The Sevan Podcast - Will Reusch | Critical Thinking

Episode Date: November 16, 2024

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As a Fizz member you can look forward to free data, big savings on plans, and having your unused data roll over to the following month, every month. At FIZ, you always get more for your money. Terms and conditions for our different programs and policies apply. Details at FIZ.ca. Good morning. Good morning! I just want to say a little something about Reddit this morning. It's the place on the internet where people can pretend like they're... It's where you can... it's where you're a disgustoid, but you can pretend like it's like some sort of valid place to learn how to fix your lawnmower or learn about

which keys command F does something on some software you want. But the truth is, is reddit is nothing but a place of just gross debauchery, lies, cowards kamalites it is it is it is a You know just because you go there and there's a thread on how to clean the dust out of your mouse So that it works again. It doesn't mean that it is what it is. It's a pedophilia heaven with a disgusting just shit on it. If you, yesterday there were rumors

that there were some nude photos going around about some guy we were talking about, Luke Stoltman or something. And where's the first place you would go is Reddit. It is a pathetic, anyone who spends time there or has it in their favorites or circles there, if you're not like, I give Andrew Hiller a pass because he does it for to make money. But if you're going there and you're not making money off the site, then I mean, I feel the same way about almost all social media if you're not using it somehow

to make money or to learn something, but Reddit is just an absolute place for disgustoids and losers. Reddit triggers a seven must be some truth there. I was just following the story with the Chicago Bears and Travis Bajan and Tyson Bajan and them reporting, someone at Reddit reported something about Travis planting seeds of dissent around Kayla Williams. I know Travis very well. I've known him for 15 years.

I could call him right now and he'd pick up the phone. I'm very close with him and he is a man of outstanding character. And all the time I've ever known him, he says so many wise things that have stuck with me. One of the ones that he used to always say all the time is, remember, always tell the truth, always tell the truth. The truth will set you free. And the other thing that made him a very unique competitor is he would always compliment and really glorify anyone he was arm wrestling against. Glorify, glorify, glorify, glorify. Always talk about how great they are, how amazing they are. And, and I always, and I always respected that about him because people would always think, Oh, he's this arrogant, pompous ass. But he may have

been all of that. He may have been this arrogant, pomp ass, but he he never put he didn't put people down He didn't put his competitors down he would tell you he's the greatest but he would always tell you how great his competitors were and I've only heard him say the nicest things about Caleb Williams. He's always told me Caleb Williams is a once-in-a-generation quarterback, he says he's never seen a Williams is a once in a generation quarterback. He says he's never seen a human being with more athleticism than Caleb. He's always talked just the most amazing things about Caleb Williams. What's up, Will?

Hey, what's going on, man? Can you hear me? Yeah. Cheers, buddy. Yeah. Yeah. It's good to see you. Cheers.

Good to see you. Hey, I have these friends who say, you know, for a long time, that they're a little further down the rabbit hole than I am. And they're like, it doesn't matter who wins the president. They're both establishment. They're both controlled. You know, the same way if like you fall down the rabbit hole of World Economic Forum, you can see like they basically control the uk they have the left and the right there

And claus Schwab has his thumb on both of them But these people will tell me the same thing in the united states They have the control of the right and the left and it's just establishment You're a fucking idiot following along with this world wrestling federation show Um, you know, it's it's all make but when I saw Trump on Rogan, there were some interesting things that he slid in there. And one of the things that I heard him say, and I know I'm reading into it was, I'm not Republican or Democrat, I wanted to run as a transformation party, but the system's rigged and I couldn't get in. And so I just came in as a fucking Republican and

I'm not I'm not buying it man. I think he's I think he's really a disruptor. I think I think like holy shit the I Think we're there we did it. I think we're about to see I think I think we're about to see some shit go down And I'm open to being wrong me I know I wanna believe that too. You know what I mean? I wanna believe that someone will just get up there and be like, yeah, you can't chop the penises off of boys and can't chop the titties off of girls. It ain't cool. I think he's our guy.

Yeah, I mean, he got in and he got in against all odds. I mean, going back to 2016, he beat all the Republicans first. They didn't want him. Yeah. And then what he said on Rogan, I thought, was it was kind of aligned with what I was thinking, is he got in there and he's like, oh my god,

I actually made it. He didn't think he would actually win. And then he got in there and he didn't know the first thing. It was so different than the real estate. Oh, you're talking about 2016. Yeah, 2016. So that's when he brought in the swamp, so to speak. After he said he was going to release it, because he was just, you're talking about 2016. When he had 16. So that's when he brought in like the swamp, so to speak, after he says gonna release it because he was just

like, I don't know, these people are all experts. I think now this is a different time around. He's bringing in some like swampy people, I suppose, that are just loyal to him. But it's the the Department of the Doge Department of Government Efficiency. That's interesting because how much waste, that's something that everyone knows. Everyone's like, I don't wanna pay taxes because I don't, where it goes is wasteful

and things like that. Like people know that and that can make a big difference. If we cut back on government waste, what that'll mean for economy can be huge. But yeah, I'm with you. I'm kind of optimistic, but I don't know. That's just me wanting to believe it. The things that the American people aren't used to is so you remember the famous moment in the debate with Hillary Clinton when she's like, you don't pay any taxes.

And the average politician would like shuck and jive and move around that. But he's like, damn right. I don't pay any taxes. What do you think I am? Stupid. I'm using the tax code that you put in for your billionaire buddies. Thank you very much. Yeah. I mean, no one does. I mean, there's, cause it's like I teach economics. I'm like, what people don't understand is like just like the idea of like, you know, Warren Buffett said the same thing. He's like, I pay lower taxes than my secretary does whatever because it's unrealized gains. And like, he doesn't like, these things are easy to say, unrealized gains. These things are easy to say, but if you cut back on all of those different areas for like, you know, tax, quote unquote, loophole, then that's going to stuff for the economy too. So the reality is, I think it's like people who make something like three to $400,000 a year

are like the ones who pay the most taxes as far as income income tax. But then after that it's an investment and they still contribute a lot of ways. I don't know. I don't know. I just, I'd like the way that, yeah, I'm with you. I like the way that, that Trump just basically like, this is what you do when you're rich and everyone knows that who's in that, those, those circles. And instead of running from it, instead of running from it. Yeah. You know, I mean, yeah, I mean, one of the things I say is like, Instead of running from it instead of running from it Yeah

You know, I mean Yeah, I mean one of the things I say is like the the the way that you act when you have, you know Small, you know when you're poor essentially is but gonna be very similar way back when you're rich So like these babysitters and things who don't pay tax they can get away with doing it Like you're not just gonna all of a sudden have more money and just be like, I want to give to the government. I think it's the same mentality. I don't know. I think it's the same mentality that people have regardless. You can always cut a check to the government for nothing, but no one's doing that. Where are you teaching now? I'm teaching from home. I left my school. I was at a school in the Beverly Hills area for the last 11 years and I stepped

away to build my own homeschool critical thinking platform and doing consulting and stuff like that. So it's a big change because I've been in the classroom for 18 years. But now I saw there was a trend of a lot of kids going into homeschool and I wasn't sure where they were going or what they were getting. So I started to dive into that world a little bit. And I realized that there's a lot of people that need help with how to do that. So that's what I'm providing now. Yeah. Um, do you have kids?

Yep. And how old are your kids? 10, seven and three. They're getting ready for school right now. I mean, I hope. That's good. Yeah. And the name of your program is a PADDX?

Yeah, PADDARDOX. So the idea of PADDARDOX is instead of like, you try to whittle down, this is why they say like, both things with the Department of Education and everything like that. It's like, do know But things with the Department of Education everything like that It's like do you really need to be in school for whatever nine hours a day, you know five days a week It's kind of over that movie office space where he's like we're going over like his week and he's like I say out of a given week I give I

an hour of real work, you know, so what's really to be remembered and applied for your education when it comes to like, let's say like US history, which I have US history class. It's not like who flanged who at the Battle of St. Etobre and what the names of the generals were and all those dates and facts. It's conflict and conflict resolution. So the whole idea of the platform is recognizing just big patterns to make sense of it. You know, there's crazy stuff going on. People come to my platform and help sense this. And all I do is just look at the patterns of history.

You know, why do you have to go about the Ukraine war? Because of the Gulf of Tonkin with the lie. Weapons of mass destruction was a lie. The USS Maine being blown up was a lie. You know, elements of the Boston massacre even going back that far were a lie. So I'm just following a pattern here. I don't know, but it seems like that makes sense because that's the way we've always done things.

So it's just looking at the patterns and direct application of history. And I also teach a civics course, which is different, but you can talk about all the stuff when you're doing the homeschool and you're not doing accreditation for it. I can talk about transit. I can talk about race issues. I can talk about all the stuff when you're doing the homeschool and you're not doing accreditation for it. I can talk about transit. I can talk about race issues. I can talk about all kinds of things that you generally like to stay away from the mainstream narrative in school.

I'm going to put your pattern docs dot com in your. Oh, thanks, man. Down there on the bottom. There we go. Yeah, for parents who are looking to expose their teenager to critical thinking processes in a place where they can actually ask questions, there's so much in school you just can't. Don Neary, Will's the man, met him in person, and he's a great dude. Thanks, Don.

