The Left Stopped Fighting Backļ¼ How The Culture War Got Weird In 2026
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Summary
In this episode, Simone and I talk about the year of the chud and why we are so obsessed with the fact that we don t have anyone playing against us in the industry. We also discuss why we don't have a buyer base for wokeified products and yet we are seeing numbers that are so low that they wouldn't even buy the products they are developing.
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hello simone i'm excited to be here with you today today we are going to be talking about
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the year of the chud i thought last year was the year of the chud in terms of woke flops
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but a lot of other channels they'll do an episode on every woke flop every big conservative win
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i wanted to cluster all of these together because now their frequency and scale has been
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genuinely astonishing and i think to a point where people are beginning to even in the industry be
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like oh we can't do this anymore like we cannot cast these types of individuals anymore we cannot
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lead with x types of characters anymore like the market simply does not tolerate it such as
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Christopher Nolan's Odyssey which has just been absolutely destroyed in reactions on YouTube
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with videos attacking it or mocking it getting more views than it has was a huge negative like
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to dislike ratio and especially for a movie that like this mainstream this big and I think what
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Hollywood may take away from this is you cannot cast black people in non-black roles going
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forwards and you cannot cast trans people as cis people going forwards i think not that you can't
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cast these people more broadly but those are things they should have no i mean like we learned
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you can't cast white people as black people a while ago why did it take them so long to learn
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that was white people or maybe they won't learn as you know i said in the kirscher thing we had
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to literally shut down all of ubisoft to get it through their sick skull that we didn't want that
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slop so maybe we'll have to shut down a lot of hollywood as well i love the women 87 percent like
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dislike ratio for christopher nolan's the odyssey oh my god 446 000 dislike a ruskies and what's
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interesting about this and this is what i'm going to start with because i think it's the
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the most interesting part other than just cheering every individual victory
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is it sort of feels like we don't have anyone playing against us and i want to explore why
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we have another episode where we go into this called like the mystery of the missing woke
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customer oh yeah because if we look at the number of people even number of people who like i know of
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in my life who are still very urban monoculture um there should be a buyer base for wokeified
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products and yet we are seeing numbers that are like 50 people bought it or something you know
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like in some of the instances it'll be like you know five thousand people bought something that
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cost 300 million to make right like they're numbers that simply do not make sense but i had
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this realization well no there was one other detail that you said in that episode that really
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stuck with me was that when you looked into it a lot of the developers of these woke audience
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targeted games that no woke people are buying themselves don't even eat the dog food as we
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say in silicon valley like they don't they wouldn't even buy the games are developing
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oh yeah well i mean a number of like 90s media right yeah like if you even look at a game like
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conquered or whatever when that bombed or or mixtape like it even if the development team
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was playing it they would have better numbers right like that the the numbers are so low they
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almost don't make sense and well i had this realization that changed a lot of this for me
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which is i was talking with a reporter trans reporter who writes on us sometimes i actually
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thinks she's quite a based individual i have no negative feelings towards this individual
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one of those you know based trans people if you know any of them they actually exist but she
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was like anything new going on in ai like what are you thinking about in ai what is your community
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talking about in ai and i was like like ai is everything in my community right now like do you
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know about the skybrow cinematic universe right and she i mean obviously she didn't but i started
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to walk her through it and then i had this realization and i started researching it and
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there isn't if you look at the the right-leaning community online you've got you know leaflet will
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be on a stream and she'll be like wouldn't it be funny if we made a video game about what the tribe
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of warrior women in africa who are actually like super involved with slaving and the people trying
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to stop them were the british if we made a video game about that tribe and so she'll just start
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like vibe coding it on screen in the background while she's streaming that's so fun or the other
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game she made when she was streaming last time i mean i keep seeing her make ones a lot the other
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one was on trying to catch mexicans crossing the border it was a lasso the other one was going to
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the anthony trial and selling a pineapple that you had you know kept in the what do you call it
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kool-aid or whatever whatever whatever the funny viral drink is and then people would try to rob
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you and just fantastic i love it but it's it's you see that you see the shared and this this
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is very interesting to me because i realized when i was talking to the reporter about it and they're
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like well that's interesting and i go no no no no no like you don't get it like they're like oh
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now this is cheap there's people making stuff with it and i'm like that's not really the fullness of
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what's going on here that's a bit like looking at early 4chan and being like oh people have started
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found a place where they can anonymously share stuff and so that now they've begun to like
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iteratively share images and it's like yes that is true but more important a unique language and
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artistic style began to be developed in the way that those images, those macros communicate.
