Based Camp - Why Do Jews Have Friends？ The Religious Anthropology of Friendship & Family

00:00:00.000 Hello, Simone! Today we ask the question, why do Jews have friends? 1.00

00:00:07.920 This question may seem odd at first to someone, but when I go through it, you're going to be like,

00:00:14.920 oh wow, that is actually kind of weird. Specifically, what I will be laying out

00:00:21.960 is that if you look at most Jewish holidays or religious festivals or religious observances,

00:00:30.740 they are encouraged to invite non-family members, sometimes even non-Jews. However,

00:00:40.120 if you look at, and I'm talking about my own cultural background, you know, coming from a

00:00:45.920 Christian culture, from one category of Christian culture in America, and we'll do some diversification

00:00:50.480 of the various Christian cultures, but the Christian culture that I come from, American

00:00:53.540 Protestant Christian culture, there are very few religious events or celebrations in which you

00:01:01.500 would invite people who are not extended family. If I am inviting somebody to Christmas or to

00:01:09.760 Thanksgiving, that is basically an indication that I plan on marrying them. Like, it's not even...

00:01:16.780 It's seen culturally as one of those big leveling ups in a relationship if you go to your girlfriend

00:01:23.740 or boyfriend's house for Thanksgiving or Christmas, because that is a sign of serious commitment.

00:01:28.980 Yeah, and it made me realize how distant the culture I grew up in was from Jewish culture

00:01:35.060 when we had a very Chabad guy, very, you know, extreme... What's the word I'm looking here? Very 1.00

00:01:41.480 Orthodox Jew. Come to our house. He's a fan of the show. Really liked the guy. He's actually inspired

00:01:46.540 a number of episodes. And he was talking with our son. And he said something that sparked this whole

00:01:53.800 chain of logic for me. Okay.

00:01:56.040 He was interacting with our son. And he said, do you have any friends? And my son said, yeah,

00:02:02.260 I have two friends. And he goes, what are their names? And he goes, Torsten and Titan. And those are our

00:02:07.340 two other older kids' names. And then he goes, well, those aren't really your friends. Those are

00:02:13.180 more like your siblings. Do you have any friends? And in my head, I'm immediately thinking, wait,

00:02:20.240 what are you talking about? Your siblings are always your best friends. Why would you ever...

00:02:25.140 Like, all other friends come after family.

00:02:27.980 Burdened with new friends and tormented by the bounty hunter chains.

00:02:31.700 Blood is thicker than water. Yeah.

00:02:33.220 Yeah. That was said all the time to me growing up. Interesting. And that is a very bad metaphor

00:02:38.540 to use because in the context of the Bible where it's being written, it is the blood is not thicker

00:02:43.700 than the water of heaven. It is used to argue against this idea. The original wording is the

00:02:51.680 blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb, where water is supposed to be familial

00:02:56.620 relationships and blood is supposed to represent chosen relationships. Whereas today it's often used

00:03:02.020 where blood represents familial relationships and water represents chosen relationships.

00:03:06.540 It reminds me a lot of another commonly misused phrase where people say, I am not my brother's

00:03:11.680 keeper. And I'm like, do you, do you know the context of that line? Do you know the context of

00:03:19.700 that line? That's a guy saying to somebody, accusing him of killing his brother when he did kill his

00:03:25.880 brother? Oh, I'm not his, I don't always know where he is. But people say that to like legitimately be

00:03:33.400 like, well, you know, I'm not responsible for him. But it got me realizing that when I started to go

00:03:40.500 through many of the Jews who I know, or many people who are descended from Jewish cultural groups,

00:03:46.500 they are really big on maintaining friend networks. Whereas if I go through the people who are closer

00:03:54.600 to me culturally, they very rarely have wide friend networks, and they really prefer to have

00:04:01.560 strong relations with family members. And when I say strong relations with family members, I might be on

00:04:06.740 the extreme side of this, because I'm from that backwoods American, that greater Appalachian culture

00:04:11.380 mixed with some of the Puritan American culture. But like, I started a company with my wife, my

00:04:16.640 brother started a company with his wife, when I was thinking when the Jewish guy was over, and he's

00:04:20.720 like, well, who in the area do you hang out with? Or would you feel comfortable with your kids spending

00:04:23.780 time with? Like, I would never take my kids to spend time with like a friend from school. But like my

00:04:27.520 brother's family, of course, my dad worked on a company with his sister. Before that, he worked in a

00:04:33.460 company that his grandfather founded. Right now, he gets dividends, which pay for his living expenses

00:04:38.740 from a company a cousin started that he invested in. Like this idea of working and keeping it within

00:04:45.120 the family is very, and we've even looked at this ourselves. Like when we have our kids like play

00:04:50.700 work games, you encouraged them to work together. And I can play a little clip here, where they're

00:04:57.380 making paper airplanes as a group to sell because they decided they wanted money to do things together

00:05:03.340 to get guns for the group so they could all shoot at each other. Yes, this was to buy extra guns.

00:05:08.740 Yes. So what I'm going to do in this video is I'm going to bring receipts for this because some

00:05:33.500 people might be hearing this and they might be like, and you don't know a lot about Jewish culture,

00:05:37.140 you might be like, maybe he's exaggerating how much friends are invited. We're going to then go

00:05:41.440 deeper into Christian culture, at least the Christian culture I'm from that is very

00:05:45.240 sort of antagonistic to friends outside the family. We're going to then go over other Christian

00:05:50.120 cultural groups, which do the same thing. And then we're going to contrast these with other

00:05:55.220 religious and cultural groups that are actually closer to Jews in terms of the Christian cultural

00:06:02.040 groups that do this are actually quite unique. There's very few cultures on earth that are this

00:06:06.420 focused on extended family networks in their traditions itself. I'm excited to dive into this.

00:06:12.220 Some Christians may hear this and they'll be like, oh, no, no, no. Like, what about going to church?

00:06:16.840 That's engaging with people who aren't your family. And I'd say, you haven't gone to a historic

00:06:21.280 American church recently, have you? If you go to American churches that are over 100 years old,

00:06:26.340 what you will notice is that they are laid out so that each family had a private booth where you

00:06:32.920 would not interact with people outside of your family. I mean, there would be like the family

00:06:38.300 pew and you always sat in the same spot. I see it as akin to having that lunch table in high school

00:06:44.400 where it's like, no, no, this is the popular girls table. You don't sit there. That's for them. 1.00

00:06:48.320 It's not necessarily... Even in the face of a religious gathering,

00:06:51.980 isolate people based on family networks. Yeah. Like these, these pews had doors to them.

00:06:56.940 You would open a door and then go into a walled pew so you could see the priest,

00:07:01.040 but you didn't have to look at any of the other churchgoers. So when I went to AI and asked about

00:07:05.960 this, it said, Jewish holidays and celebrations often emphasize the concept of hashanasa ta otrim,

00:07:13.040 which I'm pronouncing it totally wrong. You're going to butcher this. Yeah.

