00:05:34.08025 okay so 25 off promo code powerful promo code post so make sure you get in now because people
00:05:40.900oh this this and andrew you know this happens with every single am fest that people sleep on it they
00:05:46.840wait and they wait and they wait and they wait this time and then they hit me on us at the very
00:05:50.120at the very last minute we haven't marketed this event at all and we've already got like
00:05:55.560thousands and thousands of tickets sold so it's becoming kind of an institution you know but
00:05:59.960I just mean at the very last minute that people yeah of course it you know they're selling like
00:06:05.000hotcakes already but the very last minute it's like the week before the event so it's 17th to
00:06:09.18020th of December people will always come and they'll say and they'll say Jack oh you know you
00:06:13.600know I really meant to get tickets and you know I just I didn't know and you know what it is and
00:06:19.500you got to get me on the list you got to get me in you got to I'll pay whatever it is I'm like guys
00:06:23.420just buy it now like please just buy it now don't put me in that position VIP will sell out
00:06:29.820so yes it like last year it it sold out first thing and you know it was crazy but general
00:06:38.180admission could sell out too like last year we had to hit hit um fire code but whatever even if
00:06:42.580even if we don't hit fire code and we can keep the ga open there's always always a last minute rush
00:06:48.220so get your tickets right now amfest.com december 17th through the 20th in phoenix arizona at the
00:06:54.060convention center it is legitimately the biggest stage in the conservative movement all right
00:06:59.020all right we didn't even we didn't even coordinate that jack and speaking of stages
00:07:04.580stage where you might view something for example jack you had a very interesting encounter
00:07:10.160yeah jack with tip on a big old secretary of war today they have announced news break
00:07:16.860breaking some uh breaking some news we're moving the needle but not that kind of needle
00:07:21.640different kind of needle uh in fact no needle at all christina pike needle from not no no no in
00:07:27.740In fact, we're going with a little bit more of a little bit more tried and true, old trusty, old trusty, old faithful, as they call it back in the day.
00:07:39.260Yeah, we had an interview with the—so I just flew back from literally the Pacific Ocean because—so we're at the USS Abraham Lincoln, and for Human Events Daily, we went out there.
00:07:52.100It was their very last day of their deployment.
00:11:09.940Okay, when you're doing an interview, you have to ask interrogative questions.
00:11:13.300And so I'm trying to find out what else is going to happen.
00:11:16.640no and i think it was great like whoa jack you gave that boom you set him up you set him up to
00:11:22.760just go don't care which made him look awesome yeah don't care it doesn't even matter to me
00:11:27.660but i mean the most interesting thing there the most interesting thing there as he said is
00:11:31.940he says we'll make sure people are able to watch it a live stream there will be a live stream
00:11:38.160they're live streaming it did they say that yes holy moly gone so the pentagon has reached so
00:11:44.200obviously on the back of my interview, I'll generate a lot of attention online. And so now
00:11:50.520there's this huge firestorm across mainstream media. So Washington Post, Politico, ABC, AP,
00:11:56.840all these papers reached out to the Pentagon and they did put out a statement to them saying,
00:12:01.700yes, it will be live streamed. So this goes back to a discussion. This was very early thought crime
00:12:07.720discussion that we had. I think we discussed if did we believe in the death penalty and then how
00:12:12.980would we do it and we said it should be public like well you know it's interesting charlie when
00:12:17.900i first started working with charlie charlie was anti-death penalty which was familiar to me like
00:12:23.200when i went to catholic high school my priest was the in of you know he ended up becoming the bishop
00:12:28.180of that deities but he's a huge anti-death penalty crusader which is interesting my dad actually put
00:12:33.240three men on death row because he was a district attorney and then he would get hired from some of
00:12:37.820local county so my whole life i was always like well yeah i was born and raised catholic catholic
00:12:44.020high school stuff like that i think charlie charlie was very powerfully affected uh by the argument
00:12:47.980which makes sense that to be you know consistently pro-life you should be pro-life as the line goes
00:12:53.220from conception to natural death yep uh and so a lot of people are affected by that is a powerful
00:12:59.060argument but that's not true that's not that's not true at all so that like being pro-life is it is
00:13:05.360you know kind of a misnomer because it's like i'm anti-abortion right like that's that's what
00:13:10.000we're talking about we're anti-abortion so we're pro-life for the life of a fetus uh the idea that
00:13:15.320a um which is a pre-born human obviously the idea that a traitor and a convicted hardcore murderer
00:13:23.320is um is the same as an innocent child is just just obviously flies in the fact and so this is
00:13:29.460Where I do think a lot of these pro-lifers who make this really ridiculous argument have just kind of like got themselves wrapped up in the linguistics rather than actually like like I'm pro-baby.
