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  • Buck Angel

    “Tranpa” Buck Angel stopped by The Reason We Learn today, and we had a great conversation!

    Here are the questions I asked, and he answered, with grace and humor, passion, and wisdom:

    Who is Buck Angel, and what would you like us to know about you?

    * What can you tell us about feeling like the opposite sex, if you can describe it to us, what is that like?

    * What do you think of “wrong-body” theory?

    * What do you think there was about living as a man you wanted in your life?

    * What do you think of that change from “gender dysphoria” to “gender identity?”

    * Do you have any theories about why so many kids today think they are trans?

    * What do you think is the real distribution of people whose gender dysphoria is organic?

    * In school, feeling as you did, do you think it would have been appropriate for your teachers to affirm you, or counselors to socially transition you, or help you medically transition?

    * Do you think your struggle was, in any way helpful to you?

    Let’s talk about the “affirmation” model of care…

    * Do you think the adults working in and around kids right now adequately understand what they’re teaching kids?

    * Proponents of affirmation claim they are helping the kids be “safer” in the world, that they’re saving lives (from suicide) and preventing hate. Do you agree with these claims?

    What’s your advice?

    * What would you like to say to these teachers, counselors, and therapists, most of whom probably think they’re doing good, and are well-meaning?

    * What’s the best argument in your opinion for waiting until adulthood?

    * What would you say to the kids, especially teenagers, who would probably say they feel exactly the way you did about their bodies, about feeling like they’re in the wrong body, etc?

    * What about well-meaning parents? What would you tell parents today who are struggling to love and support their children, but who don’t want them making permanent decisions about their bodies until they’re physically and emotionally more mature?

    Many thanks to Buck for coming on the show, and for the audience for participating! Please share this show with parents, teachers, counselors, and anyone else you think would benefit from hearing it!Please follow Buck on Twitter @BuckAngel, and check out his website too.Buck stuck around with me on Patreon for 30 minutes of “bonus” material for Patrons only, including questions about his background in the porn industry, and his reaction to those who blame porn for a host of different societal problems, including problems our kids are having.

    Thanks for checking it out and supporting me!



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    59 min
  • Normalizing Evil: The Rising Threat to Child Safety

    Most parents don’t receive any formal education in child development, and the educators pushing toxic ideologies in American schools are benefitting from their ignorance. As someone committed to helping parents protect their children, I asked Professor Alaric Naudé to help me explain exactly how children’s brains develop, and how they actually learn, so parents can better understand why the threat posed by critical social justice, and gender ideology is so great. In this broadcast, Alaric we discuss child development stages, what is and is not appropriate in terms of material at each stage, why respecting childhood innocence matters, and how normalizing language and behaviors that assault this innocence is evil.

    Our kids are in very real danger, cognitively, as well as emotionally, and ultimately, in many cases, physically. It is up to us to learn all we can about what they need so we can properly protect them from adults who do not have their best interests at heart.

    To that end, I hope you will listen to this show, and share it with other parents as well!

    You can follow Alaric on Twitter @AlaricNaude or on his website.



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    1 hr 39 min
  • Normalizing Evil: The Rising Threat to Child Safety

    Most parents don’t receive any formal education in child development, and the educators pushing toxic ideologies in American schools are benefitting from their ignorance. As someone committed to helping parents protect their children, I asked Professor Alaric Naudé to help me explain exactly how children’s brains develop, and how they actually learn, so parents can better understand why the threat posed by critical social justice, and gender ideology is so great. In this broadcast, Alaric we discuss child development stages, what is and is not appropriate in terms of material at each stage, why respecting childhood innocence matters, and how normalizing language and behaviors that assault this innocence is evil.

    Our kids are in very real danger, cognitively, as well as emotionally, and ultimately, in many cases, physically. It is up to us to learn all we can about what they need so we can properly protect them from adults who do not have their best interests at heart.

    To that end, I hope you will listen to this show, and share it with other parents as well!

    You can follow Alaric on Twitter @AlaricNaude or on his website.



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    1 hr 39 min
  • Woke Culture Through a Gen-X Lens

    Fellow Gen-Xer David Krae joined me for a conversation about the current cultural trends known collectively as "Woke" culture, looking at them (and "interrogating" them, as the kids today say) through the lens of our Gen-X childhoods.

    We covered TV, movies, education, parenting, working in corporate America, Hollywood, and the government, and so much more! If you’re Gen-X, or a fan of Gen-X culture, and just want to be a fly on the wall of a relatable conversation, check it out!

