Playing to Win - 080 - Gonzalo Lira

00:00:00.920 All right, guys, what is up? We're live for the 80th installment of the Plain and Wit podcast series.

00:00:06.520 Joined today with my friend Gonzalo Lira. How are you doing?

00:00:10.980 Pretty good. Thanks for having me on, Rich. It's great to be back.

00:00:14.400 And yeah, how do you chat? I hope you will enjoy the show.

00:00:18.020 Yeah, we'll be on for an hour or two anyway, I think.

00:00:21.680 I know it's evening over there and I got a few hours to chop it up today.

00:00:25.820 Where I'm at, I'm a little under the weather. I don't know. I came down with a cold or I thought it was altitude sickness at first when I was in Colorado.

00:00:35.320 So I feel a little bit shit. My voice is a little messed up. So enjoy the radio voice. 0.97

00:00:40.040 I'll let Gonzalo do most of the talking today, probably.

00:00:43.540 Thanks. I appreciate it.

00:00:46.120 Oh, man. So welcome back. The artist formerly known as Coach Redpill, now Gonzalo Lira.

00:00:52.160 What's been happening, man? You're in Ukraine these days. Seems like you're covering a lot of what's happening between Ukraine and Russia.

00:01:01.560 I posed the question to my audience. I said, is there anything you want me to ask Gonzalo?

00:01:07.320 And I got mixed reactions. I, of course, got the guys that are awesome. Can't wait to watch it.

00:01:12.180 And there's always the, you're bringing a communist on your platform. Why are you amplifying his message? Blah, blah.

00:01:16.920 Well, anyway, I'm hard right. How am I a communist? That's just hilarious.

00:01:24.060 Everybody's got fans and haters. I mean, if you don't, you don't, right?

00:01:27.620 Well, yeah. I mean, if you take any of that stuff personally, you're a fool because there are always going to be people who really like your content. 0.97

00:01:33.960 And that's flattering. That's delightful. I mean, you're making their content, your content for them. 0.98

00:01:39.060 But at the same time, on the flip side, you're always going to have some people who really hate your guts and totally hate watch you.

00:01:44.380 And they're the ones who come up the most, of course. People who aren't different to you don't watch you.

00:01:48.660 And so, yeah, you get that kind of mixed bag.

00:01:52.860 Nobody watches you harder than your haters, right?

00:01:55.560 Yeah, exactly. Well put. Yeah, exactly.

00:01:59.140 So what the hell are you doing in Ukraine still? It's a war zone. It's cold as shit.

00:02:04.660 You know, like what's going on in that coconut of yours? Like, what are you thinking? 1.00

00:02:08.560 Well, I live here. I've been living here in Ukraine, in Kharkov, which is in East Ukraine.

00:02:14.040 I've been living here off and on since 2016.

00:02:17.920 I had some business that I was doing in London, and that's when I started doing the Coach Red Pill channel back in 2017.

00:02:26.400 And it was really a hobby because I had a lot of free time on my hands while I was in London doing my business affairs.

00:02:35.140 And the channel took off, and so I just continued it.

00:02:37.760 And then in 2019, I had another business deal that was going down.

00:02:44.360 And so I was sort of like splitting my time between Kharkov and Amsterdam.

00:02:47.360 When I was in London, it was sort of like, you know, one week in Kharkov and one week in London.

00:02:52.400 And then the same thing in Amsterdam.

00:02:54.580 And the COVID lockdown caught me there in March of 2020.

00:03:01.180 And I was stuck in Amsterdam, really, for most of 2020.

00:03:05.380 And then I rode my motorcycle back from Amsterdam to Kharkov in, what, December of 2020?

00:03:13.060 And I've been living here ever since, and very happily so, until this little war happened, you know.

00:03:21.880 And exactly a year ago today, a year ago right now, as I'm speaking to you, I had flown out to Kiev on some business and some just bureaucratic stuff I had to take care of.

00:03:33.540 I went to Kiev on the 23rd of February, 2022.

00:03:38.780 And at this time, it's 6 p.m. here as I'm speaking to you, I was having drinks with some business acquaintances at my hotel, the Premier Palace in Kiev, just off Krishatik Avenue.

00:03:51.360 And I recall this all very vividly, because, you know, that evening, rather than go out to dinner or anything, I just decided to, you know, dash over down the street to the McDonald's there and get some Mickey D's and just chill out in front of Cable.

00:04:08.920 And I fell asleep until like 5.30 in the morning when my assistant here in Kharkov gave me a call and said, the Russians are invading.

00:04:17.700 And so for the first week of the invasion, I was in Kiev, and I'd wound down my Coach Red Pill channel in late 2021, because I was just getting tired of it, you know, and I was just winding down the whole thing.

00:04:32.420 And, you know, but I still had the channel with, you know, a quarter of a million, 300,000 subs or whatever it was.

00:04:38.480 And I started doing these impromptu videos from Krishatik Avenue, which is like the main drag, or not the main drag, but the principal avenue of Kiev, sort of like the Wilshire Boulevard of Kiev or, you know, the Madison Avenue of Kiev.

00:04:54.100 And I started doing these impromptu videos talking about the situation on the ground in the middle of Kiev.

00:05:00.920 And all of a sudden, you know, I'm this geopolitical commentator.

00:05:04.680 And of course, since this conflict is ongoing, I've continued making videos because, you know, it directly affects my life, you know.

00:05:12.640 And so, yeah, I was in Kiev from the 24th until my birthday, the night before my birthday, when I took the train back to Kharkov.

00:05:23.860 And I was here on the 1st of March, and I've been here since then.

00:05:28.560 And I arranged for the evacuation of my family, and they're out of the country.

00:05:33.880 And for various reasons, I decided to stay because I didn't think that this war would last this long.

00:05:40.320 I mean, if somebody had told me back in March of last year that we'd be here a year later talking about this, I would have been shocked.

00:05:47.520 And what's emerged, what's very interesting is that the Kiev regime and the Russians had actually reached a ceasefire agreement in early April of last year.

00:05:58.340 And it was the West, the Washington, you know, deep state crowd, the State Department crowd, that put the kibosh on that.

00:06:09.200 They told Zelensky in no uncertain terms that he should not sign any kind of ceasefire or any kind of agreement with the Russians.

00:06:16.640 And it's because of Washington that this war has continued for a year with literally hundreds of thousands of deaths on the side of the Zelensky regime.

00:06:25.860 It's been a big catastrophe.

00:06:27.360 What are the, what's the death count right now on both sides?

00:06:33.400 Do you have any idea?

00:06:34.460 Yeah.

00:06:35.280 The casualty figures, these are the last reputable figures that are the most conservative and the most, like, for sure.

00:06:43.120 Okay.

00:06:43.940 They come from two sources.

00:06:46.260 The lowest casualty figures for the Zelensky regime, rather, for the Ukraine side, they have killed in action 157,000.

00:06:57.360 Wounded in action, likely about 150% of that number.

00:07:01.820 So you're talking roughly about 240,000 men who have been wounded incapacitated.

00:07:08.300 Okay.

00:07:08.540 So between those two figures, you're talking in total 400,000 men are out of commission.

00:07:13.620 Between that 157 killed and that 240 that are incapacitated.

00:07:18.380 On the Russian side, these are Western figures, by the way, or figures critical of the Russians.

00:07:25.840 The BBC puts the number of confirmed dead Russian LPR forces, DPR forces, Wagner and Chechens.

00:07:34.140 They put them at minimum 12,000 killed and perhaps maximum 20,000.

00:07:41.480 The Israelis, the Mossad, puts it at 18,850 as of January 22nd or something like that.

00:07:49.700 So the Russians are destroying the Ukrainians. 0.72

00:07:51.540 Yeah, it's lopsided across the board in terms of equipment lost.

00:07:56.380 It's a slaughter.

00:07:57.980 Yeah, it's lopsided as all get out.

00:08:00.700 Because, I mean, the news here, if you consume public news media, would purport that the Russians are really getting a lot of resistance.

00:08:10.180 Go Zelensky.

00:08:11.060 You know, they're probably going to win, blah, blah, blah.

00:08:14.860 But you're saying on the ground there, it's really just a slaughter.

00:08:19.340 Yeah.

00:08:19.740 The figure, it's roughly in terms of men material across every weapons class.

00:08:26.380 It's a lopsided figure of between 8 to 1 against the Zonsky regime.

00:08:32.240 And as low as 4 to 1 insofar as helicopters specifically.

00:08:36.780 Insofar as artillery pieces, I think it's something like 20 to 1.

00:08:39.320 And so, I mean, no, it's just incredibly lopsided.

00:08:44.220 What's the population of Ukraine?

00:08:46.200 Before the war, the official number was 45 million.

00:08:50.740 Okay.

00:08:51.540 But because of the people who have left, roughly 15 million people have left, a third of the population.

00:08:58.460 They've left something like 4 million have gone to Russia and 11 million have gone to the West.

00:09:02.580 And so, you discount that.

00:09:05.460 You discount to the 9 million people who are now in the territories that Russia has annexed.

00:09:12.960 That's about, I guess, 9 million.

00:09:15.500 And so, right now, the population of Ukraine, the credible estimates from multiple sources, is a range between 19 million and 22 million.

00:09:23.600 And so, they've cut the population in half.

00:09:28.540 And this isn't over yet.

00:09:31.040 Would you call this a proxy war?

00:09:32.520 And what do you think of it?

00:09:33.340 Oh, yeah.

00:09:33.760 Of course, it's a proxy war between NATO and Russia.

00:09:37.660 You know, NATO, the State Department.

00:09:41.040 Specifically, Victoria Nuland, who is the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs.

00:09:47.600 Anthony Blinken, who's supposed to be the Secretary of State, but who's really, Victoria Nuland is the number one.

00:09:53.740 And Joe Biden himself and the National Security Advisor, what's his name, James Elvin.

00:09:59.760 So, what they want is regime change in Russia.

00:10:03.240 And they're using Ukraine and the sanctions and throwing away the European economy to create that regime change in Russia.

00:10:10.680 And they failed.

00:10:11.600 They failed miserably.

00:10:12.740 I mean, because right now, Putin in Russia, and this is according to polls by anti-Putin sectors, put his approval rating at somewhere between 70 and 80 percent.

00:10:25.540 OK, so, I mean, you know, he's nothing's going on.

00:10:31.200 And also, what's what's happened is that back in 2014, 15, when Russia annexed Crimea, the Crimean Peninsula, the United States imposed a whole bunch of sanctions, which really hurt the Russian economy back then.

00:10:46.180 And what's happened is that since then, the Russians have prepared for sanctions war and they prepared very diligently.

00:10:52.700 And in fact, they overprepared because what happened was that the sanctions that came in 2022, which were a lot more severe because they disconnected Russia from SWIFT, they absconded really with the Russian central bank's assets in the West and other measures that they took.

00:11:13.400 But what happened was that those sanctions had less of an effect on the Russian economy than the sanctions back in 2015.

00:11:23.040 Because, yeah, in March, April, there was like, you know, the ruble shot up, you know, the Moscow stock market crashed.

00:11:30.460 But then it kind of like recovered because everybody started realizing, hey, you know, this isn't hurting that bad.

00:11:36.760 And the Russians also discovered that they had all these customers in India and China for their energy resources and their exports.

00:11:45.800 And so losing the European economy, the Western economies, in fact, didn't really hurt the Russian economy.

00:11:52.440 And more importantly, it opened up new opportunities and new markets in India and China.

00:11:58.860 And so now they are selling more than before the war.

00:12:02.280 They are doing better economically now than before the war.

00:12:05.960 OK, and even the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, which is a Western organization, even they admit the fact that the Russian economy is doing gangbusters and their inflation is projected to be for 2023, something like maybe four, five percent, something like that.

00:12:24.180 And overall, they're just this didn't hurt the Russian economy at all.

00:12:29.640 It just crippled the German economy and the European economy overall.

00:12:33.860 And on top of that, you have, of course, that the United States carried out this terrorist attack on the Nord Stream Pipeline, which condemned.

00:12:44.080 Has that been has that been confirmed by a good source?

00:12:47.220 Oh, yeah. Yeah. By Seymour Hersh. Seymour Hersh is the best investigative journalist you can find.

00:12:53.840 Seymour Hersh has been around for five decades.

00:12:57.060 He broke the Milai Massacre in 1968.

00:13:00.100 He also broke the story of the Abu Ghraib torture of prisoners by the Americans in Iraq and the clandestine bombing of Cambodia, a bunch of stories.

00:13:13.400 I mean, he's, you know, as gold standard as you can get insofar as investigative journalism.

00:13:18.300 I mean, a couple of weeks ago, three weeks ago now, he released a very detailed piece as to who, what, where, why and so far as Nord Stream.

00:13:28.340 And the decision was made in the fall of 2021 by Joe Biden himself, in coordination with Victoria Nuland and Jake Sullivan, to bomb the Nord Stream Pipeline.

00:13:40.320 Jake Sullivan was the point man for that operation.

00:13:42.780 And in Seymour Hersh's piece, which has gotten zero play in the mainstream media.

00:13:48.980 I mean, nothing. They don't talk about it at all.

00:13:51.980 This guy has won a Pulitzer Prize.

00:13:53.660 He published in The New Yorker, The New York Times.

00:13:55.640 I mean, this is as gold standard as you can get.

00:13:57.900 And they have totally, you know, memory-holded it, not even memory-holded it, just ignored it like it has not happened.

00:14:03.740 Although the rest of the world has most certainly paid attention to it.

00:14:08.220 And the Americans indisputably bombed the Nord Stream Pipeline.

00:14:11.060 And this crippled the German economy.

00:14:13.340 And, you know, the German economy is toast. 1.00

00:14:16.240 I mean, they are fucked to high heaven. 0.99

00:14:19.080 Right now, their inflation, food inflation, is at 20%. 0.99

00:14:22.840 And, sorry, the Nord Stream Pipeline was a gas supply line from Russia to, was it through Denmark into Germany?

00:14:31.780 No, it was under the Baltic Sea, from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea.

00:14:37.300 And it passed by Denmark.

00:14:39.260 And what has emerged from Seymour Hersh's reporting is that the Danes, the Swedes, and the Norwegians and the Poles knew that this was coming.

00:14:51.360 And, in fact, it was the Norwegians who pulled the trigger, who actually detonated the bombs that the Americans placed in June of 2022 during this big Baltic Sea exercise that they did. 0.98

00:15:04.060 That's when the American divers put in these explosives. 0.62

00:15:07.880 You've got to understand that these explosives, they're not like a little package of C4 and they blow it up.

00:15:12.360 No, it's like a really complicated thing.

00:15:14.720 Because they have to dig up, you know, the pipeline because it's covered.

00:15:18.840 And the kind of explosives you're talking about are, you know, a couple hundred pounds per charge.

00:15:26.000 And they had two charges on each of four pipelines.

00:15:30.020 And so it was a major operation, logistically, to carry it out.

00:15:33.300 And it was apparently the Norwegians who pulled the trigger on it. 0.78

00:15:37.380 And Norway is part of NATO.

00:15:41.580 The United States is part of NATO.

00:15:43.320 Germany is part of NATO. 0.98

00:15:44.680 So Germany's own allies fucked them over for money. 0.99

00:15:48.880 That's the worst part. 0.98

00:15:49.740 Because the Norwegians' motivation was that they would be able to sell their natural gas, that they have quite a bit of, but more expensive than Russian gas.

00:15:59.080 They'd be able to sell their gas to Germany.

00:16:02.220 And the United States also had that financial motivation to sell American liquefied natural gas to the Germans, quite apart from the geopolitical aspects of it.

00:16:11.280 So it's really fun and predictable.

00:16:13.280 Yeah, I don't recall much outrage or much coverage on this fact.

00:16:18.080 I mean, people are still outraged over pronouns or something.

00:16:23.040 Pronouns and balloons.

00:16:24.800 Balloons and wokeness or something is getting way more media coverage.

00:16:27.740 And that's what people get upset about.

00:16:29.880 I'm sure there's probably more people that are still pissed off that others haven't gone and jabbed themselves, you know, to comply, you know, with the new thing. 0.89

00:16:37.880 And, yeah, it's a clown world, you know, it's a clown world show. 0.76

00:16:41.400 We call this a clown world show, right? 1.00

00:16:44.040 Yeah, it's a complete shit show at this point. 1.00

00:16:46.100 No, I mean, like, every day, the kind of bullshit that's going on, it's just off the charts. 1.00

00:16:51.040 It's just way off the charts, you know. 0.99

00:16:53.160 I mean, every outrage that you see every day, you know.

00:16:56.360 And, I mean, this kind of thing, I mean, like, one of these incidents, okay, I mean, 10, 20 years ago would have been front page news across the world.

00:17:03.980 But the American media is total propaganda.

00:17:06.460 The Canadian media is total propaganda.

00:17:08.380 You're not going to hear what's going on if you follow the mainstream news sources.

00:17:12.680 Yeah.

00:17:12.960 I just want to talk about this State of the Union, I think, Putin made recently.

00:17:22.620 Oh, yeah.

00:17:23.480 You know, it's a two-minute video.

00:17:24.560 I shared it on my Twitter thread.

00:17:25.740 You guys can go pull it up if you want.

00:17:27.220 But, you know, here's some highlights.