00:14:16.960Their whole life is completely changed.
00:14:18.700So I guess it's also an insult to the victim, isn't it?
00:14:20.840Saying that your life doesn't matter so much that your murderer can keep on living, but you yourself aren't living.
00:14:24.940it's actually devalues the value of the victim or the victims actually in a lot of times god
00:14:29.420repeated in all five books of the torah you take a life your life will be taken to the consistency
00:14:33.920argument if there is a baby here you know in the womb that baby has done nothing wrong whereas a
00:14:38.780guy who went and shot up a school did a lot wrong and so the only answer is to say we value human
00:14:44.020life so much that you don't get to keep on living if you take a precious human life it's actually an
00:14:48.800explicitly pro-life position because it's honoring the dead and honoring the victim so much that it's
00:14:54.020not just one to be discarded that's oh it's not just a clump of cells because they're like oh you
00:14:58.380know it's just a bunch of clump of cells that got shot up at a school it doesn't really matter go
00:15:01.800put him in a jail where we say no that's a life you took and you don't get to get to keep on having
00:15:06.080breath if you go take another precious human life and i think that argument is particularly strong
00:15:10.700in a case like major hassan's that not even a crime of passion not not a stray murder but
00:15:17.280specifically he engaged in terrorism he went about massacring fellow soldiers a betrayal of his
00:15:23.660country, a betrayal of the uniform that he served under. And I think if we are to believe in our
00:15:29.620society, in our civilization, one of those things is if we believe we are a moral civilization,
00:15:34.760a good people, there should be a crime that you can commit that is so heinous that we can say
00:15:39.840you cannot be a part of us anymore. We are going to pluck you out of this society forever. And0.93
00:15:46.480we're going to show that this is what happens to people who do a crime of that nature. And
00:15:51.120We've talked about that with, unfortunately, Charlie's own murder, that if you're going to tolerate on any level political assassination, someone who will see the point of view you're arguing peacefully and say, I want everyone else to live in fear of ever agreeing with that opinion, and so I'm going to shoot you dead.0.96
00:16:09.000That's why we'd say you have to meet that with the maximum penalty.
00:16:11.740Well, and it's government authority, Charlie's point that we actually value life so much that we are going to deter those who would attempt to take it or, in fact, do take it unjustly, that we are going to hold them accountable in the stiffest possible way, which is why you've always been actually in favor of public execution.
00:22:31.660I mean, there is an angle that could be said where there's desensitization.
00:22:37.440But the problem is we are so far down the road of desensitization in this culture that, you know, Dylan or somebody in the chat said if kids can play GTA, they can they can see it.
00:22:59.400I don't think it's bloodlust. I think the worry is that you would create some sort of ravenous appetite for bloodletting in your culture or something. No, no, no. Democrats hate anything. Anything. Progressives have an aversion that is so profound against justice. They don't want justice for the illegal. They don't want justice for Lindsay Clancy. They hate justice.
00:23:22.900this is and that's sadly that's the other argument in favor of the death penalty is in places that
00:23:26.860don't have it instantly you have people who they they want to get rid of life without parole
00:23:31.400they will fight cashless they will move heaven and earth and hell to get the most awful criminals
00:23:39.760back on the street back at liberty to let them hurt people again kill people again or just
00:23:45.300torment people by the fact that they're free such an obvious thing there was a clemency they gave in
00:23:50.380and I believe it was in Virginia there where they just,
00:23:52.800they let someone out who broke into an elderly couple's home and murdered
00:23:56.400them and their grandchild came out and was like, please, I'm begging you.
00:24:00.680Don't let out the person who murdered my grandparents and let them out.
00:24:06.000When I was cutting that clip, Charlie goes on to continue and he said,
00:24:10.160you know how I know that the death penalty would work is if you decided that
00:24:17.500death death penalty for anybody who who robs stores uh except for thursday guess when everybody
00:24:26.040would be robbing yeah thursday thursday well you see this jack you know this story because you're
00:24:30.460the east coast guy but there's actually gang like organized crime rings that will go up to new york
00:24:36.840uh from florida steal and do all the stealing and theft in new york because if they get caught
00:24:42.520in new york they'll be fine and then they they sell it back in florida or they sell it and then
00:24:46.760There's actually a big thing with with I'm trying to remember this.
