00:01:08.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:04:32.000So like the entire paradox of this whole thing that she's made parents believe that she's like a virgin.
00:04:38.000She has, you know, this well-accomplished career of not ever doing anything like that, like you should do in order to be a successful human being on planet Earth.
00:04:47.000While at the same time, being really subpart average, like if you didn't know who Taylor Swift was, you saw her in a shopping mall, she would be a four, maybe a five, like on like her best day, like as a normal person.
00:06:47.000No, I was just going to say that, you know, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago, but, you know, Travis Kelsey is just really the next addition to the Taylor Swift body count gallery.
00:06:57.000The museum will be opened at the end of her career.
00:07:00.000You know, when you really think about it, Charlie, I actually agree with you in terms of that saying that whatever the machine makers, the factory mavens there in the entertainment industrial complex who have been working on the career of Taylor Swift, it's like it's like first it was Britney Spears and then that got screwed up.
00:07:23.000So they had to they had to shelve that and move to the next one.
00:07:52.000Ashley Simpson, by the way, is a huge example of that.
00:07:55.000Ariana Grande has some names that she should probably name Dan Schneider, his feet fetish, and many others.
00:08:01.000But with Taylor Swift, right, she was able to kind of avoid all of those normal pitfalls that seem to encumber many, you know, young Starlet, I guess the name would be, young Starlets as they're on their way up.
00:08:15.000I mean, I think she tried acting once or twice, but didn't really take off.
00:08:19.000And we have that, I don't know if we have that clip, but there is that clip speaking of her acting of when she you guys remember this thing when she went off on Marsha Blackburn, I guess, in this documentary, quasi-documentary, talking about how, oh, Marsha Blackburn doesn't have Tennessee Christian values, which, you know, by the way, Taylor Swift, you're from Redding, Pennsylvania.
00:08:44.000You're from like 30 minutes away from me in the Northeast.
00:08:58.000Before we get into the cut, before we get into the cut, I think we should explain why it is that, you know, that why this matters and for a number of reasons.
00:09:06.000But my theory is that they are going to be turning Taylor Swift into a ballot harvesting operation and turnout mechanism for the Democrats in 2024.
00:09:19.000Whoever their nominee is going to be, looks like it's going to be Biden at this point.
00:09:22.000But yeah, just like Oprah was in the past, like they tried to do with vote or die and Madonna, even before that, right?
00:09:28.000This is going to be a whole new level of operation because the Swifties represent just a new type of fandom that we've never seen before.
00:09:39.000And with the power of social media, they are going to be turned on as like an abortion army to come forward in the 2024 election.
00:11:41.000Whether the relationship is fake or not.
00:11:44.000What I'm saying is, I don't think Taylor Swift, they like found Taylor Swift in a lab and said, we're going to make Taylor Swift popular so that she can then push Democrats.
00:14:48.000He's 100% of 2024 get out the vote operation to go through middle America to press the magazine, try to win single women all under a Pfizer's pharmaceutical regime so that we live in a dystopian hellscape job.
00:15:46.000They actually have negative chemistry, negative Riz.
00:15:49.000When you see the two of them together, you're like, what is this?
00:15:52.000I've seen faker relationships, you know, on like one of those, one of those, you know, broadcast dating shows than I've ever seen on one of this.
00:16:15.000But at least Beyonce and Jay-Z actually do have chemistry together.
00:16:19.000When you see them together, you can tell they're in like a real relationship.
00:16:22.000These look like two people that are on benzodiazepam the entire time.
00:16:26.000And like they have, they have that like they might bride smile that you see, like, so good to see you.
00:16:33.000They do that weird, like, they do that weird thing, right?
00:16:36.000I don't quite have a name for it yet, but it's very millennial and it's sort of an up.
00:16:41.000It's kind of like up talk, but it's like when you can tell that they're lying, even though, because it's under speech, so they're speaking under their breath.
00:16:56.000It's, it's, it's this really weird intonation, and it drives me completely nuts when people do it, separately from vocal fry, which also drives me nuts, but for different reasons.