    David Krae is a film director, actor, producer and author. After years working on both sides of the camera as an actor and crew member on various film and television projects, in 2006 he directed the independent feature film The House, which was featured as an Official Selection of the Canadian Filmmakers' Festival.

    Find him via his website, and on Twitter @DavidKrae

    Find his historical fiction on Amazon.



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    2 hr 13 min
  • Woke Culture Through a Gen-X Lens

    Fellow Gen-Xer David Krae joined me for a conversation about the current cultural trends known collectively as "Woke" culture, looking at them (and "interrogating" them, as the kids today say) through the lens of our Gen-X childhoods.

    We covered TV, movies, education, parenting, working in corporate America, Hollywood, and the government, and so much more! If you’re Gen-X, or a fan of Gen-X culture, and just want to be a fly on the wall of a relatable conversation, check it out!

    David Krae is a film director, actor, producer and author. After years working on both sides of the camera as an actor and crew member on various film and television projects, in 2006 he directed the independent feature film The House, which was featured as an Official Selection of the Canadian Filmmakers' Festival.

    Find him via his website, and on Twitter @DavidKrae

    Find his historical fiction on Amazon.



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    2 hr 13 min
  • The Great Reset of the American Mind

    This show is essential listening/viewing if you want to better understand why Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is so popular amongst progressive/woke educators today (and ed-tech firms, and the Federal Department of Education). This show began as a collaboration between ScioSophia, Lisa Logan and I, and rapidly turned into a panel discussion featuring James Lindsay of New Discourses, and Paul Rossi of Legal Insurrection when the two joined us not long after we started!

    The “paper” we reference throughout the broadcast, which you can read for yourself because it’s publicly available, is titled Psychodata: disassembling the psychological, economic, and statistical infrastructure of ‘social-emotional learning’.

    One thing we all agreed on: this is the creepiest paper we’ve ever read about education.

    Whether you’re a parent or not, you need to understand where the few want to take the many in the future, and how they’re using children to take us there. Even we would wonder where our tinfoil hats were if we hadn’t verified the information presented in this paper ourselves. It’s legit, and the people writing and promoting these ideas, think we are the “problematic” ones for opposing them. Have a listen, and decide for yourselves.

    I welcome all comments to this one, it’s that important. Thanks as always for your support! When you become a paid subscriber, you help make this work possible.Follow me on twitter @deb_fillman



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    2 hr 8 min
  • The Great Reset of the American Mind

    This show is essential listening/viewing if you want to better understand why Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is so popular amongst progressive/woke educators today (and ed-tech firms, and the Federal Department of Education). This show began as a collaboration between ScioSophia, Lisa Logan and I, and rapidly turned into a panel discussion featuring James Lindsay of New Discourses, and Paul Rossi of Legal Insurrection when the two joined us not long after we started!

    The “paper” we reference throughout the broadcast, which you can read for yourself because it’s publicly available, is titled Psychodata: disassembling the psychological, economic, and statistical infrastructure of ‘social-emotional learning’.

    One thing we all agreed on: this is the creepiest paper we’ve ever read about education.

    Whether you’re a parent or not, you need to understand where the few want to take the many in the future, and how they’re using children to take us there. Even we would wonder where our tinfoil hats were if we hadn’t verified the information presented in this paper ourselves. It’s legit, and the people writing and promoting these ideas, think we are the “problematic” ones for opposing them. Have a listen, and decide for yourselves.

    I welcome all comments to this one, it’s that important. Thanks as always for your support! When you become a paid subscriber, you help make this work possible.Follow me on twitter @deb_fillman



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    2 hr 8 min
  • Amplifying Different Voices

    Ada Akpala was one of my first guests ever on The Reason We Learn, but it’s been a while since we’ve talked. We try to get together as often as we can just to talk about current events, historical events, and culture to compare notes. She shares what she’s seeing and hearing in the UK, and I share my American perspective. Our conversations are always spontaneous, honest, and fun!In this episode, we discuss:

    * The Queen’s Jubilee, and perceptions of the monarchy in the UK.

    * Identity markers, and how they don’t work.

    * Gender Ideology.

    * Perspectives on Gun Control, hers, mine, and our respective cultures.

    * Character education, and who’s responsible for it.

    Ada is the host of her own YouTube channel, Different Voice Initiative where she provides alternative perspectives to historical events and current events, and challenges false narratives and mainstream beliefs in relation to the two. She’s also active on Instagram and Twitter, @Ada_Akpala. I hope you’ll follow and subscribe to her there too!

    Enjoy, and as always, thank you for your support! It makes this work possible.



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    1 hr 41 min

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