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- 0:00Hello, and welcome to the HBr Talk two seventy fiasco. This is going
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- 0:43I'm the victim, she cries as she stabs you again. I'm your host,
- 0:47Hannah Wallen here with nonsense annihilator Lauren Brooks and the personification of perceptivity Mike
- 0:53Stevenson, and tonight we're gonna look at a couple of examples of cry bullying.
- 0:59But before we get into that, we gotta do what we gotta do.
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- 2:21with that, tonight we're going to kind of drop down to the level of
- 2:25gossip column, not because our standards have been lowered, but because there's a
- 2:30double standard we need to discuss. One of our two examples involves a writer
- 2:35who was just fine with publishing a hit piece about a popular TikTok channel and
- 2:40directing a lot of hate and anger that tiktoker's way because he was a man
- 2:46who said things she didn't like, but didn't like having the spotlight turned back
- 2:52on her, didn't like receiving backlash for her opinions. The other is a
- 2:57vengeful ex girlfriend who may have just accident canceled herself in an attempt to smear
- 3:02her ex. And everybody knows who that is. You don't need to see
- 3:07her face anyway, right, Like she posted this picture. This is in
- 3:10her instagram. This is um and and the comments are interesting here because we
- 3:16have you know, one one guy says, see this right here is exactly
- 3:22why Bro had to clear clearly communicated boundaries. You can't make this up.
- 3:27And the next comment is somebody saying, this girl's comment section is the new
- 3:31hangout spot for in cells. Oh god, really yeah, really so so
- 3:42week. Surely the appropriate slow would be migti situation, I would think,
- 3:51But we're we're gonna, we're gonna say goodbye to Sarah Brady's boobs for a
- 3:53minute, thank you. I mean, they're not very ample that I'm not
- 3:59impressed. I'm sorry, ma'am. You can put those away. Yeah,
- 4:03well, and her Instagram shows that she doesn't really do that, so like
- 4:11and half her pictures, most of her pictures have some level of side boob,
- 4:15like even mine got bigger than that eventually. Like I don't know how
- 4:19old she is, but um, when I was, when I was in
- 4:23my twenties before I had my son mine, or at least that small.
- 4:30And now you know, I'm like, I'm not anything huge, but I'm
- 4:35at least a sea cup. I've discovered that I can find swimwhere that that
- 4:40completely covers and supports them and they don't fall out the bottom, you know,
- 4:45Like it just it's an odd thing to see under boob in a bikini
- 4:53on an obvious a cup. Yeah, yeah, that's that's not an accident.
- 4:59So that's again I agree with I agree with him. Um, more
- 5:04power to her if she wants to do that. It's fun and and all
- 5:09all boobs are fun to look at, or at least most boobs are fun
- 5:12to look at as long as they're on an adult. Um. But yeah,
- 5:17I don't know. I would. I would if I had a girlfriend
- 5:20and all of her social media looked like that, I'd be a little worried
- 5:27myself. I wouldn't have unless we were in an open relationship like that's I'd
- 5:32be a little worried. So yeah, I mean exactly, That's not the
- 5:36type of person that I would have as a girlfriend if I were to have
- 5:40one. But you know, it's it's quite common with women, right social
- 5:46media is so addictive and anytime you post a picture of yourself, and it's
- 5:54so much easier for women than it is for men because all you have to
- 5:57do with post your body, post, you know, a cute picture,
- 6:00and why they created filters. Your body doesn't have to be this good.
- 6:05It doesn't have to be this in shape, right, Like she's pretty buff
- 6:10um surfer, you know, in stretch right. Yeah, but it a
- 6:15woman like me. Um. I'm I'm fifty one, you know, and
- 6:21I'm not in the best of shape. I'm in the process of losing weight,
- 6:27um and and getting muscles back that I let go over the last three
- 6:31years. So it it, you know, I'm I'm probably like one of
- 6:34the Tape Brothers posted something, what would you rate yourself? And right now
- 6:40I would rate myself like two levels lower than my normal because of the condition
- 6:46I'm in. But I could still post bathing suit pictures right now, and
- 6:50there I would get male attention. Probably it would be from men who are
- 6:55older than me. Um, but it would still be mailed to mention.
- 7:00And then there are people that would ignore how I look and be nice to
- 7:03me because of the things that I've said, you know that that that are
- 7:09um and and interesting things to people, or that are pointing out things that
- 7:16people won't listen to when men say them, you know, and stuff like
- 7:19that. So it's just honestly, like, it's not just easier for women,
- 7:29it's insanely easier for women. And and um, and there are men
- 7:33who enjoy having as their partner the woman that everyone is looking at and that
- 7:42would be the right guy for her, the guy that wants to show off.
- 7:45I'm I'm with this hot chick, right, um. And who who
- 7:48doesn't worry, who is confident that that you know, um, she's not
- 7:55gonna find somebody else and uh and and go with that guy, right.
- 8:00And I mean, you know, there's there's a lot of us, um
- 8:03Like, even though I'm not male, I have that lack of confidence like,
- 8:07well, yeah, there are people out there that are better. Um
- 8:11So if somebody was engaging in a lot of behavior that is attention seeking and
- 8:16I was, I was dating them, I would be I don't know,
- 8:20I would be insecure about it. I think, yeah, I mean,
- 8:24and there's just the whole thing is is like social this is why, this
- 8:33is why you hear people say things like women shouldn't have social media or they
- 8:39shouldn't be on social media, and god damn it, if I'm I'm hard
- 8:45pressed to find an argument as to why this shouldn't be the case. I
- 8:48mean, this is this is what women do. They are attention seekers.
- 8:54And if she if you're in a relationship with a woman like this who constantly
- 8:58bes to need to post even if it's just mundane pictures of you, you
- 9:03know what I mean, I just don't understand the I listen, no,
- 9:09I understand it, but I kind of, I guess, reject this whole
- 9:13idea that you need to post every piece of your life on social media.
- 9:20You know, you know, it's you're looking, you're seeking some kind of
- 9:24validation. And now it's all even even even um even that's there's there's different
- 9:31ways to do that. Like when I went to the Renaissance Fair with my
- 9:35husband, I take I took a lot of pictures. When I went to
- 9:39the Zombie Walk in Yellow Springs with my husband, I took a lot of
- 9:41pictures. Most of the pictures I posted were pictures of festivities. This is
- 9:48what we saw when we were there, and so people who were not there,
- 9:52this is this is what we saw. We've we've gone to car shows.
- 9:54I used to have a social media h site that I posted on that
- 10:03it's not social media anymore. The new owners when they bought it, they
- 10:07converted it to I say new This happened clear back in like twenty thirteen or
- 10:11twenty fourteen. They converted it to like a tabloid site. Um. I
- 10:16think they were trying to be the next BuzzFeed. It really kind of sucked,
- 10:20but I had I had photoblogs on there, and I would go to
- 10:24car shows and post pictures of details from the old cars with captions and descriptions
- 10:33that explained you know, um, like I would talk to the guys that
- 10:37were exhibiting the cars and learn about, you know, how they had restored
- 10:41them and how hard it was to get this part or that part, um
- 10:46the one I really regret and never been getting to talk to the guy.
- 10:50There was a guy who used an old, an old old Milwaukee light can
- 10:58as a car our part because he couldn't It was obvious it was a replacement
- 11:05for a part that he couldn't get and and it worked, it functioned,
- 11:09the engine ran, so it was it was kind of cool. Um,
- 11:13and I would I really wanted to talk to that guy. And there was
- 11:16somebody that tried to help me find him, but we never did find him.
- 11:20I don't know what he was doing at that time, but but we
- 11:22had to leave, um and and I never got to talk to him and
- 11:26find out his journey from I have to replace this part too. I'm gonna
- 11:31put an old Milwaukee beer can in instead. And I really wanted to hear
- 11:37that story. Um. But but those kind of things like that's, um,
- 11:43that's the attention you're seeking in that way of posting is more of look
- 11:54look what I got to see, Look what I got to do. Here's
- 11:56here's what it looked like. You might like it too, you know,
- 12:01as opposed to hey, I have boobs, look at them, you know,
- 12:05And like I said, it's it's more power tour if that's what she
- 12:09wants to do. Fine, But it's fair that there are people both sexes
- 12:15too. There are people who as partners, are going to be insecure about
- 12:20their partner's loyalty if their partner behaves that way. And I learned in my
- 12:30early thirties because I really didn't do a lot of picture posting and social media
- 12:33in my twenties. In fact, there wasn't much social media when I was
- 12:37in my early twenties, um none, so uh like like not for posting
- 12:43pictures anyway. And and when I did post pictures, I figured out pretty
- 12:50quickly that I got attention I didn't want, and so I changed what I
- 12:56was posting, Like I'm not going to post a bunch of pictures of me
- 13:00because if I do, I'm going to get attention from people who expect me
- 13:07to be interested in intimacy or at least flirting, and I'm not. So
- 13:15there you go. But yeah, that that that's probably part of the reason
- 13:22why, you know, like I said, I would be insecure if I
- 13:26had a girlfriend and she was posting tip picks. So but in any case,
- 13:33in the in the Daily Mail article, if we go about halfway down
- 13:39the article to the line Brady spun her posts as a warning to all girls.
- 13:46Right below that is the post where she she showed the image of his
- 13:56text. And I saw in the chat that there's been and update with contexts
- 14:01that those that that um particular text was actually from a couple's therapy exercise.
- 14:11Oh God, so God, so this was not married? They why are
- 14:18you in couples therapy? Jesus? Yeah, I mean, so that I'm
- 14:26aware of is that she was in treatment for bipolar disorder. So that doesn't
- 14:31entirely surprise me. No, absolutely not. But you know, anyone who's
- 14:35been married will tell you that marriage therapy is like the last It's like the
- 14:41last train exactly. So, but they're not they're not even marry, they're
- 14:46just dating. This is sick. This is psychopathic. This is this is
- 14:52some sort of of co dependent um relationship that I think that he used to
- 15:01entertain in his past. But he's coming into some kind of enlightenment. Right.
- 15:07There's a series that he did. I think it was on Netflix,
- 15:11and it wasn't a series of It was just like a basically a movie about
- 15:16him going to his therapist, and it was it was so wonderfully done.
- 15:24And oh my god, I really I wish I could remember the name of
- 15:28it right now. I'm gonna look it up what I have a minute,
- 15:31but I recommend that everybody really watches it. But it's a beautiful story about
- 15:37his transformation into you know, owning who he is and becoming himself right and
- 15:46just accepting that this is who he is. And you don't have to accept
- 15:52the abusive people in your life just because you are this famous Hollywood star,
- 16:00right like you you you are a person first, Yeah, you know.
- 16:06And it's only just occurred to me that therapy is the religious equivalent of confessions.
- 16:15Yeah, I'm sure I'm not the first person to point this out anywhere
- 16:18I think it's but it's the first time it's occurred to me, like just
- 16:22now, So this is why therapy is something that men would rather kill the
- 16:30son than go to. Yeahs does that mean? Um? And it's when
- 16:38it goes all the way to Hollywood. It's like everyone in Hollywood has a
- 16:41therapist. It's it's like, like I say, it's like a priest.
- 16:47It's like someone behind this weird chain that that you that you're obliged to tell
- 16:52everything too, and they take it all on board and basically do nothing with
- 16:56it other than reassure you that you're you're fire. Now. This is there's
- 17:02there's different um qualities of therapy that you can find in the world. Like
- 17:08there's there's the talk therapy that people are the most familiar with, you know
- 17:12where that's portrayed in movies. You're you're laying on the couch or sitting on
- 17:17a couch or chair talking to this therapist and all they say is, and
- 17:22how does that make you feel? After everything that you you know? Like
- 17:26that that exists, right, it's almost useless to to almost everybody, um,
- 17:33unless you just need a sounding board for your own self assessment. But
- 17:37there's other therapy out there that is it's hard work. And that is when
- 17:42you go in with a problem and a list of excuses and the therapist forces
- 17:52you, um intellectually to confront every single one of those excuses, break it
- 17:59down, tear it down, and realize that it's just a fake excuse,
- 18:03and then find what you really need to do to fix your situation and how
- 18:12how you are responsible for your handling of this problem, even if the problem
- 18:19is something that that is partly out of your control, like you have a
- 18:25chemical imbalance, or you have post traumatic stress, or you know you you're
- 18:32you have a like For me, I had ride rage. We didn't know
- 18:36that's what it was, but you know, it was still a high intensity,
- 18:44um unpredictable emotional state that was recurring and intrusive and interfered with my engagement
- 18:52with other people on a rational level. Right. And one of the first
- 18:57things I didn't I didn't go to a therapist that was born and raised in
- 19:02the United States. I went to a therapist to immigrated here from Korea.
- 19:07And I think that was my saving grace because the first thing that he got
- 19:12across to me was that we were not going to work on how to make
- 19:18me comfortable with being angry. We were going to work on how to give
- 19:22me tools and make me responsible for how I behaved regardless of how angry I
- 19:30got. And that's really what I was looking for, Yeah, because I
- 19:36Hurting people is a terrible thing to have to remember for the rest of your
- 19:41life, whether you hurt them physically you punch the shit out of somebody,
- 19:45or whether you said something that one thing that takes a person that is six
- 19:52feet tall and bulletproof and turns them into a six inch tall wilting flower,
- 20:02right like that. That is a terrible thing to remember doing. And so
- 20:08you know I won't have as few memories like that in my life as possible.
- 20:12Um. I mean, even though I am admittedly rude on Twitter,
- 20:18you guys have no idea like that's amateurish compared to what I am capable of
- 20:27and what I have learned to control and not do. And and it's something
- 20:33that everybody needs to understand when it comes to therapy. If you are looking
- 20:37for a therapist, you should be unless unless you just need somebody to help
- 20:44you think out your own thoughts, you should be avoiding that former type of
- 20:48therapist and looking for the guy that's going to tell you, all right,
- 20:53what we're going to do. And here is hard work. You're going to
- 20:57be pulling most of the weight, and we are going to make you responsible
- 21:02for your own behavior. Because that's that's therapy that does that only works,
- 21:10is the only therapy that really works. And it's rare, it's it's very
- 21:14sadly rare. Um. But here we have this this text. Wait.
- 21:18Wait, so so just before if anyone is interested, the name of that
- 21:25movie is stuts Stutz. Again, I cannot recommend it highly enough. It
- 21:32is a beautiful story about a person and their therapist and the stories and the
- 21:41questions that are asked. Right, It's just it really makes you. It
- 21:45made me sit back and think about just life and what's really important, you
- 21:53know. Yeah, I definitely am gonna watch it now. I want to.
