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Episode Date: May 21, 2026

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Starting point is 00:01:39 about AI and women. More on that later. But in 15 minutes, this guy managed to call Asman Gold mentally ill, a loser, a degenerate living in filth, called clavicular a methhead dropout, questioned both their sanity, and then had the audacity to crown himself, the moral authority on masculinity. What a lute. Dude, imagine crashing out so bad that you have to delete your entire previously 1 million subscriber YouTube. That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:02:14 Get this. He's got a wife, kids, and retired at 33. Good for him. That's his entire credential stack. A retired anime gambling simulator creator, appointing himself the savior of millions of men, while offering zero actual advice. Zero engagement with the tweet.
Starting point is 00:02:34 Just pure concern trolling. Packaged as an olive branch. What a nasty little rat. He calls you a loser. Peek. I love this. This is so good. A dying ideology,
Starting point is 00:02:46 cosplaying as maturity. And as of recording this, he's already nuked his entire channel and privated everything except two videos. So make of that what you will. He's made two more. But he's actually part of a much bigger picture.
Starting point is 00:03:00 And that's what I want to talk about. Yeah. The menosphere right now is a sea of guys selling you something. They sure are. They sells you hustle porn and a $99 a month subscription to... I think this is so ridiculous. I mean, no, I will never do. This is so silly.
Starting point is 00:03:15 The world. Fresh and fit sell you dating strategy from a Miami podcast studio surrounded by Instagram models. Yeah. Hamza sells you self-improvement courses. I don't know who this guy is. through something he unironically called Adonis school. Adonis school?
Starting point is 00:03:30 Iman Gadsie sells you agency courses from Dubai. Half of these guys are filming from rented Airbnbs in Marbeia, pretending it's their lifestyle. The entire business model is the same. Say something provocative. Build a following off insecurity. Then monetize that following through courses and memberships that sell you. He's laying it out, bro. Like this is, yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:03:55 solution to the problem the content itself created. And then, on the other side of the same coin, you've got the performative sanctimony class, the Hassans and the m-tashes of the world, who don't sell you courses, but sell you something arguably worse. Moral superiority as a substitute for substance. Why is everybody except for me a huge loser, man?
Starting point is 00:04:18 Sometimes I'll ask myself that question. Why am I one of the only real ones that's left? There are so few real ones out there, but, you know, luckily, I'm still here. The feeling of being enlightened without actually doing or building anything. One side sells you aspiration you can't afford. The other sells you virtue you haven't earned. But both sides are selling you something, right? And both of them needs you to keep consuming, to keep the machine running.
Starting point is 00:04:51 Yes. Then there's Asmund Gold, a guy in a white t-shirt, streaming from the same. same house he grew up in, eating $2.00.50. Now. ...be richer than a lot of these influences combined, and who has never sold a course, never launched a membership, never once tried to monetize his audiences in securities. Even Hassan... Why would I do that?
Starting point is 00:05:15 Stupid. Like, I don't need people's money. I've got money. Like, yeah, duh. Most prominent champagne socialist on the internet lives in a mansion in West Hollywood. It's a nice place. While, Asman Gold, who advocates for a mix of capitalism and socialism and
Starting point is 00:05:35 actually tested left libertarian on the political compass practices anti-consumption more radically than any of them. And I think the irony of that is worth sitting with. And that's why they're mad. Because all of these people have a cosmetic ideology. It's a cosmetic. That's what it is. They don't give a shit.
Starting point is 00:05:59 They don't care. It's not a big deal. I appreciate you. Yeah. They're warpers. They are. Meanwhile, you have me. I just do what I feel like.
Starting point is 00:06:07 That's it. Our Muslim streamer. I guess so. I just got to stop eating bacon, man. That's the thing. He just lives like this. It undercuts the entire menisphere. Saying that makes me want to get a baconator tonight.
Starting point is 00:06:21 And the philosophy underneath it is worth understanding. Because I think it's the most. genuinely useful framework out there, the navigating an increasingly competitive world. I'd call it ruthless, pragmatic realism. Uh-oh. The reason I'm making this video is because for the longest time, I was exactly the young man these people claim to be worried about. Oh, no. I've watched Asman Gold for down near a decade now.
