Based Camp - Anime Parent Paradox： Tragic if Biological ⧸ Wholesome if Adoptive

00:00:00.000 hello simone today we are going to be talking about an interesting phenomenon in which parenting

00:00:05.220 has been increasingly put as an pedestalized by anime as this great thing to do with your life

00:00:12.620 and as a very fun thing to watch people do with their lives but what is very interesting is the

00:00:17.980 way it's being shown which is that the vast vast majority of modern animes that include parent

00:00:24.500 roles the parent is in the adoptive role it is not their biological child and when it is their

00:00:31.180 biological child the tone is typically very very different so we are going to talk about the animes

00:00:38.120 that fit this trope we are going to talk about the animes that don't fit this trope we are going to

00:00:42.460 talk about the tonal differences and we are going to make hypotheses as to why this might be the case

00:00:48.200 i'm so curious i'm so curious because it is something it's it's so weird that it feels like

00:00:55.580 there's all this pernatalist propaganda like you know pro kids were all about it but then

00:00:59.580 none of it is along the normal lines i feel like none of it's modeling to people how this stuff

00:01:06.740 actually happens so i don't know what to think anymore but i have to start with the base camp anime

00:01:14.060 intro

00:01:44.060 i have to start with the base camp anime

00:01:47.060 this is the one that holds us down build the future claim the crown base camp if all we die tonight welcome to the everlasting fight

00:01:56.500 trees of culture bloom and reach the sky with a vitalist fire in our eyes

