Yannis Pappas Hour - Suburban Naïveté | YP Hour

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

Yanni from History Hyenas rants about the three levels of isolation that has conditioned the modern American mind into a child-like mind. Support our sponsors: To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://Hims.com/YANNIS. https://lucy.co/yannis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up, everybody. Welcome to the Janus Pappasour once again from the land of New York, New York. I'm in New York City, in New York State, in the United States of America. Some people right now are in the Strait of Hermuth doing this, crossing their fingers and hoping they get through safely. It's all about the straight of Hermuth. Take that as you want. Iran is saying, listen, what we're going to do is we're not going to let safe passage this way. Not unless Hades comes with you.

Hades was the god of the underworld, and he's going to take you down. But if you got Poseidon with you, you may be able to pass. There was a day where people in boats would be saying shit like that. We go and look, dude, I feel the presence of Hades. And then some guy near Achilles would go, I said I'm in Greek and he'd say, but I feel the power of Poseidon with me. But if you're passing through right now, if you're one of these international oil shippers or whatever other boat is going through, Iran is saying, we're just going to start hitting stuff.

Supposedly they just hit a tie as we were talking. It sounds like they struck a Thai ship. attempting to pass through is from Thailand. So had a bunch of ladyboys on there. A lot of lady boys and pad Thai, chicken pat Thai. You think when the American walks into the Thai restaurant, the waiter just yells at the chef, chicken pad Thai.

Nobody gets the pet say you. Give me to Led Boy. Lady boy to Chicken Pad Thai. So that's what. going on right now, which could mean a few things. They're still launching rockets at the Iron Dome, which, listen, if you're in your apartment building in Tel Avivov, nice little fireworks display if they're catching them. You get to watch some, I mean, from the pictures, looks like New Year's Eve in New York

City. I'm just trying to look for a silver lining. I don't know what else to tell you. I guess you hope they run out. I guess the Iron Dome, you just hope it sticks. And if you're in Iran, just don't go to school. Just take a week off school. You know, America supposedly now is the one that hit that school.

Now, this shit always happens, unfortunately. It's horrible. It's really horrible. But I also like to say, like, you know, Can we call Snow Day? How about like, or did we hit them on the first round before they had a chance? I don't know when it was. I'm just trying to make light of a terrible situation.

But you want to, you don't want to go to school right now. I don't think you want to go to school. I think you want to stay in the basement for a little bit. And I'm not saying that's the right thing or the wrong thing, which is what people like to do now is take your arguments and go, is that right and is that wrong? And the reason that's happened, is because of three levels of isolation

that have caused people mainly in the modern world, mainly in the West, I would say. All I can speak of is America, really, to become highly disconnected from the harsh realities of nature and human nature. You know? I was having a conversation with one girl and she was talking about the anxiety of her cat.

And I made the joke that the cat has anxiety because it's not killing things. and she said she was like disturbed by it because she's a vegetarian she loves her cat she's like my cat's a little fucking thing you know it has anxiety and I'm like yeah because anytime my cat's not killing something it it has no reason to live it doesn't want to live anymore it's raison detra has been taken from it and she's like not my cat I said no you're a cat and I was like you know just did you just go watch the documentary uh for people like you who don't know these things or look into them, just go watch that.

It's called Little Lion in the Living Room. And you'll understand how much house cats are responsible for throwing off local ecosystems because they just kill for no reason. They just kill. They got strong prey drives. They're not sitting in the bodega because they look good lounging on the chips. They're there to kill mice. That's what they like to do.

They're cats. Cats are killers. They're killing machines. They're actually nature's number one killer. Solo killer. They love to kill. And as soon as you let them out of your house, they will kill. If a rat comes in your little apartment, it will kill it.

So that's why we like it. Free range domestic cats are estimated to kill 1.3 to 4 billion birds annually. Did you hear me? It's a leading human cause threat to the birds in the United States. So love your cat. But when I said this to her, she, like, you know, and then I said, I said, don't worry, it's not your far. Many people are disconnected from nature by the amenities of modernity.

And it threw her off. And what I realized in this conversation was I realized, I finally put my finger on an insight that has kind of been orbiting, but eluding me. But I put my finger on it. In that one interaction, you know, it's over years and years and years and I make jokes on my specials about how you can get sushi and Rite Aid.

This is as good as it gets. You know, it's just, I've been orbiting it. And then I come around people and they annoy me. Like, they really annoy me. And I don't understand why. And I see them do comedy. And I see people enjoying the comedy. But I don't get it.

