Nick Avocado was an incredibly talented actor, a diligent individual who understood the new social contract of the internet, and used it to make enough money that he never needed to do anything again by playing the fat kid. Would you like to know more?
00:00:00.000The online environment has become a disintermediated set of social interaction in which I have a conversation with you, the audience.
00:00:10.740While you lose the interactive portion of the conversation, what you gain is the ability to, instead of being limited by the types of people you could actually get to spend time conversing with you, you can get anyone to converse with you.
00:00:28.140Okay, so I'll explain this using a porn analogy, right?
00:00:31.560In the real world, you are limited to sexual partners, like you would have a conversation partner, who would actually deign to have sex with you.
00:00:40.360But what we need to talk about here is the role that Nick Avocado ended up playing in this disintermediated social contract.
00:00:47.580He had become, for a lot of the internet, that fat, pathetic kid.
00:02:09.320I am excited to be here with you today.
00:02:11.020Today, we are going to be discussing a number of recent viral online phenomenon and moments that I think are, you know, there was a post Elon had not long ago.
00:02:24.340And he's like, when you are trying to determine between multiple things happening on the world stage, choose what would be the most interesting thing to happen.
00:02:32.520And that's the one that's going to happen.
00:02:34.900You know, like, when people were discussing Elon buying Twitter, it was like, is that going to happen?
00:02:39.060Will it be more interesting if it happens?
00:02:45.960You know, like, is Biden going to randomly drop out and instead of hosting a primary, they're just going to dictatorially choose his...
00:02:52.940Well, then that would mean that Trump's going to win.
00:02:55.580It would mean that Trump's going to win, which is what I believe.
00:02:59.140There was a very long off-topic section here where Simone and I debated who was going to win the presidential election that I have moved to the end of the video.
00:03:11.320So, basically, we are in clown world timeline, which means that the quantum direction of tiny fluctuations that tip the scales of reality will move in clown world direction.
00:03:25.120We, right now, for anyone who saw that episode of South Park, where it turns out we're a show and we have to keep from getting canceled, we're in that timeline.
00:03:52.480A few billion years ago, we realized, what if we took species from all different planets in the universe and put them together on the same planet?
00:05:06.340Nick Avocado did something that was completely wild and unexpected, and I think it highlights the new social contract that we socially operate under as a society online.
00:05:18.260So what happened was, is for those who haven't heard of this yet, and we'll get into my bigger thoughts on this, Nick Avocado was a very widely viewed mukbanger who basically made mukbang famous within the United States.
00:05:34.140A mukbang is when you eat a lot of food in front of a camera and people parasocially eat along with you.
00:05:40.400And when I say widely viewed, I mean across his platforms, he had over a billion views.
00:06:18.640He was known for just being this really sad human being.
00:06:22.840And he was essentially, one of the things that we have talked about is that the online environment has become a disintermediated set of social interaction in which I have a conversation with you, the audience, but I'm basically having a conversation at you through my wife, right?
00:06:42.500And then you are choosing to listen to this conversation very much the same way that somebody historically would have had a conversation with an interesting person.
00:06:53.500They would be like, oh, I know I can go to this event because interesting people go to this event.
00:06:57.180And they would have approached somebody because the conversations they have with those people are intellectually stimulating.
00:07:01.900But now you, in an online environment, while you lose the interactive portion of the conversation, what you gain is the ability to, what's the word I'm looking for here, is the ability to, instead of being limited by the types of people you could actually get to spend time conversing with you, you can get anyone to converse with you.
00:07:26.720Okay, so I'll explain this using a porn analogy, right?
00:07:29.560In the real world, you are limited to sexual partners, like you would have a conversation partner, who would actually deign to have sex with you.
00:07:38.780But in the online environment, where that is disintermediated, while you might not get to actually have sex with these people, you can see the highest tier of highest tier people having sex, who you could never secure yourself.
00:07:53.220And it created a disintermediated sexual marketplace.
00:07:56.500However, I think from a conversational perspective, it's actually more effective than from a sexual perspective.
00:08:02.880Because I think that the quality of sex, as somebody who has had sex with top, top tier people, the difference in sexual quality between like a, I'd say top 30% person and a top 1% person is, you know, probably about a 30% bump in quality.
