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May 19, 2021 - Davis Aurini

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20210514 If You Meet the Buddha

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	Well, hello folks.
	Let's find out if it's streaming.
	I decided maybe start a couple minutes early.
	Just in case it's being weird again.
	So let's boot up D Live there.
	Take a lookie look.
	Yeah, there I am.
	All frozen in motion and looking super handsome.
	As usual.
	And no comments just yet.
	Keep an eye on those.
	There's no comments from last time, so the cache should be cleared, hopefully.
	So how are you folks doing out there?
	Tell you what I'm not doing too badly.
	I found these schnazzy sunglasses on the bus.
	And now, like, if I could have returned them to whoever they belonged to, I would have, obviously, right?
	But they were long gone.
	So I said, eh, you know, I guess that's the universe.
	Giving me a pair of sunglasses, reminding me how cool I am.
	And I tell you, folks, I really feel like I should have a baseball bat swung over one shoulder right now, dressed like this.
	What do y'all think?
	Let's see.
	Looks like we got five viewers so far.
	Don't want to jump into things too quickly.
	They're blue blockers, which is actually kind of nice.
	Cheering me up.
	Right?
	It's giving the whole world a rose tint to it.
	Much more pleasant than the world that is actually out there.
	So, I'm okay with that.
	I'm okay with seeing a slightly better reality than what actually exists.
	We got that whole situation going on in the Middle East right now.
	Which, I mean, you could pretty much start off any stream with that statement, right?
	I joked on Facebook, you know what we should be doing?
	Just like, just send lots of missiles to both sides.
	Lots and lots and lots of missiles.
	Instead of peace talks, more missiles.
	How's that?
	Because I'm pretty sick of the Middle East ruining the cornflakes for everybody else.
	I don't like either side.
	Don't like the Palestinians, they fire rockets and hide behind children.
	And I don't like the Israelis because they're basically a bunch of Nazis.
	So, screw them and the world war they're going to try and start.
	You know, guys, if a world war started right now, I would be very hard-pressed to even give a shit.
	The whole reality is just so stupid and awful right now.
	That, yeah, yeah, go ahead.
	You have your war.
	Have your big war.
	Gonna be doing my thing.
	I'm just trying to make money.
	I'm just trying to enjoy myself for once in my lifetime.
	Speaking about enjoying yourself.
	Anita Sarkeesian's still at it.
	She's upset because in The Mandalorian, they have boob armor.
	Like, we're not talking Batman and Robin boob armor with the bat butt and the bat nipples.
	We're just talking body-fitting armor.
	She's upset about this.
	I mean, good lord, woman, what is your deal?
	Why do you hate sex so much?
	Why do you hate dimorphism of the species?
	What makes you so cross about the fact that girls have a vagina and boys have a penis?
	What upsets you about that?
	So profoundly.
	But, you know, it upsets her.
	So she's complaining about that.
	Doesn't create anything.
	Just complains about things.
	Fantastic woman.
	So I'm not seeing any comments, so let's see if I can reboot D Live.
	We get that sometimes.
	comments don't always load the way we'd like them to.
	Go there, go to my channel.
	There we go.
	There are the comments, I think.
	I think they might be from last time.
	Well, greetings, so that doesn't sound like from last time.
	Glad to have you, Firehops.
	And actually, I can't see anything with these glasses.
	We're gonna take them off.
	Just happy I got free sunglasses, man.
	It's not bad.
	So let's see.
	Those are from last time.
	don't do that.
	You got a good evening.
	Good evening to you, Turner and Hooch.
	So yeah.
	Looks like the gang's all here.
	So the title of this live stream.
	And by the way, do it funny.
	I couldn't write the full title because I'm worried that's going to trigger one of the bots, one of the sensors on there.
	The full Kohen is if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.
	And the funny thing is, I caught this Darkwing duck clip the other day.
	And Negaduck was saying things that you can't say on YouTube these days.
	Like if you just quote Negaduck, you're going to get your video demonetized.
	It's absolutely ludicrous.
	What's going on?
	It's like PG-13 levels of ludicrous.
	So there's one movie review of Tremors 2, and they had to refer to the implements in the back of the truck as military tools.
	Because if you said what they actually were, it would demonetize the video.
	Or it might.
	might demonetize the video a lot of people see I was one of the first ones that this happened to and I thought I was just being targeted because I'm me No, no, it's happening to everybody else.
	The Facebook, the Indian programmers in this Trust and Safety Council are pouring through your old Facebook posts that nobody had a problem with to find something that is problematic here in Year Zero.
	These people are so utterly ridiculous.
	The Endless Mask Mandates.
	Giving you a million dollars.
	A lotto for a million dollars if you get the COVID vaccine.
	Wow, that sounds really, really safe.
	That sounds like a good usage of public funds, doesn't it?
	I mean, if the stupid thing was actually safe and the disease was actually dangerous, you wouldn't really need to sell it.
	Yeah, you'd have like a small group of hardcore anti-government, whatever.
	Yet you always have that one small little group, right?
	But they're resorting to a lottery for the rest of us.
	Like, that's telling you right there that there's a lot of people that aren't buying what the media is selling.
	Gotta get out of Ontario.
	Oh, brother, Ophelia.
	What the hell is wrong with Ontario?
	It's just a province of Karens.
	It's a beautiful province.
	Great architecture, nice, like nice climate there.
	But the people are just horrendous.
	It's like anytime you have a nice environment, awful people move in.
	California, Ontario, Vancouver.
	I don't know what the hell it is, but all the really, truly just rancid humanity.
	It's like, I don't know, maybe the humidity causes their souls to ferment.
	Something like that.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Really, really terrible people in those provinces, though.
	Or those and states.
	Oh, except Florida.
	I mean, Florida is full of crazy people because they're like, their brains are a little bit overcooked.
	Lots of craziness in California or in Florida, but it seems like you have some decent people.
	And Miami is fantastic.
	Shoot.
	Like, if I could, I don't know.
	I'm kind of waiting to see how everything shakes out over the next few years.
	I've got no idea what's going on.
	I don't really think any of us do.
	Idiots in charge don't even know what they're doing.
	Can't decide whether COVID is racist against Chinese or if not taking the vaccine is racist against black people.
	Right?
	They have no idea what the hell is going on with all of this.
	So, until things sort themselves out, yeah, we'll see.
	We'll see.
	Because I love Vegas, but Miami would be a close second.
	The fact they don't have any lockdowns there is really selling me on the place.
	So, yeah, I've had a couple of things on my mind for the past week.
	The blogger Accepting Ignorance was talking about that Kohen.
	If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.
	And also, something Devin Stuck was saying about thinking like you're in the mafia.
	Which, you know, I'll get to that second.
	The first one: if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.
	Tampa, I don't, I've never been to Tampa, Florida.
	Got no strong opinion on it.
	The one with the Buddha.
	The interesting thing about Koans is that maybe it's the translation.
	Right?
	I think that's a huge part of it.
	And the fact that we haven't heard them a million times before, so they're foreign to us.
	They jump out and they really force you to think.
	And to be perfectly frank, our religious texts in the West do the exact same thing.
	It's just that we are so familiar with them.
	And we've got those idiots that take everything literally, right?
	They can't think of more than three moving things at the same time.
	Walking and chewing gum is about the most you can expect from these people.
	And sort of like all the parables of the Bible are challenging you to think about them.
	But the koans, and maybe it's just the way they come across.
	Maybe if we grew up in an Eastern culture, it wouldn't be this way.
	They'd be as boring as the stories in the Bible.
	But still, what a weird thing to say.
	You meet the Buddha in the road kill them and there are so many different like there's so many layers to this thing On the one layer, it's saying that if you meet somebody calling themselves a Buddha when you're both walking the road, they're not a Buddha.
	Kill them.
	Run away from that person because they have no idea.
	They're going to lead you into a world of misery.
	Because they're a false prophet.
	They think if they've got everything figured out, why are they still on the road?
	Got another layer of it, which is saying that if you're still on the road, if you're still headed towards your destination of enlightenment, don't stop.
	Don't think, oh, I've met the Buddha.
	Okay, I can stop now.
	I've got it all figured out.
	I'm done.
	No more journeying for me.
	It's like, nah, journey keeps going, man.
	And that doesn't have to be a literal Buddha.
	It could be something you make into a Buddha.
	I mean, that's kind of the soul of heresy, isn't it?
	You take a simple idea and you decide that it's the greatest idea.
	the only idea that you need.
	That's meeting the Buddha on the Rope.
	If you actually meet the Buddha on the road, he's not going to tell you that he's the Buddha.
	I mean, we see parallels with Christ.
	He didn't go around constantly proclaiming things.
	He spoke to people.
	People recognized what he was.
	And it's like, yeah, okay, great.
	let's talk about what's going on with you and your wife maybe this is what bothers me about the because the anti-COVID thing is becoming just as bad as the pro-COVID thing
	They think they found their Buddha.
	I mean seems to be this thing with conspiracy theories.
	They always want the answer.
	They want the narrative arc of a movie.
	Because the movie, everything's wrapped up in a nice little package at the end of it.
	The journey is done.
	Things are complete.
	You met the Buddha.
	Everything's done with.
	But as fantastic as narrative is, it's not the same.
	Your journey keeps going until you die.
	It's like the QAnon people, they remind me of that video by, oh, who was it?
	The Onion.
	Where it was, like, after Barack Obama got elected, what are the Obamauts supposed to do now?
	It's joking that you have all these people, kind of like zombies, going around asking people to vote for Obama, even though he was just elected.
	Because the whole thing turned into this cult.
	And once Obama got into office, he didn't really do anything.
	Like, if you think about Bush, you know, it's like, what do you do?
	He started the war in Iraq and removed all of our liberties and freedoms.
	And then declared victory, but we kept fighting there for another 15 years.
	So, yeah, he did stuff.
	Whereas, aside from Obamacare, it's like, what did that guy even do?
	I mean, yeah, if you're a hardcore political junkie, you can point out, yeah, he adjusted the tax rate on, uh, who cares?
	He really accomplished nothing.
	It's his whole cult of personality that built up around the election that went nowhere.
	And QAnon is just the same thing for Trump, except they figured out how to keep it going all the way through the Trump presidency.
	And so now we've got all this QAnon nonsense that's still going on.
	People are still paying attention.
	I'm like, who cares?
	Me sitting home and ignoring the news is functionally no different than you obsessing over QAnon.
	Oh, trust the plan?
	Okay, sure, I trust the plan.
	Okay, Trump's going to make a second coming.
	He's going to prove there was election fraud, even though we all know there was election fraud.
	He's gonna do something about it.
	I mean, maybe.
	That'd be nice.
	I'd be pretty copacetic about all of that.
	I wouldn't complain.
	Don't think it's likely.
	And I don't see how me obsessing over internet posts is going to make that happen.
	And same thing with the anti-COVID stuff.
	I mean, like, we all, yeah, it's, they're rushing the vaccine, which isn't even a vaccine.
	It's some weird form of gene therapy against a disease that is mostly harmless.
	And nobody seems.
	Partly, it's them not wanting to admit they're wrong.
	And partly it's them using the crisis to push through legislation, which is what they've always done.
	Okay, like that's not new.
	Naomi Klein had a whole book about it, Disaster Capitalism, I think she called it.
	George Bush, here's another thing he did.
	He pushed through No Child Left Behind thanks to Hurricane Katrina.
	How is a really bad education policy related to a hurricane?
	Well, it's not, but you know, never let a good disaster go to waste.
	And so there's a lot of that with the whole COVID thing.
	Said before, there's this move to get people on basic income, on GMI, whatever, whatever they're calling it these days.
	There's a complete revolution in the logistic network for how things are distributed.
	Automation is taking jobs.
	It's like, there's a whole bunch of weird stuff coming, and they're trying to use this to implement some of it, although nobody really has the political capital to do it well.
	But there's a lot of this end times sort of stuff going on.
	A lot of people preaching about the end times.
	And it's like, I'm pretty sure.
	I'm pretty sure most of us are still going to be here in five years.
	I mean, hey, I could be wrong.
	Like, things can get super exciting.
	But, okay, so let's say things are going to get super exciting.
	What are you doing any differently for me not caring?
	How does worrying about it move the agenda forward?
	Now, if you're kind of stocking up on food and water, you know, batteries and bullets and all that stuff, all the power to you, man.
	You should have some of that stuff stocked up.
	I've got some, not as much as I'd like, but I've got some.
	That's fantastic.
	But it's like, you're acting like you met the Buddha in the road.
	You're acting like it's like this, this is the big thing.
	And life ain't a movie.
	doesn't have end credits and part of the problem as well with the the qanon and the the anti-covid stuff is that folks we need a leader We need a sponsor.
	Right?
	We need somebody in the elites that's actually going to lead us.
	And if we're sitting back playing armchair quarterback, complaining about everything all the time, you're not going to get a leader.
	And the constant complaining about the COVID thing strikes me as that, right?
	And it's.
	People demand perfection out of leaders, which ain't gonna get this side of the grave.
	And they're making themselves unheardable.
	I mean, to be fair, we did.
	We did stand behind Trump and you know, that was a.
	That was a bit of a disappointment, but yeah, I don't know.
	Constantly second-guessing everything that's going on.
	It's like, you know, what are we doing?
	Healthy Man says, I don't think the original quote is meant to be taken at face value.