- 21:59I want to see And it looks like I just looked it up.
- 22:02Um. The name of the movie is the name of the therapist. Therapist,
- 22:07yeah, it says um. Phil Stutts is one of the world's leading
- 22:11psychiatrists. He's helped countless patients over forty years, so he's had a long
- 22:17career. Um. That that's that's a good thing to know. I watched
- 22:22it. I fell asleep and I don't remember. I'm gonna make you watch
- 22:30it. I would rather do therapy than do therapy. Yeah. But so
- 22:37I'm going to get into what what he asked of her, because I this
- 22:40is honestly, this is not unreasonable. Um. And and I'm looking at
- 22:44this from from the standpoint of having experienced, like I said, like I'm
- 22:49an embarrassing type of attention. It wasn't I didn't feel harassed when people tried
- 22:53to flirt with me when I posted cute pictures. I felt embarrassed, like,
- 22:59oh no, I gave people the wrong idea. Right, Um,
- 23:03this isn't what I was looking for. I shouldn't do this if it's not
- 23:08what I'm looking for. Um so And in any case, let's see plain
- 23:18and simple, he says, if you need uh surfing with men and before
- 23:23people who like I don't surf. But I've been on a skateboard, and
- 23:26skateboarding was invented by surfers as a thing to do when there's there's no waves,
- 23:32right, and and skateboarding is a high adrenaline activity. Um Bike riding
- 23:37high adrenal adrenaline activity at most athletics are high adrenaline activity. When you're alone
- 23:42with a guy and you engage in a high adrenaline activity, you're more likely
- 23:47to bond with that person emotionally, and it is harder to separate that bond
- 23:57um in terms of friendship versus romance. It is more likely for you to
- 24:04have a moment in that in that moment as opposed to say, walking down
- 24:11the street together or working on a project in the office together, unless it's
- 24:18a particularly exciting project where where you're going to develop feelings or like I like
- 24:26the phrase catch feelings, like you know, they're floating around in the air,
- 24:30you know, like germs, and all of a sudden you're infected with
- 24:33a crush. And those happen to people in a lot of relationships, so
- 24:37you get, you know, like, oh, this is my work crush,
- 24:41but I would never act on it, and blah blah blah, and
- 24:42it's and most of the time that's true. But if you do that all
- 24:47the time with the same guys all the time, you do create a risk
- 24:52that you're going to make a stupid mistake. Yeah, so it's not really
- 24:57inappropriate to say surfing with men um and I think he probably was specifically saying
- 25:04surfing with men without him there, because he's a surfer too. They say,
- 25:11don't stick you dick in crazy, but it is the fancy you hipping
- 25:15you which way to say it, don't stick your mind in crazy? Yep,
- 25:19either, that's kind of even. That's probably what the phrase don't stake
- 25:23you whatever, just don't stake any of of yours. Just stay away from
- 25:30crazy. Crazy is not what you want. Strange is not what you want.
- 25:33Everyway from this crazy strange Yeah, pretty simply. Well, and if
- 25:37she tells you that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, that's that's a flag.
- 25:42And it's not that people with bipolar disorder can't have relationships, it's that
- 25:49there are there are problems that happen specifically with that disorder, um and and
- 25:57the manic episodes that it becomes an excuse. Oh I was manic. Your
- 26:04bad behavior is now excused. Oh I was manic? Well, okay,
- 26:11why are you in therapy to learn not to go out of control when I'm
- 26:15manic and to get medication to keep me from having so many manic episodes and
- 26:21have them be so dramatic? All right? So what was that first thing
- 26:26you said? Again? You know, like to learn not to engage in
- 26:32dysfunctional behavior when when you're in a manic episode, to develop more control.
- 26:37Right, So, then being manic is not an excuse, and of course
- 26:42you're going to get well, everybody falls, everybody falls off the wagon,
- 26:45everybody makes mistakes, all right, But you still are responsible for your behavior,
- 26:52just like somebody who is not drinking who falls off the wagon, right
- 26:57is responsible for their behavior because unless somebody else shove that drink down their throat.
- 27:06It was their action. So there's the one side where a person with
- 27:15a diagnosis bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, any type of mood or personality
- 27:22disorder that has as part of its symptoms dysfunctional behavior that crosses other people's boundaries
- 27:30or engages in levels of abuse is self destructive, is embarrassing. Right that
- 27:38there is this degree of using the disorder as a shield against culpability, where
- 27:48someone's personal agency would make them otherwise culpable for their behavior despite the disorder.
- 27:52Right. And it's one thing to accept reduced culpability in someone because you know,
- 27:59hey, you have of the struggle, and you can recognize the struggle
- 28:03and say, I know this is hard for you, and support the person
- 28:07in having that control and not put roadblocks in their way. Right. But
- 28:12at the other end of it, you still have to hold them accountable,
- 28:15and they have to be able to hold themselves accountable. So they can't just
- 28:18say, well, I need this because I'm bipolar. I'm going to do
- 28:22this and then not regret it later because I'm bipolar, and blah blah blah.
- 28:26The other end of it is people who have a diagnosis have a tendency
- 28:33to get dismissed by everyone around them if they're they have thoughts, feelings,
- 28:40beliefs, interests, and so on that are not popular with the people around
- 28:47them. So they may be they may be experiencing a frequent thing of the
- 28:55people around them experience, attribute their perspective on something, their position on something
- 29:03to their disorder, and don't treat them like a fully accountable, thinking human
- 29:10being. And at both ends of that, there's some fairness and there's some
- 29:12unfairness, and it's a very difficult relationship to have. So somebody should not
- 29:18embark on that if they are not prepared for that. Like, you're not
- 29:23just stepping into a relationship, it's like taking on a relationship with any other
- 29:30disability. If you choose to have a relationship with somebody who cannot walk,
- 29:34then you are choosing to alter your life in ways that will accommodate that person's
- 29:41an ability to walk, and that will support that person's ability to control their
- 29:48movement despite not being able to use their legs to have that control. And
- 29:55so it's you're saying, I will do more work in this relationship than I
- 30:00would have to do if your legs worked. And in the case of a
- 30:03relationship with somebody who has a mood disorder or personality disorder or any other kind
- 30:08of mental health condition, you are saying, I am willing to do more
- 30:14work in this relationship than I would do if you did not have this disability.
- 30:18And you know it's it's not fair on either side for someone to embark
- 30:26on that relationship without that expectation. And I think a lot of people don't
- 30:32understand that with regard to mental health conditions and disabilities, UM physical as well.
- 30:40So but he goes on right boundaryless and appropriate relationship friendships with men.
- 30:48No man should have to ask a woman not to do this. Ever,
- 30:52where I'm sorry, where where are you? It's UM. If you if
- 30:57you hit control F and UM type in hill complaining about social media photos,
- 31:07it'll take you right to the top of it, and that you'll see a
- 31:12UM picture. It's got a photo of him at the top of the phone
- 31:19screen. It says, Jonah, control what control F And I'm gonna put
- 31:27it in the chat that makes it easier. There we go, and that
- 31:36will be in the UM UH in the UH daily mail article. Okay,
- 31:44carry on, Sorry, it's okay, it's it's just, um, we're
- 31:48we got a lot to look at here. But the this is actually the
- 31:52main thing that I wanted to go over with regard to the Hill thing,
- 31:56because this is the crux of what everybody's talking about. His his boundaries,
- 32:00his specific boundaries. Right. So his second criterion was boundaryless inappropriate friendships with
- 32:10men. Like I said, no man should have to ask his female partner
- 32:21not to do that. Either you're in an open relationship that you've both agreed
- 32:25on and that you're both comfortable with, or you don't do this, right,
- 32:31I mean, that's it. It should have ended right that that should
- 32:36it should have been bullet point number one and period point blank. And I'm
- 32:42sorry, I don't I don't think he should have felt the need to explain
- 32:45himself in bullet point fashion as to why he felt uncomfortable with her behavior.
- 32:53Because again, any woman who is serious about having a relationship with this man
- 33:01or this person or whomever, you don't do things like things like this.
- 33:07This is advertising for someone else. Yeah. And when when we say boundary
- 33:12lists, I mean like that implies to me that that there's a lot of
- 33:19touching involved and I'm not talking about like my friend group, my local friend
- 33:23group. When we hang out together and everybody's leaving, you know, to
- 33:29go home, we all hug each other like we're really close. Um in
- 33:35like that's that's touching, but it's just hugging. Like you won't find me
- 33:39sitting on the couch next to one of the guys in the group, yeah,
- 33:44where where we're like right up against each other, you know, Like
- 33:50I just don't, um, because I wouldn't. I wouldn't feel comfortable either
- 33:57around my husband doing that. I think it would embarrass the guys. UM.
- 34:02And I think that that my female friends would be upset by it,
- 34:07and some more than others, but all of them, one way or another
- 34:10would be upset by it, Like and and it's this, this is this
- 34:15is like normal married behavior. You know, you hang out with people,
- 34:17and and you have very specific ways in which you can be close to your
- 34:24close friends and very specific ways in which you're not right. And I it's
- 34:31just some of the pictures, Like if I'm not going to go through her
- 34:34whole instagram and start critiquing the pictures, but there's a lot of pictures in
- 34:37that instagram that have been taken by somebody who views her as a beautiful woman
- 34:44and is um not necessarily enamored, but affectionate. Just you can see as
- 34:52a photographer, you can see the esthetic appreciation, the affection, the cap
- 35:00sharing candids of somebody that is is dearly valued, whether it's loved the way
- 35:07a friend is loved, loved the way the girl next door that you treat
- 35:10like a little sister is loved. This person loves her that took these pictures,
- 35:16you know. So it's and they're not selfies, not most of them.
- 35:22A lot of them are selfies, but not most of them, and
- 35:25so it's it's, uh, I don't know, it's just kind of I
- 35:31hate to try to analyze it too much because I don't know the people involved
- 35:37personally. But again, you know, it's kind of interesting. Like I
- 35:42have pictures of some of my female friends that I went to college with that
- 35:46are like that because we do love each other very much like sisters, and
- 35:53you can see in those pictures that we do care deeply about each other.
- 36:00The pictures that I take and the pictures that my friends have taken of me
- 36:04um that we're presenting the person that we see and the person that we love
- 36:08and that's that closeness. If your partner isn't part of that closeness, it's
- 36:17it can be threatening. Like and my friend group is mine and my husband's
- 36:23friend group, and each one of us has friends within the group that we're
- 36:28closer to than others that that there's overlap, and then there's like if you
- 36:34drew a Venn diagram of it, there would be parts of the circles that
- 36:37were outside of that overlap. And that's normal too. But it's just I
- 36:46can see why he would be you know, when you say inappropriate relationships with
- 36:52men, I would I would assume that he's talking about things like, you
- 36:57know, you fall, he catches you, or you are hiking together,
- 37:00and who's the person helping you up the slope and stuff like that, um,
- 37:07anything like that, Like I don't hold hands with my male friends.
- 37:12I don't even hold hands with my female friends. I mean, you know
- 37:15that kind of thing. Let's let's let's be real. This is not what
- 37:19they're doing, Okay, this is not the kind of behavior that he is
- 37:22questioning. Right, she's likely spending time with these on a non men questionably
- 37:32right, in compromising situations that he's not really comfortable with or there's no real
- 37:42like, there's no um, there's nobody watching what's going on. There's no
- 37:50it's it's just wild, abandoned whatever the hell they're doing. And it might
- 37:54it might be his paranoia, right, okay, because that could be you
- 38:01know, listen, if if if my man was off with some strange woman
- 38:07in a hotel room or in any other situation and I wasn't sure of what
- 38:15was going on, I would be suspicious. Yes. Does that mean that
- 38:20I wouldn't trust him? No, But that's because I have a different relationship
- 38:23with my partner, Yeah, right, And clearly she does not pass the
- 38:31trust level that he feels comfortable with for her to be going out and doing
- 38:37all of these things, you know, and does he even really need a
- 38:44reason? I mean, jeez, if she's supposed to be in a relationship
- 38:47with him, what's she doing hanging out with other guys? Yeah? I
- 38:52mean, I don't, I don't listen. There's one day, all right,
- 38:54surfing. Okay, If you're having extracurricular activities and that's what you do,
- 39:00all right, fine, then it should be just that there shouldn't really
- 39:05be any um, you know, mystery around what's happening there, And if
- 39:10she's not making him feel comfortable with her extracurricular activities, then of course he's
- 39:20got a reason to feel suspicious. You know, I can't imagine if I
- 39:24said to Mike, Oh, hey, yeah, no, I'm I'm just
- 39:28gonna go out down down the block for a little bit. I'm just gonna
- 39:31go. It's my friend, it's this guys that I know, and you
- 39:35know, I'm I'm you don't have to come, honey, I'm just gonna
- 39:37be right there, and just don't worry. I'll be back in a couple
- 39:40of hours. And then I come back all drunk and high or whatever,
- 39:45you know what I mean. Well, Like, okay, I think everybody
- 39:52knows by now. I really love my husband. Um. I Like,
- 39:55I've talked about him in a lot of different shows, and I've talked about
- 40:00ways in which he inspires me and everything. Right, when I meet somebody
- 40:06that I think is really cool and I like that person and I want to
- 40:08hang out with that person, I want them to get to know him.
- 40:12Yeah, Right, For one thing, if it's going to be a cool
- 40:16experience hanging out with this person, I want to share that with my husband,
- 40:22I don't always get to. Once in a while, I've I've met
- 40:24up with people, you know to have discussions like you know, I've I've
- 40:30met personally with some of the patrons from from you know, our group and
- 40:35everything, and have not had the opportunity to bring my husband along. But
- 40:40I've also introduced him to some and especially like I took him with me,
- 40:46my husband, and my son to um ICMI twenty nineteen, and I was
- 40:52hoping to get to introduce him to more people, but we ended up working
- 40:57like sixteen hour days the whole time, all three of us, and that
- 41:00didn't that didn't end up happening. But I uh, it would be weird
- 41:08to just single, like separate a friendship like that. Well, I'm friends
- 41:14with this person, but my husband can't be um I want I want people
- 41:19to know what a cool guy he is, you know. Yeah, And
- 41:22and like I said, if I'm going to have fun, I want to
- 41:24share it with him. We met playing Dungeons and Dragons and I've been a
- 41:34tabletop RPG gamer for most of my life and so has he for most of
- 41:40his life. But it's not as much fun without him now as it was
- 41:47before. I knew him, and I don't know, I don't know if
- 41:52that translates into all kinds of activities. But like I introduced him to photography,
- 41:58and he's good at it, you know, Like he picked it up
- 42:00like that. And you know, he introduced me to working on cars,
- 42:06and I'm not picking that up as fast as he picked up photography. But
- 42:09it's a more involved subject. So it's it's closer to being in medicine than
- 42:16to an art But in any case, like, there's a lot of things
- 42:22that we did individually before we got together that we introduced each other too and
- 42:30shared together because we're excited to show each other things that we think are interesting
- 42:35or fun or useful or any combination of those things. And that's part of
- 42:39being in a relationship. So if you're like the girl that is going,
- 42:46well, I'm going to go off with these guys and you're not part of
- 42:51it. Like, if those guys are really awesome guys, why would you
- 42:54not want your male partner to get to know them and be friends with them?
