Based Camp: Why Did Epstein Have So Many Customers?
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In the wake of the Epstein scandal, many have wondered if the idea that the wealthy class consort with underage women is a complete fantasy. But what if it's not? What if there's a real group of wealthy people who conspired to have sex with minors? And how did they get involved? In this episode, Simone and Malcolm discuss how this could have happened.
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male sexuality is pulled between two extremes. As a guy, you can optimize for gender dimorphism.
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So you are assuring that the thing you're breeding with is female. So this is larger butts,
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larger breasts, larger fingernails, longer hair, more voluptuous shape, or you can be optimizing
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for fertility window. The problem is, is that you're actually typically optimizing for the
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opposite when you're optimizing for fertility window. You are optimizing for youth, which means
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you're typically optimizing for smaller breasts, smaller butt, smaller waist-hip ratio, and stuff
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like that. And so we looked at the data on this, and this is one really shocking thing that we found
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is that the amount of wealth a guy had in our data set correlated with which of these extremes he
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seemed to optimize for. Would you like to know more? Hello, Simone. Hello, Malcolm. This is
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an edited recording. We had originally recorded an episode on this topic, and I decided I wanted to
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sanitize it as much as possible because I feel that this is a topic that really, really needs to be
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talked about in a sane way, but that is incredibly controversial. And so we don't want to step on any
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toes with this or make any potentially false or spurious accusations with this. Specifically,
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what we want to talk about is with this recent movie that's come out, there's been a lot of people
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being like the concept of circles within sort of the wealthy class that traffic in underage women
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is a complete fantasy. It's a complete fictional thing. And I do think a lot of this stuff is,
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you know, sort of conspiracy theories that have gone a little crazy. However, what we learned from the
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Epstein case is that it's not a complete fantasy. Like there was at least one real circle in which this
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was happening. And the reason I want to talk about this is how could this happen? In my adult life,
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I do not meet many people who like to see themselves as bad people. Most people want to see themselves as
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good people who are trying to make the world a better place. So how did giant networks of some of
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the wealthiest people in the world get roped into something like this? And I think we can look at this
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as an isolated case, but I really don't think it is. There's been a lot of people freaking out about a
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specific campaign manager having potentially artwork that looks like kids are being hurt in it in the
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artwork. Now, there is actually no proof that this artwork that he owns it, that he has it in his house.
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But what no one is really denying is that the artwork itself exists and is real and is in museums
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sometimes or is on big displays that people are funding, that people are paying a lot of money for this
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artwork. Well, it shows up in ad campaigns. I mean, yeah, like, like the, the, that the artwork exists
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is. And so this is what we mean by sort of this place is, is people can tie something like they can
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be like, this guy owns this artwork, right? And then they go in a whole rabbit hole with that. And then
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the other side can be like, well, no, actually, he's not the one who owns the artwork. And there's not
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like this third group that's saying, okay, but even if he's not, why does this artwork exist?
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And why is it being shown in like art museums and stuff like that? Like, it seems to be
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that a certain class of people within our society, the group of people or one cultural group within
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our society that goes to things like art museums doesn't have an extreme resistance to this sort of
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depiction. If you were to hang one of these pieces in, in like a Bass Pro store, or like a traditional
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black barber shop, or like our local Indian marketplace, you would be beaten near to death,
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like immediately, like the most cultural groups in America just would have zero tolerance of this.
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Yeah, within sort of, I guess I call them the art museum class in our society. There is a level of
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tolerance to this. And I think another place you saw this, there was the recent scandal was the
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clothing brand, right? Where they had, we can name it with Balenciaga. Well, are you sure we can name
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it? Yeah, I've been trying not to name anything. Okay, with Balenciaga. Now, the thing to remember is
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who is Balenciaga's client base, right? Like they are sort of an elite cultural group within our society.
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The people who are creating this ad campaign are literally the world experts in what this demographic
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within society considers, okay, what they want, what their needs are, what will catch on was in
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their cultural group. It's not like this, this campaign was created by some like random wacko,
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you know, the marketing department at Balenciaga is literally the world specialists at how do we appeal
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to, I guess what I'd call the art museum cultural group, right? And clearly like this, it's not like
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these campaigns were like the work of one person, like they got multiple levels of approval, right?