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And this language and artistic style ended up being a dominant force in American politics,
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you know, about 15 years, 10 years after it originated, right? And having been around
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during that period what is happening in the artistic language of the right and how we use
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ai feels incredibly similar it feels like this type of and i think if you're on the right
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or this broader community you do not notice just how frequently you are hitting ai art right like
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i this happened to me when at first what i'm thinking is like skybrow stuff and then i thought
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oh well you know the only person who really opposes us is dog shocker hassan and then i was
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like oh yeah i should send them the video where hassan raps about shocking his dog and i was like
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oh yeah that's an ai video it had actually gone out of my brain that the dog the dog shocking
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video was made with ai because it wasn't done in the stylistic language of the things that i am
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used to being made in ai oh that's so funny but it is you know on the the secondary stylistic
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language in the same way was like as memes were first developed you had your wojacks you had your
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pepes you had your the dog shocking video in terms of its artistic meme category falls into the same
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category i put the spencer pratt for for mayor ad which again something into the eye and what's
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important to know is if you're on the right you're like well of course we're using ai to make things
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the left is i actually went into this with well with ai to try to find
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is there any equivalent online like creation collaborative creation with ai community
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on the left and the best it could find was somebody who was politically neutral and made like
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a sci-fi universe with ai which was a cool product i thought it does sound really cool
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yeah yeah i i tried to watch it it was unfortunately for me boring i didn't really
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like it but we've obliterated our attention spans it's fair you know i like i like my stuff
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entertaining right you know but you certainly and i yeah buddy we're not done can you finish
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your math lessons for the day oh i i couldn't i think we gotta see his lessons today but we got
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pc principal over here um tell him he made a promise you said he promised i i tried well you
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but i got sleepy and i went with eric and i only did zero so far you know if it if it makes you
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feel any better i was watching a video today about how children typically do better if you
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wait to start teaching them language and math um until around the age of seven so we're we're even
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before where we should be doing it if we were aligning with the studies okay which you should
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probably look into by the way you you seem to have just like immediately defaulted to what the school
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system says is best with well i have to maintain statutory requirements so i don't actually
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consider like the lessons that he has to do to meet statutory requirements for us to like be able
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to basically show the proof we have to show to keep him homeschooled i don't consider that with
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education yeah figured that that would be love you buddy but yeah it's it's the stuff that he
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learns with us i am not i'm when i think he needs to learn certain concepts i'm not going to have
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him do lessons to learn those concepts i'm going to teach him those concepts we have different
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versions it's like a two-sided homeschooling system one is keep him at a public school which
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means meeting the statutory requirements side two is actually teach him things that he needs to
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succeed they allow for like wardorf schools in pennsylvania and they operate on this principle
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there there are ways around this mordor where you go to or whatever anyway so the point i'm making
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here is that there isn't an opposing visual form being created artistic form or culture being
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created on the left which feels very different from the early 4chan days because in the early
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4chan days while 4chan was developing the culture that is now controlling the white house twitter
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feed right and whoever is running that oh my goodness gracious we need to do a meme review
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for for white house account the things they've posted this is next level unhinged ai funness
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like i love it too yeah yeah i just it's so they had actually they had a great ai they've done a
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number of really good ai projects like the one recently was a dr trump curing a bunch of lefty
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celebrities of Trump derangement syndrome and them talking diagnosed with TDS. The symptoms
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can be relentless. Fortunately, I'm Dr. Trump and I have a treatment plan. Let's hear what
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some of my patients have to say. I have been suffering for over a decade. And after listening
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to Dr. Trump, I can see some results. Man, I've been suffering for years. I really didn't believe
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that was help out there that was when i came across this video on tv i really thought i was
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a lost cause this was gonna affect me for the rest of my life but after using the treatment plan
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i can see a difference i wish he changed their life but like what is fascinating about all of
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this is it used to be we were competing against tumblr culture and the language and visual forms
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and cultural norms that they developed came to dominate the modern left but right now
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we aren't actually fighting with anyone and what it this really hit me as i was like who do we on
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the right like pretend our core opponent is in the songs in the videos in the and the stuff it's
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like hassan piker which i have never in my entire life met a real fan of hassan piker i and we've
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talked about this before struggled to even model somebody who might be a fan of hassan piker i was
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surprised right out that his fan base is actually majority male as well which is even more confusing
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that is because the only people that we have heard of are some women who listen to this podcast who
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have either friends or co-workers who are female who listen to hassan piker that's it yeah so and
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hassan piker has like a small sort of orbit uh community if you know what i mean but they're
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they're minuscule compared to like if you look at the the the wider community that we're a part of
