Don’t Let Your Kids Have Smartphones

Episode Transcript

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The sick thing that the left likesto do is talk about a problem,
cite a problem that's a real problem, but refuse to acknowledge any of the
actual answers to it when they caninstead bludgeon you with some preferred political talking

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point. And I think a greatexample of this is when it comes to
maternal fatality rates surrounding childbirth. Now, I've seen some of this locally in
my work getting the Obria Medical Clinicsestablished, where I had seen, like

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there's a county initiative for Black MaternalHealth and there's all this extra emphasis on
minority women and their maternal health outcomes. Why because maternal mortality rates among minority
women are higher in general than amongthe white population. Now, why is

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that? I think sometimes the leftlikes to do this with different kinds of
racial demographics, where they just sortof don't dig into the reasons why,
They sort of let the statistic aboutsome disparate outcome when it comes to either
crime or this, that or theother. When it relates to race,

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they'll just leave that statistic out therewithout giving any explanation. And so the
implication as well, it's because ofracism, It's because doctors are racist to
black women. It's because healthcare professionalsor healthcare systems are racist towards Black women.
And then these healthcare systems sort ofdo this sort of self flagellating activity

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where they say, well, weneed to do better, but in a
way that's not going to compromise usas far as our liability. You know,
we haven't done it anything negligent.Oh, we need to do better
to help support African American women,we need to do better to help support
women of color, communities of color, but there's not really a desire to
dig into the root causes of it. So this is obviously this is a

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huge issue in the San Juquin Valley. We have huge percentage of women in
the San Juaquin Valley are minorities.We have a lot of communities in Fresno
where maternal mortality rates are much higherthan the national average, where fetal mortality
rates are much higher than the nationalaverage. We have huge percentages of women

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who don't get any pre needle carewhatsoever before they deliver their babies. And
so I was delighted to read areally interesting and incisive piece on this topic
written by a really great physician,obgyn and scholar. This is Monique Chirou

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Webinhorst, who's a physician. Shehad worked for under the Trump administration.
She works for an agency called usAID, which helps coordinate international foreign aid
efforts on the part of the UnitedStates government, and she herself is an
African American woman and she I gotto see her speak at for a couple

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of different Notre Dame events, andshe's kind of connected in with all the
really good people, all the reallygood pro life people at Notre Dame.
So I want to read some ofwhat she has to say because I think
she's actually diagnosing the problem in away that's divorced from the racial politics of

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it all. I think there's sucha desire on the part of the left
to get racial politics inserted into allof this that they basically they want the
answer to be something like, oh, it's because health systems are racist,
and they're actually overlooking the inconvenient answers, one of the inconvenient answers being maybe

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maternal mortality rates are high for somereason that has to do with abortion.
So doctor Webinhorst talks about how shehad worked as a physician in Kenya,
caring for a woman who had hemorrhagedand died. And then she talks about
even in the United States, whereminority women have access to advanced medical technology

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and well trained nurses, midwives,and physicians, they are particularly at risk
of passing away before, during,or after childbirth. As both a minority
woman and an OBGYN with more thanthirty years of experience caring for underserved women,
I've seen firsthand the unique challenges womenof color face during pregnancy during my
years of research and practice in internationaland domestic settings. I've also found that

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many are quick to mischaracterize maternal mortalitytrends and suggest overly politicized solutions that are
inconsistent with the facts. Okay,so that's the core of it. So
she talks about. Overall maternal mortalityrate appears to have increased over recent years.
This increase can be attributed to improvementsin tracking maternal deaths. Even so,

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the CDC's most recent data reveal thematernal mortality rate among Black women is
two point six times higher than therate for white women. Comparatively, African
American women remain at higher overall riskfor death in pregnancy than other women while
explain. When explaining this higher mortalityrate, identity politics quickly becomes a roadblock
to helping minority women survive pregnancy.Well intentioned individuals in media, health care,

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and government. I'm not sure howwell intentioned they are, but I'll
go with her more charitable interpretation here. Well intentioned individuals in media, healthcare,
and government frequently cite climate change,lack of access to abortion, and
systemic racism as cause of these tragicdeaths. So the left looks at the

