microbes, you can put an infinite amount of CO2 into the pond because the microbes will just eat it. So that seems like a pretty good solution.

So I ask once again the people who did the 50-year predictions about climate change: Did their prediction include an Italian volcano creating a CO2-eating microbe? Probably not. So certainly the technical developments will change everything. So that's worth noting.

How many of you saw that there's a Bride magazine? Now Bride magazine of course is specifically for brides, and they put on their cover now a trans feminine activist. And that alone is not much of a story in 2023. There's not much of a story, is it, that a trans person got put on a Bride magazine? It's not unusual at all. However, what caught my attention was this specific trans feminine activist is the hairiest human being I've seen since Bigfoot. I mean, I'm talking about a seriously hairy human. And this seriously hairy human is on the cover with a bare midriff. Head on stomach is just pure hair.

Now I'm not making fun of hairy people because there are lots of hairy people. Nothing wrong with that. However, their choice to put it on the magazine read to me a little bit more like embracing and amplifying. It didn't feel exactly like they were serious about it. Does anybody have that feeling? Like it was almost tongue-in-cheek but not exactly. Honestly I can't take that seriously. It does not look serious. It looks like they had pressure. I'm just going to take a speculative guess, right? I have no inside knowledge. This is not part of the story. But I always think, what was the meeting like? You always wondered that. What was that meeting like where they talked about that?

Because I think it was something like there was maybe a trans person in the office, perhaps, and they couldn't say no, we're not going to put a trans woman on the cover, right? Don't you think that there was a back and forth? "No we can't do that." And then other people were saying, "Yes we need to show that we're a good progressive company." And young women in particular are pro-trans. Yeah, I think young women are probably the biggest supporters of the trans community. I'm guessing it feels like it would be the case. So they probably said, "Yes we want to be progressive and so we want to put a trans woman on the cover."

Now in my conspiratorial mind what I imagine is that the people who were dead set against the trans person being on the cover embraced it and went out and found the one trans person who would do the least good job of representing the company just to say they did it. And now if that's what they did — and I'm not saying they did, I'm just speculating how it might have gone — it would be hilarious and almost as if Bride magazine was mocking itself. That's how I took it. I'm going to put it in those terms. It looked like the magazine was mocking itself. What do you think?

Because I feel like they obviously knew they'd gone way over the line into territory that their readers would have a — let's say an interesting response to. Do you think that when you look at that cover with the hairiest trans person you've ever seen in your life, you think that they said to themselves, "Yeah this is good. This is just what we wanted. This is exactly the brand we want to project." That for Bride magazine, hairy biologically born males but now trans women are exactly the market we're after? I'm not believing it. I feel as if it's become parody now. And I feel as if there's at least one person at Bride — just guessing, I have no information about this — who thought it was just funny to go too far. I wonder if anybody else will do that. We'll see.

All right. I remind you that I'm pro-trans. Pro-trans. But that still makes some of the interaction funny. I think we can still do that.

I saw Brian Rommelli tweet today about the study of wolves. And there's this parasite. There's a specific parasite that usually is in cats, this Toxoplasma gondii parasite. And after 26 years worth of data on wolves, lots of wolves, they found out that if a wolf has this parasite, the wolf is at 40 — what is it? 46 times more likely to become a pack leader. So there's a parasite that changes the aggressiveness and behavior of wolves to such an extent it actually makes them leaders.

Now here's my question. And there's a reason for the mechanism. So there