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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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