Based Camp - December 24, 2024


The UN's Attempts to Control Animeļ¼š The Battle Against Cultural Hegemony in Media


Episode Stats

Length

59 minutes

Words per Minute

180.9185

Word Count

10,798

Sentence Count

840

Misogynist Sentences

57

Hate Speech Sentences

37


Summary

In this episode, we discuss the rise and fall of Japanese and Chinese games, and the impact of the West's "Woke" culture on the quality of games and media in general. We also talk about why the U.N. might be trying to ban games like Dragon Age of Dragon Age and Assassin's Creed.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, Simone! Today we are going to be talking about an interesting phenomenon, which is one, the persistent high quality of Japanese artistic endeavors, as well as the persistent efforts of the West to inject their companies, and successful in some instances, with DEI, with the urban monoculture, with wokeism and destroying those companies in the process.
00:00:25.360 We have seen, you know, throughout the course of this year, if we look at the disastrous Dragon Age Veil card, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Concord, another major development project in the U.S.
00:00:38.060 And from what I hear, things aren't looking good for Avowed.
00:00:40.980 And all of them are flopping. And then we get these huge successes, both out of Japan and China. So like, I think Black Mist Wukong is out of China. We had a big success from Japan, I can't remember.
00:00:51.780 The other ones I was thinking of were games like Dragon's Dogma 2, Final Fantasy, Helldivers 2, Frostpunk 2, and Monster Hunter Wilds.
00:01:01.560 We had, from like, I want to say Eastern European studio, we had Helldivers, we had...
00:01:07.700 Helldivers? Was that in Japan?
00:01:09.580 No, Helldivers was Eastern Europe.
00:01:11.160 Okay.
00:01:12.120 But even some Eastern European studios are getting corrupt. Like, when they get too big, like...
00:01:16.140 When any organization gets too big.
00:01:17.680 Project Red, or whatever it's called, the one that developed The Witcher, and like a lot of good games, they've become super infected with wokeism.
00:01:24.860 Oh no.
00:01:25.420 And they're now, you know, like, oh, you see it in all their stuff. And it's correlated with the downfall of their studio and inability to make good products.
00:01:32.460 Which I think we're increasingly seeing the bureaucratic bloat was in their studio, which is that they adapted all this stuff.
00:01:37.940 And the smaller studios in that region, like, you know, one of my favorite releases from this year, Frostpunk 2, that's Eastern Europe, you know.
00:01:44.060 And it's good? Is Frostpunk 2 good?
00:01:45.980 It's great, yeah. I think the only good game that came out of the U.S., though I heard it had a big team in Eastern Europe, was Space Marines 2.
00:01:54.360 But then we've also got, like, bad media in the U.S.
00:01:56.500 And the question is, is...
00:01:58.980 I want to get into, like, the U.N. trying to ban this and the reaction to this.
00:02:03.840 Okay.
00:02:04.300 But why media? Like, why I have a Crunchyroll account and I don't have a Netflix account?
00:02:08.960 And I know I shouldn't be giving money to Crunchyroll. It's just easy, okay?
00:02:11.880 And I don't have a Netflix account.
00:02:13.280 Wait, why should you not be giving money to Crunchyroll? Did they do something?
00:02:16.180 They're super woke. They spend it on woke bullshit. They're terrible.
00:02:19.320 But I don't have a Netflix account. You know, I don't have an HBO account.
00:02:22.280 I don't have a Paramount account.
00:02:23.280 And the reason is, is because the media that's being produced there, if we talk about the one civilization hypothesis, is that wherever the one civilization blooms, it typically allows for large bureaucracies.
00:02:38.140 So I should note, if you haven't seen our one civilization hypothesis video, it's that humanity has largely consisted of one civilization that was, if you actually look at, like, the archaeological, artistic, and literature record, despite what the DEI proponents want you to think, of only one civilization, which has hopped from one ethnic group to another.
00:02:55.540 Started in Egypt, went to Mesopotamia, then went to ancient Greece, then went to Rome, then went to Charlemagne-like Central Europe, then went to the Victorian Empire, then went around the world.
00:03:07.900 And that, after a while, like, Greece today sucks.
00:03:12.320 Smell like feta cheese.
00:03:14.340 The freaking alcohols are good people.
00:03:16.320 Good people? They're Greeks. And Greeks are just Jews without money.
00:03:21.140 Like, this is not, like, an ethno-supremacist theory at all.
00:03:24.140 But, like, it seems to exhaust the potential of a people after it reaches a golden age within a specific region.
00:03:30.900 And I wonder if it's already exhausted a portion of the American potential.
00:03:35.680 I'm really worried about that.
00:03:37.300 Like, are we, and this is what I always wonder, are we at the end of the Roman Republic, or are we at the end of the Roman Empire?
00:03:43.820 I think it's more likely we're at the end of the Roman Republic, but it has exhausted a lot of the creative dynamism of America, of the giant companies in America.
00:03:54.620 And so when I'm going for artistic creations, I need to go to a place less tainted.
00:03:59.360 Because that's the only place I'm going to find things that don't look like they came out of a factory line.
00:04:03.140 The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, CEDAW, oh my god.
00:04:09.900 Can you believe they have, like, a whole committee on this?
00:04:11.760 Like, our country is paying for, like, the United Nations to exist.
00:04:15.020 And they're spitting that money on things like the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Committee.
00:04:20.460 And they don't focus on, like, the Middle East.
00:04:24.000 They focus on anime.
00:04:25.700 This is about imposing a cultural hegemony, not on actually lowering the amount of discrimination.
00:04:31.240 No, the fan service must end, Malcolm.
00:04:35.980 It is not to be tolerated.
00:04:38.580 No man can experience pleasure.
00:04:41.020 They have expressed concerns about Japanese media, including anime and manga.
00:04:45.820 In a report from CEDAW, they claimed that these forms of media could potentially encourage gender-based sexual orientation,
00:04:52.440 gender-based or sexual orientation-based violence against women and girls.
00:04:57.620 The committee recommended that Japan implement, quote, effective legal measures and monitoring programs, end quote,
00:05:04.060 to address the production and distribution of such content.
00:05:07.340 The report also emphasized the need to address gender stereotypes towards minority groups in Japan,
00:05:13.500 including Anu, Borakim, and Zenachi Korean women and girls.
00:05:18.760 Oh, you want to reduce Japanese, like, stereotypes of, like, Korean and Chinese people.
00:05:24.260 Like, could you take, like, a more direct shot at Japanese culture?
00:05:28.160 Like, you guys need to stop being so racist against other Asian groups.
00:05:32.380 And they're like, but that's, like, our core thing, man.
00:05:35.580 I find it shocking that Wokies are so drenched in their own cultural perspective
00:05:41.640 that they fail to see that different cultures may have a degree of cultural supremacism as part of the culture itself.
00:05:51.260 And attempting to erase that is attempting to erase a core element of that culture.
00:05:57.320 It is racist to attempt to convince a culture that has ethnic pride deeply embedded within it
00:06:06.540 to erase that aspect of their cultural inheritance.
00:06:10.320 And this wouldn't be so bad if this rule wasn't applied so unevenly to different ethnic groups.
00:06:18.580 As we have seen, Wokies are the first to argue that some groups are allowed to act with ethnic supremacy.
00:06:26.760 For example, black cultural groups in America, they would say,
00:06:30.840 oh, well, they can't be racist.
00:06:32.020 Whatever they do, it's not racist.
00:06:33.840 But Asians, Japanese, oh, no, they don't get that protection.
00:06:37.800 Why?
00:06:38.060 It's because they're racist.
00:06:40.320 They believe that different humans, based on their skin color or ethnic background,
00:06:44.620 are deserving of different levels of human dignity and human rights.
00:06:47.620 And Asians are one of the bottom groups to them.
00:06:50.580 What does that mean?
00:06:51.440 I think she just called you a racist, Penny.
00:06:54.120 Black people can't be racist!
00:06:55.660 I agree.
00:06:56.240 I think that it is okay to accept that societies like Korea,
00:06:59.560 like, when I was in Korea, I experienced a lot of racism.
00:07:01.460 And I was, like, totally chill with it.
00:07:03.560 I was like, yeah, I get it.
00:07:05.020 I shouldn't be here.
00:07:06.440 This is not your culture.
00:07:08.640 I am, in many ways, parasitizing on your culture's arbitrage that you have given me.
00:07:14.640 And that is, it's so funny that, like, you know, I'd say that, like, people in the U.S.,
00:07:21.280 like Kamala Harris, can't say, I only have this position because I'm a black woman.
00:07:26.260 I only have this job.
00:07:27.700 Joe Biden said he's only hiring a black woman for this.
00:07:29.800 That I would never have gotten this far in my life if I was a white man,
