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Erasing International Men's Day, Kim Kardashain is Man of the Year? | HBR News 432 · Honey Badger Radio

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  This is HBr News number four thirty two, erasing International Men'sday. Kim Kardashian
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  is Man of the Year. Will we discussed the news of the week and
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  give it the Badger treatment. Hello, everybody in Welcome to Honey Badger Radio.
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  Hope you guys are doing well this week and that you're laughing all of
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  this absurdity so that you're not consumed by it. I'm your host, Brian
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  and I'm joined by my lovely co hosts Hannah Wallen and doctor Randamkham. Mike
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  Jay is unavailable this week, so we have, Uh, it's gonna be
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  it's a kind of a slow news week, I guess, but we do
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  have some things that I want to cover, so I've been sort of treating
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  this a little bit different, and well, you'll see, we're gonna be
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  talking about International Men's Day and more than that, really, it's gonna be
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  about the sort of discussion around International Men's Day. We're also going to be
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  talking about the There was some revelations that I was already aware of regarding January
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  sixth, as well as some news about the state the absolute state of feminist
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  cinema. So stick around. It's going to be a good time and be
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  Shooter Jonas afterwards for the Patron Only Show. So you guys may have heard
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  is an article here from the Telegraph entitled new Argentina President Javier Milay waste no
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  Radio at Rumble dot com. All right. So with all that, either
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  way, let us get into today's stories. So normally I would have other
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  people do the writeups, but I ended up doing them, and because of
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  that, I wanted to try something a little bit different with a couple of
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  the stories. The first one, which is about January sixth, is gonna
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  be relatively straightforward like the others. So it has been revealed to people who
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  weren't paying attention for the past like month or so that the House Republicans,
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  led by Speaker Mike Johnson, they are planning to release about ninety hours of
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  security footage from January sixth of twenty twenty one capital attack to the public.
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  They're calling it the Capital Attack. The footage, posted on the House Administration
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  Committee's website, will be available for public viewing in designated rooms within the Capital
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  Complex starting on Monday, so that's yesterday. Eventually, around ninety five percent
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  of the forty four thousand hours of tape will be made public, excluding segments
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  that contain sensitive security information. The move has raised concerns amongst Democrats and left
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  leaning groups, who argue it poses a security threat. Republicans assert a commitment
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  to transparency, while Democrats question the safety of publicizing the footage, emphasizing potential
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  risks to security and individuals' privacy. The release follows tensions over the handling of
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  the footage by the Republican majority, with accusations of attempts to whitewash the events
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  of January sixth. The move is part of ongoing investigations into the Capitol attack
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  and has drawn both support and criticism along partisan lines. And just the fact
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  that they don't want anybody to see that footage is enough to tell you that
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  the narrative that they promoted about it is wrong, because if it was all
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  true, they would want every second of that footage released. Yes, and
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  as as you said, it's all been released except that which might endanger some
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  kind of security. But yeah, these people are saying that it shouldn't be
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  released because it's endangering some kind of security particle. No, that contingency has
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  already been sliced away. We're not seeing the stuff that could be that could
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  jeopardize any kind of security. And we're not here saying, well, we
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  need to see that footage as well. No, now we're we're happy.
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  We're happy with the with the with the forty thousand hours. We don't need
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  the extra twelve hours that happened to show a combination lock at a distant,
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  blurry distance. We're fine with not saying that. We just want to see
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  the thousands of hours of footage that that have been denied to us in the
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  in the last two years or so. Please and thank you. Yeah,
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  I was just going to say that if you want to watch the whole thing,
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  I do have a link in the description the Epic Times that's epo c
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  H. I don't know if it's called pronounced epic or epoch. I used
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  to say epoch. I don't know if that's like that's correct, but the
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  Epic or Epoch Times, they had a guy that you know, got all
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  the footage come on and and basically went through like a lot of it,
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  and he brought up the highlights specifically, and it was on like they had
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  it on the Epic Times website, like I don't know, a month ago,
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  and I watched it and and it gets a little bit rowdy, but
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  by and large, I mean, I guess rowdy, but that's mostly outside
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  and that's only in certain areas. And then there's also a discussion about like
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  how many of the people who were sort of you know, instigating this stuff
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  were actually just FEDS. So it's it's you know all, I guess what
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  I'm saying is is that we knew about this already, but now it's sort
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  of officially out there. And uhh, did you finish the write up?
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  Sorry? No, I finished reading it. Yeah that's the end. Okay,
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  Yeah, I was I was gonna say what you just said. What's
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  becoming oscilid even more solidified is that the stark difference between what was going on
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  inside the Capitol building and what was going on outside in designated areas. Outside
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  it resembled a wall zone, whereas inside it was a perambulating line of confused
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  people being ushered through the guide ropes by the And once again, you have
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  to cast your mind back to January the sixth, to the day itself,
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  to what we were watching in the minute by minute video footage being released into
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  the media and filtered through its various algorithms. We'd see a video of the
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  crowd outside going wild, and then we'd see a video of in Baked Alaska
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  and the Shaman guy and some other rando chilling in some otherwise empty chamber like
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  they owned the place. See watching these two concurrent scenes, the A plot
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  and the B plot, you're given the impression that they're connected in the same
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  causal chain of events, that the same group of people have violently stormed the
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  walls of the castle and as a result, their leaders have already taken the
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  throne. Right there in the Throne room series of selected scenes slightly editing a
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  movie. In one plot, you've got the Battle of Helm's Deep or whatever,
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  and in the other you've got the you've got the three Hobbits tiptoeing through
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  some liminal space, and you're like, I see, I see how it's
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  all connected. But it wasn't connected, is what is what we are now
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  solidified. Some of the crowd were escorted into the building by some highly non
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  chillant police officers. That part we didn't see. Meanwhile, some of the
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  crowd was isolated in that exterior section where the police. The police applied the
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  non lethal chemical deterrence, which was what caused the panic that resulted in that
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  rather tumultuous scene. That part we didn't see. It was all smoke and
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  mirrors, folks. That's that's that's how cultural warfare works in the age of
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  the camera. You divide your enemy into two flanks. One flank you capture
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  and intimidate and attack, and then when they react, as any frightened crowd
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  would react, you film them doing this reaction without the preceding context. The
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  other flank you invite and encourage and escort, and you film them infiltrating you,
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  without the preceding context. That that that all was supposed to be some
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  kind of metaphor, but I ended up just describing the thing that happened,
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  because there is no metaphor for this. It's it's novel. It's a convergence
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  of vectors on a graph of possible evils that's never been able to happen until
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  this age of us. Don't you give me any of that beho berhole pusch
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  bullshit. The this is something to do with the Nazis is This is a
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  layered, high concept psycho thriller that makes your quaint no no German references look
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  like child's play. Shall we contrast it with what happened over the Summer of
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  Love Rbba dabba, I hear you cry and I bonk you on the notes.
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  The only footage we have of BLM is riot and looting, wanton destruction,
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  arson and violent insurrection, dual insurrection where you actually annex an area and
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  prevent the state police from entering that area, and the algorithm of mainstream media
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  narratives cannot show you any of it. If they must, they stand in
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  front of a city in flames and call it a peaceful protest, and they
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  genuinely expect to get away with it. Meanwhile, what's the bee plot?
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  What foot are they showing us of the good things that BLM has done?
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  Yeah, there's there isn't any. They make college students chant we have nothing
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  to lose but our chains, and then they burn down the neighborhood and half
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  a dozen Marxist drifters become multimillionaires. That's it. There's there is no contract
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  footage they can show us. They just coast on the notion that they stand
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  for black lives because that's what they call themselves. So the b story in
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  that in this case has to be the it's the likes of the of the
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  McCluskey's that that that well to do couple in Whateversville who just wanted to grill
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  found themselves drawing their firearms on a mob of BLM rioters. Sor enough click
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  click click, look at these white supremacists fascists terrorizing these peaceful protests, that
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  that was the best they can do. Has has anyone seen any left leaning
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  documentaries about what went down during the Summer of Love? Like I doubt it.
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  That's how impossible it is to spin all that footage into any kind of
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  fluff piece. So it's just being memory holed along with the whole lockdown debarcle
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  that coincidentally coincided it. But on January to say, they all had their
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  wits about them, They knew what to do and when to do it.
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  They had complete control of the police at all times, they had complete control
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  of the crowd at all times, and they went lights camera action, and
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  they proceeded to record the piece of fiction that they intended, every aspect of
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  which they had already scripted. They even had everyone ready on the back end
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  in the producer room, in the social media sites and mass media channels,
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  carefully editing the footage so we see what we're supposed to see. And the
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  most disappointing thing of all is that it wasn't just the normies who fell for
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  this farce. It wasn't just the people already long since ideologically captured by the
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  edited machine that is the TV networks that you could understand. You could understand
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  it from people who's watching nothing but CNN their whole lives and think it's true.
