A 40-year-old actor named Frankie Muniz made a video of himself and his wife dancing together in celebration of their divorce. It was uploaded seemingly out of nowhere by the actor, who gained fame as the lead actor in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, which aired from 2000 to 2006. After making a few terrible films, he mostly gave up acting and began moonlighting as a race car driver, a career where he s best known for fighting very hard for the 26th place in the NASCAR Truck Series.
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00:00:30.000Today we're going to talk about what is easily one of the worst videos I've ever seen on the
00:00:34.220internet, which is saying something, especially after I just saw footage of a guy getting sucked
00:00:38.140into a jet engine on the airport tarmac, which was pretty rough. Fair warning, I can virtually
00:00:42.980guarantee this is more unpleasant to watch than the most graphic snuff film you've ever been
00:00:48.040subjected to. It was uploaded seemingly out of nowhere by the 40-year-old actor named Frankie
00:00:53.220Munez, who gained fame, of course, as the lead actor in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle,
00:00:57.700which aired from 2000 to 2006. After making a few terrible films, he mostly gave up acting
00:01:03.240and began moonlighting as a race car driver, a career where he's best known for fighting very
00:01:08.300hard for the 26th place in the NASCAR truck series, while the actual contenders are busy
00:01:13.080lapping him. But Munez has not completely dropped out of Hollywood. He just starred in the Malcolm
00:01:18.360in the Middle reboot miniseries on Hulu, which very few people watched or cared about. But they
00:01:24.380did make sure to include all the obligatory woke updates, such as introducing a non-binary
00:01:30.380sibling for Malcolm and revealing that his black friend is now in a gay interracial relationship
00:01:36.140and has an adopted son. So they checked all the boxes, except in a surprising twist, they didn't
00:01:41.080have Bryan Cranston's character, the father, come out as trans. So I guess they're saving that for0.93
00:01:46.180the reboot of the reboot in 2029. In short, Frankie Muniz has had a mediocre career since reaching
00:01:52.560the zenith of his career at the age of 14. He hasn't received much attention of late and for
00:01:58.800good reason. He's not relevant anymore. No one cares about anything he's doing. And there's no
00:02:03.560shame in that. I mean, it's probably been a major lifestyle upgrade in too many ways to list. This
00:02:07.580is a period in his life where he's supposed to focus on raising his family and counting the
00:02:12.260many blessings he's enjoyed. And by that, I mean all of the residual checks that are still pouring
00:02:18.040in. By 40, most child actors end up homeless outside of a Denny's, pants around their ankles,
00:02:23.520begging every passing stranger for a few dollars so they can get a bus ticket to Milwaukee, which,
00:02:28.760as we know, is homeless drug addict code for buying crack. Munez was somehow able to avoid
00:02:33.780that fate. He managed to dodge the curse of childhood fame and start a family that, to all
00:02:38.480outward appearances, seemed to be healthy and happy. And that's an achievement in its own right.
00:02:43.720I mean, in terms of accomplishments, a child actor becoming not a crackhead is like a normal
00:02:47.740person, you know, placing in the top 100 in the Boston Marathon or something. It's not the kind
00:02:52.380of thing that you will win the presidential medal of freedom for, but it's quite impressive in its
00:02:56.660own right. Unfortunately, however, Frankie has just undone all of that goodwill in one fell swoop
00:03:02.840with one of the most agonizingly cringy posts ever to curse the feeds of unsuspecting social1.00
00:03:10.280media users. Yesterday, across all of his profiles, he announced that he and his wife
00:03:16.020we're getting a divorce. And he framed the divorce as something he's happy about,
00:03:20.020which he obviously isn't, and as a mutual decision, which it obviously wasn't.
00:03:24.860But before we get into Munez's statement, a statement that reflects a larger cultural trend
00:03:29.820and agenda, which is the only thing that makes this worth talking about in the first place,
00:03:34.680here is the video that he uploaded along with his announcement. And in case you can't see it,
00:03:39.400the caption reads, who says you can't stay best friends with your baby mama?
00:03:43.820Now, the fact that he's a 40-year-old white man using the term baby mama should make this video less surprising, though no less excruciating to witness. Here it is.
