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nt. It was t-shirt weather. Beautiful day. So if you don't mind the high taxes and the crime and the drought and the forest fires that are blotting out the sun, if you don't mind that stuff it's a pretty good place to be. And if you can stay away from the tsunamis and the earthquakes but you know I know where all the faults are. I just stay away from the faults. Did you know there's a depopulatio…

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ediately adjust because we're real good at that. We adjust. Probably the single thing that makes humans the dominant species over the planet, although fungi are doing pretty well but you know humans we're having a good run, is because we adjust so well.

You know is it Bret Weinstein who says this? It's our ability to adjust that makes us special I think his new book says that. So I think we'll adjust but it's important. Watch it.

And what is behind this depopulation time bomb? Well it's a number of factors, economic, social. But CNN is also reporting that we are too fat to, that wasn't their exact headline but I think once I read this to you you'll think that the headline "too fat to" kind of fits. So CNN says that 43 percent of women and 31 percent of men have some form of sexual dysfunction with obesity and lack of exercise often being factors.

Now I do not do fat shaming because I don't think anybody chooses bad health right? I just don't think anybody does that. And I don't think people choose to be addicts. I don't think we choose to be a lot of things that it looks like we choose but we really don't. So I don't make fun of people who are in whatever situation they're in because you know if I don't have this one problem well I got my own right?

So I tend not to. And I used to be far more judgmental. I would say this is more of a recent evolution in my case. So I feel not judgmental about other people's issues because I don't see my own as being all solved. If I could solve all of my issues like everything that could be solved well then I'll talk about yours and now why don't you be like me and solve all your problems. I solved all of mine. But as long as my problems aren't all solved like your problems are fine you know. We'll talk about them but it's not about you.

Okay so we'll talk about the problem but it's not about you personally. This is a big deal. And again this is this gigantic path for somebody like a DeSantis to walk right through. How many people would like to see an American president, and the reason I say DeSantis is he makes every right move like he reads the room better than anybody's ever read the room. And well Trump read the room pretty well too but the other thing DeSantis does is he responds to it but he also takes free money.

Free money is the thing that anybody could have said but he says you know Trump used to do that all the time. If there's a thing you can say and it's just sort of obvious anybody could say it but only one person does it's like why did everybody leave this free money laying there? So the free money this gigantic is you've got this enormous health and obesity problem in this country. How about a president, how about a DeSantis says look let's not kid ourselves. You know I can do everything in the world to help this country but if you're overeating and not taking care of yourself it's not going to mean anything to you. So please let's figure out how to like get in shape. Let's figure out a system. Let's get some help. Let's put some money on it. Let's put some attention on it. Let's talk about it right? Let's not judge each other. Let's stay out of the judging business. Let's just treat it as a health problem because it is and just go from there.

Gigantic, gigantic opportunity with no disagreement if you do it right. You would always get the people who are advocates for you know people who are larger and they don't want to be mocked for their I guess lifestyle choice in some cases and that's fine but it's really not about them. Nobody's saying you have to do anything. It's not, you know there wouldn't be mandatory gym. You know I'm talking about helping people not forcing people right? The government could certainly help people. It doesn't have to force anybody to do anything.

Yes so if you have low T and you've got sexual dysfunction that can't be helping the population. It just can't be. Although I suspect these days having a kid is more choice than not.

Sean Penn got in trouble for saying that men in America are becoming quote quite feminized. And he said quote there are a lot of I think cowardly genes that lead to people surrendering their jeans meaning the jeans that they're wearing and putting on a skirt. Now he's talking about some famous celebrities I guess more than the public but what do you think about that? Do you think that's an old man that yells at the clouds ah these kids today back in my day men wore pants? Or is he on to something?

Because remember Sean is not right wing by any stretch of the imagination but he's saying something that you would more associate with somebody who was on the right, the political right. Yeah can we at least come together on that?

Now I unlike many in my audience right now I am very supportive of anybody who doesn't want to be like the mainstream in any social way whatsoever. So LGBTQ love you. Just be whatever makes you happy. You know if society can't allow you to do that then society sucks. You should let people live whatever life they want to live. So I'm in favor of the freedom for people to be who they are.

That said let me ask a question just for the women. Can I? If I could I know this is going to be tough for you guys because I have more men than women watching typically. For the men just if you could hold off for a moment. I want to ask a question just for the women watching this. So women if you don't normally comment this would be a good one to jump in. Do you think that there is a shortage of masculine men now? I don't want to use alpha and beta. You could translate that in your own mind.

Okay on Locals I get faster responses and I'm getting 90 percent yes it looks like. On YouTube I'm seeing so far only yeses. Well okay now this may be a reflection of my audience more than a reflection of the world but at least we agree.

Now don't you think that literally the low testosterone is part of it? I mean it has to be right? That is that am I being anti-science? Did I go too far? Wouldn't we see exactly what we see with no other change than lower testosterone now? What causes the lower testosterone? It's not one thing right? Some of it is diet. Some of it may be getting poor sleep because of screen time. Some of it may be the comparison problem. If you compare yourself to the people on Instagram what's that do to your testosterone? It doesn't help right?

If you're comparing yourself to the best whatever's in the world instead of just your neighbor like in the old days. I mean I could only compare myself to people I knew personally because you know there were some people on TV but it wasn't that big a deal. But today you know you're being compared to the best of the best in the whole world. How does it in theory if you're being compared to something that's better than you it should drop your testosterone is that true? Give me a fact check on that. I never know what things I believe forever are because you know you could always find out oh I believed that forever and that was just never true.

But I think that losing a competition has at least a temporary drop in testosterone. That's been proven right? Being embarrassed as opposed to being victorious I'm pretty sure you can measure a difference in testosterone. Now imagine you live in a society where boys are mostly the winners let's say 50s 60s 70s and you could extend that to wherever your politics want you to extend it. If you grew up in a world where you just felt like you were the king of the

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universe because you happen to be the right gender at the right time in history that probably would raise your testosterone wouldn't it? Because you would just walk around feeling like oh yeah I'm in charge. Now what would happen if instead you were born in the more current era and you were told that boys are the cause of all problems which isn't too far off from what's happening right now right?…

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