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  But it was the people who should have known better. That's what really
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  stings people who claim to be sensible centrists, the people who claim to reject
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  authoritarianism, the people who insist that they don't trust the government while they fall
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  hook line and sinker for every emerging node in the government's web of bullshit.
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  And it's because they thought they heard it from somewhere else. They thought the
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  TV was telling them the truth. They thought c SPAD was telling them the
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  truth. They thought Twitter was telling them the truth. They thought they weren't
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  wearing the goggles that the government straps over every orifice in the digital round.
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  Well, well, you know what, the goggles do nothing. The goggles
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  do They clearly do do something. But the moral of the story is is
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  the goggles should do nothing, but they but unfortunately they Yeah, sorry to
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  save me, that's all right, I'm sorry. Uh So, I just
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  want to remind everybody that I almost went to January sixth, because Lindsay always
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  reminds me that I almost went, almost went whenever I learned more stuff about
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  this, She's like, you know, that could have been you, because
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  I was. I was like walking out the door that morning to drive up
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  to Washington, d C. Which is only three hours from here, and
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  Lindsay said, please don't go. I have a bad feeling. So this
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  is just so you guys get an idea of how close the corruption is to
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  us. So anyway it's confirmed, Uh, don't let them forget it.
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  Tell, you know, share this around if you have Do you have any
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  friends out of curiosity, do you have any friends or anyone in your social
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  circle that believes that the January six was was an insurrection and it was like
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  way worse than the Summer of Love and that and people almost died and there
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  were fires and there was chaos and cats and dogs living together, you know,
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  and all of that. Let me know in the comments and and have
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  you tried to tell them have you tried to like make the case, hey,
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  you know you were lied to? Because one thing, it's it's like
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  they say, you know, it's easier to fool someone and convince somebody that
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  they've been fooled, And a lot of people have been fooled by a lot
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  of narratives. January six is only one, and it's actually kind of a
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  small one, So I'd like to know what your thoughts are in the comments.
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  But now we're going to get to the real story and and and I'm
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  gonna bring it. I'm gonna bring up Ray Epps. If you have seen
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  any of my twitter feed, I retweeted a documentary on this that guy either
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  was a FED or a very disturbed man. He actually, prior to this
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  event was surveilling Baked Alaska and and can be seen multiple times in multiple locations
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  trying to direct people to go into the capitol and them yelling that he's a
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  FED. Uh So this this is you when when you hear about you know,
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  the different people that are categorized as FEDS and all the hinky stuff that
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  happened. Remember, there is a guy who basically stalked somebody that that was
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  likely to be there and tried to manipulate him, And when he couldn't manipulate
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  him, he tried to manipulate the crowd. So there were people pushing people
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  toward this, and there was a lot of resistance to it, a lot
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  of resistance against it, and a lot of the people on camera were also
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  pointing out that the folks that were engaging in violence didn't look like them.
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  They weren't people running around in Maga hats and T shirts and blue jeans.
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  They were dressed more like Antifa, and some of them were dressed more like
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  FEDS, which like right down to khaki shorts and everything. So it's not
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  just a simple fact that people saying, oh, there were Feds there and
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  therefore xyz. No, there was behavior that was very indicative of this being
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  planned and directed. And like I said, either either Ray Epps was a
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  very disturbed man or he was a fed, could be both, could be
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  both. Mm hmm. That's a good point. And yeah, I mean
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  I think we kind of covered the Ray app or is it res Yeah,
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  we've talked a little bit. We talked about it before. Yeah, yeah,
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  Okay, so I did get a couple of super chows and I guess
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  we're gonna move on. Yes, there is quiet music playing in the background.
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  This is just to prevent dead air. I hope it's not too much
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  of a distraction, but I have it very low, so it's just so
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  that there's no dead air. All right. Let us see, I got
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  a couple super chats super chows. I'm sorry super chows, so one from
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  Blind Leading the Blind. This was yesterday at eight o'clock. I think for
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  some reason it popped up on my obs. I was streaming on the gaming
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  channel with Lindsay. We were playing Residentvil six and this big like super chowd
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  came up and I'm like, what is this doing here? So Blind Leading
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  the Blind? Thank you. He wasn't sending it to the to the gaming
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  channel, he was sending it to this one gives us fifteen dollars and says
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  women and feminists things a career will provide meaning to their lives. They claim
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  that men find meaning through their careers and that women should have the same opportunity.
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  However, they fail to realize that men actually do not find meaning in
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  a career. The career is only a tool to obtain things that are meaningful.
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  Somebody else just sent me a thing. Hold on companionship, a family,
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  genuine relationships, et cetera. For example, the workplace used to be
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  a place where men can find and meet potential girlfriends and wives. If nothing
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  else, it was at least an opportunity to make friends and meet candidates that
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  were two degrees away. However, feminist HR organizations have destroyed all human aspects
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  of the workplace, effectively destroying this benefit that was attached to the career.
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  The labor itself was not what made the career meaningful or otherwise fun. Feminists
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  failed to realize this. Obviously, none of this applies to the soft autists
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  among us. Yeah, well, I think that, like, you know,
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  human beings are social like we and we it's where I think more gratified
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  if we're like productive in some way, which is why work is important,
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  they say, idle hands of the devil's playground. But the environment should also
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  be like something where you can build friendships and cooperative relationships and things like that,
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  and maybe even romantic relationships, right if the opportunity presents itself. And
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  yes, HR departments have especially made the latter impossible, like basically, there's
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  no way to navigate that kind of environment safely without you, you know,
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  your job being in danger or whatever. So they kind of took one of
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  the few things that are like that exists as a potential for men when they
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  go to the workplace. So they work in an office and there are women
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  there and they're with them all the time. It's kind of like, how
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  do guys meet girls when they're still going to school? Well, they meet
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  them at school usually, right. So, and now that is basically a
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  big problem, especially on college campuses. They're making that unworkable. And uh
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  yeah, so yes, I agree with you one hundred percent. And I
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  think that hrs have to They have to either re I mean, it's not
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  like they have no purpose, but they but they're they're being weaponized against men.
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  And I think that was probably the point from the beginning. So there
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  should definitely be a reorganization or a or a re imagining of HR departments in
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  companies. Uh okay, So thank you for the superchow that was from yesterday.
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  Marythchi gives us five dollars. Today, let me give you a jumping
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  Badger. Chan gives us five bucks and says HBO News four thirty two,
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  Honey for the Badgers home home everyone. I think you need to say hope,
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  hope everyone is having a good holiday week. I'll catch the show later.
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  Thank you, Meredith. And then I just got one from Michael Emrick
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  Winberg. Thank you Michael for ten dollars, and he says this is in
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  honor of miss Teemans more recent endeavor. Once there was a girl so kind
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  could not endure. Her lover's head flew way too far, tensions rows high,
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  her spirits sank low. The group fell apart at the seams. Now
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  beams. But he needed a body, a large one at that. For
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  that. One friend was sacrificed. A La La survived boy. He ran
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  like a rat, but he ended up quite traumatized. The endeavor was thwarted
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  with a lingering warn for the skills that she never quite honed. If she'd
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  cast some Cure two and not just spammed Cure one, she might now be
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  alive, wed and boned. I guess that's a final fantasy reference. Thank
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  you. I mean, because Allison's been playing some final fantasy. What is
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  they are? A MMO fourteen I think, and maybe heat he's aware of
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  that, So thank you, Michael, Eric Emeric Winberg. And if you
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  ever want to see Alison in boulders Gate three, you can follow me at
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  Honey Badger Arcade because that is a party of badgers, and the last one
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  was hilarious. Karen threw through a goblin from like a rafter and and killed
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  him. It was hilarious, exactly like something Karen, which yeah, exactly,
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  yes, Well she's the barbarian, so I had it was a goblin
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  giving us trouble, and he was up in these rafters, and I had
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  Karen climb up there and throw him down, get him there. Yeah,
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  and just that's great, Yeah, very great, very great. Okay,
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  I just want to point out one thing. Yeah, the reason why women
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  mistake work as giving men's life meaning is because they don't understand that men men
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  can get meaning from more than one thing in their lives. And they don't
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  understand how men's lives develop meaning because they're taught growing up from from the time
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  their little kids. Girls are taught that they're the most important thing in the
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  room and their lives have by default, but that boys shouldn't have meaning to
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  them unless they do things for them. So they just assume that men don't
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  get meaning in their lives unless they do things for other people, and it
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  doesn't occur to them that they find meaning in their relationships and their hobbies.
