Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1673 - Colin Wright
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Joe Rogan Experience #1673 - Colin Wright

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Hello, Colin.
How's it going, Joe?
Well, first of all, it's going great.
Thank you very much, first of all, for this bottle of, this is distilled honey.
Distilled mead.
Distilled mead.
Yeah.
So mead is like a beer made out of, well, kind of.
Yeah, it's like a honey wine.
So when you make rum, that's basically just like a distilled fermented sugarcane
product
and whiskey is a distilled beer.
And then if you want to have brandy, that's sort of a distilled fruit wine of
some sort.
So this is sort of a unique thing.
This is distilled mead, so straight from honey.
So I think it's one of the most crafty spirits there are because good luck replicating
all
the stuff that the bees did to make that honey and then the fermentation
process.
And then I was put in a pot still by myself.
Well, I had mead for the first time last weekend, actually.
Okay.
I was at Maynard Keenan's place in Scottsdale, Arizona.
I'm a Merkin Vineyards.
You know Maynard from Tool?
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
You know, he's actually a wine guy.
He makes wine.
What would you call that?
A...
What is a wine producer?
Viticulturist?
Enologist?
Wine maker?
Well, whatever he is, he makes mead as well.
It was interesting.
I was like, oh, this is tasty.
Like a weird sort of winish kind of thing.
Yeah, I'm sort of halfway interested in actual drinking meat itself.
I'm more into like distilling that product and making a spirit.
And for some reason, so the first time I had honey shine was in Wisconsin.
I was at a conference there and just something I never had before.
And you can actually taste like the honey and the floral notes that come
through at the very end.
And you made this?
I did.
How'd you make it?
I have a copper pot still.
And you just basically make five gallons of mead.
Wait till it's really dry.
So all the sugars have been converted to alcohols.
Pour it in the pot still.
And then there you go.
How strong is it?
It's a hundred proof.
There you go.
Whoa, that's intense.
But can you taste the honey in the flower?
Or no?
Or is it just all drink?
Sort of.
Now that you told me that, I would go, no, it's like a fucking strong turpentine
taste.
There's a review.
It's rough.
If you want to get fucked up, try this.
It's good over ice.
I'm sure it can make a good mixed drink too.
So feel free to experiment here.
Why reality's last stand.
Yeah, so that's actually, that's the name of my, my sub stack.
And that has to do with, I talk a lot about the whole sex and gender debate and
about why there are only two sexes and why sex is not a spectrum.
Stop.
Cancel this podcast.
Turn it off.
I can't do this.
Hit, hit stop.
What are you saying?
There's only two sexes?
That's the current, well, I would say it's the current consensus, but you might
not know by actually talking to a lot of academics in science right now.
Because there seems to be sort of a chilling effect that's going on for people
actually saying there are only two sexes and that it's not a spectrum.
I know you've talked a lot about like the trans women in sports debate and all
that stuff.
But I'm not sure if you know like the, the roots of where that comes.
It's not just people who are confused about if men are stronger than women.
There's like a more fundamental ideology that's sort of denying the existence
of male and female as stable biological categories.
I've had an argument with a professor about that on this very podcast who was
trying to say that we shouldn't even make the distinction between males and
females.
To which I was like, okay, if you go to a store to buy a puppy, you go to like
a pet store and you buy a puppy and you want a boy and they give you a girl.
Like what was happening there?
Is there a difference between a boy and a girl there?
There is.
So in every other animal, there's a difference between a male and a female, but
not with humans?
They do play this game where a lot of these scientists who you'll talk to, if
you look at their own research papers, they're studying fly behavior or
something.
And you'll see them talk about male and female flies.
And it's like, and how are they classifying the male and female flies or newts
or whatever they're studying?
And it's basically just by the reproductive anatomy, whether it's organized
around the production of sperm or ova.
But when they talk about humans, all of a sudden you get this like a lot of
hand waving.
Things are just so complex.
You know, there's some males have low testosterone, some females have higher
testosterone, some, you know, can't quite be sex chromosomes.
They'll try to make it like sex is some multifaceted, multifactorial property
and that it's like a statistical equation that you can just feed in some inputs
and then you can find out like where on the sex spectrum you might reside.
When in reality, that's just not the case at all.
You have the two camps of people.
You have the the sex spectrum slash the sex social constructivists.
I kind of lump them into this category of they're like they're for the
abolition of sex altogether.
Then you have the other people who are sort of the sex expansionists and they
want to they want to insist that there's just more than two sexes.
And what they all have in common is this allergy to the number two.
They need to break up binaries anywhere they see them.
It's based on queer theory, which is from like the whole critical critical
theory field in academia.
And what I find is fascinating is you you you don't hear the activists who are
arguing for there being three, four, five, six or seven sexes argue with the
people who think sex is a spectrum and that sex isn't even a real thing.
It's all of them versus people like me who are just saying that there's there
happens to be only two sexes.
But it's clearly a spectrum inside each two sexes, right?