00:18:56.000She votes against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which is just basically protecting us from domestic abuse and stalking.
00:19:49.000You know, if CAA is going to sign her for anything, you think they send her to like a couple of acting lessons first before they sign her for something like this.
00:20:03.000I had this theory called Yellowstoning that I talked about, you know, for a while.
00:20:07.000This idea that they would take somebody like a Kevin Costner, like a show like Yellowstone, and then use that person and their, you know, their stature, their weight, their influence with a certain audience to mobilize them towards progressive ideals.
00:20:24.000So they started slipping like these progressive ideas, woke characters into the show Yellowstone, of course, using Kevin Costner.
00:20:30.000Then they also used Harrison Ford for this in one of like the spin-offs there.
00:20:33.000You're starting to see they did a Sylvester Stallone one.
00:20:36.000So this is kind of like a similar psyop that's being run.
00:20:41.000You know, Charlie, to your point, it's on Middle America.
00:20:44.000And so they're taking people who I would say have the aesthetics that would appeal to middle America, but then shifting them, nudging them into a you know, into these liberal beliefs.
00:20:58.000Obviously, Taylor is very poorly doing so because she's beating you over a hammer with it in that scene there.
00:21:04.000But again, it's this is the exact same type of playbook that they've gone to again and again and again.
00:21:09.000But because they have social media now, they have the ability to create their own marketing empire through it.
00:21:15.000I just, I just can't get over that it's Times Person of the Year.
00:21:19.000They've given it to Hitler, they've given it to Stalin, they've given it to Putin, they've given it to every U.S. president that I can think of.
00:21:27.000I mean, you know, it's not morally the best person.
00:21:29.000It is like the most important person of the year who captures the themes of the year.
00:21:34.000And you pick Taylor Swift because she's a big celebrity.
00:21:38.000Okay, like even if her concert is the biggest concert tour ever, even if she's the most successful singer entertainer ever, even if she is forging new frontiers in that, is that the biggest theme of 2023?
00:24:01.000Yeah, the main knock on CAA is that they were basically and essentially Harvey Weinstein's talent agency.
00:24:09.000And so this was the one that took Weinstein and made him sort of this household figure that put him behind, and it is, yeah, Zari Manual, and went through all of his films.
00:24:20.000And then all of the actresses that he worked with, by and large, were okay, not every single actress or actor that he worked with was through CAA, but this was his preferred agency.
00:24:32.000Basically, that if you made a negative comment about Harvey Weinstein, they were also, they're also kind of Harvey Weinstein's enforcement arm when he was basically a sheriff of Hollywood, where if you made a negative comment publicly or privately about Harvey or about anyone who was part of CAA, you were done.
00:24:55.000If you did anything on, you know, and this is prior to the Me Too movement.
00:24:59.000And so it's interesting, by the way, that CAA comes up again because as we said before, so there's this confluence between Harvey Weinstein, CAA, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey.
00:25:16.000So all of a sudden, who's in the driver's seat again?
00:25:32.000When you're, you know, when you're talking about your A-list celebs, you're, you know, the people who basically, when you read all those magazines, those tabloid magazines about celebrity relationships and this couple was seen here on the yacht and this thing went on.
00:25:43.000That's all part of what the agents are putting together, what they want to put out.
00:25:48.000And yes, there's lots of, you know, really scummy agencies out there.
00:25:53.000Of course, everybody's heard these terrible stories, the casting couch, et cetera, et cetera.
00:25:56.000But CAA is the big dog, the top of the heap for every single one of them.
00:26:02.000I guess I could see if anyone's going to have all of her personal relationships be an op, I guess it could be Taylor Swift.
00:26:08.000She's a mastermind of publicity, which I guess the fact that we've talked about her endlessly for the past six months is proof enough of that.
00:26:19.000I think it's deranged when it's like, okay, so these, you know, we're going to go sign Travis Kelsey to a new agency because we're anticipating that Trump will be the nominee next year.