Starting point is 00:06:48 Back to the old wow days of trans-mark competitions. Oh, my God. And guild drama. God, that feels like a lot. lifetime ago. Tallyesson calling Asmengal the white supremacist. I hate to say this. I'm going to say it now. Do you remember whenever Talleyessen, he leaned down like this, and it showed that he was
Starting point is 00:07:13 going bald on this top of his head? I paused the video there on purpose to show that he was going bald, but I played it off. This is like seven years ago. I still remember this. I played it off as it was just like, I wanted to make it. a conversation and I just dragged on a totally irrelevant point just so everybody could see the pause of him being bald. That was literally it. And I wanted to share why watching him has genuinely been one of the most useful influences in my life. Uh-oh. As I think a lot of us in this audience probably feel the same way as millennial men trying to navigate this 30 to 45. That's bad.
Starting point is 00:07:57 Confusing and competitive Western economy. I'm not going to do any. parasocial romanticization here I don't know the man personally but I think most of us have watched him long enough to know his particular brand of unfiltered honesty by now and sure he said plenty of stupid shit on the internet but even his most loyal fans would agree doesn't do him any favors but overall I do like his ideas on a lot of topics I'll say more too I often find them quite intellectually provocative and psychologically challenging the kind of thinking that forces you to confront
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Starting point is 00:09:07 But what thinker isn't. And I think the reason so many of us find him so resonant is because he thinks out loud without performance. No filter. No matter... That's the problem. That's the exact problem right there. I do.
Starting point is 00:09:23 I say exactly what I think. And the problem is that... And I think the reason why I'm popular is because I'm, other people are thinking the same thing. But nobody really wants to say it. And then it comes me where I'm just like, yeah, that's the reason why everybody knows it. Yeah, of course AI is replacing women's jobs because they're all fake jobs. Yeah, duh. And they're like, well, you hate women.
Starting point is 00:09:52 And I'm like, okay, but am I wrong? How harsh or uncomfortable the truth is. He just says it. Now, obviously, that's pissed off a lot of people. Thank God. But I think as guys, we just find that refreshing. Most of us don't really deal with bullshit. And we can smell the performative political correctness
Starting point is 00:10:12 that dominates Western discourse now from a mile away. And given the choice between difficult truth and comfortable nonsense, I'll take difficult truth every time. Yeah, that's a minority opinion. Whether he's talking about men's mental health, the dating market. Politics, economics, culture, gaming. He'll say things like, Yeah, that's bad, but it still exists.
Starting point is 00:10:37 Or, yeah, I wish things were different, but they're not. And then just move forward from there. And something about hearing a guy say that. A guy who lost his mother and lived in poverty. Oh, and had his teeth brought out of his mouth. Something about hearing him say, It is what it is. And then get up the next day and keep going.
Starting point is 00:10:58 That stays with you in a way that no self-help book or motivational seminar ever could. That's because of my dad, by the way. My dad had that mentality. And any time that I would get upset or sad or anything else, there really wasn't a lot of room for that. There really wasn't. It's just the way it is. Because what you're hearing is the residue of someone who's been through genuine suffering
Starting point is 00:11:26 and come out the other side without pretending the process was pretty. I think also a lot of people go through bad things, but people like to romanticize things and they also like to, like whenever you allow trauma to define you, you are obviously no longer yourself. So yeah, I've had a lot of bad stuff happen to me, but I think that really my experiences are really similar to other people's experiences.
Starting point is 00:11:51 I do. I think that like other people have these experiences, people have these problems all the time. And so talking about them in a genuine way, I think helps people recognize that and not feel like it's some kind of weird thing they should be ashamed of or anything else. And I think a lot of us need to hear that right now more than ever.
Starting point is 00:12:13 Because let's be honest, this is probably the most competitive time to be a man in modern history. And it's only accelerating. Men make up only 42% of bachelor's degrees now, the lowest on record. Women in their 20s out earn us. One in four guys under 35 feels lonely
Starting point is 00:12:32 every single day. Jesus. We're four times more likely to kill ourselves. And nobody in institutional power has any incentive to name any of this because it breaks their narrative. Well, they do name it. They blame it on women. They blame it on, you know, the men.
