Nat and Kat examine how biological males like Leah Thomas—despite hormone therapy—retain puberty advantages (lung capacity, muscle strength) in women’s sports, questioning fairness while dismissing "cheater" labels. They link California prison rapes by trans-identified male inmates (33.8% registered sex offenders in CA) to systemic risks, critiquing progressive feminism and MGTOW for misplaced blame. A Swedish study reveals sun avoidance raises mortality despite skin cancer warnings, exposing potential vitamin industry manipulation. Ultimately, they argue modern health advice often ignores natural biology’s role in well-being. [Automatically generated summary]
Hello and welcome to Misunderstood, the show for the culturally and politically misunderstood lady or gent.
We are your hosts.
I'm Nat and I'm Kat.
Today we're going to be talking about biological males entering women's spaces again, including Leah Thomas and a male inmate at a women's prison who was accused of raping a fellow inmate.
Who would have thought that would happen?
And we're going to talk about feminism and other things as well.
But first, our patented culture shock of moment of the week.
Take it away, Nat.
Yeah, so surprise, surprise, y'all.
Trans swimmer Leah Thomas does have an unfair biological advantage.
Doctors claim.
Didn't know we needed an expert to tell us that one.
I'm shocked.
Me too.
I'm shocked.
Shocked.
Who would have saw that coming?
Not me.
That's for sure.
It's not like we and many others haven't been talking about this for months and months and months.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Who wrote this article, Natasha?
Oh my gosh.
It's me.
Oh, my God.
What?
Yeah.
So guys, go to rebelnews.com and read it and buy a shirt.
But seriously, though, why come out and say this now?
Like, why are doctors all of a sudden so keen on exposing what we all already know?
I didn't think we had doctors back in.
Oh, no doctors a few months ago?
No.
Oh, my goodness.
I think so.
I didn't know this.
That's a new invention.
Like, do you think maybe though, in all seriousness, it's because like the pendulum is kind of swinging back the other way and people are a little bit fed up with some of the hypocrisy we're seeing from the trans lobby?
Maybe it had something to do with the drag kids show that took place last weekend where that was like do it.
You know what?
Because I, what I was, and this is, you know, sort of off topic, but on topic about men entering female spaces and the trickle-down effect that's having on children.
I've mentioned this before.
I'm a fan of drag as an art form.
For adults.
Yes, for adults.
And a lot of the people that perform drag are people who have been subjugated and beaten up and neglected by their parents.
And they needed that art form to build up their community and themselves.
And it's great.
Like self-esteem.
Except the pendulum has swung way too far now.
Like you just always does.
And it always does.
And that's the problem.
So now we have kids putting dollar bills down drag queens G-strings in public places and it's awful.
And this maybe, to answer your question, maybe doctors are like, hmm, maybe it was good that we didn't beat up trans people and make them feel terrible for how they feel on the inside.
And then the pendulum swang way too far.
And now a male swimmer with biologically giant lungs and long arms and strong muscles and foot-long foot-longs.
I was going to say arms and legs.
Sure you were.
Longer arms and legs.
Long arms and legs.
Okay.
Do you think partially this may be because like political correctness is such a plag on our society?
So people actually need experts to tell them it's okay to call out what's actually true.
Because that's kind of what I was thinking too.
And it just speaks to like the fact that the trans lobby is almost authoritarian because they are controlling and dictating how we speak.
Like you, that's just that's egregious.
Yeah.
As David Menzies would say.
Yeah.
Yeah.
One of the quotes from this article that you wrote is actually from someone who's a supporter of Leah Thomas.
So it's Erica Sullivan, an Olympic swimmer and staunch supporter of Thomas, even wrote an article for Newsweek expressing how proud she is of Thomas, saying, quote, she deserves, like anyone else in the sport, to be celebrated for her hard-won success, not labeled as a cheater simply because of her identity.
But oh, it's not because of her identity.
It's because of her biology.
Yeah.
And so we've talked about this before.
Thomas began transitioning in 2020 at the age of 19.
And doctors say that even though she's met the hormone replacement therapy requirements, it's not enough to reverse the effects of puberty as a male to the extent needed to the level in the playing field.
So sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry, like anyone who supports Leah, but like there is an unfair advantage.
Like it's just, it's science.
Like follow the flip in science.
And again, we've said this and I still stand by it.