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So they thought that this would appeal to that cultural group. And so the question is, and where
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we wanted to go into all this is, without making any very like specific accusations here, is that
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there appears to be an elite cultural group in our society that has much more tolerance for this sort
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of thing than any other cultural group in our society. And when I go out in the world and like,
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I meet normal people, people who are interested in, in, in people who present physically like really
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young, that's just not that common. That's not like a common thing in the normal world. So why is it so
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common among the ultra wealthy in our society? Like that, that, that's a question that I think everybody
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recognizes is like weird that it's happening. But the only two ways we have for engaging with this
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question is either just, you know, wild conspiratorial speculation, or saying that even
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asking this question is conspiratorial. And we want to try to approach this from a more even keeled
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perspective. Right, because we've talked about this in other episodes, the essentially like dog
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whistling effect that you can get with a culture. Let's say you're Mormon and you can tell that someone
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else is a Mormon when others can't, because you can kind of see, oh, they're definitely wearing
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garments or something. It makes you feel really good. And it makes you feel a lot closer to them.
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So is perhaps all of this really blatant Lolita stuff, that kind of signaling? Is that what you're
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thinking? Well, I mean, so this is what's interesting. So I think historically, if you look at conservative
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power groups in the 50s, 60s, 70s, there were a lot of gay organizations, it was in the conservative
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power circles. And I think that, and I say this because I have tangential connections to secret
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societies that were definitely disproportionately gay and conservative power brokers back in the day,
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like Simone and I have unique access into the world of secret societies due to like
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our jobs and our backgrounds. And I can say that at least historically, that was definitely true.
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So what was it is very different from one gay today. I'm talking about gay in the 60s and 70s.
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I'm talking about the way it was perceived by society. Oh, sexual expressions, especially on the
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conservative side, might be a way that organically groups begin to bond if they are in elite power
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centers in society. Now, hold on. So what are you signaling that like kind of to get into a gang,
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for example, you might need to commit a pretty serious crime. Is this kind of something similar,
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like it is so that you have dirt on this person and that they're in your group, but also if they
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leave your group, you can destroy them because you know that they've done something that's career
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ending. For gangs, they're being sent to jail for this. Completely organic. Uh-huh.
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Okay. So suppose you have a group of up and coming people and we're going to use the gay example,
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because we're talking like 1960s, 1970s conservative gay groups, right? Okay. So any of a,
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let's say there's a small group of, of gay people in this movement, right? Okay. Okay. Just large,
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large up and coming group of, of, of rising conservative. And a small group that's actually
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really gay. Yeah. Okay. So they all start just organically engaging with each other,
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right? So they all find out who all the other people are in this group. Okay. Well,
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they're doing this just for their own personal pleasure to start, but then it becomes clear.
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Somebody walks in your office looking for a promotion or something like that. And they're
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part of this group and you're part of this group. Well, well, shit, I better give them a promotion
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because they have dirt on me. Right. But also we have this sign of camaraderie. So let's not even put
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them in a situation where they would need to use this dirt on me. Right. So essentially you get
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a system where organically everyone was this mutually assured destruction on each other,
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has a slight, like 20 to 30% advantage in every sort of interaction where somebody else in that
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group is involved, which leads to the entire group rising really quickly in the ranks. So it's not like
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at any point, anybody decided to do something malicious, right? Because what I'm trying to ask is
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realistically how in this world did networks of elite, like that seems insane to me that that
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happened. How did that happen? This is what I'm thinking here because I guess you could say,
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oh, Satan worshipers or whatever. And they all went into this intentionally to hurt people.
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I don't know. There's in my adult life, I just don't run into that many people who genuinely
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like hurting other people. Yeah. Or genuine. Nobody, we've come across people who could probably,
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we wouldn't know, but I think it's plausible, especially from our research into sexuality,
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that they're, they're aroused by, um, what should I say? Younger phenotypes, but I've never come
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across someone who's, yeah, I'm a Satanist. I've never come across someone who is a Satanist.
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They do exist. I'll tell you why you haven't come across a Satanist though. Okay. Okay. Why?
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Because I have seen them in the data. Like you see clearly some progressive elites are actual,
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they wouldn't call themselves Satanists. They call themselves like, I don't know,
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they have some word for it, right? Where it's like a type of Wiccanism that's like edgy and cool.
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It's because you and I are publicly known as even back in the day when we were more invited to like
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elite progressive events as really hating woo. Um, and the Satanist groups are the groups that
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are most connected was like goop and like other woo like stuff because they're involved in it because
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it's edgy. They're not involved in it because like, they think they're being evil. They're involved
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in it because they're trying to be subversive in a way that gets a rise out of a culture that is so
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dominated by on we. I mean, that's what I think was happening with those ads, the, Oh, the
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Balenciaga ads. Yeah. The Balenciaga ads. What was really happening there? I mean,
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I think that to a certain part of like wealthy, let's say LA society, their lives are so dominated
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by on we that it requires just like extreme offensiveness to get any sort of a reaction
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out of them. So I think that that's why they're engaging with that. But now let's talk about the,
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the other thing here, because I think that there might actually be a something going on here.