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  And their career is an expression of the meaning of their life, not the
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  place where they find it. Yep, all right, well thank you for
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  that and let us know you guys think about this and the comments appreciate the
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  super childs and such. So we're going to talk about International Men'sday. So
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  on International Men'sday just passed. It was on Sunday, day before yesterday.
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  Mike and Lauren came and visited us and we had a little meet up on
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  Saturday night and shout out to be bad sad who showed up, and you
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  know, we made the most of it, hung out, had a good
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  time and all that. But of course the Internet, especially Google, well
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  they're there, they're Google Doodle is up. I thought I would take a
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  screenshot and show you guys, this is the International Men's Day Google page,
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  which you know, it's it's minimalist. It's a minimalist design, you know.
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  I I guess I'll take it. And apparently I'm almost out of storage,
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  but that I decided today that I would check something out. So like
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  I, I went to chat GPT and I asked chat gpt to tell me
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  what International Men's Day is and what International Women's Day is. And I thought
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  I would read that to you, and I don't want to show you a
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  couple of other things. So okay, obviously Google and like Facebook and everything
• 26:47
  else had nothing to say about International Men's Day. They didn't, you know,
• 26:51
  they didn't have any special wallpapers, they don't have any special shout outs.
• 26:53
  Nothing. Okay, but this doesn't surprise any It shouldn't, because this
• 27:00
  has been the case, or as long as I've been doing this show.
• 27:03
  Every time International Mensday comes around, I looked at it just you know,
• 27:07
  out of curiosity, and nobody's talking about it. Sometimes though, there are
• 27:11
  even pieces written about it. And I'm going to get to a couple of
• 27:15
  examples in a moment, but let's first get the International Men's Day. As
• 27:21
  defined by chat GPT, International Men'sday is an annual event celebrated on November nineteenth
• 27:29
  to highlight and address issues that affect men and boys around the world. Sounds
• 27:33
  good so far. The day provides an opportunity to focus on men's health,
• 27:36
  improve gender relations, promote gender equality, and raise awareness of positive male role
• 27:41
  models. Okay. International Men'sday covers a range of themes, including men's mental
• 27:48
  health, the promotion of gender equality, there was that term again, positive
• 27:52
  male role models and discussions about challenges men's faced by men and boys. The
• 27:57
  day encourages conversations of topics such as toxic masculinity, the importance of positive male
• 28:03
  role models, and the impact of stereotypes on men's well being. While International
• 28:08
  Men's Day has been celebrated in various forms since the nineteen nineties, it's gained
• 28:11
  more recognition and visibility globally in the twenty first century. The day is observed
• 28:15
  in many countries, and events may include discussions, seminars, workshops, and
• 28:21
  community outreach programs focusing on men's issues. It's important to note that International Men's
• 28:25
  Day does not seek to undermine or compete with International Women's Day, so stop
• 28:30
  doing that, but rather to complement it by addressing gender related challenges from the
• 28:34
  perspective of men and boys. Both days contribute to the broader goal of achieving
• 28:38
  gender equality and fostering positive relationships between all genders. Like all of them.
• 28:45
  Now, that's International Men's Day. Note the tone of it. This is
• 28:48
  an AI supposedly telling us what it is now International Women's Day. I just
• 28:55
  asked it to tell me what both of these were. I didn't try to
• 28:59
  convince it of anything. I just wanted to know where it was starting from.
• 29:02
  Okay. International Women's Day is a global day that celebrates the social,
• 29:06
  economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. It's also a day to
• 29:11
  raise awareness about the ongoing challenges and inequities or inequalities that women face worldwide.
• 29:18
  International Women's Day is observed annually on March eighth. To notice that the yeah,
• 29:25
  no, it says November nineteenth, Yeah it does. Okay, where
• 29:29
  was I on March eighth. The day has its roots in the labor and
• 29:33
  women's rights movements of the early twentieth century. The first national Women's Day was
• 29:37
  organized by the Socialist movement in the United States on February twenty eighth, nineteen
• 29:41
  oh nine. The idea to make it international event was proposed by Clara Zetkin,
• 29:47
  a German activist, at the International Women's Conference in nineteen ten. The
• 29:51
  first International Women's Day was celebrated on March nineteenth, nineteen eleven in several European
• 29:56
  countries. Over the years, International Women's Day has evolved into a global movement
• 30:00
  that highlights women's achievements, raises awareness about gender inequality, and advocates for women's
• 30:06
  rights. It is a day of solidarity and a call to action to address
• 30:08
  issues such as gender based violence, unequal pay, a lack of access to
• 30:12
  education and healthcare, and underrepresentation in various fields. Each year, International Women's
• 30:18
  Day is marked by events, discussions, performances, and campaigns around the world.
• 30:22
  The day serves as an opportunity to celebrate the progress that has been made
• 30:25
  in advancing women's rights while recognizing the work that still needs to be done to
• 30:29
  achieve gender equality. A theme for International Women's Day often reflects the current global
• 30:33
  issues affecting women and girls. So we'll do this in sections because there's a
• 30:40
  couple of other things I want to talk about. But note, obviously you
• 30:42
  can see the stark difference between the way that chat GPT defines Men's Day and
• 30:48
  Women's Day. And of course we know that ais are essentially programmed by human
• 30:56
  beings, so this gives you an idea of the bias at the folks that
• 31:02
  do this. Now, I would be willing to bet that if you ran
• 31:06
  these questions through any artificial intelligence, it will give you very similar answers.
• 31:11
  So this is probably the reason, in my opinion, why there is no
• 31:15
  Google Doodle, there is no discussion about men's issues, that they're essentially invisible
• 31:22
  because women's issues always have to take precedent. So I want to get if
• 31:29
  Mike or Hannah have any thoughts on the chat GPT definition, because I do
• 31:33
  think this is essentially what it's doing is it's like grabbing together all of the
• 31:40
  discussion that it is able to get its hands on surrounding these two days,
• 31:45
  and it's giving its thoughts on it because this essentially a search engine. Right,
• 31:48
  So what do you guys think? Right? I know, it's just
• 31:52
  a word that kept cropping up in the Women's Day one, which is achievement,
• 31:56
  well, achieving women's achievement. If International Men's Day was about men's achievements,
• 32:04
  which I agree with it should be, it would be about almost all
• 32:08
  of the things International Men's Monday, and it would be about a chat ebt
• 32:16
  itself. Yeah, and this is this perhaps what they mean when they say
• 32:22
  every day is International Men's Day, Well, if it was about men's achievements,
• 32:27
  it would be because almost every day we have, I mean almost without
• 32:31
  exception, is about achievements that have been made by mostly men. But that
• 32:38
  but according according to all these ais. That's not what International Men's Day is
• 32:43
  about. It's about harmful stereotypes about men like I don't know, they achieve
• 32:49
  things and without even needing a day to pamper them into achieving it. Sorry,
• 32:58
  so yeah, no, no, it's okay. But the first thing
• 33:00
  that struck me about it, obviously was the use of toxic masculinity. And
• 33:07
  honestly, the most inappropriate thing to discuss on International Men's Day is toxic masculinity
• 33:15
  because well, first of all, the feminist concept of toxic masculinity, as
• 33:24
  opposed to the mythopoetic men's movement concept. The feminist concept is entirely made up
• 33:34
  by a person who is experiencing gender dysphoria. And at the time that they
• 33:42
  created this concept and stole the label from the myth of poetic men's movement,
• 33:49
  for it, was likely to view masculinity itself, manhood itself as a prison.
• 34:00
  Right ray own Connell wasn't a fan of manhood and masculinity so much so
• 34:07
  as to have abandoned it. So anything that feminists say on this topic comes
• 34:15
  from that, not from caring about men's experiences, caring about men's welfare,
• 34:24
  you know, loving and respecting men. None of that. It is all
• 34:28
  about treating masculinity itself as a prison in which men are trapped. And they
• 34:36
  would just the whole world they think would be so much better off if it
• 34:42
  didn't exist, and so they want to eliminate it, and so they demonize
• 34:47
  both functional and dysfunctional expressions of masculinity. And when you look at the dysfunctional
• 34:58
  ones that they're talking about that they generalize to all men, they are how
• 35:02
  masculinity develops when a boy has no adult male role models in his life that
• 35:09
  are that are not dysfunctional, when he's raised in a single mother household with
• 35:15
  a mom who who you know, has a revolving door of uncles coming through
• 35:22
  the house telling them all men are scum, including their father who they never
• 35:28
  get to see, and the only boys in their lives that are successful are
• 35:31
  the ones that are selling drugs to their neighbors. That's where toxic masculinity,
• 35:37
  so called toxic masculinity, develops in a in a man desert right where it's
• 35:44
  almost entirely women and women's negative outlook on men influencing the man that a boy
• 35:51
  will develop into. So obviously, if you want to eliminate it, then
• 35:57
  you need to eliminate that environment, but they won't say that, yep.
