You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 106 I'm your host Thomas Smith and

Thank you so much for listening today. I'm going to talk a bit about this jank

Ughar stuff I think that's how you pronounce his name, and then I've got some amazing voicemails.

I always love doing the voicemails.

They are almost always excellent.

They allow me to talk about a range of topics and get some feedback

from you guys. So it's really fun, but first let's talk about Jenck. All right, just want to tell you where I'm coming from on all this. I'm actually, I've never really been a fan of Jank. I don't really watch the channel. I know I've seen some stuff he says that I agree with. There's stuff I don't agree with.

I just, I haven't really, for whatever reason, it's not as though I've been a fan of his.

So I just want to state that because I could really take him or leave him and I don't really have a dog in the fight.

People might think, oh, since he's a progressive, then all progressives will want to maintain his reputation or lie but I that's I don't really see that as how my community works and certainly not how I intend to work. I was a huge fan of Al Franken, loved his book, was really thinking

he would eventually have a real shot at the presidency, and now no more. It's tough and it hurts to have to confront the truth about people we look up to. But it's something that I think we all need to be willing to do to finally give victims of sexual misconduct the respect they

deserve.

And furthermore, so not only that, if he was someone, if Jenck was someone I was a fan of, I would still be all about just trying to see where the evidence leads and going with it.

But not only that, he's not even someone I'm really a fan of.

So I think I, in my opinion, with all my biases or non-b biases stated there, I don't see any reason why I wouldn't be able to take an objective view at him.

But as always, that's up to you to decide.

I just thought I'd give you where I stood on that.

But why I'm really interested in this is not so much about this individual person

or trying to defend or attack him or anything, it's more about the conversation

around hashtag me too and sexual misconduct in general and trying as a society to do something really difficult which is to form a kind of a fair and more just way of dealing with not only these this in general, but different levels of misconduct,

you know, one-off-handed comment that someone apologizes for

versus, you know, basically Weinstein is always going to be the

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