00:26:30.000And then we need to have Taylor Swift be really popular so that she can tell people to not vote for Donald Trump, who, by the way, we're also going to knock off the ballot through all these other mechanisms.
00:26:39.000It's just, I think we are overestimating the ability for things to be centrally planned by anybody, to be honest.
00:26:48.000I think if you want to say her relationship's fake, I could buy that.
00:26:51.000Celebrities have fake relationships all the time.
00:26:53.000And but the point is, is she just shouldn't be person of the year because that's weird and strange and deranged.
00:27:00.000But we have another topic, but first, Jack, do you want to do our read?
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00:29:36.000They've existed forever, but now they're going viral because we have the national affliction known as TikTok and they are making TikToks about it.
00:29:45.000So we have to show some of those TikToks.
00:29:47.000I believe the first one we have here is number 79.
00:29:50.000So let's get the conversation going with that.
00:29:53.000Why is nobody talking about being dinks?
00:29:55.000Well, I'm freshly married and I'm going to talk about it.
00:29:56.000Here's our life as dinks in our early 30s.
00:31:23.000Well, I mean, at least it's the half step where they're promoting at least a relationship.
00:31:30.000So at least we should get that there's a very, you know, three times a week.
00:31:35.000There's like a decent odds they'll screw up at some point.
00:31:38.000But Yeah, I think the craziest thing that I've noticed since being a millennial and Jack, we're kind of in that same like age category.
00:31:47.000We're just right there, which is like all our friends.
00:31:50.000There's a lot of people who have literally positioned themselves for, I think, I think the problem is they positioned themselves for over a decade that they're just not going to have kids no matter what.
00:32:02.000And so now like the natural progression is that people are getting married now later on.
00:32:08.000Like I, again, I'm not being judgy on like who has kids, who doesn't, when they get married, whatever.
00:32:13.000Like, I think earlier the better, great, whatever.
00:32:16.000But they're getting married later on in life.
00:32:18.000And so now this is like the half step before they have kids.
00:32:22.000And my only fear is that by the time they realize they actually want to have kids, it'll be too late because they just like drug out their life for way too long.
00:32:31.000Yeah, see, this, yeah, so this ties into the Taylor Swift thing because this has been a knock on Taylor Swift for years at this point.
00:32:39.000There used to be this whole meme, you know, this could all kind of be like a sort of deep web reveal.
00:32:52.000So this was the idea that, and there was a certain YouTuber, former YouTuber, I guess, who got in trouble for, it was Stefan Molyneux, and who posted, you know, these, who just basically went on a tirade on Twitter and was like, look, you know, Taylor Swift is in her prime years for child rearing for, and she's spending all of this time going around, focused on her career, talks about wanting a family, talks about wanting a relationship.
00:34:02.000Well, like to that point, though, like, I think I think the horrifying thing is, and again, that's the important piece that you just, you just hit on, which is that it's not, it's, it's not whether or not you are married.
00:34:13.000It's not whether or not you have kids.
00:34:15.000It's about the desire and putting yourself in the right place to do those things.
00:34:19.000Because there's, I think that the world that we live in today with social media and everything else is like it's it's challenging.
00:34:25.000It's actually more challenging, I think, arguably than it ever has been to have a normal relationship.
00:34:32.000It's more challenging than it's ever been to have like you can't, there's no privacy to like raise your kids the same way.
00:34:39.000There just is you can make the argument you could you could go live in a hole somewhere, but like if you're not on normal social media and things like that, you're a weirdo in the eyes of like regular suburban America.
00:34:50.000So like you have to be in the spotlight in some way, shape or form, more than what you are normally, what the normal human being in the 80s or 90s was comfortable with.
00:34:58.000And so now you have this issue of, I think this is just, is that people are skittish.
00:35:07.000And I don't blame men for having stage fright to that.
00:35:10.000Most of my friends, like I talk to, and I'm not even like, it's like Jack or Charlie here, but like, like you and I have similar things where people kind of become aware of you through different things.