Leah Thomas has every right.
She's an adult to call herself Leah to wear a female bathing suit.
I'll call her her.
Like I don't have what does it hurt me?
No, I don't want to I don't want to be rude.
No, I don't exactly.
That's not the point.
But the point is that Leah Thomas is very capable of swimming with men.
And another funny thing about this is that somewhere in this article, you wrote that, oh no, it's the next article.
But we can move into that.
Okay, we'll talk about the next one.
Let's switch to the next article.
Because so the point of the article is that U Penn swimmers, her teammates, Leah Thomas' teammates have come out and spoke about how the higher ups at UPenn have basically threatened the girls, the other swimmers, saying like, if you speak out about Leah Thomas, your career will be over.
They said your life will be over.
I don't think they meant that overtly in a physical death threat, but they basically say like, you won't work again, you won't swim again.
This is non-negotiable.
But one of the things that is funny because it says right in the headline there that she wants to, like, Leah wants to go on to the Olympic.
And it's like, you know who wasn't going to go to the Olympics?
William Thomas.
Yeah, William Thomas was nowhere near in contention for the Olympics, but giving you 500.
Yeah.
He ranked like 500 or something like that.
Yeah.
No, it's so true.
And I mean, how rich is it that the U Penn coach is a male?
He's a male coach letting a male do this to other women.
Man, I hope you don't have daughters.
And if you do, I hope that they are never faced with this sort of just horrific.
I don't even know how to describe it, like just mistreatment, I guess.
Like it's just so ridiculous that a man is taking advantage of women like this and feminists are like, oh, but praise Leah.
And it's like, excuse me, this is a man doing this.
Yeah.
Two men, technically, doing this to a team full of young women who've worked their butts off to get to where they are.
But, you know, it occurred to me that in sports, like taking advantage of athletes is not new.
True.
Like, there's literally, like, I wrote down a couple of the things here that happens in professional and college sports.
Sexual abuse, abuse of power, pushing athletes way too hard, like hurting them physically, doping, cheating, and rigging.
So it's like, are we shocked that like, cause the point of that article from the Daily Mail was that U Penn, they, like the Leah Thomas's swim mates think that the reason they keep her on is because they keep winning with Leah.
And it's like, well, obviously they want to win.
They want those like stats and titles and all that stuff.
So it's like school.
Exactly.
So it's like, do the men care about the women?
And no, no, they want to win.
So it's like, are we shocked?
No.
No, it's not shocking.
It's just very sad.
It is very sad.
And I guess Leah took to, she went on Good Morning America, y'all.
And she said, anyone who says she isn't allowed to compete as a woman is transphobic.
Full stop.
Actually, I think there's a little room for conversation here given you are like breaking records, like huge records that women have like worked toward for their whole life.
Like I just don't understand.
Like there should be room for conversation.
And if there isn't, you're not very open-minded, Leah.
No.
But I mean, when you call someone a transphobe, people expect that you're just going to shut up.
And we're not.
No.
We'll never stop.
So probably not.
It's unfortunate that two women who previously probably didn't identify as feminists now are feminists.
That's the thing.
It pushes you to the other side because you're like, wow, I actually, I can't believe in 2022 I need to preserve female spaces.
Like that to me, like 10 years ago, would have been like, female spaces.
Yeah.
I know.
It's kind of woke.
Yeah, I know.
And now it's like, oh, my God.
And it happens.
And it must be preserved.
Yes.
Yeah.
And then I guess Leah also went to ESPN.
Leah, you're making a lot of headlines these days.
Must be nice.
I've never heard of William though before.
Yeah, I never heard of William before this.
Trans women competing in women's sports does not threaten sports as a whole because trans women are a very small minority and the NCAA rules regarding trans women competing have been around for 10 plus years and we haven't seen any massive wave of trans women dominating.
Yeah, that's because there's like no trans athletes.
There's like five of you.
Like I'm sorry, Leah, but like that's just because there aren't a lot of biological males in women's sports.
That doesn't mean it's not harmful though.
And it's funny how she poses it like it's a fact.
Like it does not threaten women.
It's like, well, I wonder why Leah Thomas would say that.
She has no incentive.
Yeah, you have no incentive to say that to take that stance with no just full stop.
You're transphobic.
And then she goes on to defend herself.