00:04:13.820Now for those mercifully listening to the audio podcast, the footage I just played shows Frankie
00:04:24.020and his wife dancing together in the living room in celebration of their divorce. There's a lengthy
00:04:29.700caption where he excitedly talks about the divorce, like he's announcing a marriage rather
00:04:34.460than the dissolution of one, and we'll get to that in a moment. But the video itself is a tragedy,
00:04:40.020especially given the context although admittedly there's no context where a 40 year old man should
00:04:45.040be posting videos of himself dancing it's undignified it's unfair to those of us who
00:04:50.460had the misfortune to be born with eyes frankie like most 40 year old men and i say this as one
00:04:56.360myself moves with all of the grace and rhythm of like a three-legged deer hobbling away after0.99
00:05:01.240getting shot in the ass that's why dancing is meant for people who are younger or at least1.00
00:05:05.340blacker. So if you feel the need to dance as a middle-aged man for some ungodly reason, go1.00
00:05:10.300somewhere behind a locked door, lower the blinds, draw the shades, turn off the lights, make sure
00:05:15.680all the other humans and domestic animals have evacuated the premises, and then if you must,
00:05:21.180dance in private so the rest of us are not forced to witness this ghastly sight. But in this context,
00:05:28.120which is a cucked, henpecked weakling convulsing offbeat to a bad pop song pretending to be happy
00:05:34.260that his wife is leaving him, displaying the sincere enthusiasm and wearing the genuine smile0.67
00:05:39.580of a North Korean citizen, giving a standing ovation to dear leader because the other option
00:05:44.480was burial in a mass grave. In this context, it is unbearable to behold. And when I first watched
00:05:51.280this, probably because I was so overwhelmed with disgust that I turned it off in 3.2 seconds,
00:05:55.240I didn't even notice that their five-year-old child joins in on the dancing. Frankie invites
00:05:59.740his son over and plays air guitar with his body, all to celebrate the fact that his son won't be
00:06:05.660growing up in a stable two-parent household. They apparently sat the child down, explained very
00:06:11.300somberly that mommy and daddy still love each other, but don't want to be around each other,
00:06:15.840or live in the same house, or on the same planet. And then as the child was tearfully trying to
00:06:21.180process the worst trauma of his life, they excitedly declared, hey, we have an idea. Let's
00:06:26.900have a dance party. I mean, dancing with your wife and child to celebrate the fact that your
00:06:31.500child will no longer have mommy and daddy in the home is one of the most depraved things a Hollywood
00:06:36.100actor has ever done, which is obviously a very, very high bar to clear. In a twist nobody saw
00:06:41.220coming, Frankie Muniz has surged ahead of like Charlie Sheen and Kevin Spacey in the race to be
00:06:46.520the worst living Hollywood degenerate. So if he can't win a NASCAR race, at least he can win this
00:06:52.240one, I guess, is the idea. How are we supposed to interpret what happened specifically in Frankie's
00:06:56.580case. Well, I can't say one way or another because I don't know any of these people or want to.
00:07:00.960Just looking at that video, though, it's pretty apparent that his wife came up with the idea. I
00:07:05.140mean, no man would subject himself to something like this voluntarily. And also from a statistical
00:07:09.580perspective, these sorts of things are normally the wife's idea. And I don't just mean posting
00:07:15.440dancing videos on the internet, although that too. Depending on what studies you look at,
00:07:19.420women are responsible for filing something like 70 to 80% of divorces. This has been one of the1.00
00:07:25.220most enduring consequences of the feminist movement. Women have been bombarded with1.00
00:07:29.660relentless propaganda about how they're independent. They don't need no man. They're1.00
00:07:35.060taught that they can murder their children if they're inconvenient. So obviously breaking up
00:07:39.200a family is no big deal. I mean, if you would dismember your child for your own independence,
00:07:43.840then dismembering your marriage is like nothing in comparison. And as a result, divorce has become
00:07:49.040something of a social contagion. Now, the social contagion aspect of divorce is nothing new. What
00:07:54.980is new or at least increasingly mainstream is the relentless effort to present divorce as something
00:08:02.760empowering and fulfilling, a thing to be celebrated. I mean, not to get too hung up on this one example
00:08:09.200of the guy from Malcolm in the Middle, now the star of Malcolm in the Cuck Chair, but the example
00:08:14.060is illuminating, especially when you read the caption and it kind of, it's a symptom of the
00:08:20.520larger problem, but here it is. Life update. Following a period of separation that we kept
00:08:24.400private, Paige and I have decided to move forward with ending our marriage. After 10 beautiful years
00:08:29.300together, we've grown in ways that made us realize our relationship feels most natural and strong as
00:08:34.260a deep friendship and as co-parents. We share an incredible son who remains the center of our world
00:08:39.120and we're both happier, stronger parents because of the love and growth we've shared.
