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A 200% Increase In Likability
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Today we discuss how the hell percentages work. It shouldn't be that confusing right?
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Technical Issues and Stream Continuation
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Hey gang, Adam here before the episode begins. I just want to let you know that while we were running the video recording on stream, something broke a little bit towards the end, probably in the last like two minutes.
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But Danny and I managed to communicate without communicating by just watching when the other one was talking on the stream because he couldn't hear me. So stay tuned to hear how that magic happened. And then also for a very special request at the end of the episode that I snuck in that I'm going to tell you about And then you'll forget that I said it.
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And then you'll remember it again when it's happening because the stream broke at the end when Danny was trying to do an outro. So stay tuned for that. And thanks for listening. And without further ado, here's me talking about setting up this dream.
Listener Nicknames Debate
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We're not doing Pathfinder Rise of the Ruin Lords. Well, we're not doing that. Hello, this is the preamble to the show as we get set up for the video portion. But hello, listeners on the audio version of this podcast. Hello, Audionites.
00:00:58
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Audioneers. That's our cue. That's our cuties. Uh, also we should call our listeners. Yeah. Can we call our listeners cuties? I love that joint light bulb moment. We just had, yeah. It was like, it was like a little joke to turn into like, Oh,
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is I'm going to forget all of that tomorrow, but Oh, absolutely. Right now that's our cuties. Send us pictures of you with your clothes on, please.
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And we'll post you too.
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We'll post to social media. We're not those kinds of guys. We keep the clothes on. It's okay. Please keep them on. I don't care what your gender is or what your attraction is. Keep your clothes on. We don't need that kind of publicity.
Clarifying Percentage Increases
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Or do we? No. Yeah. No, we don't. No, that's... layo yeah No, we don't. That's for that's our cue after dark. Right. But i'd be I think it'd be funny if we just have like, you know, here's our cuties. You know, do you guys remember the chive? I guess it's still doing things, but they would have like ah girls or models or whatever would send pictures to the chive and like they would have like these different things i think they still do it which is kind of crazy that that many people still participate but like they just have like oh this is um hump day and it's just all girls who are posing with their butts and that's like i think they do i would like to do something like that with our listeners but instead of showing their butts it's just like here's our cutie of the week you know send a picture and this is our cutie
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Look at our little cutie. Or send us something cute that we can read. yeah There you go. Or like fan art. I love fan art. Yeah, fan art or farts. Fan farts ah is also fine.
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um And then all that. How's the setup looking over there, Danny? Want me kick it off? ah No. No. all right. We're still doing some preamble. I just realized that the last episode we did.
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Yeah. um The description was, hey, support the stream at Role Players Guild. Ah, yeah. Can't do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotta change that. Although, hey, you want do some cross-proportional stuff, put that in there, too.
00:03:15
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um Yeah, listeners, Danny's all wet and stuff from the shower. am all wet. So he's a little late to getting everything set up. and so But, you know, we were but we were talking. I just didn't want to miss any... we You know, we were reminiscing about sandblast your hourglass. Sandblast your hourglass. Yeah, about how that's a... I couldn't remember. It took me a second remember that that's like another way to say clean your clock. You're going to kick someone's ass.
00:03:40
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I got to listen to episode again because there were more... really good ones that we have, but I think sandblaster hourglass was one of the the better ones. We are live. We're live. You say we're live. I say, okay. So now we can officially kick it off, right?
00:03:59
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If you want to. Okay. We are alive. Let me just get in there. Let me just get up in there and then mute that. Oh yeah. Get all up in there. There we go. There I am. There we are.
00:04:10
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Okay, hey, good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, ladies, gentlemen, non-binary folks. If universes don't know, this is, that's our Q or TOQ for short, where we take your Qs and we turn them into delicious little A's that we plucked from the tree in the Garden of Eden.
00:04:25
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God said it was fine because he loves the podcast. So here we are. And with me is my good buddy and bromantic partner, Danny Guarantee. That's me. That's the first time I said it out loud. Sorry. I didn't mean surprise It's like when a when you say call your stepmom mom or your foster mom mom for the first time. You're like, oh my god
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my God. Oh, honey. hey everyone. we you know First of all, we've already been recording. yeah I figure since like the the watchers get to see things, the listeners don't. We did like a little preamble beforehand. so That stupid shit. Go listen to
Podcast Introduction and Format
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the first five minutes. Yeah, you want to hear what we did before this, you'll have to listen to the...
00:05:11
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to the podcast. If you want to see what we're talking about, you'll have to watch the stream. That's how we get you. Those first few minutes, that's where all the sexy stuff happens.
00:05:23
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Okay, so, ah Danny, we have a question we have a couple questions that we have to get into today. And the first one I see you put up on the screen already. And for the listeners at home, the answer, rather the question, is from the No Stupid Questions Reddit by Trio... but try I thought it said Trio Bone. I was very excited, but it's Trio Tone. Sorry.
00:05:45
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um And they ask, when did 200% increase mean multiply by two? Shouldn't it be three? And essentially, i picked this question because I have this debate with my brother-in-law all the time about what does it mean to have an increase of versus an increase to or everything in between. And he just seems to think it's just an order of Two means 200 or 200% means two, 300% means three, 400% means four.
00:06:13
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That's how many. 100% increase doesn't exist. i was like, that doesn't make, if I said like the instance that I have is if I had $10 and I made 10 more dollars, that would be a increase of 100%.
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Right. That's how I understand
Engagement and Full Experience
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what that would mean, because 10 is what I have. But I often get met with, no, you already have 100 percent. So it would be an increase of 200 percent because you multiply it times two.
00:06:41
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So I understand how the math math there. But as far as like, oh, it's a 200 percent. But there's getting something to 200 percent. You can say, oh, I need to get up to a 200 percent, meaning i would need to get 10 more dollars.
00:06:56
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But in my understanding is, If I'm increasing by 100%, it would be 10 more dollars. And if I increase by 200%, that would be 20 more dollars to get to $30. Does that make sense? Am I crazy on how math works like that? Because the fact that this person asked this question means that other people get confused by this too. And it makes me feel like I'm being gaslit on how numbers work.
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I think the problem is
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it's so hard to explain.
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You know when you are converting from christianity real numbers to percentiles, you move the decimal two spaces, right?
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Right. So I think the problem becomes if you have 200% something, two of...
