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Well friends, great coquel here on Standard Reason. Thank you for joining me today. I am back in the saddle again, so to speak, and I'm glad to be part of your week.

I've been in Wisconsin for three weeks, plus a little bit. I did a couple of makeup shows before I left, so you didn't miss my voice most of the time.

Most of the time I think, but was somebody else sitting here for a while while I was gone? Was Jay Warner in this? No, he wasn't, so I don't know who's here. Maybe it was just me making up for lost time or whatever.

But I am live and lively here. That means you can call. If you like 855-2439-975, that would be the number you called during the live show, which you're not listening to at live, so just make a note and you can call during that time.

Just somebody's live streaming, and then you can get me at that number. We actually have some people on board here that are waiting to chat with me, and I'm looking forward to that.

Now, I had an interesting time in Wisconsin. I posted a few things, some fishing stuff and some construction stuff or whatever on the Facebook, but I wasn't as faithful a Facebook poster as I might have been.

So my apologies to those who are trying to follow the events a little bit on Facebook, and it's just, I don't know, I just didn't get around to doing all that stuff that kept you informed.

But it was nice to have a rest. It's nice to be back on board chatting with you. I did see an article that what is one of those things like I told you so moment or whatever.

Years ago, when the whole gender issue began to present itself, and people were making claims to be a different sex or gender than their body represented, I offered a thought.

And it's parody. In other words, you kind of give an extreme example, and to show how foolish this way of looking at things was, and I think the parody I offered was, if somebody thought they were a rabbit, would we take that seriously?

I mean, if they, if they, if they had a belief about themselves that was just false, would we encourage that belief?

Would we put them in a hutch if that's what they wanted, where they wanted to live? Would he give them a straw bed and feed them carrots? And if they wanted to have like their ears surgically changed.

So they had fur attached to their ears. Their ears were longer in some way. Would we kind of go along with that? Now, I realize now, years later, when I reflect on the parody that I was doing, such a parody now would be considered radically insensitive.

Okay, and this is actually part of my concern. What Francis Schafer said long ago was what is unthinkable yesterday is thinkable today, an ordinary and commonplace tomorrow.

In other words, our sensibilities get velocitized, you know, velocitized. That's when you get in a car and you start accelerating,

and when you go from zero to 40, it feels like you're going kind of fast. But when you stay at 40 for a while, you get used to it. And then you go from 40 to 60, and then 60 seems fast by comparison, but you get used to that.

And then you go from 60 to 90, whoa, until you are traveling at 90 miles an hour for a while, and then you get used to that. And this is the psychological impact of being velocitized.

So you're actually traveling at a very dangerous speed, but it doesn't feel dangerous. And this happens with lots of things.

Okay, and now we are velocitized regarding this issue. And so if I were to give this illustration, look, if we thought you were a rabbit, would you, and you wanted a length in your ears and put fur on your body or something, we take that seriously, I think, and with the frame of mind, people have today, this would be considered incredibly insensitive.

Well, I know it would be considered that people who have mentioned or said much more mild things about this issue have been severely chastised. They've lost their jobs or whatever. I mean, what doctor apparently at Mayo Clinic right now is facing discharge because they said they're only two sexes, a doctor at Mayo.

All right, so obviously then this is a very sensitized issue. However, what I said years ago by offering the parody, which I hoped at the time would wake people up a little bit and help them to see how ridiculous this was, this is what parodies are meant to do.

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