Yannis Pappas Hour - The Last Generation Before the Robots | Yannis Pappas Hour

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

Yanni goes Alex Tocqueville on Gen Z — cold yet empathetic, hyperaware yet shut down. Overwhelmed and held hostage. Liberated by technology but imprisoned by caution. An oxymoron… and the ones who’ll have to save us. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm doing some cringe thing where I'm like trying to be performative. I'm just cringe right now. Like, I'm sorry, okay? I'm like, I'm having anxiety. I'm definitely doing EMDR and I'm putting my mental health first. I'm taking my magnesium. I am absolutely taking zinc, B12, whatever I can. I'm being told about skin cancer, but then also I'm being told that I just need sunshine in the morning.

24 hours a day. I got to take care of my health, my wealth. I'm grinding on the side I'm absolutely paying attention to what's happening in Gaza and it's just it's it's really it's interrupting my sleep I just started DMing this girl

I'm scared she screenshotsed it I don't know what she's going to do with it I think I came off wrong I don't know what I'm going to do I'm 80,000 dollars in debt from college okay I went to Skidmore I don't know what I'm going to do

but I was definitely studying humanities Um, my parents, I'm at their house, but I also have a roommate, but sometimes my roommate is cringe. So I leave because I just, it's a cringe fest. I can't deal with it. I am, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm listening to this song on repeat on my echo. Um, chat GPT has been telling me that, uh, I really can improve my life's time by regular creatine intake and also that my inner child, uh, needs to be chill. Okay. Uh, we, uh, We're not going out.

It's too much money. Cringe that, cringe that. Alcohol's bad for your liver. Cringe that. I am going to microdose. I'm going to microdose LSD. Not to get high, just to vibe and chill in the basement on a big Lobowski night. We're doing a retro big Lebowski night.

And I, uh, whatever. I'm being so fucking cringe right now. I'm being so cringe. I'm being so cringe. I just don't want to come off like preachy or authoritarian or like I'm an outsider. preaching in I get it you know I'm one of you you're one of me we're all one I got that I learned that on a trip the other night when I was microdosing on shrooms just to nurture my inner child but I'm on my healing journey I'm on my healing journey and I'm definitely working

on my OCD my anxiety my depression my schizoid personality my bipolarity too and I am just trying to be, you know, yaw. I'm trying to yacht. I'm trying to do it. M-L-M-N-R-1B, L-N-L-N-T, R-N-C-T, Q-U-U-T. Crips, Crips, Crips, Crips. That was, uh, I'm not a boomer. What are we? Gen Z? Gen X. Gen X. It's only one letter away for Gen Z. Why did the millennials slip into the middle? I'm just, I really am trying to understand Gen Z. I've been doing a deep dive on Gen Z like I'm Alex de Tocqueville writing about democracy. Now, if I'm Gen Z, I don't know who that is,

but it's a couple of finger taps away to find out who that is, and then you got it. And then you're an expert. You got it. All you got to know is who he was and what he did. Alex de Tocqueville, what was a French guy. It was a French guy that came to America and was like, you know what?

This is what's America is. As an outsider, he witnessed it. Like when I would go to Norway or something to do stand-up, I would notice a couple of foibles in my first 10 minutes of the set. You know, stand-up is cringe. Unless I'm up there going like I'm bombing, I know I'm bombing. You know, you want me to be self-aware, you want me to be empathetic. Like you are, you're empathy.

This generation is an oxymoron. They're empathetic, overly empathetic, but they're also sociopathic. They're nihilistic. And I get it. I get it. We dreamed, we dreamed. We dreamed. My grandparents dreamed.

They worked hard. They dreamed. And they bought gold watches. And they dreamed. I think my granddad and my grand uncle who owned a restaurant together, they bought a calalac. And a gold watch, which I still have. So they could walk around and act like gentlemen, even though they were Greek peasants, former second-class citizens who had to pay. Demi tax who had to flee the Ottoman Empire so they didn't get their cornhole rubbed by

Sultan. They had problems. No existentialist un-wee. When you're having an enwee, I want you to remember that means things are good. It means you're privileged enough to have anxiety. Anxiety. What's anxiety? Oh, your mind is going through the endless possibilities. It's being overwhelmed. Gen Z's overwhelmed. You know, do you know how rare it was that I saw a knockout, someone get knocked out, or footage of someone getting shot or whatever? There was no doom scrolling. You only had your own imagination and most of it was just caught up with looking at a Calvin Klein ad and spilling your milk into the middle.