00:35:21.000People are like, I want nothing to do with that because I couldn't have, I wouldn't be down with the introspection into my life from like the general public.
00:35:38.000And so it adds stage fright so delays that's adding to the delaying factor.
00:35:42.000And now you've got into your mind that you've adopted that, like, hey, I'm not going to have kids for 10 years.
00:35:46.000I'm not going to have kids for 20 years.
00:35:48.000And then you finally do have a relationship, and you're like, I'm sorry, I'm not going to get married for 10 years.
00:35:54.000I'm not going to get married for so X amount of years.
00:35:56.000And then you finally get in a relationship.
00:35:57.000And then you're, that's like the justification.
00:35:59.000That like that dink video, that video that you guys just posted, to me, it just like screams like justifying the reason why they're not having kids rather than putting yourself in the position, like Jack is saying, that like you want to have kids, like you want to try to get because the sad part is on the other side of the coin to that, there's so many people in this world that want to have kids that either can't get in a fortuitous relationship, they can't have kids physically for whatever reason because of health issues or whatever.
00:36:28.000And going into that, the you know, these people might want kids later eventually.
00:36:33.000But, you know, for a society obsessed with misinformation and disinformation, one of the biggest sources of misinformation out there is actually just about basic fertility.
00:37:44.000It is, it is very clear for a lot of people that not having kids, not being able to have kids ruins their lives.
00:37:50.000It ruins their relationship with their parents.
00:37:52.000It ruins their relationship with their spouse.
00:37:55.000Even if it's not because of a choice, even if it's only due to a biological thing, it just totally destroys people.
00:38:03.000I guess the other interesting flip side of it is this is we are living through the first era where really not having kids is a choice you can just easily make.
00:38:12.000So you'd only have reliable birth control from about the 60s on.
00:38:17.000And I think you have a hangover of a few decades where it's still so abnormal to not have kids if you marry that it's still just everyone does it.
00:38:25.000It's like we're in the era again, and people talk equate this all the time.
00:38:29.000We were talking a little bit about this with Rome and everything else.
00:38:31.000Is we're in the era of lifestyle choices, right?
00:38:34.000Where lifestyle choices are so simple and so easy because we live in such a society that lifestyle choices are easy.
00:38:42.000And these are problems that are created, that are generated because society is so simple.
00:38:49.000And it's interesting because, you know, the forces of natural selection being what they are, we are now going through a selection process of the only people having kids are the ones who choose to have kids and like having kids.
00:39:23.000And it's going to be really interesting if that pattern holds a long time because your population is going to get massively shifted by what are the choices and life patterns of people who actually decide to show up for the future.
00:39:41.000But, but also, when you really think about it, you know, the type of demographic that, you know, going back to the Taylor Swift setup, you know, it's, and I'm just going to say it since we're here on Thought Crime.
00:40:20.000And so the, you know, I guess the big thing that I would take away is, is, and Blake, to your, to your point as well, like, have you noticed that all of the viral videos on the dink thing, they're all white?
00:40:34.000You notice that I haven't seen any of these promoted, or at least, you know, I'm sure there are dinks that are not, but the ones that seem to be getting promoted the most algorithmically are white.
00:41:02.000And like, you know, and for like statistically, it's like, okay, it's like tiny.
00:41:06.000And like, and just in terms of deliberate childlessness, it does frankly seem to be a very, you know, upper class white people phenomenon.
00:41:16.000Asians too, I suppose, but upper class Asians are just sort of considered white by so the first time I ever heard of this was in China.
00:41:25.000Like 10, 15 years ago, the first time I ever heard of dink, this was all the rage in China when I lived there that they were saying, oh, yeah, double income, no kids.
00:41:34.000This was a thing, double income, no kids.
00:41:36.000And then they were even, and keep in mind, China obviously is a country that at the time was promoting population degrowth, population or depopulation agenda, I guess.
00:41:49.000And then even in China, the idea too was for tax purposes and for career and income, they were so hyper-focused on this.