00:02:07.060 etc

00:02:12.020 袋

00:02:12.860 no

00:02:15.060 images

00:02:16.060 despis

00:02:21.120 apric

00:02:36.080 Shadow viruses attack the core

00:02:43.440 Mimetic beasts we can't ignore 1.00

00:02:48.280 Strike them down with evidence and steel

00:02:53.580 Game theory makes the unreal real

00:03:00.760 Base camp if over-die ignites

00:03:04.900 Well we can start by talking about

00:03:10.300 Spy x Spy Family this is one that we've

00:03:12.640 Watched in the family very popular

00:03:14.060 Incredibly popular anime to understand

00:03:17.060 How popular it is you know even within

00:03:18.700 The US when we go to Walmart and we look

00:03:20.960 At like the manga section because

00:03:22.360 Walmart is the manga section now I 0.98

00:03:23.620 Remember I was looking not long ago and

00:03:25.400 Literally half the books in the section

00:03:27.140 Were Spy x Spy Family this is like this

00:03:30.380 Isn't like a popular this is like Sailor

00:03:33.740 Moon or Naruto popular for this

00:03:35.680 Generation yeah and the plot of it is

00:03:38.240 Lloyd and Anya who one is a undercover

00:03:40.800 Detector and the other is an assassin and

00:03:43.280 They don't know each other hold these

00:03:44.920 Roles adopt a daughter named Anya who can

00:03:48.440 Read minds and then they get a dog who

00:03:51.380 Can see the future they don't know she

00:03:52.940 Can read minds and no one knows the dog

00:03:54.960 Can see that like no one knows the secret

00:03:56.800 Identity of anyone else in the family

00:03:58.540 Which is really cute but yeah this this

00:04:01.280 Child was I mean it so that the spy the

00:04:05.500 Spy father has to have a like sham wife and 1.00

00:04:09.180 A sham child to be seen as as as believable 0.99

00:04:12.680 In his position which is why he he ends up

00:04:15.040 In this family and everyone else has

00:04:16.240 Reasons you know like I want to be

00:04:17.880 Adopted I don't want to have a family or

00:04:19.320 Like you know I why does why does the the

00:04:23.060 Wife character need to be in a family I 1.00

00:04:25.540 Can't remember because she is afraid that

00:04:27.540 She will be seen as a spy being a woman 0.99

00:04:30.120 Of her age and unmarried right is 1.00

00:04:32.620 Desperately looking for a husband to go 0.98

00:04:35.160 To a work event with her or not a husband

00:04:37.400 But like at least a boyfriend or

00:04:38.720 Something so she doesn't look suspicious

00:04:40.800 And then it's just so convenient that

00:04:43.380 There's this man who suddenly is like

00:04:45.940 Perfect on paper and like is interested in

00:04:48.580 Yeah well and before we go further I

00:04:51.020 Actually think spy x spy family

00:04:52.380 Discounts one of the first things that

00:04:54.680 People will say about this okay you

00:04:56.680 Know I ask AI and I'm like okay why is

00:04:58.520 This the case why is this so much

00:04:59.900 Popular more popular than the other

00:05:01.220 Type yeah and I immediately was like

00:05:02.920 Well it's you know more flexible for

00:05:05.340 Narrative structures right you know

00:05:07.140 Because you can just slot people in

00:05:08.860 Anywhere right and I was like actually

00:05:11.120 It's not so if you look at a spy x spy

00:05:14.400 Family I think that this is sort of

00:05:15.640 The case that disproves the rule it used

00:05:19.340 Spy x spy family as an example of 1.00

00:05:21.060 Narrative flexibility it was like look

00:05:22.620 Like you can have a family like this but

00:05:24.680 I then pointed out I was like actually

00:05:26.460 Spy x spy family could be seen as drawn

00:05:28.580 From multiple western properties all of

00:05:31.020 Which did not need to make this this

00:05:33.580 Subversion the two big ones that I

00:05:36.240 Would think of are true lies and the

00:05:38.460 Smiths which which had a reboot as

00:05:40.580 Well it was so popular so smiths don't

00:05:43.340 Have a kid but they are a real long-term

00:05:45.400 Married couple who are both assassins or 0.85

00:05:48.400 Spies depending on which one you're

00:05:49.760 Watching you don't know the other one is

00:05:51.380 Yeah and so you don't need it showed

00:05:53.860 That they could have had a kid like

00:05:55.020 That's completely incidental to the

00:05:56.600 Plot right like yeah now if you go to

00:05:58.640 True lies which I think is one of the

00:06:00.540 Better movies ever made and is a very

00:06:03.120 Good example of this plot they have a

00:06:05.940 Kid that is not just their biological

00:06:08.340 Kid but is absolutely crucial to the

00:06:11.960 Plot and central to the third act and

00:06:14.620 Adds a lot of stakes to the plot do you

00:06:17.980 Remember the daughter from true lies

00:06:19.600 Like on the missile and everything and

00:06:21.420 Then the big crane I've was this one of

00:06:24.560 Those that I we watched drunk together

00:06:26.840 That I was drunk maybe remember when we

00:06:29.000 Did drunk date nights I love it yeah

00:06:31.600 Arnold Schwarzenegger is a protagonist oh

00:06:34.200 Yeah we watched a lot of those ones yeah

00:06:36.120 So I I for all the drunken date nights I

00:06:39.080 Have no memory of the movies we watch

00:06:40.820 Which is great because I get to rewatch

00:06:42.380 Them as a first timer again but yeah

00:06:45.940 Don't remember sorry yeah but I I just

00:06:49.700 Focus on that one but then you also get

00:06:51.300 A lot that are like if you're watching

00:06:53.040 It you may not even recognize it adoptive

00:06:55.020 Parents are a major role in it a good

00:06:56.920 Example here is Miss Kadoshi's dragon

00:06:59.020 Maid in in this very second episode they

00:07:02.320 Adopt the dragon kana who is clearly a 1.00

00:07:05.740 Child dragon who they adopt into their

00:07:08.200 Family and treat as their child this is

00:07:10.180 Like episode number two or others that

00:07:13.700 Attempt to subvert this trope from old

00:07:15.460 Country bumpkin to master swordsman

00:07:17.300 Yeah where he doesn't he doesn't this is

00:07:20.580 About a master swordsman almost like be like

00:07:23.440 Being revisited by all of his former

00:07:25.340 Students who are not successful remember

00:07:27.020 At the end of it this is the last arc of

00:07:29.840 It like the last third of it he basically

00:07:31.840 Adopts a kid yeah well and he had like

00:07:34.620 Previously taken orphans in and trained

00:07:36.980 Them so he sort of but he never raised an

00:07:39.440 Orphan as a dad and this is a very

00:07:40.960 Important plot point yeah this is more yeah

00:07:42.540 But that's and that's just crazy that's

00:07:44.680 Crazy okay hold on we got to do more

00:07:47.000 Here no if it's for my daughter I'd even 0.77

00:07:49.400 Defeat a demon lord in this one he finds

00:07:51.780 A demon child by the way every single one 0.94

00:07:54.440 I've mentioned so far I've watched from

00:07:55.820 Beginning to end just so people know what

00:07:57.980 An anime a nerd I am I will let you know

00:07:59.940 When I get to an anime I have not watched

00:08:01.500 From beginning to end you're doing the

00:08:03.140 Work yeah I should probably note the good

00:08:06.220 Ones from old country bumpkin is pretty

00:08:07.980 Good I do not like dragon made that much

00:08:09.960 I think it's not that great

00:08:10.880 Old country bumpkin is kind of a little

00:08:13.220 Boring nothing really seems to happen

00:08:15.380 Spy family is great highly recommend

00:08:21.980 Spy family yeah the spy family is 0.70

00:08:25.540 Really good and yeah you know what's

00:08:26.920 Crazy you know one of our very very

00:08:28.280 Favorite animes of all time food wars

00:08:30.320 What shokugeki know something yeah even 1.00

00:08:35.200 In this anime where there are some strong

00:08:37.940 Parental bonds kind of modeled it's often

00:08:41.160 Just one parent like the other parent is 0.76

00:08:43.400 Dead or absent yeah the two of the leading

00:08:45.980 Characters have very strong father figures

00:08:48.860 But then there are no mothers this is so 0.99

00:08:51.760 Weird there aren't there's like no hold on

00:08:54.040 We gotta go through our list here okay yes this

00:08:57.200 Mystery is just getting deeper and deeper go

00:08:59.100 Give me more okay next one I've been killing

00:09:01.360 Slimes for 300 years I just watched this one 1.00

00:09:03.760 For the second time recently are slimes

00:09:05.700 Monsters what what so in this one she

00:09:08.840 Kills tons of slimes and she begins to

00:09:10.740 Build this found family but some of the

00:09:12.360 First members of it are two young girls

00:09:14.880 Who say that they're her daughters but

00:09:17.080 They're actually made up of the spirits of

00:09:19.400 Slimes that she killed are slimes 1.00

00:09:21.320 Slimes are monsters it's a common thing in

00:09:24.680 Fantasy tropes have you watched so little

00:09:27.940 Anime you don't know slimes I am 0.98

00:09:31.660 Disappointed in you the bad nerd at wife 0.72

00:09:34.960 Sorry I don't make you watch enough anime 0.98

00:09:37.000 You need more schooling I'm gonna have to

00:09:39.280 Bring out the attention class you need to

00:09:43.060 Watch more is that guy this is the first