I don't understand. I don't feel it. I don't understand. It's not. like, you know, it doesn't feel real to me. And I wonder why. And I'm like, is there something wrong with me? And now I realize it's different.

Generationally, it's different, but also environmentally, it's different. And I figured it out. So I tell you that example, I digress to tell you that example because I want to go back to my premise that there are three levels of isolation that has created what I like to call a absolute childlike outlook based on ideas. When you're isolated and you're not forced to interact with people or forced to deal with the dangers of interacting with strangers in cities or during times where things are a little more unpredictable, a little sparser, you're a little more aware.

right is a little less morality like childlike utopian morality and more adult understanding of power dynamics human nature um psychology um and how some of these things aren't immoral they're part of all living species like i saw one tweet go why can't mankind just live in peace and i agree what a great idea but much like how we learned how to be warm, much like we learned how to hunt, you look at the animals, you look at nature, and you go, what are they doing?

How come they're not living in peace? And I'm not talking about different species that, you know, naturally prey on or our prey of. I'm talking about interspecies peace. There is none. Ant colonies, go to war with other ant colonies. The list goes on, right?

Lion prides against other lion prides, roaming males. Every single species and insect does a little war, right? Even the chimps, which we thought, oh, they just chill. And then we're like, whoa, we watched them for a little bit. And they're like, guys, whoa, are you doing Coke? What is this rage when they're taking the fucking champs from the other thing? And they're banging it and eating it and pulling them out and eating them? you're going, that's not cool.

So it's because of competition for resources, competition for resources and survival, right? So that's why we're not living in peace. It's something in the modern world we're more disconnected from because our politicians talk with a lot of spin around it. But back in the day, I don't think Caesar had to say, I don't think Caesar had to be like, we're going in for free. I don't think he had to do it. I think he had to do some type of propaganda to ral your people up

because at the end of the day, you are going there to make the ruling class richer. That's always going to be true. The deep state, the ruling class, the oligarchy, the regime, whatever you want to call it, they're going to take the most cake. And they always will. They always will.

But you will get some spoils as well, right? Back then, the actual warriors would take some spoils if they lived. They probably didn't. If they did, they got an infection and died. But the people, the citizens of Rome or whatever other empire, would benefit as well because you need certain things. You need grain. You need salt.

You need to feed. You need certain things had different value at different times for different empires. And you had to go get those resources from places. So if you were invading a place, It was because it had some nice resources. Nice resource. There's no wars that happened in the Sahara Desert. You're never going to see, you know, just in the Sahara Desert,

they're fighting over sand. It's not going to happen unless sand becomes something that you give your wife when you marry her. It's always a place that's got a fat ass and a juicy puss. It's just what it is. Iran has a fat ass. Venezuela's got a fat ass. So there's a lot of layers of talk and obviously there's, you know, different religions, philosophies, whatever.

But the Persian Empire was there for a reason. The Persian Empire got big for a reason, right? The Byzantine Empire was there for a reason, right? Aereable land. They didn't know how to manipulate oil yet, but there was other arable stuff there, right? Ukraine, there's a reason it's happening. It's not the desert. It's not Rockaway Beach.

It's not sand. There's things that are needed for a higher quality of life. So this is the area. Iran. Persian Empire, Roman Empire were there. And guess who they were using? The Roman Empire and the Persian Empire were using Arab mercenaries to fight each other. So there's different tribes of Arabs fighting each other on either side on their front side.

on their frontier because for a long time it was Persia and Rome and they were constantly fighting just like before it was Greek in Persia and then it was Rome and Persia. Byzantine Empire was, you know, the thousand years of Rome over there where it was speaking Greek. They spoke Greek. Did you know that? So a lot of people say Greece never had an empire, but we kind of did because our culture was, you know, even when it was in the West, the educated class spoke Latin and Greek. So I'm the best. I am the best. We are the best there is to offer. You know what I'm saying? And even when the Persian Muslims were creating algebra and all that stuff, guess what they were doing?

Translating Greeks and standing on those giants, just like all the rest of them were. We are the best. All you got to do is look at Stavi to see our genetic superiority and me and my eyes to know it. But a lot of people don't know it's a very interesting fact that on the frontier there between the two empires, they both used indigenous Arab tribes there and they were rival Arab tribes and they just defended both empires. And Rome trained one group and the Persians trained the other group. And then the Roman Persia went to war so many times. They depleted each other and guess what happened?

The Arabs were like, yo! And then they took over because they were. were trained, they took over the places that trained them. So that's an interesting. I'm really digressing from my original point. My point is it's fertile lands. And I'm saying there's cynical, is it cynical or realistic? There's realistic reasons why we are certain places.