00:41:56.000So like there's this sort of, you know, kind of old school conservative belief that China is like this hyper-Marxist society.
00:42:03.000But no, it's actually kind of the opposite.
00:42:05.000Like they are intensely career focused and intensely competitive in terms of career and ranking and income in China.
00:42:14.000You know, they're almost more hyper capitalist than we are in certain ways.
00:42:18.000Certainly not, you know, democratically.
00:42:20.000And, you know, they have, they don't have any of that going on.
00:42:23.000But in terms of economy, yeah, yeah, they really are.
00:42:26.000And so they had this total normalization of people being married and then living in countries or cities all over the country.
00:42:34.000So you wouldn't even see your wife or your spouse unless you were basically going home for Golden Week, which is like their holidays.
00:42:39.000So like you'd see your wife on the holidays and then that was it.
00:42:42.000So there wouldn't even be an opportunity to have kids.
00:42:46.000And so they would even take it to the next step and say, okay, we're married.
00:42:49.000We are double income for tax purposes, but we don't even have like a real normal relationship in any meaningful way because it's all long distance.
00:44:29.000Society is going to force you into it.
00:44:30.000The question is, like, how does society raise children?
00:44:35.000And, you know, I think, and this goes back to again, the traditional way is like single income, you know, dual roles rather than dual income, single roles is a much better way.
00:44:48.000And we are now living in a society where it's dual income, single role rather than single income, dual roles within a household because this is ultimately break, it ultimately breaks up families.
00:44:59.000Because again, when you live your own life, you have your own, your own separation.
00:45:03.000I mean, this is kind of the conversation I think Tucker talks about all the time, or he used to talk about it quite a bit.
00:45:09.000But you know, going back to the start of the world, well, Tyler, I'll actually sorry, you go, Jack.
00:45:17.000Yeah, I want to follow up on a little bit of what Tyler said there because Tyler, this is something that does play politically for the new right.
00:45:24.000This is a huge new right piece of the agenda.
00:45:27.000And I wonder, and you and I obviously have talked about this many times.
00:45:30.000But if you want to give people an encapsulation, you know, you've talked about it before about how there's a huge opportunity here politically, you know, to focus on these millennials who want to go back to the single income household and then have a family that can be raised on a single household and then creating the economic conditions to make this possible.
00:45:54.000You know, what do you see as a potential political win for if conservatives were to start adopting this language?
00:46:04.000Yeah, I mean, I think that the future of what we're going to see is that I mean, I don't think there's any turning the ship around.
00:46:12.000I think the gen the attack on gender identity is the satanic explicitness on an attack on the family and specifically wanting to promote more childlessness.
00:46:27.000That's, I think that's ultimately where you're at.
00:46:30.000Because if you talk about this, we talk, and I was kind of just joking, but like the greatest dink culture that exists within America is in the gay community, right?
00:46:37.000Like there's just not that is that is the culture.
00:46:40.000And in fact, everybody has a gay friend and every man has a wife.
00:46:47.000A lot of us on the show have gay enemies too.
00:47:55.000Like, I'm going to keep delaying it later.
00:47:57.000Ultimately, like, she adopted into that culture and they divorced very quickly, very rapidly.
00:48:04.000But, I mean, I think it's like a, it's like a real thing.
00:48:07.000So, uh, because he should have been person of the year, as Charlie says, uh, or at least second place, uh, we, every time Elon Musk has an opinion, it becomes a story.
00:48:15.000So, Elon Musk reacted to this stuff earlier today.
00:48:19.000He, uh, if you guys want to bring it up on screen, uh, Elon Musk hits out at viral videos of dink couples saying there is an awful morality to those who choose not to have children.
00:48:30.000And I was arguing about this with Charlie earlier because there's a few levels to this.
00:48:34.000Like, one, Elon Musk himself is like a step warlord where he's got 10 kids officially with, I think, four different women.
00:49:03.000Now, she claims it was just a sperm donor.
