The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 266 - Eugenics (Live in Los Angeles)

Episode Date: May 15, 2017

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds are joined by Sarah Tiana to examine Eugenics in the United States SOURCES TOUR DATES REDBUBBLE MERCH

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start with 30. You've heard the podcast sometimes 30 people could change the world surely they could change a name. Good Lord Dave. That was pathetic. I want to thank Christine Shenton who wrote this one well did the research I wrote it but we all but I've been waiting on this one this one's been kicking around for like a year and it's about how the Jew controls banking. Let's get the data then we'll get into the details let's not jump into it like that. No thesis. I don't think we have that. I don't think we have anything to plug anymore. Yeah it's the book that's it. Oh the dollop movie 2020. That's gonna be a

good one. It's gonna be a good one episode of 2020. I thought that was a book you were cleaning for a second I was like this guy's out of his goddamn mind. Scrub my little bookie book. What let's just oh should we do you're listening to the dollop. This is a bi-weekly American history podcast each week I comedian, writer, actor, director, lover. We have a heart out. So friend. Not in the intro. Ex soccer player. Okay let's just keep it moving. College graduate. Let's go. High school graduate. Middle school graduate. Sure. Elementary school graduate. We would assume if how you graduated. I'm saying my name. No you're

not. Dave Anthony reads a story from American history to my friend. Gareth Reynolds who has no idea what the topic is going to be about. If I can't get this clean. Specifications. Bring up our guest. Alright you're gonna love our guest. She is a friend of mine from years ago. She's a hilarious comedian, writer. You've probably seen her on a ton of shit. Give it up for Sara Tiana. Sara Tiana. There's Tiana. Sara Tiana who's got a company with her mother where they make cat bow ties. And bandanas. And bandanas. And she gave me. Oh my god I was gonna do that. No Dave it's far too late and you haven't started at all. I am making bow

ties for ocelots. No, no, no. But she brought me a goodie bag for Jose and we decided he's a Raiders fan. If anybody wants a cat I have a crazy one that lives in my garage. What's the company called? Catbandana.com. Very clever. It's ours so don't race home and try to buy that. We own it. Alright. Just as I own ocelot bow ties. Dot net. The.com guy was like stupid. Coming to the party late. This is unreal. What's happened? 1849. We're in. I've heard of it. We're in. There you go. That's a good start. Gideon Lipsicum, a prominent Texas physician, wrote a bill for the Texas legislature to consider. It was called the memorial. He mailed

776 copies to Texas politicians, journalists, prominent citizens, and doctors. Quote, the intention of the penal code is to terrify the wicked, prevent crime, and improve the character of the community. Our present penalties do not produce these results. To hang a criminal brings him notoriety and elevates him to a hero. Oh, here we go. Here we go. Also kills him. I knew being from the south we'd get to the hanging part of it. I'm a big fan of this podcast. I feel like we have been sorely misrepresented. No. No. No. No. No. I have to tell you. We are not gonna sit here and let you say that. Listen. There's

many great times that are highlighted. Honestly, I haven't even begun. So wait, he's arguing, though, that if you hang somebody, that is that they're like martyrs. Yeah, you want to hurt them instead and keep it on a hush-hush. So he says, quote, a masculine would instead serve as a strong deterrent to crime. What's crazy is he's not wrong necessarily. I feel like if it was like, you know, if you call them a sissy boy, like on his way to work, stop doing that. Isn't that why kids buy guns nowadays anyway? Is that too real? Okay. Wow. Society has the right to do what it may to benefit the whole from sawing off the dragon's horns down

to the crushing of an ant egg. Now. He's getting a little now poetic. I don't want to know what those really are. You're about to find out. The laws. Oh, no, wait, this is what he wrote first. He wrote to another doctor, quote. Did you ever see a eunuch? What? Is that the opener? No, dear. Dear pal, how are things? Sorry about golf last Saturday. Say, ever seen a non-genitaled human? It seems like thank you notes from my grandma, you know, or they're like so non-secret or like speaking of haircut. It's like no one was talking about a haircut. Happy 10th birthday. Seen a eunuch? Anyway, here's $20. I have met five of them. One of them I made

myself. No, no, no, no. No. I made it myself. It's not shake and bake. And I help. I took it right out. And I watch. He was a degraded drunken saw in delirium tremors at the time and I did it in kind of a youthful frolic. Your penis and balls are gone. Yeah. That seems to circulate. Yeah, that isn't fair. They take the penis too. It's just the balls, right? It's just the balls. Yeah. No, the guy I met with. Oh, well, he does a two for two. Oh, and you get your eyes laced. Yeah, eyes laced and all the genies gone. Well, it cured him and made him an honest man of him and he became quite industrious, religious and studious. I'll never lie again and I love the Lord. Yeah, he'd be pretty focused. Praise

be to Jesus. I can't imagine how much more focused a man would be. I'm ready to work. Oh, no, I don't like the ladies anymore. It's just for peeing out of the laws of reddy cannot be overruled to have good honest citizens and fair truthful men and women. They must be bread right to breed them. We must have good breeders and to use the surges knife is the only possible chance. No, no, no. So he's he's Bob Barker ring the prison population. Give your prisoners. Noodard. This guy was just a drunk. I don't know if he's a prisoner, but like generous. He's saying remove the. Yeah, but this guy was baby batter from the worst. Yeah. And you're only going to get the good societal pancakes. Right. That was

close. Adopt. Don't shop. Yeah. Dr. Lynn seems Bill was published in most Texas newspapers and widely discussed, but it was not takes taken seriously. It was rejected and became the subject of jokes. Okay. Dr. Linsigan was very upset and he wrote to an editor that perhaps the press needed to be castrated. Well, more journalists, babies. So he didn't take that. Well, he isn't like criticism. Well, right. But in fact, then it was just all men. Oh, it was all facts. Yeah. Everybody united that that sounded crazy. Everybody had a theory about cutting people's balls off his nuts. We should take your balls. That a teacher. 32 years later in May 1881, Dr. William Goodall, a professor of clinical gynecology

read a paper in front of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, quote, the ovaries have been successfully removed for a number of disorders of menstrual life, fibroid tumors, chronic pelvic infections, things that congest menstruation, et cetera. To this list, there can be no doubt that some forms of insanity ought to be added. Well, is it this the Republican healthcare? Yeah. Garrett, didn't you know that ovaries are a preexisting condition? They absolutely are. They really get in the way. So much. How do you like your eggs, David? I like some fresh popping ovaries. All right. No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. That's a ska band, right? Fresh popping ovaries? Oh, that was my nickname in high school. FBO's coming. The relationship

in sanity bears to menstruation is often a very close one. So close indeed, it should be defined as ovarian insanity. It could be. I mean, in this time, you know, I've noticed a difference with Helen every seven days towards the end of the month lately. I mean, I do go crazy when I can't find chocolate. I get a little sad. Well, this is before women could eat chocolate. Oh, before we were allowed to. Yeah, smudges the voting paper. That's why we couldn't vote either. Oh, you get your chocolate all over it. Craziness. In the first place, an insane woman is no more a member of society than a criminal. Can I just say, Dave, I listened to this podcast twice a week, and it is so fun to watch Gareth's head explode

