Pearl - August 05, 2025


Society Destroys Men’s Confidence Even Though They Are Usually Smarter Than They Think


Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

156.44566

Word count

1,216

Sentence count

93

Harmful content

Misogyny

8

sentences flagged

Hate speech

5

sentences flagged


Summary

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In this episode, I get street interviews with blue-collar workers to see how they feel about women not getting paid enough to dribble a basketball. I also talk about Lil Tay and her only fan, Lil Tay.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Alright, what up guys? Welcome to the Just Perley Things YouTube channel.
00:00:04.800 And welcome to my morning coffee talk where I'm either drinking coffee or going for a walk.
00:00:11.020 And I tell you my thoughts of the day.
00:00:13.760 I don't know what I've done to deserve you guys tuning in, but I do enjoy having you guys here, so thank you.
00:00:20.480 So today, I wanted to get some street interviews.
00:00:25.160 And I get kind of nervous because you have to get rejected a lot to get street interviews.
00:00:30.000 But I wanted to get street interviews of blue-collar workers.
00:00:36.960 And the reason I wanted to is I recently was on the news.
00:00:41.780 It was like, some Dubai news station and they had me on with this female athlete.
00:00:50.120 And this female athlete was talking about how women aren't paid enough to dribble a basketball. 1.00
00:00:55.840 And I just couldn't believe this was the segment that we were having.
00:01:00.660 Like, we're having a segment about women not getting paid enough to dribble a basketball.
00:01:08.100 And I googled the average salary of a logger and it's like $45,000 a year.
00:01:13.040 And it's crazy to me that, how is women's basketball even getting airtime?
00:01:20.460 And so what I thought would be an interesting segment was getting some blue-collar workers to react to women not getting paid enough.
00:01:29.140 I don't torture them more.
00:01:30.120 But I wanted to show that these guys are the ones that don't complain.
00:01:38.820 Like, they do the hard jobs, they do the heavy lifting, and they don't complain.
00:01:43.200 And it's really frowned upon if they ever do complain.
00:01:48.940 And the hard thing I have is every time I try to get blue-collar workers to do it, they always think, I don't know if maybe they're afraid to get in trouble or say something that goes viral.
00:02:03.360 But if I give women a microphone, they're always excited to take it. 1.00
00:02:09.320 They can't wait to talk about their issues.
00:02:12.540 But men aren't really like that.
00:02:14.240 A lot of them will say, oh no, I would be so bad in front of a camera.
00:02:17.880 And I'll be talking to the guys.
00:02:21.680 And I don't think they'd be bad in front of a camera at all.
00:02:24.500 A lot of them are smart.
00:02:26.980 You can tell they have real-world experience.
00:02:30.840 And what I realized is that society doesn't let men know how good they are.
00:02:40.860 Like, society is constantly here to tell men that they're not good enough.
00:02:45.580 And tell women that they're better than they are. 1.00
00:02:48.880 And then it almost gets to the point that men start to believe it.
00:02:54.180 But how do they not believe it when the whole world is screaming at them that they're not enough?
00:03:00.560 Or in this case, that...
00:03:02.980 Do you know what I mean?
00:03:03.840 Like, I might get a media opportunity.
00:03:07.340 And it's weird because I know I benefit from it.
00:03:11.540 I might get a media opportunity talking about these hard jobs.
00:03:15.300 Where the real guys that deserve it are the guys working the hard jobs.
00:03:19.560 So, I really want to do a series where I bring in, like, blue-collar men to comment.
00:03:26.240 Now, the next thing that I was thinking about...
00:03:28.560 And I really wanted to ask these guys, and maybe you guys could tell me.
00:03:33.640 There is a girl named Lil Tay.
00:03:35.620 And Lil Tay is this only fan...
00:03:37.440 Or, sorry.
00:03:38.420 Lil Tay is this influencer girl who went famous for the wrong reasons. 1.00
00:03:42.660 Like, I think it was some ghetto stuff.