00:24:50.420I think it's Kansas City, how there's like two sides of Kansas City, the Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri.
00:24:56.140And I remember I forget which one on the top of my head.
00:24:58.100I think it's one of them has a death penalty and one of them doesn't.
00:25:01.420And so one of them has a much higher crime rate because you'll get criminals going to the place that has no death penalty and then committing a ton more crimes and then going back to where they live on the other side.
00:35:51.720and even your kids are part of the oppressor class,
00:35:54.080and so if you want to actually understand these things,
00:35:56.580Go and get yourself a copy of Unhumans 2 Socialist Revolution because that chapter on toxic feminism, fifth-wave feminism, it breaks this down exquisitely.0.92
00:39:59.380time that i had heard the narrative that i was a victim not a whore so it was you could see it was
00:40:05.500almost like this moment of relief like oh wait maybe there's another option to this story where0.83
00:40:10.800i don't have to be the whore i actually get to be a victim yeah um anyways uh it's crazy how this
00:40:15.700looks entirely back to the initial topic where it's like in a sense you know major hassan is
00:40:20.360also like he needs to face accountability there are a few fix everything yeah fix everything and
00:40:25.260it's like accountability for your actions across society uh across the board and when the thing is
00:40:31.180is when you have more accountability there's less problems there's less bad things did you see the
00:40:35.580great article it was in i think it was the harvard crimson uh and it was saying that students are
00:40:41.500they're realizing that consent might not be enough for sex like they're developing a new
00:40:45.500sexual ethic that we should dignity matters too they're basically reinventing marriage and like
00:40:51.460real relationships and commitment from first principles like and they think that they think
00:40:55.200they're just you know the most genius people ever no one's ever thought of this idea we need to we
00:40:58.960need to talk about consent jack and i need you to have my back here no super hot takes here just
00:41:03.620have my back so consent is garbage okay like consent means what you want it to mean when you
00:41:11.980want it to mean it the whole concept of consent is like one big setup to basically screw over0.99
00:41:18.720aziz anzari when you have regrettable sex with him or to screw over insert male here when you0.94
00:41:23.540realize that actually he doesn't like you that much consent it's like like it's that aziz anzari0.95
00:41:29.680thing where he thought that he got proper consent the girl wakes up and says oh i don't know if i
00:41:33.920like that and then it turns into a rape allegation that's not okay that like they're the whole concept
00:41:40.440listen i agree if a girl says no you need to say yeah of course not right i get it but like this
00:41:47.220concept of like in between gray zone well it wasn't consent because i was drunk well did you
00:41:52.180consent to getting drunk and putting yourself into that position yeah yeah i don't know jack0.95
00:41:57.440have my back no no i have i have your back because the the double standard is what makes it garbage
00:42:03.840right the double standard of if if the man is drunk how can he consent right he couldn't consent
00:42:09.720either and this is where you get this sort of he too movement that has bubbled up uh this week
00:42:15.220online and one that has gone gone back until um you know going back years even before trump
00:42:22.240announced all the way back to the uva hoax and so this has created a situation where the double
00:42:26.920standards have become completely untenable and this is again we talk about this in the new on
00:42:32.300humans where you have to accelerate um you have to accelerate the contradictions and this is
00:42:39.120exactly what it means so you you flip it back on them you use that tactic of saying well how could
00:42:43.760he consent how could the man consent why is consent one of these things that in a legal sense
00:42:48.820and this and and blake can explain this that in a legal sense this is something that had been done
00:42:54.280on campuses which i believe actually correct me if i'm wrong um blake again you would know better
00:42:59.080than me but didn't the trump administration actually change the way that these are that
00:43:03.680these cases are investigated well the obama administration created this new they basically
00:43:09.760imposed a new legal standard they'd say colleges to comply with title nine remember title nine of
00:43:14.520the education act just says under title nine right yeah discriminate between you can't discriminate
00:43:18.780between men and women that's all it says in providing education if you get federal funds
00:43:22.440you can't discriminate between men and women and our brilliant obama administration came out and
00:43:26.020said to comply with this law you're actually required in you know the great genius of our
00:43:30.380lawmakers they intended this decades ago you're actually required to create a special new legal
00:43:35.620tribunal to adjudicate sexual assault claims you can't just throw it to the police you have to have
00:43:39.660your own proceeding. And it has to follow this specific evidence standard that is lower than
00:43:43.680the criminal standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. It just has to be preponderance of the
00:43:47.840evidence, which legally means we think it's more likely than not. And you're not required to allow
00:43:51.620cross-examination. You're not allowed to require confrontation of witnesses. You can create a
00:43:56.140kangaroo court. They required this of schools. And then the Trump administration got rid of it.