Look at this. you already got it. The USS Maine was actually blown up. Who did it and why they did it is a different matter. Yeah, yeah. I think it was an engineering thing where they had the coal sitting on top of the engine and then it blew up, but it was a perfect opportunity to be like,

oh, the Spanish did that, let's get into a war. False pretenses of getting into a war. That's happened so many times. So excuse me for being a little skeptical when we go into a war. Brady Libby, is Will using an iPhone 4 to stream? No. Okay.

That's a passive aggressive attack in you. Yeah, why is it bad? It's pretty, you're pretty choppy. Oh. I didn't know that. Okay. But not bad enough for me to say anything yet I'll try oh come on. Don't be mean to will They said this guy's probably okay getting his t-tax to come on. He's not okay with this tea getting taxed come on Come on be cool's not okay with his tea getting taxed. Come on. Come on. Be cool. Will.

Am I pro tax? What did I say? I'm pro tax. Will, there was a comment you made on your Instagram, a great Instagram. Thank you for everything you do, by the way. Always searching for the truth is good. There was a comment you made about the big podcasts, not talking about child education. And that is a big topic on this show. It comes up all the time. I also have three kids, two seven-year-olds and a nine-year-old who are also homeschooled.

I'm sure you know this stat, going into COVID, there were 51 million kids in public school. And then when COVID was over, there were 49 million kids in school. And there's schools all over the state of California, especially in the wealthy areas that are closing down, elementaries and junior highs, because the kids just weren't returning. So they were consolidating the kids into other schools. I think two schools closed just right in my immediate area. And the homeschool thing is huge.

This wasn't my plan to talk about this in the podcast, but here we are. A journey that I went through is that I thought homeschool was bringing the school into your home. And I realized that it's not that for me, it's about raising my kids. So at first I thought, okay, I'll bring this expert in and this expert in and I'll have them teach this and I'll have them teach. And I thought, holy shit, no, wait a second. I'm just going to raise my kids. Yeah. And I, and I, and I don't, I, I'll,

the only job I have is this podcast and so I can do it in the morning and at night so I can just raise them throughout the day. Do you have any thoughts on, uh, just big picture? What is homeschooling and what are the misconceptions about it? Yeah. I mean, I was learning it. I've been, I'm still, still I'm learning about it now. But a lot of homeschool like curriculum or whatever that you get out there is just school at home. It's the same thing. It's like multiple choice questions. You read and then you answer these questions and it's like, well, what's the point? I mean, yeah. So I think that you're

exactly right. That's actually a great way to put it is just, no, it's I'm gonna raise my kids and I'm gonna steer them into doing what I think is best for them. So what I offer is more of just like an assist. Like I work directly with the parents. I have like a couple of parents from all over the country that I just talked to

and like, what are you wanting to get through to your parent to your kids and then how can I help with that you know but it also gives like you know you you might want your kids to have some basic understanding of history of civics of psychology sociology whatever it might be so just like it's like an assist it's always working with the parents where I think a lot of times in traditional school it's like I send my kids off and I just turn around and go about my my own way and That's not that's not what what homeschooling is about it seems like but everyone's different too You know I call regular school is just taking your kids and dropping them off behind the chain-link fence Afraid hours a day when me and my kids, you know, my kids are done with school usually by 930 or 10 every morning

They just do Kuman. They just do the Kuman curriculum. And then you know, if the like if the mailbox is falling off the you know, the stand in the front yard, we all go to Home Depot together. And, and I just let them talk and get the wood and get the tape measures out and cut it and they learn their Oh, this is the application of the fractions I'm learning. This is how a tape measure works. Oh, that's how you interact with adults. You make eye contact and you say, yeah, this is how you pay. This is how you pay at the register. It's just all, you know,

when we're ordering food in the morning, it's you learn about nutrition. It's like, hey, do you really do you really want sugar in your body? And you want an insulin reaction in the morning? Or should you be eating protein and fat and car and it's just basically like Talking to them a little bit as you go through Your day and then they get to do the and then they carry but they have their books with them So they can read if there's downtime, but it's really i'm just raising them Yeah Yeah, i'm just i'm just i'm just raising them and then um, uh, another thing that I do is When I pick the sports for them, I didn't pick them

based on the sports. I picked them based on the instructors. So like I had knew nothing about tennis, didn't like tennis, but there's this guy who's a great instructor that I thought would be a great mentor for my kids. And you know, they play tennis with them, you know, five to 10 hours a week, but they're interacting with a capable, serious adult who wants the best for them. So tennis is their sport. It's interesting navigating this.

It's interesting. I mean, I can't imagine doing it other way. Once I started homeschooling, the thought of sending my kids behind the chain link fence sounds insane to me. Just absolutely insane. When did you start it? Right at Covid. My oldest was in, I think, kindergarten or first grade.

And and then right at Covid, the school in my area put up a the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, plus, which I think includes pedophiles, because it's just plus, so I just make up what I think it is. They put that flag up in front of the school. And when I talked to them about it, they said it was for acceptance. And I said, no, the American flag is for acceptance. And then that was it. I knew at that point, like, hey, I'm not on the same planet as them.

Wow. What area are you in again? Santa Cruz, California. Oh, Santa Cruz. Yeah. Yeah. All right. But I did start seeing Trump stickers this year, which was very trippy. I did start seeing Trump stickers, Trump flags. I was like, oh shit.

Yeah, I'm in LA. I saw the same thing and I was like, that saying something that people with big Trump flag like giant flags hanging after diesel truck we're driving through LA yes an apologetic yes that's different um there's there's a clip you have that I want to play the beginning of this clip and it's been I feel like I'm a little petty around the subject. Let me play a little bit of this clip and then we'll talk about it. Better off today under Biden Harris than you were five years ago under Trump. Hi, I'm Will Roos, the teacher that gets you to critically think.

This is something that I've heard over and over and over again during this campaign. Ben Shapiro just recently said it on the Barry Weiss podcast. For me, the question is, were you better off in 2019 or are you better off in 2024? I think this is a great campaign question because it helps people recognize the very serious inflation crisis that we're in and how the cost of living has just gotten really difficult for a lot of Americans. So I hear this. I heard that question a lot. And maybe this is, maybe I don't like this question

because I have the financial resources, you know, to put gas in my car without looking at the price and I can buy avocados and I don't care how much they are. I have a little bit of financial stability. But I wanted people to come to Trump because of morals and values and not selfish reasons. Now, I'm glad, whatever it took to get him to win, I'm glad, but do you see the distinction there? Like, I want people to raise their hand and be like, wait a second. Why, like in California, you know this,

once our kids turns 12, their medical records are partitioned off from us. I wanted people to come to Trump to be for that reason, not because the price of gas. Do you have any thoughts on that distinction between coming there to him there because you have values as opposed to what's in it for me? that because you have values as opposed to what's in it for me? Yeah, I just I question if that's if that's like a realistic way to look at things. I

mean, maybe yeah, maybe it is just like your specific spot or certain people's specific spots. They're thinking about that. But I think when you are when your back is up against the wall, and so many people are my wife does consulting for like, beauty businesses, people that like cut hair and do nails, and they're all struggling. Like, it's pretty bad for, like, a small business owner in America right now if you're working in, like, Arkansas or if you're working in, like, Wisconsin or something like that. It's, like, really, really hard. So I think that, you know, almost like to stop the bleeding, I think that that was a good campaign move to aim for the working class and say, like, hey, we're going to get better,

things are going to get more efficient. We're not, we're going to stop funding these wars and all this crazy nonsense, bureaucracy, and we're going to help get back to you. So I think that you can go from that angle for those people and then for the people that aren't, that aren't in that situation, then it's like, yeah, what kind of country do you want to have and who is the person that's more likely to bring about those change? One of them is clearly more of a change agent, and one is more of the establishment policy, you know, the establishment candidate.

And choose your pick. You know, I mean, I'm going to close it like the it was the don't you see this one as this was clearly establishment versus anti-establishment election I hope so as we started the podcast. I I mean i'm really hoping um You know I When it comes to uh, and I don't know if i've ever said this word on my show these two words together But when it comes to the black voter, I sure hope so I I sure hope people

that looked at their skin and go, wow, I'm melanated. Holy shit, they've been leveraging and using me and keeping me on the plantation and afraid of my own free getting freedom. And the same thing they've done with single moms. I hope in that way it is. I sure as fuck hope. But let me let me give you just a practical response to it. What if the left, because I don't think that they have values or morals or truth to themselves, that's why they can't do podcasts like Rogan and sit down and talk for three hours because they just can't shoot the shit because they're afraid of telling the truth. But what if the left would have been like, fuck it, drill baby drill, we're going to lower energy costs, we're going to make energy independent and we're going to fucking beat the fuck out of

any country that comes close to us. But you can also chop off the penis off your boys. What if they would have pivoted to that just to get votes? That shit kind of concerns me that the American people are that easily swayed. Yeah. I mean, who picked up the libertarian votes? that easily swayed. Yeah, I mean, like who picked up the libertarian votes? You know, the people who are like, I want you to be able to marry whoever you wanna do

and chop off whatever you wanna do after you're 18, but also, you know, grow weed and have an AR 15. Like, I think more and more people are leaning toward libertarian ideas. And then when Ron Paul got on board saying that he would help out with Elon Musk and everything, I think that helps. I think the Libertarians were going big for RFK. And then when he got on board, I think that's, but that seems to be a growing faction. And the Democrats don't seem to lean into that group nearly enough about smaller government, get out of my business.