- 43:00Right right? You know, why would you want to separate that exactly?
- 43:07Because then then all of your worlds could collide, you know what I
- 43:10mean? You don't have to keep one from the other, and nobody has
- 43:15to feel like they're being slighted. You know that it just makes all this
- 43:21into the world unless you're an unscrupulous bitch, right and you've got ulterior your
- 43:27motives, an attention seeker at the very least, at the very least,
- 43:30very very least. But you know, and some of these, um,
- 43:38some of these are are things that if you isolated it, buy yours by
- 43:44itself, out of the context of the rest of these, then they would
- 43:50be debatable somewhat, right, Like, especially if a guy dated The next
- 43:54one is a model to model. If a guy started dating a model and
- 43:59then said, I don't want you modeling anymore because you're with me, that
- 44:01would be unfair. But that's not what happened. You know, he started
- 44:07dating a surf instructor. Surfing instructor, and just because your attractive does not
- 44:15mean you have to model, right, So what we're looking at here is
- 44:20a pattern of things that are objections to attention seeking. We have to model,
- 44:25to post pictures of yourself in a bathing suit, to post sexual pictures.
- 44:30I can't separate those three because of the previous two. Right when you
- 44:37look at that set that paints a picture of a guy who is at his
- 44:43wits end because his partner is seeking everyone's attention, but his, Like,
- 44:51the most important important attention in the world to me is my husband's attention.
- 44:55Everything you guys get to hear about in terms of like thoughts and ideas and
- 45:01everything, he's heard about it all first mm hm, you know, um,
- 45:07in one way or another, I've talked things out with him and and
- 45:10you know, somewhat as a as a feedback sounding board, like am I
- 45:16crazy thinking this? Or you know, is this reasonable? And there have
- 45:21been times where I've come up with stuff that you guys have never heard about
- 45:23because he's asked me some questions about it and I've said, well, you
- 45:27know, maybe that's not right, Maybe I need to think about this some
- 45:29more, and uh, you know, so it's it bugs me. I
- 45:35know a lot of women would be like, well, modeling is not unreasonable
- 45:38no by himself, no, no, but in behavior yeah, right,
- 45:45And and I can't. I mean, there's a lot that we don't really
- 45:51know about this whole situation, and they are expectations of each other. Right,
- 45:57Because if if Jonah was looking for a woman to marry and settle down
- 46:01with Presumably he wouldn't expect her to also be earning money so modeling to flip
- 46:10a paycheck. Really, and he's got the cash, and he is absolutely
- 46:17breddit enough where he can have a wife and she doesn't have to do a
- 46:22goddamn thing. But you know, so if he wants someone that doesn't have
- 46:30to work and doesn't have to go out and sell images of their body there
- 46:36naked or nearly naked body, you know, I don't understand what the problem
- 46:42is there. You know, that's that's his prince. But if that's what
- 46:46she wants to do, then that's what she wants to do. And listen,
- 46:51she belongs to the screens. Okay, let her go, Let her
- 46:54go. Well, and again, this is this is one of those you
- 47:00you are agreeing in a relationship to accommodate each other, to be invested in
- 47:07each other's welfare. If he if it is important to you as an individual,
- 47:14if if your female or male doesn't matter, if it's important to you
- 47:17as an individual to garner attention from people outside the relationship on a grand scale
- 47:23for the sake of having that attention. So you're going to post your your
- 47:30bathing suit pictures or your your athlete you know, moment pictures or whatever you're
- 47:37you're going to be a performer of some sort um. All of those things
- 47:42are okay, But you want to seek somebody in the relationship, you know,
- 47:46to be in a relationship with who is comfortable with that, not somebody
- 47:52who is uncomfortable with it, and you you should at least want to include
- 47:57that person in your choices, you know, in your behavior, your life,
- 48:04your your relationship with the public. Um. So if it's not something
- 48:10that you your partner, your perspective partner is willing to share in and be
- 48:15part of and is comfortable with, you've you've picked somebody to uh engage in
- 48:22a relationship with who isn't compatible with you. That's a direct incompatibility, right
- 48:30right, and and and and it Honestly, it shouldn't be this difficult.
- 48:36It shouldn't require this level of conversation to write that. Yeah, point,
- 48:42you should You should know at least within the first couple of months where you're
- 48:49at, you know what I mean. And I think that's giving it a
- 48:52little bit more time. I mean, what we're dealing with this generation,
- 48:57right, so it probably takes a little bit more time than that. However,
- 49:00you know, I can't imagine. Hey, babe, I'm starting only
- 49:06fans. How do you feel about that? Something sexism, racism, problems.
- 49:12Yeah, but but no, but but I love you and I want
- 49:15to be with you forever. Right, But I'm going only fans because I
- 49:20want to make money. What do you think, Well, you'll be competing
- 49:22with the only fans. I was considering. You don't know the guys that
- 49:31have only fans. No, you didn't, because it's not really a thing.
- 49:36What does that tell any of you? No, Oh my gosh,
- 49:40yeah, I it's and when you think about it, you know, like
- 49:44that that is one of those you you need to be on the same page
- 49:50in regard to these things. Like you know. But when I did artistic
- 49:55modeling, for instance, I didn't go by myself. My husband and I
- 50:00went together and hung out with this artist, really cool, really cool guy,
- 50:02painter um. His place, his studio looked like it was straight out
- 50:07of some nineteen seventies film about an artist's life. Um And and we had
- 50:14a blast talking politics and comparing photography to painting and everything. But I wasn't
- 50:22going to do that alone. And wasn't just going to be me, uh
- 50:24you know, and and and it was not going to be a very public
- 50:31thing where I you know, all the pictures ended up on the Internet and
- 50:37everything like and in to this day, it's very hard to find anything from
- 50:42that, um aside from the few things that were that. Like, when
- 50:45you do an art set like that, there's a hundred rejects for every good,
- 50:52you know, everything that the artist is truly satisfied with. And uh
- 50:58so you get you know a lot of stuff that ends up in the in
- 51:00the in the bin, um and a few things that end up on somebody's
- 51:06wall. And so those those are those are rare. There's there's like two
- 51:10or three paintings out there, um, real big solid you know, like
- 51:15painting paintings, and in at least a couple of them, I'm not sure
- 51:22you'd know that I'm the subject. In one of them. You definitely would
- 51:25if you knew me back then, but in in in a couple of them,
- 51:29you couldn't be one hundred percent certain that I was the subject. So
- 51:32like, these were things that were um, these were things that were not
- 51:39like only fans, not um not pornographic, right, not even necessarily nude.
- 51:49Um. But uh, and there weren't things that that I did alone.
- 51:52And I look at this and I'm I still had a lot of questions
- 51:55before I did it. Um. I think I kind of old my husband
- 52:00about this before I did it. It was like, are you sure you're
- 52:02okay with this? Or you is this going to be I don't I don't
- 52:06want you to do this to to to say you're okay with this just for
- 52:10me, because there's other ways I can go out and and um model or
- 52:16do whatever and and have the same experience, Like there's art classes and stuff
- 52:22like that that do closed modeling and stuff. And uh, I did that
- 52:28when I was in college. Um. And and then I'm a photographer,
- 52:32so I could just set up a studio here, and you know, it
- 52:37was like, no, this is this is going to be interesting, Let's
- 52:38go do this. And as soon as it was okay, this is going
- 52:43to be interesting, let's go do this, then it was all right.
- 52:45That's that's how you had to deal with that kind of stuff. If he'd
- 52:49have been like, I don't know, I don't like this, this is
- 52:51this is bothering me, that would have been the end of the story.
- 52:53Because it wouldn't have been fun if he was going to be upset about it,
- 52:59you know, like, and our friends are artists. A lot of
- 53:01our friends are artists. We are kind of all grouped together around art and
- 53:10gaming. So like, half my friends are photographers, half my friends are
- 53:15gamers. Some of my friends are performers. I haven't I had I had
- 53:21a friend, I still would call him a friend. We just haven't had
- 53:24contact with each other for a long time, partly because of COVID that that
- 53:30was part of a belly dancing troupe. I went and did pictures for for
- 53:34a while. Um like just that's the kind of I guess bohemian group I'm
- 53:38with. And there's still is a set of rules that you you know,
- 53:45have to speak them, but you follow them anyway where you check your partners
- 53:52you know, consent basically for because you're not just one person and them one
- 53:58person anymore year a set of people your partnership. And I don't understand why
- 54:04so many women don't understand that. Yeah, but I'm gonna I'm gonna move
- 54:10to the next thing, because this really was this was quite an interesting one.
- 54:15Friendships with women who are in unstable places and from your wild recent past,
- 54:22beyond getting a lunch or coffee or something respectful. So the unstable places
- 54:29thing hit me because I had some friends when I was young that were very
- 54:35different from me. That there was one friend I hung out with when I
- 54:40was in school that every single time we went any place or did anything,
- 54:47I got hurt, whether it was a physical injury, whether somebody was mean
- 54:53to me or did something scary. There were some profound ways in which I
- 54:58got hurt around her, and it was because she was in an unstable place,
- 55:04and every time I spent time with her, instead of me pulling her
- 55:08out of that instability, she pulled me into her instability. And I was
- 55:15not grounded enough to dig in my heels and not be subject to that.
- 55:22Right. So I wasn't wasn't I wasn't an anchor, you know. I
- 55:28was more of like the poor schlub on a on a pair of water skis,
- 55:34hanging onto the little triangular thing behind the boat going slow down. So
- 55:38I decided to let go. The point of of this being, when you
- 55:45have a friendship like that, you put yourself in danger if you continue to
- 55:52make yourself a part of this person's instability. So when with him doing this,
- 55:57this maybe um continuation of the trust issue, but it might also be
- 56:04concerned that this this is going to get her hurt. Guys protect their their
- 56:13partners in ways that their partners are not always aware of. I doubt my
- 56:17husband would have been comfortable with me continuing that friendship if I had still been
- 56:22in it when we met and when we got together, like I think,
- 56:28he probably would have said, you know, every time you hang out with
- 56:30her, you get hurt. You probably should just cut her off. And
- 56:36that might be the conversation they had in the background. You never know,
- 56:43But women who women who can't respect amends concerns about their faithfulness and their trust
- 56:58their trustworthiness also aren't going to respect a man's concerns about their safety. Yeah,
- 57:08agreed. I mean, I'm just again with this last thing. I'm
- 57:16concerned about why he would even choose someone that has an unstable past with unstable
- 57:23people if he wants to then find a stable future, you know. I
- 57:30mean, yeah, I think this is a this is a vulnerability, and
- 57:38I know it all. I know a lot of guys, you know,
- 57:40get together with a woman who is exciting and fun and sexy, and all
- 57:45that, and and then realize that those things don't make her a perfect partner,
- 57:52right and right, you know, like a woman can be exciting and
- 57:57fun and sexy without being unstable though exactly this is where you're supposed to chime
- 58:05in. My god, damn it. You know it's been four years and
- 58:08yet to detect a single sign of crazy, and Lauren, it's so weird.
- 58:15Women are supposed to be crazy, and Lauren's just start here being all
- 58:17not crazy. I'm pretty chure she's a FED. That's that's my advice.
- 58:29You see. The obvious thing for a fed to say is that I'm not
- 58:32a FED, So I won't say I'm not a fed. Exactly. Yeah,
- 58:37I'm sat here in a fed touse, pretty convinced I'm setting fed to.
- 58:43You're pretty comfortable, though, aren't you. Yeah, she's got I'm
- 58:47gonna say yes. So here's here's the thing. Um, you guys are
- 58:58adorable. So what we're looking at here? This image is from last year,
- 59:07two years ago. Actually this year. He's thirty nine, so he
- 59:13would have been like thirty seven, which for so he's a millennial. No
- 59:21that's not right. Um, he's in stage gen xer maybe jen beginning gen
- 59:29Y, like the younger siblings of gen xers probably didn't grow up with as
- 59:36much outdoor without the parents time as say my age group. I was born
- 59:42in nineteen seventy two, so I'm about eleven years older. Um. They
- 59:49clearly he's led a comfortable life, right because he came to the Hollywood scene
- 59:54pretty pretty fluffy and very comfortable well, and he grew up in Hollywood,
- 1:00:00I mean like started acting during during his youth, his teen years. So
- 1:00:06you're you're looking at somebody who didn't get a chance to have a normal growing
- 1:00:08up process around dating and relationships and stuff. He may just not have been
- 1:00:14mature enough at the start of their relationship to realize, you know that that
- 1:00:20his ultimate plan and in dating, which is to find a life partner and
- 1:00:25and become a family man um for him. Like what he described to her,
- 1:00:32it was wasn't compatible with the woman he was dating, right, But
- 1:00:37he's obviously developed that maturity. And the reason that I will say that is
- 1:00:42this last bit here. If he had started out with if you need and
- 1:00:47then he says, I am not the right partner for you. If these
- 1:00:52things bring you to a place of happiness. I support it, and there
- 1:00:57will be no hard feelings. These are my boundaries or romantic partnership, meaning
- 1:01:01I for me to have intimacy, need to under need, need to know
- 1:01:09that you're going to be loyal and monogamous with me and not put yourself in
- 1:01:15danger with unstable women other women who are unstable, and and uh engagement with
- 1:01:23men who may be there to attempt you to cheat. Right, That's that's
- 1:01:30what he's basically asking. He was more specific than that, but that specificity
- 1:01:36all revolves around don't look like you're going to cheat on me, don't cheat
- 1:01:42on me, don't exclude me from your exciting happy moments, and don't engage
- 1:01:50in a lot of high risk behaviors with other women. That's that's not unreasonable.