And yeah, Caesar wouldn't, I don't think he'd go to the effect. He wouldn't go, Persia. He wouldn't go Cyrus or Darius has weapons of mass destruction. I don't think he had to do that. I don't think he had to do their threat to. our way of life. I don't think he had to go they hate our freedom. I don't think he ever said we're going to Gaul because they hate our freedom.

I think he could go up there and go, they're actually invading over there, and there's some resources over there that we want to steal from. I think he could go up there and just go, look, there's some fucking barbarians up there that are running around in dresses, these trans fucking gays, these Gaelic fucking Germanic gays are running out there in dresses. They don't even have pants. Their balls are showing. but they're sitting on some good fucking marble,

whatever it was up there, some grapes, some raisin, some oil, some grain, and they don't know what to do with it. So I'm gonna steal that shit. Just like, you know, just like that rapper said, you know? I stole that beat. I stole that shit. It's like when you got growing fat,

you don't know what to do with that. Give me that. Give me that. I think his speeches were more like that. But ultimately what I'm saying is the same thing. There's just more spin on it now, right? It's sexy places that benefit. And you go, that's immoral, but then you're like, do you understand what the alternative is?

The alternative is until we figure out a way of, until we can figure out a true blood, just a true blood where everything is abundant and nothing has value, then these things will happen. They'll just happen. Until we can figure out a system or we can evolve to a place where we're like, I only need one pair of sneakers or whatever it is. whatever it is, it needs to be limitless. And there's no such thing as limitless. We don't live in a limitless reality. So I don't think war will ever end.

Because when you look at history, war only ends when people get tired of it. They just get tired. They wear themselves out. But they still want to go once they rile back up again. They just got to build up again. But they just get tired. But people love the fucking fight and compete for resources. So it's less about the morality.

I think there used to be a little bit more of an understanding of that or kind of look the other way with that. You know, no blood for oil, but then you go and you brush your teeth and you get in your car. And, you know, it's just like you put your lunch in a plastic bag. And, you know, then they're like, okay, we want to just eat vegetarian. But then you're like, do you know how many animals have to, you're taking the food supply of rabbits and all the,

and you've got to kill them to keep them out. And you're going, well, I didn't know that. And you're going, yeah, it's a mess, baby. Reality, just turn on a nature channel. Everyone who lives in the suburbs or his under 40, truly, should be forced to watch all the nature channels that have ever been made with the guy from England's voice. You just have to be able to watch all those,

David Atwood or whatever his name is, Atwater, whatever his name is, you get the drift. Should just have to watch to see what it is. And then also you have to, I think you'd know, need to, everyone needs to take like, uh, biology. They need to take chemistry, biology, like, but not in a way where you need to learn it. You just got to learn about germs and shit like that. You got to learn about viruses. You got to learn about how everything is trying to survive. Everything's competing to survive. I hated that when my dad told me that. I hated that.

That doesn't threaten my newfound spirituality, but I asked my dad when I was younger, what is the meaning of life? And he said survival. And then, And I said, one time I said these, I hate these cockroaches in my apartment. And he said, they're just trying to survive too. And he was right. He was right. They only, they hide for me because they know I'll kill it. But they want to take over this apartment if it has resources of water or something.

And by the way, I just drank one. And that's not a joke. I had an open Pellegrino bottle here. I even poured a little out of the top. And then, you know, because I love animals and insects. And I'm a curious kid, so I learn all about them. So I always want to know, like, what, roaches go after.

Well, they go after. You know, you have a little sugar out. They love sugar. If you got, but mostly water. Wherever there's water, you're going to see insects, right? It's like the same reason mosquitoes love that you, if you have no trees, you know, your town gets mad at you for cutting them down. But what you do is you cook out the ticks, you cook out the mosquitoes, you have less.

If you have a lot of shade, you're going to have a lot of bugs and fauna and animals and shit because they're staying away from the sun. they don't want to get cooked out. And there's water there. It's denser. The water stays for longer. It doesn't dry up. They like water.

So I was looking around this place and going, it was like, what are they here for? Because I saw one roach on the fridge. And there's nothing in the fridge. There's no water in the sink, right? Nobody's ever here except for the podcast. And I go, what's the roach doing here? And I'm going, oh, it's probably, you know, they probably spray somewhere else and they come in here. They're probably looking.

They're finding some. But then I did say that while I was drinking a peasant. Pellegrino bottle that I had left open from a week ago. And it was funny because I go, wait a second. While I'm drinking, I thought like, why aren't they, why did they go for this? Because it hit me that I left it open. And then I looked in and there was a dead roach floating in the water who went in to try to get it and killed itself.