00:07:33.800 given my qualifications, given my achievements.
00:07:36.140 She was unable to admit that to the public.
00:07:38.440 In Korea, I admitted that all the time.
00:07:40.000 I'd be like, I probably wouldn't have this job if I was Korean.
00:07:41.760 And I understand why there's animosity towards me.
00:07:44.980 And I think that that is part of what's needing to be accepted by the modern elite black community
00:07:51.020 in America, if we're going to get through this, is they need to say, look, as a black person
00:07:55.320 who grew up upper class, now, I'm not saying that this is true of black lower and middle
00:07:58.220 class people.
00:07:58.680 They actually have it much harder.
00:08:00.400 But the programs don't really end up benefiting them.
00:08:02.480 They only end up benefiting the black elite class.
00:08:05.220 These people can't, like Kamala Harris can't say, I understand.
00:08:07.640 And I benefited from systemic privileges throughout my entire life that gave me advantages over
00:08:12.960 other people.
00:08:14.000 That's the first step in any form of healing.
00:08:17.640 And the unwillingness to do that is really, I think, a core moral failing of these individuals.
00:08:24.200 I'm not saying that they need to leave their jobs, but just admit that, like, you played
00:08:29.020 an arbitrage game.
00:08:30.280 And most of our black friends do admit this.
00:08:32.340 Like, behind closed doors, they're like, fuck it.
00:08:33.820 Yeah, I know, I don't have this job for realsy.
00:08:36.500 But also, a lot of our black friends are Africans.
00:08:38.860 And so they're even, like, double cucking the U.S.
00:08:42.080 black population.
00:08:42.680 They're like, yeah, my ancestors have always been leaders of our area of whatever.
00:08:47.940 You know, they're all, like, descended from royalty.
00:08:50.260 And, you know, we came here with a lot of wealth already.
00:08:53.740 And now we're taking all the VC jobs because the VCs don't see a difference between us and
00:08:57.960 the Americans, the black Americans.
00:08:59.940 So they're not even helping the people they're supposed to.
00:09:01.940 They're helping the people that sold their ancestors into slavery.
00:09:05.440 As we saw with that horrifying movie, what was it?
00:09:08.060 It was about, like, the queen, like, the African queen.
00:09:12.040 It's crazy to me that you live in a time where when you share the truth about slavery and
00:09:17.460 the fact that Africans were brutal about enslaving and slave-raiding other tribes and delivering
00:09:24.240 them to the coast for the transatlantic slave trade, you get called a white supremacist and
00:09:29.200 that you hate yourself.
00:09:30.000 This happened when I called out the movie The Woman King, which glorified slave-raiders.
00:09:35.220 Those warrior women were slave-raiders.
00:09:38.760 But at least some people are honest about it, like Lupita Nyong'o.
00:09:43.120 Brutal truth of what were some of the outcomes of their actions.
00:09:47.440 The truly twisted thing about The Woman King as a movie is that it portrayed this tribe as
00:09:55.000 fighting back against Europeans who were pressuring them into being slavers when the exact opposite
00:10:04.940 was true.
00:10:05.680 specifically, the British at the time were already zealously anti-slavery and even went so far
00:10:13.520 as to, for no financial benefit themselves, they were just doing this because they saw slavery
00:10:19.560 as a moral negative, blockade the port capital city of this kingdom.
00:10:24.900 This was in 1852, and demand that they both stop selling slaves and stop wide-scale human sacrifice.
00:10:36.280 There was a capitulation, but the treaty only lasted for five years, and under his advisors,
00:10:43.260 the king, Gezzo, resumed the slave trade in 1857.
00:10:47.620 So, the reality is, is that the white people in this story would have been trying to end slavery,
00:10:56.360 and the black tribe of women warriors that is being elevated by this story were the ones perpetuating it.
00:11:03.640 It was like a really big movie, like last year, or something that was all supposed to be like affirming of black people,
00:11:07.660 and this queen in this tribe, yeah, she did exist historically,
00:11:10.760 and she made all her money by selling other black people into slavery.
00:11:13.800 That was her tribe's economy.
00:11:17.840 They don't talk about that.
00:11:19.360 But it's horrifying.
00:11:21.060 It's horrifying, this dehumanization of the American black population to just being black
00:11:25.080 and not being like different ethnic groups.
00:11:27.400 But, this is not the first time that the UN has done something like this.
00:11:31.320 Simone, did you have any thoughts before I go further?
00:11:32.980 No, I just...
00:11:33.760 They're going to have to pry the anime from our cold, dead hands.
00:11:42.360 It's not going anywhere.
00:11:44.160 Like, I just...
00:11:44.960 I don't know what people think they're doing in the end.
00:11:48.760 It's just so dumb.
00:11:48.800 Well, no, they have successfully fucked up anime studios, and we'll get to this in a second.
00:11:53.100 Really?
00:11:53.400 Specifically, like, Bandai, for example, has adopted a bunch of DEI practices.
00:11:58.360 We've seen some in Sony, we've seen some in Sega, we've seen some in Nintendo.
00:12:02.280 Like, it's getting bad for the big bureaucracies, because they're the ones that are most susceptible to this.
00:12:08.240 And then, even when they do make a good game, like, the latest Fire Emblem wasn't great,
00:12:12.540 but, like, at least it had, like, romance options.
00:12:14.560 They were all taken out of the U.S. version, because the translators took all of them out,
00:12:19.100 because they're like, oh, we can't have you romancing your subordinates in a game.
00:12:22.540 It's like, I hate you guys so much.
00:12:27.020 I hate you so much.
00:12:29.040 And don't even get me started about this whole labor rights thing.
00:12:32.940 What have we come to if you can't demand sexual favors from the people in your employ?
00:12:37.300 However much you think you hate the infected population, you should hate them more.
00:12:43.060 The cordyceps virus has eaten their brains, and they ruin everything good and positive about this world.
00:12:49.720 People have lost their way.
00:12:51.720 I read a report that over 40% of the population no longer believes that you have to buy your way into the divine treasury when you die.
00:12:58.880 They don't teach children the rules of acquisition anymore.
00:13:02.640 This disease is spreading through Ferengi society.
00:13:06.360 It's making us soft.
00:13:07.660 But this isn't the first time that the U.N. has done this.
00:13:10.120 In 2016, so you can get an idea of how overreaching they want to be and what their actual goals are.
00:13:14.320 So I want you to keep in mind, our tax dollars...
00:13:15.720 This is super creepy.
00:13:16.560 This is super fascist Big Brother behavior.
00:13:19.720 So the committee remains concerned at the persistence of patriarchal attitudes and deep-rooted stereotypes regarding the roles and responsibilities of women and men in the family and in society.
00:13:33.680 The committee is particularly concerned that...
00:13:37.540 So by the way, isn't this horrifying?
00:13:39.560 Horrifying.
00:13:40.120 This is the U.N.
00:13:41.640 This is what our tax dollars are going for.
00:13:43.820 And they're pulling this fight the patriarchy, ultra, ultra, ultra feminist woke shit.
00:13:48.560 Oh my gosh.
00:13:50.020 That's what they're trying to erase from media.
00:13:52.500 Women being mothers.
00:13:54.540 Women being happy with subordinate positions within the family life.
00:13:58.820 I mean...
00:14:00.560 Anyway.
00:14:01.280 Wow.
00:14:01.660 Thank God, by the way, all this is coming.
00:14:03.340 Like, even if they destroy the anime studios, because of AI, independent creators will be able to create, like, really high-quality content soon.
00:14:09.300 So they'll be destroying this as more and more of the eyes are moving to smaller and smaller studios, smaller and smaller creatives, and the bureaucracies just die out.
00:14:17.200 But anyway, so the three things they really are concerned about.
00:14:19.540 A, the persistence of these stereotypes continues to be reflected in the media and educational textbooks and has an impact on educational choices and the sharing of family and domestic responsibilities between men and women.
00:14:33.720 You know what's funny here?
00:14:34.880 Is that women go into STEM professions more, the more society discriminates against women.
00:14:39.640 You see very low rates in Northern European countries and very high rates in Middle Eastern countries.
00:14:43.700 So, like, their own narrative is just, like, anti-reality.
00:14:47.220 Okay, next.
00:14:47.920 B, the media often depicts women and girls in a stereotyped manner, including as sex objects.
00:14:56.680 This is what they mean by women in anime looking attractive.
00:15:01.080 This is like when they were trying to shut down...
00:15:02.520 And this is the same thing.
00:15:03.760 Remember when this happened with superhero characters and the accusation was, like, look at the women wearing their whatever.
00:15:15.040 And then, like, wait, but what about these muscular men?
00:15:17.480 Like, the fan service goes both ways.
00:15:19.640 And this also exists in anime.