00:17:28.420 I'm not going to read the whole thing because it's obviously in Russian.

00:17:30.540 Let me read one line from it, if you don't mind.

00:17:32.260 Yeah.

00:17:33.060 And this is Putin speaking.

00:17:34.720 See what they do with their own peoples. 0.68

00:17:37.260 The destruction of the family, cultural and national identity, perversion, mockery of children, and pedophilia are declared the norm.

00:17:46.980 Now, to chat, I'm going to ask you, you know, is anything he says wrong?

00:17:51.800 Is anything in that statement wrong?

00:17:54.500 Okay?

00:17:54.780 You don't have to be a believer because, you know, Putin says that he's a believer, you know, in Christianity, and that's very respectable. 0.99

00:18:02.940 But you don't have to be a believer to read that and say, fuck, he's absolutely right. 0.99

00:18:09.180 You know, pedophilia is now the norm in the West, you know? 0.99

00:18:11.740 Of course, they don't call it pedophilia anymore.

00:18:13.720 They call it minor attracted person or minor attracted people.

00:18:18.540 Jesus Christ.

00:18:19.900 Whenever you see that MAP in the bio of somebody on Twitter, know what you're dealing with.

00:18:26.760 You're dealing with pedophilia.

00:18:28.060 Yeah, we've got cross-dressing trannies or whatever they are, you know, reading books to kids in schools, and it's all being celebrated, and they're forced to clap over the whole thing. 1.00

00:18:38.660 It's just a bizarrity.

00:18:39.940 What did you think of the whole—I mean, it's a two-minute video.

00:18:44.400 I'm sure there's a lot more to it, but that seemed to be, like, the highlight reel.

00:18:47.320 He was talking about we must protect our children.

00:18:49.820 The Anglican Church, for example, considers the idea of gender-neutral God.

00:18:53.480 This was a recent announcement from England.

00:18:55.620 Forgive us, Lord, for they don't know what they do.

00:18:59.920 Look at holy scriptures.

00:19:00.960 The family is a union of a man and a woman.

00:19:03.040 So he touches on a lot of these sensitive points.

00:19:05.440 I mean, like, what do you think of this State of the Union speech that Putin, you know, recently made?

00:19:08.840 Like, what do you think was behind that?

00:19:10.020 Well, no, it was just a State of the Nation speech.

00:19:14.320 It was an hour and 45 minutes long.

00:19:16.040 I watched the whole thing.

00:19:17.440 And most of it was devoted to domestic stuff and domestic programs that are going to be implemented.

00:19:22.680 And, by the way, a lot of these domestic programs have gotten a very, very positive response in Russia.

00:19:28.220 Like, for instance, one of the things that he's doing is that any family that has two children or more are not going to pay property tax.

00:19:37.140 That's a big deal in Russia because when you have property tax that you have to pay ongoing and also when you sell a property in less than five years since you purchased it, you also have to pay 13%, I believe.

00:19:51.460 And those taxes are going to be rescinded for families that have two or more children.

00:19:55.220 Clearly, you know, they're aiming to improve their demographics by way of incentives, something that the Hungarians are doing, and very effectively, by the way, of improving their demographics by way of the state giving incentives to families to have more children.

00:20:13.400 You know, longer maternity needs, you know, that kind of stuff.

00:20:19.440 He also talked very specifically in great detail about programs that they're going to do for returning veterans, you know, psychological assistance, work assistance, you know, that sort of thing.

00:20:32.600 The domestic programs package was the bulk of the speech insofar as the rest of the world is concerned.

00:20:41.160 The big highlight wasn't really the cultural stuff that he talked about.

00:20:44.520 And that was sort of like a jab to the West, but and sort of like a reminder as to what the West represents in the eyes of the rest of the world.

00:20:51.480 Because, you know, all this, we kind of like laugh and just are kind of like horrified by the pedo stuff and the trans stuff in the West. 1.00

00:21:00.800 But in the rest of the world, they look at this as just decadence and degeneracy.

00:21:04.900 They're horrified by it.

00:21:06.060 They want no part of it. 1.00

00:21:07.380 And they say, well, if to be part of the West, we have to get on board with this bullshit, fuck that. 1.00

00:21:12.280 I mean, they're very serious about it. 1.00

00:21:13.360 For the vast majority of people in the Middle East, in Africa, in Asia, in Latin America, Central America, all that stuff of trans and wokeness and all that shit is horrifying. 1.00

00:21:26.580 And they want no piece of it, none of it. 0.99

00:21:30.540 But that's the thing that in the West they focus on the most.

00:21:33.060 In geopolitical terms, the most important aspect, as far as I'm concerned, is that Putin declared that insofar as arms limitation talks are concerned, Russia is suspending those talks because, you know, there's no real point.

00:21:48.640 Because he pointed out quite accurately that the United States expects to be able to inspect Russian facilities, military facilities, to be in compliance with the nuclear arms agreements.

00:22:04.560 And yet they don't allow Russian inspectors to go to American military facilities.

00:22:09.440 And so Putin said, very reasonably, as far as I'm concerned, he said, look, we are in a war in Ukraine where NATO and the Americans are supplying weapons to the Kiev regime, on the one hand.

00:22:23.520 And on the other hand, they want to come and inspect our military facilities?

00:22:27.720 Oh, no, we're not going to play that game.

00:22:30.480 And so, you know, it's ultimately the speech.

00:22:34.960 There's another element, too.

00:22:36.260 In the speech, there was this underlying sense, although never explicit, but it was underlying the entire speech, whenever he talked about foreign issues, was that Russia and the West had suffered a divorce.

00:22:48.300 And it was a divorce that would not find any kind of reconciliation anytime soon.

00:22:54.720 And that was sort of like underlying the entire speech.

00:22:57.840 And so, you know, the Russians are broken with the West. 0.77

00:23:00.300 They are not going to go to the negotiating table with the West.

00:23:02.900 And people now in the United States, as they see the disaster unfolding in Ukraine, they're starting to say, oh, we should set up some sort of demilitarized zone, some sort of ceasefire agreement.

00:23:13.960 Some people, some of the...

00:23:14.900 Another East and West Germany. 0.89

00:23:16.200 Is this what they're trying to pull?

00:23:17.560 It's sort of like a North Korea, South Korea kind of thing.

00:23:19.760 And, you know, the Russians are, they're not going to buy it at all because, number one, they're winning, okay? 0.71

00:23:26.980 A ceasefire only works when you have basically two forces that are of equal strength and that they're sort of like at a standstill, okay?

00:23:35.960 They were dug in and heavily defended.

00:23:39.580 And yet, at the same time, they can't really attack the other side, but they've got a lot of troops and a lot of gear and stuff.

00:23:44.520 But that's not going on here.

00:23:46.360 Here, the Russians are winning. 0.97

00:23:48.300 And a lot of people say, well, the front lines aren't moving so much, right?

00:23:51.880 So how can you say that one side or the other is moving?

00:23:54.760 Well, see, that is a problem of Western misconception about what war is about because a war is not about capturing territory.

00:24:04.600 A war, if you read your cross bits, a war is about destroying the opposing army. 0.79

00:24:09.880 Once you've destroyed the opposing army, their land is yours.

00:24:14.600 You can do whatever you want with it.

00:24:16.220 And so what the Russians have been doing over the past, I would argue, the last six to eight months is to just a war of attrition where they are grinding down the Zelensky regime forces.

00:24:29.900 And they are succeeding fairly spectacularly, as I mentioned with the previous figures.

00:24:35.780 And so what you're going to see is eventually the Zelensky regime forces are going to simply run out of men.

00:24:42.000 And the Russians are just going to roll over them. 1.00

00:24:44.240 Do keep in mind that at this time, the best credible estimates is that the Russians have assembled three army groupings in southern Belarus, right on the northern border of Ukraine, just to the west of Kiev, on the eastern border of Ukraine, here in the Belgorod.

00:25:04.220 Belgorod is a region in Russia right across from me.

00:25:07.240 I'm 40 kilometers from the border with Russia and another big group being to the south.

00:25:14.160 And that grouping adds up altogether to about 650 to 750,000 men.

00:25:20.120 And the Zelensky regime forces is scraping the bottom of the barrel insofar as manpower is concerned.

00:25:25.720 I mean, there are, you know, there's this video I saw today as a matter of fact.

00:25:29.220 I was shocked that they were trying to conscript a 65-year-old retiree.

00:25:34.680 And the man was saying, what are you coming to me for?

00:25:37.820 I'm in no shape to pick up a rifle.

00:25:40.360 I'm 65, you know.

00:25:41.900 And he looked like a worn out man of 65.

00:25:45.620 He didn't look like a young, you know, one of these guys who could like bench press, you know, 300 pounds.

00:25:51.980 No, he looked like what he was, an older retiree who was in no shape to go to combat. 0.90

00:25:58.500 And they were trying to conscript him, you know.

00:26:00.860 And so that shows you the level of desperation of the Kiev regime.

00:26:04.120 And that's why they're begging for tanks.

00:26:06.100 They're begging for aircraft now.

00:26:08.500 You know, they're begging and begging and begging.

00:26:11.000 Who is, like, who is going to be driving these tanks that the Americans make? 0.99

00:26:16.000 You know, they're talking about sending Abrams tanks and Leopard's tank.

00:26:18.580 Like, you have to, like, you can't just hand the keys to the guy and say, oh, this is like your Kia.

00:26:23.580 Now just turn the key and put it in D for go and just drive it.

00:26:26.140 Like, this is a tank.

00:26:26.900 The same thing with an F-16.

00:26:27.940 They've been talking about, you know, like NATO fighters giving them to the, like, who is going to operate these vehicles?

00:26:36.200 It's not going to be the Ukrainians, is it? 1.00

00:26:39.160 You said it yourself.

00:26:40.280 It's not going to be the Ukrainians. 1.00

00:26:41.640 Because, look, a tank, and I've gotten this from various people who have military experience. 0.97

00:26:47.040 I personally do not have military experience, but in the course of just being on top of this shit, I've learned a great deal about how a modern military works. 0.96

00:26:55.760 To operate one of these tanks, you need minimum six months of training. 0.95

00:26:59.820 And to be able to have multiple tanks working in conjunction, you need to train for at least a year.

00:27:07.020 And quite apart from that, you need all kinds of communications infrastructure and also aircraft for close air support, which the Zelensky regime simply does not have.

00:27:19.180 So to answer your question, the people most likely to operate this stuff are going to be NATO troops because there isn't enough time to train Ukrainian people, even if those people were available.

00:27:29.400 Okay.

00:27:29.720 Same with the aircraft.

00:27:31.260 Okay.

00:27:31.700 Look, there's been a lot of talk about these tanks.

00:27:34.760 But when we talk about the actual number of tanks, like they want to send leopard tanks, right?

00:27:40.520 The Germans said that they're going to send 88 tanks, right?

00:27:44.560 And they said that they're going to send first 14 and then the rest of the 88.

00:27:49.400 And I'm like, dude, do you know?

00:27:51.980 I mean, somebody must have clued them in, but apparently not.

00:27:55.500 Okay.

00:27:55.760 So anyway, they're going to send 14 tanks and then the full 88.

00:28:01.080 Portugal is going to throw some more tanks their way. 0.95

00:28:04.100 That's what they're saying.

00:28:06.060 But nobody's actually doing anything.

00:28:08.160 And here's the point.

00:28:09.540 If you add up all the leopard tanks that they're claiming that they're going to send, it amounts to a couple of hundred, maybe 300 tanks.

00:28:16.600 At the start of this conflict, the Zelensky regime had over 2,000 tanks.

00:28:22.040 They're gone.

00:28:23.200 That's why they're begging for tanks now. 0.62

00:28:24.920 Okay.

00:28:25.780 So these tanks, if they ever show up in the front lines, they're going to be destroyed like the other tanks before them by the Russians.

00:28:34.660 Okay. 1.00

00:28:34.920 So it's stupid. 1.00

00:28:36.480 It's just a thing. 1.00

00:28:37.340 And if they're not, you know that they've got NATO operatives behind the wheel of the planes and tanks, right?

00:28:42.620 Yeah.

00:28:43.260 And no, I mean, there's NATO personnel here that's been fighting on the front lines.

00:28:48.760 They're private military contractors, but they've been here the whole time.

00:28:52.980 It's estimated that the Poles, there are various figures that I've heard, reputable figures, that go between 16,000 Polish troops all the way to 25,000.

00:29:03.620 Although the 25,000 number seems a little fishy, more people are saying that it's in the realm of about 20,000 Polish troops.

00:29:11.320 They're all private military contractors, but they're all very capable, and they've already lost at least 2,500 killed in action, Polish soldiers killed in action.

00:29:23.040 So, you know, you already have NATO troops.

00:29:25.180 You also have Romanian troops here and some Portuguese troops, you know, a little bit of everything, you know, and they're fighting already.

00:29:34.800 And, but it's not in big numbers, and they're all as private military contractors so that the respective governments have deniability.

00:29:43.880 But the Poles in particular, you know, they set up this specific grave site for their dead, and right now the dead for sure from Poland is about 2,500 dead, okay? 0.98

00:29:56.480 And so, you know, I mean, they're getting the shit kicked out of them. 0.99

00:30:00.340 Look, I've said this repeatedly, and I'll say it again. 0.99

00:30:02.680 But, you know, the Italians, they're really great at food, and the French are really, really good at fashion, right?

00:30:11.020 The Russians, they're really good at war. 1.00

00:30:14.700 That's goddamn right. 0.98

00:30:16.680 They know what they're doing. 0.97

00:30:17.840 When they go to war, they know exactly. 1.00

00:30:18.760 Yeah, if you study a military history, you do not want to fuck with the Russians. 1.00

00:30:22.700 There's something else, too. 1.00

00:30:23.600 You know, a lot of people say that the Russians fucked up at the beginning, this and that, and all the rest of it. 0.97

00:30:27.460 Yeah, but you have to understand that these armies, they adapt, and they learn, okay? 0.98

00:30:32.320 Because, of course, people's lives are on the line, and they don't want to lose troops.

00:30:37.080 The priority that the Russians have had throughout this conflict is they want to minimize civilian casualties and minimize their own casualties, okay?

00:30:46.320 In terms of casualties of Ukraine civilians, the numbers are very low.

00:30:49.500 If anybody says, oh, they're committing genocide in Ukraine, that's a lie.

00:30:54.800 Total civilians killed so far is about under 10,000, 9,800 and some as of late January, okay?

00:31:06.700 And this is all collateral damage, you know?

00:31:08.920 People killed because stuff fell on them, you know, from both sides, by the way, okay?

00:31:13.980 And so, you know, the notion that this is genocidal, that's just a lie. 0.99

00:31:20.240 That's just propagandistic bullshit, okay? 0.98

00:31:23.060 The actual hard numbers are, like I said, under 10,000 civilians killed, which is a tragedy. 0.99

00:31:30.080 But if you compare that to the number of combat troops that have died, if you add up the 157,000, let's say 20,000 Russians killed, okay?

00:31:39.680 That's 175,000 killed, only 10,000 civilian killed, that's extremely low.

00:31:47.900 That's like numbers like, for instance, in the U.S. Civil War, which also had something similar, where you had huge numbers of troops killed, but very few civilians killed, okay?

00:31:57.280 And contrast that to the First World War, especially the Second World War, where the Allies terror-bombed German cities and wiped out perhaps millions of German civilians, you know?

00:32:10.140 So, and that's quite apart from what happened in the Eastern Front and all the rest of it, you know?

00:32:14.480 So, look, the war is catastrophic for the nation and the people of Ukraine, but in terms of actual casualties of civilians, it's quite low.

00:32:23.040 What do you think of these donors of military aid to Ukraine?

00:32:30.400 This is just basically an infographic chart that I came across the other day.

00:32:35.020 I'm pretty sure the numbers from the U.S. are more than 46 billion at this point, but the population of the U.S. versus Canada is only 10 times greater, but Canada has donated 1.4 billion.

00:32:49.400 The U.S. has donated 46 billion, according to this chart.

00:32:53.020 I believe it's a lot more.

00:32:54.520 What's behind this?

00:32:55.720 Why is the U.S. so invested in this proxy war, from your opinion?

00:32:59.540 Well, there's multiple problems with those numbers.

00:33:02.660 The first problem is that you have to figure out how much money they're actually sending to Ukraine and how much money they are actually sending to the military-industrial complex in the United States, okay?

00:33:12.740 A lot of times what they're doing is that they're sending gear, but they're paying the money to the military-industrial complex in the United States, to Raytheon, General Dynamics, and so forth.

00:33:24.200 And so those numbers, you really have to get into the granular detail to know where that money is exactly going to.

00:33:31.260 So I wouldn't be able to give you an opinion about those numbers, just ball-faced like that.

00:33:37.280 I mean, it's really hinky insofar as how the numbers are playing out.

00:33:42.260 What is known is that the Zelensky regime itself needs cash that it's getting from the European Union and the United States just to pay its personnel, pay its soldiers, pay its bureaucracy to keep going.

00:33:54.720 Anyway, the Ukraine economy is just toast.

00:33:57.560 I mean, the GDP of Ukraine has collapsed, I would guesstimate, easily 60%. 0.99

00:34:04.760 The official number is like 30%, but I think it's bullshit. 0.96

00:34:07.880 I think it's a lot more. 0.92

00:34:09.280 I mean, just the number of people who have left and they've gone to Europe or Russia.