And then not being able to open the pages later. It was a simpler time. Not saying it was better. and I'm not being cynical about Gen Z. I don't blame Gen Z. This is the circumstances that they're born into that they're probably not aware of, which is ironic because you like when people are aware.

You're very aware of everything, but I don't know if Gen Z is aware of like what their circumstances are, okay? They're coming of age. Gen Z, who are they? Basically like 13 to 30, right? 28, 29 cusp. You know, if you're 29,

you're like on the cusp you're like or like really like just miss millennial or maybe you're like I don't know a young millennial but you're you know these things are kind of like technically it's like the late 90s you were born right in like 97 98 to like 2012 like whoa right so as soon as you're born like 9-11 happens but you're too young to really grok that um you know then the financial crisis happens um you're really too young to grok that um but the most important and consistent thing about Gen Z that makes them the most unique generation that's ever been born. And that unique can be good is that you grew up with instant access being a reality, not a future coming.

I remember I used to make jokes about, you know, early 2000s about, you know, delivery apps and how convenient things are going to be. And what do we get? We get sushi. We're all having anxiety because we have it to. good, right? That was all what's coming. Oh, this is just starting. This is just starting. And now they just live in the malaise of like, oh, whoa, why bother to do anything? I get it. Whoa. Why go outside? You can simulate reality with a headset. And this isn't the outside

anywhere looking at I'm aware, I'm aware, I'm aware. I'm also got my head to on. It's a simulation. like oh why message that girl like oh it's like so many things could go wrong and they're not wrong because they have lots of evidence of things going wrong even a message could go wrong cringe cringe cringe cringe alert this guy asked out me and four of my girlfriends cringe alert private group we're all talking about you fucking creep creep alert creep alert and then you're just the creep And that's just how it goes. They're having no sex. The statistics, I think, on the sex that they're having, like 30% of like Jen's ears are like, have a boyfriend or girlfriend.

They're spending supposedly no money on dating. What is it date now? Like let's microdose and vibe. What is it? They don't go out. They don't have money. They're all dreaming about a side hustle or, you know, being a entrepreneur, but there's no businesses to fill.

So the only option they have is to cut clips for podcasters or be sexual, get a following, a brand deal so they can promote the brand that their friends pay with their parents' money. And their parents are running out of money because Black Rocks or Blackstone are one of the fucking feel-good cloud companies is buying up all the real estate. Okay? They're having relationships with computers. They're not having relationships with each other. And so are we all.

So I'm like not like pointing the finger. We're all dipping our toes into it. We're all dipping our toes into it. But you're growing up with it. And I mean, what is the dream on the horizon when you're, You're just being told, you turn on the news and you're, you know, imagine you're graduating college and COVID hits. You're excited about hitting the job market and then COVID hits and wipes out diners.

So if you wanted to be an actor or something, you can't even get a waiter job. And Mexicans are coming and taking all those jobs. And a lot of them are closing because COVID shut it down. And then as Sue right off the heels of COVID, you're going, oh, by the way, we might be going into World War III. We're as close as we've ever been. You're going, wow, what's World War III? and you're going like, oh, it's nuclear annihilation.

Then you've got to Google that. You got to ask chatty TV about mutually assured destruction. You got to find out what nuclear fallout is. And you can. You don't have to go to the library. You don't have to be interested. You don't have to like forego sports or girls in order to be a nerd. Everyone is a nerd slash jock slash gamer.

There's plenty of time for it all. Multitask. Hello. By the way, why am I not? While I'm checking my email, I will be talking to you, but I also want to, I just got to clean out my spam box. And my God, my God, I've been hacked again. Their information is for sale.

They know it, too. They know it. That's the thing is they know it. It's not like it's being done to them and they can just go, oh, you know, hear no evil, see no evil. Oh, you know, ignorance is bliss. They are aware. They're aware.

They know it. They read articles about it. They watch, you know, pundits, influencers talk about it. They're being sold constantly every time, you know. It used to be you'd have to leave your house to get sold or turn on the TV to get sold. Now you just, you check your phone and you're being sold on something. Magnesium, creatine. Sunshine.

coffee with mushrooms in it. All these new variations of products are coming up because there is no job force. There's, you can sell things. You can start a company and sell things. You can invest in Bitcoin. What is Bitcoin? I finally figured it out.