00:09:46.860 One I haven't seen buddy daddies two

00:09:49.100 Assassins unexpectedly become guardians of a 1.00

00:09:51.640 Young girl and must adopt her to 0.98

00:09:53.240 Parenthood this sounds cute here's another

00:09:56.100 One I haven't seen the Yakuza guide to

00:09:58.100 Babysitting a gangster learns empathy and

00:10:00.640 Responsibility by caring for his boss's

00:10:02.300 Daughter here's another one I haven't

00:10:04.060 Seen Somali and the forest spirit a golem 1.00

00:10:06.620 Becomes the guardian of a lost human child 0.77

00:10:08.540 Forming a father-daughter bond oh here's

00:10:11.780 Another one I haven't seen Contro lives 1.00

00:10:13.440 Alone a mysterious four-year-old lives

00:10:15.700 Alone drawing in neighbors from a found

00:10:18.880 Family to form a found family around him

00:10:21.100 Here's one that I have seen that I remember

00:10:23.900 Liking a journey through another world

00:10:26.460 Raising kids while adventuring their

00:10:28.620 Protagonist adopts two children while

00:10:30.100 Adventuring creating a calm family

00:10:32.300 Centered ace okay and then you for final

00:10:35.380 One here you have sweetness and lightning

00:10:36.780 And I was only looking for animates in the

00:10:38.440 Past five years for this list okay color

00:10:40.500 Me impressed it's a lot now let's go to

00:10:43.660 The biological so you'll get an idea of

00:10:45.280 How rare they are in contrast okay the one

00:10:48.580 That I have seen on this list because I've

00:10:50.900 Only seen one on this list is re-monster

00:10:53.460 Where the protagonist is reincarnated as a

00:10:55.740 Goblin and sire's children who become key

00:10:58.140 Allies in the tribe's growth so not exactly

00:11:00.920 Modeling to people how to get it done not

00:11:04.240 Exactly modeling how to get it done no and I he

00:11:06.880 Has them with different characters so he's like a you

00:11:10.240 Know yeah there's there's no one there's no

00:11:12.060 Intent families in anime what is this how like

00:11:16.140 Okay yeah okay hold on the next one wolf

00:11:19.280 Children a mother raises two wolf children 0.92

00:11:21.900 After their father's death this is not a

00:11:23.800 Modern one but again it's one of the most

00:11:25.360 Famous in this space tragic though I can't

00:11:28.040 Watch it because it made me cry

00:11:29.460 Barakamo while not a parent the protagonist

00:11:32.220 For a no we this doesn't count usagi drop no

00:11:35.760 That's not kids that my wife is student 1.00

00:11:38.740 Council president features teen parents in

00:11:41.220 Some arcs of the manga though the anime stays

00:11:43.000 PG and avoids child rearing so not in the

00:11:45.620 Anime okay okay

00:11:46.740 Clannad after story the second season focus

00:11:49.440 Heavily on biological fatherhood and the

00:11:51.680 Struggles of raising a child after loss so

00:11:54.360 Again a sad one erased features the protagonist

00:11:57.920 Mother playing a strong biological parental

00:12:00.120 Role but his pseudo adoption of classmates takes

00:12:03.520 Center stage and then sweetness and lightning

00:12:06.220 Might have a biological parent can we not have a 0.92

00:12:08.920 Single a single happy one yeah no that's the

00:12:11.980 Thing they're not happy being a parent so

00:12:17.360 Let's let's talk about why this may be okay

00:12:20.520 One thing that's become common in places like

00:12:23.760 Japan is to cancel models when they start 0.83

00:12:28.500 Dating people or to cancel people who are

00:12:31.040 Famous for being like maids when they start 1.00

00:12:32.420 Dating people or it even happened what do you

00:12:33.840 I mean by cancel like they just lose all of

00:12:35.840 Their followers or their contracts are

00:12:37.720 Terminated what their contracts are

00:12:39.440 Terminated they lose their followers they

00:12:41.060 Get attacked publicly they get harassed

00:12:43.820 Constantly this happened to a weather woman 0.99

00:12:46.620 For example a weather woman now admittedly she

00:12:50.640 Was on a news station that only had attractive

00:12:53.160 Young women as reporters let's do like Fox 1.00

00:12:55.660 News it's as if in America suddenly like

00:12:59.580 Everyone on Fox News if they were no longer

00:13:01.860 Single lost their job 1.00

00:13:03.460 Yeah and so you're gonna say like except that

00:13:07.100 It's a it's an erotic news channel in which

00:13:09.960 Everyone presents news naked

00:13:11.480 For a while there was an erotic news channel

00:13:14.160 Until the viewer base got so old that they

00:13:16.440 Just never changed out any of these aging

00:13:18.000 Women oh no and have you watched it looks 1.00

00:13:20.460 Like a bunch of like Botox 0.80

00:13:21.880 Ghouls that is hilarious okay that's

00:13:25.580 Interesting all right but so one of my

00:13:28.920 Initial theories was well maybe it's that

00:13:31.240 People want the belief in the virginal

00:13:34.680 Ness of the character you know like we

00:13:37.480 Need a woman but we need to know that 1.00

00:13:39.080 She's not sleeping with anyone right and 0.54

00:13:40.860 Then we need kids right I was like okay I

00:13:44.780 Could see that maybe now of course this is

00:13:47.300 Going to be terrible for fertility rates but 0.81

00:13:49.960 You know and if you don't have this you

00:13:53.760 Need a mother who's been punished for 1.00

00:13:55.600 Having sex like in wolf children right or 0.91

00:13:58.720 You need just a man raising the kids and 1.00

00:14:01.480 So I go into this and I'm like but does

00:14:04.240 This actually explain what we're seeing

00:14:05.940 Right like and I'm like not really because

00:14:09.440 You often get only males raising the kids

00:14:12.260 Yeah like if it's for my daughter even

00:14:15.340 I'd face the demon lord or from old 0.99

00:14:17.240 Country bumpkin to master swordsman or

00:14:19.480 And this is uniquely weird because in

00:14:21.320 Japan Japan is one of those places that

00:14:23.560 Still really seems to have traditional

00:14:26.620 Gender roles where women really feel this 0.63

00:14:29.640 Societal obligation to do the child 0.62

00:14:33.080 Rearing if they have kids I mean even I

00:14:36.500 Saw this with families of very educated

00:14:39.140 Women who then had kids and just totally 1.00

00:14:42.860 Stepped back into the housewife thing 0.80

00:14:44.540 Because it was just like I have to do that

00:14:47.300 Yeah I can't emphasize how how weird that

00:14:49.960 Was to me but also how pervasive it felt

00:14:52.220 And and we're talking very educated women

00:14:54.920 Relatively speaking very progressive

00:14:57.140 Families in Japan not not traditional more

00:15:00.060 I mean if they're international enough to

00:15:01.860 Have friends in America and to speak

00:15:04.060 Fluent English right like yeah you know

00:15:07.200 And and still and so that's why it's

00:15:09.920 Extra weird because the extent to which I

00:15:12.340 See male parenting in Japan or at least 1.00

00:15:15.120 That I've personally experienced it in the

00:15:17.100 Time that I've I've spent in Japan with

00:15:19.180 Japanese families is just non-existent 1.00

00:15:21.860 It would be so weird like aside from a

00:15:27.320 Father joining his wife and child because

00:15:31.180 It's also hard for me to imagine multiple

00:15:33.000 Children on on some kind of vacation or

00:15:36.280 Eating out together that that I could

00:15:38.240 Envision on a weekend or on a once a year

00:15:40.460 Vacation but I think that this is really

00:15:42.180 Important to dig into it's clear that

00:15:44.000 Within Japan this stuff is popular and

00:15:46.140 Not just within Japan

00:15:47.000 Yeah well yes spy family I mean that that's

00:15:49.040 Huge it's it's so people feel a desire for

00:15:53.200 This kind of content and these types of

00:15:55.080 Fantasies and yet the way that they're

00:15:57.840 Being delivered to them seems to be

00:15:59.300 Making the problem worse

00:16:00.540 Now what you could argue here is okay

00:16:06.900 Character development that's why they're

00:16:08.280 Doing it becoming an adoptive parent often

00:16:09.960 Requires sudden ghosts perfect for anime's

00:16:12.240 Emotional arcs the shift from lone wolf to

00:16:14.620 Reluctant caretaker is a powerful trope the

00:16:17.080 Problem is with in Western media we've been

00:16:18.900 Doing that with biological parents for ages

00:16:21.160 That is not require anime to do that does

00:16:25.320 Not require an adoption to do this is a this

00:16:27.800 Is a choice and there are countless ways you

00:16:29.980 Can show growth beyond that it that's no good

00:16:32.920 Explanation at all one that I think is a

00:16:35.180 Really good explanation potentially is that

00:16:37.920 This is such a fantasy to your average person

00:16:41.180 In Japan that it is immersion breaking for

00:16:44.500 Somebody to get married and have kids 0.64

00:16:46.080 I don't know I mean I'm going to look up

00:16:51.780 What percentage of people in Japan marry in

00:16:54.300 Their lifetimes I'm pretty sure marriage is

00:16:55.920 Pretty pervasive and that's why I don't know

00:16:57.740 If I can agree with you on that well look it

