Based Camp - Why Are Woke People Not Buying Woke Products？ ... Are Woke People Fictional？

00:00:00.000 Can we activate a woke user base if we just go pure woke, be creative, go story heavy?

00:00:07.520 Like, is that something that can be done?

00:00:09.980 Right.

00:00:10.300 And the answer appears to be no.

00:00:12.700 And so this is genuinely a little perplexing to me because my interpretation of the current

00:00:20.580 American electorate or body is about 15 to 20% of America genuinely holds some form of

00:00:30.940 woke ideology.

00:00:31.600 Yet this faction is not buying anything.

00:00:36.540 And the question is why?

00:00:40.060 Now, I'm going to go over the generic theories that people make, right?

00:00:43.800 One is to say, well, the mistakes that these companies are making is that they are listening

00:00:52.580 to people who are very loud online, which is predominantly people without anything that's

00:00:57.880 going on in their lives, i.e.

00:00:59.720 Unemployed people who don't have the money to go out and buy games. 0.96

00:01:04.220 And it's like, that's an interesting theory.

00:01:07.040 But the problem with that theory is I can just look at the donations from the FANG tech company

00:01:11.540 and like 98% of Facebook is going to the Democrats.

00:01:16.480 Or I can look at the very fact that Sony even thought to produce this game.

00:01:21.300 Clearly, there's a large technocratic faction in America that works in large, well-paying 0.69

00:01:27.340 bureaucracies that is, or at least signals that they are woke.

00:01:33.680 Right?

00:01:34.820 Would you like to know more?

00:01:36.240 Hello, Simone. 0.69

00:01:37.240 It is wonderful to be here with you today.

00:01:38.780 I am excited to be chatting with you.

00:01:40.760 And the reason I am excited to be chatting with you today is something happened in the

00:01:48.140 video games industry, which is this last week, which is going to change American culture and

00:01:55.800 world culture going forward.

00:01:57.900 That's a big statement.

00:01:59.600 The consecutive and catastrophic failure of one, a AAA title, and then two, a really big and sort of

00:02:10.500 emblematic woke game.

00:02:12.540 And so in this podcast, I think many people have missed the core mystery of what's happening here.

00:02:18.740 What they focus on is the Wokies are trying to be like, oh, you know, horrible right wing 1.00

00:02:25.140 boycott caused us to lose, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?

00:02:29.340 You know, that's their take on this.

00:02:31.020 And then the right wing is looking at this and saying, oh my God, this is amazing.

00:02:37.180 Look at them suffering.

00:02:38.340 Look at them seething.

00:02:39.580 Like things are going to definitely have to change here.

00:02:42.220 And I think what's being missed between these two interpretations is where is the woke audience?

00:02:52.220 And when I say this, I mean this in a real sense.

00:02:54.540 I'm not saying the woke audience is smaller than woke people expect it to be, right?

00:03:01.880 I'm saying it appears the woke audience is virtually non-existent.

00:03:08.260 And where this was really made clear to me, that I was on a slide schooler's episode right

00:03:13.600 now.

00:03:13.840 And the other guest was a former college professor.

00:03:18.540 And he was talking about all the woke stuff that was happening on his campus.

00:03:21.080 And I was like, wait, wait, wait, we cannot be here gloating about how no woke people exist

00:03:26.040 to buy these products while at the same time talking about this woke oppressive environment

00:03:31.040 on college campuses.

00:03:32.460 Yeah, right.

00:03:33.140 Where is the woke customer?

00:03:35.720 There's a discrepancy at play.

00:03:37.680 Right.

00:03:37.940 So first I want to talk about why this is so big.

00:03:40.820 Okay.

00:03:41.460 So there have been video game crashes in the past, which permanently transformed the industry

00:03:47.280 like the E.T. game for people who are familiar with that.

00:03:52.640 Actually, I'm going to quickly look up how many copies sold at that.

00:03:55.420 Yeah, but very famously, I think what, in the late 80s, that was supposed to be one of the

00:04:00.140 early biggest investment video games ever.

00:04:02.740 I think it maybe had record amounts of investment in its development.

00:04:05.820 And it also obviously was associated with extremely successful IP in the form of the E.T. movie.

00:04:13.480 The video game came out, massive flop.

00:04:15.800 Nobody wanted to play it.

00:04:17.160 And it goes down in video game history as a massive failure.

00:04:21.520 This apparently was worse than that.

00:04:24.200 Well, so let's give an idea of how much worse than that it is.

00:04:28.560 Oh, my gosh.

00:04:29.700 Okay.

00:04:30.060 The U.T. video game was developed by a single developer.

00:04:33.400 Okay.

00:04:33.560 A single guy made the game.

00:04:34.900 Okay.

00:04:35.520 Oh.

00:04:35.940 It sold 2.6 million copies.

00:04:39.460 Wow.

00:04:39.700 It flopped so hard, it destroyed the video game industry and forced it to remake itself.

00:04:45.460 This is when the video game industry was in its infancy.

00:04:49.200 Right.

00:04:49.480 Today, the video game industry makes more money than the TV and movie industries combined in

00:04:58.800 terms of cultural impact.

00:04:59.920 Yeah.

00:05:00.100 The consumers are there.

00:05:01.100 So anything, even shitty things, should be making a decent amount of sales.

00:05:06.560 Right.

00:05:07.180 So remember, 2.3 million is what it had sold, right?

00:05:10.880 2.3 million.

00:05:11.480 Okay.

00:05:11.880 So Concord, this is a game that was a flagship title for Sony, all right?

00:05:18.860 This was a game that had $100 to $200 million in development, a large team working on it,

00:05:25.800 and it was in development for over eight years.

00:05:28.660 How can something cost that much money?

00:05:31.560 This, consider it like a movie budget or something like that.

00:05:36.380 Now you see me.

00:05:38.220 So Sony had so much faith in this game, they acquired the studio that was making it.

00:05:46.000 Whoa.

00:05:46.140 They made controllers that were themed to go as the game.

00:05:50.680 They made Sony devices, like what are those called again?

00:05:54.600 Playstations.

00:05:55.620 PlayStation themed to go as a game.

00:05:57.560 So this game was released about a week ago at this point.

00:06:01.220 To great fanfare, apparently.

00:06:03.320 To great non-fanfare, yes.

00:06:04.740 But yes.

00:06:05.360 It, right now, concurrently on Steam, has 68 players.

00:06:09.160 The game peaked at 697 concurrent players on Steam.

00:06:15.560 Oh my God.

00:06:16.340 So to compare though, like what's, what's a normal, like a non, maybe we'll say a boutique

00:06:25.580 game, you know, made by an independent developer.

00:06:28.520 How many concurrent players might they have on Steam?