00:08:28.100I'd give it, I'd give it that maybe even, maybe even twice as good, even on the extreme three times as good.
00:08:34.540Okay, but the difference in conversational quality between a top 30% and a top 1% is 100x difference.
00:08:45.480Oh, oh, okay. So you're saying the returns on sex improvement are not nearly as good as the returns on conversational improvement, which all furthermore justifies parasocial relationships.
00:08:58.900Like it's really worth it to just maintain a high caliber friend group in the form of parasocial relationships, even though it means they don't know you necessarily.
00:09:07.880Well, it's interesting. Even when I am really friends with someone, I consume, often as my primary way of interacting with them, their online content over their in-person content.
00:09:24.380I prefer to interact with my real friends who would like know me and be like, oh yeah, Malcolm, he's like an acquaintance of mine.
00:09:33.240Like, I don't agree with everything he says. I think he's a weirdo, but like, I like hanging out occasionally.
00:09:38.480So, you know, like for example, who are people who we have these sorts of relationships with, like Zvi and like Scott Alexander.
00:09:45.680Like I would prefer to read one of Scott Alexander's blog posts than take that time talking to Scott Alexander.
00:09:53.160And I'm sure it's one of these individuals and they're consuming.
00:09:56.240And I'm sure like a lot of these people, I imagine, enjoy writing more than they enjoy talking to their friends.
00:10:04.320Well, it's true. So consider the content that you're getting with us, right?
00:10:07.720You're getting something that's been pre-researched that every, that every pause, that every time we stop to research something is cut out of the video, right?
00:10:15.060Getting a form of social interaction that is called a supernormal stimuli.
00:10:19.860We've talked about this before, but it's worth briefly going over.
00:10:22.120These are stimuli in your environment that are beyond what you could ever achieve in a real world scenario.
00:10:27.900So, for example, if I put a giant blue ball next to a bird that evolved to sit on blue eggs, it will sit on the blue ball more than the egg
00:10:35.700because it never had any evolutionary reason to not learn to sit on the very biggest blue thing near it.
00:10:41.100In many ways, pornography can be considered a supernormal stimuli.
00:10:43.720In many ways, what you are getting with this could be considered a supernormal conversational stimuli.
00:10:49.180But not all supernormal stimuli are intrinsically negative.
00:10:52.380And I think that this is a thing where people can think of, oh, you've disintermediated conversations.
00:10:56.180Yeah, but a lot of the conversations people used to have sucked, okay?
00:10:59.720Well, and why did humans evolve speech?
00:11:01.660It was, in many ways, often to condense and make more efficient communicating important concepts that otherwise would take a lot longer to demonstrate in person.
00:11:12.280This is all about making it faster than showing something IRL.
00:12:36.060There's a difference between a person being charismatic and having presence and generating chemistry where you feel like they're your friend.
00:12:42.920Like, you feel a personal connection with them, which is very different from just general charisma.
00:12:48.500I can talk to somebody who has charisma and be like, oh, well, he was charismatic.
00:12:52.920For example, when I talk about forms of charisma, I have a form of charisma called presence that people talk about.
00:12:58.100Yes, where they otherwise will accuse you of sucking all the air out of the room, but that's because they're just angry with your presence.
00:13:04.340Yeah, I had a person, like, actually start screaming at me in an office.
00:13:36.160So, like, I don't know what they were thinking.
00:13:37.620She just didn't, you're just saying she didn't understand that you were just a big dell.
00:13:42.380But there was that other time where we were at a conference, and one of the people pulled you aside and was like, you need to stop being, she said that you sucked all the air out of the room.
00:13:51.960She was basically saying you needed to stop providing such interesting insights to conversations.
00:13:56.320Yeah, she's like, well, like, just don't show up when I'm around.
00:13:59.820Yeah, yeah, just, like, stop being interesting anyway.
00:14:04.060No, no, no, it's not interesting, exactly.
00:14:07.880Stop being, yeah, stop having a presence.
00:14:16.240It's about where attention is focused within group environments.