in person. It sounds so different than it looks. It's popping like a goddamn ovary, Sarah. Secondly, her death is always a relief to her dearest friends. Wow, that is messed up. I'm on record. You guys, when you guys are on your menstruation time, everyone's like, oh, just die. Thank God Kathy died. What a bitch last week, eh? I know. Can't go through another 11 months of that this year. I told her I was bringing the apple pie and then she brought it. We can't have two apple pies here. I'm glad she's dead. You know, Ruth's getting a little lippy over here. It must be that time of the week. The removal therefore of the ovaries in such a case would then tend to restore a woman to home and society and

at the same time prevent her from having insane offspring. You're really coming out swinging early here, Dave. Yeah. It is impossible to go crazy when you're ironing. So true. Meanwhile, the Chinese are like, just take Dongkwai. What are you doing? What's wrong? Two years later, British psychologist and anthropologist Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, published inquiries into human faculty and its development. In a footnote, he wrote, the word eugenics sufficiently expresses the science of improving stock. Everybody knew this episode was coming. What? Who's Eugene? Eugenics. You're gonna love this about Eugene. He's great. Mm-hmm. Pride from Texas and an asshole, huh? Yeah, we get a

rap. Bad rap. Five years later in 1888, Orpheus Everts, a superintendent of the Cincinnati Sanitary and presented a paper to the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine. He wrote, of quote, a law that allowed for the castration of certain criminals would diminish the number of the defective classes of society by limiting the productive ability of such classes. By limiting the productive ability, like they're fucking producing. Oh, yeah, like their ability to type fast. No, not that kind of production. The kind where you put your wiener in a lady and out comes a baby. Okay, spoiler alert. I mean, this guy. The next year in 1889, a superintendent at a school for doing delinquent boys in Pennsylvania

got these people want easier jobs, cut off their balls, they go right to bed. If you shake a baby, it sleeps better. It's shake a baby and I help shake a baby by Hasbro. The superintendent at a school for delinquent boys in Pennsylvania got parental consent for the castration of a quote, feeble minded inmate. Yeah, their parents are like, Yeah, take them off. That's fine. So you think it's the balls that are doing this? Well, finally someone's not talking about the ovaries. Well, if you think that's the best thing, then take Chuck's nuts. Now that I heard it rhymed, I'm not sure if I want to let them go. Three years later, now as president of the Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions

for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Persons. Well, finally, not bullet punches. Nice. Congratulations on becoming the president of the Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Persons. Thank you. Is there a shortened version of that? So he wrote, quote, the census of 1890 unmistakably points to a steady increase in the proportion of idiots and imbeciles in the general population. Just can't imagine reading this shit. He got that from a census. How many kids do you have? We have five kids, three idiots, two regs, three dumps, and we have four cats and two birds and a fish. Sorry, five dumps. I'm the dumb half. Put me down as dumb too. My husband's reg. Reg. He's on the reg. He's

on the reg. He stated that in Pennsylvania there had been a 22% increase in feeble-mindedness among native-born people and a 228% increase in the feeble-mindedness of immigrants. Well, see, they're faster. They're faster. I mean, these are really like the charts you see in Congress where people are like, if you don't, it's like if you have a pie chart, everyone's like, oh, well, it must be true. It's all divided up. Oh, I see that little sliver there. 80% are stupid now. I think I'm on boats. Unbelievable. Well, sir. Well. So things started to happen. In 1895, Connecticut passed a law that prohibited, quote, marriage or intercourse where either man or woman is epileptic, imbecile, or feeble-minded, or the

woman is under the age of 45 and the woman is under the age of 45. Oh, that'd be weird. So an epileptic, imbecile, or feeble-minded woman can't get. What is an imbecile considered? Dave just pointed it here. A doctor would literally decide if they're an imbecile or a psychologist. And then you get a hat and you have to sit in a corner. Oh boy, I win. What are you doing to my things? See that one that wants to castrate himself? He's an imbecile. I'm ready to go. So under that law, someone could get three years in prison for having sex with an epileptic or an imbecile. But I like it when she shakes. We were playing just the tip and she had one.

The president of the American Bar Association was, as you would expect, totally on board. Of course he would be. Well, he's the president of a bar. Yeah, yeah. He's like, well, I'm not crazy. This makes total sense. Let's do this. He said the law was, quote, a novel one designed apparently to prevent unhealthy offspring. Sure. A practical deterrent to protect future generations from the evil operation of laws of heredity. So doctors were coming around to this idea. In 1899, a doctor Albert Oschner, a chief surgeon in Chicago, published a paper titled Surgical Treatment of Habitual Criminals. He wrote that vasectomy would protect the

community at large by preventing criminals, chronic drunks, imbeciles, perverts, and poppers from having children. And there would soon be a very marked decrease in this class of people. What was a vasectomy like in this time? I didn't think about that. Just like some guy lights a match. He's like, whoops, messed up again. Sorry about your dick. Let's keep going. They just tie a string around. There you go. Don't untie that. Honor code. You're not going to untie that, are you? Only untie it if you're wanting. Okay. All right.

I really should have looked that up. I don't think you should have. I could just see him putting a nail in. All right. I'm going to nail it right there. You don't ever take the snail out. How's the anesthetic? He's dead. He's gone. You know, that's the number one thing that they do on military bases, American military bases. That's the number one operation on military bases. Vasectomies? Vasectomies. Yeah. Literally coming in. A medic's bringing them in. He's really ready to fuck, sir. Move, move, move. I just want to do it. There's a reporter here from out of town, sir.

We've been flirting all week. Move fast. Cut it off. Cut it off. Give it a turn, it gets her. How bad is it? Calm down, junior. Now, bite here on this log. Privates, privates. Saving rights, privates. A Dr. Harry Sharp, a surgeon. Harry Sharp is a surgeon. Oh, that's the best. And believe it or not, I love penises. Right where it's Harry, I get Sharp. Mr. Sharp. He was a surgeon at the Indiana Reformatory in Jacksonville, Indiana. And he read that

article. And at the time, he had a patient named Clawson who, quote, suffered from excessive masturbation. Oh, well, I think we've got our patient zero. He found a teenager. How old is he? That doesn't say, but I imagine he's about 16. Based on the description I just read. Imagine the images that you would have to conjure up back in the 1800s. Yeah. Oh, my God. Picture that ankle. Oh, man. I saw a bottle of whiskey. When I saw that duck, fuck. Oh, heaven.