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it would mean you have
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two of that thing. So two times one, two. 200% of something, because like there's different. mean you have twice as much.
00:08:10
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Right. Well, 200% of right. Like that's like saying if you have 50% of something, you have half of that amount. Right. 200% of something means you double that amount.
00:08:21
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Right. Right. So like the language matters, which is probably why math is mostly just symbols and numbers and there's not. Yeah, I think the language definitely can leave some things to be desired. Like I always got confused ah in video games when they say like, oh, this, you know, equip this and it gives you a. 100% damage increase, i'm like so it gives me none.
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no But what they mean is it increases that 100% by 100%. So 200%. It increases it to... Right. So if it says, oh all right, again, if my weapon does 10 damage and it increases my damage by 100%, now does 20%.
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now it does twenty Right? Right. Which is double the amount, which is I see where the confusion Because you're saying it increases it by 100. By 100. Not it does 100% of the damage.
00:09:19
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Right. saying Saying that this does 200, like this increases it by 200 means that it increases it by double of what you started. no No, if it increases it by 200%, then that means you're doing triple damage.
00:09:37
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That's what mean. Because if you have 100 and you increase that by 200%, you're increasing it by 200. Correct. Which means now you're doing 300. Now you're doing 300.
00:09:48
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Correct. But there, the question is saying it's multiplied only. Well, I think, yeah, it's just a wording thing. Right.
00:09:59
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or if well The question says, when did 200% increase mean multiply by 2? right? Shouldn't it be three? And the answer is, it a so if a 200% increase from, again, we'll say 10, right? Means that the final result is yes, you multiplied it by three, right? you It depends on what you're looking to do. How much is a 200% increase or how much do you have at the end? So again, if I'm starting with 10 and I have a 200% increase, that means I have 30 at the end of that increase.
00:10:35
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The increase is not 30, the increase is 20. Right. Right? So I think people confused, like, am I going by what is the increase or what is the result of said increase? I think people might also be getting confused with it increases to 200%, in which case it would be 20.
00:10:55
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Right. if it was a priest If it was like, if you did 10, it was an increase to 200%, right, then it would be, it would, 200%. Now, that's different. Increasing something 200% is different than saying it increases by 200%?
00:11:17
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it I hate this. And as soon as I saw this question, I said to Adam, i was like, oh, God, I see exactly where this is going because I've been here. I hate this. thing Right. So, but this particular question, it's increase a 200% increase.
00:11:34
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So if we go back to my example of $10 and they say, Adam, we want to see a 200% increase of that $10. That means I have $30. If I, if I do the goal 200% increase, right? would be $20.
00:11:48
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A 200% increase would be $30.
00:11:51
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a two hundred percent increase would be thirty dollars so And leaving it at 100 would be a 0% increase, which makes sense. right Right. Now, if you say, an inc like in your example of the video game, you said, oh, this does 100% of the damage.
00:12:06
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That means it does the 10 damage. if it says it's one hundred If it increases your output by 100%, that means it does 20 now. It depends on whether it says buy or two.
00:12:17
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It increases the damage by 200% or increases the damage to Correct. So that's kind of like where I think, so like every time I said that to my brother-in-law, he just only heard it one way. He's like, no, if you have, he says you can't have a hundred percent increase because that means you just have the number that you had. And I was like, no, absolutely not. Like if I have 10 bucks and you give me 10 bucks, yes, I have doubled how much money I have because it was a 100% increase. So I think that's where like, you know, the number where where the confusion comes from. He's stopping at
00:12:54
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the multiplication he's not adding it after. right Correct. Yes. That's what I'm saying. So like, yes, if you only multiply it one times a hundred percent would be one. So he's like, oh, you only have $10, but you have to then add that to the 10 you started with.
00:13:11
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Right. Now you're at 20. It depends on what are you trying to find? Are you trying to find what the increase is? Are you trying to find what the end result is? So if I increase my profits by 200 percent, that means I have $30 now. Yes. Right.
00:13:26
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Where if I if it's just like, oh, it's 200 percent. i got to percent. Then that's Right. So it just kind of, yeah, it depends on what the outcome is you're looking for.
00:13:37
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But in those examples, he just like couldn't hear then I'm like, no, no, no. If I add 200% to my $10 of my $10, that makes $30. He just doesn't hear it. What really makes it confusing? Cause this is all assuming you, you got that $10 all at once.
00:13:56
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Like if you got $5, then $5, technically 100% of the increase is $5. So then they're like, well, now I want a 200% increase. That would be. 10.
00:14:11
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my brain is broken. You have to do do you have to make me look like a fool on the internet? internet Right. Well, that's what that's kind of the whole thing is like the communication matters, even in math. so like If you're like, two i need to see 200% increase of what?
00:14:29
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right? A 200% increase of your first $5 that you made a 200% increase of what you have now, a 200% increase in what you made last week that like 200% of what and 200% more, or do you want to see us reach 200%, right?
00:14:47
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right So it just, it it depends on what you're asking for. That communication matters, which again, even though there are letters in math, it's just to find people's X's and Y.
00:14:58
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um or why people look for their X's. But like, other than that, there's not really words aside from sine and cosine, which aren't words either. So, uh, at least in math words, don't forget tangent everybody and tangent. oh I guess that's true. Tangent is a word, but in, in math, it's just tan and sin and cosine or something.
00:15:17
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Um, but yeah, I think, When I saw this question, I was just reminded of this constant argument that I have with my brother-in-law. Every time we have this conversation, he just... Simple terms, I think your brother-in-law is missing a step.
00:15:31
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Right. He's a very smart person, but I agree with you. I think he's just thinking about what that first part of the fra of the of the equation is and not the end result of said equation. He just doesn't hear...
00:15:45
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200% increase of $10 is $30. I think the one that really got me, and I remember it clearly because I was like, there's no way this is right.
00:15:55
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It was a a video game and it said it increases X number by 150.
00:16:06
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But the way the math worked out was if I had 100, increased it 50.
00:16:13
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And i was like, no, increasing it by 150% would be 150. hundred and fifty Right. It would be that number, the whole number, plus half of that number. Right. They were saying increases by 150% meant it just added the So now you were at Right now, that is like that is not right.
