On this week's show, we discuss the Boy Scouts scandal, a potato peeler being used in public, and whether or not millennials are actually becoming more conservative than the Baby Boomers. Plus, we take a look at a recent poll that suggests millennials are more likely to be pro-choice.
00:01:42.000Jordan Peterson on, and we got lucky we have former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on.
00:01:47.000Wow. Yeah, to talk about the recent scandal.
00:01:49.000So, you know, last minute, and I'm still suffering from bronchitis.
00:01:52.000Everyone cover for me! Covering, covering, intelligent thoughts.
00:01:55.000All right. Good job, Jared. And we'll be talking also a lot about this recent poll that's come out, Reuters Ipsos.
00:02:02.000I know there's been some controversy about, statistically, millennials becoming more conservative than, of course, of, you know, trannies, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the whole shebang.
00:02:09.000Producing with me in video studio as always is Jared, who is not gay.
00:02:11.000Follow him on Twitter at notgayjared. Meet us Crowder with your comments, your thoughts, your photoshops.
00:03:05.000Listen, we talked about the Boy Scouts this week.
00:03:07.000We'll be talking about the Reuters. Like we said, here's a genuine question for you.
00:03:11.000How do you see the future on these scales?
00:03:14.000Are you more optimistic? Do you see the silver lining as you see younger people sort of rejecting the progressive left?
00:03:18.000Or when you look at Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and you see feminism, and you see progressivism in charge in administrations and schools and media, do you see us entering uncharted waters kind of in a social experiment?
00:03:31.000I like to be optimistic, but, you know...
00:03:34.000How's that going to happen? We got chicks with dicks and Boy Scouts, so it's tough.
00:03:38.000In other news, before we get there, a British man is now in court for having a potato peeler in a public place.
00:03:45.000The man admitted that on Saturday in Appen Crescent, a public space, he was in possession of an object which had a blade or was sharply pointed, namely a potato peeler.
00:03:54.000Oh my god. This is why we left Europe.
00:03:58.000Exactly. This is precisely. Now, many, of course, have used this story to point out the futility in gun and knife control, while you actually have some others who've been calling for even stricter regulations, with New York's The Dead Rabbits decrying Britain as culture appropriate and prex!
00:07:59.000That's enough of Mr. Judy. No, no more.
00:08:02.000He's out. He's desperate. Gosh, the guy needs to have some handlers.
00:08:05.000So, hey, Huffington Post released an article this week on a graphic novel about a dog that, quote, tells a groundbreaking story of trans sex work.
00:08:15.000Thanks, HuffPo, for never allowing us to run out of content.
00:09:13.000Speaking of moves, a British company is now turning food waste into beer.
00:09:18.000So yeah, this company, Toast Ale, actually takes old stale bread from bakeries to three-day-old bread along with other waste to instead turn into beer.
00:09:27.000So sleep with the one I open, Bud Light Lime.
00:09:32.000What I found funny about this article is they said beer is a really fun medium to engage people on what is globally a very important problem.
00:09:41.000Yeah, so beer is not the forefront of social justice.
00:09:43.000It's the first in their new line of woke beer, including Stout Lives Matter.
00:11:43.000I know some people have tried to say it's not valid because this includes registered voters as opposed to just likely voters.
00:11:48.000Oh, geez. Okay, this is Val, and this is especially bad news for leftists, because in general, people become more conservative as they get older.
00:11:55.000We'll talk about that. Now, if millennials are already becoming more conservative when they are younger, they're only going to swing even further as they age.
00:12:04.000That's a problem. In the past, the left has consistently tried to sort of run with the narrative that conservative voters tend to be, and it's correct, and use that as evidence that conservatives are dying out.
00:13:06.000And I think people like Peterson and Molyneux and Gadsad and Ben Shapiro, and hopefully we include ourselves among their changing people's minds, have played a part in that.
00:13:15.000So in 2016, young white men, particularly, they favored Democrats 46 or 48, I think.
00:13:51.000I mean, you know, young people, less developed brains.
00:13:53.000Just start off with. Conservatism, of course, it's also conservatives.
00:13:56.000They correlate with higher self-esteem, which is seen in older people, which would make sense, given that self-esteem used to be a novel concept earned through accomplishment.
00:15:16.000That's why I think that socialism really appeals to young people, because it's the idea of, oh, if I had all the money, if I were running things, I'd do A, B, and this, I'd do this, and I'd do that, and I'd give them a little bit of that, and everything would be perfect.