00:14:22.000But anyway, it doesn't necessarily overlap with other types of charisma.
00:14:25.580Like, there's charisma that makes people like you.
00:14:27.240There's charisma that, what I was saying about Ayla, she has the type of charisma where when you talk to her, you feel like you've been friends forever in a very short period of time.
00:14:36.460I'm terrified when I talk to Ayla, because I just really respect her a lot.
00:14:39.780And I feel like when people, when I respect people, I think they hate me.
00:14:42.480But what we need to talk about here is the role that Nick Avocado ended up playing in this disintermediated social contract.
00:14:50.540He had become, for a lot of the internet, that fat, pathetic kid.
00:15:33.480And for those who think that this was ever his real personality, you know, I'm not saying that he didn't take on some aspect of this personality.
00:16:05.340I ask you to study his facial expressions and emotions while he is acting.
00:16:10.980And I think it's pretty clear that he is playing a character in the same way that, like, Ali G is a character.
00:16:16.900It's just that this character, instead of being designed to make us laugh, is designed to masturbate the feelings that we get from the type of, you know, fat kid we would have made fun of in school.
00:16:30.300But presenting a super normal stimuli version of that fat kid, Nick Avocado, was to the emotions that fat kid in school that people picked on.
00:16:42.580And I'm not saying everybody did this.
00:16:44.020But, like, obviously there's a portion of the population that has an impulse to pick on the fat kid at school.
00:16:49.500He fulfills that impulse for that portion of the population as a super normal stimuli in the same way that the super hot porn star fulfills that stimulus when contrasted with the cheerleader or whatever.
00:17:06.040The attractive girl that you had a crush on at your local school.
00:17:09.120The porn star is likely even more attractive than the real life person that you had a crush on.
00:17:17.400Because everyone can consume her, sexually speaking, at once.
00:17:22.940In the same way everyone can at once pick on this Nick Avocado character.
00:17:28.800And again, remember when you're watching this clip, study, is this somebody acting?
00:17:34.560Me and Matt Stoney have a lot in common, we're very beautiful, but the difference between, well, he's basically skinnier, more attractive, richer, more popular.
00:18:01.020And he had been saying for years that this was all part of a social experiment and that when he turned 30, he was going to lose all the weight and then just go back to a normal life.
00:19:23.640It's still number three on trending on YouTube with 31 million views, almost 32 million.
00:19:30.360And the previous video that was posted before this under latest was seven months ago.
00:19:36.880Okay, well, so what he had done is he had...
00:19:39.140The thing is, is that another very large YouTube was, like, millions of views on this video.
00:19:44.180A few days before he posted this video, did a video about how Nick Avocado was, like, having a breakdown and, like, nothing was going to come of him.
00:19:58.700Nick Avocado's recent video is so incredibly tragic, it makes all of his previous breakdowns seem like they were happy moments.
00:20:08.680Simply titled Bye, Nick Avocado talks about deeply regretting his time on YouTube, in the process admitting to financial ruin, and the ways in which fame destroyed his life completely.
00:20:19.580The 41-minute video begins on terrible footing, as after only 24 seconds, Nick's already almost on the verge of tears.
00:20:28.500And he had it pre-recorded, it turned out, for two years.
00:20:32.340Just tons and tons and tons of videos.
00:21:55.220Yeah, there's been, like, violinist experts who have reviewed his violin playing, and they're like, this guy is literally A-tier, like, as high-tier as you can get.
00:22:04.720Like, equivalent to the best violinist in the world.
00:22:15.920With Juilliard being the world's most prestigious music school, a user on Reddit found Nick's full list of violin achievements, of which there were certainly many, and it therefore makes sense that he was good enough to teach.
00:22:27.720A YouTuber named Violin Mechanic also watched all of Nick's violin videos, concluding he was near professional.
00:22:34.540Right from the bat, I can tell that this guy plays fantastically in tune.
00:22:38.280And it seemed this respect from other people was what Nick missed more than anything else.
00:22:43.220Quick side note here, but I want you to watch this clip.
00:22:47.560While knowing what Juilliard really is, a school that is incredibly hard to get into, this is somebody who got a full-ride scholarship into this school.