00:44:01.920The Biden administration brought it back and made it even worse. And now it's out again. And they're
00:44:06.820trying to use this bogus scandal to revive it again and change laws well you know what else i
00:44:11.340want to real flag real quick though uh zuzu she just said did you see thank you zuzu uh did you
00:44:16.700see the sex ed that was being taught at cornell yes we did yes it did it it just very casually
00:44:22.820and almost robotically like they had a literal itemized list where it's like you should fill
00:44:28.500out this consent form to see are you comfortable with all of these things and it was sex with one
00:44:33.840person, two people, three or more people, four or more people like two P and they just, it was like
00:44:39.620rattling it off all these things. Like, Oh, you should make your, do your five page sex inventory.
00:44:44.760And it's gross to read. It's robotic to read. And I think the most telling thing of all is that it's0.96
00:44:53.080not, it's not erotic to read like with the creepiest thing about all of this. And even
00:44:59.180coming out of the Cornell story is like, nothing's actually like for lack of a better word, hot about
00:45:03.800any of this it's a bunch of people who've been fed this idea of what it is to be adventurous
00:45:08.480what it is to be daring what it is to be to do something cool and edgy while you're in college
00:45:13.880and the end result is this woman had a reputation destroyed these boys are having their reputations
00:45:19.400trashed all of them look disgusting are any of them closer to feeling real love for anyone in
00:45:24.540their life they all need jesus they all need jesus like that's the that's the case so here's
00:45:29.160what else they're doing though with this this is new york times today jack i don't know if you saw
00:45:33.960this embrace or ban greek life cornell case renews an old debate on campuses a sexual assault case
00:45:43.680at cornell revived a long-running national conversation about whether fraternities and
00:45:47.260sororities are beneficial and harmful of course you would go here yeah of course because no
00:45:54.120liberals hate nothing more than an old school institution for men only and women only well1.00
00:46:00.580unless you're a tranny because then they'll let the trannies in that's all they care about they1.00
00:46:04.980want to get rid of the the places in which masculinity can flourish old school values1.00
00:46:11.780old school institutions and let's just be honest a lot of white men so now they want to ban greek0.88
00:46:17.240life over a freaking hoax and ua u of a is also doing this yeah a lot of schools are so you know
00:46:23.540And this is where, you know, this is where when we look at these things, and we've, of course, done lots of shows about this, this is where you have to ask serious questions about the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s.0.93
00:46:36.160And you have to go back and say, well, wait a minute.
00:47:08.100But do you know the one area of modernity that has not gone through what they're calling the sex recession?0.97
00:47:15.880That would be a monotonous religious marriage.
00:47:18.780they are the only people in america today that are not going through that are not having less
00:47:23.940sex than they did like 20 years ago where was the clap sound effect that was like perfect
00:47:27.880perfect setup yeah where was i'm glad glad i didn't do that like the mexican hat dance one
00:47:32.560for me for andrew there it is yeah we get this but not the other one i don't get it
00:47:40.420what uh i've got to find the way i love this comment can i just can i read this comment from
00:47:45.800mk bren hollywood literally promotes that lifestyle in all their shows and then when
00:47:50.600people do what they see on tv they get demonized make it make sense exactly right exactly right
00:47:56.760so when we we promote yep unchristian behavior and you get more unchristian behavior then we
00:48:03.080turn around and say wait um why did we get all this unchristian behavior because you promoted it
00:48:08.280because you were constantly promoting it and because there are people who and and just maybe
00:48:13.640Maybe, just maybe, and this is going to sound crazy, a real thought crime, scalding hot thought crime here, flaming hot take.
00:48:20.120What if the Christian standards were in place because they work?
00:48:26.800What if Christianity is real and the reason that it worked for 2,000 years is because those standards actually set up a better and more successful society?