00:15:27.000And I think of every college student going, if I were running things, the world would work this way.
00:15:32.000Well, guess what? Even with this show, I am running things.
00:15:34.000And I never get to do this, this, this, and that, because crap happens.
00:15:37.000Yeah, exactly. So when you see younger people now, without life, spanking them on the ass, teaching them to become more conservative, they're becoming conservative before that phase.
00:15:47.000That's pretty crazy. We think of conservatives as curmudgeons or sticks in the mud.
00:15:50.000Some of them are. But, you know, if you look at this trajectory...
00:15:54.000The transition from sort of young liberal to older conservative leads one to an undeniable and repeatedly observable fact, which is why I think that people across the board could at least see a silver lining in this.
00:18:20.000Maybe Dr. Jordan, he's a doctor, he can answer us that.
00:18:23.000But that's what they've been trying to teach generations of young people for hundreds of years, as they roll their eyes, to try and be maybe a little bit more reasonable, maybe a little bit more questioning, maybe a little bit more rational.
00:18:33.000And man, looking at the statistics, I mean, if you young progressives,
00:18:38.000and we'll have Jordan Peterson to talk about this after this,
00:18:39.000if you could only know now what you'll know then.
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00:19:34.000Your paychecks cut in half again, all given to the state.
00:19:41.000You'll come on strong and it ain't too long for it's spent on useless crap.
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00:22:12.000You can follow him on the Twitter at JordanBPeterson.
00:22:14.000And, of course, right now there's 12 Rules for Life.
00:22:16.000It's his new book. Number one on Amazon.
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00:24:47.000They also tend to make pretty good managers because they're hard to push around.
00:24:51.000Although it might also be slightly more difficult for them, depending on how disagreeable they are, to work in teams because they're not necessarily as cooperative.
00:25:02.000But Sven is also very low in neuroticism.
00:25:05.000Neuroticism is a negative emotion dimension.
00:25:08.000And people who are low in neuroticism don't experience much anxiety.
00:25:12.000They don't tend to avoid things because they're afraid.
00:26:46.000He has a relatively rare temperament, I would say, because someone who's creative like that, but also orderly, that's not that common.
00:26:56.000And so that would also make him kind of a strange political animal, because the higher openness would tilt him a bit towards a liberal viewpoint, but the high orderliness would tilt him towards a conservative viewpoint.
00:27:07.000Is he a libertarian? You're not really a libertarian, right?
00:27:10.000You're more of a traditional conservative.
00:27:12.000I would say that makes sense. I mean, I had that same kind of, I guess I was a bit of an anomaly with the test where I had very high orderliness and conscientiousness, but openness, particularly compassion, which is funny.
00:27:22.000Politeness, I think I was, what, the bottom 2%?
00:27:25.000And then I was, but like 94% for compassion.
00:27:28.000Yeah, well, it's pretty hard to be a polite comedian.
00:27:34.000Because you have to say whatever you say.
00:27:36.000Right, but I feel bad when I insult people afterwards.
00:27:38.000Right. You know, I'm curious about Courtney, where she lined up on that.
00:27:42.000But let's see Not Gay Jared. Any surprises to you about Not Gay Jared when he took his quiz?
00:27:48.000And I know, by the way, for people out there, selfauthoring.com, you can take these quizzes.
00:27:51.000It really is helpful to kind of look at a team dynamic and see how you're able to motivate certain people, what it is they need, how they communicate.
00:27:59.000It's fascinating. It's kind of like love languages.
00:28:01.000It's very valuable. Yeah, only I hate you.
00:28:05.000Okay, so let's see what's happening with Not Gay Jared.
00:28:12.000We have an entire office of disagreeable people.
00:28:16.000Well, it's not surprising given what you do.
00:28:19.000Yes. Right? I mean, it's not like you guys aren't exactly going out to make friends, right?
00:28:23.000You're going out to satirize and to comment and to poke fun at and so forth.
00:28:29.000And there's certainly obviously a role for that.
00:28:32.000But it isn't surprising that you can't be too concerned about whether or not you're going to offend people or step on their toes precisely.
00:29:02.000Yep, absolutely. I'm not even ashamed of that one.
00:29:04.000He ate live crickets on the live stream and he had no problem with it.
00:29:07.000That doesn't, that doesn't surprise, it does surprise me that you're less agreeable than me, but I would have thought you were higher in politeness and lower in compassion than myself.