• 36:02
  So so obviously it doesn't need to be talked about on International Men'sday since the
• 36:09
  people bringing it up only want to use it as a gotcha against men and
• 36:16
  a bludgeon against men and not a way to help men. Yep. And
• 36:24
  I think that the takeaway from this for me, just looking at the chat
• 36:30
  GPT, it just kind of gives you an idea of what because it's drawing,
• 36:34
  like, it's drawing all of its data from where from every time anyone
• 36:43
  on the Internet talks about men and women and speciically talks about you know,
• 36:47
  International Men'sday, International Women's Day, or any any of the discussion in general
• 36:52
  about society. So it's pulling from all that data. But all of that
• 36:55
  data is entered by people like whether they you know, anytime you make a
• 37:00
  post, anytime you like, share a photo, make a video, whatever.
• 37:05
  It's drawing from all of that, every study, every academic thing,
• 37:08
  everything. So even though people like us are talking trying to draw attention to,
• 37:14
  you know, issues that men face, and we're trying to push back
• 37:16
  on these narratives of toxic masculinity, et cetera. The data in favor of
• 37:22
  this case, for you know, this case about International Men's Day is so
• 37:25
  overwhelming that chat GPT is basically putting that front and center because it sees it
• 37:31
  as the most common narrative. Right, So this is why I think it's
• 37:37
  important. It's just to give you a sense of how much impact, at
• 37:42
  least on this AI our counterpoints are having, which doesn't seem to be much.
• 37:49
  But that's that's okay, because I think that on an individual level there
• 37:53
  might be more of an impact. So but okay, so that's that let's
• 38:00
  chat GPT and of course not not at all surprising to me. You know.
• 38:04
  The thing is too, is that it's important to note that I don't
• 38:07
  think that men are looking to get their assholes licked like women are when International
• 38:10
  Men's Say comes around. They don't want their day in the sun, they
• 38:14
  don't want their asses kissed. They there. I don't think they really want
• 38:16
  anything. I think most men don't even acknowledge that it is real, you
• 38:21
  know, that it exists as a day. They just kind of get on
• 38:22
  with it. And that's okay. So I'm not This is not me whining
• 38:27
  or anything, but I think that it does put into perspective like the way
• 38:32
  that we view you know, men's situation and women's situation differently, and that
• 38:39
  it is in fact, like probably going to would be a good idea for
• 38:46
  us to at the very least like recognize the contributions that men make, you
• 38:52
  know, I mean, you do. Nobody wants again, don't want their
• 38:55
  asses kiss or anything like that, but if we're we're doing the op of
• 39:00
  that. In fact, the day, and I forgot to mention this,
• 39:05
  I don't have it up on the screen here, but instead of talking about
• 39:07
  International Men's Day, people were talking about was it like Transvisibility Day? Because
• 39:14
  it was like that week, So that became a bigger discussion, a bigger
• 39:20
  thing promoted, even though it's a much smaller percentage of the population than International
• 39:25
  Men's Day. And if the International Men'sday did have to be brought up,
• 39:30
  it was brought up in the context of transvisibility, so basically trans men,
• 39:37
  so trans men get more props than regular old men, which is of course
• 39:42
  the intent in my opinion of the entire this whole like woke movement. It's
• 39:46
  basically all about erasing men's presence. Men's contribution, men's perspective. At the
• 39:53
  end of the day, all the queer theory shit, it all exists to
• 39:57
  just like push men further and further out into the fringe and make them a
• 40:01
  less appealing, less interesting, and you know, a less deserving group of
• 40:07
  people. So it's interesting that you you mentioned that about transvisibility because the last
• 40:15
  few years the narrative that feminists came up with was you know, here their
• 40:21
  International Men's Days on World Toilet Day. Hold, yeah, that was they
• 40:23
  also bring up toilet Day too, because we did. We did a thing
• 40:30
  last year, I want to say maybe the year before where a bunch of
• 40:34
  us made video shorts that that got put together in a longer video about International
• 40:39
  Men's Day, and mine was on the the absolute benefit of indoor plumbing and
• 40:47
  how many men were involved in making that happen because can you imagine how many
• 40:53
  how many people are there in the world today, like eight billion did not
• 41:00
  Yeah, if we didn't have plumbing and sewer systems and stuff invented by men,
• 41:05
  built by men, maintained by men at the expense of their health and
• 41:14
  the expense of their safety, we would be in deep shit literally, and
• 41:22
  we would be like, the diseases that we see happening now that are scary
• 41:27
  are nothing compared to what we would be experiencing if we didn't have those things
• 41:34
  done by men. So I highlighted that because it's it's not a gotcha,
• 41:40
  it's highly appropriate that something is fundamental and as that we're so used to that
• 41:50
  used to be a luxury, you know that that we're so used to we
• 41:52
  take it for granted now, but that is so fundamentally important to our lives
• 41:58
  was created by men and it just gets ignored. Yeah, I know.
• 42:04
  Okay. So there's a couple of other things about this International Mensday thing I
• 42:07
  wanted to point out. So there are a couple there isn't a couple of
• 42:12
  articles I want to bring some attention to. This is from last year,
• 42:16
  and this is from a Canadian website called The Globe and Mail, and it
• 42:21
  is entitled Yes, International Men'sday is a real thing and it's worth supporting.
• 42:24
  That sounds good, doesn't it. Okay, So let me sum up this
• 42:28
  article, all right. This article discusses the complexity surround the celebration of International
• 42:32
  Men's Day. So there's complexities which falls on November nineteenth. The author,
• 42:37
  the executive director of the Canadian nonprofit Next Gen Men, addresses the potential pitfalls
• 42:43
  of supporting International Men's Day, such as the perception of it as an endorsement
• 42:47
  of patriarchy and its comparison to women's or trying of recognition. The author acknowledges
• 42:53
  that men are already overrepresented in positions of power and influence. So this is
• 43:00
  on Men'sday, and it sounds like it's something that we should support. But
• 43:05
  the person who wrote this is like, but wait a minute, men are
• 43:07
  overrepresented patriarchy, et cetera. And of course it also emphasizes that despite the
• 43:14
  benefits men as a group received from the patriarchy, individual men and boys can
• 43:19
  be deeply harmed, citing issues like societal expectations, mental health struggles, and
• 43:23
  suicide rates among teenage boys. International Men's Day is viewed as a chance to
• 43:28
  evaluate workplace cultures and explore themes such as seeking help, fear, failure,
• 43:32
  lack of support, and the need for role models. Now, when they
• 43:36
  say role models, they mean, of course, non toxic masculine role models,
• 43:40
  so like appropriate role models that we will decide are the right kinds of
• 43:45
  role models. So that's one queen. Yeah, drag queens. So that's
• 43:51
  one article that sounds that that would be like as supportive of International Men's Day
• 43:57
  as it gets. Is essentially saying, yeah, teminism has no power and
• 44:04
  no influence. Yeah all right, and they don't hate men, and that
• 44:07
  is why the media doesn't have to appeal to feminist man hatred at all in
• 44:15
  order to write about this topic. Yep, right, And and then we
• 44:22
  got this one from the Independent. Oh no, this is the wrong thing.
• 44:25
  Uh wait I had Oh yeah, here we go. Why International Men'sday
• 44:29
  is important or inclusive culture. So again this is important, the framing,
• 44:35
  the framing of this. So men can't we can't have a day just like
• 44:38
  on its face. We have to like we have to change the language.