00:07:16.660 Which translates to welcoming guests, which is considered a significant mitzvah commandment

00:07:23.040 in Judaism. This practice extends beyond family to include friends, acquaintances,

00:07:27.960 and even strangers. Examples of Jewish holidays that encourage guest invitations.

00:07:33.560 Passover Seder. It's common for Jewish families to invite friends, colleagues,

00:07:37.080 or even strangers to their Passover Seder. This practice aligns with Haggadah's instructions

00:07:42.700 to, quote, let all who are hungry come and eat, end quote. And I note here, we've seen this a lot.

00:07:49.260 I've had lots of Jewish friends, despite them only making up like 1.5% of the American population,

00:07:54.920 we regularly get invitations to Jewish religious gatherings. I don't think I've gotten an invitation

00:08:00.320 to a Christian religious gathering in years at this point. I've had people suggest maybe you

00:08:06.300 should go to your local ex-church, but I haven't had a personal invitation to come to

00:08:11.040 my family's at this event, like come to our family. Yeah, yeah. We've been invited to like

00:08:15.080 services, church services. Yeah. Next, Rosh Hash Hashanah. Many Jewish families invite their

00:08:21.560 friends and acquaintances to their Rosh Hash Hashanah meals, which is seen as a way to start the new year

00:08:27.540 of hospitality. Rosh Hashanah. I know I can't pronounce anything, okay? These foreign words

00:08:32.500 are caustic to my tongue. During this week-long festival, it's customary to invite guests

00:08:38.820 called Ush Pinzin to share meals in the Sakat. This often includes both family and non-family

00:08:45.940 members. Shabbat dinners. Wait, our family's never going to be confirmed as Jewish ever.

00:08:51.260 Yeah, right, yeah. Shabbat dinners. Weekly Shabbat meals are frequently occasions for inviting 0.85

00:08:57.160 friends, colleagues, or newcomers to the community. And then you also have the Minyum, which is, 0.94

00:09:03.420 if you're not familiar with how Jewish practice works, you need at least 10 other Jews in your area 1.00

00:09:07.940 where you get together and worship together and worship in a way through your communion with this

00:09:13.480 group, which is not a family group often. In addition to that, if you look at the way that

00:09:18.840 they do a lot of the teaching of their stuff, instead of having one knowledgeable person stand

00:09:24.020 on stage and talk, and everybody's just supposed to listen and learn from that, which is the way a lot

00:09:28.280 of Christian communities work, they'll have individual debates between two non-family members

00:09:32.940 where they will talk amongst themselves and build a greater understanding. Now, let's contrast with

00:09:37.540 traditional American Christian celebrations. You have Christmas. It would be really weird to bring 0.99

00:09:44.420 somebody who wasn't extended family to Christmas. Yeah. And bringing somebody to Christmas, at least in my

00:09:49.400 family tradition, is an indication that you plan on marrying that person. It's more official than a

00:09:56.200 proposal. Yes, it's much more official than the proposal. If I propose to someone, but I haven't taken

00:10:01.780 them to a family Christmas, that proposal means nothing. Next, you have Easter. Easter Sunday often

00:10:07.320 involves extended family gatherings for meals and religious observances. In fact, the only part of

00:10:12.440 Easter where I have ever heard of people bringing non-family members is a Easter egg hunt, but that's

00:10:17.500 usually a community Easter egg hunt. If I'm thinking about family Easter egg hunts, like my family did

00:10:23.120 Easter egg hunts every Easter. You've done Easter egg hunts with me every Easter. I would never invite

00:10:27.420 non-family to that. It'd be super weird. No, only if friends happen to be staying with us perhaps

00:10:33.360 during the holiday. But yeah, it would just be some weird. And I think if you're not, if you haven't

00:10:39.000 grown up in one of these cultures, you may not understand how weird this is. It would be culturally

00:10:44.980 weirder for me to have a non-family member at Christmas than it would be for me to sleep with

00:10:50.960 someone other than my wife. Like it would be probably about 50% weirder. This is why sometimes

00:10:56.920 I hear about some other family, which we'll talk about from different Christian groups where they're

00:10:59.760 like, oh, I invite like homeless people over for Christmas. And I'm like, what are you doing?

00:11:03.600 Like, that's really weird. And they'll be like, well, you know, I like to do it as like an act of

00:11:08.180 charity for someone who's down and out. And that to me sounds almost like somebody being like, yeah,

00:11:13.900 well, you know, sometimes my wife and I invite homeless people to sleep with us because, you know,

00:11:18.140 they don't have a lot of stuff. And it's nice that sometimes they get to screw my wife. 1.00

00:11:23.280 And I'm here like, bro, that is so creepy sounding. Like, what are you doing? There are other ways you 0.96

00:11:28.800 can be nice to homeless people. And I'm telling you this so that you can better model if you are not

00:11:34.360 from a family centered cultural background, the way that people from family centered cultural

00:11:38.980 backgrounds think about things and perhaps better understand or predict the way they might react to

00:11:44.680 something. Because I understand not obviously not all Christians are like this Christian groups

00:11:48.800 who we'll get to in a second are totally okay. Who is inviting homeless people to their Christmas

00:11:53.500 dinners? It's just that for me, the emotional response that that evokes when I hear that is

00:12:00.860 parallel to the emotional response I would hear of sometimes I invite homeless people to sleep with

00:12:06.480 my wife. And the excuse of, well, we do it to be nice because they're down and out evokes the same

00:12:13.060 emotional response of, if I guffawed at the first thing, well, I let them sleep with my wife because 0.98

00:12:19.540 they're down and out. I'm like, well, that doesn't explain it. There's other ways you can be nice to

00:12:24.100 them. Anyway, and then finally Thanksgiving, which in American Christian is, is it's not a technically a

00:12:31.460 Christian tradition, but it's very part of the American Christian sort of folklore set of holidays, you would

00:12:36.740 generally not invite non-extended family members to that. So, and I, and now I want to reflect more on

00:12:43.540 just the Jewish friends that we have. So like, when I think about like one of our good friends, who's

00:12:49.960 Jewish, he lives, like his house is connected to a friend's house and they like share parenting

00:12:56.560 responsibilities. And we had actually talked about doing this with him. Like he, he was like, oh, well,

00:13:01.420 I might move where you guys are and do this with you guys. But, and we're like, oh, cool. Because

00:13:05.680 people know that we do this with the people who, who live next to us. We give them a house in exchange

00:13:10.520 for childcare help. Right. But he's like, oh, and I would like to ensure that like, if we do this,

00:13:16.780 you're going to have time to like have regular dinners with us. Right. Like maybe at least a

00:13:20.620 couple of dinners a week. And Simone and I are like looking at each other. No, no, no, no, no, no, no,

00:13:25.260 no, no, no, no, no, no. We would have a strong, and I mentioned this because, you know,

00:13:29.520 in our society, we often forget this people, I think are biologically impacted by their traditions

00:13:34.740 pretty strongly. Oh yeah. And I can see members of my culture who were more like gregarious towards

00:13:43.000 outsiders, uh, being much more likely to leave the culture and people from potentially different

00:13:48.620 cultures like Simone, who are much less gregarious towards outsiders, finding this culture and way of

00:13:54.300 living very appealing, which can lead to genetic concentration. Now, if you look at how

00:13:59.340 we work with the people who help us raise our kids, uh, we have basically no conversations with

00:14:04.960 them outside of business ventures, but it's like, Hey, we might be able to help you make money here.