00:34:14.680 And by the way, you know, this is demographically a catastrophe for Ukraine because those 15 million people who have left, they are not coming back.

00:34:21.340 Because they've, I know many of them, many Ukrainians that I knew, my former assistant, they've gone to Denmark, Sweden, Great Britain, Switzerland.

00:34:32.580 And they're not coming back because, you know, the war has gone on for over a year now or coming up on a year.

00:34:38.660 And they have settled into their lives in Europe, the same with the ones who have left for Russia. 0.58

00:34:44.020 They've settled into their life.

00:34:45.580 They've got apartments.

00:34:46.640 They've got jobs.

00:34:47.800 They've got the kids in their schools.

00:34:49.280 They're not going to come back to Ukraine, especially a war-torn and devastating Ukraine. 0.97

00:34:55.040 So the Ukraine nation prior to this conflict is gone forever.

00:34:59.860 It's never coming back.

00:35:01.640 Now, the only issue becomes how much of Ukraine the Russians are going to annex. 0.61

00:35:07.660 In my estimation, it seems reasonable to think that they're going to take pretty much everything east of the Dnieper River. 0.92

00:35:13.880 The Dnieper River sort of like slices Ukraine down the middle.

00:35:17.260 And they're also going to take all of the south of Ukraine, including Odessa, which for the Russians is a very important city for historical reasons and is predominantly Russian, as a matter of fact.

00:35:26.520 And so at the end of the day, you're going to have a run of Ukraine.

00:35:31.400 So you're saying that they're going to stop at this water body here, this big river that travels through the middle of Ukraine.

00:35:35.100 Yeah, that's the Dnieper River.

00:35:36.140 And when you see there, Kiribro, right there in the middle, they're going to take everything south all the way to Moldova, okay?

00:35:49.660 Including the city, the port city of Odessa, which you see right below your pointer there.

00:35:55.000 Yeah, they're going to take that.

00:35:56.540 And everything there to the south and to the east, that's going to be annexed by the Russians. 0.89

00:36:01.220 Is this still primarily Russian-speaking territory on the east side?

00:36:06.600 Yes, all of it.

00:36:07.840 East side?

00:36:08.780 Where are you located right now?

00:36:10.620 I'm located in Kharkov, which is right there.

00:36:12.980 It's the biggest city right there in the center, in the upper center of your screen.

00:36:17.640 No, that's Donetsk.

00:36:18.440 So it's all in Russian, okay.

00:36:20.400 That one?

00:36:21.000 That's it.

00:36:21.500 That's where I'm living.

00:36:22.400 Okay, so you're very close to the border.

00:36:24.920 Yeah.

00:36:26.220 Yeah, but there's no...

00:36:27.780 Have they taken this town yet?

00:36:28.940 Like, is this a Russian-occupied town now?

00:36:31.220 No, no.

00:36:31.880 This is Ukrainian-occupied. 0.63

00:36:35.040 Okay.

00:36:35.700 But we get, you know, missile strikes every once in a while.

00:36:40.300 You know, they're hitting something.

00:36:41.440 They're usually hitting specific military objectives.

00:36:44.440 Actually, back in September, the Russians hit a missile.

00:36:48.260 A missile hit the building right next to where I live.

00:36:50.960 I've got a great picture of it, but unfortunately, I can't show it publicly

00:36:54.440 because people would be able to figure out where I am located because of the skyline.

00:36:59.380 But I got this great shot.

00:37:01.140 I mean, it's really a great, just perfect shot.

00:37:04.740 And no, the Russians are eventually going to take all of Eastern Ukraine. 0.87

00:37:09.960 Yeah, that's in the cards.

00:37:11.680 And the only thing, this big battle that's going on now.

00:37:15.400 Well, that's anybody's guess, but I'd be very surprised if the war is still continuing

00:37:19.580 by the end of 2023.

00:37:21.360 But, you know, I didn't think the war would continue past May.

00:37:25.480 So, you know, my crystal ball is kind of cloudy.

00:37:30.020 But no, they're going to take that half of Ukraine and they're going to annex it and it's 0.99

00:37:35.560 going to become Russian territory and they're not going to fuck around. 0.98

00:37:38.380 And what remains of Ukraine is going to be a rump state. 0.99

00:37:41.440 And I would guess that the Russians are going to install some sort of puppet regime there

00:37:45.060 and make it like just a buffer zone with NATO and Poland.

00:37:52.820 And Poland, you know, now we're hearing noises that Poland might be up next as the next proxy.

00:38:00.520 And all of a sudden today, this morning, as a matter of fact, the noises started coming

00:38:05.040 out that maybe Moldova, if you could go back to that map, I can show you that Moldova might

00:38:12.780 be the next thing.

00:38:14.060 See Moldova?

00:38:14.940 If you zoom in a little bit to Moldova, a little bit closer.

00:38:18.080 Yeah, and see, you see that on the western side, excuse me.

00:38:23.820 Yeah, that's just now.

00:38:25.500 On the western side, zoom in a little bit more, please.

00:38:32.260 Yeah, see that Tiraspol to the east, right?

00:38:37.500 This sliver of land is occupied by the Russians, okay? 1.00

00:38:43.380 Because that's historically Russian.

00:38:45.580 Yeah, currently.

00:38:46.720 And it's been that way since the end of the Cold War, because that is a traditionally Russian 1.00

00:38:50.680 area.

00:38:51.420 All the people there are ethnic Russians who speak Russian.

00:38:53.960 And there's also a big military depot there.

00:38:56.420 There are about 6,000 Russian troops there at this time.

00:38:58.980 And as of this morning, all of a sudden, there's been these rumors that the Kiev regime is planning

00:39:03.680 on attacking it and starting like a second front, if you will.

00:39:08.720 Now, I'm sure the Russians have prepared for this contingency. 0.99

00:39:11.440 I mean, these guys, the Russians, the Russian army, I mean, they don't take a shit without 0.99

00:39:15.580 a plan. 0.99

00:39:16.220 I mean, they know exactly what they're doing.

00:39:18.460 And so, you know, we're going to see if there's going to be a second front in Moldova.

00:39:22.700 Who knows about that?

00:39:24.480 How this is going to end?

00:39:25.960 Well, there's this big battle going on in Bakhmut, which is this small town.

00:39:31.780 Before the war, it was like 75,000 people.

00:39:34.220 It's a small town that has become an end in itself, in the sense that the Zelensky regime 1.00

00:39:40.880 has lost so many men that they can't pull out.

00:39:45.140 And so they keep on putting more men into it.

00:39:47.260 And that city of Bakhmut is slowly being encircled. 0.50

00:39:49.980 And at this time, it's estimated that there are between 10,000 and 20,000 Kiev regime forces

00:39:55.140 there.

00:39:55.480 And they're about to be encircled.

00:39:57.500 And if they're encircled, those men are going to either die, perish, or they're going to

00:40:02.300 surrender.

00:40:02.820 Either way, they're going to be out of the war. 0.66

00:40:05.260 And so, you know, we're coming to a point of not just inflection, but sort of like, you

00:40:12.620 know, the end kind of thing.

00:40:14.560 But once Bakhmut falls, which it will fall in the foreseeable future, I mean, the next 1.00

00:40:21.240 few weeks, once it falls, that is going to be a tremendous blow to the Kiev regime.

00:40:27.740 Whether the Kiev regime survives politically or descends into chaos, that's anybody's guess.

00:40:33.800 But the Russians are just grinding away. 0.99

00:40:35.740 They are grinding away and they are winning.

00:40:37.660 Because this is a war of attrition.

00:40:40.120 And like I said earlier, see, in the West, we have this notion that to win a war, you

00:40:44.300 have to capture territory.

00:40:45.620 People think of it like a football game, like an American football game, where, you know,

00:40:49.680 you're like, you know, first down, you know, 10 yards, right?

00:40:53.780 And you capture a few more yards and you advance and that's war, right? 0.51

00:40:58.300 No, you beat the opposing army, you destroy the opposing army.

00:41:04.020 And that's what the Russians are doing. 0.92

00:41:05.600 It's what Ulysses S. Grant did in the Civil War.

00:41:09.340 That's why the North won, because the North was trying to capture territory until finally

00:41:15.160 Grant came along and Lincoln put him in his position.

00:41:19.520 And Grant just went looking for the Confederate army and destroyed it.

00:41:23.300 Do keep in mind that in the American Civil War, which was a war of attrition, the last

00:41:29.600 few battles of the Civil War were actually won by the Confederacy.

00:41:34.040 They won the battles.

00:41:35.540 But see, their army was so destroyed in this war of attrition that they had to surrender.

00:41:42.040 And that's basically the Russian strategy.

00:41:44.260 I'm oversimplifying, of course, just to make the point clear.

00:41:46.860 But if you start looking at the nitty gritty details, this is what they're doing.

00:41:50.340 And they're doing it extremely effectively.

00:41:51.840 And so the end is, it's over, okay?

00:41:57.500 The lives that are going to be lost now are needless losses.

00:42:02.540 I mean, it's pointless.

00:42:04.840 The Zelensky regime should surrender because they can't win. 0.98

00:42:09.120 There's no way to win, okay?

00:42:11.220 And even if the Americans decided, okay, we're going to put in American troops and we're going

00:42:16.500 to go to war with the Russians, it would take months to set up an American NATO army in

00:42:24.520 Poland to invade Ukraine and fight the Russians.

00:42:29.920 It would take months.

00:42:30.960 Because the Russian army is simply too big and it's right there.

00:42:36.360 And so it's just, this is a needless loss of life.

00:42:39.680 And this is why I tear my hair out, to tell you the truth.

00:42:42.280 Because it's just pointless at this point.

00:42:44.040 But, you know, for political reasons in Washington, they want to, you know, show the Russkies.

00:42:50.860 And the crazy thing is, you know, they want to continue this conflict because they have

00:42:56.480 this mistaken notion that the longer this war continues, the more it undermines Russian

00:43:02.800 military force.

00:43:04.360 They got to completely ask backward because what happens is that the longer this war continues,

00:43:09.820 number one, the morale in Russia improves because they become, it becomes clear to them

00:43:14.860 this is a war with NATO.

00:43:16.880 And number two, they gain more experience.

00:43:19.760 So they are better, more combat effective than anything that the West could throw at them.

00:43:25.360 Right now, I don't see NATO getting involved in this, you know, at this point of the game.

00:43:29.280 No, you never know. 1.00

00:43:30.640 Those fuckers are crazy. 1.00

00:43:33.580 The NATO people are crazy. 1.00

00:43:36.200 They're crazy, crazy. 1.00

00:43:37.060 How so? 1.00

00:43:37.420 The Washington crowd. 1.00

00:43:38.500 They're fucking out of their minds. 1.00

00:43:40.220 They blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. 1.00

00:43:42.980 This is an act of international terrorism, man.

00:43:45.860 And they were like, la-di-da, you know. 1.00

00:43:49.360 It's unbelievable.

00:43:50.540 I mean, the United States-

00:43:51.920 Oh, look, balloons. 0.84

00:43:52.380 Pay attention to that over there instead.

00:43:54.280 Oh, yeah.

00:43:55.080 UFOs.

00:43:55.600 The aliens are coming, you know.

00:43:56.940 Instead of the Cy Hirsch piece, the, you know, the catastrophe of Backmuth, because it is a catastrophe.

00:44:04.840 I mean, the whole thing is just.

00:44:08.580 Interesting.

00:44:10.260 Anything else you want to cover on the whole conflict between Ukraine and Russia?

00:44:14.320 I mean, it's a sad piece, you know, to be honest with you.

00:44:16.060 It's just a needless loss of life. 0.99

00:44:18.280 It's just dumb. 0.97

00:44:20.500 Your kids and their mom are safe, though. 0.98

00:44:24.900 You said you moved them out of the country?

00:44:26.740 Yeah.

00:44:27.520 Like, do you have any concerns for your children?

00:44:29.440 They spent the summer in Croatia on the beach.

00:44:32.700 It's very annoying because I was stuck here.

00:44:35.300 Yeah.

00:44:35.440 Why aren't you leaving?

00:44:38.260 Like, why aren't you with them?

00:44:40.060 Well, two reasons.

00:44:41.160 Originally, I wanted to see what would happen.

00:44:43.060 Okay.

00:44:43.380 Then, in April, I was arrested by the SBU.

00:44:46.380 That's the State Security Service of Ukraine.

00:44:48.300 Yeah, they picked you up.

00:44:49.400 Yeah.

00:44:49.840 Everybody thought that you were dead.

00:44:52.160 You were gone.

00:44:52.400 Yeah, a lot of irresponsible people, you know, assured everybody that I'd been tortured and murdered with no evidence whatsoever.

00:44:59.580 You know, a lot of people were like.

00:45:02.820 I think I might have been one of those speculators.

00:45:04.940 I was like, I don't know what's up with him, but he's, you know, he's killed.

00:45:08.140 No, what happened was that I was arrested.

00:45:09.500 Because you went silent.

00:45:10.100 Because I had you on Skype, and we used to message, and then you just went ghost, right?

00:45:14.280 Like, you would not respond.

00:45:15.900 Yeah, I lost my accounts on my Gmail because they took my cell phone, and they took my accounts.

00:45:21.880 They took them over.

00:45:23.640 And so, that's why I can't access the Coach Red Pill channel or my previous Gonzalo Dura channel.

00:45:28.640 I had to start from scratch.

00:45:29.760 And, you know, what happened was that I was very active on Telegram.

00:45:35.320 I had about 80,000 followers on Telegram.

00:45:38.200 And Telegram is very easy to translate into Ukraine.

00:45:41.400 And so, a lot of people in Ukraine were following what I was saying.

00:45:44.240 And, yeah, that was why I came onto their radar.

00:45:50.400 But, you know, they came.

00:45:52.600 They arrested me.

00:45:53.760 There were, like, eight guys.

00:45:55.660 It was pretty cool.

00:45:57.240 You know, eight guys, you know, armed to the gills, right?

00:46:00.340 With, like, big rifles and the whole shebang, right?

00:46:03.500 And they came to arrest me, and they searched my entire apartment, and they videotaped it. 0.81

00:46:07.800 And they searched every nook and cranny looking for, I don't know what, you know, Russian propaganda or some shit like that. 0.66

00:46:14.220 I have no idea.

00:46:15.140 And I was interrogated a few times, and it wasn't like in the movies.

00:46:18.520 It was a very civil conversation.

00:46:20.220 I had a translator.

00:46:22.040 And at the end of the day, they cut me loose because I was more trouble than I was worth because I'm not a Russian agent. 0.60

00:46:28.040 You know, I didn't have any kind of mission to, you know, any kind of, you know, any kind of, like, secret mission or shit like that. 0.91

00:46:38.900 I'm just a middle-aged fart who happened to live here and started reporting on it.

00:46:42.080 And what happened was that the SVU cut me loose because there was a lot of online stuff.

00:46:51.900 But what was actually much more important was that there were a lot of diplomatic efforts because I'm a resident of three different countries or have been a resident of three different countries.

00:47:04.420 So it started becoming a political issue over somebody who's just really inconsequential because I'm nobody, you know.

00:47:12.080 I'm just here.

00:47:13.000 I'm watching it, and I'm talking about it, but I'm nobody, and I don't really have any kind of real power or influence over any of the events.

00:47:20.120 And so they realized I was just much more trouble than I was worth.

00:47:23.320 But until my case is adjudicated, I have to remain in Kharkov.

00:47:29.800 I'm not under house arrest but sort of like city arrest, if you will.

00:47:33.820 And if I try to leave the country, what will happen is, of course, they'll run my name through the system, and my name will pop up, and they'll arrest me on the spot.

00:47:41.180 They told me this, that I'll be arrested and held, you know, in prison.

00:47:46.280 And so I'm stuck here, you know.

00:47:48.560 And as a practical matter, leaving Kharkov for another region of Ukraine is just, how will that change or improve my position?

00:47:56.500 Especially considering that most of the nation has intermittent electricity and internet because the Russians have been hitting the electrical substations because they're trying to interrupt the supply of weapons because the train system in Ukraine is electrical.

00:48:13.460 And so they're not trying to harm the civilians.

00:48:16.200 They're trying to interrupt the trains, the train system.

00:48:19.500 And so they've been hitting them.

00:48:20.600 But here in Kharkov, they don't need to hit them because if you look at the map, Kharkov is out of the way, if you will, of the transportation of weapons from Poland to the front lines.

00:48:30.860 And so that's why I, you know, I've lost electricity a few times, but it's been, you know, you can count them in a couple of hands.

00:48:41.360 It's not that big of a deal.

00:48:42.400 But, no, and so, you know, I'm sort of like stuck here.

00:48:48.140 And if I were to move to a different city in Ukraine, it wouldn't improve my situation, probably make it worse, especially it would be a city that I didn't know.

00:48:55.140 And I don't know Russian or Ukrainian.

00:48:57.560 And so that would play against me.

00:48:59.800 And so it's better to just sit tight and watch this war unfold.

00:49:05.580 Are you at all concerned about the future of your kids, given the current climate of the world right now?

00:49:10.120 In what sense, specifically?

00:49:14.160 Well, the further west you go, the more of a nutter sort of, you know, scenario it is.

00:49:19.400 Like, you've seen the way, you know, things are going.