- 1:01:54No, no, and treat they're treating him like he's the bad guy
- 1:02:00for it. That last paragraph. He didn't say, if you need these
- 1:02:05things, you are not the right partner for me. Right. What you
- 1:02:09say, I am not the right partner for you? Exactly exactly, and
- 1:02:16that he made himself the stick in the mud to her, h hollygo lightly
- 1:02:22life. It's it's it's basically the the self actualization and the self realization of
- 1:02:31it's not you, it's me, right, Like, you don't mesh with
- 1:02:38my lifestyle, so maybe you need to go, you know. And and
- 1:02:45he didn't in such a respectful way, like he didn't shame her for what
- 1:02:51she was doing. He didn't, he didn't call her slut and saw no
- 1:02:54expletives right, no, no, no four letter words that one might call
- 1:03:00a woman in this position who felt it necessary to go and put herself on
- 1:03:08display for public consumption. Right, he chose none of those words to call
- 1:03:15her. He was so respectful in this, and for this to be turned
- 1:03:22around and kick it back in his faces if he is the problem is just
- 1:03:28the goddamn if it is not the personification of what society is doing to men.
- 1:03:36It's like there's never enough. You can't be docile enough, you can't
- 1:03:42be complacent enough, you can't be accepting enough of these women's behavior. Right,
- 1:03:52there's nothing that you can Just forget it. I don't understand why you
- 1:03:55do it at all. Just forget it. There's novel at which you can
- 1:04:01accept a woman's fuckery that will make it acceptable for you. Okay, this
- 1:04:10is a good guy. No, no, no, no, no,
- 1:04:15Well, the thing that strikes me about it is how much he took responsibility
- 1:04:20for this and absolved her of responsibility. This exactly so she met him and
- 1:04:27he met her like they had to have gotten to know each other and obviously
- 1:04:33like, yes, he dated a woman he's incompatible with. She dated a
- 1:04:38man she's incompatible with, and he took responsibility, saying, I'm the stick
- 1:04:45in the mud. I'm not going to fit into your lifestyle. I should
- 1:04:48go. Not you don't fit into my lifestyle. You've got to go.
- 1:04:53I don't fit into your lifestyle. I'm I'm the fly in the ointment.
- 1:05:00I should be removed. You've got you need to be with somebody that's more
- 1:05:04interested in the things you're interested in. Right, you should? Not you
- 1:05:08should? You should get away from me? Right like like not not me,
- 1:05:14I'm trying to tie you down. No, I think that you belong
- 1:05:18somewhere else, So you just fly fly fly brobbly fly flab. I'm sorry.
- 1:05:30Well, and it's just if these things bring you to a place of
- 1:05:32happiness, I support it is pretty openly non judgmental, like this is fine.
- 1:05:39Yeah, you know, there's nothing, there's nothing wrong with what you're
- 1:05:42doing. You're not the bad guy. I'm just gonna be you know,
- 1:05:45I'm I'm gonna be the ball in chain, and you don't want a ball
- 1:05:48in chain. So let's this is not a healthy relationship. That's that's fair.
- 1:05:54There's nothing unfair in anything he said there. And would I would not
- 1:05:59have ever been as charitable he was. Well, the thing and the thing
- 1:06:05is, you know he was, he was that charitable. Yeah, and
- 1:06:09what did she do? She turned around and accused him of abuse. Now
- 1:06:13I want to say something right like posted it as if oh my god,
- 1:06:17look at how bad this guy is. And not just that, but the
- 1:06:21timing. All right. Yeah, So Hollywood couples like they get they get
- 1:06:28um publicity for everything they do off of everything they do, right, And
- 1:06:34and that's if you make movies, if you do something that you need to
- 1:06:39promote all the time. Um, there's promotion that you do. That's work
- 1:06:44where you go out and you talk to the public and you do events and
- 1:06:46you get your picture taken and you smile for the cameras and blah blah blah.
- 1:06:50Right, um, and then there's also this person just had a great
- 1:06:57moment in their life and the news is going to report on it. Your
- 1:07:00name's in the media then, and they'll talk about the work that you've done
- 1:07:04in conjunction with Hey, your name's in the in the media right now,
- 1:07:10your name's out all over the place, right so your movies are gonna get
- 1:07:13talked about. Your your other work's gonna get talked about. Um and and
- 1:07:17that's cool. And so his wife just had a baby, and this,
- 1:07:27the way this has been presented is so dishonest. She says that she waited
- 1:07:31until after the baby was born so that she wouldn't physically affect the couple with
- 1:07:38what she was going to release. I call bullshit bull shit? Has she
- 1:07:46not ever heard of postpartum depression? For one thing? Like you, you
- 1:07:50don't stop being hormonal after birth, You get differently hormonal after birth. So
- 1:07:58there is no she's not sparing any when anything by doing this. The only
- 1:08:02thing she is doing is now all the news is about her, and a
- 1:08:10great deal of the news about him is negative. So she basically just stole
- 1:08:16his baby's thunder. Yeah, and that was not an accident. So one
- 1:08:25of the big symptoms of bipolar disorder attention seeking. Attension seeking, Hello,
- 1:08:35you know, how can you possibly possibly get more attention seeking than to steal
- 1:08:42your ex partner's baby's thunder with a pathetic attempt like this, You know,
- 1:08:55I like that sad. And as for it, you know, not affecting
- 1:09:01his current partner, his wife, Like, of course it does. I
- 1:09:06would believe it if somebody did this to my husband. Yeah. Absolutely,
- 1:09:12Um, And just so for clarification, he because I'm reading about this woman
- 1:09:19that is now having his child, But is that his wife? Did he
- 1:09:24like just transitioned that fast and married this woman who's now pregnant or has had
- 1:09:30his child. Um, I think when they got together, they got together
- 1:09:34very quickly. I think they're married. I might be wrong, they might
- 1:09:39not be married. But this was that was the other thing. Like she
- 1:09:43made a big deal about the turnaround time. But it's pretty obvious from these
- 1:09:47texts that this relationship was fizzling out a like for quite some time. Right,
- 1:09:58So it's you're not gonna have the rebound time from a relationship like this
- 1:10:04necessarily, especially if you've been in therapy with a good therapist that actually makes
- 1:10:11you confront your demons and wrestle them to the ground and take responsibility for your
- 1:10:15handling of them. Um. Even if you can't take responsibility for their place
- 1:10:19of origin, you know. Um, then then you're not going to to
- 1:10:26mourn the end of this relationship for you know, at least half the length
- 1:10:30of the relationship. It doesn't always work that way. Um, it's and
- 1:10:36and then it's possible they were friends before too, they might have already known
- 1:10:41each other. Yeah, I mean, Hollywood tends to be a cesspool of
- 1:10:45who you're screwing and who you're about to screw next. My husband and I,
- 1:10:50my husband and I were both each other's rebound relationships from very serious,
- 1:10:56long term relationships that were painful to end, and both relationships ended in very
- 1:11:05different painful ways. And everybody predicted that we would not last because we were
- 1:11:12just a rebound relationship. We've been we've been together since nineteen ninety eight.
- 1:11:19I don't know, I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Yeah,
- 1:11:25really, so, I mean, like it can happen. You can
- 1:11:29have like the the person that you've always been compatible with, Like sometimes it's
- 1:11:34that friend zoned person, right that, Um, well, you're always in
- 1:11:40a relationship when they're single, or they're always in a relationship when you're single,
- 1:11:43And then all of a sudden, you're both single at the same time,
- 1:11:46and you commiserate together, and then you realize, duh. The reason
- 1:11:51these other relationships didn't work out was because maybe subconsciously I was comparing all those
- 1:11:58people to how good this friendship is? Where can this friendship go? Yeah?
- 1:12:03You know that, like that does happen, So you know, I
- 1:12:09wouldn't hold it against anybody being a fast turnaround time. I wouldn't hold it
- 1:12:13against her either, like maybe one of the guys that she goes surfing with
- 1:12:16this is the guy that she should have been with all along, and here
- 1:12:21she is pining over her ex when maybe she should be looking around going Actually,
- 1:12:30all this time, I've been more compatible with insert man's name here,
- 1:12:34because I don't know who her friends are, and actually he seems to really
- 1:12:40care about me, and I've been friend zoning him for however long they've known
- 1:12:45each other. You know that that's a very distinct possibility. In fact,
- 1:12:48I would call it a probability based on some of those pictures. Some like
- 1:12:55I said, somebody is looking at her through the camera with some degree of
- 1:13:00love. It could be platonic, but it doesn't necessarily have to be so
- 1:13:06there's that side. So I want to switch from this real quick because we've
- 1:13:11kind of covered what I wanted to cover about this. But then bottom line
- 1:13:15on this is here we have this woman right who had no real reason why
- 1:13:27she should have done this, like she didn't. She didn't have She's not
- 1:13:30a victim of anything. No harm has been done to her. She's been
- 1:13:35broken up with and her ex moved on and she hasn't. That's it.
- 1:13:41So she lashed out very publicly, shared out of context things and twisted the
- 1:13:49story against him and still came out looking like the bad guy in my opinion,
- 1:13:55and I think a lot of other people on Twitter seem to agree with
- 1:13:58me. So we're now looking at the mother Jones article. The mother Jones
- 1:14:05article is the student journalist harassed for reporting on toxic masculinity, and that is
- 1:14:15there's two two the mother Jones. So when you look in the chat in
- 1:14:19our chat um, you'll see first there is at the bottom there's uh like
- 1:14:24our little my answer to Lauren. Then there's the Instagram post and there's I
- 1:14:30don't need information despair. Oh no, no, no, this one,
- 1:14:35this one, this situation is a little different than the Jonah Hill situation,
- 1:14:40and it's it's encompassed in the early part of the article, so we may
- 1:14:44not go through the entire article. Um, I'm going to skip the italicized
- 1:14:50text, even though it's like it's fodder. What I really want is this
- 1:14:59this woman's story that she tells so in bold print underneath that you'll see in
- 1:15:03my freshman year. And that's where I'm starting. In my freshman year,
- 1:15:10when I joined the student newspaper, I was just trying to get a feel
- 1:15:15for it. At the time, I thought this would be easy. I'm
- 1:15:19really a really opinionated person and I have a lot of ideas and stories I
- 1:15:24want to write. So right away, she has just told you she is
- 1:15:28not a journalist. She's a commentator. I hate that. That's not journalism,
- 1:15:35opinionated. Being opinionated is not journalism. Not No, that's just being
- 1:15:44a woman. That's true, That is just being a woman. But I
- 1:15:47mean, Rush Limbaugh was opinionated. He didn't call himself a journalist. He
- 1:15:51admitted he was a commentator. What he did is commentary. Right in my
- 1:15:59freshman year I joined the student newspaper. Okay, so we're talking. I
- 1:16:01believe about college. I don't think this was a high school kid. I
- 1:16:06decided a profile and now I'm sorry people if people know this guy and I
- 1:16:13don't. I don't know this guy. I don't know if he's a great
- 1:16:15guy or an asshole or something in between. Probably more something in between.
- 1:16:18Most people are. But and I I'm hoping I'm not butchering his name.
- 1:16:26I decided to profile Lucas Parkter. I hope I'm supposed to pronounce the team
- 1:16:30in my sophomore year because my friends and I would constantly see his videos on
- 1:16:35TikTok. So she's now a journalist reporting on some guy on TikTok. He
- 1:16:45was a senior at the University of Arizona and a former fraternity president with more
- 1:16:51than one hundred thousand followers. So we were where are we now, cloud
- 1:16:58Chaser? Yeah, exactly. You know, I gotta say, I don't.
- 1:17:03I don't. I don't do the ticketing talk. I don't. I
- 1:17:06don't understand those languages. I don't. I don't follow those follows. So
- 1:17:13you know, one hundred thousand followers, what does that mean? And across
- 1:17:16what the globe? I mean, well, I would think, but yeah,
- 1:17:23it's a bigger channel than we are on YouTube. That's insane. It's
- 1:17:28insane, it's insane, and it's and it's honestly, it's fucking infuriating.
- 1:17:33Okay, because there's a website, a Chinese owned and operated website that exists
- 1:17:42off of promoting these ridiculous, nonsensical, time wasting thirty second minute second,
- 1:17:53you know whatever, videos of absolute bullshit that have nothing to do with your
- 1:17:59life. Meanwhile, there are TikTok accounts that exist that can teach you things.
- 1:18:05Yeah, but they don't promote those. No, no, Well,
- 1:18:12the big thing with this, I guess the big thing with this is like
- 1:18:15people are gonna watch what they want to watch. I kind of suspect that
- 1:18:17a lot of what gets promoted by by TikTok in the United States is based
- 1:18:23on the fact that a lot of young people in the United States have very
- 1:18:26short attention spans. Because before TikTok, there was Vine, and although Vine
- 1:18:32withered and died pun intended, it was similar. It was very similar to
- 1:18:40TikTok, and that it involved short videos and promoted a lot of lightweight stuff.
- 1:18:47It wasn't you know, like a lot of YouTube stuff can be very
- 1:18:51in depth and everything, and there's a lot of different things on YouTube that
- 1:18:56are popular tutorials for everything from how to make your eyes look bigger than they
- 1:19:00really are to how to repair the h the tirods in a in a nineteen
- 1:19:09ninety four Plymouth Grand Voyager Vanum just we actually looked up video to see how
- 1:19:15other people had dealt with the fact that they're very hard to remove after years
- 1:19:20and years of rest um. So, like, YouTube is very broad,
- 1:19:26and it's in its categories, and so is so is TikTok. But if
- 1:19:30you only go for what's trending on YouTube, Like if you don't have any
- 1:19:35history, any Google history on a particular computer, you you don't have a
- 1:19:40Google account that you're logged into, and Google doesn't know what you personally have
- 1:19:45looked up. When you open YouTube and you look at the main page,
- 1:19:49what it shows you is a bunch of similar items to what people complain about
- 1:19:58TikTok showing. Um. However, if I open up YouTube right now,
- 1:20:04like if I show you my front page on YouTube, you're gonna see a
- 1:20:09combination of videos that I watch out of weird curiosity. Like there's a channel
- 1:20:14that claims to be anonymous official that has I've been kind of like looking at
- 1:20:17some of the stuff on there, just to see who's posting as anonymous official
- 1:20:24UM and it's interesting it seems to be a Republican channel, but not always.
- 1:20:31And then you see a bunch of creepy pasta and you'd see uh,
- 1:20:34some some science spam uh and and a bunch of other cat videos. UM
- 1:20:42Like, I follow this this chick, the girl with the dogs that does
- 1:20:46pet grooming because her videos are very therapeutic, I guess you could say,
- 1:20:53right, like just she's a sweet lady and she has cute little animals,
- 1:20:58you know, right, so you won't see that stuff on my channel.
