C (5:25)

Erica. That was one of those.

A (5:27)

That is so perfect. Thanks. I just thought that's amazing. And I love that Scott even got to talk about his technology in there and how much fun he has with it. I miss that. And you guys. So we want to acknowledge it's been one week since we've had to say goodbye to Scott. And it's like we said yesterday, it's not getting easier and we miss him a lot. And if anyone wants to say anything at this point, let's do that. And I don't want to skip over that. It's so important.

B (6:06)

No, I. I was thinking last night, you know, knowing that it's one week from since he. His passing, and I realized that we were very blessed. And I was telling Erica and Sergio and Owen, but not only that. The reason why we were so blessed, the reason why we feel such grief, is that he was a friend to all of us. But not only that, that he wanted for us to succeed, each one of us. And that's not. That's rare for someone to exist that wants us to succeed, but not only that he wanted us to succeed, but he gave us also the tools. And that's amazing that each of us. I see on. On X, I see on Locals, I don't go to Blue sky or any of the other Instagram or anything like that, but I'm sure somewhere else there's other people posting. I see everybody doing what they can to be useful, doing memes, doing AI, posting stories. They're also doing meetups, which is going great. There's one today that I saw that like, they're gonna meet up in Turkey. I didn't know there were fans in Turkey. And there's fans in, I think, think Thailand. There was a meeting. Everybody's trying to do their, Their, their. They're trying to pay it back as. As Scott told us in his letter to us. And I, I'm loving it because it's grief and it's sadness, but there's positivity to it. And I. It just fills me with how proud Scott would be of all of us.

C (8:01)

Yes. I didn't know what it's going to be like to have a seven days without Scott. Right. We've had like Mondays or Tuesdays or Wednesdays sometimes that he will miss for a reason, but never a full week. That was the first time ever that I've in years. Right. So we're gonna have a full week without him. So that was quite an experiment. And I think that I was thinking about this, whatever this is that we're doing, right? And I was thinking, like, what is it? Right? And because I read the comments, I'm not like Joe Rogan, right? I like to read the comments. They don't affect me. I can read them like Scott does. You know, I can just scan him and without getting emotional about it and take all the feedback and yeah, we're not here to try to replace Scott. This is. I was thinking, like, what is this? This is like a support group that Scott left for us and said, you know what? I don't want to call it A support group, because that's too wakey, too woke. So I'm going to call it a school because that's going to make more sense that going to support group and it's going to be a useful thing. So it's been wonderful and also horrible to wake up every day knowing that Scott is not going to be there because it didn't matter how bad our day was every day, we knew that the next morning Scott was going to be there every night, every time, you know, it doesn't matter how bad your night was, you know, you're like, oh, well, tomorrow at least we have Scott, you know, so. And we don't have Scott this week and it's been hard. But thank you for the support group and I hope that we can help you out too. So that's what we're here for.

D (9:49)

Yeah. And I've just been feeling a lot of gratitude for everything Scott gave us. I. I just, you know, it's actually nice in a way to just be going over some of the things that he taught us over the years. And so all these things like, you know, reading reframes and even these simultaneous sips with little lessons embedded in them are just great because they just remind me of all the good times we had with him and all the things he taught us. And you know, he would embed all these little lessons and reinforce them time and they'd keep coming back in his user interface to reality. That was kind of like an index to a lot of his lessons in many ways. And, you know, it's just been really nice to see a lot of that stuff and I hope everybody keeps sharing them because it's really just great to see a lot of these highlights and a lot of the great lessons that he taught us over the years. And I'm looking forward to seeing that in the Scott Adams school going forward. Just, you know, having Jay Plemons put together all the videos and that may end up becoming part of this process in the school where we might play some of those videos as part of this, as we get more rolling into this and figure out the technology and all of that. But it's, it's just been great and you know, there's still a mix of emotions. I, I certainly miss them and miss the feedback every day of him seeing and commenting and sometimes reposting my, my stories. And I'm still posting them for Scott even though he's not here. I'm picking out the stories that I think you would like to see and would like to talk about and hopefully you guys can all talk about them and share them. And I love to see that too. So, you know, keep looking for things on my feed. I know it's sometimes hard with the algorithm because it's not necessarily friendly to how I post, but, you know, I, I'm, I'm feeling really good right now, actually, and I'm sure there'll be ups and downs, but right now I would just say I'm feeling a lot of gratitude for everything that Scott gave us and also just everything the community is giving, giving us right now.