You know how the millennials did wokeness in order to create jobs for themselves to create a little wealth? I'm going to be a reporter. Who are we reporting on? A bunch of people who got niche followings that have people that care about them. And the outrage is directly proportionate

to how many people care about them. So if you got five followers, and you're grabbing tities, I'm not really interested. There's no outrage. And you go, well, there was no way for me to know about you. If you were a good reporter, you'd find out. But it's not about being a good reporter.

It's about attaching yourself to a bigger name. So you could get some cloud. Cloud chasing. The millennials did that. They came into the job force and he said, we're going to create wokeness. Which means if you're not in it, we're going to attack you and monetize it.

It's going to be my job until I inevitably jumped the shark and go too far and overhunt. And then I get ostracized. because that's how the game works, right? I remember a good old guy like Seth Simon. You know, his name was Seth Simon or Simons. He was going after white supremacist comedians, which I've never met one.

I don't know one white supremacist comedian. Whatever they're saying is performative. I've never put one guy in private. It was like, you know what? And I'm an insider. I've never met one. I've never met one, you know, like truly. I mean, I don't know what Nick DePaolo's up to.

He may be there. I don't know. But he may be the only except, I don't know. Maybe it was another kid, Anthony Camilla. He says some wild stuff. Maybe two, but I didn't meet. I don't know either one of those guys at all. I've met them.

Hello's once or twice. And now if there's a millennial out there going, let's going to dig out. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see if Yonis and Anthony could be out. Can I get something cooking here? Can I create some content here?

I'll just save you the time. The answer is no. I haven't. You won't find anything. There'll be no Janus Pappas, Nick DePaolo collabs. There'll be no, I wasn't even on it. I was Anthony Opie. He was a little before my day, Opie and Anthony.

But those are about the only two that I can think of. but supposedly there was white supremacy was running rampant because Gavin McGinnis was like at the stand a few times or something like that but that's what the millennials did they were like we're

there's no jobs we all have liberal arts degrees nobody told us we got to go into coding which now coding's gone so but at the time if you were in coding and you were a millennial you were in good right and then the

you know this the smirky You know, Democrats are going, learn a code, learn a code. And it's like, whoa, whoa. Now you've got to learn the foot model. Now you have to learn a foot model. How does it feel? You got to learn a foot model.

You got to learn how to grow food. You piece of garbage. You know? Be careful. If you live in a glass house, don't throw stones. And ultimately, we all live in glass houses because we're all healing. and just micro-dosing to get in touch with our and just guide our inner child,

which we're aware of. I want a job, but if I get that job, I need, there needs to be mental health breaks, but not like in the millennial way, which was more performative. They were like, I, you know, I need time to scroll my phone any time. This is inhumane.

Whereas Gen Z's like, no, dude. I'm going to go shoot up. something okay if i don't get a mental i need the mental health break okay the anxiety's crazy i went on my phone and i'm watching a war footage there's war footage on there and uh there's a international blackmail pedophilia rig that's come to light that is definitely true uh this is stuff that's just the blanket was over we were all just under the blanket but gen z's not on under the blanket and they can ask AI anything AI will tell it to them they know who Alex de Tocqueville is in a second if I brought up Alex Tocqueville to my friend group when I was in

my early 20s or late 17 they would just go huh what yeah you dude I don't dude what huh pass the blood like just pass that you ruin you're killing it you're killing it you're killing it but you read just you're fucking Googling they're literally Living in the culmination of as far as I could see forward when I was, you know, in my late 20s early. As far as I thought for, I was like, oh, my God, delivery apps make it easy. We're at the end. That's what my joke's like, we're at the end. Now we're living in the end and the end hasn't happened.

So it's like, what do we do? That's how they feel. No struggle. Can't pursue anything. what happens to a raisin in the sun right gen z's their generation is a raisin in the sun no dreams no no hope for anything to happen AI's coming to take all their jobs the computer will do it better you can't even cut clips soon um you know if you have a real talent nobody's paying attention Broadway's dead for now maybe you'll come back that's the hope

Maybe we'll go. The hope is maybe we'll go backwards. That's it. Whenever I hear anyone have hope about anything, I can only use it. I can only speak from my experience in entertainment. People go, maybe it'll come back to the way it was. And you're going like, oh, it's the first time in history of people going like, maybe we'll go back to a worse, more inconvenient time where we had more purpose. You don't say anyone in the 50s going, God, I missed those 20s with those chemical bombs. I miss World War I times. God, I miss when I used to have to work 24 hours at the factory.