00:23:06.700I went to the Juilliard for two years.
00:23:07.760It goes to show, though, what are the career prospects?
00:23:11.080You know, how much is he going to make as a concert?
00:23:12.680Well, and that's the point to all of this.
00:23:15.060This was an incredibly talented actor, a diligent individual who understood the new social contract of the internet and used it to make enough money that he never needed to do anything again by playing the fat kid, by playing the kid who everyone picked on.
00:23:46.620I mean, consider who the internet focused picking on before you had characters who were intentional acts of otherwise, you know, competent, sound people to make money.
00:24:02.880Where the entire internet is treating him as sort of a super normal stimuli.
00:24:07.440I mean, you're not going to get somebody as pick on a bowl as Christian and it just destroys this actually mentally disabled person's life and completely warps their character into something, you know, evil and bizarre.
00:24:20.020Although I would say I do really want to see, like, in the next couple weeks, Christian come out talking normal, looking totally normal, lost all the way.
00:24:29.880It was like, oh yeah, it was all an act.
00:26:23.040And this is, the reason I was making the Stanford joke earlier is because a lot of people forget this, right?
00:26:29.860Like, the people you interact with online that may be fulfilling in part some persona, which is definitely something that Simone and I do to an extent, is we have trolls on our videos and stuff like that, right?
00:26:44.160Who are, like, these people are just crazy.
00:26:47.580Like, you know, can't you see that they're just insane, like, fringe weirdos and stuff like that?
00:26:53.760Because on our school, like, launch video, the little short commercial for it, one of the comments, actually the one with the most upvotes.
00:26:58.680It must have a ton of downvotes because it's at the bottom of all the video, the comments too.
00:27:01.940But it's also the one with the most upvotes is, like, this is proof that these people are insane and weirdos and blah, blah, blah, and completely delusional.
00:27:27.840And for people who don't know what that is, that's literally the hardest degree to get in the world that I'm aware of.
00:27:33.620I know this is somebody who is going to get a PhD, and a Stanford MBA is generally considered dramatically harder to get into, specifically Stanford and Harvard MBAs.
00:27:41.780But Stanford more so, because Stanford is dramatically harder to get into than the Harvard MBA program.
00:27:45.580So it's, like, top tier in terms of the degrees that grant you never have to work again at a day job types of access, if you want it, right?
00:27:56.780I undergrad, St. Andrews Neuroscience degree.
00:28:00.480For people who don't know, at least last I checked, like, by the Guardian rankings, St. Andrews beats Oxford and Cambridge in the UK for university rankings.
00:28:08.040And I have a degree there in neuroscience.
00:28:13.520I have exhibits on display in human evolution stuff at the Smithsonian.
00:28:17.800Simone has a graduate degree in technology policy from Cambridge.
00:28:21.380Like, in terms of, we've gone through 500 startups, which is one of the harder to get into startup accelerators.
00:28:26.540In terms of the, like, objective real-world success things, this idea that somebody, if you are looking at someone who has, like, hit it out of the park with, like, every major real-world success indicator, and you're like, why do they appear so weird online?
00:28:46.760Why do they have this persona online that I don't understand, right?
00:28:51.520Chances are, they are doing something that is simply above your pay grade, like Nick Avocado, Nick Avocado Avocado was doing.
00:29:02.120And I think this is also true with people like Musk, when people are like, oh, Musk is just an idiot in everything he's doing.
00:30:22.300One of the problems people note in the Piers Morgan interview of me, where you and I are talking, and when you're speaking, people get through my mouth saying the same words.
00:30:36.960What's really happening is as I'm thinking of her saying something, because the mirror neuron on my pathway is so hypersensitized, I can't help but move the muscles that would be involved with me saying the thing that I am thinking about her saying.
00:31:04.000I'm just genuinely, it's one of my strong talents.
00:31:06.960And I have fear deficiency in some areas.
00:31:09.820Like, people think, you know, when we gauge intelligence as all being, like, one thing, I am probably, I would argue, in the bottom 2% to 5% of the population, an ability to learn languages or music.
00:31:58.280Well, Brazil, not Spanish-speaking, but okay, whatever.