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you know your your nux and your asthma gold and your tech tone and your goth guy and your leaflet
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and your kirsha and your smugglana and your powder can't can't leave her out outside of even
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the the ai creators it's a fairly there there isn't a hassan equivalent to this right there
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there there are orbiters but it's not like a constellation of real beliefs or anything like
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that and this is what i realized it's like are we fighting like the air like do we just dunk on
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hassan to dunk on hassan to give you an idea of what i mean here the two figures our community
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makes fun of the most other than hassan are his fat muslim orbiter and mod who has like 60 regular
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watchers that i'm aware of i don't remember her name and who's currently in a lawsuit with ian
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klein and then also in a lawsuit with ian klein we often make fun of i dubs but i dubs we make
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fun of because at one point in the past he was famous but he's certainly not famous now he doesn't
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have an audience now that we have to dig to that extent where are our enemies i don't know the
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large leftist content producers who i respect enough to not make fun of like contrapoints
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simply don't produce videos anymore or not frequently philosophy tube we've done a video
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on one of their takes but like even on the left they're seen as sort of a creep who tried to copy
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contrapoints after dating her like her entire life which is really creepy what by that i mean
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is apparently he dated her and then he went trans and then he like took her style and career which
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is a weird thing to do and she has acknowledged this in a deleted tweet but anyway yeah she's
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like you think your stalkers are bad at least nobody tried to steal your life actually now
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that i think about it that could explain part of why the leftist influencer class disappeared they
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have like psychological breakdowns and become incredibly unproductive they're just not as
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hard working as well like contrapoints just dying off as a channel due to not working as hard or
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not having as loud of a cultural voice or another person who this happened to was lindsey ellis uh
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you know her her own side turned on her at one point and she ended up having a bunch of mental
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issues as a result of that and then there was aluma hottie who ended up being a scam artist
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and everybody descended on her like sharks like he doesn't seem to have credibility with any
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mainstream demographic or movement or anything like that um and it's really fascinating where
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i project what's going to happen or when i project what's going to happen to culture moving forwards
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given that there isn't a meaningful leftist counterculture building something right now
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and i am confused by that i know that leftists are like reactively anti-ai but the right had
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some people who were anti-ai in the early days i guess just everyone ignored them i think it
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it might be at the right that we got better at ignoring the people who were shrieking at us
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i think a huge portion of it is that they all went to blue sky and well that this is the secondary
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thing i was talking and i've noticed this as well to the journalist about i was like who are the
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futurists who are the pro ai people on the left and we both came to sort of realize they exist on
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the left but they don't make stuff so they're typically like in programming ai or like she
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mentioned cory doctoro is one of these people and i'm like cory doctoro is kind of pro ai kind of
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trepidatious on ai when i actually read his stuff but by the way you can look at look at the thing
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starting up hey so getting getting that all set up for our kids hopefully i really want to get
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this working by tomorrow that that would be so cool that i can start you know having people buy
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the hardware products and trying it out well and try them out let's play test it on the kids first
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because you might want to make a lot of design changes based on what they respond to but there
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are people on the left who are okay with ai or even futurists they just don't make stuff
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and i wanted to think through this one is and i will say this very strongly this was not entirely
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organic on the right this was very seeded in a way where what i would say is having it called
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the skybrow cinematic universe i think makes perfect sense what i mean by that is if the
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human being who is behind skybrows didn't exist i don't know that we would have gotten off on all
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this. Simone and I used to make AI songs at the end of our videos, but we never put in that much
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effort because I simply didn't know that a product that good was possible. It hadn't been modeled to
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us that this can be done. And I think all of us seeing that in such a familiar way, where it felt
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like such a down to earth, oh, I watch the same types of people you watch, showed us all what we
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could attempt. And we are the type of community that when we see something, we go, hey, I should
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try that and also talking a bit about the language that's being developed in this before we go over
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all these woke flops because i just want to think about this it like feels like we're fighting a
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cultural battle and no one's on the other side of the cultural battle it's almost truman show-esque
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these what it feels like to me is loosely tied and overlapping affiliative groups that enjoy
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similar things and enjoy membership in their overlapping cultures and they don't really care
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about what outsiders think i mean it's we've reached a point at which it doesn't really matter
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they do actually i think i actually think that that's what is happening and and causing a lot
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of this phenomenon is most people are not woke even most urban monoculture people are not woke
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They might even think of themselves as a little subversive.
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But at the end of the day, most people want status and to be seen as erudite, elite, sophisticated.
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It was done at Northwestern University, Michigan, on performative progressivism in 2025 is when it came out.
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It showed that 88% of students pretend to hold more progressive views than they really do.