00:15:21.680 Oh, yeah.
00:15:21.960 When they rebooted She-Ra, they didn't, you know, they make her look like an underage kid, right?
00:15:26.860 Oh, yeah.
00:15:27.180 And that's worse.
00:15:28.260 It's so much worse.
00:15:29.300 But they rebooted He-Man and He-Man still has all his muscles.
00:15:32.240 Oh, gosh.
00:15:33.220 Well, I don't know what to say.
00:15:35.680 No, I know what to say.
00:15:38.060 We live in a society where men are seen as an underclass and as a deserving underclass.
00:15:43.300 And it's just obviously true.
00:15:45.880 And people, I think people are waking up to this and they're like, oh, shit.
00:15:50.080 Like, I think this is why a lot of moms move really far to the right when they're like, oh, wow.
00:15:55.360 Like, the level of discrimination my child would face.
00:15:58.360 I can't stand for that.
00:16:00.240 I can't stand for the amount of systemic and structural privilege our society gives to women.
00:16:05.980 And their ability to just, like, believe women.
00:16:08.860 Like, they can just get a guy jailed whenever they feel like it.
00:16:12.400 Like, just say whatever they want and you can't even question them.
00:16:15.160 And some people are concerned about people getting jailed for posting their thoughts online.
00:16:18.880 That really scares me.
00:16:22.000 Which you've seen a lot in, like, the UK and stuff like that.
00:16:24.700 If you're not familiar with what I'm talking about, one example here happened where a judge
00:16:29.820 sentenced someone to two years and seven months in prison for writing after three girls were murdered.
00:16:37.440 Mass deportation now.
00:16:39.200 Set fire to all of the effing hotels full of the bastards for all I care.
00:16:44.520 While you're at it, take the treacherous government and politicians with them.
00:16:47.740 I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure.
00:16:51.760 If that makes me racist, so be it.
00:16:53.840 The same judge gave a zero-month sentence to somebody with PDA file material.
00:17:01.380 In another instance, Matthew Woods, 20, was jailed for posting an offensive Facebook status update.
00:17:07.640 It's not a good sign.
00:17:09.340 And so, C, sexist speech continues to be directed against women, ethnic or other minority women,
00:17:16.320 such as Anyu, Baruka, or Zazaki, Korean women, and migrant women.
00:17:20.760 And this is an anime.
00:17:21.600 It's like, man, this is like an anime.
00:17:22.820 The committee reiterates its previous recommendation.
00:17:26.620 So they had recommended this before, by the way, even before the 2000, this is all the way back in 2016.
00:17:32.280 But they did another recent, more adamant one recently, where Japan's actually pushed back a little.
00:17:36.760 And urges the state party to, A, intensify its efforts to change social norms that reinforce
00:17:42.940 traditional roles of women and men and promote positive cultural traditions that promote the human
00:17:49.120 rights of women and girls.
00:17:50.300 I sometimes talk about the imperialist nature of the urban monoculture, and I think some
00:17:55.320 people might undersell just how strong and aggressive it is in its desire to erase every
00:18:03.580 other culture on this planet and replace it with only the urban monoculture outside of
00:18:10.020 a few aesthetic flourishes, like maybe still being allowed to wear your local clothing or still
00:18:15.740 being allowed to hold a few holidays.
00:18:17.540 We really see that at play here.
00:18:20.820 They define gender relations as the urban monoculture defines gender relations as a mandate for all
00:18:28.000 other cultures.
00:18:28.860 When they go to Japan, because the way that Japanese people traditionally relate to women
00:18:33.480 is culturally unique to Japan.
00:18:36.940 It is the way that Japan has historically done that.
00:18:39.460 It is Japanese culture.
00:18:41.360 So when they go to Japan and they say, you have to do things our European urban monoculture
00:18:46.580 way, that is a cultural genocide mandate that they are trying to impose upon a culture that
00:18:54.920 they have power over.
00:18:56.460 Even by their own racism is power plus prejudice, could anyone be wielding racism more clearly
00:19:04.240 than the UN itself in this instance?
00:19:07.100 So they want to fight against traditionalism.
00:19:09.940 They want to fight against the nuclear family.
00:19:11.380 They want to fight against women taking a subordinate position to males in relationships.
00:19:14.740 All of the shit that, you know, works.
00:19:17.380 And you grew up a progressive.
00:19:18.700 You didn't think you'd want a subordinate position in a relationship, I think.
00:19:23.140 No, I mean, absolutely not.
00:19:24.880 But I also didn't think I wanted a relationship at all, which is pretty indicative of where we
00:19:29.140 are today.
00:19:29.660 I think what's disturbing about this is this is not the default people are growing up with.
00:19:37.120 You don't need to extinguish this anymore.
00:19:39.560 And to now go so far as to basically ban it as an option is far more restrictive and creepy
00:19:45.960 than any, you know, feminism should be about choices.
00:19:50.800 And of course, the classic thing you hear from trad wives all the time is this was my choice
00:19:55.080 to pursue this pathway.
00:19:56.380 And that is feminism.
00:19:57.880 So it feels overdone at this point to say that.
00:20:02.340 But that that is a freedom that is being restricted by these policies.
00:20:07.240 And here, the final point they wanted to make is effective implementation of existing legal
00:20:12.620 measures and monitoring programs in order to regulate the production and distribution
00:20:16.060 of video games and animation that exacerbate discriminatory gender stereotypes and reinforce
00:20:21.660 sexual violence against women and girls.
00:20:23.640 They included corn in there.
00:20:24.960 I just took it out because it was faster.
00:20:26.920 But they're really buying into this sexual violence being depicted against women in art
00:20:32.760 and media is something that is being driven by males when it objectively isn't.
00:20:39.300 I will put on screen here the statistics, which are very like, like loud in showing like girls
00:20:45.240 wanting to be choked, for example, is not coming from male porn.
00:20:48.920 It's coming from female fan fictions and fantasies.
00:20:52.240 And you can see this in the average arousal patterns of women, which we'll put on the screen
00:20:56.120 here from some of Aila's data.
00:20:57.340 But anything you want to say before I go further?
00:20:59.940 Go on.
00:21:01.340 So the Japanese political response.
00:21:04.180 So some in Japan have actually wanted to implement this.
00:21:08.560 So Masako Okawara submitted a petition to the 213th diet session calling for stricter regulations
00:21:15.700 on content, including manga and anime, that featured inappropriate depictions of characters
00:21:20.720 resembling children.
00:21:21.800 The initiative aims to amend current laws, including the, now what's interesting is how
00:21:27.040 recently, we'll go into this in a second, how recently Japan, it made child porn illegal
00:21:32.580 to the extent where like they're producing stuff.
00:21:35.360 Okay.
00:21:35.560 So I'll admit there is some stuff where I'm like, could you not put this in a content
00:21:39.580 that I otherwise enjoy?
00:21:40.680 Yeah, I'm feeling a little uncomfortable here.
00:21:42.280 This was not asked for.
00:21:43.440 Yeah, like I, on Amazon, this was streaming on Amazon and watching a show.
00:21:48.680 I otherwise liked it.
00:21:49.860 It's very, very, very low culture.
00:21:52.300 If you want to watch it, I like the characters in it and some of the themes, but it is basically
00:21:56.760 a sexual anime and it is called Gushing Over Magical Girls.
00:22:01.160 Oh, yeah.
00:22:02.800 Very fun.
00:22:03.600 Basically the plot is, is that, and I wouldn't recommend it.
00:22:06.820 It's sort of like low tier slop if you love stuff that just like absolutely is the bottom
00:22:12.480 of the cultural barrel.
00:22:13.780 Like if that elevates something for you, you'll enjoy this, but you need to be okay with that.
00:22:17.740 Where she becomes a villain in an anime girl story, but all she wants to do because she's
00:22:21.040 obsessed with magical girls is like do sexual stuff to the magical girls.
00:22:25.380 But then like you get to like episode five or something and an underage girl is introduced
00:22:30.540 and she does scenes that are like dressing one of the magical girls up in like diapers
00:22:37.960 and stuff.
00:22:38.900 And you're like, I didn't ask, like maybe this long would be okay.
00:22:45.460 Like, this is where I'm like, I don't want that.
00:23:03.340 I think, you know what, in the end, normative pressure and good taste are the best standards
00:23:11.240 here and just being like, you know, did we really need to, to do that is a better policy
00:23:18.880 than you were not allowed to do that.
00:23:21.440 Unfortunately, Simone, the anime has been financially rewarded better this last year than I forgot
00:23:27.140 like a really mainstream anime to give you an idea of just how popular it was.
00:23:31.700 It even significantly outsold both friend and solo leveling.
00:23:37.040 You know what?
00:23:37.700 Maybe we're in the wrong here.
00:23:39.940 Or, uh, what do you call them?
00:23:42.220 Crinklers?