	The point is, if you see the Buddha on the road, you should not follow him, but should instead seek your own path and road.
	That as well.
	That as well, because everybody's path is unique.
	Right?
	You're not supposed to be imitating somebody else's path.
	And a true Buddha isn't going to tell you, do everything exactly the way that I do everything.
	Buddhism sort of revolves around itself, realizing its ultimate development is to transcend its very starting assumption of eliminating desire.
	A beautiful dialectic where one-sided extreme of eliminating desire gets transcended into a higher synthesis where the desire is left as it is.
	Yeah, the other coin about the guy running from a tiger and he falls over a cliff and he's holding onto a branch and there's a pit full of vipers beneath him and there's a strawberry growing on the branch, so he enjoys the strawberry.
	I think it's I think being of the Zen mindset is like the Buddha that we strive towards is that of being in the moment the way that we want to be in the moment.
	Being aligned with the energy of the moment, you know, vibing with the music and allowing the natural cycles to go the way they ought to be going.
	Have I read, help me man ask, have I read The End of the Mega Machine?
	I have not.
	The term was originally coined by Lewis Mumford.
	The concept revolves around the current socioeconomic system as primary function of resource accumulation.
	Technology and civilization advancement are extensions of this fact.
	Elon Musk's attempts at Mars colonation is sold as virtue or human triumph.
	As resources on earth grow scarce, even bigger landscapes must be explored and harvested in order to continue the pace of advancement.
	That is a fantastic gift there, Aretha Franklin.
	See, growth is good.
	Living is good.
	Colonizing Mars is good.
	But I see what you're getting at.
	It mistakes.
	I feel like this might be a really tawdry point, but GDP is not the same thing as growth.
	Like, not all growth is equal to all other growth.
	Like, the sort of man that collects the, what do they call it?
	Funko Pops?
	Why are they called Funko Pops?
	I don't get it.
	What is pop about them?
	Funko pop sounds like a candy bar.
	Sounds like a lollipop.
	Funko pop.
	Who named these things?
	But yeah, a man that spends all of his resources collecting Funko Pops.
	What the hell is that guy doing?
	Man, I don't even like having keepsakes, right?
	have keepsakes but I like being able to fit everything into two suitcases so yeah not not all accumulation is growth Not all growth is positive growth.
	Sometimes it's a tumor.
	Can a woman be a Buddha?
	I mean, I guess it depends what you mean by a Buddha.
	I will tell you something that is very interesting in that series, The Expanse.
	They introduce this priestess, this Unitarian priestess, that perfectly illustrates everything wrong with female priests.
	There's, um, I don't want, I don't want to give spoilers, right?
	So I'm going to be a little bit bigger.
	But basically, there's this character that engages in a perfectly understandable act of revenge.
	The series actually even explains the childhood trauma that leads her to go to such an extreme.
	And it's all yeah, that, like, that totally makes sense that somebody would do that.
	In those circumstances, like, yeah.
	I mean, they're the bad guy, you gotta stop them, but it's not like they're torturing puppies for fun.
	And the female priestess is like, you know, I preach forgiveness, but I can't forgive what you did.
	What?
	Try and get revenge on somebody that screwed over your family?
	You can't understand that?
	You can't forgive that?
	And it's because what she's manifesting is the mother-protective instinct.
	We even see this with the way that what is it?
	Progesterone?
	I don't think that's it.
	Whatever, the bonding hormone.
	Okay?
	Teenagers in love are spraying it all over.
	And when mothers give birth, they have a ton of it as well.
	And it was so funny, because when they first started studying this chemical, they started calling it the love hormone that's going to cure all the problems of the world until they realized that this love hormone makes you hate outsiders.
	So incredible love for the baby, extreme suspicion and caution towards outsiders.
	So the female priest relates to others either as a mother, as a mother to her child, or as a mother to a foreigner.
	And so the act of revenge, because it went against the priestess's tribe, she was like, could not even begin to relate to the girl that did it, even though it was a fairly simple motive and not really all that evil.
	comparatively.
	Whereas the male priest relates the constituents as a father to children.
	And the fatherly type of love, like when a kid screws something up, tends to be, okay, I've made a mess of things.
	How do we start cleaning this up?
	How do we put the house back in order?
	Right?
	It's like, listen, I understand where you came from.
	I've been around the block a few times.
	Right?
	I know that I'm no saint.
	I've got a pretty good idea of what I am.
	So, you know, as long as you stop doing the behavior, like the father will be the one that says, you're not doing this under my roof.
	Right?
	If you are being a shitheel, you're getting kicked out of the house.
	Meanwhile, the protective mother will indulge the shitheel behavior.
	The father wants you to improve it.
	And if you're doing shitheel behavior, it's like, no, you're out of the house until you stop doing that.
	But once you stop doing that, okay, you're back in the fold.
	So if you want to know why women shouldn't be priests, watch the expanse.
	Season three, it perfectly illustrates it.
	Got Elijah here and Juju.
	Oxytocin, thank you.
	Oxytocin is the one I was thinking of.
	Which, I mean, you need both, right?
	You need a mother and a father.
	Unpopular opinion, I know.
	It's another good meme going around.
	It's like, CEO boards need to be 50% male and 50% female, and everyone's happy.
	A child needs a mother and a father.
	Everyone's angry.
	Shit.
	What a screwed-up world we're in.
	I mean, I'm still thinking about that Sarkeesian tweet of all angry because they've got the boob armor in Mandalorian.
	Why do you care?
	I mean, like, wouldn't your armor need to accommodate the boobays?
	Now, yes, listen, the chain male bikini stuff is ridiculous, okay?
	And it's not a male fantasy.
	It's a human fantasy.
	Okay, feminists?
	Women want to imagine themselves as sexy warrior assists.
	It's a human fantasy, right?
	Women like having, I don't know about you, maybe...
	Maybe you need a double masectomy.
	I need a Sarkeesian.
	Maybe then you'll be happier in life now that you don't have those fun bags distracting you all the time.
	most women like having fun bags.
	Imagine, imagine making fun bags unfun.
	That's what you're doing, feminists.
	You're making the fun bags unfun.
	What's wrong with you?
	What's this?
	Oh my god, this thing is so slow.
	Here's the part where you load the keyboard so I can type.
	Thank you.
	And does it even.
	There we go.
	Like, I don't get it.
	I do not get it.
	I guess her issue was that.
	Well, no, no.
	I say, I'm giving her too much credit.
	It's gonna say the issue is that, well, realistically, you wouldn't have a divot between the.
	Maybe you would with Blasterfire, right?
	It's a frickin' Star Wars universe.
	She wasn't wearing a goddamn bikini.
	Okay, it was full Mandalorian armor, but with space for titters.
	What's the issue?
	She also hated Bayonetta, which was made by a woman, which it's, it's a fun, lighthearted game, and she's like a sex witch that uses her sexiness somehow to make guns.
	I don't know.
	Never played the damn thing, but it's like, can't people have fun?
	Can't we enjoy being sexual beings?
	Is this all oppression to you?
	Apparently it is.
	She get a refurbished think pad.
	Yeah, this one was free, though.
	Basically free.
	I mean, look at that lovely gif that Aretha Franklin put.
	Yeah, that's, people aren't allowed to do that anymore because someone's being oppressed somewhere.
	This world's absolutely psychotic.
	Man, women like this are given voices at the United Nations.
	Like, you gotta be.
	You gotta be freaking kidding me.
	This is not a serious planet.
	Oh, well, maybe Elon Musk will open up space for us.
	Again, like his whole thing.
	Alright, like, guys, don't trust Elon Musk, alright?
	He's a confidence artist.
	I read a really good analogy pointing out that one of the things that the pyramid scheme people do, they're always, it's like, okay, invest in the next thing, and the next thing, and the next thing.
	They always have a new scam to cover up the old scam, right?
	The new investors are the ones that give money to the old investors.
	And that's pretty much how Elon Musk runs his business empire.
	Very few of the companies make any profit.
	It's always on to the next thing and the next thing and the next thing.
	But that being said, or like I care, right?
	Like in this world of shitheels and scam artists, a guy that's building moon rockets is like the last guy on my list of people I have a problem with.
	So, you know, let's open up space.
	Let's start doing something there.
	Let's make a damn moon base already.
	Alright, like new rule.
	If, you know, three people in your extended family have served time in prison, then you get deported back to whatever continent you came from.
	Had about enough of ya.
	It's the other one I was thinking about.
	I was thinking about it because this is a mistake I've made.
	Devin's.
	He was watching a bunch of mob movies.
	And he said that one scene, the mob movie, where it's like the young gangster that's coming up the ranks.
	And the elder gangster says, it's like, hey, Tony, Tony, this guy you've been hanging out with him, the guy you've been hanging out with, don't like him.
	He's a troublemaker.
	He's going to be up to no good, man.
	Tony, you should get away from that guy.
	And then Tony says, hey man, no, he's been my buddy from day one.
	We've been through thick and thin together, man.
	Loyalty's got to count for something.
	And the old monster said, alright, buddy, I'm not going to tell you how to live your life.
	And by the end of the movie, guaranteed, the buddy always betrays him.
	Don't throw pearls before a swine.
	Because good lord, look at the people I was hanging out with.
	That's exactly the mistake I've made so many times in life.
	So many times.
	Like somebody shows up and says, yeah, I want to go the distance.
	But you need to actually look at them.
	And it's hard when you're a young man.
	Alright?
	Because you're nothing but callow youth.
	Right?
	You haven't tested or proven yourself yet.
	So you don't want to abandon your buddy.
	You don't want to leave your best friend behind.
	You don't want to be unloyal, do you?
	So that's the guy that is going to drag you down and you need to be willing to cut that guy out of your life Think about the old mob boss.
	Guy that's saying, Johnny, I don't want you seeking revenge over all of this.
	Johnny, we made peace.
	You got a fair settlement.
	Don't want you seeking revenge over this.
	But, you know, Johnny, he's all hot under the collar.
	He's like, no, Boss, I gotta show him I gotta do this thing.
	Boss goes, alright, well, you know, bless you, Johnny.
	As soon as Johnny leaves the room, you have a hit out on Johnny.
	Johnny's causing us trouble.
	If you give somebody great advice and they don't listen to it, they won't listen to it.
	You tell them, big pile of gold over there, nothing but seven types of hell over there, and they still go over there.
	Cut your losses, man.
	Go with God.
	Go do whatever you're going to do.
	Ain't got nothing to do with me.
	And whatever consequences you get when you go there, like, I got nothing to do with this.
	cutting my losses like don't go out of your way to screw people right Everything what goes around comes around, man.
	Things catch up with you.
	But don't anchor yourself to a sinking ship.
	And you know, I was reminded of that recently.
	I basically old friend called me up.
	I said, hey, what's going on, man?
	I haven't seen you in a while.
	I was like, I guess I'm free tonight.
	I hang out, and a really minor disaster happened.
	You know what?
	We'll kind of leave it at that.
	Don't want to go into the details.
	Don't want to tell other people's stories for them.
	Alright, this is not part of my story.
	Like, I walked away, I walked out of that situation a little bit lighter in my wallet, but otherwise unharmed.
	And so I walked away, I was like, yeah, I knew not to go back to that situation.
	I knew that was going to be how it would end up all over again.
	The line from the expanse: Don't let nostalgia delude you.
	Nostalgia is always better than things actually were.
	You know, there's that Buddha in the road again.
	You just found it.
	Nostalgia.
	You know, you think it's like, oh, we're going to do things like we did before.
	No, you aren't.
	You can't.
	And there's a reason that you moved on with your life.
	There's a reason you broke up with your ex.
	There's a reason you're not hanging out with those people anymore.
	How many of these stories do you have to hear where it's like a kid grows up in the ghetto, makes it good, makes a lot of money, becomes a basketball player, whatever, and then goes and hangs out with his ghetto friends and winds up getting arrested for possession, and that really screws up his basketball career.
	There's a reason you're not hanging out with those guys anymore.
	Water seeks its own level.
	What is your level going to be?
	And you're right, Public Frog.
	Anita does have a nice set of gazonkazonks.
	Couple of big bouncy hulka-gulka-gulka-gulka-gulka-zongka-zongka-zongka-zongka-zongka.
	Bubblefrog says, Musk is living a rare self-actualized life, and- And I would agree on that.
	I would say, I mean, I don't follow celebrity gossip, but he seems to be doing what Musk wants to be doing.
	He also has three sons with famous supermodels.
	So good for him.
	Yeah, he's doing his thing.
	I'm just saying, rode the dope drain, but glad to be off it.
	Exactly.
	Don't mistake him for a Buddha.
	He ain't.
	He's just Elon Musk.
	He's alright.
	Oh man, and I have COVID.
	It's bringing back memories.
	A4 from the old women's blog said that his dad would give him advice, knowing his son wouldn't follow it.
	He explained that his father told him this stuff so that when he acted against advice and it turned up, turned, it blew up in his face, he wouldn't be wondering why.
	He would know why he fucked up.
	Exactly.
	People gotta make their own mistakes.
	Right?
	Really, really frustrating.
	And when you're an older guy, especially once you get to 30, you've got to really start practicing biting your fucking tongue.
	Because if you just...
	What's that rant by Plone?
	Is it Polonius in Hamlet?
	And Hamlet's a clever guy.
	Polonius is just dumping all this wisdom on the young lad, which is really just, I guarantee, that was just Shakespeare frustrated, seeing stupid everywhere.