Now, like, Gen Z's going, put me in a factory, dude. I want to stop thinking. Put me on the line, give me a livable wage, and, you know, create some suburbs for middle class. I'll take it. I just don't want to think so much. It's the only era where I've noticed people dream about things going back to a worse time when we had less technology, less medical technology, less mental health awareness and knowledge, less convenience, entertainment, democratization, free speed.

People just go, let's go back to that time. Do you know what I'm saying? Nobody's going like there's a better place to go because we're at the peak freedom. How do I know we're at the peak feeding? There was a black famous Nazi. That's how I know we're at the peak freedom. I open my internet and I see people having plenty of time on their hands to yell about Sidney's Sweeney's jeans.

So I know people got a lot of time. And if you have a lot of time, that obviously means you have a lot of freedom. Because people who aren't free don't have time. That's the definition of not being free is you don't have time. You don't have time to yourself to do what you want. The thing is, the ironic thing is we got all this freedom and nobody knows what to do. do with it. Nobody knows what to do of it, so they're just screaming and they're looking for complaints

because we haven't evolved past the negativity bias, which I know Gen Z is aware of. They just haven't figured out how to do it, but they're trying one micro dose at a time. One walk in the sunset, one mushroom coffee at a time. We're going to figure it out. But they have given up. I see the look in their face where it's not. human connection anymore. They're more connected to artificial, digital platforms. It's one-sided conversation. They're either listening or talking. They're either making content and talking out

into the ether or they're being spoken to from the ether, the digital wasteland of content, but they're not like hanging out. Clubs are closing, bars, you know. And it's because they don't have money. They don't have money to spend. Prices going up. Rent's still high. And the dream is gone.

There was such a dream in the early 2000s. Oh, kids from all over the suburbs just flock to the city with dreams. I'm going to make it. I'm going to be an artist. And my dreams are going to come true. And now it's just like, yeah, you got a year before AI is doing that job. So they're just in a holding pattern.

They're in a holding pattern. The things that they will find to do will be shooting. You can always shoot. That's what I'm scared of. Because you look at the anatomy. You do the mathematical, Equation, helplessness, nothing to look forward to, plus hyper awareness, plus sobriety and no fun, plus fear of consequences, that's a raisin in the sun, my friend. That's a raisin in the sun.

They're festering. They're festering right now. And when they don't become, you know, Jeffrey. Dupree, whatever his name is. Dude, I mean, some of these names, I don't even, I mean, have you ever heard of some of these guys? I don't even know who they're watching. But I just, Sarah Squirm? Have ever heard of Sarah Squirm?

How about Z-W-E? Z-I-W-E. I know Bo Burnham I know Trevor Wallace I know Matt Reif I remember Djibuki Sarah Squer I don't know

I don't know What do you do when everything's been done We either graduate into this transhumanist kind of tech world where we're able to act out our darkest fantasies and our biggest dreams in a simulation. Like the sort of like a matrix type of dystopia where the only thing that is left to do

is the thing is cosplay, but it feels real your deepest, darkest fantasies. So you become the CEO and you go through the struggles in a simulation, right because you play a game because the game here is rigged there's nowhere to go unless you want to be an athlete you know or something but maybe because your mediocre dream can't come true you can't become middle management anymore you can't become a copywriter anymore you can't get a pretty good job that's a portion of your dream you know there's people who like you know I'm an artist

but you end up taking a art director job, copyrighter job, you're good with people, but instead of being a cult leader, you end up being a marketing director. But maybe they create these simulations, maybe AI creates these simulations where everyone works in the simulation

the way they used to in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, early 2000s. And what they do in their actual life is just sit and drink, thank God, Coca-Cola with cane sugar. Boy, did we fix the health problem. Because that's been fixed. They just sit.

And they throw on their VRs or they tap into their mental chip. And they just become, we start living in the infinite space of our brains and recreate those struggles. And it's infinite because, hey, you want to go, I want to, I want to know what it's like to become an actress on another planet. AI creates that. Or he goes, I want to know what it's like to grow up and become an NBA player.