He gave Clawson a vasectomy and said his health improved. And he was more cheerful and his excessive masturbation ceased. Well, that makes me think that he that he fucked up the balls. Because you could give me a vasectomy at 16 and I'm still fucking jerking off like a rabbit. Like that doesn't matter. You're not like, oh, I can't make a baby. I don't want to jerk up anymore. Yeah. Maybe he was just like, if I masturbate, things happen to my penis. I'll stop. Okay. You just said a fax. Sorry, you just said a fact as if it was a joke. It happens to me. I'm going to need to remove the balls.

Why isn't anybody laughing? Nothing. I don't get it. In 1906, the American Breeders Association, which had been, which, nope, it's fine. It was created to improve the breeding of animals, formed a committee on eugenics. They're spreading their wings. This is the first national. Literally, they're spreading them and impregnating them right after they spread them. This got awkward. Oh, you guys, you don't want to imagine it. Watch Planet Earth. It's great. What's happening right now? You don't have to imagine. So this is the first national eugenics

organization. Oh, good. Its stated responsibilities were, first, to investigate and report on heredity in the human race. Two, to devise methods of recording the values of the blood of individuals, families, and peoples in races. Three, to emphasize the value of superior blood and the menace to society of inferior blood. Wait. Yep. Go ahead. To suggest methods of improving heredity of the family, the people, or the race. They noted they would have to combat the idea of

sympathy. Oh. Shooting it down. People are going to lack the stupid. These fucking people here. And they should frame it as a positive step in human evolution. This is why bulldogs have to have C-sections now. Too much inbreeding. It's true. Think about the bulldogs. Well, they try to keep the bloodline pure and then now they can't have babies and they're all fucked up.

Oh, my God. So what we're saying is it's a lot like bulldogs. Well, you guys get it. Just because Dave don't. The eugenics movements slowly move forward. They were failed attempts to enact forced sterilization laws in Texas, Oregon, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Dr. Harry Sharp of Indiana helped introduce an act to, quote, prevent the procreation of confirmed criminals, idiots, imbeciles, and rapists. I can't. Oh, God. Well, here we go. All right. Now you're torn.

No. Well, yes, yes. But still, I keep going. I can't comment on this. No comment. Sharp argued that no criminal or other degenerate had ever had a normal child and it would save money. Well, there it is. It passed. Sounds like an infomercial back then. Indiana legislators made sure to give immunity from civil and criminal liability to whoever was doing the sterilizing. Dr. Sharp sterilized 119 men in 1908, over 10% of his institution's

population. In January of 1908, the American Medical Association got on board with forced sterilization. Jesus Christ. The Journal of the AMA published an editorial titled Race Suicide for Social Parasites. Wait, what is the headline again? Race Suicide for Social Parasites. Race Suicide for Social Parasites. Oh, like the human, like the race of nationality, like not a NASCAR race.

Yeah, not a NASCAR race. I just did 100 in an hour. I'm going to try to beat it. The AMA argued that doctors should, quote, teach the public not how to punish, but how to restrict crime by restricting the breeding of our criminals. I would never be able to have kids back then. They'd be like, no, she can't do it. She doesn't even know what a race is. Oh, her ovaries are long gone. Yeah, they're out of here. They left on their own, actually.

They're gone. They're far gone. No, they absolutely left. They ran. Yeah, just another thing that left her. Oh, come on. It's funny. It's self-deprecating. Okay. It's fine. It's not you. It's us. Oh, okay. Okay. Little suitcases. Got everything?

Let's go. Bye. The eggs. Don't put all your ovaries in one basket. You know what they say. The doctor sharp led the charge. He got on the American Breeders Association eugenics committee and helped form the eugenics record office. This was a propaganda wing to spread information about eugenics. Was it all on white paper?

Quote in popular magazine articles and public lectures in addresses to social workers in circular letters to physicians, teachers, the clergy and legislatures. It was a PR machine and it worked. Popular Science Monthly. We've heard that a lot on this podcast. PR machine. It's a PR machine and it worked. Propaganda wing and it worked. Popular Science Monthly published many articles with titles like The Foundations of Eugenics,

Heredity and Race Improvement and Shall We Improve Our Race? Well, at least that one you could say no to. Don't you think the word's popular and science don't go together? No. They really don't. I don't think if you like science. It's not breakthroughs. What we gossiping about.

Oh, you know what? Science wise. Well, do you hear? Oh, I got a doozy for you. Tell anyone it's trending. You're not going to believe what he warned to the lab the other day. The fashion episode. I mean, Dr. Sharp, get it together.

Some New York Tribune headlines. Oh, God. Eugenics would improve human stock by blotting out blood taints. Blood what? Taints? I mean, that's just a catchy headline. Taints. Blood taints.

Taints. I don't think that kind of taint. Well, it doesn't sound, after some of these surgeries, you might have blood taints. It's everywhere. That's a vasectomy. Sorry. We're not good at this. Sorry.

Vasectomies are new. That's a vasectomy. Your penis came off. We'll see ya. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So there.

And then freedom of intercourse among defectives is the despair of Eugenics. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. Freedom of intercourse. I missed it. I was still thinking about blood taints. I didn't hear what you said. Freedom of intercourse among defectives is the despair of Eugenics.

Jesus Christ. Well, if you met some of my cousins, you would understand why some of this stuff is coming up. That's what I'm talking about. And that's where this episode is going to end. Yeah. It's going to end at my uncle. The tianas.

At my uncle JR's house. You don't really have an uncle JR. I do. His ex-wife tried to kill him like nine times. So that's who she is. Yeah. She did shoot him three times, but she put rat poison in his coffee every day for a year and he built up an immunity to her.

I'm not kidding. You're related to Mike Malloy. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly what they're talking about. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, if you meet some of these people, you're like, maybe don't want them breeding. I definitely want to write down everything they say because it's hilarious.

In one article, the New York Tribune said, quote, terrible increase in the number of feeble minded children in the past few years. Feeble minded mothers are twice as prolific as normal women. The only solution is the un-sexing of all feeble minded persons to prevent them from breeding. Un-sexing. They should have quit advertising that you can smoke when you're pregnant back then. Yeah.

In certain areas. Yeah. Smoke away. Male. Other articles were titled improving the race. New... Wait, that's got fucked up by that. The American eugenics movement received extensive funding from various corporate foundations.

Of course. Of course. The Rockefeller Foundation. Oh, good. Good, good, good. And the Harriman Railroad Fortune, which was the Union Pacific Railroad of Money. Good. So they're all behind it.

Many notable people were on board. Alexander Graham Bell wrote of the fine art of selective breeding under skilled hands as a factor in human development. Ring, ring, it's a fact calling. Hello. Hello. I believe everything. Perfect.

What was you saying? I'm going through a tunnel. I gotta go. Okay. Oh. Call me again. Till we meet again. John Harvey Kellogg helped found the race.

Here we go. The stage where the man changed for me. John Harvey Kellogg helped found the race. Betterment Foundation. Good Lord. Can you imagine all these businesses like walking by? Oh, that was betterment. Yeah.

