Blood Satellite - February 16, 2024


#250 - Ziobibb Doggubied Nnnnngobberbib [“thank me more Medieval cycles in Binary”]


Episode Stats


Length

3 hours and 50 minutes

Words per minute

179.17

Word count

41,368

Sentence count

580

Harmful content

Misogyny

53

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Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
00:00:00.000 as far back as i can remember i always wanted to be
00:00:07.720 blood satellite we're starting this a bit late also because i was having to plunge a toilet
00:00:23.920 because I cannot prove this whatsoever,
00:00:27.320 but I just have a gut feeling.
00:00:29.660 I'm not taking monster dumps.
00:00:31.460 I'm not taking historically unprecedented turd circuses up there.
00:00:39.300 You don't need to pay attention to a situation.
00:00:41.880 I don't know nothing about what's going on up there.
00:00:44.540 Yet, this toilet's plunging all the time,
00:00:46.400 and I got no evidence of this,
00:00:48.020 but I'm convinced that the in-laws,
00:00:50.980 when they come over,
00:00:51.940 they're flushing the disposable
00:00:54.380 wipes that we also keep up there
00:00:56.260 which you're not supposed to do
00:00:58.640 and I know what she's going to say
00:01:00.220 she's going to say oh but it says on the package that you can't
00:01:02.540 but you can't only a fucking
00:01:04.380 dunce would think that
00:01:05.620 and I don't know how to bring this up but
00:01:08.100 as I was saying this to you before
00:01:10.480 I got
00:01:12.440 a vibe that you don't
00:01:14.480 believe in this at all
00:01:15.660 you don't believe in adults using
00:01:18.300 this at all and I want you to take the stage
00:01:20.660 no no i was just saying like you would wipe your ears because you said oh yeah you wipe your ass
00:01:25.400 with the you wipe your ass with the toilet paper just to finish it off though grab one of those
00:01:29.300 baby wipes because it's nice yeah you don't do that you don't do the whole job you don't do the
00:01:32.140 whole job with it and throw in the trash this is the thing you're coping right not you but i mean
00:01:36.680 whoever's making this argument is coping a little bit like it's just it's just a little treat no
00:01:41.200 no no this didn't exist even 10 years ago fuck off it's like if i were to say to you no i do
00:01:47.900 wipe my ass with toilet paper but you know just to finish it off i usually use my sock just because
00:01:52.920 it's cotton and it feels nice on my i reject that i reject and then i put the sock in the toilet
00:01:57.000 because i don't want to smell it i'm not going to put the sock in the laundry jesus i flush the
00:02:00.960 sock you are building a sick machine with parts that are totally uncalled for here that argument
00:02:09.440 is blasted to tits that doesn't make any sense i'm just gonna use a sock i'll just use a car i'll
00:02:14.800 just use a fucking washing machine no like it's it's made for that it's you it's like okay first
00:02:20.320 of all like you're going out to a nice dinner and you're really into it you're using your hands
00:02:24.960 you're licking the plate you got a bib and everything but then you wipe your hands with
00:02:28.900 napkins you wipe your hands you know with on the bib but then yeah you're at swiss chalet they bring
00:02:35.580 over a nice little bowl of lemon water and you just finish off there's not a lot of stuff going
00:02:41.200 in that bowl no so here's here's what you could you could i bet you could drink that water after
00:02:46.060 it's just it's just at the end first what you do is you drink the lemon water that's what it's for
00:02:50.960 then you wipe your dirty fucking hands on the silk napkin and then you say excuse me i have to
00:02:57.880 powder my nose and you put the silk napkin in the toilet and you flush it that's that's what you've
00:03:04.260 been fucking doing i'm trying to look this up i'm i don't think you drink the water i've heard this
00:03:08.580 before it doesn't make sense to me no you don't i don't think you drink the water i think it's
00:03:13.020 for your fingers but here's the thing i some people have said that i think it's irony poisoning
00:03:18.100 because it's with my uncles and cousins every time we're just like yeah you're gonna you're
00:03:21.460 gonna drink that but it's like at a certain point as a kid everybody says it it's like wait are you
00:03:26.160 supposed supposed to drink it i'm trying to figure out how much like as a dad how much are you
00:03:33.260 intending to fuck with your kids with dad logic and dad tall tales you know what i mean like like
00:03:41.300 that like you would say to your kid like oh you're gonna drink that it and they might actually do
00:03:45.200 you're just kind of fucking with them right yeah i i want to do that i'm looking forward to telling
00:03:50.480 nickels all kinds of lies i'm gonna make up wars santa claus is only the beginning i'm gonna tell
00:03:56.520 him all kinds of shit and not not to make myself look better or more impressive i'm just gonna make
00:04:01.660 up a type of wood that comes from a forest that I just did like just shit you know but is that
00:04:09.000 bad that's the only that's the main thing I was looking forward to by being a dad that and dad
00:04:13.140 jokes no that's literally the reason to be a father that's it that's the that's the most of
00:04:18.160 it so it's fine like the day he says dad I'm hungry it's over he's gonna get a high hungry
00:04:29.280 i'm dad exactly oh man i do that all day long i got my little one i do that to her so much that
00:04:36.840 she's got her own response to it now what is it she says oh what did she say she goes you know
00:04:43.840 she says dad dad i'm hungry and i'm like hi hungry i'm dad and she's like i'm not hungry
00:04:53.640 i'm and then she says her name but she gets oh man she gets so pissed and then she gets going
00:04:58.500 that's good you are senile i'm not senile i'm dad geez it's never going to get old i'm never
00:05:09.100 going to stop doing that i don't know how that ends like you never hear that part of the story
00:05:12.840 where like do dad jokes just continue until you die and they're like in their 50s i don't know
00:05:19.940 how old they are but like with any joke it wears out when you stop getting a reaction my eldest is
00:05:24.800 starting to wear off on some of them where i've said it to her enough that when i say it to her
00:05:28.940 she just gives me a blank expression and carries on with the conversation so i have to there's
00:05:33.600 almost no point with those that's a top tier girl response too you're getting like the girls where
00:05:39.520 she's ghosting you visually that hurts yeah she's like uh-huh yeah the the apex of the teenage girl
00:05:49.380 is thinking her parents are full of shit
00:05:51.260 but even a teenage boy
00:05:52.400 his mind starts spiraling out to how
00:05:55.280 the system is broken
00:05:56.460 and how society has fallen
00:05:59.420 and stuff you know what I mean
00:06:00.680 like even teenage boys in the fucking
00:06:03.260 suburbs like they're thinking past
00:06:05.420 their parents and like
00:06:06.280 something's wrong with this historical period
00:06:09.500 yeah every teenage boy
00:06:11.380 is now chud jack
00:06:13.100 is now autistic
00:06:14.280 I had that reminds me of something
00:06:17.560 i don't know what caused this but i was upstairs in my house and um i was playing with nickels
00:06:24.680 and i heard through the window out the front of the house i heard what sounded like a car
00:06:29.740 slowing to a stop you know that sound right and just i was possessed by the image the very visual
00:06:36.920 scenario in my mind and also the fear that there was two cop cars out front and that there's gonna
00:06:43.160 be a knock on the door and the cops are gonna be there with a warrant to like take my computer or
00:06:46.920 like take me away or something and i just had this chill obviously that didn't happen but then
00:06:53.400 i started thinking like well what are they gonna get like a bunch of fucking blood salad shit like
00:06:57.320 i don't have any like deep dark stuff my computer i just have like old episodes and just start
00:07:02.680 laughing but then i i did think that we were talking about this in the chat about how i don't
00:07:08.320 know like i kind of noticed this on telegram but i just put it in the back of my mind but
00:07:14.600 on every chat that you can see you can download chat history like that's a feature that's available
00:07:21.120 to any user it seems yeah um so you can set your chat whatever your chat room is to automatically
00:07:28.120 delete stuff but if someone just came in and sneakily did it that seems like a very odd feature
00:07:34.340 for a platform like telegram to make accessible to anyone because if you're a journalist if you're
00:07:39.240 if you're you know antifa if you're whoever you can just immediately with great ease download an
00:07:44.200 entire chat just pop in and pop out you don't even really need to join it i don't think but
00:07:48.740 again like telegram like that's and you can't turn it off that's what i noticed i don't think
00:07:52.900 as an administrator you can turn that feature off and i'm like that's that must be on purpose
00:07:58.780 then we started thinking like well it's it's like this and then it's it's discord it's everything
00:08:05.280 you're and even me with like twitter like i'm i bought telegram premium so i can upload longer
00:08:10.820 videos i'm paying for twitter x so i can upload longer blood sally videos so i'm paying for
00:08:17.560 these platforms to be used against me in court down the road yeah yeah and then i'm thinking but
00:08:24.220 that's i'd like to turn a problem into an opportunity and to me like just i'm kind of
00:08:32.500 looking forward to the opportunity to represent myself in court and answer for all this i don't
00:08:39.220 know about you i don't know about all the listeners but i stand by everything i've said
00:08:43.360 and just be i i want the opportunity to be up there because to me i always thought that like
00:08:50.280 if they they hold up the transcripts like did you say this i could always say yeah i didn't mean if
00:08:55.480 i was lying yeah and then they would say oh so oh they think they got one on me i think they got
00:09:01.760 one on me dimes and they say oh so um you're you'll say under oath that the holocaust happened
00:09:10.980 i'll be like yeah just like they said i i affirm and believe in the holocaust i believe that 12
00:09:16.480 million jews died during the holocaust and they'll say no 12 million jews didn't die i'm like well
00:09:21.160 that's i mean that was the original official number i'm not debate i i did great research
00:09:27.500 are you saying you disagree with the official numbers that's a little bit of courtroom jujitsu
00:09:32.580 you get from me for free you do a little like sarcastic mike enoch bit during your own arraignment
00:09:38.500 yeah it's just the ending of jfk the movie yeah yana it's me gesticulating to the fucking easel
00:09:50.220 it's just me trying to convince all the entire jury that unless they agree with me they're soy
00:09:55.700 jacks exhibit 42a the jack is complacent he is arrogant 42b he has begun to change 42c
00:10:07.900 he's in meltdown 42b change 42c he is screaming he is crying 42b the change 42c
00:10:16.080 the jack has become soy
00:10:18.240 that will be you
00:10:22.500 that's literally you if you convicted me
00:10:28.840 just whipping his pointer at this huge like bristol board of a soy jacket but someday
00:10:38.920 somewhere someone may find out the damn truth we better we better we might just as well build
00:10:46.420 ourselves another government like the declaration of independence says to when the old one ain't
00:10:51.900 work and just just a little father out west do not forget your fallen king what a weird movie
00:11:01.080 that was that's not i don't know if you ever saw that one that was oliver stone's jfk no i haven't
00:11:05.780 seen that you can't i mean it's it's a good enough movie it basically it's a famous director
00:11:14.100 saying that there was a conspiracy to kill jfk i don't think the movie ends explaining what it was
00:11:20.660 other than there must have been a second shooter.
00:11:23.240 Right.
00:11:24.860 Yeah, I watched that not long ago,
00:11:26.680 so it's still fresh in my mind.
00:11:27.980 I watched a couple of really fucking strange movies recently.
00:11:32.480 This is just a...
00:11:33.240 We're in a quick movie corner right now.
00:11:35.440 Yeah, we're in movie curve.
00:11:37.640 We're a movie turnpike here.
00:11:40.060 It's movie corner!
00:11:41.280 No!
00:11:45.440 Shut up! Shut up! 1.00
00:11:47.200 Shut up! Shut up! 1.00
00:11:48.140 Shut up! Shut up! 1.00
00:11:50.660 i don't know how long this will go on but there is one movie that i saw recently and i don't i
00:11:55.800 don't know if i can say much because you haven't seen it i don't know how you talk about this
00:11:59.060 movie unless you've both seen it but it was the movie the holy mountain i haven't even heard of
00:12:03.940 that what is that no no i'm gonna look it up and then pretend that i've heard of it yeah yeah well
00:12:08.300 it's uh the holy mountain it's 1970 what's that 73 it's by aliandro jordovsky jordovsky
00:12:18.840 anyway he's i don't know if you ever heard that movie there's this documentary called
00:12:22.280 jordan roski's dune because this was a guy that was kind of getting tapped on the shoulder to do
00:12:27.400 oh yeah i remember that so they made a whole documentary about the trippy fucked up doing
00:12:32.980 movie that he could have done based off of some production sketches done by i think it was hr
00:12:39.020 geiger the guy who did all the alien stuff so there there exists out there's some really
00:12:44.280 crazy images but uh this director when he's describing the dune movie he would have made
00:12:50.700 it was just like this insane fever dream that would not have been enjoyable to watch at all
00:12:57.400 yeah it would it would have like started with like baron harkonnen would be there but like
00:13:02.360 by minute 20 it would have just you know he's doing he's overdosing on spice and you're just
00:13:08.500 watching random shit happen which is kind of what happens in the holy mountain you know i was going
00:13:14.660 to say just quickly my summary was the holy mountain is the movie that i think people think
00:13:19.520 zardoz is you know you cannot escape death but immortality can be obtained we must unite our
00:13:28.940 forces to assault the holy mountain and rob its wise men of their secret of immortality
00:13:38.500 so we talked about zardoz which is kind of the same time it's it's it's good it's
00:13:46.900 visually it's very striking there's scenes in this that i still think of and i only saw it
00:13:54.060 recently but it's very like viscerally engaging um but it's really fucked up and really you know
00:14:02.560 it's like it's like um if anyone's ever read naked lunch by william s burroughs this is a lot like
00:14:09.240 a strange chilean like 1970s version of of naked lunch where it's loaded with spirituality it's
00:14:19.100 loaded with christian imagery it's loaded with pagan and occult imagery less like weird cyberpunk
00:14:25.560 stuff but it's extremely sexual it's extreme almost in like a a parody sense but it's like
00:14:31.900 you know the first scene the first segment of the movie is actually really interesting and i was
00:14:37.360 really there with it but then it kind of lost me part way through but it's like there's this
00:14:40.960 there's this guy who looks like jesus christ he's not though but he looks like him he's like
00:14:46.480 laying down on the ground with his face covered in flies and he's like near death and then
00:14:54.360 this dwarf this like amputated dwarf it's like a little dwarf of some portuguese extraction with
00:15:02.500 like no arms like or like one stumpy arm and no legs he ambles over and then chases the flies off
00:15:09.940 this man's face and then just a horde of like naked giggling children full frontal you're just
00:15:19.360 seen naked kids on screen run up to the naked man and carry him away and then make a mock
00:15:26.560 crucifixion of him and then start throwing stones at him then he gets he wakes up and gets down and
00:15:32.160 chases them away then he like pairs up with the dwarf and they go to a city and then they start
00:15:40.680 like entertaining people and then it becomes and then he they stumble across this like busy town
00:15:46.060 square it's a bustling marketplace and there's this whole miniature city built up and there's
00:15:53.000 like tiny city like buildings and stuff and on the city there's toads and there's toads like
00:16:00.380 i don't know how it's costumed in aztec garb and then they're making a mock invasion so they're on
00:16:08.960 like pyramids and stuff and then here come the conquistador toads and then you're just watching
00:16:14.020 this thing happen these conquistador toads come up and now there's a toad war and it's filmed
00:16:19.560 very well the directing in this is good it doesn't look low budget or like a b movie or cheap and
00:16:25.440 you're watching like toads and then like they start the conquistador spanish conquistador ones
00:16:30.640 kill all the aztec ones and then one goes to the pyramid and it's just a fountain of blood comes out
00:16:35.680 and you're like 15 minutes and like what the fuck am i watching and then like the fake jesus is
00:16:41.200 watching it and then he's walking down the street and comes across some like morbidly obese roman
00:16:49.160 centurions who are offering him a drink like come here come have a drink with us and they
00:16:54.160 the drink is drugged or something he falls unconscious and then they immediately like
00:16:59.820 strip him naked once again naked everyone's naked in this movie um and then they put him in like a
00:17:06.720 plaster cast and start making like paper mache or plaster replicas of him and so like this jesus
00:17:13.480 guy and this is such a weird scene he wakes up finally in a warehouse and he's surrounded by like
00:17:19.140 a thousand replicas of him he's just screaming and i'm watching it's like okay i think i get
00:17:25.060 what's going on like at this point you're like okay like i see the commentary because they're
00:17:31.120 trying to like commoditize jesus and he starts smashing them and like okay there's some there's
00:17:37.300 something going on here it's not that esoteric that you can't understand it but then like he
00:17:43.140 takes one of them and he's walking around with it almost like jesus walking on the cross like
00:17:48.140 walking with the cross and then at some point he like gouges out its face and eats it and then
00:17:54.220 attaches a bunch of balloons to its feet and it floats up into the sky and the whole city is just
00:18:00.460 watching it go and i'm like i don't know what this is anymore i don't know what this is and then
00:18:07.540 it then it just gets more sexual and more like delirious and more but i'm watching him and then
00:18:13.940 he like climbs this giant red tower and meets this sort of like sage this witch doctor man who's like
00:18:21.340 anyway i won't give describe the whole movie but like i'm watching that i'm like okay this is
00:18:26.420 i get this is something that i think when people imagine what zardoz was it was something like
00:18:30.560 this like something very surreal yeah very fucked up if you look at images like go look at it online
00:18:35.940 um you can find stills from it it's it's really cool looking um there's like you can kind of see
00:18:42.980 maybe i can send it to you here but anyway there's like the weird fucking like a witch guy in like a
00:18:48.900 rainbow room i don't like i'm like i there's something going on here but at the very end i've
00:18:54.100 pulled pictures up here and it's pretty uh it's pretty uh wacky it is but at the very end it
00:18:59.940 breaks the fourth wall and like the he the which guy like show there's a he's addressing the
00:19:06.740 audience the camera pans back and shows the other cameras like i hate that shit i hate any fourth
00:19:11.040 wall breaking i hate any time the character's talking to the audience it's it's no good
00:19:17.140 anyway i've just described to you like i i think if i can't recommend it even though i kind of
00:19:23.960 want to because i know if i recommend it to the wrong people they're gonna start sending me very
00:19:29.520 angry dms i'm gonna have a target i'm a contract out of my fucking head if the wrong person takes
00:19:35.440 this recommendation seriously so don't watch this in fact yeah don't think that we're telling you
00:19:40.880 to watch it we're not but if you do watch it remember that we that we talked about it right
00:19:46.100 remember it was us that made you think about watching it just so we're clear i want at least
00:19:51.840 If there is a way to only make money on the stock market when things are up and not make money when it is down, that's what I would like.
00:19:57.920 Yeah, it's that, yeah.
00:20:01.160 That would be a way to install communism, I think.
00:20:04.180 It's a new type of stock market where you only get money when things are going good.
00:20:08.660 Everyone would be on board with that.
00:20:10.520 Yeah.
00:20:11.260 That is actually a lot of the stock market, actually, but anyway.
00:20:16.400 Oh, yeah, so no one loses money on the stock market, Judas?
00:20:19.400 No, no, no.
00:20:19.840 i mean like the fuckers at the at the top who are involved in insider trading and like like
00:20:24.300 the pharma companies it does or the the big banks because think about how much insider trading must
00:20:29.720 go on and how little of it is actually caught yeah i mean it's one of those things where you
00:20:35.020 would you essentially only get caught because a lot of people complain about you or you have some
00:20:39.220 big enemies it should be so so easy to actually do that but to be an insider trader you have to
00:20:44.760 be in that you know rarefied air to begin with so i would assume that anyone who makes real money
00:20:52.260 the stock market is insider trading in some sense i think i don't think i don't know like warren
00:20:57.540 buffett like it would almost be easier just to have a secret phone where people just kind of
00:21:03.760 tell you yeah like warren buffett's funny because his most of his fortune is just the fact that he's
00:21:08.060 ancient and he's been an investor since he was like 19 like he he's he's one of the honestly
00:21:13.960 he's one of the more tame investors but a lot of these i would say look at look at congress look at
00:21:19.440 the number of people in congress that like on their whatever it is 150k salary are worth like
00:21:24.520 hundreds of millions and of course they're the ones that are setting regulations and they know
00:21:30.100 whether the regulations will pass or fail and they know how it will affect the market and lo and
00:21:34.420 behold their spouse the day before goes and buys fifty thousand dollars of stock and then it goes
00:21:40.260 to the moon so like that that's literally every single member of congress is doing that that was
00:21:45.600 nancy pelosi not long ago i believe she's the biggest example of it but i mean she's just the
00:21:50.320 one that's under a microscope you know they're all fucking doing it because i mean you why wouldn't
00:21:54.180 you nobody's there's no repercussions apparently and also because the average person doesn't care
00:22:00.040 everyone knows at the very least nancy pelosi does it like i don't think people are really
00:22:04.660 calling for even her resignation for that they hate her for other reasons but it's like right
00:22:09.540 I think everyone is so cynical on both sides.
00:22:13.660 This is a bipartisan cynical belief.
00:22:15.520 I think everyone assumes politicians do that.
00:22:19.720 Fineprintdata.com found that the Pelosi index beat the market by 5% in 2019 and by 14% in 2020.
00:22:27.340 As they say, based on the stocks purchased and disclosed from 2019 through Q4 in 2021,
00:22:32.880 her portfolio grew 96% over that time, gaining $62 million in value.
00:22:37.920 and that's not even including the $2.8 million made from options trading.
00:22:41.640 Prior to then, they'd made perfectly timed investments in green energy in 2016,
00:22:46.440 before it was cool, just weeks before their investment announced a merger
00:22:49.660 with another company which sent the stock price soaring.
00:22:52.560 In 2014, she increased her net worth by $4 million
00:22:55.600 through investments in Facebook and Comcast.
00:22:58.380 And in 2008, they got 5,000 shares of Visa at the rock-bottom price of $44 a share,
00:23:04.080 And just two days later, the value skyrocketed to $64 on their IPO and successful legislation.
00:23:10.500 Yeah, I think horrible things resulting in death belong, you know, should happen to her.
00:23:18.260 But I mean, it sounded like you were trying to avoid making a threat, but then you made something worse than a threat.
00:23:24.180 It's just things that I wish would happen.
00:23:26.060 It's not something I'm going to do, but things that I wish would happen that are horrible to Nancy Pelosi.
00:23:30.400 i would still wish that even if she wasn't an insider trader so yeah i guess you're right it
00:23:34.880 doesn't matter like we're gonna hate her regardless i believe nancy pelosi should be shot by by a gun
00:23:44.460 held held by me is that a threat i don't think that's a threat the guy who keeps adding caveats
00:23:57.940 but it just incriminates him more the the two police cars are actually in front of your house
00:24:02.360 and they break in and you have like uh you have like a dream board on your wall and it's just a
00:24:07.620 picture of a gun at nancy pelosi's head like no no this isn't a threat this is an aspiration
00:24:13.000 that's so fucking funny like is that admissible in court if it's just a fucking vision board
00:24:18.200 it's a vision board of nancy pelosi with a hole in her head it's just it's just things i free
00:24:25.600 associate with her Nancy Pelosi
00:24:27.460 coffin
00:24:28.580 with eyes exed out
00:24:31.060 a headline that I've
00:24:33.400 rearranged to be a obituary
00:24:35.440 where do you see yourself in five years
00:24:38.900 me holding her head
00:24:40.160 where do you see yourself in five years
00:24:43.140 Mark Cuban is dead
00:24:45.200 wait what
00:24:46.160 can you incriminate
00:24:53.300 yourself so much that none of it's admissible
00:24:55.440 your honor this man is entirely too guilty
00:25:04.840 it's the horseshoe theory of guilt i think that's how chris chan got away with it like
00:25:13.240 the jury looked at him like he's he's almost too guilty of a man
00:25:16.700 look at him and he raped his mom like i think that this is beyond the the long arm of the law
00:25:25.240 the scales of justice were not rated for a weight as such as this.
00:25:30.100 We have to let them go.
00:25:32.560 The United States of America as a nation was not designed with Chris
00:25:37.900 Chan in mind.
00:25:39.040 He exists out beyond the bounds.
00:25:41.960 That's a fact.
00:25:43.640 There's so many people living in America right now that like no count,
00:25:48.980 no country was designed for like a head,
00:25:52.320 like Mark Cuban or an entity like Chris Chan or like a Taylor Swift.