	So he gave this big rant of aphorisms.
	You know, neither a borrower nor a lender be.
	And then he shoves into this big bagwind of a rant.
	Brevity is the soul of wit.
	So he knew what he was doing there, right?
	but if you if you give too much advice then it's no they don't know they don't they won't remember any of it one of the bits of advice my old man gave me One of the bits I really remember to this day.
	See, I moved to small town Alberta when I was in grade three, and I wasn't very popular, so I hung out with the loser kids.
	There was this one kid in particular.
	The guy was just a pathological liar, right?
	Everything was just a lie from this guy.
	My father once said to me, I don't like that kid.
	Anytime he talks, his eyes go.
	You know he's lying.
	His eyes are always twisting up.
	And you know, I didn't stop hanging out with him immediately.
	I started noticing what my dad was talking about.
	And, you know, a few years later, stopped hanging out with the guy.
	You know, the other loser kids wanted to sit around being losers, so I joined the football team.
	I'm like, fuck, I'm done being a loser.
	I'm done being unpopular.
	They want to say I fucking suck at sports.
	I'm going to join the hardest sport.
	Fuck you.
	Better get some more ice for this.
	To give the kids advice...
	Trying to give them too much advice.
	I was actually rereading A4's blog last summer.
	Just seeing if there's any more wisdom I can pull out of that thing.
	Oh, God, different time in blogging, wasn't it?
	And maybe I'll start blogging a bit more like that.
	The frustrating thing about it these days is cancel culture.
	Like, you got these real mental cases that just scroll through anything you've ever said, ever written, any sound bite, any tweet, Trying to find something to hoist you upon.
	Any reason to just kick up a lot of dirt, kick up a lot of sand, you know, make a bunch of drama.
	Yeah, I think this, to go back to the mother-father thing, I think a huge part of this is the feminization of the education system.
	Because, again, the mother is always looking out for her own kids, right?
	And they can do no wrong in a mother's eyes.
	Whereas the idea of justice is the more masculine role of fair treatment for everybody, and that, yeah, even my own kid can screw up.
	And I'm going to punish him because I want my kid to become civilized so he fits in with civil society.
	Dahlrock described it as domestic policy and foreign policy.
	Right?
	When it comes to domestic policy, a country wants to take care of its citizens and make sure that citizens achieve as much as they can.
	So you get the kind of like the socialist element there.
	But when it comes to foreign policy, you realize that you have to interact with other nations.
	So for instance, I don't know, maybe your country discovers a great oil deposit.
	Well, that's great and all, but you need to share that.
	You need to work with others.
	You can't hold all your blessings for yourself.
	So you need a bit of both.
	And the education system has completely abandoned teaching kids the fair rule of law.
	And so as we get gentler and gentler with kids, we get more and more bullying, more and more mobbing.
	And we've got these kids running around these days that think mobbing is perfectly acceptable behavior.
	And again, it's on the right too.
	Okay, this isn't just the cancel culture on the left.
	The right loves to mob as well.
	And, oh, somebody sent some lemons.
	Help me man sent five ice creams.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	Let's see.
	Let's uh I still don't know what distribute rewards mean, but let's distribute some rewards to everybody.
	All right, hopefully that worked.
	My dad said the same thing about a guy I knew.
	He turned out to be the biggest liar.
	Dads just know.
	Yeah, it's like when you've got, I just realized there's another guy I knew about five years ago that had the exact same thing.
	I know something.
	There we go.
	There we go.
	We distributed lemons for everybody.
	I don't even know what's going on with all of that.
	I should probably figure it out, shouldn't I?
	More donations.
	Thank you guys.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Help me, man.
	There we go.
	He's being awesome.
	Are you stoned?
	That was a co-hip, not me, but man, I've been thinking about getting a joint.
	I kind of feel like I want to get stoned.
	I want to get stoned with somebody, but I got nobody to get stoned with.
	I just want to sit in the dark discussing philosophy and smoking a joint.
	That's so much to ask.
	And yeah, it's legal up here.
	Which, like, I don't even smoke the stuff.
	Like, the last time I smoked a joint was probably six months ago.
	But I'm glad it's legal.
	It's one less thing for the cops to screw with you with.
	One less reason to be paranoid.
	I'm already a pretty paranoid person so oh god those don't those people frustrate you those liars because Because they have stuff going on.
	No, there's nobody.
	There's nobody out there that has absolutely nothing going on.
	Right?
	Anybody you meet, there is something they've got going on that's really cool about them.
	But the guy that's always telling lies just screws it all up, doesn't he?
	Because he can never tell the lie from the truth.
	And it's like, dude, I want to know about you.
	I want to know what you're doing.
	What do you got going on, man?
	I want to know about you.
	That's what excites me.
	But instead of telling you, he wants to play games constantly.
	And the games get boring really, really fast.
	And it's tough when you're in a situation where it's like, I could hang out with somebody that's playing stupid games or hang out with nobody.
	these lockdowns are just, they're so stupid.
	Let's see.
	Does this app just take up a lot of juice or something?
	Yeah, there we go.
	Even though I don't think we can have a purely anarchist state, I do wish it was possible.
	Yeah, it reminds me.
	Amanda, have you ever read Stranger in a Strange Land?
	Fantastic book.
	I mean, if you meet the Buddha, kill him.
	The hippies took Stranger in a Strange Land and turned it into the hippie Bible.
	When, bro, it was just a science fiction novel.
	You weren't supposed to take it seriously.
	Kill the Buddha if you meet him.
	But one of the things that Heinlein said in that book was that Jubal Hershaw ran his house as like I think he even said like all hell, all homes are a strange mixture of tyranny and anarchy.
	Which is, if you get like that's kind of like the tribal state of man, isn't it?
	Like absolute tyranny.
	There's one guy in charge.
	He can do whatever the hell he wants.
	If he declares that Tuesdays are pants down Tuesdays, then you better be walking around with your pants off.
	He can do whatever the hell he wants.
	But at the same time, there aren't any rules.
	Like, you can pretty much do whatever the hell you want.
	Isn't it interesting, too?
	How like I think a close facsimile of this is hanging out with older parents or grandparents.
	When you're an adult or a teenager or something.
	It's like you pretty much have the run of the house.
	You can do whatever you want when you're hanging out with the grandparents.
	Except for the obvious stuff, like don't burn down the house.
	Which is something you don't even want to do anyway.
	Like most of the natural moral law is so instinctual that we don't even think about it.
	Like we like, no, I don't want to burn down the house.
	I'm having fun sitting in the pool.
	It's only when we start living in a society that all of a sudden you're not allowed to smoke the reefer.
	Suddenly we got controlled substances!
	If Buddha was a woman, you could fuck her if you met her on the road.
	It'd be a mind-expanding experience.
	Well, something would be expanded during that experience.
	I read that they're now considering the cohort between 1980 and 85 as geriatric millennials.
	Yeah, there's a...
	Goddammit, I'm ahead of the times again.
	There's this really autistic need to label absolutely everything these days.
	Right?
	From like the 53 genders to the 20 different types of sexuality to generational lines.
	Everybody's trying to label everything, but they're not trying to label to explain.
	If you consider Strauss and Howe's work, right, where they're labeling the generations, they're trying to define a pattern.
	And now there is debate.
	There's a lot of room to debate whether Strauss and Howe are actually onto something or if the four-generational paradigm is just a useful instructional tool.
	Right?
	Sort of like the way they call it when you're learning about the atom and they draw, oh, the electrons move like this.
	And they actually don't.
	It's an electron cloud.
	It's energy valances.
	It's not orbits around a planet.
	The orbital model.
	That's what they call it.
	Right.
	Like, they don't actually orbit the way that planets orbit a sun.
	However, planets orbiting a sun is fairly easy to visualize, especially if you've played star control.
	Planets orbiting a sun, we can understand that quite easily.
	And it's a fairly accurate model of the atom.
	I mean, it's not at all accurate, but it's accurate enough for our purposes, right?
	It helps you sort of understand what's going on.
	And Strauss and Howe's theory is kind of kind of back and forth.
	On the one hand, it makes a lot of sense.
	At the other hand, so does the horoscope.
	So I don't know if it is actually predicting anything, or if it's just a really good way of thinking about things.
	Gives you a sense of the tempo of a civilization.
	Yeah, you got the four seasons, all right?
	Spring, summer, fall, and winter.
	And you get the same sine wave going through civilization, which that actually sounds plausible.
	Most things move in sine waves.
	And oh god, I'm going to take another line from the expanse.
	You've got simple systems, which are just a sine wave.
	And you've got complex systems where you've got so many things going on that becomes a sine wave.
	It becomes very robust.
	But then you've got the simple complex systems, right?
	They're talking about the Ganymede, the breadbasket of the solar system, right?
	They've got these solar farms on Ganymede.
	And the botanist points out that Ganymede is a simple, complex system.
	Meaning that, like, everything's been finely tuned by the scientists to get along with everything else.
	And if one thing goes, you're going to have a cascade failure.
	Right?
	And on planet Earth, if one species goes extinct, you're going to be okay.
	Lots of other species that you can, the animals can switch to eating.
	But in a simple, complex system, that's where you risk a cascade failure.
	And the simple, like, the electrical grid is a simple, complex system.
	Right?
	All you need is one transformer station to go out, and, you know, half the grid goes off.
	Now, is the internet a simple or complex?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	The internet might be evolving to something more complex, but that's absolutely beyond my ken.
	I hope it is, because we are so incredibly reliant upon the internet that we really need it to be robust.
	Like, ideally, we should be able to detonate a few nukes in the atmosphere, EMP bursts, and redeploy all the information without losing any critical infrastructure information.
	So, you know, we're actually quite lucky that those hackers hacked the pipeline, aren't we?
	Right?
	A hacker screwing with us than a solar flare used to be just Gen X I don't understand the change.
	Yeah, like, Gen X ended, like, the last year that...
	Let me put it like this.
	If you grew up before the internet, you're Gen X. Whereas if you had the internet, you know, since you were a teenager, you're probably millennial.
	If you had a library card, you might eat Gen X.
	But it's like, yeah, you get the millennials.
	They were born, it's roughly like 80 to 2000.
	I mean, if you want a cutoff date, 2001.
	What a fantastic cutoff date, right?
	September 11th, 2001.
	And again, there's slippage on both sides, right?
	We were talking about trends.
	So were you born in the fall or the winter?
	Well, when does fall end and winter begin?
	We put a date on the.
	We put a date on the calendar, but, you know, the winter actually moves back and forth over and like the seasons do not obey our calendar.
	Some winters, it starts early, ends late.
	But basically, yeah, like millennials, 80 to 2001, thereabouts.
	And so kids born up to today, the Gen Z, see, I was going to call them the sleepers because they feel it.
	They really seem like they're just asleep with the technology.
	They're in this constant reverie.
	And the past 20 years, like imagine growing up in the past 20 years, 80s and 90s were characterized by, well, first we had the Cold War and then world peace, right?
	Hot and cold.
	We had major technological breakthroughs, like major quality of life breakthroughs.
	Like, look at the video game systems.
	Look at the Ataris compared to the Nintendo to the Super Nintendo.
	Like, you're seeing in front of you technology make these leaps and bounds.
	Where it seems like 2000 to 2020, we had a lot of sound and theory about everything.
	We had these, like, you know, Donald Trump is a Nazi.
	George Bush is a Nazi.
	We gotta fight the war on terror.
	Like, we had all these screaming heads on our televisions for 20 years.
	But none of it really mattered.
	Like, daily life was not affected by any of these things.
	The big thing changing in daily life was entertainment.
	There was this comic I saw.
	It was like this autobiographical comic.
	It should have been titled A Life Wasted.
	In one of the panels, the guy says that the DC Cinematic or the Marvel Cinematic, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was a major event for this person.
	It's like, I really feel like we accomplished something.
	And the whole thing is just this guy addicted to pop culture with a life going absolutely nowhere.
	And that seems to be like the Gen Zs.
	Like, they grew up in this world of just constant pop culture and crass sexuality, no romance.
	They're just asleep.
	They've been asleep for 20 years.
	Let's see, which actually brings me something.
	Amadi mentions me on the Twatter there, but let me read these comments first.
	Yeah, if you remember a time before widespread personal computers, you're like, you're leaning Gen X. You know, in a strange way.
	Shit.
	I remember being in a military, like, we were at the mess.
	We were having like a ballot.
	The prize, right?
	One of the prizes was a GPS locator that gave you your grid coordinates.
	And it could end like in multiple different formats.
	It was the coolest.
	You could just look up the grid number where you are within like three meters?
	Mind-blowing technology.
	I really, really wanted one of those things.
	Now it comes default on every device I have.
	And in a strange way, like the whole convenience of the internet, it still almost feels like it's like temporary, right?
	And we're going to go back to like, shit, I need to go buy a map.
	I don't know this city very well.
	You know, it's like, oh, where do you live?
	And you fold the Mac on the back, look up the streets alphabetically.
	Okay, it's in square A34.
	Was born in 83, refused to consider myself a geriatric millennial.
	I actually have social skills, unlike millennials.
	Haha, there, we got Falk and Draco in here.
	Fantastic.
	Yeah, like, I mean, what's wrong with saying early millennial?
	Why do we need to say geriatric?
	Like, why do we need 20, 30 divisions of the generations?
	Hey, Puppet Frog's a boomer.
	Glad to have you, man.