Hopefully I didn't drink any roaches. I am digressing a lot to get back to my original point being that the three levels of isolation are comfort, comfort, and safety. And then the second level, which mostly provided that comfort and safety, is the suburban landscape. America after World War II became a suburban landscape. The auto lobby said, we want to sell a lot of these things, so we're going to lobby the government to urban plan this way.

Spread out, baby, strip malls. everyone is going to buy a car because we're going to get rich. So they did. Now, we never lived like that. We lived as farmers, right, in the country, in the mountains, countryside, or we lived in cities, right? When civilization started. Both of those are highly connected to nature and human nature in very direct ways. when you're living in the country,

like my relatives in the mountain, we went and visited them in the mountain. There was no phones there. There was no phones. I remember, well, this was, I don't want to give it with my age, although you already know it. I'm 43.

But we went into the mountains, no electricity. We visited these relatives, and I watched them slaughter a lamb. No big deal for them. Headlock, smack to the, mallet to the head, whack. They knew exactly the spot to hit it. And then we ate it.

And that's what they do, right? So they're very connected to the stuff. That's connected to nature. They live off the lamb. They deal with the politics of their village. People are like, that's the slut. That's the thing. And yeah, once in a while they'll stone in Greece.

They used to stone a girl, right? They did that, you know? I think that was, it's what you call village justice. It's not always great. You get hanged. Shit happens. but there's, you know, people are together. People are living in a community together,

for the most part, in those villages traditionally. It's very rare you have just some guy living out on his own with his own farm, you know. And then you have the cities where people are constantly interacting with each other. Not everyone's sane. Not everyone's the same culture. Economic opportunities bring people from all over the world.

It's happened in all the major cities throughout history. They're multicultural. You know, that's why this. thing is people like scared of immigrants. This is the oldest story. It's just what it it's just they come from all over. You went to Rome. I mean, there was tons of ethnicities in Rome, right? You go to London. You're just going to have different people from different places coming all over the place. You know, it's just how it went. Constantinople. Wherever, wherever your capital, your cosmopolitan area, whatever you want to call it, your urban center, your shipping center, New York.

York. People are going to come from all over because that's where the opportunities are to make some money because that's where all the trading has happened. So where the trade routes end. Los Angeles. It's just how it goes for the most part. And you deal with different people and you meet different people. Oh, someone down the block got murdered, you know, lock your window, things like that that you read about constantly. But then it's in your life. You get shot.

things happen that kind of, you know, cut through idealism and force you to live in what this world is, unfortunately. I'm not saying it's a good thing. I don't like it for one bit. And I, maybe we are on a prison planet. I don't know. But it's not great. But you have to be strong. You got to be tough.

You have to be reality. You learn more about real politics, nuance. things like that. Negotiating evils, necessary evils. You live in the real world, the adult real world. Now, when you live in a place that humans had never lived and aren't meant to live, which is the suburbs where you don't walk, everyone's dropping head of heart attacks and they're coldestacks, they're dropping dead of strokes in their cul-de-sacs,

because they don't move all day. If they walk, you have to plan it. It's not natural. You get isolated. Your level of safety is unnatural. Things are brought to you on trucks and you don't see, you don't walk in Chinatown

and see a dirty fucking chicken coop and smell those people. It's food. You don't get a whiff of how it works. You have this sanitizer. You go to the supermarket. You're like, oh, the meat is just born at the supermarket.

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And then they bored out of their minds and they want to go do, you want to go to New York or whatever. And they bring that mentality with them just like, ethnic groups that form in areas. They found areas where other ones of them are at. They don't like me. They don't relate to me, right? Because I'm going like, hey, I know how to talk to the Puerto Ricans. I know to talk to the blacks.

I know to talk to the Jews. You know, hey, these are things that happened to me. You know, you know, I got jumped like 100 times. They're like, whoa, it's traumatic. It's traumatic. A lot of them get baptized by fire. It happens to them. but they you know college educated liberal arts educated suburban mentality they come here

and they bring that sort of they find areas and they colonize with each other and then they circle jerk with each other and they say things you know that just are so detached from reality but makes them feel like good people and they fit in and it's a religion it's like when christians hang out with Christians and everyone sits around there and goes Jesus uh Jesus didn't have any brothers, whatever, they're all Catholics. You can't be the one guy that goes, wait a second. All the evidence is that he had brothers and sisters. One of them was called James is Just, and he was a really good dude. And he was skeptical of Jesus, but then after Jesus died, he was convinced he was the Messiah for some reason. And he was even respected by the Pharisees,

the other Jews who thought the Jesus Jews were heretics. Even they loved James the Just. And it was his brother. They go, no, no, no, no. The Catholics go, no, no, no. Virgin Mary's pussy walls were never touched. The Holy Spirit doesn't have the form of a peen. It was, she's completely chased. As if that makes someone a good person, never getting drilled.