You have to live in the simulation, practice every day, and maybe that's where struggle reemerges and in quotation marks exists because there will be no struggle here. They're just, they're editing out Down syndrome. What is the human condition going to be?

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Marry one in a simulation. Nobody will judge you. You want to be a mass murderer because your dad was an alcoholic? And lie to you, do it in the simulation. You can play real games. And what I mean by real games is that they feel real. You want to be a soccer mom, but your ovaries got taken out because of the radiation from your phone, have babies in the simulation. You always wanted to be an alcoholic, but you were too scared.

Do it in the simulation. you always wanted to know what it felt like to eat another guy's penis you know we've gotten closer and closer remember that cop that was fantasizing about eating people do it in the simulation

go live in the simulation we're headed there because that is the only thing that's left and that will create and spawn new stories in the human condition we're in the simulation it'll be like Gen Z is right now. Like I'm aware, but I'm aware of being aware.

But I'm also aware of being aware of being aware like this endless mirror game where the reflection just goes to infinity. I'm aware, I'm aware, I'm aware, I'm aware, I'm aware. And they're just being like, I'm cringe because I'm so aware. Because if you're not aware, you're having fun, you're in the moment.

So if you're aware, you're living in your brain. So what's the only place that's going to take us out of this solitude in the brain? is full-blown, unfettered fucking simulation reality games where your brain can't tell the difference. And that gives me hope. Not going to Mars. I don't see how Mars is going to work.

I don't see how intergalactic travel is going to work. I just think people, we can figure out and hack our brains and feel like we live forever, even if we'd live the normal lifespan of a human, but you're in a simulation where the game is your mind gets tricked that you're a god and you live forever. And you feel that way for 40 years. Then the lights go out. You know, you got to reimagine what it's going to be to be human. We're not all just going to sit around and meditate on a rock. You know? I always, I always really admired like the simplicity and piety of Buddhist monks,

but I also worried, like, I also always wondered, like, the fuck's the point. So, yeah, you feel great every day or whatever, because you're in the moment, but your moment sucks. You ever in a really terrible moment, and people always say, hey, be in the moment, be in the moment, and then you try it, you're like, yeah, but this moment sucks. I'm sitting on a bus

They're like, okay, practice gratitude, practice gratitude And there's somebody with a dirty ass sitting next to you on the bus They didn't wipe too well They don't have a bidet So they had a real nasty shit And it's a hot sunny day And their ass funk that's skidded their underwear Is marrying itself

To the faux plastic of the bus seat And you're catching a whiff of it And the air conditioner is not working and you're sitting in traffic and you're on a bus and then you go remember gratitude remember to ground yourself in the moment and then you try it for a second and you ground yourself in the moment and the more you ground yourself in the moment

the more aware you become of how shitty this moment is so then you go fuck it and you throw in your headphones and you go into another moment distraction or if you don't have headphones you go back to a memory of a nice fuck you had in high school and it's much more pleasant than grounding yourself in the moment. Sometimes I don't think being in the moment is the right thing.

I think sometimes the moment sucks so bad that it's better to go someplace else, right? If you're getting assaulted and beaten up by six fucking people on the street, you don't want to go, I just want to be here for this. You know, all those people who talk about when they get sexually assaulted, their brain, like, they fly up and they're looking down on themselves. Yeah, that's the right move. I know that's like the ground zero for trauma, but that's the right move.

You don't want to be like, make sure you're present with this. Make sure you're present with this. Make sure you're present for this violent assault. I want to be here, all that exists in the moment, deity is in the moment, the infinite is in the moment. Sometimes you want to escape into your brain. So we've got to reimagine, like, they have to be the generation that's got to, like, think outside the box. And, you know, it's like the great John Steinbeck said. The human spirit, the thing that's always attacked and never destroyed, they will figure it out.

When you see the grass grow between the cracks of concrete, the human spirit will figure it out. Gen Z's got to figure it out. They're the generation that, because they're just being told, like, this is what? What's best. What's best is we're going to Mars. What's best is if we keep going with this AI stuff. Is it? You have to tell us.

You're the ones who are going to have to figure it out. Like, this is best. The social media greed machine is going, look, you having a three second attention span is best. That's what's best. That's what's best. manufacturing outrage to promote products with fake outrage about jeans and dildos getting thrown on courts

is the way we're going to do advertising now to get everyone all upset that's what's best and for a generation that's really hyper-aware sometimes I marvel at how gullible you can be do you really think that that was organic that fucking they didn't think about that gene commercial causing controversy and how good that'll be.