00:25:59.700 I'm told from people who watched the Super Bowl that Taylor Swift was not,
00:26:03.720 in fact, impregnated. 1.00
00:26:04.960 You bitch. 1.00
00:26:06.260 But that seemed to be what a lot of people were expecting. 1.00
00:26:11.300 I think there's a lot of women watching the Super Bowl for the first time
00:26:14.780 who thought that it was going to end with Taylor Swift giving birth. 0.99
00:26:18.940 do you think that made the rounds in the news in order to draw people's attention back to the
00:26:24.980 super bowl mate you know what honestly uh my wife was showing me because we're talking about the
00:26:32.080 halftime show i've never i'm not one of these people that judge people for watching football
00:26:36.360 i'm not them oh oh so how was the sports ball game did the uh did the tigers uh score a basket
00:26:43.660 it a field goal like i hate that i'm not a sports guy i was raised playing sports as i'm sure you
00:26:51.020 were but uh we were talking about the fucking halftime show and she told me it was usher
00:26:57.060 i mean that's an odd choice because i'm not like a halftime show guy i don't really follow this
00:27:02.380 stuff and she was telling me about previous halftime shows they all sound kind of bad
00:27:05.540 yeah i know last year was like dr drain snoop dogg and eminem but then i was looking through
00:27:10.200 the list it was like shania twain and then bruno mars with red that's an odd one and then like
00:27:18.120 bruce springsteen i'm like i don't know do people get excited about bruce springsteen anyway it's
00:27:23.860 fucking live aid now or what yeah but it was like usher i'm like that's an odd choice for a football
00:27:30.880 game and i'm thinking okay what you know i know usher but maybe he straightened it out and i
00:27:38.080 watch it and it is the gayest thing you've ever seen i know usher isn't gay but i'm watching him
00:27:43.440 wearing a woman's blouse dancing on the field and he's just singing love songs because they're
00:27:51.320 ushers so he doesn't have a lot of bangers the biggest banger would be yeah but that's still
00:27:55.660 like a club song most of it's just him crooning emotionally and like i don't know this like it
00:28:01.520 must be to get women in right other like this isn't as a man and my wife is like oh you don't
00:28:08.480 like usher like no i don't she's like i love usher like yeah you're a girl usher has actually
00:28:14.440 done concerts where he only sells tickets to women if you're a man that even tries to sneak
00:28:20.580 in you'll get turned away by security that's how confident he is that he can just have a female
00:28:25.140 audience i'm like i that's wild i don't know a straight man like i i get why usher is popular
00:28:31.060 i get why he's a good singer and dancer but i'm like i would never go to a usher concert it's
00:28:36.800 just strange to see him at a super bowl right but i'm like okay it's it's like taylor swift i'm like
00:28:41.240 i guess they're i guess they're trying to get women involved in some sense but it just seemed
00:28:45.860 very ham-fisted anyway what do you think about that uh they'll they'll do anything if you look
00:28:50.980 at how much the tickets are worth and how much the industry is worth because that's like the the
00:28:55.280 the pinnacle of the year for for uh the football what is the industry i guess i don't know what
00:29:00.720 you would you fucking call it by the way you get close to the mic in case you're leaning i am i am
00:29:04.940 so close to the mic let me okay i mean just maybe my maybe my gain is down hold on let me jack the
00:29:11.220 gain just a little bit we'll see if that's any better anyway here we are watching the whole
00:29:16.460 taylor swift thing again i'm kind of distant from this but with her being on time magazines
00:29:22.940 and for person of the year and her being such a cultural force it really did seem that 0.99
00:29:27.400 of a high percentage of white women really do just want to sit in the hand sit in the palm of
00:29:35.340 the hand of someone with power there's no question in my mind that if taylor swift directly told them 1.00
00:29:41.680 to go make babies right now most of them would you know the joke in our scene was that taylor
00:29:48.560 swift could single-handedly save the white birth rate but that's not so much of a joke as it is an 1.00
00:29:54.580 amusing fact right like she could like she could a lot of these girls they were saying that there's 0.90
00:30:00.240 girls watching the super bowl for the first time ever because taylor swift's boyfriend is playing
00:30:05.640 i'm like that's a level of control that i don't think as a man i don't think we understand that
00:30:11.280 but i'm like i think they just they want a god emperor that the closest thing would be trump
00:30:18.140 i guess but for them it's like they just really want to sit in that palm of someone's hand don't
00:30:23.480 they yeah yeah absolutely i don't know what to do with that information other than try to
00:30:29.020 you know taylor swift is like elite theory for women you know we might debate elite theory
00:30:33.740 on our side but i'm like no they really have elite theory like if you could get taylor swift
00:30:39.340 and oprah and beyonce to do one thing i think you would get most women doing that thing and i might
00:30:48.380 be like an old millennial but there's three whatever the three are i don't know if oprah
00:30:52.300 is popular anymore but like there's a three in there if you got them you get like 70 percent
00:30:57.640 of women doing something yeah just be explicit i mean even without even just getting every woman
00:31:04.060 to do it if those three women simultaneously independently supported anything it doesn't
00:31:10.180 matter how random it is it would instantly enter the zeitgeist and stay there for a hundred years 0.96
00:31:16.120 it could be like a new style of shoe or it could be like a catchphrase or anything like within 12
00:31:22.840 hours it would be permanently etched into western civilization so yeah that's that's wild that that 0.74
00:31:28.560 is that that's possible i'm trying to think who the three women would be it would be taylor swift 0.88
00:31:32.300 for sure there's like a black version because maybe i think beyonce might be on the way out
00:31:37.500 too i don't know i think beyonce has just been swallowed up by gay men like madonna has
00:31:41.700 hispanic women do they i think they just listen to radio still right
00:31:48.140 i don't know do you know any hispanic women are they real latinas listen to the radio from the 0.99
00:31:56.360 floor upstairs 1.00
00:31:57.340 this is this stereotype is based on the fact that you know one latina woman 0.97
00:32:04.080 nearby who like listens to her am radio we don't we don't have them in canada
00:32:09.280 yeah we don't really did you see that fucking meme it was someone was passing
00:32:15.460 it around and it was like this his latina holding like like an aryan baby
00:32:21.520 like white as snow blue eyes blonde hair this is why i'm against race
00:32:26.000 mixing you know if your genes are inferior you'll be overtaken by you know the your spouse and your 0.97
00:32:33.220 children won't look like you and of course the subtext is alert latinas will make your kids even 1.00
00:32:40.600 whiter and i'm just like it's it's it's it's it's so fucking over for white women
00:32:49.920 it's so over for white women if latinas honestly i think latinas i've read this and i agree with
00:33:03.760 this a lot of people are like falling for the trad latina meme like are you gonna get she's 0.65
00:33:09.200 gonna make you empanadas and she's gonna be traditional female and one guy had pointed out
00:33:14.680 this meshes up with my experience that they will chew you up and spit you out like latinas 1.00
00:33:19.840 are like more aggressive than blacks like you will be like they'll they'll cut your dick off 1.00
00:33:25.800 in your sleep and i was thinking that i think latinas are like the white girls version of
00:33:32.020 you burn the coal you pay the toll like if you're a white guy falling for the latina meme
00:33:36.740 it's just a world of pain and they're gonna laugh they're gonna say i told you so
00:33:42.200 that's our version of that
00:33:44.120 I mean I've
00:33:46.340 literally never
00:33:47.560 I think Ray dated a Latina when we were
00:33:50.500 in college I think that's actually the only time
00:33:52.660 I've ever known a Latin female in my life 0.87
00:33:54.440 and I didn't even know her I like met her one time 1.00
00:33:56.700 I can't even think of a 0.99
00:33:58.600 single Latin woman that I 0.99
00:33:59.920 know in my life 1.00
00:34:01.340 Hey everybody there's just
00:34:04.640 a few things that I forgot to mention
00:34:06.180 in the episode we got too good of a rhythm
00:34:08.440 going and there's a few show related things
00:34:10.560 So I just wanted to drop in here completely unnaturally.
00:34:13.840 The first is that on the Good Suffer store, GoodSuffer.com, we have a few artisan-made blood satellite official hats remaining.
00:34:23.660 Most of the logo ones are all sold out.
00:34:25.920 We have a few remaining of the more weird esoteric design that I prefer.
00:34:30.640 We have a sale going on right now.
00:34:32.140 Check that out on GoodSuffer.com.
00:34:34.220 also up on the paywall on our gum road and patreon we have a new episode of real secret
00:34:40.120 coffee hours up it's a longer one this one i'm actually refer uh reviewing two articles
00:34:45.760 uh one's uh response to the other the official one the original one is written by dr ricardo
00:34:52.880 who we've had on the show um about liberalism being the cause of our current malaise and then
00:35:00.840 response to that by Paul Gottfried, whose book, The Neoconservative Revolution, we've also covered
00:35:06.680 on the show. Two interesting people on a very, very deep topic. I cover both of those. Check that
00:35:12.480 out. Another thing I wanted to call attention to was a previous sponsor that we have. His name
00:35:19.140 Axios Fitness Coaching. I've started partnering with them personally. And so I've been working
00:35:26.940 with the trainer who is offering his services to our guys to our scene to our sector to make
00:35:35.080 fitness plans for them and this was an issue that i was having because i found that my fitness
00:35:40.980 regimen was plateauing this is something that happens to a lot of people who are trying to
00:35:44.720 get into shape or maintain their fitness a lot of times unless you're really probing into
00:35:51.120 fitness forms and really doing the research it's easy to get stuck in the same routine
00:35:56.000 you get bored just going through the motions then you stop breaking a sweat then you're not making
00:36:00.780 any gains then you're not losing any weight that's what i got into so i had some dealings with him in
00:36:05.900 the past and i've started an actual regimen with him and as we go i'm going to be tracking my
00:36:12.780 progress with that um and i i'm looking forward to working with him i've worked with him already
00:36:18.020 i'm really liking what i'm seeing and i just wanted to let people know that if they're looking
00:36:22.140 also to revamp their workout routine or get into it for the first time axios coaching is there
00:36:30.220 there's no promo code there's none of that i just wanted to you know tell this story and see if it
00:36:37.680 works and if it doesn't work you'll hear it from me because i'll be bitching about it lastly i'm
00:36:43.700 going to drop a new edition of crimes chat here now if you recall crimes chat is sort of the
00:36:50.660 speaker's corner that we've opened up to friends of the show people who want to send me their voice
00:36:56.540 messages on telegram or email or whatever it might be you can find us on telegram the blood satellite
00:37:03.560 or you can send it to me on a private message on twitter or you can email me an audio file whatever
00:37:09.440 it is for you to tell a story an anecdote a joke whatever you think you would like to get featured
00:37:15.980 on the show not promising that everything is going to get on but we've got a few and i completely
00:37:22.060 forgot to include one last time so i'm correcting that right now and here is the latest crimes chat
00:37:31.480 and then we'll get right back to the episode
00:37:33.040 Crimes Chat
00:37:48.540 So here's the story for the BS Chats
00:37:51.540 or how I like to call them the BS Chats
00:37:54.540 So last year
00:37:56.540 you know
00:37:58.540 it was Lightboy Summer
00:38:00.540 So, you know, I was doing all kinds of white boy summer shit, like, you know, going around.
00:38:07.540 And I was in this hotel, which is near the border with Turkey.
00:38:14.540 And, you know, I decided it's white boy summer, we're gonna go vibe.
00:38:19.540 Because this place in Sinavut is really similar to like Canada, where it's like, you know,
00:38:26.540 hundred kilometers and you go hundred kilometers in every direction and you're not gonna see
00:38:33.420 a nigga around. Like, no person. Yeah, so I go take a walk in the woods and you know
00:38:43.420 I'm vibing, I'm killing time. Yeah, and I'm singing KT Perry's Cotton Code. And you know
00:38:54.420 I'm singing Hamilton, I'm singing Hot and Cold, it's great, I'm vibing, and out of nowhere
00:39:03.060 I hear this sound which comes from my right side, I hear sound from the bushes, come out
00:39:14.180 of the bushes, and I'm like, ah, it is probably some bunny or some shit, some retarded shit
00:39:21.020 like that and you know I don't think anything on of it and I you know I think
00:39:28.280 Hamilton yeah and it's great but I take five steps more and I I see these you
00:39:39.260 know Moroccan guys come out of the woods like saying brother brother help you
00:39:44.060 know in the most you know Arabic accent possible and you know I see these guys
00:39:50.540 and I immediately go don't think these guys are dangerous they look brown I
00:39:57.080 should go you know probably in the other direction and run away from them
00:40:00.980 I go this is gonna be entertaining as fuck so I go you know to these guys you
00:40:07.700 know one of them is wearing a very gay backpack like a purple backpack which is
00:40:14.960 he's extremely obviously gay when you consider especially that he has a long beard, you know,
00:40:22.400 like a rapist or a pedophile. So, yeah. And, you know, these guys basically start telling me,
00:40:29.560 you know, call the cops, call the cops, brother, because obviously, you know, they've been people
00:40:38.000 smuggled into this country to try to go to another country in the EU so yeah so you
00:40:48.500 know they have no phones these niggas have no phones basically they have no
00:40:54.380 water left so basically if I haven't found them they'd be dead they've been
00:40:59.540 living on you know raspberries they've been living on raspberries for the past
00:41:04.460 few days yeah and they're basically so tired like the laziest niggas you can imagine like
00:41:12.140 great level lazy like the stereotype that makes people lazy anyway so you know i tell them
00:41:20.140 don't worry about it so basically you know i call my grandpa because i'm with my grandpa and i tell
00:41:26.860 him i'm i'm gonna take a while because i'm with these you know possible rapists and you know i'm
00:41:33.180 I'm just vibing with this possible rapist and, you know, he tells me what the f**k and I,
00:41:40.180 you know, I closed the phone on him, so, yeah, I called the cops, I tell them where I am
00:41:48.180 and, you know, I'm in a better buttf**k anyway, so it takes a while to explain to them how to get here
00:41:54.180 and they had to, you know, told me, you know, we have to drive the most armored vehicle we have
00:42:01.180 have because these roads are not regular cars, yeah, so, yeah, by the time, you know,
00:42:09.820 I'm just telling these guys we should probably go in the other direction so we
00:42:15.380 meet the cops halfway, so, you know, we start walking and I'm like in front with
00:42:22.360 the one guy who speaks English, you know, and I'm walking the heart of like
00:42:26.960 Moroccans in the woods like you know like Planet of the Apes yeah I haven't seen
00:42:34.520 that movie but yeah it's probably like Planet of the Apes so yeah and I'm you
00:42:40.640 know I'm starting to ask these guys questions like what do you think of Jews
00:42:46.520 and you know the one guy who doesn't who knows English he doesn't really
00:42:52.820 understand what I mean so I try to explain to him you know long-nosed love
00:42:58.700 money get elections when they talk about killing white people and yeah that's
00:43:06.800 exactly the will the words I told him and he didn't you know didn't understand
00:43:13.280 and you know I asked him where they were going they said Italy yeah and I told
00:43:23.960 him why doesn't he want to stay in Morocco because in Morocco they have
00:43:29.840 Sharia you know I'm just saying shit to him yeah so basically these guys started
00:43:38.000 to get annoyed because the cops don't show up because our cops are you know
00:43:42.280 lazy bastards, like every cop obviously, but you know, they still distrust in me that
00:43:48.520 did I really call the cops or did I just pretend? Anyway, so, you know, I convinced one of these guys
00:43:56.520 to take a picture with me, which I'm gonna send to you, Brother Dimes, after, you know,
00:44:02.920 doing this voice message but yeah so I convinced him the retard to you know take a picture of me
00:44:12.940 for the cops obviously I just wanted a picture for myself you know hanging out with this guy
00:44:18.340 so yeah eventually the cops came yeah they got get immediately on their hands and knees and he
00:44:30.520 one of the cops asked me you know are you the guy who made the call and I'm
00:44:36.280 like obviously because I'm the lightest guy here so yeah even though you know
00:44:42.460 compared to these guys we're pretty much the same skin color they were pretty
00:44:46.840 dark but I was pretty dark as well I was on the beach so yeah so they get the
00:44:55.360 the entirety of the guys five guys in total on the backseat of the car and I'm
00:45:03.420 like on the backseat and the only thing that separates us is it's iron cell which
00:45:16.180 separates the one part of the car from the other so anyway so I'm on the back
00:45:22.840 with these guys breathing on my neck and you know I'm just chilling with the
00:45:26.920 cops and you know we're just talking you know about we talked about the real
00:45:34.000 housewives how it's a great show yeah and you know they told me you know you're
00:45:40.900 a real G for doing this and I'm like yeah I'm a I'm a real G yeah so anyway
00:45:46.480 the cops dropped me off in on the pool because the hotel the hotel had a pool
00:45:53.040 so yeah just a cop car driving me up to the pool you know and you know that was
00:46:01.780 my story for the BS show
00:46:07.420 this is um you know the other on our live stream there's a couple things we touched on that kicked
00:46:20.220 off later on one was the tucker and putin interview which i do not want to talk about at
00:46:25.360 all uh there i think for two days people were debating about that but there was one reddit
00:46:30.720 that we had discussed and it was you know for uh i think it was the mom one um the women oh yeah
00:46:38.220 it was the troll the two x chromosome woman one and that was pretty fun um but what i should have
00:46:45.240 done was talk about this one here um and i don't know how long i want to spend on this but i just
00:46:52.180 thought we could have some fun with this i haven't checked it out it's the r slash zero covid
00:46:58.100 community we've seen this so no all right so you could you got a link there you can pull it up this
00:47:04.760 is you know we're not here to talk about we talked about covid enough right but there is a community
00:47:12.300 of people taylor lorenz would be an example of this taylor lorenz famed idiot woman uh journalist
00:47:20.120 who is out there on twitter out there on social media saying that covid still exists everyone 1.00
00:47:25.860 I'm immunocompromised. It pisses me off that so many people think COVID is over. You see hashtags
00:47:32.780 of this, like COVID's not over, right? So here we go. Zero COVID community. What's the description
00:47:38.540 say? 15,000 members. Not a lifestyle competition, but a shared vision. The zero COVID community is
00:47:46.000 a place where people who are passionate about reducing the transmission of COVID and protecting
00:47:51.140 those who are high risk can come together with a shared vision for the future. We are here to
00:47:54.920 discuss the pandemic and politics share info but engineering is better than hate basically this is
00:48:00.320 for people who are taking covid very very seriously with the sort of energy that the
00:48:05.840 anti-natalist people have they're really pissed off at all of us for not masking up for not wearing
00:48:11.800 the n95 masks and for thinking for daring to think that maybe covid was a big fucking mistake
00:48:19.280 which is which is actually what everyone fucking thinks to the point where like the the vehement
00:48:23.620 covid people are now lying and saying that oh yeah i never took that seriously
00:48:27.860 you've seen that right yeah of course and it's all about long covid that's the thing like i you
00:48:34.680 know i've kind of divorced myself from the covid world like most people but i would hear murmurs
00:48:39.600 of long covid which is what it sounds like um but i started seeing stories in this um about people
00:48:48.560 who are like you know my my kids are all vaccinated and then they got hit with long covid and then
00:48:53.120 telling that story but there's no acknowledgement that maybe long covid is related to the vaccines
00:49:00.140 it's a hundred percent the vaccine i've never i know so many people i know but there's people in
00:49:05.780 my family who have quote unquote long covid and have been diagnosed by the family gp that it's
00:49:11.680 oh well this is probably uh you know it's a result of you catching covid x number of times all of
00:49:16.680 them have like four vaccines and i've never met a person somebody tell me but i've never met a
00:49:20.800 person who had the who didn't have the vaccine who got quote unquote long covid i've had covid
00:49:25.660 at least three or four times i've never had fucking long covid and i'm an asthmatic like i
00:49:29.800 have i have uh like health issues that would you would think i would get have long covid but i've
00:49:35.300 never fucking had it so it's because it doesn't exist it's called the vaccine adverse effect
00:49:41.080 yeah here we go here's one from just 11 hours ago how long before potential covid dies down
00:49:49.600 in the air if you can't open a window or use an air purifier he says so i had a repairman over
00:49:55.360 who already came twice last week and respected protocol wore the ffp2 my partner gave him no
00:50:02.440 problem it was overall respectful the man came again today but this time i don't know if it's
00:50:06.440 because my partner isn't here and i'm less respected as a result or if he's because he's
00:50:11.100 visiting lasting longer but he didn't wear the mask i had to go to the bathroom to fetch something
00:50:16.140 wipe down the liquid goo he spilled everywhere on the floor a man's whacking off in people's
00:50:20.860 houses love this damn and when i came back he removed the mask under his chin to hold the
00:50:25.280 flashlight in his mouth it crushes me because when my partner another man explained to him i was
00:50:29.640 immunocompromised uh but now it's just me who cares about my safety right anyway i need to uh
00:50:37.440 figure how long do i have to avoid that room and stay masked in my house after he leaves to be safe
00:50:42.360 so these are the people who are wearing their masks inside these are the people who are avoiding
00:50:46.600 rooms of their houses if someone like was in because also like if he didn't wear the mask
00:50:51.380 maybe he's got covid on his arm and his clothes right exactly this is so it's funny because
00:50:56.540 they're all about trust the science but very little of what they do makes any sense it's so
00:51:00.580 inconsistent that's the perfect example is you're afraid of you're afraid of the room he was in
00:51:05.800 because he's not wearing his mask so you're thinking the fact that he had his mask off
00:51:10.280 means the whole room is contaminated well he didn't have his mask on outside which means is
00:51:15.940 when he you know earlier so his body's contaminated by your logic so even if you put the mask on the
00:51:20.720 room's still contaminated everything's contaminated everything's contaminated if you believe that
00:51:25.640 covid stays on like your clothes and shit then the mask didn't matter if he like wiped his mouth
00:51:30.340 on his arm or anything like that right all right here's one has anyone managed to retain good
00:51:37.000 mental health while being covid conscious and then i'm seeing a lot of comments here that say
00:51:42.140 buddy i didn't start with good mental health that's by toucan spam and then here's one from
00:51:48.020 box of frame 10 10 i mean my mental health has never been good and it still isn't it's like a
00:51:54.160 lot of people like almost every comment here is by saying no yo i was already mentally ill to begin
00:51:58.540 with
00:51:58.940 oh they have no self-awareness it's so good uh in the face of an unmitigated pandemic rapidly
00:52:08.320 accelerating climate crisis constantly and this is the other than covid to a lot of these people
00:52:13.060 just bundled in with like climate stuff too um even the ones in denial seem to know on some level
00:52:19.420 that something is fucked up even if they can't won't name the specifics so i wonder how many
00:52:23.420 of these are just like you know doomsayer people uh but what else we got here i'm dreaming of the
00:52:31.580 day i don't have to wear a mask i just hit month 17 of long covid uh one infection got me that was
00:52:39.080 it i've recovered to about 70 to 75 percent i'm lucky to be somewhat functional i can still work
00:52:44.740 i can't not think about the days i had freedom i keep dreaming of the day i can just walk into a
00:52:50.140 door visit a friend go to a concert enjoy dinner without masking oh my god um month 2022 of long
00:53:00.920 covid here 22 months of long covid nine percent better we are the lucky long covid patients who
00:53:07.000 improved so there's other people who just have long covid and i get you know what i mean like
00:53:12.540 one of the posts that i didn't get to from that woman thread where they're complaining about their
00:53:18.920 husbands was a couple women were complaining that their husbands turned against them because they
00:53:24.660 developed chronic fatigue syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome for people who don't know is a
00:53:30.840 made-up woman disease where you generally feel tired when you have to do things you don't want 0.66
00:53:37.020 to do but when it comes to a vacation you have a bunch of good days um and it involves like staying
00:53:44.380 in bed not sleeping necessarily but just like being in bed on your phone while your husband
00:53:49.840 or boyfriend does all the dishes it does all the work yeah um so i wonder how much of it's that
00:53:55.340 too like i have long covid i'm i'm 80 there it's like but how much of this is you kind of want to
00:54:01.600 be sick too you know what i mean like there is obviously the the the correlation between getting
00:54:08.120 vaccinated and getting along covid but there's also some people that maybe you're also milking
00:54:12.780 it because you just like being sick absolutely what do you think i think i think it's that it's
00:54:18.480 also like a dopamine burnt out or especially with women where they're on social media all the time
00:54:23.740 and if you try to take that away from them and give them something like walk the dog do your 0.98
00:54:29.000 fucking job make a meal for for yourself or you know put put put real clothes on do the laundry
00:54:34.320 none of this stuff for more than 30 seconds has the dope hit that you're going to get from sitting
00:54:39.640 in your bed and scrolling on your phone so it's not that you need to sit in your bed it's that
00:54:42.920 you need to sit in your bed and scroll on your fucking phone it's like the pinnacle of learned
00:54:47.960 laziness and helplessness and then of course not only that but we validate it by oh poor baby are
00:54:55.500 you all right let me come and take care of you so we actually not we like i don't fucking do this but
00:55:00.140 the people around these women enforce it and make it uh make it even worse actually so it's not 0.64
00:55:06.660 surprising my suspicion and this will sound unfair i'm sure but my suspicion is this tilts more
00:55:11.900 towards women as well oh 100 100 in fact i bet if you found men doing it they'd be the most
00:55:18.400 the most like whinging effeminate men yeah here's one um nobody i know apart from my elderly parents
00:55:24.780 masks anymore i still use fpp2 fpp3 when when in indoor spaces outside of home literally never see
00:55:34.060 anyone in a mask my adult children and husband complain if i open the windows in the house
00:55:38.920 i can't mention covid at home or any recent scientific info or studies so like this woman
00:55:45.060 her husband and her kids have been like mom shut up please stop talking about covid my husband got
00:55:51.580 covid now and some long-term symptoms that he dismisses i was visiting my parents when he
00:55:56.600 brought it home so i avoided it there's literally no one in real life they can later talk to and
00:56:01.600 this is i guess what blows my mind it's like these women mostly women i guess but it's like
00:56:06.480 your your whole family's turned against you for this shit it's like they're alive you can stop
00:56:13.080 now but they're like you're clinging to it um i don't know like that's just it seems tragic maybe
00:56:18.940 i shouldn't be laughing at it but it's like you hear these people and it's like you can just hear
00:56:23.700 the voices their family members just roll you can hear the eye rolls through these anecdotes like
00:56:28.760 oh this is this is mom forever now right yeah yeah oh here's one have and have any of y'all
00:56:36.320 also run into the argument from people who don't mask that they don't wear them
00:56:40.000 for sensory reasons full transparency i'm autistic
00:56:43.960 yes it feels harder to breathe with a mask on and the pressure can be bothersome
00:56:52.720 i would rather not wear them but i would much rather have trouble breathing wearing a mask
00:56:57.840 for some hours a day than having trouble breathing
00:57:00.140 at any point in the foreseeable future.
00:57:02.920 That's an interesting way of framing it.
00:57:04.840 Like, I would rather be miserable now
00:57:06.360 than the thought of being miserable in the future.
00:57:09.520 You know what I mean?
00:57:10.140 They're admitting that they hate this too.
00:57:13.080 I would much rather pay $10 now
00:57:15.360 than risk the possibility of having to pay $10 in the future.
00:57:19.360 That makes so much sense.
00:57:22.100 The autistic people were the first against COVID,
00:57:24.640 but they're also the ones sticking with it.
00:57:26.020 they occupy both tails of that graph that that distribution people who will never be over COVID
00:57:33.900 the people who are never believing COVID to begin with there's a couple things I also wanted to
00:57:39.300 talk about here that just found very very interesting and I want to hear what you think
00:57:45.080 about it because I know you have your opinions on working remotely and working from home
00:57:51.880 um but there's a couple things here that that kind of go together one is a twitter thread i found and
00:57:59.460 one is a sub stack i believe it's a sub stack looks like it anyway so here's one i'm looking
00:58:07.360 at from an account at empty underscore america and it says employment is killing us bolded that's
00:58:16.000 the top and says so i solved the tfr issue it's comically simple jobs destroy fertility that's it
00:58:24.400 the total w-2 employment hours per family correlate perfectly with reduced fertility
00:58:30.200 for fertility hits bottom and the cohort most likely to have dual professional employment
00:58:36.340 the work earn consume cycle itself is a problem we are dying out by working too much to earn more
00:58:42.620 money to put it to new countertops etc but the indigent and leisured rich have about the same
00:58:48.380 number of children material living standards themselves make no difference either way what
00:58:52.500 matters is that neither group tend to have more than a single full-time worker if that per family
00:58:57.640 even holds true internationally as countries developed jobs are created people enter the
00:59:03.520 formal workforce fertility crashes the only really high fertility countries are those so
00:59:09.900 underdeveloped that most people spend most of their lives unemployed or in very irregular and
00:59:15.560 informal work activities. Considering that only low employment groups seem to be able to reproduce
00:59:21.920 in the modern world, should our policy favor the most aggressive automation and job elimination
00:59:27.660 so as to move more of our population into a, quote, post-work lifestyle? At a minimum, there must be
00:59:35.040 the most aggressive incentives
00:59:37.120 for widespread single-earner households,
00:59:39.860 including tax policies
00:59:41.120 that render a second full-time job
00:59:42.940 an absolute and clear financial net negative.