00:06:31.340 Okay.

00:06:31.820 What's a game that you've heard of?

00:06:33.640 That's what I can use.

00:06:34.520 A game from a while ago.

00:06:35.980 I've heard of Skyrim Grand Theft Auto.

00:06:39.320 Dead Red Redemption because of South Star.

00:06:41.920 Skyrim came out like a billion years ago.

00:06:43.680 Skyrim concurrently right now has over 2,000 people playing it.

00:06:48.360 And it came out decades ago at this point.

00:06:50.820 Or at least Red Dead Redemption 2 here.

00:06:53.260 26,000 players right now.

00:06:55.780 This came out like five years ago.

00:06:57.420 26,000 players.

00:06:58.100 Okay.

00:06:58.300 How about that, the Harry Potter game that everyone was like, let's cancel it.

00:07:01.840 Because that was an anti-woke game.

00:07:03.860 Yeah.

00:07:04.140 Okay.

00:07:04.340 We'll say.

00:07:05.060 Let's look for something that recently came out like these because this is-

00:07:08.260 Yeah, except, well, why I like the Harry Potter one was because I know it's still on shelves

00:07:11.720 because we saw it this morning.

00:07:13.320 And two, it was supposed to be a game that people who were woke would not play for political

00:07:20.540 reasons.

00:07:21.420 Okay.

00:07:21.820 Just like people who were woke would play Concord for political reasons, theoretically.

00:07:29.400 Okay.

00:07:29.640 Hogwarts Legacy.

00:07:30.720 So this game is at-

00:07:32.820 That looked fun.

00:07:33.480 It's 3,500 right now.

00:07:36.240 Okay.

00:07:36.980 And back to Concord, how many concurrent players at its launch?

00:07:40.860 At its absolute peak, it was at 697.

00:07:44.580 Oh, Lord Almighty.

00:07:46.840 Okay.

00:07:47.100 Now, see, that has the impact I was looking for.

00:07:49.980 Remember the other game I told you, E.T. sold 2.3 million copies, another massive flop?

00:07:54.860 Concord sold about 25,000 copies across all platforms.

00:08:01.400 25,000.

00:08:03.200 Wow.

00:08:03.480 So it sold about the same number of copies as there are concurrent players of Hogwarts

00:08:08.920 Legacy today, even though Hogwarts Legacy came out forever ago.

00:08:12.520 Yes.

00:08:13.160 Wow.

00:08:13.380 That's a good comparison.

00:08:14.660 Wow.

00:08:15.040 But it wasn't the only instance of something like this happening recently to just, you know,

00:08:21.240 be confusing here.

00:08:22.500 So another one was a game called Dustborn.

00:08:24.520 Right now, I'm actually listening to the entire story of the game, Dustborn.

00:08:27.340 I'm watching a full walkthrough.

00:08:29.440 I was like, I want to see how these people think.

00:08:31.880 It is a game where essentially you play, oh, sorry, I should note before we go further how

00:08:37.400 woke this other game, Concord, was.

00:08:39.660 Because I think there's a few important things to note here, which hide some of the coverage

00:08:44.520 that people will say.

00:08:45.780 Okay.

00:08:45.900 People will say, first, I'll just explain the style of the game.

00:08:48.940 It's basically an Overwatch clone.

00:08:50.860 And people will say, well, we have enough Overwatch clones.

00:08:54.240 And it's like, yeah, but the reason you have so many Overwatch clones is because people keep

00:08:58.960 playing them whenever they're released, right?

00:09:01.440 That's why you have so many Overwatch clones.

00:09:04.240 And people are like, well, Overwatch clones are, there's free versions of Overwatch clones.

00:09:10.060 And it's like the core way that Overwatch clones work is they charge you to interact with additional

00:09:15.800 characters off it.

00:09:16.780 You know, you get the new characters and stuff like that.

00:09:19.060 That's how many of the free-to-play Overwatch clones work.

00:09:22.000 And a new game launching could just be thought of as new characters that people could try and

00:09:27.000 play with.

00:09:27.520 Because the, it already exists on the market is not a good explanation for bombing this

00:09:33.380 hard.

00:09:34.120 It would be a good explanation for a mediocre launch.

00:09:37.180 It would not be a good explanation for almost nobody buying it.

00:09:40.980 And it was so bombed, by the way, that it has been removed from the stores.

00:09:45.520 Everyone who bought it is being refunded.

00:09:47.060 And it's being shut down Saturday the 6th, which is tomorrow on the day of filming this.

00:09:52.980 It will certainly be all the servers shut down.

00:09:54.920 We literally tried to buy it at Walmart this morning and we got them to unlock a shelf to

00:10:00.500 give us the game and they refused to sell it to us.

00:10:04.920 The machines wouldn't let them bring it up, even though they didn't know that it was supposed

00:10:09.320 to be taken off the shelves.

00:10:10.440 So that was sad for us.

00:10:12.240 Sad day.

00:10:12.960 Yeah.

00:10:13.100 And so to understand how woke this game is, if you look at it, it apparently has, of the

00:10:19.980 16 playable characters, one of them is a white man.

00:10:23.720 That's impressive, you know?

00:10:25.440 And the white man is, from what I can tell, I think when they say a white man, it's a green 0.51

00:10:30.200 alien character who uses a white person as a...

00:10:33.680 Skin?

00:10:35.020 Yeah, I'll put it on the screen here.

00:10:36.320 Wait.

00:10:36.720 So it's a green...

00:10:38.060 It's an alien wearing white face.

00:10:40.860 No, no, no.

00:10:41.640 It's just like a white actor of...

00:10:44.300 That's what they mean when they say it has a white character in it.

00:10:46.700 Oh! 0.60

00:10:48.080 It has a character in it who is based on a black trans woman being one of the leading 0.98

00:10:53.380 characters.

00:10:54.160 Okay.

00:10:54.600 It has an overweight black woman character. 1.00

00:10:58.160 It has no attractive female characters in it, of course.

00:11:02.900 It is so woke that when you open up the game to, like, look at your character bios, above

00:11:11.640 the bio, right next to the level of this character for you, and under the name.

00:11:17.420 So the most important thing is their pronouns.

00:11:20.900 That is the way that they introduce characters.

00:11:23.540 Wow.

00:11:24.500 God forbid you misgender a fictional character.

00:11:28.160 Right?

00:11:28.940 You gotta make absolutely sure that people get this.

00:11:31.360 So this game completely flops, right?

00:11:34.080 Then another game came out recently called Dustborn, which was woker than Concord, but

00:11:40.580 it was actually trying to sell specifically to a woke audience in a way that Concord wasn't.

00:11:47.640 Concord appeared to be woke policies overlaid on a big budget game development.

