Joe Rogan fawns over Texas progressive James Talarico who said ‘there are 6' sexes: ‘You need to run for president'
Talarico, 36, earned the comedian's seal of approval near the end of a lengthy 'Joe Rogan Experience' interview where the teacher-turned-politician discussed his Christian faith, Democratic roots and several state and national policy issues.
'You need to run for president,' Rogan told Talarico, who represents the Lone Star State's 50th District. 'We need someone who is actually a good person.'
3 Joe Rogan told Texas state Rep. James Talarico that he should 'run for president.'
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Talarico, a devout Christian who is currently in seminary school, suggested that Rogan should pump the brakes.
'Can I actually push back on that?' the state rep responded.
'We were talking about how politics has become a religion. This is one of the ways it does. People put all their faith in a politician,' Talarico argued.
'I've seen it with Bernie,' he continued, referring to far-left Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). 'I like Bernie a whole lot, but some people treat him as if he's a messianic figure. And Trump on the right, people treat him as a messiah in some ways.
'This is a problem.'
3 Talarico is a devout Christian who is currently in seminary school.
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Talarico raised eyebrows in the Texas statehouse in 2021 when he claimed sex is measured on a 'spectrum,' rather than a binary, in arguing against a measure seeking to ban transgender athletes from competing in girls' K-12 scholastic sports.
'[M]odern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes,' the state rep said during a Public Education Committee hearing on the bill.
He added: 'In fact, there are six, which honestly … surprised me, too.'
Talarico went on to explain that there are 'six really common biological sexes' based on X and Y chromosomes — not just XX (female) and XY (male), but also single X, XXY, XYY and XXXY.
'The point is that biologically speaking, scientifically speaking, sex is a spectrum, and oftentimes can be very ambiguous,' he said.
3 Talarico posed for a photo with colleague Senfronia Thompson before the flew in a private jet from Austin to Washington, DC.
Rogan is an outspoken critic of radical gender ideology and transgender athletes who play in women's sports.
'When you say there's 78 words for gender, I can safely say you're f–king crazy,' Rogan once said on his podcast.
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