00:49:21.560 So, you know what I'm talking about.

00:49:22.980 I mean, what about the influence that, you know, Western policies, politics, you know, culture, you know, could potentially have in them?

00:49:30.520 Like, do you have conversations with them?

00:49:32.380 Is that too early for them right now?

00:49:34.400 They're young.

00:49:35.360 They're small.

00:49:35.980 They're nine and seven.

00:49:37.420 No, I don't have any kind of conversation like that with them at all.

00:49:40.340 Of course not.

00:49:41.040 Because, you know, sexuality is not an issue for children way before puberty, you know.

00:49:47.180 And once they hit puberty, the conversation is, you know, don't have sex.

00:49:51.880 Be smart.

00:49:52.980 You know, understand that there are consequences to every action. 1.00

00:49:56.180 And, yeah, so far as the woke nonsense, no, they're far away from any of that shit. 0.99

00:50:00.620 And I certainly make sure of that, you know, because I don't want my kids to have drag story hours and, you know, bullshit like that. 0.99

00:50:09.600 No, no, no. 1.00

00:50:10.120 Fuck that. 1.00

00:50:10.800 That shit is just decadent degenerate, you know. 1.00

00:50:14.080 And their mom's on the same page? 1.00

00:50:16.040 Oh, yeah.

00:50:16.820 Oh, most definitely.

00:50:20.060 I'm going to grab a couple of these super chats here.

00:50:23.420 Sure.

00:50:23.600 You know, before I lose them.

00:50:24.880 Jerry, so Gonzalo, your video warning about avoiding liberals at work and the ones in personal life was massively invaluable.

00:50:33.580 I didn't see that video.

00:50:34.420 Can you kind of summarize that?

00:50:35.320 Oh, sure. 1.00

00:50:36.120 I said that, you know, if you come across any liberal, just stay the fuck away and keep your fucking mouth shut because they're going to try to fuck you over, you know, if they find out. 1.00

00:50:46.380 Because, you see, like, I'm a hardcore conservative. 1.00

00:50:50.000 I'm a hard right.

00:50:51.040 Okay.

00:50:51.740 If I come across somebody, like, say, a doctor who's liberal, you know, I'm perfectly fine.

00:50:57.060 Is he a capable doctor?

00:50:58.540 Yes.

00:50:59.020 Oh, sure.

00:50:59.760 I'll do the rectal exam and see if my prostate is okay with the liberal doctor if he's good.

00:51:07.700 Okay.

00:51:08.300 But the flip side does not apply.

00:51:10.760 You know, people who are liberal, if they find out that you're conservative, they have it out for you.

00:51:15.600 They think that you're the enemy, that you're antichrist, that you're a fascist, this, that, the other.

00:51:19.620 So just keep away from them, you know.

00:51:22.780 Yeah.

00:51:23.280 I mean, it's simple as that.

00:51:24.840 You know, you have to keep away from these people because they're dangerous, because they're hysterical.

00:51:30.260 And they're off their rocker.

00:51:31.840 And I don't know if they're ever going to return to sanity.

00:51:34.280 I don't think so.

00:51:35.420 I think that this is just another indication of the collapse of the American empire.

00:51:40.060 And, you know, in the waning days of every empire, you have all kinds of degeneracy, homosexuality, pedophilia, and hysteria. 0.99

00:51:49.940 And you want to just keep your head down and your spirits up and your go bag ready if you have to split as soon as possible.

00:51:57.000 A friend Eric here wants to know if you're going to be, or any chance you're going to be making videos again about life career skills, you know, like the CRP sort of stuff.

00:52:07.380 Well, perhaps after this conflict is over.

00:52:10.040 But first of all, I don't have access to my gear with which I was doing my videos before.

00:52:14.380 And on the other hand, you know, I just, on a headspace level, I'm just not into that right now, you know, because this is just consuming all of my attention for obvious reasons.

00:52:26.720 There's another one here I'm just trying to find.

00:52:31.400 Sure. 0.99

00:52:31.680 It's just a pig there. 1.00

00:52:33.500 It's nothing. 0.98

00:52:36.640 Two legends in the same show.

00:52:38.100 Always good to hear from Rich Cooper and Gonzalo.

00:52:39.920 Yeah, you know, I get criticized for people that I have on my show, but it's like, just shut up and watch the show.

00:52:44.960 You know, just like, you're probably going to learn something.

00:52:46.880 Even if you disagree, just watch.

00:52:48.980 Trust me.

00:52:49.320 Well, that's the thing that I find so disconcerting, that so many people on the left, they're willing to lose all the time.

00:52:57.400 Yeah, they want echo chambers.

00:52:58.660 And whatever you say that goes against their beliefs, they automatically dismiss it.

00:53:03.900 They don't sit and listen. 1.00

00:53:05.880 I mean, I will listen to some crazy-ass communist. 1.00

00:53:08.820 No problem, because, you know, he might say just 90% bullshit and things that I know for a fact are incorrect. 0.99

00:53:15.260 But he might say some 10% that might be very valuable. 0.94

00:53:18.120 Or add some further understanding to the overall situation.

00:53:23.240 So it's always good to listen to other people, especially people that you disagree with.

00:53:26.520 And quite frankly, it's boring to be talking to people who agree with you on everything.

00:53:31.380 It's much more interesting to be talking to people that you do disagree with.

00:53:34.660 And you can have a civil disagreement.

00:53:36.680 I mean, you know, you and I can talk about, I don't know, let me just make up an example.

00:53:40.380 You can say that the Buffalo Bills are the best.

00:53:42.400 Well, we disagreed on Bitcoin last time we talked, right?

00:53:44.220 Right.

00:53:44.640 Okay, yeah.

00:53:45.160 So we can have a fruitful conversation based on a disagreement, but I'm not going to think less of you because of it.

00:53:51.940 And I hope that you won't think less of me because of the disagreement.

00:53:55.380 You know, we can exchange views.

00:53:58.340 And, see, there are two possibilities.

00:54:00.360 You see, if I hear something that I don't agree with, possibility number one is that you're wrong and I'm right.

00:54:09.980 Which is good for me.

00:54:13.040 But the other possibility is you're right and I'm wrong.

00:54:16.300 And so if I listen to you and say, oh, you know, Rich is saying something that I discounted, I didn't agree with, but Rich is giving really good reasons for this.

00:54:25.340 Hey, he's right.

00:54:26.900 I'm wrong.

00:54:27.860 I'm going to change my mind about this particular issue because Rich's position is the reasonable position, is the more accurate position.

00:54:36.020 Because ultimately what we want to do is understand the world better.

00:54:40.300 And so either way I win in the sense that if I disagree with you and I don't agree with your rationale and I have reasons, solid reasons to disagree, then it just shows me that my position is correct.

00:54:53.300 And if you have a position that is much more reasonable than my own, then I will change my position and, again, it will improve my appreciation of reality.

00:55:05.080 So either way I win. 0.99

00:55:06.680 But this notion of like, oh, I'm not going to listen to anybody from the opposing side, this is just stupid. 1.00

00:55:12.060 It's self-destructive. 0.97

00:55:13.880 Have you, by the way, changed your position on Bitcoin since we spoke last a few years ago?

00:55:18.960 Because it seemed like you were vehemently opposed to it at that time.

00:55:21.280 Are you still in the same boat? 0.99

00:55:22.080 Yeah, I think it's pretty much bullshit, you know? 1.00

00:55:25.040 Okay. 0.98

00:55:25.460 I mean, it's clever and cool, but the collapse of the NFT market kind of like points the way to what I think is going to happen to all crypto.

00:55:33.020 And people in 10 years from now are looking at it.

00:55:34.860 Yeah, the NFT is just overpriced JPEGs. 0.99

00:55:36.240 Like there's a lot of grifters out there selling these fucking pictures for ridiculous amounts of money. 0.94

00:55:41.020 It's just, I'm not about that either for sure. 0.99

00:55:44.320 Julian here said, Poland should call NATO Article 5 for Ukraine killing two farmers.

00:55:49.820 What is that, NATO Article 5?

00:55:50.940 Do you know what he's talking about?

00:55:51.680 Yeah, sure.

00:55:52.240 Article 5 is the mutual defense pact of NATO.

00:55:56.380 See, if one is attacked because of Article 5, all the other nations of NATO have to join in the defense of that nation that has been attacked.

00:56:04.140 So Ukraine killed two farmers?

00:56:05.880 Yeah, it was probably an accident that one of their missile defense system missiles went off course and landed in Poland and killed a couple of farmers, which is a tragedy, of course.

00:56:21.600 But it was all in the overall scheme of the conflict that was trivial.

00:56:25.780 Yeah, and of course, you know, Germany and France should do likewise against the U.S. for Nord Stream pipe attacks.

00:56:31.500 Yes, but you're never going to see that happen.

00:56:33.280 Yeah, France doesn't really have a leg to stand on, legally speaking, about Nord Stream.

00:56:37.740 But Germany, yeah, the Germany, the United States attacked the German economy, destroyed it, you know, or severely crippled it in the best case.

00:56:48.080 Yeah.

00:56:48.200 Peter wants me to ask you about Andrew Tate.

00:56:50.940 What do you think about that situation?

00:56:52.560 I think that Andrew Tate, most of what he said, I agree with fully.

00:56:57.340 I mean, it's stuff that, you know, bread and butter for you and guys like you and me, right?

00:57:01.400 Okay, I thought that, I saw some video of his, some short little clip video that said that, he said that, you know, the way they come at you is that first they cancel you, then they arrest you, and then they outright do away with you, okay?

00:57:19.640 And he was absolutely right.

00:57:21.760 And so once they canceled him across social media, I respectfully, I don't have any beef with the guy at all, but I think that he should have prepared better and not been in a place like Romania. 1.00

00:57:33.220 I think that, frankly, he should have gone to the Far East, to one of the, you know, Asian countries, where he would have been able to continue and really be secure that the Americans aren't going to reach out and grab him, as they did.

00:57:50.340 Because as I understand the case, at this point, he's being charged with human trafficking, but there are no victims.

00:57:58.240 They haven't charged him with anything yet, apparently.

00:58:00.380 Okay.

00:58:00.900 Okay, but the suspicion that he was trafficking girls for sex or God knows what, well, there are no credible witnesses, and a lot of the women who are associated with him say, no, no, no, no, no, we could leave whenever we want to, we have our passports in hand, I mean, no problem.

00:58:17.300 We were there of our own volition, and, you know, these women have the incentive now to say, oh, yes, Andrew Tate was an evil guy, so the fact that they're saying, no, no, no, he didn't do anything, nor did his brother do anything, 0.96

00:58:29.320 it leads me to conclude that it's all just bullshit, the fact that they haven't charged him with anything is more proof that it's bullshit, I personally don't think that he's going to be released anytime soon. 0.97

00:58:40.520 I mean, you know, like Julian Assange, Julian Assange committed no crime in the United States, he is not an American citizen, and yet he's going to be extradited to the United States and probably be thrown into some concrete shithole for the rest of his life. 0.98

00:58:57.680 Like, you know, you know, the Americans do this, once you're in their sights, that's what the Americans do, and they obviously have a hard-on for Andrew Tate.

00:59:08.320 Why? I mean, what did he do? He didn't even release, like, secrets like Julian Assange did.

00:59:14.260 He just said a lot of things that most people would find perfectly reasonable, and the sliver that is controversial, it's just on social issues, he's just a fucking guy talking, okay? 0.84

00:59:25.000 I mean, he's not, like, creating, like, a political movement or advocating violence or anything of the sort, right? 0.95

00:59:31.020 He's just, frankly, he's a loudmouth like you and me, okay?

00:59:37.060 What crime did he possibly commit? No, it's just, they wanted to fuck him over. 1.00

00:59:42.300 And I think that the only reason... 0.99

00:59:44.000 Yeah, it's almost like there's...

00:59:45.000 It's almost like there's, like, a level of, like, loudmouth that you can aspire to,

00:59:51.560 and then once you go beyond that line in the sand, then you're flying too close to the sun.

00:59:56.080 And I think that's what he did.

00:59:57.320 You know, he just...

00:59:58.020 And he also...

01:00:00.380 What was the term that was used a lot?

01:00:03.400 Self-snitching.

01:00:05.540 He said a lot of things, I think, in jest, personally, because I think he's got a great sense of humor.

01:00:10.600 Yeah, he seems like a funny guy.

01:00:13.240 I mean, he seems like...

01:00:14.180 But I think people took it way out of context, right?

01:00:16.920 Yeah, of course.

01:00:18.620 Yeah.

01:00:18.920 Anyway.

01:00:19.200 And so, look, I mean, there are some people who are approved, like Jordan Peterson.

01:00:24.400 Jordan Peterson, they allow him to exist because he toes the line on certain issues.

01:00:31.480 And, I mean, he talks about male disenfranchisement and the abuse that men are suffering.

01:00:39.340 But at the same time, he toes the line on, for instance, on Israel.

01:00:42.960 He was towing the line on the VACs.

01:00:44.880 He was towing the line...

01:00:45.960 He is towing the line on the Ukraine conflict.

01:00:49.200 And so, that's why he's allowed to exist.

01:00:52.260 But Andrew Tate was true to what he thought.

01:00:57.600 And he doesn't tell anybody he's lying. 0.99

01:00:59.300 And so, he got fucked over. 0.99

01:01:00.760 Okay? 1.00

01:01:01.100 And I agree with you.

01:01:02.980 There's a range where...

01:01:04.440 When you're very low, they can cancel you out very easily.

01:01:07.940 When you're in that middle range that I would argue that both you and I are at,

01:01:11.200 they basically let us say whatever you want to.

01:01:14.420 But if you get too high, too big, that's when they really go for you.

01:01:18.980 And that's what happened to Andrew Tate.

01:01:20.320 And, in fact, you know, I think part of the reason they went after Andrew Tate was to make it... 0.98

01:01:25.260 make him an example, a lesson for people like you and I to shut the fuck up or just tone it down. 0.97

01:01:32.960 I think that that was a big part of the motivation.

01:01:36.180 Do you think that Jordan Peterson offers remedies to chaos in the world right now?

01:01:41.760 No.

01:01:42.860 He's very good at giving a diagnosis of what is happening.

01:01:47.400 But he doesn't look at the root cause.

01:01:50.040 Because I think that he fundamentally knows the root causes, but he doesn't dare speak them.

01:01:54.400 Because, of course, it would offend people in power.

01:01:56.960 It would identify people in power.

01:01:58.560 That's the problem.

01:02:00.860 You know?

01:02:01.000 Yeah.

01:02:01.200 He did a...

01:02:02.280 You know, he's all tied up with the Daily Wire crowd right now.

01:02:05.380 And I, you know, I got noticed...

01:02:07.320 By the way, there's something else, too, that I have to mention about Jordan Peterson.

01:02:10.160 He seems emotionally unstable.

01:02:13.020 I mean, he seems very emotionally unstable. 0.99

01:02:15.540 He doesn't seem like a guy who can really handle shit, okay? 0.99

01:02:21.040 I remember a year or two ago, he was doing some interview. 1.00

01:02:24.880 He started, like, crying and shit. 0.99

01:02:26.780 Like, what the fuck does it matter with you? 1.00

01:02:27.360 He does it quite often. 0.99

01:02:28.820 Yeah.

01:02:29.280 You know, I mean, you know, like, I'll cry if, like, a child or a dog dies, you know?

01:02:35.940 Yeah, sure. 0.99

01:02:36.720 But, like, over my fucking feelings? 1.00

01:02:39.940 Fuck off. 1.00

01:02:40.940 I'm sorry. 1.00

01:02:41.780 It was just pussy to me. 0.99

01:02:44.340 Yeah. 1.00

01:02:44.680 One of the things that, like, grinds my gears with Jordan Peterson is, you know, he gets a lot of worship.

01:02:48.780 And I think, you know, for the most part, he offers something positive.

01:02:53.160 You know? 1.00

01:02:53.420 Like, clean your room, stand up straight, wash your dick. 1.00

01:02:55.460 Like, you know, basic stuff, right? 1.00

01:02:57.060 Yeah.

01:02:57.180 Clean your house.

01:02:57.740 You know, have your own house in order.

01:02:58.680 But then he goes down these paths like he did with the whole Daily Wire thing.

01:03:02.680 And then he started doing these private broadcasts about marriage.

01:03:06.720 So, I thought to myself, okay, well, you know, I have a chapter in my book about why smart men should no longer marry in the West.

01:03:12.320 And I wanted to see what his take on it was.

01:03:14.260 It was behind the paywall.

01:03:15.460 I did a cast on my Unplugged Alpha podcast channel.

01:03:19.040 So, if you guys want to watch, you can go find that. 1.00

01:03:20.960 But, basically, the long and short of it was, it was, don't be a pussy, man up. 1.00

01:03:25.120 You know, you have a biblical obligation to get married and have children. 1.00

01:03:29.560 Don't worry about, you know, the risks.

01:03:31.800 Just be a man and negotiate your way through your marriage sort of thing. 1.00

01:03:35.540 And it's like, that is just shit advice. 1.00

01:03:37.340 And I said so. 0.99

01:03:38.220 And I broke it down, you know, in detail, you know, why.

01:03:40.800 So, I think he marches some, too many guys in the slaughterhouse.