She's like, well, I immediately became slower in the water after I started taking hormone replacement therapy.
It's like, it's like, okay, but like, did your lungs and heart shrink?
Like, did your hands and legs get shorter?
Like, what about those hands, Leah?
Like, they're big.
Like, I don't know.
Sorry, babe.
Sorry, babe.
It's a no.
No, it's a no for me, dog.
I, again, I'll say it again.
Just swim with the men.
No problem.
Yeah.
Like, you're wearing your bikini and swim with the dudes.
Exactly.
You, you have no problem with that.
And you obviously have no problem going in the dressing room of opposite gendered people because you do it all the time and you make other people feel uncomfortable.
So why shouldn't you feel like if it's about like, oh, Leah, the woman doesn't want to go in the men's change room, like, first of all, just get a different change room.
Like, you have a little, some sort of privacy screen.
But like, you have no problem.
Changing a towel.
Yeah.
So like it shouldn't be that much of a problem, but oh, it's because you won't win.
Yeah.
That's, I'm saying it.
Sorry, it's true.
Yeah, it was fun.
Anyway, should we talk about even more fun things?
Oh, boy, here's a, here's a doozy, but I mean, not surprising again, because we've talked about this and it's not the first incident, but here's something that's documented where a female inmate reports rape occurred in a California women's prison.
Yeah.
So this woman came out as a trans woman.
Yes.
So there was a man who was biologically male and then just decided one day that he was a she and is now in a female prison, even though he has she, he has a violent past.
And this woman is a witness to the violent assault, which left one female inmate unconscious and unable to be resuscitated by the guards.
So they had to take her to the medical center.
I think she lived, but she was beaten so badly by this biological male in a women's prison that she was unconscious.
And like, that's not a funny thing.
No, it's like, it's okay.
Like, we obviously care about like women's sports, but this is much worse.
Like, this is lives.
Like, yeah, this is someone potentially being, well, first of all, they're being sexually assaulted, which you want, like, no one wants that for anyone.
And then, secondly, there's a risk of death now, too.
So, like, I'm sorry, like, something something's got to give here, especially because apparently in California prisons, 33.8% of trans-identified male inmates are registered sex offenders.
That's like a big chunk.
Like, a big chunk.
One out of three.
Yeah.
And apparently, according to the Bureau of Prisons, almost 50% of trans-identified male inmates have been convicted of a sexual offense.
And that's compared to just 11% of the non-trans-identified male inmate population.
Like, I'm sorry, then there's something in the water here.
Like, that's weird.
And I would argue that it's not that people who identify as trans are more likely to be violent sexual offenders.
I think it's violent sex offenders are more likely to take advantage of these stupid laws.
Exactly.
Yeah.
They're going to do whatever it takes to be more comfy in prison because.
Yeah.
I know, obviously, you want to be surrounded by women that you can rape rather than men who are going to rape you, right?
Yeah.
Or kill you or whatever.
Right.
Exactly.
It's just crazy, though.
And apparently people like advocated for this biological male to be moved from a male prison to a women's one.
And these people are, I bet you, they call themselves feminists.
Like just insanity.
Yeah.
And so here's a quote from the article.
It says, disturbingly, just after the rape threats were issued, Robertson, the alleged, the alleged assailant, was quickly and quietly moved to the California Institution for Women, a lower security women's correctional facility in the state.
So instead of like, I don't know, rectifying the situation, taking off the wig and maybe putting him back in a male prison, he's going to a less safe, like a less protected lower security prison for women.
Oh, and Robertson, this trans inmate, also threatened the witnesses of the rape and said, I'm going to effing rape you all.
Oh, good.
And effing kill you or something to that effect.
That's wonderful.
So this person is legitimately suffering from gender dysphoria, you guys, and we should be very sympathetic.
Yeah, even though he's threatening to raping a woman.
And especially because like many women in prison have already experienced domestic violence and sexual abuse.
I mean, like they don't, they, like, prison is sort of sadly like a safe space for some of these people.
And I'm not like, I'm not trying to erase that they are criminals, you know, but I don't know.
I don't know their stories.
Yeah, no, but it doesn't mean that they deserve to be raped.
No, nobody deserves that.
So I just think like something's gotta, something's gotta give here because this is, and this is what we were talking about earlier with the slippery slope.
It's like, okay, great.
