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00:06:05.060flash me the zoom first don't put her on quite yet because i just want to make sure it's working
00:06:10.060before i bring her on and then i can see it okay on the tv if not i need to press a button
00:06:15.200can you see me i can't one second hi lila one second hi i'm gonna fix one thing and then i'll
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00:06:53.420I don't know what it is guys it was working earlier but it's okay I can just look in the
00:07:23.280camera. All right. How are you, Lila? I'm good, Pearl. How are you? I'm good. So I wanted to
00:07:31.300start. Thanks for doing this. Yeah, no problem. I was going to give you your intro. Is that all
00:07:36.560right? Oh, yeah. Go for it. Okay. So Lila Rose, guys, president of Live Action, a pro-life
00:07:43.080nonprofit. She's got almost 300,000 subscribers and runs a pro-life YouTube channel. Did I miss
00:07:49.200anything, Lila? Thank you. That sounds good. Thanks, Pearl. Okay, cool. So thanks for coming
00:07:56.360on. I know we went back and forth a little bit on Twitter, but I do enjoy having conversations
00:08:01.440with people that we have different ideas on. So I do appreciate you coming on the show.
00:08:08.080I appreciate that. And I thank you for being willing to dialogue with me and grateful for
00:08:12.480that and thanks for having me on. Cool. So I guess I wanted to flesh out a little bit of your ideas
00:08:19.740on different topics that may maybe have different points of view on. So I wanted to start with
00:08:25.560abortion. So I wanted to see what your stance is on abortion. Sure. Well, abortion, and we'll
00:08:33.680define it quickly because there's sometimes a media confusion that they try to throw confusion
00:08:38.080into the topic, but abortion is the direct intentional killing of a baby. It's always wrong.
00:08:43.360And that's because it's always wrong to kill an innocent human being and a child in the womb is
00:08:47.960an innocent human being. So this is the greatest human rights issue that we're facing, I believe,
00:08:52.240as a country. There's 3000 babies killed every single day by abortion. It's devastating our
00:08:58.580entire social fabric. There's a million babies killed every single year. And this has been a
00:09:04.300mission for me since you know teen years basically since I was a kid thankfully our movement has
00:09:09.500grown but we have a ton of work to do because there's a lot of people who are blind on this
00:09:13.820issue and there's a lot a lot of laws that we need to change to protect children and to create a
00:09:17.820culture of life so what laws would you want to change well I think first off there should be
00:09:24.400complete abortion bans so there needs to be complete abolition of abortion and complete
00:09:29.680legal protection for the pre-born child. That's the most important law. And then I think there's
00:09:34.940also public policies we could do to make America a friendlier place for families, more tax credits
00:09:40.380and cash, quite frankly, cash money given directly to families who have children so that it's easier
00:09:46.480to raise families. So there's a lot of pro-life positive public policy. But the biggest thing is
00:09:50.840we need to protect babies in the womb from abortion. Okay. So when it comes to enforcing
00:09:55.820that. Do you think that women should be put in jail who have abortions? I think that, yeah,
00:10:01.780if somebody is intentionally, willfully, with full knowledge, pursuing the crime of killing the baby,
00:10:07.440whether that's a woman or she's someone else outside of her, it's a man who's pushing that
00:10:12.040on her, another woman, the abortionist obviously committing the act, there should be criminal
00:10:15.760penalties for that. Okay. And so we would agree then life in prison, similar to like aborting
00:10:21.720an adult, we would agree. I mean, I think it's going to depend on the killing an adult by that.
00:10:26.900Sorry, go ahead. Yeah, that's okay. I think it depends. I mean, every, every state has different
00:10:31.220kinds of homicide laws and there's different penalties depending on different circumstances,
00:10:35.420different degrees of murder. So I think it'll depend. I mean, right now, for example, if you
00:10:40.100commit infanticide, you kill a newborn baby, right? And you do it with full intent and full knowledge.
00:10:45.360There wasn't some sort of mental health issue, right? You could get a very significant prison
00:10:50.440sentence. And I think we need to have justice like that to protect life and to make sure we're
00:10:55.480valuing life in our laws. So I think it's going to depend case by case, but overall, yes, of course,
00:10:59.720we should have legal protections. And that would include penalties for those that willfully,
00:11:04.480intentionally, with full knowledge, there's not some like mental health issue or coercion issue
00:11:07.720going on that I think that is an important part of our legal system and should be a part of our
00:11:12.320legal system. What is a coercion issue? Well, so a lot of abortions, unfortunately,
00:11:18.500there's a coercive coercive aspect where and and this is reporting that we've done at live action
00:11:23.380now for over a decade where especially if there's a situation of sexual abuse or uh you know an
00:11:29.540abusive relationship generally speaking sometimes there's going to be a partner a man involved
00:11:34.420usually not a husband as a boyfriend who is pushing for that abortion and so if there's you
00:11:39.460know a woman who's basically being coerced into having that abortion she's being threatened that
00:11:44.420you know i'm going to kill you if you don't do this um she's being you know driven to the abortion
00:11:48.580clinic kicking and screaming things like that then of course when you're looking at abortion
00:11:53.460you know pro-life laws there should be penalties for that for coercing someone into having an
00:11:58.340abortion and and those different studies that have been done it's about up to a third of women
00:12:03.060report that they felt coerced into having their abortion and there's a lot of cases of this you
00:12:07.860know boyfriends throwing abortion drugs into the girlfriend's drink saying she has to have the
00:12:12.260abortion she you know has an abortion because her the pills were put in her drink those sorts
00:12:17.460of really tragic situations and that that is an element of abortion right but there's no law that
00:12:23.060a man could put a gun to a woman's head and make her get an abortion it's a hundred percent her
00:12:28.180choice at the end of the day outside of like throwing something in her drink right which is
00:12:32.900the equivalent of like roofie you know but outside of that well yeah i mean there's not a law saying
00:12:39.780you're saying there's not a law that says the man gets to decide that's true like in today's right
00:12:43.940like today you know just to be clear i mean to on the flip side separate the coercion can go the
00:12:49.740other direction right so the man could be coercing the woman to have the abortion the woman could be
00:12:54.860coercing the man that i'm going to have this abortion whether you like it or not and that
00:12:58.800also tragically happens horribly men have no rights when it comes to protecting their baby
00:13:04.360so you can be a man today you know your baby your the girlfriend's pregnant with your child you have
00:13:09.300no rights to protect that child she goes and have an abortion you don't you don't even have to give
00:13:12.900have knowledge of it that also tragically happens it's horrific and I I totally agree but I think
00:13:18.260where I would have a difference of opinion is I think that's just a get out of jail free card that
00:13:22.640women use when they don't want to take accountability for the choice that they made
00:13:26.540it's really easy what is a get out of what what is a get out of jail free card what do you see
00:13:31.900what are you talking about specifically what I've noticed with traditional conservatives and was
00:13:36.580whenever women do something terrible, they have a tendency to blame the men when they can.