00:59:48.160 So what do you think about that so far?
00:59:49.940 I think it makes so much sense,
00:59:51.840 like on top-down,
00:59:52.960 and I think his conclusions are fucking insane.
00:59:56.860 Because the prescription would be too, like,
00:59:59.360 yeah, so the prescription,
01:00:01.140 just to summarize, is that, okay,
01:00:03.300 dual-income households,
01:00:04.220 fertility plummets with single family households regardless of income high fertility i think a lot
01:00:10.700 of people anecdotally might have noticed that especially on the low end of the income spectrum
01:00:14.780 but so the idea would be to incentivize more i guess of that whole middle area the the middle
01:00:22.320 area of the bell curve to have more kids you should incentivize single family households by
01:00:27.000 but he didn't say that that's the reason that i jumped on it because he see you're you're being
01:00:32.660 smart and you're saying what he should have said incentivize single family households that he
01:00:38.240 didn't say that he said incentivize people working less generally which is to say gender gender
01:00:45.300 neutral we should just have everybody work less no dumbass we should have women women work less
01:00:51.480 how is this how do you not go to the next logical step women should work less are we talking about
01:00:58.320 For example, if we believe that single income households at the bottom and top of the spectrum have more children, do we also believe that there's no pattern of whether or not the earner in the household is a man or a woman?
01:01:12.720 Because I'll tell you what, 99% of those households, the earner is a man and the woman is at home.
01:01:18.360 Tell me I'm fucking wrong.
01:01:20.000 That's the missing piece, and I think that was even in the data there.
01:01:24.840 But then his prescription is we just need to automate everything away.
01:01:28.020 No, the thing is, we automated everything away almost 100 years ago, but all of the gravy was sucked up by the elites.
01:01:36.620 We don't need any more automation.
01:01:38.320 What we need is to be able to keep the 85% of our fucking productivity that the elites and the government and the banks take from us every year, and then our wives don't have to work anymore. 0.99
01:01:49.580 We could cut our productivity, industrial productivity, in half as long as we got to actually keep it to ourselves. 1.00
01:01:56.840 All of our wives could stay home. 1.00
01:01:59.000 So we don't need an Elon Musk technocracy of hyper-smart AI robots to solve this fucking problem. 1.00
01:02:05.140 Yeah.
01:02:05.380 One example is we can use fewer household items.
01:02:11.480 I'll give you an example.
01:02:12.820 When Nichols came around, my son, we got everything for the baby room, right?
01:02:17.800 We got a dresser.
01:02:18.700 we got from this place called struck tube which is like a higher end ikea but apparently not
01:02:25.220 because within seven months that thing just became busted yeah struck two is actually
01:02:31.180 lower end ikea that's more expensive well that's the thing that's why like we got i think it used
01:02:37.060 because we had a couch from there that lasted like seven years and it was good it was made well i'm
01:02:41.220 like okay but something fucking happened and like just it's just the drawers busted because you know
01:02:46.760 the fucking rail that the like rollers sit on it just i put it together it's easy to put together
01:02:52.280 it just fell apart and the drawers that's the thing because with with metal you can be pretty
01:02:57.860 cheap on a metal frame like with a futon or something it's pretty easy to make them shit
01:03:02.140 and they still survive but the sheet goods that they use now they're all proprietary like they
01:03:07.120 have like hexagonal core ones and they have corrugated cores and all kinds of different
01:03:11.180 grades of like lamination and glue that they use and the the difference between the good quality
01:03:16.460 and the bad quality ones the bad quality ones if you have like a a room with 40 percent humidity
01:03:21.020 it will literally buckle and disintegrate in six months yeah they're literally made of garbage
01:03:25.900 paper yeah and so i'm like we have too much too many people making too much shit now i need to
01:03:31.620 like i need to go buy to an antique store and buy 150 year old dresser because that's the only thing
01:03:36.440 that i'm convinced will fucking work anymore because they don't make good things anymore
01:03:40.820 because we need to keep these cycles just going of consumer spending.
01:03:45.680 I mean, and this is the thing, there's a whole crew of us in the chat
01:03:48.280 that are all, we're kind of comparing living rooms and it's like,
01:03:50.580 oh wow, we all independently realized that the correct thing to do
01:03:54.640 is furnish your house with free antiques from the side of the road.
01:03:57.980 So you've got like, we've got a side table that's actually
01:04:00.620 a 120 year old solid oak wash stand that was free
01:04:03.900 and versus an $85 cardboard box that will disintegrate in a year.
01:04:10.820 like it's it's just it's it's bad and now it's junk and now by the way where we live if you live
01:04:17.040 any place even rural you know getting rid of this shit is a fucking like you got to pay someone to
01:04:22.400 do you can't just leave it around they can hope someone pick it up but if they don't if you're
01:04:26.260 rural enough you just make a pile in the back but yeah that's the thing yeah you just have like a
01:04:29.940 pile of junk on your trash pile but once you start that that never goes away now your kids are going
01:04:36.180 to inherit that pile of junk it's an adventure though if you light it on fire then the government's
01:04:41.340 gonna come and fucking shoot your dog right so as we said earlier the problem is the government
01:04:46.460 we should be able to burn all this we should be able to burn the things we don't like
01:04:54.700 uh but he's got a thing here i think that kind of meshes with what you were saying
01:04:59.460 he said so you might argue reduced work hours will reduce standard of living he says but increase
01:05:05.820 but increasing the standard of living does not does nothing positive and decreasing it would
01:05:10.420 do nothing negative man does not live by granite countertops alone yeah i thought that was a good
01:05:16.420 uh thing i love i love that i love the granite countertops point i saw him kind of harping on
01:05:20.680 that it's it's a good one because it's one of those things it's like almost a fight club thing
01:05:23.920 about you know your home has to match the catalog and be this perfect thing but the other thing i
01:05:28.180 don't again i'm this isn't a criticism him of him but it's kind of like the whole gdp argument it's
01:05:33.020 like, hey, as long as GDP is rising, we're okay. But the thing is they keep changing the definition
01:05:36.900 or like it's a vague definition of GDP that if you control for inflation or you use models that
01:05:41.180 they used 30 years ago, GDP has actually been falling. The same thing is true standard of
01:05:45.020 living and standard of living. We don't even have a good metric for it. I would argue in most ways,
01:05:49.820 industrialization, automation, quote unquote, increases in productivity have decreased our
01:05:54.220 standard of living. Like when you've used automation to replace all butter with margarine
01:05:58.380 so that you have a butter substitute that now costs 20 cents less but is five times worse for
01:06:03.840 you that how is that an increase in standard of living what you're doing is a standard of living
01:06:08.220 to you is apparently just another way of saying gdp because what it is is you save 20 fucking
01:06:13.700 cents but now you have you know arterial blockages instead of using fucking pure animal fat so i i
01:06:19.760 think boomers were hit the hardest with that like they just got a an avalanche of products that was
01:06:24.800 like margarine well why do we need margarine because that's what they're going to eat on the
01:06:28.880 moon you go yeah like just here's new stuff and then you just get it like what's what the fuck
01:06:35.260 is fondue why do we need a fondue set yeah well it's it's the thing it's a new thing that you're
01:06:40.620 doing now you people are thinking like oh you know at this point it's funny wearing like fur
01:06:45.960 and leather is almost faux pas and like uh it's it's old school and kind of you know it's kind of
01:06:54.160 gross i don't know what the word you would use but like people want especially in asian culture
01:06:58.480 this is crazy people want the shit that's super plasticky and like spacey and and modern and
01:07:04.980 post-modern looking but it's like it disintegrates it's leaving microplastics all over your skin the
01:07:10.280 process of making it is destroying the environment and the thing is you think that leather and fur
01:07:16.080 sucks and you don't want it but if you did want it and you tried to buy it you wouldn't be able
01:07:20.740 to fucking afford it buddy because the thing that you've replaced it with the only reason it's there
01:07:25.100 is because it's cheap and you've adjusted to how cheap it is so if you wanted to eat beef all the
01:07:29.420 time with butter and wear fur and leather and have furniture that's all made of solid wood and have
01:07:35.400 a house that wasn't designed to be knocked over in 10 years you wouldn't be able to afford it none
01:07:39.600 of us would right because we've replaced it with worse quality products to keep producing to keep
01:07:44.940 these cycles going because we need these companies to employ these people to sell this shit to make
01:07:49.220 enough money to do this i just want to do a sidebar here i think socio-culturally we're about
01:07:55.680 ready to welcome fur back in a wide scale absolutely i almost i almost shot a coyote on
01:08:02.920 monday morning i don't think people really remember why they got riveted i think they were
01:08:07.340 vaguely aware that animals were suffering and that's probably the case for some but
01:08:13.680 everyone also loves canada goose down jackets with goose feathers which don't use canada they
01:08:20.900 used to but there is goose down huge and i'm like well if it is like were those were geese killed
01:08:26.500 like are animals killed somewhere along this this process this fucking value stream and it's like
01:08:33.640 yeah well so i guess those are okay point being that i i think if you could just tell people like
01:08:39.440 oh that yes a fox died for this but it died in a trap that snapped its neck instantly or something
01:08:44.940 or shot in the fucking face yeah they they wouldn't care they just have images of things
01:08:50.040 being skinned alive but other than that i think fur is a great like you need to buy less fur
01:08:57.180 you know i mean you need to most of your clothes are made by bloody children's hands
01:09:02.460 because that you need to keep getting clothes because they're not made well or you get one
01:09:07.680 fucking fur coat fur is an incredibly you know um strong and durable and insulative material
01:09:17.080 compared to the equivalent that you might make out of plastic like i'm not saying it lasts forever
01:09:22.420 it doesn't but certain furs are just they're most furs are way better than the equivalent that you
01:09:27.700 make out of plastic so i there's there's really no comparison you can make the ethical argument
01:09:31.760 but it's like you don't hear that many people making the ethical argument about leather because
01:09:35.840 it's a byproduct a lot of these are byproducts of the meat industry like goose down is as well
01:09:39.380 right so like why uh like why do you care so much but i think that's what it is it's like the
01:09:44.420 margarine thing why do people care so much about eating margarine and i think that most people
01:09:48.180 don't it's just like that's what you do and then you've also got this thing about how oh well uh
01:09:52.560 butter is actually really bad for you it's really unhealthy to eat butter which i'm hoping most
01:09:56.900 people understand now is totally fucking false but i think it seems to me most most of these cases
01:10:02.120 there's been a concerted campaign to convince people that they don't want the nice expensive
01:10:06.680 thing my theory is it's because the true result of longer work hours and product uh you know
01:10:14.860 increases in productivity and automation has not been to increase our quality of life it's been to
01:10:20.400 decrease our quality of life while making the elites insanely wealthy and the only reason they
01:10:25.800 can keep us down is by convincing us that oh don't worry this is a big improvement this is going to
01:10:31.080 lead right into the third thing i want to talk about this is the second thing that kind of builds
01:10:36.000 off of what we're just talking about this is a what looks to be a sub stack from a place called
01:10:42.020 hot takes hot takes dot space written by adam singer uh jan 23 uh 2024 so this would have been
01:10:49.660 published recently the title here and you might take a bit more exception to this but i think this
01:10:55.240 really feeds on to the last thing. Remote work one. Don't let anyone gaslight you to believe
01:11:01.920 otherwise. Subheading ears. Bad managers and CRE bag holders lost. I'm not even sure what CRE
01:11:08.380 means. So I know you might ask. I don't know. Something financial. Whatever. He doesn't explain
01:11:13.180 it in this. Competent employees and internet savvy teams one. Arbitrary authoritarian control
01:11:18.900 over your work life is so 1990s so um he says let's start with this chart a friend shared with
01:11:26.380 me on remote work quietly reaching equilibrium which happened last year currently new york city
01:11:33.340 office use is at 46 capacity which is a fucking wild number so and you would you it would look
01:11:42.000 from this graph that other um places are following that trend he says there's plenty of other data
01:11:48.340 samples and trend sources here you can google but broadly it is all pretty steady over that over a
01:11:53.540 quarter of employees in the u.s are working remote in a double a durable fashion since 2020 and
01:12:00.020 probably more interestingly 68 would prefer to be fully remote note if it's a higher percent of
01:12:07.380 people working remote in cities because the type of work done there um it's got a share of uh here's
01:12:13.460 one graph here, share of Americans working remotely 2018, it was 5.7%. And now in 2023,
01:12:20.580 it's 27%. The peak was in 2020 at 41% and is leveled off around 27%. And here's where it gets
01:12:29.260 into the part. And I know you have some thoughts on these are white-collar jobs. Yes, these are
01:12:34.200 jobs that can be done remotely. Yes, not all jobs can be done remotely, of course. So I'm just
01:12:39.440 conceding that at the start there's and i will go one further and say that i think a lot of people
01:12:45.900 that i've seen don't do a lot of work unless they're in an office or there's a robust system
01:12:53.420 in place to monitor their work when they're at home that's my feeling i'm not saying that's
01:12:57.460 everyone like there are some high performance teams but for a lot of like lower mid-level
01:13:02.140 employees like they are just fucking around because their jobs are useless not all work
01:13:06.520 for moment jobs uses, but some of them are.
01:13:09.660 So here he goes.
01:13:10.380 He says, endless cubicle farms
01:13:12.440 were never the end state of anything,
01:13:14.540 and all this can be repurposed for better use,
01:13:16.640 shopping, socialization, recreation.
01:13:19.340 The future here is something to look forward to.
01:13:21.620 Going to city centers purely to do something alone
01:13:24.480 you can do anywhere makes no logical sense.
01:13:26.880 This was all inevitable and good,
01:13:28.760 unless you wanted humans to remain enslaved
01:13:30.900 and great real estate locations
01:13:33.500 to be stuck in 1950s-era industrial economy use.
01:13:39.080 So basically, TLDR,
01:13:40.920 you will make your employees hate their lives,
01:13:42.880 make less money, and be less efficient
01:13:44.280 by electing to assert authoritarian control
01:13:46.860 over their movements and do the same work
01:13:48.840 in a different arbitrary building every day.
01:13:51.560 He says here, absolute top companies like NVIDIA
01:13:55.520 worth well over...
01:13:57.140 He says that they're worth over a trillion dollars.
01:14:00.100 That can't be right.
01:14:00.760 They are.
01:14:01.240 It is?
01:14:01.520 They are.
01:14:01.820 They are.
01:14:02.040 They're worth over a trillion.
01:14:02.780 That seems to be going up.
01:14:04.520 Oh, it's the AI shit.
01:14:05.920 Yeah, never mind.
01:14:07.760 Are running remote operations for their teams,
01:14:09.720 so there's really no excuse that this is just for smaller shops.
01:14:13.540 My team at Google was distributed many years before this was normalized,
01:14:16.960 and we worked on software at internet scale.
01:14:19.600 So when execs comment here,
01:14:21.200 they're simply putting their lack of modern management skills on display
01:14:24.200 for the world to see.
01:14:26.620 I agree with that because my experience with middle management
01:14:30.060 is that a lot of people's jobs
01:14:32.460 in middle management
01:14:33.080 are just doing office bullshit.
01:14:36.660 It's just arbitrary.
01:14:38.020 Justifying their own existence.
01:14:39.320 Exactly.
01:14:40.100 I bet you could get rid of most HR.
01:14:43.080 Like, imagine that.
01:14:43.860 Oh, yeah.
01:14:44.340 If there was no,
01:14:45.200 like, remove the office,
01:14:47.200 HR fucking goes away.
01:14:48.440 You actually just have
01:14:49.180 the department heads
01:14:50.080 and the leaders and the managers
01:14:51.180 and people who are, like, separate.
01:14:53.800 And this would appeal to people
01:14:55.900 the way it appeals to me and my wife
01:14:57.940 because my wife works from home
01:14:59.120 because we have a young child and we're probably gonna have a second on the way soon 1.00
01:15:03.640 um and so you know she works very hard she's but her her work day is 100 percent work it's not 0.77
01:15:11.780 commuting it's not bullshitting around the office it's not looking for snacks and whatnot it's not
01:15:18.340 parties and that it's just 100 percent work because she's very very efficient and then her
01:15:23.340 off time is spent walking to another room to visit her son which she would never be able to do
01:15:28.980 right so in her in her mind she's like oh i'm getting i'm getting less time spent on fucking
01:15:35.120 bullshit more work gets done and there's less interference from other people now she has to 1.00
01:15:40.780 check her slack and you know you have all the office shit but it seems to maximize the time
01:15:46.100 for people who have things going on in their lives other than work and then there's some people where
01:15:51.940 they seem to hate work from home because they had they don't have anything going on their lives
01:15:55.900 they're just single people right and they use work in the office for socializing or meeting a 0.98
01:16:00.640 fucking boyfriend or whatever it might be this sounds like i'm critical mainly to women because
01:16:05.200 those are the types of people who i see like being in the office more than guys don't like being in
01:16:10.500 the office i don't think and again there's no fucking data here but i would love to see
01:16:14.760 how this tilts male versus female but anyway so he says daily commutes into an office are simply
01:16:22.620 not coming back for competent people. Everyone I talk to who loves their craft would rather simply
01:16:27.720 not work than go back to wasting their lives in traffic. They would rather have that time purely
01:16:32.280 for working, which they can now do. The analogy, there's a dumb analogy here. The spell of the
01:16:38.640 office being a requisite for modern work was broken. The genie is impossible to put back in
01:16:43.820 the bottle. Everyone will adapt. So all we have left are bad bosses who want everyone to be
01:16:48.940 miserable in order to prop up their portfolios and some
01:16:52.040 percentage of mid managers who simply hate their lives and want
01:16:54.620 to pierce us in traffic for two hours a day. And before people
01:16:57.800 might think that sounds, you know, bombastic, that is true.
01:17:01.320 There's a lot of people who think they just want you to
01:17:03.780 suffer because that's their job. Their job is making you kind of
01:17:07.200 miserable to justify their job. Now, what do you think about
01:17:09.860 that? He's saying remote work one, yeah, remote work, being
01:17:15.100 here to stay. And that this is kind of tying in the last one,
01:17:18.260 which is that it might, as we start to automate more of these processes,
01:17:23.120 you'll have more people spending time outside the office just getting out of the traditional workspaces entirely
01:17:29.060 and filling that time with things at the home, which might include gardening,
01:17:33.920 which might include childcare, which might include maybe some of those trad or more wholesome things that we always talk about doing.
01:17:43.240 And if that's, of course, mainly white-collar jobs and, of course, mainly for people who want to pursue those things.
01:17:50.200 But anyway, what do you think about all that?
01:17:52.080 Well, first, just to address what you just said, I hope that that happens, but I don't think it will because the – you know what?
01:18:00.420 I won't even go – I'll start at the beginning here.
01:18:02.220 First of all, he says a couple of times in there, everybody that I know agrees.
01:18:06.560 We'd all much rather not get stuck in graphic.
01:18:09.380 Okay. The fact that you say everyone that I know agrees means you work in a bubble. You work in a bubble of people who have been offered work from home. I exist in the opposite bubble. I've worked across multiple industries in two countries over the past three years.
01:18:23.320 and I don't know a single person aside from people.
01:18:28.420 Well, okay, you and Ray are in a different industry for me
01:18:32.100 and I know you, so I know in your families
01:18:34.680 that there's been some work from home going on.
01:18:36.340 But in my industry, none of my coworkers
01:18:38.780 have ever done work from home.
01:18:40.700 So for me to say, oh, everybody agrees with you.
01:18:44.000 I literally have never seen personally firsthand
01:18:46.540 an example of a job that could be competently done
01:18:49.340 work from home because we build real things.
01:18:51.520 now going back to some of the earlier stuff i actually took notes on this
01:18:56.840 some minor notes you did prep you said no just now while while you were reading and i read it
01:19:04.040 earlier um you were saying and he also mentions like oh you know there's some of these jobs or
01:19:08.840 you had said actually there's some of these jobs that we could just remove except what he's talking
01:19:12.680 about is there are some of these jobs that can just be done from home so he's you're kind of
01:19:17.020 touching on it, but he's not getting to the full point, which is most of the jobs, and I do mean
01:19:22.480 most of the jobs that can be easily put in a work from home setting and they are equally as
01:19:28.880 productive. It's usually because they're not that productive to begin with and they could probably
01:19:35.360 just be removed. So that's one thing. And then related to that is the idea like, oh, I'm more
01:19:41.480 productive while working at home well more productive than what again probably because
01:19:47.140 you weren't that productive to begin with you're being paid a lot of money for something that's
01:19:50.700 pretty fucking easy to do isn't monitored and has no metrics so again can probably be taken away i
01:19:57.060 think what's actually going on here is there we're this is it's not a coincidence this is happening
01:20:01.720 at the same time as the push for ai and automation if we did not have a a quote a ostensibly
01:20:08.620 grassroots work from home movement while white collar jobs were being automated away then it
01:20:14.580 would be too easy to blame this all on the employer on big capital on whoever but as it stands these
01:20:22.320 people are the ones who will be crucified crucifying each other and us them when their
01:20:28.620 whole industry gets converted over to gemini and chat gpt which is going to happen in the next three
01:20:34.300 or four years because what because you are people who a work exclusively on a computer
01:20:38.720 your cooperation with other human beings is exclusively in text and occasionally on the
01:20:43.880 phone most of what you do is software and and it's all remote so you are the you're the number
01:20:50.720 one idiots to be completely replaced by ai and you're begging for it your employers are looking
01:20:56.120 you right in the eye pointing a gun at you right now and saying come back to work or else and
01:21:00.380 you're saying fuck you i'd rather be unemployed guess what you're unemployed by 2030 you're all
01:21:05.720 going to be replaced by ai and you're going to have only yourself to blame so here's why i think
01:21:10.100 they'll try and avoid that whenever they can because this is um when we covered a long time ago
01:21:17.260 the bell curve by charles murray and bringing that up because we mentioned bell curves a lot so far
01:21:22.680 um a lot of people who haven't read the book will miss what i think is the purpose of that book
01:21:29.400 because everyone pays attention to the racial statistics which are valid and true of course
01:21:33.400 but really what that book was about was introducing people to the idea of sort of the left tail
01:21:39.400 of the iq distribution and yes there are you know black people are off by like a couple standard
01:21:48.260 deviations or whatever from white people so they are on average dumber right um that means like
01:21:55.740 the dumbest black person you know is dumber than the dumbest white person and the smartest black
01:22:00.840 person in existence is nowhere near as smart as the smartest white person plus the average is
01:22:04.920 lower um but what that also misses is there's a lot of below average whites there's a lot like
01:22:12.760 regardless of you know comparing races the fact that matters if it was just white people there's
01:22:17.880 still a lot of lower iq whites or below average iq whites just based on the bell curve distribution
01:22:24.640 And we need to do something about that. And we don't have a society that's set up to deal with this huge population. And as we continue to automate and increase the unemployed, you are going to get a South America situation where these people are going to get violence.
01:22:42.720 And that's actually what inspired, I believe, Charles Murray's subsequent books.
01:22:47.600 He essentially makes the case later on, I think in his most recent book, that he recognized this in the bell curve.
01:22:53.240 And his solution is basically just universal basic income because he's looked at the data.
01:22:57.800 He's like, I don't know what to do about this because if unemployment reaches what we think it's going to be with automation,
01:23:04.480 it's like people are just going to start actually eating the rich.
01:23:08.040 Like you can't, there is no society with that many unemployed people.
01:23:10.720 So his solution is to pay them. I don't know what the other solution is, because if it is going to happen, like they're going to try as hard as they can to not call it unemployment or try to create.
01:23:21.080 And we talked about this with even with Marco Popic with geopolitical alpha, like we're moving towards a more socialist country.
01:23:29.460 There's more people willing to accept universal basic income. But I'm like, that's a bandaid solution.
01:23:35.740 Anyway, I know you're trying to get in here.
01:23:38.060 There's this same old little white lie, though, that the automation is going to replace the left tail of the bell curve.
01:23:43.020 It's not.
01:23:43.940 It's already like the vast majority of jobs have been replaced by automation have been a white collar.
01:23:50.380 No, no, you're misunderstanding.
01:23:51.680 You're misunderstanding completely.
01:23:52.460 I'm not saying it's going to replace the left curve.
01:23:54.040 I'm saying it's going to replace everyone.
01:23:55.800 Everyone is going to be on the side of that left bell curve.
01:24:00.580 There's going to be more unemployed people.
01:24:02.820 Right, right, right.