Right? What we know is that Jesus, like most Jews, you know, and poor people, let's be honest, they love to reproduce. That's what poor people love to do, is make a lot of kids. And what we do know is Jesus was a Jew. So we do know that probably he was riding around in a fucking minivan with about eight to ten siblings.

And Joseph had the curls going, and he was driving all wild, you know, and the car smelled like snacks. And Mary had a wig on and a shaved head. but you can't say that when you're hanging out with the new Catholics the new Italians or the new Irish and Camer you can't come and say that

just like you can't when you're sitting with the new suburban emigrants you can't go in and say something like you know what I think Iran might generally be a pro or you know what I don't like the way a certain religion kind of doesn't respect women's rights

and they go whoa intolerance whatever example you want to use. Hey, I think there might be a biological advantage. I think maybe if you have to suppress testosterone with technology, maybe that implies an advantage that was there from nature. You go, whoa, you can't say it. You can't say it.

You cannot say, Whoa, why is there, I don't understand, where's the, where's the controversy in men's elite sports? Why is there no there? And you go, well, because transitioned men can't compete with men because men are stronger. And you go, well, doesn't that imply the reverse? And you go, whoa, the fuck are you doing, dude? What the fuck are you doing? We're here to lie to each other and be polite.

Just like the Catholics. We all know Mary took it. We all know Mary took it. It doesn't take anything away from how great a guy Jesus was. We know he took it. He had a brother. That brother got, the Bible doesn't say anything of that brother popping in because the Holy Ghost came in a dream, right?

So the third level after that, which it's not a coincidence we saw this sort of unbelievable detachment from reality and an inability to discern. reality. Because to me, it's the opposite of streets smarts. It's like people can't really think for themselves. It's a version of like Holly. It's like, well, let me first make the point. The third one is the digital world, right?

When the internet came, that's another level of isolation. There's three levels of isolation. People are just isolating. A social species just, you isolate in the suburbs. You're not exposed to a lot. Everything's, you know, easy for you and convenient and, you know, you're, you know, you don't see any animals getting killed. You don't see many robberies.

You don't see crime. You don't see homelessness. And then you get on your phone and then you're not leaving your house. Then you're jerking off to porn that's free. And you're just, it's another level of isolation. So now you're in your head even more. We grew up in the city. We were rarely in our heads.

I was the kid who was most in my head. asking questions, and my friends thought about making it look like an accident. They wanted me dead because I was a buzz kill because I was like a philosophical 16-year-old while we were smoking weed. Because I was the idiot who was reading Plato's Republic in Brooklyn. Well, everyone was just trying to smoke weed. Everybody else, we were active. We were doing shit. We were playing ball.

We were walking around. We were concerned with safety all the time. We're in the moment because you had to be. Where are the girls? What are we doing? Let's go out. I'm dating this girl. It was just, it was different.

It's a clear distinct. It hit me. It was when I was talking to these people, it finally hit me. It's like, this is another species. They've been conditioned by a completely different set of circumstances and therefore have a completely different outlook and it's not good. I'm just going to be honest. It's not good.

It may be conducive in the future when technology and artificial intelligence evens the playing field and takes away, whatever it does to create this true blood utopia. I doubt it. I doubt that's going to happen. But if it does, maybe they'll be on to something, you know, I don't know. Now, Gen Z has had to deal with a little bit more reality, but they're still coming from the suburbs.

It's still the suburbs and the Internet. just makes you retreat into yourself too much. And what's in you? Ideas. And then when two people get together who are retreated into themselves, they're just like talking ideas, not from experience. It's ideas. Like Young said,

intellectualism is often a cover for lack of experience. One of my favorite quotes of his. Or fear of experience. You can pull it up or something. But it's something exactly like that. intellectualism is often a cover for fear of direct experience, I think, is the Carl Young quote that I love, because it's one of the good ones. And Carl Young's one of the good ones. So there it is. Intellectualism is a common cover up for, is a common cover up for fear of direct experience. Carl Young. Right? You see it right there? Yeah. So it's, yeah. So, you know, so these are two people who don't have a lot of life experiences, but a lot of ideas. They're hearing things through books. And it's very easy to be moral when you have all the true blood. They got the true blood. In the suburbs, it's all true blood living. Drive here, safe. Drive here, safe. Community watch here. Not a lot of people spread out, but artificially spread out. There's no.

land they're tilling. It's just these houses on golf courses, you know, converted golf courses, and now they're inhaling all these fumes and they're all getting cancer. It's another way to go. They're not moving so their hearts explode because they don't walk.