00:13:44.480And so I think it's bullshit that women can say, oh, I was coerced into something
00:13:49.640when women have every right under the law. Like there's no way a man can put a gun to a woman's
00:13:55.800head without severe consequences in making or getting an abortion. So I see what you're saying.
00:14:02.180Yeah, I think I don't. Well, I think we hold on. I think we agree that, of course, it should be illegal and it is largely speaking to physically harm someone, you know, outside of the womb.
00:14:12.920Anyway, it's not a baby in the womb. They're they're they're up for being killed, which is horrific. Right.
00:14:16.440But yeah, I mean, technically, if a woman is physically dragged to an abortion clinic or threatened, she could probably have a legal case against him and it would be great if she could pursue that.
00:14:26.360they don't always get pursued. So that's a problem. But the reality is abortion involves
00:14:30.840coercion often on one or the other side. And that's another element of just us allowing the
00:14:35.780killing of babies in this country. And that anybody has a consent to kill the baby is wrong.
00:14:41.880No one should have that right to kill. There's no right to kill. And nobody should be pressuring
00:14:46.040anybody into an abortion. So I think we're aligned on that. No, I don't. I hope we're aligned on that.
00:14:50.320I mean, do you agree? I'm just curious if you agree with that. Yeah. And I'll get into it,
00:14:53.440but I don't think like necessarily, right. Because, okay. So if I wanted to get an abortion,
00:14:59.400I personally, I would never, right. I don't believe in it. Yeah. Personally wouldn't, but
00:15:04.020let's say tomorrow I changed my mind and I want one. Um, what can my, my boyfriend, can he legally
00:15:13.040stop me? No. And that's part of the, that's part of the horror of this, right? Right. We just did
00:15:19.440But the other way around, like if he wanted me to get one and I wanted to have the kid, he he can't do anything.
00:15:28.260Well, unfortunately, in many cases, there are coercive situations where there's abuse and they do try to do something.
00:15:34.120So that that does happen. It's you could say it's technically illegal.
00:15:38.580Like she could call the cops and say, get him out of here.
00:15:41.460But in a lot of domestic abuse situations, you know, even calling the cops doesn't always work for multiple reasons.
00:15:47.220there's a lot of complexity there so it's just another sad dark part of our culture today
00:15:51.520unfortunately but how like how what how is calling the cops not a solution well I mean I don't know
00:16:00.540how much you yeah go ahead I don't know how much you've kind of looked in so live action news
00:16:03.820reports in some of these cases right and so I don't know how much you might look into it but
00:16:07.840in in cases where there's sort of this um there could be overt pressure which would be you know
00:16:13.480I want to kill you if you don't have this abortion, right? Or there's a sexual abuse
00:16:17.180victim, like a young girl, which we've documented this in multiple cases. There's actually court
00:16:22.640cases of like 12 and 13 year old girls who their stepfather or their soccer coach got them pregnant,
00:16:29.560drove them to the abortion clinic to get the abortion. You know, that was part of continuing
00:16:33.900the cycle of abuse. Underage is a different conversation, but I'm talking about of age.
00:16:39.340So like 18 plus. I'm not sure, I'm not sure where you're going with this or what you're
00:16:43.360trying to, uh, you know, what you're trying to, how we might just, do you think we disagree on
00:16:48.040something I've said or what do you disagree on? I'm just curious. I disagree with saying that a
00:16:52.540woman can be coerced into getting an abortion. I disagree. Okay. Because the women have the
00:16:57.300police on their side and we have, um, all of the laws are on our side. So there's nothing that a
00:17:03.040man can, like, he can tell you to go get one, but you can say no F you and not. So I would encourage
00:17:08.980every woman in a city. I hear what you're saying, Carl. And I think, I do think the kind of potential
00:17:14.200language of empowerment you're using of like, ladies, like if you're feeling pressure, like
00:17:18.580bucket, like, forget it. Like this guy has no power of you. You stand up and fight for the life
00:17:22.620of your baby. That is one of the prevailing messages of live action for women, whether it's
00:17:27.880a boyfriend, whether it's their parents, whether it's the doubts in the back of their mind that
00:17:32.280are thinking, oh, I need this abortion. Otherwise my life is over, whatever it is. No, don't listen
00:17:37.020to that voice. Don't lift us into that pressure. You have the power to choose life. You have the
00:17:41.700power to fight for your baby. So yeah, I agree with you that that is, that should be the ultimate
00:17:45.520message to women. We should fight for our babies and love them. And we have the ability to do that.