00:49:05.000However, people know that she was with Elon briefly.
00:49:10.000This was so, okay, everybody knows that she was with Johnny Depp, of course, very public.
00:49:15.000But briefly after that relationship, she spent some time with Elon Musk when they were together.
00:49:22.000Then a couple months after that relationship, she just kind of shows up with this, with this daughter and says, I even heard rumors to that effect, like the sperm donor thing.
00:49:30.000I've heard rumors that Musk just straight up will just, yeah, be a donor for people.
00:50:15.000So he's, you know, this, you know, we were talking about the infertility community, but, you know, just in the fertility, I guess the vast spectrum of fertility procedures out there, Elon is certainly a huge, huge proponent.
00:50:28.000If you're, if you're a genius and you have limitless amounts of money, like you would just more don't do this.
00:50:35.000Yeah, you would just like, it's like, it's like parents of athletes, you know, that are like, that want to have as many kids or are pro-athletes that want to have as many kids as they possibly can to make sure one of their kids becomes a pro-athlete.
00:51:18.000So, there's an argument that like pro-athletes hook up with all these girls and have all these kids because there's an element here where it's like, oh, it's worth your money because the more kids you have, the more likely that you'll end up with another pro-athlete that comes out of your DNA bank.
00:51:34.000Like, if I'm Elon Musk, of course, like, just give everybody my sperm.
00:51:39.000Anyone that wants to take it, there's like a thousand future Elons.
00:51:44.000If you think you're a genius and that you're going to inject all these genius DNA pools back out into the world, this could get really insane once, like, we could have just straight, what if we have an artificial womb?
00:51:56.000You don't even need another woman up there.
00:52:24.000This was the guy who had the divorce down in Texas.
00:52:27.000And then she moved with the kid to California.
00:52:30.000And they were going to try to do some kind of hormone therapy, you know, transgender sort of thing with the kid.
00:52:36.000You know, I'm probably botching the details.
00:52:38.000But anyway, it got to the point where he was so upset about everything that he went through that he and Libby Emmons got on Timcast together and he said, look, men shouldn't even, you know, now that we have surrogacy, why are men even pursuing relationships with women at all?
00:52:50.000They should just, you should just go ahead and use surrogacy, have kids, bring them in, and cut the woman out completely.
00:53:30.000I think the point I was going to throw out, though, is like, this is something that Plato kind of talks about in the Republic, where he says that, you know, marriage, you know, for the, for the highest caste, the guardian class, you know, there's only, you know, your spouse will only be for like the duration of the sexual intercourse.
00:53:58.000And if I ever meet him, I'll tell him this.
00:53:59.000He's trending for the story of Solomon, who has everything and he ends up totally insane.
00:54:04.000And he also, I mean, one of the most powerful books of the whole Bible is Ecclesiastes, where he basically opens like a punk rocker where the first verse of Ecclesiastes is meaningless, meaningless, meaningless, always life.
00:54:16.000And Solomon's splendor was so great that Christ our Lord then repeats in the New Testament, he says, not even Solomon and all of his splendor would be clothed like you will in the next life.
00:59:03.000If you look at a picture of like a family reunion and you just see there's always like sort of the patriarch and the matriarch, right?
00:59:09.000You know, there's always like the grandpa, the grandma, and usually the grandmom's sitting at the center, and everyone can think of one of these photos.
00:59:16.000And then you just see the children that came from her, the grandchildren, and God willing, there's great grandchildren running around.
00:59:25.000And you look at all that life that came from one person.
00:59:31.000And nobody is sitting there going, looking at that grandmother saying, gee, I wonder what her career was.
00:59:37.000I wonder what her position was at the office.
00:59:39.000I want to know if she had a cornered desk.
00:59:41.000No, she's surrounded by her accomplishments right there.
00:59:59.000We're renting bicycles to travel through Africa during our vacation.
01:00:02.000Everyone would think that's cool, but being some fat snack eater with a pencil goatee, buying chips in bulk at Costco while watching games all weekend is gross.