This is just, this just happened. Suburbanization is a new fucking thing. And it's not good. Strip malls, they kill the soul. It's ugly and drab. And they come to the city. excited, you know, and they bring that shit. So that's modernity.

And that incident with the cat, it was so shocking to her that the cat is a murderer. It was so shocking. It, like, rocked her worldview. And then I realized, I was like, oh, my God, this is why someone like me who talks the way that I talk or some other people that I like to listen to. That's why this comes off as so aggressive and, quote, unquote, stupid to these people. Because they live in the platonic realm, but it's not even the paternity. It's called the phatonic realm, phagonic realm.

They live in a place of ideas, of ideals and ideas, utopian ideals and morals in a make-believe world. and it's not their fault. They were conditioned this way. They have no awareness of it. Most things, you know, the unexamined life is not worth it. Most people are unaware of who they are and why they do what they do. Most people don't want to take a peek. Any real questions start happening?

People want to run. They don't want to talk about the real stuff. They don't want to look at another angle. They like the comfort of it and they just roll. We don't like anything new. In fact, one of the biggest. sabotages, self-sabotages, that people do is because if it's their identity gets threatened, right? So if you're this guy and your identity is like, I'm the struggling guy, I'm that guy,

I'm the cool guy, I'm the voice of the guy, I'm the underdog guy, then if you make it, you're like, who am I then? Now, this doesn't happen consciously, but it happens like, I'm a guy, I'm something new that I'm not aware. I don't know who, who that would be. So you just go, I have to stay this. I have to stay this because this is what I know.

This is my identity. And this makes me feel like a whole person and grounded. And I can, I can interact with reality. I don't know what that will bring. And so that fear of the unknown, you know, I'm not going.

And your brain is just protecting you. It's not trying to sabotage. It's just protecting you. The problem is, We don't understand our brains. We don't understand ourselves because we don't look within. It's too hard. And also a lot of this shit is new to understand, but they're understanding it.

So you young kids will have no fucking excuse. You have all, listen, with AI and all the fucking smart people we've had from Carl Young all the way to fucking James Baldwin, poets and scientists in between. I believe all the fucking pieces of the puzzle are there. These kids got to figure it out. because I'm at that point we're like, I'm just trying to roll on. I'm just trying to, I'm trying to give some resources to me and my people

and I just don't care so much about what's going on. You know, I'd like, I still enjoy understanding things. And that's why I enjoyed having this epiphany. It wasn't, I guess it was, it wasn't an epiphany. It was more like a reconcile, finally I reconciled what it was. It was a reconciliation of like, oh, that's exactly what it fucking is.

I've been nipping at it for a long time and I've been making fun of it for a long time. But now I know exactly what it is. More importantly, why. And here we are in this conflict with this oil. And you have people understanding this through the prism of their upbringing. Right?

So why are people, Muslim? Why are people Christian? Why are people atheists, agnostic, whatever? If you're agnathist or atheist, right? And your parents, right? Because this is how much I've gained a respect for human psychology. We are such a complicated, look what we've done. I mean, we share the planet with like seagulls and look at what we've built. We are This is a strong thing here. This is a strong thing and individuality is a thing. And this thing gets shaped by genetics, chemistry,

environment is so much going on. And so if you grew up with like very religious parents, right, and then you become an atheist, my street smarts would tell me most of the time that happened, it happened because A, you lived in a place where that became cool, right? I'm not saying it's good or bad. I'm just saying you're like, it somehow became kind of cool.

Secondly, something about your parents you hated. Something about their hypocrisy or them being too strict or whatever bullshit they, like they were believing literally, they were probably going like Adam was made from the rib. Eve was made from Adam's rib and you're going, look, I understand like the do unto other shit. but like, dad, do you really believe and he's going, son, stop questioning. And then you go, I'm rebelling against these assholes and they also said something bad about black people.

And I don't like that because I got a friend, Jamal Jahad, they don't want to say that. Those are the chances. If you grew up and you had very kind parents who talked to you in a certain way about it, the chances of you rejecting it are so much less. If you grew up in a place where if you rejected it, they threw you in prison.

the chances are almost zero. So a lot of this stuff is our environment. We're products mostly of our environment. So why is someone Muslim? Someone is Muslim because their parents were Muslim. Their ancestors, a lot of times, weren't always Muslim, which is an interesting thing because they go, this is the truth, he's the final prophet.