01:24:03.460 the left the left the left tail increases because everybody gets stuffed down there by automation
01:24:08.500 yeah basically we're all going to be broken unemployed like the if the unemployment rate
01:24:12.120 is like 70 of people because of automation it's like well now that means 70 of your population
01:24:17.520 doesn't have anything to fucking do and we don't really know what it's like for a nation like
01:24:22.340 america with its genetic stock to be in that situation so that's why i'm like right right
01:24:27.200 they got to come up with something because i think even the socialists know it's like there's
01:24:31.880 gonna be bloodshed at that point like what do we do like universal basic income is one thing but
01:24:37.440 it's like because like i'm with you i'm like i don't see automation of white collar work stopping
01:24:43.980 anytime soon so then what like maybe like you of course you're gonna see women leaving the workforce
01:24:49.480 but you know you're gonna see a lot of guys unemployed too and i don't know like i don't
01:24:54.540 have a solution i mean if we're talking i mean i think it wouldn't be that difficult to just
01:24:58.960 legislate it and i don't think you should legislate it but i mean frankly the reason that we have so
01:25:04.000 much uh automation in the first place is the same reason we have so much illegal immigration which
01:25:09.960 is legislation has through regulation has made it very difficult for normal you know white north
01:25:15.480 american people to actually work in a productive way and make decent money like they don't they
01:25:20.520 essentially don't want us to work they're creating situations where it's more profitable it's more
01:25:25.800 profitable to do the the automation than it is to work with people so i mean and i and i say that
01:25:31.960 like it's kind of hard to explain but like from a from a top-down perspective there's always going
01:25:35.680 to be an impetus to do that like big big capital in the banks and whoever always going to want to
01:25:40.060 do that but um like on an individual level if you were to ask a community of people regardless of
01:25:46.160 class or wealth like if you asked that took a poll in like a normal like a rust belt town
01:25:51.240 even the lawyers and the doctors there would be like no i'd prefer it if all of the people here
01:25:56.260 were gainfully employed nobody nobody from a cultural standpoint wants automation it's a
01:26:02.700 it's a like a it's a public bad you know it's a public evil and i think everybody if you probe
01:26:08.680 them understands that and the only people that benefit from it are the ones who are already the
01:26:14.600 wealthiest in the world so i'm not trying to be socialist but i'm just saying if we're talking
01:26:17.980 about it from a cultural like from a the point of legislation and government why is it being
01:26:23.280 allowed to happen because it we don't have to let it happen we can just fucking blow it up yeah well
01:26:28.920 you make a good point where it's like like we were saying with um from geopolitical alpha where
01:26:34.580 he's saying we moved from the washington consensus the buenos aires consensus meaning that even the
01:26:39.860 right wing used to be laissez-faire libertarian types like you're hearing more socialist friendly
01:26:45.360 talking points coming out of the conservative side of things like people are open to socialist
01:26:50.660 solutions to this problem and i think arguably maybe that's the only solution that can be because
01:26:56.040 yeah you can't break away from that system like that is the entire system like you
01:27:00.040 this is going to be fucking everything this is the economy this is you know i'll give you an
01:27:05.920 example that's super super uh reductio ad absurdum but i think it fits it makes the point tesla has
01:27:12.460 is a hyper advanced electric car with ai and this and that taking huge green subsidies from
01:27:20.180 the government right because it's green so they're essentially taking tax dollars and taxing you
01:27:23.920 further through inflation in order to pay for tesla to profit even though it's not because it's
01:27:29.140 a fucking dog of a company and then on the other hand if you and me wanted to for fun build a
01:27:35.500 project car from scratch and sell it to our buddy it's against the fucking law because it doesn't
01:27:41.880 have the green pass and it doesn't pass this test and the other test and on and on and on
01:27:46.720 there's a gate that prevents us from building and selling a car but the guy with the automation is
01:27:53.000 allowed to build and sell a car there's a million examples of this but this is what i'm talking
01:27:56.360 about if society wants x let people i'm open i love competition i say let people compete but as
01:28:03.640 soon as you put regulations in place like oh well we have we're not allowed like in california they're
01:28:08.380 not even going to let you drive gas cars in the next 10 years right so what the fuck like now
01:28:12.800 you're creating a market where one wasn't before for something that doesn't even exist yet giving
01:28:17.140 billions of dollars for automation and all this to those people and then guys that have spent three
01:28:21.820 generations building auto mechanic shops i guess they all have to go on fucking uh ubi like why
01:28:27.780 why are you doing this though everything was fine just fucking leave it alone jesus christ yeah you
01:28:34.000 know what's keeping this i'm just going to glance at this article because i need to move on to the
01:28:39.140 last thing here but this kind of ties everything together what you're saying but this sort of
01:28:45.200 system that's just lying to itself to perpetuate itself there's this article that's from 2017
01:28:50.380 on this website called ribbon farm and the title is the premium mediocre life of maya millennial
01:28:58.800 and it's uh this very very long article so i'm only going to mention a couple of things here
01:29:03.920 it's very very good um look that up if you have the time um but it's uh talking about this idea
01:29:10.280 of premium mediocre he says um he defines as premium mediocre is the finest bottle of wine
01:29:19.680 at olive garden premium mediocre is cupcakes and fro-yo premium mediocre is truffle oil and
01:29:25.480 anything with no truffles in it extra legroom seats and economy class premium mediocre is
01:29:30.580 cruise ships, artisan pizza, Game of Thrones, and the Bellagio. Premium mediocre is food that
01:29:36.400 Instagrams better than it tastes. So for example, imagine acquiring a pen from a leading luxury
01:29:43.320 brand. Now I'm not talking about the Mont Blancs of the world. I'm talking about Chanel, Dior,
01:29:51.140 Gucci, Prada, for example. But the pen isn't exceptional. It not only looks like a normal
01:29:58.340 pen but does exactly what a normal pen does in fact the pen wasn't any more expensive to produce
01:30:05.060 or to make than any of the other regular pens on the market like cross or schaefer for example the
01:30:12.260 only thing that distinguishes this pen is that it has the logo of a luxury brand on it luxury brands
01:30:20.100 do this now with a number of common products such as perfumes notebooks or sunglasses especially
01:30:26.900 all of which are mass-market, affordable, mediocre products
01:30:31.400 offered by luxury houses.
01:30:34.280 And basically, he says here,
01:30:36.700 the entire idea of the country that is France
01:30:39.580 is kind of premium mediocre.
01:30:41.040 The fact that Americans equate French with classy
01:30:43.340 is proof of premium mediocrity.
01:30:46.900 He says, at its broad, fuzzy edges,
01:30:49.380 premium mediocre is an expansive concept.
01:30:51.520 A global, cosmopolitan, and nationalist cultural big tent
01:30:55.800 It is arguably both suburban and neo-urban, red and blue, containing boomers and Gen Xers.
01:31:02.380 It includes Bluetooth headsets favored by red state farmers and the tiki torches favored by your friendly neighborhood Nazis.
01:31:09.000 It includes everything from Trump, anything Trump branded.
01:31:11.760 Basically, he makes a case down here that the presence of two features, being aware of one's own mediocrity and faking striving,
01:31:20.760 help distinguish premium mediocrity from several related concepts like middle class fancy
01:31:25.900 um he says here viewed as a voluntarily chosen consumption aesthetic premium mediocrity does
01:31:34.000 not make sense why would anyone knowingly pay too much for obviously inferior products and
01:31:39.160 experiences why would anyone pay a premium merely to present a facade of upward striving why would
01:31:45.460 you give up consumption value for signaling value if none of your in-group peers, among whom you're
01:31:51.160 trying to describe status, is actually fooled by the signaling. Who is this illusion for? Part of
01:31:56.860 the answer, in one word, is parents. Premium mediocrity is part a theater put on by this
01:32:03.060 archetype, Maya Millennial, the girl who's laughing at her salad and all the stock photos,
01:32:08.120 is in part to spare the feelings of their parents. Intergenerational love, not intergenerational war.
01:32:13.580 the premium mediocre harbor few illusions about their economic condition the false consciousness
01:32:19.480 at the heart of it is manufactured for the benefit of a parental generation that is convinced
01:32:24.220 it's set its kids up for success in the blame the millennials generational war we sometimes forget
01:32:30.720 that millennials are the children of boomers and that by and large broken families aside there's
01:32:34.740 genuine affection going both ways it's important for parents to believe that their hard work through
01:32:40.160 that late 80s and 90s
01:32:41.320 was not for nothing,
01:32:42.860 that they succeeded as parents,
01:32:44.760 that despite everything,
01:32:46.060 their kids are all right.
01:32:51.140 So the false consciousness
01:32:53.260 is one manufactured
01:32:54.740 for the benefit of parents
01:32:55.680 who desperately want to believe
01:32:56.800 that they succeeded as parents
01:32:58.080 and that their kids are thriving
01:32:59.140 and is manufactured by kids
01:33:00.940 who almost as desperately
01:33:02.200 want to spare their parents
01:33:03.340 the pain of knowing
01:33:04.380 that they aren't thriving.
01:33:06.380 So he's basically saying
01:33:07.480 that this, like,
01:33:08.220 i guess mediocre premium mediocre is like just this lie of upward mobility this lie of buying
01:33:15.140 the nice version of something that sucks to signal across generations that things are kind of
01:33:20.940 okay now what do you think about that i'm kind of skipping around here but i wanted to find what it
01:33:25.300 is and what it related to with one aspect which was like intergenerational communication what do
01:33:32.660 you think about that yeah it makes sense i i think the only thing that doesn't seem obvious to me is
01:33:38.040 that it would be modern like that this wouldn't have already happened between the boomers and
01:33:42.760 their parents or the generation before but yeah it does seem it's an interesting idea that you know
01:33:48.560 it's uh you know buying the the buying the better brand of margarine instead of no name
01:33:55.340 is like the your signal that the kids are all right yeah yeah yeah um that that just ties a
01:34:02.540 bow on the last thing we were talking about but it touches on this other idea that's a very
01:34:07.260 interesting seg you into the book i want to talk about which was telling a lie across many
01:34:14.180 generations for the sake of keeping up some kind of simulation that serves some kind of societal
01:34:21.000 benefit uh so i read a very interesting book it's one book that mentions a lot of other books maybe
01:34:29.400 i picked a strange book to uh to do this with but um hold on a second the book is titled a guide to
01:34:38.880 the phantom dark age by emmet scott um and so a lot of people might have heard of the phantom dark
01:34:46.140 age and i'd heard about it but never read about it um and i as i was looking into it there seems
01:34:52.960 to be some debate on the actual years that this pertains to but in short i'll just tee this up
01:35:00.200 basically what the the the window of history that we commonly know as the dark age never happened
01:35:09.100 that's the thesis here um and there's a strong case made for it in a few of these books um i've
01:35:18.040 heard some pushback on it from people who correctly say, well, that's insane because we do have a
01:35:24.900 significant amount of recorded history from that time. It wasn't, there's nothing from the dark
01:35:30.520 ages. However, I think it does, it makes an interesting case. I'm going to talk about a
01:35:35.600 couple of sources from here. And I just found the idea fascinating because a lot of people take this
01:35:40.000 very seriously. And I do think it has societal implications. Now, just off the top, have you
01:35:46.340 heard of this before it's the theory that like a good few hundred years of the dark ages never
01:35:53.100 happened and they just moved the books forward because some dumb king wanted to his reign to
01:35:57.860 start in the year 1000 or something yeah basically they moved the year it's the the years between
01:36:02.780 1615 and 1915 never happened so we are that's right whoa that's not what i heard that's wild
01:36:10.560 1615 1615 and 1915 so no no no sorry sorry sorry um that's stupid 615 and nine one yeah
01:36:20.420 okay okay you scared this i'm like hold on so like the baroque era up till world war one didn't
01:36:28.140 actually honestly there's some people that did believe that there's a it's the year's 615 to
01:36:36.520 915 yeah so this would but that was what you're saying because they wanted to bring the calendar
01:36:41.580 and kind of spoiling the end here but bring it closer to the year 1000 and it was just using
01:36:46.320 some what we might call modern calendar theory just to change some numbers in in the books and
01:36:53.620 make it we owe it to ourselves phantom phantom dark age is time we owe to ourselves
01:37:00.260 just to summarize we would if this were true we'd currently be living around the 1700s
01:37:08.660 um and what's interesting is you know you hear that and you think well what does that actually
01:37:14.000 mean why does that matter and i think there's an interesting implication buried in there but
01:37:19.280 we'll get to that in a second but so i'll quote the book here just to give the full scope here
01:37:24.520 It says,
01:37:54.520 of a continent that had sunk into a primitive level of existence, with literature and other
01:37:59.600 civilized arts all but disappearing. Also called the Dark Ages, or medieval times,
01:38:06.260 most people associate this time with brutal cruelty, devastating wars, and great plagues.
01:38:13.120 Worse, it's often considered as a time when society, academics, and the arts did a backward
01:38:18.040 slide. Although there were wars, plagues, and a fair share of cruelty during the Middle Ages,
01:38:24.520 it's the dark age because there's so little records of it.
01:38:29.500 And one reason that is, you know, I'll just give the,
01:38:32.640 I'm going to steel man the opposition to this entire theory.
01:38:36.940 Because if, if this were true,
01:38:39.140 that would also mean that Charlemagne never existed.
01:38:42.560 That would also seem to imply that Muhammad never existed.
01:38:46.640 He'll get to that later on,
01:38:47.640 but there's actually a couple of historical figures that if this were true,
01:38:51.400 were just complete fabrications.
01:38:53.140 and there's a there's a lot riding on charlemagne the figure from history um but one argument is
01:39:02.120 that the dark ages weren't actually that dark that that was more not propaganda but that was
01:39:08.980 more created by the christian church um the catholics primarily but christians probably
01:39:14.120 to denote a period of darkness before the ascendance of christianity to define europe
01:39:21.000 So it almost wanted to sell us on the story that pre-Christian, that whole era was just darkness and death and ignorance until they showed up.
01:39:31.820 So to steel man the argument against this, it would be that, well, it wasn't actually that dark.
01:39:36.320 You know, there were actually there were records.
01:39:38.360 There was it wasn't literacy did decline.
01:39:42.480 Trade did decline on account of the Muslims and breaking up trade routes.
01:39:47.060 but there was there was history being written down insofar as history was written down back then
01:39:54.180 maybe not as much as now obviously but it's still there so you know the entire idea of it being dark
01:39:58.920 was itself propaganda that's what they would say but he's basically saying that no he's gonna make
01:40:05.400 a more comprehensive argument that you know that whole block of time actually makes more sense if
01:40:10.820 you take both ends of that era and tie them together that's what i'm gonna say next this
01:40:16.060 parts you know and by the way i'm going to quote the claims made in the book i have in fact checked
01:40:20.780 all of them so you know if he does make a historical claim blame him not me i haven't
01:40:26.520 checked this against five other fucking books um i'm saying that because of this next part i don't
01:40:32.580 know if this is true but he says using the most up-to-date mathematics that's afraid you know i
01:40:37.800 don't like using the word up-to-date mathematics that's a quote from the book he said so that kind
01:40:42.920 of sounds clunky but using the most up-to-date mathematics as well as knowledge of celestial
01:40:47.740 mechanics modernist modern astronomers can calculate very precisely where each and every
01:40:53.700 solar eclipse was visible in the past few thousand years the astonishing thing is that not a single
01:40:58.720 solar eclipse reported by the ancient authors can be confirmed by modern retro calculation however
01:41:03.820 scholars have now also noted a curious feature if three centuries is added to the date of the
01:41:10.000 ancient eclipse as provided by the roman author then it lifts then it fits almost precisely with
01:41:15.400 the modern calculation so this book is start stating that the premise that three centuries
01:41:19.880 between ad 615 and 915 never existed and all the phantom years inserted in the calendar during the
01:41:26.680 early middle ages were just completely made up um here is the main story of who did it and why
01:41:34.720 so this is a big chunk of right i'm just going to read it but this is the key to the entire thing
01:41:39.260 He says,
01:42:09.260 Otto I, and this is the main guy here, Otto I or Otto the Great, who is said to have revived the Holy Roman Empire in the 10th century after it again went to abeyance in the 9th, is now seen as a Germanic king who revived the Western Europe, not in 962, but 662, a little more than a couple of decades after the ride of Byzantium by the Arabs.
01:42:31.640 But in claiming the imperial crown of the West, Otto I was taking an unprecedented step,
01:42:37.680 a Germanic prince robing himself in the purple of the Caesars.
01:42:42.840 Otto, a descendant of Charlemagne, is the first since his illustrious ancestor to assert his authority with effect.
01:42:51.520 He suppressed the rebellious barons and brings centralized control to the Saxon and many of the German states.
01:42:59.140 In 951 he achieves a victory in northern Italy, adding Lombardy to his kingdom.
01:43:05.300 Between the death of Charlemagne and the crowning of Otto, Europe was plagued with internal strife,
01:43:11.220 as well as regular invasions of pagan forces from the east.
01:43:15.380 Especially the devastating and regular invasions of the Maguars.
01:43:20.020 Otto alone, on the continent of Europe, took a strong stand against the invaders.
01:43:25.480 What he did wasn't heard of.
01:43:27.200 There wasn't one guy who's ever done this before,
01:43:29.000 and a historical precedent would have to be very useful
01:43:32.000 from Otto I's point of view.
01:43:34.060 So he's not the first guy to do it.
01:43:36.240 There was another king that set the precedent before him.
01:43:39.780 Otto the Great, crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 962,
01:43:43.600 was not just a strategic genius,
01:43:45.200 but also rumored to possess a talking sword,
01:43:47.800 offering sage advice in battles.
01:43:49.820 His rule blended military might with a touch of legend,
01:43:52.520 making him a fascinating figure in medieval European history.
01:43:56.320 It's well understood that when medieval kings needed a precedent,
01:44:00.620 they simply invented one.
01:44:02.180 So one was created, and thus was born the myth of Charlemagne.
01:44:06.400 And if one is to create a fictitious German emperor,
01:44:09.800 such a figure, along with the ancestors and progeny,
01:44:12.540 would need two or three centuries in which to reign,
01:44:15.200 and one would therefore be involved in a general distortion of chronology.
01:44:19.000 So in short, what he's saying is that this guy, Otto I, Otto the Great, wanted a present for a German king to be ruling this large of a kingdom.
01:44:28.980 So they basically invented Charlemagne out of whole cloth, or rather not out of whole cloth, but rather pulled from other kings in the past.
01:44:37.640 That is the claim in the book.
01:44:38.860 I would say that would be the most contentious claim because there's a lot of scholars of Charlemagne out there.
01:44:45.340 Right.
01:44:46.080 So that's all I'm saying.
01:44:47.320 but that is the it was made by this one guy now it says historians have long been aware of the
01:44:54.640 fact that the autonians were the founders of what might be called the cult of charlemagne
01:44:59.000 though why this should be the case has never been adequately explained um according to illig this
01:45:05.500 charlemagne was a fictitious character illig is a an author that he was basing a lot of this book
01:45:10.520 on there's been other writers and authors who probed in the history of this uh the charlemagne
01:45:15.160 was a fictitious character and he notes the inability of archaeologists to find anything
01:45:19.500 substantial of either himself or his supposed empire even his greatest monument the cat the
01:45:26.300 chapel of the cathedral at aiken is revealed upon close inspection to have been built in the 11th
01:45:31.480 century a fact proved in great deal by elix so again i'm admittedly suspicious of any of these
01:45:39.640 revisionist history books that seem to point to one other book um i've seen this a lot with like
01:45:44.820 the ancient astronaut ancient alien stuff where you have all these authors a proliferation of
01:45:50.540 writers talking about ancient astronaut theory but it kind of points back to just this one book
01:45:55.000 one guy wrote in the 70s which i think was called chariot of the gods but it's just them expounding
01:46:00.060 on this one book that just some guy wrote yeah there's no primary no primary source no primary
01:46:05.600 research being done here he's just reading other books and making a theory and and one main book
01:46:12.480 just one book in particular and it might be a great book i haven't read that book but i'm just
01:46:16.180 saying you see him brought up a lot and you know i would like some more hard data there's not a lot
01:46:22.400 of hard data in this whatever um he said if the dark age never existed and this is what i think
01:46:28.200 the social implication is if the dark age never existed then the west never went into terminal
01:46:34.320 decline as it entered the christian age on the contrary the revival of the roman world under
01:46:39.720 the influence of christianity uh which had commenced so promisingly in the fifth and sixth
01:46:44.600 centuries continued into the seventh and eighth centuries uh during which time europe experienced
01:46:50.320 a mini renaissance so he kind of makes a point there it's like at the end of the roman empire
01:46:56.160 then you have the dark ages begin then right at the end of the dark ages you have this sort of
01:47:01.080 roman revival this re-interest in a re-ignition of sort of roman architecture and roman but he's
01:47:09.540 make the argument it's like well what if you just smash those bookends together and it was the fall
01:47:14.440 of rome that just continued straight on into this sort of roman revival period and then off into
01:47:20.560 history it wouldn't he's saying that that 300 years then they just rediscovered rome and started
01:47:26.860 off over again because he was making a point it's like look they were we found these wooden castles
01:47:32.920 because castle building had been going on in europe for a long time but oftentimes they weren't stone
01:47:36.740 yet they're made of wood he's like you've had these stone castles built on the sites where the
01:47:41.920 former wood castles were he's like you know but then that's like wood castle 300 years then they
01:47:48.120 built a stone castle on top it's like well what if they just built a stone castle around
01:47:51.680 the wood castle and it was there was no 300 years in between that european castles were also a
01:47:59.140 problem illig found plenty of castles built right up until the year 600 and plenty built after the
01:48:05.300 year 1000, but there's no trace of anything built in between.
01:48:08.900 Now Illig had found a document that claimed that almost 1700 structures were built during
01:48:13.700 the missing years.
01:48:14.700 But when he traced those structures, he noticed 97% of them were gone.
01:48:20.380 No evidence they ever existed.
01:48:22.160 The list was a forgery, a fake that intended to rewrite history.
01:48:28.080 But certainly there would be archaeology that would prove these years happened, right?
01:48:33.060 of human settlements actual human remains yeah no no in 1986 archaeologists noticed there was
01:48:42.180 very little evidence of medieval towns during a certain period there was a gap that lasted from
01:48:47.060 650 to 910. specifically in germany not a single discovery was attributed to this time not a single
01:48:54.020 one um again i don't have the exact primary sources in front of me but that's basically what
01:49:00.900 what he's saying he said this would be a total rethink of christianity's impact and the old
01:49:08.220 notion of these here's what i like here's what's maybe the most interesting thing alongside that
01:49:12.780 is that the old notion of the islamic golden age coexisting for centuries with a darkened
01:49:18.460 and primitive europe will need to be abandoned islam's epoch of economic and scientific
01:49:24.240 superiority is now revealed to have been a much shorter than hitherto imagined no more than a few
01:49:30.000 decades and to have been but the final afterglow of the glories of the sassanid persia an afterglow
01:49:36.940 which was shortly extinguished under the dead weight of islamic theocracy i thought that was
01:49:41.380 interesting so like this you hear this all the time the islamic renaissance islam saved all this
01:49:46.840 european history it's like well maybe it just didn't because that seems out of character for
01:49:50.560 them doesn't it yeah it seems that they were like the most european like they the europeans just
01:49:56.540 became Arabs, and Arabs became Europeans, and then
01:49:58.500 switched back. That's a weird thing to have just
01:50:00.460 happened. So he's like, yeah, maybe it fucking didn't.
01:50:02.920 I'm like, okay, hmm, interesting.
01:50:06.940 And he says here, archaeology
01:50:08.420 began to show an astonishing continuity
01:50:10.620 between the world of late antiquity
01:50:12.520 and the Middle Ages. Thus, it was
01:50:14.440 noted that a Merovingian architecture
01:50:16.600 in Gaul during the 6th century and early
01:50:18.600 7th centuries bore a striking resemblance
01:50:20.720 to the Romanesque architecture
01:50:22.880 of France during the 10th and 11th
01:50:24.780 century so that's what i was talking about but the building seems similar um he says when we
01:50:29.400 come to examine ordinary towns and villages as opposed to important monuments we find a similar
01:50:34.280 pattern numerous cities as well as towns and villages appear to have been occupied continuously
01:50:39.720 from the roman period right through the middle ages and beyond um and here's the interesting
01:50:46.500 part i find um it says characters and events of the seventh century seem to find strange echoes
01:50:53.540 300 years later and to repeat themselves in the 10th century during the 7th century france was
01:50:58.800 controlled by the merovingian franks for example whose most important kings bore names like clovis
01:51:04.840 and clothar whilst during the 10th century france was controlled by the carolaginian franks
01:51:10.360 whose most important kings bore the names of lewis and lothar he's basically saying that
01:51:14.920 during the entire dark ages they just made up kings that sounded like the kings that were in
01:51:20.040 regular time um very lazily with names that sound similar and you'll find like this empire seems to
01:51:27.560 now that here's the argument against that that a lot of these times names weren't that creative
01:51:33.560 you know i mean like what you could just name your a father naming his son a name that sounds
01:51:39.880 kind of like his isn't out of the ordinary especially for people like in our culture that
01:51:45.740 just slap the word junior on the other name right so or also like centuries pass and the way that
01:51:51.560 words are spelt and spoken change especially in a world with very little literacy like it's not
01:51:56.200 weird for a language to shift even over two generations so like i don't to me that's not a
01:52:00.660 point at all like that's just kind of silly and here's how we got away with it so people are
01:52:06.780 wondering well how do they add all this all these dates and whatnot and i think this part i found
01:52:12.120 the most interesting and i think this is the best case that it makes that it could have happened so
01:52:18.120 here we go basically how they could just add all these dates he says it's almost universally
01:52:23.100 assumed that following the conversion of the roman empire to christianity in the years after
01:52:28.280 constantine the peoples of the west immediately adopted the anno domini system this however was
01:52:34.120 not the case when constantine came to power the romans employed a dizzying variety of calendars
01:52:39.500 some dating to the time of alexander some to the time of julius caesar and others to the time of
01:52:44.220 augustus mostly dates were numbering according to the uh regnal years of the reigning emperor
01:52:51.420 with the former abolition of the western empire in 476 the centralized roman bureaucracy
01:52:57.740 with its record keeping all disappeared its place there arose much smaller localized bureaucracies
01:53:03.820 working with various Gothic, Vandal, and Frankish kings.
01:53:07.880 Basically, Christians of that period were not particularly interested
01:53:11.080 in how long it had been since Christ's birth.
01:53:13.980 So long story short, everyone was using different calendars.
01:53:17.040 There was actually no standardized calendar.
01:53:19.820 You had these kingdoms, these fiefdoms, or these areas.
01:53:22.000 And furthermore, kind of like now, most people didn't really give a shit.
01:53:27.640 You know, like if you were to go to most people on the street right now,
01:53:30.060 I said, guess what? Instead of the year 2000, we're actually living in the year 1700.
01:53:36.100 They wouldn't care. Like, well, what does that have to do with my life? How does that affect anything?
01:53:42.500 So that is to say, this could be done without the average common person caring, especially back then.
01:53:50.640 Even if you weren't literate, by the way, you wouldn't give a shit about any of this.
01:53:54.900 And if you did, you didn't really care about how far you were from Christ's death.
01:53:59.640 It was more like the dawn of history.
