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Science Is Apparently Hard for Some Scientists · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start your day.
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You're listening to The West Carol Morning Show. Thursday morning, tenth day
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of August. I'm West thanks for joining me. Following up on a story
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we just did the other day. Neil Degrass Tyson seems I guess he has
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decided that he is now all things science. Maybe he's taken the role of
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Anthony Fauci. I don't know, I am science or to question him as
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to question science, I don't know. I've never been a big fan of
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and I think it's a strange phenomenon that we have that. You know,
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there was a time where you had like Mister Wizard. You know, that
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was a show that I was all when I was a kid, and you
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watched Mister Wizard's World and he would teach kids about science. They would do
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little experiments on the show. And he's not the only one. I think
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he started regional and then it became a sort of a national thing. I
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guess Nickelodeon picked him up at some point and it became an access for kids
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didn't have a Mister Wizard in their local market because some places did. It's
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like mister Chef. We have mister Chef here. We have that, we
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have mister we have mister Chef. I think we still have a version of
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mister Chef, don't we. So there was a time when mister Wizard and
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those like him. But we'll use mister Wizard because, as I said,
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he became a access point for people like me as a kid here and if
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you grew up here in the Chattahoochee Valley area, we didn't have a mister
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Science on TV. We didn't have that. We had mister Wizard. And
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mister Wizard just did experiments. Hey, we're gonna put baking soda and a
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vinegar and a volcano and we're gonna look at that. That's what we got.
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And in those kinds of things, Hey, I'm gonna show you how
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to make a clock out of a baked potato, right, stuff like that.
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That's the kind of things that he did. And then he explained the
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science behind it, and then he went on about his day. You know,
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he got back to missus Wizard or whatever, he went home, and
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that was it. That was the end of it. We watched him and
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we learned something we maybe wanted to try and experiment at home. We made
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a mess with our little volcanoes we made and maybe or you know, we
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were responsible and we didn't make a giant mess and we made a potato clock
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or whatever we did, and then we just got on with our lives.
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Well, at some point there became this bigger phenomenon of creating these sort of
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rock stars, if you will, in the science community. And you know,
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we don't really have this in other areas of study, not that I'm
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aware of. Do we have, like a mister math, I don't know
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that we do. Maybe we should. Maybe I remember Dave Berry, the
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great columnist and author, and I know politically I don't necessarily agree with all
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of the things he writes about. Sometimes he doesn't often do politics, but
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when he does. But I've read many of his books. I own many
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of his books. Some of his books are among my favorite books in existence.
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If you haven't read Dave Berry Slept Here, a sort of history of
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the United States, you're missing out. If you've never read Dave Berry's Guide
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to Guys, you're missing out. These are great books that you should read.
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Highly recommend. You will not be disappointed. If you know anything about
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US history, you will enjoy that book, his take on American history,
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The Guide to Guy's self Explanatory. The best way I can summarize that book
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is he has a philosophy. There's women, there's men, and then there's
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guys. Men went to the moon, guys invented mooning. That's it.
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That's how you understand there's a difference between men and guys. And he wrote
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a book about guys for guys, and it's really for women and men to
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understand guys. Anyway. Dave Barry in his column used to have a segment
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where he would call it ask mister language person, and people would write in.
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You know, it was all made up, but it was supposed to
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be people writing in to ask him questions about language. That's as close as
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we got, I guess, from representing the language arts. I don't know
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of anybody that covered that, at least not on a broad spectrum. I
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don't think we really hit it from too many areas. We had, you
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know, some some you know artists, right, we had that. We
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had some famous artists that went on TV and told us about pretty little trees,
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but they didn't become the official spokespeople for all things art, right,
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we didn't ask Bob Ross what he thought about origami. That wasn't something that
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he ever felt the need to chime in on, That wasn't something that took
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on a life of its own. He painted, and then the show ended,
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and then they you know, they told you where you could buy paint
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supplies or whatever, and then they moved on. They went on to the
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next show. So again, maybe if Bob Ross were getting started today,
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if there were a Bob Ross type today, I don't know all that's on
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YouTube now. And even the people on YouTube, that's all they do is
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they tell you how to paint a picture, and then they move on,
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they go on to the next thing. I don't know many of them that
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are telling us about every other type of art. You know, if they're
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painting, they tell you about painting. You know, I don't know many
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of them that are let me tell you about origami, let me tell you
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about all the other arts, let me explain to you about everything else to
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do with art. They kind of focus on their one area of expertise.