00:16:37
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And I got into a friend a fight with my friend over that. Right. It would be a 50 percent increase to get you to 150 percent damage. Right. Right. Because that's how I always saw it. My friend was like, no, it is worded right. I was like, there's no way that's right. If you do 10 damage and you do 50 percent more damage, you do 15 damage.
00:16:58
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hmm. Right. And if you do 100 percent more damage, you do 20 damage. So if you do 150% more damage, you do 25 damage. yeah Exactly. Good.
00:17:10
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Yeah. It's about what they're saying. Is it, is it you are up to this percentage or you are increasing it by this amount? Right. Right. That's like the language that people get fucked up on.
00:17:22
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um yeah anyway I hate this question. i hate everything about this. Well,
Question: How Do Men 'Trick' Women?
00:17:27
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good. Why don't we go on to the next question? would Please. work i don't want anything to do with this anymore. Okay. Do you want to throw this one on the screen?
00:17:34
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Yes. Give me one second. guys get watch me do this live now. Listeners, yeah, we're doing it live. ah So this next question comes from a source of frustration in...
00:17:52
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There's just a lot of disgusting rhetoric about how people see how they approach women, what how how people view women, or like what people's... And sometimes it's not even malicious. And I will say, like, i I understand some confusion with especially men who are like, why do women feel this way about men? Like, I get how...
00:18:18
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If you don't talk to women a lot, then you don't know or you don't understand. But there is just this gross culture that grows from ah ah from ignorance and then just turns into something toxic. And sometimes it's always toxic. So this question is. From um do you have it up on screen, Danny? I didn't i sure did do.
00:18:44
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OK, so I've found two questions of a similar ilk. OK, and the question comes from from one brain six, five, three, one on the no steeper questions as well. and i I want to take this as a sincere question, which is why it's on the thread.
00:19:04
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But it is a dangerous question in that there are a lot of people who have this ignorance but don't seek to understand beyond the ignorance and set their heels into it. So the question is, how can some men trick women into dating them?
00:19:21
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I saw some chopped guys, I guess chopped must mean ugly or something, yeah in their 20s having girlfriends. Like, what the fuck, how is it even possible? Even I would say I score more points in the look department than those guys.
00:19:35
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Height-wise, some was a bit taller, though, so I give them that. But two was around my height, only 5'8". But how do these men manipulate these women to date them? It's fucking weird, bro.
00:19:50
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it's just, I have to laugh because it's it hurts. It hurts so bad. So I, I don't mean to laugh at one's ignorance, but I laugh because it's just, this is how I cope. it's sometimes My brother in Christ.
00:20:08
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Okay. So let's break this up. This is a person who is asking seemingly a genuine question. They don't understand. They have a worldview that's clearly very narrow. Um, They came to this writ thread in earnest.
00:20:22
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Let's, you know, i I'm looking at some of the answers, but I want to see kind of the two how, how, if someone asked you this question and said, Danny, I don't get it, bro. Like we look better than those guys. I look better than those guys.
00:20:34
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And, and some of them are short Kings like me, but they got girls. Like, I think the the thing that really gets me is the title. How can some men trick women? yeah I think they tricked them somehow.
00:20:45
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Yeah. Yeah. Like at first when you hear it, you think like, oh, how do I trick a woman into dating me? But this guy's like, these guys must have pulled a trick. there must be They must have had something on them for these women to date them.
00:20:57
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um So this guy just does not believe that there's anything beyond, I guess, what the kids are calling looks-maxing to get girls. So Danny, please give me your take on on this question. And let's assume this person is being genuine.
00:21:14
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what you, what do we do here? All right.
Advice on Being Likable and Respectful
00:21:21
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The biggest thing, and this doesn't just go for meeting women, but just meeting people in general or just kind of like the golden rule, you know, do unto others as they would do unto you. If you want to have a good life,
00:21:39
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You have to treat other people well and all this stuff. But the the number one rule is just you have to be likable. That's the biggest thing. And maybe those guys are chopped on in the looks department.
00:21:57
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First of all, drop the vocab. You don't need all of this crap. Some words just don't need to. Maybe you're better looking, objectively better looking than they are. Maybe I could tell just from this question that their personalities are better than yours and.
00:22:13
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They are a manlier man than you are. And the reason I say that. And this goes for everybody who listens to Andrew Tate or the Andrew Tate likes or the people that drive op that you know giant monster truck pickups.
00:22:34
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I'm sorry you're so insecure. That must be really hard for you. ah But take it from a real man who's secure in his masculinity enough to be in an open bromantic relationship with his co-host.
00:22:49
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ah that that is what people are really looking for. It's that you are just you. Just be you. Stop comparing yourself to other people. Stop trying to prove to yourself that you're better than other people. Nobody gives a shit if you think that.
00:23:08
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It just makes you come off as unlikable douchebag. Just be yourself. Just be happy with who you are. And people will be happy to be around you.
00:23:19
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And then you make friends, some of which may even be women. And you treat them with respect and like they're people and not like there's some kind of weird other species. And one of them might even fall for you.
00:23:33
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And then the rest is history. you need a Speaking of women, one just came in the chat. since You, two of my favorite humans. Oh, hi. Hi, friend. Hi, Buter.
00:23:45
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You need 200% increase in likability, is what it says. Yeah, so you need to increase it to to two. Sorry, to three. To three. You need to increase it to three. need increase it to three. You're at a one right now. You need to bump that shit up to at least to three, okay?
00:24:01
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So... You do. It's not a trick. Sometimes you see, you know, I've heard people refer to like people as busted or chopped. I've been hearing those words a lot.
00:24:12
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Or like, how do these busted dudes get these women? And it's like, they have tried not to be a piece of shit. yeah this Yeah. You know what? Rule number one. Just follow rule number one and you'll be good. Try not to be a piece of shit this year.
00:24:28
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It's really not that hard. That's all you have to do. Yeah, like I think the. ah just find it like the the narrow worldview of.
00:24:41
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Individuals like that who just and again, I'm trying to be. less mean because like I'm, I want to treat this because there are people who are asking these questions. i like, I don't get it. What the, what am I doing wrong But it comes from a places you're saying of like insecurity.
00:24:56
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I deserve that, but I don't get it. That's how incels are born. you know so So like, or incels are made. And like, i get it. You know, we, we have so many avenues that tell you like, oh, you need to be the best looking. You need to be, you know, in movies, it's always the the cute guy that gets the girl, you know, even the it's like the 90s issue where like the ugly girl was just really hot, wore glasses, right? The glass way through the movie, she would take off the glasses. They got the ponytail. It's kind of the same with the guys now is like even the the nerdy guy is good looking.