• 44:43
  This is. This, by the way, reminds me of when I was
• 44:45
  talking to when I talked to these kind of like MRA types that claim to
• 44:52
  be like both MRAs and woke. So they're trying to like make make this
• 44:57
  puzzle piece fit in. And I'm telling them, look, man, as
• 45:00
  long as you're adopting this intersectionalist lens, men will always lose because they're at
• 45:04
  the bottom of that hierarchy or you know, maybe in the eyes of an
• 45:07
  intersectionalist at the top that the most privileged. Therefore they're the least deserving of
• 45:13
  sympathy and support. So you can't square that circle. So anyway, let
• 45:17
  me summarize this article from Inclusive Employees dot co dot UK. This article discusses
• 45:24
  the approaching International Men's Day emphasizes its significance in empowering and standing with men across
• 45:30
  the UK. Okay, sounds good so far. The author is an inclusion
• 45:36
  and diversity consultant, suggests that while working in the realm of inclusion and diversity
• 45:40
  one my field disconnected from the concept of celebrating men, but International Men'sday presents
• 45:45
  an opportunity to have new conversations about men's experience and advance inclusion. Really quick,
• 45:52
  I'm gonna interrupt you. Yeah, there's a question in this why would
• 45:58
  if inclusion means what the Dictionary definition of inclusion means, and diversity means what
• 46:05
  the Dictionary definition of diversity means, why would one feel disconnected from the concept
• 46:12
  of celebrating men under those conditions, right, unless they are perverting the terms
• 46:19
  that right there, anybody that tries to fit in with this, anybody that
• 46:23
  does try to square that circle. When you see ship like this, that
• 46:28
  should tell you that when they say diversity and inclusion, they're not actually saying
• 46:36
  diversity and inclusion. They are lying to you. We just think there are
• 46:43
  too many of you, that's all. Yeah. And and what this,
• 46:46
  what this tries to do is say, well, we want to look out
• 46:50
  for men, but they have to be the place that that that to be
• 46:54
  a certain kind of men. We need we need trans men, we need
• 46:59
  brown men, we need gay men, we need non binary men. I
• 47:02
  don't know if that's even a thing. Basically, like like they they they
• 47:07
  have to be inclusive men, diverse men. But that means that that you
• 47:12
  don't actually care about men because you're you're creating brand new categories that you can
• 47:16
  split, you could divide men up into. So this is actually like counterintuitive.
• 47:22
  It's not you're not doing anything. You're literally just dividing men along different
• 47:27
  lines. Now when men generally like they they work best when they're not thinking
• 47:32
  about that crap. So this is these two are the most the best examples
• 47:39
  I could find of why. For one, you know, don't ever expect
• 47:45
  a mainstream to actually like adopt or agree with a sort of general international Men's
• 47:52
  Day. But as it as it stands like on its own without any extra
• 47:58
  well, you know, let's modify it here, because otherwise no one's gonna
• 48:00
  care about it. Well, maybe we should. Maybe you should like abandon
• 48:04
  that whole intersectionalist lens and that whole toxic masculinity lens because that's kind of an
• 48:09
  issue. And then on top of that, which I want to share as
• 48:13
  well, one other thing. GQ magazine made Kim Kardashian Man of the Year
• 48:21
  this year, so we men can even be the man of the year anymore.
• 48:24
  Now, maybe this is fair but because women, yeah man, maybe
• 48:30
  yeah, I was gonna say, maybe it's like fair play because there are
• 48:34
  men winning championships or biological men trans women. I'm sorry, I don't mean
• 48:38
  to be a bigot. That are winning championships and getting like becoming Miss Universe
• 48:44
  or Miss America or whatever and all of that. So there is that.
• 48:46
  But again, this is an opportunity to I mean, first of all,
• 48:51
  even if I was okay with them making Kim Kardashian or or a woman Man
• 48:57
  of the Year, I don't see see why it would be this woman like,
• 49:01
  of there's got to be a woman out there that's done more like this
• 49:06
  is literally the kind of woman that Pearl talks about when she says, why
• 49:10
  are the top earning men like super genius guys like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos,
• 49:16
  and the top earning women are like Kim Kardashian and you know, women
• 49:22
  who have essentially divorced Jeff Bezos. You know. So I also thought that
• 49:30
  was worth pointing out. And it's just goes to show the absolute state of
• 49:36
  our ability to simply, you know, acknowledge men, I mean, like
• 49:40
  as as contributing in any way. So I don't know if you guys have
• 49:45
  any thoughts on either the two articles or the Kim Kardashian thing. I mean,
• 49:50
  frankly, I don't care. GQ is basically run by feminists anyway,
• 49:52
  so it doesn't It's like, it's exactly the kind of thing I would expect
• 49:57
  from GQ, honestly. It just remember GQ is the magazine that sent a
• 50:07
  writer to uh the first I SMI in twenty fourteen in Detroit with a pedophile
• 50:19
  to try to bait MRAs with this this pedophile, and and he did.
• 50:23
  He kind of shoved the guy in people's faces, like he escorted him around,
• 50:31
  and and uh even took a bunch of the Honey Badgers out. I
• 50:36
  was not one who was included in that group because I was on the security
• 50:40
  team and I was working, But he took a bunch of the Honey Badgers
• 50:45
  to lunch and and shoved this pedophile in their faces as well, and uh,
• 50:52
  it was just it was a real shit show. He didn't he didn't
• 50:59
  care that he might be shoving this guy in the faces of people who had
• 51:04
  been victimized, which he did do, by the way, multiple times.
• 51:09
  And then he wrote a hit piece in which he lied about people, attributed
• 51:17
  statements to people that were never made, and used images that were put through
• 51:23
  a filter that made the people that he had photographed look like zombies. And
• 51:31
  you know, there's really not much of anything we can do about that guy,
• 51:37
  except you know, in the future, as we moved on, we
• 51:40
  were more leery of the press. So every time we've treated media personalities with
• 51:45
  distrust, you can blame Jeff Charlotte, who I like to refer to as
• 51:52
  Jeff Charlotte. But yeah, I mean, he wasn't just dishonest with it.
• 52:00
  Like, in my opinion, what he did with that guy constitutes a
• 52:06
  sexual harassment. Uh huh. So it really doesn't surprise me that they would
• 52:12
  take the most famous uh not twitch thought, but Instagram thought, I guess,
• 52:22
  and call her the Man of the Year after that kind of a stunt.
• 52:27
  Well not only that, but if you look at the image, I
• 52:30
  know you probably can't see it, but the image they use of Kim Kardashian
• 52:34
  for the cover of GQ is her in a suit, eating cheetos and licking
• 52:38
  her thumb. So this is like a suction. So this is what it
• 52:42
  suggests, because I think you guys got to know, like when they take
• 52:45
  these photos, none of this is an accident, no, because they're essentially
• 52:50
  announcing her as Man of the Year. They're trying to put her in what
• 52:53
  they imagine or what they envision as like what a man is, and it's
• 52:59
  a person in a suit eating cheetos. So that's what that's what that means.
• 53:04
  Okay, So yes, I mean, she should have had cheeto dust
• 53:07
  on her fingers, but she probably didn't want to get her fingers messed up
• 53:09
  for the photo shoot. So whatever. And the only thing I know that
• 53:13
  Kim Kardashi is famous for is the sex tape. That's that's it. I
• 53:17
  mean, like everything else kind of spilled out from that, So I guess
• 53:21
  this is a female achievement. But anyway, I did get another super chow
• 53:25
  I wanted to read really quick, really quack from Xenathhos Xanthos, and he
• 53:31
  gives us five dollars and says, not many people slash groups speaking for men,
• 53:37
  almost none without an angle or life philosophy. Please keep up the fight,
• 53:40
  even if you don't believe you can change the system. You can you
• 53:44
  make men not feel as lost in this modern healthscape and give a light to
• 53:49
  confusion. Well, thank you for that, Xanathos. And I won't.
• 53:52
  I mean, I think the truth always wins out eventually, and I think
• 53:57
  that change the bet the most, the law longest lasting. Change starts at
• 54:00
  the smallest scale, So if a few people change their lifestyles in the long
• 54:07
  run, it will impact those that are willing to make the same changes and
• 54:12
  hopefully that will snowball into something else. Plus, Argentina just like got a
• 54:17
  based ass president now, so there is always hope, and I think it
• 54:22
  has to be at the bottom level. If you wanted to last. Feminists
• 54:25
  and commies. They love top down shit, and I know that it gets
• 54:30
  them fast results. It's like the dark side of the forest, you know,
• 54:32
  but it's it's not it's not sustainable before it's destructive. But if you
• 54:37
  can like work with people at the bottom level, I think that it takes
• 54:40
  longer, but it's a lot more enduring. This is why, by the
• 54:44
  way, I shared in the beginning of the show, this like little video
• 54:49
  of the crocodile hunter and he you know, we know he passed away,
• 54:53
  but he was killed by stingray or something doing doing what he loved. And
• 54:59
  there was an inner clip where he was talking about what he is like the
• 55:02
  pride he has for his children that he is leaving behind to carry on his
• 55:07
  work. And sure enough, his kids, even though he is no longer
• 55:12
  with us, are doing just that. And I think, you know,
• 55:15
  I saw that and I said, this is what fathers do. You know
• 55:19
  this, this is what they give to their children. And I think that
• 55:22
  that deserves acknowledgment and celebration. And that's something, by the way, Steve
• 55:27
  Irwin, that's somebody who is famous for the right reasons, not the reasons
• 55:31
  that Kim Kardashian is famous for. So yeah, I mean that, I'm
• 55:37
  just look at that as a contrast. That's all I'm saying. So anyway,
• 55:40
  anybody else have any final thoughts on that before I move on to the
• 55:44
  final story. Okay, So I'm I'm kind of excited for this, to
• 55:50
  be honest. So we're gonna get into the last story that the main one
• 55:53
  was the Men's the International Men's they think, I think it was very important
• 55:59
  that we covered that because it did just happen. And I hope you guys
• 56:01
  had a good Sunday because that was International Men's Day and yeah, just you
• 56:07
  know, just saying thank you for men for everything you do, because nobody
• 56:12
  else is gonna do that. So all right, so final story, This
• 56:17
  is a victory for the culture war that I really have to talk about.