So now, like, how far does this have to go before people are like, okay, we gotta call the quit, call this quits.
Like, we gotta protect women.
Yeah, like, what if one of these sexual predators identifies as a child?
That's what I mean.
It's a sent to Juvie.
Like, we're erasing these very fundamental, biologically essential lines.
And we're just like, well, they feel like a child, so they should be treated like a child and put in juvenile detention centers with children who are victims of abuse themselves.
Like, cool.
Yeah, it's just, it's honestly a joke.
Like, like the way they talk about gender as if you can just flip-flop, you know?
Yeah.
Like, it's just not, it's not scientific.
It's not biblical.
And it's just, it's obviously harming women.
And it's wrong.
And it's wrong.
It's wrong.
Yeah.
So speaking of other things, let's move on.
So how feminism is driving the growing trend of anti-women subculture?
So this is an Evie article and we love Evie, but I found myself feeling slightly triggered by this article for some reason.
Yeah, well, I don't blame you.
Like I'm, I'm, like I said, like, we, we're not really feminists in like the, in the modern sense of the new, new, modern world.
Yeah, like whatever.
Like women should vote for sure.
Not NDP, though.
Yeah.
But anyway, so this article basically talks about how there's this term called men going their own way.
And yeah, and it's basically like men are pursuing a lifestyle of dealing with women as though women are enemies of all men.
That sounds healthy.
Sounds, it creeps, it creeps me out a little bit.
Yeah, it's creepy.
It's basically in the article, they describe it as they try to equate it as the same thing as women who hate men.
And, you know, Nat and I were just talking about this before we came out.
And you made an excellent point, which was like when women hate men, they don't run them over with cars and throw acid in their face and murder them.
Like it's kind of a little different.
They group these people in with like incels and voluntary celibates and PUAs, which are called pickup artists.
And like I just remember that Toronto man in 2018 who was like literally a misogynist and he drove on Young Street, you know, a car through a, he killed 11 people and injured 15 people because he hated women.
Like that's, that's what happened.
That's the first time a woman did that.
Yeah, like that's the thing.
Like, okay, sure, like a woman who hates a man is going to dye her hair blue.
I was going to say, she'll dye her hair blue and it's awful.
It's awful, but it's not quite the same.
Yeah, like she's not going to physically harm someone.
I mean, maybe.
And no one's a monolith, but I just mean like most of the time, like look, we talked about mass shootings last week.
Like these guys were kind of like weird loner dudes who hated women, I'm sure.
Like there's just all had terrible, like, well, the one had one in his life.
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Bad relationship with his mom.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Father, bad relationship with his mother and they killed his grandmother.
Right.
And it's like, obviously, extremes are bad, but I just think like this is a little different.
And I don't, like, I just don't get why these men, this group of men are just pointing fingers at women.
And it's like, well, if you have a problem, like, why don't you be part of the solution instead?
I know.
And like, why do you think women are going off the deep end and dying their hair blue?
And like, you know, a couple of weeks ago, we talked about those women who were like, the planet is going to be uninhabitable in 30 years.
Like, people shouldn't have children.
It's like, okay, that's a pretty extreme version of like feminism, ecofeminism, where you're so angry that you want to sort, like. you want to end things, but you're not, you're like ending your line.
You're ending your genetic line by not having children.
You're not.
Maybe we're better off without your line.
I don't know.
Well, yeah, I agree.
I'm like, go for it.
Don't have kids.
That's no skin off my teeth.
Yeah.
But it's different and women take it in a different direction.
Yeah.
On average.
Yeah.
No, I would agree.
One of the quotes he said, well, first of all, he said, men are disgusted with women in almost every way today.
Okay.
Disgusted?
Like, you're disgusted with us?
Like, I'd like to see their search history.
I bet I'm disgusted with them in every way.
Yeah, exactly.
So one of the quotes he said was, look around you.
Every girl, every girl acts like a dude and has to have more guy friends than her actual boyfriend.
Every girl?
Like, where is the, where's the data to back that up?
Because like, I even know women who are feminists, by the way, who do not hate men at all.
I actually don't know one woman who is on the left or the right who hates men.
Yeah, I don't.
I know they exist.
I see them on the internet, but I don't know any.
I don't know any personally.
And I, like, we both have friends on either side and friends who are not Christian as well.
And it's just funny because it's like, like, he goes on to say, there's just mutual debauchery based on meaningless sex and fickle mind games.
