Robby Starbuck
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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You couldn't be more right, though, that I think an overarching theme of what we need people to understand is that we need a much smaller government. Our government is way too large. It does way too many things. A good example of this is NASA, right? So NASA at one point served a purpose, and I think it did some great things.
However, inevitably what happens is as you get further down the lane, it bloats into this big – entity like the DMV, right? And everything is slower, their skills diminish. And you see today, you know, the reality is SpaceX can do what NASA can't do. They can do it for 20 times cheaper, 20 times faster.
And maybe that's actually even underselling SpaceX's capabilities because that was the case in 2008. They were already able to do things 20 times cheaper, 20 times faster. So today it's vastly beyond that, right? And so If you look at every agency of our government, there is a private way to do it that would be more efficient and would be done cheaper.
And that's simply just the reality of it, you know, with maybe a few exceptions like defense, where you really want to have a cohesive national policy and have it dictated by the commander in chief. The vast majority of these things, though, could be done with much more efficiency outside of government.
I don't think they've ever actually watched any space launches over there. I think that's something a producer told them in their ear. They don't seem like big space fans to me. I, however, am a gigantic nerd. So I've watched way too many of them, more than I'd like to admit. And the truth is NASA is not able to really functionally do almost anything SpaceX does. They lost the ability to do that.
a little over a decade ago. Actually, a little more than that now. I feel like I'm getting older. It's more like 15 years ago. They really lost a lot of these capabilities. And they just simply didn't advance with a lot of the technology. They serve primary functions that are very important in space. But I think...
We did a service to the American people and saved them a lot of money by shifting how we spent our money when it came to launches. And it's simply, I mean, if you go back in time and you say, NASA, we want to make you able to do everything SpaceX does, we would have spent probably 200 times the amount we spent with SpaceX to do the very same thing.
And now, you know, I always relate this back to people's normal lives, like the DMV. How good does it sound to have DMV workers actually be culpable for their behavior, right? I mean, like if you were able to actually take a DMV employee's behavior to their manager and say, hey, they did this for the last two hours.
I mean, maybe I've just had terrible experiences at the DMV my whole life, but I don't think I've ever met a nice person who worked there. They were always rude, always took forever. It was always a terrible experience. And so it sounds nice to have it be a private business where they actually have a boss to answer to and they can actually lose their job for being rude and inefficient.
Bukele is a good example of this in El Salvador. He's taken broad authority of defense and of that monopoly of violence, and he's used it to make people safer who are actual law-abiding good people.
I would say, you know, there's a couple of things to talk about there. Number one, it's extremely rare that that is the case. And even if that were the case, there's still differences. I'm a big fan of what can be measured, but not everything can be measured, right? And so there's these innate instincts that we have as males that females typically do not have. Are there exceptions? Sure.
But the vast majority have these innately from the time they are born. And you see it just in the behaviors that are different in babies and toddlers. And there are differences being a dad myself between two boys and two girls. I have as babies, as toddlers, they had very different instincts between the sexes, right? And that's well before puberty.
So, um, I do have a little bit of experience actually, when we lived in California, we live in Tennessee, I've lived here, you know, six, almost, almost seven years now. But back when we lived in California, my oldest daughter, who's 16 now, our last year there was in soccer and actually had this situation come up before it was a national story, right?
Where a boy showed up on a team that they were supposed to play against. They play the game. And for the first time ever during a game, that boy, their team was losing. The boy's team was losing. My daughter's really good at soccer. She'd scored like six goals in that game. That boy, after their team was celebrating because of a goal, ran up
to one of the girls on my daughter's team, knocked her down onto the ground and hit her with an elbow. I had never seen a girl do that at that age in soccer ever before. And so that tells you like there was an innate instinct difference. That was the first thought I had is like, that's something me as a boy in sports, I experienced boys fighting, right?
I never saw it with my daughters, with other biological females, especially at that age, right? You maybe start to see it in high school with hair pulling and things like that in soccer, but You never saw somebody go up and body slam somebody onto the ground, right? So that was my first foray into seeing, okay, there's something different here.
Then there's the secondary part of this, which is that they'd like to pose it as being transphobic in some way. Well, I'll never forget this. I sat down with Riley Gaines and we had a conversation about this issue. And she said, what they're forgetting is that we have locker rooms we have to change with them in no matter what their hormone situation is. And we didn't have a choice.
When she was in the locker room with Leah Thomas or whatever his real name is, those girls felt mentally raped by having to see a guy naked in there. They had no choice in it. And they weren't made aware of it ahead of time by the NCAA or their team or anybody else, right? So That being the case, I think that you have to always veer on the side of sanity, right?
Which is to say, we're going to separate this by XX, XY, that is the fair thing to do, and you can compete against your own chromosomes. Now, beyond that, if people who identify as trans want to form their own sports leagues where only people who, quote, identify as trans can play in, well, knock yourself out, that's fine.
I mean, good luck getting people to watch, but I think they can go and do that.
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