00:23:42.940 But what are the, what are the diaper fetish people?
00:23:45.480 I guess those are the ones who like to walk around with the poopy diapers.
00:23:48.140 That's different.
00:23:48.740 No, I, I basically saw it as just a, how far can we push the barrier in modern society
00:23:54.180 is, is, is what the anime was doing.
00:23:56.720 Um, and a part of me from like the nineties, not like a, a lame way, because a lot of things
00:24:01.900 in like the nineties, they'd be like, oh, let's make random, like pee jokes or whatever.
00:24:05.980 Right.
00:24:06.400 Or like random sex jokes.
00:24:07.840 Like Lex did this.
00:24:09.480 It's a good example of this.
00:24:10.960 This is not that type of humor.
00:24:13.260 It's just like decent characterization done in an interesting setting that I, and, and
00:24:19.020 otherwise slop anime.
00:24:21.520 But anyway, to continue, but one Senator was pushing back against this stuff.
00:24:26.080 Tara Yamada, Yamada stated that no questions about manga, anime, or video games were raised
00:24:31.020 during the in-person review during the mention in the final report.
00:24:34.080 He is considering requesting that CDOT disclose their sources and evidence and may even ask
00:24:39.200 for a retraction.
00:24:39.940 If the information is not provided.
00:24:41.940 Now there's been some other examples of censorship, like the Tennessee ban.
00:24:45.700 So in the United States, Tennessee implemented a sweeping ban across various manga titles
00:24:50.180 in school libraries, popular franchises like Attack on Titan and My Hero Academia.
00:24:55.540 What?
00:24:57.420 My Hero Academia?
00:24:59.240 Wait, what did they do?
00:25:00.760 Was it just a little bit of some white fan service or something?
00:25:04.140 I think that it's, um, like annoying.
00:25:05.700 An errant jiggling breast, perhaps?
00:25:07.720 What, what is happening?
00:25:08.800 There's not even that.
00:25:09.640 Like My Hero Academia has, is, I think this is like the, the, the sexual Puritans that
00:25:15.740 still exists within some corners of the right accidentally got into power here and we're
00:25:19.620 given a little too much power without the new right slapping them around a bit.
00:25:22.520 A short skirt flapping a little bit too vigorously.
00:25:25.820 Uh, for people who don't know, uh, My Hero Academia, great anime.
00:25:29.980 I quite like it.
00:25:31.320 Great AMVs.
00:25:32.140 You have so many My Hero Academia AMVs in your little roster.
00:25:35.900 Well, and the, the women are really well done in it.
00:25:40.040 I think it's one of the most affirming of women shows I have ever seen in terms of good
00:25:45.040 female stereotypes.
00:25:45.980 Yeah.
00:25:46.560 It, it, it, it doesn't, it, it doesn't come across, a lot of, a lot of anime does come
00:25:51.920 across as very gendered, right?
00:25:53.200 There's sort of like the harem trope or there's, you know, a lot of, there's a lot of like very
00:25:57.260 feminine roles.
00:25:57.820 This is one of those anime that just doesn't feel like it's about gender differences.
00:26:03.400 It's about people who want to be the best.
00:26:05.900 And period.
00:26:07.020 And they are, they're really great.
00:26:08.720 Well, yeah, but not just that, but the women in it, the reason I like it so much is it,
00:26:13.480 when it creates strong female characters, it doesn't make them strong in that like stereotyped
00:26:19.060 Western way.
00:26:19.860 We're like making them a Mary Sue who's like tough and puts down men and is like the alpha
00:26:25.180 in every situation.
00:26:26.680 When I think of its strong characters, like Udame or Froppy or really any of the female
00:26:33.060 characters in it, like every female character in it is, is, is, is pretty, who is fleshed
00:26:37.880 out, is pretty interesting and otherwise a, a strong person.
00:26:43.120 They're all very effeminate in the way that they're strong.
00:26:46.840 By that, what I mean here is as a conservative, if I wanted to give my daughters something
00:26:53.440 that showed them how to be both strong without abandoning traditional femininity along a number
00:27:02.000 of metrics, because most of the different females in it show a different type of female
00:27:06.460 strengths, which is really interesting that they were able to find that many unique archetypes
00:27:12.560 of female strengths, I could think of few shows better to do that than My Hero Academia.
00:27:18.560 For example, in this scene, you see Mina having the courage to confidently deceive a big, strong
00:27:24.780 villain character, even when she's in middle school.
00:27:28.100 But the show immediately makes it clear that this is not because she is an intrinsically brave
00:27:33.100 person, but just because her care for her friends is higher than her fear.
00:27:39.120 What? You're not going to answer me?
00:27:44.680 Crap! Why aren't there ever any heroes patrolling at times like these?
00:27:48.780 It's a simple question.
00:27:50.320 Move!
00:27:52.140 Come on!
00:27:56.760 Around that corner in the nickel left is the big street!
00:27:59.700 The agency's two kilometers away!
00:28:02.560 Thank you very much.
00:28:03.860 Even when they are completely subordinate.
00:28:15.680 So here I'm thinking of a gentle criminal's sidekick.
00:28:18.260 I forget her name.
00:28:19.020 La Brava's love will set me free.
00:28:22.080 La Brava, grab the cameras.
00:28:23.940 Frame it up, wreck it, look like amateurs.
00:28:26.380 The moustache must look so glamorous.
00:28:28.440 Otherwise, in the comments, they will slander us.
00:28:30.760 To be remembered, we can never be average.
00:28:32.980 And my strength grows, because you feel so amorous.
00:28:35.420 You are everything to me.
00:28:38.300 You mean so much.
00:28:40.460 You were there for me when everybody else would judge.
00:28:43.720 And I know I promised you we would succeed.
00:28:48.940 But that time is gone, and it's only like a dream.
00:28:53.580 Very supportive, very sweet character, who is powerful in the way that many women are
00:28:59.020 powerful in our society, by providing love and support to her partner.
00:29:03.560 Yeah, you want gender to be gender.
00:29:05.580 I'm also thinking about Food Wars, which you and I both love, love, love.
00:29:09.260 And I could see if some review board is watching Food Wars.
00:29:13.600 They're watching it, and they see one scene of, like, food judges eating food.
00:29:18.920 And I'm just picturing, yeah, their clothes blowing up.
00:29:22.300 I tried to find a PC version of one of these scenes to put in here.
00:29:26.360 But even finding a still image that was PC enough for the podcast was challenging.
00:29:32.060 I'm honestly just picturing, like, the review board's clothes popping off, too.
00:29:37.860 Just being like, wow, it's their PC.
00:29:39.980 Yeah, but Food Wars also, like, really doesn't care about consent.
00:29:43.400 There's a number of scenes in it where the guy feeds a girl, like, gross food without her.
00:29:46.940 Yeah, but that's just teasing her with, like, really gross food.
00:29:50.080 I would argue, though, that there are many, many female characters in Food Wars that are
00:29:55.400 extremely strong, independent, entrepreneurial, intimidating women who come across as more
00:30:01.780 masculine than some of the male characters.
00:30:03.840 Like, they just, it's not like things are these black and white, stereotypical, weirdly
00:30:08.800 gendered absolutes.
00:30:10.180 So, I just really...
00:30:11.160 They're not tainted by Westernism.
00:30:13.020 They're not like, you know, a Miss Marvel, or a She-Hulk, or, you know, one, like, just
00:30:19.700 a translation of a male character into a female character.
00:30:22.800 But two, incredibly bland.
00:30:24.460 Because they all have their faults, and the ways that they are strong are all uniquely
00:30:29.700 feminine, which is something that Japan is still able to do, and the West has seemingly
00:30:33.860 forgotten how to do.
00:30:35.620 How do you make a woman feminine and strong?
00:30:40.100 Like, I'm thinking, Food Wars, the great scene with Megame always gets me the, when she's
00:30:47.420 in the war against, you know, the, what was it?
00:30:50.640 Then try a bite.
00:30:52.260 Why should I bother?
00:30:53.660 Do it.
00:30:56.140 It isn't cooked right.
00:30:57.940 The plating is off, and the pate hasn't set properly.
00:31:02.140 And yet, why?
00:31:04.240 Why is it tugging at my heart like this?
00:31:06.820 The dish is crude, but the way each ingredient was treated shows careful consideration for the
00:31:12.220 diner.
00:31:13.220 It reminds me...
00:31:15.120 Boy, you were fighting again, weren't you?
00:31:17.300 Oh, sweetheart.
00:31:19.360 You're always flying off the handle like this.
00:31:22.000 The truth is, you're a kind boy.
00:31:24.020 Now let's hurry back and eat.
00:31:25.500 I'm making your favorite for dinner tonight.
00:31:27.280 There's a rainbow.
00:31:28.560 It's pretty, huh, Kojiro?
00:31:30.560 Yeah.
00:31:32.180 Goodness!
00:31:33.200 Right?
00:31:33.840 Okay, dimwit.
00:31:35.460 Yes?
00:31:36.420 That spice you added to the pate, it was all spice, wasn't it?
00:31:40.220 Oh, um, Noah, right.
00:31:42.620 Huh?
00:31:43.660 Well, I know you've all been judging since yesterday, right?
00:31:46.500 And I know you've had to eat a lot of different foods.
00:31:49.160 Well, all spice aids in digestion and might do you some good.