00:08:44.060I'll read the rest of it in a moment, but already this feels like an email you'd get from HR when
00:08:48.320you, you know, when they deactivate your key card. We've decided to move forward with ending our
00:08:53.620marriage. There's not an actual human on the planet who's ever uttered that sentence. I'm
00:08:58.340confident in saying that. You'll only get a line like that from like Brenda from HR or ChatGPT.
00:09:04.060If there's one thing AI chatbots are good at, it's putting together grammatically correct
00:09:08.520sentences that manage to be coherent and yet have no meaning at the exact same time. And also notice
00:09:14.400the attempt typical of these Hollywood divorce announcements to pretend that divorce is the
00:09:18.200result of personal growth, when really it is the result usually of two selfish people who never
00:09:24.340figured out how to stop being selfish. The problem is precisely a lack of growth, or if it was growth,
00:09:31.660it was growth of the wrong thing. Okay, saying divorce is the result of growth, it's like saying
00:09:36.160terminal cancer is the result of growth. That's technically and medically true, but the problem
00:09:41.220is that the wrong thing was growing. And as for being a co-parent, well, and you know, when you
00:09:47.960hear this from divorced people. Oh, we're going to co-parent. Well, that's the arrangement you
00:09:52.280already had geniuses. That's, that's called being married. Divorced couples are not co-parents.1.00
00:09:58.660They are competing parents. If you are cooperating parents, if you are parents on the same team,0.99
00:10:05.200you'd still be married. It's certainly a practical impossibility for any child to remain the center
00:10:11.180of their world as Frankie claims in this scenario, especially because you get divorced because you
00:10:15.580want to be the center of your own world, which is one of the reasons why it's so revolting that
00:10:20.040these people insist on including their child in the messaging about their divorce. And at any rate,
00:10:24.700the child actually should not be the center of your world anyway. It's another thing you hear
00:10:30.460in these divorce announcements from celebrities. They always say, well, our child will continue
00:10:34.900to be the most important thing in our lives. Well, yeah, that's actually not true because
00:10:41.020you are the most important thing in your life, very clearly. That's how you live.
00:10:44.460But it's also, that's not even an ideal that you should strive for, actually.
00:10:49.260The center of your world should not be your child.
00:10:52.200It should actually be, well, it should be your faith.
00:10:54.160And your marriage should be the next closest thing to the center.
00:10:58.080The child orbits around that like a planet around the sun.
00:11:01.680The child is not himself the sun, with you and your wife as planets orbiting him.
00:11:06.880Not to torture the cosmic analogy to death, but the thing in the solar system with the most mass
00:11:12.220is the thing that everything else orbits around.
00:11:14.540Your child should not, in a metaphorical
00:11:16.720or, frankly, literal sense, have the most mass.
00:16:42.660that's what you call drop the mic you know what you seem to be grading her higher on her answer
00:16:49.480so the one word for her next chapter is me she says which may sound almost comically self-centered
00:16:57.020but we should cut her some slack i guess i mean after all she only knows three words in total
00:17:01.680and the other two are i and myself still that me answer is arguably a bit offensive i mean
00:17:07.500some would say it's rather patriarchal and misogynistic for michelle to focus the next
00:17:11.380chapter on a man. Some would say that. I'm not saying that I would say that because that would
00:17:16.000be a crass joke, a below the belt hit on Michelle Obama. I don't approve. I'm just saying that some
00:17:20.200people, some people would make that joke. In any case, although Michelle and Barack are still
00:17:25.240technically married, I guess, this is all part of the same picture. The elites in our society
00:17:29.880promote selfishness. They preach it like a gospel. That's why they want us to see divorce as a
00:17:34.180celebratory occasion. And divorce, of course, has always occurred. To some extent, it always will0.60
00:17:39.020occur. We should do everything we can to mitigate it, but it will never be entirely eradicated.