00:11:53.700 Okay.

00:11:54.180 Dustborn is different.

00:11:55.240 Dustborn is a character where, like, triggering someone is, like, a superpower and, like, the

00:12:01.000 main character, a sassy black lady, can, like, manipulate people's emotions and literally 1.00

00:12:08.080 gaslight them and stuff like that, for example, to gain power over them. 0.73

00:12:12.080 And she's quite a bad person from what I've seen in terms of watching this so far.

00:12:15.660 They have these fantasies where they are going around and manipulating people using their

00:12:20.160 words or whatever.

00:12:21.900 Now, here's what I'd say about Dustborn. 0.93

00:12:38.340 Dustborn is an interesting game for a few reasons.

00:12:41.540 And if I agreed with the ideology, I would buy it.

00:12:45.120 I actually think that the ideology of Dustborn should be selling copies of the game.

00:12:50.020 Because it's teaching people how to support the cause by being manipulative?

00:12:55.880 No.

00:12:56.520 Simone, by the way, I'm just going to tap this and tell me to make sure it's still coming

00:12:58.920 from here.

00:12:59.460 Yeah.

00:13:00.420 Okay.

00:13:01.340 No, because it's an interesting world.

00:13:02.900 So it takes place in a near-future alternate reality where the conservatives have basically

00:13:10.960 taken over from their perspective.

00:13:12.760 The United States is divided into two factions, both of which this core band that looks like

00:13:18.060 just classic DEI trashy, right, is fighting against.

00:13:22.900 And one of them is a militaristic post-American government called, like, the, I think, the Patriots

00:13:29.940 or something, or the nationalists.

00:13:31.780 And then the other, which controls the other half of America, is called the Puritans. 0.98

00:13:35.420 And they're a techno-utopian faction.

00:13:40.680 And I'm like, well, this is cool.

00:13:42.500 It's this world where the Puritans, the techno-Puritans are out chasing these people with their clean,

00:13:48.100 sleek drone things, which are chasing people around.

00:13:50.900 And I'm like, I love you.

00:13:51.360 That sounds like us.

00:13:52.460 Okay.

00:13:52.720 Yeah.

00:13:53.360 No, but I love that the Wokes are, like, secretly afraid of, like, this evil Puritan techno

00:13:58.920 faction.

00:13:59.240 And I'm like, yeah, I like this.

00:14:00.160 They don't have to be afraid, Malcolm.

00:14:01.740 They know.

00:14:02.620 They know.

00:14:03.400 They know.

00:14:04.180 So I like the world building.

00:14:07.440 It's interesting to me.

00:14:08.460 It's like, okay, this is an interesting, like, you're clearly trying to set up a new world

00:14:12.740 here.

00:14:13.440 If I didn't find your politics so repellent, I might be interested in seeing what you're

00:14:17.840 trying to construct with this.

00:14:19.540 In addition to that, the game looks visually pleasant to me.

00:14:25.900 Okay.

00:14:26.120 So the characters aren't malformed.

00:14:28.620 It's got, like, Android-based characters.

00:14:29.340 Oh, no. 0.73

00:14:29.520 The main characters are all ugly. 0.92

00:14:31.200 But I mean other than the main characters.

00:14:32.960 It's done in, like, a Borderlands-y style.

00:14:35.100 But what's interesting about it is the way that they did gameplay, because watching the

00:14:39.560 walkthrough, I'm seeing this.

00:14:40.560 They have combined elements of Guitar Hero and Beat-Em-Ups and sort of word-based choose-the-right-dialogue

00:14:49.880 option, use-your-powers-within-dialogue to achieve certain endings that I could see be appealing

00:14:56.840 to people.

00:14:57.660 Yeah.

00:14:57.940 But here's the problem.

00:14:58.740 So this game came out pretty recently.

00:15:01.520 Its current player count was around 8 for the day, in terms of the players for today.

00:15:07.100 28,000?

00:15:08.600 No, 28.

00:15:09.920 And its top ever was 83 people playing it.

00:15:13.140 It sold fewer than 1,000 copies and likely had between 2.25 and $3 million behind it.

00:15:21.960 Oh, dear.

00:15:22.920 Okay.

00:15:23.380 Big loss.

00:15:24.120 Huge loss.

00:15:25.200 Ouch.

00:15:25.320 Yeah.

00:15:25.720 I mean, not as big as the other one in terms of the financial impact, but this one is also

00:15:29.240 interesting to me, because this one is like, can we activate a woke user base if we just

00:15:35.720 go pure woke, be creative, go story heavy?

00:15:39.540 Like, is that something that can be done?

00:15:41.720 Right.

00:15:42.300 And the answer appears to be no.

00:15:45.500 And so this is genuinely a little perplexing to me.

00:15:50.780 Now, there are-

00:15:51.780 Why?

00:15:51.800 Why, when the whole message for years has been go woke, go broke, why does this surprise

00:15:57.260 you?

00:15:58.860 Because my interpretation of the current American electorate or body is about 15 to 20% of America

00:16:09.140 genuinely hold some form of woke ideology.

00:16:12.480 Mm-hmm.

00:16:12.900 Yet, this faction is not buying anything.

00:16:19.360 And the question is, why?

00:16:23.300 Now, I'm going to go over the generic theories that people make, right?

00:16:27.840 One is to say, well, the mistakes that these companies are making is that they are listening

00:16:35.800 to people who are very loud online, which is predominantly people without anything that's

00:16:41.120 going on in their lives, i.e., unemployed people who don't have the money to go out

00:16:45.700 and buy games.

00:16:47.420 And it's like, that's an interesting theory.

00:16:50.280 But the problem with that theory is I can just look at the donations from, like, the FANG 0.61

00:16:53.940 tech companies, and, like, 98% of, like, Facebook is going to the Democrats.

00:17:00.180 Or I can look at the very fact that Sony even thought to produce this game.

00:17:05.080 Clearly, there's a large technocratic faction in America that works in large, well-paying 0.69

00:17:11.140 bureaucracies that is, or at least signals, that they are woke.

00:17:16.640 Right?

00:17:18.600 The second thesis could be, well, nobody's actually that into woke ideology.

00:17:24.820 Like, a lot of people will signal it, but nobody's really that into it.

00:17:28.640 Or it could be that the proportion of America that is into woke ideology has almost no overlap

00:17:35.080 with the portion of Americans that play video games.

00:17:38.080 I think, no, because it's pretty clear that people play video games in droves.

00:17:45.060 I do think that the video games that men and women play are a little bit different and

00:17:48.700 that women are more progressive.

00:17:50.220 So that just certainly has something to do with it.

00:17:52.580 But I think your second theory resonates.