A (11:49)

I agree. And you guys. So we have some great guests that are going to come on with us in the coming weeks, even days. And luckily, you know, Scott helped us get some street cred. And I've made some great connections through Scott, through myself on X. And I'm utilizing them because again, that's a resource. So I decided let's make sure we find people that really loved and appreciated Scott to see if they want to join us. I did message a couple of our locals to see if they want to come on. So check your DMs and like Owen said yesterday, if you feel like you want to participate, perhaps in like a reframe that you want to pick out and have a discussion about it, we would love that. So DM me or DM one of us, let us know. Okay? We, we want you to participate. And also, you know, we're going to also recommend to you that you subscribe to Scott's Locals channel because that's where the Scott Adams School is going to be. That's where the campus is. It's on locals. Okay. So everything will be over there. That being said, you guys, I'm going to let Owen do what he does best, which is find amazing news stories for us and check his, his page every morning because he posts all sorts of news stories. And that's what we're going to go off of today. And in the chat, you guys put your two cents in. Like, you know, we're going to read your comments as you guys are posting to see how you feel about the stories. What you're chiming in, Maybe we can drop. All right, ej, don't DM me. I'm just kidding. Maybe you can drop a comment in if I see it. I'll try to get it in here. Okay. So I love you guys on Local. Shout out to the beloved over there. We love you so, so much. Okay.

B (13:46)

Yeah.

C (13:46)

Just one thing I want to say that everybody's welcome. We. I'm always A locals guy. You know, most of us were locals, but I don't want anybody on YouTube or X to feel like, left out, please. We are having truce here. We're going to unite all of us, and I just want to make sure of that, because I had a blind spot for YouTube and X, I have to admit. But now I'm realizing that there's a lot of wonderful people there and it's been great.

A (14:17)

Yeah, come on over to locals.

D (14:19)

Yeah, locals people are still better people, though.

A (14:22)

It's true.

B (14:23)

I wanted to mention that there is a local's birthday. Happy birthday, Christine. She turns. Well, should I say 70? So happy birthday.

D (14:34)

Happy birthday.

A (14:35)

Happy birthday, Christine.

B (14:37)

For anybody else.

D (14:43)

All right, well, I can get started with some science news. There's an interesting one here that'll probably. I don't know how you're going to react to this one. It says positive thinkings may. May help you get more out of your vaccines. So apparently if you have positive thinking when you get vaccines, you have more of an. An immune response to it. They did a study with people split into groups and they had one of them using positive thinking, and they ended up having a better immune response. I know a lot of you have different views about vaccines, so maybe you want to use your negative thinking depending on what you're going for, if you're getting a vaccine. But it does seem like the lesson Scott taught us about your body as your brain, and your brain is your body is very applicable here, that the way you think about things makes a difference. I know that's come up a number of times in Scott's talks about how, you know, there's the placebo effect and there's the opposite, which is the nocebo effect, where if you have. If you believe something works, it'll probably have some effect on you, even if it's just a sugar pill and nothing at all. And if you have the opposite, that you think something's not going to work, it's more likely not going to work, or it might even be more likely to have side effects and things. So how you think about something has a big impact. So just keep that in mind as you're going through these medical treatments or not going through these medical treatments and trying things out and maybe even take advantage of the placebo effect if you think it might help you. The interesting thing I remember about some of these stories about the placebo effect is even if you know that it's a placebo effect, even if you know that it still works, which is pretty amazing, But I think it is kind of like this hypnosis sort of idea that Scott has used that doesn't matter. Like if you, even if you don't believe it, like if you just think, you know what, maybe this is gonna work. And, and even if, you know, it's a sugar pill, it'll still potentially work to help you. And so my thought is just, why not use it, you know, try and do whatever you can to train your brain and, you know, see what it can do for you. And it sounds like in the case of vaccines, if you are going to get one for whatever reason, you know, if you have positive, it sounds like you're actually going to get a better result.