00:25:38
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Oh, yeah yeah. So it's it's very easy. i understand it's very easy to fall into that trap of like, if you're not good looking, there's no hope. But I promise you that as the last thing that people care about when it comes to catching feelings or wanting to go out with somebody. Yeah. You won't have the one night stands, the lusty, you know, I met somebody at the bar tonight and we're going home to sleep together because I'm attracted to them.
00:26:06
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Maybe you won't get that as much because you're not as outwardly um hot, but when it comes to actual long-term love and relationships,
00:26:17
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Just be likable. Just people want to be with others that they actually like to be around. And I can't. I can't describe anything more of a turnoff for somebody than I'm better than that guy. Look how ugly that guy is. I'm so much better looking than that guy. Don't you think I'm better looking than that guy?
00:26:37
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Oh, God, it sounds so tiring and this. Yeah, it it's. But again, I'm trying to be better about this because it's too easy to dunk on people who think this stupid shit. Yeah, I'm not trying to be mean. I'm sorry I'm coming across that way, but no this is one of those things where I think you need a kick in the ass a little bit.
00:26:59
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It's like a lot of it is like. Kimmy, you are not helping. So I i asked in the chat, I said, Kimmy, what makes a woman attracted to a man? And she said, Pedro Pascal, Henry Cavill. I mean, yes, attractive men. Henry Cavill is definitely more my speed because he's a lot more of a nerd.
00:27:19
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ah You know, he's he's definitely a hot nerd. um But ah but she then she says, be a decent human being, which is the nice way of saying try not to be a piece of shit this year.
00:27:29
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So, yeah. like it's like It's hard because I understand, like you said, it's very poignant where you said, or not poignant, what's poignant isn't the word I'm looking for.
00:27:40
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but it's very on point of like you, people treat women like either they're objects or like there's some foreign species that they have to study And I'm not saying that
00:27:57
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you can't have a curiosity or anything, but the fact that you think like, oh, women couldn't, that you have this idea that like, unless you're looks maxing, what's that guy that just had some sort of weird overdose on a stream? What's his number? Yeah. The, uh, cavicular or something like that. I hadn't heard of him until I saw just the, the meme or whatever it was. And i was like, who the fuck is this guy? And like, these people are obsessed with their dumb words like look smaxing and something mogging i can't remember what it was but like it's just this idea of just like you're obsessed with like making yourself look a certain way and like it's just you think that that's the only thing that get and again there are shallow people sure but also you're allowed to just be attracted to who you're attracted to but like if you look at
00:28:45
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You know, yeah like I think we had a discussion on previous episodes, like some girls only go for tall guys. Like, OK, sure. That's fine. There's plenty of fish in the city. But a lot of but also conversely, a lot of guys will not date taller women.
00:28:58
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So like but like that doesn't seem like a standard that they should have to back down on. So it's like, OK, women want a taller man. You want a shorter woman. So like, um according to ButterscotchCookieButter in the chat, who I do believe is a woman.
00:29:13
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ah Personality and confidence, vibes, and a sense of humor. And the one I really want to point out here, because I think a big problem with what's going on today is what'll vibrate people are confusing what confidence is.
00:29:30
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Confidence is not... looks maxing to be the hottest guy and then walking around and strutting like you own this shit. That's not confidence. That's peacocking and being an arrogant bastard.
00:29:44
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Nobody is actually going to fall for that. Confidence is what I was saying before. It's being fine with being you. It's not needing to compare yourself to these other men and say, how do they get girls? They're ugly. I'm I'm so hot. That's not confidence. Where's the confidence in that sentence?
00:30:06
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Mm hmm. You tell me. Right. What you what what we're hearing is, why not me? What am I doing? I'm hearing the exact opposite of confidence. I'm hearing self-consciousness to an insane degree.
00:30:18
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And it's OK. Learn to love yourself and be like, hey, those guys are, you know. They have girlfriends. That's cool. I also have a girlfriend because I'm not a piece of shit this year and girls actually want to hang out with me.
00:30:31
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Right. And I also think like. Like, I understand the loneliness thing. Like, I don't know if I would call it an epidemic per se, but like, I think it's not a male. I don't know if I'd call it a loneliness epidemic in that, like, oh, i want a girl. But I think it's just a self-confidence, lack of confidence. Like you were saying, I think there's a self-esteem, low self-esteem epidemic.
00:30:53
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I think there is absolutely an epidemic. it I think it's too narrow to call it a loneliness epidemic. It's a whole... Multitude of loneliness epidemic of guys who are like, oh, ah and why? Why not me? A confidence epidemic, a awkwardness epidemic, a lack of third places epidemic.
00:31:16
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I think that the death of of third spaces is awful. ah Yeah. And take this as somebody who loves to be home. Yeah, a lack of a lack of third spaces, a lack of community is really part of it. is because But also, i so i was reading something earlier that like I wanted to pitch to you that we should open up our own video store. Because like a lot of people are craving physical media again, and I frankly...
00:31:43
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hate that like all like for instance like on steam all these games i bought i'll never have i'll never truly own um i hate that streaming has become so prevalent that like because a lot of times when you go out oh let's go rent a movie let's go ah to the blockbuster let's go to uh you know let's go buy some movies go to the dvd section but there are so few things now that take discs like i mean most pcs don't even have a disc slot in them anymore um And that's all by design, because they want to you to not fucking own anything. That being said, go support Stop Killing Games.
00:32:22
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ah Yeah, I think... um I think there's there's like stuff like that where just like there's less reason to go ah places to meet people or like that aren't just like bars or restaurants and like shit's expensive.
00:32:37
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So like what do you do? Where do you go? Volunteering is a good option for that, which I've been doing a lot of, so I would encourage that. But I think there's also that hard thing of like, I have to leave my house. I have to go into an unknown environment. But also if you go there with the wrong and impression of like, oh if I go to this space because I should meet someone I didn't. So fuck it. Why do I try? Then you're doing it wrong. You shouldn't go there with the expectation of, well, if I don't leave with a girl on my arm, then what was the point of me doing this? Like you need to find, you need to seek community first.