00:17:43.900But acknowledging that divorce is a reality, an evil reality, but a reality all the same,
00:17:48.440is very different from actively celebrating it as a positive good. And yet this is what nearly
00:17:53.460every cultural institution insists that we do. That's why there's a whole sub-genre of articles,
00:17:59.340think pieces, essays, memoirs, all revolving around the theme that divorce is good and often
00:18:05.200the key to personal growth and fulfillment and empowerment. There are hundreds, well, hundreds
00:18:09.920of examples of this kind of thing, but we don't even need to look past the last couple of weeks
00:18:13.000to find one. I mean, just take any, whatever week or month you're in, just like go check. There's
00:18:17.720always one of these circulating around. So in June, Emily Ratajkowski became the first, or rather
00:18:24.280became the most recent female celebrity, the most recent until Frankie Muniz, to publish a long
00:18:30.620think piece extolling the virtues of her recent divorce. In a piece for The Cut titled Mother
00:18:35.940Effer, she writes, quote, becoming a single mother changed the way people looked at me exactly as I
00:18:40.760feared it would, but also allowed me to finally see myself. I wasn't left. I left. I knew then
00:18:46.120that being able to leave to say no was the only real superpower I gained through divorce. I was
00:18:51.680brave, really, actually brave. Yes, there's nothing more brave than betraying a vow. Of course, you
00:19:00.300know, to make a promise and then not follow through. Brave. Oh, so brave. That takes,
00:19:06.880oh, that is so brave. On a scale of personal bravery and heroism, divorced single mothers
00:19:11.840rank somewhere above wildland firefighters and Medal of Honor recipients. And of course,0.99
00:19:16.620I say that sarcastically, but divorced single mothers like Emily would hear that and wholeheartedly0.91
00:19:21.360agree with it without any irony whatsoever. Also this summer, we had this article in The Guardian
00:19:27.260entitled Hot Divorcee Summer. Get ready for big hats, hot sex, and don't care energy.1.00
00:19:34.700The first few sentences of this monstrosity are all you need to really understand what's going0.97
00:19:40.440on here. Quote, sorry, babe, I'm a divorced mom on a buffet of magnesium glycinate, ashwagandha,
00:19:47.640peptides, and sertraline. Covering a mortgage alone during late stage capitalism,
00:19:52.440I don't give a F about your opinion anymore, wrote Megan McTavish, an Australian divorce fluencer who went viral a couple of years ago because even after her split, her parents refused to take down her wedding photos.
00:20:05.060This might be the core of hot divorcee energy, an unvarnished devil may care spirit that seems to have captured the cultural moment this summer.
00:20:14.060So, of course, you're wondering how this differs from the brat last year's aspirational muse who also emphatically did not care what the world thought.
00:20:23.000Though, if you're still confused about the difference between that and 2024's Hot Girl Summer,
00:20:26.840I suggest you go back in time and take last year's module again.
00:20:29.760Taddy McLeod, a comedian and writer, broke it down for me.
00:20:32.940Brad was all about looking slightly disheveled, still in yesterday's makeup.
00:20:36.620You were supposed to look as though you hadn't made an effort.
00:20:39.320At the heart of divorcee energy is, hell yeah, you've made an effort.1.00
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00:24:36.820Now, all this relentless pro-divorce propaganda has an effect just as intended. We already know that divorce is contagious to a very real extent, which isn't talked about enough, but it's true.
00:24:45.900as the author Rob Henderson has pointed out, quote, people are 75% more likely to become
00:24:50.140divorced if a friend is divorced and 33% more likely to divorce if a friend of a friend is
00:24:55.060divorced. So in other words, divorce is one of those major life decisions that many people
00:24:59.560outsource in a way, you know, they look to their friends for validation before they do it themselves.
00:25:04.260It's called decision-making by committee. It's when rather than make a bold decision by yourself,
00:25:08.220you seek the advice of your friends and the friends of your friends, an advice columnist,
00:25:13.120to therapists. You're heavily influenced by what other people are doing and how they might judge
00:25:17.320you or not judge you. And it's obvious which gender is more likely to engage in this kind
00:25:22.180of decision-making. Women overwhelmingly make decisions by consensus. It's why professional1.00
00:25:25.800mediators and legal disputes are mostly women. It's also why nearly all, basically 100% of the1.00
00:25:31.300divorce's empowering propaganda comes directly from women or from cuckolded husbands like Frankie
00:25:36.440Munez at the behest of women. And this is a compounding effect. Women are much more likely0.52
00:25:41.440to initiate divorce. Women tend to have more friends. The likelihood then of a woman having0.93
00:25:46.280a friend who gets divorced is high and gets higher with age. And once that happens, the domino effect
00:25:52.180takes hold. Women see those divorces and they feel emboldened to pursue their own divorce.1.00
00:25:57.620Add in social media, now the global social network that we're all plugged into, and you can see the0.58
00:26:01.980problem. They know they won't be shunned or stigmatized in any way. They'll get the affirmation
00:26:06.740their cravings, so they go for it. Now, a key part of this strategy is to downplay the ramifications
00:26:12.020of divorce. Here's another example from a TEDx talk with hundreds of thousands of views. Watch.