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And I don't know why science has suddenly become something that's so different for us,
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Because we got Bill Nye, who you know, an engineer or whatever,
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not not even a scientist. But he became the science guy because he
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became sort of the next generation mister Wizard, and he was able to,
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you know, gain a different, broader audience, and a lot of cases
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his content was pumped into classrooms. It was easy to probably initially they were
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just recording it and bringing it in and rolling in the old VCR with the
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TV into the room. We had those you punch it, you pop it
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in and you hit the play button and you watch Bill and I the science
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Guy. And then I think eventually they had programming that was coming in through
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other means. I know that. You know now they probably pull it in,
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just stream it online somewhere and it's available for him to talk about science.
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But somewhere along the line, in doing interviews, people saw a need
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to ask him other questions about things he's not necessarily an expert in, which
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is really you know, if he's an engineer, all science not related to
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engineering, I guess. So then Neil de grass Tyson came along and became
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the next guy, and he certainly sounds smart when he talks. He definitely
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conveys a lot of intelligence when he talks. You know, he sounds like
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a smart guy, sounds like he talks about things from the perspective of a
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scientist, but he's an astrophysicist. That's what he is. You know,
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he's he's into making Pluto not a planet anymore and those kinds of things.
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That's that's his you know, it's a dwarf planet. That's that's sort of
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his expertise. And I did a show recently where I talked about how he
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decided it was important to jump in and talk about the gender spectrum. And
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he started talking about how, you know, you wake up some days and
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you feel eighty percent female and twenty percent male, so you put on makeup,
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and then some days you wake up and you feel eighty percent male and
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twenty percent female, so you put on a you know, a muscle shirt
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and you go out. Needless to say, that didn't go over well with
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a lot of the young people, Okay, period, because he's using these
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old school stereotypes. And it's important to note that because we're gonna come back
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to that in a second. But he uses these old school stereotypes about what
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men and women are and how it all works. And Chloe Cole, who
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herself biologically born a girl, went through the process of changing her gender very
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early on, and then realize, this is a grave mistake. I should
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have gotten better support, I should have gotten psychological counseling before I was allowed
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to do what I was allowed to do, and now realize this is a
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horrible, horrible mistake. And she's now back to living her life. So
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she went through the process of becoming a man, living as a boy,
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I guess to become a man, and then is now living her life as
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a woman. And she's very critical of the comments that were made by Neil
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de grass Tyson. Didn't appreciate anything that he had to say about it.
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And I go back to why why are we asking Neil de grass Tyson his
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comments on it? Right? Why are we getting his thoughts on it when
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it's not his area of expertise. Now he's allowed to have an opinion on
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it, certainly, But this goes back to a little bit what we're talking
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about yesterday. We have these platforms that people have, and we feel like,
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because they have a platform, we should get their thoughts on it,
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assuming that we're going to agree with their platform. That's really what it's all
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about. Both sides are guilty of this. We can't pretend that this is
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exclusive to one side. Now, the left, of course, takes it
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to a whole different level on most cases where they basically say, agree with
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us, or we'll get you. We'll tell everybody where you live, we'll
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do whatever we gotta do to end you. We'll get your house taken away,
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whatever we gotta do unless you agree with us. That's kind of their
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their idea on how this all works. So and it's you know, the
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Budweiser and isser Busch boycott. You have to factor that in for folks on
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the right. That's like the one time it seems that they got all their
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ducks in a row really at least recently and h and made some headway head
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win with that. By the way, Budweiser just side note selling off beer
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brands Anheuser Busch is sorry. I'm just gonna as a quick little tangent here,
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but as of Tuesday of this week, there was an agreement to sell
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off several of their I guess eight of their craft beer brands. Shock Top,
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Blue Point, Breckinridge, Red Hook and Highball Energy were some of the
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among the ones that were sold off and they were going to till Ray Brands,
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which is a cannabis company. So they've jumped in and taking those eight
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brands away. And that's the small percentage of what sales are for Anheuser bush
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but it's a bigger percentage now that overall Anheuser Busch is tanked a lot because
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of conservative boycotts because of the Dylan Mulvaney protest. So this is one of
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those areas where conservatives jumped in and did their things, so to speak,
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actually got organized and said we're gon we're gonna boycott this and we're gonna take
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this down because it's not right. I don't think it's just conservatives. I
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do think there's some of the folks in the middle, maybe even left of
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center certainly, folks kind of right of center, and folks in the very
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middle that certainly feel like there's a common sense element of all of this.