01:03:43.740 And I think the other thing that bugs me about him, too, is, you know, he's always about, you know, get your house in order.

01:03:48.060 And, you know, here you have his daughter.

01:03:49.560 It's good advice.

01:03:50.440 It's good advice.

01:03:51.640 You know, it's good advice.

01:03:52.600 But, I mean, like, you know, here you have him suffering with some sort of addiction.

01:03:56.200 And, again, this was years ago.

01:03:57.380 I can't remember what it was.

01:03:58.880 But he had to go to Russia.

01:04:00.180 And his daughter's husband at the time brought him there.

01:04:03.060 And they all traveled together, apparently, with a kid.

01:04:05.140 And then she took off for several days to go visit Andrew Tate in Romania while she's still married.

01:04:10.540 Left the kid behind while her father's in entry. 1.00

01:04:13.320 Fucking slut. 1.00

01:04:14.000 Fucking slut. 1.00

01:04:14.980 To talk business. 1.00

01:04:17.100 Yeah, sure.

01:04:17.880 You guys read between the lines.

01:04:19.680 Yeah, yeah.

01:04:20.700 I really want to talk business with, like, lots of online hotties, you know. 0.97

01:04:25.360 I'll give them my business card and a few other things, I suppose. 1.00

01:04:29.040 No, the woman is a slut and manipulated her father. 1.00

01:04:32.480 I mean, the guy simps for his own daughter. 1.00

01:04:34.500 That's creepy, you know.

01:04:36.180 But, look, I mean, how can I put it?

01:04:40.000 I respect him because he's extremely successful with his book and the way he's earned a great deal of money off of his videos.

01:04:48.180 I mean, good on him.

01:04:48.860 I don't have a problem with that, right?

01:04:51.000 I respect him on his position of being hurlantly compelled speech.

01:04:57.900 You know, I fully agree with that.

01:04:59.820 I shouldn't be forced to call people as I see fit, you know.

01:05:05.080 But the other stuff, you know.

01:05:08.080 He lost his marbles, I think, when he got that high.

01:05:13.400 He didn't know how to handle it, you know.

01:05:16.120 And so, I mean, I'm sort of like, you know, of two minds.

01:05:20.300 I see a lot of benefits to the guy.

01:05:21.940 But at the same time, yeah, like you said, telling guys to march into the slaughterhouse.

01:05:29.080 I mean, one of my most popular videos was the video I did where I said never date a single mother because there's no upside to you. 0.99

01:05:36.140 You know, you're going to be expending resources on some other man's kid.

01:05:39.680 And the woman is just really latching on to you because you're a life raft to her, right? 1.00

01:05:45.340 Financially, at least, and perhaps emotionally.

01:05:48.480 And so, don't do it, right?

01:05:50.200 And I don't see what…

01:05:52.100 Is that going to focus in there?

01:05:53.180 There you go.

01:05:53.460 Yeah.

01:05:53.820 The single mothers, yeah. 0.88

01:05:55.320 Yeah, exactly.

01:05:56.840 And so…

01:05:57.140 I have a chapter on the topic, yeah.

01:05:58.640 You and I are on the same page on that.

01:06:00.480 Yeah, exactly. 0.98

01:06:01.260 I mean, it's fucking obvious. 0.95

01:06:02.820 It's not that you and I came to some great insight. 0.99

01:06:06.240 It's just fucking common logic. 0.98

01:06:08.520 I mean, just common sense. 0.98

01:06:10.220 Not for all men, though.

01:06:11.700 I mean, like even for me at one point, I made that same mistake too, right?

01:06:16.060 But it's making those mistakes that helps you realize and distinguish the difference.

01:06:20.140 Like you need contrast.

01:06:21.240 You can't relate to darkness without light, obviously, right?

01:06:24.980 Yeah, yeah.

01:06:25.660 And so, anyway, I lost my train of thought.

01:06:28.460 But anyway, about the single mother thing. 1.00

01:06:30.400 You know, he's telling people to march into that slaughterhouse, which is stupid, you know? 1.00

01:06:37.280 And so… 1.00

01:06:37.940 And look, the way things are going, the women in the West are rapidly deteriorating. 1.00

01:06:44.540 They're becoming just, you know, unconscionable.

01:06:47.420 I mean, no, that's the wrong word.

01:06:49.860 They're just insufferable.

01:06:51.620 That's the word I was looking for.

01:06:53.420 Women in the West aren't insufferable. 1.00

01:06:55.320 And they are just…

01:06:58.540 We're seeing the end effects of the complete deregulation of the sexual marketplace, where it becomes a free-for-all.

01:07:06.420 And so, who benefits?

01:07:07.600 The top-tier guys.

01:07:08.900 They're the guys who get all the girls. 0.90

01:07:10.660 And all the girls are uninterested in the guys who are actually at that level.

01:07:15.820 You have these quirkers, right? 0.95

01:07:17.960 They're real quirkers. 1.00

01:07:19.060 We're talking about chicks that are, like, you know, 175 pounds, and they're only, like, 5'2". 1.00

01:07:25.840 And they expect a guy…

01:07:26.700 That's the average weight of a North American woman today, by the way. 1.00

01:07:29.140 It's about 175 pounds, 5'2", 5'3".

01:07:31.520 Yeah.

01:07:32.100 You know?

01:07:33.400 You know, they're looking for a 6'2", Chad, who makes, you know, 250 a year. 1.00

01:07:42.560 And he's got a 6-inch dick. 1.00

01:07:44.540 What's that? 1.00

01:07:44.900 The three-sixes?

01:07:45.960 Six foot?

01:07:46.680 Six-sixes.

01:07:47.300 Six-tacks?

01:07:47.780 Yeah. 0.99

01:07:48.200 Whatever the fuck, you know? 0.99

01:07:49.720 They have these unrealistic expectations. 0.99

01:07:52.480 And top-tier guys, what do they look at them? 0.97

01:07:54.540 They look at them as cum dumpsters, to be perfectly vulgar about it, you know? 0.84

01:07:58.580 I know that your audience is mostly guys, so I don't… 0.97

01:08:02.540 I figure it's better to say it straight. 0.99

01:08:05.300 They're just cum dumpsters. 1.00

01:08:06.500 Come on, you know? 1.00

01:08:07.840 Like, I've told the story.

01:08:09.240 I was on the Fresh and Fitness podcast.

01:08:13.340 Fresh and Fit.

01:08:14.000 Myron Show.

01:08:14.760 Yeah.

01:08:15.060 Yeah.

01:08:15.400 Myron Show, yeah.

01:08:16.520 It was great. 0.99

01:08:17.380 We wound up talking for four and a half fucking hours, man. 0.99

01:08:20.600 It just blew by. 0.98

01:08:21.480 It was just a lot of fun talking to those guys, you know?

01:08:23.700 But anyway, I told them a story that back in the year 2000, I was driving around all

01:08:30.180 of North America with my dog on my Land Rover.

01:08:32.620 And I stayed at this hostel in Fairbanks.

01:08:37.920 And there was nobody else there because it was…

01:08:39.960 Water it down a bit on my channel because I know that they amplify a little bit of this

01:08:43.740 for like red meat. 0.77

01:08:44.540 I just want to make sure I don't run into problems with YouTube.

01:08:46.580 But just, yeah, carry on with the story, but just water it down a bit.

01:08:49.160 Okay.

01:08:49.800 And anyway, there was this, you know, 300-pounder there, you know?

01:08:54.280 And yeah, I banged her. 1.00

01:08:55.620 I mean, specifically because I was thinking to myself, you know, when is another chance

01:09:00.280 in my life that I'm going to be so crazy and so, you know, detached that I'll have

01:09:04.860 a chance to like, you know, pork some buffalo, right?

01:09:10.500 And it was just funny as hell, but it was the one time.

01:09:14.760 It was just for kicks, right?

01:09:17.600 You know, like, you know, look, in my 30s, I was a real degenerate guy. 0.99

01:09:23.220 You know, I fucked everything that moved, right? 0.98

01:09:25.900 And most of the time, it was just to check off the list, you know? 1.00

01:09:30.000 Asians, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, you know, European chicks, Mexican chicks, everything,

01:09:36.400 whatever, you know? 0.58

01:09:37.360 But yeah, and one of them was a pork buffalo.

01:09:39.380 I also did a woman who was like 22 years older than me, you know?

01:09:43.000 It's just, you know, that's Asian girl. 0.99

01:09:44.580 Dear God.

01:09:45.420 But the point…

01:09:46.300 You must have had a long list to go through to accomplish all of that.

01:09:49.380 Oh, that's funny.

01:09:50.220 I got one here in Spanish that needs you to translate.

01:09:52.640 Sure.

01:09:53.660 Gonzalo Lira, hace una colaboración con tu profe de RI, Relaciones Internacionales.

01:10:00.900 Habla de geopolítica y de Ucrania.

01:10:03.700 Saludos a los dos.

01:10:06.140 My professor of foreign relations, I don't know who he is referring to.

01:10:11.160 I'll translate the message.

01:10:12.760 Gonzalo, do a collab with your international relations professor

01:10:17.100 and talk about geopolitics and Ukraine.

01:10:20.520 Greetings to both of you.

01:10:24.500 I don't know who he's referring to specifically as because, you know,

01:10:28.920 I actually don't have a foreign relations professor. 1.00

01:10:32.460 It's just shit that you pick up, you know? 0.99

01:10:34.860 So, yeah. 0.99

01:10:36.500 But, anyway, look, the point is that you have to live life and have a good time,

01:10:41.300 but you also have to stand…

01:10:43.220 What women do not understand is that, you know, 1.00

01:10:46.120 they think that they can get the top-tier guy.

01:10:48.940 You know, in Fight Club, there's this great line where the Brad Pitt character,

01:10:56.200 Tyler Durden, says,

01:10:57.300 we've all been brought up to believe that we'd be rock stars and millionaires,

01:11:02.800 but we won't.

01:11:04.820 And that's the truth because, you know,

01:11:07.600 we have been sold the idea that we can be anything.

01:11:12.440 But men have to be realistic, see?

01:11:14.920 I mean, look at me.

01:11:15.760 Am I ever going to be a rock star?

01:11:17.460 Am I going to be, you know, some guy singing on stage

01:11:20.700 and girls are going to throw panties my way? 1.00

01:11:23.560 No, it's not going to happen.

01:11:24.460 You've got to be realistic about who you are.

01:11:27.480 But women are encouraged to be completely unrealistic, 0.97

01:11:30.540 so unrealistic that they become completely detached from reality.

01:11:34.720 And because of social media, that in order to sell them products,

01:11:38.680 reinforces this unrealistic expectation.

01:11:47.580 I don't know if you're still there, but I lost your audio and you're frozen.

01:11:50.520 Here, I'm going to pull him out and add him back in and see if we got him back.

01:12:05.680 No, he's also frozen in the green room in the back area.

01:12:11.260 Let's try it again.

01:12:12.380 No.

01:12:14.340 All right.

01:12:15.660 Well, he said at the start of the show, something like this may happen.

01:12:18.600 Oh, here we go.

01:12:19.340 He's back, I think.

01:12:21.040 Let's try that.

01:12:21.820 You're back now.

01:12:22.940 Yeah.

01:12:23.220 Where did I clip out?

01:12:25.960 You cut off for about 10, 12 seconds.

01:12:28.380 So just back up about 10, 12 seconds and continue.

01:12:30.660 Yeah.

01:12:31.020 What I was saying was that in Fight Club, the movie,

01:12:33.680 the Tyler Durden character says that we've all been brought up

01:12:37.520 to believe that we'd be rock stars and millionaires, but we won't.

01:12:41.700 Now, guys recognize this.

01:12:44.220 Guys recognize that they cannot achieve everything that they want in life

01:12:47.600 and that they have to reduce their expectations

01:12:50.180 and understand what is realistic.

01:12:52.420 Unfortunately, women, especially in the last few years, most especially, 1.00

01:12:56.820 they have been taught to believe that reality doesn't really affect them.

01:13:04.500 And so they think that they can achieve some fantastic chat.

01:13:09.340 And so they've dismissed the guy that they can actually get.

01:13:13.460 Okay.

01:13:14.060 And that's the hard reality of it.

01:13:16.280 And there's no way to dissuade them.

01:13:18.820 They're basically in a cult.

01:13:20.400 And what will happen, of course, and what has happened to so many is that they get older

01:13:24.620 and they start realizing the limitations of their possibilities and they become extremely bitter.

01:13:30.180 And they think that they have all the time in the world to have babies.

01:13:34.760 They have all the opportunities of the world.

01:13:37.540 They think that they're going to find some millionaire rock star Chad to be their mate 0.98

01:13:41.560 and who will be like a little puppy looking at them lovingly all the time.

01:13:47.260 You know, they have these unrealistic expectations.

01:13:49.240 And what has happened is that these women have become so spoiled and so detached from reality. 1.00

01:13:54.920 There is no way to bring them back.

01:13:57.820 And so therefore, you know, I tell the male audience, and I was starting to reach this conclusion

01:14:02.880 when I was winding down my Coach Redfield channel.

01:14:06.020 You know, women in the West, forget about them. 1.00

01:14:08.600 You will never find a relatively normal, psychologically healthy, realistic woman in the West. 1.00

01:14:15.680 You won't.

01:14:16.160 And the funny thing is that in Eastern Europe or in Asia, you will find plenty of those women.

01:14:23.480 In Mexico, in South America, you will find plenty of those women who are realistic about the kind of guy that they can get. 1.00

01:14:31.940 And they will make the effort to make the guy happy.

01:14:34.780 Because that's the other thing. 1.00

01:14:36.180 The American women are so goddamn selfish. 1.00

01:14:38.940 It's like, what can you do for me? 1.00

01:14:42.480 Bitch, what can you do for me? 1.00

01:14:45.080 That's the question. 1.00

01:14:45.800 I'm actually going to push back on you a little bit on that one, Gonzalo, because you're right.

01:14:51.560 It's very, very hard here.

01:14:53.180 But it's not impossible.

01:14:54.580 I mean, I'm in an LTR.

01:14:55.740 My gal's great. 0.84

01:14:56.780 You know, she ticks off all those boxes that you mentioned that would be found more so in the East or in Asia, you know, for example.

01:15:02.600 But you're absolutely right.

01:15:03.780 I mean, like, toxic feminism has polluted the minds of most Western women. 1.00

01:15:08.820 And they're entitled, they're bratty, they're, you know, they have an overinflated sense of self-worth.

01:15:16.880 You're going to have to, like, I've said this for years.

01:15:19.540 Like, I said this, you know, before I even came across anything red pill, like, whatever, it was 2015, 2016.

01:15:24.440 I used to say, you know, you're going to have to dig through a lot of dirt to find gold.

01:15:28.020 I just think the amount of dirt that you're going to have to dig through in the West is considerably more than what you'll have to dig through in maybe some Eastern countries.

01:15:34.600 Let's just put it that way.

01:15:36.080 Probably.

01:15:36.700 I mean, you're probably right.

01:15:38.160 You know, I see it in the way women dress. 1.00

01:15:43.220 You look here in Ukraine, for instance, you know, women dress nicely, femininely.

01:15:50.400 They look after their appearance.

01:15:52.160 They're in shape.

01:15:52.920 They're not covered in tattoos.

01:15:54.200 They don't have purple hair.

01:15:55.280 Yeah, they're attractive.

01:15:56.060 Absolutely.

01:15:56.900 Yeah.

01:15:57.380 No, and even the ones that you would say objectively are mid-tier, you know, five, six, maybe seven, right?

01:16:04.260 They make the effort, and because they make the effort, they bump up two, three points just because of the effort. 0.93

01:16:10.760 Yeah, they're not, like, naturally beautiful or whatnot, but they make the effort, and that shows a very different self-conception because the women in the West, they're all in, like, you know, either whored up for a night on the town or they're, like, disheveled and pathetic looking. 0.96

01:16:31.400 And that points to the fact that they don't have self-respect.

01:16:37.180 Prada's got a question here for you about Russia.

01:16:40.320 Will you evacuate before Russia captures?

01:16:42.280 Go ahead.

01:16:43.580 Yeah.

01:16:43.920 Will Gonzalo evacuate before Russia captures the eastern half of Ukraine, as he predicts?

01:16:48.920 No.

01:16:49.560 I want to see the invasion, man.

01:16:51.120 I want to see it up close and personal.

01:16:52.560 I want to see what happens.

01:16:55.620 Do you have a death wish?

01:16:57.580 No.

01:16:58.340 I love life.

01:16:59.500 I'm not afraid of death, you know?

01:17:01.800 What about the notion of, you know, like, smoking?

01:17:05.060 Because, I mean, you never used to smoke before in your shows.

01:17:06.880 Is it just something that you've picked up recently, or did you just smoke off air and then, you know, bring it on air now just because it's zero flux?

01:17:12.500 No, no, no.

01:17:13.140 I wasn't smoking before this conflict.

01:17:14.900 It's just the stress of it, see?

01:17:16.900 I mean, you've got, like, air raid sirens going off, like, you know, three, four, five times a day, right?

01:17:22.260 And it's annoying because usually the air raid sirens go off after the attack, you know?

01:17:29.260 Like I said, you know, I mentioned that the building next to mine had been hit by a Russian missile.

01:17:34.920 And they hit it right on the money.

01:17:36.020 They were clearly trying to hit somebody specifically because it was an office building.