00:48:40.960so this is from brad wilcox uh my latest from the atlantic for the atlantic religion
00:48:47.420frequently gets a bad rap in our public conversation about sex yet in an atomized
00:48:52.340individual individualistic age faith has turned out to be one of the few institutions
00:48:56.520still nurturing one of the most powerful expressions of human intimacy throw up 27
00:49:02.240so this is actually the graph religious couples avoided the sex recession look at that i guess
00:49:07.900you could technically say we're down from 64 percent in the 1990s to 62 percent but we're
00:49:12.700actually up from 61 percent in the 2010s hey hey speak for yourself speak for yourself but look at
00:49:18.420this so rarely never attend church went from 64 on par with the frequent attenders of church
00:49:24.800down to 48 and the all unmarried group is down at 35 and i guess what is it what is it uh what does
00:49:33.320that say how much what is that uh what's the actual well have sex once once a week or more
00:49:39.240so i'm just saying holy matrimony guys it's the way it's the way that god designed it
00:49:47.120so holy matrimony yes yes matrimony pill i mean it's as he said as jack's saying and you know
00:49:55.200what if it was good because it worked well and that's the crazy thing is like it actually worked
00:49:58.600more or less stably for hundreds you know thousands of years if you want to go from like
00:50:03.180when certain christian ideas became sort of the standard thing that they're pushing you could say
00:50:08.020it probably lasts a good solid thousand fifteen hundred years yeah and then you just compare to
00:50:12.480this stuff where it's like and we got rid of all those dumb restrictions in the 1960s and like
00:50:17.780you're not even getting to the end of girls you're not even getting to the end of those people's
00:50:21.080lifetime before society's flying apart and then you can engage in debaucherous gang gang bangs0.95
00:50:26.640with a redhead, and you think it's fine.0.98
00:51:15.040I mean, all of us who, you know, were, you know, having the burrito debate recently.
00:51:20.280But then the question of assimilation came up, assimilation to American culture.
00:51:25.260And then there came this debate regarding Stryver culture, whether or not Stryver culture is American.
00:51:34.520And Stryver culture is something that you typically see among Asian cultures, so Indian and Chinese.
00:51:41.040And you see this a lot in Indian and Chinese families.
00:51:43.960And what we're talking about is sort of like the overemphasis on studying for SATs, studying for everything, cramming for everything, studying for spelling bees has become a sort of proxy in the debate as well.
00:51:55.260that you have to like push yourself and constantly take extra credit, extracurricular courses to
00:52:01.600always be studying, study hard, study hard, study hard. Vivek, of course, had a tweet about this
00:52:06.480as well himself, two, almost two full years ago on Christmas, talking about how Americans,
00:52:13.480you know, are playing too many sports and aren't studying hard enough. And that's why
00:52:17.300they're getting, you know, that's why people are getting left behind. And so that is,
00:52:24.240in a nutshell the version of striver culture do you guys are no it totally makes sense i mean
00:52:29.600listen but do you know what i'm saying it's a striver okay read you know i'm going to get ahead
00:52:34.520to be a striver um so then so then dinesh d'Souza responded to that criticism by saying that well
00:52:42.480i should explain this criticism too so the criticism was that that that's not an american
00:52:46.900culture american culture is more like you find your talent and then you inculcate that talent
00:52:51.680You don't just strive to pass the test because the test is there.
00:52:55.800So Dinesh responded, the Olympics, the World Cup, and the Super Bowl are 100% the product
00:53:19.900but the idea of striver culture is trying to push everyone to be the same thing to try to push
00:53:26.060everyone into being the piano player the violin player everyone has to be a lawyer everyone has
00:53:31.100to be a dentist everyone has to be a doctor versus um you know everyone has to get x score
00:53:37.280on the sats or whatever it is this is striver culture and putting a massive emphasis on this
00:53:42.180you have to pass the test because the test is there versus in american culture and mike cernovich
00:53:46.860was talking about this it's like the test is there to locate and find talent right the test
00:53:56.640is there to determine who has innate talent and then be able to take that person and find their
00:54:04.180their highest and best use in society so it's not just about being able to get the highest score on
00:54:10.580the test what is the purpose of the test what is the purpose of the grade the purpose obviously to
00:54:15.360teach the education, right? That's like the most basic purpose. But also it's like you want to
00:54:19.800also find those people who are so talented that you then put them into elite programs the same way
00:54:27.000that all of those world medalists, world gold medalists and elite athletes, again, start not
00:54:34.520just from striving, but from having that innate talent. So it's actually a talent search,
00:54:39.400at a talent search mechanism rather than just taking a test for the fact the test is there
00:54:46.860and mike cernovich our good friend had a rejoinder to all of this and said this one of the most
00:54:53.740american things that you do see and you don't see in asian cultures is the culture of team sports
00:55:00.680and you know kind of had this this basic response that you know you don't see the strivers necessarily
00:55:06.780in team sports. And I'm not saying, by the way, that you don't see this culture because you are
00:55:11.120starting to see striver culture in team sports with like travel teams and stuff. But the basic
00:55:16.520idea of an American with kids, and I think that if you went up 10 out of 10, if you have kids in
00:55:22.800team sports and you ask the parents, why do you have them in those sports? They're going to say
00:55:27.600to teach them teamwork, right? To teach them teamwork and good values. And that those values
00:55:34.060are not actually the highest values that are taught in Asian cultures.