01:54:01.660 So a lot of their calendars went back to the year 5,000, 6,000,
01:54:04.560 things like that.
01:54:06.080 What's interesting to me about this, though,
01:54:08.640 and this isn't discussed in the book,
01:54:10.000 this is kind of a meta point,
01:54:11.240 but I'm like, it challenges the idea
01:54:13.000 that after the fall of an empire,
01:54:15.960 there is a dark period.
01:54:18.380 Because the Dark Ages,
01:54:20.440 let's just assume this is true.
01:54:22.320 The mythology of the Dark Ages
01:54:23.760 weighs very heavy in our minds.
01:54:26.520 because we're consumed with apocalyptic visions we're consumed all of us everyone in our media
01:54:32.260 in our pop culture we're obsessed with the downfall of society from zombie apocalypses to
01:54:39.180 fucking you know totalitarian regimes and wastelands and whatnot that's a good chunk of
01:54:44.620 what we talk about then there's climate change then there's the news and everything but there's
01:54:50.440 this belief that when society falls we will enter into a dark age i liked the idea that this
01:54:54.780 challenges that like maybe after an empire falls there isn't a dark age maybe after an empire falls
01:55:00.280 people just kind of keep going on the empire is not there but the towns are there the villages
01:55:05.040 are there you know there's no like 300 years of suffering and darkness i don't know that just
01:55:14.420 seemed interesting to me that seemed a bit more hopeful because i do think our our automatic
01:55:20.200 belief in uh dark age comes from this and if this that doesn't exist and that changes
01:55:25.460 our entire conceptualization of the fall of empires what do you think about that i don't
01:55:31.660 know that's maybe optimistic but you know what do you think i mean to me this is kind of like
01:55:35.800 some other people i've heard try to explain why nuclear bombs aren't real and it's like you read
01:55:42.520 a little bit and you kind of explain some of the moving parts and say see if you look at it this
01:55:46.960 way it's almost like it that never even happened and it's all been one big psyop and um yeah but
01:55:52.720 that's presupposing that everybody else who's ever thought this through hadn't you know hadn't
01:55:58.580 really thought it through that well and i don't think i guess what it is is like it's very it's
01:56:02.800 a lot of conceit to think that you're so much smarter than 500 years of scholarship that nobody
01:56:09.300 else ever noticed these fucking patterns and even like what you just said the idea that well maybe
01:56:13.880 the only reason we think that societies can collapse into illiteracy after the fall of a
01:56:18.380 civilization is because of this one neat trick like i don't think so i think i think probably
01:56:23.040 most of those pieces do actually fit together the way that we all have thought that they do for 500
01:56:27.720 years i'm not i'm not ready to throw away half a millennia of um of our cultural history because
01:56:36.040 a goomba read a book about a book so not i'm not satisfied that's fine now he kind of makes a point
01:56:45.780 here that's interesting because it it jives very well with sort of the apocalyptic millennarianism
01:56:51.360 of that jim haugen book decadence we talked about he says here by the fourth and fifth centuries
01:56:56.540 christians no longer saw the second coming as imminent but remained very interested in the
01:57:01.780 question of when it would occur. In preparation for this great event, believers were not cremated
01:57:06.800 like the pagan Romans, but entombed in vast and growing labyrinths of catacombs under the streets
01:57:12.520 of Rome and the other cities of the empire. The ancient and popular doctrine of the millennium
01:57:18.100 was intimately connected with the second coming of Christ. Thus, it could be determined exactly
01:57:23.240 how many years had passed since creation. It might be possible to predict Christ's return
01:57:27.320 might be expected now he says here in pre-modern society this creation of two or three
01:57:33.020 extra centuries was not so difficult to do in those days there's no public libraries or free
01:57:38.360 education furthermore the closing of the mediterranean by the arabs and the termination
01:57:43.680 of the papyrus supply to europe around 640 there was an immediate and dramatic decline in literacy
01:57:49.560 upon the continent now sidebar it almost sounds like he's explaining the dark ages
01:57:56.960 hey who would have thought yeah it sounds like well that yeah there's no doubt that the
01:58:04.300 trade routes were closing that the trade routes of papyrus caused literacy to plummet well that
01:58:10.460 that also sounds kind of like a dark ages thing to me but you know let's let's that might be just
01:58:15.280 let's just move on past that
01:58:17.060 almost overnight
01:58:19.700 the Roman tradition of an educated and literate
01:58:21.720 laity came to an end
01:58:22.920 since all writing had now to be done
01:58:25.060 upon extremely expensive parchment
01:58:26.900 literacy rapidly became the
01:58:28.960 providence of churchmen
01:58:30.700 in such circumstances
01:58:33.160 it would not have been difficult for
01:58:34.620 Ottonian propagandists to enhance
01:58:37.000 the prestige of a half
01:58:38.500 forgotten or semi-legendary
01:58:41.200 Merovingian king whose nickname
01:58:43.160 was Carl or Carlos
01:58:45.060 and who may or may not have been briefly claimed
01:58:47.700 the title of emperor.
01:58:48.900 Such a figure could then be used as a basis
01:58:50.580 for an early imperial and German dynasty,
01:58:53.900 thus Charlemagne.
01:58:55.960 Otto III, the progeny of Otto I,
01:59:00.360 something of a religious fanatic,
01:59:02.040 may, according to Illig,
01:59:03.560 may, this is speculation now,
01:59:05.540 but may, have conceived the notion
01:59:07.760 that he could be the one to reign
01:59:09.980 at the start of the millennium
01:59:11.120 and that he, as Christ's temporal representative,
01:59:13.700 should be the one to rule in his name and so working with the cooperation of the pope
01:59:18.480 he decreed that new year's day 701 the very day that the ruler of the mighty kingdom hungary
01:59:24.360 was also crowned as a christian monarch should be celebrated as new year's day 1001
01:59:29.540 he also says that document forgery was something of an industry during the middle ages that's not
01:59:36.500 backed up but maybe it's true illic contends that documents from the phantom time often exhibit
01:59:41.940 inconsistencies in their dating. He claims that certain charters, papal bulls, and royal decrees
01:59:48.080 from this period show signs of manipulation, such as anachronistic language or references to events
01:59:53.320 that occurred after the supposed time they were written. According to Illig, these inconsistencies
01:59:58.580 suggest a deliberate manipulation of historical documents during the phantom time period.
02:00:04.740 These, as noted above, were not produced by amateurs but by men of immense irradiation.
02:00:09.700 erudite erudition uh those basically he's saying that you know they could just forge a bunch of
02:00:17.000 documents um yeah that's basically the entire uh phantom dark ages theory um before but also
02:00:25.600 what he gets to in the book is you know is this just in europe or is the same dark ages found
02:00:32.540 elsewhere now he claims that there's also a similar dark ages in the middle east um there's
02:00:38.260 this period of time where there's just not a lot of stuff known um and i'm not a scholar on
02:00:44.560 islamic culture but let's just say that that's true i'm just going to go into his claims about
02:00:52.280 muhammad because this is a pretty you know you say this to a muslim to probably get your head
02:00:57.120 chopped off huh um long story short he's basically saying that muhammad was made up and is a
02:01:02.780 substitute for christ um he says um the word muhammad in arabic and syriac implies the praised
02:01:12.760 one or chosen one and may be a title or epithet as much as a real name as a personal name muhammad
02:01:19.480 is in fact unattested before the 7th century and indeed considering the word's meaning it's
02:01:24.720 unlikely that anyone named muhammad ever existed in arabia before this time in short even if an
02:01:31.560 arab prophet and war leader called muhammad existed it's highly likely that this name was
02:01:36.140 only given to him after his death or at least late in life but the fact that the figure on the coins
02:01:42.540 is holding a cross that seemed to indicate very strongly that the praised one in question was not
02:01:46.720 the prophet of islam but jesus of nazareth we're talking about some coins that were discovered to
02:01:52.080 that were purportedly showing muhammad carrying a cross um uh this is made more likely when we
02:01:59.340 consider the strong links between jesus and muhammad in islamic tradition the evidence then
02:02:04.540 taken together would suggest that no arabian prophet named muhammad existed and that muhammad
02:02:09.180 was originally a title of jesus this means that what we now claim call islam did not exist until
02:02:15.180 the near the end of the seventh century or even into the first half the eighth what existed before
02:02:20.380 was proto-islam a branch of arabian christian sect other than is known as by
02:02:25.980 ebbientism shouldn't have any sort of religion that ends in pism that's not good right yeah
02:02:34.720 uh the muslims followed the christians in inserting about 300 phantom years in the
02:02:40.580 calendar and a prophet muhammad was made to live three centuries before the actual spread of arab
02:02:46.560 christianity or proto-islam throughout the middle east yeah so basically the whole end of the book
02:02:52.340 is just saying that muhammad was made up and muhammad was a figure that was confused at the
02:02:57.760 time they're actually referring to jesus that became i'm not sure i that'd be nice you know
02:03:02.840 i kind of want to believe that because it would be funny you know what i mean like it'd be funny
02:03:07.780 if muhammad was just made up uh but it doesn't seem unreal to me that there was just an arab
02:03:15.180 warlord that created this whole thing and that would you know mesh very well with what we know
02:03:21.020 about islam you know because that's something he needs to really explain away with the phantom
02:03:26.620 dark age again because we're saying that you know during this age where nothing happened well there's
02:03:32.180 at least two historically relevant figures muhammad and charlemagne you know i mean so i guess you need
02:03:39.960 to answer for that and i you know i'm i'm like you i'm not sold there's some interesting stuff in
02:03:46.660 there um it seems plausible enough that they could have uh i just haven't seen a huge amount
02:03:54.540 of evidence that they did what do you think about all that i mean i again i i think i think for me
02:04:02.080 to consider it plausible you'd have to show something like for example you mentioned at the
02:04:06.660 beginning there's a whole field of scholarship just surrounding charlemagne there's obviously
02:04:10.920 an entire civilization that's existed for 500 years which has been studying just muhammad
02:04:15.760 but between those two alone i'm look if you want to make it let's have a let's you don't need a
02:04:21.500 book to prove this you need a hundred years and an entire new field of study to prove it
02:04:25.760 i just see it's kind of um it's like the perfect example of a conspiracy theory it's really cool
02:04:32.960 like it's really neat and funny but like i don't believe it for a second no i just wanted to end
02:04:38.140 on one thing here this was also forwarded to me because some people were heard we were talking
02:04:42.480 about phantom time again let me just end by saying you know i'm open to hearing more about it
02:04:47.960 um the more i thought about it and read it like the more it also seemed to explain why a dark age
02:04:54.880 might have occurred if we do agree that the muslims were shattering the trade routes and
02:04:59.500 caused a wave of illiteracy in europe um anyway this was forward to me it was called greenland
02:05:06.940 theory i'm looking at stolen history.net um apparently this is a a movie but um this is
02:05:16.280 i'm gonna read it here brilliant theory the time period commonly referred to as the dark ages was
02:05:21.320 literally and figuratively dark because it never existed in reality the reason being that after
02:05:27.400 the alleged fall of the roman empire so we're already calling the fall of the roman empire
02:05:31.380 a legend yeah yeah come on a total of 1300 years ratted to the modern gregorian calendar
02:05:38.520 representing the 13 bloodlines of rome so before we're talking about three centuries before now
02:05:44.400 we're talking about 1300 years that's insane this was done in order to hide rome's secret move
02:05:51.460 okay i'm sorry this was done in order to hide rome's secret move to greenland
02:05:57.820 by deceiving the world into thinking the Roman Empire
02:06:01.240 was far older than it actually was.
02:06:03.880 This is the good shit.
02:06:05.060 This should have just been it.
02:06:09.140 It should have been it, the whole thing.
02:06:11.820 Making the likelihood of the demise seem more plausible.
02:06:14.100 Once in Greenland, the Roman Empire used Roman Britain,
02:06:20.580 i.e. Britannia, as the subsequent British Empire
02:06:23.800 to whitewash their military presence and dominion around the world.
02:06:27.820 So it sounds like Rome's still in Greenland.
02:06:30.680 I'm not seeing here that Rome fell ever.
02:06:34.580 It's just in Greenland right now.
02:06:36.720 And if you went there, I assume you would see Roman architecture.
02:06:40.940 Rome never fell, and Caesar lived 600 years ago.
02:06:45.020 You think Atlantis sunk, you fucking fool.
02:06:48.800 Atlantis is, have you looked?
02:06:50.500 It's there.
02:06:51.860 Have you bothered even looking?
02:06:53.420 Everyone keeps saying, what?
02:06:55.060 Come on, guys.
02:06:55.840 No one actually just opened Google Earth to look where Atlantis should be and saw that Atlantis is just fucking there.
02:07:04.000 By speaking the same language of English and wearing the same military uniforms, i.e. the red coats, the Roman Empire was effectively able to hide their empire.
02:07:15.700 So just, you know, if people were misled, Rome still exists because they dressed in costumes to look like British people.
02:07:22.320 uh this notion is evident in the war flag of the holy roman empire which features the same
02:07:27.640 design and color as the flag of england oh god oh sorry there's also i'm looking at a forum here
02:07:37.780 and there's a lot of links here um 10 things you must do to get into heaven uh 911 truther.org
02:07:44.980 um well i just want to read a couple more things i know we gotta get going i just want to read a
02:07:49.980 couple more things here um yeah rome evidently faked his own death in seven seven hundred fifteen
02:07:56.460 years ago and now except exerts command and control over all 206 nations of the world
02:08:03.140 through its primary proxy state of switzerland switzerland which in brackets here says home of
02:08:10.080 the cia really is like is that is that something you've heard and she has a link here it just says
02:08:19.900 sight not found okay this is the source for cia okay whatever which was coincidentally formed
02:08:26.380 in 1300 a.d um roughly 1300 years were added to the modern calendar taking the world to the day
02:08:33.400 2015 um the capital of the roman empire was the city of babylon and i'll that doesn't sound right
02:08:43.260 but it was later published
02:08:45.320 but it was later publicly
02:08:47.340 moved to Constantinople
02:08:49.000 the true capital was secretly moved to the new city
02:08:51.560 of Thule which was founded
02:08:53.620 on the island of Greenland
02:08:54.880 so Thule is also just in
02:08:57.580 Greenland
02:08:58.160 everything's in fucking Greenland
02:09:00.800 it sounds like
02:09:03.640 Switzerland is also in Greenland
02:09:05.800 the CIA is in Switzerland in Greenland
02:09:09.800 with Rome and Atlantis
02:09:11.400 Greenland's packed
02:09:13.040 Greenland's happening, man.
02:09:14.820 This is why today the countries of China and Iran
02:09:17.480 have the harshest and strictest forms of totalitarian fascist rule
02:09:20.680 for Rome cannot afford to have the respective histories
02:09:23.940 of these formerly great empires be brought into light.
02:09:27.280 The Romanization of Chinese was not restricted to only its language,
02:09:34.020 which now features English-like characters like 4, 6, 12, and 43.
02:09:41.860 What?
02:09:43.040 It came after years and years of Roman aggression
02:09:46.660 to which the Chinese
02:09:47.940 responsed by building what is
02:09:50.620 known as the Great Wall of China.
02:09:52.280 The Great Wall of China was to keep out Rome.
02:09:56.360 This is sounding more schizophrenic
02:09:58.300 as I'm reading it.
02:10:00.300 This is just like, oh yeah, also
02:10:02.160 this is random. It just seems
02:10:04.340 random here.
02:10:06.780 Anyway, I just wanted to,
02:10:07.960 we'll end on that. What a great way to
02:10:10.360 end Phantom Time Theory with
02:10:12.260 It's a real Phantom Time Theory.
02:10:15.700 So thank you, everyone, for listening.
02:10:18.460 I hope that made sense.
02:10:22.660 It'd be great if I just didn't hit record
02:10:24.760 of that fucking meandering nonsense.
02:10:29.180 Okay.
02:10:29.740 All right, man.
02:10:30.100 I'll talk to you later.
02:10:31.460 Yeah, man.
02:10:31.900 I'll see you later.
02:10:34.480 Hey, baby, I hear the blues 0.95
02:10:36.060 and call in top salad and scrambled eggs.
02:10:39.400 and maybe i seem a bit confused yeah maybe but i got you back
02:10:46.340 so so uh so this is dimes dime square
02:10:53.220 when dime square became poppin like originally everyone not everyone but a few people were
02:11:02.020 coming to me and like is that you are you is that are you this is that you are you dime square
02:11:08.500 is that literally you and i had to like look it up and then the more i looked it up the more
02:11:13.980 confused i got about what it was i know now but at the time be like yeah what is dime square dimes
02:11:19.020 i'm like i think i think it's people it's girls who meet up and smoke cigarettes and and call
02:11:25.820 other people gay i don't know it's it's theater i think it's pretty much it yeah it's it's jewish
02:11:31.920 girls who are pretending to be catholic uh meeting up and calling people gay that is more or less
02:11:39.560 uh what it is how's it going with you man how are things um it's going fine man it's going fine
02:11:48.380 uh it's fine it's fine i i uh you know it's been a rub i had all this shit going on um that was
02:11:59.920 um happening is a year's been rough so far that year's been very rough i you know i haven't
02:12:07.060 so you're also in marketing you're also yeah you are a guy who has my favorite website of anybody
02:12:12.840 in the scene by far everybody must check though you're i've had people like reach out to me about
02:12:19.040 your website like several times being like this is the fucking best website i've ever seen
02:12:23.120 uh it said bloodsatellite.ca which i guess stands for canada but yeah yeah yeah it's so you're you're
02:12:31.540 you can tell that you're kind of like in the design or marketing world because it's like uh
02:12:37.180 kind of a deep fried parody of uh like a shitty sass website or something yeah you know what the
02:12:46.040 inspiration was is that me and my friends um just by accident we stumbled across this website called
02:12:52.420 man.com so people i can look that up and as we were reading it it's a real company but for like
02:13:00.160 10 minutes i thought oh this this is a parody site because you're reading it it's got all this
02:13:04.600 corporate jargon and it it doesn't mean anything to just the average viewer and there was something
02:13:11.060 about that that as even though it's corporate jargon it's not like 90s jargon whereas oh it's
02:13:16.400 synergy it's you know balancing your parallel inflows it was like a modern form of corporate
02:13:22.880 jargon which is also trying to be woke and also trying to be like we're about sustainability
02:13:27.680 and future capitalizations not just present capitalizations so i'm like i like that i like
02:13:34.600 the corporate jargon that's also trying to that's coming out of guys who have tattoos you know so
02:13:41.700 that's what i was kind of trying to capture but it's hard like it's hard to parody that because
02:13:46.620 it's almost a parody of itself and yeah it's like i'm gonna take this and make it gayer well
02:13:52.860 it's already pretty gay so you can't make that gay there yeah yeah yeah it's it's hilarious it's
02:14:00.600 really good you have like a store you know i just had somebody on here jay burden and uh you did
02:14:06.980 like a thing for jay burden that was like some merch you have a lot of fucking hilarious shit
02:14:11.820 on here yeah it's called the good suffer store and we work with um a couple of content creators
02:14:17.940 trying to take up more of a direct marketing approach to the merchandise because there's
02:14:23.560 a lot of places and a lot of people that just kind of slap their logo up on stuff
02:14:27.220 and what we're trying to do is be a bit more this is the goal for this year be a bit more proactive
02:14:32.640 about working with creators to create something that could not only appeal to their audiences,
02:14:38.040 but also if you saw this in a store, then you'd be like, oh, that's interesting. I'll put that
02:14:44.880 sticker on my laptop. I have a whole list of t-shirt ideas that I want to do. I want to launch
02:14:51.000 my own store. The Prudentialist has his own store. I just bought one of his mugs. We all need to up
02:14:55.960 our swag game times a billion. Are you familiar with pizza slime?
02:15:02.640 yeah yeah i know about that yeah so pizza slime really started this like meme to merch thing
02:15:08.100 and so they they have like all kind they were the ones who started the era one sweatpants
02:15:13.580 they have the stop looking at my dick sweatpants they were kind of like the original like deep
02:15:18.860 fried merch store and now there's another one like in sean monahan's new report he talks about
02:15:25.960 like the new one is called uh online ceramics have you heard of online ceramics no no i'm
02:15:33.980 looking at it right now look up online ceramics it's like uh it's all this shit it's all like
02:15:39.480 super meme-y like uh like swag we you totally need to be the right-wing version of of like
02:15:47.820 our meme store you know yeah yeah and i think it has to come out of a millennial mind too because
02:15:53.400 i look at this i'm like oh this is like an old style web page like a geo cities page back when
02:15:58.680 i was a kid and it's trying to leverage that like a not i'm looking at a24 not a24 but like
02:16:05.000 like conspiracy type shit like looking bad on purpose too yeah why am i not sharing this i
02:16:12.760 forget that i can just share with people on my screen so let me just uh let me just share what
02:16:18.440 we're talking about why not for people why yeah i mean most people listen to this they don't watch
02:16:22.760 it but uh yeah so can we see this i can see it yeah i can see this is my website yeah yeah so
02:16:33.000 this is your website and it's just like all this hilarious shit it's so funny it's and also just
02:16:39.080 from a practical point of view this is something i advise people ready for the dehumanized god
02:16:43.980 and what's what's funny about that is that was like written in a fugue state too where i sat down
02:16:50.420 there was no like planning or branding dog i just like uploaded all this shit right from my mind
02:16:56.620 onto it and i'm like i didn't think anyone was gonna like look at it or take it seriously so
02:17:01.200 that's become the number one thing that people talk to me about and it's art this is art this
02:17:06.700 is like exactly what our people need to be doing i still look at it like i nationalized bourbon
02:17:11.480 that's still funny to me yeah it's my policy positions flat earth over women's right so good
02:17:19.780 bad so good uh yeah so wait you you had this other funny thing that was like the info where
02:17:28.560 did it go it's in about yeah it's like down here where oh yeah our mission will be no longer
02:17:34.600 allowed to cook convince black people that slavery never happened bribe every asian girl
02:17:40.280 to tell gay people to frig off yeah trick everyone into thinking canada is switzerland until this
02:17:46.900 it's so good bro this is fucking really good yeah i here's my t-shirt ideas you want to know my
02:17:53.660 t-shirt ideas absolutely okay i have one wait actually first let's look at online ceramics
02:17:59.640 so this is like you guys can kind of see like online ceramics is like this vibe you know and
02:18:07.020 then pizza yeah like i looked at that i'm like oh is this like a real website when i first saw it
02:18:12.300 yeah i this is like i call this deep fried i call it this is like deep fried culture i wrote a thing
02:18:18.120 about deep fried culture it's like i read that one oh you did yeah yeah i read like it didn't
02:18:23.800 come up in our last talk but i read like 10 of your things and i had notes i was gonna bring up
02:18:28.900 we just didn't get to it but i liked that one yeah like like uh deep fried culture is like
02:18:35.100 if post-modernism is a remix deep fried culture you know it's like a couple songs mixed together
02:18:43.580 uh deep fried culture is like the same song or like the same thing copied a million times on
02:18:51.480 top of itself so like there's so many references that it's like you're seeing the system itself
02:18:58.580 kind of and that's what i liked about because um we talked about this a bit i think in our
02:19:03.360 interview before but it's like when someone kind of stumbles across 4chan it's references within
02:19:09.700 their references that's a bit of an old me but like people my age you used to 4chan used to be
02:19:14.280 cool it used to be where weird people went and you would see i'm like i don't know what this is
02:19:18.640 there's too many references they're speaking a different language and you wanted to unravel it
02:19:22.500 and so i always try and look at this shit with new eyes like what would someone who's never seen
02:19:26.840 this before see and i think a lot of our stuff is pretty enticing just because it's so alien to
02:19:33.960 like someone who's just been plugged into mainstream culture their whole life yeah this is
02:19:38.800 this pisses me off this online ceramics thing because as you can see here so they're both being
02:19:43.140 bought out by brands i was about to say this is like a nathan fielder thing right yeah so this
02:19:48.560 says gay for arby's clearly this is a this is definitely a like collaboration with arby's on
02:19:55.540 pizza slime and then because otherwise they'd get in trouble like you can't just use no you can
02:19:59.760 you can't i mean they they have erewan and stuff i mean they i i've met this guy he's actually cool
02:20:04.940 the the pizza slime people are cool they're definitely not based at all but like like
02:20:09.900 they're like they're legit uh these online ceramics is kind of like cheating like they
02:20:17.340 clearly nathan fielder clearly approached them to like promote his stupid ass fucking movie uh
02:20:24.980 whatever this is the curse so it's like all their stuff is about the curse like wow which is so
02:20:30.800 fucking lame and it just pisses me off like so much but um yeah like look every shirt on the
02:20:36.520 online ceramics is now the curse and like oh the nathan fielder is so like weird it's like an
02:20:41.880 ironic post ironic ad yeah he's like right it's like so ironic and so deep fried and it's really
02:20:49.380 just like stealing like um it's just like stealing our shit or not even this isn't really ours but
02:20:56.340 it's like kind of stealing like deep fried culture and my thing is you and i have both worked in
02:21:01.180 environments where i could imagine being in the boardroom where this was pitched or the writer's
02:21:05.980 room where it's like let's do something new yeah and then they're moving their hands you can't see
02:21:11.240 me but i'm moving my hands like an asshole new yeah it's new this is how p this is what it is
02:21:17.220 these days you know but there's something to that because i know a lot of people i have some friends
02:21:23.080 who are on like the left or an anarchist spheres as well and there's this common narrative on that
02:21:28.780 side that the right is where all the money is and the right is so astroturf because it's so popular
02:21:34.480 but there's something i detect something in there which is the acknowledgement that this stuff is
02:21:40.120 cool and it shouldn't be cool to them they're upset that this is actually cool this is something
02:21:45.460 that marketers would pursue and try to commoditize whereas previously they didn't know how or it was
02:21:52.300 too weird but now this is something they feel like they can monetize which is a new kind of
02:21:58.360 area to be in i think for us you mean that they're getting this stuff from the right
02:22:03.200 or they look around they say what's cool with kids like they probably you know i'm not a huge
02:22:08.660 fan of andrew tate for example but i think if you're someone's dad and you're the ceo of a
02:22:14.060 company you're like everyone's talking about this andrew take guy we got to get into this we got to
02:22:17.920 get into like calling women dumb whores you know there's the new media of just straight up like the
02:22:24.140 whatever podcast but what's popular with kids is calling women dumb whores and they're like okay
02:22:30.000 can we do that can we use that it's more that it's like i mean i think your website is perfect
02:22:35.300 Like everything that you're saying on your website is like, you know, like it's so free, right?