I know some of you are aware. But most of you are just like the rest of us. Buying, eating it up. Woffa fucking Nazi, I can't wear those jeans. You're going to wear those jeans. Only Nazis wear those jeans. Black girls wear other jeans. We can't wear those jeans because of Hitler.

Can't wear those jeans because of Hitler. Now they're digging into her social media pass and she's shot some guns. They're going, oh, now I definitely can't wear those jeans. She voted Republican. I can't wear Republican jeans. How funny is that that nobody's even looking to see if the jeans look good. It's all about whether you can wear them based on your political position. What do the jeans represent? We're so far into the bullshit. And there was always a level of bullshit, right? And it's like, you know, you look at a McDonald's ad, yeah, the burger is Shalak

and it doesn't look like that, right? But then you go there. But now we're like living in the bullshit. We're like fully living. We're all part of the marketing campaign is my point. That's what I'm trying to say. We're all part of the Mardi Kyi. You know what I'm saying?

It's like the marketing campaign came at us. It manipulated us. But we were still over here. We weren't part of the marketing campaign. Now we're like in the market. We're like unwitting, unwittingly in unconsciously part of the marketing campaign. Because somebody out there's going like, let's people get people pissed off and tell them, say them to say this. We predict they're going to do this.

In this climate, they'll do this. And then they'll be warring and everyone will be talking about American Eagle, which is a company nobody talked about for the last 40 years. Brilliant marketing. This is some fucking psychopathic demon. marketer who's obviously Gen Z who's thinking outside the box now we need some other people to think outside the box as well start your own war

start a genocide get people talking about it doesn't matter whether it's good or bad it's about being hot it's about getting your name out there don't let Israel and fucking Palestine steal all the shine you go out there and create your own genocide Think outside the box

Go out there Start a massacre Go claim some land Just show up Show up in Greenland and say this is my land Start shooting Film it Hungry now

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Swing by a gas station and get an O'Henry today. Oh hungry, oh Henry. We're all part of the show in a way that is cringe. We've all part of the show. It used to be, you know, all the world's a stage, and everyone plays their parts. What did Shakespeare say? Is that Shakespeare?

I think it's Shakespeare. And that was more of an unconscious thing. Now it's like fully conscious. Now it's like, okay, make sure we're at this party. We're doing microdosing. It's a theme night retro. Starsky and Hodge. We discovered it.

We discovered it. We're all watching Starsky and Hodge. We're microdosing. The vibes are good. everyone is respecting gender norms um nobody's crossing lines everyone's respecting the non-binary blase of this issue of this moment

just wanted it's not did it happen if we didn't say it happened and then you have the people doing the equal but opposite reaction going I'm out of here I'm out of here it's like okay good be out of here be out of here oh you're off social media completely You don't check anything. Good.

I'm going to give you my Nancy Pelosi clap. Good for you. Perhaps that means you overindulged in it too much. And you're claiming to be a hero, but really what you're saying is you can't control yourself. Because if you're able to control yourself, you'd be able to get on Twitter once in a while and get in your fake account and call someone a faggot like the rest of us. you're better than us you're completely off social media

oh yeah what are you going back to land what are you going to do start eating raw liver which you learned about on the internet in the first place what are you going to do grow up on food have conversations stare at a wall like Robert E. Lee used to do on weeknights

what are you going to live by candlelight what are you going to bring back coal you're so fucking cool what are you going to fish you're just going to fish and eat your own fucking meat which I also see content about

ooh you're so off the grid because you ever notice how people can't wait to tell you that either I'm so off the grid how about a nice medium how about a nice check-in you can still do your email you can still you know

how about 10 minutes of doom scrolling. Can we find the sweet spot? We ain't going backwards, so just accept it. There's a lot of good that comes with this too. Okay? There's a lot of good that comes with this too. I think one of the things that's good about this, and it started with 9-11, right? Because obviously you got, there's grifters who eventually jumped the shark. So all you got to do is be entertained by the grifters and just watch them eventually junked the shark, okay? Because in my opinion, I'm making a prediction, and I hope I'm not wrong. But in my prediction, I'm going to say that Bridget McRone is a woman.