Spirit, spiritual thinking, where the spirit and kind of the intellect intersect, I think that's a great thing. nearly enough about like smaller government get out of my business. I'm spirit, spiritually thinking where this where the spirit and kind of the intellect intersect, you know, and it's a big topic in Buddhism, if I can remember that from, you know, my 20s. There's a dual there. The left lives in a really harsh duality to whereas they think they don't realize that so many of us don't care. Like we don't care if we're in the hot tub with the gay guys. We don't care like if gay guys hit on us. We don't care if we love going to drag shows at the theater and watching them perform, you know, at the San Francisco Opera House. The fact that we don't want them in our school

doesn't mean we hate them. But they live in this duality that if you do anything that doesn't follow their agenda, that somehow you're transphobic or you don't like them or you're anti-gay or you're going to take away the right to marriage. It's like, no, dude, we're not like, we don't care. We're not living in that world of duality of whether you have to like them or hate them. And that goes to the libertarian thing you're saying. We just don't give a shit. We want you to be happy. Want to find your own path. That's what America is about.

Find your own path to your happiness. Yeah. Have you heard that, that like theory of Pia Malani, who's like the economist, she's married to Eric Weinstein, her theory of, of like how the Democrats became the party of identity. Hmm. Go on. I think it's spot on.

Democrats became the party of identity. Go on. I think it's spot on. So up until the 1990s, like early 1990s, it was the Republicans were the party of the elite and the Democrats were the party of the working class. So all throughout the 80s is like the Democrats were advocating for the working class, better working conditions, better hours, blah, blah, blah.

But then all the people that own the factories, essentially all the CEOs and all the administration and the higher-ups, they were all like, well, I don't want to give better working conditions. So no, I'm going to vote for the Republicans who are for lower taxes and things like that. So Reagan demolished in 84, then Bush won won in 88 and then Bush almost won in 92 It's just Ross Perot was a disruptor. So the Democrats got in they're like look We're getting our lunch eaten by by all these big donors So let's move essentially from being the party of of the working class where you have to deliver

Things that could hurt the wealthy and let's just become another corporate party and will become the party of identity could hurt the wealthy, and let's just become another corporate party, and we'll become the party of identity. So it's just, I see you, melanated people, or I see you, gay people, or I see you, Puerto Ricans. You don't have to deliver anything for the Puerto Ricans. You just say, isn't it terrible how that comedian made a joke? And then they go, oh, OK, well, I'm being recognized.

And that's it. You don't have to deliver anything. But it really makes sense when you look at what they say here. It's just like it's just acknowledging certain individuals of minority groups and not delivering anything. But they still get the corporate dollars. Raytheon, like with my class, just like last week, I was like, let's look up who Raytheon donates more to. And it's like 50-50 basically to the Republicans and the Democrats. So now both sides are selling missiles. Both sides are the party of the elite.

And one party just says like, we got you. And then the other party is saying like, we got you to like the working class white now with MAGA. But it's deliver. It's interesting that you paint that because, I was raised Democrat. I was raised that the Democrats were for the poor and that the Republicans were for the rich.

And then at some point, as I started like sliding into libertarian mode, someone explained to me, no, the Democrats are the party of wanting to keep you poor. And the Republicans are the party of wanting to clear the pathway for people to get rich. And then I heard this recently. I don't know if it was Soel who said it or Chad the Plumber said it, but said something along the lines of, if you hate rich people, you're actually hurting your dream.

If you hate on rich people or you attack rich people, you're hating your destination. You're basically cutting off your dream. And I thought that was fascinating. But the Democrats that I know, even with Kamala getting three times the donations that Trump did from his 300 million to her billion, they still think that the richest people in the world support Republicans. They still think the CIA, the FBI, all the intelligence agencies support Republicans, they missed the switch. They're still living as a 1980s Democrats, all the 60 plus crew that I know. Yeah. Yeah.

You look at RFK Jr., who's clearly a Democrat, a classical liberal Democrat, and he's just like, I haven't changed. Bill Maher even says that, I haven't changed. Bill Maher even says that, I haven't changed. But the thing you said about wealth, Adam Carolla had a great line. He's like, when I was a kid, if there was someone in your town that had a Rolls Royce, you'd say like, oh, that's old man Jenkins. He worked really hard and he has a Rolls Royce. If you work hard, you can get one too. And now it's like, fuck that guy and his Rolls Royce, you know, right? It's right. Totally different thing. And, and like when the AOC wears the dress tax the rich, it's like, that's solely say it should say penalize the rich, because it's like taxes. There's no connection that a lot of people have like, oh, let's take from the rich and give to the most needy of society. That's kind of not even that's not really what it's about. It's about just hurting those who are the most successful, you know, under the guise of, well, if you're going to be that rich,

you can only get that rich in a zero sum game that screws over other people. And I just don't think that that's necessarily true. I think that exists and we need to be watchful of that. But you can't paint all wealthy people under this blanket of They've all got it by some ill-begotten ways and that's just not that's not the case If do you encourage people to home school I Encourage people to do what's best for them So it's like it's kind of you know, I don't I don't know. I kind of just it's like a case-by-case basis, you know, I don't know. I kind of just, it's like a case by case basis, you know? But you don't send your kids to school.

The two older ones are up until sixth grade. We're doing it up until sixth grade and then pulling them out. We're getting things in line. So it's like learn how to read and learn how to do math. And then when it comes time to like what to read and buy the math, then we're pulling them out. We're just going to do like a lot of entrepreneurship and stuff with to like what to read and buy the math, then we're pulling them out. We're just

gonna do like a lot of entrepreneurship stuff with them. Yeah, they're they're in a Christian school. I'm a Jesus person. So like during a Christian school, that's like up the street and they get six recesses throughout the day. It's actually a really unique school. I pulled them out of LA USD. Around the same time you probably did like in like 2021 or something they were massed at recess in like May of 2022 even, or something like that.

Masked at a recess, socially distanced. And I was like, this is crazy. It wasn't a gay flag, it was like the COVID stuff. But they're at a really great school now. And it gives me time to do my thing and my wife to run her business and stuff like that. And then we have a little one, we have a three-year-old who's not in school.

And when you say it's a really good school, you think it's, it's protected from them pumping in woke ideology, talking to your kids about things that, yeah, like the kids, big foot is real. I mean, the recruiter is literally said that we don't do that woke stuff here. Like when we were, wow. Wow. I mean, well, I taught for the last couple of years, I taught at a school that was modern Orthodox Jewish and the woke stuff didn't get in there either. Some teachers had it, but it didn't go like from the administration. Cause when you already have an ideology, when you already have a system for morals and a code and you understand

a guide for how to live, then it's harder to get that woke stuff in. I had Colin Wright on my podcast a while ago. He's a new age atheist person. A lot of the woke stuff started in the new atheist movement. Because the idea was you give up these books of ancient times of morals and guides and these religious texts. You give them up and you're just going to be a logical person. You're going to be like Sam Harris. And that's just not the case. There's the meme of you give up religion, then you're going to be reasonable. And then all of a sudden, it's like men can get pregnant, like the train hit in the bus. Yeah. I'm a firm believer that everyone is religious. And basically that somewhere inside of us, I picture a little

container that we all have, and you have to fill it with something as religion. And the people who say they're not religious, they're the ones to worry about the most because then they've filled it with something and they don't know what they filled it with. And those people are scary people. And Sam Harris is one of those people. What a complete nincompoop he is for falling for the COVID thing. That was... You got lost, right? Oh my goodness. Oh my... I mean, and yeah, that was bizarre to see him go down. He chastised Rogan publicly. And that was... you know who else completely lost their way is the stoic guy, the Ryan Holiday guy.

Yeah. Yeah. Completely. Especially from him, that was, that was disconcerting because, you know, his whole thing is, is to sit in stillness and yet he did not sit in stillness. He actually reacted and came out hard, uh, pushing, uh, mandated, uh, government drugs on children. I mean, it, it was some bizarre, the, it was some bizarre, it was some bizarre shit that I wouldn't want to have to live with the rest of my life if I was pushing that shit. They both, Sam Harris and Ryan Holiday both I think are good examples of like Trump derangement syndrome, that Trump kind of broke their brain. I said like one comment to Ryan Holiday and he wrote this like long thing to me,

obviously fired up a comment section. Stoic guy, I love his book, I'm like that. They're great, but Trump does that to some people. He breaks their brain. I've tried to understand it best I could, but Sam Harris, his whole thing is making sense. But then he says stuff like, I don't care hunter by and had a pile of dead children in his room It wouldn't it would pale in comparison to something like that. Donald Trump is brain

That's just not you're not rooting that in evidence Like just because he didn't have a nuclear war before doesn't mean he couldn't like the unrealized potential of Evil is like the the kind of angle he's taking. It's just like that just doesn't, it doesn't sit right. It's really interesting for like those two people that are selling being a clear thinker. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's the brand. A very intelligent person, I know, probably the smartest person I've ever met.