It's like, well, your great-grandfather didn't think so. Your great-grandfather thought that Zoroastrianism was the thing. They thought, who they do, or whatever. Arab tribes, you know, they thought a whole other thing. Well, my Greeks, they go, you know, it's Jesus Christ. I'm going like, well, you're a great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather thought Zeus was throwing lightning bulbs and asses to rile people up. He thought Poseidon.

You prayed to Poseidon. You prayed to Dionyses. You know, it was a totally different thing. You go talk to the Protestants up in Scandinavian. You're like, they're like, listen, yeah, you know, we got away from the Catholic. church, you're just straight to Jesus, and you're going like, your great, great, great parents used to talk about a guy named Thor who had a hammer. That was the guy.

So, you know, the Buddhists, they all were like strict Hindus. And then there was like this offshoot of Hinduism and going, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Your great, great, great father didn't believe in fucking all life is miserable and all whatever. He believed in the other shit. 78% of people believe in God on the globe. Oh, this is Iran. 78% believe in God.

We don't know. Here's the thing about close societies. I will admit this we don't know. I think I've said this in the pot. If not, I'll say this. Some, according to the regime, it's 99% Muslim. Of course, that's what you would think. That's like when Saddam Hussein won his election by 99% or when Putin wins by 97%.

According to online data, which I think is, probably more accurate. And then you look at the protest, you think I think it's more accurate. It's more like 30, 40%. Now, what did they do? They look at WhatsApp. They look at all these other things.

They track what you say or whatever. It's the same thing with porn. Now, recently, it's come to my attention because of my curiosity. I researched porn categories. What are people searching now? Guess what? You want to hear something?

trans porn is number two in America behind lesbians number one and hentai number three hentai is Japanese cartoon porn so and what's happened remember when porn was like it was so hard to just get regular porn so because porn is all about dopamine spikes so when you watch porn you're constantly seeking to escalate right it's a it's a high it's not real so it's gone um No, ask, that's what Grock told me. That's 24, 25. Okay. Let me ask.

Just ask Grock. So, what was my point on that? Oh, my point is, is that that often show, the internet is when people alone and they're really doing what they do, you know? And so that's when Porn Hub, go to Porn Hub, because Porn Hub actually like, has like tracks it and then has cross checkers track it. Listings of most popular porn searches in USA now. We're just confirming. I don't want to give you guys.

Here we go. Top viewed categories. According to Porn Hub's official 2025 year in review, released in December 2025, right? just a couple months ago, the top viewed categories, site-wide, global, which aligns closely with the U.S. patterns in recent years. Check this out, dude. Lesbian number one, transgender, number two, up significantly,

plus five spots from prior years in some reports. Number three, milf, sorry, and number four, anal and so on. You missed that lesbian scissoring. Where's hentai? I thought hentai. Where's hentai? These are the trends. So diverse desires was number one.

Yeah. Who Google's diverse desires? You got to go with PornHub. This is. This is from Pornhub. Oh, it's from Pornhub? Yeah, yeah. So Hentai remains one of the most dominant terms.

Hentai ranked number four. Oh, look at this one. Femboy fixation. Yeah. So it's, it's, my point is you learn a lot about what's going on when you look at people's, that's why advertisers. know us so well, you know? That's why the algorithm knows us so well,

or they think they do because we stop. But, you know, they're right. They see a stop at certain shit. Hentai, Milf, Pene, lesbian, anal, big ass, Latina, anime, Asian Femboy. Femboy's up 15%. And here's the thing. Gays don't usually watch the Femboy.

I bet you those are a bunch of military guys watching that. Now, what's Penae? I don't know. I don't know and I don't want to know or else I'm going to start liking it. So who knows what they are, but my point is people are who they are, and then why are the Christians the way they're Christian? Because their father was Christian, the mother was Christian.

And so everyone, and why are the people who, you know, yell about Islam, why are they the way they are from the suburbs? Because they grew up that way. So we're in this place now where we don't have a common fairy tale. We don't have a common, national, we have nothing holding us together. And it's very important when you have an empire to have something hold you together.

The thing that holds America together is football. That's about as good as it gets. Football. I can't think of one other universal thing that's left. Can you think of any universal thing besides football and hatred?