And in most relationships, I see the women being an overbearing swear word.
Yeah, men never do that.
Right.
Never have fickle sexual relationships and play mind games.
Or be overbearing.
Like the, the, yeah.
I'm so sick of this like assumption that it's always women who are overbearing and toxic.
Like, I'm sorry, I've known men in my life.
Yeah, you too.
Oh, you smiled at me.
You love me.
Yeah.
Like, exactly.
And it's like, like, secular men are not loving the fact that girls are like convinced that it's empowering to sleep with them, like with no strings attached and stuff like that.
Like, come on, you guys are part of the problem here, too.
And I think honestly, the reason everyone in the whole world, male or female, is in this mess is because of there's a masculinity crisis.
Like, I actually genuinely think that's-men, weak men create tough times.
Exactly.
And I just think, I think that's, and I'm not saying women aren't part of the problem, but like, even from like a biblical perspective, like according to Pew Research, Christian women in the U.S. are more religious than their male counterparts.
I think that means that they actually practice their faith.
And it's like, well, if women are taking on that role, which is like biblically, men are called to, you know, be like that.
The leader, you know, they're called to be men.
Then of course there's this weird, there's an issue in society when women feel like they have to step it up in ways that they actually aren't biblically called to.
Yeah, we actually talked about this on Andrew Says.
Well, it's coming out this week, I think.
Yeah.
Where it's like, why are women, you know, in his words, like, I forget what he said, but something about like, you know, turning to OnlyFans and to make money.
And it's like, well, maybe it's, maybe women feel like they have to be the breadwinners because men aren't stepping up to the plate.
It doesn't even have to be about money, but it's like in a biblical sense, they're not leading their family.
They're not, they're not someone exactly.
They're not providing close with their moms.
I don't know.
They don't have that moral compass that women crave.
And my pastor said this to me, and I don't, it wasn't his quote, but like a man leads.
And it's like, oh, how offensive, but a woman inspires.
And women are part of the problem because maybe we're not inspiring men to be strong, but like it's, it's almost like the chicken and the egg.
Like we both need to stand up and be like the best versions of ourselves.
We have roles to play.
We have roles to play.
So like, well, on one hand, I do think men need to stand up and lead better, but maybe they're, and like, you know, kind of goes against what we're talking about, but maybe in a way, like they're looking at women and they're like, well, what do I want to lead you for?
Like, but then women are like, well, I have no one to trust and to protect me.
So I'm just going to go and sell my pictures on OnlyFans so I can make some money and support myself in the future because who knows how long I'm going to have this body.
Like I kind of get both sides.
And it's like, it's just a sad state of affair for both of us.
And I think if everyone just, you know, just step up and be your best version of yourself.
And that doesn't mean that every woman has to be uber feminine, like who we are.
Yeah.
It doesn't mean that you can do whatever, like be the best version of yourself, but like inspire people to be better.
Yeah, no, definitely.
I found this other article because it's called the tension between biblical masculinity and toxic masculinity.
And it's just an opinion piece from Liberty University.
And he goes on to say that biblical masculinity addresses more than just clothes.
It completely dismantles the toxic masculinity that the world understands today.
Rather than being tough, stern, and rash, the biblical man should walk in love.
He should be a prime example of gentleness, patience, and self-control.
Jesus Christ is a perfect example of biblical masculinity.
He was resilient in the pursuit of God, gentle in spirit, and humble in service.
So I think the real solution and the fact that the world is a dumpster fire is because we've abandoned Christ.
And I think that we all men and women need to imitate Christ.
Yes.
And I actually literally know for a fact that that will solve all the world's problems.
It will.
Absolutely.
That's the whole, and like I, I've mentioned like I'm pretty new to the church.
So like I'm learning about Jesus and God.
And like we're all learning exactly.
Life time commitment.
Behind, but I'm catching up.
But I think for me, a big part of what I learned was like, instead of worshiping Donald Trump or AOC or any people, human being, the reason that we worship God and Jesus is because they are literally perfect.
So we always have that foundation to the bar.
Exactly.
The bar is set and it's solid.
It's carved in stone.
There's no like fudging it.
So you can say like, oh, I really, like, I was super into Donald Trump at the time, but it's like, he's just a man.
Yeah.
He's a flawed man.