00:16:59.840 Up I remember the number of look up how many

00:17:02.140 Japanese people are married by the age of 30

00:17:04.240 Okay so you're getting a

00:17:05.480 But I would not be surprised if you know they

00:17:11.520 See this is more immersion breaking than being

00:17:14.040 Isakade or you know in a in a fantasy world

00:17:17.620 According to a 2015 survey by the National

00:17:22.200 Institute of Population and Social Security

00:17:24.200 Research 30.7 percent of men and 46 percent of

00:17:28.200 Women age 25 to 30 were unmarried meaning 0.93

00:17:31.440 Approximately 69 percent of men and 54 percent

00:17:35.060 Of women in this age group were married the

00:17:36.840 Majority

00:17:37.420 Huh yeah what's interesting though is that it

00:17:42.620 Looks like men are doing more passport bro 1.00

00:17:44.260 Stuff

00:17:44.620 Yeah right they're bringing in women well no but 1.00

00:17:48.000 So then part of the question here is it does

00:17:50.260 This have to do with anime's audience are they

00:17:53.660 More likely to be in the unmarried camp yeah the the 1.00

00:17:56.020 The incel socially awkward group I mean definitely

00:18:01.000 When when I when I reflect on how anime fans were

00:18:03.960 Perceived within Japan they were not perceived as

00:18:08.680 Thriving socially so to speak

00:18:13.440 So which I'm also in shame in Japan because it 0.61

00:18:18.740 Shows to me a lack of leaning into their own

00:18:21.680 Culture but that's and that's talking about

00:18:23.640 Adults I mean I do think that where anime is

00:18:26.360 Less stigmatized is consumption among teens and

00:18:31.060 Maybe that's what's going on is that we're

00:18:33.360 Looking at media that is primarily consumed by

00:18:37.540 Youth and in that case it's really

00:18:41.440 Unrelatable this idea I think the idea of

00:18:43.700 Marriage and having kids is if anything

00:18:47.500 Repulsive to adolescents who are going through

00:18:51.220 That rebellion period and who find their parents

00:18:53.340 Uniquely disgusting so maybe that's something

00:18:56.780 That's going on it's an audience thing

00:18:58.340 I mean keep in mind I I don't know of of really

00:19:03.020 Any youth centered media you know that's like

00:19:06.700 Primarily consumed by people under the age of 18

00:19:10.820 In the United States or elsewhere that depicts

00:19:14.220 An intact family though it could depict instances

00:19:18.380 Of taking care of younger people as a character

00:19:21.020 Development thing so I can ask what percent of

00:19:23.840 Anime in Japan is consumed by people under age 18

00:19:27.240 It's an interesting question so the next theory

00:19:30.840 They have here that aligns what you just said

00:19:32.720 Is audience fantasy found family appeals to viewers

00:19:35.820 Who may feel alienated from traditional family

00:19:38.420 Structures it also romanticizes the idea that love

00:19:41.320 Not blood defines family which again may make it 1.00

00:19:44.880 Seem more accessible to people according to a 2023

00:19:49.700 Survey by Nippon Research Center approximately 88.6%

00:19:53.580 Of high school students in Japan watch anime

00:19:55.360 Indicating high prevalence among those typically

00:19:57.800 Aged 15 to 18

00:19:59.120 Who's that small percent 11% who's not 0.99

00:20:03.260 Losers 12% I mean yeah whatever 1.00

00:20:05.760 Combining these let's see a 2017 report from

00:20:09.420 Famitsu Intelligent Strategic Marketing estimated

00:20:11.560 That 65% of 5 to 9 year olds and 44% of 10 to 19 year olds

00:20:16.220 In Japan watch anime suggesting a significant

00:20:18.160 Portion of the under 18 demographic engages

00:20:20.340 With anime combining these insights

00:20:22.320 It's reasonable to estimate that a

00:20:23.800 Substantial percentage of anime audiences

00:20:26.000 In Japan are under 18 likely 0.95

00:20:28.200 Around 40 to 50% when considering

00:20:30.100 Broader 5 to 19 age ranges

00:20:32.400 Though exact figures are

00:20:34.080 Unknown it's hard to

00:20:36.600 They don't there's not anything that shows

00:20:38.680 But it I mean the conclusion is younger viewers 5 to 19

00:20:41.940 Form a core part of the audience

00:20:43.400 But viewership drops off in older age groups

00:20:45.580 With only 40% of young adults

00:20:48.120 And under 20% of those over 60 watching anime

00:20:51.920 So clearly there's a drop off

00:20:53.680 If we're going from 88%

00:20:55.880 Of teens

00:20:57.340 To 40% of young adults

00:21:00.600 And that's like people in their 20s

00:21:02.040 Who may still be in that kind of teen mode 0.73

00:21:04.000 Of families disgusting

00:21:05.020 I think I think that I find that can that

00:21:08.420 To be the most compelling theory so far

00:21:10.260 Is that it's about youth oriented media

00:21:12.080 And you often talk about this role

00:21:14.540 Of life stages that people

00:21:16.100 In their youth have very

00:21:18.540 Different sources of

00:21:20.360 Contentment pleasure and satisfaction

00:21:22.480 Than people who are in like 1.00

00:21:24.700 Their late 20s early 30s

00:21:26.480 And then from people who are in their 40s to 50s

00:21:28.660 And then 50s to 60s

00:21:30.000 And if you don't recognize that

00:21:32.600 The things that bring you satisfaction

00:21:34.360 Change over time

00:21:35.500 You're going to try to be happy

00:21:37.580 In your like 30s to 40s

00:21:39.680 By like traveling 0.67

00:21:41.580 And having a lot of sex 0.73

00:21:43.260 And like you know 0.93

00:21:44.540 Doing all this like socializing

00:21:46.040 And partying

00:21:46.760 And playing video games

00:21:48.240 And yet you're not getting

00:21:49.460 The same satisfaction from it

00:21:50.640 When at that time

00:21:51.440 If instead you had invested

00:21:52.520 In like building a family

00:21:54.500 And a home life

00:21:55.200 You would have gotten

00:21:55.780 So much more out of it

00:21:56.960 So I think that's

00:21:57.940 That's more probably what's going on

00:21:59.480 Yeah

00:22:00.300 Because we can still

00:22:01.440 And we can still enjoy

00:22:02.860 These plots as adults

00:22:04.800 And just kind of pretend

00:22:05.800 That they're biological parents too

00:22:07.380 Like I don't think

00:22:08.360 It doesn't alienate

00:22:09.520 The older audiences

00:22:10.340 But it would alienate

00:22:12.380 The younger audiences

00:22:13.480 That's a good point

00:22:15.000 It feels very grown up

00:22:16.120 And these don't feel as grown up

00:22:17.500 And we can get to that

00:22:18.420 With a hypothesis that's coming up

00:22:19.980 But I'd also note here

00:22:21.440 You know our kids

00:22:22.200 Are already watching anime

00:22:23.120 A lot

00:22:23.700 They watch a lot of Pokemon

00:22:25.440 They love

00:22:26.520 Oh and Sailor Moon too dude

00:22:28.140 Oh yeah you have

00:22:29.740 Oh and that magical girl one 0.77

00:22:31.040 What's the one about like

00:22:32.700 That's one they just watch with us

00:22:34.540 Because we're watching it

00:22:35.200 The one about the magical girl

00:22:36.380 Who works at like a startup

00:22:37.420 Oh no but no

00:22:38.640 Honestly here's the crazy thing

00:22:40.220 Is Titan watched that

00:22:41.480 Before watching Sailor Moon

00:22:43.880 For the first time

00:22:44.620 And now when Sailor Moon

00:22:47.380 And her compatriots

00:22:49.120 Have their transformation

00:22:50.080 She's like magical girl transformation 0.99

00:22:52.380 Like she knows exactly

00:22:53.780 The trope that's taking place

00:22:55.240 And it cracks me up

00:22:56.620 Like she understands

00:22:57.660 She's just like

00:22:58.780 Of course magical girl transformation

00:23:01.180 Magical girl transformation

00:23:03.580 She says that

00:23:04.420 Yeah it kind of blew my mind

00:23:06.920 Because I was like

00:23:07.320 Wow you actually really

00:23:08.700 So for our younger kids

00:23:10.660 We have a projector

00:23:11.360 And we play various shows

00:23:13.580 From my childhood

00:23:14.580 Because like I don't trust

00:23:15.480 Modern cartoons

00:23:16.180 So we play like G.I. Joe

00:23:18.180 We've done some X-Men

00:23:20.520 From like the 80s

00:23:21.940 We've done a lot of

00:23:23.220 Magical School Bus

00:23:24.360 And one of the ones

00:23:26.140 That they've been

00:23:26.960 Hugely obsessed with recently

00:23:28.560 Is Pokemon

00:23:30.060 Yeah we live in a Pokemon house now 0.86

00:23:32.260 And they love Pikachu

00:23:32.860 Every single one of them

00:23:34.060 Loves Pikachu

00:23:35.100 Everyone has a Pikachu plush

00:23:36.800 Everyone

00:23:37.320 Octavian has changed

00:23:38.680 His favorite color to yellow

00:23:39.820 Because that is the color of Pikachu

00:23:41.660 Really?

00:23:42.060 Oh yeah

00:23:42.420 Dead is red

00:23:43.900 Red is dead

00:23:44.940 Yellow's in 1.00

00:23:46.060 I had no idea

00:23:47.780 That is

00:23:48.360 Did he explain this to you?

00:23:50.480 Yes he did

00:23:51.080 Yes he did

00:23:52.040 That's great

00:23:53.540 That's great

00:23:54.040 You know we're teaching

00:23:54.860 Our kids good values here

00:23:56.060 I'll put that scene

00:23:56.960 From South Park

00:23:57.900 What did he say?