00:17:50.840We have the, we have the ability to do that. Now any woman can do that. Yeah. I think where we
00:17:54.560disagree is I watch what women do, not what they say. And so just because a woman says she was
00:18:00.700feeling a certain way, that doesn't mean she's telling the truth. It's like anyone can feel.
00:18:06.260mean, that's certainly possible for some women. Yes. A lot of women. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it depends
00:18:12.400on, on, on the women you talk to, but yeah, there's going to be some women who, you know,
00:18:16.260may feel a certain way and not act by their feelings or, you know, certainly people do,
00:18:21.400can blame other people for their actions. I think that can happen. So I know you, I know that,
00:18:25.860you know, from what I know of your content, I know you say, you know, you have a lot of
00:18:28.620broad sweeping statements about, you know, men at large or women at large and, you know, women
00:18:33.680kind of are, I don't know. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but, um, and certainly there
00:18:37.760are bad, bad actors out there doing bad things. So I'm not going to act like there aren't. Okay.
00:18:43.920Um, so the next question I have is what is your timeline on when you think abortion will be banned?
00:18:52.800So I, my, my work, our work on this, uh, in this fight, I believe it will be within our lifetime
00:18:59.520for sure. I think that even under this current administration, you know, we were very disappointed
00:19:06.040that, you know, there's some progress being made, but the Republican Party right now has made a lot
00:19:10.760of compromises on this. So we have to work to reestablish protection of life in the Republican
00:19:15.340Party and obviously convince the Democrat Party to fight for life. That's a big fight right there
00:19:19.760because most Democrats are pro-abortion. But I do think that there are, you know, everyday little
00:19:25.440shifts happening. You know, people, when they learn about abortion, when they learn about the
00:19:29.300evil of it, there is a lot of conversions that are happening. So that's the focus of live actions
00:19:33.940work primarily more than public policy, even as changing hearts and minds. And it's a, it's a
00:19:38.700difficult task, of course, Pearl, because I mean, as I'm sure you've seen, there's a lot of toxicity
00:19:43.220in our culture today. There's a lot of lies people, you know, post-sexual revolution. I think
00:19:48.320people are just very damaged. And so we've come to accept abortion as this normal thing. And we've
00:19:54.320also come to accept, you know, sex outside of marriage and sex outside of a loving lifelong
00:19:58.920commitment as normal. Like, oh yeah, of course people hook up. Of course that's normal. That's
00:20:02.780sort of a prevailing societal attitude today. And that's what leads to abortion, right? Because
00:20:07.620people think, oh, I'm going to have sex without consequences. I can do what I want. And then of
00:20:12.140course, you know, sex can lead to new life, even with contraception. And that's what happens again
00:20:17.320and again. And that's why we have 3000 babies killed every day. That is the backup contraception
00:20:21.740say abortion. Yeah. So that's, you know, this is the kind of the larger societal issue. And so
00:20:26.220anyways, back to your question of, are we going to ban abortion? I believe we will. It is, it is
00:20:30.200going to happen, but there's a lot of work we need to do to change hearts and minds and to change
00:20:34.580really how we operate as a society where we, instead of looking at sex as cheap, the hookup
00:20:41.680culture as the way to go, we celebrate marriage and say, no, marriage is, is a good thing. And
00:20:48.360sex belongs within marriage and children are gifts, they're blessings. Would you agree it's
00:20:54.340a losing cause? That when women have aborted an eighth of the world population, an eighth,
00:21:03.000like one out of eight people, like the most dangerous place you can be is in your mother's
00:21:07.240womb. Yes. It's horrific. Horrible. So like, wouldn't you say, I agree. Like, wouldn't you
00:21:13.760say it's a losing cause? No, I don't think it's a losing cause at all. And I see people change on
00:21:19.340this issue. I see a former abortionist become passionately pro-life and start crusading for
00:21:24.400pro-life laws. I see women who've had abortions. They do it when it's convenient. See, that's the,
00:21:30.260I disagree with that. I don't think it's convenient for them. No, I've seen, I've seen the one lady
00:21:36.820that were like, and this is just what I see tend to happen. And I think it really detracts,
00:21:44.100you might have good intentions, right? But I think it often detracts from the message
00:21:48.460is, you know, it's very convenient to say after you've aborted, like, I think there's one woman,
00:21:54.180she aborted two kids and then became like a speaker. And I'm just thinking it's very convenient
00:21:59.180that now that you can make money as a pro-life speaker, that you're conveniently now you're
00:22:05.320pro-life. And I just see that pattern where a lot of people, it's very convenient when they choose
00:22:11.220to be pro-life. It could be a true change of heart. It's possible, but yeah, go ahead.
00:22:17.240Yeah, I totally disagree. I think today it actually is inconvenient more than convenient
00:22:21.820to be pro-life because there's so much societal infrastructure and pressure to actually be pro-abortion.
00:22:29.320So I think it's actually, it's not like, oh, being pro-life, you know, we're working on making pro-life
00:22:33.780mainstream. I think we've made actually a lot of progress, Pearl, which I'm proud of. There's a
00:22:36.800lot more work to do. You know, 3000 babies dying every day is an emergency of the greatest level.