	I'm glad my boomer talk doesn't piss you off.
	Although I'm not really vitriolic about it, just sometimes just, my folks irritate me.
	I love my folks.
	I love them.
	Spent the place, spent the night over there.
	I was helping them do some.
	I earned this wound.
	I don't know if you can see it.
	It's disgusting.
	I earned this through heavy work.
	I got paid in food and beer.
	I think because we're trying to find permanence is why we need to...
	Yeah!
	Yeah, yeah, like we've got.
	Part of it is, like I said, there's like a lack of valid experience.
	Right?
	You got screaming heads on TV telling like the past.
	Oh, God.
	Maybe everybody.
	Maybe it was the same for the boomers, but like the past brain, every election is the most important election.
	Uh-huh.
	I mean, this didn't matter.
	None of the elections mattered.
	Day-to-day, none of it mattered.
	So it's all, it's like they're telling you there's a real experience out there, and yet you just get mundanity in day-to-day life.
	Well, at the same time, movies are promising like all this powerful, meaningful excitement.
	We're all going to be rock stars and superheroes and whatever.
	And, you know, you don't get any of that either.
	And meanwhile, day-to-day life is just ticking by until the next Marvel movie comes out.
	And so you want to label yourself as something.
	Labels can tell you a lot about the people applying them.
	Well, the more labels, the less of an identity that somebody has.
	That's where cheddar cheese comes from man.
	I thought it was just like I thought it always existed It's like, oh, look at this.
	It's Cheddar Cheese.
	I know a priori.
	Like, the universe has been waiting for Cheddar Cheese to appear.
	Look, we're going to die at orange for some fucking reason.
	No, of course it comes from a place.
	Cheddar, England.
	That is hilarious.
	The Cheddar Man lived 10,000 years ago.
	Direct descendants was discovered to be living still in the town of Cheddar.
	To this day.
	That is disappearing.
	Oh, man.
	Okay, I know where I'm going to go with the second half of this live stream.
	Millennials are, what, like, 24 to 36?
	They're 20 to 40.
	It's like the generations last about like between 20 and 25 years.
	Basically, they last how long it takes humans to breed.
	And most people start having kids, typically around 23-ish.
	September 10th, 2001.
	The last time you could walk your relative directly to the gate of their airplane.
	I know.
	Good Lord.
	God.
	Part of the reason I'm not super wound up about mask protests is because I used to be super wound up against all the airport security.
	Like, I really hate airport security.
	I will only fly if I don't have the time to drive I would rather drive just because I find the I find airports went like I remember the first time I caught an airplane I was like 14 or 12 or something like that They used to be magical.
	Now the airport is everything I fucking hate about society.
	Right?
	Constant monitoring, this hostility with fake warmth to it.
	It's just absolutely wretched.
	And, you know, I fought against the airport thing, right?
	Like, in principle.
	And it's like, okay, I'm just fucking done.
	I'm done fighting when nobody else seems to give a shit.
	So, if I see somebody not wearing a mask, I high-five them.
	But whatever.
	I even have a fancy mask with breathing vents so it doesn't fog my glasses.
	And yeah, I think the change...
	Well, and the change with COVID, I was saying it's the past 20 years, it's been bullshit.
	Nothing's mattered.
	And all of a sudden we have this COVID overreaction.
	Shit's getting real again by a thousand cuts Oh, my God.
	What they're doing with the economy is insane.
	We're the middle children of history, man.
	No purpose or place.
	No great war.
	No great depression.
	Our great war is a spiritual war.
	Our great depression is our lives.
	Hey, Denk Noodle News made a clip.
	Thank you, my friend.
	I remember smoking on airplanes.
	I remember riding on airplanes that were recently non-smoking and had ashtrays.
	That's actually another thing.
	Three hours without a cigarette.
	Like, fuck off.
	The smoking Nazis.
	Man, the anti-smoking Nazis.
	They just don't want anybody having fun.
	You can't even have the menthols anymore.
	Anyway, Maddie asked me a question, and she tweeted me this girl saying that Canadian guys just aren't romantic on dates.
	And I read that, and I've got any statistical evidence to back that up, sweetheart?
	Like, are have you dated equally between Americans and Canadians?
	You can say that about Canadians.
	Or Canadians and Italian.
	I'm not talking about that one college romance you had when you visited Italy.
	I'm sure that was super romantic, right?
	People aren't romantic anymore people are that young kid.
	I was dating She was terrified of romance.
	So many barriers she was tossing up.
	It's like, honey, I just want to look into your eyes afterwards, right?
	You've got beautiful, beautiful eyes.
	I want to see you vulnerable.
	I want to know you.
	I want to be intimate with you, sweetheart.
	So say Canadian guys aren't romantic, and I don't think anybody's romantic, and I think that's.
	If you were born in the West, anybody that would date you in the world is not going to be romantic, right?
	Like I'm not, I don't know what's going on in South Korea, okay?
	I don't know the culture there.
	And maybe there's a lot of traditional romance there.
	But if you're a Westerner that goes to South Korea, the sort of people that will date you will be Westerners, right?
	They might have a different color of skin, but they're going to be Westerners.
	So it's like, modern world has largely killed romance.
	And like my experience has been, you try and be romantic with girls, they run away from you.
	As happened with the latest one, actually.
	Tell her to come over tomorrow.
	I'm going to validate her.
	I mean, I'm a very romantic guy, but trying to find somebody that wants to be a romantic partner, not just a sex partner, that's really difficult.
	Might be down to us to preserve the future, not just Elon Musk.
	Yeah, let me grab a narrative from fiction for you.
	they lampshade the fact that the protagonist in The Expanse is actually very unlikely.
	In fact, it's almost like, you know HBO Rome?
	How they wrote the story of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
	They wrote those really exciting events that happened over 50 years.
	And then they inserted a couple of protagonists that just kept by accident being there for every major event.
	They did a very similar thing in The Expanse.
	In fact, the Expanse isn't really about the main character.
	He doesn't have a major story arc, too.
	In fact, yeah, none of the main characters, their story arcs are secondary to the political wars between Earth and Mars and all the other really cool stuff that happens, right?
	It's just like you have a regular observation character.
	You're every man that you can relate to.
	So they lampshape that at one point.
	At a few points.
	So it's like, why does shit always find this guy?
	But my point is, it's like, how does this guy live his life?
	right like you like this guy just keeps getting thrown into all these exciting adventures Which are actually pretty damned exhausting if you think about it.
	Constantly being thrown into another adventure is pretty darned exhausting.
	And he just does the best he can.
	Like that to preserve the future to be the salt of the earth the preservative of the earth is it's just Being the person that takes care of the future Or does the best you can in the situation that you are finding yourself in.
	So Francis Baconator says, It's important to understand that the mundane builds the extraordinary.
	90% of what wins a fight, you learn to get your yellow belt.
	It's everybody's duty to preserve the future.
	And yeah, and Ergo's self-reliance.
	I mean, you know what?
	Part of the reason that crew in the Expanse, which I've been watching a lot of recently, it's such a good series.
	Part of the reason they keep being the heroes is because they're competent.
	They can get shit done and they're not constantly relying upon somebody else to do things for them.
	Which, man, if you can find an employee that can do that, like just take care of shit, that's a godsend.
	The problem is, if you are one of those people that can get shit done, you don't fit in with the corporations.
	The corporations are premised upon the fact that 90%, 99% of people are completely worthless and you need to tell them what to do 24-7.
	And they've come up with these wonderful checks and balances.
	And, oh, God, there's nothing worse than a manager that gets like a new idea on how to motivate you.
	It's like they change the motivation structure every month or two.
	And it's like, could you just leave it alone?
	I will jump through the corporate hoops.
	But like, listen, if I sell product, I get a bonus, right?
	Okay, then I'm going to try and sell product.
	Could you leave me alone?
	You want me to put on a 2-2?
	Okay, we'll put on the 2-2.
	We'll dance around.
	Can I go back to selling product now, please?
	I don't want to be motivated anymore.
	Just the worst.
	Yeah, so if you're one of those people that's actually competent, you will not like the corporate lifestyle.
	Elijah says I'm still too much of an avial geek to avoid flying.
	Falcon Draco says, I agree.
	Flying is fucking miserable.
	You can only imagine how horrible it is now after.
	Oh, God, yeah.
	After COVID.
	Good lord.
	And I mean, you go through the damn security checkpoints of the border and they act like you're.
	Okay, maybe this is me projecting my paranoia, but it's like doing it.
	Like, I'm just visiting, man.
	I'm just visiting.
	I'm not up to anything.
	I mean, I'm up to a lot of stuff, but none of it is anti-society.
	I'm not a terrorist.
	I'm.
	I might want to go have some truly depraved sex when I get to the destination I'm headed towards, but I'm not going to steal a car.
	I'm not going to burn down the buildings.
	I'm like, just spending money on your economy.
	The 90s were the best.
	Oh, God.
	They're just easier.
	When an eel lurches out and it bites off your snout, that's amore.
	And when your friend's Canadien- Wait, I can't remember- And you've just done the T, the 2-4.
	He says, you want some more, eh?
	Shoot, I didn't do that one right, but you got where I'm going with it.
	When an eel bites, when you're swimming into sea and an eel bites your knee, that's a more.
	The social scene in general is just sad these days.
	Oh, God.
	I'm having major difficulty dealing with the hookup culture, right?
	Like, there's girls that want to come to my place and they haven't even seen my face yet, right?
	I'm like, aren't you worried I'm a serial killer?
	Don't they want to meet for coffee first?
	Like, you don't know what's going on over here, right?
	Like, I've got a pretty cool place, I think.
	Not really, it's like a 6.5 out of 10.
	They just want to come right over.
	I'm like, but shouldn't I assure you I'm not a serial killer?
	And then I'm like, ugh, you sound like a serial killer wanting to assure me you're not a serial killer.
	Got no idea how to do it, man.
	No idea.
	I miss picking up chicks and bars.
	That was a fun time.
	I think it's just on your end, Elijah.
	We didn't see your comment twice.
	First date should always be watching Disney's Lady and the Tramp.
	How many man says the problem is safety?
	The online world creates a barrier, and so all interactions are gauged off of the online dynamic.
	If you don't want to engage someone online, you can ghost them.
	There's no need to look them in the eye.
	There's no need to have decorum.
	And so, romance is not safe.
	It leaves you vulnerable.
	It means you can't escape without an exit plan.
	It's not something people are used to having anymore.
	There's no ignore button in the real world.
	I think you're absolutely nailing it.
	Like, the only way you can be validated, I can't believe I'm saying this word, but the only way you can be validated is actually being seen.
	Like, it comes with the risk of somebody not liking you, but it's the only way you can do it.
	And so, romance is not safe.
	It leaves you vulnerable.
	It means you.
	Sorry, I'm repeating.
	Large-scale industrial processes.
	Wait, wait, let's wear it.
	Juju says, maybe non-compatibility is a result of no romance.
	Romance is subjective.
	Well, and people, I think they also want to hold on to the online persona.
	Like, your own online persona can be just so well crafted, right?
	Like, you know, I swear to God, guys, I am going to get a picture of myself with the hat and the sunglasses holding a bat over my shoulder because I just feel like I should have a baseball bat when I'm wearing this outfit.
	And that would be a hilarious fucking picture.
	But I'm obviously not a photograph.
	I'm like, obviously, that's ridiculous.
	But some people just want to be that photograph.
	They want to be.
	it's like the reverse of dorian gray and since the corporation is an industrial system so the corporation favors the uniform Right, like the corporation favors predictable mediocrity.
	Think about, like, if you're an OnlyFans girl with simps 24-7, you know how to deal with simps.
	If an alpha chad showed up, it would like throw you off.
	It's like you're not part of the industrial process.
	I don't know how to relate to you.
	And so, the same thing with corporations.
	If you're actually a Maverick and you're really good at what you do, they don't know how to cope with that.
	Falkondrago says, I had the same experience trying to cross the border.
	Border Patrol acts like travelers are criminals.
	Right?
	When we're.
	When we're white for crying out loud.
	That's what's really, really frustrating about the whole damn thing.
	Is they're searching higher.
	Like, white people don't do anything.
	Maybe some tax evasion.
	That's it.
	Like, who even cares?
	Like, you're still getting plenty of tax money.
	Why do you care this much about a little bit of tax evasion?
	Not that I evade taxes.
	I'm just saying.
	I'm saying.
	Like, why do you care?
	Versus people starting, you know, terrorist organizations Which hey it would suck if you're man.
	There's this myth going around that Arabs get hassled so much at the border Like, no, they don't.
	They don't.
	And, I mean, it would suck if you're an honest Arab and you're getting hassled at the border.
	That kind of sucks.
	I get it.
	But it's for good reason.
	Like, if there's some dipshit in a fedora going around shooting people in my neighborhood and the cops arrest me, it's like, ah, I understand why this is happening.
	Right?
	No hard feelings about that.
	I fit the profile.
	But when you don't even fit the profile, pray to Jesus if you're tempted by depravity.
	Probably a great idea.
	Is the idea of a corporation inherently socialist?
	Public owners mean.
	I mean, I think socialists and capitalists have really lost their.
	Right, and that's what I want to get to.
	Remind me.
	Inevitability of technology.
	I want to get to that.
	And sympathy for the devil.
	Sympathy for the devil.
	That's how we're going to remember it.
	The world leaves little ambience for romance as well.