- 1:21:04Sh shush. You found this channel that does like they do kitten rescues,
- 1:21:14and so they they bathed the kittens like they give the kids, and it's
- 1:21:19should it's I don't know, it's got to be some kind of kitten as
- 1:21:24mr, right, but like they bade the kittens and they're just oh oh
- 1:21:29my, it's right. Well, it's it's good, that's fine. But
- 1:21:33I mean the point being I I I'm skeptical of the idea that the promotion
- 1:21:41of of crap from um uh TikTok is uh directed by the Chinese government and
- 1:21:50not just Americans watch a lot of crap, right because I think we do.
- 1:21:57Why not both? And I don't know unless Google is also deliberately it's
- 1:22:01possible maybe Google is also deliberately trying to dumb down everybody in the United States
- 1:22:05with UM videos about stupid. There's a weird channel that that they had for
- 1:22:14the longest time, UM promoted, and they continued to promote it to me
- 1:22:17even after I said, don't, don't, uh, don't promote this channel
- 1:22:23to me. There's a thing you can click and say, I don't,
- 1:22:25I don't want to watch this channel UM. And it's it's like called cake
- 1:22:29Stories or something like that, and it's really fucked up. It's videos of
- 1:22:32cake decorating. But when you listen to them talk, it's this teenager voice
- 1:22:40like horror stories, and it's but it's not just horror stories. It's like
- 1:22:44horror stories about girls getting kidnapped and sexually assaulted and yeah, just like really
- 1:22:51fucked up. You know. I I couldn't. It was a train wreck.
- 1:22:57I couldn't bring myself to close it until it got to a point where
- 1:23:02I was like, why the fuck am I listening to this? You know,
- 1:23:08I'm like halfway through the video going this is just getting worse and worse.
- 1:23:12And there's there's been a few other YouTubers that have talked about this.
- 1:23:15That was that continued to exist for quite a long time. And when it
- 1:23:20was when one would be taken down, there would be three or four more
- 1:23:24that would pop up, and they would post their videos. Instead of titling
- 1:23:30them with a word title, they would use uh all key code text,
- 1:23:40so you would have like you know, square, uh spade, uh,
- 1:23:45you know, question mark dot as their title or you know other little little
- 1:23:54icon you know, dingbats. The title would be made of dingbats for for
- 1:24:00old school uh uh fun users and and it was just like nuts right,
- 1:24:06and YouTube would promote that. So, I don't know, it's just I
- 1:24:12don't I'm skeptical of the whole It's it's just China doing this, this trying
- 1:24:17to dumb down the public. I think it's too late for that. Um.
- 1:24:21The thing that's insidious about TikTok that prevents me from being willing to use
- 1:24:27it is their their data theft. Like I know, I'm I'm um giving
- 1:24:33Google my data. Um, but the data theft from TikTok extends to getting
- 1:24:39your your passwords for everything, and uh, getting information from devices around you
- 1:24:46that don't necessarily have TikTok on them, you know, like they hasn't been
- 1:24:54nobody's open TikTok using that device and stuff like that. I don't I don't
- 1:24:58like that. That's that is actually really sneaky. Um. You know,
- 1:25:01Google can Google can track everywhere I've been. The worst thing that will come
- 1:25:06to that is I can't hide from anybody, right. But at the same
- 1:25:10time, you know, if I ever have to go to court and prove
- 1:25:12where I was, I'm gonna I'm gonna get my Google timeline out and be
- 1:25:15like, well Google says I was here. So there's that. But this
- 1:25:21this woman goes after this guy and she she goes you know, he's got
- 1:25:27more than one hundred thousand followers. So like that's why I said cloud Chaser,
- 1:25:30because he's his his videos are popular, and I think when you have
- 1:25:34that kind of popularity, it's either because your subject matter resonates with a group
- 1:25:39of people, or it's very entertaining and attention grabbing in the moment. It's
- 1:25:45like most of the cat videos. I watch a lot of the cat videos.
- 1:25:47I watch will have hundreds of thousands or millions of views, because I
- 1:25:53mean, who doesn't love cute little animals? Michael, WHOA, you don't
- 1:26:00cute little should the right. I'll be honest. I say this as a
- 1:26:10person who has actually been been um fascinated by the cuteness of an animal one
- 1:26:16moment and dropped it head first into a pot of boiling water the next.
- 1:26:20Lobsters are adorable, but they're so delicious. Holy shit, are they delicious?
- 1:26:28Man? Give some butter all. Yeah. Yeah, I scared the
- 1:26:32shit out of my ex fiance doing that too, because I'm like, oh,
- 1:26:34look at a cut eyeballs and he's like, you're not gonna be able
- 1:26:39to eat that if you keep that out, And I just looked at him
- 1:26:41and I picked it up by the tail and dropped it in the water.
- 1:26:44Um. It's like, I don't understand people that eat fish eyeballs. That
- 1:26:50to me is sorry, I don't know if they tasted good, I would.
- 1:26:58Yeah, you have to understand first hats. First hats probably believe it
- 1:27:04hats fish hats best has hit them up. Yum, I don't get the
- 1:27:11reference. I'm oh, my god, you have to hear that one you
- 1:27:17have to be. I think you have to be American or possibly Canadian and
- 1:27:23old. Uh, other people will get it. Um. The flip side
- 1:27:30of that was a song called If I was a Bicycle Seat that you really
- 1:27:36should hear. But in any case that Yeah. So this this guy has
- 1:27:42um all these followers, and she's mad because she doesn't like his content.
- 1:27:49Um, I don't, join, says, I get it. Anybody that
- 1:27:55ever listened to the Doctor Demento show back in the eighties and nineties will get
- 1:27:58it. But and she didn't like his content. And I think his content
- 1:28:04had a combination. I suspect his content had a combination of being attention grabbing
- 1:28:10and actually being of a subject matter that she didn't like. So she says
- 1:28:15his videos ranged from fitness content to digestible motivational pidbits to just flexing in front
- 1:28:23of his phone, which probably got a lot of college girls to watch,
- 1:28:30because I would have watched that when I was in college. So he also
- 1:28:34had Q and A videos where he answered anonymous messages from people asking him questions
- 1:28:39about how to deal with social anxiety, breakups, and even substance abuse.
- 1:28:43So to me, so far, this guy sounds like a pretty good guy.
- 1:28:47Yeah, you know. He presented himself as someone who is provocative and
- 1:28:53bold. In one video, he said he had very little respect for people
- 1:28:56who were morbidly obese. But what was really so controversial about a fraternity kid
- 1:29:01being cocky? His content seemed to like, seemed like a big joke to
- 1:29:05be Honestum, So, just because somebody doesn't doesn't like fat, doesn't doesn't
- 1:29:15mean they're a problem. And I will say this, Um, just because
- 1:29:18some weight disorders are caused in part or entirely by other health conditions, glandular
- 1:29:30conditions and stuff like that, does not make does not create a situation which
- 1:29:35you owe all people who are morbidly obese your respect necessarily. Like that's kind
- 1:29:45of Uh, that's a no brainer. There are people that'll that'll have have
- 1:29:49that condition due to circumstances beyond their control and have limited ability to get out
- 1:29:56of that situation. And then there will be people who are that way through
- 1:30:00their own own fault and could get out of this. And I, UM,
- 1:30:10I've had people close to me in both circumstances, and I've I've had
- 1:30:15family members and friends who have gone to extreme measures to lose weight and I've
- 1:30:20I've got some some folks in my life that are in a situation where they've
- 1:30:26just been told there's nothing you can do, and I'm I'm like, find
- 1:30:30a new doctor. But there's it's kind of it's more of a you know,
- 1:30:38it's like when somebody says that to a cancer patient patient, there's nothing
- 1:30:42you can do, and you're like, no, find a new doctor.
- 1:30:43You don't want to accept that. Yeah, once in a blue moon,
- 1:30:46there is a truth that you don't want to accept, and it doesn't stop
- 1:30:50being true just because you don't want to accept it. So, you know,
- 1:30:56it doesn't make it okay for everybody else to imitate that though, and
- 1:31:00doesn't make it something that should be common. And it's not hateful to point
- 1:31:06out that people who can help it, you know, would be more respectable
- 1:31:12if they bettered themselves, because that's part of the goal of being a human
- 1:31:16being living your life. Part of that goal is giving your love to other
- 1:31:21people in a variety of ways, including things like having a job and engaging
- 1:31:30in your labor to provide a service to your community. That's love. You
- 1:31:34are invested in the welfare of your community in some way. Right, it's
- 1:31:40not romantic love, but it's still love, right, That's part of it.
- 1:31:44Another part of it is improving yourself, becoming the best you that you
- 1:31:47can be, and encouraging people to wallow in some level of not the best
- 1:31:54you that you can be is cruel when there's something they can do about it.
- 1:32:00So I just I hate when they bring up an example like that and
- 1:32:03they're like, just a bad guy because he doesn't like fat people like So
- 1:32:10when I interviewed him in late August last year, I told him I wanted
- 1:32:15this to be conversation about his platform in his life. I didn't even know
- 1:32:19what I wanted this story to be about until I interviewed him. Anybody's smelling
- 1:32:26some bullshit here. I just thought, this is someone who would be an
- 1:32:30interesting person to talk to, someone who's relevant to campus life, and it'll
- 1:32:33probably make a good story, Okay. He seemed like just a regular guy.
- 1:32:43He described himself as a loser when he was a kid. He said
- 1:32:45he had no friends, he was happy to talk about himself, and he
- 1:32:48was perfectly nice. I asked him questions like do you think there's any validity
- 1:32:54to the term alpha male? Like why is that the first question you would
- 1:32:58ask a guy if you think he's just an ordinary, perfectly nice guy,
- 1:33:02right, And and what does it have to do with any kadium thing?
- 1:33:06I mean exactly. And that is just redundant, because if you're just meeting
- 1:33:13this guy, why is that one of the questions that you ask him,
- 1:33:17Unless you're searching for something, unless you're fishing? Yep? Do you think
- 1:33:26there's any validity to the term alpha male? Like hello, ordinary average?
- 1:33:32There's as much amblivity as there is to the term aquarius. I don't I
- 1:33:40don't know how many people I'm pissing off by saying this, But the whole
- 1:33:42day of alpha male, beta male, sigma male, any of these Greek
- 1:33:47beta males, it's basically a horoscope. It doesn't mean anything. It's just
- 1:33:54like it is a bunch of bondom statements that may or may not apply to
- 1:33:59you. Which one of these are you? Oh? Yeah, I'm definitely
- 1:34:02an alpha, I'm definitely a beta. I'm definitely as a segment. No
- 1:34:06one's gonna say I'm definitely. That's how these things work. There are there
- 1:34:12are yeah, there's things like alpha and segment that are good, and there
- 1:34:15are things like beta that are bad and which makes it even less reliable than
- 1:34:24than than a horoscope. It's it's not a self categorization. It's it's it's
- 1:34:30an assumption based on a public like a general consensus. Yeah. Well it's
- 1:34:40kind of like introvert, extrovert and all that too, like most people are
- 1:34:45a mix of introversion and extroversion and there there. Then there's that um four
- 1:34:51lettered categorization that's a lot more complex, and it's intended to sort out different
- 1:34:58personality traits into yeah that person and all that. Yeah, and I've taken
- 1:35:05those tests and I don't get the same personality type every time. Yeah,
- 1:35:11I don't think I have multiple personalities. I don't think I'm that insanely complex
- 1:35:16of a person. J O O. Balls, says Myers Briggs. Yes,
- 1:35:24the Myers brazy. I've taken it twice, and I've taken it twice
- 1:35:28and I've only UM varied by one integer bull time. So i think I'm
- 1:35:35pretty solid with UM where I'm at on that scale. Yeah. No,
- 1:35:43personalities are not set in stone. No, no, no, I don't.
- 1:35:46I don't know how to express this rhetorically or allegorically, but Stone is
- 1:35:53supposed to be the same thing for millions of years. Personalities, and they're
- 1:36:00like water, right, I mean even life, well, life like water,
- 1:36:06they're like film because we don't have the same human cells seven years time
- 1:36:14to time. Every cell we have in our body is replaced within with them
- 1:36:19within seven years, so we're quite a lot like water in that way.
- 1:36:24Nothing, nothing, everything is fluid. And I know I sound like some
- 1:36:30pretentious, fucking sent Buddhists right now, but to some degree this is true.
- 1:36:33Everything is fluid, life, everything, Yeah, it's not just life.
- 1:36:40Everything is fluid, but life is especially fluid. It's even more fluid
- 1:36:45than what we call fluid. You spend your whole life learning things like if
- 1:36:50you don't, you're not really living, right, So you spend your whole
- 1:36:54life from birth till death learning new things. And as you learn some of
- 1:37:01the more profound lessons, things that tell you m universal truths or truths about
- 1:37:11human beings you know, as a as a population, and stuff like that,
- 1:37:14truths about your self, truths about your environment that you hadn't figured out
- 1:37:19prior you um, you just change. If your personality is the same at
- 1:37:30fifty as it was at twenty, you have learned nothing. You have not
- 1:37:38lived something is wrong, right. Your values might not dramatically change, but
- 1:37:46your personality will. It'll evolve, it'll grow and and you'll become more mature.
- 1:37:56Like that's normal. So, but you might be you might seem more
- 1:38:01like an extroverted person when you're younger and you're more immature. Um, and
- 1:38:06as you develop a greater calm in middle age, or maybe become more of
- 1:38:15a stick in the mud in middle age, or maybe become more adventurous,
- 1:38:19you might be more or less of an extrovert. That's that's pretty normal,
- 1:38:24right, But yeah, it just of course your personality should not be the
- 1:38:30same for throughout your whole life. Can you imagine a bunch of eighty year
- 1:38:34olds running around with the immaturity of of college kids? Oh god, oh
- 1:38:44god? Like it just it would be embarrassing. So there you go.
- 1:38:50Um, that's that's funny. I pronounced the name correctly. I'm glad um.
- 1:39:00But let's see where I was. Do you think there's any any validity
- 1:39:05to the term alpha male so for and it's application to humans. I think
- 1:39:12it's a very it has very limited applications there, honestly, very limited,
- 1:39:16and I think people overuse it quite a bit, and I think that the
- 1:39:21common usage of it is completely invalid. But he was asked and he said
- 1:39:30he told me personally, he personally could tell if someone was an alpha within
- 1:39:34seconds of meeting them. It's not about looks, he told me. It's
- 1:39:39about the energy a person puts out, okay, and so and I would
- 1:39:45agree with that, okay, because I think that I'm someone that people would
- 1:39:50can describe as an alpha female. Right at at my job, I'm very
- 1:39:57I don't want to say alpha, that's so, I'm very um forward,
- 1:40:04I'm very vocal. I am very you know. And alpha would be a
- 1:40:14person that takes takes a leadership position, takes responsibility for getting things done,
- 1:40:18takes responsibility for the welfare of the coworkers and the workplace and so on,
- 1:40:25right, right, And you have to be assertive, you have to be
- 1:40:30confident, right and all that. So people when they apply that term a
- 1:40:34lot of times, like what he probably is talking about is an individual who
- 1:40:40demonstrates being comfortable in their own skin. People people call that alpha frequently.