00:14:09.160 We might be able to help you make money here. We need help with this. These are people who have

00:14:13.100 been living next to us and caring for our kids every day for over a year at this point. I still

00:14:19.020 don't know what religion they are. They don't know that we are pronatalist advocates. They don't

00:14:24.040 know our religious beliefs, but I really would not want to have like small talk with them. I'd find

00:14:29.140 that to be very painful for me. To be fair, you don't like to have small talk with anyone.

00:14:34.740 Yeah. True. But this is also, if you consider like Jewish celebrations for anyone who's not familiar,

00:14:42.040 and I can put some video on the screen here. A lot of them involve like parties.

00:14:47.920 Hmm.

00:14:56.320 Yeah.

00:14:58.120 Yeah.

00:14:59.820 Yeah.

00:15:01.820 Yeah.

00:15:05.280 Yeah.

00:15:08.080 Yeah.

00:15:09.860 like a party that is if i was going to put it on a level between the type of christian gatherings

00:15:31.620 that i grew up with and remember i grew up in a calvinist sect of christianity so it's going to

00:15:35.060 be on the stream at the end of this but i also went to catholic events i also went to so like

00:15:39.420 let's put it on like a more middling christian group like a catholic if i compare it with like

00:15:44.120 your your regular extremely orthodox jewish celebration was a generic catholic celebration 0.95

00:15:52.780 it's like 50 on the way to being a rape like it's it's insane 0.69

00:15:57.920 and jews may think that this would elevate their culture to me but no i'm like oh my god somebody's 0.97

00:16:11.240 gonna touch me if i go there i'm gonna get like a random hug i'm gonna get like you know this looks

00:16:15.680 like way too much fun yes yeah somebody's gonna go up and expect me to like treat them with geniality

00:16:22.940 even though they haven't proven themselves to me like oh my god uh that that squeaks me out

00:16:28.300 and i think some people might hear this and because they have so oriented their value system to the

00:16:35.780 value system that the urban monoculture provides them they may think i am exaggerating or putting

00:16:43.300 on a show here but i am not this is genuinely horrifying to me asking me to go to one of these events

00:16:50.500 is like singing would you like to walk through these hot coals without shoes on it is not it does

00:16:58.500 not look pleasant to me but and this isn't true of all religious celebrations if somebody asked me to

00:17:03.820 go to for example an amish barn raising where i don't talk to people and i just do honest labor for

00:17:10.680 a few hours and then the the women go and bake nice foods and bring that to us with lemonade after 1.00

00:17:17.680 long honest labor i would love that that'd be a lot of fun to do whereas and i should note it's not

00:17:24.900 just the partying of religious celebrations that squigs me out like latin mass oh my god the 0.93

00:17:30.120 pointlessness of it i don't even understand what they're saying so it's it's not that i feel just this

00:17:36.460 way about jewish celebrations also anything that reeks to me of pointless ceremony where nothing productive

00:17:42.080 is achieved that also really squigs me out and and drives me crazy but i think in society you can say

00:17:48.740 oh latin mass drives me crazy and people are like oh i get why that would drive someone crazy and you're

00:17:53.520 like but these partos also drive me crazy and they're like i can't understand or you must be fronting or you 0.96

00:18:00.500 must not really mean that because in our society today in that scene in a movie where you know somebody

00:18:08.040 from the dance floor walks out and puts out their hand and tries to bring the person onto the dance

00:18:13.060 floor who really doesn't want to be dancing well the convention is they take their hand they go on

00:18:18.940 the dance floor and then they really enjoy themselves that is not me that has never been me i go on the

00:18:25.000 dance floor and i am weirded out and it's not that i'm a bad dancer i just don't like doing that

00:18:31.420 prepare to interact socially reaction hologram on i am reacting appropriately to the thing you just

00:18:43.500 said small talk acknowledged who's an anti-social weirdo now not the girl who invented robot arms

00:18:51.160 to hug strangers oh my god i sound insane and if you're it's similar do you have further comments

00:18:56.600 on this well i guess just for me any sort of social event means i just have to work extra hard to mask

00:19:03.560 because me being around people is not natural in any sense so it's just exhausting and i don't get it

00:19:09.400 i don't understand yeah i always end up having to sleep a ton after i interact with people as well

00:19:13.580 it like really overcharges my processing yeah i think on a genetic level there are definitely people

00:19:21.000 who are introverts and extroverts with introvert and extrovert being defined as whether being around

00:19:25.880 people gives you mental energy or draws it away from you and i wonder if on a religious level

00:19:32.320 there are some people who like let's let's say your theory holds true and judaism is a religion

00:19:39.940 that really features a lot more socializing would then people who've genetically been jewish for hundreds

00:19:49.160 and hundreds of years on average be more extroverted you would expect so but i also am not sure because

00:19:55.200 there's so much monasticism no because there's another thing that's counterfactualing this okay

00:20:01.200 so we were talking with this guy very conservative you know he knows a lot of various like habad jewish

00:20:07.340 groups these are the ones who dress weird everything like that right from an you know average americans

00:20:11.140 perspective yeah from our perspective cool and he mentioned that he hadn't heard of cps being called

00:20:17.360 on any of them and i thought this was very weird keep in mind cps has been called on 34 percent of

00:20:22.140 american families and i know virtually no cultural group who's like a white american protestant who

00:20:28.500 hasn't had cps called on them and so i was thinking about what could cause this and then i began to

00:20:33.860 reflect on something else i've noticed about our jewish friends kids is that they are dramatically more 1.00

00:20:39.820 timid and less risk-taking than our kids our kids are very aggressive like for example when i had to

00:20:47.700 punish my kid because he stole some other kids game that is not the type of thing that any of our

00:20:53.340 jewish friends kids would do they wouldn't just go up to another kid take their toy from them and like

00:20:57.860 push them to the ground and start playing with it they wouldn't you know when we've been out playing in

00:21:02.620 dangerous places they don't get close enough to the creek to fall in they don't you know pick up the