00:33:03
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One of the things. stuff Yeah. Go ahead. and Okay. I was going to say like, if you seek community, i that's why like the insol population is
Importance of Community and Friendships
00:33:11
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so vast. It's because there are people who find community in people who are also miserable. Right.
00:33:17
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The difference is that they're making each other feel better in a way that promotes a bad way of thinking as opposed to finding community that lifts you up and find community that makes you feel like you have value and finding community that gives you something to work towards and to get some fucking sunlight on your face. You like go do something that even if it's like a craft night at a local shop or like a craft store or a game, a board game location or an arcade, like go somewhere where there's, you know, there's meetup.com go there and meet people who are doing things. And like,
00:33:48
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don't know, go fucking LARP in the woods. Like there's things to I know that's tough. I'm not saying it's easy, like, you know, to to get that confidence to go do that. The community is what most people seek.
00:34:00
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They mistake that with, I need someone to put their hand on my pants. I need someone to take their clothes off in front of me. I need someone to lay in my bed with me. And I'm sure that can be part of it.
00:34:11
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But you're lacking like an actual positive community that makes you feel good about yourself, which is why your confidence is shit. Right. Yeah. I think a lot of people are missing companionship more than they're missing relationship.
00:34:25
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Right. And companionship doesn't mean intimacy with another person. It's just having someone in your circle that you trust and that you feel as someone who's there for you. And like dad, I mean, that's companionship. Yeah, absolutely.
00:34:39
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um And I have that with Mbeluga too, as well as a relationship. but And to go back just a little bit, one of the things I used to do back when I was more active on the internet is I would go on to the Reddit incel forums to talk to people and try and and bring them out of that.
00:35:02
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And one thing I heard over and over again ah to what you were saying was they would go to places looking to get a date. Right. And i I said the same thing every time. I said, you cannot you can't do that.
00:35:16
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You're putting the car before the horse. If if you are looking for a hookup for a one night stand, fine. This is not advice for that. But if you're looking for an actual companion, actual relationship then chances are you need to slow down go to a place looking to make friends regardless of gender, regardless of, you know, whatever, just as long as what you're doing there interests you and interests them, you have an opening, you know, go to the game shop, go do card night, play Magic the Gathering, go do D&D tables.
00:35:57
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I met a bunch of people playing D&D and d then go there to make friends, not to leave with a relationship. Just go to make friends and then If things start to develop organically between you and somebody else in that friend group, awesome. You did it. Now you have an actual stable relationship that's built on a better foundation than tricking them.
00:36:23
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pretend Like the one guy was I talked to was talking about how he didn't understand why girls don't talk to him. Because they're so stupid and he acts like a saint all the time.
00:36:37
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And why don't girls talk to me? i'm like, dude, they can see that. You're not slick. like i No, I don't talk to them like that. I'm super nice to them. Yeah, but you're nice in a fake way. You have to actually want to be friends with people. right but They can tell.
00:36:53
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But also... Nice is the word that like is very the tell in the way that an M dash can be a tell for an AI email saying like, oh, I'm nice.
00:37:05
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yeah like What you mean is you are trying to pretend like you're meeting the minimum threshold of just like human interaction and you think that's enough. That should be enough. I was nice to you, so that thus I deserve something. right And that that goes with the confidence. It's the same thing as the confidence thing.
00:37:22
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A real man doesn't have to compare himself to other men and say he's manlier. An actual nice person does not need to tell other people that they're nice. They just are nice. And other people are like, oh, he's nice. Let me hang out with him because I like to be around nice people that make me laugh.
00:37:41
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Mm hmm. It's like what we talked about before with like the alpha thing. Alphas, if you're you're not an alpha, if you have to tell people that you're an alpha, you're not nice if you have to tell people that you're nice. Yeah. You know, like if you have to declare, <unk>m you're not confident if you just got this. Yeah, I'm confident. I'm cool. Like i I cannot think of a less manly thing to do than tell other people you're manly.
00:38:03
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Yeah. Jesus. Like, yeah. Like I just don't not see that.
00:38:09
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it's It's an interesting phenomenon to watch for sure. People who are very oblivious to those things. um But yeah, so I just before we get too much farther into this, I want to.
00:38:22
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Since we're on the subject, there's another question that I'm just going to highlight as related. Yeah, you want me to throw that one on? If you want to just put it underneath it, just because whatever you want. How much do you think I can do on the fly here?
00:38:36
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You don't even have to move it if you don't want to. It's fine. I'm just going to read it. I can put it up, but putting it underneath is a little bit more than this ah the The other question that came up that's kind of related, this was from eight hours ago as of this recording, so it's very fresh.
00:38:49
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And it says from alert translator, 2590 says, how can one stop letting lust
Question: Controlling Lust
00:38:56
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take over? And that's it. There's no further context.
00:38:59
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Just how can one stop letting lust take over? And this was the first time I read a question immediately. Danny was when I was like, just don't be a piece of shit. Like, but I'm trying to come at this from a procedural or from, from like, ah from a, from a better lens of just like, don't be a piece of shit.
00:39:16
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Um, the same idea. if you're like allowing, it's not typically ah something that everybody, and now we're promoting citizens. No, no, no, no. Don't worry about that. um,
00:39:33
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so um But again, it's like you can't just blame your natural urges and your your your lust for your product like that is still things that you can control.
00:39:46
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And it all comes down to you need to find a place to put your energy. Right. So just like when you're like, oh, how do people trick women into being? free And again, I also call this out to the girls, too. i Like, I think something just to kind of put out there for whatever your gender may be.
00:40:00
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Being in a relationship is not validation of anything, right? At least of who you are. Like you don't need that. Let me put this this better way.
00:40:10
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I'm not saying having a relationship isn't valid, but being single does not invalidate you as a person. In fact, I think it's much more courageous for, because there are people who are serial daters who will just go to the next person because they don't want to be single. They feel like that makes them lesser.
00:40:26
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Right. So there was nothing wrong with being single. There's nothing wrong with flying solo because that's how you build your confidence. And trust me, I've had moments, you know, I've been single for a year, almost two years now.
00:40:39
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And um like I get like we're not single, but like I haven't been with anybody in almost two years. And. Yeah, I get how sometimes those bouts are just like, oh, man, I miss that.