00:26:18.020Thank you, divorce. That's what I said five years ago when the judge issued me my divorce decree.
00:26:26.660With that decree in hand, I was positive every problem I had was now part of my past,
00:26:35.240along with my marriage and as I walked out of the courtroom that day I was sure I was walking
00:26:41.840towards a new life full of happiness I was also sure that that perfect guy that was going to bring
00:26:48.640me that happiness was waiting for me right around the corner now let's fast forward a couple of
00:26:55.780months and the reality of being divorced with three little kids was slapping me in the face
00:27:04.860There were so many incidents that I was so ill-prepared for that were so hard.
00:27:12.880For instance, this one day, the kids and I had gone swimming all day,
00:27:17.140and on the way home, they had all fallen asleep in the car.
00:29:57.540the counselor relate. That's almost too on the nose how they directly compare divorce to two0.61
00:30:02.600railway carriages being separated. It's hard to think of a more dehumanizing comparison. It's
00:30:07.020also not accurate, you know, because in marriage, two become one. That's sort of the whole point.
00:30:13.800So a divorce is not separating train cars, but rather taking one train car with passengers
00:30:20.020inside and ripping it in half. Or better yet, divorce is derailing the entire train only for
00:30:26.820the conductors to stand amid the smoking wreckage and mangled bodies and declare the scene is
00:30:31.860actually quite life-affirming. And then Frankie Muniz shows up and starts dancing over top the
00:30:36.840corpses. I mean, that's basically what's going on if we want to use railway analogies.
00:30:40.580If there's any upside to the trends that we're seeing, it's that divorce rates have been
00:30:44.220declining for some time now. Marriages are more likely to last at the moment as compared to the
00:30:49.860turn of the century. And that's a welcome and surprising development given the way social
00:30:53.840media creates social contagions in the way that every powerful institution and many powerful
00:30:57.840people have tried desperately at every turn to promote and encourage divorce. At the same time,
00:31:03.680while divorce becomes less popular, so does marriage itself. As Forbes reports, quote,
00:31:09.340both the marriage and divorce rates have declined over time. In 2000, a total of 944,000 divorces
00:31:15.060and annulments occurred. The crude divorce rate was four per 1,000 population during that year.
00:31:20.480By 2022, it had fallen to 2.4 per 1,000 with just 673,989 people divorcing that year.
00:31:27.000The marriage rate has declined too, dropping from 8.2 per 1,000 in 2002, 6.2 per 1,000 in 2021.
00:31:36.080So while the declining divorce rate suggests that the constant pro-divorce propaganda has failed,
00:31:42.380the declining marriage rate suggests that the propaganda has actually succeeded
00:31:45.720even beyond the wildest dreams of the propagandists.
00:31:48.840I mean, after all, the only thing more empowering than dissolving a marriage is never having one to dissolve to begin with.
00:31:55.800And there's a reason that the cultural powers that be want to create a society like that.
00:32:00.060They want weak families and abandoned children because weak families and abandoned children are infinitely easier to indoctrinate and control.
00:32:09.080You know, the same kind of people who would post memes to celebrate a political assassination will make a dance video to celebrate a divorce.
00:32:15.500It's the same idea. Celebrating destruction. And it festers when we lose our ability or our will
00:32:22.920to identify evil when we see it. And tearing a family apart is evil. No amount of dancing will
00:32:28.300change that. We all know it. In spite of the dancing and the divorce celebrations. In fact,
00:32:34.980the celebrations only serve to underline the evil. They reveal precisely the truth that they're meant
00:32:41.020to cover up. You don't go out of your way to convince the world you're happy with your decisions
00:32:45.660if you actually are happy with them. Frankie Munez and Emily Radischkowski and all the rest
00:32:52.040of them protest too much. They are miserable and inviting every married couple to dissolve their
00:32:58.160marriage and join them in their misery. And that is one invitation that should be easy to decline.0.69
00:33:06.100that will do it for the show today and actually for the next two weeks i'll be going on vacation
00:33:12.600for a couple weeks as is my tradition at this part of july first part of july be back in a
00:33:17.460couple weeks uh we'll have a lot of new content for you in the meantime though so stay tuned for
00:33:21.780that and talk to you on the other side godspeed0.99
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