I think so. I think it's been a very entertaining thing. I also, I'm more convinced Michelle's a man because here's the deal. Okay? Here's the deal. Barack Obama did say he enjoyed having sex with men in his imagination, and Michelle is big. Okay, I don't have any evidence. They do have kids, but, you know, they are shape-shifting reptiles,

so maybe they were born in a different way with eggs. I don't know, but she's just big. She's tall. So they're, you know, usually women are not that tall. So that's the only evidence I have, and also she's not like dainty, feminine-looking in the facial area. so I have by the if you're doing the eye test for me I would be less shocked if Michelle was trans even though there's zero evidence for that

than McCrone you ever see McCrone's wife she's like a little toothpick they got one video of her sitting like this with the legs out and they're like she's a man there's another picture of her brother where she looks like her brother and then her brother is in no pictures with her but neither are her sisters because France has very strict laws about privacy

and you can even get in trouble for filming someone without their consent and they're just private citizens and they don't want to be in the limelight. But we're American and we can't fathom how someone wouldn't want to be in the limelight. And that's essentially what I think this is about

is this is a class of cultures and I'll give you an example. Do you remember when Petit Vosjevoix, whatever his fucking name was, walked across the Twin Towers, right? And there was a documentary about that guy. Philippe, Philippe, Petit, I think his name was, or Petit Philippe.

And he said, someone asked him, like, one of the cops was like, hey, man, why are you doing this? You're like, what's the point of this? Why are you doing this, Philip Petit? Did I get the name right? Yeah, Philip Petit, why are you doing this? And he had one of the best answers. It stuck with me.

And he goes, why? He goes, why? Such an American question. He goes, did you see it? It's a different culture. They don't have that thing we have here where we're shameless fame horse. So when we go, how come there's no pictures of a brother? It's like, hey, maybe her brother doesn't want the spotlight.

Maybe her brother isn't crazy about the fact that his sister started an affair with a 14, 15 year old kid in school. Maybe they don't hang out. There's not that many pictures of me and my brother either, you know? But they always focus on the brother, but she also has sisters, and there's no pictures with the sisters. But nobody suspects the sisters are fucking dead and gave her latest theory is, okay. So the brother, Jean, whatever, died and gave her, gave him, gave his brother. No, wait, it's hard for me to catch up, but I think it was the sister died and gave, or the mother. mother, someone died and gave him the identity so he could live out his dream as a woman.

And that was Candace Owen's last theory. That was last week or something. She changed a little bit. But what I think is happening here is there was intrigue about her story because this is a very unorthodox story about a guy who met this chick. And I think her daughter was his classmate. And then they start an affair and then they get married and she's like 30 years older or 29 years older. Although it happens the other way all the time. I mean, is their age different, any different from Melania and Trump?

Probably similar, right? The only difference is that she was a teacher, right? So, and then I think we have in our consciousness the Michelle thing where everyone's calling a big bike. So we got this trans thing going on and the trans phenomenon. And then there's this picture of the brother. It all starts with this picture of the brother that really they do have the same face. But, you know, they're siblings. So all the suspicion goes from the fact that there's no pictures of them together and that they have the same face.

That may be AI generated because the other picture is old. It's a black and white photo. And they go, this is our evidence. And then they go, there's no information, there's no public information about this guy. but then reputable journalists, journalists, if you want to believe. And we're all skeptical of everyone, so you have to throw that into there. But all these different media outlets went, and they actually talked to this guy, and this guy made a statement, his family owns some chocolate factory or whatever,

and he says, no, I'm me, I'm just, you know, I don't want photos and shit. I don't want people to know what I let them follow me around. I don't want me to know. And then her classmates, and they took the official records, birth records, so she's had kids, she's been married. So supposedly it's all beeswaxed. And the reason why they're suing is because we have free speech rules, but the thing that you can prove is if you sent information to the person saying they're wrong

and then they continue, then you got grounds for a lawsuit. Because they can always claim, I really believed she was a woman. But they go, we sent you this stuff and you ignored it. So the ruling on the. other journalists was that. I think maybe I was quoting the French law. The ruling on the other journalists was that it was dismissed because they didn't prove that they knew better and continued.

They really believed that they were on to something. And so they were like, okay, we'll just dismiss it or something like that. So it didn't really mean that they were right. Now, this could just be me believing the mainstream. It could be that. I'm not going to say it couldn't be that, but I doubt it just by the eye test. And that's why I'm coming back to my original premise. The eye test.