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So when we were doing our sexuality book, one of the really interesting things about male sexuality
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is it's pulled between two extremes by itself. And by that, what I mean is as a guy, you can optimize
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for gender dimorphism, right? So you are assuring that the thing you're breeding with is female. So this
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is larger butts, larger breasts, larger fingernails, longer hair, more voluptuous shape, or you can be
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optimizing for fertility window. The problem is, is that you're actually typically optimizing for the
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opposite. When you're optimizing for fertility window, you are optimizing for youth, which means
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you're typically optimizing for smaller breasts, smaller, but smaller waist hip ratio and stuff like
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that. And so we looked at the data on this, and this is one really shocking thing that we found
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is that the amount of wealth a guy had in our data set correlated with which of these extremes he seemed
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to optimize for. Well, we saw this both in the research and in the data set that we got from the
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survey you created and ran. So I can quote from our book, you wrote, in addition, our data backs up a
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pattern that has been observed in other studies, that wealthy men prefer smaller breasts. This
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pattern is even more striking than we anticipated in our data. Not a single man in the wealthiest
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category of those taking our survey reported preferring a breast size above average with
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around half preferring small breasts. Our survey respondents reported being in the second highest
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wealth category reported preferring small breasts at a rate of 17% and a robust 84 preferred,
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sorry, 84% preferred breasts of average size or below. Contrast that with the lowest income
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category of men who took our survey who reported preferring small breasts at only 5%. And the
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second poorest preferring them at around the same level, only 4% in this case. So there's a clear
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like inverse relationship here. Yeah, I remember one of the other studies you were talking about as
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well. It was done by like a website for like wealthy guys to find, I don't know, partners. But yeah,
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so there's been a number of studies on this. And you can see from our data, like this isn't a small
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effect. It's not like a, oh, 20% here, 20% there. It's an enormous effect size.
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So it would seem that maybe it's not even that people as much are like born being super turned on,
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or we'll say sexually interested in youth versus female dimorphism. It is a product of
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your perceived sense of resource. Yeah. Let's talk about evolutionarily,
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why you would have this, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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If you can only choose one partner, which throughout history has been true of most middle income and
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below men, even in, even in societies where a man can get multiple partners, the vast majority of
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people in those societies didn't get multiple partners, right? So you're choosing one potential
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partners. You've got to make absolutely sure they're female. Yeah. However, if you can just
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get lots of partners, which wealthy and powerful men could typically get throughout history,
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then what matters, especially, so suppose you're a wealthy and powerful man, but then you're
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actually, okay. Suppose you're a wealthy and powerful man, and you can either get only one partner,
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or you can get lots of partners. If you can get lots of partners, it doesn't really matter what
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you're optimizing for. You're just optimizing for volume. But if you can get one partner,
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because you can care for all of their offspring, right? Because wealth is not an issue for you,
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you could have 20 kids, right? You are going to optimize for youth when you marry that partner.
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Yeah, because it'll produce maximum number of kids, like biggest lifetime. For example,
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we just, we're finally ready to like do chickens at our house, right? And we could either choose to get
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hens, or we can choose to get chicks. And getting chicks, if we get chicks now,
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that means we have to wait until basically January before they start even laying eggs. So that's like
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a significant amount of time investment, wealth investment. We have to get the feed, do all the
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stuff for them to wait until they're ready, but then they will produce far more eggs over time,
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right? Like we're going to get more life out of them, more eggs out of them than we're going to get if we
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buy mature chickens. So maybe this is what's going on is like, if we were, even if we were like very
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resource poor in the moment, would we be getting a, an egg laying hen that we know is healthy enough
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and fat enough to immediately start producing either meat for us or eggs, or are we going to
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get chickens that we have to wait forever until it produces anything that will sustain us?
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So, so yeah. So, and here's something really interesting. So I'm going to talk about something
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that happens in women and say, I think something similar might be happening here. So one of the things
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we talk about happening in women is that women will typically prefer a partner who already has
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other women interested in them, but they'll even prefer partners who are already married. Like
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they'll choose a guy who has a ring over another guy because it shows there's other female interests
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in the guy. Well, you get this interesting phenomenon where like during concerts, and we've seen this
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throughout history. So you can see this going all the way back to, who is that mob guy who is the
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singer? Frank Sinatra. Frank Sinatra. Yeah. You see those Frank Sinatra. You saw this with Liszt,
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Franz Liszt, the Liszt, I can't, Lisztamania, the, the, the pianist, I believe.