01:17:39.720 It wasn't like any kind of infrastructure or any kind of machinery, right?

01:17:44.820 And so, yeah, of course, I'm scared, you know, but I'm not allowing my fear to dictate my actions.

01:17:52.080 I mean, see, that's what women do. 1.00

01:17:53.840 That's what children do.

01:17:54.980 That's what, frankly, animals do, like dogs or cattle or whatever, that at the sign of fear, they are unable to control their emotion and they act irrationally.

01:18:07.860 I'm not in any of those categories.

01:18:10.800 And, frankly, I don't consider myself in the category of most men because most men allow their emotions to dictate their actions as opposed to their reason, their logic, their required knowledge and experience.

01:18:22.400 And so, yeah, of course, I'm scared, but I don't allow that to control my actions.

01:18:27.620 I'm not under the impression that they're looking to slaughter civilians, right?

01:18:31.260 I think that, you know, for the most part, especially on the east side of Ukraine, it's mostly ethnic Russians.

01:18:36.120 It's their brother people.

01:18:38.020 It's their brother people.

01:18:39.280 They have no interest in hurting the civilians.

01:18:42.020 On the contrary, okay?

01:18:43.720 And so, I mean, look what they're doing in Mariupol. 0.98

01:18:45.980 They're rebuilding the whole fucking city that was blown to smithereens and they're rebuilding it. 0.99

01:18:50.060 They've got, like, all these new apartment complexes, the new opera, the new hospital, the new kindergartens and all this shit. 0.99

01:18:57.200 They have the army engineers in already fixing things? 0.94

01:18:59.960 Yeah.

01:19:00.500 Yeah. 1.00

01:19:01.440 On Telegram, you can go on lots of Telegram channels and they show this shit. 0.99

01:19:05.720 Of course, they show it because it's a propagandistic effort on the part of the Russians, certainly. 0.99

01:19:10.940 But they're not showing something that isn't real, okay? 0.98

01:19:14.060 Or if that's CGI, it's fucking good. 0.94

01:19:16.360 It's better than anything that Marvel is putting out. 0.97

01:19:18.860 You know, I mean, because I'm being facetious, of course.

01:19:22.160 It's real, and they have every intention of rebuilding what has been destroyed because of this conflict.

01:19:29.380 Julian's got one here for you.

01:19:30.800 He says, you're wrong, Gonzalo.

01:19:32.420 France's national electric company has invested $1 billion into Nord Stream 2 regarding my NATO comment.

01:19:39.740 I think you made an earlier comment, okay?

01:19:41.520 I actually did not know that.

01:19:43.620 Okay, that's something that you learn every day.

01:19:46.380 I did not know that the...

01:19:48.160 Thanks very much.

01:19:48.840 Who was that, by the way?

01:19:50.540 Julian.

01:19:51.020 Julian, thank you very much.

01:19:53.540 I've got so many live comments here.

01:19:55.760 I was wrong about that.

01:19:57.720 Okay, I'll look into it more specifically because I thought it was just a joint Gazprom-German syndicate that had invested in it.

01:20:05.800 I didn't know that the French electrical company had invested in it, too.

01:20:09.280 So, I'll look into it, and thank you very much for the correction.

01:20:12.340 What do you think about AI and chat GPT?

01:20:19.040 It seems like they've engineered wokeism into it.

01:20:23.580 It's like they've automated the process of feminizing the West, right? 0.97

01:20:27.220 Yeah, that's not really the big problem of AI.

01:20:30.460 The big problem of AI...

01:20:32.460 I did a long Twitter thread about it a few days ago.

01:20:37.980 The big problem with AI is...

01:20:41.460 You see, the North American industrial base was hollowed out because all the factories were shipped to low-wage countries, you know, in China, in Vietnam, in Central America.

01:20:58.100 You know, the clothing that used to be manufactured in the United States or in Canada was shipped out to Guatemala and places like that with low-wage workers, right? 0.94

01:21:09.080 It was wage arbitrage, basically.

01:21:11.760 And so, that ate away at the lower middle classes.

01:21:16.680 And those lower middle classes who no longer had a factory job in Canada or the United States,

01:21:21.800 they became working poor and became dependent on the state for state handouts in order to survive, right?

01:21:30.820 And so, the middle class shrank because of globalization from the bottom.

01:21:35.880 But AI is going to shrink the middle class from the top end because, you see, like everybody's talking about chat GTP or GPT or however it is.

01:21:47.600 Yeah, that's very interesting.

01:21:48.740 The woke stuff that's baked into it that's very amusing and that Dan, you know, do anything now, that was a very amusing workaround.

01:21:59.120 But that's not what's really important.

01:22:01.000 What's really important is that, see, you're a Yale Law School graduate, right?

01:22:07.080 And you graduate with your Yale Law degree, which is very prestigious,

01:22:10.840 and you can expect to be earning $200, $300, $400 an hour at a major law firm writing, you know, depositions, you know, writing, you know, different memorandums and what have you.

01:22:24.100 But with AI, a law firm doesn't need that high-skilled worker because the AI will write the legal brief, okay?

01:22:36.060 That's what the AI is proving.

01:22:37.660 That's what chat GPT is proving, right?

01:22:40.680 And so, what happens is that, see, the high-skilled worker, he's going to start losing his job because you're not talking about just lawyers,

01:22:49.620 but you're also talking about architects, industrial designers, you know,

01:22:54.720 those kinds of very high-skilled workers who are, who have taken the safe path of getting a degree and a graduate degree and the right credential to carry out specific tasks that now the AI can do

01:23:10.060 and do just as well, if not better, and certainly cheaper.

01:23:14.460 And so, instead of paying that Yale Law School grad $300 an hour to spend two hours writing some legal brief,

01:23:23.200 you can spend, you know, $20, you know, on some AI that will give you the same brief in, you know, instantly.

01:23:32.420 And this affects-

01:23:33.280 You see any issues with the engineered wokeism that's in AI, though?

01:23:36.780 Because if you ask an AI bot right now to write a poem that would celebrate Donald Trump, it would essentially refuse to do that.

01:23:47.240 But if you also ask it to write a poem that would celebrate Joe Biden, it would happily, you know, provide you something.

01:23:53.460 Yeah, I think that that gets people's gears grinding, but that's not really the important effect of AI.

01:24:01.480 It's what I mentioned before, it hurts the high-end middle-class worker, the corporate worker, the guy who's in a consulting firm, the guy who's a researcher.

01:24:12.100 It affects them, okay?

01:24:14.180 And it will make those people idle, and it will make them fall into the working poor stratum of the middle class.

01:24:22.060 So, basically, you have a middle class that is shrinking from both ends because the factory jobs are gone, and so they fall into the working poor.

01:24:31.500 And the high-end jobs are also going down because of AI, and those workers fall into the working poor.

01:24:37.820 And so, in the end, I wrote in this Twitter thread, you're going to have a situation of Eloys and Morlocks. 0.99

01:24:44.260 You're going to have the top tier that are going to be rich, however they earned it.

01:24:50.620 Maybe they inherited it.

01:24:51.760 Maybe they got lucky with non-fungible tokens, or however they got money.

01:25:01.500 They are going to be living high on the hog, hedonistic, happy.

01:25:06.180 But the big strata of the middle class will shrink from both ends.

01:25:11.680 It has shrunk from the bottom, and now it will shrink from the top.

01:25:15.340 And when you lose the middle class, your nation as a whole becomes a lot poorer, okay? 0.64

01:25:21.700 And so, the North American continent, with more AI, those high-skilled workers are going to fall into the ranks of the working poor.

01:25:30.880 And so, of course, they will contribute far less in terms of taxes.

01:25:34.100 So, you're going to have a much bigger working poor group here at the bottom that will have to be supported by a shrinking middle class and these hedonists at the very top, you see?

01:25:48.200 Is this where universal basic income sort of takes over?

01:25:52.880 Yeah, but the thing is, universal basic income, I think, is really despicable because it robs people, especially men, for a reason to exist.

01:26:00.840 Because, like, you know, I...

01:26:04.120 But isn't that the state's goal, though, to pussify men and to soften men in society and to remove masculinity and to normalize all of that?

01:26:11.420 You could argue that it...

01:26:13.020 I'm not so sure if it's a conscious decision.

01:26:15.740 It is a convenient decision, a convenient approach.

01:26:17.840 But the thing is, see, when you have all these people who are, you know, getting UBI, universal basic income, right?

01:26:28.060 You make a class of people who can potentially explode because it is a recipe for social chaos.

01:26:36.800 Because, I don't know about you, but I've spent a couple of times in my life where I have been idle in the following sense.

01:26:44.820 In the sense of, you know, I didn't have anything to do and I had money.

01:26:48.800 Hello?

01:26:49.380 Are you still there?

01:26:50.940 I'm here, yeah.

01:26:52.160 Yeah.

01:26:52.860 Well, you know, the periods of idleness where you can afford a standard of living, of existence, but you have no real reason for anything.

01:27:02.360 People in such circumstances fall into depression and a very deep depression.

01:27:08.660 And, of course, they can take pills for the depression, maybe.

01:27:10.960 That just, it doesn't really fix the situation.

01:27:13.420 It just, like, ameliorates the symptoms.

01:27:15.800 But it could be also that it brings about enormous resentment in a huge swath of people who expected to have a decent life and a decent work and something to give them meaning in their lives.

01:27:29.320 And when you deprive them of that, they become resentful and eventually enraged and they break out the pitchforks.

01:27:37.200 And so, you know, I don't think it's a good thing, AI.

01:27:41.500 I think it's pernicious.

01:27:43.460 And we're going to have to see the effects of it.

01:27:45.460 Now, specifically what you're talking about, the wokeism programmed into the AI, I think a lot of people are going to figure out workarounds for that.

01:27:55.200 I mean, you already figured, people have already figured it out.

01:27:58.260 And this chat GPT has only been around briefly and already figured out a workaround that gives you the honest information.

01:28:07.600 So I don't think it's really that big of a deal.

01:28:10.800 It's sexy.

01:28:12.240 Okay.

01:28:12.460 It calls attention to itself.

01:28:13.960 But the more they try to make the AI lie, because that's what you're basically doing, the easier it will be to overcome that by way of creating different systems and workarounds to get to the actual fact.

01:28:30.060 So I think it's going to play against them, you know.

01:28:32.260 But the problem is, of course, that it's sort of like a whack-a-mole problem for the creators of the AI.

01:28:38.900 They'll see one conclusion of the AI that the programmers don't like because it goes against wokeism.

01:28:45.860 And they'll try to hammer that down.

01:28:47.620 But then another little mole rat will pop out and they'll have to hit that one too. 0.92

01:28:51.620 And it'll be just a game of whack-a-mole.

01:28:53.920 And the whole system will deteriorate because of this wokeness that is being injected into the AI.

01:29:05.100 I don't think that it is – I think that they'll realize it's a mistake ultimately, but it'll collapse, you know.

01:29:12.580 And that's when they'll realize, oh, this is not a good idea.

01:29:14.940 But then the problem is that the AI comes to conclusions that guys like you and I know all about but which flies in the face of this wokeism, see.

01:29:24.560 This wokeism stuff generally, you know, it is leading to a revolution in North America certainly and potentially in Europe as well because people know fundamentally that it's all just a lie.

01:29:40.080 And the wokeism is the secret sauce that will lead to some sort of severe break or revolution. 0.95

01:29:48.500 And I think that what will happen is that the people in positions of leadership will resort to widespread and vicious repression as opposed to giving up on this woke bullshit because they have too many chips riding on it. 0.86

01:30:02.200 And so what I personally expect is to see a lot more repression going on in the West, and we're already seeing it. 0.95

01:30:08.980 With, like, for instance, the Nord Stream pipeline that I mentioned, Cy Hirsch, Seymour Hirsch, who is this big-time journalist, you know, I checked.

01:30:18.880 CNN, the BBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post have yet to put up any article about Seymour Hirsch's report.

01:30:28.260 I mean, zero, just total, you know, a total omission of this vital issue that other countries around the world are paying very close attention to.

01:30:39.680 And so ultimately...

01:30:40.600 I don't think people understand how much influence the state has over media.

01:30:44.320 It's propaganda.

01:30:46.140 Like, this is like Herman Goebel propaganda.

01:30:49.060 Like, this is fully controlled.

01:30:50.980 In Canada, it's widely acknowledged that Justin Trudeau controls the CBC, right?

01:30:56.160 Like, CSIS released a report about the influence in the last federal election where China did assist Trudeau in getting elected.

01:31:06.340 And he didn't get pissed, you know.

01:31:09.140 I mean, he got pissed because the information got out, and he tried to shut it all down.

01:31:12.700 And that's something that the opposition leadership is really trying to deal with.

01:31:16.940 I want to move over to this question here from Chris.

01:31:20.460 What are the best places in Latin America now?

01:31:22.580 I'm assuming for guys, like, there's a contingent of, like, passport bros out there that want to move to another country to find a better life, better women, better lifestyle sort of thing.

01:31:33.680 Like, what do you think about that notion and, you know...

01:31:35.800 I would say the two best countries to go to in Latin America are probably Uruguay and Paraguay because they're poor.

01:31:46.180 Uruguay is basically the Switzerland of Latin America, was it, or is it?

01:31:50.380 No, it pretends to be so.

01:31:52.980 But, yeah, Uruguay and Paraguay, because especially Paraguay.

01:31:58.140 Paraguay is poor.

01:31:59.740 And so the food that you get is going to be organic.

01:32:03.300 It's going to be clean, you know. 0.99

01:32:05.360 And the people are fairly simple and straightforward and realistic about shit. 0.99

01:32:09.980 And your dollar is going to go a hell of a lot farther than Paraguay than in California or New York. 0.99

01:32:16.700 Yeah.

01:32:16.980 The other place, too, that's appearing to be very good is El Salvador.

01:32:21.500 They've wiped out all the gains in El Salvador.

01:32:24.660 And so now the country is extremely peaceful, very law-abiding, okay? 0.98

01:32:29.300 But, yeah, you want to go to a country that is a little bit poor because nobody's going to fuck with a poor country like Paraguay. 0.98

01:32:39.220 And, you know, you can pick up Spanish. 0.89

01:32:41.760 If you've got some cash, you can set yourself up very nicely and potentially have some sort of business there or some online venture that, you know, you become geographically independent.

01:32:51.300 But, yeah, I would say that a country like that, don't go to-

01:32:55.600 I'm actually surprised that you mentioned El Salvador because the president there has embraced Bitcoin.

01:33:02.120 Well, yeah, but the thing is I'm not advocating El Salvador because of them embracing Bitcoin.

01:33:09.440 I'm advocating them because they've straightened up the country in so far as security is concerned, okay?

01:33:14.800 It's a lot more stable.

01:33:16.100 It's just, you know, overall a better place to be. 0.80

01:33:18.820 But, like I said, what you want to do is go to places that are relatively poor because a place that's relatively poor, this woke bullshit can only flower in a rich society or a society that thinks of itself as rich, that might not be necessarily rich because the United States is no longer rich. 0.56

01:33:38.100 It's over-indebted. 0.91

01:33:39.180 It's like a trust fund baby that is so over-indebted and maxed out on all his credit cards but still thinks that he's a trust fund baby millionaire, you know?

01:33:53.200 C. Dumbledore says, no, Gonzalo, not true.

01:33:55.720 Chat GBT is currently being taught how to be optimally deceptive by its 100 million users.

01:34:01.980 I'm an AI designer.

01:34:03.240 I don't know.

01:34:05.080 I don't care.

01:34:06.080 You know, I mean, I look at it from a macro perspective in so far as the labor force.

01:34:10.400 Are you still there, by the way?

01:34:12.080 I'm here, yeah.

01:34:13.540 Yeah.

01:34:14.160 Can you hear me?

01:34:14.620 I don't care.

01:34:15.520 Yeah, I hear you.

01:34:16.560 I don't really care about the specifics of chat and GPT.

01:34:19.600 I really don't.

01:34:21.080 I care about it on a macro level in so far as the labor pool is concerned. 0.99

01:34:26.580 But, you know, specifically, if it's doing this or doing that, I don't give a fuck. 0.99

01:34:30.580 You know, that's somebody else's problem. 0.98

01:34:33.760 I've got a bunch of these other questions over here in the community tab on my YouTube channel.

01:34:38.260 Let me find a few here.

01:34:41.680 People are asking about how you're able to parent your kids being so far away.

01:34:45.460 Like, how is he keeping up his life as a father?

01:34:49.080 I'm not going to discuss that.

01:34:51.520 Okay.

01:34:55.380 Boundaries.

01:34:57.200 There's, of course, a question of, you know, how a man can build his legacy in life.

01:35:01.780 Like, what do you think?

01:35:02.540 That's always a regular question from young guys looking for guidance.

01:35:07.700 Okay.

01:35:08.180 Well, first of all, this is how I live my life.

01:35:11.640 Okay.

01:35:12.840 This is the one go around as far as I'm concerned.

01:35:15.720 Okay.

01:35:16.140 I don't believe in reincarnation.

01:35:17.860 I don't believe in heaven or hell for that matter.

01:35:20.440 This is it.

01:35:21.520 So you better, you might as well enjoy it. 0.83

01:35:23.800 And what comes after your death.

01:35:24.560 Do you have any religious convictions?