00:40:52
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hits. You know, we all are human. We experience those things. The difference is you don't have to be like, well, I got to let my lust take over and go and perv out on someone. But again, if you're going to do a hookup and everybody's consenting, great, go do your thing.
00:41:06
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Like, oh, my lust takes over and I know what you mean. It's just like, I'm going to ogle people or say inappropriate things to them or just like get too close to them or not take no for an answer. If someone says no, get away.
00:41:18
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Right. Lust is not a validation for you to be a piece of shit. Right. And so the same thing with like, if you are feeling lonely, find seek community, not romance, because if you do not have that foundation of your own confidence, you're actually going to hurt worse. If you do happen to find somebody who will give you a shot and then it goes downhill real quick, which happens a lot. And then you grow to hate other genders more, especially if you're a man hating women, you're like, ah, women are gross. Women are trash. I was just at the store the other day. I shit you not. It was like listening to an old school fucking sitcom.
00:41:51
Speaker
I was at the store. And there was a guy who was talking to the cashier and the whole conversation was like, I was like, oh, no, I'm sorry. No, I was at Home Depot is where I was. And then we were in the aisle and I was getting a shovel with Hitch.
00:42:06
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And because we're like, we need to get new tools for this new house. You need to gotta to do some digging. Are you needing to dig a Hitch ditch? A Hitch ditch. Yeah. Oh, Hitch says hi, by the way. Hi, Hitch. And so we were getting these tools to kind of redo our yard a bit.
00:42:22
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And I hear a guy behind me asking some guy for help. And he goes, He goes, yeah, you know, I got to do this myself because, you know, my ex wife wouldn't do anything. Freaking women. Am I right? And it was just this this boy like women freaking well like women don't know who don't how to do shit. you know, I got to do all the things anyway. Good riddance. Am I right? And the guy's like where the guy he's talking to is wearing a wedding ring and he's just not clocking it like. Hmm. At all. And at one point I looked around, this was an older gentleman that like he was talking to probably like, but but i would say approaching 60 and the guy holds up his wedding ring and like to his hand. And he's just like, goes, Oh yeah.
00:42:57
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And the guy goes, Oh, you're married. And all of a sudden the whole tone just shifts. She's like, oh, what i ah well, I mean, ah things are good. yeah exactly Like, you're just like, I love seeing someone who just thinks because you're a man, you're going to agree with the stupid shit they're saying. And then the moment, like,
00:43:17
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you get checked in, you get, you get checked. They're like, Oh, I mean, yeah. Yeah. Marriage. I'm so happy for you. You know, it was so funny to just see that in real time.
00:43:28
Speaker
I've just, this guy, just women. ah fucking I hate women. Women are the worst. Oh, you're more. men ah Yeah. Literally the guy's like, oh yeah. And the guy goes, yeah, you know, I've been married for a little over 30 years now. Things have been good. ah and he's like, oh, well that's, I'm happy for you, man. You must've found one of the good ones, as he said. Oh my God.
00:43:48
Speaker
I love to hear one of the good ones. Oh, okay. There you go. But, oh my God, dude. I was like, It was so hard not to just like, it was a few times where I almost turned my head and be like, ask, is I was going wanted to ask the associate, like, are you married, sir? but I was like, you know what? i'm just going to let this kind of play out. I need to practice listening better being an observer.
00:44:11
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And the show was beautiful. Show was phenomenal. Good. It was, it was, oh man, i was so happy. To be able to just like hear somebody just like get checked in and in the kindest way the guy wasn't like, excuse me, motherfucker. I'm married. He just did it in the sweetest way just by showing them his ring.
00:44:31
Speaker
Oh, oh, you're married. Like, like he didn't. what Again, I imagine if he was off the clock, maybe it would have been a slightly different conversation. but All we did was just hold up his hand. a few times so like I really walked it.
00:44:42
Speaker
And I was like, oh, Oh, that's the best way that that conversation could have gone. I was because I was worried the guy would be like, despite being married, but like, yeah, you know, my wife at home. But what about you know, but like here the old ball and chain? You know what I mean? come home All my money goes straight to the wife and all of her perfumes um and the jewelries. She asked me for a mink coat this morning. And so like it was just nice to see this. day just So sweet. Just like held up his hand that it was. ah
00:45:13
Speaker
Beautiful. And I was just like, I'm so happy. And again, I'm sure that comes from a place of hurt, right? Like the guy, yeah somebody probably some girl probably did something to him and someone broke his heart or maybe he broke someone's heart or did something bad, but doesn't want to acknowledge that.
00:45:31
Speaker
Who knows what that story is? But now he is just like women who needs them. But I bet you dollars of donuts. If an attractive woman approached him and said, Hey, big boy, can we hang out? I need you. do Yeah. Yeah, please. You know, oh, that's why I hate women, you know, because. this is Right. Like.
00:45:49
Speaker
It's just. Yeah. Yeah. You turn into that that wolf. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. ah Yeah. So I just wanted to share that. And so just because. As I always say, just because I understand it doesn't mean it's okay. And in this case, this guy was trying to yuck somebody else's yum. He clearly has no one else to talk to unless he's talking to chat GPT or something. It reinforces dumb behavior.
00:46:14
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But like, it's just interesting to just hear that. And again, like I feel for the guy in a way that like, I'm sure he's hurting or has hurt, you know, and this must come from a place of hurt.
00:46:27
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But again, like you're sitting here talking shit, not even knowing that the guy's got a girl or got a wife happy. And I'm just glad he didn't go into like, oh, you should get rid of that ring or, oh, you got a dumper or maybe you found one of the good ones. It's just like.
00:46:39
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And not to mention, like. Not for nothing. How many women do you think were around and heard that? Right. And then he's going to be like, oh, women never come up to me and never like want to talk to me. It's like well you're kind of like, no, no.
00:46:55
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, that's the Home Depot guy You don't want to talk to him. Yeah. So I think it's just it's just very fascinating. And I'd love. Honestly, I wish I had a better way to help.
00:47:08
Speaker
solve that challenge in some way without people just thinking like, oh, if it's not women, it's not going to solve the problem. But like you can't hate women, but also be mad that you don't get women. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Well, I think we're doing our part to to help with that.
00:47:26
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And now it's your turn. Tell everybody about That's Our Q. Have them watch this episode. And for the love of all that is holy, don't be a physician. You look so crazy right now.