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numbers of Wow, African American womenhave maternal mortality rates two point six times
higher than white women. It mustbe because of climate change or lack of
access to abortion. You know,all those Southern states limiting abortion and systemic
racism. That's why they're dying.In doing so, doctor woman Horse continues,

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they fail to deeply consider the existingdata on this important issue. The
truth is that there are at leastas many risk factors that contribute to maternal
mortality as there are misleading theories forthe disparity, each affecting different groups in
different ways. Research shows that ahigher proportion of African American women, for
example, pass away from clots intheir lungs or pregnancy related hypertension compared with

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white women, while a higher proportionof white women die from or infection compared
with Black women. So that's theother thing is that it's not all apples
to apples, that minority women areactually dying from different things than white women.
Now, hypertension would suggest, Imean, one of the things we've
seen in our Obria clinic, whichis caring for a lot of lower income

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women give their prenatal health care needs, is that is rampant obesity, rampant
obesity, and it's disproportionately I mean, we're serving a disproportionately lower income community.
We have all of these patients whoare obese, and that just risks
of things like hypertension, like gestationaldiabetes, that those become more serious risk

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factors during pregnancy. Likewise, moreHispanic women suffer from fatal hemorrhage than black
or white women. Okay, Soone of the points she's making is that
if it's just systemic races, thenpeople would be dying of more or less
the same things, and just blackwomen are getting worse care. But they're
actually kind of dying from different things, meaning there might be different factors going

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on within different communities. Maternal deathsamong minority women may also be caused by
underlying risk factors unrelated to their ethnicity. Medical studies consistently show that women of
all backgrounds who give birth at anolder age, for example, are at
higher risk of complications. Mental healthconditions are a significant contributor to maternal mortality

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or a view of data from fourteenUS states revealed that mental health conditions were
the leading cause of pregnancy related deaths. That mental health conditions were the leading
cause of pregnancy related deaths in thestate of Indiana. White women account for
nearly ninety percent of the maternal mortalitydeaths attributed to overdose. So there's all

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kinds of different things that are lumpedinto these categories of maternal deaths, including
stuff like overdose maybe due to postpartumdepression or something like or just you're overdosing
while you're pregnant or something. Despitethe wide array of conditions and behaviors responsible
for pregnancy related mortality, minority womenare led to believe that greater access to

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abortion is the solution for preventing maternaldeath. Nothing could be further from the
truth. Okay, this is like, this is the paragraph that everyone needs
to hear. In fact, aneight year study of California medicaid recipients,
Okay, so that's that's this communityright here. This is a study looking

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at medical recipients. That's a hugepercentage of the San Joaquin Valley is on
medical Okay. An eight year studyof California medicaid recipients found that in the
year following an abortion, a womanis one hundred and sixty two percent more
likely to die from all causes thanafter childbirth. Let me repeat that,

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in the year following an abortion,a woman is one hundred and sixty two
percent more likely to die from allcauses than after childbirth, So suicide in
any form of death. It alsorevealed that after abortion, mothers are one

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hundred eighty two percent more likely todie in an accident and two hundred and
fifty four percent more likely to commitsuicide. One study even noted that after
gestational age at abortion the most significantAfter gestational age at abortion, the most
significant risk factor for death associated withabortion was ethnicity. Women of color are

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two point four times as likely todie from abortion as white women, a
fact that mirrors the black, whitedisparity in childbirth mortality, So I think
the liberals need to have it oneway or the other. Is the entire
healthcare industry racist against black women,including the abortion industry? Oh No,

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I thought that abortion providers were allclean and pure as the wind driven snow,
as Russia always said. I thoughtabortion providers were, you know,
our modern day saints walking among us. No, because their patients are their
black patients are two point four timesmore likely to die than their white patients.

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These data suggest that abortion itself maybe a factor contributing to maternal mortality
among minority women. Doctor Webinhorse continues, as black women have undergone induced abortion
at a rate four times that ofwhite women for the past three decades.