00:31:52.780 Oh.
00:31:53.680 I wanted to give you something that would be gentle and might help settle your tummies.
00:31:58.780 You really are so thoughtful and...
00:32:00.960 Though clumsy, it resonates.
00:32:02.720 That's the kind of food she's made.
00:32:04.360 And that's such a...
00:32:05.780 Where the males are strong because of, like, maybe technical...
00:32:08.840 Technical prowess, yeah.
00:32:10.140 For her, she outcompetes everyone because she just cared more than other people.
00:32:16.200 So, if you're a conservative adult and don't get why so many conservative kids are into things like anime, despite their lewdness, this is a big part of it.
00:32:32.040 It is one of the only places in society today because, like, American conservative media, I think, does a fairly poor job of showing the ways, for example, that women can be heroic in a feminine way.
00:32:44.900 But anime still captures that very well.
00:32:47.860 In addition to that, we have the move of conservative culture in the United States from a deep South-oriented culture to an Appalachian clan-based oriented culture, which associates vulgarity with authenticity, as we've seen with stuff like Trump, as we've mentioned in some of our more anthropological videos about the new right.
00:33:06.340 And so, I think that that's a second thing, is that the vulgarity that is common within anime is seen as a lack of pretension and authenticity instead of as a negative.
00:33:16.720 Now, the Tennessee ban, I get it, you know, whatever, it's school libraries, I really don't care, I guess, like, it annoys me.
00:33:24.340 Yeah, who's hanging out in school libraries for fun anyway? Just go to a library library, I guess.
00:33:29.520 Although, it's a shame, but also, I went to a school library at a school that was, you know, these books were, like, 13 years old and falling apart at the seams.
00:33:38.300 I feel like I would rather have books that were relatively new. The idea of there being maybe manga in my library just seems so luxurious, and I'm like, oh, nice problem to have if they're taking away your manga.
00:33:51.000 Oh, I'm so sorry. I had to borrow my manga from my very generous friends, thank you very much, and we just passed books around.
00:33:58.240 Yeah, that would have been such a luxury. That's like having a water slide in your library.
00:34:01.740 Yeah, like, oh, they've taken away your water slide. Oh, boo-kin-hoo. Jeez. Yeah, you're right. Like, this is not that big of a deal, but it's still annoying, right?
00:34:12.560 I mean, it would be nice to have a water slide in your library, so it sucks.
00:34:16.140 Here's something I found really weird, because I was, like, trying to understand, because I also got into all of this, and I was like, you know, I've noticed on, like, Japanese pornography, they do the, like, weird censorship stuff.
00:34:26.100 Oh, yeah. Like, you can't see penises.
00:34:30.820 Yeah, that's actually illegal in Japan. Like, I wasn't sure.
00:34:33.640 Yeah, so, and that, I mean, this is more apocryphal that squid, that tentacle porn is a product of penises not being permitted, right? But tentacles are. So, oh, how convenient. It's, the penetration is from a tentacle, it's not a penis.
00:34:45.700 And that's why you have those double lines over penises in anime, because there was some legislation at some point that banned depicting penises, and I think maybe vaginas.
00:34:56.820 Did you know that owning child corn in Japan was only made illegal in 2014?
00:35:01.540 Well, I think this goes to show how trying to legislate your way into, like, forcing people to be moral doesn't work. Like, either you're going to create an underground black market that's unregulated and even worse, or, I mean, I guess, I feel weird about this.
00:35:19.000 So, I recently read this great sub-stack going over the damage caused, or sub-stack post going over the damage caused by allowing sports gambling, and it showed that in states that have come to allow sports gambling, the average savings of all citizens in that state goes down by, like, $360, and that bankruptcies have gone up 18%.
00:35:39.880 And that's, this is bad, right? So, there are moral hazards or vices that are best regulated. I'm starting to get that, even though I'm, I feel deeply uncomfortable about that.
00:35:54.180 I, nah, I disagree.
00:35:56.680 Just let people gamble? I guess this is just a survival of the fittest thing? Like, they're just going to fail?
00:36:02.860 The correct thing to do is to allow the people in our future, all the temptations that we experience today, whether it's gambling or pornography or anything like that, are going to be experienced multiplicatively by our descendants at all times.
00:36:19.900 This is something you were talking about this morning, where you realize that gambling now had entered the way that stores sell toys.
00:36:26.360 The way is that video games reach people.
00:36:28.300 Yeah, I was watching this, by the way, if you guys don't watch this, you should be watching Trixie Mattel unboxing the viral Christmas toys of every year.
00:36:37.200 She's not, no, she's a, she's a cross-dresser. She's, no, sorry, she's a drag queen.
00:36:42.220 God, I'm really mad at it.
00:36:42.740 Then it's a she, if it's a drag queen.
00:36:44.000 Yeah, he's, no, he, yeah, sorry. He's a drag queen. He just looks so pretty. I have to, when someone looks like a beautiful, not, well, I mean, District 1 Capitol in Hungary.
00:36:54.100 Yeah, I wanted to do a whole thing on trans people looking like they lived in District 1 in the hundred days.
00:36:58.800 No, yeah, but like, sorry, Trixie Mattel is not, is not trans, not cross-dressing, is just drag queen, but awesome drag queen.
00:37:04.900 But yeah, the theme of the Christmas unboxing of this year that Trixie Mattel did is toys that you don't know what you're going to get.
00:37:11.700 And I've just discovered that operant conditioning and, like, addictive loops and all of this has found its way now into consumer products for children.
00:37:19.900 Like, it wasn't enough to have feeds and social media do it. Now it has to be in, like, the physical toys that people are opening, because now you have to get more and you need to get that reward.
00:37:29.200 And if it doesn't have the reward that, you know, ended up eating, like, 50% of the materials that, in price, it went into a toy, then what's the point?
00:37:37.400 And that's disturbing. But, and I will, I see your point. Another thing that happened in the States that legalized gambling, and this took a while for the market to correct around this, but credit limits went down.
00:37:50.400 And I do, I do kind of like that. So I noticed this with our kids, for example, I, after we got so many kids in the house, now that we have four, where I can't have an eye on all of them at all times, I've discovered that I just have to be way better at childproofing things.
00:38:10.500 You know, like, no longer can we just make sure that they don't get into the toilet or that they don't get into certain things and make huge messes. We have to just remove those as options.
00:38:20.620 And I kind of like the idea of, over time, we're going to have to remove various types of consumer debt from being an option, because clearly, people can't deal with that.
00:38:31.740 And you're right, like, to a certain extent, the market will correct around it, and things are only going to get worse.
00:38:35.560 So why create, through legislation, these arbitrary barriers that only prolong our actually solving the problem or learning how to deal with the addictive stimulus?
00:38:46.680 That makes sense. But I still, I just feel uncomfortable with it, because I don't like the suffering that takes place in the interim.
00:38:55.860 Simone, suffering is part of how humanity improves itself.
00:39:01.120 Yeah, but I'm a human that experiences, highly unfortunately, empathy.
00:39:07.460 We will be able to inject these people with chemicals so they won't have to feel any pain in the near future.
00:39:11.880 They're doing that already. That's why we're seeing this massive, like, spike in marijuana consumption in general and cannabis consumption.
00:39:19.740 Because I think that is how a lot of society is enabling themselves to deal with a reality that they are deeply unhappy with.
00:39:32.300 And I very much support that.
00:39:33.840 And genetically unable to deal with.
00:39:37.120 Malcolm was right.
00:39:38.400 Malcolm, look.
00:39:49.400 Life found a way.
00:39:51.280 Because that's what's happening here.
00:39:54.340 We've got to understand that the selective pressure is like, okay, I am from a people who lived in areas where alcohol was freely consumable for a long time.
00:40:05.840 Yeah.
00:40:06.340 So while I consume more alcohol than other people, I also am highly, highly, highly resistant to any of the negative effects of alcohol.
00:40:13.940 Yep.
00:40:15.400 And, like, comically resistant.
00:40:18.660 Yeah.
00:40:19.020 I've only seen you, like, I can only remember one time of seeing you, like, actually really drunk.
00:40:24.480 You too.
00:40:24.920 I, I, when Simone gets drunk, what she does on the nights where she gets drunk is she'll, she'll take out a mug, like a, like you would have.
00:40:33.540 Fill the mug with vodka.
00:40:35.080 But that's not, that's not drunk.
00:40:36.480 That's tipsy.
00:40:37.280 If I want to get tipsy, we fill the mug with vodka.
