Hey, y'all, it's your good friend, Sarah Silverman, you know, a friend of mine who is

says he's liberal, but very much borders on right winginess, very, very much adjacent to right

winginess. And I love him. And he texted me, you know, he'll text me here and there. And he listens

to the podcast so high. But he texted me an article yesterday with the headline Aretha Franklin's

Song Natural Woman deemed offensive to trans women. And he was like, then he wrote like,

sigh. And I clicked on the article. First of all, it was in the Daily Mail. So take that with a

gigantic grain of salt. Then I looked at it and I read it. And there were no names mentioned, no

quotes. The whole thing was attributed to some group in Norway called the Transcultural Mindfulness

Alliance. I was like, what's that? So I looked on Twitter. I looked up Transcultural Mindfulness

Alliance or whatever. And guess what? It's a parody account. And they said on it, by the time I

looked it up, all this stuff had happened. And the article, of course, came out because he had

sent it to me. So it was had happened already. And the first thing on the account said that not

one media outlet reached out to them about what they said about you make me feel like a natural

woman. Why? Because why ruin a source? You can quote with the truth. Why let the truth

muddy those things? Meaning it was picked up by the Daily Mail. It was a tweet jokingly,

a joke tweet, a parody tweet. And they didn't have parody account written on their account at that

point. But it was if you read any of the tweets, you could see it was a parody account that it was

not real. It was certainly not run by trans people, which it insists that it is. You know, I don't

know that it's a cool parody account, but it's a parody account. And the fact that none of these

media outlets even reached out to them for a quote or anything, they just took it and took it as

fact. Why? To stoke rage from the right, of course. That's the real story. They used a parody

account to represent the entire trans community. That's not journalism. That's beefing up a narrative

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