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Let me repeat that black women haveabortions at four times the rate that white
women do. And this is Ithink the core of this. We are
bellyaching, you know, we arebellyaching, and I shouldn't say belly aching,

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we're legitimately. We're so upset andconcerned about why do minority women have
higher rates of maternal mortality? Whyare health outcomes for minority women so much
worse? Why? Why? Whywhy? Why? Why? Why they
need access to abortion. They alreadyhave abortions at enormously higher rates. There's

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no correlation you think between bad outcomeamong minority women and the fact that they
have four times the abortion rate ofwhite women. That African American women specifically
have abortions that four times the rateof white women. I don't know the
rate of abortions with Latino women.I think it's somewhere in between black women

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and white women. You think thatthere's no correlation there, There's no the
correlation between African American women have fourtimes the abortion rate of white women and
a maternal mortality rate that is whatis a two point six times higher than
white women. There's abortion doesn't contributeto that in any way, shape or

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form. That's what the left wouldhave you believe. If we truly doctor
woman Horse continues, if we trulywant to reduce mortality among minority mothers,
we must offer them holistic care thataffirms their dignity and protects their health.
So far, the medical community hasmade for men strides and dramatically decreasing the
number of inhospital deaths. Now wemust turn our attention beyond the liver the

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delivery room to the year before birthand the first year after birth. We
must inform women of underlying risk factorsfor adverse outcomes such as hypertension, diabetes,
and obesity before they conceive. Motherscould also benefit from education on sexual
risk avoidance and warning signs, andpregnancy dieting and exercise coaching resources to overcome

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substance abuse and increase postpartum support.And I think honestly that this is the
root of it. I think abortionis probably a contributing factor. But I've
got my best guess just based onbased on the patient population we've been helping

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through through our own experience helping thepatient population we serve it Obria. If
this country could get a hold onthe problem of rampant obesity, we would
probably see a dramatic decrease in maternalmortality. I think that the risk factors

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associated with obesity in pregnancy, Ithink, probably more than anything, contribute
to whatever whatever bad maternal health outcomesthere are. I suspect that that has
a lot to do with it.When we return how the left can see
racist bugaboos everywhere they look, exceptwhen it comes to abortion. That's next

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on the John Girardi Show, We'retalking about a great opinion piece from Newsweek
written by doctor Monique schro Webinhorse,which I really recommend to all of you.
You can find it at my Twitteraccount Twitter dot com slash Fresno Johnny
at Fresno Johnny actually posted it onMay second, so just scroll down a
little bit and you'll find the linkthere. And basically, the point she's

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making is that maternal mortality rates beinghigher among African American women is likely not
because of systemic racism, or climatechange or lack of access to abortion,
these kind of politicized reasons that aregiven for why are African American women having
worse healthcare outcomes surrounding childbirth. Whatdoctor Webinhorst is pointing out is that actually

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abortion may be a risk factor thatis contributing to maternal mortality rates, and
that the real things we should befocusing on are things like obesity, obesity,
drug overdoses, encouraging people to delaysexual activity until they're in a more
stable situation, et cetera. Sobasically, she's trying to get around the

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politics of this and like actually getto the root problem of what's going on
that's wrong with African American women,and it makes me think of this,
especially when she talks to the abortiondebate. How look, African American women
have abortions at four times the rateof white women. There's all these different
studies indicating that women are two pointsix times more likely to die in the

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year following an abortion than they arein the year following a pregnancy. All
this information surrounding, you know,more likely to commit suicide in the year
following an abortion, all this informationsurrounding abortion that is just sort of glossed
over because abortion is this favored,you know, this favored political sacrament on

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the left. And it makes methink about the way that the left is
willing to find like racist dog whistleswhere none exist, but refuse to find
anything racist about abortion whatsoever. Letme give you this example. So,

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the Milwaukee Bucks, they have theirstar player, their power forward, is
a player from Greece named Janis Antetokumpo. And Janis Antokumpo is like seven feet
tall, incredibly athletic, amazing basketballplayer. He's won an NBA title,

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He's been an MVP. He's stillhe's very very good player. He's probably
one of the five best players inthe NBA. His last name is also
really hard for Native English speakers usedto the kinds of names that we hear
in the United States of America.It's a name that takes a little getting

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used to, Okay, for abroadcaster, for a talk radio you know,
a sports radio host. You know, it's kind of difficult to say.
There were sports media people and bythe way, there is no group
of media members more liberal than sportsmedia people. There was a group of