Starting point is 00:12:51 The problem is that they do name it. And everybody that's naming it has an ulterior motive for doing so. They're not naming it because they want to help people. They're naming it because they want to create a narrative. That's the reason why. An entire generation swung hard right in 2024. Not because of memes, but because they're desperately searching for frameworks that acknowledge what they're actually living through.
Starting point is 00:13:18 And when every institution offers nothing but lectures about privilege, while your prospects deteriorate. You'll find those frameworks wherever you can. The only way... This is the reason, by the way, why there are so many concerted attacks against me and people trying to demonize me and make me look bad. It's because I call this out
Starting point is 00:13:39 and I do so in a way that isn't really... Like, there's not really... Like, I'm not trying to make money off of it, really. Like, if anything, I'm losing money because of it. So ultimately, I think that having a person that has a big platform like I have that speaks about these issues in a very just direct way
Starting point is 00:13:58 I think it hurts these people's monopoly on what their version of the truth is. That's it. Stare down that reality. Accept the cards this era has dealt us and refuse to retreat into either of the two bubbles the menosphere
Starting point is 00:14:14 is selling. The hustle porn fantasy that monetizes your insecurity or the performance of sanctimony that monetizes your moral comfort. Because both of them are just different flavors of delusion. And neither one will improve your actual life by a single inch. Asman Gold's entire life is the proof of what that framework looks like when someone actually lives it. We already know how successful he is, so I won't belabor the point. But the way he built it, starting with wow guides on YouTube, encouraging Clippers
Starting point is 00:14:47 to distribute his content for free, diversifying across platforms so that when Twitch banned him, it barely scratched him, building actual equity businesses like staff. I would say that everything basically was beneficial to me. Like every time I've gotten banned or suspended or anything else, the long-term effect is that it was beneficial. Forged systems rather than depending on platform revenue. All of that is worth studying if you're trying to build anything online today. But what really matters is where he built it from,
Starting point is 00:15:18 because this is a guy who started at the bottom 1% of circumstances in every. every possible way. Not by, I would say that if you want my honest opinion, I would disagree with this. I think that I was incredibly lucky. There are a lot of people that are more lucky than me. But like just the fact that I was born a guy, I'm over six feet tall. I was born in America. Both of my parents are present in my life.
Starting point is 00:15:43 I didn't get beaten. You know, I know English, like, which is the most popular language. I don't know if it's the most popular language in the world, but like at least in the Western world, it's the most popular language. I mean, I feel like I got really good RNG. There are other people that got way better RNG, but overall, like, I would say that I rolled at least a 14. This episode is brought to you by Activia.
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Starting point is 00:16:33 and they say that, wow, I hate my life, whenever they actually just roll the 13, they might have rolled the 12. And they think they roll the 1. Condemned house in Texas, poverty line. Oh, geez. Parents separated. Mother developed COPD and couldn't work.
Starting point is 00:16:49 He became her full-time caregiver because he couldn't afford help and couldn't leave her alone. He started streaming because it was the only income activity compatible with being stuck at home as a caregiver. And I remember him saying openly that unlike most creators, he literally started for the money because his teeth were falling out. In the creator space, there's this unspoken rule that you're supposed to pretend the money doesn't matter.
Starting point is 00:17:15 Everyone performs the passion narrative because admitting financial motivation is seen as somehow impure. or less authentic, when the reality is that money is why most people do most things. It's not a bad thing. I feel like that's not a bad thing at all. ...of performance. And there's something almost contagiously liberating about watching someone refuse to participate in that particular charade.
Starting point is 00:17:40 It gives you permission to be honest about your own motivations too. His mother passed in October 2021. Not a good month. About two years after his girlfriend and him broke up, and three years before his father. We actually got back together multiple times and we broke up a lot closer to the fact of like whenever my mom passed away.
Starting point is 00:18:00 It's a lot closer. He admitted he'd planned to end his life after high school. But in his own words, forgot when wrath of the Litch King came out. He's talked openly about all of it and has said he doesn't care about sympathy. He just wants people to understand where he's coming from as a person.
Starting point is 00:18:20 From the bottom 1% to the top 1%. Donation goal needs to come back? No, I don't think so. Every conventional path was physically closed to him, and he built anyway. From a single room with a computer and an internet connection, that was the entire starting position for everything that came after. Holy shit. And I remember watching him react to a podcast about masculinity,
Starting point is 00:18:42 where the host said something about how, wherever you point blame is where you give away your power. And he just immediately latched onto it. Yeah, it doesn't matter how hard you think it is. Whenever you wake up the next day, you're still where you are. Were you depressed when you were growing up? Was I depressed growing up? There were a lot of things that I was depressed about.