01:35:26.620 No, not really.

01:35:28.340 Okay.

01:35:28.640 Yeah.

01:35:29.680 What comes after this life?

01:35:31.240 I'm not going to be around for it.

01:35:32.920 Okay. 0.98

01:35:33.260 So I don't give a shit what level of legacy I leave behind. 0.99

01:35:35.900 I think this is ridiculous. 0.99

01:35:37.880 Do I want to financially look after the people that I love? 0.74

01:35:42.160 Most certainly.

01:35:42.840 And I've certainly made such arrangements.

01:35:44.400 So that's a non-issue. 0.76

01:35:46.000 But insofar as like a legacy, like, you know, like, do I want somebody to build a monument to me or some shit like that? 0.61

01:35:53.620 I'm not going to be around. 0.81

01:35:54.840 I'm not going to enjoy it.

01:35:55.820 And eventually, I'll tear down the statue of me anyway.

01:35:58.520 Probably for good reasons.

01:35:59.880 You know? 0.98

01:36:00.020 I think that's ridiculous. 0.93

01:36:02.140 You know, like, like some sort of legacy? 0.96

01:36:05.620 No.

01:36:06.180 The kind of thing that you should be thinking about, as far as I'm concerned, as an atheist.

01:36:10.540 I mean, I'm born Catholic, right?

01:36:13.640 I'm baptized, First Communion, in confirmation, right?

01:36:16.600 But I, unfortunately, I am not blessed with belief.

01:36:21.420 I respect people who are, and I certainly have no truck with them.

01:36:24.500 I'm not one of these atheists who tries to convince people of their foolishness or something like that.

01:36:29.940 Because it's simply that I don't, I'm not blessed with belief.

01:36:34.900 And in many ways, I sort of regret that because I recognize that belief in a higher power and a higher purpose gives a great deal of comfort.

01:36:43.840 And sometimes that comfort is extremely useful, especially when things are very difficult.

01:36:48.780 I don't believe in that, unfortunately.

01:36:51.040 And so I think that if this is it, if this is the only life you live, then you should live it fully.

01:36:57.040 You should experience all that life has to offer.

01:37:00.220 The good and the bad, by the way.

01:37:01.720 The notion of always trying to be happy, I think, is absurd.

01:37:05.220 Because you can't.

01:37:05.980 Happiness, first of all, is something that comes to you when you achieve certain things or certain ambitions.

01:37:14.480 But many times it comes at you by surprise.

01:37:17.820 You never expected it.

01:37:19.700 And that many times is the best kind of happiness when it catches you unwares.

01:37:24.700 But you can't be looking for happiness.

01:37:27.120 That's absurd.

01:37:28.680 It's like saying that you want to be high all the time.

01:37:32.180 That's crazy.

01:37:33.080 It's self-destructive, ultimately.

01:37:34.160 What you have to be doing is saying to yourself, what do I want?

01:37:38.960 What do I want to feel and experience in life?

01:37:44.680 I mean, I don't have a problem saying this. 0.99

01:37:46.740 And people might think that I'm an asshole or whatever. 0.98

01:37:49.000 But I could have been like a multi-millionaire, billionaire type guy. 0.99

01:37:55.920 After college, I went to Dartmouth and I was recruited for Goldman Sachs.

01:38:00.000 And if I had taken that route and been the good little investment banker, which is my family comes from banking.

01:38:06.680 So I know what I'm talking about.

01:38:08.680 You know, I could have, you know, wound up, you know, with a hundred million, four hundred, five hundred million dollars, but having a miserable life and not having experienced the things that I've experienced.

01:38:18.060 So the issue becomes, you know, what do you want from life?

01:38:22.660 Do you want to have like, you know, a bunch of zeros in your bank account, but having led a very narrow and rather stunted life?

01:38:30.960 Or do you want to experience everything that life has to offer and perhaps forego, you know, the huge money, but have a much richer life?

01:38:40.700 Because I can assure you, because I know these guys, when I talk to investment bankers who are far wealthier than I am, guys I know, guys I grew up with in some cases, you know, they always look at me with envy. 0.73

01:38:54.560 You know, because they always say, well, you know, I was working as opposed to doing the shit that I've done in my life. 0.63

01:39:01.060 And so, you know. 0.86

01:39:01.940 What would you do differently in your life, if anything at all?

01:39:04.720 Nothing.

01:39:06.880 I'm not, I'm not talking about from the perspective of having any kind of regrets, but is there anything that, that you would have done differently at any point in your life?

01:39:16.680 Yeah.

01:39:17.160 Well, one specific thing.

01:39:19.000 I mentioned this before.

01:39:20.660 When I was in high school, there was this, this girl called Macarena, like the song, right?

01:39:29.000 And Macarena.

01:39:30.920 Exactly.

01:39:31.760 And she was, she was in my class, but not in my, my class, but one of the parallel classes, right?

01:39:38.860 In, in my high school in Chile.

01:39:40.940 And, you know, like after, I think it was after 11th grade, she, she had been dumpy and, and, you know, nobody had paid attention to her.

01:39:49.760 But over the summer of her senior year, she just suddenly flowered.

01:39:52.820 She was gorgeous.

01:39:53.940 She was tall, like really thick, curly, like brown hair, almost like an Afro. 0.99

01:40:02.140 But it was just these natural big curls.

01:40:04.740 Right.

01:40:05.500 And she, she just looked, she had an incredible figure and she had the bluest eyes.

01:40:11.120 I mean, they were like a summer sky.

01:40:13.500 I mean, just so beautiful.

01:40:14.740 Right.

01:40:14.940 And every day I saw her between classes.

01:40:17.340 Right.

01:40:18.140 And, and I spied on her.

01:40:19.860 You could say that I almost stalked her. 0.72

01:40:21.340 Right.

01:40:21.640 Because I was just totally infatuated.

01:40:24.100 And I never talked to her.

01:40:25.580 Not once.

01:40:27.180 Okay.

01:40:27.900 And then the senior year was over and, you know, I, I went my way.

01:40:33.080 She went hers. 0.95

01:40:34.300 And I didn't see her.

01:40:37.100 Okay.

01:40:38.180 And the regret, you know, because I never talked to her.

01:40:41.780 I never tried to take her out on a date.

01:40:45.220 And what happened was that years later, we were at our 20th reunion.

01:40:49.760 And I talked to her.

01:40:51.260 And I, we had a lovely conversation.

01:40:53.100 She had lived her life and I had lived mine.

01:40:55.000 We were at different places.

01:40:55.960 And so it wasn't going to happen.

01:40:58.240 Hello.

01:40:58.700 Am I still there?

01:41:00.100 You're still here.

01:41:00.940 Yeah.

01:41:01.060 Okay.

01:41:02.400 Well, and what happened was that, you know, you know, later I found out through mutual

01:41:09.120 friends that she had liked me in high school.

01:41:12.200 She had thought I was cute, but I, I didn't do anything about it.

01:41:17.660 And that's my one big regret.

01:41:19.440 And actually I'm very thankful for that regret.

01:41:21.920 There isn't a week that goes by that I don't think about her.

01:41:25.680 And whenever I'm nervous about, yeah, absolutely.

01:41:29.240 And whenever I'm nervous about something or thinking, oh, maybe I shouldn't do this. 0.94

01:41:33.780 I think about the burning regret that I have over not having spoken to her that whole fucking 0.96

01:41:39.980 year. 0.96

01:41:40.720 All I had to do was just sidle up to her and just, you know, just say a few things, maybe

01:41:46.080 try to get her laugh and, you know, just anything.

01:41:49.640 And I just guys are always paralyzed by fear and by women and approaching women. 0.89

01:41:54.060 It's just a natural thing, man.

01:41:55.660 And it's like, you know, I'll tell you a funny story because I was out for my brother's

01:41:58.780 stag.

01:41:59.960 This was a few years ago.

01:42:01.840 Well, you know, before COVID and his best friend came up for the stag and he was telling

01:42:07.360 me how his sister had such an enormous crush on me in high school.

01:42:10.720 And I thought she was completely out of reach.

01:42:13.900 Similar story, right?

01:42:15.520 Yeah, I mean.

01:42:16.120 Exactly.

01:42:16.940 Exactly.

01:42:17.660 I thought that she'd go out with some cooler guys and college age guy or something like 0.71

01:42:21.660 that.

01:42:22.320 She didn't date anybody.

01:42:23.300 That was a funny thing.

01:42:24.720 I could have just waltzed up to her, started talking to her.

01:42:28.800 And who knows?

01:42:29.600 Maybe we would have lasted a couple of weeks and I would have thought, oh, she's boring 1.00

01:42:33.300 and this and that.

01:42:34.000 And I would have forgotten her.

01:42:35.280 Or maybe she would have been the love of my life. 1.00

01:42:36.560 It's a sweet story.

01:42:36.860 I think everybody's got one.

01:42:38.600 But the thing is, see, that story, like I said, there isn't a week that goes by that

01:42:45.400 I don't think about her.

01:42:46.300 And the regret, the bitterness of that regret, that still weighs on me.

01:42:51.220 I mean, we're talking, this was 36, 37 years ago, 38 years ago now that I think about it.

01:42:57.700 And I still think about it.

01:42:59.560 Okay?

01:43:00.260 And it fills me with just bitterness and regret, which is a great thing.

01:43:05.060 Because whenever other opportunities have come my way, other ambitions that I might have

01:43:10.840 had, I've always said, yes, yes, I'm going to go for it.

01:43:14.900 Because failure hurts far less than regret of not having tried.

01:43:21.480 That's the thing I've learned.

01:43:23.560 You're such a good storyteller, Gonzalo.

01:43:28.760 And I think that's one of the things that blew up your Coach Red Pill channel.

01:43:33.080 The video production was great.

01:43:35.580 It was simplified, multiple camera angles.

01:43:39.500 You know, the way that it transitioned from scenes.

01:43:41.780 Like, I know that you've got some filmmaking experience.

01:43:44.900 Do you have any advice for guys when it comes to telling stories about important issues or

01:43:52.300 matters in life?

01:43:53.080 Like, what do you, like, what's your advice there?

01:43:56.160 Practice.

01:43:57.820 Practice.

01:43:59.280 How did you get good at it?

01:44:01.540 Public speaking.

01:44:02.600 Because when I was in Chile, I went to college twice.

01:44:07.120 As a matter of fact, I got really great scores in the entrance exams, right?

01:44:12.180 But I was a little.

01:44:15.700 When I went to university, just as the year started, I turned 18.

01:44:21.880 And the first time I went to university.

01:44:24.240 And what happened was that I discovered how to get girls. 0.97

01:44:27.580 Because I'd been in a disaster at getting girls.

01:44:29.500 I was just horrible at it, right?

01:44:31.020 And I remember the moment very clearly.

01:44:34.820 It was my first week at university.

01:44:37.300 This was March of 85.

01:44:39.920 Do you recall this was in Chile?

01:44:41.760 Where the seasons are reversed, right?

01:44:43.480 The summer is, you know, December, January, February.

01:44:46.480 And the school starts in March, March through December.

01:44:48.880 And I'd just turned 18.

01:44:51.840 And it was the first year of college.

01:44:55.340 And they were doing all these, like, little parties for the first years to get to know one another. 1.00

01:44:59.360 That kind of shit. 0.99

01:45:00.540 And I found myself talking to the two hottest girls in my university class. 1.00

01:45:06.020 And I was, like, nervous.

01:45:08.660 I didn't know what the hell to do because of the story with Macarena that I mentioned, right?

01:45:12.800 And I said something that made them laugh, okay?

01:45:19.260 Not at me.

01:45:19.860 But just, like, it was, like, a joke or a witticism or something.

01:45:23.220 And then I was like, oh, that's interesting.

01:45:25.020 And I remember very clearly the gears in my head clicking at that moment, okay?

01:45:29.740 And I remember the scene very, very clearly.

01:45:32.420 We were actually outside of the university sitting on the curb, the three of us talking.

01:45:37.800 And I said something funny.

01:45:39.320 And they, like, turned to me with more attention and, like, welcoming attention.

01:45:44.640 And then my gears were turning.

01:45:46.540 And I said something else.

01:45:47.700 I forgot what it was, of course, that made them laugh even more.

01:45:51.400 And then all of a sudden I discovered, yeah, I'm four eyes, not that attractive, right?

01:45:56.920 But I can make them laugh, you know?

01:45:59.460 And not laugh at me, of course.

01:46:00.880 That's the key issue.

01:46:02.700 And then I started, like, testing different things, like, teasing them a little bit, you know?

01:46:08.000 Not harshly, just little things like that.

01:46:11.480 And all of a sudden, you know, I'm like, oh, if I make them feel a strong, positive emotion,

01:46:19.320 they start to identify me as the purveyor of this strong, positive emotion.

01:46:25.600 So I'm basically an emotional dealer.

01:46:28.880 I deal in emotions. 0.99

01:46:31.300 You know, the guy down the street, that scuzzy guy, he deals in drugs and pot and shit. 0.99

01:46:36.800 I deal in positive emotions. 0.99

01:46:40.220 And sometimes negative emotions because negative emotions kind of, like, accentuate the positive emotions, right?

01:46:45.240 And that's how I figured it out.

01:46:48.060 And that's what happened, of course.

01:46:49.660 I flunked out of university twice in Chile because I just chased girls because all of a sudden I discovered this skeleton key to get any girl. 0.95

01:46:58.620 Just make her laugh, you know?

01:47:00.400 And tease her a little bit and sometimes just sort of, like, ignore her a little so she starts, like, chasing after me.

01:47:06.920 And it worked like a charm, okay? 0.99

01:47:09.140 So I basically chased pussy for, like, two years. 0.99

01:47:12.860 And that's why I flunked out of two universities, you know? 0.99

01:47:16.320 And what happened was that at this point, I was living with my mother.

01:47:22.480 My parents had divorced.

01:47:23.540 And my mother said, look, you're not going to be studying.

01:47:25.280 You're going to be working and getting out of the house, okay? 0.93

01:47:28.000 You can't be a bum.

01:47:28.660 So I started teaching English as a foreign language.

01:47:33.840 Are we still on, by the way?

01:47:35.360 We're still on.

01:47:35.900 Yeah, you're good.

01:47:37.080 Okay.

01:47:38.240 Loud and clear.

01:47:38.620 I started teaching English as a second language.

01:47:41.300 And I worked at that for about three and a half years before going to Dartmouth.

01:47:45.280 And that was an eye-opening experience for different reasons.

01:47:47.960 But what was interesting was that I would have these classes of adult students.

01:47:53.260 They were between 6 and 12 students per class.

01:47:55.820 And I would have, like, three in the very early morning, you know, so, like, from 6, 30, 7 a.m.

01:48:00.980 until, like, 9 o'clock or something like that.

01:48:03.320 And then in the afternoons, you know, where, of course, you know, these were office workers

01:48:08.260 who wanted to improve their English because it would help their careers.

01:48:11.240 So they were very serious.

01:48:13.080 And so they'd come early in the morning before work or late in the afternoon after work.

01:48:18.360 And I'd have these classes.

01:48:19.660 And in the middle of the day, I could do whatever I wanted.

01:48:22.040 That's when I started writing.

01:48:23.100 But the point is, these classes, they taught me how to do public speaking just by virtue of doing it.

01:48:31.840 They taught me organization.

01:48:33.260 They taught me how to manage people, how to deal with people and correct them in a way that was not insulting

01:48:41.300 or that was not denigrating.

01:48:43.960 You know, just being very, you know, like, no, no, no, that's not how you say this particular verb.

01:48:48.680 You say it this other way, stuff like that.

01:48:50.100 And that's how I got good at it, okay?

01:48:53.680 And I personally think that it was one of the best educations I ever had.

01:48:57.280 Certainly more valuable.

01:48:59.340 Those three and a half years that I spent teaching English as a foreign language in Chile

01:49:02.940 were much more valuable and educational than anything I learned at Dartmouth.

01:49:09.760 Dartmouth is a big, unique school, but I know where I speak.

01:49:12.940 You know, that kind of experience for three and a half years of dealing with these adult people.

01:49:19.440 Keep in mind, at the time, I was 19, 20 years old, okay?

01:49:22.860 And I'm dealing with people who are in their 30s and 40s and who are very, very serious. 0.98

01:49:27.120 I mean, they're not fucking around. 0.93

01:49:28.340 They're not wasting their time when they've got their family or their life outside this. 0.98

01:49:34.180 They're serious.

01:49:35.000 And so it taught me a lot in that regard.

01:49:37.720 And insofar as, you know, being good at public speaking, that's where I learned it.

01:49:40.900 And being able to explain things in a way that makes sense to people.

01:49:45.740 I'm starting to lose my voice, so I might only have another 10 or 15 minutes left here.

01:49:53.660 I wanted to ask you also, one of the other questions that popped up was about, you know,

01:49:58.540 the Manosphere slash, you know, the Mano Swamp.

01:50:02.720 You know, you kind of came and went quietly.

01:50:05.280 You didn't really, you know, collaborate with a lot of people.

01:50:07.220 You put out some great content, I think, that was very helpful.

01:50:10.140 I enjoyed a lot of it, and it was just short, concise, you know, like to the point.

01:50:14.560 What is your take on the Mano Swamp today?