00:55:38.620So this is something where it's like, it's literally a cultural debate.
00:55:43.140This isn't something where race really plays a role, but you do see this vast cultural
00:55:49.320gulf in the data when you look at the participation rates for team sports.
00:55:55.860So Andrew, to answer your question, this is why it's become this like hot button issue
00:56:00.380online as to say is asian culture of the asian culture of striver culture is that becoming more
00:56:07.560american and is team sports also getting kind of invaded by this driver culture kind of mentality
00:56:15.440well strive team sports is getting invaded by the fact that like more people first it's a few things0.73
00:56:21.920like the travel sports epidemic and that's not getting ruined by asians that's totally getting
00:56:25.460ruined by like middle-class white families and no i think a lot of that's also so what's going on
00:56:31.200there that's so interesting is that like i think some of it is that people have become just aware
00:56:37.580of how pro sports is just such a giant lucrative thing it's a highly visible path that people can
00:56:42.760go down and it's so freakishly hard and it's so freakishly hard to get in and like and it just
00:56:47.780keeps moving back like when you have to be good such that you have to like be you have to have
00:56:53.100been playing for six years already if you want to even play on your high school varsity team at one
00:56:57.380that actually feeds into the top d1 programs and all of that and also i just think sports has gotten
00:57:02.880so high end like you even see this with the nba you don't have nearly as many players who make
00:57:07.060it to the nba where they played good street ball in the hood and then they turned that into actually
00:57:12.480going to university and then into the nba they're all like these upper middle class or rich products
00:57:18.060of basketball academies like steph curry's dad was like himself a pro basketball player if i
00:57:22.920remember right or some other pro athlete like kids of athletes the athletes are marrying other pro
00:57:27.740athletes and then having these kids who are these genetic supermen christian mccaffrey story his
00:57:32.740both of his parents were collegiate athletes that were both like really fast like his mom was a
00:57:37.220a track star and then like his dad i think was either a football player or whatever and so they
00:57:42.580they birthed the one white running back well i guess scataboo now is the other one but he's
00:57:47.900more of like a tank but it's like just like they actually joke about it it's like somebody had to
00:57:52.580birth but it definitely is because they like combined it is definitely the like the assimilation
00:57:58.220of team sports getting sucked into like focus on these like extreme terminal end goals like
00:58:04.880potentially going pro i think another thing about it is or i think a lot of people end up in travel
00:58:09.600living through their kids fomo though it's that it's fomo you're scared that your kid is going to
00:58:14.340fall behind and so then once somebody starts doing it then everybody has to do it and it creates this
00:58:19.700really negative bad like culture around it because when you know i was coming up it was like i was
00:58:24.760expected to play all the sports i just yeah i just played a sport play this sport this scene you play
00:58:28.220and it was with kids in your neighborhood you weren't traveling all the time it's like parents
00:58:32.000do kind of ruin their lives it feels to me when you're a travel sport parent yeah you end up going
00:58:36.340to a new tournament every weekend you're on the road all the time your life revolves around this
00:58:40.720sport you spend thousands of dollars for a sport that let's be honest your child will almost
00:58:45.540certainly not play pro they're not even that likely not even likely to pitch for the dodgers
00:58:50.280yeah and they're not even that likely to probably do it in college go dodgers yep and it's just but
00:58:56.340yeah on the striver culture thing i just think probably the thing that is most annoying with0.86
00:59:00.240asian style striver culture because that's who they're complaining about is it turns into what's
00:59:04.400called you know a red queens race everyone is running in place to stay in the same spot and0.64
00:59:09.960like that happens so much and like it is really just engineering towards getting a high score0.85
00:59:17.640for the sake of itself yeah like what's the point of being like so dedicated to like one sport from