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sports media people who started to getangry and say that it was racist because
Jannis had this nickname called His nicknamewas the Greek Freak. Okay, because
he's from Greece and he's this sevenfoot tall, unbelievably athletic you know,
seven feet tall but plays like aguard like unbelievable athletic specimen. So people

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called him the Greek Freak. Thatwas his nickname, and sometimes broadcasters would
call him that or call him byhis first name, Janis. There aren't
a lot of Yannises in the NBA, so they'd call him either the Greek
Freak or Yannis rather than say,you know, Antetokoumpo for three. You
know, the way that you know, if someone was covering Kobe Bryant,
they would say Brian for three yes. And some people thought this was race,

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that this was racist against Janni's Iguess he's from Greece, but his
family is originally from Africa, Thatthis was racist against his African heritage,
That broadcasters wouldn't put in the effortto learn how to pronounce his name correctly,
That that showed a lack of respectand ultimately racism on their part to
act as though his name was toohard to say. Now, I think

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that's a stretch. We live inAmerica Native English speakers, that's not a
name that you come across very often. It's got a lot of syllables,
more syllables than most last names havehere, the most last names have in
America. It's a difficult thing topronounce. I don't think any broadcaster was

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being racist, subtly, racist,coated, dog whistle racist, whatsoever by
saying by not pronouncing the name Antetokumpo. So you can say that, so
people on the left will say witha straight face, it's racist not to
say his full name. But whenit comes to the abortion question, and

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I know I harp on it allthe time, I know you're probably,
oh Jesus Gerardi talking about abortion again. When African American women have abortions at
four times the rate of white women, when African American babies, therefore are
aborted at four times the rate ofwhite babies, you don't see anything subtly

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racist about that. You don't seeanything subtly racist about the idea that the
abortion proponents say with a straight facethat minority women need abortion care, they
need it as if they need itmore than white women do. You don't
see anything just a little subtly racist. You don't see anything a little subtly

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racist when African American women have maternalmortality rates two point six times that of
white women and abortion rates four timesthat of white women, and people are
this much more likely to die inthe year following an abortion than they are
from childbirth, you don't see anythingjust a little coated dog whistle, because
I kind of do, frankly,and I found the attitudes of white pro

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choicers unbelievably dismissive towards poor people andtowards poor minorities. And they think that
they're being these superheroes on behalf ofminorities. But what they're basically saying,
is, well, you know,we would be fine, but you know,
minority people, they can't handle havingan unexpected child, so we should

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make sure that they have access toabortion. I've heard sentiments like that straight
from the mouths of pro choice people, very comfortably wealthy, white pro choice
people. Of course, when wereturn, why you should take your teenager's
smartphone and throw it in the garbagenext on the John Girardi Show. Yeah,

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I've long thought that a lot ofproblems that parents complain about with their
teenagers on social media could be resolvedby simply not giving their kids smartphones.
And the older I get and thecloser my own kids get to their teenage
years, and I'm not there yet. My oldest just turned nine in February,

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so you know, I've got alittle ways before I'm going to have
someone in my house demanding a smartphone. But I've sort of been perplexed my
parents complaining about how terrible it isthat different things their children have experienced online
through social media and through their smartphones, which just made me think, you're

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the parent, don't let them havea smartphone. I think giving your kid
a smartphone and by a smartphone.I mean a genuine smartphone with access to
internet, with access to social mediaapps without restrictions. And that is different

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from okay, giving your kid aflip phone that has no Internet connection,
giving your kid a smartphone where theonly apps it can access are phone and
text messages, you know, somethinglike that. What I'm saying is,
give your kid a smartphone that hasaccess to all these apps. If you

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do that, understand the kinds ofthings you're going to expose your kids to.
If you give your kid a smartphonethat's genuinely has access to the Internet,
all these things, you're basically saying, hey, kid, go ahead
and watch pornography, because it's aguarantee they're going to come across that.
And also, you know, formen any kids for a certain percentage,

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you're saying, I'm rolling the dicethat my kid is going to develop all
kinds of bad pathologies, whether itcomes to I don't know, maybe as
it comes to body image, asit comes to fashion, as it comes
to social issues, as it comesto choices they're going to make in their
life. I'm okay with my kidreceiving this education via this little glass rectangle