Starting point is 00:19:02 I think that being depressed is different than being depressed about something. So like if I'm unhappy about something, then I think that's very different than someone just hating their life, period. So like, was I really depressed? I mean, there were a lot of things in my life I didn't really like. I was very unhappy about. But ultimately, that's just the way it is. Yeah, that's totally just the way it is. You can spend all day thinking about all of, well, I wish it was whatever, like 150 years ago, would it be so easier.
Starting point is 00:19:35 Yeah, but it's not. So shut the fuck up. And knowing where he came from, knowing he's not some rich guy theorizing about hardship, that just lands completely differently. He talks about how people build. layers and layers of protection against ever having to take personal accountability. It's socioeconomic. And honestly, that observation alone has probably been more useful to me than anything I learned in formal education.
Starting point is 00:20:05 Yeah. And you can see exactly what happens when that kind of unflinching honesty meets the internet. Because the tweet that sparked this whole drama is the perfect case study. Oh, is this the... Polymarket posted an analysis showing that female-dominated corporate roles are more vulnerable to AI automation than male roles. And Asman Gold replied with, Too many fake jobs were invented to create artificial parity between men and women in the workforce.
Starting point is 00:20:32 AI fixes this problem. Hopefully, after this is all over, women can go back to doing what they do best, being a mother or being a prostitute. I was laying in my bed, like, curled up. Sitting there, dude. They crash it out over this shit. Now, the packaging is crude, obviously. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 00:21:08 But Asman Gold is a master rage-bater. And you have to remember, he's an online media personality and entertainer first. He doesn't operate in a vacuum. The attention economy is absurdly competitive. And if independent creators don't use incendiary framing, they get drowned out by the institutional media class. That's a nice justification, but I think the real answer is just because, because I'm a fucking dickhead.
Starting point is 00:21:33 I'm just an asshole. That's the reason why I say stuff that way. CNN and the BBC in the New York Times have been doing the exact same thing for decades. They just wrap it in institutional credibility. You can say this kind of a reason. We pretend they're being objective, while Asmond Gold does it openly without the veneer.
Starting point is 00:21:52 And in a culture that's increasingly allergic to discomfort, some truths will never enter mainstream conversation unless someone packages them provocative, enough to force the discussion. Because this essay is focused on the manosphere, I don't want to go off on a tangent here. But tweets like this do raise genuinely important questions. Questions like why the global sex work economy
Starting point is 00:22:15 is worth over $100 billion annually and overwhelmingly dominated by women with virtually. Everybody knows why. Truly no demand for male prostitutes. Well, and also like, and here's the real, here's the real big one. It's not just 80 to 90% women, but the audience for it, the people that are consuming prostitution, the people that are consuming sex work are probably 95% men, if not higher. It is overwhelmingly men.
Starting point is 00:22:50 It's obvious. Yet pointing that out is somehow controversial. Why such a significant percentage of Gen Z women now see only fans as the new American Dream. dream. And what that says about the economy we've built. Why Western economies have built such enormous layers of administrative bloat that don't produce anything. What happens when AI can do compliance and HR work cheaper than humans? How we use AI as a productivity tool, rather than just fear it as a threat. And what it says about our culture, sad state of affairs, I know.
Starting point is 00:23:27 state a biological and economic reality without being labeled a misogynist. Well, this is the problem is like, so the reason why this is the case is because the people that are primarily like, I would say dissenters from things that I say or think, they have to live in an engineered hyper-reality. So any facts or any piece of evidence that is contrary to that has to be destroyed. Because these people don't want more conversation. They want less conversation. And I think the goal for that very clearly is so they can invent their own reality and replace what exists.
Starting point is 00:24:08 That's the reason why, for example, you have all these people that are trying to tell you how many genders there are. They're trying to tell you, you know, this is the reason why something's happening, even though people know that's not it. So a simulation, yes, they want to create a false reality that everybody else has to comply with. And I think that that's the important thing is that they want to force a compliance culture around their own viewpoints. Massey lost, yeah. I mean, obviously. We'll for sure cover in future videos. I told you guys who's going on.