And he'll disappoint you.
He will disappoint you like a human being will.
And that's okay.
We can forgive.
But like, we don't need to idolize human beings the way that we should idolize God.
No, it's a great point.
Thank you.
I made it up.
She made it up, you guys.
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Smart and pretty and feminine.
Caller.
Color.
All right.
Well, I think that's a good place to end there.
We'll move on to the next article.
Let's move on.
So this is written by a progressive.
Yeah.
It is BuzzFeed.
The article is title is misleading.
It is.
Because I was like, yeah, girl.
So the article title is how modern mainstream mainstream feminism has failed us.
And I was like, yeah.
Yeah, I thought this was going to be a really fruitful article.
Yes, I did.
It was not.
It was not.
My God, it literally, it literally just blames white men.
Yeah, for everything.
For everything.
And then the solution is, guess what, you guys?
Socialism.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Capitalism is so bad.
And that's why working really hard will never pay off because you're basically the author says you'll always be clinging to a white cis male for success at the like the detriment of a brown woman.
Okay.
That's what it said.
Yeah.
It's like, oh, okay.
That went in a different direction.
There's some really funny quotes.
There are a lot of funny quotes.
One thing I did kind of agree with, though, is how they do it.
Yeah, there's nuggets.
Like there's nuggets.
Yeah, they talked about how like politicians are like, oh, help me vote.
Just go get there and vote and give me money and I'll solve all your problems.
And I agreed with their take because it's just not true.
Like politicians just never are able to provide real examples of how just like what we were talking about.
Like you're going to put all your faith in a politician and then get disappointed when they fail you.
It's like you should have just looked to God.
Like, they just say what they're going to do and they never do it, you guys.
Like, they just want a paycheck.
Yeah, of course.
And just, yeah, it's a cushy job.
It's a cushy job.
And of course, it's important to stay politically engaged and, of course, vote for your values.
I do think that matters.
But it's not really going to, like, it's not going to change your life.
Article is like, oh my God, modern feminism or mainstream feminism has failed us, you guys.
Like, I thought it was going to solve all our problems.
It's like, well, you shouldn't have.
Yeah.
That was on you.
And it just, again, speaks to the secularism.
These people don't know where to put their hope because they don't have that biblical foundation, you know, because that's where your hope is found, you know?
So I want to read a quote because it's a doozer.
Yeah, it's a doozy.
So at first, okay, anyways, I'll just read it.
It says, I believed in work and its ability to set me free.
I believed in other boats, other faceless, nameless women, I'd rise with my tide.
So, okay, I'd like to just point out that this person literally used a quote that is on the gates of Auschwitz.
Work will set you free.
Like, maybe a different, like, as an author, maybe avoid those words in that order.
It's like, I get what you're saying.
Maybe not.
Maybe.
There's a lot of other things.
You could have written it in a, anyways.
Also, the second part of that, I believed in other boats, other faceless, nameless women.
I'd rise with my tide.
That is so anti-woman.
It's literally the bigotry of low expectations.
Yeah.
Like, you're the only one who can say, it's literally what we, what white white savior calls.
Exactly.
It's like, no one will ever be anything until I pay the way.
I will break those class ceilings.
These stupid beasts won't ever make it.
You're not that important.
You're not that important.
Yeah.
And it's like, I can, and this was the part of the story where she's like, this is the good feminism.
I was like, no, it's not.
No, you've already messed it up.
Yeah, that's, it's very problematic.
And she also talks about how like the U.S. can't possibly be a good place for women and children because it's capitalist.
Yeah, because like infants are starving and inflation and stuff like that.
It's like, well, who did y'all vote for?
And also go to any other country.
Yeah.
Like, where else would you rather, like, where would you rather go?
Yeah.
Other than like rich first world countries where you'll say democracy.
With democracy, which in capitalist societies which you will say are racist, where would you rather live where people aren't starving?
Exactly.
And like, you know, like if you vote AOC and you know, your girl that you just love so much, like she's going to make inflation worse.
Like, like these politicians, these blue politicians, like, look at Biden's America, man.
It's like inflation is at an all-time high gas prices.
The food shortages, the baby formula shortages, those are by design by the Democrats.
Like it's just like holler.
Well, it's not the first time.
And again, this is sort of a tinfoil hat theory, but a populace that is starved can't really think about rising up and congregating because they're weak and hungry.