00:22:42.780It's over the counter now. Like, I don't know if there's been like in my lifetime, I would say
00:22:48.320in the past 10 years, it's become easy. I mean, I know there was Roe versus Wade. I'm sure you're
00:22:54.180going to say that. But even so, I mean, I've been to some of these feminist like conventions. They
00:23:01.260they just, they ship the abortion stuff in the mail. You can get plan B over the counter. Like
00:23:06.500if you think plan B is abortion, I don't really see any progress at all. Well, and if you're
00:23:12.780speaking about the abortion pill, that is now over half of abortions and that can be shipped by mail
00:23:17.300because we don't have regulations and the pill is even on the market. I mean, the fact that the
00:23:21.820abortion pill is on the market that happened under Clinton in the 1990s and then under Biden,
00:23:26.820they took off all the regulations and now you can literally order an abortion pill in the mail.
00:23:30.020yeah that's horrific and that's only going to you know that leads to the normalization of oh it's
00:23:34.900just a pill you know it's not just a pill by the way it's one out of every one out of every 24
00:23:39.480yeah one out of every 24 women who take the abortion pill end up in the emergency room one
00:23:44.120out of every 10 of them have serious complications and 100 of those babies virtually are being
00:23:49.240murdered right so it's a it's a huge issue but I don't think it's convenient just just back to what
00:23:54.800you're saying originally you know I don't think it's somehow like convenient to go out there and
00:23:58.980be a pro-life uh speaker like many women are and many men are quite frankly um i think it's a
00:24:04.720beautiful work that they do and i wish there were more people out there advocating for life i yeah
00:24:09.860i disagree because i see youtube numbers like i know what you guys get paid to speak at a lot of
00:24:16.120these places i'm like and maybe i'm off by 10 20 but it's good money and a lot of them are getting
00:24:22.040paid very well. So, yeah, I mean, I think it's, you know, yeah, I just wouldn't say I don't think
00:24:29.320I think it's one thing to pay people for, you know, work and they're giving a speech or things
00:24:33.400like that. But, you know, the people that I know in the pro-life movement, they're not doing this
00:24:37.060because, oh, this is my way to make all this money. They're doing this because they are passionate
00:24:40.980about saving lives. And thankfully, again, there's a lot of beautiful work being done. I mean, I think
00:24:46.160about the pregnancy resource care center movement, thousands of pregnancy resource centers across the
00:24:50.580country, more than Planned Parenthoods, more than abortion clinics, they don't get taxpayer dollars.
00:24:55.700They're not the ones like Planned Parenthood getting, you know, 800 million dollars a year
00:25:00.020from taxpayers. And they're literally saving lives every day in our communities. They don't
00:25:04.040have a big marketing budget the way that Planned Parenthood does. Planned Parenthood has like
00:25:06.740hundreds of millions of dollars to lie to people and spend their marketing.
00:25:09.800You don't have to convince me that pro-life is like a good, or abortions, right? I think it's,
00:25:14.180I think it's, yeah. What I'm doing, Curl, is I don't want to discourage people from joining
00:25:18.580the pro-life movement. And I would say, I think we need more professional people in the pro-life
00:25:22.040movement who are advancing the cause. Planned Parenthood has a tremendous amount of money that
00:25:27.720they're investing professionally in developing the pro-abortion lobby. So I would argue we need
00:25:32.440actually more resources in the pro-life movement. We need more people who are professionally engaged
00:25:36.400in the pro-life movement in order to advance the cause of the unborn. Right. But the challenge is
00:25:41.120we see this as a losing... Abortion, abolition and changing hearts and minds. The challenge is
00:25:44.100most people see this as a losing cause. Like nobody really sees the pro-life movement as having
00:25:49.500really won much in the past 50 years. And I would say, wait, wait, I'm going to, I would say a lot
00:25:56.500of people that hypothetically could or would be, you know, when you say like, oh, it'll maybe be
00:26:01.340banned in our life. I do believe it'll be banned in our lifetime. It's like, it's kind of like,
00:26:06.360you know, if you have an employee and you're like, when is this project going to get done?
00:26:09.600And they're like, well, maybe in our lifetime, you're like, well, I don't know if you're
00:54:50.820I think that men can absolutely be very nurturing. I do think that there's sometimes a stereotype
00:54:54.820about men, like they're not nurturing. And I don't think that's true. I think women are designed to
00:54:59.720be nurturing and it's a very defective society that produces unnurturing women. And that's a
00:55:05.660very, that's a big tragedy. It's really sad. And I agree with you that American society,
00:55:11.340because of abortion, quite frankly, and the sexual revolution has created a generation
00:55:16.780of people that struggle to be their natural design, maybe even more than former generations,
00:55:23.020because we objectify each other so much with pornography, because of the sexual revolution,
00:55:27.460because abortion and contraception is just right there. It's like, okay, of course,
00:55:30.880I'm gonna have sex aside of marriage, no big deal. Okay, abortion is the back of contraception. So
00:55:35.020yeah, I agree with you. And as far as as far as 100,000 foot view of society today, there's a lot
00:55:40.880of, uh, defectiveness in, uh, the kinds of ways that we're shaping, how we're shaping people.
00:55:47.660So what makes you blame society and not women? So, because I hear this a lot, I'm going to,
00:55:53.900I'm going to make my case and then you can go. So I hear this a lot from conservatives that
00:55:58.880it's always the default. Whenever there's a negative trait about women, they always tend
00:56:03.940to blame society. So if women are choosing, because we have the choice to do anything now.
00:56:09.100So if we're not choosing to be mothers and we're choosing to be violent towards our children, maybe that's just by and large how women are.