He also teaches a critical thinking course. He's launching it. His name is Greg Glassman. He's the founder of CrossFit. He's teaching a critical thinking course that basically, he doesn't call it that, but it's a broken science course that basically shows you where science lost its way and through consensus and we've forgotten the fact that prediction is the is the only thing that we need from science. The whatever has the highest predictive value is the direction we should go.

But he was he was postulating the other day that the reason why so many people on the West Coast don't like Trump is we are not used to that type of manifestation of a man that there's an East Coast man that has a certain bravado and a certain affect, and he's like trying to sell you stuff, and it's got a little bit of that mafia feel to it. And so we're kind of, you know, that he's got like that Jersey guy to him. And we are, we have just an emotional, you know,

response to it that like, hey, cheese dick, and it clouds our thought of any objective thinking around it. And I was like, yeah, I could kind it clouds our thought of any objective thinking around it. And I was like, yeah, I could kind of see that cause I used to not like him. And now I'm like in love with them. Yeah, same. I didn't vote for him the last two times. Um, but like the thing is I also, I grew up in like Eastern Pennsylvania, like an hour and change outside of New York. And, uh,

I know guys just like him. I mean, even like my father-in-law is kind of like him, my grandfather, my mother's thought I kind of like him, like there's those guys that are like, they're like, I guess it'd be like a classical narcissist, they're just like always trying to sell you something, they're always like, got a deal like that's that's those guys exist. He's not the only one like it, but if somebody never met someone like that before, it's a little crazy. Like I get that with my with my wife's with my wife's father. He's like 80 years old. And he's just like always selling stuff. He's always just like, wheeling dealing. He's like an entrepreneur came here with nothing, you know, from the Philippines and just like hustled and like, but like, you talk to him and he's not interested in you at all. Like he's just interested in like,

you know, he's just I mean, I love the guy, but he's just like, kind of like that. And like, you never met someone like that that you've loved, especially especially then you're gonna hate Donald Trump Maybe but like I I guess I guess I just like know it I just like I met this there's a version of this human before You said you were a Jesus guy. Yeah and I am NOT I am NOT a Jesus guy and in the last four years I've thoroughly embraced all the

religious people around me. It would be like if you didn't like, I hate to use this parallel, but it would be like if you didn't like maggots but the truth is is they fundamentally have an enormous role on planet Earth at decomposing fucking plants and animals and shit and if you didn't have them holding down the fucking fort you're fucked you are fucked and if you didn't have i wish i had a better one i just came up with that one on the fly um because i don't mean it to be derogatory if we didn't you you wanna you want to leave your kids at the house with the parents who have a value system,

that aren't going to have the TV on with nudity and swearing. You want the parents who make the kids wash their hands and pray before dinner, even if you don't. But there was this young man in me, and I think it's so cliche and so common, that you first find out about religion, you meet some religious people, and you spend 10 years of your life trying to prove that God doesn't exist. You know what I mean? You get on this like, fuck you, and then at some point, someone convinced me and showed me, they're like, hey dude, what values is it that you don't like about religious people? What is it you don't like about Jesus? I'm like, fuck, I love all the best parts of the Bible have that dude in it. Yeah.

And, uh, I, that, I have a lot of, and it's fascinating too, because I have a lot of acquaintances who are like that, who are still in the I hate the Christians, but for some reason they're okay in Minnesota. They think all Christians are people who believe in God or crazy, but they're okay in Minnesota with the Quran being read or the prayer being done five times a day, you know, over the loudspeaker in downtown. You saw that that got passed. They're allowed to do that like in downtown Minneapolis over the loudspeakers. The mosques are allowed to play the prayer. Yeah, as loud as they want. But yet these are the same people who get upset if they see someone wearing a cross or if in your sophomore year in high school They had the kids read job

it's like and uh I think that there needs to be a movement or an explanation of the value and necessity of Uh religious people and as i'm sure you know better than I do, our entire constitution is built around Christian values. Yeah, well they were, I think it was a Voltaire quote. I think it was Voltaire who said something like, I, you know, God doesn't exist, but don't tell him I made that or she'll rob me. Something along those lines.

Yeah, I came to it late in life because I was kind of in that angsty period of like, I'm going to prove this wrong, which so did like CS Lewis. And then, and then in that process, I was like, something's missing, something's missing, something's missing. And then I was kind of running from then when I turned towards it, my life just got way better in my quantifiable ways. And and I think I realized that I like you talk about that container. I love that John Hyde talks about that. I think that I realized that I like you talk about that container. I love that John Hyde talks about that. I think that I realized that I'm going to talk about that. Who talks about that?

Who talks about that? Jonathan Hyde, who read like the wrote the Righteous Mind. Okay, I got to look that up. Okay, go on. Sorry. Okay, so you were pushing against it and then you and then you're pretty sure it's John Hyde. But I think a lot Peter Boghossian probably has to like a lot of like atheist scientists

I'll try something but um, I'm going to grade Disney. Yeah, I love him it's a lot but uh, but the If something's gonna fill up by container, you know, I'm gonna belong to a cult of some kind Okay, what cult am I? I got it that I should choose my cult wisely because I realized that like I'm not gonna be what they're like I'm not joining a cult like now. I'm probably gonna join one. I need a belief system. So which one am I gonna join and The one that I mean I was a kind of raised Christian ish, you know like I went to church on my holidays and stuff like that went to Sunday school for a couple of years, but like it was really but when I say a Jesus person,

I say that more than Christianity, because I look at it like I need a role model. I need like an ideal to aim for. And he's the ideal, I mean according to the scriptures and according to the gospels and everything like that. It's like, how do I, you know, remember those old bracelets, WWJD? Like, what do I do in this situation,

is having that line when I'm pissed off at my wife and I'm like, I know I should go over there and give her a hug. But I'm just like, angry or something like, what would I do? Well, love each other. All right, I got to do that. You know, someone cuts me off in traffic. It just it just made me a better person, maybe better husband, father, teacher, you know, like citizen. So that has quantifiable ways in that. And then I love just diving into like the logistical stuff of it too. Like, you know, like all the apologetics

people like Stephen C. Meyer or John Lennox or all these people, even Jordan Peterson goes into some of that. Yeah, it's just, it's been really, really good for me. And the people that I brought to our church and adopted like a Christian life, their life is better. It's not that they don't have suffering, it's just that they have better tools to deal with suffering, I suppose. And that's been my paradigm, so that's why I'm behind it. I wasn't abused by the church, I wasn't abused,

I wasn't hurt by church people like a lot of people have you know But that's not that that's humans You know or like what people say like, you know, my my my sister-in-law. She's a Christian and she's terrible It's like maybe she would be way worse if she didn't have a Jesus in her life, you know Like we don't know the what it would be without it so I've had that argument with people too. I'm like, hey man, I'm totally,

the whole diddling kids thing is a complete deal breaker for me on any front. I don't accept that. Maybe it's my shortcoming, but I have no acceptance or love for it. It's where I am 100% human being. I haven't transcended that. And people will be like, well, the church is just as bad and my response to that

Always is like yeah, but the church isn't trying to normalize it There there's terrified of it and they hide it this other religion that I'm seeing on CNN and MSNBC they're trying to normalize it and There's just um, there's just there's just no way Yeah, I mean it's human beings that are taking something that's beautiful and it's powerful though like Religion is like it's like guns. It's like wealth You can do terrible things with those but that doesn't inherently make them bad guns aren't bad in themselves It's what they're used for so the power of the church when in the hands of someone who's a child predator is really, really dangerous

because people are so free and trusting. But you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. You don't get rid of all guns. Like it's not going to work like that because then it's the biggest, strongest, most violent people are going to control things. So we need to have the great equalizer. Like it's just putting it in the right hands. And I think the cure for Christianity that's bad, like abusive kids,'s just more Christianity, more essentially doing what Jesus would have you do.