00:32:00.380Costa Rica, I lived for a month and I lived in Mexico for a month.
00:32:02.720I didn't graduate Spanish 1, which I took every year from elementary school until college until I was going from my junior to my senior year of high school.
00:32:19.420I failed one class like 20 times in a row.
00:32:25.260To say I am bad at languages is the biggest understatement of the century.
00:32:30.720I am very, very bad at coding languages, too, for example.
00:32:35.300I've tried to learn them multiple times.
00:33:15.840It's that they assume that the optimal pathway through every interactive conversational environment is one designed to get the person to like you.
00:33:28.000Or to cause maximum positive emotional states in the individual that you are engaging with.
00:33:34.260When that is just objectively not true.
00:33:37.140In truth, if I am trying to achieve specific outcomes from conversations, I'd say half of the time about, it's not the optimal pathway to focus on getting them to like me.
00:33:49.120And this is, from a disintermediated social perspective, what Nick Ocato Avocado realized.
00:34:27.980If you want to see our video on media baiting and stuff like that, trying to appear as generic, broadly likable people was in an online environment, it's a very bad idea.
00:34:46.760You have to be, well, spiky in some way, right?
00:34:52.360And that's what people see of as weird.
00:34:54.800And in the same way that when you are a mime, right?
00:34:58.040Like a mime, because you're dealing with less communication venues, will over-exaggerate every one of their emotions and every one of their actions.
00:35:06.620It's the same with an online personality.
00:35:08.640And you want to over-exaggerate to really reach your target audience.
00:35:13.220But more so than that, when we talk about this transition to this new social model, some people have gotten it and some people haven't gotten it.
00:35:26.920If you go back and you look at movies from like the 70s or 60s, you will see many elements of them that look more like a stage play than what you would think of as modern cinema.
00:35:37.280Well, you actually see this like from the early, earliest forms of cinema.
00:35:42.640Everything went from like minstrel show style to like Broadway stage play style.
00:35:48.680And it was really driven by the stage.
00:35:50.240And now like increasingly things are becoming based on optimization native to that media.
00:36:39.980And gradually it became clear to people that what it was really about was this disintermediated social relationship.
00:36:46.580And I think a great example of this recently was a famous gun YouTuber recently became number two in trending was just a video that said, I died.
00:36:53.980And he had died and he had pre-recorded a video for when he died.
00:38:30.800You know, and you can look at somebody like us and people can be like, well, I mean, does that mean that you are a character in the way that you're portraying yourself?
00:38:40.580I mean, I've chosen a character to be my identity and I live as that character because I think it's optimized for achieving my particular goals in the world.
00:38:49.000But I don't differentiate myself terribly from that character, which we've talked about in other videos, I think is why we have a good relationship with our fans, where I've noticed that some famous people have a very negative relationship with their fans.
00:39:01.800And these are famous people we know privately, you know, who we've had conversations with.
00:39:05.740And these are individuals where their fans perceive them as a character that is highly incongruent with who they see themselves as and who they are in private.
00:39:14.840Whereas for us, while we are presenting a character, it's also the character that you will meet if you go to a dinner party with us or something like that, you know.
00:39:22.960And I would say, is it that distant from who I am when I'm just alone with you, Simone?
00:40:07.880This was the Jordan Peterson is raising kids to be Sims video if people want to see it.
00:40:11.580Where not only did we talk about bopping, but we talked about how it works, why we do it, et cetera, long before that big, ooh, expose happened.
00:40:25.300But like I'm running for office and I was told that before becoming a politician in the United States, you know, clear everything on social media.
00:40:35.060They'll dig through all your dirt and find everything.
00:40:37.900And you'll find them throwing every little stupid detail thing you've said at you.
00:40:43.120And other people who've run for small offices in our district, in our county have just said really inconsequential things to other people on social media and ended their campaigns based on criticism around that.
00:40:57.420And yet nothing has come out with this campaign.
00:41:01.520And what's more interesting is we have been attacked for things, but they're not real.
00:41:34.440Rather than have people dig through our backlog to find out what she is alluding to here, the point she is making is that one of us cheating on the other would be a virtually impossible thing to have happen because, well, Simone just wouldn't cheat on me at all.
