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Slack.com slash DHQ. Welcome to the show, everybody. We begin today with a story that is so

incomprehensibly insane that even the most cynical and jaded among you will have a hard

time believing at me as the most cynical and most jaded. I found it hard to believe.

Somebody emailed the story to me. It's the first I'd heard of it. And before I clicked

the link, I thought, based on the description and the email, I thought, ah, there's

got to be more to this. There's no way. No, no way. But I clicked the link and I find out.

No, this is exactly it. The headline in the Des Moines Register, convicted of sex crimes

as a man fell in no longer deemed threat because of gender change. Translation, a man who

raped 15 children, including a one year old baby, is now getting out of prison because

he claims to be a woman. This is really happening. This is really happening in the United States

in the year 2020. So I want to get into the details of this case and then break down just

how outrageous this really is. I know it seems like there's no need to explain why it's

outrageous, but it because it's self evident, it would seem, but this case is so unjust,

so preposterous that there are levels of of lunacy. You may not notice at first. It's

like some sort of grotesque onion where you pull back one layer and there's another and

another and another. We'll talk about that in just a moment, but first, a word from a

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