- 1:40:48Yeah, and yeah, I you know, when it comes down to it,
- 1:40:54And with me, if I were going to say what I am in
- 1:40:57the workplace, and i'd have to label myself with something like that, I'm
- 1:41:00that person who will will I'll follow the rules. I'll you know, work
- 1:41:05as the supporting individual in a project as long as you don't fucking micromanage me.
- 1:41:13I hate that. I absolutely know what I'm doing, all right,
- 1:41:17and I would rather work alone on my part of the project than have to
- 1:41:24constantly be tag teaming back and forth on things. And I grew up in
- 1:41:30a business where you have to be able to not be micromanaged. You have
- 1:41:39to know your shit, you have to be able to like there were so
- 1:41:43many times when my dad and I were working on a event together and with
- 1:41:49a hand signal and a and a glance, we could tell each other,
- 1:41:55I'm going to do this, you go do that, yeah, and that
- 1:41:58was the end of the discussion, Like there was no words would have to
- 1:42:00be exchanged, and you know, like that's that's what I'm used to.
- 1:42:04And I think people would call me, what's the one that's not alpha or
- 1:42:09beta zeta? I think so. I think most people would call me that,
- 1:42:14um and and it's it's just because like I just do my thing and
- 1:42:19I get it done, and I don't want to tell everybody else what to
- 1:42:24do. I hate that too. I don't like that. It's just not
- 1:42:28yeah, it's um. It's not that I shy away from the responsibility.
- 1:42:31It's just I hate being micromanaged, so I don't want to do anybody else.
- 1:42:34Yes, yes, that's exactly where I'm at right now. But right
- 1:42:41now I also hate the label. I don't like the label zeta. I
- 1:42:45don't like the label alpha. I don't like the label beta. If I'm
- 1:42:48stuck in a position where I have to organize something, I can do it.
- 1:42:53If I'm stuck in a position where I have to be micromanaged, I
- 1:42:56can do it. Um, I'm so, I'm water. So I have
- 1:43:00to agree with Mike. I don't. I don't like the common usage of
- 1:43:04the terms, and I think it's I don't think it's valid the way those
- 1:43:11terms are used by people. Most of the time. I think they see
- 1:43:14a confident person in like elpha UM. I don't know. I think most
- 1:43:20people have some degree of all three of those within them and will do what
- 1:43:28works best for them and their team in the situation. And then occasionally there
- 1:43:32are people that only fit into one of those things right, and it actually
- 1:43:38causes them more problems than anything. Yeah, And that's the only thing that
- 1:43:44I was going to add on to it, is that it's it's situational more
- 1:43:47than anything, you know, because um, it really kind of just depends
- 1:43:53on how we relate to each other. Yeah, and so in certain situations,
- 1:44:00yes, one person has to be the more dominant figure and the others
- 1:44:06have to follow the lead. But so if that's where we're considering alpha versus
- 1:44:13beta or whatever other you know, terminology, then okay, fine, but
- 1:44:19you can't we can't discredit the person that stands out and sticks their necks out
- 1:44:28right to be that person in the lead, to be the person in charge.
- 1:44:33Um, is that what an alpha means? And again I think it's
- 1:44:40situational. I think it's it's really subjective to the person and what they feel
- 1:44:47is, you know, more significant leader role. Right, Um, I
- 1:44:58don't know, it's yeah, it's like I said, it's it's just one
- 1:45:01of those things where I find the terminology useless motion of the time, right,
- 1:45:12Yeah. So park Parked encouraged guys to embrace their masculinity, but he
- 1:45:16was also openly vulnerable on TikTok. People respected that he transformed her a self
- 1:45:21described loser into what I called him in my piece, a hyper masculine jem
- 1:45:27bro whose fanboys believed he got hot chicks left and right. Joe Gee,
- 1:45:32that's that's quite a quite a thing to say about an individual there. Um,
- 1:45:39she wasn't stereotyping him at all. But of all that was an but
- 1:45:45all of that was an empty promise for the young men who watches videos,
- 1:45:48telling them they can stop being a loser if they too do this, or
- 1:45:51that young men do have a lot of trouble finding positive role models, and
- 1:45:56Parked seemed to fill a void. He told me, lots of guys don't
- 1:46:00want to talk about their problems because they don't want to come off as vulnerable,
- 1:46:03and part makes these videos to help with that. So now we get
- 1:46:08into the nitty gritty here, right, what I found problematic and what I
- 1:46:14wrote about, or some of his other points. Right, So she talks
- 1:46:18about what this guy seems like, a perfectly normal guy with some great characteristics
- 1:46:25that makes videos and he's trying to help other guys. So she did a
- 1:46:31hit piece on him. He said that the primary role of a man is
- 1:46:36to be the protector, and that's something men should be proud of that was
- 1:46:42problematic. She had a problem with him noting that men are put into this
- 1:46:47role and deciding that they should take pride in it, take pride in it.
- 1:46:57Yeah, you know. And so if you have a problem with that,
- 1:47:00um, I suggest that the next time you find your house broken into,
- 1:47:04call your mom and see what she's gonna do to come and help you.
- 1:47:10And how how problematic would it be if she couldn't be right there with
- 1:47:15some sort of I don't know, maybe firearm to help protect you. No,
- 1:47:23no, no, you jesus, it's it's it's always a problem until
- 1:47:30it's necessary. Yeah, he said, that's what it is. He said
- 1:47:38it man. Men's primary role is to do the things that society expects men
- 1:47:44to do, and they should be proud of fulfilling society's expectations of them.
- 1:47:48And she got mad. Yeah yeah, I don't know, lady, just
- 1:47:58go, oh my god. I hope you never ever need a man to
- 1:48:01do anything for you. I hope you find that self sufficiency that these feminists
- 1:48:08have lied to you about that you can find within you know, you can
- 1:48:12do anything a man can do, except when it comes to defending your fucking
- 1:48:16home. Yeah, there you go. Next time your home gets broken into,
- 1:48:19call your loudest yass queen. Exactly. But I hope she's never I
- 1:48:26hope she never expresses pride in being pretty, graceful, m or nurturing,
- 1:48:39right, or or any of the things that are considered feminine, because she
- 1:48:48just told him he can't be proud of fulfilling society's expectations of him as a
- 1:48:55man, exactly, of his masculinity. Exactly, what can he be proud
- 1:49:00of if he can't be proud of that? Right? I did what I
- 1:49:04was expected to do very well, right, and I helped people. Right
- 1:49:13if she's if she's ever in a situation, maybe raise his kids, takes
- 1:49:18care of his sick friend, anything like that, I hope she doesn't ever
- 1:49:21feel good about you know, I I helped this person feel better when they
- 1:49:29were down, because, by golly, that's something that society expects women to
- 1:49:33do, and you shouldn't take pride in meeting society's expectations for you, right,
- 1:49:41Right, then he goes. He goes on other videos describe untouched women
- 1:49:45as preferable to those who have high body counts. Mister right reminder to our
- 1:49:53listeners. According to the Centers for Disease Control in the United States STI bistically,
- 1:50:00half the population has sexually transmitted diseases one in two people. Right now.
- 1:50:10I think probably there's some overlap. There's probably not people. There's probably
- 1:50:18some people that have multiple illnesses that are getting counted. But I at least
- 1:50:26I hope that it's not one in two people. Right But according to the
- 1:50:30Centers for Disease Control, one in two people as an STI. So it's
- 1:50:35just a discussing. And let's not forget how common um herpie simplex one also
- 1:50:44known as cold sores. Yeah, if you count that as an STI,
- 1:50:47it's eighty percent of the population. I'm not such a nobody. Oh god,
- 1:50:55So let's go back to other videos describe untouched women as prefer bull to
- 1:51:00those who have high body counts. His followers have compared him to Andrew Tate,
- 1:51:03to which he said that he has nothing against him. Sure he's a
- 1:51:09misogynist, which is unfortunate. I still haven't heard anything presented as Tate's misogyny
- 1:51:18that didn't turn out to be taken out of context and twisted to be something
- 1:51:23that it wasn't when he originally said it. But okay, but he respects
- 1:51:29honesty and motivational skills. I just I just need to reset for a second
- 1:51:33because I'm trying to figure out who the hell we're talking about. Who is
- 1:51:38making these statements against against Andrew Tate. And this is a college guy,
- 1:51:44yeah, yeah, Lucas Pactor. So it's also a male who is railing
- 1:51:49against Andrew Tate and saying all of this bullshit like, you know, well,
- 1:51:57we don't know if he railed. He might have just been presented with,
- 1:52:00well but Andrew Tates a misogynist. Well, yeah, you know,
- 1:52:03and he might have that might have been the whole conversation. Well but Andrew
- 1:52:06Tates a misogynist? Okay, well yeah, you know, and maybe he
- 1:52:10just didn't argue with her. You know, we don't know if he actually
- 1:52:15thinks that, or if it's a talking point he didn't argue with. We
- 1:52:18don't know how emphatic he was in his statements regarding it. We're getting this
- 1:52:26all through her, so it's it's hard to hard to judge. Yeah,
- 1:52:32but I don't think Andrew Tates a misogynist. Maybe really blunt I have said
- 1:52:40this over and over again. A main characteristic of love is being invested in
- 1:52:47the welfare of your loved one. You want them to have the best they
- 1:52:54can have in life. Happiness, uh, success, well, you know,
- 1:52:59well being, mental health, everything to be good as good as it
- 1:53:03can be for them. That's you're invested in it. You're you're willing to
- 1:53:08take to play your part in your relationship with that person to further that.
- 1:53:15So you know, as a friend, for instance, if one of my
- 1:53:18friends is about to do something profoundly stupid and they're gonna get hurt, because
- 1:53:25I love my friend, I will say, maybe you should think about that
- 1:53:29again. Have you considered this potential consequence. I think this might not be
- 1:53:33as good of an idea as you think it is. What do you think,
- 1:53:38you know, Like, I'm gonna try to talk them out of it.
- 1:53:41And if my friend is about to go someplace, you know where they're
- 1:53:46going to be judged on their looks and their hygiene and everything, and they
- 1:53:50have body odor, I'm going to say you need deodorant and you need to
- 1:53:56clean up a little bit first, because you think, you know, if
- 1:53:59they if they have that body odor. It's what you do when you love
- 1:54:02someone, and people who love me do that for me too, And like
- 1:54:09there are some people on Twitter that I get into knockdown, drag out arguments
- 1:54:12with that people think we hate each other, but actually we're honing each other's
- 1:54:16ideas and we are challenging each other to rise to greater levels of logic and
- 1:54:24reason and intelligence in in our you know, mosh pit of argument and and
- 1:54:34sometimes you have tough love where you have to say, I'm not going to
- 1:54:42pay your electric bill anymore because when I pay your electric bill, you then
- 1:54:46think that you can budget for heroin. And I'm not going to buy your
- 1:54:51heroine anymore by paying your electric bill, because I don't want you to die
- 1:54:57from a heroin overdose or no poisoning. And you do that not because you're
- 1:55:04angry that the person is using, you know, or that you judge them.
- 1:55:10It's because you don't want them to die alone in a tent on the
- 1:55:15street with the needle stuck in their arm, having convulsions, banging their head
- 1:55:21on the sidewalk, you know. And sometimes you talk about things like if
- 1:55:35you have sex with lots and lots of people, you take a higher risk
- 1:55:40of getting a sexually transmitted disease. If you have sex with lots and lots
- 1:55:46of people. You have a bigger chance of getting pregnant in a circumstance where
- 1:55:53you're not going to raise the child with the father of your baby. That's
- 1:55:57a dumb idea. Don't do it right. If you love women, you
- 1:56:03should be able to criticize them right now. I know that there's a lot
- 1:56:10of criticism of Andrew Tate taking advantage of men selling them a load of bullshit,
- 1:56:15and you know his I don't. I don't get into all that I'm
- 1:56:20talking. I'm confronting the misogyny allegation. Nothing I have heard him say is
- 1:56:29misogynistic. I feel like I'm listening to a man who loves women and wants
- 1:56:39women to be the best people they can be, because being the best person,
- 1:56:45the best you that you can be, leads you to have the best
- 1:56:48life experience you can have. And I think he believes the things that he
- 1:56:58tells men, and I think he believes the things that he says about women,
- 1:57:02and he is probably wrong on some things and right on some things.
- 1:57:08So I don't. I don't. I'm not going to judge the guy based
- 1:57:13on modern ideas of misogyny, because I think that's bullshit. I think the
- 1:57:19misogyny allegation is bullshit. I haven't had an opportunity or time to evaluate the
- 1:57:27con artist allegation, but as bullshitty as the misogyny allegation is, I'm skeptical
- 1:57:33of the con artist allegation until I see evidence that he's giving men profoundly bad
- 1:57:43advice and selling it to them. And it's possibly is because I, like,
- 1:57:48I don't know if he's a pickup artist or not. Like, pickup
- 1:57:51artists aren't necessarily the smartest at preventing things like false allegations and stuff like that,
- 1:57:59right, So uh if if, um, it's possible that you know
- 1:58:04that this this guy uh parked or that he thinks Tait is a misogynist because
- 1:58:11that's been reported all through the media and he's in university and he may have
- 1:58:15even had it addressed in class because there are there are actual um organized uh
- 1:58:25seminars online for university staff on how to educate students that the men's rights movement,
- 1:58:34that pick up artists, that MiG Tao the in Cells and then Andrew
- 1:58:39Takes specifically are bad. We to devil. Yeah, we're foosball. Um.
- 1:58:51Foosball is the devil um. So so there you go, and and
- 1:59:00she has a problem with him respecting Tate's honesty and motivational skills, like,
- 1:59:05how could you not respect honesty and motivational skills? I have a problem with
- 1:59:11any time a woman says that they respect anything, because I severely do not
- 1:59:16believe that women understand what the fuck respect means. Women do not understand respect.