Oh, the old RVF. He suggested the establishment of a eugenic registry to create a pedigree of proper breeding pairs. Wait, wait. What? Yeah. So he's trying to hook up the right peeps. He is.

He's matchmaking for the race. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. Come back to Bulldogs. Yeah, that's true. When doesn't it? There's a couple dating sites that are like that.

Farmers.com. Yeah. FarmersOnly.com. Don't go to Farmers.com. I made that mistake. I was like, where are the girl? I'm the girl. Oh, no.

You've got to come here. You're going to be a sheep. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. When you're signing up, it says would you like to be a farmer or a sheep? I just matched with a farmer as a sheep. Oh, God. So he's like Chuck Woolering people based on their racial makeup. Yeah.

Okay. Sure. Cool. Not just racial, but also, yeah, probably just racial. I mean, I think when you really come to him, yeah, let's be honest. Let's be honest. We know what year we're in. Eugenics held better baby contests and fitter families for future firesides competitions

at expositions and state fairs. Okay. Yeah. See, this is where John Benet started. This is how it all started. This is where it all starts. All of a sudden, she's got that blue ribbon. So wait, the first one again?

Better baby contests. What is that? That's just where you look at the babies and go, that one's fucked up. So your Westminster rank, can I walk it around? That one doesn't cry. Can I see the blonde again? That's the order I want them in the blonde, the black hair, the nothing. That's it.

Hold on. Hold on. Let me see the buttholes. You're not a judge. You've got a judge costume on. Let me see the buttholes. Get out of here. I want to see the buttholes.

Do not expose him to those. We cut his balls off, but he's still obsessed with this contest's assholes. Oh, poor baby. And then the second one. This is a better butthole contest, isn't it? It is not. If a man comes over here asking you to enter the better butthole competition, turn him away. Yes, it's in the room next door.

Excuse me, a year for the BBC? I mean. An old new planet. That's how it was. We find out that this is how the BBC started. This isn't really about Hitler. It's definitely about the BBC. You don't know what else it could stand.

Wait, what's the second one after this? The second one is fitter families for future firesides. For future firesides? I think that's like sitting around the fireside chat. Best family to hang with? He's just a perlative. I think they're talking about orating and be able to talk well and have conversations. Boy, he improved the fire, didn't he?

Didn't he? I mean, I have never seen someone bring a stick with them. What a great family. It already had a marshmallow on it. I swear if my nuts hadn't been removed. And then he brought up the Tropic of Cancer. I've never even heard of that. They were a delight to see.

Yes, they were great. Put your butthole on this stick. Sir, sir, sir. He is not part of this competition. They're imbecile cousins that they brought to the fire. We've cut everything out of him, we can. He's still running these bootleg competitions. I don't know what else we can take.

He's nothing inside. You see him crawling. He's not welcome to the fire. The Eugenics Record Office offered guidance for hosting contests. An organizer of the First Fitter Families Contest said, quote, while the stock judges are testing the cows and the stock pavilion, we are judging the Joneses, Smiths, and Johnson's and the human stock pavilion. Yeah, definitely the widest names ever there.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there are no Ramoses in that. No. Where should the Torreses go? There's a butthole thing over there. Actually, you can take the Torreses over that one. Tens of thousands of Americans learned about Eugenics from these well-publicized competitions. Any healthy family could enter by answering a long questionnaire about their Eugenic history.

Oh, God. Judges were physicians, psychologists, social workers, and Eugenics field workers who evaluated each member of the family for superiority while flushing out those with mental, physical, or social defects. That's going to be so demeaning. No, you're stupid. You're imbeciles. You shouldn't be here. Don't you just imagine them with the white people like, okay, who's the worst dancer?

Now you're definitely the widest. That's like the competition. Congratulations. Hey! Now we're going to put on music. All right. Ding, ding, ding, ding. My boats are clanking together. Hope I didn't mess up.

Can we get a line and do this? Sir, you asked the question we've been waiting to hear. Welcome to the Winter Circle, my man. That's all we know. You get to keep your baby makers. Individual scores were then compiled of the family members to arrive at a family's grade. Final scores of a B plus or above earned a bronze medal that had, yeah, I have Goodly Heritage inscribed on it.

It's like, this is where Trump's ancestors come from. Goodly, smartly. Oh, so you guys placed as a family, huh? Oh. Goodly Heritage. Goodly. Bronze, too. I don't know why we got a C. Well, they weren't giving grades out.

Maybe that was your part. Part of the issue. Posters are put up at fairs with messages like, Oh, God. Some people are born to be a burden on the rest. Can you imagine reading that and being like, man, let me stop and finish? Oh, so you are born that way. Okay.

Okay. Thank you Informer to Closter. It's not something I learned from my environment. No. There's also only healthy seed must be sown. Wow. That's pretty clear. And are you fit to marry?

I just start crying and walk away. Well, why'd you have to say it on a poster? And it's one of those 30 posters of it. I can't run away from it. It's every side. But all this running is making me very fit. Remove them. And then there's a longer poster.

How long are we Americans to be so careful for the pedigree of our pigs and chicken and cattle and then leave the ancestry of our children to chance? So Chad, we saw your poster. And it's good. We love the pigs. Yeah, the whole art design is unreal. But I guess our only worry is, is it too wordy? It's a poster.

Oh, because you can't read. No. Degenerate. Chad. Cut his balls off. Chad, quit pitching. Okay. It's like one of those church sons that you're like, why do you have that much riding?

I'm just going to drive off the road. Jesus, come Sunday and then it'll be the best. 12 to 10. I should have slowed down. In 1917, the film The Black Stork was released. Oh, I love that one. It was advertised as a eugenic love story. Oh, good.

Sort of a battlefield earth for eugenics. Yum. It got national distribution and a huge promotion campaign. Unbelievable. We're doing coasters, mugs, hats, everything. People will love it. Black Stork. This will hold up well in the future.

The plot. A doctor advises a eugenically mismatched couple not to have children because they are likely to be defective. The woman then gives birth to a defective child. Oh, no. Which she allows to die. Then the dead baby levitates into the arms of Jesus Christ. Well, Dave, I'll see you. Nice work.

Bye, Gareth. Bye. It's seen... Oh, it came back with Bear. It seems like a really... Just from the... as a writer, it seems like a super short movie. Not if M. Night Shyamalan did it. Unless there's like an hour of fucking.

He said we shouldn't do this. Let's show him. Or they show the baby in real time like eight days like, well, he's just not going in. He's a little... It's a trooper. Jesus is holding his arms up waiting. We're letting him decide. Good Lord.

Well, back tomorrow. Black Stork 2 coming out. Skweequel. Not so much. Not too long of a skweequel. The film played at movie theaters around the country for more than a decade. No! No!

Hey, you guys want to take mushrooms and go watch the Black Stork? No, man, last time I tried to peel myself, man. It's like room... But fuck when that baby flies, I'm like, what? Jesus. How good was this? How good was the baby going to Jesus in that air? I mean, it looks like he's really in Jesus' arms.