00:24:03.840 He said

00:24:04.300 All right

00:24:07.700 So here's another hypothesis

00:24:09.660 Avoiding romance complications

00:24:11.760 Biological partners are often paired

00:24:14.480 With a romantic partner

00:24:15.640 Which can overshadow

00:24:16.620 The parenting theme

00:24:17.600 Adoptive stories often focus

00:24:19.400 More tightly on the bond itself

00:24:21.100 I don't buy that

00:24:23.180 One that I did buy a bit more

00:24:25.020 Was saying

00:24:26.080 Well you know

00:24:26.800 You can have people

00:24:27.480 Falling in love

00:24:28.340 And like a will they

00:24:29.160 Or won't they

00:24:29.940 Sort of a thing

00:24:30.860 If they are adoptive

00:24:32.940 Because they haven't already

00:24:34.160 You know

00:24:34.560 Consummated their relationship

00:24:35.840 And they're not

00:24:36.740 Officially married

00:24:37.560 Except

00:24:38.660 True Lies

00:24:39.640 Does that really

00:24:40.480 Really well

00:24:41.240 Even though they're

00:24:42.420 Already in a marriage

00:24:43.280 If you remember

00:24:43.980 The wife is 0.87

00:24:45.200 Thinking about

00:24:45.840 Cheating on the husband

00:24:46.580 And she's

00:24:47.120 Sorry

00:24:47.600 Sorry

00:24:48.680 That a marriage

00:24:50.080 Is falling apart

00:24:50.820 And it's about

00:24:51.320 The marriage

00:24:51.740 Coming back together

00:24:52.480 And being

00:24:52.900 Resolidified

00:24:53.960 Based on this

00:24:54.760 That's fine

00:24:55.580 But like

00:24:56.280 It works really well

00:24:57.660 Despite all of this

00:24:58.920 You don't

00:24:59.780 You don't need them

00:25:00.800 To not already

00:25:01.580 Be married

00:25:02.120 To have a story

00:25:02.840 About the strengthening

00:25:03.560 Of a relationship

00:25:04.440 Yeah

00:25:05.360 Now

00:25:06.460 Let's talk about

00:25:07.500 The tonal differences

00:25:08.420 Between the two

00:25:09.240 Because I found this

00:25:10.620 To be really interesting

00:25:11.540 So

00:25:13.000 If you look at

00:25:13.980 Adoptive

00:25:14.520 If you're looking

00:25:14.980 At the tone

00:25:15.560 They're often

00:25:16.380 Heartwarming

00:25:17.020 And I want to

00:25:17.820 Get your theory

00:25:18.300 On this

00:25:18.660 Because I did not

00:25:19.740 Feel I had a good

00:25:20.440 Explanation from this

00:25:21.300 From your earlier thoughts

00:25:22.360 Okay

00:25:22.820 So for the tone

00:25:23.580 They're often

00:25:24.060 Heartwarming

00:25:25.220 Comedic

00:25:26.300 Or redemptive

00:25:27.240 In biological

00:25:28.840 They're often

00:25:29.820 Bittersweet

00:25:30.560 Serious

00:25:31.160 Or melancholic

00:25:31.980 In theme

00:25:33.300 Chosen family 0.83

00:25:34.200 Is focused on

00:25:35.440 Healing identity

00:25:36.360 Beyond blood

00:25:37.380 In biological

00:25:38.500 And often just like

00:25:39.500 So sweetness

00:25:40.540 Is the main theme

00:25:41.460 In biological

00:25:42.940 It's about

00:25:43.600 Legacy

00:25:44.060 Sacrifice

00:25:44.940 Letting go

00:25:45.660 And personal growth

00:25:46.740 Like heavy stuff

00:25:48.500 Common arcs

00:25:49.700 For adoptive

00:25:50.820 Reluctant parent softens

00:25:52.600 Or found family bonds

00:25:54.520 But for biological

00:25:55.920 It's parental endurance

00:25:57.520 Coming of age

00:25:58.480 Tragedy of loss

00:25:59.880 What that totally

00:26:01.380 Both of those check out

00:26:02.580 Because really

00:26:03.600 What they are

00:26:04.400 Is coming of age stories

00:26:05.940 They're not about

00:26:07.400 Biological family at all 1.00

00:26:09.440 It's about

00:26:10.380 Like some

00:26:10.980 Some big gauntlet

00:26:12.020 That they're running

00:26:12.540 Some big challenge

00:26:13.460 Learning how to

00:26:14.240 Become responsible

00:26:14.980 And often

00:26:16.660 Learning how to

00:26:17.320 Become responsible

00:26:17.980 For yourself

00:26:18.800 By becoming

00:26:19.860 Responsible for others

00:26:20.960 And I feel like

00:26:21.980 Those themes come up

00:26:23.080 In shows like

00:26:24.040 Spy family 0.89

00:26:24.660 The characters are

00:26:26.200 The characters are forced

00:26:26.820 To find themselves

00:26:30.280 Deserving of love

00:26:31.440 To overcome

00:26:32.760 Deep dark fears

00:26:35.060 Through the obligations

00:26:37.120 Imposed on them

00:26:38.080 By their adoptive families

00:26:39.380 Yeah

00:26:40.120 So that makes sense

00:26:41.320 So that makes sense

00:26:41.340 And I think this

00:26:42.160 This feeling of

00:26:43.640 Losing a partner

00:26:45.920 And then having a child

00:26:47.540 With you to take care of

00:26:48.980 Is definitely something

00:26:50.080 That can resonate

00:26:50.800 To someone who's a teenager

00:26:53.200 Who's anticipating

00:26:54.540 This point in their life

00:26:55.780 At which they lose

00:26:56.960 Their support network

00:26:58.980 Their parents

00:26:59.560 As they're expected

00:27:00.180 To become an adult

00:27:01.340 And I think that

00:27:02.920 In a way

00:27:03.840 This psychologically

00:27:06.320 They

00:27:07.520 They are their own parent

00:27:09.760 And they are their own child

00:27:11.240 And they know

00:27:12.380 That they're going to have

00:27:13.280 To basically

00:27:13.860 Take care of themselves

00:27:16.400 And that these stories

00:27:18.040 Kind of help them

00:27:18.760 Subconsciously

00:27:19.620 Get through the grief

00:27:20.440 Of no longer getting

00:27:21.480 To mooch off their parents

00:27:22.720 You think about

00:27:23.200 The grief in that one

00:27:24.620 And the other ones

00:27:25.160 Are about

00:27:25.680 Just sort of

00:27:27.220 Masturbating the sensation

00:27:28.660 Of

00:27:29.300 You know

00:27:30.500 I'm going to be on my own

00:27:31.680 I'm going to have to

00:27:32.340 Fend for myself

00:27:33.180 And take care of the helpless

00:27:34.760 That's not what they're doing

00:27:36.140 I'm talking about

00:27:36.960 The adoptive ones

00:27:37.880 Like why are the adoptive ones 1.00

00:27:39.720 So happy

00:27:40.440 In their theming generally

00:27:41.740 I think a lot of that

00:27:43.100 Has to do with

00:27:43.600 Teenage rebellion

00:27:44.200 And building your own identity

00:27:45.320 You know

00:27:46.220 But the adoptive ones

00:27:47.260 Often aren't about that

00:27:48.500 The adoptive

00:27:49.420 Adoptive

00:27:50.160 Adoptive

00:27:50.680 That's what I'm talking about

00:27:51.680 Yeah where they're often

00:27:52.320 Comedic and happy

00:27:54.040 Yeah

00:27:54.500 Like yeah

00:27:55.140 Because this

00:27:55.700 As a teen

00:27:56.760 You're building your own family

00:27:57.840 You're building your identity

00:27:58.820 You're choosing who your friends are

00:28:00.340 You are choosing

00:28:01.260 This argument you're making

00:28:02.120 Makes no sense

00:28:02.740 Because you're arguing

00:28:03.660 That both the biological

00:28:04.620 And the adoptive

00:28:05.480 Fill this fantasy

00:28:06.300 No

00:28:07.020 The biological one 0.55

00:28:08.340 Is about

00:28:09.000 Coming to terms

00:28:10.660 With the