02:22:46.060 Like on the top, it's this like ridiculous, it's so deep fried and perfect.
02:22:49.380 And that it says gays have to wear the juice star 9-11 didn't happen.
02:22:53.240 It's like, you're being deep fried in this way.
02:22:55.460 That's very free, right?
02:22:56.880 You're not, you're not like, it's so obviously not real.
02:23:01.200 you know what i'm saying that it's like but you're saying stuff that you're not allowed to say so of
02:23:07.020 course kids are going to be attracted to this like i yeah there's this girl i had i had this like
02:23:11.360 assistant for a while and she's a perfect example of this she's like a real dime square girl and
02:23:16.360 you know she's not based she's not like right wing at all but she just loves saying gay and she loves
02:23:23.000 like tweeting about libtards because it's just hilarious it's just really funny yeah you know
02:23:28.620 what i mean so it's the whole dirtbag left thing where it's right yeah it's very dirtbag left it's
02:23:33.740 very like just absurd and people just think that shit's funny that's why it's so fucking annoying
02:23:39.000 when nathan fielder who would never do anything slightly like to the he would never do anything
02:23:47.180 slightly like inappropriate right yeah uh that he's like copying this shit you know it's just
02:23:53.540 like so toothless and annoying but it is funny that you mentioning uh calling things gay because
02:23:58.840 that was one of the big victories for our side which is like getting regular people to admit that
02:24:04.440 yeah being gay is lame gay means lame south park tried to be like no gay doesn't have to do with
02:24:09.380 sexuality it has to do with being lame anyone could be a fag it's like no no no gay people
02:24:14.400 are kind of gross and lame when you see a pride parade it's a weird gross thing it's it's dumb
02:24:19.600 it's weird and then everyone got dragged into that world where even like lib girls are saying
02:24:24.560 yeah that's gay and that means like two men kissing because two men kissing is kind of lame
02:24:28.660 that's what it means everyone just kind of admits that now just like they fought for the right to
02:24:33.640 say retard yeah right we fought for the right to say retard and gay and it's like and it's definitely
02:24:40.400 like now it's okay again to do it yeah you can like feel comfortable doing it and and there's
02:24:47.180 And that's why, like, even if you watch that scene, watching the evolution of the dirtbag left is kind of like watching the evolution of the hippies.
02:24:53.880 I was reading this fascinating book by, I got it right here, by Jim Hogan called Decadence, and it was tracing the history and life of the counterculture movement in the 60s, basically like the boomer counterculture movement and the phases it went through and how it started with sort of spirituality and mysticism, then it moved to magic.
02:25:14.340 And then it actually follows almost beat for beat what we're doing right now, how it started as urban and the way it ended was like a lot of these hippies retreating into the woods to create parallel societies.
02:25:28.240 Like it's the exact, like line for line, the exact same shit.
02:25:31.080 So I'm looking at that like, okay, they obviously went wrong or went awry.
02:25:35.920 What can we learn from that?
02:25:37.480 But there's so much that the argument for that book was like the counterculture movement wasn't a monolith.
02:25:42.740 it was all the this array of different sort of revolutionary ideas and weird new mysticisms and
02:25:48.980 the i-ching and lsds over here the new age the new age have you ever been to la before no i haven't
02:25:56.520 so if you come to la and go out to spawn ranch where uh you know charles manson was and this
02:26:05.840 is a good like segue into talking about manson and like once upon a time in hollywood but you go
02:26:12.720 out there there's still like four or five cults like that still exist up one is called like
02:26:22.160 children of god or something and you just can feel all in like topanga like there's this these
02:26:28.700 areas of la where all these hippie communes were existing this is where like the geodesic domes
02:26:35.140 were yeah like california is still full of this shit you go up to like san francisco you know
02:26:41.000 there's that google cult did you hear about that yeah where the guy was like fucking at the 100
02:26:46.580 guys a day that was his like goal like how many like young and he only straight men he was like
02:26:51.660 how many young straight men can i fuck a day like can i get to 100 otherwise known as google what
02:26:57.720 yeah aka working let me ask you this is it something about la the city that attracts
02:27:06.360 or generates those cults or do you think it's just like that everywhere um i don't know what
02:27:12.600 is yeah why why is california california you know i i don't know you know i think one of the most
02:27:17.280 interesting things about california is have you ever looked at a map of gender distribution
02:27:21.960 of the united states no no i haven't so it's the further like uh it starts in on the east
02:27:32.120 more women than men and then as you go west it reverses to being more men than women so in la
02:27:39.340 there's like way more men than women and it goes as you go further west across the states the gender
02:27:46.580 thing flips and it's like in new york it's like 60 40 women to men in la it's like 60 40 men to
02:27:52.440 women i mean it's not that extreme but it's like uh pretty extreme and you can feel it you know
02:27:57.000 like you go out in new york every time i'm back in new york i go out and i'm like there is just so 1.00
02:28:01.060 much female flesh just like everywhere you go there's just like fucking women pouring out 0.86
02:28:06.860 everywhere whereas la most parties are like sausage fest man like you go that also is a way 1.00
02:28:12.180 an la guy would say walking off the plane there's a lot of female flesh out here female flesh 0.54
02:28:17.500 yeah no so what do you why do you think that is do you think there's a reason i don't i don't know
02:28:22.480 if you have all the answers to this it's kind of a mystery no i i think that's uh god why you know
02:28:28.940 i think it's because women inherently don't leave you know women are more inclined to not
02:28:35.980 go somewhere else uh so i think that it's like less women end up fleeing to a place so just on
02:28:46.240 the east just historically speaking you know la is brand fucking new man where i'm sitting right
02:28:52.360 now in pasadena there's a picture going around of literally where i'm sitting right this second
02:28:57.660 in a big tall building that a hundred years ago this was a complete this was just the state of
02:29:03.480 nature like it was like there was nothing here at all there was like two buildings you know where
02:29:08.780 i'm sitting right now and so it's brand fucking new man whereas the east coast has been around for
02:29:14.020 500 years you know like plymouth rock 1650s you know it's just so maybe that's what it is that
02:29:21.760 women are just naturally less inclined to like go off into a new place so i remember i really don't
02:29:29.580 know there's an interesting you know not to bring this into like an archetypical zone but i remember
02:29:34.360 like the last seasons of mad men which is i'm not sure your feelings on the show i like it quite a
02:29:39.540 bit but there is my whole if you've ever you've clearly never listened to the show before the
02:29:44.020 my intro music is a is a the carousel is a is a mad yeah i knew that reference but i didn't know
02:29:51.980 if it's if it was like oh but you know that show was too subversive or so i've heard some people
02:29:56.540 argue that it's like subversive or something i actually just genuinely like it but the end of
02:30:01.660 that show how's it like jewish the fact that like there's a lot of guys on our side who are who like
02:30:09.020 the early seasons of madmen where the guys were allowed to be more smoking alcoholics and the way
02:30:15.160 don draper ends is admitting that you know that lifestyle was killing him so i think oh that's not
02:30:22.380 I don't interpret the I this is not my argument this is someone else I don't interpret the last
02:30:27.860 episode is that at all no the the last episode the interpretation of the last episode is clearly
02:30:33.260 that he's going to commodify that thing right I mean that's what it is it's he's it's not that
02:30:39.640 he really believes in we are the world it's that he's being like oh this is something I can sell
02:30:44.660 yeah but but also like I was more talking about the drinking and smoking specifically because
02:30:49.620 there's that whole thing where don basically admits that he's he's an alcoholic and there's
02:30:54.360 some really good scenes in there about uh like with freddie rumson and those guys and he's like
02:30:58.980 trying to get off and he's shaking and stuff but uh no and that's the thing that the ultimate
02:31:03.380 take of madman was that here's a guy who just so believes in the american dream and advertising is
02:31:09.080 just the paintbrush he uses so it's like he's trying to sell a dream and he could do that in
02:31:15.220 a genuine maybe because they like oh that's a cynical way of doing it no he maybe just likes
02:31:19.520 advertising and believes in it and he's trying to you know but uh the and the whole believes in it
02:31:25.560 i don't think don draper believes in advertising i think that don draper is a true alpha male and
02:31:32.120 like every true alpha male i've ever met in my life they don't give a shit about meaning
02:31:37.200 they don't care about meaning and morals and what does it mean and the intellectual beliefs they
02:31:42.940 don't have beliefs and shit they believe in themselves i mean they believe in uh maximizing
02:31:48.540 their power that that is what actual alpha marils care about they don't care about what anything
02:31:53.540 means at all well the interesting thing about don draper was he was also kind of a coward like his
02:31:58.460 entire lifestyle was like stealing another man's name to get out of war and like that was that
02:32:04.740 whole breakdown he has with fatty he's like or no he was with uh in drunk with a bunch of anyway
02:32:10.560 there's a bunch of like drunk confession scenes where it's like i stole another man's name and i
02:32:14.580 made nothing of it and there's all and the last one the last scenes that episode seemed like
02:32:17.920 in that circle standing across from that kind of loser guy who's just confessing that his wife and
02:32:25.660 kids don't even respect him and he spent his entire life chasing happiness but he never knew
02:32:30.940 what happiness was he's just chasing this thing without knowing what it was so he's and then they
02:32:35.460 kind of like hug at the end it's like this really poignant moment but it's like this don draper
02:32:39.940 character it's it's like a spirit looking for parts to create this form but like he he just
02:32:46.960 believes that like there's he believes in this thing called the american dream when he's selling
02:32:51.100 you the carousel you know he's not he's he's putting his own life into it in a way that no
02:32:57.600 one else around him would because they are all just cynical admin but he's he his thing works
02:33:03.400 because he is he's he's almost like the american dream given form and then he's being confronted
02:33:09.580 by anyway get up on the whole thing here i i appreciate this argument but i think that
02:33:14.920 it's like look i come i fully agree so the deal with what happened with um there's a great book
02:33:22.300 about like the golden age of television called difficult men that i would highly highly recommend
02:33:28.340 anybody reading and anthony weiner the guy who created mad men was a disciple of david chase
02:33:36.880 who created Sopranos so Wiener was like David Chase's protege for about five minutes right
02:33:45.320 but Wiener is a very like he's not I don't think he's actually gay but he's a very like
02:33:52.180 diva Jewish striver kind of guy right whereas David Chase is known for being very um
02:34:01.200 ultra cynical ultra dark can't get along with anybody you know like really like a very dark
02:34:10.920 sad depressive like mean guy all these guys are completely fucking nuts that's what difficult men
02:34:17.680 is about like david milch this whole era of tv like hbo guys they're all completely fucking insane
02:34:24.680 uh david milch in particular so totally out of his mind but wiener's like hyper competitive
02:34:33.120 and like really diva-ish and and like really like bitchy and uh in my opinion what happens with with
02:34:42.700 madman is he's challenged to make something better than chase or or you know like as good as david
02:34:49.720 chase has made so he puts everything into that first season that first season of mad men is so
02:34:56.340 good it's perfectly researched it's perfectly written it's like uh everything in it is is rich
02:35:04.440 and like unexpected and then it very quickly turns into a soap opera and there's like really
02:35:12.940 really nothing happens like it nothing actually really happens it kind of went on a bit too long
02:35:18.700 didn't it like it was something like seven seasons yeah it could have been five easily
02:35:23.220 yeah yeah it goes on and on and on and it's really it becomes very bad and the the last
02:35:29.380 season's shit the last episode is garbage i fucking hate that last episode right before
02:35:34.880 the last moment where he's doing the like uh you know we are the world coca-cola ad that's gonna
02:35:40.600 come to be uh he has this horrible scene it's so bad where like some guy is like he's in a therapy
02:35:51.500 circle oh that's what i was talking about just yeah the guy starts breaking down he's like i'm
02:35:56.880 a product that no one wants and it's like oh my god it's the cringiest shit you've ever seen it's
02:36:03.820 like so fucking bad um but then the very very ending the very last moment is good because he's
02:36:12.040 you know it's like it's perfect because it goes back to the carousel episode the carousel speech
02:36:18.900 in season one which is like i think what you're saying is right like he's going to a level in
02:36:24.580 branding and advertising that no one else can go because he's so like damaged and because he's such
02:36:33.300 a like liar right like he he has made himself into this product right um and so he's just better at
02:36:42.560 it than everybody else but i don't think he believes in anything i don't think don draper
02:36:46.380 is like a i mean what we love about all these characters right of this whole era we love
02:36:51.920 tony soprano we love al swearingen we love don draper and we love the and we love uh who's the
02:37:00.640 guy from uh breaking bad oh uh walter white we love walter white because because they're they
02:37:10.400 don't believe in anything they're they're not like they're all they believe in is maximizing their
02:37:17.800 own like well-being right you know who might exemplify that maybe even a bit better maybe
02:37:26.100 not a better show but uh nucky thompson from boardwalk empire yeah like there was literally
02:37:31.300 just a guy who was in another you what's interesting about um that last scene um and
02:37:37.280 just to go back to the jim hogan book decadence talking about what he did was he compared uh the
02:37:42.880 counterculture the boomer counterculture to the previous generation which would have been the
02:37:46.740 beats the b generation was that that generation's form of that and he was saying that how the beats
02:37:52.240 had a different conceptualization of the future, their sorrow was from the idea that America would
02:37:57.920 just continue on forever. Whereas within the counterculture of the 60s, it was more of an
02:38:03.720 apocalyptic vision. Apocalyptic in that everything in the future will be different or changed. This
02:38:08.860 is where the age of Aquarius stuff comes in. And he said that sort of apocalyptic vision was so
02:38:13.980 different than previous generations, but that's why they got so deep into this sort of connective
02:38:18.640 mysticism and collectivism that you didn't see in previous generations. But that's what's so
02:38:23.080 interesting about that. I want to buy the world of Coke ad. And again, I'm definitely reading too
02:38:27.640 much into this. I don't give a shit though. But that ad that I want to buy the world of Coke is
02:38:32.220 in a sense, making the consumer into an advertiser. It's like selling them on their relationship to
02:38:38.940 each other through Coke. And I want to buy this person a Coke, which is like the next level of
02:38:45.820 like consciousness and advertising, which probably wasn't intended, but just reading this book,
02:38:51.040 that was the kind of break that that entire generation was doing from the previous generation
02:38:56.260 too. Yeah, I think that's a really good point. I think that, you know, I've talked a lot about
02:39:02.000 this with our recent, like the meaning of a right wing brand, or at least like a libertarian brand.
02:39:08.540 And I think it's like, yeah, that's really true.
02:39:12.860 It's like the, the brands of that era learned how to sell people the notion of like their
02:39:19.940 own goodness.
02:39:21.340 And that, that really lasted forever.
02:39:23.920 I think, remember when Coke did that thing where they like put people's names on the,
02:39:27.940 on the, on the, on the thing.
02:39:30.920 Yeah.
02:39:31.400 What was it?
02:39:32.040 It was people's names or it was like friend, like what, what they wrote something on the
02:39:36.880 cans.
02:39:37.220 it's funny that i worked at an agency interned at a very large agency at the top of my career
02:39:42.460 and coke was one of the clients i remember sitting in uh strategy sessions and brainstorming sessions
02:39:48.240 for coke because coke had this everyone knew who was working on coke that this is what coke does
02:39:53.360 their whole thing is community their whole thing is just like taking the human element and just
02:39:59.360 come up with ideas for that sit in the fucking room and come up with ideas on things that like
02:40:03.800 just boost collectivism generally yeah yeah yeah it was people's oh yeah okay it was people's names
02:40:11.700 and it said share a coke with laura share a coke with dan yeah so like yeah no it's totally true
02:40:19.020 and then we were they were even talking like the creative director of that agency was like
02:40:22.620 can we like set up special vending machines where people literally buy each other coke
02:40:26.940 because you know for people who've never been in these agencies there's this uh phrase you'll hear
02:40:32.340 which is wrong which is there's no bad ideas in brainstorming i want i wish more people said you
02:40:39.400 know what let me workshop that in my mind before i say because you'll just hear insane things come
02:40:44.600 out like i'm being in a strategy session they're like can we build a giant robot like that's just
02:40:49.160 stupid don't say that don't even say that so what is your experience with uh what's your experience
02:40:58.700 with um you know this stuff like we i know you don't want to dox yourself but like how deep
02:41:05.320 into the uh you know how deep into the the mainstream marketing world have you gotten
02:41:12.800 if you don't mind okay good question so i'm in canada so that might you know there's a few
02:41:18.060 advertising hubs in the world uh toronto is surprisingly up there so i worked in uh for
02:41:25.120 around 10 years i've been in marketing i worked in very large agencies i worked in medium-sized
02:41:29.900 agencies with around you know 10 people then i've worked in very very small agencies with just a few
02:41:35.400 and i would i ran my own a few years ago and so i've had and i've also worked client side which
02:41:41.380 means i've seen marketing not only from the agency side but working as a client in a marketing
02:41:45.840 director role which i think is essential to kind of see how it all fits together
02:41:50.660 um and so i would have worked in toronto and some very very large ones um and you've been really
02:41:57.840 deep in it i would say i prefer small businesses i don't like working with large brands i've worked
02:42:04.240 with startups as well i helped found a startup incubator at one point so i've worked in the
02:42:09.620 startup space not not currently but i found that very interesting uh very frustrating as i'm sure
02:42:16.260 you could imagine but um i i prefer working with small businesses just for the record i don't like
02:42:22.420 big a lot of young people think you want to work with a coca-cola you want to work with these
02:42:26.060 like a mercedes or something i find it's a headache and currently i think big brands
02:42:31.960 understand they have carte blanche to just abuse marketers and agencies because they know they're
02:42:36.260 the bell of the ball so um i found that my wife works in marketing too exact same amount of time 1.00
02:42:43.140 There's going to be different agencies. 1.00
02:42:44.840 Can you say what your role was?
02:42:47.500 Can you tell them, like, were you a designer?
02:42:50.720 Well, this is the thing.
02:42:52.080 So at various points, I've done various roles.
02:42:53.720 So, like, for example, my last role was a content lead.
02:42:58.420 So I would have managed a team of creatives, designers and writers.
02:43:02.740 I've also worked as a designer.
02:43:04.460 So my competency with the Adobe Creative Suite, I wouldn't say is the top.
02:43:08.380 I wouldn't call myself a designer because I know people who went to art school and art directors who do that.
02:43:13.140 but i would say i can hold my own um then i would have been a media strategist before that so that
02:43:19.060 would have been i dealt with the accounts team and just devised strategy pitch decks for the
02:43:24.740 clients that came in prior to that uh one of the roles at a mid-sized agency i would have been the
02:43:30.180 social media and content manager so i would have handled all the social media accounts for
02:43:34.420 around 12 of our biggest clients so that was a lot of the scheduling and a lot of the keeping
02:43:40.180 up with those certifications which is a fucking nightmare um prior to that i would have what
02:43:45.700 would have been just a marketing director for a fairly large law firm as well um that was a fun
02:43:53.460 one i actually enjoyed that one the most because working client side is a bit easier than working
02:43:58.180 for agencies i find again because agencies the larger they are are largely sweatshops
02:44:03.620 and liars as well they fake numbers a lot of the time so what does that mean sweatshop when you say
02:44:10.080 that because people say that about the big agencies around here and i you know i really haven't worked
02:44:15.220 at enough of them i've always been you know in in my mainstream advertising career as a creative
02:44:22.740 i really was a bottom feeder i was a bottom feeding schmuck i worked at shitty agencies and
02:44:28.800 like influencer side agencies. The only time that I really, I worked in pharma, which is like
02:44:35.120 very viewed as like the worst part of advertising. That would be a tough one though. There's a lot
02:44:41.620 of money in that. But yeah, good money, but it's very like not respected. And then the only time
02:44:47.000 I had any real like prestige was working in branding, which that I did like work at the
02:44:52.560 good agencies, but I never like was a creative director inside one of the really big agencies.
02:44:57.640 So I don't know. And everybody used to say, oh, it's a sweatshop. So like, what does that mean?
02:45:02.700 Good question. So I will say, I'll try to give an example again without doxing myself. So my wife, her agency, it's an all girl boss agency. And they have the tendency of leading every conversation with anything you need, whenever you need it will be their holidays, evenings, weekends, just send us an email, because they believe that their main selling point is being available.
02:45:26.980 so they they put it out there they put a hang a shingle saying we'll be your slaves so they go
02:45:34.220 out of their way to so you'll be working evenings you'll be working on a sunday you'll be working
02:45:38.220 especially if it's e-commerce so another point is that if you're working on anything in e-commerce
02:45:42.720 for any big e-commerce brand you understand that their biggest blitzes are during sale times black
02:45:50.220 friday you know in and around the holidays so if you are doing any sort of campaign they need to
02:45:57.500 be dynamically changed and optimized on the go hour by hour a lot of the time so if you are
02:46:02.880 dealing with big money e-commerce clients they will demand that you're staying up late to turn
02:46:08.060 on or turn off an ad or whatever it might be ah yeah so that's like the digital part you got to
02:46:12.700 turn turn them on and off and shit yeah and just just again some boring shit for people but i find
02:46:18.800 interesting it's that um if you're designing an ad um and this is also true on google uh what the
02:46:25.500 value of the ad is how long it's running a lot of the time because it leverages machine learning so
02:46:29.660 much and ai to the point where if you're running an ad long enough the google will effectively
02:46:34.780 design your ad for you you just type in a bunch of headlines it'll swap in and your conversion
02:46:41.260 rate will be like 30 which is like unheard of like a conversion rate historically would be like
02:46:47.160 5%. But the ads make themselves if they're running long enough and the program, the algorithms
02:46:52.840 learned. So there's an investment in not just creating new ads. Because a new ad, you can
02:46:59.040 schedule. You can schedule it to go up and go down. However, what they ended up doing is running,
02:47:04.800 and every agency does this, right? They're running the same ad for five years because
02:47:08.820 they don't want to lose those quote unquote learnings. And the only way to turn it on and
02:47:12.580 off, you can't schedule that. You got to be doing it on the fly whenever you need. So there's a lot
02:47:17.000 of people out there like we we got to run the same ad for five years because it's so effective
02:47:21.500 um and anyway i won't get too technical with it but that's what a lot of people are doing and so
02:47:26.160 that's why there's so many people still getting jobs as campaign managers because it's a shit job
02:47:32.140 and there's no real good way to automate it yet well but it's but how is there no way to automate
02:47:40.260 it sounds like there is a way to automate it right isn't that what you're saying there is but
02:47:44.220 You just kind of, the ad exists and then it's learned, the learnings that are happening is
02:47:49.780 basically how many people are clicking on it based on how it's written or what appears on it,
02:47:55.460 right? So the ad is just existing forever because it's slightly like changing depending on what's
02:48:02.380 working and not. That's, that's how this works, right? Yeah. Yeah. So the reason is what the
02:48:07.700 platforms want you to do is create a new ad every time and to ramp up to that level of effectiveness
02:48:14.500 will take a few weeks or a few months during which time you're kind of just wasting you're
02:48:19.900 spending more money but you're kind of wasting money but you're actually spending more money
02:48:24.340 on the platform which is what the platforms want they want you wasting money like a casino spending
02:48:28.780 on stuff that doesn't work right so they kind of make it difficult for you to manage your budget
02:48:34.020 effectively that's why you need just humans there to manually turn it on and off so you're not
02:48:38.440 wasting client money because at that level the margins are so fucking razor thin like you're
02:48:43.960 competing on price with other agencies you're already probably driving down your profit as
02:48:49.180 much as you can and honestly once you get to the high enough levels you start seeing some shady
02:48:54.480 shit like there's some in toronto there's a lot of the international agencies are there but some
02:48:58.660 of the big names like the fake uh campaign data or they'll they'll start taking they'll say we
02:49:05.060 need a budget for this they'll shave off a bit of that budget for themselves and then lie about
02:49:10.420 the numbers so it doesn't look you know they're cooking the books basically but that's just one
02:49:14.840 way they can get a bit more revenue um and if you think that wasn't happening tenfold during
02:49:20.360 covet 19 you know that's why no one can make sense of the data anymore by the way that's why
02:49:24.500 there's so many influencers like i can't make sense these numbers i the the i'm not getting
02:49:29.800 conversions on the ads everything kind of seems fake right now but there's so much money invested
02:49:35.300 in keeping this framework going that i don't know i don't know what's going to happen with it but
02:49:40.900 you're seeing a lot of layoffs and that's what was interesting about twitter elon musk made a
02:49:46.000 wager like can you fire most of these people and things still keep going because the people he
02:49:50.940 really fired i knew people who were fired from twitter they were the um product managers yeah
02:49:56.600 and that that was a general term for my job is to deal with uh ad people to companies to try and
02:50:03.760 convince them to spend more but can we get rid of those people and the wheels keep turning and it
02:50:08.660 looks like the answer is yes yeah wow that's crazy it's it's really funny yeah it's it's yeah yeah
02:50:17.840 I think that a lot of those jobs are totally useless and so much of it as you said is just like this pretend thing of email me at any time and I'm always available and you know women are so easily talked into this my favorite story one of my favorite like tech stories of the past like five years or so was what happened at away luggage did you see that no no I didn't hear about that one so
02:50:47.840 This is so great. Like Away Luggage was a total girl boss company, right? It was it was like the CEO was a woman. And she had this like tribe of customer service women. And like, it became a cult. And like the customer service woman like wouldn't eat for days, like their family were like calling being like, we haven't seen Rachel and in weeks.
02:51:17.800 She said she was coming home for Thanksgiving and she said she was coming home for Christmas
02:51:21.940 and we're really worried about her.
02:51:23.840 And they were all like getting divorces and shit.
02:51:26.640 And it all like came to a head somehow.
02:51:29.740 So all the Slack messages got leaked.
02:51:34.060 Oh, of course it came to a head.
02:51:35.420 Why?
02:51:36.960 Because the like black and gay, like, what do you call them?
02:51:44.080 Resource groups.