Starting point is 00:24:39 But the point for now is that in century packaging forces millions of people to encounter questions they've never otherwise ask. And that's valuable. even if the delivery makes people uncomfortable, which brings us to maybe the most important thing I've taken away from watching Asmond Gold over the years. And that's what genuine intellectual independence looks like in practice. That's the thing is like people say that I get audience captured
Starting point is 00:25:06 or like I'll listen to my audience. That makes me so mad. It does. Like I constantly am arguing with my audience. I will always challenge my audience. I will make tons of videos where people, We'll get mad about it. He talked about his anti-consumption being the biggest middle finger to the menispheres's entire business model.
Starting point is 00:25:25 But that independence extends far beyond money into how he evaluates every political issue individually, rather than buying into any party's package deal. He supports universal basic income, which is a left-wing policy. He supports a constitutional right to abortion, left-wing. He's deeply critical of DEI, right-wing. He lobbied a Republican senator on consumer protection against loot boxes, which is regulatory intervention. Yeah. Left wing.
Starting point is 00:25:55 He says trans kids are being failed by parents, but would respect his own children's pronouns because the relationship matters more than the ideology. People hate that because it is a purely pragmatic perspective. That's it. Like, that's always what it is. And that's why I say all the time is I always just simply do it to my best interest. It's that simple. I think most people do that. Try placing that on any political compass.
Starting point is 00:26:23 It doesn't fit anywhere. And that's precisely the point. Because he's evaluating each issue on its own merits, rather than outsourcing his worldview to a team. And the reason this matters so much right now is that one of the most dangerous things about the current political landscape, especially on the left,
Starting point is 00:26:42 is this narrow convergence of thought, where you're expected to adopt an entire, bundle of positions as a package deal. This is the reason why they try to control institutions. It's so they can enforce this very, very small star. If you deviate on a single one, you're excommunicated. Whereas on the right, there's actually more intellectual diversity than people give it credit for. Sometimes too much.
Starting point is 00:27:07 You've got libertarians and traditionalists and populists and techno-optimists who genuinely disagree with each other on fundamental questions. And that diversity is. of thought is healthier, even if the individual positions are sometimes wrong. And what really drives it home is how he handles accountability when that independence has real consequences. He got banned from Twitch for dehumanizing comments about Palestinians. Oh yeah. And then walked away from OTP entirely. The organization he co-founded because his political content was costing his colleagues' sponsorships
Starting point is 00:27:43 and the split had to happen. When a viewer asked, You got kicked out, didn't you? He said, even if they'd forced him out, he'd agree with it. Which is uncompromising accountability turned inward on himself when his actions had consequences for people. This is the reason, by the way, I don't collaborate with a lot of other people. I don't deal with other people. I don't talk about hanging out with other people or bringing friends with other people.
Starting point is 00:28:08 The reason why is because I don't want to drag other people into my problems. Like, I recognize that, like, I don't want to use other people. people as collateral for, you know, for what I believe. That's it, Foxland. Yeah, let me see here. So you mean honest, not entangle other people? Yeah, of course, right? Like, that's why I don't really call it.
Starting point is 00:28:29 That's the explicit reason why I never collab with Twitch streamers. Around him, rather than looking for someone else to blame. I think that kind of independent, critical thinking is going to matter more and more in the years ahead. Because the world going forward is. only going to get more competitive, more unfor forgiving. Way worse. Noisier. In that environment, the last thing any of us needs is the comfortable, performative, ideologically captured sanctumony that people like Emtash represent. That's just emotional comfort food for people who've already given up. It produces nothing, builds nothing, and leaves you weaker when reality finally catches up.
Starting point is 00:29:15 Well, they want you to live in that world because that way they can talk down to you. That's the reason why. M crashed. Is that what they're calling them now? His name's M crashed? I think the most useful things you can carry into that world are exactly the frameworks I've been describing. Pragmatic realism. The ability to look straight at reality, no matter how ugly it gets, and act on it anyway.