Jesus would never condone hurting children. So the cure for that is more. I do have questions about, I don't know as much about it, obviously, as Christianity, but in Islam, I don't know know cure for bad Islam is like more of the belief because it's the most extreme people that tend to you know who follow really literally where if you follow Jesus's word literally it's like give up your possessions to the needy and just love everyone I mean that's I don't know how many people actually live that way

love everyone. I mean, that's I don't know how many people actually live that way. Um, I want to touch on something you said about, um, uh, dealing with suffering. Um, I covered the, uh, CrossFit games this year. It's a, um, uh, competition to find the fittest man and woman on the planet. And it happened over in Texas. And one of the athletes on day one right off the bat drowned in the competition. And it was fascinating and I had access, you know, with all the athletes. I was back behind the scenes filming and the Christians handled the people I knew who were like diehard Christians, like, you know, the ones who pray before every before every you know event and the ones who always Thank God when they win those guys handled it those guys and gals Especially the men handled it so different than everyone else

They had like one of the guys even said well, I talked to Lazar before he died, you know before he died a month ago We were training together and he told me he had accepted Jesus Christ as a savior. And it was fascinating to see the way these guys handled death so much more, they had, I don't know how to, I don't wanna say smoothly and mischaracterize it, but they had the tools to process death where the athletes who weren't religious

or who didn't appear to be religious, they were fucked. They pulled out of the competition, they got angry, they lashed out. They did some pretty wild shit and they didn't have the mental landscape to process the death and they became unhinged and their week was ruined. And so you're right, even as a tool you could justify intellectually if not spiritually or for salvation. Yeah, yeah. I mean, the Jewish populations that I got really close to, they have a system. When someone dies, they sit shiva. You just sit and you mourn and you cry for whatever, five days or whatever. You draw the blinds, you just sit in darkness and cry. People come and they cook for you. You don't fade. Like you just you get it

out of your system. You know, they knew about washing hands in the Old Testament before there was germ theory. Like there's a lot of guides about how to live. But then there's like law, and you need to adhere to the law. And, you know, I'm sure you're like a similar way where you you probably think of laws is like a rough guide for how to be not like strictly adhere to it. And so, you know, it's a red light and you're going to be late and there's no one coming. You just sit there at the red light. Like, no, no one's coming. You just go through the red light. And that's like, that's the way that, you know, with

Jesus, it's like, yeah, the law is a good guide, but here's actually like what the intent of the law is. So yeah, I mean, I think overcoming death, that's obviously a big part of the story. The gospel is the idea of overcoming death. You will shout who believes in Jesus will have everlasting life. Is it I saw my grandma who was a big believer before I was. And she was like, you know, on her deathbed, she's like, my wife was crying and she's like,

oh, don't cry, I know I'm gone, it's fine. It's like, oh, give me some of that. Wow, yeah. Like no fear, zero fear. And you can say, some of this might be also, some of the things I was studying, I was talking to my friend who's a doctor about this, is like placebo effect.

Like placebo effect is real. It's very real. And I was talking about just like, you know, you have anxiety. 100 people with anxiety, all 150 of you are going to get a sugar pill starting tomorrow with your anxiety medication. All 100 of you with anxiety came back. So like the placebo effect is so strong. Like what it can do is so strong. And then as to a friend of mine who's a master and he's like, yeah, we just call that faith. So you really believe something. The power that can have over your entire life

is really powerful. You can say like, well, that's real. Or you can say it's like you're fooling yourself but it's hard to determine which one it is. In the body, you take a pill that you believe will cure you, it might actually cure you. I think bigger ways than I ever knew, talking to some of these medical experts. I think it's undisputable that the story that you're telling yourself is not even directly

connected. It's deeper than that. The story that you tell yourself is the status of your happiness, is the status of your sadness, is the status of your being, whatever story you're telling yourself. And going back to what you were saying about when you picked up religion, things just got better. And so whatever story that was allowed you to, if I may make the leap, be more in tune with your mind and your biology were more in tune. And so the creature, the vessel flourished because there was an alignment of the right story that runs that vessel that is the human body better. And I'd like to even propose here, go out on what I don't think is a limb, but might be controversial.

I think that's the thing with abortion too. Regardless of whether you believe that a woman has the right to kill a baby when it's inside of her, which has some very strong merits, it's her fucking body. Or whether killing a baby is okay and what you have to live with, the repercussions of killing a baby are probably really bad for some people, right? And there's very few places there's honest conversation about it. But I don't think the biology of the unit that is a human being, I don't think that you can be a woman and be actively pro-choice and be a happy woman. And by that I mean the, the, the, the, I'm having trouble finding the exact words I want

to use. Whatever it is that a woman is, it does not want to be arguing for the rights to kill a baby. It goes against, even if you can intellectualize it, you want to defend it, but I don't think it aligns with the biology of the being. The biology of that being, when it's maximized, it's like having a parachute behind your Formula One car. It's like it's not meant to pull that parachute. And so whether you want to believe it or not,

when you hear six out of fucking ten liberal women are fucking been diagnosed with fucking mental insanity, you're like, hey, dude, have you thought about maybe not, I'm not asking you to pick sides, but maybe just let go a little bit of that thing that you're basing your whole fucking existence on is the right to kill babies it's like that can't be good for the fucking machine and I think I think I think that's like the whole religion thing like Unfortunately, you know that might offend some religious people but you have to at some point start to think of it as like an operating System like hey, dude but you have to at some point start to think of it as like an operating system. Like, hey dude, your vehicle is gonna run so much better if you can just come into alignment with what it's meant to do.

And like as a woman, you're meant to fucking carry fucking a baby and protect it to your death. Send it out into the world. I mean, that's your purpose. I mean, I make a premise there, but I like it. I'll stand by it. No, I teach this all the time. Spot on, I think that you need to have a purpose.

We recently moved a couple months ago and you're going through things and you're like, all right, what is this? All right, this is a clip for papers. All right, I might need that, blah, blah, blah. And then I come up with something, I don't know if I have something here that's like nonsense, but you grab something and you're like,

I don't know what this is. I don't know what this is. So it doesn't have a purpose. I'm gonna chuck it. Like the whole point, I mean, just biologically is to, you know, why are we here? You know, just from a biological standpoint, it's to procreate and to continue living.

It's to continue to stay alive, which is often a struggle. So you need to struggle. And then to continue your genes. So for guys it's to spread the seed and for women it's to have babies. So that's at the base lizard brain level. So yeah, going against that might have some repercussions in your life.

Like why are you here? And you could argue, I guess, that, well, I wanna be able to provide the best life for my child. So I need to do family planning. So I'm in like a good financial place and stuff like that. I'm sure that there's, I don't know, I don't know. It'd be interesting to see like the, the mental health repercussions of someone who's, you know, in poverty, you know, was in a tough situation, an abusive relationship as an abortion versus someone who's wealthy, who, who has, you know, or has some comfort and just like doesn't want the inconvenience.

I don't know. That'd be interesting because there might be different reasons, but I don't know. Pat Lang, you're having, you're finding trouble saying this because you're not a woman. Listen, you fucking ding dong. That's not true at all. Listen, I'm having trouble because there's, because I'm 52 and I'm fucking, it's early in the morning. It's, I want to use the word species. No, it's a creature vessel

There's a word I'm thinking of that but you're fucking wrong, dude Listen, it has nothing to do about being with a woman and a man. I'm gonna tell you something Pat about me. I Was inside of a woman? Some dude busted a nut and a chick and I grew inside of a woman and she birthed me and I came out through the vagina and I spent nine months in there, dude. I have just as much right to fucking talk about that as any woman. I'm as pro-choice as you can fucking get, but I will also tell you this, to have any hatred or dislike for someone who's pro-life is fucking crazy. Those people should be supported.

Those people are on a mission to save babies' lives, and that's a really fucking respected position. That's a really, if you're against baby killing, like, and then for some reason you're a human being and you can't get your head wrapped around someone who's against baby killing, then you're fucked. It has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a woman or not. You stop it.

Yeah, I've had done a bunch of podcasts on abortion. I've had two abortion doctors on, like I got them both to admit that it's not the ideal. Like there's no situation where having an abortion is the ideal situation. There's, you know, it's missing the ideal. Like there's no situation where having an abortion is the ideal situation. There's, you know, it's missing the bullseye, which as you probably know, that's where the word sin comes from,

is missing the bullseye, missing the mark. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, isn't that dope? So like the term sin, it's like things like hatza or something in Hebrew, has to miss the bullseye. And again, like that's why, like as a Jesus person, I'm, has to miss the bullseye. And again, like that's why, like as a Jesus person, I'm like, Jesus is the bullseye.

So I'm not gonna be able to live like him, okay, nor would I want to, but I kinda want to, but I don't want the end part, you know, but like, it's at least the bull, it's at least an aim. So you get off the path, you have back to that. So an abortion in no way could you say, and the people like celebrating abortions, I'm happy I got my abortion, like, no, no, it's the ideal is your you bring a baby

into the world in a stable, full of resource situation with a mom and dad who love it and will care for it. Like, that's the ideal. So aim for that. But once you recognize that something's not the not the bullseye, then you can kind of scale that back to like, well, how far from the bullseye is it? And then we can judge whether it's right or wrong based on how far it is from what would the ideal would be. Fuck.

You know some stuff. Thoughts on the Department of Education going away, US Department of Education. Okay. Yeah. Glad to talk about this. uh thoughts on the department of education going away u.s department of education okay yeah oh glad to talk about this i'm going to be doing some podcasts on this one too so like uh a lot of the school system is from the states but there are mandates that are from the federal government we had no child left behind there's some common core stuff uh But I don't think that the Department of Education is as involved as a lot of people think. I think that the unions, like the NEA, they're probably like a bigger,

like fish to fry, so to speak. Like that's a tougher one because they're really, really impactful. And they were the ones who shut down schools for COVID and everything like that. I think that we need to recognize that we have specific areas of the board of the Department of Education for literacy. And then you look at the statistics of how bad that's going. I think it's a real problem.

It's like we want to change. It's so hard to change something that people don't want. You want to spend time with your kids. So it's very different than, I mean, when I taught like East LA, parent teacher conference night was a very lonely night of the week for me. Just no one, they just didn't,

whether they were busy, they didn't care, I don't know, but they weren't involved in the kid's life. And I think that this is a cultural thing, the problems with education. And we want to just go after the institution and say it's the institution's fault. But individuals can raise great kids despite there being a Department of Education. And when you absolve responsibility, you welcome tyranny. You welcome people to take on that responsibility in a way that you don't think is ideal. But just as you said, drop kids off at the outside of the chain link fence.