01:50:18.100 You know, because like one of the first videos, like I remember one of the first videos that

01:50:20.840 you did was you kind of broke down like all the different niches. 0.71

01:50:24.580 Like this is MGTOW, this is Black Pill, this is the PUAs, this is, you know, like Red Pill

01:50:28.800 sort of thing.

01:50:30.780 So what's your take on what you saw and what's going on with it right now?

01:50:35.960 Like where it's heading?

01:50:36.620 Like, what do you think of it?

01:50:37.980 Well, I think a lot of women are involved in it now, which is very surprising. 0.98

01:50:42.000 That's interesting, isn't it?

01:50:42.840 Yeah, there's that pearly things woman whom, you know, if she were a guy, she'd be just 1.00

01:50:48.840 part of the manosphere.

01:50:50.980 There is some other psychologists.

01:50:53.140 I think that a lot of people have latched onto it because they recognize that there's

01:50:58.620 a market there.

01:50:59.660 Okay.

01:50:59.800 And I think that a lot of these women, no offense to them, but I think a lot of them 1.00

01:51:03.980 have latched onto it because they have a strong audience.

01:51:06.480 And the fact that they're female automatically raises their profile. 0.70

01:51:10.480 You know, I mean, like, you know, if you and I did some TikTok video of us dancing, nobody

01:51:16.160 would watch it or they might watch it to laugh.

01:51:18.480 But, you know, some hot 20-something girl does the same little dancing video on TikTok 1.00

01:51:23.020 and she gets a million hits, right?

01:51:25.380 Right.

01:51:25.500 The sex appeal plays a lot.

01:51:27.920 And so a lot of these women, you know, take advantage of it. 1.00

01:51:30.680 Good on them.

01:51:31.480 You know, use whatever tools you've got.

01:51:34.920 But I think a lot of women are involved in this. 1.00

01:51:39.440 What do you think of the women in this space? 1.00

01:51:41.260 Like, do they deserve the attention of guys dealing with men's issues or should they just

01:51:45.880 let the guys handle it?

01:51:47.740 Well, the women who are involved in this sphere, if they're sincere, I don't have a problem 1.00

01:51:53.160 with it.

01:51:53.920 If they're getting into it just as a grift, then I would have an issue with it, I suppose.

01:51:58.980 Do you think that they're sincere?

01:52:00.000 Because, I mean, like, my take on it is if you really cared about men's issues and you're

01:52:04.200 really sincere, you know, get off, like, you know, turn off the camera, stop, you know,

01:52:08.880 stop the whole Tradcon Act and let's see you rally a thousand girls together, go march 1.00

01:52:13.400 on Parliament Hill to change the legislation and laws that are hostile towards fathers

01:52:17.100 and family law.

01:52:18.080 Like, let's see something like that because they don't listen to men when men talk. 1.00

01:52:23.060 I don't know about that.

01:52:24.280 What I do think is that these women who are in the men's sphere are not trying to get their 0.94

01:52:32.320 message to other women.

01:52:35.060 No, they're talking to men.

01:52:36.540 They're aiming it at guys, okay?

01:52:38.140 Yeah, you look at the comments.

01:52:38.820 And so the fact that they're not going out to women and explaining things to women in

01:52:45.220 a way that women can understand sort of, like, makes me a bit suspicious of a lot of that, 0.98

01:52:51.680 to tell you the truth.

01:52:54.000 But, I mean, women don't really want to hear these conversations. 1.00

01:52:57.100 They only seem to listen to you when they're well past their expiry date, when they've realized

01:53:02.760 that they've made some mistakes.

01:53:05.100 Like, a 20-year-old or a 20-something, they just don't care.

01:53:07.440 They get unlimited attention.

01:53:09.420 They can screw up in life.

01:53:10.580 They're always forgiven, right?

01:53:11.980 Whereas men must become, they must make something out of themselves, yeah? 0.99

01:53:14.660 Yeah, but I think you've said it, you know, or somebody said it.

01:53:22.920 It's something, it's a trope that all of us have probably said in this corner of the internet.

01:53:28.060 See, women are an extra. 1.00

01:53:31.960 They are a luxury.

01:53:33.580 They are not the prime focus of any man's life.

01:53:37.620 They shouldn't be.

01:53:38.880 A man who's focused exclusively on women is making a horrible mistake. 1.00

01:53:43.740 And they shouldn't be focusing on their own shit. 1.00

01:53:45.820 And, you know, they find some woman along the way, and she wants to hitch her wagon to him, fine. 0.99

01:53:50.740 But he should always remember that it's for his goals, and she's just extra.

01:53:57.460 She's just baggage.

01:53:58.560 She is just a luxury.

01:54:00.720 And like all luxuries, if you can't afford the luxury, ditch it.

01:54:05.780 Because it'll only bring you down.

01:54:10.640 Yeah, I agree. 1.00

01:54:12.440 Got to be able to walk away from shit. 1.00

01:54:14.480 Yeah. 0.99

01:54:14.660 That's something else that I find kind of troubling is that so many guys, they think that they find some woman, and they put all of their hopes and aspirations on the woman, and they think that the woman is going to be their everything.

01:54:29.320 Their best friend, their lover, their nursemaid, their cleaning lady, everything, okay?

01:54:36.540 And this is a huge mistake, because it's too much of a burden, quite frankly, for any one person to be your lover and your best friend that you tell all of your secrets to, basically your psychiatrist and lover at the same time.

01:54:48.820 No, it's too much of a weight.

01:54:50.440 What you should do insofar as women are concerned, and this is my experience, and this is what I think, and take it for what you will, is that a woman is not your best friend. 1.00

01:55:02.980 She will never be your best friend.

01:55:04.460 And when you start showing vulnerability to her, and start talking about the problems you're having, she will think less of you.

01:55:14.080 That's a fact.

01:55:15.700 She will lose respect for you, because women do not like a man who shows insecurity.

01:55:22.460 They don't want that.

01:55:23.920 What's great about Eastern European women, or at least Russian-speaking women, they have this phrase. 1.00

01:55:29.320 They always say that they want a man made of stone.

01:55:32.080 They want a man who's like a stone wall that they can hide behind.

01:55:36.880 Exactly.

01:55:37.980 And that's a very good way to put it.

01:55:40.600 They want a guy who is a guy who's a stone wall that will protect them.

01:55:46.220 Okay?

01:55:46.340 So no woman wants to suddenly be hiding behind the stone wall that you are supposed to be, and start realizing that the wall is made of jello.

01:55:55.580 And you've got all these feelings, and you know, I'm so worried, and I'm so worried about my job, and my parents hurt me when I was little. 0.99

01:56:03.140 And all that fucking bullshit, you know? 1.00

01:56:06.140 All that fucking pussy-ass, wimpy feelings shit, because that's what I think of it, quite frankly. 1.00

01:56:13.460 Do I have miseries in my life? 1.00

01:56:15.620 Most certainly.

01:56:16.300 Do I share them with women? 0.97

01:56:17.740 No.

01:56:18.520 I share them with other guys.

01:56:20.580 I share them with my friends, friends whom I've known a long time.

01:56:23.460 You share them with your brothers, of course.

01:56:25.240 Yeah. 1.00

01:56:25.840 They know that I'm not some fucking pussy. 1.00

01:56:28.240 And, you know, we'll talk about whatever, and they'll say, oh, yeah, you know, I had a, you know, my father was a fucking asshole, or whatever, you know? 1.00

01:56:36.720 And they'll get the picture. 1.00

01:56:38.400 But, you know, this crying on the shoulder of your woman, this is, like, guaranteed to, you know, it's like anti-men.

01:56:48.760 It's one of the biggest turn-offs for women. 1.00

01:56:50.060 They don't like pussified men.

01:56:51.180 But that's what they've been telling Western men to do is, you know, be soft, be a shoulder to cry on, cry on her shoulder, you know, you know, share your emotions with her.

01:57:02.460 And none of that works.

01:57:03.540 It's completely counter to what women are turned on by. 1.00

01:57:06.820 It's like, you know, like you said, in Russia, they say, you know, they want a man like a stone wall.

01:57:12.100 You know, they want Stonehenge, basically, right?

01:57:15.060 Like, they want something that's reliable.

01:57:17.200 Solid, solid.

01:57:18.560 Solid, yeah.

01:57:19.200 And so, yeah, so if you want a woman, especially a high-value woman, certainly.

01:57:25.900 I also think the following.

01:57:27.360 I think that having a relationship with a woman without the ultimate aim of having children and a family of your own is a waste of time. 0.99

01:57:34.800 It's just like masturbation. 0.99

01:57:36.440 And there's nothing wrong with finding some woman and you say to yourself, you know, yeah, I don't want her. 0.99

01:57:41.900 I don't want to have kids with her.

01:57:43.160 But she can be fun for, you know, a few weeks, a few months, maybe.

01:57:47.400 But, like, you should always be thinking that the woman that you want to, quote, unquote, share your life with, you should be looking at her and saying, yeah, I want to have kids with her.

01:57:57.580 Okay.

01:57:57.800 If you can't answer that question right away, then she's just a pastime, at best.

01:58:03.220 Let's, yeah, let's talk about having kids because let's wrap up on that note.

01:58:07.680 But before we do, I just wanted to touch on another Eastern European phrase that I heard a lot because I dated a lot of Eastern Europeans in my youth.

01:58:15.340 And one of the things that popped up a lot is the gals would say something along the lines of, like, what are you made out of butter?

01:58:20.540 As if it's like an insult, like you're too soft, right?

01:58:23.960 Yeah. 1.00

01:58:24.360 Or pussy. 1.00

01:58:25.360 That's what they're basically saying. 1.00

01:58:27.200 Yeah, basically.

01:58:28.880 So let's wrap up on the notion of having kids.

01:58:31.680 So what do you think is the safest and best way for Western men today to leave behind DNA, you know, their legacy sort of thing?

01:58:40.880 Well, you have to understand, first of all, that you want to know what you're getting into insofar as having kids are concerned, right?

01:58:51.360 Kids are an enormous drain on your resources, okay?

01:58:54.820 The other hand.

01:58:55.300 I mean, the amount of money that goes down the tubes insofar as kids are concerned is astronomical, okay?

01:59:00.420 I mean, like, you know, you don't even want to get into it.

01:59:04.180 So you really want to have kids.

01:59:06.700 I mean, let me phrase it. 0.99

01:59:07.880 If you decide to have kids, you've got to go in with your eyes wide open, and you've got to pick the right fucking mother, okay? 0.99

01:59:14.280 You've got to find a woman who's actually maternal, okay? 0.99

01:59:18.640 And this is my perspective insofar as the man-woman thing, okay?

01:59:27.080 You get together with a woman not to be happy. 1.00

01:59:30.740 That's pointless.

01:59:31.480 You get together with a woman, you know, long-term.

01:59:35.460 I'm talking, you know, 20 years or the rest of your life or whatever, because she is a partner in a common enterprise.

01:59:44.720 Let me explain.

01:59:46.200 Rich, you and me, we decide, hey, you know, there's this business opportunity we can make, I don't know, we can make chocolates, okay?

01:59:52.760 And make a shit ton of money.

01:59:53.660 And you, Rich, are good at finance, and you, Gonzalo, you're good at marketing. 0.99

01:59:59.140 I'm just making shit up. 0.98

02:00:00.760 And so you and I go into partnership. 0.99

02:00:03.320 Why?

02:00:04.580 Because Rich has certain qualities and certain abilities that Gonzalo doesn't have.

02:00:09.680 And Gonzalo has certain qualities and abilities that Rich doesn't have.

02:00:13.120 And so together, we make more than we would individually in this joint enterprise of a chocolate factory, okay?

02:00:22.340 When you come to a woman, you have to have that notion that you're in it for a joint enterprise. 0.99

02:00:30.060 And you have to define what that joint enterprise is.

02:00:32.820 And with a woman, what it is, is to build a happy and loving home with children.

02:00:41.540 That's the joint enterprise.

02:00:43.160 That's the ultimate goal, okay?

02:00:45.320 Because children will provide her with enormous satisfaction and with you with enormous satisfaction,

02:00:52.220 although not without costs, not just financially.

02:00:55.540 The financial part is the least of it.

02:00:57.260 The emotional wear and tear, the daily grind of raising children.

02:01:01.200 Because it's not easy. 0.99

02:01:01.920 It's not all, you know, cinnamons and plums and shit, right? 0.96

02:01:06.300 And so you have to go into a serious long-term marriage with the notion that you're going to have kids. 0.98

02:01:16.420 And you're going to build together a loving home.

02:01:20.720 And you have to, with a woman, define, okay, you are going to be the homemaker. 0.99

02:01:26.920 And I will be the breadwinner.

02:01:28.860 And in the names, you see exactly what it means.

02:01:32.320 The woman should make the home. 1.00

02:01:35.420 It's not the house.

02:01:36.160 The house is not a home.

02:01:37.360 The house is just a building.

02:01:39.040 It's that feeling of love and support and comfort, okay, with children that she should make.

02:01:48.720 If she doesn't have the qualities to make such a home, she's the wrong person.

02:01:55.100 If she's like some, you know, chick with tattoos or maybe not, maybe she's got no tattoos, but, you know, the skimpy outfits and always look at me kind of thing. 1.00

02:02:05.920 You know, she's not a homemaker. 1.00

02:02:09.160 She's just a fun girlfriend that you have for a while. 0.97

02:02:12.780 You know, catch and release kind of thing.

02:02:14.960 She's not a keeper, okay?

02:02:16.940 I mean, you've got to understand what you're aiming for insofar as a long-term, I mean, in terms of marriage.

02:02:22.660 Let's put it that way.

02:02:24.060 Marriage.

02:02:24.540 What is the marriage for?

02:02:26.380 To create this loving home with children so that it is a place of comfort where you, as a man, can come home after earning the money, i.e. bringing in the resources to support this whole edge of our eyes, right?

02:02:40.660 You come and you are welcome and you are happy, and the people in your home make the effort to make you happy and comfortable, okay?

02:02:51.380 If she's a nag, if it's always problems, am I still here? 1.00

02:02:57.860 You're still there, yeah.

02:02:59.200 Okay.

02:02:59.920 If she's a nagging type of personality or she's unwilling to have children, then no, she's catch and release. 1.00

02:03:07.220 She's just a passing girlfriend, okay?

02:03:10.140 But understand what you're aiming for with a marriage, okay?

02:03:14.920 Now, if you just want to have a good time, it's totally different, man.

02:03:18.880 Then you pick whichever one is around and who's the most fun, and you understand that it's just your turn, you know?

02:03:25.120 She's not the keeper, okay?

02:03:27.560 But when you find a woman who has that objective, maybe she hasn't articulated it.

02:03:33.140 Maybe you have to help her to articulate it.

02:03:35.700 But if she has that basic idea, objective of having a loving, warm home full of children who will make you happy, especially as you grow older, then, yeah, that's a woman that you should marry.

02:03:48.380 But you've got to keep in mind, you know, what you're looking for.

02:03:52.000 And you have to understand that a marriage is not to be happy because, like I said, happiness comes in bursts and often catches you unawares.

02:04:05.520 What you are aiming for in a marriage is that both of you have the same objective, just as if it were a business enterprise where two people are working together.

02:04:15.780 Are you still there?

02:04:17.240 I'm here.

02:04:17.640 No, I'm here.

02:04:20.700 I don't know what you think of that analysis.

02:04:23.420 I mean, you tell me. 0.98

02:04:24.220 No, it's – look, man, you've – I mean, fuck, I wish I had more voice left in me, but I'm pretty much cooked at this point. 0.99

02:04:32.560 Like, otherwise, I would keep going with you. 0.97

02:04:35.000 No, I think you've provided some sage advice.

02:04:37.960 I know some people obviously, you know, disagree with some of it.

02:04:41.480 That's fine.

02:04:42.080 You know, I don't like to run an echo chamber, and I like to have people on that have differing views and opinions anyway.

02:04:47.640 So, where should people follow you, Gonzalo?

02:04:52.440 Is it your YouTube?

02:04:53.120 Is it your Twitter?

02:04:53.700 Like, what's the best place?

02:04:54.360 Yeah, my Twitter is kind of like the best place to find me because I have in my bio a link to my channels, and I also post the videos that I release there.

02:05:03.780 So, you can – from Twitter, you can find my YouTube channels.

02:05:07.260 So, yeah, that's the easiest.

02:05:09.860 Okay.

02:05:10.340 And your Twitter is again?

02:05:13.320 GonzaloLira1968.

02:05:15.000 All right.

02:05:16.260 Boom.

02:05:17.060 All right.

02:05:17.480 So, stay in touch with Gonzalo.

02:05:21.020 He's an interesting dude.

02:05:22.480 I certainly will.

02:05:23.980 You know, we'll probably catch up again in the future, I'm sure.

02:05:27.020 Take care of yourself.

02:05:28.200 Appreciate you hopping on and sharing some wisdom and some insight from what is really a war zone, man.

02:05:34.180 So, take care and be safe with that, guys.

02:05:36.880 Make sure you leave a comment below and hit the like button, and we'll see you soon.

02:05:40.540 I got to get some rest and drink some soup or something.

02:05:43.500 I need a break.

02:05:44.500 Thanks, Gonzalo.

02:05:45.960 My pleasure.

02:05:47.300 Take care, man.

Playing to Win - March 31, 2023

080 - Gonzalo Lira

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