00:56:17.380Why is it that society is pressuring women to do it?
00:56:20.460Or society is, I heard you say propaganda earlier.
00:56:25.200I just, when I was selfish, they just wanted to do other things rather than be a mom.
00:56:30.000One wanted to be a nurse and one was just crazy irresponsible.
00:56:34.840I don't think it was propaganda when I see in the real world.
00:56:38.720I don't think they were coerced. I think they were just selfish people. Um, so what makes you
00:56:43.940blame society and not the woman? So I don't know that it's such a binary of, oh, you only blame
00:56:50.840society and you don't blame the woman. I think of course people are responsible for their actions
00:56:54.980a hundred percent. And you know, I would say it's similar to saying, okay, the society is so
00:56:59.460pornified, right? There's porn everywhere. The average age of exposure to porn is like seven or
00:57:05.080eight years, years old, right? There's a ton of men who are addicted to pornography. I would say
00:57:09.820that that is in part a problem with our society, right? So you can say, well, isn't it the men's
00:57:15.440fault they're addicted to pornography? Well, it's also society's fault because we're so pornified
00:57:19.700and they're growing up in a culture that's so dark and that it, you know, has pornography
00:57:24.560Can we say corn? Can we say corn? Can we say corn? A moment away on the internet. Can we say corn just
00:57:29.480for the, the YouTube? I'm sorry. Sure. Corn. Yeah. But, but do you see what I'm saying? So I don't
00:57:33.900think this is like, you know, giving special women a pass or giving men a pass. My argument would be
00:57:39.040our society is really broken right now. People still have responsibility for their actions,
00:57:44.260but we're making it easier for people to commit vice by having pornography or sorry,
00:57:50.540pornography, however you say it on, you know, for YouTube regulations, whatever. But I think that
00:57:55.080makes it easier for people to commit sin. Who voted for these things?
00:57:59.280you're saying who voted for for um uh the sexual revolution and hookup culture and
00:58:07.080what exactly are you I mean well you could look at the history of the sexual revolution so there's
00:58:13.360Hugh Hefner there's Larry Lader there's a number of you know these you know Alfred Kinsey is a huge
00:58:20.200one I don't know if you're familiar you're familiar with Alfred Kinsey for women wanting
00:58:24.340to be whores, Lila? Come on. Well, I don't know that. I think we're maybe talking past each other
00:58:30.560now, but you're asking me about how did we get to the, I think you were asking me, it's a little
00:58:34.560unclear sometimes what you're trying to ask, but I think you were asking me, how did we get to this
00:58:38.820point where we have all this sexualization in our culture because who voted for it? I think that
00:58:42.740was your question. Yeah, I'm saying who voted for it? What is your question? Who wants sex ed in
00:58:46.560school who wants abortion who wants hookup culture who voted for this stuff
00:58:55.440well i don't know that people are voting for sex ed in school that's not like an up down vote
00:59:00.560so the way it works if just look back in the history of the sexual revolution
00:59:04.160you had you know what i'm asking you had in the voting democrat men or women okay
00:59:10.960i mean both vote democrat but you're are you saying that more women are voting democrat than
00:59:15.120And then in the last hundred years, if only men voted, it would be a hundred percent conservative.
01:07:18.400And also women who get married similarly, women who get married similarly, uh, are more
01:07:23.380happier and satisfied according to social surveys.
01:07:26.160So both men and women experience these advantages when they get married.
01:07:30.160Right. In general, I'm not saying it's for everybody, but in general.
01:07:32.420Yeah. I mean, they can they can make a survey that says that.
01:07:35.680But when half of women are fat and a quarter of marriages are sexless, that's not really, you know, what we're seeing.
01:07:42.720And the average marriage is eight years.
01:07:45.900You could you could like put a survey in front of me.
01:07:48.600But when every other person's getting divorced, even in even so-called conservative women, you could say that it doesn't mean it's true.
01:07:58.860right i personally i think it's a bad deal i i think it's an unfavorable deal to men
01:08:04.600would you get married pearl just curious i don't know you don't have to answer if you don't i don't
01:08:08.660understand what my personal situation has to do with it i may i may not but my my question is for
01:08:16.320men it's it's simply an unfavorable deal in my opinion and i just would love to hear if
01:08:22.160conservatives are gonna say it's this beautiful awesome thing well it would be good to answer
01:08:28.280the question, what do men get out of it? Well, the biggest thing that men would get, and women
01:08:35.020get this exact same thing, when they're entering marriage with God as a sacrament, the whole point
01:08:41.640of marriage is sanctification, a journey to heaven. And so the ultimate prize of marriage
01:08:47.120would be heaven. And I'm not saying that you can't go to heaven without marriage. Of course you can
01:08:52.260go to heaven without marriage, but it's a sanctification. It's a family, a school of love
01:08:57.280for you to grow in virtue and grow in love of God and each other.
01:09:02.260Right. But you said, but you said they can get heaven without it too.
01:09:06.520Yeah. If you're called that way, it's not everyone, as I said before, not everyone's
01:09:10.080called to get married. Okay. So, but some are, many are. Anything else they get out of it?