C (17:12)

You know, your coffee articles, they're all positive articles about coffee. And so every time I drink coffee, I feel like stronger and smarter and all that, you know, so because of all years of Scottish reinforcing the power of this, you know, so it's true. Anyways.

A (17:32)

All right, Owen, what else do you have for us?

D (17:34)

Well, sort of along similar lines, there's apparently a study that early father child bonding predicts lower inflammation in children, that they have better heart health even years later. And so if you have good bonding with your child as a father, you're going to make your child healthier. And I think that is kind of the same idea that, you know, the bonding you have, even though you would think that would be mostly mental, actually has a physical effect that it'll make less inflammation and it'll improve their heart health. So if you're going to have a kid, make sure you have good bonding with them. Make sure you have that going on. And I think you'll have healthier children. So, you know, I think that's a similar message really, that the sensitivity and warmth and engagement is what they were measuring. So engage with your children, show warmth and show sensitivity and it'll make a difference for your kids health.

A (18:33)

And don't do the opposite. Bond with your children. That's the point.

D (18:37)

Yeah, it's also just one of the best things. I mean, anybody who's had kids I think can attest to that, that bonding with your kids is just the most fun thing you can do.

A (18:48)

Oh, I love that.

D (18:52)

Okay, well, let's see. So then we get into another sort of story about menopause. There's a video I posted where apparently this leftist woman is claiming that Trump trip Trump triggered her menopause from repulsion. She. She's saying this whole entire administration is so effed it actually put my body into menopause I am so thoroughly repulsed. Effing Donald Trump and all his cronies. So apparently the claim, according to this leftist woman, is that Trump actually is putting women into menopause. What do you guys think of that?

A (19:32)

I'm sure it has nothing to do with her attitude, her stress level, her friends and her surroundings, her age, or her disposition. It's Trump. But if Trump can throw these women into menopause and then they can't get pregnant and reproduce, then I trust in Trump. Like, let's go. I mean, that's what I had to say.

B (19:58)

As Scott would say, she's batshit crazy. I mean, like, how. How does a president cause you menopause? But, you know, they blame him for everything. Like, even if he cured cancer, like, they would still be mad at Trump. I mean, it's tds, you know, So I don't know how old the. Did it say. Did the story say how old she was?

D (20:23)

I don't recall. I mean, it was just a video, so I don't know if she said her age.

A (20:28)

Well, she's a menopausal age. Yeah.

D (20:30)

Yeah, I think so.

C (20:32)

I was d. I was dating somebody like that. I told you guys, right? So I was 100% in that idea, right? I was. I was 100% believing that Trump was causing my girlfriend to not have sex with me. You know, that was like, the day it was. Cause I was blaming Trump, too. Hey, Trump, please can you stop being like that so this girl can pay attention to me? Right? So that's a.

B (21:00)

That's.

C (21:01)

That I know what it feels to be in that camp, you know, from the four of us. I actually was there and I felt it. So anytime you want to ask me how crazy it was, they think that we are crazy, so.

A (21:14)

Oh, my God. That is insane.

B (21:16)

This is crazy. But it came from a video on.

D (21:20)

Yeah, yeah.

B (21:21)

Did she have crazy eyes, like, the theory?

D (21:24)

Oh, of course, yes. I mean, she's the typical. She looks just like you would expect her to look.