02:51:45.120 what are these things inside companies that are like the the black organization inside the company
02:51:50.440 well it depends on the organization but yeah resource groups no there's some word for this
02:51:54.840 it's like the uh like like black group inside the company it's like called the employee resource
02:52:02.940 groups yeah exactly and uh they started complaining about having to like work too much
02:52:09.760 So then it became a lawsuit and then it all came out. And what you saw was this like arch bitch who was the C, I think either the CEO or like slightly under the CEO, like completely manipulating these, these women into working and completely destroying their personal lives. Right. 1.00
02:52:29.400 absolutely it was like it was like okay you might have 2.5 hours off for thanksgiving but then we'll
02:52:36.960 need you to come back in because you believe in the mission right you believe in the female driven
02:52:42.420 mission of this company blah blah and so they were just completely they became slaves like utter
02:52:47.740 slaves for away luggage the irony is that if you had a misogynistic man running that he would have
02:52:55.520 give them more time off he always said oh you need a week off for your fucking period go ahead
02:52:59.980 and it would have been better for them oh way better i mean no i mean a man couldn't have
02:53:05.140 gotten away with any of this right i mean now now a man a gay man maybe right like a sassy gay man
02:53:11.580 can and i mean this is why the industry is what it is now because straight men literally can not
02:53:19.860 have these jobs right yeah i mean like and for people who need a bit of context if they haven't
02:53:27.000 seen it i don't know if this is in other industries but if i were to apply for a job
02:53:31.200 right now where i'm in canada every single agency job in any single government-related job they will
02:53:37.900 literally ask you on the application are you gay are you a minority are you a woman and they'll
02:53:43.140 say something which is endlessly funny to me which is this isn't going to weigh our decision we just
02:53:48.120 want to know yeah and of course if you're right prefer not to say they're like oh that means white
02:53:53.280 and like it's so in the open that like i don't know what how you're supposed to feel about that
02:53:57.520 that's why it's so difficult for these guys to get jobs and that's why you will very often see
02:54:03.060 in toronto like completely female run agencies but there's no there's no other way i mean like
02:54:08.820 Literally, the standards are so glaringly different that either you, I don't see how you could possibly survive at all for five seconds. 0.88
02:54:23.820 I mean, you would basically have to completely separate yourself.
02:54:28.260 The second you get any power inside one of these companies, you're immediately a target, right?
02:54:33.500 So there's two types of white straight men inside mainstream marketing companies.
02:54:37.920 there is the grandfathered in ones that are at the top of the company a lot of time they started
02:54:44.540 the company a lot of times they you know they just moved up the hierarchy long enough ago
02:54:50.380 that they're at the top right and since the longhouse works the way it does the longhouse
02:54:56.180 tends to worship these like dads you know yes like like they want nothing more than the approval of
02:55:04.060 daddy like that that's all that really counts to them like way more than the approval of a woman
02:55:09.120 they want the approval of like the man at the very top right so there's this like layer of
02:55:15.240 you know the hype dads whatever you want to call them at the very top but then they've made it
02:55:20.920 completely 100 impossible for any man with talent or any man that is in the slightest bit
02:55:29.840 problematic straight a straight man to move up in the system yeah you know like there's just no
02:55:37.880 chance and they'll outright tell you this too because i've been told by hr people it's like
02:55:42.600 you're not going to make it to a certain level or you're not going to get hired because you're a
02:55:47.660 white man and there's been people who have forwarded strategies around that which i just
02:55:51.380 don't want to do which is no just just lie and say you're trans i'm like i'm not gonna do it
02:55:55.540 i'm not gonna lie and say i'm genderqueer i'm not gonna go down this legitimizing pathway
02:56:00.620 i shouldn't have to fuck that dude i i quit on the spot man i i was working inside this agency
02:56:06.200 ultra ultra long house like 10 out of 10 long house and uh i brought i fucking killed it for
02:56:14.380 that man i brought in literally like millions of dollars to the company that they wouldn't
02:56:18.200 have had otherwise and yet every friday i was given a long talking to about oh i would it
02:56:25.280 wasn't nice enough to this person and that this person. And I tolerated it for a year. And then
02:56:32.100 the year came up and I was like, all right, well, maybe they're giving me all this shit all the
02:56:36.100 time, but at least they must know. Like I've literally brought millions of dollars into this
02:56:42.740 company. Like I'm not even just saying that literally this is true. And I was like, okay,
02:56:48.200 well, yeah. All right. I just tried to like ignore it. And then it came time for Ray's time.
02:56:52.480 And I was like, all right, well, okay, I guess, you know, let's talk about the race.
02:56:55.760 And the woman said to me like, oh, no, like your behavior problems, like you could, you
02:57:01.980 could really rise high here, but you can't get anywhere until your behavior problems
02:57:06.860 are sorted out.
02:57:07.560 And I quit like on the spot.
02:57:09.360 It's insane that they tied on the spot.
02:57:11.420 I literally said, okay, fuck you.
02:57:13.240 Bye.
02:57:13.500 Like, because if you're not gonna, like, there's no way I'm ever going to get ahead here.
02:57:17.820 You know, if it's, if I have to like worry about my behavior all the time, like, fuck
02:57:21.580 that.
02:57:21.840 well the funny thing is is because in a male driven industry of any kind uh there's this
02:57:27.820 there is a thing called a work culture but it's ancillary to the actual work itself so the idea
02:57:32.620 is like if everyone hates you we'll just fire you but living in this gray zone where it's like you
02:57:37.980 do a good job no one hates you but you could just tweak a few things and for that reason
02:57:44.080 we've tied a monetary benefit to it that blows my fucking mind because if you do the a good job
02:57:49.420 should get a raise very very simple if you bring money into a company whose job it is to get more
02:57:55.100 money from your clients you should get a raise that is it it doesn't matter how you behave who
02:58:01.520 cares if you do the job better than other people and you bring in the money you then get a raise
02:58:07.720 that's that's the you know there's no other as soon as somebody my advice to anybody would be
02:58:12.240 as soon as somebody tries to any environment that you're in that's not going to recognize your value
02:58:16.660 you should just leave immediately because yeah you're you're gonna be miserable for the for the
02:58:21.340 rest of your life and also like i've been in this industry long enough where like i've survived in
02:58:26.660 places like that and for people who haven't it really does weigh on your soul it does drive you
02:58:32.940 insane as a man having to learn how to write an email so you don't sound angry to a female mind
02:58:40.760 you lose a part of it so you start like okay because to not get in trouble i need to write
02:58:46.320 more exclamation marks to let them know exclamation points yeah i need to write smiley
02:58:50.940 faces i need to for the last place i worked at you know i really had to be on slack a lot i'm
02:58:56.760 like okay if you don't wish everyone a happy birthday yes that's that thing you were talking
02:59:00.960 about there's murmurs about you now oh you're not playing the game i'm like and you better have a
02:59:05.960 fucking party emoji but because you better mean it yeah you didn't agree and amplify uh the this
02:59:12.640 persons i mean and then of course it really starts to get bad when politics gets involved i mean i
02:59:19.520 the best agency i ever worked for was a great branding agency that wasn't longhouse at all
02:59:26.820 it was a bunch of like young talented british dudes who made incredible work i mean these guys
02:59:32.780 were they worked really hard they worked like you know they would get there at nine they would leave
02:59:38.180 it 10 every night uh designer you know it was very design centric so you know designers work
02:59:44.220 so many hours because it just takes forever to do what they're doing as opposed to writers who
02:59:48.940 can just kind of like you know shit out whatever but uh i was so impressed by them and and the the
02:59:55.760 the quality of the work was great um but you know they were playing this woke game all their
03:00:04.380 clients were woke uh it was big tech right so it's like every client is gonna be woke as fuck
03:00:12.880 and god this girl who was just pure cancer worked next to me and she was uh horribly you know not 1.00
03:00:22.080 good at her job at all i looked at her she spent all day shopping every day all day shopping and 1.00
03:00:28.840 um of course what did she do with the agency she constantly tried to get them to take on 1.00
03:00:38.700 woke pro bono projects and she successfully did this with this fucking trans rights organization 1.00
03:00:47.920 that she just kept forcing it so suddenly every day we have to have a meeting about this pro bono
03:00:55.980 trans client this girl yeah that's the great thing about trans clients is that no matter what they're
03:01:01.560 doing it's always non-profit right right it's like like it's it's non-profit although no but
03:01:08.900 really think about it what is more lucrative than trans surgery you know what i mean like that's
03:01:13.800 actually very for-profit so you know this was one of these these companies and it became a thing
03:01:20.840 where it was like every day they'd be like who wants to volunteer some time on the trans project
03:01:26.480 this literally oh shit and now it's your problem now it's like oh you haven't raised your hand
03:01:31.280 i didn't raise my hand excitedly about the trans project and then of course you become a fucking
03:01:37.740 target which is exactly what happened to me and uh you know i was killing it there too i brought
03:01:44.420 in a bunch of money there too and it was just you couldn't i couldn't survive because i had to either
03:01:49.940 say something all the time that was against my beliefs or um you know slowly but surely become
03:01:57.480 like an enemy of the system you want to know a funny story i got another fired story for you
03:02:02.660 so um you know over the past few years there's a lot of upheavals in our industry like my story
03:02:08.740 over the past years was like i moved to a different city to take my dream job a very
03:02:14.900 difficult to get job the one that i was going to stay at for the rest of my life then covet 19 hit
03:02:19.760 And because I was the most recent hire, I get laid off.
03:02:23.120 Then, so I was kind of floating around for a bit during COVID in a new town where there wasn't a lot of work.
03:02:28.860 And then I developed this strategy where I noticed over my career that a lot of small to mid-sized agencies, the principles of those agencies aren't good at anything.
03:02:39.360 You have crib directors and accounts directors who they can't put pen to paper.
03:02:43.300 They can't come up with an idea.
03:02:44.320 They don't have any technical skills.
03:02:45.560 So I'm like, okay, I'm going to market my services to agencies.
03:02:49.080 i'm going to be airdropped into this agency to help this creative director come up with a plan
03:02:54.200 because they actually don't know how to run campaigns they don't know how to do seo they
03:02:57.740 don't know how to do anything and so this one and i will preface this by saying this is back when i
03:03:03.040 was drinking so they might have this might have been to blame for it but uh i i had a big fiery
03:03:08.920 exit from this because i was on a in internal call with the main creative lady and a couple people
03:03:16.440 alongside me and they had this one long-term employee and she was a woman young woman millennial 0.83
03:03:22.820 woman but she was one of those neuro atypical you know i i have anxiety i have floating anxiety
03:03:30.120 and she was just saying they're like oh can you do this week i'm like i don't know i'm feeling
03:03:35.140 kind of anxious this week and the creative director was like okay well you know whatever
03:03:39.900 you need i'm just like i'll do it i'll do it needs to get done like this is i know what this project
03:03:44.680 he's gonna all do it like no no no let's just negotiate it with her and it became this big
03:03:49.360 blow up where i'm like this is fucking stupid that shit's made up you're you know just like
03:03:55.000 and then calling people out eventually you know i got you said you said you said this shit's made
03:04:00.900 up i i said like she's angst what does that mean you've got anxiety you can't do the work i'll do
03:04:05.380 the work like what we what are we doing here this is easy work this is you got to write some copy
03:04:10.360 for a campaign and you're unsure if you'll be mentally able to do i'm like this this sounds
03:04:15.840 made up just this is dumb what what the fuck are we doing here and again you know i haven't had a
03:04:22.140 drink in many many years but that was one of those times a lot of people when they look back on if
03:04:26.720 they were a heavy drinker like man i burned a lot of bridges i regret that most of the bridges i've
03:04:32.100 burned were good bridges to burn i'm very happy that i burned most of those bridges and told
03:04:38.340 people the fuck off when i should have yeah so i'm in your same boat dude i also just stopped
03:04:43.860 drinking it's been oh how's it how you doing how's it feeling you don't want to get into it too much
03:04:48.560 but yeah it's good it's fucking terrible i hate it i hate not drinking i love drinking
03:04:54.500 and i hate not drinking hey they say booze is so good you'll wreck your life for it you know
03:05:01.880 yeah yeah no i i definitely uh am also a problematic drunk you know i am i'm like the
03:05:10.260 guy at the party who is like being edgy you know what i mean and like saying things that's making
03:05:16.780 everybody very uncomfortable but like and just sucking all the energy out and like making it
03:05:22.220 all about him which is terrible like when you see that guy at a party you hate that guy you're like
03:05:28.820 oh god here we go like i don't want to fucking it's oh it's the it's the this guy show right
03:05:35.000 you know because he's so drunk that he's just like making it so that everybody is not really
03:05:40.760 having a good time because he's just messing with people i like totally was that guy well you know
03:05:48.060 what most people if they have a problem drinking they end up that guy there's this myth that you
03:05:52.480 could be like a functioning alcoholic i'm like for a period everyone is but then you usually end
03:05:59.580 up i know i did as like an angry drunk or uh call people out drunk and i the one thing i like to say
03:06:05.420 is i didn't quit drinking i finished drinking i got to the end i i got to the very end i did the
03:06:11.780 whole thing and uh i saw where it goes i'm like yeah i'm done so yeah so how how long have you
03:06:19.140 been sober? I'd say around three years. For me, during the first bit, it was helpful to count the
03:06:26.340 time. But for me, and I'm not trying to give advice to everyone, but for me, it was helpful
03:06:31.900 for me to not count the days eventually, because a lot of people do, especially if you go to
03:06:37.540 meetings a lot. And if people go to meetings, that's fine. But for me, I saw people there
03:06:42.500 where counting the days and counting the years became a big part of that. And I'm like, it's
03:06:47.900 easier for me to not drink if it's not always in the forefront of my mind it's easier for me to
03:06:53.620 forget about it and that's what that's what helps keep me and i'm to the point now where
03:06:58.340 i don't even really miss it i know that what i miss is cigarettes i miss smoking cigarettes
03:07:04.560 every single fucking day but i don't miss drinking nearly as much as i thought i would
03:07:10.540 and that surprised me yeah i'm the reverse so i've been smoking a lot of cigarettes i'm like
03:07:15.740 getting addicted to cigarettes because i am not drinking um and i just you know i'm a fucking
03:07:23.900 writer man i'm a i'm like a gonzo writer you know it's like drinking is like a part of my
03:07:30.180 like being it's like so fundamental to who i am you know and it's it's like it's really been very
03:07:37.120 it's very hard i don't like to i mean so tell me this did you do you remember
03:07:42.040 did you have a period where it was like oh i just can't go to parties that's where i'm at now i'm
03:07:50.420 just like i have going to parties it's unbearable to me like just being at a party without drinking
03:07:56.760 not because i want to drink but just because i don't want to be there you know yeah and i'm the
03:08:02.160 same way so i just kind of stopped going to parties and maybe i aged out of it because i'm also like
03:08:07.860 in my mid thirties. So it's not like I was going to a lot of clubs anyway. Um, and I know if you're
03:08:13.820 like, if you're single in your thirties and you got to meet girls, that's difficult, but I'm also
03:08:17.120 married. So I'm like, you know, it was a bit easier for me to check out of that in a way that
03:08:21.460 maybe others might struggle with it. But, um, yeah, I'm the same way. So for me, because for me,
03:08:27.360 like I like to keep busy. So if I'm at a party and like, I could be doing something else that I
03:08:32.180 enjoy, what I try to do is be as curious as possible to who I'm talking to. And that's where
03:08:37.720 being a marketer kind of helps where i can get interested in most people's story especially if
03:08:44.540 it's something i haven't heard before it seems kind of boring like if someone runs a doorknob
03:08:49.000 factory i can kind of force myself to be really interested in that um and that that's the party
03:08:54.980 solution but other than that you know maybe also my thing is i did quit every other drug i do acid
03:09:01.200 in a heartbeat so i don't i would do fucking you know peyote or some shit so if there's fucking
03:09:07.160 psychedelics at the party also do that but there's usually not yeah we call that sober like sober you
03:09:13.520 you do all the uh do all the other drugs besides alcohol and that's what i'm i mean that's my uh
03:09:19.760 that's my rule too i'll do anything but i just find i i don't really like the other drugs well
03:09:25.600 that's the thing everyone's got their one it's very rarely is someone just into everything in
03:09:30.300 the sense that everyone likes cocaine cocaine's great if you don't like cocaine you're a fucking
03:09:35.320 liar however there's cocaine guys yeah that's their thing right whereas for me it was just
03:09:42.060 it's just totally like that's my thing it's like yeah and also usually it's a specific type of
03:09:47.840 booze like for me like i wouldn't get excited about wine i wouldn't get excited about beer but
03:09:52.540 i love whiskey like hard liquor vodka whiskey even gin that's my fucking thing where some guys
03:09:58.320 it's just beer whatever um but uh for me also what i noticed and this is some people might find
03:10:05.040 this interesting because i get messages from people who are trying to quit drinking and i
03:10:10.120 don't be i'm not an evangelist about it because i'll get messages from some guys where like
03:10:14.400 i've been drunk for three days man you know do i have a problem say well hold on is it a long
03:10:19.080 weekend because you're allowed to drink for three days like you know it's not a problem till it's a
03:10:24.200 problem that's my policy you know if you're if you're drinking a bit more hey everyone has a
03:10:28.440 wedding everyone has you know the fucking that period between christmas and new year's everyone's
03:10:33.760 kind of drunk for that that's fine but it's up to you to define when it's a problem yeah and uh
03:10:39.360 for me it was like well i've been drunk for like five weekdays straight on straight vodka and i'm
03:10:46.600 i'm in a parking lot getting drunk and throwing up yeah at 10 a.m so like that's it that's not
03:10:52.320 fun it stops being fun and cool yeah yeah that's when it gets really bad yeah dude no i mean it's
03:10:59.180 it really it's horrible it's a horrible thing and it's a horrible addiction man oh did you see you
03:11:05.080 know one of the things that really scared me straight was did you see um that nobody watched
03:11:10.740 this for some reason and it's really like everybody should be talking about this and they're not
03:11:14.880 it's uh the anarchists on hbo no i've heard of that but i haven't seen it what's that like yeah
03:11:21.700 for some reason like this i think they buried it on purpose i think hbo they didn't advertise this
03:11:28.660 at all and they released this great it's not okay the documentary is not particularly well made
03:11:34.800 because it's made by this like weenie he's like this guy who makes it has too much of an agenda
03:11:39.960 and he's such a cuck he's such a like typical journalist bitch you know like journalists
03:11:44.960 have this Nietzschean flip where they uh they're very they're very much the reason why all
03:11:50.920 journalists are terrible you know a jab all journalists are bad is because they uh you know
03:11:57.760 they have this uh warped Nietzschean agenda this is why I could never cut it as like an actual
03:12:05.180 journalist and I would always like fight with people because they uh they like their willpower
03:12:13.380 is to exploit a subject usually a person to forward their own agenda and to forward their
03:12:25.420 own fame right but they're doing that under the guise of telling someone else's story
03:12:33.680 so they're kind of these inherent swindlers you know they're like spiritual swindlers where
03:12:41.300 they're saying i care about this other person but really they care about themselves and of course
03:12:47.600 like really really great journalists there's of course many exceptions to this that there've been
03:12:51.940 wonderful journalists and there are people who understand this well but anyway the guy who does
03:12:57.800 this documentary is very much one of these like reverse willpower people and he uh the story is
03:13:04.960 the anarchists and it's about anarcho poco which is this anarchist conference that popped up in
03:13:13.100 acapulco during covid it kind of like got big during covid like a lot of these things or no no
03:13:18.360 know it got big right before covid maybe well let me say this i'm looking at it right now and i thought
03:13:25.100 i knew what this was this is completely different than what i thought it was i don't think i've
03:13:28.340 ever heard of this but this sounds fucking fascinating and it came out 2022 apparently
03:13:32.740 yeah it's i think this is one of these things that hbo in committing suicide uh decided not
03:13:40.840 to put any money behind even though it was one of the best things they've done recently uh but
03:13:45.760 they
03:13:47.580 so there's a character in it
03:13:49.740 and this character
03:13:51.840 he's real, it's a documentary
03:13:53.980 so it's not like a fake character
03:13:55.260 he, you know, basically
03:13:58.140 is one of the organizers of the
03:13:59.880 festival, or of the
03:14:01.680 conference, and
03:14:03.600 even in the early episodes, he's
03:14:05.860 drinking a lot, right?
03:14:07.700 But he totally seems like just a
03:14:09.920 jovial, like
03:14:11.760 these are all libertarian, they're anarchists
03:14:14.180 right so what an anarchist actually means is basically somebody who just likes to drink at
03:14:18.680 all hours of the day so a lot of them are like are like drunks you know but he's drinking and
03:14:25.940 he's drinking a lot he's got this super hot wife it's super it's so fucked up dude and he's got
03:14:31.220 kids and he gets in a fight with like the main guy who's like a crypto millionaire and the main
03:14:38.660 guy fires him right and really this guy is a drunk but like this is his whole life is this
03:14:44.980 conference and he spins out of control and he slowly kills himself with drinking basically
03:14:53.800 right yeah and you see it happen and the last episode they're in the hospital with him and you
03:15:00.880 see him dying in front of his kids of like liver failure right yeah and he is bright yellow
03:15:09.640 he's got the cirrhosis yeah dude he he you never seen anything like this in a fictional film
03:15:16.100 the way he looks is fucking horrifying shane gillis shane gillis did an episode on this and
03:15:23.840 he said he looks like homer simpson yeah like i i believe honestly there was this it reminds me of
03:15:28.940 this story and people don't think it can get that bad where you could consciously here's the thing
03:15:34.100 that once you get that deep into any sort of addiction you do reach a fork in the road and
03:15:39.140 you can decide knowing that you're gonna die to go down it i remember there's this band that i
03:15:45.360 still like called children of bodum a lot of people might have heard about them sort of melodic death
03:15:49.720 metal band and the lead singer crazy talented singer and a guitar player his name was alexi
03:15:56.020 big-time alcoholic and there was a story and he died of uh liver failure and like he sat the band
03:16:03.000 down at one point and said you know what i choose alcohol i know it's gonna kill me but i'm i'm just
03:16:09.420 gonna go down this road and i'm i'm with i'm completely sober-minded as it can be and to me
03:16:15.460 i'm like that's it has such a hold on you that you don't you hear stories of people turning away
03:16:21.860 from it you don't hear the people who just choose to do that consciously it's so fucking sad man and
03:16:28.060 he does this like in front of his kids and his kids like don't know what's going on and he's
03:16:34.160 literally the color of a fucking school bus like he's not it's not like he like even in leaving
03:16:41.000 las vegas best movie about alcoholism and it's a movie about a guy who decides to kill himself
03:16:46.860 with alcohol even in that movie he doesn't look as bad as this guy look like this guy it looks
03:16:53.440 like literally he's like been painted yellow it's like that shit makes you fucking look
03:16:58.880 it's so fucked up it's like so fucking disturbing it's like he was great about leaving las vegas
03:17:05.360 that was a great drunk movie because you're seeing a guy who's drunk off his ass and thinks he's the
03:17:10.800 shit and thinks he's the most charming guy and cool but he's just this like sweaty drunk
03:17:16.440 clumsy guy but when you're drunk like that's why to your point earlier about the writing that's
03:17:21.880 one of the reasons that i stopped was because my writing became more effective when i was sober
03:17:27.760 because i write in a very specific way i write a lot but i can't write with a lot of distractions
03:17:32.320 and i know if i'm drunk i'm not gonna write and if i'm hung over forget about it so i can only
03:17:37.740 write in very specific you know focused circumstances so like for maybe in my early
03:17:43.280 20s I was kind of like yeah I'm gonna drink a bottle of whiskey and write this thing but it
03:17:47.220 eventually it was just an impediment and then the stuff that I wrote was dog shit and I'd look at
03:17:54.460 it later I'm like I but I at the time I thought it was great at the time it was the most poignant
03:18:00.280 and profound idea ever but you know I saw had enough those mornings were like this just isn't
03:18:05.260 good it's a waste of time what I'm doing that's why I stopped well but we can't say that writing
03:18:11.940 makes alcohol makes you a bad writer because all most of the great writers in history have been
03:18:18.020 hard here's a counterpoint they were amazing writers and think how better their writing
03:18:22.700 might have been that that might sound like a co-phrase but you know consider that you know
03:18:28.360 like maybe and there's a lot of writers who are sober and then just beat their head against the
03:18:32.800 typewriter so i understand i completely adhere to that but i i submit my cope phrase and i stand by
03:18:40.020 Okay. All right. I see. I disagree. I think I'm a better writer when I'm drinking. I was a very bad writer when I was stoned. And you know what I think is actually the worst thing for writing is Adderall. Adderall, you can tell. Oh, Adderall is horrible. And I take Adderall occasionally. Adderall is so fucking bad for writing. It's such a pleasure to write on because you're just like, whoa, fuck yeah. Like everything you're writing.
03:19:06.920 because that's what people say i take adderall to write but you're saying that it makes oh it's
03:19:10.860 bad writing fucking bad man it's so bad for you i can see it in myself i can see it in myself like
03:19:16.540 i i can tell the parts that i've written on adderall and the parts that i've not written
03:19:22.940 on adderall and it's interesting yeah the stuff that you write on adderall is it's so over it's
03:19:29.400 like bloated it's like air adderall writing is like air and i can always tell like i know several
03:19:36.300 very successful writers who write like in mainstream journalist types who write on Adderall
03:19:40.560 and I can always see like man this is why dude all of DC the entire left in general is essentially
03:19:50.620 powered by Adderall like Adderall is literally powering all of DC everything and you can see
03:19:57.980 it in the way that the regime and you know the regime propagandists you can see it in the way
03:20:04.620 that they act like i've never heard this before this is fascinating i'd like to know much of this
03:20:09.940 as possible right yeah sorry sorry yeah yeah no you can see it man you can see in in the way they
03:20:16.180 the ideas that they have the way they write you know is so adderall fueled the adderall is great
03:20:24.220 for legal writing that's i got into it in law school and uh it's great for legal writing because
03:20:30.460 legal writing is just vomiting you know every point on the page it doesn't have to be good or
03:20:35.680 nuanced at all you know uh whereas writing creatively it's very bad for writing creatively
03:20:43.200 because you're just it's you're just spewing on the page and it's it ends up being very
03:20:49.500 indigestible to others i think now this might be an unknowable question but do you see any
03:20:55.740 generational differences there is like everyone on adderall or do young people
03:21:00.060 maybe zoomers use it more or less on the left literally every single person is on adderall i
03:21:05.900 mean any striver any lefty gay striver uh they're all a hundred percent of them are on adderall
03:21:14.660 everybody in dc is on adderall you know like i wonder if adderall replaced cocaine because
03:21:19.460 people used to do cocaine to stay up and get a lot of writing done but now maybe that's like
03:21:23.800 a shift that happened as well i don't think people realize how crazy the powerful people are like
03:21:32.140 people think that artists are really like uh the crazy ones right because they artists kind of
03:21:39.420 pretend like they play the role of the no rules person and i think historically that's true right
03:21:49.440 Like the beats really were drunk and high all the time and, uh, the hippies really were on acid and, and, you know, like, um, I think all that was true for a very long time today that has totally flipped.