00:28:11.440 The responsibility

00:28:12.460 You are going to have

00:28:13.440 For yourself as an adult

00:28:14.600 And how that's both scary

00:28:15.660 And kind of sad

00:28:16.520 But also character building

00:28:18.380 The other one

00:28:19.480 This other is about

00:28:20.520 The responsibility

00:28:21.260 Of yourself as an adult

00:28:22.320 No

00:28:22.700 It's about the fun parts

00:28:24.200 Of building your own identity

00:28:26.400 Building your own friend group

00:28:28.020 But then why separate that

00:28:29.600 Based on adoptive

00:28:30.340 And biological

00:28:30.900 Because they're both

00:28:31.700 Different feelings

00:28:32.300 One is based on

00:28:33.140 On the fear

00:28:33.660 And the grief

00:28:34.240 And the

00:28:34.840 The hard growth

00:28:36.220 The other one

00:28:36.840 Is built on the

00:28:37.880 Discovery

00:28:39.320 And interest

00:28:40.420 And freedom

00:28:41.160 Of it

00:28:41.740 Because

00:28:42.200 There's an element

00:28:43.320 Of adulthood

00:28:44.600 Where you get to

00:28:45.860 Have all that freedom

00:28:47.100 And choose who you hang out with

00:28:48.420 And choose who you get to be

00:28:49.560 And then there's the other element

00:28:51.160 Of it

00:28:51.480 Where you are now

00:28:52.200 Burdened with yourself

00:28:53.260 Well okay

00:28:54.400 Here's a better

00:28:55.380 Explanation

00:28:56.380 I think

00:28:56.740 Okay

00:28:56.980 Okay

00:28:57.460 In Japan

00:28:58.840 They do not

00:29:00.260 Believe

00:29:00.840 That having a kid

00:29:02.120 Is a choice

00:29:02.620 They see it as a duty

00:29:03.720 To their family

00:29:04.480 Really

00:29:05.160 And a duty

00:29:05.780 To their role

00:29:06.440 In society

00:29:07.080 I mean

00:29:07.840 Well this is just part

00:29:08.640 Of Confucian value systems

00:29:09.980 In Japan

00:29:11.200 With Confucian value systems 0.96

00:29:13.880 In Japan

00:29:14.400 Japan has Confucian value systems 0.95

00:29:17.080 I ain't feeling it

00:29:20.040 You don't think

00:29:22.140 That Japan believes in duty

00:29:23.580 Duty to family

00:29:26.340 Or duty to ancestors

00:29:27.420 Now hold on

00:29:28.020 You don't think

00:29:28.960 That Japan 0.99

00:29:29.620 Has an undercurrent

00:29:30.940 In everything

00:29:31.700 Tied to duty

00:29:32.380 To family

00:29:32.800 And ancestors

00:29:33.380 Not anymore

00:29:35.980 But maybe that's why

00:29:36.880 Their birth rates

00:29:37.500 Are lower

00:29:37.980 So

00:29:38.680 I mean

00:29:38.880 I do think

00:29:39.400 That they do

00:29:40.780 And I would argue

00:29:41.480 It's a major part

00:29:42.180 Of their culture 0.91

00:29:42.640 And I would argue

00:29:43.420 That they see

00:29:44.420 Having a kid

00:29:45.600 As part of that duty

00:29:46.640 And something that is

00:29:47.980 In a way

00:29:48.420 Inescapable

00:29:49.400 If they find a partner

00:29:51.020 And because of that

00:29:52.640 At least one kid

00:29:53.480 Right

00:29:53.620 Like it's something

00:29:54.080 They're supposed to try

00:29:55.120 Like you're not

00:29:55.780 Going to get the same

00:29:56.480 Proud dinks 1.00

00:29:57.780 In Japan 0.62

00:29:58.240 As you would get

00:29:58.780 In the US

00:29:59.220 That would just be

00:29:59.800 Shameful

00:30:00.220 Right

00:30:00.520 And so

00:30:01.960 Kids

00:30:03.420 If you're making

00:30:04.160 The kid the choice

00:30:05.240 The thing that you're

00:30:06.000 Opting into

00:30:06.560 It always has to be

00:30:07.440 Adoptive

00:30:07.900 Because a kid

00:30:09.040 Head biologically

00:30:09.760 Is never a choice

00:30:10.960 It's always a duty

00:30:12.460 Oh that's

00:30:13.380 Okay

00:30:13.680 Well yeah

00:30:14.300 I mean that's

00:30:14.720 An interesting theory

00:30:15.520 That is interesting

00:30:16.660 Yeah well and I think

00:30:19.560 I think this is

00:30:20.240 This is also interesting

00:30:21.320 In the context

00:30:22.100 Of Aria Babu's

00:30:23.540 Observation

00:30:24.280 That more socially

00:30:25.420 Conservative

00:30:25.920 Countries that see

00:30:27.420 These things

00:30:28.000 As obligations

00:30:28.800 See lower birth rates

00:30:30.780 Maybe because

00:30:31.820 When you make this

00:30:32.660 An exogenous obligation

00:30:33.920 The intrinsic motivation

00:30:35.620 Disappears

00:30:36.280 Yeah

00:30:36.940 And this could be

00:30:38.120 A media based reflection

00:30:40.260 Of that toxic dynamic

00:30:42.200 Of exogenous pressure

00:30:43.840 To have kids

00:30:44.660 Making the only way

00:30:46.160 To have kids

00:30:46.740 Romantically

00:30:47.420 Or in an inspiring way

00:30:48.940 Through adoption

00:30:50.080 Which is interesting

00:30:51.840 Yeah

00:30:53.020 That's what I think

00:30:54.640 Is going on

00:30:55.460 Huh

00:30:55.880 I think that

00:30:58.160 Plus that

00:30:58.900 It's a big turn off

00:31:00.060 For kids

00:31:00.820 To have

00:31:02.220 A family

00:31:03.300 Yeah I mean

00:31:04.480 Spy family is 1.00

00:31:05.620 At least my interpretation

00:31:06.760 From where I see it sold

00:31:07.860 Disproportionately bought

00:31:09.520 By young people

00:31:10.220 Yeah

00:31:10.800 Yeah

00:31:11.320 That makes sense

00:31:12.420 And there was one manga

00:31:14.140 That I read

00:31:14.860 As a kid

00:31:15.800 And loved

00:31:16.680 That did have parents

00:31:18.620 More actively involved

00:31:20.700 But only in a way

00:31:22.740 That really mocked

00:31:23.540 The parents

00:31:24.140 And so that

00:31:25.680 Two adoptive siblings

00:31:28.660 Essentially

00:31:29.200 Fell in love

00:31:30.580 Like so it was like

00:31:31.320 Brother and sister

00:31:32.060 But not really

00:31:32.880 And the parents

00:31:34.100 Were swingers

00:31:34.760 Who just

00:31:35.800 It's okay

00:31:36.420 If they're adopted

00:31:37.420 That's the way

00:31:38.180 Anime always works

00:31:39.340 I mean

00:31:40.220 Yeah

00:31:40.700 But but again

00:31:41.620 Like the both

00:31:42.640 Of the

00:31:42.960 Both parents

00:31:43.940 Remained there

00:31:44.820 It's just

00:31:45.220 They swapped partners

00:31:46.300 So it was like

00:31:47.800 If your dad

00:31:48.640 Married my mom

00:31:50.540 And my mom

00:31:51.220 Married

00:31:51.540 Sorry

00:31:52.980 And my dad

00:31:53.580 Married your mom 0.96

00:31:54.180 Wait really

00:31:54.740 That's the way it worked

00:31:55.820 Yeah

00:31:56.320 Like they

00:31:56.900 Yeah

00:31:57.360 Yeah

00:31:58.740 And then

00:31:59.280 And then

00:31:59.600 So the two

00:32:00.380 Then like

00:32:00.960 Their kids

00:32:01.740 Ended up living

00:32:02.400 In the same house

00:32:03.120 Because I think

00:32:03.520 They all ended up

00:32:04.140 Living together

00:32:04.660 Or something

00:32:05.160 It was

00:32:06.320 It was a weird manga

00:32:07.140 I can't remember

00:32:07.940 What it was called

00:32:09.820 Someone chime in

00:32:10.860 In the comments

00:32:11.420 It was

00:32:11.800 I think it was

00:32:12.360 Very popular

00:32:13.060 People don't know

00:32:14.520 No no

00:32:14.860 There's a few