00:17:55.160 And this could be a really good natural experiment or piece of natural evidence that suggests it

00:18:01.640 is, it may be right.

00:18:03.360 Meaning that being woke or espousing progressive values works really, really well for signaling,

00:18:10.080 but it doesn't work really, really well in real life.

00:18:13.240 So people signal it to get tactically ahead in conversations and social hierarchies within

00:18:18.900 bureaucracies.

00:18:20.080 But in their actual life, they don't leverage it because they either intuitively or logically

00:18:26.060 understand that it will produce bad results if they adopt it.

00:18:29.780 Does that make sense?

00:18:31.200 No.

00:18:31.660 Explain.

00:18:31.980 In other words, I will at work use they, them pronouns and ask people for their pronouns 0.98

00:18:39.540 and express my discomfort with the historical land use of my region or whatever and use all

00:18:49.720 that to signal that I belong to the correct group and that I'm doing the right things.

00:18:54.280 But then when I go home, I'm not going to consume woke media.

00:19:00.200 I'm not going to refer to the correct pronouns.

00:19:04.440 I'm not going to live that life behind closed doors because it doesn't produce mental flourishing.

00:19:12.940 It doesn't yield the best products.

00:19:15.780 Okay.

00:19:15.880 I'm going to disagree really strongly with you here.

00:19:17.880 I think that there is a portion of Americans who go home and their houses are woke prisons

00:19:24.920 for the less woke of the family.

00:19:28.040 I have read about this.

00:19:29.620 I have seen it on forums.

00:19:31.440 I just do not think that you are right on this point.

00:19:34.600 I think that there really are a lot of genuinely woke families that like to, because the social

00:19:39.800 technology, the reason why people lean into it is because they can use it to emotionally

00:19:43.260 manipulate others.

00:19:44.260 Very interestingly.

00:19:45.300 I guess including their family.

00:19:47.260 Right?

00:19:47.440 So they use it to emotionally manipulate their families.

00:19:50.620 The kids use it to emotionally manipulate their parents.

00:19:52.860 This is, in these families where you have these kids transitioning at like three and like 0.98

00:19:57.800 eight, do you not think that wokeism is dripping from every single wall of these houses?

00:20:03.460 No, not necessarily.

00:20:06.860 Because think about it this way.

00:20:08.460 I could see parents being terrified about the state taking away their child, one, if they

00:20:14.980 don't support their child in their exploration or teachers ratting on them or high schoolers

00:20:21.180 who are transitioning.

00:20:22.160 I'm talking about the people transitioning between like three.

00:20:25.340 I know.

00:20:25.520 I think a lot of that may also have to do with existing or pending divorces and one parent

00:20:31.580 using youth gender transition to get on a kid's side.

00:20:35.920 There's tons of examples of it happening outside of divorces.

00:20:39.140 I think that you're struggling to model that people can be this petty, but this was actually

00:20:45.520 really interesting of me when I was watching the Dustborne game because I got to see in

00:20:51.940 the game the social interaction of the characters and to see what they think normal social interaction

00:20:58.520 looks like.

00:20:59.780 And it was incredibly tedious.

00:21:03.080 Every single conversation was like, you hurt me by hiding this from me.

00:21:07.480 You hurt me by doing this.

00:21:11.620 And then the conversation would get shut down by one of them that had emotional manipulation

00:21:15.540 powers manipulating the other.

00:21:17.380 That is the general loop of the game that I'm seeing so far.

00:21:22.360 They think this is normal for all social interaction.

00:21:26.620 Oh, wow.

00:21:27.300 So clearly this is happening in their home.

00:21:30.020 And the second thing I want to shut down here is the idea that gamers, there's no woke

00:21:35.800 gamers, right?

00:21:36.580 You get, I agree.

00:21:37.920 The majority of gamers are not woke.

00:21:40.200 But if you look at things like the GDC for the Gamers Developers Conference, where all

00:21:44.400 the game developers went out in your plane of fields and yet screamed at the sky like spazes

00:21:50.700 about all of the right wing influences that were ruining their industry, right?

00:21:56.080 You do not get more woke than that.

00:22:00.800 Yeah.

00:22:01.520 The screaming at the sky.

00:22:03.300 Yeah.

00:22:03.640 I am going to posit an alternate theory.

00:22:06.880 Okay.

00:22:07.540 We have been discussing.

00:22:08.360 Yeah, I'm lost.

00:22:09.280 So don't take anything you've got.

00:22:10.940 Okay.

00:22:12.600 So I think it's a combination of two things.

00:22:16.320 I think the people who signal woke tactics within an office environment are using similar

00:22:23.500 woke tactics within their households and within their relationships.

00:22:26.760 However, I think that they are actually the minority of people within these office environments.

00:22:32.980 I think most woke people who are signaling to you and everyone else that they are woke,

00:22:37.980 they are prisoners of their own mental landscape and prisoners of the world around them.

00:22:43.560 So it's like people in the cult who go along with it because they just don't want to get

00:22:47.300 hurt anymore.

00:22:48.880 Yes.

00:22:49.400 They're just like, okay, stop hitting.

00:22:51.580 Well, they know they could lose their job.

00:22:53.220 They won't be able to support their family anymore.

00:22:55.280 They won't be able to.

00:22:55.980 If they don't have a strong internal moral compass, they have no reason to dissent.

00:23:03.980 And due to the way cognitive dissonance works, they passively begin to believe the woke things,

00:23:11.960 but they don't actively believe the woke things.

00:23:14.340 They, to your point, aren't actually doing the woke signaling at home in the way other

00:23:20.280 people are.

00:23:21.420 They are not the woke police outside of their spouse says something and they're like, hey,

00:23:27.480 you shouldn't say that because it could have these effects on our family.

00:23:30.620 You shouldn't say that because of wokeism, right?

00:23:33.680 You know, but like, don't you know, we live under a totalitarian state that's constantly

00:23:38.900 policing and everything that's being heard and said.

00:23:41.620 Yeah.

00:23:41.740 So I think that this is one faction, right?

00:23:45.500 And then I think the other faction, which is not insignificant, right?

00:23:49.380 Like if they bought things, they could be a real powerhouse in terms of buyers, right?

00:23:54.860 And this is what's getting me when they're like, our game bombed because it was boycotted

00:23:59.980 by, you know, right-wingers, right?

00:24:03.940 It's like, but if the woke audience existed, a right-wing boycott shouldn't have affected

00:24:08.920 your sales numbers this much, right?

00:24:12.160 Apparently you weren't just boycotted by right-wingers.

00:24:14.840 You were boycotted by a woke audience as well.

00:24:18.100 How did that happen?