- 1:59:23They do not, They do not. Some women understand a little bit
- 1:59:30about it, but in general, you don't. You don't. The overwhelming
- 1:59:32majority of women have never had to learn the things you have to learn in
- 1:59:38order to understand respect. And that's Western women. Because women and honor cultures
- 1:59:43do have some understanding of respect, like they still don't have the same understanding
- 1:59:48that men have. But you know, anyway to a certain currency, and
- 1:59:57this is the weird thing about currency, it's it's it's all based on trust.
- 2:00:03It's all based on if I give you this, you will give me
- 2:00:08this, and thereby we can create some kind of economy. And you know,
- 2:00:17I guess there's no reason it couldn't evolve that the general interactions between men
- 2:00:26and women. But it's difficult to even to even pin down any mathematics about
- 2:00:40this, because the way men and women interact with each other isn't mathematical.
- 2:00:48I mean there is some extent, yea, but to some extent it isn't.
- 2:00:54It's all subjects, yeah, to fluidity and yeah, and so it's
- 2:01:02yeah, yeah, I have no way to pin this down, folks.
- 2:01:09That's that's that's my that's my message to the to the rest of you,
- 2:01:14this is all very fluid, and you're not gonna discover some sudden fix to
- 2:01:21this problem in the next few minutes. No, no, no, it's
- 2:01:27gonna take Sorry for anyone listening, you didn't know, but I guess you
- 2:01:33all down. This is gonna you know, the time it takes to plant
- 2:01:39trees such as is the the Greek phrase, Yeah, it's society when men
- 2:01:50plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit, and so on and so
- 2:01:56forth. And we've tried to come up with female versions of this, but
- 2:02:02you'll notice it's difficult because the way women plants the seeds of trees is different
- 2:02:13from the way men plant the seeds of trees. That is true, it's
- 2:02:18a weird analogy because seeds are the same, whether they're male seeds or female
- 2:02:27seeds. It's almost like it's too complicated to just reduced a one kind of
- 2:02:33organism. See you know, I mean it really isn't. But this is
- 2:02:39this requires a conversation that is much more in depth than I believe that we
- 2:02:44have time for. And animals are complicated, plants are complicated. If we're
- 2:02:50going to figure out how to create a society that involves plants and animals,
- 2:02:56that's gonna be really quite complicated. We have to figure it out. I
- 2:03:00mean, we already have a world in which animals and plant life coexist.
- 2:03:09It's just the fact that humans feel the need to uh fucking colonizer everything does
- 2:03:18that Animals will expand to fill the space that they can survive in. And
- 2:03:28like a really interesting example of that is if you if you take a goldfish
- 2:03:33and you put it into a pond, like the same goldfish that never got
- 2:03:39more than two inches long in your fish tank will suddenly become a foot long
- 2:03:46foot long fish like a golden carp I think, in in your pond.
- 2:03:54Um it's actually it'll get big enough to be edible. And like, not
- 2:03:59everything grows big when it has more space, but things will take up more
- 2:04:03space if they have more space, they will move around more. They will
- 2:04:08have a larger hunting area. I had a cat that was never going to
- 2:04:15be an indoor cat like she. You know, you us try when you're
- 2:04:18in an area where the cat is likely to get hit by a car to
- 2:04:23keep the cat inside. My cat found ways in and out of that house.
- 2:04:26We had no idea to this day how the cat got in and out
- 2:04:28of the house. We did not have to let her out. She just
- 2:04:31got out right. One day I discovered that she had about a half a
- 2:04:38mile radius around the house. She had four different families because I followed her.
- 2:04:44She had four different families that were feeding her. She had four different
- 2:04:48names besides the name my family gave her. And she hunted and despite being
- 2:04:58a spade, because she had a deformity that necessitated it. Um. This
- 2:05:03was before we knew she was going to be an outdoor cat. She had
- 2:05:08very good friends. So yeah, white cat got around me, and she
- 2:05:15was she was fun. She and and she had said this me out too
- 2:05:21right. Like a lot of cats, you know, they had them,
- 2:05:26you know, not her. She was like man, man man. She
- 2:05:30sounded like you know, she'd been smoking for thirty years and I would come
- 2:05:34home, she would be up on the roof of the house and tell me
- 2:05:38off, where have you been? Bit like she was fun But yeah,
- 2:05:45you know, animals will expand our humans do that too, So this whole
- 2:05:48the concept. I find the concept of colonization to be bullshit too. Um
- 2:05:54yeah, like humans have migrated from before we were humans, right right,
- 2:06:00So but this woman goes on with this, so she has a problem with
- 2:06:05him having respect for honesty and motivational skills if they happen to be Andrew Tate's
- 2:06:11honesty and motivational skills. So there you go. I basically warned him,
- 2:06:15this piece isn't really about you as much as it is about the implications of
- 2:06:19what you're posting. So that's basically a way to say I'm going to write
- 2:06:24a hit piece about you without writing a hit piece, or without saying I'm
- 2:06:30writing a hit piece. The comments about women and fat people hidden his followers
- 2:06:33comparing him to Andrew Tate, and the similarities between both of their young male
- 2:06:39fans. Right, the young men who are growing up to be fathers in
- 2:06:44the next twenty or thirty years consuming media like this, that's just unbelievable content
- 2:06:47to be taking in when so many of them are as young as fourteen years
- 2:06:51old right now. So I guess if you're thirty and you'll listen to it,
- 2:06:57it's okay. The piece itself was really hard to write. I had
- 2:07:02a hard time saying these terrible things. But I knew that I wanted to
- 2:07:08write a story where I didn't have to say much of anything for his message
- 2:07:11to be clear. Oh you knew you wanted a fucking book deal. I
- 2:07:16didn't have a personal agenda with him, specifically. I had an agenda to
- 2:07:20address the problems faced by young men. And that's way bigger than Lucas parked
- 2:07:29her. So this is her explaining I wrote a hit piece because mysogony and
- 2:07:39entertain and this guy's popular and he says things I don't like. On a
- 2:07:47final day the piece went up, or the day the final piece went up,
- 2:07:50I was on the treadmill and my phone was blowing up with calls.
- 2:07:56I'm thinking, is this a prank? Is someone prank calling me? It
- 2:08:00was just a crazy amount of calls. I thought. I briefly thought something
- 2:08:05had happened to a family member. When I answered the phone, it was
- 2:08:09just some guy who yelled fuck you bitch, yo, fucking horror. I
- 2:08:16immediately hung up. I thought, I have to check TikTok right now,
- 2:08:22because that's what you do. When you get somebody that calls you and yells
- 2:08:26nasty things that you you assume it has something to do with TikTok. And
- 2:08:33I like, I've had a bad crank calls. I've never checked social media
- 2:08:39in response to one of them. And I see this two minute long video
- 2:08:45of Lewis Lucas parked in front of a screenshot of my personal Instagram, and
- 2:08:50it's just him saying, this girl wrote a hit piece about me. He
- 2:08:54puts a picture of my Instagram up, and then he shares texts between us.
- 2:09:01She texted him and and my number is right there in the video.
- 2:09:05He doesn't make any effort to cover it up at all. So now she's
- 2:09:09mad, right, She in her publication directed her readers, her base basically
- 2:09:20at this channel, and she didn't hide who she was writing about. She
- 2:09:28was like, here, here's this guy. Here's where you can find his
- 2:09:31content. Go, you know, interact with it, go report it.
- 2:09:35Right. Didn't say maybe that those things, but that's pretty much the gist
- 2:09:39of what a hit piece is go go tack this person. They're bad.
- 2:09:43Cancel, cancel the guy, right, And she gave him her phone number
- 2:09:52before she did it. And now she's claiming harassment because he published their texts
- 2:10:07ridiculous their private communications. So on one hand, we have the Jonah Hill
- 2:10:13thing, right, And the whole conversation in regard to the Jonah Hill thing
- 2:10:22is whether or not he was inappropriate in those texts, whether he's an abuser
- 2:10:28or not, not even whether she's an abuser or not, just whether he's
- 2:10:33an abuser or not. She published private text messages, the text messages that
- 2:10:41he was expecting were between them, right, And at one point she released
- 2:10:50his response to her reminding her him when was the last time they as friends
- 2:11:01after the breakup had sexed it, which, you know, no judgment.
- 2:11:05A lot of people do that. I'm afraid too, but a lot of
- 2:11:09people do that, and I think I have good reason to be afraid to,
- 2:11:13considering how many apps and how many things that you use on your phone,
- 2:11:22like how many tracking cookies you allow on your phone and stuff steal your
- 2:11:28data, your information? How do you know they're not take stealing your pictures?
- 2:11:35Any file can be copied you know, if somebody knows how to do
- 2:11:39it, if something has access to your phone like you, and you're using
- 2:11:43your phone all the time, you go places with your phone all the time.
- 2:11:46My personal advice to everybody would be this is, don't do this unless
- 2:11:52you want to take the remote risk that somebody's going to get that and use
- 2:11:56it against you at some point later. Well, she she sent a screenshot
- 2:12:03of it back to him, and he was he was wigged out by that.
- 2:12:07Well, I would be too, like, now there's a permanent record
- 2:12:13of it, and I'm sorry, but that's abusive in my opinion. But
- 2:12:20that's not the conversation people are happening are having because the person who released the
- 2:12:28texts, the person who directed everybody's attention to things that were set in private
- 2:12:33by another person, is a woman. But here, here you have a
- 2:12:39guy releases the texts where she presented herself differently than she ended up coming across
- 2:12:46in the article. And what happens she's harassed by the fact that he released
- 2:12:58the texts. He's the bad guy. Kind of a double standard there.
- 2:13:05If you ask me, Lauren, did you start to say something, Yeah,
- 2:13:16okay, this is this is why we we we leave you to end
- 2:13:20off the particular story. Yeah, because I'm the one that throws out the
- 2:13:30part about the double standard there. You have a talent for seeing any given
- 2:13:37story. Oh thank you. So I guess the point that I wanted to
- 2:13:41make by sharing these two together is you look at it, and I know
- 2:13:46that there's gonna be women going. But he didn't hide her phone number.
- 2:13:50And that's not the full story, is it. She didn't hide her phone
- 2:13:56number. It wasn't that he didn't hide her phone number. She didn't hide
- 2:14:05her phone number. I've been in communication with journalists. None of them got
- 2:14:13my phone number from me. I have never texted back and forth with a
- 2:14:18journalist voluntarily that that that had my phone number from me. Except one guy.
- 2:14:28And the reason that I texted back and forth between that guy was because
- 2:14:33he was part of my gaming group. He wasn't covering me as a journalist.
- 2:14:39He just happened. He was. He's an actual journalist, a real
- 2:14:43newspaperman who just happened to be friends with my family and with me and with
- 2:14:50my gaming friends. Um, right up until he passed away earlier this year
- 2:14:56from cancer. And but um, but yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't
- 2:15:03give him my phone number, for instance, to like Jeff. Jeff Charlotte
- 2:15:05came to UH cover us at ICMI twenty fourteen, and he was very sleazy
- 2:15:16and is the way that he did things. He tried very hard to present
- 2:15:20himself as empathetic, sympathetic, UM, compassionate, caring, interested and open
- 2:15:28minded. Right, but he brought a pedophile, an actual pedophile, to
- 2:15:37the Men's Issues conference and and waylaid people with this guy, and waylaid this
- 2:15:45guy with people that that that he would get into arguments with, and and
- 2:15:50wrote about um, wrote about the guy, and wrote about the conference as
- 2:15:56if we had anything to do with each other. Uh. He really ride
- 2:16:00hard to create artificially a circumstance in which somebody from the conference would say something
- 2:16:07that he could use against us. And he interviewed me for forty five minutes,
- 2:16:13and at the time I had a flip phone and I had it out
- 2:16:20and was recording, And he never ever used anything from that interview. It
- 2:16:28was the only interview that was recorded, and it's the only one that he
- 2:16:35didn't use in his article. Everybody else didn't record. And he lied about
- 2:16:43things they said, claimed they said things they didn't say twisted things, excluded
- 2:16:52context, excluded parts of sentences, and so on. All right, that
- 2:16:56guy wouldn't get my phone number in a million years. And you know that's
- 2:17:01like he didn't. I don't think he asked for anybody's phone number. But
- 2:17:03the thing is, you know, if I was to arrange a meeting with
- 2:17:07a journalist like that, it would be over discord or some other like social
- 2:17:16media where you can just for free and without any really major problems, close
- 2:17:28that account and start a new one. If if something, you know,
- 2:17:31somebody revealed your private information like your name and stuff, it's not really private
- 2:17:35if it's social media, and or you can block or make your account private
- 2:17:43if people are being assholes to you. But that's not what this girl did.
- 2:17:46She gave a stranger her phone number when she was going to take a
- 2:17:50shot at him. She gave somebody that she was going to attack and in
- 2:17:58road into her personal life and is now claiming harassment because she got backlash on
- 2:18:05that in road after she attacked him. So what is that like? Like,
- 2:18:15that's that's that's like women walking up to a guy and smacking him upside
- 2:18:20the head without any provocation and then getting mad because he pushes her away and
- 2:18:26she falls on her ass. Right, that's like a woman going along and
- 2:18:33lying about a guy to the police and then getting mad because she's prosecuted for
- 2:18:37lying to police during an investigation. Like, are you kidding me? If
- 2:18:43you're going to attack someone much less, you know, like the person already
- 2:18:48doesn't like you. You know, if you're going to be the aggressor,
- 2:18:52don't give somebody a way to hit you back. And if they do,
- 2:18:58you were the aggressor. You know, if you can't take getting hit back,
- 2:19:03don't start the fight. Do I need to say? Duh? So
- 2:19:13there you go. That's that's why I picked these two together. And um,
- 2:19:18you know, she she made this, she's the rest of this story
- 2:19:22is her making the usual allegations, the Anita Sarcasian story. Right, Oh
- 2:19:26good, rape threats, they got death threats. I got this. I
- 2:19:30got that, Like if somebody, if a bunch of people did that,
- 2:19:33it's actually illegal to use your your phone, even if it's your cell phone,
- 2:19:39to make those kind of threats. And if they did it, and
- 2:19:45they they didn't conceal their phone numbers. She has a very simple way to
- 2:19:50handle the situation. Everything can get turned over to the police and the police
- 2:19:54will handle it from there, and they do. So there's like, this
- 2:20:00woman is not dealing with this situation in a very mature way. And I
- 2:20:05mean she is a college student, so there is a she's not grown up
- 2:20:09yet, like she's expecting the men around her to all be grown up,
- 2:20:11but she doesn't feel obligated to be that way. So there you go.
- 2:20:18Maybe she changed her phone number, maybe she did some other you know,
- 2:20:24damage control after that, but she's gonna blame the guy for people responding to
- 2:20:31her being essentially a bitch, and I think what she did was particularly bitchy.