00:21:08.540 extra big rock and accidentally drop it on their sister they don't you know just this risk-taking

00:21:13.920 behavior is much lower and i think that both of these might be downstream of the same thing

00:21:18.640 which is jews might be more socially gregarious but less risk-taking more broadly and i think this

00:21:25.420 might have to do with being overly the the jewish faction that survived now we argue in our book this

00:21:30.500 wasn't true of the older jewish factions but the jewish faction that's dominant today was a urban

00:21:35.580 center focused culture and really specialized in being in urban centers that's why they've been able to

00:21:41.260 keep their fertility rates up we argue because they were exposed to the urban monoculture long 1.00

00:21:45.140 before any other cultural group and they developed resistance to it but what it means is if you are a

00:21:50.300 kid growing up in urban centers for many generations and even today i think it's something like 98 percent

00:21:54.920 of jews live in an urban center you are going to be like evolutionarily rewarded for being less likely to 1.00

00:22:03.640 play on the street being less likely to accidentally push around another kid who might be in a gang

00:22:08.440 be much less likely to be more gregarious socially but in a very polite way right and i think that this

00:22:17.100 might also lead to the stereotype that is common of the sort of weasley jewish kid that you have in a lot

00:22:24.100 of media i'm gonna make you a deal what that kid over there is having a really hard time right now so

00:22:28.440 i'm going to offer you 40 to not rip on him 40 bucks cartman no jew jokes all you have to do is keep 0.52

00:22:33.800 your mouth shut and you've got 40 bucks can you do it could be tough but i'll give it a shot all right

00:22:39.920 it's a real dry cold that's the problem it's the cold air makes me wheeze kyle this is cartman he's 0.96

00:22:45.540 my sort of friend dish oh nice to meet you cartman you know i saw that same jacket you're wearing at

00:22:50.060 bosco's for 29.95 how much was yours i'm just wondering if bosco's is a rip-off oh man cartman oh

00:22:56.600 well i grew up in the city i really don't care for it i come from a jewish family which of course you

00:23:01.340 know because kyle's from the same family i like to read oh my god i'm not gonna make it i'm not

00:23:06.500 gonna make it i realize we're in the mountains but do we have to freeze today now kyle i need you to

00:23:10.540 be quiet in my class you need to be able to concentrate oh maybe we'll have to send him to 0.99

00:23:14.760 concentration camp ah damn it damn it damn it which is if you have this high gregarious high timidity 0.99

00:23:21.920 kinetic cluster being selected for because of multi-generation urban living you might come off as 0.99

00:23:28.540 uh obsequious or nerdy to other kids who are from more rough and tumble cultures 1.00

00:23:35.440 and i also note this in terms of jewish kids ability to like focus and study one of the things

00:23:41.900 i was noting is that our jewish friends kids when contrasted with our own kids at similar age ranges

00:23:47.240 are much better at like sitting down and studying for long periods of time which is you know what they

00:23:53.380 need to do if we sent our kids because we've even thought of doing this to like a local uh habad 0.75

00:23:58.920 center or something like that to be trained the way the jewish kids are they would just stand up and 1.00

00:24:04.180 run off like that you'd say sit in the chair and they'd be like why like are you gonna hit me they'd

00:24:09.400 be like no and they'd be like well then why would i sit in the chair i'm head off which is the way that

00:24:14.020 they react to this stuff and it's just a strong cultural difference and then here i'd note if you're

00:24:18.580 like okay so then what are what is the ancestor of cultures like ours like you're talking much more

00:24:25.700 like extended family networks where that is your social circle it is the people who are your cousins

00:24:34.760 or your your uh second cousins you typically don't really talk to anyone outside of this network

00:24:41.060 and when you do you generally distrust them and the reason that you're talking to them is generally

00:24:46.380 because you want to ensure your kids have access to potential wives or husbands or um you're looking

00:24:51.720 for a wife or husband so as a note here if you in one episode i did that was called something like

00:24:57.940 we used to like our parents i read from a book that my great great great grandfather wrote which i think

00:25:05.640 does a good job of showing how in this culture people related to families because throughout the entire

00:25:10.960 book i don't think he mentions a single human being by name who he's not related to yet he not

00:25:17.780 only copious times mentions family members and how family members helped him out like how his brothers

00:25:24.560 helped pay for him to go get his law degree who worked at the local mill so that somebody in the

00:25:30.200 family could be educated or how his uncle gave him a loan so that he could move his wife to texas

00:25:35.660 but it doesn't just mention family members and not mention anyone not in the family at the end of

00:25:40.240 the book there is a list of every living person he is related to just this really long list and what

00:25:48.300 they do slash have done and then at the end of the list he takes a great deal of pride and says and i

00:25:53.960 haven't noticed any degree in criminality in any of the collins bloodline and this was apparently

00:25:59.440 important to him that out of all of the family members and none of them had any degree of criminality

00:26:03.220 i thought that that was interesting but there is one note of a party in the book and it was like a

00:26:10.100 square dance type party that he went to to originally meet the woman who he ended up marrying so it's not

00:26:16.420 that you would never go to a party at all but you go to a party with an instrumental purpose which is

00:26:22.600 finding the type of person that you would end up marrying for a movie that depicts this cultural group

00:26:28.200 you can look to the original home alone in the original home alone everyone who the family knows

00:26:33.200 is part of their extended family network and it may seem like a plot hole that when they are on

00:26:38.700 vacation with their extended family network they don't have literally a single acquaintance who they

00:26:43.200 are not related to in their town that can go check on their house or in their kid but if you are from

00:26:48.460 this cultural group that seems fairly natural to you also you can see traits that are common in this

00:26:55.060 cultural group depicted in that movie for example the protagonist's extreme level of confidence and

00:27:02.440 cockiness when he goes and talks to somebody like the santa claus at the mall where he's like hey i know

00:27:08.960 how it works you're not santa claus you work for santa claus now let's talk this through or that he

00:27:15.140 immediately goes to a church when he is feeling unsure of himself or that his solution to literally any

00:27:23.660 problem appears to be murder and i actually hypothesize that this notion we see commonly in america today

00:27:31.560 that everyone is supposed to have lots of friends outside of their family and that is the culturally

00:27:38.320 normative way to be which the urban monoculture pushes really really strongly all this power of friendship

00:27:44.000 stuff and everything like that i actually think that that is culturally an anathema

00:27:49.360 to most american cultural groups throughout their history and them attempting to overly adapt

00:27:57.220 to this historic anathema causes them a lot of distress as to why they are attempting to adapt to this

00:28:05.320 and where this misconception has come from first for the urban monoculture to deconvert somebody

00:28:10.840 it needs to push them away from their support network which is going to be their family which means

00:28:15.260 this going to create or the iterations of it that create this narrative of friends good friends

00:28:20.740 matter more than family found family etc that's gonna do much better at spreading than the iteration