00:24:19.600 I think that these woke people live in a state of mental internal turmoil that is so high

00:24:28.020 that they struggle to do basic day-to-day functions and most of their day is really spent in these

00:24:35.740 apology spirals, in these online fights, and in these-

00:24:41.000 So you're saying, oh my gosh, you're saying that woke people are so dysfunctional that they

00:24:48.040 cannot even make time in their day to play a video game?

00:24:53.820 Yes.

00:24:54.340 It is not that they don't have money because clearly some of them do.

00:24:59.240 They're involved in the manufacturing of these games.

00:25:01.340 They're involved in what's coming out of Hollywood these days.

00:25:05.160 Wow.

00:25:06.180 But I think they live in a state of mental impoverishment and spiritual impoverishment that is

00:25:12.200 so great that they probably cry multiple times a day.

00:25:16.220 They probably see a therapist like once a week.

00:25:19.740 They probably are just barely holding things together.

00:25:25.500 I guess if you go through what actually is required of being a true believer within the

00:25:34.080 progressive movement now, it does involve so much self-victimization that it could be

00:25:40.880 self-victimization to the point of complete dysfunction, to your point.

00:25:45.480 Think about, try to model the relationship of people like, when I try to, you may disagree

00:25:50.440 with this, but Jen from Fundy Fridays and her husband, because I'm able to see both of them

00:25:54.460 and how they interact, these individuals come across in terms of the lack of vitalism that's

00:26:01.660 left in them after all the signaling and after all the fighting that's clearly part of their

00:26:05.980 day, I was actually recently watching Amanda, a famous antinatalist, right?

00:26:11.140 Who's also very woke.

00:26:12.620 And when I looked at what was left of her as a, as sort of a residue of humanity, she reminded

00:26:22.540 me of almost one of those shadows that's left of somebody after a nuclear explosion, like

00:26:28.300 a ghoulish reminder of what was once human, but is now nothing but residue.

00:26:36.260 Their, their core vitality and an ability to feel any happiness or engagement with the

00:26:46.580 world has been genuinely blasted from them.

00:26:50.440 And now every moment is dedicated to self-flagellation and a, and a form of self-flagellation.

00:26:58.360 So people who don't know this, if you look at something like the Opus Dei, and we're going

00:27:01.780 to do an episode on them, this is a Catholic sect that's famous for various forms of self-flagellation 1.00

00:27:05.540 and like mortification.

00:27:06.700 They're actually pretty happy people because they have a moral mandate to be happy because

00:27:11.340 you control your emotions and the self-flagellation and all the other mortification techniques are

00:27:16.860 meant to give you more control over your emotional state.

00:27:20.440 which is something I agree with.

00:27:21.820 The Wokies are the exact opposite. 1.00

00:27:24.980 All of the self-flagellation is to feel and to bring up as much despair as possible.

00:27:30.680 They almost have these like despair feedback loops around things like the environment or

00:27:35.600 any of the other things they want to feel sad about where the amount that you are wailing

00:27:41.820 and despairing increases your status, which creates this environment in miasma of constant

00:27:49.420 despair.

00:27:51.280 That is wild.

00:27:53.820 I have a secondary hypothesis, which I think is further deflating the numbers.

00:27:58.460 Oh, yeah.

00:27:59.440 I mean, of course, this could be several factors.

00:28:01.580 And there is no doubt a portion of the population that is so mentally dysfunctional that they can't

00:28:07.700 even get themselves to play a game.

00:28:09.140 But there must be other things at play here.

00:28:11.800 So let's go for it.

00:28:13.100 What is it?

00:28:14.480 The final factor is in the 90s, if a movie I just liked released a video game, I wouldn't

00:28:23.320 play it.

00:28:24.260 You know, I knew that video game movies were bad.

00:28:27.480 This was like a thing in the 90s.

00:28:28.860 Everybody knew.

00:28:29.420 And movies made about video games were bad.

00:28:32.540 If somebody makes a movie of a video game, you just don't go watch it.

00:28:36.180 It was bad.

00:28:36.940 Now, this was not true in the early days.

00:28:38.820 There were a few good early video game movies like the Street Fighters original movie and

00:28:42.380 the Mortal Kombat movies.

00:28:43.480 Those were fantastic.

00:28:44.300 Oh, and the first Resident Evil movie was great.

00:28:46.480 But then sort of after that era, there was this era of bad video game movies.

00:28:49.640 Everyone knew.

00:28:50.280 Don't go watch video game movies, even if you like the video games, because they're almost

00:28:54.240 always bad.

00:28:55.200 Okay.

00:28:55.780 And what we might be seeing here is people have come to associate, even woke people, any

00:29:02.880 game that signals any degree of wokeness with this is going to be terrible.

00:29:09.980 And one of the questions is, I mean, we all know this.

00:29:12.860 We know that woke movies are just like worse than non-woke movies.

00:29:16.420 When you get to the woke Marvel stuff, when you get to the, you know, the video games,

00:29:19.920 when you get to the woke Indiana Jones, when you get to that, you're like, okay, this is

00:29:23.100 going to be bad because I saw some woke stuff.

00:29:25.320 One of the questions is, well, how do you know that?

00:29:27.180 Why is there such a correlation here?

00:29:29.000 It's not that they get less money or attention.

00:29:31.340 And the answer is, is the more woke stuff that is coming through in terms of the advertising

00:29:39.780 and the plot and the character design, the more is being implemented in terms of hiring

00:29:45.400 in what is woke hiring?

00:29:48.060 Woke hiring is hiring based on social signaling and not ability.

00:29:52.980 And so basically we know when I see something that's signaling wokeness, that it wasn't made 1.00

00:30:00.600 by competent people who were, it was made by idiots, basically. 1.00

00:30:04.180 That's always my take. 1.00

00:30:05.080 It was made by idiotic bureaucrats who knew how to signal. 1.00

00:30:08.940 Who were not hired for merit. 1.00

00:30:10.440 Yeah.

00:30:10.900 Who were hired for signaling and not merit.

00:30:13.100 That's scary.

00:30:14.040 And what this all comes down to at the end of the day, like the reason this could change

00:30:20.200 culture so much is when we talk about how important the video game industry is to culture,

00:30:23.120 if the video game industry does walk back from all of this and begins to see releasing a

00:30:30.320 game that's signaling wokeness, like as bad as releasing a game that's signaling blatant

00:30:34.660 racism, because I mean, it is signaling blatant racism, but I mean like what they would consider

00:30:38.800 racism, but they understand you have to be afraid to look woke is where we're entering

00:30:46.300 now.

00:30:47.100 If that happens, that's going to have a major cultural shift.

00:30:52.580 And I think the people who came out ahead of all this are going to end up looking really

00:30:58.100 good.

