You beautiful bastards. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news.

I'm just going to be clear right at the top here. There might be several points in today's show

where you're like, is Phil high? But no, I'm not. I am just currently dealing with a 100, 20,

303 degree fever. Rather than take the time off to rest and to recover, I work through it to have a false sense of superiority over others.

With that said, I'm just going to hit you with that chimp, and we're going to jump into the news.

This is a news show.

Louisiana may be about to become the first state to start chopping people's balls off as a punishment.

Right, and that's thanks to a new controversial bill sitting on the governor's desk as we speak.

Because not only Louisiana, but also Texas, Florida, and California currently permit chemical castration as a punishment for sexual crimes against children.

Which, you know, involves medication that stops the production of sex hormones to lower a person's libido.

The key thing there being, it is generally impermanent. Of course, surgical castration entails lopping off your testicles or yanking out your ovaries, which is most certainly permanent. And that's what Louisiana lawmakers want to provide as an option for judges doing sentencing. But I'm also throwing in a few caveats to make it a teeny bit less extreme. Like, for example, limiting the punishment to

cases where the victim is under the age of 13, requiring a court-appointed medical expert to agree

that the offender is fit for a surgical procedure, and requiring that the procedure be performed while

they're still in detention. Also, if one of these convicted people, they refused to let the state of

Louisiana near their balls. It's not like men in black suits are going to hold you down and whip out the

bonesaw. Instead, what would happen is you would face non-compliance charges that carry up to five extra

years in prison. The key thing is that this bill passed both the House and the Senate overwhelmingly,

with most opposition coming from Democrats. Though notably, the bill itself was actually sponsored by a

Democratic senator. With it now landing in front of Governor Jeff Landry, who came into office in January as a tough on crime Republican. As far as the arguments for and against here, the obvious

point in favor is that this would theoretically prevent offenders from reoffending. Also, there's the

aspect of retribution, which one lawmaker put forward. I know the surgical castration seems excessive.

I view the same for the, for the five-year-old, for the 10-year-old, for the 12-year-old.

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