00:29:14.000So that seems about it. No, he's not, he's not high in politeness.
00:29:18.000Less polite than 90 out of 100 people.
00:30:45.000Yes. Well, it doesn't sound good when you put it that way, Dr.
00:30:49.000Peterson. But when you look at these self-assessment quizzes...
00:30:53.000Obviously, we don't want it to be like 1984.
00:30:55.000We don't want it to be like Communist China.
00:30:56.000We're going, you're this person, so you're relegated to this for the rest of your life.
00:31:00.000What's the real value here if you were to express it to young people?
00:31:03.000And obviously, you've helped a lot of them with your 12 steps, your book, and self-authoring.
00:31:08.000But what's pivotal for them to know about themselves, you think, and how they conduct their life?
00:31:12.000Well, you should match your ambitions to your temperament.
00:31:16.000Right. You know, if you're extroverted, then you should be working with people.
00:31:20.000Because you're not going to be happy working on your own.
00:31:23.000If you're introverted, you need a job where you can take a break from people because introverted people tend to get exhausted by social contact.
00:31:30.000And so it's hard for them to do something like sales.
00:31:34.000If you're high in neuroticism, then you're going to look for a job that has more security.
00:31:39.000You're going to want to take fewer risks.
00:31:41.000If you're high in agreeableness, you want to take care of people.
00:31:44.000If you're low in agreeableness, you tend to want to work with things.
00:31:49.000If you're high in conscientiousness, then that makes you a good manager and administrative type.
00:31:55.000If you're high in openness, then you're entrepreneurial and creative.
00:32:00.000It's not like they're exactly fixed, those traits.
00:32:03.000They can be moved to some degree, but they're very strong proclivities.
00:32:07.000It's much easier to match the job to you I've heard some doctors argue that improving your short-term memory can improve your scores.
00:32:37.000Comparing that versus the neuroplasticity, the ability for the brain to sort of form, I guess you would say, new neurons, new neural pathways so that you can better improve behavioral patterns, that's a big part of what you do.
00:32:48.000So how do you as a person learn where to cut that off, that this is my proclivity versus this is what I want to change and I'm capable of doing that?
00:32:56.000Well, the problem is if you're introverted and you want to learn to be more social, you have to learn it from the bottom up.
00:33:01.000You have to learn the micro skills that go along with it.
00:33:04.000It's very effortful to move your personality.
00:33:07.000And with IQ, you can think of IQ as breaking into two subcomponents.
00:33:12.000There's a kind of a rate of learning measure, which would be fluid IQ, and there's a measure called crystallized IQ, which is like an assessment of how much you actually know You can raise your crystallized IQ by becoming more educated.
00:33:26.000So if you want to get smarter, let's say, practically speaking, it's hard to change the rate at which you learn.
00:33:34.000No one's really been able to figure out how to do that.
00:33:37.000There are these companies that claim That if you do their cognitive exercises, that you'll show an improvement in overall intelligence.
00:33:46.000But my sense is the evidence for that is very weak.
00:33:50.000But education does raise your crystallized IQ. I wonder, though, how much of that could be learning almost how to learn.
00:33:58.000For example, I never learned how to learn in school.
00:34:00.000I never really learned math my entire 10th and 11th grade.
00:34:04.000I never opened a textbook. I spent four hours with a tutor who sat me down and said, okay, hold on a second.
00:34:08.000This is how you have to look at these numbers.
00:34:48.000I had the same experience with you when I was taking statistics in university.
00:34:51.000I was having a hard time with it, and I sat down with the tutor for about six hours, and he laid clear for me a variety of things that I hadn't experienced.
00:35:01.000Learned and made it very straightforward.
00:35:05.000And there is evidence, too, in the teaching profession that conscientious teachers in particular, I'm talking about at the elementary and junior high and high school level, can have a marked positive effect on their students.
00:35:17.000Although teachers tend not to be selected on that basis, which is really too bad because we do know how to select better teachers.
00:35:23.000Sometimes they're punished on that basis.
00:35:25.000My senior English teacher, his grades were too high.
00:35:27.000His name was... Well, he may not want his name being used in this show, so I won't use it.
00:35:31.000But I remember he was very, very clear.
00:35:33.000This was my English professor, teacher, senior year.
00:35:39.000You had a written test on reading comprehension of the book.
00:35:41.000You had to write an essay, a literary essay on the book.