00:32:15.560 Like I mean

00:32:16.440 Obviously the one

00:32:17.340 That everybody

00:32:17.960 Would always come to

00:32:18.780 For the

00:32:19.220 Adoptive brother

00:32:20.160 One

00:32:20.360 I think

00:32:20.760 Kiss Sis 1.00

00:32:21.340 Is an adoptive brother

00:32:22.380 The one that I love

00:32:24.200 There was also

00:32:24.740 An adoptive brother

00:32:25.580 In Gossip Girl

00:32:26.780 Oh really

00:32:28.340 Yeah

00:32:28.960 I'm thinking of the one

00:32:29.880 It was an anime

00:32:30.820 That only had one season

00:32:31.860 And it had a very

00:32:33.120 Strange art style

00:32:33.940 And it's something

00:32:34.700 Called like

00:32:35.360 I'm not in love

00:32:36.840 With my brother

00:32:37.460 And a big feature

00:32:39.520 Of it was the girl

00:32:40.240 Had like an orange

00:32:41.100 Shirt and like

00:32:42.020 Black stockings

00:32:42.900 I found it really funny

00:32:43.900 Yeah

00:32:44.480 And he builds up

00:32:45.660 Like a harem in it 0.99

00:32:46.560 I love harem animes 0.82

00:32:47.720 I think they're the best

00:32:48.600 Well

00:32:49.780 You're in luck

00:32:50.960 Given

00:32:51.980 That it's like

00:32:53.220 God

00:32:54.140 What percentage

00:32:54.760 Of animes

00:32:55.660 Are harem animes 1.00

00:32:56.600 Some insane amount

00:32:58.820 Simone

00:32:59.560 When do I get

00:33:00.200 My other four wives 0.96

00:33:01.200 Like I've seen

00:33:01.960 An anime

00:33:02.380 That's supposed to happen

00:33:03.540 No

00:33:05.160 It's not for

00:33:05.980 It's

00:33:06.260 You

00:33:06.720 You

00:33:07.160 You live

00:33:09.040 You know

00:33:10.600 I guess

00:33:11.000 You know

00:33:11.260 Is Silicon Valley

00:33:12.220 The harem

00:33:12.860 The harem reality

00:33:15.480 Like the closest you'll get

00:33:16.800 I mean

00:33:17.060 Half of the women 0.96

00:33:17.920 Will actually

00:33:18.440 Have been natal males 1.00

00:33:19.500 But still

00:33:20.260 Is that kind of it

00:33:21.420 Yeah

00:33:22.460 It's harem reality 0.93

00:33:23.320 No

00:33:23.700 I was talking to Simone

00:33:25.080 Recently

00:33:25.440 There's this recent trope

00:33:26.360 In anime

00:33:26.700 Of the like

00:33:28.120 Absolutely virginal

00:33:29.560 Absolutely

00:33:30.220 Like saintly

00:33:31.840 Girl among the harem 1.00

00:33:33.160 Which is the only one

00:33:33.940 The guy actually wants

00:33:34.900 To marry

00:33:35.360 And is the sweetest

00:33:36.320 And I was like

00:33:37.300 She gives off such vibes 0.98

00:33:38.700 Of that character

00:33:39.440 Just in the way

00:33:40.640 She interacts with our kids

00:33:41.700 And everything

00:33:42.180 You know

00:33:42.560 She's so saintly

00:33:43.640 All the time

00:33:44.360 Because they cough

00:33:46.600 In my face

00:33:47.200 And I don't get mad

00:33:48.120 You don't

00:33:49.320 They're actively

00:33:50.960 Giving me COVID

00:33:51.860 Just take it

00:33:53.940 Just take it

00:33:55.280 Like a champ

00:33:55.940 Like I'm gonna

00:33:56.840 Tank it

00:33:57.520 When you get back

00:33:59.280 After you get your

00:33:59.820 C-section

00:34:00.260 If any of the kids

00:34:01.060 Are sick

00:34:01.340 Let me know

00:34:01.700 And I'm gonna

00:34:01.980 Handle them

00:34:02.500 It's not like

00:34:05.060 I'm not

00:34:05.340 I'm not gonna

00:34:05.840 Not make dinner

00:34:06.820 For them

00:34:07.200 I'm not gonna

00:34:07.640 Not clean up

00:34:08.280 After everyone

00:34:08.860 Yeah but I could 0.96

00:34:09.660 Bathe them 0.96

00:34:10.280 And stuff like that

00:34:11.240 And carry them

00:34:12.040 Up the stairs

00:34:12.740 It's the carrying

00:34:13.680 Up the stairs part

00:34:14.700 Where like

00:34:15.180 Yeah I'll do

00:34:15.900 Those two things

00:34:16.660 It's like they

00:34:17.380 We get them

00:34:19.280 To cough into their elbows

00:34:20.500 But when I am

00:34:22.080 Carrying them

00:34:22.880 They decide

00:34:23.660 That they have to

00:34:24.500 At that moment

00:34:25.280 Get right up here

00:34:27.420 You know what is so cool

00:34:27.600 When I can like

00:34:28.520 Ask an

00:34:29.120 You know

00:34:30.240 An anime about us

00:34:31.280 These

00:34:31.660 Like an AI

00:34:32.900 About us these days

00:34:33.820 And we see like

00:34:34.740 AI creation of anime

00:34:35.820 And stuff like that

00:34:36.380 And it's like

00:34:36.640 Early stages

00:34:37.420 I bet in 10 years

00:34:38.960 We'll just be able

00:34:39.620 To ask an AI

00:34:40.160 To create an anime

00:34:40.860 About our family

00:34:41.520 And it'll just

00:34:42.060 Pump one out

00:34:42.760 We don't need to though

00:34:43.780 Because all of our kids

00:34:44.680 Just assume that

00:34:45.480 They are the protagonist

00:34:46.320 That every anime

00:34:47.260 Is about them

00:34:48.000 Yeah we're watching

00:34:49.640 Titan literally believes

00:34:51.020 She is every single

00:34:52.180 Character in animes

00:34:53.620 Including the male characters

00:34:55.200 Yeah

00:34:56.160 Like that's Titan

00:34:57.160 And that's Titan

00:34:58.180 And that's Titan

00:34:59.340 She is

00:35:00.560 It's not

00:35:01.120 It's not main character

00:35:02.120 Syndrome

00:35:02.480 It's like

00:35:03.240 It's

00:35:04.360 Unity syndrome

00:35:05.200 She's got it bad

00:35:07.320 It's gonna

00:35:10.300 Hive mind them all

00:35:11.620 Yeah

00:35:12.040 They're all Titan

00:35:13.160 So what are we doing

00:35:14.220 For dinner tonight

00:35:14.920 The world's your oyster

00:35:16.860 You did buy that

00:35:17.740 Teriyaki stuff

00:35:18.580 At

00:35:19.240 Oh that'd be really

00:35:20.880 Easy on my stomach

00:35:21.700 You also

00:35:23.140 Did buy

00:35:23.880 Like some kind of

00:35:24.560 Kimchi soup thing

00:35:25.920 At the Asian market

00:35:27.200 A while ago

00:35:28.400 That I

00:35:29.160 Rediscovered

00:35:30.260 In the

00:35:31.000 Deep

00:35:31.460 Freezer chest

00:35:32.520 So that's

00:35:34.060 An option

00:35:34.580 And

00:35:36.460 Send me a picture

00:35:37.160 On whatsapp

00:35:37.880 When you're ready

00:35:38.460 Okay yeah

00:35:39.420 I'll head down

00:35:40.000 Take a picture of it

00:35:40.900 And you can decide

00:35:41.680 So I guess it's

00:35:42.200 That or teriyaki

00:35:42.920 You could also do

00:35:43.820 More freezer

00:35:45.360 I'm also happy

00:35:47.740 With doing freezer stuff

00:35:48.640 Just to go through

00:35:49.300 As long as you don't 0.56

00:35:49.860 Get that disgusting

00:35:50.580 Freezer rice

00:35:51.680 Oh you don't want

00:35:53.680 To do

00:35:54.020 Fried freezer

00:35:54.680 Fried freezer rice

00:35:55.860 Anymore

00:35:56.160 Whatever that was

00:35:57.100 No I do not

00:35:58.040 Last time

00:35:58.440 That was

00:35:58.840 Okay then I will

00:35:59.600 Discard the other one

00:36:00.640 It was just two

00:36:01.520 Leftover fried rice

00:36:03.020 Batches that I thought

00:36:03.820 Would thaw out okay

00:36:04.820 But I guess

00:36:05.380 No it was the meat

00:36:06.780 That I'd used

00:36:07.300 And it just didn't

00:36:07.860 Really work