00:41:52.160It's, it's not something that she has a desire for.
00:41:55.540She's basically completely asexual other than me.
00:41:59.720She never really experienced arousal before interacting with me.
00:42:02.840I mean, you've got to keep in mind just how negatively she reacts to any physical contact with anyone other than me or the kids.
00:42:10.160Where if she has interacted with somebody, it's like scrubbing her hands for like, you know, five minutes afterwards, you know, really vigorously before she can go on with her day.
00:42:21.420She finds human contact really repugnant.
00:42:25.100Keep in mind that even with me, where she does have exceptions, she still wants to have our podcast record in different rooms.
00:42:32.700It's still too much of a distraction for her.
00:42:35.660And then from my perspective, I'm allowed to sleep with other people if I want to.
00:44:11.280The controversies that are public about us are fictional.
00:44:14.000But, like, when people who watched us or knew us were like, oh, would he discipline his kid or discipline his kid in front of a reporter?
00:44:21.220They're like, yeah, that's exactly the type of thing Malcolm would do.
00:44:23.500What did one of your family members say about running for office?
00:44:26.300Like, all the bad things they say about you won't be real.
00:44:29.380Yeah, so my uncle used to be head of the Fed in Texas, and he ran for Senate in Texas.
00:44:34.360My granddad was a congressman in Texas and ran for Senate as well.
00:44:37.400So I've got, like, a lot of politicians in the family.
00:44:39.660But anyway, this came from my uncle and not my grandfather.
00:44:41.780So my uncle said, the weird thing about running for politics is you will be attacked for so many things, and none of it will be true.
00:44:50.260Like, but he's like, it's not just that.
00:44:51.940The reasons people like you, that also won't be true.
00:44:55.680They will like and hate a fictional representation of yourself.
00:45:00.660And when you fall into the cliches of thinking these cliche things about Donald Trump or thinking these cliche things about Elon Musk, and don't remember that this is, like, Elon Musk is just an autistic dad, okay?
00:45:13.380Like, you can see him however you want, but at the end of the day, Elon Musk is just an autistic dad.
00:45:19.900And when you remember that, a lot of this false framing can begin to dissolve.
00:45:25.220Trump is an insecure guy who always wanted to fit in with the rich kids and never really got to, and now he's having his moment in the sun.
00:45:33.260And all of his behavior makes sense within that context.
00:45:37.540He was also stuck in an echo chamber of yes men, which is not great.
00:45:43.260He's got, yeah, he has more, yeah, he has a lot of surrounding competent people, but he, at least in the first administration, was surrounded by a bunch of yes men who made things difficult.
00:45:54.140But what I'm saying, yeah, first administration, but that hasn't been true for, like, 10 years.
00:45:58.160Yeah, no, now he's got some great people.
00:46:01.840But what we have to talk about here, very interesting, is just remember, like, the point of this, the point of all of this, from the perspective of the audience, is remember that in this age of disintermediated parasocial relationships, one, in a big part, and I would commit this to other creators, the relationships you have with your audience, the fact that it's parasocial doesn't mean it's not real.
00:46:28.040You have chosen to play a social role within their lives, and it's important that you own the role that you have chosen to play, right?
00:46:37.440And you don't have animosity at them for viewing you the way you have sold yourself to them.
00:46:43.760But in addition to that, there are going to be people who find ways to exploit the worst of human instincts.
00:46:53.420And not all of these people will be bad.
00:46:55.900Some of them will just be smart entertainers who are like – and I respect Nikocado Avocado endlessly for doing this.
00:47:02.640I have – like, I'd love to have him on the channel.
00:47:05.280Not that we'd ever get somebody that famous on the channel, but we'll see.
00:47:08.220I mean, is Ayla not fulfilling one of these roles, right, of the ultra-educated, you know, educationally controversial – what's a nice way to say it?
00:47:21.240And woman who sleeps with men as a profession, this is something that we've seen historically over and over again.
00:47:28.240It's like a trope our culture has, whether it's – what are the two ones that you always mention?
00:47:54.060And then there's idiots who have no education and are just like, she's a prostitute, and prostitutes are always low class.