00:40:39.420 The one time I actually got blackout drunk, if you'll remember, it was when we went to Chicago trying to raise funds.
00:40:47.140 And it turned out that investor asked us to fly out for that lunch meeting that we, like, out of pocket were paying for it personally, trying to raise our search fund.
00:40:54.880 And they just had lunch with us.
00:40:56.520 And they were like, yeah, I mean, I was never planning to invest in you.
00:40:59.020 And I was just, I was so mad.
00:41:03.320 And then I bought, because we had no money.
00:41:05.240 I bought two boxes of wine and I drank both of them in that Airbnb that was a loft.
00:41:11.980 Do you remember that?
00:41:13.400 Yeah.
00:41:13.740 Yeah.
00:41:13.900 And we didn't have a home back then or anything.
00:41:16.980 We were living out of a suitcase.
00:41:18.440 Yeah.
00:41:18.560 I think that a lot of people, they don't understand, like, how long we had nothing.
00:41:23.040 The whole thing was a hustle for so, so long.
00:41:25.800 I don't know.
00:41:26.160 It's still, it's still a luxury to be able to buy.
00:41:29.340 Well, I didn't consume them.
00:41:31.300 I had money to burn on that, apparently.
00:41:33.600 Well, no.
00:41:34.160 Not that I remember that night.
00:41:36.020 Our YouTube channel, I think people have seen our YouTube channel for a while.
00:41:39.160 They're like, oh, they have this, like, super abundance mindset, which is, like, even when the channel was, like,
00:41:43.900 like, just starting.
00:41:44.840 And it was like, you know, like, I don't know, like, 50 people would watch every episode.
00:41:49.120 Now we're at, like, 10,000 per episode or something.
00:41:51.340 But we act like we're big YouTubers and stuff.
00:41:53.900 That's just the way we see things.
00:41:55.220 It's the same way when we're raising money.
00:41:56.780 Oh, we're going to be big and famous.
00:41:58.660 It's kinetic, though.
00:41:59.960 Like, I mean, Octavian's teacher at kindergarten couldn't believe that he had siblings.
00:42:04.600 I love that.
00:42:05.480 He has, like, this kid has fucking siblings?
00:42:08.260 Yeah.
00:42:08.780 He comes across like he's Joffrey from Game of Thrones.
00:42:12.160 Like, he's just raised like that, even though he comes from our house.
00:42:16.000 It reminds me of when I was a kid.
00:42:19.380 One of my teachers came to my mom and they go, your son.
00:42:22.840 So this was even, like, in the previous generation.
00:42:24.740 They're like, your son has some issues of, like, delusions.
00:42:29.140 He thinks that he's going to be king.
00:42:31.800 And she was like, what's the problem?
00:42:33.780 And then she goes, you know, like, king of, like, the planet?
00:42:37.580 Why wouldn't I raise him believing that?
00:42:39.900 Like, he doesn't think it's going to be.
00:42:42.660 She's like, oh, I see your misunderstanding.
00:42:45.020 You think that he's not going to have to fight for it.
00:42:47.320 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:42:48.720 He doesn't think he's going to be given kingship.
00:42:50.560 He thinks he's going to have to build a coalition and fight for it.
00:42:54.080 Your mom got a little too tipsy one morning.
00:42:56.800 And instead of picking up, like, an old parenting guide,
00:42:59.600 she accidentally picked up Alexander the Great's biography and was like,
00:43:03.020 oh, okay, so Olympia, just do what she did.
00:43:07.720 No, she would always tell me stuff like that.
00:43:09.420 She'd tell me, like, that she had dreams before I was born,
00:43:13.140 my brother and I.
00:43:14.540 We were both supposed to be.
00:43:16.020 She was going to have two sons and they were going to become, like,
00:43:18.860 incredibly important figures in human history.
00:43:20.980 She said she saw, like, a psychic before I was born and that her first son
00:43:26.140 was going to be one of the most important figures in human history.
00:43:29.460 And this is the stuff that, like, Olympia told Alexander.
00:43:32.080 She's like, oh, I was impregnated by Zeus and, like,
00:43:34.740 you're going to become, like, the greatest man ever.
00:43:37.280 This was ā€“ I was winged on this stuff.
00:43:40.400 You were.
00:43:41.440 You were.
00:43:41.780 Maybe psychics are underrated, though,
00:43:44.080 because I remember when I was in college,
00:43:46.620 there was some kind of Oktoberfest outside my dorm that our school put on
00:43:51.460 because basically my university experience in the United States
00:43:55.240 was going to, like, seven-year-old summer camp,
00:43:58.160 but it was a university.
00:43:59.700 You know, we did crafts.
00:44:00.800 We painted pumpkins.
00:44:01.960 I was a psychic.
00:44:02.780 There was a band because that's what young adults need.
00:44:06.200 But I went to the psychics.
00:44:07.560 I never went to one before.
00:44:08.660 And she read my palm or something and said,
00:44:12.100 you're going to be such a great parent.
00:44:14.920 And I thought that was the most hilarious thing
00:44:18.220 because I was never going to get married.
00:44:20.060 I was never going to have kids.
00:44:21.980 I was going to get sterilized.
00:44:24.260 I was so excited for it.
00:44:25.840 And I'm like, ah, psychics, what a joke.
00:44:28.980 This is hilarious.
00:44:30.300 Goes and shows you.
00:44:31.460 But no.
00:44:32.820 Guess who had the last laugh?
00:44:35.240 Ha, ha, ha.
00:44:36.140 Psychic lady.
00:44:36.860 And I got friends on the other side.
00:44:41.460 He's got friends on the other side.
00:44:44.660 But growing up,
00:44:46.280 and I think this is actually really useful for young kids,
00:44:48.420 growing up and understanding that they have some sort of a destiny
00:44:51.300 or some sort of a thing that they're supposed to do with their life
00:44:56.160 and that it is going to be a challenge,
00:44:59.160 but they are expected to achieve it,
00:45:00.620 it's really important.
00:45:01.920 Too many parents now,
00:45:02.760 they're horrified when we hear we have expectations for our kids.
00:45:05.880 Mm-hmm.
00:45:07.220 They're like, how dare you?
00:45:08.100 Oh, no, they see it as a form of abuse.
00:45:10.180 Like, how can a child live with the weight of that expectation?
00:45:14.280 But here's, it's the sweetest thing.
00:45:15.840 You don't see this because you put in sleep for hours by that point.
00:45:18.860 But when I finally put the kids to bed,
00:45:20.300 after we read the book onto the softest blanket in the world,
00:45:23.280 thanks, Dad, I really like it.
00:45:24.440 And after we then talk, you know, tell spooky stories in the dark,
00:45:28.420 when they're finally ready to go to bed,
00:45:29.940 the boys insist on climbing up on their ladders
00:45:32.420 and then jumping onto me and giving me big hugs.
00:45:34.720 But then each of them hug me and they say they love me
00:45:37.120 and I say I love them.
00:45:38.740 And I say, you've got to fix the world.
00:45:41.160 He's like, I'm going to fix the world.
00:45:42.320 They both say they're going to fix the world.
00:45:43.660 And they know that that's their job and they're excited about it.
00:45:46.220 They have that sense of purpose.
00:45:47.420 It's like, they know that their job is to fix the world.
00:45:52.400 And because they love reading books about disasters
00:45:54.560 and like spooky stories about terrible things happening,
00:45:57.640 they also understand what it means to fix the world.
00:46:00.160 Like Octavian's like, I'm going to build better buildings
00:46:02.000 so that there aren't earthquakes that kill people
00:46:04.460 and buildings that collapse.
00:46:05.880 I'm going to, you know, get people off the planet
00:46:07.660 if the planet burns.
00:46:08.740 I'm going to do it.
00:46:09.300 Like he knows what to do.
00:46:13.340 But here's the great thing.
00:46:14.640 You're going to love this.
00:46:15.400 And he's also like, and then I'm going to get paid a lot.
00:46:18.100 I'm going to make a lot of money.
00:46:19.100 And I'm like, yeah, if you fix the world,
00:46:21.300 people will give you a lot of money.
00:46:22.520 Like it makes money to fix the world too.
00:46:24.480 Cause he also wants to buy a lot of stuff,
00:46:27.080 which is great.
00:46:27.720 He talks about making money a lot.
00:46:28.820 He's grounded.
00:46:29.760 Yeah.
00:46:30.000 He's, he's grounded in reality.
00:46:31.800 It's not like he's some kind of savior complex.
00:46:33.720 He knows he gets compensated for this work.
00:46:36.160 So I think that's, that's also important.
00:46:37.920 People are like, oh, how dare you have expectations
00:46:40.180 for your kids?
00:46:41.000 Well, how else do you think your kids
00:46:42.340 are going to be motivated to work?
00:46:43.520 Like, again, there's all these kids
00:46:44.880 who are graduating and thinking,
00:46:46.700 why would I bother working?
00:46:48.620 Nothing's, nothing's going to change.
00:46:49.920 I'm not going to achieve anything.
00:46:50.840 Whereas our kids are going to be like,
00:46:52.080 well, I have to build the best company
00:46:54.940 and I have to make the best solutions
00:46:56.940 that actually fix the world.
00:46:58.080 And then I'm going to get so much money
00:46:59.600 and I'm going to buy all the stupid stuff.
00:47:02.380 And, and that's good.
00:47:04.360 It's healthy.
00:47:05.000 It's great.
00:47:06.100 We also have to,
00:47:06.860 I think it's so important to teach kids