01:09:17.960Well, I mean, heaven's pretty great. Uh, uh, being married to your best friend. I think that's a
01:09:23.100beautiful thing. Children are absolutely a beautiful gift. Yeah, but children, they don't
01:09:29.880need marriage to get that anymore. Yeah, just to finish, I think children are the crown of a
01:09:34.760marriage. They're the most beautiful gift of a marriage as a child. And yes, you can have
01:09:39.620children outside of marriage, but I would not recommend it. I don't think that's good for you
01:09:43.240or the children. Well, what's the difference? Well, I think, I mean, I don't know your personal
01:09:49.200experience but if you just live with someone and you'd stay together forever what's the difference
01:09:54.800well i think that marriage is this public declaration before not just other people but
01:10:01.200to god and it's a covenant where you're promising you know for life to love this person even inside
01:10:09.440even with sacrifices exclusively faithfully to be open to life i think that's a beautiful thing i
01:10:15.920I mean, I don't, but God doesn't stop these women from divorces.
01:10:22.060I, I, there was someone in the, even the Catholic, I can't remember their name, but
01:10:25.900even recently in the Catholic community, there was like, one of the worst divorces I ever
01:10:30.460saw was from Michael Knowles' church that he went to in California.
01:10:34.220Like the, one of the worst, most brutal.
01:10:36.520So God's not, God's not stopping these women that want to leave.
01:10:40.520So how is it like, I don't just don't see the difference.
01:10:44.000Sure. I mean, I think maybe we're talking past each other a little bit, but some of those,
01:10:48.580so look, we can talk about social data for a minute, right? So social data shows, this is a
01:10:54.160survey that looked at the happiness of men, you know, their personal happiness, right?
01:10:59.300And 43% of men who say that they're very happy with life are, and this is men in their 20s and
01:11:05.64030s, were married. So the majority of the men who were very happy, or the largest single amount,
01:11:11.560I should say, of the men who said they were very happy with life or were married. So I think
01:11:15.640marriage absolutely can be a source of great happiness for people. Not all people. Again,
01:11:20.140I'm not saying there aren't bad marriages. I'm not saying that divorce isn't a major problem.
01:11:24.500Those are all true things. But I think we sometimes kick marriage like a dog in today's
01:11:28.600culture. Like, oh, marriage is so bad. And marriage is worthless. Marriage is useless.
01:11:32.760I think that's totally untrue. And marriage is beautiful. And it's a good thing ultimately.
01:11:37.500Yeah, I would disagree because I think it gives the women leverage and that's why women really like it is because now they have legal power over the husband. So I think it can really change the dynamic almost negatively in favor of the woman.
01:11:51.360so i mean it's an interesting perspective but i don't think you can really it's a good thing
01:11:57.240yeah i don't really um and and you said virtue uh how can we tell if a woman's virtuous right
01:12:04.380um her actions wouldn't you agree it's her actions not her words her actions
01:12:10.020definitely i think that's a great point pearl i think you you can best know what someone's going
01:12:15.020to do not by what they say necessarily but how they behaved um how they behave and their actions
01:12:20.560actions do speak louder than words. Words matter too, but actions speak louder than words. I think
01:12:24.720that's a very wise observation that you're making. Right. So if 95% of women aren't virgins on their
01:12:30.920wedding days, like how can the guy really see that she's virtuous? Well, I would say in today's
01:12:38.320culture, unfortunately, you know, you were kind of speaking, maybe alluding to this earlier, there
01:12:42.920are a lot of sex, there's a lot of sexual promiscuity. So virginity is rare today. That is a
01:12:48.980fact. I think it's kind of making a comeback in some ways. People are saying, Hey, it's normal
01:12:53.540actually to not have sex before marriage. And that's a good thing. You know, people, I remember,
01:12:58.400you know, when I was, uh, I remember being made fun of for being a virgin and unfortunately some
01:13:02.840virgins are made fun of for that. Right. And that's a really gross thing that our culture
01:13:06.820might do or people might do. But I think that I do think chastity and pure love, and at least in
01:13:12.340some circles is making a comeback. I think that's a beautiful thing. And I also think people can
01:13:16.400choose to recommit themselves to a life of chastity, even if they've lived a very rough
01:13:22.880past. And I think then that happens. That's also very beautiful and good. Right. But there's
01:13:26.940nothing like what's in it for the guy to do that when 70 to 80 percent of divorces are filed by
01:13:32.300women, 90 percent of alimony payments are men to women. The majority of child support payments are
01:13:38.860men to women. The average marriage is eight years. On average, he gets a 28, 27-year-old
01:13:47.040non-virgin woman with X amount of sexual partners. What does he get for taking on this astronomical
01:13:55.160risk? If he has two kids with a woman, she garnishes 40% of his income for 18 years.
01:14:02.000And you don't believe in prenups. I've seen your tweet on that. You don't even think he can
01:14:06.860mitigate against that. So if, if that's the case, you know, what does he get?
01:14:15.040Well, again, I mean, I, I did mention some of the social data that women, men who are,
01:14:19.160men who are married report that they're happier than men who are not. Men who are married actually
01:14:24.280are more wealthy. I'm not saying, you're attributing the happiness to the women. So like
01:14:31.420they're happy people. Women like happy men. Sorry, go ahead. Go ahead. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. So
01:14:37.100there's a lot of social data that shows that men who are married are happier. They're more happy
01:14:40.660with their sex lives. They're more happy overall, you know, report higher levels of satisfaction.
01:14:45.300Also that they, you know, make more money. Again, I'm not saying that's directly because of the
01:14:49.760marriage per se, but I'm saying that's important social data to look at because I do think there
01:14:55.240is some fear mongering today about marriage being so bad. You know, you're just going to get
01:15:01.160divorced. It's miserable. Everybody's out to get you. It's going to be terrible. Right. And I think
01:15:05.800that we shouldn't live by fear or make decisions based off of fear. We should, yes, look at the
01:15:11.060data, look at the information. But when we're considering marriage, if that's a desire that
01:15:15.080somebody has, instead of looking at the broad brush of, oh, there's a lot of failed marriages
01:15:19.800out there. There's a lot of bad, you know, people doing bad things out there. Instead, look at,
01:15:23.540okay, what would I want in a marriage? What kind of marriage would I want in terms of a spouse?