• 56:21
  So the Marvels came out and it's been out for two weekends and it has
• 56:29
  made records. Okay, it has broken records. The Marvels has achieved the
• 56:32
  dubious distinction of having the worst opening weekend in the history of the Marvel cinematic
• 56:38
  universe. But more than that, I'll get to that in a moment.
• 56:42
  The film directed and written by Niadacosta, serves as the sequel to twenty nineteen's
• 56:45
  Captain Marvel. Despite initial predictions of low box office earnings due to perceived Marvel
• 56:52
  fatigue amongst fans, the film's actual performance fell below expectations. So even if
• 56:57
  you believe the lie that is people are tired of these movies because they're not,
• 57:00
  and I can give you evidence for that they it's still underperformed. Okay.
• 57:06
  On its first day, the movie earned twenty one point five million dollars
• 57:10
  in the US, marking the second lowest opening day for an MCU film.
• 57:14
  Over the entire weekend, it garnered just forty seven million in the US,
• 57:17
  making it the MCU's lowest grossing opening weekend against an estimated budget of two hundred
• 57:22
  and twenty million dollars. Some critics found the film to be just showing a
• 57:28
  mess with a rushed final act, while others were pleasantly surprised. The disappointing
• 57:31
  box office numbers for the Marvels came amid ongoing discussions about the perceived saturation of
• 57:37
  the MCU in the market, which claims a franchise peaked with twenty nineteens Avengers
• 57:42
  endgame. But but I want to There's a couple of things I want to
• 57:45
  point out. First of all, this is very important. The majority of
• 57:51
  people who went to see this film were still men. Sixty five percent of
• 57:54
  the people who actually gave money to a theater to watch it were still men,
• 58:00
  which means even though they tried to say this is for the ladies,
• 58:05
  women did not go see it. Only the die hard culture junkie men that
• 58:07
  would go to anything that has their brand on it actually paid money to go
• 58:12
  see it. And even then it it was a massive flop. And also
• 58:15
  the drop in sales was so harsh. It was the biggest drop of like
• 58:21
  any superhero movie ever, so not just this one. And I got some
• 58:24
  funny shit to compare it to. So here's what it grows. Sixty four
• 58:29
  million dollars, well, almost sixty five million domestic internationally, about ninety six
• 58:35
  million worldwide, one hundred and sixty one million. The budget was two hundred
• 58:38
  and twenty million dollars. So I thought I would look at here's the data
• 58:44
  on it. But I thought, okay, so people are saying this is
• 58:46
  like the biggest fail since, like you know, ever, And then I
• 58:50
  thought, well, what's another movie that had a massive was a massive flop.
• 58:54
  And there was this film that came out, this little movie that came
• 58:57
  out in twenty twenty two called Morbius. Okay, and so I gotta tell
• 59:01
  you about this because I think this is hilarious. Morvius was a massive flop.
• 59:07
  The first weekend it was, it was, it did terribly okay,
• 59:12
  and the opening was like thirty nine million. They spent like, you know,
• 59:16
  a lot more than that. I think it was close to two hundred
• 59:19
  million dollars on this one too, maybe one hundred and something million dollars.
• 59:22
  And the after the first weekend, there was this meme I think it was
• 59:24
  in one of the trailers or something where somebody said it's Morgan time, and
• 59:30
  the It's Morgan time meme was all over the internet. And because of it,
• 59:34
  people were like, Oh, I want to watch the movie again.
• 59:36
  Now I want to go see it now, right, And so what the
• 59:37
  studio did, I think, with Sony Pictures, no Columbia Pictures, they
• 59:40
  said, oh, we're gonna put the movie out for another weekend. Maybe
• 59:44
  this meme will give us a boost in sales. Okay, And with the
• 59:47
  boost, it still only made seventy three million, seventy four million dollars domestically
• 59:53
  and ninety three million international, which is still more than the Marvels did,
• 1:00:00
  so the Marvel's literally worse than Morvious. And I also compared it to Catwoman,
• 1:00:06
  which came out in two thousand and four, another gigantic bomb, only
• 1:00:09
  Catwoman only made a little bit less than that. It made at the end
• 1:00:14
  of the day, eighty two million dollars worldwide. And I was talking to
• 1:00:16
  Lindsay about it because we were having a laugh about this because this movie was,
• 1:00:21
  like, you know, it was supposed to be like the girl power
• 1:00:23
  movie to end all girl power movies, and first of all, mostly men
• 1:00:28
  went to see it, so that's funny. And also it was a massive
• 1:00:32
  bomb because basically the people who made this film were saying, this isn't for
• 1:00:37
  you, so you shouldn't come see it because that makes you a bigot,
• 1:00:40
  racist, whatever, et cetera. And so they've been pushing their audience away
• 1:00:45
  and they flopped. And then I looked at I don't have it up here,
• 1:00:47
  but I even looked at I was starting to think, like, what's
• 1:00:51
  like one of the biggest flops that I can remember and in nineteen eighty four
• 1:00:55
  there was a film called Supergirl. Remember Supergirl. It was yes, it
• 1:01:01
  was terrible, Okay, super Girl, when you adjust for inflation, made
• 1:01:07
  about the same amount of money as this, and it didn't release internationally.
• 1:01:13
  It was only domestic, like it didn't go to other countries because that back
• 1:01:16
  then. I guess in the eighties, you know, movies didn't really leave
• 1:01:21
  the US like when they were in the theatrical releases. I think I don't
• 1:01:25
  know, because it didn't. It didn't have a international gross on Box Office
• 1:01:30
  Mojo. It was just a domestic gross. But yes, I mean so
• 1:01:35
  yes, literally, guys, go watch Supergirl if you gotta. It's not
• 1:01:38
  good. It's not good, but is hilarious. So just saying those are
• 1:01:44
  my thoughts. I just wanted to share this. I think it's I think
• 1:01:46
  what it means is is that finally people are starting to like actually vote with
• 1:01:52
  their dollars. Unfortunately, the problem is still men who will spend money on
• 1:01:58
  anything. But maybe they were just trying to make a statement. I don't
• 1:02:00
  know, but women didn't go see this, And I give you another reason
• 1:02:05
  why I know this is true. It's not and it's got nothing to do
• 1:02:07
  with like whatever they're trying to blame it on. First of all, the
• 1:02:12
  superhero fatigue thing is not real because if you look at Netflix, there are
• 1:02:15
  shows like well notle just Netflix streaming services. There's Invincible season two, The
• 1:02:22
  Boys, and Generation V just three very popular shows right now. I think
• 1:02:28
  they're at the tops of a lot of lists. So people are still watching
• 1:02:30
  that stuff. Then you have, well, what about the women audience?
• 1:02:36
  Well, the Barbie movie made a billion dollars, over a billion dollars,
• 1:02:39
  so there's clearly an audience for that, and it is mostly women that watched
• 1:02:43
  it. And the Hunger Games. There was a Hunger Games prequel that came
• 1:02:47
  out the same weekend and that's like number one in the box office right now.
• 1:02:51
  So women are spending their money and going to the theater. They're just
• 1:02:53
  not going to see this. It's almost like these movies are not for women,
• 1:02:58
  like you know, start out the primary uh customer. So anyway,
• 1:03:04
  I thought big win for the culture war. Basically, Disney's lost a shit
• 1:03:08
  ton of money. I don't know if if any anybody is paying attention,
• 1:03:13
  doesn't matter to me, but I think it's great. So anyway, any
• 1:03:16
  anybody have thoughts on that. Yeah, I am not trying to burst anybody's
• 1:03:22
  bubble on this, but this, this movie wasn't made with profit in mind.