00:59:23.520the time you're six to 18 if you're not if you're not going to be a millionaire because of it i mean
00:59:28.200maybe you say hey there's no chance of being a millionaire if you don't do this but like come on
00:59:31.880also so stressful over the kids kids were always so annoying dude jack were you a club kid club
00:59:38.320sports what's a club kid traveling sports did you play sports sports travel yeah i played sports
00:59:43.840but no i didn't do i need to travel yeah same i didn't do traveling clubs it was just like kind
00:59:47.860of picking up when it is definitely i mean even with college sports this is i don't really care
00:59:52.240for college sports for this reason so wait guys there's clearly this origin that came out of just
00:59:56.780a good well you know schools were originally for men and it's like that a well-rounded
01:00:02.420man was like a good athlete and a good team player and a good sportsman he also knew you
01:00:08.100know he was liberally versed in different subjects we're totally going for that liberal arts ideal
01:00:11.920and that's where you're getting the traditional team sports that u.s middle schools and high
01:00:17.280schools have had they have a basketball team have a football team yeah have all of these things and
01:00:22.640then because those were so popular and everyone did them and because we were a rich country we
01:00:27.200have rich professional sports teams that are really popular and that has like bled back into
01:00:33.280the original sports and sadly i think corrupted them and it's made it so they are either a super
01:00:39.560lucrative thing into themselves or you play them because you're hoping to get into that super
01:00:44.720lucrative thing and it's corrupted what was originally a very good thing to develop a
01:00:49.920sportsman so guys i'm being told that we haven't quite defined striver culture that great yet and
01:00:57.420people are still kind of confused and so like i'm not saying that people shouldn't strive right like
01:01:02.500We're obviously not saying that we're conservatives, but it's it's the social phenomenon around hyper achievement.
01:01:09.720I just I just did Google on this constant self-improvement for the sake of self-improvement, intense dedication to upward mobility, performative workaholism, measuring success by how hard, how long you work, hustle, radical self-optimization.
01:01:26.980every aspect of life including sleep diet and hobbies tracked measured improve for overall
01:01:32.440maximum efficiency status signaling achievements etc etc um you know throwing it all over your
01:01:38.980linkedin perpetual dissatisfaction uh burnout imposter syndrome identity merging and these
01:01:46.960types of things that you know really just take over your entire life as opposed to again you know
01:01:54.280the type and keep in mind so keep in mind that in in america before we had the striver culture
01:02:02.920of you have to study to get done the test to uh to pass the test we had we were the country that
01:02:09.740won world war ii were the country that put a man on the moon were the country that did all of these
01:02:14.080things without this culture without this culture whatsoever we built america from nothing uh to
01:02:20.160from the ground up and we're able to do all these different things.
01:02:23.160Well, we have Stryver culture in pretty different ways.
01:04:44.460I think you guys are on a totally different tangent than the original topic, because that's
01:04:52.980not really what the debate is about at all.
01:04:55.420Well, we're talking about where the striver culture is coming from in America.
01:04:59.420So there's a couple, well, we're talking about the difference between American culture versus
01:05:03.300Asian striver culture, and the chat actually gets this pretty well.
01:05:06.100So I want to read this one 777 Tia. She wrote in and said, I mean, from some Asian cultures, they only think a career in medicine or law or engineering is legit and everything else isn't a career to pursue like a basketball player.
01:05:20.220And so I think that's a perfect example of trying. I totally agree.1.00
01:05:24.820And so it's like trying to fit, believing that everyone has to fit into one, you know, it's all the square pegs into every round hole.
01:05:33.500Everything has to be the round hole versus the American idea of, which is just the more general American idea of, hey, everyone's got certain talents and your childhood should be based around figuring out what those talents are, what your interests are, and then, you know, trying to inculcate that and nurture that.