03:22:03.720 Like, actually one of my favorite things is, do you know how, uh, liquid death mountain water came to be?
03:22:10.080 I think we might've talked about this. Um, it started as like a, a meme or a joke, didn't it?
03:22:15.280 No. So what it started as is musicians on the Warped Tour. So the guy who founded it was like some marketing guy on the Warped Tour. And what musicians on the Warped Tour would do was they would take a can of beer and they would empty it out and then they would pour water in it and they would drink it on stage.
03:22:39.160 So it looked like they were like getting wasted on stage, but actually they were drinking
03:22:43.460 water because, you know, they wanted to look cool, but really they're all try hard fucking
03:22:48.540 dorks, you know, in today's world.
03:22:50.980 And, uh, so they weren't actually doing drugs.
03:22:53.800 They were just kind of pretending to do drugs.
03:22:56.440 And I think that, and in my experience with artists in general, that's very true.
03:23:02.280 They're very soft.
03:23:03.480 Artists are like soft and they're strivers.
03:23:05.700 They're not like crazy drug people.
03:23:07.440 especially now especially like the types of rappers you see come up and in the alternative
03:23:13.120 scene like they aside from the ones that are just killing themselves on xanax that's a different
03:23:17.600 story but a lot of them just seem like they're pretty much straight edge like that used to be
03:23:23.340 a big deal in punk if you're straight edge but now that's way more prevalent i think no very true
03:23:29.500 yeah i think most of them are like relatively straight edge i think uh and whereas the people
03:23:36.660 who are really nuts are the like power people you know the the the bankers and the dc people
03:23:43.960 and like the you know the la like agent types i've hung out with them nobody is nobody goes
03:23:51.940 harder than than those people man like the suits in today's world it's the suits that are fucking
03:23:57.400 really they're on every fucking drug you know they're like imaginable they're uh you know
03:24:04.300 ketamine now is everywhere ketamine is like the big new drug that everybody's on all the time
03:24:09.260 um and you know they're on acid they're micro dosing shrooms all day they're all on adderall
03:24:17.120 and they're on xanax you know like the amount of drugs that like the mainstream people are doing
03:24:22.620 is really really dc you know i've i've heard crazy basically you know the gay dc scene we just saw
03:24:29.860 you saw the video from the the uh the guy getting pounded in the ass and in the senate right
03:24:36.960 yes yeah we all saw it it's disgusting but uh like the dc from what i've heard the dc
03:24:45.680 gay like power scene is absolutely fucking just i was about to say like that that's that story
03:24:52.340 was like oh we caught the one guy that was having gay sex about how far it has to go to get to that
03:24:57.760 you know like that was like harvey weinstein it's like oh yeah you found the one movie exec
03:25:03.340 who is sleeping with young starlets we got the guy like shut the fuck up yeah but there's something
03:25:08.700 i think you do need to be ambitious to even be interested in drugs whereas the young people
03:25:15.140 might not be ambitious like the the archetype of that would be like don simpson who was uh the
03:25:21.060 guy who worked with jerry bruckheimer yeah he was a producer when he died he had like 24 different
03:25:27.620 drugs in his system he was a guy who was just going 24 7 coke what do you got yeah give pills
03:25:33.760 just whatever because he was a shark he was just a fucking killer you see him in a yeah an interview
03:25:38.980 he's just going because he just wants to be at that level so i think to like be interested you
03:25:45.200 got to in that sort of thing you kind of got to be a shark and have a joie de vivre about you
03:25:50.700 which is counter to what you would think which is like i'm sad so i'm going to do drugs so when
03:25:54.500 you're sad you're just sober and kill yourself i guess but if you're if you're on crack and
03:25:59.820 you're drunk and you're on adderall like yes there's something going on you want to take
03:26:04.120 over the world yeah you want to fucking kill it right exactly no i think that that's true
03:26:08.380 whereas like the soundcloud rappers die of like uh you know fentanyl because they're they want to
03:26:13.880 like you know they're the the depressives you know and they're like doing opiates and shit
03:26:19.140 yeah do you have like tech ceos micro dosing lsd is like just the funniest thing well how about so
03:26:25.360 two examples tony shea the founder of zappos did you hear what happened to him no oh this is one
03:26:32.780 of the best stories dude he burned himself alive because he was completely addicted to nitrous
03:26:39.500 this is tony shea he was this asian guy who founded zappos one of like the top techie
03:26:44.760 executives uh literally burned himself alive in a shed and and before that he was known for like
03:26:51.940 walking around vegas with a nitrous tank at all times that's i love this i've never heard of it
03:26:59.260 that's so fucking funny he also got like rejected by the singer jewel like that that's why he killed
03:27:05.520 himself he was like trying to bang jewel and she said no and then he like burned himself alive in
03:27:10.780 just like like a chinese guy high on nitrous trying to fuck jewel is so funny to me yeah like
03:27:16.080 just fucking high he was vietnamese but like insane high vietnamese nerd like trying to bang
03:27:22.480 jewel uh and uh and then there was that and then there was also the guy who just got stabbed to
03:27:28.320 death in like an honor killing uh who was also some big tech guy in in san francisco he got
03:27:35.600 stabbed because he was like banging his business partner's sister or something and uh they tested
03:27:42.600 his blood and it was like yeah same thing it was like 14 different drugs it was like adderall acid
03:27:47.360 battery you know uh like ketamine all at once i remember reading this tweet once probably one of
03:27:55.360 those vitalism sort of guys but they were saying that you know if you told your barbarian ancestors
03:28:00.300 that in your era you had a magical substance that made you stronger and crazier you could stay up for
03:28:07.120 weeks on end like they would tell you to take it and that just kind of reframed it from him like
03:28:10.680 i guess it does give you barbarian superpowers well dude i mean like pcp is a barbarian drug
03:28:17.580 it makes you strip naked wander down the street with knives and then just start attacking cars
03:28:23.280 yeah i i kind of believe it i mean i i think i believe in performance enhancing drugs you know
03:28:28.820 I think that, uh, I think it's good to, I mean, this is the problem I have now.
03:28:34.420 I'm, you know, I'm, I'm like, I'm not a normie anymore, man.
03:28:39.100 So I'm not, I don't have the luxury of, um, being an on and like trying to get jobs in
03:28:49.160 the mainstream anymore.
03:28:50.160 I can't get jobs in the mainstream anymore.
03:28:52.180 That's done.
03:28:52.920 It's over.
03:28:53.520 They never call me back.
03:28:55.000 It's never, I mean, I don't try anymore, but, uh, I'm too open now to, to do that.
03:29:01.860 So in order to like make shit happen, I got to go to a lot of parties, you know?
03:29:07.460 I mean, I, I have to like meet people.
03:29:10.640 I got to go to events and it's real hard to do this shit sober.
03:29:15.160 You know what I mean?
03:29:15.580 You really do need like some kind of fucking edge to keep it going.
03:29:19.740 Well, you're kind of like me.
03:29:20.760 Like you have the personality where you probably hate networking events.
03:29:24.360 you hate mixers you know i used to go to those all the time where it's like shoulder to shoulder
03:29:28.420 with like young guys they spent their entire paycheck on that suit too everyone wants to
03:29:33.420 find the ceo but it's just other guys looking for jobs there but uh you know i i was wanted to ask
03:29:38.600 you this because i remember gavin mcginnis who a lot of people don't like i understand why but
03:29:43.540 early on he had an interesting statement he said something like you know when he became outed for
03:29:48.660 whatever the fuck he is um he got kicked out of his agency but he said you know i lost a lot of
03:29:53.800 work but it was almost like sending up a signal flare letting other right adjacent people know
03:29:59.180 that who i am and that attracted some other business i was wondering has that been your
03:30:04.620 experience at all like has have other doors opened because oh absolutely i mean without question
03:30:10.020 definitely i mean that's that's you know that's the whole idea is that it opens other doors and
03:30:18.240 it really does um and i'm so much happier man i you know the thing i really do have to say
03:30:24.740 legitimately is i am so much happier as a person being out than i was when i was split right when
03:30:35.500 i was hiding it really uh is so fucking different it just my mental like everything works and makes
03:30:44.720 sense. Whereas back when I was working in the mainstream agencies, I would have money. I mean,
03:30:49.500 I was also drinking a lot, but I would have Mondays come along that were just pure despair,
03:30:55.900 you know, and you're not even really sure what you're, it's hard. It's not like you are like,
03:31:03.580 I'm upset because I'm spiritually forwarding something I hate. It's not that simple. You just
03:31:10.380 feel bad you know you and it's kind of unclear why you feel bad um and you feel like there's so
03:31:18.540 much distance between what you want to be doing what you are doing and especially at agencies
03:31:24.060 where you've worked there's so much bureaucracy so much of your day is just held up with these
03:31:29.760 like because they give out jobs to people who to just make busy work so it's like meetings about
03:31:34.480 meetings and then it's like and just how much of your day is spent like learning how to be nice on
03:31:39.800 slack whereas what you want to do like my thing is i genuinely like marketing that sounds lame to
03:31:45.200 a lot of people but i like it i like and people in our scene come to me asking questions for their
03:31:51.360 business i do for free just because it's cool and i'm interested so that's the job i would love to
03:31:57.660 do but the closer you get in these organizations like you don't even spend a lot of time doing
03:32:02.860 that which is you know counterintuitive to what you might expect yeah no i will so i mean i agree
03:32:09.680 i also like marketing but how do you deal with like uh you know being anon does that
03:32:16.560 like do you feel bad having to like pretend i somewhat so i do i went into this with eyes open
03:32:25.780 knowing that eventually if everything goes right if everyone loves the blood satellite show
03:32:30.580 i'll probably be doxxed eventually so throughout the years i've operated with that assumption like
03:32:37.360 you know someday everyone's going to know i said this thing let's make sure i'm saying something
03:32:41.680 that i would be comfortable saying to my mother or my friends and i'm just an unhinged guy so i do
03:32:47.580 say the things i say on my show to regular people uh but i don't say like anything that i would be
03:32:52.580 embarrassed if it got outed so there's that um on the other hand i do think it's important that
03:32:58.160 people like people should feel comfortable saying what they say online in public um and people like
03:33:04.800 knowing that you've got some kind of stake in the game however i you know approach this from an
03:33:10.940 older internet you're kind of my age i think we're around there so you probably remember
03:33:15.160 earlier internet and i just liked the idea of having a real world persona but also having this
03:33:22.780 special space the space where you could be anonymous and you could like try out saying
03:33:28.300 stuff maybe you've never said before and i'm not saying that should be your main persona but it was
03:33:33.540 always nice to have this arena where you could find people being their weirdest and just live
03:33:40.680 there for a bit that's what 4chan and a lot of these places were people at their worst and seeing
03:33:45.520 what what's that like or yeah and so i would love no matter if everyone was docs i do think there is
03:33:51.720 a value for anonymity um especially practically going forward i like i don't want people to get
03:33:58.880 fired and that's why i would recommend people be anonymous if you're afraid for whatever reason
03:34:03.600 that you might lose your kids if it gets out if you got a vindictive x like there's a lot of
03:34:08.460 reasons why people might want to be anonymous and that's their story then you know i'm not going to
03:34:14.220 tell them to put everything on the line um but i i would love to live in a situation and also like
03:34:20.680 the idea that most people i think are convinced that their ideas are more extreme than they are
03:34:24.940 that's definitely true there's a lot of people like if you just say like gay sex is gross like
03:34:31.540 more people would agree with you than you might think and that's kind of a fun thing you can
03:34:35.940 find a group of people who if you tease out some of your ideas you might get a lot of traction and
03:34:42.520 so if there's any like psyop going on it's convincing a lot of us that we are extreme
03:34:47.460 schizo psychos a lot of us aren't you know i'm not a huge huge uh advocate of like sargon or
03:34:54.920 academic agent but you know they had their arms around this idea of sensible centrism and i'm not
03:35:00.900 a huge advocate of that but they were approaching this idea that you know a lot of the things that
03:35:04.880 you think they're just what are are what we believe was the de facto norm like 50 years ago
03:35:11.280 so let's not buy into the narrative that we're all just fucking schizo fringe rapist madman you
03:35:18.080 know for thinking that tradition's good or whatever it is yeah i mean ultimately i'm of
03:35:24.940 the belief i mean it's like i'm i kind of try to wrap my heads around this and that obviously like
03:35:32.180 people immediately as soon as you start criticizing uh anything and on they're like
03:35:39.600 you're a fucking jewish doxer you know and so i i'm i'm like aware of this and i i think
03:35:46.840 anonymity has been great the anons are like the gods you know what i mean like they're like
03:35:52.020 they're like these unreal like characters that exist not really in the real world you know what
03:36:01.020 i mean and and there's something beautiful about that and there's something really beautiful about
03:36:05.880 their existence you know like i i think there is something beautiful about anon and from an
03:36:12.840 artistic standpoint it's like the character being played is so much a part of the uh thing as um
03:36:23.260 the actual things that they're saying you know like the mystery of bap is is a huge part of like
03:36:31.060 what he is and just bring it back to gavin mcannis like he was one of those guys who's like you don't
03:36:36.000 even have your real face out there who are you i'm like i've never given a shit about that if
03:36:40.620 people want to play a character online i'm i'm okay with that no i agree i agree and i i think
03:36:46.260 like you're saying it's good to to i think it's good artistically is it good for the mission no
03:36:55.340 it would be much better for the mission for like the the goals that we have if we were all
03:37:02.980 not anonymous because being anonymous it it really does like um you know it like makes it so that you
03:37:15.320 can be split right and if you can be split that does that does give the the regime power because
03:37:25.860 as you just said it makes it so that you think and i completely experienced this once i came out
03:37:32.500 i realized that the things that like i thought people cared about were not really the things
03:37:39.900 like those weren't the things that really upset other people as much as you would think right
03:37:44.600 um and so i do think that like in the long run uh you know it's i think that the the the trajectory
03:37:55.560 of an anon and so ho this is how we should finish because we were going to talk about this anyway
03:37:59.560 we saw that soul bra uh posted his face right and bap posted his face recently more and like
03:38:09.760 you know we see these guys coming out of the shadows i think that that should be the trajectory
03:38:16.520 it should be like you're an anon you're experimenting you're this primordial thing
03:38:21.220 you reach this certain level and then ultimately it becomes your responsibility once you're big
03:38:27.580 enough you gotta like embody yourself you know well that's a good point leader you know you
03:38:32.780 gotta become a real leader and a real artist and and kind of like take that step but i don't know
03:38:36.800 i mean i'm i i i totally respect the annons i'm not saying that everybody should do that i guess
03:38:41.520 i'm just trying to like what do you make of this uh face i agree completely and also with a uh
03:38:47.100 character like sobra you know as much as you might like his writing or what he stands for
03:38:53.560 it does hurt the cause if it turns out that he's a short fat guy yeah right right exactly so if you
03:38:59.780 see so about oh this guy he's fit he looks you know he looks like he embodies what he talks about
03:39:04.780 uh same thing with uh bap you know i think he he docks himself and he's not a fucking short fat
03:39:10.560 ugly guy because that would that would actually hurt for a lot of people even though they wouldn't
03:39:14.860 admit that would hurt it and you know as much as people don't want to say you can tell a lot about
03:39:19.720 the person by how they dress how they carry themselves so if you agree with someone and
03:39:24.980 they just dress and look like shit it's like oh you know can i trust what they said it sounds
03:39:30.100 unfair but that's how the world works so and also their identity matters right i think that bap being
03:39:37.580 jewish was actually really harmful to to his i think it made him look pretty ridiculous you know
03:39:46.360 what i mean like i i don't i'm a complete bap enthusiast and i completely am like you know on
03:39:53.640 his side and i i support everything he does and i you know i don't give a shit that he's jewish at
03:39:59.300 all but i think that that griper attack on him was effective you know yeah also if so much of
03:40:06.480 the imagery is at least dog whistling, like Aryan Superman, if it turns out you're Jewish,
03:40:12.000 like, well, that's that you're making it easy at that. Exactly. It's like, it's like, I was so
03:40:17.220 certain he wasn't. And then when that came out, it was kind of like, whoa, you know, like, it's
03:40:22.560 fine. It's, it's not a, I mean, that's, that's been, you know, I'm, I'm Jewish. I'm my mom's
03:40:27.600 Jewish. I'm a Michelin, but I'm, you know, I'm, I consider myself Jewish. And when I first got
03:40:36.140 into this world I was so afraid of telling people you know because I didn't want to be judged and I
03:40:42.900 didn't you know I didn't want to immediately be dismissed right but then I realized no you know
03:40:47.820 what like if I'm gonna fucking do this I have to own that part of it too you know I have to say
03:40:54.220 all right well I'm not gonna lie to you you know what I mean like I'm not gonna pretend like I'm
03:40:59.440 not you know yeah it's the lie that creates the shame that people sort of latch on to um and
03:41:06.160 that's why i try and be open about you know ourselves as much as we can um for the fact
03:41:11.680 like i'm half ukrainian and so a lot of people dirty bastards that's saying for like a for like
03:41:17.020 a full two three years everyone's like i hope all ukrainians i'm like okay well i i hear you
03:41:22.800 but it is what i am and i'm half anglo and so we got a lot of nationalists who are european
03:41:28.080 and a lot of them you know even though the european hate anglos hate the british and so i'm
03:41:33.200 getting it from fucking both directions but you know if you just lie about who you are or what
03:41:38.360 you've done you create the shame and that's what people kind of latch on to and also latch on to
03:41:42.820 the shame what you're talking about before is interesting like the entire idea of having an
03:41:48.100 anon space in your real life space and you putting all the things you truly believe into this anon
03:41:53.900 zone you almost bifurcate your personality and you admit to yourself that this stuff over here
03:41:59.800 is bad and if it ever it's like having a reverse go bag where if the heat ever comes on i can cut
03:42:05.300 out that part of my personality entirely when it should be fully integrated into your being and live
03:42:12.040 and just like working in these offices where you need to lie you know even back when i was like a
03:42:17.000 trump guy right when he was first like i remember walking into the place i was working after trump
03:42:22.180 was elected and just everyone hated trump and i was the bad guy for like smiling but it's like
03:42:28.620 you need to if you're not this will sound bullshit but if you're not living your truth if you're not
03:42:34.280 being true to yourself and open like it rots your fucking soul eventually and not right away but 10
03:42:40.260 years on you'll be like why do i feel like i want to blow my fucking brains out it's because i spend
03:42:45.260 most of my day like lying about the fundamental things i believe in and creating this alternate
03:42:51.380 Because also in this, you have like a third personality, which is your work personality, which is I need to talk to the lady who sits beside me and pretend I'm interested in her true crime podcast.
03:43:01.980 That rots your soul, too.
03:43:04.600 And so, like, I don't know what to do about that because I don't want to tell people to quit their job.
03:43:08.540 I'm just saying, like, that'll kill you eventually.
03:43:12.720 Take years off your life.
03:43:14.100 Yeah.
03:43:14.680 Yeah, yeah, totally, man.
03:43:15.900 so as hard as it's been for you like i bet you probably want to put a gun in your mouth less
03:43:21.540 than if you were in that previous situation so that's good for you i mean you know you you're
03:43:27.440 swapping you're swapping because now it's like um i'm definitely much more happy and like
03:43:36.120 excited on a day-to-day basis and i'm not you don't get that like deep
03:43:43.160 like that deep feeling that there's something wrong, you know, like, uh, that, that deep
03:43:50.960 feeling of emptiness and loneliness, like that really is gone. And, and that's great. I mean,
03:43:57.940 that's really the thing that sort of existential angst, I think is something that a lot of people
03:44:05.020 struggle with men and women and my belief has always been um that it's not depression you know
03:44:13.180 i completely do not believe in like any of these like depression and you know that's a that's a
03:44:19.180 yeah any of that stuff and so i think that that's that those feelings of loneliness or emptiness
03:44:27.140 whatever that is your soul saying like i'm missing something you know i need something that i'm not
03:44:33.140 getting. I'm like hungry. It's not something that needs to be medicated away. Right. It's something
03:44:39.080 that is missing in what you're doing and the way that you're behaving. And you have to change your
03:44:43.640 behavior. Unfortunately, it's sometimes just very difficult to understand what changes you need to
03:44:49.980 make. I mean, I think you kind of know deep down, but we're very fearful people. And we act via fear
03:44:58.280 a lot and it's hard to remove that fear. Um, and so I, I definitely have gotten rid of that. Like
03:45:07.120 that, that's deep fear and anxiety and loneliness is gone, but what do you trade it for? You trade
03:45:17.160 it for uh like day-to-day worry you know day-to-day anxiety like a like a low grade uh like a constant
03:45:31.040 low-grade anxiety that you really is very very hard to get rid of you know what i'm saying so
03:45:37.320 it's like well especially because you're sober now too and i'm sure that's a lot of that's hitting
03:45:42.520 you um and you know there's no retreat from it and i went through that as well which is like
03:45:47.960 the the hardest thing for me was also i don't have an escape and i don't even have a reward
03:45:52.480 mechanism where i'm like oh i had something's good i should have a drink it's like well something's
03:45:56.560 bad i had a bad day things are terrible now i just sit here and i let that irradiate me and
03:46:03.420 that's hard it most people can't do it but i think if you could even just do that you're stronger and
03:46:11.440 more capable than you give yourself credit for. And I think it does get easier. I'm just going
03:46:16.080 to tell you that it does. And you'll honestly, you'll probably slip up and you know what there's,
03:46:20.260 I might slip up one day. People do that, but like, don't be hard on yourself because you've
03:46:26.760 already made a series of decisions that most people couldn't even conceive of doing. So you're
03:46:33.460 already ahead of most people right now. So how did you yourself get through that period of like
03:46:39.500 not having, you put that very well. How did you get through not having a release valve?
03:46:45.700 Well, I tried to stay busy. I started, what I would do was I would make sort of a pros and
03:46:51.640 cons list or a list of things that I know I'm not going to do if I'm drunk, like working out.
03:46:57.680 I like to lift. And I know that if I, Hey, if I'm hungover, if I'm drinking, I don't really do that.
03:47:01.620 Or I'm not going to write all these things that I know that I want to do, but I won't be able to.
03:47:07.060 so anytime i wanted to have a drink i'd say like you know what i'm sacrificing pretty much everything
03:47:12.580 in this column is it worth and i know how i drink i know i'll lie to myself and say i'll just have
03:47:17.900 one drink well no it's not it's going to turn into 20 yeah and then i know that i'm going to
03:47:21.860 wake up hungover so i'm going to start playing through that entire morning i'm going to wake up
03:47:25.580 have another drink so that's like 72 hours that are gone from my life and also as you get older
03:47:32.040 I find, um, and maybe you're like this too. I can see the end. I can, I start feeling that my body's
03:47:39.060 aging that didn't occur in my twenties. So I'm like, okay, I feel like there's a clock ticking
03:47:44.220 now. How much of my time must I maximize to get where I want to be? Cause I'm actually not where
03:47:49.400 I want to be. You know, I, I, there's a place that I think I would like to be in life and I'm not
03:47:54.100 there. And I think the only way I can get there is if I maximize the amount of time I'm doing
03:47:59.560 these things so that that for me is it it's fear it's the fear of that overwhelming the you know i
03:48:05.620 need to escape the moments just always and then again as it goes on that gets easier and easier
03:48:11.300 and maybe one day it won't because you know tragedies happen maybe your fucking wife dies
03:48:17.160 maybe your kid like you know don't afford yourself some room for life to fuck you over and you know
03:48:25.040 but don't fuck yourself over extra life will do that for you um and at least it's not heroin you
03:48:31.780 know some people they're thinking it's heroin i bet that's pretty fucking hard to do meth
03:48:35.000 you know uh booze you know it as i got older it got harder for me to handle booze too
03:48:40.840 but hangovers hit harder um it took way more for me to get drunk like my tolerance level was
03:48:47.160 fucking ridiculous by the end of it so it's like you know i was enjoying it less and less too if
03:48:53.680 i'm being honest like and then like a hangover when you're in your 40s like i can only imagine
03:48:59.240 how you want to blow your fucking brains out yeah dude no for sure i hope that answered
03:49:06.300 your question it did it did very very good answer very good answer um all right man well dude thank
03:49:11.860 you so much for coming on uh what what do you do you have i mean of course we'll send people to the
03:49:16.400 great website and the podcast do you have any you mentioned writing where have you been publishing
03:49:20.780 your writing i have a website called the vanguardist journal vanguardist journal.com
03:49:27.300 that's where i publish uh my long long form stuff usually based off of things we discuss in the show
03:49:32.800 but our you know our show is very irreverent very comical but this is where i take a lot of those
03:49:37.360 big ideas and try to focus them you know something a bit more serious and a bit more uh mainstream
03:49:41.800 focus so and we also published a couple other people on there too um very stuff that i like
03:49:48.160 And I tend to work with writers as an editor,
03:49:51.400 trying to help them not just like churn stuff out.
03:49:53.160 So that's where that is.
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03:50:02.380 You talk to Jay Bird and his stuff is up there.
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03:50:15.600 they're after production costs they get all the profit i don't even take a cut but that's the
03:50:20.420 i want to be on your store here yeah i'm gonna read you my uh i have uh an idea for a shirt
03:50:27.620 can you actually send me that i need to get going right now because i have to feed my kid but i do
03:50:32.200 want to do this let's say yes for now all right man thanks for joining thank i had a great time
03:50:38.160 thank you so much
03:50:38.820 Hey, baby, I hear the blues are calling
03:50:43.560 Toss salads and scrambled eggs
03:50:46.460 And maybe I seem a bit confused
03:50:51.040 Yeah, maybe, but I got you, Peg