00:35:43.000Then you had one oral, a persuasive essay, and then you had one other test that you do a written test that was more so a test on the English language, you know, writing skills.
00:35:51.000And then there was 10% of your grade that was simply writing every single day in a journal.
00:35:55.000That was it. You knew this every single semester.
00:35:58.000And I remember his first two semesters, all of his students were engaged.
00:36:01.000I mean, kids who typically were not engaged in class did very well.
00:36:04.000I think the average grade was maybe something like 85%.
00:36:08.000And the administration told him, your grades are too high.
00:36:11.000So he lowered them five points for the next semester just because they had him do that.
00:36:14.000That, to me, seemed antithetical to what a teacher should want to do.
00:36:18.000As a teacher, you should want every student to get 100% at the end of the year in a perfect world.
00:36:22.000Yeah, well, it's hard to assess teaching proficiency, and so we tend to do it very badly, and that really is too bad.
00:36:29.000You asked earlier, too, why these results are useful.
00:36:33.000It's useful to also know the results for your partner, because then you know what motivates them.
00:36:40.000So, for example, If you have a partner who is not particularly engaged in novel and exciting things, it could easily be that they're low in openness or low in extroversion.
00:36:52.000You need to understand that that's part of their temperament and not them just being arbitrarily difficult to get along with.
00:36:57.000But it also helps you motivate people and understand them.
00:37:17.000Let it out. Let it out. Well, so if you're in a relationship, there's going to be places where you have conflict because of your temperament.
00:37:25.000And understanding that the other person's actually different from you can depersonalize that to some degree.
00:37:31.000So, for example, if you're an extrovert and you're married to an introvert...
00:37:34.000You need to understand that the introvert actually can't tolerate too much social contact.
00:37:39.000It exhausts them. And so when your partner has had enough of the party or even enough of your house guests and needs to go be by themselves for a while, it's not because they're being mean or ignorant or difficult to get along with or any of those things.
00:37:52.000It's just that they are wired so that they need time to recoup by themselves.
00:37:58.000And if you're When you're a disagreeable person and you're married to an agreeable person, one of the things you have to learn is to not be too pushy and harsh, because the agreeable person won't do a very good job of negotiating for themselves.
00:38:11.000Now, they'll do a really good job of taking care of you, and they might do a really good job of taking care of children, although they could also foster their dependency, which is the downside of agreeableness.
00:38:21.000But it can alert you to the fact that You may have to modify your behavior to take the other person's temperament into account.
00:38:28.000So how do I just convince my wife on the openness, like the Vietnamese sex hammock?
00:38:33.000What's the... is there like a process?
00:39:07.000But on a serious note, and then we have to go after this.
00:39:10.000You talk about this as coupling and also in choosing your jobs and your profession.
00:39:15.000But this also, it ties back to what we were talking about yesterday and we'll talk about with our next guest.
00:39:20.000This ties back to it could have disastrous results with the Boy Scouts and putting in girls and not giving young men the ability to To draw away, to pull away, to have some recharge time, especially when they're young, and they don't know where they are on the agreeableness scale.
00:39:34.000They don't necessarily understand the gender differences, and we're throwing them in a pup tent out there together telling them they're all the same.
00:39:40.000What we're being taught right now, what's being taught in schools is the exact opposite of this, that everyone is interchangeable.
00:39:45.000Well, look, look, one thing we do have to clear up here, and maybe we can stop with this.
00:39:50.000You hear a lot of, well, a lot of nonsense, and I've had a lot of criticism directed towards me for making these claims, too.
00:39:57.000Look, the scientific evidence with regards to gender differences in personality and interest is quite clear.
00:40:04.000And it's very, very reliable and valid.
00:40:07.000And I'll tell you why. So basically, the big differences between men and women are on agreeableness and negative emotion, neuroticism.
00:40:15.000So women are higher in agreeableness and they're higher in negative emotion.
00:40:18.000And I suspect the reason for that is that they have to be strongly predisposed to take care of infants.
00:40:24.000And so you have to be somewhat self-sacrificing and you have to be sensitive to distress because otherwise you're not going to respond to a helpless infant fast enough and in a self-sacrificing enough manner.
00:40:35.000Now, that isn't necessarily a wiring pattern that makes you all that capable of dealing with rather rough adult men.
00:40:42.000But there's always trade-offs in terms of your specialization.
00:40:44.000Okay, so now how do we know that These differences exist.
