Speaker 1: Let's go next to Hannah from Georgia. Hannah from Georgia. Welcome to
the David Pakman Show. What's on your mind today?
Speaker 3: Hi. Can you hear me? Speaker 1: Yes, I can.
Speaker 3: Hi. So I did have I did have two questions. One was, if Trump or especially to
Sanders, were to be president, do you think they'd be able to use like federal powers to
oversee states where we are seeing them implement some kind of protections like trans safe states,
protecting abortion rights and like how that I forget which state it was. But the governor
used his powers to basically guarantee increased funding for schools for the next
400 years. Do you think they'd be able to overstep those kind of protections?
Speaker 1: Sadly, in some areas they would. There are a bunch of state based
institutions and programs that depend heavily on federal funding and federal rules. And I think
that unfortunately, because they're using this as a as a scapegoat, I think school athletics,
particularly at the college level, may be affected by anti-trans decrees from
a potential President Trump or President DeSantis. So I think that's the bad news,
Hannah. I think the good news is that in a lot of areas, they're either going to be unable legally
or it will just be seen as a huge overreach for a President Trump or President DeSantis to try
to override states with federal legislation. But I think I think we shouldn't be naive. We
should understand the risks with the Supreme Court if Trump or DeSantis win. And we should
understand that at least in some areas, including potentially with athletics and in some other ways,
particularly medical programs that depend on depend on federal funding, educational programs,
they may be able to, from the federal level, override some of the great protections and
programs that states are putting into play. So it's yet another reason why we need to make
sure neither of those lunatics becomes president. Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely agree. I also had a
another question if you have time. Speaker 1: Sure, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Um, so I'm non-binary. I was born female and the like. I
basically had the privilege of being able to live a non-binary trans existence for a lot of my life,
and I didn't realize it until later in life and hearing other people's stories because
I was always playing coed sports where I was one, if not two of the females on the team.
Stuff like that. And like I feel like I had that privilege because I was born female and.
More, you know, lean more towards masculine. But I feel like a lot of the politics around
trans kids in sports is, like so focused on trans women. Yes. Because they just, like,
feel like they have to make, you know, cis women look weak and like they're going to be, you know,
victims of trans women when like, no one ever blinked an eye in my entire life of me playing
with guys and I'm like five feet tall. Speaker 1: I've talked about this before.
The issue of trans sports is really only an issue of trans women in women's sports, as
you're pointing out. Nobody's concerned with the other direction. And much of that has to do with
if muscle mass and having gone through male puberty confers an advantage. The quote worse that
will happen from people born biologically female playing in men's leagues is they might just not
do well. So it's not I think what you're saying, Hannah, is it's not seen as a threat. That is that
lends itself to scapegoating in the way that trans women in women's sports does. Do I understand
what you're saying correctly? Yeah. Yeah. No, you're 100% right. And we've talked about this,
and I would even go further. This is only an issue with regard to trans women in women's sports,
in some sports, not in every sport. Now, that being said, I do think that progressives should
engage with the facts about what advantages are or aren't conferred in any particular sport. If if
the. I don't pretend to be an expert on this, and I know every time I bring this up, someone writes
me and goes, David, you're lending credibility. I'm not lending credibility to anything.
All I'm saying is this should be explored as empirically as possible. And just because
we're not going to discriminate against trans and non-binary people under the law and because we're
not going to mistreat people and people should be allowed to use whatever bathroom they want,
all of that can be true. And also, if it's true that we have things to figure out with regard to
trans women and women's sports, progressives should embrace figuring it out with all the
facts rather than just pretending there's nothing to figure out. That's my preference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. And also, I know it's anecdotal, but a common comment that I
got growing up was like because I grew up as a cisgender woman. Like I when I was good at sports,
when I was dominating, playing, whether it was with male or female, you know,
competitors, it was always like if I, if I was winning against women, it was that I was built
like a man and that's why I was winning. And if I was with winning with the guys, it was that. Well,
she's different from other women. Speaker 1: Well, like, they.
Speaker 2: Were taking it easy on, like. Speaker 1: Anything or. Oh, I see. Oh,
I see what you're saying. Okay. Was there also a She's doing well
because the guys are taking it easy on her. Speaker 3: Yeah, of course. And then also,
if the guys, like, retaliated because their masculinity was hurt.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 3: Then, like, I just, like,
inherently felt the need to just not give them the reaction and like, the satisfaction of hurting me,
even though, like, I did get hurt a lot. Speaker 1: Interesting. Interesting. Well, listen,
Hannah, I appreciate the call. All points well made. And I hope you hope to hear from you again.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Thank you for having me. Speaker 1: All right. There is Hannah from
Georgia. Let's go to Ramiro from Indiana. Welcome to the program, Ramiro. What's going on today?
Ramiro, please accept my invitation.
Romina, you're on the air. Yes. Welcome. Speaker 2: Hey, I had a quick question on
your finance channel. Are you going to do anything with that in the future or.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. Here's what's going on, Ramiro. One of the things that I like
to do is I like to test things out and see what the market is. And that applies to the
finance channel, which I think has 12 or 15,000 subscribers. This applies to the Spanish channel,
which I think has 4000 subscribers. But as we approach another election season,
I also it's important to make sure I'm not doing too much and spreading myself too thin. So we have
pause the finance channel and will be pausing the Spanish channel. Why? I just don't think
they're successful enough to justify continuing to pour time, energy and resources into them.
When our main channel is growing by 40 or 50,000 subscribers a month and is really the bread and
butter where we're building an audience and doing all those things. I want to make sure I can focus
on the areas where we're going to do the most. And so I'm just not sure whether we overstated maybe
what the markets might be for that sort of content or I don't know what we're going to do with it. I
do think we're pausing into the election season. Speaker 2: Okay. I understand. I just it's I think
it's pretty invaluable content. And I've certainly been a subscriber since day one.
Speaker 1: So I really appreciate that. You know, one of the one of the things is there are so many
things that we can do, like just to give you an idea of what we have on our plate. There's
the David Parkman Show with all of the things that go with that. The guests, the website,
YouTube, tic tac threads, all that stuff. We've got live events that people want me to do.
Speakers Bureau wants to talk to me about getting me involved in more public speaking. Not like
live shows, but public speaking. We've got the children's book and now the possibility of a
series which I've ordered. I appreciate that. Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to work on an adult book, which is still very far off. So I'm not,
you know, not not even much to say about that. Spanish channel finance channel. We've got
now we're part of the Tick Tock Creativity program data we're publishing to Snapchat.
People want me to blurb their book. It's crazy. Now, I'm not saying that you, Ramiro,
so that you feel bad for me. It's amazing to have all these opportunities, but the important
thing is I can't possibly do all of them. So we just have to kind of pick and choose, you know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just didn't see any announcement regarding that,
so I was just curious if it's on pause and down the road we get something that'd be awesome. And
if not, I understand. I love it. Speaker 1: Ramiro, thank you so
much for the inquiry. Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right. There goes Ramiro from Indiana. Great to hear from him.