- 2:20:37And then writing this article afterwards, Oh, per me, that's an
- 2:20:43even bitchier and it'll get treated like evidence of systemic misogyny because people who probably
- 2:20:54heard were his fans, got mad that she twisted his words, light about
- 2:21:01him, wrote a hit piece about him, was dishonest with him, took
- 2:21:05advantage of him, and cloud chased him. Like I think, what should
- 2:21:09they be happy about it? So there you go. Let's take a look
- 2:21:16at we did get super chats and I let's see Albert Ada Retro gave us
- 2:21:24five dollars and said here's a fiber just cause I think that's the only one.
- 2:21:30So I'm gonna look at super chows and again I have to scroll up
- 2:21:37because I'm in the wrong chat. Here we go super Chats sounds like me
- 2:21:48going Superstar. Okay, we have we're super super Chats. They actually go
- 2:22:00a little bit. On the eleventh, after Brian closed down the show,
- 2:22:07Kell gave us fifty dollars and said, keep up the great work. So
- 2:22:09if you're listening, thank you Kell. Then today Meredith g gave us five
- 2:22:15dollars and said, HBr talk to seventy. Thanks for the conversation. Plaine
- 2:22:18Dame gave us eight dollars and said, I'm an atheist, but people often
- 2:22:22accuse me of being a tradcon Christian because of my view on sexuality, relationships,
- 2:22:26and the human body. I believe that our body should be valued most
- 2:22:31by ourselves. I believe our body should be viewed as our ex caliber or
- 2:22:37Mulliner. This goes for Mullinier, this goes for both men and women.
- 2:22:41I think having this view is a healthier way to approach romance and relationships.
- 2:22:48There's a good point there. You live in your body like you can move
- 2:22:52house from you know, your apartment. You can get a new car,
- 2:22:56right, you don't have to even keep the same job your whole life.
- 2:22:58But you don't get another body. You get one body, so you want
- 2:23:03to prevent bad things from happening to it that leave a permanent mark, right
- 2:23:09if you can. And you know, it's one of the reasons that you
- 2:23:16you don't screw around with people that might give you an incurable sexually transmitted disease,
- 2:23:22because you can't just go get another body and you can't necessarily repair that
- 2:23:28one. And I say the same thing to people about their backs. You
- 2:23:33protect your back, right. Zapier gave us five dollars. I think we
- 2:23:37knocked out Lauren. I think we did. Zapier gave us five dollars and
- 2:23:45said they're mad at him for not accepting cuckoldry See wants the role in the
- 2:23:50relationship that Jada Pinkett Smith has with Will Smith. These people are disgusting.
- 2:23:56Oh that's that's sad um. Let's see Martin Roberic, I probably mispronounced that,
- 2:24:07says mule near um. Sorry about that. So let's see. Plaine
- 2:24:13Dane gave us five dollars and said, this is probably why I'm gonna actually,
- 2:24:20here we go. Um, this is probably why Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't date
- 2:24:26a woman over the age of twenty four and dumps them before they get too
- 2:24:28comfy around him, before they try some goof ass nonsense like the bullshit she's
- 2:24:33trying to pull, you know. And on one hand, that might be
- 2:24:37the reason. On the other hand, how old is he? See like
- 2:24:41he's he's a gen xer. And I hate to be judgmental because I know
- 2:24:48they're dysfunctional people of both age and they're both both both sexes. I mean,
- 2:24:52but um, if you're single and you're fifties, something's gone wrong in
- 2:25:03your attempts at making relationships with another person. That's gone so profoundly wrong that
- 2:25:11you didn't find a life partner or you weren't able to keep a life partner,
- 2:25:18right, That's basically what's happened. And either you suck at picking good
- 2:25:28partners, or you did at some point and you worked really hard to try
- 2:25:33to make something work that was never going to work, or you're the shitty
- 2:25:37partner and why take the chance at forty eight years old? Okay, so
- 2:25:45he's forty eight years old. Let's not really that old actually, but at
- 2:25:46forty eight years old. If he's looking around at forty eight year old women,
- 2:25:52he has to worry about how many of those women married some guy,
- 2:25:58stayed with him for ten years and then divorced him, and are collecting alimony.
- 2:26:03Hint, if a woman is collecting alimony, that's not even just a
- 2:26:07red flag. That is a fucking cluster bomb. Don't have a relationship with
- 2:26:13her. She has just told you that she is a mooch. But and
- 2:26:20that's that's alimony. I you know, like child support, I still would
- 2:26:28be leary. I'd be very leary dating a woman collecting child support, even
- 2:26:35though that's common and normalized and often you know, it's something that the woman
- 2:26:43doesn't get to decide not to do, she still made decisions that led to
- 2:26:46it happening. But alimony, especially a woman in Generation X, if she's
- 2:26:54collecting alimony, she's not even trying to support herself, right, So yeah,
- 2:27:01yeah, I like, if I was a forty year eight year old
- 2:27:03man looking for a partner, it would be hard for me to trust Gen
- 2:27:09X women who are still single when they're almost fifty, who are or who
- 2:27:15are single again when they're almost fifty. I would I would have to be
- 2:27:18ready to be in a serious long term engagement, like, yeah, we'll
- 2:27:24get married in five years, you know maybe if if I don't discover bad
- 2:27:31things about you before, then that make it a no go, right,
- 2:27:35Like, that's no, because most people find their life partner in there in
- 2:27:43there at least by their early thirties. Like, some people are getting married
- 2:27:48a little later, and that's okay. Some people are working on their careers
- 2:27:50a little longer before they get married. That's not a bad thing, especially
- 2:27:54if you're gonna have kids. But uh, I like, I can't blame
- 2:27:58him for day eating younger women working. Assie gave us ten dollars and said,
- 2:28:05can't catch the show alive, but here are some dollary dues. I
- 2:28:09look forward to catching up later. Egregious Charles gave us five dollars and said,
- 2:28:13I took a fishhead out to see a movie. No wait, I
- 2:28:18took her fishhead out to see a movie. I didn't have to pay to
- 2:28:22get it in. I'm not as good as imitating that one voice. Plain
- 2:28:30Dane gave us five dollars as I said he wants a swan like relationship,
- 2:28:35but she wants a duck like relationship. Yeah, I know most birds are
- 2:28:39monogamous, including most duck species, but there are seven species of ducks that
- 2:28:45are polygamous. I find it weird that most of the people that are really
- 2:28:50into true crime or women that shit reminds me most of the time. I
- 2:28:54was in an edgy shit posting Facebook group and someone posted a link to a
- 2:28:58gore website, and I was horrified by the women that admitted to loving gore
- 2:29:03videos of people being tortured and murdered by serial killers. Only a few women
- 2:29:07in the group were disturbed by it. Why is this attraction more prevalent in
- 2:29:11women? Why are women more likely to be attracted in monsters like Zodiac killer,
- 2:29:16Richard Ramirez, Ted Bundy, etc. And There's a lot of explanations
- 2:29:22that I could get into for that, but and I some of it.
- 2:29:30I don't get women like to horrify themselves, you know, I like I
- 2:29:35like scary stories about ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night
- 2:29:39more. I'm not really big on gore, but I can tolerate it.
- 2:29:45And it's if it's really fake, like in you know, B movies,
- 2:29:50B horror movies. Then it's funny. That's different. But there were I
- 2:29:56don't know if they still exist. There were subreddits that had real gore,
- 2:30:00like and I ran into this years ago and and um, the one that
- 2:30:05that I got um blindsided with was a an image of a accident between a
- 2:30:13motorcycle and a car. So it was really bad, um, high speed
- 2:30:18head on accident between a motorcycle and a car. And it was horrifying.
- 2:30:22You're right, like, there are women that are that are horrified by this.
- 2:30:26And it was but I'll tell you what it was, that that whole
- 2:30:31train wreck thing where you're like, oh my god, oh my god,
- 2:30:33and you keep looking and you're just like, did I really see that?
- 2:30:39And then you look again? Right, that phenomenon is very I think that's
- 2:30:46a very female thing. Um. Women do not have as much control to
- 2:30:50say this bothered me so much that I'm gonna have nightmares. I don't need
- 2:30:56to confirm what I saw, right. Um. So there's that, And
- 2:31:03then there are some that try to picture how would I get out of this
- 2:31:07situation? How would I keep this from happening? What would I do if
- 2:31:11this was me? Or and you terrorize yourself, what would I do if
- 2:31:16this was someone I loved, right, So, I like I've I've run
- 2:31:20into all kinds of different reasons why women get into stuff like that. Not
- 2:31:26not my bag of chips, but I can. I can deal with it.
- 2:31:31And if I was in a situation where, um, somebody had an
- 2:31:37injury, I would be the person that would be okay dealing with Yes they're
- 2:31:43bleeding, Yes this is going on, Yes there's you know, it's gross
- 2:31:46and scary and all that. Here's the steps that need to be taken to
- 2:31:50help us if if help can be given, and and if help can't be
- 2:31:58given, I can be the hand you know that that gets held because I
- 2:32:01can handle it, but it's it's still it would break my heart and I
- 2:32:05would have nightmares later. And so I think some women do it to toughen
- 2:32:11themselves up. Maybe too, But I don't get the attraction personally to people
- 2:32:18who do cruel, evil things like I stay away from that. I don't
- 2:32:26want anything to do with that person. That person seems alien to me,
- 2:32:31right, But there are women who are attracted to that because they think I
- 2:32:35think maybe of that as the monster they contame and own. So women who
- 2:32:41are more controlling or women who are more egotistical narcissistic might be attracted to that
- 2:32:48type. Plain Dane gave us five dollars and said the stigma around HSV one
- 2:32:58is kind of overhyped, but it's understandable. I've dated two Islamic girls in
- 2:33:03high school. One was Iraqi and the other was from Khakistan but grew up
- 2:33:07in Russia mostly, and I know they weren't sleeping around, but both of
- 2:33:11them broke out in cold source. I never brook out because of my genes.
- 2:33:16Most people have HSV one but don't break out because of their genetics.
- 2:33:20I have an aunt on my father's side that's had it since she was a
- 2:33:22little girl, and she's the only one that breaks out. HSV one is
- 2:33:26only really bad if you don't have the genes to counter it. I feel
- 2:33:31bad for those people. It's not fair to those that were born with it.
- 2:33:35By the way, I helped both of my x's and my aunt by
- 2:33:39researching what to do to prevent breakouts. Told them to supplement with lysine powder,
- 2:33:43lysine and topical like gel or a lysine patch bid bandage that can be
- 2:33:48placed over the blister, zinc glycinate, vitamin D three with vitamin K two
- 2:33:54MK four also red light therapy. I know that some people. I know
- 2:33:58some people that wear face masks to hide the sore. Yeah, there's there's
- 2:34:05all kinds of things. There's pills now that some people take for that actually,
- 2:34:11and then I guess there's besides the expensive over the counter stuff, there's
- 2:34:16cheaper over the counter stuff. And then actually, oh, peroxide can reduce
- 2:34:28the length of breakout from lip sores and stuff. And then there's also people
- 2:34:37who get these from stress, Like they don't get some people get breakouts every
- 2:34:43month. But I know people who when they've had something highly stressful happen to
- 2:34:50them and they've been upset, like they've been in a highly emotional upset state,
- 2:34:58they'll get them. But they don't get them on their lip. They
- 2:35:00get them on their hand. Um, you know, they get them odd
- 2:35:03places almost like shingles. But it's not so you can and you can get
- 2:35:09that. You can get that from kissing, you can get that from drinking
- 2:35:13after somebody. You can be born with it. Like it's so, yeah,
- 2:35:20it's not something that there should be as much stigma around because transmission of
- 2:35:24it isn't necessarily a result of sexual promiscuity and about eighty percent of the population
- 2:35:31is infected with it. Last I read, although not everybody knows they're infected
- 2:35:37because not everybody gets has breakouts. So that's the last super chow. Let's
- 2:35:45see what we have on rumble. Here we go, like where am I
- 2:35:54honorable? Here? Um? Okay, I don't see. I'm gonna scroll
- 2:36:01up and scroll back down because the last time, okay, there we go.
- 2:36:05Nope, no paid ones. So I guess that's that will be it
- 2:36:13then, So I guess I'll reiterate my last point. You know, there's
- 2:36:20a really stark double standard here that I think I think most people wouldn't be
- 2:36:30aware of and wouldn't understand, in that in both cases you had a private
- 2:36:33communication. In both cases that private communication, at least one side was not
- 2:36:41satisfied with the outcome following that private communication, and the side that was not
- 2:36:48satisfied with the outcome following that private communication shared it with the public, and
- 2:36:56on one side, you know, you get the side that was not satisfied
- 2:37:01gets to play victim on the other side even though the side that was not
- 2:37:05satisfied was actually lied to and mistreated, and the private communication proves it.
- 2:37:15He doesn't get to play the victim. He's treated as an abuser harasser.
- 2:37:20Right, So being female means that you get to be the liar, be
- 2:37:26the the person who expects a double standard in life, who has unreasonable expectations
- 2:37:37for somebody to bend over backwards and tolerate everything about you. But you don't
- 2:37:41feel obligated to reciprocate in any way in terms of accommodating their insecurities and still
- 2:37:50play victim of their communication of those expectations. If you're male, you can't
- 2:37:58even be lied to and slandered and be considered a victim. It seems pretty
- 2:38:05pretty stark in my opinion. Men, all the post of everything I had,
- 2:38:15I had a muted because Laurence, I think, is asleep. Yeah
- 2:38:18I think. But he started that out with joined me next, join us
- 2:38:24next time for when men are the worst of everything? What it really does
- 2:38:28get me? Men? Do um get get hit with this on a regular
- 2:38:33basis? But this was stark enough, I thought, jeez. So so
- 2:38:37there you go. We reset to something or other. Yeah, every week
- 2:38:43or so, so that which we call that which to which we we reset
- 2:38:52is differently every week. And that's why Radio Radidio has been going for ten
- 2:39:00years yep, ten years. In fact, August this year we'll be reaching
- 2:39:05our tenth year anniversary that we've been doing something to commemorate this. Maybe maybe
- 2:39:16we'll have to, We'll have to. I need to get Alison and Karen
- 2:39:18back on. So yeah, Canada is a dark place right now. Yeah,
- 2:39:26but in any case, with that, I had better close it out.
- 2:39:30So thanks everybody for listening. Thanks you guys for sticking out. This
- 2:39:35was a weird discussion to have, but it was I think an important one.
- 2:39:41And thanks to everybody who works in the background to make HBr talk happen
- 2:39:45again. I dool