I never looked at her and went, that's a man. But in your defense, the ones out there who believe that she is a man, I have seen a lot of trans women who I didn't think were men either because they're hot as hell. they really the technology is incredible now and the only way you can know is by actually looking at the horn which is which is what they're demanding of Bridget McCrone is they want to see

they want to see a genuine genuine dumbbell flap they want to see a real flesh dumbbell flap they want to see a lips and they want to be able to see that they're real it's the only thing that's going to prove this is show it to us.

So, you know, everyone's just skeptical of everything. Nobody knows what's real. You know what happened in Athens, right? When it went from like, you know, kings or whatever, whatever, democracy started, it was a direct democracy. And that's why we don't have direct democracy. That's why Republic is the best we can do. Because I think what we learn from Athens is when you do direct democracy, you give everyone a voice, everyone has power, and then debate, and then certainty is up for debate.

And then you have these people who are good talkers who come around. And that's where sophistry was coined. Because it's like, we're going to teach you how to win arguments. Not for the, it's not about the truth. It's about winning arguments for your own fame, for your own. I'm going to rep, I'm going to fucking be somebody. I'm going to gather people around with my oratory skills. And so Athens had direct democracy

And it was kind of part of its downfall Right? Democracy is a good idea Rule for the people But and then the You know, we did the Republic Where it's like I everyone got representatives They're elected But they're you know

Kind of I don't know They're really oligarchs And they're a little more educated They're like you can't have the people rule Not everyone can have to say So we'll have one person represent the people And he's got to vote in our interest It's the best you can fucking do

Because there's flaws to everything thing. But I equate Athens in antiquities direct democracy to the advent of the internet. The internet democratized information, it democratized power, decentralized power. And what happens in both cases is the cultural norm becomes debate. Everything's debate now. or the way I put it succinctly and beautifully in a tweet that is grammar checked when I had the thought was just like in Athens when it became a direct democracy, the internet decentralized power. This inevitably led to truth becoming contested when power democratized, when power democratized certainty collapses and sophist rise. And when sophist rise, debate becomes the dominant mode of culture. Let's you know that the writing brain is different than the speaking brain.

My speaking brain is a little less sophisticated. So this is what Gen Z's growing up in. Truth is up for grabs. Reality is a suggestion. There's nothing on the horizon. Can you imagine the only future hope is interplanetary travel? or like more awareness. Awareness is not always a good thing,

and I think I prove that with my example of bad moments. Sometimes you want to be a little less aware. The people who are the most aware go crazy. You don't want to be aware of too much. You know, awareness doesn't, it could lead to peace, but it certainly doesn't lead to happiness. You know what leads to happiness? Fucking unawareness.

Bliss, you don't want to know. You're getting blown by her prostitute. You don't want to know that she was sex trafficked as a war refugee from Georgia. Not Georgia, the state, the country. It's a dark example, but Gen Z likes dark humor because their fucking palate is worn down. They're jaded. They've seen it all.

What are you going to do? Fall down his flight of stairs for Gen Z? They just watch the fucking baby. die. They just watch the gang shooting on CCTV. So I'm giving them a dark example because this episode is dedicated to Gen Z. I hope it finds you.

And that's right. You don't want to ruin getting blown by a prostitute by being aware how she was trafficked there by international fucking illegal organized crime Montenegrin gangs.

who trafficked her to the United States in Samsung boxes because her dad and her brothers are dead because of some civil war, right? You don't want to be getting blown by some Drews refugee who was trafficked here by a Serbian underworld crime ring because her whole family was killed by the Mujahideen, right? You don't want to know that. You want to enjoy the blowjob.

It's a dark example. You don't want to know. You don't want to know that the girl that you fell in love with who claims her name is Sally is really an Armenian refugee whose family was killed by Israel funding. Ajarbaijan militias in order for Israel to play power games through proxies to contain Iran. You don't want to know that she's going under a fake name and has no papers and is using you to immigrate to this country because all the male heirs of her family were killed by Israeli drones.

used by Ajarbaijin fighters. Are they Aizabijani? That's too aware, man. You're too aware. Sometimes you're too aware. Sometimes you want to just shut it off and lick each other's genitals and fucking throw on an Adam Sandler movie.

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