00:30:58.520 One of the things I mentioned to you recently, and I think Zuck is going to go anti-woke soon.

00:31:03.660 Yeah.

00:31:03.780 He's certainly entering his new era, the Fro and Chain era. 0.95

00:31:07.040 But he's not getting cred from the anti-woke audience, because I mentioned this on another

00:31:12.860 anti-woke influencer, and they were like, yeah, but like, it's not hard to do that now.

00:31:17.780 Like everyone knows to go anti-woke now, right?

00:31:20.060 You know?

00:31:21.160 And I hope that the people who made the costly signals early, like Elon, really people remember

00:31:27.780 that he lost a lot of money trying to fix things.

00:31:33.940 Or the people who are like, oh, Elon's such a...

00:31:37.320 No, honestly, I think anyone who has this like mindset that, oh, Elon, he didn't really

00:31:42.840 make his money or he didn't really do this.

00:31:45.000 You've got to understand there is an entire apparatus out there that is dedicated to try

00:31:49.780 to brainwash you into believing.

00:31:51.540 Well, and Elon Musk is broadly a very progressive person who also cares deeply about climate change.

00:31:57.560 So there is that too.

00:31:59.800 And he helped his child transition.

00:32:01.860 A lot of people don't know that he helped his child transition.

00:32:04.520 He sent the child to all the gender reforming stuff.

00:32:07.480 He got the child the gender transition hormones.

00:32:10.040 He got the child everything.

00:32:11.480 He was far in the progressive camp before he made his transition.

00:32:16.320 And he made the transition when he had nothing to benefit from it.

00:32:21.040 And that requires an incredible amount of moral fortitude.

00:32:24.600 And so when you look at all these people who are like, oh, he just wants to be popular

00:32:28.980 or he just wants whatever, I would consider it in the context of the sacrifices that you

00:32:35.920 cannot ignore that he has made to make this transition early.

00:32:40.680 So I hope that, and I hope that people like ourselves who have been positioning ourselves

00:32:45.020 against a lot of these woke overreaches are able to, as the winds change, benefit from

00:32:52.360 this.

00:32:52.660 However, and as I've said before, the one thing I can't account for is this isn't a normal

00:32:58.440 cultural change.

00:32:59.980 Wokeism is a memetic virus, which is very good at targeting and entrenching itself within bureaucracies.

00:33:09.460 Yes.

00:33:10.300 And no matter how hard they try, you might try to remove it from a bureaucracy, it's going

00:33:19.180 to be very, very, very difficult.

00:33:22.560 Yeah.

00:33:22.840 Unless you just recreate the organization.

00:33:26.500 I mean, if you want to try, like tried to cut out the cancer, you ended up cutting out

00:33:30.660 like 89% of the company or more, right?

00:33:33.920 Like that is what happens when you're cutting out the cancer.

00:33:37.060 You know, it is really deep and profuse.

00:33:40.800 And if you want the host to survive, you have to be willing to make costly decisions, which

00:33:48.000 is very difficult for a large company like a Microsoft or a Sony to do.

00:33:53.220 You know, Microsoft not long ago doubled down on some of its woke stuff, right?

00:33:57.320 You know, in terms of its employee training and everything like that.

00:34:00.360 So like, how, how do you, how do you fight against it when these companies no longer care

00:34:06.300 about profit maximization anymore?

00:34:08.760 And my answer to this is, I think we need to start having this societal frameship that

00:34:14.340 wokeism is bigotry and to call it bigotry and to say, I don't like this problem because

00:34:19.400 it is woke and bigoted every time.

00:34:21.900 Like, I think we should, every time we use the word woke, say woke and bigoted.

00:34:26.220 But people remember, and I love the word bigotry and bigoted because it's one of those words

00:34:31.500 they forgot to redefine.

00:34:32.960 They redefined racism.

00:34:35.000 They forgot to redefine bigotry.

00:34:36.980 So you hit it with that and they're like, yeah, I guess it is definitionally a bigoted

00:34:40.660 thing to do.

00:34:42.200 Now there was a final point.

00:34:44.200 Oh yeah.

00:34:44.500 And if anyone here is like, well, my company is infected by wokeism, what do I do? 0.96

00:34:48.100 Like if you're a CEO or something like that, if you need somebody to come in and do consulting

00:34:51.740 on this, I thought about doing a little bit about this on the time.

00:34:54.900 Just let me know.

00:34:56.460 Stanford MBA, background in private equity, company management and venture capital.

00:35:01.840 So I'm pretty qualified for this stuff.

00:35:03.980 Oh, and I wrote a bestselling book on governance.

00:35:06.400 You're just really good at thinking through complex problems.

00:35:09.100 So I love it.

00:35:10.320 Yeah.

00:35:10.620 Happy to come in and help.

00:35:12.740 And I'd also note to these individuals that this could be a legal risk to your company.

00:35:16.760 After the Supreme Court decision, the Harvard decision, it has now become a active legal risk

00:35:22.980 to any company that is employing systemically woke policy, i.e.

00:35:28.000 any policy that is bigoted against individuals based on their race or sexuality, which wokeism

00:35:34.600 intrinsically is.

00:35:35.540 Well, how do you score that, though, with all of the existing government policies that obligate

00:35:41.500 organizations to favor certain classes like minority owned businesses, women owned businesses, 0.61

00:35:48.560 et cetera?

00:35:48.780 Well, a lot of those have been rolled back.

00:35:52.300 I'm knee deep in RFPs still for our business that we run.

00:35:56.060 Okay, well, so this stuff is going to be rolled back based on lawyers going forward.

00:36:02.360 And you wouldn't believe it.

00:36:03.020 I was actually in an RFP call this morning and like some of the other businesses, one

00:36:08.940 was literally called diversity travel.

00:36:11.280 I'm not kidding you.

00:36:13.480 Diversity travel?

00:36:14.620 Diversity travel.

00:36:15.540 Yeah.

00:36:17.460 Wonderful.

00:36:19.160 Do they win RFPs?

00:36:20.960 I'd be interested to see.

00:36:22.060 Presumably, yeah.

00:36:23.000 I mean, anyone that was in that call and I made a list of everyone like I always do to

00:36:27.480 see what our competition is like, it presumably has a significant portion of their business

00:36:33.720 that is dependent on RFP based travel, meaning they work with universities and state agencies

00:36:39.440 and organizations like that.

00:36:41.360 So what I'm just saying is that it is it is deeply entrenched within our government, which

00:36:47.300 makes up a significant portion of the GDP of the United States because we are a large

00:36:52.980 socialist country, that you have to discriminate based on race and gender and other forms of

00:37:01.980 status.

00:37:03.860 And that status is not based on reality, by the way.