Yeah.
So if you were to look within males and females, there are, in a sense, a
spectrum of characteristics that each sex has.
And one thing they'll point to is the existence of like an intersex individual,
which correspond to, you know, one out of every five thousand humans is born
with with genitalia that are pretty ambiguous who might not be classifiable as
either male or female.
And they'll use that and suggest that just because this individual exists
somewhere in between, therefore sexes is a spectrum that is a social construct.
You can't really draw the line anywhere specifically where we're between male
and female.
And this suggests that everyone is sort of just varying degrees of maleness and
femaleness and that like you wouldn't necessarily, Joe B, be a 100% male.
Rather, you would just be somewhere on the spectrum.
And presumably we could look at someone else who had less masculine
characteristics and they would be less male than you are.
So that's sort of where the sex spectrum tends to lead the arguments to.
But really, it's not less male.
It's just less testosterone or less what we would consider to be like manly
characteristics, right?
Yeah.
You're still dealing with someone who can impregnate a female.
Like that should be where we draw the line, right?
Like one of them has XY chromosome.
One of them has double X.
Yeah.
So there's sort of two levels that you can look at when we're referring to
biological sex and what that is.
There's sort of a population level way to look at it where you can say like,
well, what is biological sex as a concept?
And this has to do with having two different types of gametes, two different
sizes.
And the organisms that have produced sperm, the smaller gamete, they're
considered males.
Organisms that produce the larger gametes, the ova, they're considered females.
And that broadly speaking, this is how we classify a population and the
individuals within it.
But if we're going to actually try to assign a sex to flesh and blood
individuals, then you'll hear objections from people.
They'll say something like, well, if you're an adolescent male, you're not
actually producing sperm at the time.
So can we classify them as the male?
Or if you have some sort of reproductive condition where you just don't have
any, you don't produce any gametes whatsoever.
But otherwise, your sexual anatomy is perfectly intact.
Can we classify them as male or female?
So this is sort of the game that gets played along that.
And so basically when we're identifying whether or not an individual is a male
or female, we're not looking at whether they actually produce gametes in any
given moment.
It really comes down to whether or not your reproductive anatomy is sort of
organized around the production of either sperm or ova.
And that's just sort of makes the intuitive sense to what most people seem to,
it's what they think sex is when they sort of observe males and females.
It has to do with the reproductive anatomy.
What is going on today where this is such a hot topic?
Like what has happened?
I mean, what has been the shift in our culture?
Can you find a patient zero?
Was there an initial explosion that led to the domino effect?
Like what is it that's leading to such an utter fascination culture-wide about
gender and sex now?
It's like these are the big, hot topics of today.
It's gender, sex, race.
And those things seem to, I guess, also sexual orientation.
Gender, sex, race, sexual orientation.
Those three, I mean those four, it's just unprecedented in our time that these
are the most widely talked about subjects across the board with young people.
And people that are virtue signaling and people that want to be, you know, air
quotes, woke.
Like what's causing this, Colin?
Help us out.
You know, it's something I've been tracking for quite some time.
Like a bounty hunter?
Yes, exactly.
Well, I was always, so I started off in like the new atheist movement and I was
arguing against creationists and stuff and defending biological realities.
And then that movement kind of dissipated and, or at least is not nearly as
prevalent and they don't hold as much power.
There was, I think it's atheism plus.
Yeah, I mean, there's actually an interesting segue between atheism plus and
the modern social justice movement as you can see it now.
Oh yeah, for sure.
Atheism was the first movement to be infiltrated by all the language we're
hearing now of, you know, appropriation and the whole, you know, check your
privilege and all that stuff.
I remember watching atheism plus conferences online going, this is like the
craziest virtue signaling event that I've ever seen in my life because it's
people that don't just want to talk about the concept of agnostic thinking or
atheism.
They want to also attribute a bunch of social values to this movement that
makes it kind of like a religion.
Have you heard of Elevator Gate?
Yes.
With Richard Dawkins involved in that home?
Yes.
Yeah, that was sort of the thing that sparked off in a big way the rise of a
lot of social justice stuff and the fall of new atheism.
Could you explain it to people that don't know what it was about?
Yeah, it was a while ago.
Let me see if I can outline it a bit here.
So there had been some complaints at a lot of atheist conferences where there
had been people complaining of sexual harassment.
And there was one specific example.
There was a speaker.
Her name was Rebecca Watson.
She went by Skepchik.
And she was giving a talk at this conference specifically addressing sexism in
the atheist movement.
And I think she might have said that she wasn't interested in, you know, hooking
up at conferences or whatever.
And then on the way back to her hotel later that night, she went into the
elevator.
And then someone went in the elevator with her.
It was a guy.
And as they were going up in the elevator, he looked over at her and just asked
her if she'd like to come back to his room for a cup of coffee.
I was like, that's literally what he said.
But that's, you know, that's a euphemism for you want to come back and-
Netflix and chill.
Netflix and chil