I can't even... the special effects. Where are the strings? I don't get it. It must be motion cat. It must have gotten this live. Oh, wow. There's no way you could physically do that with the baby. How do you get Jesus to shoot a movie?

He's so busy. He's so busy. Very hot right now. He's so busy. He's in so much toast right now. You're both defective. Well, I found two more. That's how they find people.

They just see if they're going to the movie. No, they just put up... It's just like a pie eating contest sign. Pie eating contest right this way, sir. Where are the pies? We're removing your genitals. It's like the... Hey, wait!

They used to put those signs up in the South. Do you ever see those signs on the freeway? They were like, exit now because a drug check ahead. Oh, really? And so people with drugs in their car would always exit. And they would just catch them. Good hands up. Seriously?

Yeah. Oh, my God. That's amazing. All right. So, I mean, eugenics right now, we're not sure about. I just... Checkmate eugenics. Plaster to son.

So, the black stork was based on an actual case in Chicago. The doctor had allowed a woman's, quote, defective baby to die from lack of treatment. The courts then ruled that he was within his professional rights to do so. Oh, my God. The doctor played himself in the movie. That's what this was all about. Can you imagine that production decision? Look, when we come down to it, the best guy who read for it was the actual doctor.

And we shouldn't turn him away just because he actually lived this. Everybody seemed a little weird about killing the baby, except Dr. Jensen. Yeah. Also on set with him, that's not how she said that. Yeah. He just does a lot of riffing. Yeah. Yeah.

Ad-living. Ad-living. At this point. Are you ready for the movie's tagline? Oh, no. Are we? I thought you never asked. Anybody want to get up and leave?

Is that the tagline? What? Here it is. Oh, black stork. Killed defectives, save the nation and see black stork. It's a little nail on the head. It's a little nail on the head. For those of you listening at home, Gareth just pulled a screen down over his face.

Now he can't get it back. Oh, that could also be the tagline. That could also be the tagline. I did a brain puzzle. Now he can't get it back up. Wait, save the tagline again. You're not going to like it. I just can't get enough of it.

Yeah. Killed defectives, save the nation and see the black stork. And see the black stork. Well, I have to now. That's quite an opener too. Oh, I made it. Gareth's physical comedy almost ruined the show. I'm sure it'll translate to the listeners.

Zach had to come out and save you. The eugenics record office also had a model sterilization law to make it easy for legislators to write bills. The socially inadequate included the feeble-minded, insane, criminalistic, epileptic, habitually drunk, diseased, blind, deaf, deformed, and dependent. Dependent? I mean, the list is totally fucked up, but dependent is also crazy. He needs money. Get him in here. Fix him right up.

He's been drunk. Well, he won't do. In 1909, Washington, California, and Connecticut passed sterilization laws. The law was challenged in Washington, and the court unanimously ruled that the procedures were not considered cruel and unusual, and, quote, was no more serious than was the extraction of a tooth. Well, I mean, there's a little bit more laughing gas involved. Yeah. And the extraction of a tooth. Yeah.

Ah! That's pretty much it, though. Just your pubic tooth. You had a wisdom tooth. It was deep. It was impacted. Sterilization is only as bad as getting your tooth pulled. Right.

And we do both. You're a tooth of nuts. We're doing them all. We're making them out. Screws and nuts. Screws and nuts. Nuts and bolts. The Washington decision set a precedent that would be used for decades in courts around the nation.

The Washington state legislature opened it up to more people. Now the feeble-minded, epileptic, and insane, along with morally degenerate persons and sexual perverts would be sterilized. But what if they were wearing a hat? No, if you're wearing a hat, it's like you get free. Immunity. That's why there were so many people wearing hats. Really can't be crazy. He's got a dog on his head.

Right this way, sir. Nevada, New Jersey, and Iowa passed sterilization laws in 1911. Iowa threw in syphilitics. Wow. I wish it was still loud in Nevada. Oh, everybody hears from Nevada. The first compulsory sterilization in the state was performed on a man convicted of sodomy. In 1913, Iowa expanded it and included moral and sexual perverts and diseased and degenerate persons.

And it allowed people with syphilis and epilepsy to get voluntary sterilization. Oh, cool. Hey, I'm here for the nip-tok. I did it myself. Now when you say voluntary, do you mean I do it in the bathroom? No. Well, yeah. If you want to, we're all bushed.

Go for it. If a guy or lady with syphilis got sterilized, then they could get married. Oh, cool. Bonus. Well, that's fun first date banter. Where's your nose? I should point that out. I've been cut.

What do you do again? You sound very upper species. Yum. Hello. Someone's not on the evolutionary chart. If you'll excuse me, I have to change my cause. California did not fuck around when it came to sterilization. The state would perform over 80% of all cases nationwide.

We're number one. We're number what? 80%. You know what they say? California leads the nation. It does it first. Rhonda was a 26-year-old mother of three children. She was schizophrenic and catatonic, infected with gonorrhea.

Well, she doesn't have a hell of a shot in this world. And had an IQ of 46. So that's like a triple. Well, we've got our first candidate. She checks all the boxes. Her history noted that she got drunk, left home, and associated with other men. Her husband signed the order three days after she was committed,

and she was sterilized. There's no all of the above option in this questionnaire. But there's no way her IQ was 46. That's like, yeah, this is a guy who's like, no, she's dumb. She's real stupid. Yeah, 46. What's an IQ? She's got a 46.

That's shitty. She's 46. Yeah, get rid of them. She's under her age. Yeah. She just doesn't have an IQ. She's 46. Just cut out of nuts.

And what's her height? 46. She's 46 height? 46 IQ. Age 46. Um, sir, we'd like you to take this test really quick. Oh, yeah, for sure. 46 is the answer to any question that's written down.

Oh, man. My name, 46. Okay. Where am I from? This is easy. 46. Okay. Just sign the form.

I got my hatchet. I got it. I'll sign it by my name. It's T. Okay. I.E. Six. Mr.

Mr. Spread your legs, you fuck. All right. Look out, though. I got 46 tattooed down there. Mr. God, I love 46. Mr.

Walberg, we need you to step right. Okay. Sorry. I'm shooting. 46, though. Imagine if you was friends with the number 46. Oh, man. I can't even.

I'm not going to sleep tonight. 46 Eve. 46 comes tomorrow. And I made it 46s. When is your birthday? 46. Great. Yeah.

Yeah. How many fingers am I holding at? 46. Sorry. I didn't see that last one. Nice try, lady. Stupid. Trying to trick you.

Yeah. Don't hide that finger. I was. Mm-hmm. The head of the Sonoma institution also wrote to a Mr. Romero, father of Juan, who was a minor at the Preston School industry. Father of Juan or Juan?

Juan. Father of Juan. Juan. Father of Juan. Juan. Juan. Juan. Juan.