So they have to literally focus on, oh my gosh, my baby is starving to death.
I need to find formula.
They're not busy like coming up with anti-government protests and whatnot and criticizing the government because they're like, I just need to eat.
So it's happened before.
It hasn't happened.
Hello, Mao.
It'll happen again.
Yeah.
And it's just like these people obviously don't know what capitalism is because it's always afforded people more opportunities.
That's why people call it the American dream.
That's why so many immigrants move there because they get a shot at life, like a good life that they can provide for their family and make something of themselves.
Like there are so many small business owners and small businesses in the United States and they're killing it.
Yeah.
People come from countries where there are caste systems, where you're born into a certain class and you literally can't get out of it.
And you are what you are when you were born.
And they moved to America, literally, like Nat just said, for the American dream, and they work their butts off and they send their kids to college and then their kids have better lives.
And that's your version of racism?
Yeah.
Sorry.
Now that's anti-feminist.
And for some reason, this author keeps bringing it back to its white cis males fault.
Like, first of all, what the heck does it have to do with whiteness or cisness for males?
I don't understand.
Men are literally the ones that built the trains and built the bridges and made all this technology that we utilize to put ourselves on the internet.
Color the Constitution, heller.
Written by men.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Like men are problematic in their own way.
Of course, of course.
Of course.
And so we're women.
Everyone sucks.
Yeah.
Everyone sucks, but like we need them.
Yeah, we need everyone.
We all need each other.
And I think like the biggest takeaway for me from this is just why can't these progressives see that we all want the same thing at the end of the day?
Why We Need Supplements00:05:47
I don't want people to suffer.
I don't want people to starve.
I don't like, I wish we lived in a perfect world, but guess what?
That'll be heaven.
Holler.
Like I want women to be heard and have opportunities.
It's just, I think the means to get there as a conservative are actually more fruitful for the world.
Sometimes it's painful in the short term where you have to make sacrifices, but your kids will have, like, the point is, is my children want them to have a better life, more opportunity than I had.
It doesn't mean give me stuff now so that my life is more comfortable now because you're swinging over your kids and the next generation.
But a lot of these people, like we've mentioned before, don't want kids because they literally think that the earth is on fire and that they're not going to have an inhabitable planet in 30 years.
So I understand where they're coming from.
They're like, well, if the world is on fire and it's not going to be here in 30 years, like I might as well get me some of that free bread, right?
I guess so.
But, you know, you got to stop thinking short term, y'all.
Okay.
It's troublesome.
But, you know, make sure you're taking your vitamins.
Yes.
That's something you can do to help you to help yourself.
So we're just going to talk about some health stuff real quickly and then we'll round things out for y'all.
So this article is from Evie magazine.
Vitamin D is good for you.
Here's why you shouldn't be afraid of the sun this summer.
So this is a controversial topic.
Another one of the articles, I don't think we should maybe bring it up because it's like, meh, but it was sun protection, what you need to know.
And it basically says, one quote from that article is there is no safe dose of UV.
So going back to the EV article, there are so many valuable reasons to get a little bit of sun.
Obviously, there are terrible consequences like skin cancer.
And if you're in the sun when it's super high UV, you can burn yourself.
Wear your aging, wear your sun.
Yeah, absolutely.
All of that.
But vitamin D, a lack of vitamin D, can cause a myriad of diseases.
I'll list off a few right now.
Inflammatory bowel disease.
You don't want that.
Bone loss.
You need bones.
Okay.
Chronic inflammation, depression, fatigue, and there's others.
But this Swedish study concluded that women who avoided the sun had greater mortality rates than the highest sun exposure group.
So like mortality is bad.
Yeah, it's not ideal.
No.
And it's interesting.
Yeah, it's just interesting that like there's this weird push though for people to avoid the sun.
And I kind of find that sus because is it because the vitamin industry is so lucrative?
I'm not against that industry.
I take vitamins, but I take vitamin D because you can't really get enough of it.
Right, exactly.
But it's like, why is there this push?
Like, oh, women hide from the sun.
Like, it's like, okay, yeah, I want to stay young and beautiful forever.
Thank God.
And I don't want skin cancer, obviously.
But like bone loss.
Yeah.
That's like, I think going outside is probably the best way, along with a healthy diet to get enough nutrients that you need.