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Yes. You see this with Mozart. You, you saw this with where women would start screaming in the room
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and then some of them would pass out, right? What is happening there? Well, what I think is happening
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there is women in general get more turned on by a guy as they think other women are interested in that
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guy. However, some women, a minority of women, like a small portion of women are born without the
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ability to downregulate this phenomenon. And so they essentially end up feeding off of the
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other women around them in their arousal to this group until it essentially overheats their brain
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and they pass out. Not exactly overheats their brain, but you get what I mean. It's like a sensory
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overload. Yes. A sensory overload that causes them to pass out. Well, I think with most guys,
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when they get wealthy, they're like, oh yeah, I like small breasts, right? Like normal stuff,
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right. But there's a small portion of guys who they get wealthy and the system doesn't have
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a, an off meter on it. And they're like actually interested in young people. And, and I think this
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group is because this is the thing that weirds me out. I look at Jeff Epstein's plane list. Right.
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And this is like a lot of celebrities, a lot of celebrities, like a lot of people who I'd heard of.
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Right. And like, when I think about the people who I've casually met, I do not see that many people
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interested in young people. That's just not a thing. That's not like a thing among my friend groups.
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That is not a thing that I've ever thought about. Like, how is it possible that there's that many
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celebrities who are interested in this? Right. So there's really only two things. One is, is that
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their, their biology could be adapting to their perceived level of power, which would really explain this.
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It would also explain why the media is so terrified about it getting out, that this is actually
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happening because even if they can't access these groups, this flip in their perceived personal
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power might've already happened. And they may secretly have these desires and they may have some like
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aspiration to enter these groups. Or what's happening is that it's useful for them in terms of growing
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and maintaining their power. Like it creates like these organic power groups that we've been talking about.
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Hmm. Either way. I actually think that both are probably happening at the same time.
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Yeah. So I guess my takeaway is, is I think that this is a real phenomenon that there actually are
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real groups among some elite circles that are doing this.
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There are two dynamics. One is that there appears to be a correlation between wealth and interest in
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youth. And two, that there appears to be this like dirty secret trust group, like fraternity that is
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created through shared indulgence in socially toxic hobbies. Does that make sense?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. But here's a really interesting thing about this phenomenon,
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because we have a pretty wide access into what the elite in our society are doing,
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like much more than the average person would have through operating different secret societies,
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having, having gone to their stuff. I'd say that this desire is almost absent or completely absent
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from what I call the dissident elite. I just have not seen it in those communities.
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They don't, I don't think the dissident elite really feel powerful because they feel attacked by everyone.
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Yeah, they feel attacked. They're like more homesteady, more let me set up my bunker,
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let me get guns. Let me get, let me get farm, sustain my family. They're coming for me. Let's build a
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militia. Like that's their, that's their dirty little secret. Right. And not so much, not so much.
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Well, and maybe there's, there's also a cultural, more party element, like an indulgent.
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No, I think their dirty little secret is that they tell the truth about what they believe. And in our
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society that can get you so canceled. So when I think about the dissident elite circles, what do we all do?
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We, we, we sit around and we're like, it turns out that certain parts of a human sociological
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profile are heredible and they're changing over time and the general population.
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You make it sound like these are all old men who wear suspenders.
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Right. No, no, no. It turns out that's not what they sound like.
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This offensive thing is actually probably true. No, no. But what I'm saying is if that's how they
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organically bond in a way that can get everyone in these circles, mutually canceled, so they don't
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need to engage with this other stuff. Well, do you think it's, it's more just like
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being sexually prudish as well, that in, in these more progressive power circles where there are rumors
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of these, these circles, it's more, it's, it's a much more culturally like sexually permissive and
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sexually deviant society versus the dissident right circles, which are much more sex negative.
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I guess I don't understand. I think that that's not it at all. I mean, the, the elite circles that we
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are in are very sexually permissive on both sides. Yeah. On both sides. They're very sexually permissive.
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They, they are all into, yeah, I think that that's just wrong. I think what it is, is the way that they
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engage with subversiveness. These groups are engaging with subversiveness, like the dissident groups
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and trying to make society better and trying to be honest and trying to tell the truth. That is how they,
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and by make society better, I mean, move it away from the dominant cultural group right now. I mean,
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they are fighting against the big bad. I mean, historically, that's what the Illuminati was.