00:47:08.220 also that they have to build their own companies.
00:47:10.840 I think another issue is a lot of these kids
00:47:12.500 are realizing, yeah, if you get a job,
00:47:14.320 it's not going to pay you enough
00:47:15.520 to do anything you want to do in your life.
00:47:17.440 You have to build your own company.
00:47:18.940 You have to provide your own services.
00:47:20.460 You have to build your own legacy
00:47:22.540 by actually providing real concrete value in the world.
00:47:26.000 And if you have that kind of mindset,
00:47:27.840 you'll make it.
00:47:28.720 Like we're already starting to shape Octavian's views
00:47:30.980 around this because he was telling you the other day,
00:47:32.840 remember when we were making dinner,
00:47:33.980 he's like, dad, you got to drop me off at work
00:47:36.020 so I can make money.
00:47:36.980 He's like, dad, I need to go to work today.
00:47:39.840 I need to make some money.
00:47:42.340 And we're like, honey, jobs don't exist anymore
00:47:45.980 because they don't.
00:47:46.840 I love that you're teaching our kids this at a young age.
00:47:49.120 Like they're not really going to feel like sad
00:47:50.800 that jobs don't exist.
00:47:51.700 They're just like, yeah, I need jobs didn't exist.
00:47:53.320 No, parents really need to start teaching.
00:47:55.000 I think that that is extremely urgent
00:47:57.180 that parents do not raise their kids
00:48:00.640 to think that they're going to get jobs.
00:48:01.900 And I think that's part of what's happening now.
00:48:03.660 It's already, we have a generation that's coming
00:48:06.240 to age in a world where they were told
00:48:08.660 they would get jobs that would support them.
00:48:10.280 And there are no jobs that will support them.
00:48:12.840 And that's.
00:48:14.180 And my parents did this to me in a big way
00:48:15.920 around like inheritance, where I was always told,
00:48:19.200 you're not going to get inheritance.
00:48:20.140 You're not going to get inheritance.
00:48:21.100 You're not going to, even though they knew
00:48:23.020 that they were fairly wealthy
00:48:24.100 and the family was fairly wealthy
00:48:25.300 and I would probably get inheritance,
00:48:26.600 but the family ended up losing all this money
00:48:28.120 over dumb shit.
00:48:29.420 And I think a lot of my cousins
00:48:31.020 expected some form of inheritance.
00:48:33.360 inheritance and I always expected no inheritance.
00:48:36.620 So you were less devastated.
00:48:37.880 But the family, that's all I wanted.
00:48:39.360 You were moderately pissed,
00:48:41.540 whereas other people acted like
00:48:42.980 it was the end of their lives.
00:48:44.060 So that's good.
00:48:44.920 Yeah, I was like, whatever.
00:48:46.760 I thought you guys would steal this
00:48:48.560 from me some way anyway.
00:48:49.540 Like I wasn't interested in playing this game.
00:48:52.040 Like, you know.
00:48:53.360 Even the money that we do have invested,
00:48:55.660 I see this a lot in the financial audit videos
00:48:58.360 I watch and the Money for Couples episodes
00:49:00.100 that I listen to and things like that,
00:49:01.520 where a lot of people treat their 401ks,
00:49:06.840 their retirement savings, et cetera,
00:49:08.280 as money that they have that they could use
00:49:10.340 if they really like want to buy something.
00:49:12.620 And we just pretend it doesn't exist.
00:49:14.180 And I think that's-
00:49:14.880 You pretend like it doesn't exist.
00:49:16.080 And I say that that's a problem
00:49:17.200 and something you need to stop doing.
00:49:18.800 We need to pretend.
00:49:19.400 No, that doesn't exist.
00:49:20.780 Simone, we have-
00:49:21.340 I genuinely believe that if you are not making enough money
00:49:24.360 to support yourself by providing good
00:49:26.040 in the world, you don't deserve that money.
00:49:27.400 Listen, you can spend your money however you want, Malcolm.
00:49:32.200 But I'm going to shave you for it.
00:49:34.280 Just like, you know, someone can have-
00:49:38.220 Like Torsten, he has terrible taste.
00:49:39.840 He has terrible taste.
00:49:40.640 He has completely terrible taste in toys and aesthetics.
00:49:43.420 I will, you know what?
00:49:44.520 You know, celebrate him, but I will give him-
00:49:46.720 I have recently been splurging more of our money
00:49:49.400 than I should have on stuff like children's,
00:49:50.940 like inflatables and stuff.
00:49:52.280 I'm excited for this new one.
00:49:55.380 Thank you for handling the purchase
00:49:56.740 of the big tiny tots inflatable.
00:49:58.500 We're going to do some all.
00:49:59.820 The other inflatables doing so well.
00:50:01.380 The bouncy house, the indoor bouncy house, they love it.
00:50:03.680 And now I don't need to go to outdoor environments
00:50:05.380 where other parents shame me for beating my children.
00:50:07.400 Yeah, and also like where our kids are picking up more-
00:50:12.400 I'm kind of like-
00:50:14.860 Indy's still getting over the last virus
00:50:19.080 that the kids spread to her from wherever it is
00:50:22.500 they've most recently been playing.
00:50:24.120 So I'm ready for her too.
00:50:25.820 And it wasn't Octavian getting it at school
00:50:27.620 because Octavian never had it.
00:50:29.620 Torsten and Titan had it and then Indy got it.
00:50:31.780 Yeah, so it's probably from them, like,
00:50:33.140 licking the trampolines at Sky Place.
00:50:36.140 As one does.
00:50:37.580 I mean, if you're not licking it,
00:50:38.920 you need to-
00:50:40.620 The full five senses have to be engaged in any experience
00:50:45.080 if you are between two and three years old.
00:50:48.240 Well, zero and three years old, I guess.
00:50:51.120 Yeah.
00:50:51.540 You are a delightful wife.
00:50:53.800 I am so happy I married you.
00:50:56.020 I'm so happy that we lived this life together.
00:50:57.840 I'm so happy that we passed 29,000 subscribers recently.
00:51:00.480 Thank you to anyone who subscribed.
00:51:02.440 And if you find it within your heart to do us a favor,
00:51:08.300 if you could leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts
00:51:12.360 or any place where you can leave a good review,
00:51:14.200 it would mean a lot to us.
00:51:16.760 We're at, like, what?
00:51:17.720 Like, a couple hundred now?
00:51:20.080 We have 80 reviews.
00:51:21.840 We're not even at 100.
00:51:23.180 I got a classmate with over 1,000 reviews, okay?
00:51:26.380 He just did Mark Zuckerberg for one of his shows.
00:51:29.060 Why don't I have Mark Zuckerberg on my show?
00:51:31.140 Because you don't know him.
00:51:32.740 I bet that guy knows him.
00:51:33.560 I know people as famous as him.
00:51:35.220 They just don't want to be seen in public with me
00:51:37.160 because I'm a naughty, naughty boy in the media.
00:51:39.440 Yeah, it's true.
00:51:40.400 Oh, that's the problem is your Stanford classmates
00:51:44.120 are just so, like, there's this, you know what?
00:51:50.160 It reminds me, you get freaked out
00:51:52.020 by that Utah pod person LDS thing, that look.
00:51:56.800 Stanford MBA grads have such,
00:51:59.540 there is this, like, pod person version of them.
00:52:01.940 They have their Patagonia pullover
00:52:06.220 and, or, like, their nondescript, you know,
00:52:09.040 Laura Piana sweater
00:52:09.840 that you have to know what to look for
00:52:12.340 to be able to identify the quality of it.
00:52:14.440 And then they're just,
00:52:15.840 but they're so relaxed and laid back and perfect
00:52:18.320 and they never really say anything controversial
00:52:20.220 and they smile and put you at ease.
00:52:22.200 And I just, oh, it really puts me on edge.
00:52:24.560 Like, they are not disagreeable enough.
00:52:26.160 They're, like, just hyper-competent and agreeable.
00:52:29.940 I'm just saying.
00:52:30.580 I'll tell you what,
00:52:31.120 they didn't marry weird Puritan wives
00:52:33.080 who live in the woods like I did.
00:52:35.220 I think, I think I'm getting,
00:52:37.000 the ones who are doing the best
00:52:38.560 for, like, the Mormons and stuff
00:52:39.740 and the Jews and the,
00:52:40.920 the, the, the, the, like,
00:52:42.160 religious conservative ones.
00:52:43.700 Like, when I say the Jews,
00:52:44.720 I mean, like, the conservative religious Jews,
00:52:46.360 the conservative religious Mormons.
00:52:48.720 Those are the ones who ended up the coolest.
00:52:51.820 Yeah, but even they look of their kind
00:52:55.340 very normal.
00:52:57.380 They, they become...
00:52:58.140 Oh, they're too normal.
00:52:59.040 Oh, I agree.
00:53:00.500 Where are the, where are the smart non-normies?
00:53:03.080 It's so hard to be a smart non-normie
00:53:05.140 in this society.
00:53:09.120 Sad.
00:53:09.680 Hey, I, I got a wife
00:53:10.980 with a Cambridge graduate degree now.
00:53:12.680 So, I got, I got the...
00:53:14.140 You fixed it.
00:53:15.540 It was, it was one of those blemishes.
00:53:17.500 You just had to pop
00:53:18.420 and then it was gone.
00:53:20.060 You wiped it out.
00:53:20.940 She means that when I married her,
00:53:22.580 she had a degree from GW,
00:53:24.700 George Washington.
00:53:25.320 I was like, that's gross.
00:53:27.060 I'm, like, actively sexually turned off
00:53:29.560 by you not having an elite education.
00:53:31.600 I was like, I need to get you
00:53:33.100 an elite education, sweetheart.
00:53:34.960 Well, I, because I was,
00:53:35.980 how I was raised culturally.
00:53:37.340 I was told to expect that.