I just I don't know if demolishing the Department of Education is going to change, change, make the necessary cultural shifts about people caring about their kids education that we really need. I don't know. You great points. The one thing that you did mention, I think in this, the statistics or the data behind it is the true solid, I mean, the Department of Education

has been around a long time, but the true kind of solidification of it as its own department was I think in 79 or 80 under Carter. It was under Carter, so I think 79. And then from there, we've watched almost in a perfect downward slant test scores drop for 44 years. And I know that's only one element of it.

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Yeah. Since they don't actually do any teaching out of there. So you'd like to see if the federal government were to be involved, it would be on some level of like, Hey, you have to offer, uh, calculus up to every student in the United States and they have to be brought up to a, um, uh, you know, certain, uh, diagramming sentences, the reading and English level of diagramming sentences. And then that's it. That's the only mandate we're going to put on you. Like some sort of core.

No, I know I'm not. No, I'm not even gonna throw that, no. Okay. I don't know exactly, I'd have to break down exactly more of what they're doing and then you can't do efficiency and kind of pick and choose through there. But no, I don't think that all schools should be college prep, I don't think that all kids should know algebra necessarily, like our brains are so different.

So no, I don't agree with that. And I also don't agree that there should be a lot of parts of Common Core or this is the way that you teach math. I can get the right answer this way. It's like, no, you have to do it this way. That all that stuff I think is where the problem lies. But where I think the problem of education might be good would be things like funding

for kids with special needs. If there isn't enough money, those kids can be really expensive. They need a lot of help, but neurodivergent kids, kids who have, but they don't call Asperger's anymore but some level on the spectrum, they could be really brilliant, but they have all kinds of impulse control or they have dyslexia or auditory processing. They need someone to sit down with them and go over it. I'm colorblind, like red, green colorblind. So I explain to my students is like,

I put these colorblind tests and I put numbers. I said, these were the numbers and these colorblind tests, and it was a math test. I would fail the math test, not because I don't know math, but because my eyes don't register these colors. So if you're dyslexic, but you're brilliant, you need to have some sort of aid there to walk through what these letters are actually saying

so we can get access to your brilliance. And the funding for that might need to come from the federal government. So that's the stuff that I would be more concerned about. Not that every kid, I don't like that every kid needs to fit into a certain box. It's actually the opposite. I think that we need certain resources for kids

that don't fit into the box. And I worry about if they don't have people in their community stepping up to provide those resources. Trump has used this line a couple of times, and I'm a little nervous about how well it resonates with me. It can't get worse. Oh, meaning that's his justification for getting rid of the US Department of Education. But I do believe that. Let's just take this. It's kind of like the elimination diet. You have some eczema somewhere and you're like, okay, I'm going to fast for two days

and then I'm only going to add steak. And let's see what happens to the eczema. Okay, it went away. Let me add, and let's see what happens to the eczema. Okay. It went away. Let me add in and you add things. I almost feel like that's what they're going for with the US government, the elimination diet. You get it. And I'm, and I'm, and I'm sadistically excited for it. Yeah. I mean, uh, Elon Musk talks about being a first principles thinker all the time. You take it down to its bare bones and then you, you know, add what's necessary. And I think that's, it's just,

I think there's 450 bureaucratic agencies. So like you do the math and it's almost like two per year since America has been established. Oh yeah. I saw that on your Instagram account. That is crazy. That is nuts, dude. It's like, so, so, but I get why, you know, I worked for the government, I worked for public schools, like it's cushy. The benefits are great.

You know, I get it. But again, our is it is it what's best is what is it what you know, this country needs, especially during a time where we were falling behind in many important areas. You look at what China is doing, like, I have friends in the military, they're like, dude, China areas. You look at what China's doing. Like I have friends in the military. They're like, dude, China's military is hardcore. They're in shape. They're disciplined. It's hard to get guys now to join them, the army and who can do, you know, five

plus, you know, how many, like how many 18 year olds can go out and do 10 pullups? I don't know what the present, I mean, it might be 1%. Which is crazy. Um, young body. I don't know what the percent I mean might be 1% which is crazy Young what do you body? You know these things that's these I don't know if you saw the interview What's the guy's name Peter Hagseth the guy who's been named the defense secretary? He basically it's being twisted, but basically what he said is that he doesn't think women should be get any There shouldn't be any change to the test. If you're not qualified, you're not qualified. And he also believes that they

shouldn't be in combat positions. It was funny. I was talking to my wife about that the other day. And at first she's like, I don't know if I agree with that. But do you have any thoughts on that? Because the one that finally I pushed my wife over the edge with it was, Hey, do you know what happens when they capture women? And she's like, Oh shit. And I was like, yeah, it's real bad. Yeah. I think that yeah, I think that the closer we get to a meritocracy, the better. So I yeah, the idea of like, you know, men have to carry this way and women a smaller weight. Well, what like, there's a, this is, and this is involved in the woke stuff in so many areas.

Like we've really made a disconnection. And I think this starts in school between like the qualifications and the actual job. Like you would never hire, um, a lifeguard who's like not a great swimmer, cause it's so obvious that like that. But we we so many areas where we sa you are from a minority g from a disadvantaged back

going to lower the standa in this position. But that effects across society wi equipped to be in that po that position actually matters. Maybe it means something. Maybe the whole point of PT in the military isn't just to show how many pushups you can do,

but because if someone's underneath a brick wall and you need to lift it, are you able to do that? If you need to put someone over your shoulder and run them out. There's reasons why you're doing this, and I think that's the disconnect. But to have a blanket statement of we don't have women in combat. What about the women out there that are just like

hardcore savages? They do exist. And they might be small enough to like, you know, burrow into tunnels and stuff like that. Cap dudes in the head. You know, like I'm friends with like Kelsey Sheeran, who's like a military person from Canada and she's like she's like rough Like she's like a rough person though. She's small and she's like, you know, like I think that we want those people too It's like who are the gonna be the best soldiers. I don't care what genitals they have I don't care how they vote. I don't care who they are attracted to it's like can you do the job, you know? And also some of those women might be great helicopter pilots or something, you know, like smaller hands, like sometimes women are better shot shots, like the range, you know, so there's a lot of different areas. I don't like the blanket

statements of like none of these people because most of these people fit into this category. Does that make sense? I intellectually, I 100% hear you. And I agree with you. Like, hey, if you're good enough to do the job. But there is a biological piece and it's not just in that job. God, it's like, man, these guys are gonna get really wound up in the chat now when I say this. I've never had a massage, but I guess it's the difference between getting a massage from

a female versus a male. If you're a male or if you're never had a massage. No never had a massage. That's interesting. It's like, it's like, it's like, they used to do MDMA with therapists, right? Back in the 80s, when it was legal. I can't imagine doing MDMA with a female therapist. Just me personally.

And I just think of the biology of putting women in a situation. Like barracks and stuff. Yeah, just, just, just all just all of it. Just like I think think real men also would be I think it's the weak link Because of the man's mindset not because of the woman inherently but because of the men having women there makes the men weak meaning Let's say there's ten of us out We're on a combat mission and there's one woman The men might be a little more concerned about the woman than they are about each other and that could somehow compromise the mission just because they're inherently have that built into them.

I don't and if someone were to say it was sexist, I could be like, okay, I accept that premise, but is that enough to still make it so at the end of the day, like the goal is to save lives? The example I use over and over and over again is the BLM movement and the defund the police. What we did there, let's say you really do believe that Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd and that cops are bad and that they go out, wake up every morning and say, I'm going to kill two black guys. Let's say you believe that, which is it's the farthest thing from the truth. Right. actions they took that hurt the police in the public eye, all it did was lead to thousands and thousands of more black men getting killed the following year. So at that point, you have to be like, even though I was right, I got the totally wrong

outcome. And so even if you could intellectualize it a million times over, and you can convince me that I'm sexist, is there still a place to be like, well, you still can't come in because at the end of the day, it just gets more people killed. That's a great part. I talked to friends like military. I don't know how you I don't know how you navigate that with the public. And that's why I think strong leaders are important.

Sorry, go ahead. You talk with your friends in the military. No, that's a great point is I've talked to people in the military who said that like they were over in Afghanistan or Iraq and and then they brought in one female, and the whole dynamic changed. Not just to protect her, but also, you're dudes, and you're around a lot of testosterone, just dudes killing people. It's the most primitive parts of your brain,

and that's gonna be linked to sex too. So you bring a girl in who's in shape and stuff like that, it's gonna change the dynamics and guys who will start like rivaling over each with each other over getting her attention. That's a really good point that like, yeah, I've discussed that before. All that stuff has some complexity, especially in battle. Um, uh, Sevan thinks that all women are feeble, weak, pathetic beings that should, uh, bear children.