00:28:27.180 which is like no you really should you know honor your parents and stay with your family and everything

00:28:30.740 like that so that's one thing is the urban monoculture pushes it but then secondarily two groups which

00:28:36.540 seem to out-compete other groups in america are jews jews just get to higher positions faster and like

00:28:43.400 media and stuff like that so their culture is going to predominate media at a higher rate than it

00:28:48.280 otherwise would and a group that i'm going to call the high catholics now there are and i don't mean

00:28:54.420 this in terms of like like like high church catholics i mean this like the high elves i'm going to divide

00:29:01.420 the catholics into high catholics and and low catholics like the wood catholics or the christmas

00:29:06.240 what's the difference what's the differentiating line they are super super different and i actually

00:29:12.340 hadn't realized it till i was prepping for this video because i hadn't been able to point to this

00:29:16.860 before i would look at an individual like nick fuentes who is a high catholic and i'd be like why

00:29:22.160 are you complaining about immigrants coming into our country they're majority catholic you want to

00:29:27.140 create a worldwide catholic government like why would that be a problem for you when what you

00:29:32.760 want is a country that is all catholic ruled by catholics what i realized is no they're not catholic

00:29:39.020 i mean superficially like the high elves are like yeah i mean we're kind of the same thing as the

00:29:45.120 wood elves but like let's be honest we fucking hate the wood elves and look down on them and i 0.91

00:29:50.900 wouldn't let a wood elf live in a high elf city or certainly not one of santi's crusty elves live in a 1.00

00:29:56.680 high elf city like what are we even talking about here whereas the other elves the low elves i guess 1.00

00:30:02.840 i'll call them are the catholic group that we're much more friends with which are often hispanic

00:30:07.660 catholics or they represent other catholic girls history like the ones who formed the mafia or the 0.96

00:30:13.080 mob and these groups high catholics are very low on family like they are very pro and great at 0.97

00:30:20.500 networking outside the family very pro networking so community oriented yeah and very intellectualist

00:30:28.140 that makes that makes so much sense i never really thought about it that way but i did have this

00:30:33.480 sort of two evoke sets for catholics in my mind one being extended family very family reunion like

00:30:43.520 oriented very clan based and then the other being extremely community oriented constantly doing things

00:30:52.940 related to their church community or a broader network and those don't really work well together

00:30:58.840 yeah they're they're culturally incredibly maybe well i feel now though like a lot of our catholic

00:31:06.000 friends would be saying no we absolutely do both i'm super involved in my community and we also do

00:31:12.100 everything with our family so i don't know maybe they would no no no they when they say that they mean

00:31:17.620 that the same way a jew does by that what i mean is jews are both it's not like jews don't care about

00:31:23.740 their family or family gatherings that friends come to are still family gatherings yeah they still have

00:31:30.500 family gatherings but they're much closer to high catholics in that regard and like when i imagine a

00:31:36.620 modern high catholic in america meeting one of their maybe mob family or mafia family ancestors

00:31:43.580 it's sort of like a high elf meeting christmas elves

00:31:47.920 what what the fudge are you wearing oh these are my iron silk robes light as a feather but 0.94

00:31:56.560 strong you look ridiculous is what i'm saying he does he does you ever see an elf wear something 0.98

00:32:00.800 like this before that long cape that'll get stuck in a toy machine for sure your foreman lets you wear 0.99

00:32:04.960 that okay all the elves in kalendil wear iron silk dad if you can call them real elves

00:32:11.160 wow tell us all about kalendil the shining jewel of the east where a multitude of voices rise to sing

00:32:22.640 the secrets of the moon to the what do you do in the big city huh what do i do what do you do i forge

00:32:27.960 fallen stars into the blades of champions i whisper enchantments into the shields that guard

00:32:35.240 the realms of men you make money off of that jingle i'm curious i don't understand how do people pay for

00:32:44.720 that you know maybe i don't make a toy maker's salary dad but at least i'm not a slave to a fat

00:32:50.120 human you couldn't just be a normal elf whoa okay hold up hold up hold up what is a normal elf to you 0.91

00:32:59.760 i'm a normal elf that's super racist oh i guess everything's racist now high elves north pole elves 0.51

00:33:07.140 wood elves if we talk about how family focused some low catholic groups are like the and i should say 0.92

00:33:13.820 i mean low like i think high more highly of the low catholic than i think of the high catholics i'm not

00:33:19.620 saying low as a derisive term i'm saying it more that when i imagine high catholics they remind me of 1.00

00:33:26.280 high elves just very sparkly buildings like thinking they're they're very high and mighty

00:33:31.180 all that so the low catholic friends we have like i think of one who's an immigrant from latin america

00:33:35.640 and he jokes that his family calls him uh white simply because he talks to people who are non-family

00:33:42.400 he's like yeah mostly we just talk to family members of the family and it's actually considered

00:33:47.200 quite weird to have friends who are outside your family and that is somewhat weird was in my family

00:33:54.620 like most of the friendships you have outside the family are supposed to be for some form of utility

00:33:58.560 as people have even seen from like my bigger philosophical takes around this so before i go

00:34:04.100 further anything you want to add no now i want to talk about another weird thing that i was thinking

00:34:11.640 about which is that family oriented culture like clan oriented culture family oriented is the wrong way

00:34:18.680 to put it i'll put it like clan oriented culture the way it relates to family is much less hierarchical

00:34:25.760 in a way than the way that let's call it friendship oriented culture relates to family so what i mean by

00:34:32.060 this is in for example jewish families when the family is vetting a potential spouse which is common

00:34:40.960 in conservative jewish families the the parents do that that is done by the parents whereas in the 0.89

00:34:47.640 culture that i come from that is done primarily by the siblings what your siblings think of a potential

00:34:55.100 spouse matters a lot more or girlfriend or boyfriend matters a lot more than what your parents think of

00:35:01.680 it and that when we're raising our kid because i was thinking like oh what you know it's so weird

00:35:07.260 that in jewish culture like when we were talking with him there's this focus on do i approve of who

00:35:13.360 their marriage like do i approve of like earning their parents approval whereas um i was thinking

00:35:20.140 well i would never care about like approving who my kids are marrying in a big way like that's mostly

00:35:25.660 going to be their siblings and if you're not familiar with this trope think of if you're used to like

00:35:32.180 a story about an appalachian family where somebody was dating in it or like a rural american family

00:35:37.340 that somebody was dating in typically it's their brothers who are going to beat you up if you do

00:35:42.540 something wrong to the girl it is the i mean i'm not sure i agree because most of the tropes still

00:35:52.220 center around fathers vetting like the classic protestant father interviewing boyfriends before

00:35:59.860 they go on a date with a daughter i don't know i have seen that in some stereotypes but just in my

00:36:06.440 real life what i've seen more especially in families with lots of kids it is a sibling's job