A (21:31)

I think Libs of TikTok posted her and I. You guys, just so you know, I often don't have my sound on when I'm scrolling Twitter because I don't need to. Like, I can just. I can see the insanity, but, oh, my God, all I did was, like, read, like, the headline and what Libs of TikTok said, and then I'm looking at her and she's like, of course. In her car, videoing herself. Everybody needs to see how upset I am. And, like, this is so desperate. And Real. But she didn't shave her hair bald like the other chicks did. She wasn't that committed. Remember all the chicks that shave their hair bald when Trump won? Because they were going to end up like the Handmaid's Tale? I don't know. But you know what? If, if he can throw them into menopause, all the better for this society. It's a win.

D (22:20)

All right, well, the next story, which is along the same theme, I think is it's entitled why Young Women Moved Left While Young Men Stayed Sane. And what kicked us off was Bill Amman, quote, tweeted a graph that shows the partisan gap between young men and women has almost doubled over the last 25 years. And so it's like a 23 point gap between them. Looks like women are something like plus 20 liberal and men are like plus 5 or so conservative. But it used to be a much smaller gap. It was always a gap to some extent, but it's been a lot narrower over the years. But over the last 25 years it's expanded considerably. And so the article goes on to try and explain some of this. He points out a post, this is by an X user named Wanye who it's the handle X W A N Y E X. So X, Wanye X, he says. It's pretty clear to me that what we've been told about radicalization for the last 10 years is exactly the opposite of what's happened in reality. We've been told that men are increasingly radicalized to the right and that this is a bad thing. What actually happened is that women have increasingly radicalized to the left. It doesn't really get talked about much, but to the extent it does, it will in every single case be framed as a good thing. And then the article goes on to say this isn't just America. There's a similar graph for South Korea and for Germany and the uk and they're all showing the same thing. So it's not just American politics that's doing this, it's a global phenomenon. And then it goes on to come up with at least some theory. This is again someone's personal theory about this, but it talks about how women evolved in environments where social exclusion carried enormous survival costs. You can't hunt while you're pregnant, you can't fight while you're nursing. They have a different set of biological needs, whereas men face different pressure. You know, they had to go hunt and explore and do combat and all sorts of things. And so this shows up in the personalities, you know, that, that women are a lot more agreeable, they're a lot more neurotic, they're more sensitive to negative stimuli, whereas men have higher tolerance for disagreement and social conflict. And they're huge differences. And there's nothing good or bad about that. It's just, that's how it is. We're different. And then it goes on to say, okay, now let's bring social media into the picture. Everybody's on a smartphone now, you know, and social media really is what they call a consensus engine. That your tribe used to be 150 people. That's the Dunbar number of like, how many people you could have a relationship with. And now it's like everyone you ever met, plus a whole bunch of strangers. Because you're seeing a constant stream of information about this consensus. And I think it's saying that that's driving women towards this consensus in a way that doesn't really affect men nearly the same way. And then you bring in institutions, you have universities that have flipped to 60% female. And it's all very progressive monoculture, super liberal. And so people are spending four years surrounded by people that all believe the same thing, professors who all believe the same thing. The reading lists all are one direction disagreement isn't even rare. It's just. It's socially punished. And so you. You get essentially indoctrinated through that and it goes on with some other things. But I think we've kind of covered a lot of it. What do you guys think of all this?

A (25:56)

I think that. Yeah, go ahead, Sergio.

C (26:00)

Oh, yeah, I was gonna say this cat called this like years ago. He made me look like a genius. When I will tell my friend, you know what do you notice how, you know, we are. The right is shifting more to the men and the women to the left. And that was like, I don't know, eight years ago that I told him because Scott said it. And it's been happening, Owen, and you're so right that it is. Everything is. Reinforces them to do that right now. And nothing has been stopping. But, you know, is the. Is the guys like me when I was dating that girl, that was just a complete simp, really. That was just facilitating her, you know, so, so we. I'm hoping that men too, all of us, start also, you know, acting like scat, you know, be like a man, like scat was. So.