	Our surroundings have become ugly and utilitarian.
	Brutalist architecture.
	Co-Hip, thank you for being here.
	Oh, that's why you asked if you were high, because you have 420 in your name.
	Corporatism is worse than communism.
	Most isms are bad.
	Boom and busts how corporatists acquire innovation.
	That's an interesting thought.
	Now, okay, so here's the other.
	Right, the reason.
	The reason I'm so tired of all the anti-COVID stuff is because my beloved mummy won't stop going on about it.
	And I think if you're going to argue against the establishment, if you're going to argue against anything, you need to be able to argue their position.
	Because they are not without points.
	In fact, when the interesting things about the expense, and it came out several years ago, I don't know if this was intentional or not, but the Secretary General of the UN in the series really reminds me of Hillary Clinton.
	She is now, she kind of reforms herself as the series goes on and becomes less evil.
	But when it starts off, she's a complete psychopathic bitch.
	It really reminds you of Hillary Clinton.
	And okay, I can understand why somebody would vote for Hillary Clinton in those circumstances.
	I can understand why they would look at Hillary Clinton as this iron lady who, yeah, she talks nice in public, but she's actually a really nasty person behind closed doors.
	But gets shit done and is ultimately loyal to Earth and has higher ideals in her mind.
	Like, she doesn't want a pointless war for the sake of a pointless war.
	I could see somebody looking at Hillary Clinton as that person and Donald Trump as some blowhard, fake alpha male with a fake tan, like the sort of guy that's always just blowhard.
	Right?
	The sort of guy that gets women all the time just by being a shallow idiot.
	And the sort of guy that would walk into world war because he's a fat, stupid idiot.
	You know, a fake alpha male.
	Okay, I can understand that perspective.
	You should understand where your opponent is coming from.
	It's very seldom a place of depravity and inhumanity.
	I think we need to look at all the COVID stuff through that lens.
	Let me get ice.
	I tell you guys, I feel weird not wearing glasses.
	I had some business downtown earlier today.
	And let me just put it like this.
	What do you call an Italian in a three-piece suit?
	Right?
	So I had some business.
	I decided not to wear the glasses.
	I feel weird.
	Do I look weird with them or do I look good?
	I don't know.
	Do I have giant bags under my eyes from all those nights staring into the abyss and the inevitability of horror and suffering that comes with existence?
	Or do I look good?
	What does that look good?
	Now, the words capitalism and socialism are thrown about way too much.
	Absent.
	Absent a powerful political actor defining those terms.
	They don't really mean anything.
	That fantastic way.
	Who asked that question?
	Was it Bill West, right?
	No, it wasn't Bill West that asked it.
	Sorry.
	But, you know, it's corporations, are corporations socialists or capitalists?
	If America is pro-corporation and Soviet Russia is anti-corporation, there's your answer.
	Right?
	You have the definition of capitalism is what America supports, and the definition of socialism is what the Soviets support.
	But absent a political actor giving the term meaning, defining what the structures of it are, And I don't think we should be using these terms.
	Because they don't make a lot of sense.
	Like people in Soviet Russia owned their own homes, owned their own tools.
	which one of the things we're discovering with capitalism okay this this is this is something we need to process Alright?
	There are damned good reasons for you will own nothing and you will be happy.
	Here's a reason for it.
	So they cut out legacy support for Windows XP about, what, like five, ten years ago?
	And frustratingly, something like two-thirds of the world's computers are still running Windows XP.
	And they're no longer supporting it.
	Why would they?
	Right?
	They're not making any money supporting it.
	And because of that, the Windows XP computers are very prone to viral infections.
	They are very, very exploitable.
	Here's a better example.
	Your debit card.
	You don't own your debit card.
	It's just given to you by the bank.
	Like, it's lent to you by the bank.
	In fact, if you read through the whole agreement, they can change your debit card at any time.
	Because the way that system works, if there is any theft on debit cards, the banks are forced to pay for it, not the end user.
	As the banks are heavily invested in having good technology that's also very easy to use.
	So they don't entrust you to take care of the security on your debit card.
	And what sort of idiot would want to be in charge of that?
	So you're lent the debit card.
	You're allowed usage of the debit card.
	But you don't own it.
	And you wouldn't want to own it.
	In a world where everybody owned their own debit cards, nobody would accept debit because it would just be terrible.
	Be used for scamming all the time.
	There are very good arguments for leasing automobiles.
	Now, I'm not one of those people that leases automobiles.
	I'm one of those people that spends way too much money fixing up old cars.
	Or once in a while I drive a car into the ground.
	But when you lease an automobile, you have a monthly payment on your car regardless.
	Even though I own my car, I effectively have monthly payments on it.
	I need to change the oil.
	I need to replace the brakes.
	On and on.
	You amortize the cost over the length of operation.
	And with a new vehicle, new vehicles are remarkably cheap.
	They're very reliable.
	And if you service them regularly, as you're supposed to on a lease, then boom.
	It's like you know all the costs.
	You don't get surprised with a $10,000 bill.
	Or, like I was helping out my folks, helping them fix their classic Porsche from like it's almost as old as I am.
	And yeah, that thing took weeks to fix.
	And then after it was fixed, had a problem where it wouldn't work.
	And it took another week.
	If you have a leased vehicle, it always works.
	And if getting to work on time is a priority, then the leased vehicle gets you there.
	We don't own the buses, and there's good arguments why you should lease rather than own your vehicle.
	And the companies like this, partly the companies like this because they have a regular customer.
	They know that, like, if you pay 30 bucks for your license for Microsoft Word every year, that's 30 bucks a year.
	They're guaranteed.
	When you're in business, you are better off having regular customers as opposed to one-time customers.
	Like, you want the regular customer.
	You want the guy that keeps coming back all the time.
	That's how you stay in business.
	But it also provides a lot of value to the customer.
	Makes things nice and predictable.
	And that way you can afford to have a bug-hunting team that gets rid of any exploits that are present in that software.
	Homes too.
	How many people live in one house their entire life and then give it to their descendants?
	Like it or not, travel has become so cheap that we move around all the time.
	And I mean, you're welcome to say this is a bad thing.
	There are a lot of bad things that come from this.
	The extended family is no longer the extended family, is it?
	Which is very sad.
	The extended family is a support network.
	It's a it can help you find a job.
	It can help you find a wife.
	All right?
	Like nobody tried.
	Well, okay, some people were trying.
	But it wasn't the efforts of the university Marxists that destroyed the family.
	It was how cheap travel is.
	And if you're going to travel a lot, why would you keep the same house for your entire life?
	Wouldn't you trade houses as you make more money, get a bigger house, and then when your kids grow up, you get a smaller house?
	That seems to make a lot of sense, doesn't it?
	And the UBI, the Universal Basic Income.
	Now...
	Now, if it were properly instituted, everybody would get it whether or not you were working.
	So there'd be no disincentive against working.
	Right now, there's companies having trouble finding employees for fast food because they pay less than unemployment.
	Now, what if you could keep your unemployment and keep working that job?
	That would be an interesting setup.
	And it might become necessary.
	This is actually one of the things they have in The Expanse as well, that most of the people on Earth are on welfare because there's no work for anybody to do, which does seem to be a situation we are approaching.
	So to say that the left, that they're using COVID to push socialism because they're evil.
	No, it's not because they're evil.
	is because they're trying to figure out what the hell to do with all the economic shocks that we've dealt with in recent years.
	Oh, Gigi says I look good without glasses.
	Thank you, Juju.
	Corporatism is anti-capitalism except when legally, economically, or politically expedient.
	See, it's about power.
	And power comes from networks.
	Power is always informal.
	Like Jubal Hershaw and the tyrannical anarchy of the household.
	It's funny if you think about it, because you could totally beat the crap out of your grandfather and steal his house, couldn't you?
	But we don't do that.
	We respect the networks of power.
	And the dissolution of the family.
	Which, yes, if you profit from something, you tend to encourage more of it.
	And the corporations definitely profit off of us being atomized.
	That doesn't mean, however, that it was the plan from the beginning.
	It doesn't mean there was a giant conspiracy to atomize the family so that we'd become good workers.
	It's more that atomization happened anyway.
	The corporations realized that this would make more obedient serfs.
	And so they embraced it.
	Your argument is not with the corporation, it's with the automobile.
	And I don't think you're going to win that argument.
	Matty says it seems like Western society got into trouble when it stopped individually producing and started consuming instead.
	Well, and that, I'll tell you, that right there actually comes from the Petra dollar.
	It's when they moved away from the gold-backed dollar, moved to the petrodollar, so you have to use U.S. dollars to trade gasoline, which is the universal currency.
	And so now it's a lot cheaper to make goods in China and the manufacturing evaporates.
	Bill West points out that, yeah, you can produce at home without realizing it.
	And this is...
	Oh, good.
	I was saying this last week, I think, that the feminists are all like, ah, nobody pays wives.
	It's like, no, the family, the home is the effort.
	I didn't get paid for digging a lot of dirt the other day.
	Except I'm getting paid.
	family is in a better position, thanks to me doing that.
	See, I don't think it's necessarily an anti-family narrative being concocted beforehand.
	It's that you move away to college and you have all these friends where you can reinvent yourself and you then you have job offers, hopefully, which take you all over the planet.
	It's very convenient to have an anti-family narrative at that point because that supports everything that you're doing.
	And so, is it Hollywood manufacturing the anti-family narrative, or is it the market demanding an anti-family narrative?
	I think it's a little bit of both.
	And to posit some evil scheme behind it all misses the point.
	Because you're going to be targeting.
	If you posit an evil scheme behind everything, then all you have to do is get rid of the bad guy to fix everything.
	Right?
	Like, figure out who the evil people in Hollywood are that are selling this narrative.
	Okay, fire them, and nothing changes.
	Because the real culprit is the car and cheap air travel.
	You know, this is like one of the side effects of the lockdowns, which is why I, again, why I don't buy that this is a giant.
	There is a respond to the plan.
	Don't let the crisis go to waste.
	There's some of that going on.
	But there's also, oh, we're locked down.
	I have to hang out with my family all of a sudden.
	I can't go to the bar.
	I have to go on a nature hike instead.
	There's a lot of positive coming out of the crisis as well.
	The only time I'm allowed to socialize and get drunk is with my family.
	Well, shit, I guess I'm getting drunk with my family.
	Now, it's a hard jerk, isn't it?
	And it's really affected my dating life.
	It's not, it wasn't organic.
	It wasn't natural.
	It's very painful to go through.
	But it's not entirely serving the alleged agenda behind it all.
	So, I mean, give the devil their due.
	Give the left, like, the Trudeau's, the Bidens, well, not Biden, but whoever the hell is pulling the strings.
	Give them their due.
	They're not completely idiotic.
	They've got good reasons for all of this.
	Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity and incompetence.
	Exactly.
	Or, I would add, panic.
	I mean, that's, I think, the big motivation behind gun control laws is that people don't talk to their neighbors anymore.
	And hey, I'm as guilty as anybody else of this.
	I know two of my neighbors.
	That's not three.
	That's it.
	Okay maybe I do talk to my neighbors.
	But it's this paranoia because you don't know what anybody else is like.
	Neighborhoods are run by HOAs.
	They're not run by neighborhoods anymore.
	And that's a necessity of multiculturalism.
	And multiculturalism largely happens because of the automobile and the plane.
	So, yeah, people are profiting off of multiculturalism, but that doesn't mean they were behind multiculturalism.
	Maddie says, people used to make their own clothes and grow their own vegetables.
	Now you go to the store to get everything.
	Very true.
	Although, again, that seems to be something.
	I don't know.
	Is it just me?
	Like, I sewed that really sweet cloak for myself during the lockdown.
	And, yeah, I should maybe look into selling those.
	I should invest the money to make another cloak to sell because it's a really good cloak.
	And that was only my second attempt at it.
	Cost about $100 in materials.
	Took a day to do it.
	I'll be able to sell one for $300.
	I've seen them going for $300.
	Economically, society adapts to what people are willing to put up with.
	Juju says, I love working from home.
	Oh, Juju's got a cool job, too.
	She has to do art.
	You know, the funny thing about homeschooling is that one of the biggest challenges that homeschooling parents have is how to fill up the day.
	Think about that for a second.
	Like, your average homeschooler has the entire day of work within about four hours.
	Maybe even less.
	And think back to high school.
	What were you doing most of the time?
	Most of your time was spent doing busy work like 2 plus 2 equals 4, 2 plus 4 equals 6.
	Which, if you've already understood the principle, there's only so much rope memorization that gets you anywhere.
	All right, how much of your time in school was spent just being bored out of your skull?
	You know, which you could say is a necessary side effect.
	The teacher only has something.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But, you know, we didn't used to do that.
	We didn't used to do it that way.
	We used to have the schoolhouse with all the grades in it, and the older students would teach the younger students.
	And I will bet people were a lot less bored in that time.
	And I will bet with working from home, People are discovering they can be productive in many fewer hours.
	I always hated the 40-hour work week.
	I when I've got a task due, I work.
	I work and I work and I work and I work.
	I just do it.
	It doesn't.
	I'm engaged.
	But sitting there at work waiting for the clock to grind out, a little self-reliance is all I'm saying.
	Oh, and I completely, absolutely agree with you.
	Like, let's put it in diet terms.
	Is it.
	Are you overweight because the corporations tricked you into eating fast food?