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and percent said that they disagreed with the idea that gender identity should override biological
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sex and domains in sports and health and public data but that 77 percent also said they would
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never voice that in public 80 percent say they misrepresent their views in coursework you know
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knowing that they need to lie about their views to get good grades this is the degree to which
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we are teaching people you have to hide any conservative belief you have if you want to be
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seen as high status or get ahead in society we were interacting with a an old classmate of mine
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recently who really fit into this category right in terms of like why she found our views so
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mortifying and the way we're expressing them so mortifying is because it was trashy it was low
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class it was because the wokes have successfully branded certain views and ways of talking and ways
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of acting as as being that and when other people have done podcasts on us they bragged about how
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their title cards didn't use ai and i don't think that they were anti-ai people but they thought
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that that was something worthy of being proud of when all their title cards were was cutting out
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people's faces yeah found from google images and putting them on the title card for real yeah
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not not a flex not a flex our ai title cards are actually pretty hard to create like they
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talent goes in to being this based people do you know that yesterday we had the pope being
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mesmerized by a trans gun that was an awesome title card even the clickbaitiness of the title
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cards requires some work you know it does yeah there is genuinely actually for for every title
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card there are two to five alternate options that we discuss we we put way too much thought into
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these no title cards are the most important part of an episode i know i know that they're the face
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of an episode they're the cover of the book they matter completely and entirely and yes we do put
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a lot of effort into them and you know but i think what we're missing is those types of people don't
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go out and buy a woke show. They don't even consider themselves woke. They're slightly
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annoyed by woke people. Well, I think this might be, it's similar to a dynamic we're finding with
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reality fabricator. And I'd love to see this somehow be defied eventually, but right now,
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like 95% of our customers are male. But about 50% of the site's users are female.
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Yeah. And I feel like that there might be a similar dynamic with far progressives where
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in the end, the money just isn't there. They're not buying the things. And that makes them
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consumers with not a lot of influence in the end when they're working at least with companies that
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actually look for a return on investment. And I will say that there has been a period where I
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guess there's been this weird subsidy of woke products that lasted a lot longer than all the
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go-woke, go-broke canaries in the coal mine would have thought. But I think maybe we're reaching
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They all start going broke as soon as SAID gets shut down.
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No, there is this very strange dynamic of large groups and segments and societies not
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paying for certain types of products, just not being meaningful consumers.
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So I'll go into all the flops in just a second.
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You guys have all seen all the numbers before, probably.
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so they're not that exciting but this the sheer scale of it i mean we culturally took down
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ubisoft which was one of the largest brands in gaming simply by removing their customer base
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right this has been astonishing that you could take down i used to buy every assassin's creed
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release by the way i yeah i remember you looking forward to them with great anticipation i feel
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like the last one you enjoyed was the pirate one that's this often thought of as the best one but
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it's not the last one i enjoyed maybe the paris one was okay i was okay up to the the viking one
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i thought the viking one was fine i don't remember you saying anything about the viking one ever
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well it wasn't as good as the other i mean i didn't like it as much as like the i thought
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the paris one was also fine the one that i've replayed is not the pirate one but the american
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revolution one that one's i i think gets gets undersold in terms of you could you get to play
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in areas that are like where we live today but in the colonial period yeah but the pirate one
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had the sea shanties the pirate one had the sea shanties yes it did so how quickly people turn
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against this stuff that were previously like totally okay with it like me being okay with
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drippies of wokeness and then just reaching this point where it's like i'm absolutely radicalized
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i'm not touching anything that you people have touched and so i think that that's the key part
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of the mystery actual wokes are incredibly rare most of it is your average aspiring to be upper
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class respected urban professional yeah that's who actually makes up the muscle of the wokes
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but they don't like the wokes and they don't identify as woke they identify as the cultural
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elite i keep in mind that the people who identify as a cultural elite are always going to be much
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more than the number of people who actually are culturally elite you know these are the people who
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have their sub stack that they pay for people to read you know like the the sad sad situations like
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that but to continue let's go over some explicit drops other than ubisoft because that was
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absolutely crazy that that happened i mean remember the the god the trans one veil guard
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came out and the numbers were astonishingly low like in the low thousands in terms of purchases
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but recently even things like disney so if you look at snow white snow white had a budget of