Did he have other kids? Jose. So he was a father of Juan. Father of Juan Juan. He wanted Mr. Romero to consent to his son's sterilization so, quote, he can never reproduce his kind. For we know from existence that individuals of his

mentality should never bear offspring. The dad's like. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. What? So we have one, but you don't want two.

Are you saying? No more. No, are you calling me? What? What just happened? Don't worry about it. Poker chips. Oh.

46. It's me. The letter also said Juan's younger brother Pablo should be sterilized. Oh. Escobar? Wait. Juan's older brother Javier had already been sterilized.

Quote, having three boys in one family who ended up in correctional facilities was evidence that there is a hereditary thread and that any grandchildren born of these boys would be defective. Mr. Romero complained to a state health officer. He's like, this is funny. On what grounds? Kids tethered nuts cut off.

And the state health officer then wrote, quote, Mr. Romero is, of course, an ignorant, unintelligent Spanish man. And it is impossible to convince him of the value of the operation for sterilization, either for his son's protection or for that of society. It's a cultural difference. No, but I love that he goes to the guy that's supposed to

help and that guy's like. Your family's really fucked up. We should cut your nuts off. Sorry, you're with me, right? Yes, let's take off your nuts right now. No, I'm in the wrong office. Surely. Yes.

Not my huevos. That's eggs, right? Male eggs. Six months later, Juan was sterilized. Ah. No one saw that coming. If I can just say, we dodged that bullet. Hey.

To help pass the Kansas sterilization law, one doctor wrote to a colleague, quote, to secure sterilization for your state, you'll have to get out and hustle. So no doctor's right. Wait. This is like campaigners. Yeah. No, you got to have a good ground game.

Yeah, rock the boat. If you want to sterilize Kansas, you got to have a good fucking ground game. Rock the nuts. Your legislature has probably never heard of it. Tell them the story I heard of Blind Bill. I don't think anyone's going to like the story of Blind Bill.

An illegitimate child of a degenerate family who lived in a country poor asylum and grew more and more bestial. And for many years, he was kept in a special house with a grated floor that could be washed out like an animal's cage. Well, what made him like a beast, Dave? Well, we just put him in the pig pen and he acted

like a monster animal. Eat your slot monster boy. Boy, he really took to being a monster fast. I don't know what it was. Blind Bill would be a perfect candidate for sterilization. So that's a story he was supposed to tell legislatures.

Right. That's what the local touch. Like a good friend of mine, Blind Bill, that I met the other day. Oh, this guy, Blind Bill. Excuse me. Yes, in the back. Is that the kid that shits on grades and you got

a hoser off? Yeah, that's Blind Bill. All right. Love that guy. I mean, I hate that guy. Thank you. I was going to say, you might have to have the old cut cuts.

Was he blind too? No, he just played a lot of poker. Well, then it would probably be not as bad. You'd be like, you're on a beach. He'd be like, the beach feels weird. Paradise. Many studies showed a close link between poverty, rural isolation, and feeble mindedness.

A study of mental health in North Carolina reported quote, scattered rural communities in poor marginal lands with low standards of living and low levels of cultural intellectual development show high frequencies of apparent mental deficiencies. It's like solitary. Like if you're alone a lot, that's what they're saying.

Or just a farmer. As far as I'm reading it, this sounds like what liberals say today about people who live out in the country. Everyone laughs, but they're like, yeah. Another study of mental illness, mental deficiency, and epilepsy found that most have received some type of financial assistance from the state. Across the country, health and welfare professionals

began to advocate for sterilization. Dr. Clovis Pierce. I mean, are you kidding me? Clovis. What? Dr. Clovis Pierce? Yeah. Okay, now hold still.

I'm a Pierce from Clovis. Yeah. Of South Carolina. Is your Clovis pierced? Want it to be? Doctor. I don't know what a Clovis is. It's me.

Wait. I'm Dr. Sharp. Do you want some help? I can hold the scalpel. I don't know what's happening. Dr. Clovis Pierce of South Carolina refused to provide OBGYN services to poor women on welfare unless the women consented to sterilization during delivery.

Oh, my God. What? During delivery. So instead of not receiving health care, half of the welfare mothers who delivered in his county received sterilizations. One woman sterilized by Pierce testified that he told her, quote,

it's hard to pay my taxes and tired of having people come to have babies that can't support them with their tax dollars. I don't even... How does... My head is a question mark. So he would say that while he was delivering the baby? Not about while, but after, before... Push! Push! It's your last one!

Keep going! You got this! You're playing on society. What? Yeah, hey, look, your baby's here. It's a fucking loser. Good Lord, put it in the pile. Next! It's in a boy or a girl? I don't know.

Who gives a shit? It's gonna cost... Neither eventually. It's gonna cost money and end up in jail. Yeah, you can't afford my book, Bedside Manor. Forget it. Good. North Carolina was also a huge eugenic state.

It had a eugenic board... Eugenics! Eugenics! So eugenic, you're not even gonna believe this place. It's eugenics. Number one as far as eugenics goes. The North Carolina had a eugenic board that looked into families on welfare. They inquired about the family's financial resources,

the kind of work they did, and how much they earned. That's gotta be a fun knock at the door. Hi, if you don't answer these questions right, we're gonna leave with your testicles and ovaries. And we are anyway. Okay, I'm listening. I mean, you had me a hello. You guys like caramel toffee?

The board said the state had a financial interest in sterilization. Of those suggested for sterilization, the majority were farmers. 25% were considered unable to work, and 63% were on some form of welfare. Case files included a couple with eight children living in a three-room shack,

a four-person family living in a shack without a bed who slept on corn shucks and cotton piled in the corner. Well, that's as good as a mattress. Well, I'm telling you what. Corn shucks and cotton? Come on. That's how Dolly Parton was raised, and she turned out just fine.

Superior. That's Sarah's catchphrase. Hello, Dolly. A former Eugenics board member said the process was quick. Quote, we would usually have a brisk discussion, think about our own background, make a decision, and then move on. We may well have sterilized some folk

who weren't that much retarded. Well, cool, as long as that's true decision-makers at the helm. Just wanted to get out for lunch, you know what I mean? So sometimes some guy got sterilized because we were like, I'm hungry. How much longer is happy hour? Well, let's do the old cotton run.

Coercion was used. In Indiana, a 16-year-old, Camille, who was, quote, rather attractive and well-developed physically, was admitted to an institution at the age of 16 because she got VD. A social worker came to the parent's home. Valentine's Day? Yeah, Valentine's Day.

Adorable at that age. A social worker came to the parent's home and said she would be released only after she was sterilized. The parents agreed. Because they didn't really have a choice. How do they sterilize somebody? Is it a shot?

It's not a shot. I don't know what they would do back then to... They would probably go in and snip the fallopian tubes, right? Yeah, they'd probably go in. Well, they'd just give you, like, remove your ovaries. I don't know if... Maybe they'd just cut those bad boys

and those eggs start rolling around inside. You know, I think that they could inject you with something, you know, and then... I don't think they had that back then. Back then, they'd inject you with oil. You'll be up and running tomorrow. They were like, sorry about that. We cut your stomach twice on accident.