00:37:10.240 It's based on specific certifications that you gain and have to apply for and have to pay

00:37:15.880 to apply for.

00:37:16.740 Like, I couldn't just say, this is a woman owned business, you'd have to be certified 1.00

00:37:22.040 and have your application and fill out the paperwork.

00:37:24.320 So this sorts for not true diversity, but rather, you know, like if I were to, if I were

00:37:33.760 to try to correct for systemic bias in society proactively as like empress of the United States,

00:37:42.800 like if I had to, because normally I'd be like, let these things kind of correct themselves

00:37:46.540 or let the market recover.

00:37:47.980 I wouldn't favor things like the government does now where it says, okay, well, you have

00:37:53.660 to discount the cost presented by any business that meets this status so that you give them

00:37:57.960 an extra boost.

00:37:58.880 I would rather say, okay, we'll invest in extra resources, like extra mentorship, extra startup

00:38:04.740 funding, low interest loans for businesses that meet these qualifications, but don't make it

00:38:09.400 easier for them to sell to clients.

00:38:11.520 Like if they should go out of business, they should go out of business.

00:38:14.140 Don't artificially change their pricing in the eyes of everyone who works for the government

00:38:17.920 or with government funds, because then they're just going to be very inefficient.

00:38:21.380 What we, I mean, the only way to fix this is for Trump to win, for us to campaign, to

00:38:25.920 get into his administration and then set up a department just looking for, it'd be very

00:38:30.860 easy to get, even at the state level, these laws are raised.

00:38:33.360 You just do like the government did to ensure like a standardized drinking age.

00:38:38.180 Easier said than done.

00:38:40.300 No, it's not hard.

00:38:41.720 What they did to standardize the marijuana laws and what they do is they tie federal funds

00:38:47.640 to the state saying that you have to get rid of, and then you just get them all erased.

00:38:53.040 And once they're erased, it will be very hard to bring them back because I think that politically

00:38:57.740 they're so unpalatable these days.

00:38:59.680 But the idea that you would have these sorts of policies, especially when you put on how

00:39:05.000 much they cost the taxpayer.

00:39:06.760 And when I say cost the taxpayer, the way I would word this is how much they are preventing

00:39:11.540 from going to the homeless.

00:39:12.980 So you don't focus on how much extra in taxes you pay.

00:39:15.420 You focus on how many millions of dollars aren't going to homeless people because these

00:39:18.640 policies exist.

00:39:19.640 With the assumption that instead of that policy staying with the taxpayer, it would all go

00:39:22.900 to the homeless.

00:39:23.520 Yeah, I mean, I'm more focused on how much of your tax dollars wasted on paperwork and

00:39:29.080 bureaucracy when these things are utilized.

00:39:30.780 You care about waste because you're a human being.

00:39:33.580 Well, no, it sucks if I give a dollar to the government, if like 75 cents of that goes 0.53

00:39:39.000 toward nonsense paperwork that makes my life more miserable as a taxpayer.

00:39:43.780 Yeah, that would matter to me.

00:39:46.220 Yes, but you're not a normal voter.

00:39:48.060 I don't know.

00:39:48.400 People can say in the comments.

00:39:50.080 Who, what, what, what?

00:39:51.120 I don't think normal voters are in the comments.

00:39:55.220 We have, I think they are.

00:39:57.540 I have, we have very normal people in the comments.

00:39:59.880 Normies.

00:40:00.180 Normal people watch our show, not weird people.

00:40:03.240 No.

00:40:03.560 This is very true, Simone.

00:40:04.380 Our Discord server literally has more intellectual conversations than we have on this podcast.

00:40:08.560 We have a really intelligent, weirdly skewed audience of very smart and engaged people.

00:40:16.040 No, they're not smart.

00:40:17.000 They're normal people, Simone.

00:40:18.600 We're just normal men.

00:40:20.160 What do you mean, normal men?

00:40:24.880 We're just innocent men.

00:40:33.060 I have worked very hard to build a normal audience with normal, not weird people.

00:40:42.040 Okay?

00:40:43.380 They are, they are normal men, Simone.

00:40:46.020 Normal.

00:40:46.440 Our audience is normal men, just like they say on side scrollers. 0.68

00:40:49.540 They are, they are, they are just trying to live a normal life.

00:40:53.780 Okay?

00:40:54.200 Like Trump and J.D. Vance.

00:40:55.620 J.D. Vance swears he's not weird.

00:41:01.260 He is the weirdest.

00:41:02.480 I, I, I, I like him.

00:41:03.740 I wish they would just like embrace the weirdness of their thing.

00:41:08.020 I love our Revenge of the Nerds episode on this because that's the way I feel about like

00:41:11.640 the left right now.

00:41:12.440 Democrats and the Harris campaign now deploying a new adjective to blast the Republican ticket.

00:41:17.980 Some of what he and his running mate are saying, well, it's just plain weird.

00:41:23.260 Get those nerds! 1.00

00:41:24.880 I mean, on the other side, they're just weird. 0.84

00:41:27.420 Nerds! 1.00

00:41:28.100 Nerds! 1.00

00:41:29.460 What?

00:41:29.700 It's not just a, a, a, a, a weird style that he brings.

00:41:33.780 Nerds! 1.00

00:41:34.500 Nerds! 1.00

00:41:35.560 Where are they?

00:41:37.100 I think they're talking about us.

00:41:39.360 No way.

00:41:40.440 Oh, nerds! 1.00

00:41:43.760 Nerds! 1.00

00:41:44.480 Nerds! 1.00

00:41:44.760 And they're like, you guys aren't following the new social norms that we created.

00:41:49.240 Anyway, love you to Decimome.

00:41:51.880 Have a spectacular day.

00:41:54.100 Oh, and something I'd also note about diversity in these games just before we hop off.

00:41:57.960 Hmm.

00:41:58.880 Because you and I were talking about this recently, is what quote unquote diversity is,

00:42:03.640 depends on how the cult is evolving and doesn't represent real diversity.

00:42:08.500 So, if you look at modern diversity, and you can look at this in shows, basically Hispanic

00:42:14.460 people don't exist.

00:42:15.860 Like, Hispanic people should be, there should be, if you're trying to be like accurate to 0.96

00:42:19.560 the U.S. population, two Hispanic people for every black person.

00:42:22.620 But nope, a huge overrepresentation of black people, almost no Hispanic people.

00:42:26.980 But then the other thing that's really interesting is the disabled group, right?

00:42:31.260 So, I was watching the Magic School Bus recently, and there's a little kid in a wheelchair, and

00:42:34.840 I was like, oh yeah, a little kid in a wheelchair.

00:42:36.800 Like, I remember you.