00:03:44.020 I don't know.
00:03:44.440 Someone famous for doing nothing.
00:03:47.540 And now she's 18, and she drops an OnlyFans.
00:03:51.360 And I was wondering if you guys get...
00:03:53.700 I just want to move my mic.
00:03:55.540 Because this hand's getting tired.
00:03:57.560 I was wondering if you guys get discouraged watching, like, women make money so easily. 1.00
00:04:05.180 Where men...
00:04:06.500 I mean, she made a million dollars right when she turned 18, just in a couple hours. 0.99
00:04:12.500 When those guys have been working for 20 years, and I bet some of them aren't millionaires.
00:04:18.060 And I was wondering if you guys could put in the comments...
00:04:21.500 Has there ever been a situation like that where a woman's given a promotion? 1.00
00:04:26.940 Or a woman's, like, given easy money, and you're expected to make hard money? 1.00
00:04:34.300 And I was just wondering if that's demotivating.
00:04:36.940 Because it would really be for me.
00:04:38.520 Like, if I...
00:04:42.520 You know, and there's somebody in my life kind of like this that I know growing up.
00:04:50.980 That it was kind of like she was very beautiful.
00:04:54.520 And she would always get handed things.
00:04:57.860 And it was kind of discouraging for me.
00:04:59.680 And I'm a girl, and I was handed things too.
00:05:01.480 So, you know, I was wondering if, like, the blue-collar guys find it discouraging, or you just don't care.
00:05:10.140 The other question I had is, at this point, is there really anything that can be done about it?
00:05:19.220 Because it doesn't seem like the OnlyFans is going to stop.
00:05:28.400 So, anyways, I'd love to hear from the blue-collar workers.
00:05:32.220 And if you guys have any suggestions where I can go interview some.
00:05:35.680 Because I tried to go on the construction site, but they're, like, working.
00:05:39.160 So I feel bad I'm, like, pulling them from their job.
00:05:41.220 I don't want to do that.
00:05:42.100 But it'd be really cool to get some blue-collar guys some airtime.
00:05:47.300 Because I think they're kind of what I think of when I think of America.
00:05:53.420 Like, they're the average Americans that, you know, work a 9-to-5.
00:05:58.180 And yet the elites in this country are the ones giving a microphone.
00:06:01.740 Even me, right?
00:06:04.180 And it's almost sad because the people that we should hear from the most, we hear from the least.
00:06:10.180 And they're, like, the silent majority.
00:06:14.340 I mean, and being on that panel, I was on a panel with two people.
00:06:19.000 And they both have made money off of victimhood.
00:06:22.060 And it's like, what do you know?
00:06:25.000 What do you guys know about, like, what the average American's going through?
00:06:31.240 And they don't care to listen.
00:06:32.620 It was like I was telling them, hey, these loggers, these blue-collar men,
00:06:37.420 they're the ones doing the hard jobs, dribbling a basketball isn't hard.
00:06:41.780 And they're, like, rolling their eyes on me, at me.
00:06:44.560 They're, like, saying, well, why are you bringing this up?
00:06:47.640 It's like, well, don't you think it's important to put it into perspective
00:06:52.020 that maybe women don't have it as bad as we think? 1.00
00:06:55.780 Like, don't we want a little bit of honesty?
00:06:58.020 The other thing I was thinking about is how women, and I can, 1.00
00:07:08.960 we're rewarded for saying things on camera where men usually can only be punished.
00:07:16.600 And that's why a lot of them don't want to do it, I would think,
00:07:19.280 because the downside is they could lose their income.
00:07:22.420 And the upside is maybe go viral, but, like, there's no money in that usually for men.
00:07:31.280 Anyways, guys, let me know what you think in the comments.
00:07:33.440 Make sure you like the video.
00:07:35.800 Sorry if I'm, like, squinting today, but.
00:07:38.960 And if you're a blue-collar worker, if you could answer those questions,
00:07:41.960 I'll pin the best ones in the comments section.
00:07:43.880 Thanks for watching.
00:07:44.640 I'll see you next time.
00:07:45.880 Bye-bye.
00:07:46.240 Bye-bye.
00:07:46.300 Bye-bye.