00:36:11.580 and and there's actually a reason why it's the sibling's job it's not like a completely like i

00:36:16.320 was even explained to my parents this is why parents don't vet their children's wives or in my case wife 1.00

00:36:22.500 in our cultural group and they said because if we did and we disapproved of a wife but then you ended

00:36:29.140 up marrying her anyway we could end up being cut out of your life and our grandkids life so it's much

00:36:35.060 more important that your siblings take on that role than we take on that role it's our job to make

00:36:41.160 a new spouse feel welcomed this is avoided in jewish culture because when ultra conservative jews are 0.56

00:36:48.640 dating typically the dating prospect is vetted by the parents before they ever meet the person they're

00:36:53.900 going to date but this has the negative externality of leading you to go through like hours of vetting

00:36:59.980 from parents before you even get to meet the person and you're like oh i immediately didn't click with

00:37:04.820 this person i could have known that after three minutes and this is why you don't do that uh in

00:37:09.160 in jewish culture this optimization is actually fascinating to me because both cultures have

00:37:14.560 optimized around the same problem in radically different ways to to just reword how jewish culture 0.60

00:37:21.380 handles this in extremely conservative jewish culture you typically need to be approved by the

00:37:27.300 parents before you can date someone that way there is no risk of quote-unquote catching feelings

00:37:33.980 for someone who the parents wouldn't approve of whereas in appellation culture parents generally

00:37:40.220 are indifferent to or always welcoming of who you are dating unless they're like an absolute no no no

00:37:47.080 you shouldn't be with this person and the core job of protecting somebody from making bad decisions

00:37:53.880 around who they date or marry is left to the siblings and it's also the siblings job to enforce

00:37:59.880 that both of these fix the problem of somebody gets married to somebody who created a beef with one

00:38:06.200 of the families and ends up splitting the culture intergenerationally speaking but does it in

00:38:11.240 completely opposite ways almost so i thought that that was really interesting as well now here i wanted

00:38:18.760 to talk about other cultures so mormons are another culture that is very focused on friends like

00:38:26.600 community friends depending on the group of mormons who you're interacting with so some mormons are like

00:38:32.600 only the mormon church like if you're talking to somebody outside the mormon church you better be

00:38:36.200 trying to convert them because if you are not then you are contaminating yourself however they are very

00:38:41.960 gregarious within the church community itself and in addition to that they have what they call a

00:38:48.040 culture of inviting and this is partially to convert people as well where they do shared meals attend church

00:38:55.000 services that are not family segregated and read religious texts as groups yeah my experience

00:39:03.400 with people who are active in the lds church is that they would you would get a calling and your

00:39:10.760 calling would involve volunteering even like from the age of being a fairly young team you'd be playing

00:39:16.680 a piano or you'd be helping out at the daycare services you wouldn't be doing everything with your

00:39:20.040 family you'd actually be separated from your family by duty during normal church services to do your part

00:39:27.720 to help the community so i feel like that sort of actively by design is breaking people up and

00:39:34.120 encouraging people to make inter-community friends yeah absolutely and the the uh if you talk about muslims

00:39:41.800 as another cultural group despite some muslim cultures being very family focused because if you talk

00:39:48.680 about like rural muslim cultures a number of them are very family first focus islam as a religion is

00:39:55.320 very very friendship focus and out family focus so if you look at something like ramadan celebrations

00:40:04.120 you hope in open iftars fast-breaking dinners where they invite friends neighbors and community members

00:40:10.520 and i have been to these myself where like a local rich person will just have a group of people come in

00:40:17.320 like have a feast and then the next group comes in and they'll do this was like five groups in a row

00:40:22.520 like they are so gregarious focus but it's very much focused on the wealthy being gregarious to the

00:40:28.280 less wealthy that's a big part of muslim gregariousness where it's like they're establishing their local

00:40:34.440 status by doing this so it's not as similar as as as jewishness where it's very not like a status thing to be

00:40:42.120 inviting people it's very much like a i genuinely want to involve myself with the community there

00:40:47.880 really is this elevation of friendship as a value is in jewish culture and then you also have community

00:40:54.040 based stuff within some muslim celebrations like eight celebrations and stuff like that which can be

00:40:59.320 more i think like wider community based than many christian celebrations so with all of this being the

00:41:05.320 case uh i wanted to talk about like the positives uh and negatives of these two cultural situations

00:41:12.760 first is just that some are going to appeal much more to people with some like pre-level genetic

00:41:18.040 selection than others a culture like ours is just gonna heavily heavily heavily appeal more to

00:41:23.640 introverts than non-introverts oh for sure and and when i say introverts and people might be like malcolm

00:41:29.480 you're pretty gregarious like you talk to a lot of people yeah but i force myself to i would always

00:41:34.440 rather be at home with my wife we're hardline introverts there's no getting around it we can't

00:41:39.960 being around people is like shoving a fist into an ice bucket we can handle it yeah i can handle it

00:41:49.160 with each passing second we're like oh

00:41:55.080 even talking to people who aren't you like makes me actively angry if they're not saying something that

00:42:01.320 is of utility to me like when i'm talking to somebody i'm like what's going on in my head

00:42:05.480 is always okay what's your point like what's the piece of information i'm supposed to be taking with

00:42:09.320 this because i want to leave i want to be out of here that's when i'm not on performance mode sometimes

00:42:14.200 when i go to like nights out and stuff i basically go to performance mode or i'm like okay i'm basically

00:42:19.160 doing a performance to get these people to like me you're gone you're not even there yeah like you and

00:42:24.040 me are like totally masking at those like yeah you know i'm thinking about the way people typically

00:42:29.320 describe introvert versus extrovert and neither really fits simone or myself where they will say

00:42:35.960 that you are extroverted if you get sort of emotionally recharged by interacting with people

00:42:43.000 and you are introverted if you get emotionally recharged by being alone where i realize on multiple

00:42:48.680 occasions simone have had this conversation with me where it's like well we really get the most emotional

00:42:53.240 recharge in time that we spend together specifically simone and i or with the kids not anyone else

00:43:01.080 and it's had me realize that maybe there's a third category here which is like family verts

00:43:07.720 which is to say that you get emotionally recharged by spending time with family but not with friends

00:43:15.320 strangers acquaintances or anything else like that and i'd say that for simone and i we're probably a

00:43:20.680 a bit you need you need a bit of time with family a bit of time alone and without that we would feel

00:43:25.800 really drained but i could live my entire life not talking to another person again so i i think that

00:43:32.040 one just each of them but for like some people they may come from a culture and then see these jewish

00:43:39.720 celebrations where like everyone's drinking and singing and everything like that and they're like sign me up for

00:43:44.840 that yeah yeah sign me up for that that looks like a lot of fun or they see them all like laughing and