00:36:08.420 There wasn't meat

00:36:11.800 In that fried rice

00:36:12.500 Yes there was

00:36:14.000 It was a lot of meat

00:36:15.240 Oh

00:36:15.860 It was the pork crumble

00:36:17.340 That you ended up using

00:36:18.220 To try to make your

00:36:18.900 Scotch eggs

00:36:19.540 Oh

00:36:20.120 It didn't work

00:36:20.800 Yeah

00:36:22.420 Costco has nothing good

00:36:25.580 Yeah

00:36:27.500 The chicken crumbles

00:36:29.740 BJ's outcompetes them 1.00

00:36:30.860 Yeah

00:36:32.100 BJ's is so great

00:36:33.820 Yeah I feel bad

00:36:34.600 For anyone who

00:36:35.140 Doesn't have access

00:36:35.740 To BJ's

00:36:36.160 I feel bad

00:36:37.300 For anyone who

00:36:38.000 Is a large family

00:36:39.040 In shops at a

00:36:39.860 Wegmans

00:36:40.340 Not to like

00:36:42.240 My brother

00:36:44.380 Cast shade

00:36:45.820 But yeah

00:36:48.240 I mean

00:36:49.720 I love you

00:36:51.140 I love you too

00:36:52.440 Like what's the thing

00:36:53.140 They have good food

00:36:53.940 It's got like a variety

00:36:56.300 They have the German bread

00:36:59.460 That I like

00:37:00.040 You could throw it

00:37:01.420 Through a window

00:37:01.840 And break it

00:37:02.520 That kind of stuff

00:37:03.280 Today you got all

00:37:03.760 Of the synergy popcorn

00:37:05.000 From Trader Joe's

00:37:06.560 You got a whole

00:37:07.200 Shopping cart

00:37:07.920 Pool of it

00:37:08.500 Oh so good

00:37:09.780 So good

00:37:11.520 It's like the

00:37:12.640 Limited edition

00:37:13.500 Adidas

00:37:14.120 Of Trader Joe's

00:37:15.620 So excited 1.00

00:37:17.000 Stuff your stupid face 1.00

00:37:19.460 I will 1.00

00:37:20.040 I will

00:37:20.960 And I already did

00:37:22.420 And now I'm gonna have

00:37:23.380 Their frozen tamales

00:37:24.440 That's what I'm having

00:37:25.340 Anyway

00:37:26.540 I'm super excited for that

00:37:27.680 I love you

00:37:28.220 You're beautiful

00:37:28.880 And

00:37:29.580 Tally ho 0.93

00:37:32.040 Something something

00:37:33.120 So what happened

00:37:36.840 Toasty

00:37:37.140 Why are there

00:37:37.580 No leaves

00:37:38.100 Because

00:37:39.020 Fall comes

00:37:40.160 And then the leaves

00:37:41.900 Poked off

00:37:42.960 Wait

00:37:43.680 So this happens

00:37:44.480 Every year

00:37:45.120 Are the leaves

00:37:47.820 Gonna come back

00:37:48.340 In spring

00:37:48.820 Wait Octavian

00:37:56.060 What happens

00:37:56.760 If the bus

00:37:57.220 Comes while you're

00:37:57.800 In the tree

00:37:58.380 No

00:37:59.540 No you gotta

00:38:01.280 Come down buddy

00:38:01.940 It's too late

00:38:02.800 You could've done

00:38:03.400 This a bit earlier

00:38:04.000 But not now

00:38:04.640 Hey but I got

00:38:06.700 A question for you

00:38:07.260 Actually Octavian

00:38:07.960 Is daddy a superhero

00:38:11.880 Yes

00:38:12.540 What's his superpower

00:38:14.500 His superpower

00:38:16.080 Is to make

00:38:17.780 Like a shield

00:38:19.740 I make shields

00:38:23.780 Yeah

00:38:24.760 What's your superpower

00:38:26.740 Invisibility

00:38:30.480 Invisibility

00:38:31.640 You like that one

00:38:32.960 Yeah

00:38:33.560 Then nobody

00:38:34.460 Comes to me

00:38:35.860 Well I'll give you a potion

00:38:44.240 I'm a guy

00:38:45.440 You can see

00:38:46.420 Everybody

00:38:47.000 Even me

00:38:49.860 Really?

00:38:50.940 How will you make

00:38:51.500 The potion?

00:38:53.860 Well it's a potion

00:38:54.860 So yeah

00:38:55.740 With a potion skill

00:38:57.660 Yeah

00:38:58.760 You're gonna need

00:38:59.820 To learn it

00:39:00.320 At school

00:39:00.820 Yeah

00:39:03.480 I wanna go

00:39:04.840 On my car

00:39:05.840 Are you gonna

00:39:08.680 Hit the

00:39:09.120 Are you gonna

00:39:09.880 Hit the horn?

00:39:11.240 Yeah

00:39:11.680 Then you can't

00:39:12.920 Go inside

00:39:13.380 You hit the horn

00:39:14.020 Yesterday

00:39:14.360 So I can't

00:39:14.860 Let you in

00:39:15.380 Can I

00:39:16.100 Find someone

00:39:16.620 No

00:39:17.180 Because you

00:39:17.660 Woke up

00:39:18.100 Stacy and John

00:39:18.840 Do you want

00:39:20.160 John to be

00:39:20.520 Mad at you?

00:39:21.060 No

00:39:21.420 I don't

00:39:22.080 I don't

00:39:22.200 I don't

00:39:22.480 I don't

00:39:24.480 Hey Octavian

00:39:26.500 You wanna tell people

00:39:27.060 To like and subscribe

00:39:27.720 Actually Titan

00:39:28.540 Do you wanna tell people

00:39:30.060 To like and subscribe?

00:39:31.340 Yeah

00:39:31.740 Okay what do you wanna say

00:39:33.540 How do you say it?

00:39:36.080 Titan

00:39:36.400 How do you say

00:39:36.860 Like and subscribe?

00:39:37.640 Titan

00:39:37.960 Are you too scared?

00:39:46.560 Octavian

00:39:47.060 Do you wanna say it

00:39:47.680 For Titan

00:39:48.100 So she can see

00:39:48.760 How you do it

00:39:49.380 Titan come here

00:39:51.620 Octavian

00:39:52.360 Octavian

00:39:52.780 Here

00:39:53.020 Come over here

00:39:54.220 They can't see you

00:39:55.000 Daddy

00:39:55.440 I was so high

00:39:56.860 On that tree

00:39:58.020 Torsten

00:39:58.500 Do you wanna say

00:39:59.040 Like and subscribe?

00:40:02.540 Uh oh

00:40:03.100 School bus

00:40:03.880 So daddy

00:40:05.320 You have to be

00:40:05.980 A wizard

00:40:06.620 You have to be

00:40:08.100 A wizard

00:40:08.440 To keep

00:40:09.020 A channel

00:40:09.460 For not

00:40:10.000 Escape

00:40:10.340 To listen

00:40:11.560 Do something

00:40:13.020 Like

00:40:13.500 No keeping

00:40:14.260 To escaping

00:40:16.240 Oh

00:40:16.860 I have to be

00:40:17.400 A wizard

00:40:17.700 To cast a spell

00:40:18.480 And I can only

00:40:20.480 Be a wizard

00:40:20.920 If I have a cape

00:40:21.620 But wizards

00:40:25.540 I heard that wizards

00:40:27.220 Don't have capes

00:40:28.660 Yeah they don't

00:40:29.960 Not all wizards do

00:40:30.960 Capes are really

00:40:33.860 Quite irrelevant

00:40:34.820 To magical powers

00:40:35.860 They just kind of

00:40:36.500 Make you look 0.98

00:40:36.880 Like a doofus 0.99

00:40:37.560 But

00:40:40.920 Toasty

00:40:42.300 Can you say

00:40:42.720 Like and subscribe

00:40:43.300 For the followers

00:40:44.160 Okay

00:40:45.300 Say it

00:40:46.780 Like and subscribe

00:40:48.500 And what happens

00:40:49.960 If they do it

00:40:50.660 I don't know

00:40:52.740 I don't know either

00:40:54.300 Say the algorithm

00:40:57.180 Will like this video more

00:40:58.380 I like this video more

00:41:04.340 Like and subscribe

00:41:17.180 Sh coating

00:41:17.420 That behind me

00:41:17.460 He's looking

00:41:19.840 Like and subscribe

00:41:20.280 to me

00:41:20.740 Because

00:41:21.560 umb

00:41:21.940 I know

00:41:22.020 House

00:41:22.220 About

00:41:22.560 He I know

00:41:23.180 He is

00:41:23.760 Okay

00:41:24.620 He's opening my

00:41:25.560 He's opening my

00:41:26.960 He's opening my

00:41:27.920 He's opening my

00:41:28.600 Things like

00:41:28.640 He's opening my

00:41:30.400 BeSU

Based Camp - December 17, 2025

Anime Parent Paradox： Tragic if Biological ⧸ Wholesome if Adoptive

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