All right people it is August 1st 2024 I am Dave Rubin but I am officially off the grid for August as you know but we did tape a whole bunch of stuff for you this month

That way the algorithm doesn't kick us out and I don't become completely and utterly irrelevant till I come back in

September and I'm very excited to have this chat with my good friend Michael

Sherman who of course is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and the executive director of Skeptic Society

and a Californian I'm not exactly sure why I'll have to talk to him about that.

Michael it's good to see it.

Maybe I should follow

Elon to Texas. Maybe you should follow Elon to Texas but you are

fighting it out. You were in Los Angeles you've moved a little bit outside of the

city these days but you but you're still fighting in California.

Yeah, it's hard to leave Santa Barbara. It's pretty nice here, but we just found out this morning

The local public school here had one of their teachers arrested yesterday for

Having planted a camera in the girls locker room or bathroom or something that's like really and then actually

he was arrested two days ago and then we found this morning he's out on bail already

of course right I would say unbelievable but of course is actually the thing that we're supposed to say as it retains all that.

And of course, as you know, also, Gavin Newsom signed SB 1-955 into law, and now the state can quite literally hide from the parent, not can, will quite

literally hide from the parent whether that child is being called by another name or another gender or other

pronouns at school. I mean it's it's really bananas stuff.

Totally. Well here's an argument for a school choice then, you know just just leave

those schools that do that practice that sort of thing public

schools it is of course it's not fair to you know parents that can't afford that and a lot of

public private schools are expensive so you know ultimately the solution is you just can't have laws like

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