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that they're going to keep in theirpocket for the next for their formative years.
More and more, I'm convinced thatparents, just that nobody should have
a smartphone at least until they're eighteenand maybe beyond. So I found this

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piece written by Arturo Behar. Nowthis is like his own I think substack
or blog or something like that.And Arturo Behar was a security officer within
Facebook slash Meta for years and hehas I think a really fascinating take on

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what's happening so Facebook. Just justso you understand the structure here, Meta
is the name of sort of theover company that owns Facebook and Instagram,
where basically Meta is creating these digitalspaces that they're encouraging children to join,

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but then also not taking the necessaryprecautions to reduce incidents or correct or report
or follow up on incidents of harassmentand sexual solicitation. If you let your

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kid, especially your daughter, havea smartphone with access to apps, et
cetera, you're basically just rolling thedice that she's going to get an unsolicited
sexual advance. So here we go, Arturo, This gentleman, Arturo Behar

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was a security officer with Facebook.He left with Meta, he left the
company, came back kind of asa consultant. He talked about the story
of his own daughter who was regularlyreceiving sexually suggestive comments and propositions on Instagram,
and he had no way to effectivelyreport them to the folks at Meta.

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It wasn't being followed up on.He was concerned about this, given
that that's the stuff he had workedon when he was previously working at Facebook.
So he comes back to the companyand says, my own daughter's experiencing
this, what's going on. Arturotold his story in a Senate hearing,

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and he submitted two hundred and ninetyone pages of evidence along with his testimony
and in the set of documents thathe posted on his own website. He
wants, basically to he wants topropose these ways for the industry to do
better, and to propose ways forthe federal government to regulate social media.

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Now here's what they found, thisguy who had been a major executive at
Meta looking at security. His findingwas that thirteen percent of teenage users of
Instagram between the ages of thirteen andfifteen were not so presumably it's going to

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be more the older they get.So thirteen percent of teen users between the
ages of thirteen and fifteen on Instagramsaid that they themselves had received unwanted sexual
advances in the past week. Thirteenpercent of thirteen to fifteen year olds on

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Instagram had received unwanted sexual advances inthe last week. When you multiply that
high weekly rate by the vast numberof teens and pre teens using Instagram all
around the world, you arrive atthis shocking conclusion, which Arturo Behar reports

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Instagram hosts the largest scale sexual harassmentof teens to have ever happened. The
numbers are similar for thirteen to fifteenyear olds who have seen any violent,
bloody, or disturbing images on Instagramthirteen percent in the last week. For
seeing nudity or sexual images on Instagramthat you didn't want to see nineteen percent.

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Now Behar's piece and I think Iretweeted this. It was a tweet
by Lea Lobresco. Sorry I retweetedthis story. You can find it at
my Twitter account Twitter dot com,slash president Johnny at Fresno Johnny. One
of the interesting things about this pieceis that Behart basically says, well,

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the problem is with meta. Theydon't have metrics for measuring the numbers of
these unwanted or harassing posts and interactions. What needs to happen in order to
ensure that this stuff stop stops isthat basically, social media companies, if

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they can't measure it, they don'tthey can't address it. If they can't
measure it, they don't really viewit as a problem, or at the
very least, it's not something thatthey can actually address. So what Behart
is promoting here, both for regulatorsand for the social media industry itself,
is creating certain kinds of metrics toallow the social media companies to measure how

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often, when, and where thesekinds of harassing, unwanted sexual comments or
advances are being made. If socialmedia companies can measure it, then they
can address it, and that's sortof the app So it's both, I
think, from this guy's perspective,one a way for social media companies to

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fix the problems themselves, but twoaway for the federal government and federal regulators
to force social media companies to dosomething about the problem. And by the
way, I completely agree with theidea of social media companies doing this,
like I can already hear the libertarianssort of saying if you don't why,

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well, why does the government haveto get involved. If you all don't
like dude, don't like Facebook orInstagram, don't let your kids chose it.
Well, this is interstate commerce,guys. This is a massive international