• 1:03:27
  They knew when they made this they were going to lose that money,
• 1:03:31
  and they budgeted for it, and they may even be getting support, you
• 1:03:36
  know, from elsewhere to to do this. Their their budget for this probably
• 1:03:43
  wasn't even remotely related to relue revenue. It's not. It's not about success
• 1:03:49
  with stuff like this. It's about imposing a narrative, right, It's about
• 1:03:52
  imposing wokeness and establishing who decides what is or is not part of the culture.
• 1:03:58
  It's about looking out at the people and saying, this is not your
• 1:04:01
  overtin window. It's our overtin window. You see the view through it.
• 1:04:09
  We control where it is. And they really don't care if you buy it.
• 1:04:15
  They don't care if you like it. They don't care if you choose
• 1:04:21
  to go see it or not. Because you can't get away from it.
• 1:04:25
  You know, it's discussed everywhere. There's posters everywhere, there's there's people talking
• 1:04:30
  about it. On every social media outlet that you can can enjoy, you
• 1:04:35
  will see posts about it, and there's ads all over the place, and
• 1:04:40
  they're still going to have the whole girl power message and blah blah blah.
• 1:04:43
  Right, it will not matter, and that that that nobody liked it.
• 1:04:48
  It is only going to be a vehicle for either forcing, coercing, or
• 1:04:58
  shaming you and to accept that narrative. And they won't admit publicly that it's
• 1:05:04
  not profitable because it sucks. They'll use the fact that it's not profitable to
• 1:05:11
  to to demonize groups of people that disagree with them, because the goal isn't
• 1:05:16
  profit and it's not entertainment. It's establishing that you are not allowed to think
• 1:05:23
  for yourself. They do the thinking for you or else, and and it's
• 1:05:28
  it's establishing that woke idea. Woke ideologues get to use every form of media
• 1:05:34
  to impose their ideology on you, using pop culture as their vehicle without opposition,
• 1:05:43
  and if you oppose them, you're the bad guy, the villain.
• 1:05:47
  And they've actually used it pretty effectively here to a degree in that they were
• 1:05:55
  able to identify based on how people talked and wrote about this, all of
• 1:06:00
  the media outlets that support that initiative, and all of the media outlets that
• 1:06:09
  they need to put pressure on because they're not on board yet, and they'll
• 1:06:12
  continue to do that until they get to the point where you see almost no
• 1:06:16
  media outlets that that oppose that narrative. That if if a movie comes out
• 1:06:24
  and it sucks and the only thing about it is that it's it's uh intended
• 1:06:29
  to promote a narrative, there's no storyline, the characters aren't great, and
• 1:06:33
  everything about the movie sucks, and and you get people writing negative things about
• 1:06:41
  it, they'll disappear. Those those outlets will disappear, they'll get you know,
• 1:06:46
  no ads, they'll get demonetized basically debanked whatever. Yeah, and that'll
• 1:06:57
  be the next step. Uh, they've already been practicing d banking on individual
• 1:07:03
  people. They've already been you know, demonetizing small media like us. That'll
• 1:07:10
  be the next step. You can't talk about this without promoting the narrative,
• 1:07:15
  or will make sure you can't make any money. Mm hmm. So it's
• 1:07:19
  it's I hate, like I said, I hate to be the negative Nancy
• 1:07:23
  in the group. But as much of a victory as the failure of the
• 1:07:27
  movie is, it was planned for, well, that was that wasn't their
• 1:07:31
  target at all, And I hate to be the positive Peter or whatever in
• 1:07:40
  all of it. But you have to ask yourself not only just where where
• 1:07:45
  does this money come from, but where does it go? Where it came
• 1:07:48
  from is the executives, is the producers as the people with more money than
• 1:07:55
  since but and they drain all their money into this project and they don't get
• 1:08:00
  it back. But where does that money go. Well, it goes on
• 1:08:02
  the budget, and that budget goes to the crew, the people who film
• 1:08:09
  it, the animators, the fucking thousands of animators who do all the CG
• 1:08:15
  stuff, the honest, hard working people who do exist in the Hollywood Industrial
• 1:08:23
  Complex or whatever you call it. And so underneath all of this is the
• 1:08:30
  good news that when Disney folds, if Disney ever does fold, then the
• 1:08:36
  people who will be out of a job will be the Kathleen Kennedys of the
• 1:08:40
  world, the higher run who did actually ruin that particular massive wing of the
• 1:08:49
  industry. But the good old fashioned, hard working people who pointed the cameras,
• 1:08:56
  who sat in front of a computer animating it for twenty hours a day
• 1:09:01
  for god knows how many months. They're at least going to get paid.
• 1:09:04
  And when Disney goes under, those people are going to find jobs elsewhere.
• 1:09:12
  There's your white pill. Like I know, it sounds like a bit of
• 1:09:17
  a socialist message message, but ironically, the people into the people in charge
• 1:09:25
  of Disney putting these socialist message messages, aren't really interested in the actual workers
• 1:09:31
  who do all of the legwork. But when the dust is settled, ironically
• 1:09:39
  it is it is those working people who will rise above the useless managerial element
• 1:09:49
  thing. And I hope they appreciate what we've done for them when the aforementioned
• 1:09:57
  well, I was just going to say that I know that the people who
• 1:10:00
  were behind this, they have deep pockets and they are more interested in the
• 1:10:05
  message than the sales. I don't think it's sustainable, But what I'm saying
• 1:10:11
  is, on the plus side, people aren't giving as much money to them,
• 1:10:15
  so it seems at least that there is a shift in terms of who's
• 1:10:18
  taking the messaging in. But yeah, I don't think there. I think
• 1:10:21
  there's a lot of people who have, like Mike said, more money than
• 1:10:25
  sent and they're just gonna pour their resources into something because they're looking to shift
• 1:10:30
  the you know, to move the needle as it were, on our culture.
• 1:10:32
  But I think that the fact that people have stopped, you know,
• 1:10:35
  giving this their attention is it is a good sign. And also I knew
• 1:10:41
  this already because the creator of MS Marvel, who's a character that they have
• 1:10:46
  rebooted like five times because no one wants to buy the books. She her
• 1:10:51
  name is sna Amanat, and she has said in interviews that she's not interested
• 1:10:56
  in profits, She's interested in impact, which is basically saying, I want
• 1:11:00
  to communicate and communicate my feminist, intersectional messaging and I don't care if nobody
• 1:11:04
  buys the book now. So there's obviously people that are invested in in the
• 1:11:12
  propaganda more than the profits. But I don't know if that's sustainable, Like
• 1:11:17
  if nobody's listening, then you know, maybe it will have to either change
• 1:11:23
  it's put on a different skin or do something else. And I also know
• 1:11:28
  because I've been looking at what's going on with the board over at Disney,
• 1:11:31
  but I don't think it's limited to Disney, that there has been a lot
• 1:11:33
  of arguing and fighting amongst board members that are like, I don't want to
• 1:11:38
  give money to something that isn't making money. And plus it's also worth noting
• 1:11:44
  that the Marvels, by the way. They had to cut out a scene
• 1:11:48
  where there was a suggestion at a lesbian relationship between Captain Marvel and one of
• 1:11:54
  the other characters, I think Valkyrie or something. And they left it in
• 1:11:58
  only in like the Western Country, but they took it out for the Middle
• 1:12:01
  East and China and stuff, so and and and they still didn't sell.
• 1:12:05
  Like people still didn't go watch it. They just didn't want to. So
• 1:12:09
  I don't know. I I think I think that I'm not sure that this
• 1:12:13
  is a sustainable model as what I'm saying, but they but it won't stop
• 1:12:15
  them from trying. Here's the thing, you know how the meme sort of
• 1:12:21
  goes around that certain set of companies owns everything by being invested in everything.
• 1:12:30
  The top two stockholders in Disney are the Vanguard Group and Blackrock. So we're
• 1:12:39
  looking at investors that are known to use their funds to promote these ideas.
• 1:12:46
  And they have a shitload of money and a lot of it is taken from
• 1:12:54
  people's mutual funds for their their retirement accounts and stuff they're investing. You know,
• 1:13:00
  anybody out there that your your company has your retirement tied up in a
• 1:13:04
  mutual fund they're using your money for this and and uh, you know,
• 1:13:11
  and it it again traces back to some of the biggest world banks, uh
• 1:13:15
  and certain certain group of wealthy men, and you know, the whole whole
• 1:13:20
  shebang of conspiracy theory that that is turning out to be true in regard to
• 1:13:28
  a very small group of people with a lot of money controlling pretty much every
• 1:13:34
  area of media. As It's why I'm not I'm I'm tentatively celebrating that you
• 1:13:42
  know, at least people are rejecting still the message that these that that that's
• 1:13:46
  they're attempting to impose, the fact that they're failing, you know, the
• 1:13:53
  fact that the movies are not making a profit shows that they're not getting people
• 1:13:58
  to adopt this. It right, But I don't expect them to go under.