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240 million and 270 million with heavy marketing on top of that was a worldwide gross of only
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around 200 million that means that they lost around 100 million dollars that is impossible
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sounding that that's vaporizing money oh my gosh that is that is i mean if rachel zegler ever gets
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a job again i am going to like whoever gives it to her just is insane because she single-handedly
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broke that like it didn't need to be that bad come on they made the fairest of them all
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about who was the most fair the communists yeah i know i think that this there were many
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there were many people who played a role okay sounded so bad the world oh remember they
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originally tried to cast non dwarves for the seven dwarves they were just a multi-colored
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group of misfits it looked so dumb and bad i would have preferred to see that honestly the
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cgi dwarfs looked super creepy so i would have preferred the which was so much worse than real
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dwarfs why did they not just right yeah and again totally spring over the dwarf acting community
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which you know their their roles are few and far between give them a something to work with people
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they must have been so excited they're like finally they're making a new snow white this
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is our moment we've been waiting for decades for another job and then they cast and then they would
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cgi anyway yeah miss miss oh okay oh buddy i'm so sorry but you are gonna have to do some more
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because you have not done one if you have 40 or 20 okay tell him he has to go do it right now
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and krampus might come oh daddy says krampus might come he yeah he doesn't because he made a promise
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you said you made a promise and to do a course actually means to do a lesson actually means to
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do it we know you're good at these okay i didn't know i'm sorry it's okay just go ahead four percent
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or twenty percent means no change yeah it means failed so you have to do five that you actually
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completed and passed okay okay marvels you had a total cost was around 300 million worldwide
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it only made around 200 million again lowest grossing ncu film and this was around 100 million
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loss supergirl the one that everyone's talking about right now it looks like it's under 99 million
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right now and it costs around 275 million how many of these cost as much when so much is just
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filmed on like a soundstage in front of a green screen um like films should cost less to film now
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than they ever have before yeah but unions and they don't like i mean they're using ai too is
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the thing like how are they failing even when using ai oh i thought the unions banned ai no no no they
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use ai for special effects oh okay okay oh just not for actors yeah then you have
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the and the other thing that we've noticed is that on the other side like when our side releases
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something or they try to cancel something it almost always does really well obviously the
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biggest example of this was hogwarts legacy which just absolutely crushed records so the same thing
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had been with black myth wukon stellar blade warhammer 40k space marines 2 and things like
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helldivers 2 oh yeah helldivers i just kept hearing about that everywhere when it came out
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and in a good way of freedom and the king of kings and david and recently on ex-citizen vigilante a
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film about going around and murdering immigrants who are graping people which is a fun idea for a
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movie i like it elon made it free on x or something for 48 hours yeah after germany gave it a non-rated
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status which was sort of their functional way to try to ban it that's awful but i love that that's
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how he pushed back like oh you you're gonna give this unrated i'll make sure everybody sees this
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movie yeah and started by armie hammer who armie hammer i'm glad he's making a comeback i always
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felt his cancellation was i i think he was a jerk to his wife but i i felt the extent of the
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cancellation was heavily unjustified yeah and so you know uh our side doesn't care we really don't
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man we really don't it's honestly just appropriate casting in the end so like you know right i think
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it he wrote the he wrote the reputation it's exactly have it be something that he's like
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super into going around murdering these people make make it more believable make it make it
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more morally dubious i think people love that the dexter thing you know yeah it's just like i just
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can't stop killing people so i guess i'm gonna make it bad guys but then have them also be migrant
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but yeah where i'm coming and the other thing about the leftists and i i did i have noticed
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some other videos because i actually decided to at one point study their their behavior like what
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do they say they consume and one thing that we know is that the leftists
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who infiltrated video games like obviously famously anita shakizian being caught on film
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saying well i don't really play video games much at all oh man consume that type of media and so
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the question is that they're not consuming what they're creating like the category of media that
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they've infiltrated what did the leftists actually consume and what i found was it's mostly just the
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same thing over and over and over again from their childhood so i mean they're still like
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re-watching steven universe or something they are still re-watching and part of it is because
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they become so hypersensitized to anything they might see octavian please finish the lessons okay
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octavian krampus will come oh yeah yeah so they they they re-watch a lot of the content from
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their childhood because they become so hypersensitized to things that they might find
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offensive that consuming new forms of media and content is really challenging for them even when