00:42:38.380 You play basketball and do lots of cool wheelchair tricks.

00:42:42.440 And it's kind of funky.

00:42:43.680 And no engineering.

00:42:45.160 You all know the guy.

00:42:46.360 He was in everything for a while.

00:42:49.140 In the 90s.

00:42:49.920 In a wheelchair, right?

00:42:50.780 Yeah.

00:42:51.380 But, kid in a wheelchair disappeared.

00:42:55.820 He is not part of Diversity Crew anymore.

00:42:58.020 There is no more kid in a wheelchair.

00:43:02.220 Yeah.

00:43:03.120 That's, yeah.

00:43:05.020 What's the word for that?

00:43:06.480 Ableist. 0.99

00:43:07.120 Yes.

00:43:07.540 It is very ableist. 0.99

00:43:09.640 Racist and ableist, I guess. 1.00

00:43:12.220 Racist and ableist is bastards. 1.00

00:43:14.180 Yeah. 1.00

00:43:14.380 What did happen to the wheelchairs?

00:43:16.040 That is very odd.

00:43:17.300 I kind of want to make kid in a wheelchair like a new conservative thing. 0.94

00:43:21.480 Like, cover a wheelchair and American flags. 0.58

00:43:23.580 Have him, like, paying his b-ball.

00:43:25.160 Because he could always do the cool b-ball things.

00:43:28.060 Kid in a wheelchair could.

00:43:29.540 Big MAGA flags on it.

00:43:31.260 Like, what's up with those MAGA pickup trucks?

00:43:33.480 You know what I'm talking about, right?

00:43:35.400 We're random weekend days.

00:43:36.920 You'll just see a MAGA truck driving by.

00:43:38.800 And there's not a progressive equivalent.

00:43:41.080 There's just the MAGA pickup truck.

00:43:43.380 I don't get it.

00:43:44.780 Well, because progressives aren't really proud of their party.

00:43:47.360 I mean, look.

00:43:48.120 They didn't even vote for their own candidate.

00:43:50.020 It was chosen for them by a secret cabal of party elites.

00:43:54.720 Like, progressives have no say. 0.97

00:43:57.420 It's follow the cult or be taken out back and shot, basically.

00:44:01.280 Like, that's where the progressive party has gotten at this point.

00:44:04.600 And I love, I, like, still see progressives who, like, say things like, 0.83

00:44:08.700 but Donald Trump is more fascist than Kamala Harris. 0.77

00:44:13.640 And I'm like, the level of brainwashed you have to be to believe that is astounding. 0.97

00:44:20.340 I mean, aesthetically, Trump loves, he's, you know.

00:44:25.120 No, no, aesthetically, but, like, in terms of their actual actions and policy.

00:44:29.720 I don't, here's, no, but look at this.

00:44:31.920 Everyone's saying that the United States general election campaign is run on vibes right now.

00:44:38.340 This is about aesthetics.

00:44:39.600 And I don't know if people are even aware of anything beyond aesthetics these days,

00:44:43.480 or at least a lot of mainstream Americans.

00:44:45.400 I remember I was talking to one progressive about, like, I was like, well, at least with Tim Walsh.

00:44:48.900 You know, you must have, like, issues with the fact that he kept everyone in their houses during COVID

00:44:54.400 and then had a tip line where you could report your neighbors for leaving their house to have them arrested.

00:44:59.300 Like, you don't see that as, like, a little fashy?

00:45:01.900 And they're like, no, everybody had COVID policy like that.

00:45:05.180 I'm like, did they?

00:45:08.180 This is, this is getting 1984 level here.

00:45:10.820 I don't know, I loved, I loved Peru, though, where they were like, girls go out today, boys go out today.

00:45:15.700 That was, that was just great.

00:45:17.460 That's how they did in Peru.

00:45:18.480 That's how they do it, yeah.

00:45:19.840 So, we're gonna end here.

00:45:22.160 I love you to Desimone.

00:45:24.200 And I hope you have a spectacular day.

00:45:26.840 Fame.

00:45:28.980 Which one do you want to do next?

00:45:30.600 We could do one on that show.

00:45:31.740 By the way, I saw what you left with my Love with the Roxine prescription.

00:45:35.980 What is this?

00:45:36.860 Field of Screams.

00:45:38.020 Is this a call for help, Malcolm?

00:45:40.220 This is a call for our family to do some fun Halloween stuff.

00:45:44.720 At these prices, Screen Pass, $40 to $55.

00:45:48.680 Triple Combo, $38.

00:45:50.740 The Extreme Blackout is $60.

00:45:54.740 Multiple.

00:45:55.180 ATMs on site.

00:45:57.580 What, what is this but a terrifying way to lose money?

00:46:01.360 It's cheaper than vacation.

00:46:02.380 I think we need to go on less vacations and do more things at home.

00:46:05.360 The only thing that's scary about this is just how hideous everything looks.

00:46:10.020 Okay, the zombie fun run does look really fun.

00:46:12.300 The zombie fun run.

00:46:12.940 You saw that one?

00:46:13.660 And there's this like random wholesome like corn event where they're like, oh, it'll be

00:46:17.400 fine.

00:46:18.200 Bring your kids.

00:46:19.000 It's not that scary.

00:46:20.240 But then on the cover, don't forget.

00:46:22.340 Don't you want to terrify our children? 1.00

00:46:24.200 Someone like, wouldn't that give you some joy?

00:46:26.300 I have them sit right at bedtime and watch videos of bears killing other animals so that

00:46:32.320 they don't go running outside every night.

00:46:34.320 And what do they do but wander in two hours later in the pitch dark?

00:46:39.040 Mommy, can I see a bear video again?

00:46:41.620 There's no stopping these savages.

00:46:45.800 I love Octavian telling Torsey, a bear will bite you and rip off your skin.

00:46:53.920 Yeah, I mean, at least they understand it.

00:46:57.120 I guess my concern is if we actually take them to one of these things, they'll think that

00:47:02.660 they actually have license to try to kill people.

00:47:05.640 And I don't know how effective they'll be.

00:47:08.140 A little concerned.

00:47:09.660 Do you think the kids will?

00:47:11.920 I mean, I wouldn't put anything past them.

00:47:15.420 Would you?

00:47:18.180 Actually, yeah, they might, you know?

00:47:21.740 You got to make it clear to, you know, not kill the actors.

00:47:24.700 If they thought they were being attacked.

00:47:28.040 All right, I'll get started here.

00:47:29.820 Okay, someone?

00:47:30.180 Please, yeah.

00:47:30.780 Yeah.

00:47:30.900 Yeah.

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Based Camp - September 09, 2024

Why Are Woke People Not Buying Woke Products？ ... Are Woke People Fictional？

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