• 1:14:04
  It'll be a pleasant surprise to be wrong about about that, But I
• 1:14:10
  don't expect them to go under. I expect them to continue getting uh getting
• 1:14:15
  fed life support by these investors that want this stuff promoted until such time as
• 1:14:24
  it becomes either illegal or or so expensive that that they can't do it anymore.
• 1:14:32
  And I don't expect it to become illegal. You know, it shouldn't
• 1:14:38
  really become illegal. But uh, you know, the the debanking and all
• 1:14:43
  of that should but this, you know this, we should just be able
• 1:14:47
  to continue rejecting absolutely, And I think we I think people will well,
• 1:14:53
  well we'll see I hope so, but we we should wrap it up there.
• 1:14:57
  Oh, go ahead, Mike. I I even feel bad for cheese
• 1:15:04
  Thief. What's the name? Pretty last what I was saying early about how
• 1:15:12
  at least it's the crew that's getting all the money, Well, cheese Thief
• 1:15:15
  is maybe getting a million dollars, but even she's not going to come out
• 1:15:19
  of it ten years from now. She's going to be in the same situation
• 1:15:24
  that so many child stars have been in. She's going to get you playing
• 1:15:30
  with knives in front of a camera. Yeah, on on six different drugs
• 1:15:33
  at the same time, and and and and so it's tempting, though it
• 1:15:41
  is, to sit here and say, ah, last, you're a twat.
• 1:15:44
  And so, like her million dollars is going to run out very soon,
• 1:15:47
  you really need to focus your ayre on on the bastards you can't see
• 1:15:53
  behind the scenes that are making this happen. Go ahead, I was just
• 1:15:58
  going to say, I honestly don't have any ill will towards Brie Larsen.
• 1:16:01
  I know that she said some really boneheaded things about men and all that,
• 1:16:06
  but I think she's just she's been programmed by these things, so I don't
• 1:16:11
  really hold it against her. I've from the beginning, I'm like, yeah,
• 1:16:14
  she's probably hard to be around. But you know what, there's a
• 1:16:16
  lot of people in show business that I like their work. I mean,
• 1:16:20
  I'm not saying I like Bree Larsen's work. I'm kind of indifferent. She
• 1:16:23
  was all right in Scott Pilgrim versus the World. But but there are lots
• 1:16:27
  of people whose work I really like. But I really don't want to know
• 1:16:29
  them because I'm sure that they're absolute turds, you know, especially musicians,
• 1:16:33
  but not just them, you know. So like I'm okay with I don't
• 1:16:38
  have a problem with Brie Larsen, and know if she finds good work.
• 1:16:40
  I said this about Daisy Ridley too, I hope that, you know,
• 1:16:43
  she goes on to do something else with herself whatever. Just you know,
• 1:16:47
  it's just like Mike said, I blame the people behind everything. I blame
• 1:16:51
  the people who write it. I blame the people who say this is what
• 1:16:54
  we have to do. I don't I blame the executives, directors, et
• 1:16:58
  cetera. The people who've been shooting on their fans. I blame a little
• 1:17:00
  bit, yes, But at the end of the day, it's like they're
• 1:17:03
  just they're just parts of the machine. Here's a reminder of some things.
• 1:17:10
  Over the years, there's you know, everybody knows there's been a lot of
• 1:17:14
  abuse of children in the film industry, both television and movies, right and
• 1:17:20
  over the years, there's been a lot of legal reform as a result of
• 1:17:25
  that. And part of that legal reform created a system wherein these these kids
• 1:17:32
  are educated on their job sites. So a lot of kids that were TV
• 1:17:40
  stars or movie stars as children got their education not sitting in a classroom in
• 1:17:46
  a school, but in a trailer on a movie set or television set.
• 1:17:54
  And so the people that were educating them were even worse than the teatures in
• 1:18:00
  the public school system, who were members of the teachers' unions, where you
• 1:18:04
  had at least a shot at getting somebody who was not, you know,
• 1:18:10
  a Marxist. For years and years and years, these people were Hollywood type
• 1:18:15
  people. These people were Marxists. These people were full on you know feminist,
• 1:18:23
  and quite likely she has been spoonful spoonfed this ship all of her life,
• 1:18:29
  not just programmed, but cult indoctrinated. Sure. Yeah, and so
• 1:18:33
  what you're saying makes perfect sense in that she didn't have a chance to think
• 1:18:42
  differently. And also we've talked about guynes centrism not necessarily being instinctive. Misondry
• 1:18:49
  is completely unnatural. Yeah, it is not natural to just hate people like
• 1:18:58
  that. It's it's a result of basically sick thinking. It's a result of
• 1:19:06
  mental health conditions that just end up more and more widespread because people share thought
• 1:19:14
  processes and ideas with each other, and some people are really good at framing
• 1:19:17
  things in very dishonest ways and persuading people to believe them, and then you
• 1:19:24
  end up with widespread misngry, and you end up with people saying shit like
• 1:19:28
  the shit that she said. And maybe when she gets older, you know,
• 1:19:33
  at some point she'll have enough exposure to something that will change your mind
• 1:19:39
  that she'll be embarrassed about it, and you know, we'll just have to
• 1:19:45
  find out. But yeah, I almost every girl that you hear at that
• 1:19:53
  age saying that shit has been programmed like that. But in particular Hollywood girls,
• 1:19:59
  yes, especially the young ones. All right, So anyway, let
• 1:20:02
  us you guys think about that in the comments section. I look forward to
• 1:20:05
  your thoughts. So we're gonna be heading into the Patron Show and we're gonna
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  be talking about Argentina's new and according to the Leading report, Trump like President
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  Javier Melie who apparently is keeping his promise and has announced that the Argentinian Ministry
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  of Women, Gender and Equality will close in twenty one days Trump take notes,
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  any any you know. It's it's an interesting contrast too, because I
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  saw this interview that Tucker Carlson did with this guy that was running for office
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  in Spain. Spain is so boned, guys, They are so boned.
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  He's really worried about the future of that country. I don't know if he's
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  gonna get in, but god, I hope. So it seems like the
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  Latina is a rising up, so hopefully Spain will do well. And we
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  already got you know, Bolsonaro down there in Brazil. I don't know if
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  he counts a Latino, but and the guy in Salvador that basically like arrested
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  like MS thirteen, just throw them all in jail, like, let's just
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  see more of this, please, more of this please, So, Javier
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  Milier, we're gonna be talking about an article in the Patron show. I
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  did get another super chow, so thank you so much from Sick Sick Fox
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  because it's ten dollars and says relating to Javier to Millie being elected and promising
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  to acts the Ministry of Women, which I just read that genders and diversity.
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  I've argued for a long time that libertarianism, when properly understood and implemented,
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  is poison to feminist institutions. Biva la libertade carajo. Yes, well,
• 1:21:50
  I've said that too from the beginning. Actually that was my thought.
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  You know, we used to I know, if you guys remember this is
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  gonna be a deep cut from the early days of HBO are But there was
• 1:22:00
  a guy that used to be on YouTube that we've had on the show named
• 1:22:02
  that guy t You guys remember that guy Tea, and his whole thing was
• 1:22:08
  libertarianism, and when we had him on as a guest, he said explicitly
• 1:22:12
  that he liked us MRAs because he said men's rights activists are not trying to
• 1:22:17
  use the system for them they're trying to free men from the system, which
• 1:22:23
  is what I think you can I mean, men don't want to do that.
• 1:22:27
  They don't want to do what feminists do for women, which is essentially
• 1:22:30
  get more state power and then do nothing for women. Like MRAs just want
• 1:22:33
  the system to liberate men, or not liberate I hate to say that,
• 1:22:40
  to just be less involved in the lives of men. And because that's where
• 1:22:43
  the no fault divorce and all this other stuff, you know, it's all
• 1:22:45
  it's all like state power stuff. So no power. If there was no
• 1:22:51
  government, I will say that without government, feminism couldn't accomplish anything. That's
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  right, that's right. So yeah, that guy Tea was right. Thank
• 1:23:01
  you so much for the super chow Sick Fox, and now we're gonna head
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