Oh, Patty. Oh, why do you think people, okay. that all women are feeble, weak, pathetic beings that should bear children? Oh, Patty, oh, Patty. Why do you think people, all right, so this is like in my world so much, like why do you think he would choose to, is it just to get like attention? I love that, like, is it, no, really, like, is it like, do you actually believe that,

that Sivan thinks that, like, do, or do you think believe that, that Sivan thinks that? Like do, or do you think that like- He's misbehaving when we have a guest here. That he's gonna rise out of you, that now we're talking about it, like what is that? I'm gonna punish him. He's gonna have to do more chores around the house now or something.

We have a good guest here, Will Roush, a very open-minded man. And Pat, you're misbehaving. You're totally misbehaving. I have no idea why he does it. I fight with this guy. I fight with this guy a lot. He's a destroyer. He's an important piece to the show. Yeah. Oh, it's a bro. It's a it's a joke, bro. Oh, shut it. You wouldn't know a joke of it hits you in the face. He doesn't. Well, there are people that think that way that that aren't joking. So I'm just I'm just scared. Like love pushback It's like here's it here's an here's an angle that you're not seeing which you just did with the combat women combat thing

But it's like when it's just name-calling I mean if it's just like friends is joking around this different but like I'm the dynamic but like there are like a lot Of trolls that I have on my account that just come in and they just want to just tear it down It's like well, what's the reason? You know? What do you think about this? You probably don't see this question coming. What do you think about Jake Paul fighting Mike Tyson tonight?

Oh, man. I'm like a martial arts guy, so like I love this stuff. Yeah. I think Jake Paul is going to win. I would love to see Mike Tyson knock out Jake Paul and ride off in the sunset. But what people need to realize is like, when you see Mike Tyson hitting pads or sparring,

you're seeing a glint, you're seeing 30 seconds. All right, like I boxed a little bit back in the day and stuff like, I can look good for 30 seconds on pads. But I wanna see when you're 10 minutes into a session. Now, but the 50 years old powers the last thing to go, but stamina is going to go. And boxing is a really cardio intensive sport. Jake Paul is going to be in phenomenal shape. He can dance around, he can cover up, not get knocked out in the first round or something. Mike Tyson throws everything he's gotten the first couple of punches, the first round, two rounds. I think one after it gets past three rounds, I worry about the

cardio element. And then once the cardio goes, I think that Jake Paul can catch him. But we'll see. I mean, I would love to see Mike Tyson with that be amazing. No, no judgment. But do you think Tyson is on some stuff? Like do you think he's probably got on some EPO or got on some TRT? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I hope he did. I hope he did. Of course. No, I think he's on everything, but that can only take you so far. If he was 48 and on everything, I think that's different. But 58 is getting up there and I don't know. And Jake Paul is probably on gear too. Did you see the press conference

when Jake Paul accidentally stepped on his toe and Tyson slapped him? Oh, is that why? I saw the slap, I know it's cause he stepped on his toe. This morning I saw a wide angle shot on it and he was like crawling up to Mike and when he stood up, he stepped on his's and then Mike jumped back and slapped him. I'm here for it but I just don't I don't I don't I think Jake Paul is a decent boxer and he's preparing for this and he's strong and I watched I think the best way to judge is Mike Tyson versus Roy Jones jr. That happened

But like two years ago or something yeah, and I mean They're both older. I didn't think that it was it was like super impressive of Tyson then it was fine But I wasn't like whoa. Well, that's the old Tyson In fuck dude, he was hospitalized just a few months ago with an ulcer. Yeah, I mean, the body's been through a lot. Yeah, yeah, he moves trippy. And then what do you think about, you think John Jones is just gonna destroy Steve? No, I don't think he'll just destroy him. I don't, I mean, he might. It's hard to say,

but like, Steve, I bet on Franz Zingano when they fought the first time, it's hard to say, but like, Stipe, I bet on Francis Ngannou when they fought the first time, that pretty big. I was like, oh, Francis Ngannou is gonna just run through. I've underestimated Stipe Miocic his entire career. Me too. Every single time. I'm like, dude, there's no way this guy's gonna pull it out.

Daniel Cormier is gonna just run through him every time. And there's something to him that's really, really good. And it's why he never blew up his name. He's's kind of stoic he doesn't talk a lot of smack he's like he's just like just he gets the job done though so i don't know maybe maybe but i don't i mean i wouldn't be super surprised if john jones ran through him i would be surprised if steve ran through john jones but i do think that Stipe comes in shape. I think he's gonna have good cardio. And I don't know, we'll see.

I think, unfortunately, I think Stipe, Luke Rockhold, and Paul Craig all have a glass jaw. I think Stipe- You think Stipe does? Yeah. When has he been knocked out though? Stephens Drouve and Francis, that's it. Those are the only two?

I just. I think. I just don't trust him. Maybe Cormier too. Cormier too. I just don't trust his, I don't trust his. He's one of those people like he gets hit in the head and I just, you know like that Luke Rockhold effect?

Like you're like, man, he's the greatest and oh shit, he got punched or. Oh yeah. Chuck Fidel was a big one too. He had a draw and then nothing. Oh, oh, it went away. I didn't watch, I didn't watch UFC. Hey, what do you think about a Bo Nichols and Paul Craig?

I really want Bo Nichols to win. But one of my friends is telling me he thinks Paul Craig is going to win. Oh, like strangle him. I don't know. Um, so Bo Nicholol, he's from Penn State. He went to the same college I did. He wrestled with Penn State. And I have a good friend, Renee Souza, who's a jujitsu black belt who trains with Bo Nicol all the time. Like, his jujitsu is getting better. A good wrestler in mixed martial arts is gonna tend to do better than a good jujitsu person because you can just stay out of some trouble and drop punches. I don't know. I would go, Paul Craig looks tough. I mean, he looks lean.

I would go with Bo Nicol just because I think that to be at that level of wrestler in the wrestling room and stuff like that, I think he's super mentally strong. And I want to get on the hype train. I don't know what the odds are. I can't root for a rapist. Tyson is a bad dude. All right, fair enough. Yeah, I'm sure Jake Paul has had his moments. Pat, did you like Kobe Bryant? Okay, I'll leave Kobe. Kobe gets where people really riled up. Oh, Kobe, Kobe, Kobe, Kobe.

Yeah, isn't that funny? We hold the double standard that we hold for the athletes we like versus the ones we don't. Same thing with politics, right? Like it's fine that Trump said that about women, but it's terrible that Bill Clinton said that about women or did stuff, you know. Did you ever read the Ken Starr Report? Probably read through it a while back, about like just like all like all the shitting ends with like a like a we need need a broad wreck and everything. I Just read I skipped I just read it for the first time Maybe a month ago and it's the it's the 11-hour interview. He did with Monica Lewinsky Dude, it is crazy the details they get into like she they had ten they hooked up ten times

Nine times she blew him. Only twice did he ejaculate. She talks about why he wouldn't ejaculate. He didn't feel like they were intimate enough. I mean, he talks about where he would have to lean against the wall with one hand up because his back hurt. I mean, it's crazy the details it goes into. It's like, I wish I would have found it when I was like 15 years old.

You know what I mean? I would have fucking loved it. Yeah, that was a wild reality. That was like the start of reality show in the White House. Hey, there's another example. I think she's 22 years old. I think it's totally fucking inappropriate to me. She might as well have been 17.

I think it's going back to the middle. Should women be in the military? I think it's fucking completely inappropriate. I don't know how old he was at the time. Let's say 50 or 60 to be fucking hooking up with a 22 year old intern. Even if he was single, I think it's. I think it was she 22. I think she was he was single, I think it's, I think it's younger than it was. She 22. I think she was 20 or D I think she was 22. I know I wanted her

to be like 17 to fuck bill, but I thought she was like, I thought she was like 20, but yeah, but either way it was, it's, it's, it's, it's wildly inappropriate. It's, it's, um, in the oval office to be, uh, she ate his ass once. So I'll use that for, to have a 22 year old be eating your ass in the oval office. It's like, dude, I love, I love these kinds of, I gotta take my boys to, uh, two of my boys to the doctor's office. They gotta get drunk. Cause they're there. One of them has a peanut allergy is a nerd. Um, make sure they don't inject them with anything.

Don't let them inject them with anything. Okay. No, no. All right. Thanks for coming on, dude. You demand any time, Will. Love having you on. I love shooting the shit with you, dude.

All right. Yeah, I love this too. Yes, but again, All right. Thank you. Ciao. All right. You think you really had to take a sun

or the ass eating got him? I go, I took it. I sun or the ass eating got him to, I go, I took it. I jumped up to ass eating too fast. Oh, I gotta go. I gotta go. I gotta go. I gotta go. I gotta go. Jesus. I gotta go. I gotta go. Let me see what's going on here. Yeah, I gotta go. I got shit to do, Mr. Wilrush.

It's a great Instagram account. He's a very thoughtful man. Oh. Wow, what is that? Oh. Oh, wow, what is that? Oh god so much exciting stuff happening Oh So much drama last night show was amazing. I thought it was amazing. I asked my sister if she watched it and She said it was too crass for her. I I didn't fall asleep till one I drank too much coffee too late. That was a fuck-up. Yeah too much coffee

Can you talk about barbell spin and strongman drama? Dude, last night's show, I did all the strongman drama you could do. Holy shit. Where is it? Let me see. I mean, dude, I'm telling you, if you didn't see last night's show, I fucking, I went to bed just in love with Caleb because we had so much fun. I wish we had a sleepover. I wish he could have stayed over. Holy shit. Man.