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it's aggressively woke see i just thought it was for the same reason why we consume so much content
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from the 90s is that it's just better then it's just so much better it often is a lot better yeah
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to the extent that like we were watching what's the movie that we were watching i was like this
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feels like a movie from the 90s hail mary yeah it was from that it was like and i just hadn't
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heard a good original score in so long that it actually stood out to me that shouldn't be a thing
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why why you know that like every other score film score recently has just felt so generic
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like and you can watch it on amazon prime by the way if you want it's on for for prime members
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it's it's it's long and quite good i'd suggest it for the family yeah maybe cry but i guess
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i'm gonna cry kind of place right now so i don't like when movies make me cry but it's okay
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but that that movie could come out and not be aggressively woke i mean when somebody said one
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of the things that got them about the movie and i actually agree with this but i don't think it's
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woke i think it's unfortunately the way it would really be is they have this council where it's
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supposed to be like all the top scientists from around the world and it's like clearly got somebody
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from like you know your african representatives your you know your representatives from like
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eastern europe your representative so like south america that's what one of these would look like
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today right and he's like but really if like if the world was actually under threat we'd want like
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a bunch of people from america and israel like let's be honest here right like that basically
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how we're running the world now just like the smart people from american and israel are in the
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room deciding what happens next i'll be out that the smart people for america are actually the
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smartest people from all around the world and then the people in israel i mean yeah you get some
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indians in there you get some you know yeah we we this is true it was a lot of when you when you
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listen to the all-in podcast which is some of the most you know the world's most successful
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investors in vcs like the proportion of them that are immigrants to america huge elon musk
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immigrant to america so many of these people were not born in america and that's notable
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where was i talking well i think within the next generation that's where we're going to be i think
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especially as world economies start collapsing and ai becomes bigger more and more of just
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ignoring the rest of the world is going to become the norm just being like we do not need you on
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this project we will give you some of our ai money to keep you alive if you're nice okay and now we
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can add the caveat because we're republicans if you're nice the democrats would give money to
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people who don't even like us in fact we should send no money to countries that have negative
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favorability of the united states i don't care how much suffering there is that feels right
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that feels very fair yeah you have to you have to vote on the surveys we love america if you want
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to aid certain certain aid thresholds like net 90 or something and then you get then you get aid
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but anyway the wider point here being is i think that we are in a very important cultural moment
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where new forms of art and media are being defined new artistic languages are being defined oh and
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the point i was going to make is i think part of the thing that got the right into all of this
00:35:57.860
that made the right productive with these types of artistic assets is a number of influential
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people on the right just sat down and intentionally decided to inspire people when the first sky
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browse video went viral that went viral the elon video um when when i saw that video i immediately
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shared it with simone it didn't feel like something i was aware was possible was ai
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technology at the time i saw that and i was like this is catchy entertaining culturally on point
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for somebody like me i feel like heard i'm i'm compelled by this i feel like this person
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culturally gets me right and then the next video comes out and this is when he started adding in
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even more streamers and stuff like that and it was streamers who i know we overlap heavily with
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or i've done collabs with or whatever and then i feel even more like and a lot of people see like
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oh you've got you're like looking at my inbox you're looking at my youtube video feed you get
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this perception of a shared cultural identity from the video and then from that because the
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streamers decided to react to this then other people started producing videos mimicking aspects
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of the stylistic element but building on them yeah and that is what led to the explosion of the
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online ai music video phenomenon now we're in a secondary category where i talked about leaflet
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sitting down and saying like i am going to make this game to show you how good ai is at vibe
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coding how quickly it can create something is intentionally about activating our base to get
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off their butts and start creating stuff because now we can consume each other's content every
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you know holy ball or sky brows there's a new guy that i've been liking who did a good video on
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k-nux or nux the king or something fantastic song
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every song of theirs that we consume that our kids hear is an urban monoculture is a
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big media song they're not hearing and as we begin to produce more full-length anime which i expect
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we'll start seeing in our community within probably the next year every one of those i consume is
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something of the urban monocultures i'm not consuming right the more content creators we
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get in our space of that variety the more we can and this is something you see with rfab which is