00:47:42
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Danny put his face so close to the camera and scared down the barrel of the lens to be like, hey, now it's... Hey, listen here. Pulled the Malcolm in the middle and just looked right at the lens. it Oh, that was so good. I want to watch it again. Oh, man. I want to watch that If you if you watched Malcolm in the Middle and you really liked that show...
00:48:02
Speaker
Hulu just added Malcolm in the middle. Life's still unfair. It's four episodes long. It's good. It's it's Malcolm in the middle, but in, you know, 20 years later, it's the whole cast. It is so fantastic.
00:48:16
Speaker
it It was straight. It was ripped straight out of the old show. It was so good. Highly recommend. Yeah, it's very funny. And I was delighted to see that it just has the same cadence of the original show. So good a couple new characters. The new sibling is very funny.
00:48:37
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um i was i was laughing my ass off within the first five minutes. Same. ah The there is a great part. um Also, Kimmy says fight the rest of the men. So we have to also do that. We have to go fight all the men.
00:48:52
Speaker
Oh, that would be easy. I'm a big manly man. like Just a couple of short kings taking on the world. Look look at that. There you go. Look at that. it again Muscle right there.
00:49:03
Speaker
ah But yeah, we that it was very funny. It was wonderful to watch. ah Bryan Cranston especially roll back into it. And something I picked up on as I was watching it was like they do have a new actor to play Dewey, who isn't in it very prominently, but I liked how they It was? and Yeah, it's not the same guy. i did not even know that. The original the original actor like found a career that he's really passionate about. And despite all the money they offered, he just really wanted to focus on that. And I respect it. like Good for him.
00:49:38
Speaker
That's awesome. He used that money to find something he was passionate about. And he just said, no, this isn't my thing. um But the guy they got was pretty good. um And I think a good way that they kept him minimally on the show, but still present because he was on the laptop a lot. He was mostly virtual.
00:49:53
Speaker
was like in one of the last I think it was the last episode of Malcolm in the Middle. They talk about their expectations for all the kids and they expect Malcolm to be president. And they and and Lois gives an epic speech about like why he needs to be president to take care of people like them.
00:50:10
Speaker
But then like one of them says, oh, you can't just go around partying and seeing the world. And then Hal goes, that's Dewey. And Dewey goes, really? And they go, yeah. and like So he's like, literally, he's like some sort of musician and he's traveling the world doing thing. He's like never at home.
00:50:25
Speaker
He literally grew up to do the thing that they expected him to do. so that's why he's like never there because he's just doing the thing it's so funny it was so good so i was just like that's how they still keep him in the show but without like you know overshadowing the main story and that's why he's on the laptop because he's just traveling the world playing music um so i just thought that was very funny that like he was the only one that lived up to their expectations to do that thing now i hate to be that guy Yes, but I do want to actually answer this question at some point.
Impact of Porn Addiction
00:51:00
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Oh, we already answered it. don't Stop letting lust take over. Don't be piece of shit. You just went off on a tangent for a while. I did do that, but I have a genuine answer. Okay. genuine answer Genuine answer. Hit it.
00:51:13
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I feel like a big part of the whole lust taking over thing. I think a lot of people are addicted to porn nowadays. I think a lot of people watch way too much of that and it gives you a false sense of how the world works.
00:51:28
Speaker
And maybe that's where the whole manliness thing comes from. That's what they're expecting to happen is, you know, what they see in all these porn videos. But constantly being able to give into your lust, even if it is indirectly through porn,
00:51:48
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it stops you from needing discipline. Right? like Like with anything else. If you give in to your every whim, you have you you will then have no discipline. You'll have...
00:52:03
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um no you know, you'll become spoiled. Basically, you're becoming spoiled with porn and it's over kicking your hormones and all that stuff and making you super lustful for everybody because you're thinking like, oh, man, ah you know, this point I watched yesterday, that girl, I'd love to do that with her.
00:52:21
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and Like it changes your whole way of thinking. you need to You need to chill the fuck out with the porn. and that goes fast yeah Go touch some grass. Not in a dirty way. well go build Just touch it normally.
00:52:34
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yeah and And this goes along with the whole talking. This goes along with with just going out to make friends instead of relationships. Just talk to people. like And stop trying to I think a lot of people overthink things now like that. They go like, I'm going to go to this place and it's going to go like this. I'm going to meet a girl. She's going to say this and then I'm going to say that and it's going to be super smooth.
00:52:59
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And then they go talk to a girl and say something creepy and the girl gets creeped down they're like, but that's not what was supposed to happen.
00:53:09
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So, yeah, that's my genuine. If you really need like an immediate fix,
00:53:16
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Go on Google, look up pictures of like really old, crusty naked men and just stare at that for a bit. Really let it burn into your mind's eye.
00:53:29
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And then the next time you start feeling the lust, just pull that mental image back up. Picture that porno you really like, but with that guy instead. Yeah, or something that involves a lot of cacti. Father Scott says they don't see it as fiction.
00:53:46
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Right. Because most, I mean, again, look at all the titles. I hate that like step porn. I've said this a thousand times, but I hate that step porn is so popular. But obviously those people are not related. They are not even in the family. It's just titles. They're all playing a role.
00:54:01
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Most of this, even if it seems like real, it's all meant to be a production. It's all... for the most part, a play. It's meant to entertain as much as it is to arouse.
00:54:12
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And so like a lot of that is not realistic. and And again, you're seeing it from a third person perspective. A lot of that is not how those things work in real passionate situations. um It's all a production. There's a director, there's someone behind the camera watching people do this and zooming in on parts.
00:54:30
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Like it's just, Yeah. Kimmy also says like they have already gone too far and it gets to the point where they become toxic. I'm 100% agree. Yeah.
00:54:42
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so um Yeah, I think, or 200%. For a nice even 300, because I'm adding 200%. 300% agreement across the board. We need 300% increase in confidence.
00:54:57
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Wait, so now 400? Yeah, now we're up to, yeah I don't know where we started. See, we have to know what we're up. 300% increase from what? What is the base? whatever your base is, increase it by 300%.
00:55:11
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um And lower your lust by about 400%, which is not realistic. but You can only... but just do it. Right. um Yeah, I just think you you can't you you can't live in... You have to be able to recognize fiction from reality, and a lot of people don't.