00:48:00.920And I'm like, that is objectively not true from a historic context.
00:48:04.480In fact, historically speaking, until the modern age, I want to say maybe until the last 200 years, generally the most respected women in most societies in history were women who you paid for sex.
00:48:16.460This is why people like Aspasia were able to achieve the rank that they had.
00:48:20.440As to why that's the case, it's because those were the only women who – now, keep in mind that women of the night fell into two classes here.
00:48:26.980You'd have the ones for the lower classes, and you'd have the ones for the upper classes.
00:48:30.080They were the women who the upper class men were having intellectual conversations with.
00:48:33.720Yeah, they weren't stuck in the back of a household.
00:48:36.280Yes, and so that's how they achieved the highest ranks in many of these historic societies.
00:49:01.300If we were a megachurch, we would be getting – what was it recently where I ran the numbers?
00:49:05.900We'd be getting – yeah, so we're now at, for watch hours in a 28-day period, 67.9 thousand.
00:49:13.380And what that means is that on any given day, we have – if we were giving an hour lecture or an hour sermon, so suppose we were like a preacher who ran a megachurch and gave an hour sermon every day, we'd have 2,425 people show up to that sermon.
00:49:33.600It means that at any given time, day or night, we have 101 people watching us.
00:49:39.300It means that if I woke up every day and for 16 hours I was preaching on a side corner, this includes weekends, we would have an average of 151.6 people in that crowd.
00:49:50.680That is just wild to me to think about.
00:49:54.460And this is just YouTube, not our other channels.
00:50:37.700I don't know a single person who moved between the last election cycle and this election cycle from a Democrat voter to a Republican voter.
00:50:47.300But I know lots of people who have moved from, sorry, I don't know a single person who has moved from a Republican voter to a Democrat voter.
00:50:55.600And I do because I went door knocking.
00:51:12.160I know a lot of people who were Democrats and are now voting Republican.
00:51:15.900Between these last two cycles specifically, it's like this giant new audience.
00:51:20.860But, I mean, consider like Elon, for example, right?
00:51:24.120Like mainstream figures have moved pretty dramatically.
00:51:28.480But Simone, when you're knocking, and she's like, you wouldn't believe how many people are going to be voting just because of the abortion law change.
00:51:40.560Like, even if you're a family that's otherwise conservative but wants the optionality of doing IVF because maybe one of you has fertility problems but you still care about having kids that are biologically yours, you may feel motivated.
00:51:54.680Like, it's the responsible thing to do to vote Democrat just to make sure that your right to IVF is protected, right?
00:52:03.100If you're a conservative male who sleeps around a lot, I guess there aren't any of them.
00:52:06.520If you're looking to the actual candidate policies, you would know how ludicrous that is.
00:52:09.100Yeah, but again, when I listen to certain media slants, like certain algo dives, because I'm trying to see what normal other people who aren't necessarily conservative-coded are listening to,
00:52:23.300they just, they make it sound like an inevitable thing that your right to abortion and birth control and everything will be taken away if Trump wins.
00:52:43.520And honestly, I think that they'd be better to lean on Trump derangement syndrome and just keep pointing to his face, because it seems to drive people nuts, instead of talking about a project with which he has zero affiliation, but whatever.
00:52:54.980In regard to the episode on where is the woke audience, someone on Twitter sent to us a YouGov America poll saying Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups.
00:53:13.420And it shows a true proportion and estimated proportion, for example, have a household income over 1 million, true proportion, 0%.
00:53:27.460I mean, because I'm sure it's like 0.00, whatever, estimated proportion, 20%.
00:54:27.500This is how these girls get out there and they're like, oh, I'm going to get a guy who's making six figures and like, yeah, I'm going to get a guy who's making like 300K or something in his early 20s.
00:54:37.340And it's like, they have a completely misunderstanding of reality.
00:54:42.800It's the understanding the average person has is just out of whack, out of whack.
00:54:46.840You know, it's interesting though, is there are some where it's actually spot on.
00:54:49.600And here are the ones where it's almost the same, have at least one child, people estimated 57%, sorry, real is 57%.