00:43:51.400 reading stuff to each other or engaging with each other and they're like oh that looks really fun like

00:43:55.480 it's really for some people absolutely just not yeah so i think there's that too i think it likely

00:44:00.840 helps them in terms of and we mentioned this in our episode on jewish iq and we argue that it's a myth

00:44:09.320 that jews have a significantly higher iq and i argue that actually the reason why they perform so 1.00

00:44:14.920 much better is just they're much more likely to cold email people or cold reach out to new people

00:44:19.400 and i think that that is downstream of this this cultural appreciation of making friends with people

00:44:27.880 in a wider network and i'd even put this to you simone we have fans reach out to us all the time

00:44:34.120 well over 50 of the fans that reach out to us are jews i'd say probably like 60 to 70 percent of the

00:44:42.200 fans that reach out to us are jews which is definitely not representative of our audience

00:44:47.000 so people who reach out to you disproportionately they are catholic and jewish yeah they're not jewish

00:44:54.360 they're catholic almost entirely and i think that this is also like the the catholic group has outperformed

00:44:59.800 other groups as we mentioned in the united states especially high catholics like you look at the supreme

00:45:03.960 court and stuff like that just hugely overrepresented and i think that this might be that these two

00:45:09.160 groups are just much more likely to decide to cold email an influencer who they like which i think in

00:45:15.960 our previous world system provided you was a lot of power i don't know if it's going to continue to be

00:45:22.440 as high utility with the rise of sort of disintermediated social networks that we have online

00:45:28.680 but it might i think it hugely basically made it easier for jewish and catholic high catholics to

00:45:35.080 compete in an environment in which the media that you consumed was mediated by social networks like

00:45:42.920 who could get their own news show who could become a talking head on a platform who could you know i

00:45:48.840 think that in that world these two communities were given a huge handicap in terms of competing i don't know

00:45:56.120 if it's going to continue to matter as much a core challenge of being this gregarious to outsiders

00:46:01.880 is that it's pretty unlikely to convert new people i haven't heard of that many people who've converted

00:46:08.200 to catholicism because of this even though high catholics do invite people to stuff a lot however

00:46:14.440 it is very likely to infect your community with external ideas and the catholic church especially the

00:46:21.960 high catholic church has been really infected by the urban monoculture as to why jewish communities

00:46:27.240 have been more resistant to this well what i'd say is the ones who had any degree of susceptibility

00:46:31.320 basically washed out i mean what are reformed jews if not a highly infected by the urban monoculture 0.96

00:46:37.320 iteration of judaism which has significantly sort of dropped any rule or cultural custom they had

00:46:44.760 which conflicted with the desires of the urban monoculture and uh people may see that as offensive but

00:46:50.280 it's like objectively true that's like broadly what it means to be a reformed jew these days is that

00:46:55.400 you're jewish except where judaism conflicts with the mainstream cultural value system of the far left

00:47:02.040 um which is the urban monoculture value system so i ideas here simone yeah thanks right when there's

00:47:08.600 a baby praying um i i struggled to see where there's really this difference across i i think that

00:47:16.440 there are plenty of we'll say low catholic families who engage with their community and network

00:47:23.080 and even like within that mafia stereotype there is a ton of examples of the mafia bosses being super

00:47:30.120 involved with the community engaging with others etc to build the network that they need to have a

00:47:34.120 successful family business so i just i don't think that it's very very different so when these sorts of

00:47:41.240 clan cultures are engaging with outsiders like in these mafia families and stuff like that it's

00:47:46.600 generally somewhat similar to the muslim situation i was describing where you are giving to your

00:47:52.600 community to sort of show your status and your family status where but you're not engaging them as

00:47:58.440 human beings you are inviting them to events you are giving them food you are giving them the opportunity

00:48:05.240 to maybe go to a party or something like that but they are not the same as family members and they will 0.62

00:48:12.920 never be trusted like a family member and that a lot of this is is downstream of and i think to an extent

00:48:21.080 you simone grew up in one of these cultures that was broken because you were raised in a family that was 0.55

00:48:27.560 of one of these cultures as a single child which means that you just didn't see this as much you

00:48:33.800 wouldn't have seen the strong family connections i still had cousins i still had

00:48:40.120 played with all the time and they were like some of your best friends growing up when we were talking

00:48:44.040 about this this morning that's not normal for a lot of people also your family was heavily

00:48:50.600 fallen to the urban monoculture by the time they met you yeah i mean they were already into like

00:48:55.640 polyamory and you know i was making an animal i didn't even have a word at the time it was more like

00:49:02.840 i guess but it was referred to at the time your mom was training to become a shaman

00:49:09.000 when i met her yes the degree to which they had fallen from their cultural roots almost cannot be

00:49:14.520 overstated there was a great amount of truth yes and so it might be that you just grew up without any

00:49:21.080 even an echo or whisper of what your culture used to be and so all you have is the genetic imprint of

00:49:27.640 that actually i was talking to her about it this morning again and i was like you know it's remarkable

00:49:31.880 to me that your family even put on christmases for you and she goes oh well they didn't do that

00:49:37.240 voluntarily i made them do christmas every year and i was like oh okay so they were really trying

00:49:43.000 to systemically erase any connection she had to any sort of ancestral culture which is really

00:49:50.520 interesting to me whereas for me yeah there's a lot of things that we've taken on as new traditions

00:49:55.480 that feels so much more natural to me than how i grew up and i think a lot of people who get god

00:50:02.120 or otherwise take on new traditions like the trad cats who are first generation catholics i think

00:50:07.000 are feeling something really similar like the way they grew up didn't feel right to them and now

00:50:11.560 suddenly it does but yeah this up because and he's crying and i need to beat her before we move on 0.80

00:50:18.760 okay well i think the final thing i note here because i've also been thinking about this

00:50:22.200 is in terms of religious ceremonies i have been to the group where i have gone to the most is

00:50:29.320 actually muslim which might surprise people and the reason is is because they both invite you a lot

00:50:37.480 and they're not community focused and they're generally giving you something like a really nice meal

00:50:43.320 or access to someone in a position of power with the jewish ones uh you might get a meal but you know you're 0.81

00:50:49.320 going to have to talk to somebody and i'm not as interested in that and then with it's interesting

00:50:53.960 with the next one i've gone to most is jewish ones and then like if i think about non-protestant

00:51:00.040 christian ones very few but if you can be like what do you mean like you don't want to go to a high

00:51:05.080 demand religious thing well think about your mormon friends when they invite you to a religious thing

00:51:09.400 do you go to that are you like oh my god this is going to be like so high demand no yes i go because

00:51:15.160 they're wholesome and amazing and typically they're related to christmas because that's when people can get me

00:51:19.000 to go to anything all right love you to death simone have a spectacular day i love you too