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platform based in the United States andoperating on kids' smartphones across all fifty states.
The Constitution says, yes, Congresscan regulate commerce between the states.
This is the kind of thing thatthe government should regulate. What government can

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regulate it. If not the federalgovernment, is the government of the state
of California going to regulate it justbecause Facebook happens to have an office,
Facebook happens to be headquartered in SiliconValley. Oh okay, then those moves,
But none of the user you know, only a certain percentage of the
users live in California, the otherusers living in Texas and all these other

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place We've seen these national companies wherethey'll just change their rules for users in
one state and have them different inanother state. So no, this is
the kind of thing that the federalgovernment should be regulating. If you don't
like it, then just don't haveyour kid do it. Facebook is inviting

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kids onto the platform. They tryto make it a kid appealing environment,
and by kid, I should sayteenager appealing environment. They want teenage users,
they want teenage eyeballs, they wantthe ad revenue that comes from advertising
to teenagers. That's what they want. So they're trying to bring these teenagers

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in. And then when the teenagersget there and get sexually harassed and get
spammed with a bunch of pictures ofsomeone's penis, Facebook doesn't do anything about
it. That It doesn't do anythingabout it. This is like, you
know, starting a business like Idon't know, starting like a video game

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arcade and putt put business like aBlackbeard's or something, or I remember boomers,
any of you guys who are youngerboomers, which I guess that just
got demolished a place like that.And then when shady adults show up at
that you know, amusement park whatever, propositioning thirteen year olds, you don't

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kick them off the property. Likethat's the level. That's what Facebook is
doing here, That's what Meta isdoing here. So on the one hand,
at the macro scale, yes,I support efforts by government regulators to
mandate the measurement of these kinds ofinteractions and the regulation of these companies at

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the micro level. Though of yourfamily, throw away your kid's smartphone,
get them a flip phone. Theywon't die when we return. Joe Biden
has to relegalize marijuana every couple ofmonths because potheads won't remember. Next on

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the John Gerardi Show, the Bidenadministration is preparing It sounds like the DEA
is preparing to push through a massivepolicy change for marijuana, ending marijuana's status
as a Schedule one substance. Now, I think this is a bad idea.
Yours truly has been opposed to marijuanalegalization the whole time. I think

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medical marijuana is in many ways ascam. Even I think medical marijuana is
a scam. I think recreational marijuanais a scam. I think recreational marijuana
legalization is popular because it was soldto stay. States see it as a
way of generating revenue without having toincrease taxes on any everybody. It's voluntary

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activity that no one has to do, and the states can tax it.
So that's how state and local governmentsgot sold on it. They are desperately
hungry for revenue because state and localgovernments cannot spend in the red the way
that the federal government does, andthat's why they promoted legalization. That's why
legalization arguments were always going to prevailat the state level. They wanted the

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money. Well, it doesn't actuallydestroy the illegal black market for marijuana,
which still continues to thrive. There'ssix billion dollar industry in California. Why
because potheads like getting things cheap,and they're already used to doing things illegally,
so they just keep buying illegal marijuanarather than having to pay taxes on
more expensive marijuana. Now, thisis all coming when there's more and more

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evidence about the bad consequences of legalization, alarming and increases in psychotic episodes and
mental health crises affecting people who usemarijuana, especially children. There's all kinds
of issues with possibly leading to lifelongpsychiatric disorders. There's higher rates of children

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using marijuana, the higher rates ofdriving under the influence marijuana. Legalization is
not this great, wonderful progressive policythat has a lot of very serious,
genuine consequences, especially given that marijuanatoday is not the same marijuana your grandpa
was smoking at Woodstock when he wassmoking a dube. The toxicity levels of

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marijuana, the THHC levels are muchmore potent nowadays than they were then.
But the thing that makes me laughabout all this is the Biden administration keeps
leaking these big news stories that we'reabout to reschedule marijuana, We're about to
reschedule marijuana, and it seems likethey do it every three or four months.
My theory that I heard from ajoker on Twitter is that this is

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because pod heeads forget that Biden hasdone this, so he just needs to
remind them every couple of months sothat they'll vote for him. That'll do
it for John Girardi Show. Seeyou next time on Power Talk