00:55:35
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ah whether it's from watching something pornographic to just watching some movies and getting so mad at the person who plays the villain or the guy in the movie or the show that you hate that you send death threats to the person who did too good of job playing the role.
00:55:51
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Like you have to be able to separate reality from fiction. And when you don't have community, when you don't have real people, to talk to and interact with on a regular basis, it does something to your brain. And I'm not saying that you're well, and I'm not trying to make fun of you because like that does develop ah chemical reaction in your brain when you seek these things more and it's quicker to get that fixed here that you don't know how to interact and you're socially inept or even sociopathic in real life. One of the things I hear a lot is, especially when it comes to like, I have what I would describe as a soda addiction.
00:56:28
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I could drink a two liter bottle of soda in a day easy. um And I think that there is a such thing as a porn addiction. I think that there, you could get addicted to almost anything.
00:56:40
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And The same argument I always hear when I talk about that is, well, no, you can't because there's nothing, ah you know, you're not actually getting addicted to bor You're not actually addicted to soda because there's nothing to get it. to You're not addicted to the substance. You're addicted to the chemicals it gives you, the the way it makes you feel, the endorphins. If Watching porn gives me that rush of endorphins that make me feel really good.
00:57:11
Speaker
I can absolutely get addicted to that rush. And how do I get that rush? I watch porn. I'm now addicted to porn. Maybe not it's not a direct link, but I am addicted to porn because it gives me the endorphins that I am addicted to.
00:57:25
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You absolutely can be. I just want to nip that in the bud because I always hear that. And it's not true. You could get addicted to anything Actually, you can get addicted to anything, just anything at all.
00:57:36
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I mean, that's what like social media is like to talk. Yeah. you know But like, I think even even to your point, like to kind of play on the other side of that, sometimes it's not just like the feeling that you have. Sometimes it's you're addicted to the lack of a feeling that you, you know, that you don't want, like how people can get addicted.
00:57:53
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Again, painkillers are a little bit of a of a sharper example. But the idea is like, I am in pain and this makes me not feel that. Or I don't want to think about my ex or I don't want to think about this bad thing that happened. So I do X and Y. Like the same thing happens with like, well, I don't want to feel lonely anymore. So I do this thing. I watch this thing. I participate in this feeling.
00:58:15
Speaker
And so, and again, and if you are doing things to yourself while watching this, that is also something you are feeling that you are getting addicted to doing. Right? um so like But a lot of it is not just a feeling that you seek. It's a feeling that you might seek to escape.
00:58:29
Speaker
Yeah. Right? So either way, that's how addictions form. You're chasing something or you're running something. People also need to realize that one thing can get you addicted to more than one thing.
00:58:45
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So take cigarettes, for example. Everybody says, oh, well... I'm a I'm just addicted to cigarettes. If I, you know, maybe have a nicotine patch, that'll fix it.
00:58:58
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What they don't realize is that you get addicted to. Having something in your mouth, having a cigarette in your hands, yeah, all of that stuff, and.
00:59:10
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It's it's like addiction is really just a habit taken to the next level that you can't really control anymore. And that comes with, man, you know, I'm having a really hard day. Maybe the nicotine patch is like helping take the edge off.
00:59:23
Speaker
But for some reason, man, I really feel like just... chewing on something or like, you know, like just having something there. It's because you're addicted to having cigarettes go to your mouth all the time when you're and it goes to any of that.
00:59:37
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I don't know what to do with my hands. Yeah. i don't People have had to have nicotine gum instead of the patch because the oral fixation is what is worse for them than the actual nicotine was.
00:59:52
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hmm. Right. So all of that to say that they're all that's to say, just don't be a piece of shit this year. Don't be a piece of shit this year. Discern reality whenever you can understand that a lot of what you see on the Internet is. fictional What's that?
01:00:12
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ah The good part is dreaming. Hey, hey, Adam. What? Nope. Can't hear you. Nobody hears you. oh no.
01:00:25
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The stream broke. How long do you think he was talking before he realized? was talking about solid like five, ten seconds. Can you not hear me? Can you not hear me anymore while i'm talking to you?
01:00:36
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No. Oh, fuck. What? Well, that oh that's. That's.
01:00:46
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Well, I'll just wrap it up. then i Type in. um Yeah, well, it's showing that I still have a wavelength. he's like Is he still going?
01:00:57
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and I guess we are recording this separately. So, like, if you're listening on the the podcast, you might not even notice the difference. But here in the stream, Adam hasn't been talking in a while. It's just me.
01:01:11
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And that makes things 150% more interesting. more Awkward for me because you know, I do this with him for a reason He's probably sitting there if he can't hear me. He's probably sitting there like what the hell is he talking about? Why isn't he fixing it? I am break it. I didn't do nothing. This is all him Yeah, sorry, gang. um I'm just watching Danny's mouth now on video to make sure I can talk whenever he's not talking. I can't hear you on Zenni. I'm also not picking you up on the stream.
01:01:43
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Fuck. Well, shit. Should I just nod real big? Should I just close close it out? Are we good? We answered the questions.
01:01:55
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Yeah, I'm just going to do an outro and then let people You're going wrap it up, but we can't even hear you. Oh, true. All right, you go ahead and do your outro. I'll do my outro.
01:02:09
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And we'll have the chats fight over who had the better outro. ah No, just go. Just do it. I'll do the outro. We're talking without talking.
01:02:22
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Thank you all so very much for listening. We appreciate each and every one of you. And please, if you don't mind, visit the stream, the VOD, give it a like, give it a thumbs up, comment, like, subscribe, all that. Tell other people about the show.
01:02:37
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ah We really are trying to i'm sneaking some recording bring smiles to people's faces, give advice as needed, and you know it's just trying to spread some goodwill through the world. i didn't think of anything funny say here. You could really help us do that by helping the show just so get out there a little bit more. Hey, go onto our website, finalstarsnetwork.biz.
01:02:55
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And then send a message. Oh, no, no, no. Actually do this. Go to the YouTube channel, youtube.com slash that's our cube. And then send a bunch of messages to Danny about how much you love him and do something sweet.
01:03:09
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um Because our Daniversary is coming up. And yeah, you should actually do that. Say happy Daniversary. We love you. Go ahead and do that. Any of the episodes, really. He'll see it. Okay, thanks.
01:03:21
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And now Take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. And take care of that sweet ass.