What's an ovary? Hell, we don't know. We're going to put you up a string and that should do it. Don't come back. Either way, see ya. Oh, that was motor oil. I get these confused. Oh, really? Yeah, I don't understand

how they stare. Ready? Yeah. The youngest person to sterilize was nine years old. How? That's it? How?

You brush your teeth one more time. You don't brush your teeth. And I am taking your balls. Oh, man. No, yes, you're so tough. There were 3 10-year-olds, 31 11-year-olds, 67 12-year-olds,

116 13-year-olds, 226 14-year-olds, 335 15-year-olds, and 406 16-year-olds. This sounds like the number of child pictures on Gareth's computer. It's like on your hard drive. It's not on the soft drive.

17 11-year-olds. I'm sorry. Those are some astounding numbers. Those are like soccer camp numbers. I mean, it sounds like you're dividing up like, all right, guys, the 11-year-olds are over here. Is that in one...

Is that the whole country? Yeah, I think that's the numbers for the whole country. But I assume that's because, like, if you're nine, you're getting sterilized like it's not your fault. No, no. Well, okay, that probably helps. I'm sure they still feel like it's their fault. They're not like, well, this kid's a fucker.

They're like, well, the dad's really, look at this guy. I mean, if you guys met my dad, you'd be like, go ahead and cut. Go ahead and cut. Use your teeth, whatever. The good thing is... Well, that is the preferred method by some of the doctors, sir. The good thing is people were really open to therapy back then,

so I'm sure they got over that. They really were. If you don't want to talk to a doctor, cut off his balls. He's a man. He was. Just throw some black coffee on it. You'll be fine. Virginia's legal forced sterilization program

was enacted in 1924. The same year, the legislature adopted the Racial Integrity Act that prohibited interracial marriages from Episode 166. So it was all coming together for us. Yeah, right. Kerry Buck was 18 years old and lived

in a state colony for epileptics and feeble-minded. Oh, cool. Well, it doesn't sound like the deck stacked against anyone there. The L-S-C-E-F. Oh, God. Sharpe, Pierce, Lynchburg. This story has it all.

She was committed after she got pregnant. She had been assaulted by a family member and to cover it up, the family had her committed. Wow. It was a better time. Doesn't this sound like a third world country? Like, this is no way this is in America. No.

Everyone's like, no. Two years ago, here in America. But still, the sterilization. I mean, it's great. The superintendent. Super? Who came up with Super Intendant, by the way? That's what they called the guy who ran the fucking crazy houses.

Yeah, but just don't put Super before your name. What's crazy? Really good. Yeah, no, just like President Intendant. The rad. Super Intendant. I'm, yeah. What's crazy is that they're sterilizing people, but they're probably not sterilizing the room

or the needle or like anything. Absolutely not. Oh, sterilization's key. Spread your legs. I want to be fine. Ugh. Ugh. Uh, so the superintendent

said she should be sterilized, then supporters of the sterilization law, including the superintendent, asked Kerry's guardian to challenge the sterilization order so that the law could be upheld and sanctioned by the courts. Oh, that is so fucked up.

This is such an uplifting story. I'm so glad. The case went all the way to the never ever wrong United States Supreme Court. Well, I'm sure they got it right. Next, let's see. We don't even need to say how they found. 100% accurate. High five. Moving on.

The superintendent testified that Kerry was the feeble-minded child of a likewise feeble-minded woman. On May 2nd, 1927, the Supreme Court issued an 8-to-1 decision that Kerry, as well as her

daughter and her mother were all feeble-minded and therefore prone to promiscuity. The court ruled for generations. Yeah, they went in to get one and they're like, let's get the whole one. Well, by the way, though, grandma's is free.

Yeah, there's a deal. It's a deal if you buy more. You buy in both. By two, the elderly gets one for free with the discount. The court ruled Virginia's law did not impose cruel and unusual punishment on feeble-minded so they could be sterilized. The court also said the sterilization laws were the same

as mandatory vaccination laws. Although there are a lot of people in Santa Monica that would agree with that. I don't get a flu shot. Fuck that. Famous last words. I ain't never got the flu. Justice Oliver Holmes wrote

in his majority opinion, quote, fee three generations of imbeciles are enough. Hooray! We did it again! Kerry, her mother, and her daughter were all sterilized. In 1924

in a book called Mein Kampf Is now really the time to take a breather, Dave? This is my favorite book. A man named Adolf Hitler wrote, quote, there is today one state in which at least

weak beginnings toward a better conception of immigration are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic but the United States. Oh, no! To be in the United States. Did you read it?

As a freedoms of the United States. I know, I couldn't put it down. Deep off a gender don't know, but it gives you shit. Yes. Such a page turner. Hitler also wrote a fan letter. Fan letter? U.S.

Eugenics leader Madison Grant calling his race based eugenics book his Bible. I'm sure you get this all the time but I'm like such a super big fan. I'm looking me fan girling right now

over here. Be yourself Adolf, be yourself, okay? Act like you've been here before. It's very pleasant, big fan. What do I even say? Send back whatever.

But you're like super cool and love all the stuff you do and you're like dreamy and all that stuff. I hope you come to Germany sometime because it will be very fucking long. I freak out.

It's so weird to see you in person. But you do everything you want if you're in town. Say the bird, okay. Do you want me to write all of this down? Yes, every single. Yes, all of the things.

Even the little squeals? Yeah, oh yeah. They squeal at the bottom. Do you want me to write down this? We'll let the part out. Almost done. But I also say I don't really know.

XOXO big crush. A California Eugenics leader traveled to Germany and told a colleague, quote, you will be interested to know that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions

of a group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler. Please, guys. Epic making program. I want you, my dear friend, to carry this thought with you for the rest of your life. Wait. Whoa.

That's big. Awkward. Okay, bye. I mean, think about it. You have really jolted into action a great government of 60 million people. Well, that's valid.

It's been great. The Committee on Scientific Exhibits for the Public Health Association invited the German government to have an exhibition of the Eugenics program. It was held in Pasadena, California. Road trip. And they still have it there

every year. It's my favorite. Cheesecake factory. To have every sick literally. I love it. I don't mean to break the barrel. Yes, please.

I have been to the Gap twice. Oh, man. I love the sheets sell. So many white sheets. So cleanly. The German Eugenics exhibition was so popular it was extended

from one month to two months. They got extended because they were like Hamilton. What if they had a float in the rose parade? We are using on-site white roses in our parade. We are the best and we won every category

before we even started. They then were so popular they took it on tour. Oh, my God. What? 30,000 people went to see it in Portland, Oregon. Oh, yeah! Portland!