Like seriously, remember it used to be like, oh, the whole thing keeps us together. These movies that came out that millions of people saw, we were all watching Seinfeld. We were all mostly Christian, right? You know, overwhelming European roots. So mostly Christian and European roots for the most part. Not saying it's a good thing. I'm just saying it was things in common, right? Now we have this new challenge where it's like people are.

creating the countries they come from inside and not changing much because everyone's living in a niche. Why can't they continue to live in a niche? And everyone did it to a certain extent. Maybe it changes in two, three generations. I don't know. It's new. But my point is it's a lot. It's from all over the world where it used to be was only from a few funnels.

There was only a few conduits. Europe mostly, you know, Europe mostly. and then like a little tiny dab of Asian dab. It was like a dab of Chinatown that was this big. And then now it's just, dude, it's exploded. You meet everybody from all over the world, all countries, all religions, all beliefs. And there's nothing in common. So of course, nobody really knows what to believe and everyone's just arguing over what it is.

And that has become a economy. that's an economy because people sell us stuff when we watch that stuff and we're watching that stuff more than we're watching entertainment that we have in common because there is no entertainment we have in common anymore no matter how good the show is. I mean, and now some of these shows are so good. I don't know how Tyler Sherton does it. Does he use AI?

Like what is he doing that makes them so good? What is it? I just started watching Piki Blinders too. That's a little older, but I'm going like, this is like what books used to be, right? I guess that was inevitable because nobody reads anymore. So like they were going to up it with the dialogue there. And then you, you know, I'm watching Landman.

And I'm like, what the another one I'm hooked on? Lioness, I'm hooked on. Yellowstone, I'm hooked on. I mean, how? And he's got like 10 of them going at the same time. But nobody, not everyone's watching those. you know because those seem like they lean right everything's filtered through this sort of identity it's your identity you know i can't be caught enjoying you know a night at lago comedy i would

because that's me but they can't be caught turning on killed tony and thinking something was funny they just can't they just can't be caught doing it it has to be 100% horrible all the time. They can't. It can't be caught. There's no nuance anymore. It can't. And the guys on Kill Tony, you know, or whatever,

they can't go to Largo and listen to whoever's doing that stuff now. You know, they can't. So that started in the early 2000s, and it's still around. But what started in the early 2000s is the, the generation that wanted to leave the suburbs. Everyone wanted to go to the suburbs to escape some of the harsh realities of the city.

And then they raised kids with good school districts or whatever. And then the kids grew up and they were like, I need to feel something. I need to feel something. I cannot have another family dinner at Panera bread. I need to feel some. I'm out of here. I want to go to CBGBs.

I want to go. And they came in large numbers. The economy was good. The city got safe. And that's continued on. And that's who they are. So with this Iran conflict, we have a very old story. With the Israel palace, we have a very old story, right?

That is not old to these people. That's the thing Americans don't, you can't just, they have a tough time with it. They don't understand. They go, oh, 3,000 years ago, that's just yesterday for these people. because it's always been, right? The Sunni Shiye beef, they murder each other. You want to know why?

Because they both think the other one is a heretic. And they want to kill the other. They want to kill them. They want to kill them because they're so fanatical about what they believe in how Islam should be done. They think the other one is evil. And so they kill them. And you go, you know, because people always make that joke,

like the Jews say 3,000. years ago, it's like, well, how about the Sunni Shi'i killing? That's a fucking thousand over, that's fucking, when was, when was Islam? Almost 2,000 years. Huh? 600, I think. That's it. 600, AD. Oh, right. So it's like, what, 1,400 years. More, more than that. More, more, more, more, more, more. Right? Bring it up just so we can, I can feel smarter. That's over a thousand years old and it's still happening today. It's still happening today. Six-10. 6-10, so what would that make that?

1,400, yeah. 1,400, okay. So not more, more, more, more, more. Not more. 1,400 something. So that is over 1,400 years old, right? So you're going, oh, did you say it in 3,000 years ago? Oh, it was promised to them.

It's like, it's the same shit as these two fighting 1,400 years ago. This is not old to them. It's still going. It's still happening. I saw this one clip of Mendi, whatever his name is, Mendi Hassan, whatever his name is,

Mendi, the journalist with the British accent who somehow is like America, all over America or whatever. And he was debating some guy wouldn't let him talk. And the guy was like, the Palestinian,

he was just going, Palestinians, because the guy goes, they're not all innocent. He goes, they're not all innocent. The kids, the murder kids, the boy,

and you just want to go, Mendi, what about the $450,000 that were expelled from Kuwait? Or how about the ones that were expelled from Jordan. The Jews didn't do that. The Jews had nothing to do that.

The Jews have nothing to do with the terrorist bombings between Sunni and Shia, and they have nothing to do with the Pakistani-Afghani war right now. There's another war going on right now. That's about land and beliefs or whatever the fuck.

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