00:40:48.000Well, the first is this temperament personality model was computer-derived, statistically derived.
00:40:54.000It wasn't based on any a priori ideological theory.
00:40:58.000It was extracted out from massive surveys of descriptive phrases and adjectives and sentences applied to tens of thousands of people in many, many different countries.
00:41:08.000So it's been replicated cross-culturally.
00:41:22.000So scientists did the next experiment, which was, okay, so imagine that you rank order countries by how egalitarian their social policies are.
00:41:31.000So countries like the Scandinavian countries are right up at the top.
00:41:35.000Okay, so then the hypothesis would be, If the personality differences were sociocultural in origin, then as societies became more egalitarian in their social policies, the differences between men and women would shrink.
00:41:50.000That's exactly the opposite of what happened.
00:41:53.000The more egalitarian the society, the larger the personality differences between men and women.
00:42:02.000Now, and you might ask, well, why is that reliable?
00:42:05.000Maybe right-wing psychologists invented this data to push their agenda forward.
00:42:09.000Yes, the throngs of them. But what I'd like to point out, well, there are no right-wing psychologists.
00:42:16.000The people who put forward these hypotheses...
00:42:20.000They weren't attempting to demonstrate that there were temperament differences between men and women.
00:42:25.000They were just looking. And it wasn't in accord with their desired worldview, A, to find that there were differences and B, to find that as societies became more egalitarian, the differences got larger.
00:45:13.000And you can go back and watch a long-form interview in which Stefan and I, actually on both of our channels, where we swapped roles just to argue for the sake of arguing.
00:45:21.000We were just talking about this with Dr.
00:45:23.000Jordan Peterson. We've been talking about this week.
00:45:24.000I know you have some... What do you think about the girls' invasion of the Boy Scouts and, of course, the leaders willingly letting them in?
00:45:35.000It ends generally in social collapse, as all gender roles are dissolved and there's no safe spaces for anyone.
00:45:40.000And of course something just came out which talked about how the girl guides study says
00:45:44.000well they learn better girls in all girls environments led by girls and so on and you
00:45:49.000need mentorship you see for girls but boys apparently you can just mix and match. Now
00:45:53.000I was a boy scout and I went to an all boys boarding school.
00:45:56.000I actually think it did me quite a bit of good when it came to masculinity and so on
00:46:00.000so the whole point is to keep men away from strong male.
00:46:03.000Role models so that they're forever going to be deferential to the ladies.
00:46:08.000And that's how democracy kind of works these days, or at least lurches from side to side.
00:46:12.000Well, I'm glad that you had that in all-boys school, but please tell me you had occasionally a co-ed mixer in there somewhere.
00:46:19.000Well, I was six when I went, so it was not number one on my thoughts.
00:46:24.000But yes, there was a girls' school next door, and we had our mixers.
00:46:28.000Yes, these weren't necessarily sanctioned mixers.
00:46:32.000For how long were you a Boy Scout, Stephan?
00:46:34.000I don't picture you as a Boy Scout. It was a couple of years, for sure.
00:46:37.000I mean, and actually, it ended up being quite helpful when I ended up working in the bush up north, gold panning and prospecting after high school and so on.
00:46:45.000I enjoyed it. I made good friends, enjoyed the camaraderie and the cookouts and the campouts and learning how to tie knots that I couldn't for the life of me remember how to do now.
00:46:54.000But if I am ever stuck on a sailboat, I probably am totally set.
00:46:57.000Yes. Now, did you do this in Canada, the Boy Scouts?
00:47:12.000The boys' organization was beavers, and that's what I did for two years before Boy Scouts.
00:47:16.000I didn't know if you were a beaver. No, I didn't go in that young.
00:47:21.000But it is really fascinating, this whole question of gender dissolution.
00:47:25.000Right. And if we're going to say that gender doesn't matter, that is one way of breaking down these barriers, which may actually exist for a reason we might find out only after we've torn them down.
00:47:37.000But the question is then, if there's really no such thing as gender, if gender is completely fluid, then clearly what we need to do is we need to get rid of all gender-based laws, because it's based upon a delusion that there is such a thing as gender.
00:47:50.000Right. And so if we believe that redheaded people were fundamentally different from brown haired people, we may end up with different laws.
00:47:57.000Once we understand that they're not, then we would need to get rid of laws that would prejudice or benefit or harm one hair color over another.