01:00:12.000Like, yeah, if you're going to do a dink and do something really cool, it's probably still bad, but it at least, you know, people would feel a little envious, but like, I'm a dink.
01:00:21.000I get to go to Costco and stuff my fat face with the Costco pizza.
01:00:25.000And by the way, nothing in any of these videos makes me envy it.
01:01:00.000People, one of the bad things with social media is it's created a much larger platform for the already bad pattern of essentially very loudly justifying your decisions to the world.
01:01:14.000And essentially, you know, you don't, they're not having children.
01:01:17.000So what they need to do is they need to have ideological children by convincing other people to do the same things as them.
01:01:23.000Well, I mean, and this is the other thing that I think bothers me the most.
01:01:27.000I actually hate, I loathe when people post their personal information on, I think it's so embarrassing when people are like go to social media and they talk about their personal relationships.
01:01:54.000I hate when my friends and people that I know that I actually care or once upon a time cared about go and they talk about all their problems too much.
01:02:02.000They talk about their personal relationships.
01:02:04.000And to me, like, this is the same thing, whether it's good or bad, like it's always embarrassing when people are like, oh, yeah, we're so happy.
01:03:04.000Yeah, Tyler, I think, is exactly right on this.
01:03:06.000I think it's a huge driver in depression and suicide, especially teen suicide.
01:03:12.000So it used to be that, and Scott Adams talks about this on his podcast as well, that it used to be that you're sort of the pool of people that you compared yourself to was your town, was your hometown, was your workplace, was your school, your work site, whatever it was.
01:03:26.000Yeah, your family, your intermediate family, the people you interacted with on a regular basis.
01:03:30.000And that's how for all of human civilization, we have essentially grown and developed.
01:03:37.000However, now through social media, you sort of are bombarded with this highlight reel.
01:03:43.000And people have said this, even Aaron Rodgers once said this, that social media is like the highlights reel of life.
01:03:49.000And it is in many ways, but at the same time, you're also constantly comparing yourself to other people that you see that are, so it leads to, and people talked about this.
01:04:00.000I think we talked about it here on the show once, where on dating apps now, it is so hard for, if you're like a guy under, you know, I think OKCupid was one of the ones that put out these charts at one point that it's so hard for guys below like a certain, I don't know, level to be able to, like, like 1% of guys get like 80% of the girls on social, on these dating apps.
01:04:25.000But the idea being that you're constantly having to compete with a much wider pool in the same way that you're now competing with an almost universal global pool for all of these things, for family, for vacations, for kids, who's got the best pictures.
01:04:39.000It's a constant competition that's going on.
01:04:42.000Whether you realize it or not, you're doing so subliminally while you're going through Instagram, while you're going through TikTok, TikTok.
01:04:50.000That's what's going on as you're looking through these images.
01:04:54.000So we're talking about major, you know, we got to go soon, but yeah.
01:04:57.000Soon, but we have to talk about something really immoral and bad.
01:05:28.000Yeah, but they didn't put them in because college football is a gross, distorted, warped version of what it once was.
01:05:36.000And it's kind of, I emphasize this because it's actually a weird barrier to, I think, necessary, like actual things we need to do in America.
01:05:44.000Like, I think a real reason you won't get conservatives at the state level go and like maybe get rid of affirmative action at their colleges or, you know, get rid of all the stuff is they're worried.
01:05:54.000The NCAA will come in and be like, well, actually, because of you guys are hostile to this or that, you guys can't compete in, you know, the preparation H-bowl brought to you by Tostitos next year.
01:06:11.000You like the team, but it's weird and creepy where we're still this addicted to what is essentially just a semi-pro football league where the players get paid and they can freely sign with a different team and we'll call it a transfer.
01:06:25.000And we do all this and we're still pretending that they're student athletes.
01:06:28.000Just no, just call a team, the Alabama Crimson Tide and have them play in Tuscaloosa.
01:06:33.000And they're a semi-pro league that plays their players to achieve.
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