	Did you ask for fast food and you ate nothing but garbage?
	I mean, hey, like I've been through the same lockdown as everybody else I'm turning 40 this year.
	And, yeah, like, I want to be back where I was when I was going to the gym.
	But I'm not in terrible shape because I don't eat terrible food.
	I don't buy Coca-Cola.
	I don't buy Pepsi.
	I drink too much.
	I smoke too much, but I eat healthy.
	I don't overeat.
	I very seldom buy a bag of chips.
	Is it a conspiracy to make everybody fat and complacent?
	Is it a conspiracy to make everybody reliant on pre-built technology?
	Or is it that people choose all of that?
	And I think moving forward, like, guys, we've got legitimate concerns, right?
	They're trying to push the stupid mRNA injection on everybody.
	Which, you know, A is not tested.
	B is for a virus that's not dangerous.
	C, they're trying to make it into, like, make COVID passports.
	Which kind of leads me to the point where it's like, I'm just not going to take it.
	Like, on blind principle, I don't think it's safe.
	I do not think it's safe at all.
	Lots and lots of worrying things about the science behind it.
	But even if I thought it was safe, if I thought this was no more dangerous, no more dangerous than the average flu virus, the average flu shot, I still feel like I'd be compelled to not take it because they're trying to make us take it for really stupid reasons.
	Maybe that's me tilting at windmills.
	There are things to worry about with all of this.
	But I also feel like life is always going to offer you the option between being a consumer slave And being free.
	And there's enough of us that demand freedom that they can never really force us to go down this route.
	And my buddy was telling me about an interesting.
	It was a book he read.
	I don't know which book.
	He's got a master's degree though, so if he says he read something, he actually reads something.
	But you gotta take my word for it.
	And it was somebody asking one of the Jews from the Holocaust, why did nobody fight back?
	And they said, oh, they did.
	But they killed those people, and we didn't fight back.
	We didn't support the people that fought back.
	In other words, it's not like this just suddenly comes on you as a surprise.
	It's not like there's going to be a knock on my door tonight with a couple of guys with guns forcing me to take the vaccination.
	That's not how it comes about.
	You got plenty of warning.
	And to go back to that mob mentality, the guys, the Jews that stood up to the Nazis and nobody had their back, You should have seen that coming as well.
	If somebody wants to be a slave, let them be a slave.
	Stop fighting for them.
	But there's a lot of us again, if the propaganda worked, they wouldn't be so desperate, would they?
	There's the people that want to live life with an automatic transmission.
	Always going to have those people.
	You can't get rid of them.
	They're always around.
	But it doesn't mean that you have to as well.
	There's a lot of it.
	Just don't get, don't get caught in the firing line for people that don't care about you.
	Start putting hot topic designs on your clothes and you can sell them for $500.
	That's actually an idea.
	There's guys selling COVID vax cards to kids so they can go to school.
	Brilliant.
	That's the other thing.
	guys, if you're the salt of the earth, look at hacking the system.
	Maybe instilling fear all the time does push people into bad habits.
	Oh, I'm just.
	That's the thing.
	It's like I'm tired of the anti-vaxx stuff because that's just a different type of fear.
	And I'm so fucking done with being afraid.
	Here's the thing.
	If things come down to the wire, then I already know what sort of man I am.
	I know how I deal with violence.
	I'm not afraid of death.
	I'll do what needs to be done.
	Then go to a choir of angels.
	I'm fine with that.
	But until it's time to draw a steel, I'm trying to get my business together.
	Trying to make money.
	I'm trying to enjoy myself while I'm on this wretched planet.
	Trying to find a 20-year-old girl with daddy issues, you know?
	I don't want to hear about it.
	I want to be doing stuff.
	I want to be, you know, maybe buy property someday.
	That'd be pretty exciting.
	And again, it's like, if the nuke hits, right?
	If a nuke hits Calgary and I survived the initial blast, then you know what?
	I know what I'm going to be doing after that.
	Like, I'm.
	I know how to deal with that.
	I know how to go out and help people.
	At that point, I'm not going to be worrying about all my keepsakes.
	I'm not going to be worrying about paying rent next month if that happens.
	Got that figured out.
	I'm cool with that happening.
	But until that happens, I gotta pay rent next month.
	Gotta make money.
	And, oh, Falcon Draco.
	If this was actually a pandemic, as in there were actually people dying all over the place, which they aren't.
	Good.
	You remember those videos from China a year ago?
	Where you had a guy sitting at his desk and he starts seizing and he like dies right on the ground and then we thought that was what COVID was?
	And how fake those videos look today?
	Yeah, if this was an actual pandemic, they wouldn't have to bribe people with Krispy Kremes to get them to take the vax.
	Hey, good instincts says you're twins too.
	Thank you.
	Not taking the jab only because my biological clock is ticking.
	And who knows the side effects?
	Not worth wishing.
	It's guys, there's so many might cause infertility, which I don't think that's some giant plan.
	I don't.
	People are already infertile.
	Like, if you wanted, if the government wanted more infertility, they would ban anti-sex feminism.
	They would ban Anita Sarkeesian.
	Right?
	The government doesn't know what it's doing.
	Alright, there's no plan.
	That said, these vaxes might cause infertility.
	They're very, we don't know what they do.
	We know they're extremely experimental and that we have no idea what's going on.
	That's what we know.
	And also, if you're pregnant, stay away from people that did get jabbed.
	Apparently, being around them is causing miscarriages.
	Critique just falled.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	And yes, please follow so that at 200 we get all the goodies.
	Thank you Turner and Hooch.
	Guess what I'm saying is, like don't, like I'm obviously not saying bye into all the bullshit that's...
	It's bullshit.
	You know, something like The Expanse is actually a nice fantasy where even the bad world leaders, even the bad guys, are trying to do good things.
	Whereas my impression of the global elite, including Donald Trump, it's just a bunch of people getting high off their own supply.
	It's a bunch of people that are so accustomed to giving vague orders.
	Make this banquet hall look like it's a Roman Coliseum.
	And it's like, what the fuck does that mean?
	What in God's name does that mean?
	But there's some guy that's figured out how to leech off of those.
	Like, he's figured out how to feed back narcissistic supply to these idiots with too much money.
	And he makes a bunch of bullshit.
	He maybe even has a degree in class to say he knows this is nothing like what Rome looked like, but it looks like what this idiot thinks Rome looked like.
	So there you go.
	There you go.
	It's a gohole.
	That's so awesome.
	I'm just a magic man.
	my hand and things happen.
	Imagine you're Justin Trudeau.
	And you're looking at the employment statistics, for example.
	Backtrack for a second.
	Let's talk about climate change.
	If you've actually dug in to the climate change discussions, discussions, the Cold War going on with climate change.
	If you've dug into any sort of data, you know that it's messy as fuck.
	You know, it's like you could interpret this data through 12 different heuristics to come up with 300 different opinions on what this data actually means.
	And you quickly find that it's just tribal camps fighting one another in the data war as to what this means.
	You know, this is why Vox Day says, until it becomes engineering, it's all bullshit.
	Until you actually try it in real life, it's all bullshit.
	And yeah, yeah, most of the settled science is bullshit speculation.
	Tribalism, garbage.
	So imagine you're Justin Trudeau and you've read one interpretation of the data.
	Like if you, I mean, nobody subscribes to magazines these days, but like if they did, if you have a subscription to Scientific American, you are 10 times as educated as Justin Trudeau or Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton or any of these stupid fucking idiots are.
	You're ten times as educated as they are, and you still have no idea what's going on.
	The crazy thing about the modern world is that we have the dumbest people with the greatest confidence making all of these choices.
	The amazing thing is that somehow humanity manages to hold it all together despite idiots being in charge.
	I'm taking a quick bathroom break and getting some more ice.
	The idea of Justin Trudeau organizing a bake sale, let alone a conspiracy, is utterly risible.
	So, good news, guys.
	These people are too stupid to be in control of everything.
	Yeah, Maddie just donated a lemon.
	Amanda you're so awesome critique says don't take the backs until we know more about the side effects Honestly, the listen, the technology behind this is potentially very, very cool technology.
	Right now, though, it's like some kid screwing with the registry in a computer, saying, Yeah, don't worry, it'll be fine.
	I'm on top of this.
	Yeah, always back up your registry before you edit it.
	It's potentially very cool technology.
	It's nowhere near ready for market.
	Turner Hooch says, look up Fauci and gain of function in Wuhan.
	Jewel says, Fauci will go down, I pray, not a rat.
	He's absolutely involved in Wuhan.
	And wasn't he involved in the hydroxychloroquine as a cure until Trump said it?
	So much deception and collusion and confusion.
	So it's not even, it's like everybody turned against hydroxychloroquine because Trump said it.
	It's, it's, it is.
	It's like it's serious tribalism.
	Like there's actually people that care about the environment and they're worried about all the plastics in our oceans.
	They're worried about the chemicals turning the frogs gay.
	There actually are environmentalists, but then it gets diluted to the stupid pill.
	And, you know, like maybe what we've done over the past 50 years, if we've so we've turned everything into red pill, blue pill, into conservative, liberal.
	And so now it doesn't matter how good your idea is, just that it's easily consumable and integratable to one or the other.
	I mean, the military-industrial complex is absolutely socialism, but they'll never call it socialism because that's what the left does.
	Yeah, delete system 32.
	That's kind of where we're at with this technology.
	People who want to control your life can't even control their own life.
	And that's why they want to control your life.
	You know, we were doing that.
	We were doing that housing project the other day.
	And they've got this neighbor who's a real prick, right?
	Everybody in the neighborhood, everybody in the community hates the guy.
	And while we were doing this project, him and his son kept going up and down their trail right by our property on their quads watching what we were doing trying to figure out what we were doing.
	And it's like, buddy, A, how about you stop being a fucking heretic?
	He's a really weird form of Christian, right?
	One of those really nasty heresies.
	And number two, mind your own fucking business.
	And number three, then maybe we would tell you what we're doing.
	If we're not doing anything, not doing anything too weird, we just don't want you to know what the fuck we're doing because we don't like you.
	Because you're a heretic, because you're a creep.
	Hell, my mother even had to install security cameras because she wanted this guy to keep away.
	Jan Garof has some interesting insight, says Healthy Man, which is roughly translated as follows.
	If we are to focus our attention on the governing elite, as we inevitably end up doing, then from our vantage point, we can observe the elite are now in a situation where they are uncertain how to proceed.
	Abso-fucking-lutely.
	With this we see that the ruling class has lost their competency, as it were.
	They're losing grip of their omnipotent and omniscient force that once firmly dictated the trajectory of the world.
	Absolutely.
	I mean, honestly, it would be better if we lived in a world where Justin Trudeau and his ilk, where they were so competent that we blindly followed them down the path of the COVID vaccine.
	Even though they fucked it up.
	That would be a better world.
	Honestly, just getting everybody to organize is fucking amazing.
	Getting people just to stop stealing from one another.
	Amazing.
	Don't discount how powerful, like sometimes the rules of the institutions are arbitrary.
	Stop drinking at 2 a.m.
	Why not 3?
	I don't know!
	2 a.m.
	Okay, but everybody obeys it, then we all of a sudden we have a culture.
	But Justin Trudeau and his ilk are so remarkably incompetent.
	That's what's really frighten you.
	Not that they are organizing a conspiracy, but that they can't organize a conspiracy.
	We want elites that can organize a conspiracy.
	I mean, like when you watch shows like Game of Thrones and The Expanse, part of the romance is that these elites are smart and ballsy enough to actually organize conspiracies.
	Justin Trudeau is not Chai Pizza says I thought the autism thing was caused by women waiting until their 30s and 40s to have kids We don't know what's causing autism I saw a really interesting point post on Facebook pointing out that the symptoms of autism are very, very similar to the symptoms of trauma and abuse,
	speculating that the uptick in autism is actually a response to the traumatic childhoods that everybody has when we don't have a father and a mother.
	I mean, don't know if that's true, but it's interesting.
	Something's happening.
	People are seriously crazy these days.
	But again, I think this is, it's gonna pass.
	It's gonna pass.
	It's not like the rest of time on the planet Earth for all humanity is going to be Tinder and Grinder.
	Okay, like that shit will pass.
	We're just in a downbeat right now.
	Firehouse says, these tribalist attitudes are frustrating.
	Oh, God, tell me, but I mean.
	Dude, my whole nascent internet career got destroyed because Thunderfoot was butt hurt that I was on his team.
	It's ridiculous.
	It's utterly ridiculous.
	I mean, a major part of spiritual enlightenment is realizing that anybody can teach you something about yourself.
	Doesn't mean you hang out with just anybody, but it means that you pay attention.
	You don't just write people off.
	You don't just cancel them because they disagree with you.
	maybe you hear what they have to say.
	He and others bemoan all of the civilizational decay but don't want to acknowledge who is actually responsible.
	Last time I checked, Biden, Newsom, Fauci, Gates, Ford, and Trudeau are all straight, white, cisgender males.
	Trudeau being straight is debatable.
	Yeah, I've heard rumors to the.
	I've still got friends in the military.
	I've heard rumors.
	We'll leave it at that.
	This is why I miss Common Phil.
	He's the only dissonant commentator who stopped lying to himself about this ethno-nationalism thing.
	Do you know what he lied to himself about instead?
	Christian nationalism.
	I guess that's a big lie I've been moving away from since then.