00:53:38.880 Whatever elite education means
00:53:40.200 for the next generation.
00:53:41.100 Like, I'm okay with my kids
00:53:41.820 not going to, like, Ivy League schools
00:53:42.880 because, like, they're going to shit
00:53:43.960 anyways, right?
00:53:44.540 But, I expect them to be known
00:53:47.340 as the best of the best
00:53:48.400 of their generation.
00:53:50.420 Yeah.
00:53:53.860 What?
00:53:55.700 I'm just thinking about Octavian
00:53:57.160 already asking about wives
00:53:58.680 and marrying.
00:53:59.300 I don't know where he's picking that up
00:54:00.540 because we're not talking
00:54:01.340 with him about it.
00:54:02.180 I talked to him about,
00:54:03.280 you need to get married,
00:54:04.460 you need to go up.
00:54:04.960 Oh, okay.
00:54:05.240 So, that's coming from you.
00:54:06.620 Yeah.
00:54:07.320 Anyway.
00:54:08.640 He's like, I'm going to marry you.
00:54:10.800 Yeah, he keeps saying he,
00:54:11.720 he keeps saying he's going to marry everyone,
00:54:13.600 though.
00:54:13.960 I don't think he understands
00:54:15.380 what marriage really,
00:54:17.200 you're like,
00:54:17.760 you keep saying that he has to get married,
00:54:19.760 but he doesn't,
00:54:20.440 you have to first define marriage, Malcolm,
00:54:22.740 because right now,
00:54:23.520 just like he's like,
00:54:24.440 he's like, mom, you're fired.
00:54:26.640 And I'm like, okay,
00:54:28.020 make your dinner, Octavian.
00:54:30.080 Clean up your mess, Octavian.
00:54:32.240 And he's like, wait a second.
00:54:33.320 He doesn't know
00:54:35.560 what so many of these words mean.
00:54:37.680 You let your son fire you?
00:54:39.720 You can't do that.
00:54:41.060 You're the boss.
00:54:42.280 Simone.
00:54:42.460 I'm sorry,
00:54:47.260 but a lot of employees
00:54:48.440 are like basically firing their bosses
00:54:50.960 these days by quiet quitting
00:54:52.760 and all this other nonsense.
00:54:53.360 He doesn't,
00:54:53.860 he doesn't understand gender.
00:54:55.580 He doesn't understand,
00:54:56.460 that's the biggest problem with marriage
00:54:57.860 is I,
00:54:58.520 I try to explain it to him
00:54:59.680 and he's still not like totally,
00:55:02.120 like,
00:55:02.340 and this is where,
00:55:03.220 when people are like,
00:55:03.800 my three-year-old,
00:55:04.760 this kid's five
00:55:05.540 and he cannot persistently
00:55:07.140 tell a boy apart from the girl.
00:55:08.240 Oh yeah,
00:55:08.920 no,
00:55:09.100 so this concept of parents
00:55:10.300 saying that their kids
00:55:11.440 are trans
00:55:12.140 because they haven't worked out
00:55:13.640 pronouns yet
00:55:14.520 is really abusive
00:55:16.360 because our kids
00:55:17.360 definitely do not get pronouns,
00:55:19.420 but
00:55:19.520 they are
00:55:21.400 very secure.
00:55:23.100 They're very secure.
00:55:24.340 They're genuine.
00:55:25.380 There's no doubt there.
00:55:26.960 That is really funny.
00:55:28.500 Yeah.
00:55:29.060 Oh well.
00:55:29.900 All right.
00:55:30.220 Love you, Simone.
00:55:30.940 I'll let you get to dinner.
00:55:31.980 What are we doing tonight?
00:55:34.020 Do we have any turkey left?
00:55:35.340 Actually, yeah.
00:55:35.860 So we do have turkey left.
00:55:36.820 I was thinking about
00:55:37.500 shredding it with a fork
00:55:38.480 and making a golden curry brick
00:55:40.280 with white rice for you,
00:55:41.320 but I can do something else.
00:55:42.640 I would love that.
00:55:43.440 Golden curry turkey
00:55:44.480 with fried rice
00:55:45.280 would be really good.
00:55:46.480 Well, maybe it'll suck.
00:55:47.520 I don't know
00:55:47.920 because you didn't like how it was.
00:55:48.980 It might suck,
00:55:50.080 but it's new.
00:55:51.040 It's new.
00:55:51.500 We haven't done it before.
00:55:52.300 So do you want
00:55:53.920 sautƩed onion with that or not?
00:55:55.600 I'd actually be okay
00:55:56.600 with fresh onion with that.
00:55:58.200 Ew.
00:55:58.440 No, no, no, no, no.
00:55:59.200 Trust me.
00:55:59.700 Golden curry brick
00:56:00.320 needs sautƩed onion,
00:56:01.260 not fresh onion.
00:56:02.620 Whatever you think is best,
00:56:03.840 my sweetheart.
00:56:04.820 This is the Japanese
00:56:06.020 golden curry brick, right?
00:56:07.180 Yeah.
00:56:07.600 Curry rice.
00:56:08.220 The brown stuff.
00:56:09.800 Brown stuff.
00:56:10.520 You got the curry on this side
00:56:11.580 and the rice on this side.
00:56:12.560 Curry rice.
00:56:13.800 You know what would be really fun
00:56:14.700 for you to make one day
00:56:15.280 is katsu.
00:56:17.120 Yeah.
00:56:17.640 We have the panko.
00:56:18.600 I just, like,
00:56:19.940 don't want to waste
00:56:20.620 that much oil.
00:56:22.000 Like, the frying.
00:56:23.980 Maybe if I did.
00:56:24.720 No, we used to fry foods
00:56:25.860 all the time
00:56:26.260 and then I find out
00:56:26.720 you're not supposed
00:56:27.160 to use the same oil
00:56:28.040 over and over and over
00:56:28.940 and over and over and over again.
00:56:30.180 Oh, but Malcolm, wait.
00:56:31.120 We still have your
00:56:31.700 Indian spiced breaded chicken.
00:56:33.580 We have a couple more.
00:56:35.220 We have, like,
00:56:35.740 maybe one more bag of it
00:56:36.720 in the deep freezer.
00:56:37.100 No, we got to use up
00:56:38.160 the existing protein first.
00:56:40.240 No, no, no.
00:56:40.580 We're going to.
00:56:41.160 I'm just saying, like,
00:56:41.760 next week we can try
00:56:43.240 air fryer.
00:56:44.700 I want to go to the teriyaki chicken
00:56:45.920 before we go to that chicken.
00:56:47.280 Fine.
00:56:48.640 I love you.
00:56:49.360 Bye.
00:56:50.100 Love you.
00:56:50.520 Bye.
00:56:53.860 You're so funny.
00:56:54.820 Do you have,
00:56:55.660 by the way,
00:56:56.420 do that beforehand?
00:56:57.620 Like, this is, like,
00:56:58.160 something you prep for.
00:56:59.260 Did you, by the way,
00:56:59.940 get the inflatable
00:57:01.120 to be shipped?
00:57:03.440 Or canceled?
00:57:05.640 Yeah, no.
00:57:06.360 I fixed it.
00:57:06.940 I told you on WhatsApp.
00:57:08.580 Oh, wonderful.
00:57:10.440 You just,
00:57:11.220 you just don't pay attention.
00:57:14.160 I check WhatsApp
00:57:15.120 in the morning
00:57:15.960 before I get to work on podcasts.
00:57:17.660 There's just no way
00:57:18.680 for me to reach you.
00:57:19.800 You're like,
00:57:20.340 send it to me in an email.
00:57:21.620 You don't read your email.
00:57:22.000 You talk to Google.
00:57:23.060 You say, hey, Google,
00:57:24.220 I did the thing.
00:57:25.080 And then Google tells me.
00:57:26.000 And then, yeah,
00:57:26.620 I'm screaming you to avoid.
00:57:27.920 I never hear back.
00:57:29.120 Yeah.
00:57:30.680 We'll figure this out.
00:57:31.900 You can tell.
00:57:32.500 I live in the same house as you.
00:57:33.940 You know that, right?
00:57:34.740 Yeah, but then I would have to,
00:57:35.600 like, walk
00:57:36.160 across our
00:57:38.000 vast
00:57:39.140 house
00:57:40.320 from my wing
00:57:41.200 to your wing.
00:57:42.340 And
00:57:42.740 I'm not ready
00:57:44.400 for that kind of
00:57:45.400 physical exertion.
00:57:47.440 It's too cold.
00:57:49.480 You're not even
00:57:50.120 pregnant right now, Simone.
00:57:51.480 This is ridiculous.
00:57:52.560 I'm preparing.
00:57:54.060 Getting in character.
00:57:56.040 I'm a method.
00:57:56.600 I'm a method pregnant.
00:57:58.280 You're always so excited
00:57:59.440 when you're pregnant.
00:58:00.260 Like, it's like
00:58:00.940 your natural date.
00:58:02.560 I know.
00:58:02.940 I'm so excited for it.
00:58:04.480 It's going to be great.
00:58:06.500 Anyway, okay.
00:58:07.280 So, I'll get started.
00:58:09.860 Show me what that is.
00:58:10.880 What is that?
00:58:11.380 It's my paper airplane sign.
00:58:15.120 And
00:58:15.320 this is made out of papers.
00:58:17.160 I'm right there.
00:58:17.940 There's a lot of paper airplanes
00:58:19.260 I can sell.
00:58:21.340 Okay, so you're going to go outside
00:58:22.660 and you're going to show people
00:58:23.620 your paper airplane sign.
00:58:25.300 Yes.
00:58:25.840 Well, I'm going to do that
00:58:27.360 in two days
00:58:28.620 because
00:58:29.120 it's cold out there.
00:58:31.040 That makes sense.
00:58:32.020 And
00:58:32.620 when people see your paper airplanes
00:58:34.700 and your paper airplane sign,
00:58:36.120 they're going to give you money?
00:58:37.580 Um, yes.
00:58:39.500 I'm making money.
00:58:41.060 And what are you going to do
00:58:41.900 with the money?
00:58:42.940 Um,
00:58:43.760 I'm going to play
00:58:44.900 a remote control ball
00:58:46.980 with it
00:58:47.800 like anything.
00:58:49.220 Yeah.
00:58:49.940 I want a remote control ball.
00:58:55.940 You want a remote control ball?
00:58:58.740 Yeah.
00:58:59.520 It's a silly thing to want.
00:59:01.460 Oh!
00:59:02.880 Why do you like a remote control ball?
00:59:05.740 Yeah.
00:59:06.140 Because I like it.
00:59:08.800 I love you, Octavian.
00:59:10.080 Paper,
00:59:10.840 this is my paper airplane sign
00:59:13.060 so everybody knows
00:59:14.560 I'm my mom.
00:59:16.480 Hey, Octavian,
00:59:17.120 I really like how much agency
00:59:18.300 you're showing here.
00:59:19.440 You wanted something.
00:59:20.400 We said you needed money to do it,
00:59:21.740 so you came up with a plan
00:59:22.600 to make money.
00:59:23.440 Yes!
00:59:24.260 Yeah!
00:59:25.120 What are you doing
00:59:26.560 jumping on me?
00:59:27.500 What are you doing?
00:59:39.660 You're silly.
00:59:40.460 Dad!