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also a new way of building and building a company people have shown the meme when they're talking
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about rfab.ai which is our site of oh it's like one of those guns which has like a knife taped
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on it and like a spatula and like a because of all the different things whether it's like you
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know the ai for recipe generation or the ai for narrative dming or the the site that searches all
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not safe for work image bureaus at the same time are all not safe for work video sites or all
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torrent sites at the same time and strips all the annoyingness and ads out of the torrent sites
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or all of the that one by the way needs the bridge app to be running in your browser for it to work
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by the way when was the last time you tested the bridge app i need to test it again okay there's
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an echo okay i hear a slight echo from you but you need to test it before you go downstairs
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because that means it's been days and i had done the upload from my end i just need to see that it
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opens so you want me to download it and reinstall yeah just download it and open it see if you can
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open it that's all that's all i need to see if it opens it works it's more of an authentication
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issue to make sure that that was correctly applied um but the point being is is it's all
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of these different products and there's like three or four products in the site that are in the works
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now that you haven't seen yet you've got the hardware feature which i've mentioned we've got
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a tutoring feature for kids we've got a a feature that it you know does email consolidation i've got
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a video streaming feature i've got a video editing feature that auto edits videos for production and
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what what combines everything on the site like the vtuber creation it's that it's stuff that
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at some point was interested in somebody in our community they're either fans like a fan asked me
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he goes malcolm can you make a feature that can turn text into audio and determine who's speaking
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and use different speakers and i'm like fine and that's live on the site right now
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yes that's good that's 80 good job buddy keep going tell him to keep going so krampus doesn't
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keep going okay you're doing great i'm really proud of you okay thank you my friend thank you
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for focusing talking about the new type of website yeah but i think that this is where companies are
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going in the age when you could just summon any ai you want right to make any product you want
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is we're sort of developing in our community a degree of cultural siloing in terms of the
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products that we're making right like i don't work on actually making the ai models but if you're on
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our site you can use the roads model which has been trained to be super based right what by by
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a fan so i might be able to put that in as an api leaflet doesn't spend a lot of her time making
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utility software like vtuber rigs and stuff like this but she spends a ton of time on her music
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videos you know if you look at the sky brows sky brows and i can't make videos like the ones he
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makes it i just don't take the time to develop those skills yet well and he also has a very
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distinct style it is definitely a human plus ai thing because you you can tell even just from
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listening to it if it's a sky browse video from various flourishes that he maintains throughout
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his all all of his songs i love it yeah so the point being is that the way that each of us have
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taken to our role and building out our role is quite culturally unique for each of us and the
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company that is just building products that are useful in your life and will hopefully be useful
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in the lives of people like you I think is like the next thing and if you notice on our fab if
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we're not being charged for something we always offer it for free you know whether it's the tip
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feature or the image app that I made that I am actually I use it regularly it's a really useful
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app for me and it also automatically like unzips things for you although I think that feature might
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be partially broken I've got to figure out what's going on with that one so I'll get to that but
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that's less important than the hardware i really want to get the hardware so i can get a school
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going for octavian yeah and for you our fans yeah it's super cheap too because i'm gonna get this so
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you can you know flash it yourself but the point here being is this is a new culture the way our
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fab is structured is culturally totally unique compared to the way a normal website would be
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structured you know offer one product lean on your core competency not build additional features
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whenever you have an idea right but that's i think where we're going and it's the same with
00:43:32.180
with generation somebody gets an idea to do something like you know we i'm gonna make a
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video i want to be like well it's leaflet it's i always wanted to be a an idol girl right like
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wouldn't that be fun and it's like now i can just be an idol right and us people who are in
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leadership within the community diving in so aggressively to this technology i think makes
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the community feel empowered and thus dive in themselves which allows for this shared culture
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of content creation to be born and normalized which i'm really excited about yeah well to me
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it's it's just a way to really easily visualize techno feudalism as it starts to roll out that
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there are these trust networks that are very distinct and interesting that i think
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i wouldn't have expected to be able to see earlier but i could literally see them
00:44:29.120
through the cameos of the skybrow cinematic universe videos and you can see the overlapping
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of different communities how they relate to each other just by seeing who makes cameos who makes
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guest appearances and this is the most artistic and interesting and fun succinct way to see it