And one of the other articles that we had talks about how there's, we've talked about this before on the show, but like basically there's just, there's all of our food is like deficient of vitamins, which is basically because of farming practices, actually.
So even if you eat a really, really well balanced diet full of fruits and vegetables, you're not going to get as much vitamins as you think you are because, like Nat said, because of modern farming processes and high yield farming, you're not, the, the soil is devoid of the nutrients that it used to have.
So that's why supplementation is pretty important.
Plus, oh my gosh, plus fluoride in our water.
Oh, Alex Jones was right.
Complaints with the minerals that we do end up consuming through fruits and vegetables.
We have high mercury in our foods, which can deplete zinc, which is super important to help fend off viruses.
Hello.
High fructose corn syrup, which is in pretty much everything, including baby formula.
Oh, this one, I actually, like, unrelated to this episode, I saw the ingredients list for one of the most popular brands of baby formula, and 40%, the main ingredient, is corn syrup.
Oh, my gosh.
Corn syrup.
That's what you're seeing.
You're a baby.
I want to know the long-term effects that that has on your child obesity and bone loss.
Right, which is also when you're obese, you can't absorb vitamin D as well because you need more of it and it's harder for your body to retain it.
So you're more likely to pick up viruses.
Yay!
I think, though, like the biggest thing for me from all of this is like, it's just kind of scary that we need to buy supplements in order to get enough nutrients because supplements are a privilege.
Like they're expensive.
I know you can buy cheaper ones, but also you don't know what's in them.
That's the thing.
And there's fillers and all sorts.
You don't know who's like, it's not like you can just pick up an apple and eat it and you're like, this is an apple.
I'm getting some vitamin A or whatever the heck is.
Yeah.
And you have no way of knowing how your body's actually absorbing it because like, you know, I've recently learned that if you have a liquid form of your vitamin or something along those lines, like a little thingy, you know, your body absorbs it better than when you swallow a pill.
So it's like, geez, the way you're chewing.
Like people argue that eating fruits and vegetables is better because you're the absorption starts in your mouth.
And that's true.
Except if the orange you're eating has no vitamins in it or very, very few, you'd have to eat so many just to get what you're getting out of this little pill.
But it's like, it is so unfortunate that we have to turn to like big business to get the nutrient health that we need.
We should just be getting from our food.
Food.
Yeah.
It's just, I don't know.
It's just something to think about, I think.
And I think there's a lot of research that needs to be done into the vitamin industry specifically because I find myself becoming more and more of a skeptic of anything that's being sold to me at this point.
I don't know.
They're like, stay out of the sun.
Yeah.
I remember during the peak COVID when everyone was locked in their homes and it's like, shouldn't I go outside and get some fresh air and like maybe a little vitamin D?
They're like, no, you'll die.
It's like, do you want me to die?
Yeah.
Do you want me to stay home and eat canola oil uber eats?
Think About Your Food00:02:20
But don't want me to go.
You can die from lack of sun.
Yes.
Like hollow and go crazy from lack of interaction with other human beings.
Like it's it's super sus.
It's all kind of sus and that's, I guess, maybe the point of just talk bringing this topic up to y'all because it just, I don't really know what do your own research.
Yeah, of course.
And listen to your body.
Yeah.
If you're not feeling like you have nuts, like remember we talked about Miley Cyrus and she veganism.
Yeah.
Like she was a vegan for many years and she had a moral reason to do it.
She's an animal activist, which I totally get.
Like, I don't want to eat farm processed meat, even though I do.
Yeah.
Like I, it sucks and it morally, scary, it morally weighs on me.
But if I'm not getting the nutrients I need from like a vegan diet, you'll die.
You'll feel it.
She said to her she had brain fog and she was feeling like emotionally unstable and she was bad.
Exactly.
So like you listen to your body.
I know people who are vegetarians who are thriving on a vegetarian diet because their body like literally is just made up of different processes.
Exactly.
Yeah, no, for sure.
Yeah, everyone's different.
And I just, yeah, it's just some food for thought mostly.
Yeah, I think.
Ha!
And some vitamins for thought.
Yeah.
But you should probably take vitamin D. Not that I'm a doctor.
Yeah.
And go outside, please, and go for a walk.
Get some sun.
Okay, well, I think that's the sure.
Yeah.
Right?
That's the sure.
All right.
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