You Portland people. I knew there was something hidden there. I knew it. States a little dicey. They couldn't be that good. No. Eugenics expert Harry Laughlin was invited to Germany to receive

an honorary doctorate for his work on the quote Science of Racial Cleansing. Oh, God. Oh, my God. It's such a great award. Thank you. I didn't think it would be me. I would like to thank... Donald Trump.

You know, you're a little boy and you dream someday of being on this stage and here you are. Holding the award. I didn't think I racial cleanse that much, but you guys, thank you. I didn't prepare a speech, but I did write all these names down.

I got to thank my agents at ICM. You guys are unbelievable for getting me out for this. I made a whole list of names. I'm sure that will come in handy eventually. Dr. Sharp. You're unreal, dude. You're the man, Dr. Sharp.

Top dog. Can you imagine somebody giving an award that would be ridiculous? That would be impossible. That would deserve an award. The non-Jewish acceptance award? Yeah. I've never heard a speech where you don't thank somebody

who has a lot of power. That's what I'm saying. It's a compliment. Yeah. It didn't sound like a compliment. Anyway, moonlight. Yay. Unfortunately, Harry could not attend due to lack of funds, so he picked up his award at the Rockefeller Institute.

Who do you send to accept it for you? Um, are you guys? Yeah, Mel Gibson. Yeah. Bloody honor. Right to be back. Yeah. No. He showed it off to his colleagues

saying that he, quote, felt it symbolized the common understanding of German and American scientists in the nature of eugenics. After the war, public opinion towards eugenics and sterilization programs became more negative

in light of the connection with the whole genocide thing in Germany. Here we go. Did it stop it? Of course not, Dave. No. Nope. I would create a state board of eugenics in 1946. Get out of here.

Oh, my God. Iowa. I knew it. I called you out. It would meet quarterly and, quote, submit the names of all persons living in the state it knew to be feeble-minding, insane,

syphilitic, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, or sexual perverts. Forced sterilizations would continue in Iowa through 1963. Oh, my God. But things were changing. People were slowly starting to realize

this was not great. California slowly wound down their sterilizations. The number of forced sterilizations dropped from 255 operations in 1951 to 51 in 1952. And by the mid-50s, it was below 20. Oh, good.

Getting those numbers down. Nice. The American Medical Association, which had strongly backed sterilization, made a 1960 report that sterilization laws had, quote, moved with such speed that today many persons questioned whether this swift acceptance

was wise from either a scientific or legal point of view. Isn't that always... We got so into it. We get real. But that's what always happens. We just get so caught. They all get so caught up in the shit right away that they're like, gotta do it now.

Cut their brains out now. Let's move! Move! We know the answer! Forty seconds! Thank you. I forgot that line. I mean, they were... They were literally being told by scientists they were going to be overrun by idiots. That's a premise!

That happened anyway. Well... That's fair. That's fair. It was almost going to be like, impossible! Oh... And yet... Sterilization was not over.

In March of 1968... Woo! Hello! Summer of Love? In North Carolina, which the State Eugenics Board, yes, still existed in 1968, sterilized a 14-year-old girl who a county social worker concluded was

promiscuous and feeble-minded. Montana revised... Now we just send them on moray. Oh, my God. What if they had sterilization episodes of moray? Moray? Well... You are getting sterilized!

Yay! And the rest of you have boot camp. Montana revised its sterilization law in 1969 to give mental health authorities the power to sterilize anyone who they deemed would be quote, unable to adequately care for or rear offspring

without the likelihood of adverse effects on such offspring. So, everybody. Yeah. Ninety-five percent of people. In 1975... Stop it! Utah!

That was a very good year! Utah, here we go. Past a law requiring that the courts, when considering whether or not to sterilize someone, should determine if the person quote, could adequately care or provide for a child. That's it.

So people with a secret handshake were deciding. Basically. But it's based on... So, let's say you're like, I don't want kids. Well, and you're not going to have them. Because you're dumb, in our opinion. In 1968,

the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld forced sterilization. But the next year, the state legislature repealed the laws. The courts kept being courts. In 1972, the Court of Appeals of Oregon also upheld forced sterilization. Four years later,

in 1976, the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the state sterilization law. Well, they're never the last of anything. Yeah, no. They know. They stick in. In the bathroom. The majority decision claim, the right to procrate is not absolute, but it is vulnerable

to a certain degree of state regulation. And the interest of the unbored child is sufficient to warrant sterilization of a retarded individual. Oh, my God. In 1979... Stop it. No, no. This is good. Stop.

California's sterilization law... It's just like water that's closing in on me right now. No, this is good. In 1979, California's sterilization law was repealed. Okay. Isn't that great? When fucking Carter was president! Unbelievable. Oh, my God.

North Carolina's sterilization law was finally repealed in... 2015. I bet it's not been repealed. I bet it's not been repealed. In 1987. Oh, my God. I lost. Oh, my God. Family ties was out of the air!

Shit! Governor, I'd like to make a proposal. Oh. I would not hear new proposals right now. There's still... As of 2006, there was still one on the books in Washington State. Washington State?

It's not enforced. It's just on the books. Yet! In 2013, North Carolina approved a 10 million compensation for victims of eugenics. Virginia followed suit. So there's only two states to compensate victims.

More than 7,600 people were sterilized in North Carolina. 20,000 Californians. Two-thirds of states had sterilization laws. At least 63,000 Americans were sterilized. Oh, my God.

Oh. And 148 California female prisoners were sterilized between 2006 and 2010. What? What is your problem? Snake in the grass. In a supposedly voluntary program, but it was determined later

that the prisoners did not give consent. Oh. Oh, my God. What the fuck? Well, consent is a pre-existing condition. Oh. Oh. God bless

America. The land that I love. He's a... Stand beside her. I don't want to go home. I don't want to leave. I really love it here so much.

They get me here so fucking bad. Have you been... Oh. Have you seen this banana republic? I could be the mayor of it. Oh, unreal. Can we conquer it? Why not? It's crystal mold.

It's just a reference. This is not... We were... in Germany. That is such a bizarre. Never meet your heroes. Good God. We are

monsters. I mean, we just... We know it, but my God. How the fuck does that happen? We also, in the 70s, sterilized tons of Native Americans. In the 70s. Well, I mean,

we're the gift that keeps on giving. I'm sure they're glad they met us. Oh, they're back. Oh, they've got a new plan. It's a reboot run. Run. You think maybe this is why I've never had kids? It's just like maybe genetically somewhere down the line.

That's the reason it's not that like no one loves me. No, of course. No, no, you don't have to love someone. No, no. That's not what my priest says. Oh, no. I think if we've learned one thing here, it's listen to them.

Yeah, he especially is not about the love thing. He's from the BBC. Thank you guys so much for coming out. So up in the front there, we have books. We'll be selling them. We'll sign them. Posters, too. Posters. We'll take pictures. Kiss the babies. All the good stuff.

We'll kiss the baby. Give it up for Sarah Tiana. Thank you guys so much for coming out. We appreciate it. Thank you.