01:15:29.080Fear mongering. And I think they should look for people that share their values, share their,
01:15:35.220you know, have virtues. And that is going to be the most secure kind of partnership to build,
01:15:40.160as opposed to somebody that is not aligned with them, with their values, with that kind of core
01:15:45.300foundation of what even marriage is, virtue, things like that. Right. But men, it's not really
01:15:50.520fear-mongering when men are nine times more likely to commit suicide after divorce. I've
01:15:56.240interviewed men who've had their kids transitioned. And this is not uncommon. It's not just a fringe
01:16:02.880case. This happens all the time with women that are, I mean, we saw what happened to Stephen
01:16:06.980Crowder. He married a virgin religious woman and she painted him as an abuser. So you keep like
01:16:15.780diverting from the question. I'm just saying if he's going to take on this astronomical risk,
01:16:19.720which could lead to indentured servitude which 18 years 40 percent of your income that's a ton of
01:16:25.780money a ton and and not to mention reputation i've interviewed men where the women actually
01:16:32.500called all of his business friends and ruined his business i've talked to men thrown in jail
01:16:37.840i've talked to men that had their kids transition this is a huge risk lila it's not really fear
01:16:43.260mongering when these are real cases and it's not uncommon so i don't think it's i think it's on i
01:16:49.360don't think it's wrong of me to say that this could happen and ask the question, what does the
01:16:56.380guy get out of this? What is his reward? Well, a few things. First of all, I think marriage,
01:17:02.460the greater the risk, the greater the reward, right? Marriage is self-gift. Marriage is an
01:17:07.700all-in and it's becoming one flesh with someone else. That is a huge risk. It's for richer or
01:17:12.300for poorer. It's for better or for worth. It's in sickness and in health. And that does expose
01:17:16.820someone. But there's also this incredible potential for beauty, right? As I was talking
01:17:21.460about earlier, it's this covenant, it's a sacrament. You could bring life into the world.
01:17:25.240You can raise a family together. This is the person that can be your best friend, your most
01:17:30.100faithful companion. And I see marriages like this all the time. Those marriages exist and I don't
01:17:34.340think they get enough air time. We don't talk about how good and beautiful marriage is designed
01:17:38.440to be and can be. So I agree with you that there is chaos out there, that there are a lot of broken
01:17:43.460marriages, that there's a lot of suffering, but I don't think that should hold people back to say,
01:17:47.900well, then it's impossible for me. I can never have a beautiful or good marriage.
01:17:51.880So why don't you think women want to get married today?
01:17:55.940I think there's a lot of women who want to get married today.
01:17:58.340Well, then why don't, I don't know. I don't know. You're talking about all women. Who are you
01:18:01.820talking about? When you say women, you like to say women a lot. Do you, are you speaking about,
01:18:06.840who are you exactly speaking about? Because it seems like it would be, I think, a much,
01:18:11.440too much of an overgeneralization to say all women so what do you mean by women most women
01:18:16.120don't want to get married when they have the most choice to the average age of married marriage is
01:18:20.220around 30 so your argument is that your argument is that most women don't want to get married is
01:18:26.440your position yeah if women wanted to how do i see what people want to do lila well based on what
01:18:32.840i'm just trying to track your argument here uh pearl so you're saying i'm asking most women so
01:18:37.880So you're saying most women don't want to get married. And the way you know that is because
01:18:41.320there's a lot of unmarried women. That seems like a pretty. Yeah, it's the choice they make.
01:18:46.400Yeah. Well, I know a lot of women who are married, so I don't know where you're kind of going with
01:18:50.540this. There's certainly a lot of married women. There's unmarried women. How old are they? How
01:18:53.980old are these married women? I mean, all on average, Gen Z, Gen Z only it's like 10, 15%
01:19:00.360are married. So if you know women under because I'm the youngest millennial. So sure. So 27 and
01:19:07.160younger, you can't know a ton because statistically the majority just are not married.
01:19:14.140Okay. I, I'm what, what point are you had? You had a tweet. Um, and I can't remember the exact
01:19:22.800tweet off the top of my, but I just want to know why you think you said there's a reason women
01:19:28.100don't get married. So what is their reason? Why?
01:19:32.900So you're asking me, why don't some women get married? I think there's going to be a lot of
01:19:37.120reasons why some women don't get married. You can, there's a whole bunch of hypotheticals we
01:19:43.120could create here. So, and we can do them for men too. And some of the reasons will be same,
01:19:46.440some will be different. But I think some reasons women might not get married is because they feel
01:19:51.660like it's not meaningful enough. It was just so sad, right? They think it's not like going to be
01:19:56.180a beautiful thing. It's somehow a burden that having children is a burden. Unfortunately,
01:20:01.920a lot of women today, not all, but there's definitely women today that see children as a
01:20:06.160burden. And that's, you know, one of my, you know, projects of trying to speak to the beauty of
01:20:12.360children, the beauty of marriage. Men are not threats. Men are not your competitors. Men are,
01:20:18.340are, are good. They're good. And they are designed for being in partnership with women.
01:20:23.940That's a good thing. So, you know, I think. What's that? Like partner, partnership. We're not equals.