	That guy sent some very indirect pot shots against me because I was stupid enough to be friends with fat losers that called themselves Christian.
	Called themselves right wing.
	Called themselves decent men.
	Here's another piece of advice I ran into recently, which I wish I'd heard much earlier.
	Never trust anybody that brings up Jesus during a business meeting.
	Always kill the Buddha on the road.
	I don't know.
	Finding out that Common Felf believed all that crap that was said about me.
	I mean, whatever.
	Go with God.
	I don't care.
	But they also put the lie to the whole Christian nationalism.
	No, no.
	Christian nationalism, you think you met the Buddha on the road.
	You think you got it all figured out.
	You don't.
	What you actually need to do is move into tomorrow and build new alliances, build new networks, build new friendships, build something.
	And yeah, I, fuck, I'm a huge Common Phil fan.
	But he met the Buddha on the road and started following him.
	He...
	his water found its level.
	He's reached the desired level of holiness.
	So, okay, good.
	Good for you.
	The rest of us are going to keep moving on.
	Quebec is the worst.
	Even in the pandemic, their main focus is language laws.
	oh geez juju do what kills me about quebec is like out here in the west we are we are so sick of the federal government going out of its way to us in the ass We just want to make money and have a culture.
	We just want to do our thing.
	We're not even clubbing baby seals like the fucking newfies are.
	We're just mining the oil that everybody, including those in Ontario, use in their cars.
	And the East hates us for that.
	Trudeau, Ontario, they absolutely hate Alberta.
	And it's like, guys, just leave us alone.
	We'll keep giving you free money.
	Just leave us alone.
	Let us do our thing.
	Trust us.
	Our environment.
	Dude, we all love hiking.
	Okay?
	Our environment is fine.
	Fuck off.
	And we would be the first ones to ally with Quebec.
	Quebec, we want to speak the French.
	We want the poutines.
	Like, that sounds pretty fucking cool to me.
	I'm pretty-okay with Quebec.
	But no, Quebec wants to be angry at Alberta because, like, that's what Ontarioans do.
	Pretend they resist against Le Quebecois.
	It's like, dude, we don't even fucking care.
	Most of us speak French better than you anyway.
	Maybe you Quebecers could calm your fucking tips.
	How about the conservatives and the Quebecois?
	How about reality?
	Like, we just want our own damn culture.
	We want to not be destroyed for being ourselves.
	We have the exact same values and desires as Quebec.
	So why don't Alberta and Quebec get in alignment with one another?
	Along with Saskatchewan, the eastern part of British Columbia, and the western part of Manitoba.
	Hey, hey, did I forget the Yukon and, uh, Northwest Territories in there as well?
	No, we don't like the outbursts!
	They don't eat our tea.
	They're like, fuck off, come back, could you just...
	like albert we literally don't even know what you're angry about like quebec is like quebec quebec is like an albertan meeting a black girl from louisiana who can't shut the up about slavery And it's like, sorry, miss.
	I'm from Alberta.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	Would you like a job in the oil patch?
	Like, we literally don't know what you're talking about.
	We don't fucking care.
	We're not oppressing you.
	Speak as much frog as you like.
	We're cool with that.
	Christ, we got Mennonites and Hutterites here for God's sake.
	We really don't care.
	We just want to make money and not have our culture persecuted by Ottawa.
	Is that so much to ask?
	And also, we want to hang everybody that's in the NDP.
	But anybody with a soul wants to do that.
	Good lord, mutt mutts.
	I don't know, most of the Sikhs I know.
	They're not quite, they're not like hang Jagmeet Sin, but they're, eh, I don't want to, I don't want to say I support that guy.
	He's been kicked out of India, by the way.
	India kicked out the leader of the NDP for supporting terrorism.
	Yeah, I think I might have more in me.
	I better get the light set up properly.
	And let's plug that phone in because it just went dim on me.
	I don't know if it's because it's dark in here or because the battery is low.
	Who knows?
	Let's talk about a burn of patriotism.
	I am really hoping that the West separates.
	We've had more than enough of Ontario.
	Okay, is the battery okay?
	It won't even show me the battery.
	What are you doing?
	Oh, is it the 56%?
	Beautiful Too many men have a women's beard Man, I've seen so many pretty beards lately.
	I saw, I saw, it started 2017.
	I started seeing these beards.
	I was like, man, that's the prettiest beard.
	That's the sort of beard you just want to, like, stroke and cuddle the guy, right?
	It's like, what the hell is going on with that beard?
	And yeah, listen, I know that Quintus Curious was saying, men don't use face cream.
	Yeah, my face cream has cocoa butter in it, right?
	I've got beard cream.
	I am.
	It encourages vanity.
	Well, when you look this good, my friend, how can you not be vain?
	but I don't have a pretty beard.
	I think I think I've got a, I like what I got going on.
	We've got a lot of pretty beards running around this planet these days, don't we?
	The man bun, for God's sake, unless you're a samurai, you better quit that man bun.
	Yeah, they've got dwarven beards.
	They've got beautiful dwarven women beards.
	Dwarven women have the prettiest beards, and that's what we're developing these days.
	Bitcoin is down, but we'll be back.
	Yeah, I'm yeah, I will The men have acquired the characteristics of their mother.
	It's not the natural state of a man to be angry.
	Oh, whoa, whoa, Bill.
	I think you're onto something right there.
	The mother talks about the father and tries to be the man.
	not good yeah I think actually in the expensive They got the one guy.
	What's his name?
	Like, the big lunkhead guy who murders a lot of people.
	That's actually a major masculine archetype right there.
	I really like that they made him a lunkhead too, because he's the pretty, he's like the most handsome looking guy.
	The main character looks a little bit callow at times.
	A little bit skinny.
	He's not like perfectly Hollywood handsome.
	Whereas like the dumb brute, the fighter class is perfectly handsome.
	Right?
	Like you'd think that they would make that guy the main character.
	But they made him kind of the secondary character.
	And he really is that masculine.
	Like he's never angry.
	Like he murders a lot of people.
	He's never angry.
	He doesn't hold a grudge.
	Except when he does.
	Also doesn't judge people.
	Like every so often you see this little bit of humanity where he's the guy hanging out with the person in prison.
	I really like that line from him.
	He's talking to the girl in prison.
	And it's just like, listen.
	Wake up.
	Do your stuff.
	Eat.
	Shower.
	Shit.
	Take whatever they give to you.
	And don't give anything back.
	Fuck those people.
	You live.
	Live another day.
	That's it.
	Just keep living another day.
	That's what you do.
	Really like that character.
	He's never angry, though.
	He's, you know, he's like, oh, man, I really hope I get a chance to kill that guy.
	Because he's got it fucking coming.
	But he's never angry about it.
	He's never pissed off, never holding a grudge.
	That's probably a really good balance, actually, to think about it.
	Something I...
	Man, when those friends of mine turned on me, I was so fucking angry at those pricks.
	And then I tried really hard to do the whole forgiveness thing.
	And you know, maybe I've come around to the point where I could say, I'd really like to put a bullet in that guy's head.
	I'd really like to see him beg for mercy and then put a bullet through his head.
	But it doesn't keep me up at night.
	Is what it is.
	He's got it coming.
	Somebody's going to give it to him someday.
	I'd like to be the guy that gives it to him.
	But, yeah, as long as he gets it, that's all that matters.
	Ah!
	Lamp fell.
	Let me adjust that.
	There we go.
	Now we're...
	Copacetic.
	It's not the natural state of a man to be angry.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	The mother.
	Yeah, like the harboring a grudge.
	Like, don't you have better shit to be doing with your time?
	Like, do you really want to just take your hate and like squeeze into a ball and lick it until it's shiny?
	Is that what you're going to do with your life?
	Or you got something better to do?
	I mean, hey, if buddy shows up between your sites, put a round down, range, bada boom, motherfucker.
	Bake mist and bone chips.
	Absolutely beautiful.
	But you got better stuff to be doing with your life, right?
	Stop paying Quebec.
	Maybe that boy.
	Oh, you better not say that in Quebec, Joe, Joe.
	This is not very good!
	Alberta is actually okay with paying the transfer payments if the rest of Canada would just stop fucking us in the ass.
	Like, we're good enough at making money if you just let us make money.
	That's what we're like.
	Shit, like, yeah, we'll keep bribing you.
	Just let us make money, you fucking assholes.
	It's your bottleneck!
	Tet du merd!
	Iglise!
	Iglise!
	Oh my god, I served, I was hanging out with the bang does for a bit.
	Holy shit, like I swear a lot, but the Van Derck's like every- Mac Tabernak, Mac Tabernak, Eglise- Iglise!
	Nothing but constant swear words and they've got the the weirdest swear words in that language Great live streams is too too good Me getting drunk.
	Me not eating and getting drunk.
	I guess it's like Friday fast.
	I only have a little bit of fish, so I haven't eaten much.
	Do aches count as fish?
	I don't know.
	I got yelled at the last time I asked that.
	They say they can do everything but the man can then proceed to traumatize everyone Non-sequitur from Frost, but quite fucking accurate.
	You know, there I am.
	There I am.
	Stepdad has the tractor with the backhoe attachment, right?
	I've got the shovel, the manual shovel.
	And my mom's upstairs doing God knows what.
	But there's this lovely elegance to the whole thing, right?
	Where it's like, like, of course, I'm the young man, so I'm going to be the one shovel.
	Man, I shoveled dirt as fast as he could backhoe it.
	So that's pretty braggable right there.
	Yeah, we got the thing accomplished.
	We moved everything around.
	We got the goddamn job done.
	And when there's a bunch of guys shoveling dirt, There's no feminists in the room.
	And we've been shoveling dirt all day.
	Actually, my stepdad made dinner that night, but uh.
	It's like when you've been shoveling dirt all day.
	As a guy, it's like, yeah, I'm coming back inside.
	I need food now.
	I need nutrients to supply myself.
	None of this fake gender equality crap, right?
	And none of it condescending either.
	It's like, yeah, we worked hard doing this and you worked hard doing that.
	We support one another.
	We're this is a household.
	We're doing stuff together.
	It's really fucking cool.
	None of that gender equality garbage.
	Good play.
	I mean, there's gender equality.
	As if there's equality within the sexes.
	As if there aren't artistic kids and lug nuts and brainiacs and all the different variety that makes life interesting.
	How awful is it that humanity has variety that makes life interesting and everybody gets to play a role?
	What an awful world this is.
	Let's fight against and demand that everybody be exactly the same.
	What the fuck is wrong with these people?
	I think, I really think it's a simile- They've never worked a day in their life.
	They've never had a day where it's like, okay, we gotta accomplish X, Y, and Z today.
	Oh, shit, this is gonna suck.
	Alright, back into it.
	Let's go accomplish X, Y, Z.
	I mean, what the fuck else are we doing while we're on this planet?
	Let's go accomplish that shit.
	Then you accomplish that shit.
	And you put it all back together.
	It's like, hey, look, we accomplished some shit.
	We all did it together.
	We all played our part doing it, man.
	Nope, they want gender equality instead.
	Everybody gets to sit in a fucking cubicle.
	That's what life was for.
	I hope you're an Eastern Christian.
	Oh.
	They've been they've been arresting Christian priests here in Alberta.
	You know, I had somebody, I had a friend He said something that really pissed me off.
	He said that Canadians aren't standing up against the COVID regulations.
	I really asshole.
	first of all we have been the way it struck me it's like you know you got those those uh second amendment guys in america that like These fat idiots that wear an AR-15 on their back when they go to Walmart.
	You got more of this constitution, MOG CONSTITUTION, and these people that protest based upon that, and refuse to follow the law because of that.
	How many of those people, if the cops came to the door to take their guns, how many of those people would start putting rounds down range?
	I don't think very many would.
	It's conspicuous protest as opposed to meaningful protest.
	Yeah, us Canadians are very civil.
	I wear my mask Because I don't want to make life hard for the people working at the grocery store And the people actually working are like they're pretty fucking sick of the masks too.
	Like they're not the ones I'm fighting.
	I'm fighting the government.
	fighting these people.
	So saying Canadians aren't fighting, it's like, oh, they're not fighting yet.
	Not fighting yet.
	Be rude to fight just yet.
	Doesn't mean the Canadians aren't locked and loaded.
	At least Western Canadians.
	Fuck Ontario.
	Seriously, I. Listen, I grew up in Ontario.
	I've got a lot of friends in Ontario, but fuck Ontario.
	Nothing but a province full of Karens as far as I can tell.
	Any of you Ontarioans that got your shit together, move to Alberta.
	You're welcome here.
	But I'm not shitting on the good people of Ontario.
	I'm shitting on the people of Ontario.
	Amos, yeah, Amos is an ass.
	God, I love that.
	Like, they are complex characters.
	Like, they're all.
	They're in a weird way.
	They're almost like DD archetypes.
	And yet, well done.
	Really, really well done.
	Can't cut your hair, man, button is the only way to get it out of the way.
	I don't think that's why they have the man.
	I mean, like, how are you supposed to give a blow job?
	Oh, right, the man-bun Rick Evans!
	Oh, man.
	Dude, it's been just de-platform after deplatform.
	But please hit the like, comment, subscribe.
	If we get to 200 subscribers.
	Yeah, I'm still around.
	I'm still doing stuff.
	I really like the sound of my own voice.
	What can I say?
	It's got these dulcimer tones to it.
	And I'll tell you, Rick, I made the mistake.