This this for those of you didn't see last night show this chicks. I'll go to the barbell spin a second. This chick's husband right here. Because she Stoltman her I guess her husband fuck some dude and some other strong woman and then she made a post about it. And now 1,300 people have weighed in. God, you guys are fucking bat shit crazy if you think that that's okay to do to yourself.

You guys are fucking nuts. Listen, before, does any, if, I don't know how many of you I can take on, but if any of you are fucking retarded and you just need a little help feel free to DM me. I can give you a little advice nothing long, but like, you know If you catch your husband cheating on you or if you're you know, I don't know Find out your kid saw some porn. You're not sure how to what to react Feel free to reach out before you fucking make a post that your husband cheated on you when you have a fucking nine month old Now 1300 people have weighed in.

Jesus Christ. You know what that's like? That's like you're fucking you have a you have a kitchen fire. And instead of just using the fire extinguisher to put it out, you fucking dump 300000 gallons of water and destroy your own house. It's fucking completely retarded. I go to, you want to see people freak out, I was thinking about this yesterday, go to Africa with white people.

Like someone where there aren't any white people, like go like, and see how like they completely fucking freak out. Oh, Paige Power, seven months pregnant to run in High Rock, Chicago this weekend. Wow. God damn. Look how pretty she's getting when she's pregnant. She got the mama glow. Good job.

OK, Strongman Luke Stoltman, wife goes public with allegations of affair. Wow. Yeah, look at this. I did a whole show on this yesterday. It was great. I think that's the first time I'm making note of that. That's the first time I've ever broken news before the barbell spin ever. She's a smoke show. Yeah, Paige. She's cute. Maybe she wanted to destroy the house. A good point. Very good point, Hiller. I'm so stuck in my...

Pat, he fucked a guy. I mean, that's what she says, dude. Pat, you would have loved last night's show. It was fucking chaos, dude. Hiller brings up a really good point. I need to open, Hiller's always good to have around, open up my thinking. I'm so stuck in my ways. That's a great point. I mean, I came with the presupposition that it's a bad idea to destroy the house and I was,

who am I to do that? That's very valid. Uh... I can't wait. Oh, is Mitchell Hooper gonna do a video on this? That's kind of his only way of getting redemption. Dear Mitchell Hooper, if you want us to fucking respect you, I make a video on this. Uh... yes. Correct. Uh, correct. Correct. That's amazing. I'm doing something wrong. I eat well, sleep well, keep a disciplined, healthy schedule. I'm often exhausted. Well, this guy has enough energy to become one of the strongest people on earth and fuck

everyone in his path. Oh, shit. Wow. Oh shit Wow someone wrote and we care about this maybe just stick to posting CrossFit stuff and leave people's private issues alone This is such a Bre Brian are whatever when when you are a public figure listen, there's no one in the fitness space That's a fucking public figure. Shut the fuck up about that and your wife post something now that agree about About your private life on social media. It's already become everyone's business. Yeah, I agree about that, but Yeah Private life on social media has already become everyone's business. Yeah, I agree about that. But, um, yeah. Uh.

Talking about sex and fucking and especially when dudes and girls is fun. Funny how Peacock's commentary is limited but Luke's is not. Um. Oh, he's deleting comment. Oh. World's strongest bi by there. That's fair Can I still wear a Stoltzman hat I bought it rogue Yeah with pride P R I D E with pride now P-R-I-D-E.

With pride now. Listen, if you're, listen, if this is going to be, if your husband goes both, so if you, if you're married to a man, there's a chance he's cheating on you because he's a man. If he goes both ways, the chances of him cheating on you, like, like if you're a gay dudes, like the exponentially skyrockets. But if he's on testosterone and he goes both ways, I mean, dude, like there's no. You get it. Thanks, pool boy. With pride, I get good.

Yeah, I don't even know what exponential means, but listen, like you have this creature and he's just a fucking cum firing machine. It's known as man then you add the fact that Um, you don't have to jump through the hoops to fire a load on someone Meaning a woman because you got to jump through all the hoops, right to get a woman and you make it find another man Who's willing to fire loads on each other? you'd like you break that boundary and go into now There's no saying what a man can do but you increase his testosterone level times 10, dude

It's straight Pat Lang this is why I'm not taking roids. I don't want to start fucking these. I don't know if he that that's interesting I never even went there but that that's interesting. I never even went there, but that that's probably true, too If you're on roids, you're probably more susceptible to crossing the line I Know this dude who was juiced up who used to get blowjobs from trannies. He'd be like dude. I've turned into a complete Disgusting human. I'm like, why do you say that? They're like I get blowjobs from trannies. I was like, wow Why is this even news I don't know if it is new cuz dudes fuck

Spill the tea baby. So now we're going to get the gossip from the barbell spin. The gossip. Hold up did she say and men diabolical. Yikes, kind of assume this kind of stuff is rampant with CrossFit community of no info, but a little shocked on this turn of events Yep, um Planet Earth is full of people that fuck Jesus people are fucking weird. What rock do people live under. A-hole is a hole double your chances in numbers.

Oh, asshole is a hole double your chances in numbers. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. Oh, he is a swinger. Okay. See, I knew he was being, I knew it was unfair, the way he, if he's a swinger that was look That's what I was postulating yesterday on the show if him and his wife are swingers

You know and basically he fucked once with another girl and guy when his wife wasn't there What a piece of shit. She thinks Luke Stoltman's a piece of shit. Whoa, what is that thing under her arm right there? Oh. Oh shit. She has a trauma tattoo Uh, what is this love the plot more than the outcome? Oh, no Oh shit i'm gonna i'm gonna respond to her is it

I'm gonna respond to her with that love the plot more than the outcome chill love the plot more than the outcome Where where's her uh where's her post um love the plot more than the outcome. Isn't the internet crazy? Alright. I have to go. I want to hang out for another 90 minutes, but I gotta go.

for another 90 minutes but I gotta go. Seve just trolling randos. I mean it's just like a place to work on your material right? Try to be funny. Uh, Stanny Randy. Uh, Hilar has said in the past he would stay with Lexus if she was a tranny and he sticks his dick in peanut butter. Yum. Um, Yum. I can't see Hillard blowing dudes, but in a pinch I could see him taking a blowjob from a dude, but definitely not. He's not blowing any dudes. That's for sure. Stoltman's wife is pretty dang fine too. Yeah, Colombian. She looks like a sweet Colombian piece of ass. Mel Peacock looks good now for a dude, but one day she comes off the test and slows down lifting. I doubt she's very aesthetically pleasing. Dude, how do you even know what Mel Peacock looks like? I mean, seriously. If I, if I, if I, if I hooked up with Mel Peacock, I

would chalk it up as to dabbling on the other side. Like, hey, I'm getting really close to fucking, you know, tagging some butthole. All right. Tagging some butthole. That's why if you chase semen with C4 does that help you sw- I love how little men hate any muscle on women. I love how little men shut the fuck up. God you're Dude, you're out of your fucking mind If I wasn't married I would fucking pound peacock all that's the you guys how long have you been watching the show? Seema was doing this last night too, where you just jumped to conclusions. Just because I'm saying it's a dude.

It's like what I did to Hila earlier. I made the presupposition that maybe she didn't want it. Maybe she did want to destroy the house. Listen, I would love to in my younger years, fucking try to carry Miss Peacock around the fucking kitchen a little bit. Chalk one up to the old, you know, dabble in a little homosexuality with the, with the, with the, uh,

God, fuck my brain today Peacock would fuck you. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I meant I'd like to what what imagine if that chick fucking got on top of you and was fucking you and put your hand her hand On your mouth and fucking like and you couldn't do nothing My wife was watching the show a couple years ago and there was a, there was a, it was like one of those Viking shows and there was a guy chained to a wall and a woman came over and fucked him or raped him. I couldn't even fucking believe it. And I was like, wow, it's crazy.

I never even, I never in a million years thought, again, I don't know, that had never entered my mind. Yeah, she, that chick could just fucking take a load off you even if you didn't want to give her one. Oh shit. All right. Oh, it was, was it Norseman's on Netflix? I don't know. It was crazy though.

It was awesome. That was when she would watch that series. I would just whatever I, because I didn't, I didn't, I don't really watch TV. Unless it's fighting, but I would tell her like, hey, if there's nude scenes or fucking will you just call me in? I just want to watch. Hey, they're naked. All right, here I come. Oh, that is disgusting.

That is disgusting. We are in the attracting advertisers segment of the show. Holy balls! They haven't given me any money yet, but maybe someday. Alright. These are really good. I just got some more. They have a new packaging. God damn, it smells so good too.

It reminds me of my youth. Alright. Tonight I'm going to do a Tyson watch party show. I got to make sure this TV in here has Netflix. I don't even know if it does. I think my nephew is going to come on tonight and Avi with me too. Hopefully Caleb. So it should be cool.

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Sometimes more, sometimes less. My classmates go through the same thing. I never thought that at that I could do this at 44 years old. And I will continue to do it until my body can no longer.