00:48:04.000So clearly we need to get rid of all laws based on gender, which means we need to get rid of things
00:48:09.000like affirmative action for women, equal pay for work of equal value. We need to get rid of set
00:48:13.000asides and preferential loans from the federal government to female headed businesses and so on,
00:48:18.000because you really can't have it both ways. Don't get me wrong, people love to have it both ways,
00:48:21.000but rationally you can't. If you're going to say that gender doesn't matter,
00:48:24.000then it needs to not matter in the law, or we need to take a big combine harvester to all.
00:48:28.000Of the weeds of gender preference legislation that have erupted over the past 50 years.
00:48:33.000That's a really good point. I will say redheads in the light of the crater offices have to use a different drinking fountain, but that's because it's my house, my rules.
00:48:39.000When it comes to the gender issue, on the flip side, I know you at one point were more liberal and more libertarian.
00:48:45.000So I'm just using this kind of as a mental exercise.
00:48:49.000Dennis Prager talked about this when he talked about same-sex marriage.
00:48:51.000And he said, my concern was same-sex marriage.
00:48:53.000This was a long time ago. I remember Perez Hilton and him debating on CNN. He said, what you're doing here when you're calling it marriage, because at this point it wasn't about civil unions.
00:49:01.000It was about marriage. He said, my worry is that you are declaring men and women fundamentally interchangeable.
00:49:06.000He said, I don't believe that two fathers can give everything to a child that a mother and a father can.
00:49:11.000And I don't believe that two mothers can.
00:49:12.000He said, I think that's a fundamental difference, and I think to begin to dissolve those lines is dangerous.
00:49:18.000And everyone called him a—Dennis Prager.
00:49:20.000Dennis Prager, a hate speaker back then.
00:49:22.000Whether you agree with it or not, to me, it was always the most compelling argument at the time.
00:49:26.000Looking back, regardless of where people—can we see that as maybe, ah, once we went over there, it was tough to go back past that line.
00:49:34.000We've declared them to be fundamentally interchangeable.
00:49:37.000Well, and physically and psychologically, that does not appear to be the case.
00:49:41.000Biologically, in terms of psychological testings, as I'm sure Jordan Peterson has pointed out, there are clusters of personality traits that aggregate more to the female, and there are clusters of personality traits that aggregate more towards the male.
00:49:52.000And they're not going away anytime soon.
00:49:56.000They're universal across countries and continents.
00:49:58.000And therefore, to imagine that they're just going to vanish, this is the old thing that the left generally does, is they say human nature is a complete blank slate.
00:50:06.000We can wipe it clean and we can design a society based upon ideology rather than on biology, which is kind of funny because they tend to be rather secular and very much into Darwin.
00:50:16.000And Darwin would say, of course, that men and women have evolved for different roles.
00:50:20.000And that doesn't mean there's lots of overlap.
00:50:22.000It doesn't mean that anyone's better or worse.
00:50:24.000It's just... It's different. Like if you've got two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle to finish the puzzle, you don't say which one is better.
00:50:32.000But this idea like they tried this in the Soviet Union, right, where they say, we're going to design a system that doesn't rely on humans' desire for profit.
00:50:39.000And it's like, well, we kind of need that to have a system that's going to function.
00:50:44.000This idea that you can just scrub You know, 200,000 years of evolution free or billions of years of evolution going further back, that you can just scrub all of that away and just design things from scratch, it is a fantasy.
00:51:20.000You can let me know here what you think about this.
00:51:22.000If they say, okay, gender is largely cultural, sociological, the two have kind of become interchangeable now, certainly as we relate to the transgender community.
00:51:40.000So that was culturally ingrained. Fine.
00:51:42.000But then how is it not cultural appropriation for women to say, by the way, we're now going in the Boy Scouts.
00:51:47.000Well, that's a part of male culture and you're appropriating it.
00:51:51.000Well, I mean, it is a whole historical thing.
00:51:54.000And it's the old argument that boys and girls need different things to mature.
00:52:00.000This comes a lot out of the increasing power of single mother culture.
00:52:05.000Single mother culture has a big problem if it turns out that boys need male role models, and not the kind of fly-by-night guy sleeping on the couch because he can't date someone other than a single mother kind of guy, but a steady, dedicated father who's their protector and provider, all of that kind of good stuff.
00:52:22.000Now, if boys do need fathers in their lives, then single mother culture, the welfare state, all of that giant mess has been a massive disaster that has hugely harmed children.