	Like, I got high on my own supply.
	All these fucking people try to turn me into a cult leader.
	I ain't no cult leader.
	I'm barely qualified to run a small business.
	I'm just an asshole with things to say.
	Who needs more ice for his drink?
	So, let me get that.
	Hopefully, I'm entertaining.
	Hopefully, you take something away.
	You know who I really like is that Mitch and Squad guy.
	He ends every one of his stupid, I'm going to play Fallout with Ridiculous Conditions videos with, like if you learned something, like if you enjoyed the video, like if you dislike if you didn't learn anything.
	If you didn't learn anything tonight, yeah, go ahead, dislike the video.
	Midden Squad's sort of cynical nihilism that I find really funny.
	Yeah, Amos is an awesome character.
	Like, all the characters are really well-written.
	I Really like that series it uh well shit I just I really like the series.
	What can I say?
	It's a great great series and it doesn't have It's got the advanced sci-fi tech while also acknowledging the downsides of the advanced sci-fi tech
	Forgiveness liberates you they have no power over you Exactly and there I forget who it was but somebody earlier said that part of becoming the Bodhisattva Like the reason you become a bodhisattva is so that desire doesn't enslave you anymore.
	But when you become the bodhisattva, you recognize that you still have desire and it's okay.
	And that's the balance.
	Like don't be vengeful, then you're a slave to them.
	But also, you know, like find that happy middle ground where you still get to be a human with emotions.
	It's like, yeah, hey, they're suffering.
	They suck at life.
	In a strange way, it's your desire for revenge that almost blinds you to how much they're already suffering.
	Like, you want to sign your name.
	You don't need to sign your name on shit.
	you don't need to be a john hancock right look at the this whole thing is such a great idea in the first place And it benefits everybody.
	Then it doesn't fucking matter if your name is on it or not.
	I mean, like, the whole YouTubing thing.
	If I manage to teach a bunch of people how to be cool and make some money doing it, and the world is a cooler place for all that, I don't need my name on that.
	Don't even fucking care.
	I'm having too much fun in my own life.
	Zach says, please leave the, I need to get, I need to get on top of re-upping these dreams.
	Leonid says, great stream!
	Signor Rini!
	Thank you very much, sir, and I'm glad you had a good time.
	No one cared who I was until I didn't wear this.
	That joke is so overdone, but also not overdone.
	Fuck Toronto, says Rick.
	seriously fuck Toronto I was seriously hoping that Japanese the Chinese rocket was gonna land I fucking hate Toronto.
	Toronto is a blight upon human existence.
	There's nothing good in Toronto.
	If that whole city were vaporized, like, there might be, like, three good people in Toronto.
	Fuck the rest of it.
	I say it at work all the time.
	Good for you.
	There's a town in North Ontario.
	Blowjobs are against God's Law.
	Yeah, I hear blowjobs are against God's Law.
	I mean, like, really?
	At that point, I think it's more on you and not on me.
	Seems to me.
	If you meet the Buddha in the road and he tells you that blowjobs are against God's law, you should kill that Buddha.
	Seems to me that of all the things that are screwed up in my life and your life, blowjobs are pretty fucking low on the list.
	I mean, yeah, sure, they're probably on the list.
	Everything's on the goddamn list.
	You were mean to that person at the grocery store.
	Yeah, well, God, you made me to be a prick.
	What do you?
	Like, you literally built me from the atoms up to be an asshole.
	And you like me being an asshole, so it's like, huh, but you were too much for me.
	Well, shit, God.
	How about an instruction manual?
	And no, the Bible doesn't count.
	It's too vague.
	Too metaphorical.
	Going crazy because they think you met the boot on the road?
	That ain't no good.
	Go out and sin no more.
	an idea.
	Fireworms are a last line of defense.
	The best weapon is disruption.
	Man, hey, I like Bill West.
	Blowjobs help a woman clear her mind.
	Nothing is good, all is well.
	Yeah, that's, I like that.
	Nothing is good all is well.
	You know, if I hadn't already come up with like the sign-off statement for this, that would be my sign-off statement.
	Nothing is good, all is well.
	is fucking beautiful holy Oh, shit, we got 30 viewers.
	That actually, we were up from 20 last week.
	Did I get banned from Twitch?
	No.
	It's just that Twitch, like, it's a terrible service.
	They cancel all the time.
	It cuts off.
	Yeah, 30 for a live stream, not on YouTube.
	That's a lot of viewers, man.
	Glad to have all of y'all.
	Thank you for being here.
	Glad I entertain ya!
	I nearly went crazy worrying about sexual morality a year ago.
	There's a comic by Perry Bible Fellowship.
	Where the guys in heaven is like, hey, God, is there a snooker table in heaven?
	And God says, do you really need a snooker table to be happy?
	So it's like, well, no.
	God wanders off.
	This sucks, man.
	I'm pretty sure blowjobs are there with snucker tables.
	they don't exist.
	Do you really need to dress up like Princess Leia and Jabba the Hutt when you have sex?
	You know, like, you really know, we don't really need that.
	I don't actually need that in my life to be happy.
	Maybe I like doing that.
	You know, like, hey, hey, we've got a side distraction.
	Do you need Marvel movie?
	Like, dude, can we just enjoy something for fuck's sake?
	I mean, the purpose of sex is to create children.
	Obviously.
	And that's the natural fruit of the sexual union is children.
	But do you have to be miserable when you plant the seed?
	Eh, maybe, I could be wrong.
	I don't know.
	I'm leading you all to heresy, but I don't know.
	I think sex is a lot of fun.
	And you should probably have fun doing it.
	That's my stance, and hey, maybe I'll go to hell for that one.
	Probably go to hell for other things before that.
	There's other things I worry about more.
	I worry about throwing pearls before swine.
	I was talking earlier in the stream about the mob mentality that hey, Tony, Tony, you shouldn't be doing this thing.
	It's gonna fuck you up.
	Now, if Tony insists on doing that, then let him.
	don't stand between a man and his sin.
	Which, I don't know, blowjobs are my sin.
	Maybe that, maybe, maybe that's but don't throw pearls before swine.
	Throwing pearls before swine will fuck you up seven ways left of Sunday.
	Trying to help people that don't want to be helped.
	Treating blue pills like they're red pills.
	You know, a lot of people it's become pretty common.
	It's become pretty common to spout red pill ideas.
	They're mainstream these days.
	Anybody can spout a red pill idea.
	Doesn't mean they're red pill.
	doesn't mean they think for themselves.
	Our shibboleth is gone.
	If you don't know that term, shibboleth comes from the Bible.
	It's that they anybody that was coming off this battlefield, they say, how do you pronounce the city of Shibboleth?
	And some would say Shibboleth, others would say Sibboleth.
	Because they couldn't pronounce the SH sound in their because of their language.
	Kind of like Asians with T's.
	So if they pronounce it wrong, he executed them.
	Because they were clearly not red-pilled.
	So we got a lot of people these days spouting red pill ideology.
	In fact, I'll tell you, the person that's causing me a lot of grief right now, She spouted a lot of red pill stuff from The Walking Dead.
	Now The Walking Dead, the comic, the TV show, is like, eh.
	The comic is extremely red-pilled.
	The comic is extremely realistic about humanity.
	This girl would spout a lot of red pill stuff.
	She say she wants to be red-pilled.
	She doesn't want to be a zombie.
	Doesn't want to be blue-pilled.
	And yet, there, time and time again, she would be defending the blue pill.
	At some point, you know, you're talking the talk, but you ain't walking the walk.
	You say you want to be a survivor.
	But the way you walk is blue-pilled.
	So, go with God.
	Get the fuck out of my life and go with God.
	He'll take care of you.
	my cigarettes.
	Blowjobs should always lead to missionary sex and pregnancy.
	Hey, man, I'm doing my part, okay?
	Dance for us, trick pony!
	I mean, that's what we do.
	Who was it?
	Was it was it?
	The reason you guys subscribe is not because I blow your mind with my insights, because I'm saying what you're already thinking.
	Maybe I say it in a pithier manner.
	I'm not leading any cultural movement.
	I'm just putting the words to it.
	And sometimes you guys got the comments that put the words to what I'm thinking.
	we all get a little bit more sorted out.
	Falcon Draco is pro blowjob.
	Good to hear.
	YouTube is losing TikTok and alt tech.
	Too much purging, but not of.
	Yeah, oh god, yeah.
	They're.
	You can sometimes get away with uploading gay porn to YouTube.
	But you can't say kill the Buddha without getting censored.
	That's what the demon's talking about.
	No, I'm pretty sure that I just like it.
	Eve eateth of the seed of the apple.
	Does she eat it?
	Let's see.
	I think you're being too reductionist.
	I mean, the same logic that makes oral sex infertile makes this a perverted form of clothing.
	Since, like, like, what a ridiculous idea to take felt.
	To take a bunch of, like, shave a shave.
	What the fuck are they?
	A geese?
	A goat?
	A. Shave a llama?
	What the hell do we shave to get wool?
	You know, those fluffy creatures.
	Sheep.
	Let's shave a sheep, then take its curly hair, and smash it down, and then steam it and push it down over a hat form and sew the brim and dye it.
	And then we're gonna perch this upon our heads.
	That is a perversion of the natural purpose of clothing in the same way that blowjobs are a perversion of sex.
	Because that's my take on it.
	And I could be wrong.
	Not a saint.
	Just, uh, just your friendly local degenerate.
	How dare you use such language?
	Actually, one of the few things pointed out by a Protestant that I liked is that when Christ said, your morals are no better than dirty rags, that was a term that probably meant diapers.
	Your morality is no better than shitcloths, is what he said.
	So just because they translated it into high English doesn't mean that Christ didn't swear every once in a while.
	And I actually do make a point of trying not to take the Lord's name in vain.
	But telling somebody to fuck off is not taking his name in vain.
	And anybody that thinks it is, they can fuck right off.
	You make it all come together somehow.
	It's the Gaelic name of whiskey means water of life.
	One time, I was talking to my stepdad.
	He said, you know, you know, Davis.
	Wiser's does not make you wiser.
	My mother thought that was pretty fucking funny.
	So I looked at him and said, let me tell you a story.
	One time I was at the bar.
	I was talking to the guy next to me.
	And I was drinking Weiser's.
	I had one drink of Weiser's.
	I had two drinks of Weiser's.
	Then I had three drinks of Weiser's.
	And that's when I figured it out.
	This guy sitting next to me?
	Total asshole!
	So don't you tell me that this does not make me wiser.
	I wonder if the logical conclusion to the red pill is accepting that the blue pill is the happier alternative.
	think oh help me I think yes that's exactly yeah that's exactly what I'm coming around to Yeah, that's exactly what I'm coming around to.
	It's like the ultimate form of the red pill is to become a self-aware blue pill.
	There's nothing worse than being a blue pill that doesn't know they're a blue pill.
	Who's constantly running on that hedonic treadmill thinking there's going to be a reward at the end of the tunnel.
	Constantly denied, constantly hoping, hoping change.
	Whereas the ultimate red pill is like, yeah, I'm going to enjoy exacting revenge upon my enemy.
	I'm going to enjoy this shitty movie.
	I'm going to enjoy life for what it is.
	If you get right down to it, what are the basic insights of the red pill?
	The basic insights are that chicks dig, jerks and assholes finish first, and you shouldn't follow the script the movies tell you to follow.
	If you think about this is like really low-hanging fruit.
	This shouldn't be shocking the hell out of us.
	And once you do all that, now what hey?
	Yeah, you know I'm gonna wear a fedora like an asshole.
	The big shock of the red pill is that working on a farm with family members to accomplish a discrete objective is more rewarding and meaningful than working in an office.
	Not just more...
	rewarding and meaningful, but also better for you in the long term.
	You can work in that office 365 days.
	you might get a promotion or to help your family members dig a trench you might have a homestead.
	Bill West says, gotta be careful with sex.
	Women think they own you and many men worship the woman.
	one of the advantages of getting older is that you I still like sex I just don't care about it that much like I can't tell you how many nights I'm like I kind of feel like having sex shit I'd have to talk to somebody to do that I don't want to talk to somebody that badly yeah you know I'd be celibate tonight go to church in the morning
	in fact that's one of the the tragedies of modernity is that these young women seem to think that like when they're 20 years old when they're even when they're 30 sex is so exciting everybody wants the sex but by the time they get to 40 it's like nope nope don't want to deal with your drama I'm getting my vape.
	Nope at 40.
	You would be hard pressed to find a woman that I would sleep with at 40 if the choice was, no sex for the rest of my life or deal with a 40 year old woman with issues uh nope, it's not even like porn is out competing them at this point.
	Right like you could Completely remove porn from my life.
	In fact, I regularly do.
	Like, porn, it's you know, maybe once a week.
	Yeah, sometimes three times a week.
	And it's not a diminishment of the sex drive either.
	Believe me, when that 20-year-old is over here, three or four times over two hours, we got no issues with that, right?
	It's not a performance issue.
	It's like I am completely ready to go.
	I'm just not willing to deal with bullshit.
	And this is coming from a guy who deals with a lot of bullshit, who's gone out of his way to help other people with this bullshit.
	And when I'm saying, I'm done with your bullshit, that's a lot of done with your bullshit.
	So we got these 20, 30-year-old girls that think they're, I've got a vagina, people will put up with my bullshit.
	Yeah, until about the age of 35.

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