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It's not really being allowed to be heard or allowed to play out. But
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anyway, that's just a side note. I thought it was worth mentioning the
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because it does tie in, but this Anheuser Busch thing. So back to
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Neil de grass Tyson, who was asked his thoughts on it, and he
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comes in with this really very dated answer to this as far as well,
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I'm gonna wear makeup and that makes me more feminine today. So he's done
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another interview where he's the Michael Schermer Show, and he talked about how he
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feels that this concept that's he thinks it's weird that humans split people by male
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and female like that we break them into groups, and he says that by
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doing that, it's a failure in the evolution of our brain wiring to categorize
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things that way, and he feels like, he says, it's a little
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weird that we split people by male and female in this way. I'm imagining
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a hundred years from now looking back and saying, do you know, back
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a hundred years ago, they split boys and girls and they couldn't compete.
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And I was like, that's just gonna be kind of a little weird.
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And then Shermer, who's the host, basically referenced the fact that Neil deGrasse
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Tyson used to be a wrestler and he was a big guy, and he
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basically said, I don't think that even the best woman wrestler could have taken
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you on with your size advantage that you had, And Tyson then said,
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you're an old man on the porch and a rocking chair right now with that.
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So, now this is coming from a guy who used the I'm gonna
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put on makeup because I feel more feminine, or I'm gonna put on a
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muscle shirt before I feel because I feel more mass skill in today. So
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I thought that was an interesting thing, but he basically says, it's it's
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strange and it's weird that we break human beings into genders. Now, why
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might we have done that for I don't know, since the beginning of time
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really, since the human brain was capable of breaking people into men and women.
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Now you can go into biblical times and understand that there's a very clear
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explanation for that for those who don't want to look to the Bible to it.
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Even if you're just going to go on an evolutionary standpoint, how far
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would life have existed if it was all just one one gender, just one
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giant group, and the animals and human beings couldn't make a distinction, weren't
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smart enough to make a distinction to understand how to procreate, you know,
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they weren't able to figure it out. All of the you know, males
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tried to mate, all of the females tried to mate, and there we
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just can't figure it out. Something's wrong here. We can't make the connection.
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We don't understand why we're not producing more offspring. And at some point
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they go, well, wait a minute, Johnny the caveman and Sally the
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cave lady, they were able to do it. Let's let's scientifically take a
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look at these two and try to figure out exactly what's different. What is
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the difference between the two. That would be how science works, isn't it.
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I mean, I know Neil deGrasse Tyson is a scientist and he mainly
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deals in you know, astrophysics and things. But he should understand basic science,
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right, I mean, if he's confused why there was a need to
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break the you know, male and female for human beings, for animal husbandry,
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to understand that there is a difference, and to understand some of the
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biological differences the importance of the differences. Now, is he trying to make
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a case for why we don't understand this idea of this floating spectrum of genders.
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I don't know if anybody really fully understand. This is all a very
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new concept. Now there's people who say it's not new, that it's been
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around for a long time, but in its current form, this is a
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very new thing that a lot of people just don't still understand, and even
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the most generous trying to understand and trying to follow along, people will make
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mistakes and be criticized for it. They'll be attacked how dare you you know
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that I'm a they and I'm not a he anymore? I'm sorry, you
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know, or the infamous video that's ma'am. It's there's going to be complications
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and challenges to part of it with language, part of it, with you
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know, familiarity when it's somebody that you've known for a long time, and
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sometimes it just has to do with appearance. And it's the reality, because
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yes, we are wired that way, and we do understand that there are
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some differences and in society where we've tried to be polite and we've tried to
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say ma'am or we've tried to say sir, or we've tried to talk to
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one another in a way that's what's we were raised to do it and called
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mister or missus or miss or whatever. And I mean that's one you know
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you said miss or miss if if you didn't know you miss was intended to
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be something so that you didn't upset someone who wasn't married or was no longer
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married. I don't know why there was never that distinction for men, but
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to say that it's weird that we noticed, observed, and scientifically needed to
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understand why we break things down into this binary system of male and female.