01:10:20.280he's coming from. And Cernovich is the same way
01:10:22.260where they don't like the tech bros. But I'm
01:10:24.320sorry. I listen to Palmer Lucky and I'm like,
01:10:26.140dude i like that guy he's freaking like on point and he's innovative he's you know he's what is he
01:10:32.400building that like uh the the shipyard in maryland yeah i mean that's cool yeah it's like a
01:10:38.020baltimore he's launching rockets into the first of all yeah yeah he's launching rockets catching
01:10:43.840them and you know that like i mean elon musk is actually definitely an insane grinder when he was0.50
01:10:48.960young though so i don't know that we i don't i don't like this idea of i i push back on this
01:10:53.140idea of innate talent because high skill is almost always talent combined are you a tabula
01:10:59.180no no no i'm saying actual talent is like is no but then like serious talent yeah it's basically
01:11:04.420grinding plus ability no no that is how you become super good at anything major nobody's saying that
01:11:09.840that's not what we're talking about here what you're saying is okay i want my kids to actually
01:11:15.320have fun for like while they're children and i'm going to observe them where they're naturally
01:11:20.560gifted where they seem to have proclivities and talents and abilities and then i'm going to be
01:11:24.940like you know what now i'm investing in that thing it's called i'm gonna i'm gonna nurture
01:11:29.800that thing i'm gonna pour into that thing and by the way the kid's probably gonna love
01:11:33.200doing that thing i mean what i would point out he's gonna grind one thing i would say that's
01:11:37.440interesting though is if you go back earlier like you actually probably have less flexibility in
01:11:42.620what you're able to study like peak like for example i was i was just reading about for example
01:11:46.680peak peak victorian britain which insanely successful society and basically yeah you had
01:11:52.660a pretty broad liberal education and they put a lot of emphasis on sports and it wasn't super
01:11:56.520academic but what you actually had to study was remarkably rigid rigid and it was heavily
01:12:02.460ancient languages if you can believe it like about half your study time was learning greek
01:12:06.620and latin which is at least as you know much of a digression to learn about as violin or something
01:12:14.540I actually think studying language and music is the one thing that has expanded my mind more than anything else.
01:12:20.760Reading, of course, but, like, there's certain human activities.
01:12:25.240I think that's why they thought it was important because I actually think it made people smarter and wiser, mastery of the English language.
01:12:32.760But also then you can read the classics and understand how you got here.
01:12:38.260Even to that point, if you look at, like, Greek and Latin, like, if you wanted to deep dive on the Bible, you can deep dive on some of the words that are used in the Bible.
01:12:48.060Gives you great respect for the culture and the history and the civilization you're a part of.
01:12:54.560Honestly, I think also, honestly, a lot of striving is also just a product of concentration of, like, a more concentrated elite class, a more concentrated economy, a more less distributed.
01:13:08.260success prosperity and it makes people more competitive for what's seen as a handful of
01:13:12.880spots like if you want to reduce everyone grinding to be a doctor we should just open
01:13:16.880another few medical schools and have more doctors instead of importing them from abroad here's here's
01:13:21.680that's obviously a huge huge issue because the ama always pushes back on on um opening more
01:13:28.120opening more medical schools they're so they really really don't like that because they want
01:13:32.180to keep that as a cartel do you think that this is uh in a weird backwards way contributing to
01:13:37.400socialism because all this like massive anxiety of the downwardly mobile elite is actually there
01:13:42.540it's actually this anxiety of fewer spots have to compete have to keep i don't know if it's driving
01:13:47.880i think it's and then they and then they go screw it this is too hard there's definitely a lot of
01:13:51.620people who watch out like i think the biggest driver of socialism is definitely not just young
01:13:56.060people but it's a lot of like entitled sad millennials who feel they didn't get what they
01:14:00.740deserve in life who actually didn't deserve it in the first place like a lot of them are actually0.99
01:18:29.240And it's like it mattered if you were a little bit older because you got more – you would be bigger when you started playing and you'd get more –
01:18:37.480not just more coordinated, but then you'd play a little bit better
01:18:39.520so you'd get more resources and you'd get to
01:23:55.300And they are going to, but I think that those 48%, I'd love to see the demos on that because I guarantee, I'm just going to say it, I guarantee that it's going to be like Gen X and older.
01:24:06.380And I think that also you're going to have young people who just end up believing that, like, not believing anything they see online until it's, like, confirmed in a variety of ways because they're growing up with AI.
01:24:19.580Isn't that what a Turing test is, though?
01:24:21.520Isn't it supposed to be able to run it through an actual software or something that checks?
01:24:27.160A Turing test is just the idea created by Alan Turing, the guy who was played by Benedict Cumberdatch.
01:24:32.280And the idea that basically the Turing test is when you're interacting with a machine,
01:24:37.660would you be unable to tell the difference between what is a machine and what is a real human?
01:24:41.140Okay, so it's literally just a human being's ability to test, to see it with your senses.
01:24:48.180Yeah, so for a true thing to pass a Turing test, it would be you'd do a Zoom call with a real person and then a Zoom call with this AI, and it would be truly 50% who you thought was a person.
01:24:58.160Will AI get to the point where you cannot run it through an AI software test, and will the software not be able to figure out that the other software is AI?