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They were fighting against the Catholic church. They were a group of people who said, we don't
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like this group that's controlling our society right now. Let's fight against it. Right. The reason why
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they have to be in these secret organizations is because they're fighting the powers that be. The people
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who control the powers that be, the people who control the, the media and what's true and academia,
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like this, this sort of monoculture in our society. If you're just going along with everything they're
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doing, then all you can really do is dunk on the amount of power you have over other people.
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And I can almost think of no bigger sign of that.
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Oh, then, especially if you're a community, keep in mind, these people have almost zero
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fertility rate. So, I mean, where are they getting these kids? Right. You are in a community where
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Whereas within our groups. Oh, I also think this is another thing. I think within the extreme
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progressive groups, it's pretty common for these people to not have their own.
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Well, and I guess it's, it's, it's a lot harder to be interested. Do you think it's,
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I mean, I feel like parents are a lot more defensive of children and you'd be a lot more
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like turned off. You talk about the dissident conservative cultural group. You talk about
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doing something to harm a kid. You get a knuckle sandwich pretty quickly. Whereas in these other
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groups, they don't have kids often. And so there's probably less of a perception of their inherent
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humanity. Oh, it's easier to dehumanize children in a culture where children are largely absent.
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It's definitely really happening. Anybody who tells you it isn't happening, Epstein.
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And, and, and they're like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. But once we got Epstein,
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Once we arrested a meth dealer, the meth epidemic is over. And it's like, yeah, but didn't the meth
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dealer die mysteriously in prison? Couldn't that only have happened if this was still a phenomenon
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that was going on in our society and people needed to shut him up? And they're like, no.
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Oh, that was an accident. They just needed to kill the one guy. And then it was all over.
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There, to me, is no more of a sign that this is still happening, that we still don't know
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Hmm. Well, they're getting better at hiding it, I guess.
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Well, hey, they were good at hiding it for a long time before Epstein, too. I mean.
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Yeah, I guess he, he was going for a good long time.
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A good long time with a lot of powerful people in our society.
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Hold on. Actually, I want to look this up. I'm just trying to see if.
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If Jelaine Maxwell is dead. I think she's still alive.
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Well, no, I mean, I think that, yeah, I was just checking. Yeah, Elon was not on the Epstein flight
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list. And I think that shows the type of thing that we're talking about, right? And he's actually
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right now advocating for the DOG to do more to get the full list released. Which is like,
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why hasn't the full list been released? Again, the, the, the malevolent players are still in
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positions of power. And we have good guys out there. And it's important that, that just because we
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have one or two differences with them, that we don't attack them. We're, we're all on the same
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I, I just, wives are safe. Apparently I, it is terrifying. Genuinely scary. Yeah. So.
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No, no. I mean, this is really happening. This is really happening. And there's a number of
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reasons why it could be happening, but I think that, um, what's interesting out there is I think
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that almost everyone engaging with this is either engaging with it as like pure speculative conspiracy
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theory, which I think people to dismiss it, or they're engaging with it as just like insane.
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Like, you know, what I appreciate about this conversation is that
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it's a discussion of this issue from the perspective of why would, why would human like
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normal humans do this? Because I think normally when it's discussed, it's like these, these
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disgusting, terrifying monsters. You can barely imagine as human, like that are doing things
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that you can't even possibly model. And what we're trying to say here is, okay, well actually like
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from a behavioral standpoint, there appears to be robust evidence suggesting that people who do
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have a lot of resources and wealth will find themselves attracted to youth at higher rates
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and signs of youth at higher rates. And that also there seem to be patterns at every level of
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society from like street gangs to, you know, the highest echelons of power to create these fraternities
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and trust circles around forbidden and highly legal and destroying like career or life destroying things.
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Right. When they're trying to normalize it now, it was like this whole map phenomenon and stuff like
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that. Minor attracted person. Oh, it's, it's a new, it's a new trend. But what I'm saying is the
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normalization of maps is definitely a thing now. Really?
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Trying to make this a protected class in our society. And I don't, I mean, anyone who is acting on this,
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I don't know. I just, I see it as a slippery slip. You make it a protected class, right? They can find
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each other more easily. It could disempower them to an extent, but this group I think is just so
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entrenched right now. I, I, I, I definitely would not say that they need to be, but you would never say
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that they need to be. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's definitely not what you're saying.
00:27:51.980
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. They're a protected class. That's a really mean thing to say.
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You're definitely not saying that, that people should put these people in,
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but you'll just be called a conspiracy theorist. And that's wrong. No, that's, that's, that's,
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that's definitely wrong. Yeah. I mean, that's doxing, right?
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That's not what we're condoning at all. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Mm-hmm. Well, all right. Well, you've got some chicks to feed. I've got some kids to pick up.
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Shall we reconvene downstairs? I am excited to.