Starting point is 00:29:38 And independent thinking. The refusal to outsource your worldview to any team, any party. any algorithm. And critical consumption of information is going to become more relevant than ever. Because as everything becomes more digitalized, ideas and discourse are only going to get more incendiary. Every interest group will weaponize information
Starting point is 00:30:01 to serve their agenda. And as consumers of all of it, we need to develop the critical intelligence to dissect and engage with broader information without getting rage-baited into emotional reactions. I don't think that's possible. That's what you need to get rid of them. I don't think that the average human being can comprehend that level of critical thinking.
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Starting point is 00:31:57 categorized based off of cognitive ability or some sort of indicator that you are not a fucking idiot. ...to engage with a provocative idea, so they default to pearl clutching and name-calling instead. You can't stop the world and ask everyone to be more polite to you. That's not how any of this works. How's mad? The information environment is what it is. And you either develop the ability to navigate it or you get played by it.
Starting point is 00:32:28 There's a lot, though. Again, I've been watching Asmengold for damn near a decade now. Jesus Christ. Back when his drama with Taliesin felt like the front page of the internet. Back when Transmog competitions were the most important thing happening in our lives. The weekend. Sunday. The name Delfang was actually my Wargan Death Night in World of Warcraft,
Starting point is 00:32:48 which is why the channel's named us. after him and why the logo's a wolf. So yeah, this stuff goes way back. That's great. I don't even know that. About six or seven years ago, after university in the UK, I moved to South Korea and then to Canada. And through all of it, I never stopped watching.
Starting point is 00:33:05 Canada. And it genuinely feels like time has just flown by. And if I'm getting sentimental, it's probably because it makes me feel a bit old now. In a digital age where information shapes how we see the world more than ever, I've always found myself resonating with Asmengold more than anyone else in the menisphere. And I think his philosophy of ruthless, pragmatic realism, of anti-consumption, of genuine intellectual independence, might actually break the cycle that the rest of the space keeps spinning. That's the reason why I do it.
Starting point is 00:33:38 The reason why I say all the really bad stuff is so I can normalize it for everybody else to say it. That's the reason why I always say really bad stuff. is I'll try and break the ice that normalize it but yeah you can't you can call them that yeah you can't you can say that
Starting point is 00:33:58 cycle of selling insecurity back to the people it was extracted from and in a sea of menesphere creators all running that same playbook or performing sanctimonious virtue from the other side of the same coin the black sheep who refuses to participate has ended up being the most
Starting point is 00:34:18 genuinely inspiring of all of them. Remember it was only one month? But yeah, that's about all I have to say about this. If you enjoyed this, as always, consider leaving a like and subscribing if you haven't already. I truly appreciate the support you guys have shown me so far. Until the next one, take care. Yeah, what a nice guy. Yeah, I appreciate it.
Starting point is 00:34:39 Yeah, what a nice guy. I mean, I definitely appreciate it. That's great. And, yeah, I feel like in general, my opinions on stuff, I try to not let other people control what my opinions are. You should limit watching videos about yourself is that just raises your narcissism.
Starting point is 00:34:57 I think that I really hate to break the fourth wall here. But I play a lot of this stuff. You have to give in mind, this is a show. Okay? I like saying funny things. So don't worry about any of that.
Starting point is 00:35:17 This is a show. show, we're having fun here, right? We're having fun. We're doing things for enjoyment. So I think, and there's a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor that goes into it, and I think people know that, but for some reason, some people take it seriously. Everybody, I know. Like, I just, I try to have fun.
Starting point is 00:35:34 I try to have fun. I try to make things fun. And that's it. So, uh, bro, you guys, is there of compliments? Yeah, sure. And, uh, don't break the fourth wall. And yeah, I'm just saying in general, that's the way it is. And, uh, create a test viewers to see if viewers are
Starting point is 00:35:48 it's harder than or not. Maybe, I don't know. People forget, you're a contactator. You should have on the fly leave. Yeah, live. Yeah. I have to do things live, too. And sometimes you're going to have mistakes. But, yeah, it's a nice video. It's from Diving. I remember he made a video about mixtape, too, that I watched. It was really good. And, yeah, there it is. Got 44.
Starting point is 00:36:04 A lot of people are really positive about this. It's been too long, cowboy. From Disney and Pixar. So that's Lily Pat. Where are you? Some sort of old man toy? What? She thinks you're old because you're bald, Woody. Toys are for play. for everything.
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Starting point is 00:36:36 It is. This is a really nice video.

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