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That's not very scientific. It's not science like, is he talking about a
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future where he believes that eventually, all you know, women athletes, biologically
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born women athletes are going to be just as strong and competitive as men.
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I don't know what his science is to base that on. I don't know
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what he's saying. Is he using data and research from two hundred years,
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three hundred years ago to say, hey, there's been a drastic change in
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women's bodies and they're closing that gap, and then in one hundred or two
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hundred years that gap and well he does he says one hundred years that gap
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is going to be closed. There's a lot of things I think they're going
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to question in a hundred years. I do think this is one of those
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things they are going to question one hundred years. They're going to question our
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patients with this. They're gonna wonder how some of us were as patient as
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we were or not as patient as we were. And I don't know which
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direction. I do think that it is going to be looked at very differently
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at a hundred years than it is now. I do. I don't know
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which way it's gonna push, but I do I do think that in a
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hundred years they're gonna look at some things that we've done and question them strongly.
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They're gonna wonder about our fights to eliminate the unborn. I think that
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that's gonna come. I think there's gonna be a question of wait, they
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did what. I don't know what's going to cause that to happen, but
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I think that there's a real possibility that at some point, maybe it's a
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thousand years from now. I'm not gonna be short sighted and say it's a
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hundred. Maybe in a thousand, maybe five hundred years from now, they're
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going to say we're happy to have children born, or maybe in that period
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of time they're gonna say we got so many people and it's a climate change.
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They're gonna look back at climate change very differently, aren't they. They're
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gonna look back at climate change and they're gonna go Did you not understand that
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it fluctuates all the time? Did you not understand that the Sun's a big
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factor in the way that climate plays out? Did you guys not understand that
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back in twenty twenty three, and you know, the twenty thirty years leading
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up to that, nineteen seventy when you said that there was going to be
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an ice age coming and those kinds of things. Did you not understand all
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that? Then? I think there's a real possibility that they'll be looking at
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after the break. Is there a right amount of time that a first date
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should last? While the new survey says, on average, a first date
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You have to almost have a strategy in place. You know, it's been
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a long time since I've had a first date, a very, very,
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very long time, and I'm happy about that. All right. A good
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indication that people are headed back to the office is that the company's Zoom.
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You know, Zoom, the company that makes it easy to work from home
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or elsewhere away from the office. They're telling their employees they need to come
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back to the all the video conferencing giant is being realistic about it, though.
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Management is asking workers to return just two weeks I'm sorry, just two
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days per week, and only if they live within fifty miles of a Zoom
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office. Otherwise, they say you can keep video conferencing in full time.
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But that could be the beginning of things. I think that's what a lot
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of companies are doing. But Zoom saying it wants employees to interact with their
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teams. But the main selling point of Zoom is that you can do everything
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by Zoom. Right. That seems to be going against the whole strategy of
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the brand, I think, But anyway, I don't know, what do
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I know? Would you rather have a big house in the suburbs or a
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smaller house with more places that you can walk to in an area that's more
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conveniently located. Pew Research has a new survey. It says fifty percent of
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Americans would prefer a bigger house that's not closer to things they can walk to,
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with forty three percent saying that they would settle for less living space and
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exchange for having stores, restaurants, and other entertainment venues nearer to their homes.
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Sixty three percent of older people prefer the space. Probably not a big
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surprise there, even if they've got a drive everywhere, with forty five percent
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of people under the age of thirty that would prefer that. More education you
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have, though, the more likely you'll want to live somewhere that is at
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So there's just a small element of theme to it. I don't know that,
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you know, I doubt they're going to be playing up the whole cannibal
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peanuts, and of the thirteen thousand, five hundred adults surveyed, those who
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ate nuts were seventeen percent less likely to fall into depression than those who did
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not. So I mean I feel like, I know it's not the PC
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thing, but it's like eating nuts helps you not have mental health problems.
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I'm not going to say the other thing, but it seems like it's setting
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I wouldn't. That's just that's in bad taste. That'll do it for this
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