00:51:25.640 and i love indy too and she's so sad

00:51:32.680 just fyi i think all she really needs is she basically didn't drink when she was supposed to 1.00

00:51:38.040 side note on my part i love that video you sent really good on you know watchers and view hours

00:51:43.240 matter so much more than subscribers don't count i guess but they do count in terms of getting good

00:51:48.600 guests on and they do count in terms of the the watchers perception and i mean i've always told

00:51:54.520 you from the beginning i'm after watch hours and not that's why i'm concerned totally true yeah you

00:51:59.400 saw how feckless and meaningless subscribers not to say anyone subscribing doesn't count and i subscribe

00:52:05.880 to a lot of channels and watch them really subscribe i really want to hit the 30 000 number by christmas

00:52:10.280 or new year's at least but watch hours are really yeah what youtube uses to determine whether or not

00:52:17.080 a channel is worthy of getting a bump in the algorithm so helpful recondextualization for me

00:52:25.960 and we can uh have a longer strategic discussion about how we might utilize that and i'm still curious as

00:52:31.560 to what the drone mystery is it has not been resolved yet the drones that are flying over our

00:52:37.480 area yeah i know with your brother saying that there wasn't any because i can't believe we don't have

00:52:42.600 a geiger counter and he does i love my brother like walking around with like a radiation meter he's

00:52:46.760 like i'm checking but i'm not you know he's a very paranoid person well no he's just prepared and

00:52:53.560 we should get one all right he's a geiger counter i'm sure some of our audience owns geiger counters

00:52:59.240 and they're like you guys are the worst preppers ever how do you not own a geiger counter well i

00:53:04.040 mean it's it's actually useful i mean for example here's this instance in which across our geographic

00:53:10.440 area you get to choose what you spend your time and money on and for example you right now have been

00:53:16.520 on a kick of build it yourself giant faraday boxes well no the only reason i'm going to build

00:53:21.880 them myself is they're too expensive to buy and what's the point of having solar power generators for

00:53:27.560 solar flares if they burn out when this so and so now you you you were like oh well we may not have

00:53:35.960 power for weeks because of the solar flare but thank goodness we invested in the solar powered

00:53:40.520 generators throughout the house and then we discover they've been fried just like everything else that's

00:53:45.960 why they have to be in faraday cages but faraday cages are too expensive but surprise surprise heavy

00:53:50.040 duty aluminum foil and foil taper enough to make if you wanted to make a fortune what you could do

00:53:55.800 is buy just like a huge amount of chromebooks put them in giant faraday boxes and then wait till a

00:54:03.640 solar flare happens and put them up on a site like ebay or something because people would be like manic to

00:54:09.800 get those well i was just watching the recent danny gonzalez video on amazon returns and one by the person

00:54:17.480 he kind of co did that video with as well maybe there's some way we can get a huge returns box of

00:54:24.280 chromebooks you know basically unused electronics maybe that don't resell at really high prices and

00:54:31.000 do that because also i'm starting to think because you know the the earth is closer to the sun during

00:54:37.080 the winter so i imagine our solar flare risk is actually seasonal like it's higher now because we

00:54:43.880 are closer physically to the sun at this time of year so it's it's i really need to not put off making

00:54:52.200 these faraday boxes you don't understand malcolm this is really important but also i think your brother

00:54:56.520 was smart to have a radiation meter because there could have been a dirty bomb and that could be

00:55:01.880 the reason why there are all these drones flying i wouldn't be surprised if his entire house is done

00:55:05.400 like a faraday cage like the liver king's his wait the liver king's house is like a faraday cage yeah

00:55:10.920 he'd be built his house into like a faraday cage to like keep out so cool well you don't know if it's

00:55:16.120 true but like i know but if i built a house if i had the money to build a custom house why not just

00:55:23.880 make sure that except how do you do the windows right all the walls can have foil in them you don't

00:55:29.480 need windows yeah okay we'll get started all right actually you know what there was a zillow gone wild

00:55:36.680 image of one one room no actually the entire house the entire house actually was metal on the inside

00:55:42.680 do you remember seeing that one that one probably would functionally be a faraday cage i don't think

00:55:47.400 it was advertised as such but oh all right tell me what that is what is that um here's my paper

00:55:55.000 airplane sign and participate with papers and right there there's a lot of paper airplanes i could

00:56:01.880 sell okay so you're gonna go outside and you're gonna show people your paper airplane sign yes well

00:56:07.720 i'm gonna do that in two days because it's cold out there that makes sense and um when people see

00:56:15.400 your paper airplanes and your paper airplane sign they're gonna give you money um yes i'm making money

00:56:22.840 and what are you going to do with the money you want a remote control ball yeah it's a silly thing to

00:56:41.960 go on oh why do you like a remote control ball horse tag it's because i like it i love you octavian

00:56:53.000 this is my paper airplane sign so everybody knows i'm my mom hey octavian i really like how much agency

00:57:00.040 you're showing here you wanted something we said you needed money to do it so you came up with a plan to

00:57:04.360 make money what are you doing jumping on me

00:57:16.120 what are you doing

00:57:19.000 i hate the thought of party lights

00:57:32.040 clouds and dancing give me fright

00:57:34.520 all i need is you tonight no friends allowed no social fights

00:57:47.160 brush by strangers on the floor

00:57:52.360 chatter that we both abhor

00:57:57.240 close the door let's ask for more

00:57:59.800 In your arms, my spirit soars

00:58:03.960 No need for friends, just me and you

00:58:10.080 Silent nights are love so true

00:58:14.960 Holding tight and breaking through

00:58:20.000 Together always old and new

00:58:25.040 No more tipsy late night calls

00:58:30.440 Running through the gossip halls

00:58:35.500 Stay with me within these walls

00:58:40.580 Love we have, it never stalls

00:58:47.600 Terrified of faceless crowds

00:58:49.820 Conversations way too loud

00:58:52.320 Hold my heart and not the crowd

00:58:54.780 With your love, I'm feeling proud

00:58:57.400 No need for friends, just me and you

00:59:01.900 Silent nights are love so true

00:59:06.720 Holding tight and breaking through

00:59:11.780 Together always old and new

00:59:16.780 No more tipsy late night calls

00:59:32.280 Running through the gossip halls

00:59:37.360 Stay with me within these walls

00:59:42.460 Love we have, it never stalls

00:59:45.580 Love we have, it never stalls

00:59:46.240 No need for friends, just me and you

00:59:52.400 Silent nights are love so true

00:59:57.220 Holding tight and breaking through

01:00:01.580 By the time

01:00:04.780 Come along, yeah

01:00:06.640 Together always old and new

01:00:06.960 Together always old and new

01:00:08.200 Any more tipsy late night calls

01:00:08.980 Want to see yourandenx

Based Camp - December 18, 2024

Why Do Jews Have Friends？ The Religious Anthropology of Friendship & Family

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