01:20:32.640i mean that may be your opinion but i think men and women have equal dignity
01:20:39.360before and as as children of god so i mean that maybe you don't agree with that you you would say
01:20:46.140you are you are less dignity than a man or i would say i have what's your position i would
01:20:51.200say women have less value in terms of what they bring to a marriage and society um men you're
01:20:57.220saying women don't have less value men produce 80 of the world's stuff i think men are smart
01:21:02.620I think they're able, women have a tendency to do things in the least effective way possible.
01:21:09.460And I don't think unequal is necessarily a bad, I don't think unequal is necessarily a bad thing.
01:21:15.100I think there's hierarchy in the world, right?
01:21:16.780I think it goes God, men, women, children.
01:21:19.740Just because the kid has to listen to the mom, it doesn't mean the mom is,
01:21:25.020it doesn't mean it's necessarily a bad thing.
01:54:37.560I'm not, I've read it before, but the, the, it was kind of a lot, you know, if you gave me a list
01:54:42.560before the debate, I could have went through it, but the, which is fine. I didn't expect you to do
01:54:47.440that. But the other, the other challenge, um, you have with it is they include, and I, I, the reason
01:54:53.560I'm saying this is because I want people to be, it to be accurate and people to be informed about
01:54:58.360how they tend to lie to you to push their religion. I'm not saying it's malicious. I don't,
01:55:03.020I mean, here's here's here's something. The challenge is if you include millennial women, you're including people that haven't divorced yet, because if the average divorce is it's around eight years.
01:55:14.160Then when the kids hit high school, if you make it past 25, you're you're kind of going to make it.
01:55:19.140But statistically, but they're including people that haven't divorced yet is one challenge in very sect communities.
01:55:27.520So go ahead. I'm I'm curious how you see risk, because I think it's like a worldview question. Right.
01:55:32.600So I've been talking about the fact that men who are married are more financially successful than
01:55:37.360men who are unmarried. And then even men who divorce are still more financially successful
01:55:41.800than the men who never married. You know, the surveys that show that men who are married report
01:55:46.040higher levels of happiness than men who are unmarried or men cohabitating. So there's all
01:55:50.060that data, right? And then there's all the anecdotes. We could talk about that as well.
01:55:53.000We could talk about faith communities and the divorce rate being low as 2% in faith communities.
01:55:57.040So we can talk about all of that. But I think what underpins, it sounds like to me, your worldview
01:56:02.220is this idea of risk well bad things could happen in some cases men you know may experience it may
01:56:07.660get divorced right and then they might you know be suicidal and there's this horrific there's tons
01:56:12.380of horrific story horror stories out there right so i'm curious like when you get in your car like
01:56:17.100i don't know if you drive or you walk where you live but when you get in your car you are taking
01:56:20.300the risk you're taking a risk of your own life actually because there are car accidents i think
01:56:24.940it's like one out of every hundred people are going to get in a car accident right so you're
01:56:28.460taking this risk of getting in a car accident and possibly risking your life but you still get in
01:56:31.820your car so how do you decide i'm curious how do you decide how you choose what risks to take and
01:56:38.220how do you what is your do you have a recommendation for how people should weigh risks or you're just
01:56:42.540saying i'm putting the risk information out there men naturally weigh the risk versus the reward
01:56:47.420if you had you responded i've been asked do you ever talk about the rewards of marriage parole
01:56:52.380right if if there were some now like a hundred years ago there's any rewards to marriage are
01:56:57.500you gonna let me finish or no okay so a hundred years ago men got a virgin bride at like 22.
01:57:04.060they got a young hot wife um that had been with zero other men and they got like six kids
01:57:10.540risk versus reward that's a pretty good reward today they get an ex-ho or someone that says they
01:57:17.260weren't a hoe but still marrying around 30. so it's like what were you doing the last decade
01:57:21.660don't have to believe you um three that they also get one maybe two kids half the time it's
01:57:29.400gonna be via ivf um they get no she's actually paid to leave you and steal your children and
01:57:36.040ruin your reputation and if you start a business you can take that too um half the time they don't
01:57:42.000even want to stay home so if i think and i'm i'm just you know putting myself in a man's shoes
01:57:48.30040% of my income for 18 years for an ex-ho that'll give me one kid that could be retarded
01:57:58.120because she's having it in her thirties. I don't know if that's the best sell. And I keep saying,
01:58:03.840well, what do I get? And then you guys say, well, my study says they'll be happier. And I'm like,
01:58:08.760well, does the woman stay fit? Does she have to have sex with him? Well, we can't say that.
01:58:14.480Well, this isn't a great sell. There's no God in divorce court. And I've seen women
01:58:20.920that were more religious than you, Lila, that did terrible things. God awful thing. Women that
01:58:28.340aren't on the internet, women that had like 10 kids and married at 22 and they did terrible
01:58:35.020things. I don't think that's the same thing as a car accident. If I get in my car, every ride,
01:58:42.500There's not like a 15% chance that somebody is going to ruin my life for 20 years.
01:59:34.420If men want to have children, if men don't want children, they shouldn't get married.
01:59:38.160But if men want to have children, the best way to protect their rights is actually getting married.
01:59:43.920If you are a single father who's not married, you know, the woman that you had the child with is you're not married to her.
01:59:51.600You will have less rights, actually, for your child.
01:59:54.560So if you're arguing that, you know, men who want kids shouldn't be married because of marriage being, you know, some sort of a threat to their rights, actually being a man who's not married, having a woman that with having a child with a woman, you have less rights in that situation.
02:00:07.800And he can get more rights with a surrogate if we want to go down that route.
02:00:11.820Well, then the child isn't being raised by the woman you love and the mother.