00:52:33.000Feminists say that women need role models.
00:52:38.000How on earth could a woman figure out if she's supposed to be a scientist or allowed to be a scientist unless she sees 10 female scientists?
00:52:43.000They need mentorship. According to feminists, women need mentorship in business.
00:56:55.000One thing, you know, we did this self-assessment.
00:56:58.000I did it before. You can go back and watch the full segment.
00:57:02.000I got a lot of feedback on that, and I actually had an email recently, which is what kind of reminded me of this, saying, why would you do that?
00:57:08.000Why would you do that segment out there for the world to see?
00:57:11.000Because, listen... Yeah, I have some neuroticisms.
00:57:14.000I have some neuroses. I have some issues.
00:57:16.000And I try to be pretty open about certain mental health things that I've struggled with and everyone does to one degree or another.
00:57:22.000Mental health doesn't mean that you're broken.
00:57:23.000Just like dealing with health, being in control of your health, period, can be as simple as going to the gym.
00:57:29.000Right now, I'm not physically healthy.
00:57:32.000And that's one thing a lot of people only...
00:57:34.000I'm going to talk about it when there's a Heath Ledger, when there's a Philip Seymour Hoffman.
00:57:38.000And that's not all-encompassing of mental health.
00:57:42.000And I think it's important. I really do recommend that you read Dr.
00:57:45.000George Peterson's books because there's this ill-conceived notion that the right doesn't believe that words can hurt, that sticks and stones can break my bones.
00:58:43.000We have a generation of people who have not been raised.
00:58:46.000You look at that in tandem with no personal responsibility.
00:58:49.000A lot of young men, a lot of young women who don't know the difference between words that really do hurt, and there are words that hurt, And ones you ignore.
00:58:58.000People don't know the difference between word injuries and ouchies.
00:59:01.000You've heard me talk about that. You hear athletes talk about that.
00:59:03.000Athletes train through physical ouchies hurt all the time.
00:59:29.000That's one for you. So your words, they can damage.
00:59:34.000But you need to take charge of your words.
00:59:36.000Everyone needs to take charge of their words.
00:59:37.000And this idea, though, that comes from left, we were talking about this before.
00:59:40.000That's why leftism kind of lends itself well, I think, to...
00:59:46.000Well, if I had all the money, if I had all the money, I would get things right.
00:59:50.000Everything would be perfect. The same thing that you see now with the left in control of words and hate speech laws, as you see with Trudeau and candidates.
00:59:57.000Well, if I had control of all the words, if I could just be in charge of words, then we could fix the problem.
01:00:05.000It's childish. We see that same mentality, of course.
01:00:07.000We see that same mentality in children versus adults, right?
01:00:11.000Well, if I had my way, I could eat brownies all night and strawberry syrup, and I'd be perfectly fine.
01:00:16.000If I had my way, I'd do X, Y, and Z, and the world would be better.
01:00:20.000We see it with people who choose security.
01:00:21.000Over risk and reward. We see armchair quarterbacks, or sometimes comparing, for example, union employees with business owners, independent contractors, people who work on commission.
01:00:30.000If I were in charge, I'd do it this way and it would be perfect.
01:00:34.000Believe you me, if I were in charge of it, well, guess what?
01:00:37.000Like I said earlier, in this case here, I am in charge.
01:00:39.000It's never do this, do that, and things fall into place.
01:00:43.000When you're in charge of other people, when you're held responsible for, it could be in this case, I'm talking about a business, it could be when you're held responsible for a family, for a platoon, for yourself, for crying out loud, you learn really quickly to take inventory of serious damage or nicks and bruises.
01:00:59.000When you enter the arena enough, when you use your body enough, when you use your mind enough, when you're using your language enough, you learn to tell the difference between injuries and ouchies.
01:01:08.000And so why do we talk about this? Why is this important?
01:01:09.000Because I don't want people to go out there and say, oh, Stephen believes in free speech.
01:01:12.000He believes that words are inconsequential and you shouldn't fear.
01:01:16.000There should be no reverential treatment of words.
01:01:46.000That's an ouchie. I really hope, I think a big component to this, it's a big component to when we talk about these generational gaps, we've talked about this, boys who didn't grow up with brothers.
01:01:59.000You'll find if you didn't grow up with sisters and you get married or something and your wife, sometimes she, you know, you roughhousing a little bit and she pushes you.