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it's just super cool well i mean we are defining likely what's going to be the future of ai culture
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the way these are fan communities what most of these creators do is serve as the filter through
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which their audiences come to understand reality like malcolm and i were just talking earlier about
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a crime or like court case that's taking place involving a woman in murder and both of us
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understand it through the lens of an asmongol video like we haven't read original coverage of
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it so this is important because these are people that are influencing pretty significantly the way
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that people consume understanding contextualized world events yeah and i think that's that's what
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i wanted to talk about yeah i mean i i just i don't i i cannot like say and i i hope our fans
00:45:42.160
our audience truly gets how astonishingly blessed our movement is to have no competent opposition
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i mean other than the elites that control every institution in our society but they're not
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competent and that is why we will be able to steamroll the next generation of culture
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we've just got to keep at it and for all of you what i'd encourage is if you haven't gotten to
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explore how you can use ai to fix some problem you have in your daily life dive into that
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absolutely it's intimidating but i think it's worth it to do
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all right okay i'll accept that oh yep i'll accept that text text wants really to start
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school you did good you did good i think alia's outside if you want to go check okay thanks yeah
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i love you buddy yes you can stop you kept your promise and that is you can leave it right there
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love you buddy promise keeper oh wait that has a political charge doesn't it
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i know that's the oath keepers right what am i thinking here
00:46:57.620
this is low effort parenting right here terrify your kid with monsters into finishing lessons
00:47:05.680
while you're off this is how bad it is though i won't name names but a friend's kid stopped by
00:47:10.560
warehouse this morning and i was just like oh hey like you want anything to drink like okay well i'm
00:47:15.860
gonna go in and work and then i i get this call and no it turns out like there's a panicked search
00:47:21.140
for this child i should have like stopped and detained the child and i guess called the
00:47:27.720
associated adults but i just see a child on their own like and you're like hey you want something
00:47:32.740
to drink you and i'm like hey how's it going you want to hang out for a while like
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we're so now normalizing to our like free-range parenting and just kids coming and going hanging
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out that i'm just like oh hey hi and i don't realize that there's probably a growing search
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are we gonna be that house to hang out at i could see that happening yeah i mean we're fortunate in
00:47:58.200
that our oldest kid is an incredibly popular person octavian is very popular with like everyone
00:48:03.760
he spends time with yeah loves them all he he statted into tens in charisma maybe not tens and
00:48:11.320
smarts but definitely tens and charisma i'm actually very impressed with him and when you
00:48:15.820
think when we we we joke with him about like his technical scores with some legacy schooling but
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you and I had exactly the same delays yeah but I'm a genius yeah he might be a genius too
00:48:34.900
look I'm just saying like I had exactly like my teachers were calling my parents and all that and
00:48:42.040
I don't know I turned out okay oh no I love you okay I love you too Torsten though he probably
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will have changed his mind by the time he comes in tonight had requested grilled cheese sandwiches
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tonight would you like grilled cheese sandwiches sure like one grilled cheese sandwich and one
00:49:05.620
hot dog like i don't know what do you want like a grilled cheese sandwich and a half
00:49:09.440
yeah you always want one and a half grilled cheese sandwiches and no hot dogs do we have
00:49:16.140
any tomato soup left no no that would have been like growing an entirely new species by now
00:49:22.880
it is it was consumed it was consumed by collectively the family they were convalescing
00:49:29.740
here do we have any like deli meats no we don't have deli meats but we do have the caramelized
00:49:38.460
pork we have burmese mint chicken we have one more if memory serves we have that cashew cream curry
00:49:47.720
we have no i'll just have the i'll just have the grilled cheese sandwiches one and a half
00:49:54.500
all these gourmet things i batch prepped okay okay you want one and a half with a small amount
00:50:00.840
of they come in allotments once i freeze them then one allotment of cashew curry with a
00:50:09.440
grilled cheese sandwich and just one grilled cheese sandwich then okay i'm sorry about my
00:50:16.780
allotments i'm so sorry i know i drive you nuts but i love you i'm gonna murder you one day that's
00:50:25.780
that's yeah well you know you're gonna need someone to take care of these noodles and
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someone woke me up by kicking me at four in the morning repeatedly literally just woke you up
00:50:38.000
like yeah so you know welcome to my world all right i love you to death have a wonderful day
00:50:46.260
and let's try to get to bed early yes i would like that would you like that would you like that
00:50:52.180
i'm not going to bed until i figure out these systems you'll get it you'll get it i'll give
00:51:00.980
you some some time with the dinner prep because i have to somehow grab and hose off all the kids
00:51:06.240
and check them for text right bye text the hunk biscuit the hunk biscuit is what you're calling
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him now we got building art fab devices that you'll be able to just with this one you can just
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with magnets just like stick it on your fridge and it can watch what you're doing and talk to
00:51:22.980
you and go through it all with you and then this one's just audio to audio and i'm building an
00:51:28.720
auto flasher on the system so you won't even need to buy these for us i can just give you the name
00:51:33.620
of the product and you can buy this for like 40 bucks if you want it with video and video and then
00:51:39.820
this one is like 19 bucks and it's just like audio to audio and you could have these all over your
00:51:45.060
house or whatever give them to your kids i mean that's what we're using this for is i'm going to
00:51:48.060
turn it into an educator because i got tired of of having a parent you know i don't want to do
00:51:53.000
that anymore we had the kid yelling every day so let's the kids they don't go away they aren't
00:51:59.780
going home why are they not leaving they're like the guest that never departs it's gonna take a
00:52:06.360
especially since you and i are kind of bullish on having them here as newlyweds like it's it's
00:52:12.960
actually if they're like if they're newlyweds going through college or university or some kind
00:52:18.860
of professional training program or getting their business off the ground as long as they're
00:52:23.040
contributing yeah all right what's going on up here
00:52:38.300
andy why aren't you in the chair how have you jerry-rigged it
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here. Look. Thank you for eating toasties. I'll get some shorts on you. Hey, listen to me. Hey,
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