B (26:52)

What I notice is that the reason women do this and I, you know, it's just my thoughts on it is that they, they need. A lot of these women are single or single mothers and they, they rely on the government to give everything to them. And so the, the left is big on, on government aid, and having you just being taken care of versus the right is, you know, rugged individualism. You create your own, your own path, and we're just gonna stay out of your way. And that's, I think, one of the reasons that women are attracted to the left. And, and it's not every woman, as we see Erica and me, are here. It's if there's a type of woman that needs that sort of. They don't have a father or they don't feel protected and they need government to do, you know, basically give them financial aid, but not only that, give them the power to have everybody else do what they want. Like call monitor type of, you know, ideas that, like, if someone's doing something, I need to be basically control what the country's doing. Control everyone. Control everyone.

A (28:22)

Yeah. I think I've noticed online and everywhere that a lot of this is my opinion, you guys, that I, I feel like a lot of the women, because we know that women are emotional creatures, typically more than men. And now you're seeing so many more emotional men, which for me is such a turnoff. It's like, okay, yeah, like, if something's genuinely sad, I get it, or whatever. But men are like morphing into these feminist, whacked out women. These are my words. And it's like they have to bring themselves down to their level. So now these women are taking the masculine role and the men are taking the feminine role in order to cohabitate or get along or whatever it is. So everything's upside down, down. And men by nature are supposed to be protectors and be strong and providers and whatever, but they're not allowed to be with these women. So I think either there's gonna be a lot of breakups and divorce, which I think is already happening, because how like Sergio, right? Like, how could you coexist with somebody whose entire life is revolving around a political person? It has nothing to do with her. Like, nobody's life is being hurt by things that are happening in D.C. if you're a legal American citizen, let's say. But I don't know. I just think that those women are weak and they. Their strong man, for lack of a better word, is the government. And maybe they didn't have an example of that, like with their fathers or anyone in their family or their upbringing. I don't know exactly what it is, but it's. It's odd that they can't See it that they, they don't want to rely on a man. They hate men. Men are disgusting, but the government is their big daddy. So I'm just like, the irony is just pretty pathetic to me.

D (30:24)

And have you noticed, I think I've noticed that a lot of these women on the left still complain about not being able to find a good man or a strong man or a good provider. And, you know, maybe some of what we're seeing is a response to not being able to find that, but it seems like they still want that. Like. Like my perception is that if a man is really feminine and acts feminine, that he's not attractive even to these leftist women. It doesn't work. If, if a man tries to be that way and if, if he does stand up and, and be a man and be masculine, it seems like he would have a lot more success even with some of these leftist women, maybe against their will to some extent. I don't, I don't. Not really against their will, but like, against their nature that they still respond the same way to masculine men. You know, they still want a masculine man that can be a good provider and makes more money than them and, you know, that's who they would still look for as for a mate, even though politically they might think that's terrible. Have you noticed that?

A (31:37)

Yeah, I think, I think there's something to be said about a strong man. Well, there's a lot to be said about it, but, you know, it's like these women, it's like, yeah, like they, they. I think in theory, women do want that, but they are more worried about social acceptance and being part of the group. And I'm assuming that a lot of these people were on the outs, like in grammar school or high school. Like, they, they always want to be part of the cool clique and didn't quite fit in or. I don't know, but it's just like, where is the free thinking? Like, where. Why this hive mind all the time? Can no one just say, like, but that. It's just ridiculous to say, no matter what Donald Trump does, it's just the worst thing on the planet. Like, can you ever take a breath and have your own original thought and separate things? Because not everything is the same. Like, I love a lot of the stuff Trump does, I hate a lot of the stuff he does. But at the end of the day, the things that are most important to me, I'm happy about. And the things that affect my life, I'm very happy about. And I don't have to worry about the other stuff. So I just wish that the women who are so screeching on the left with their hair on fire would just take a beat and calm down, like, laugh a little bit. It's not that serious and you don't have to fight every other person's battle. And also, how many of us have friends in the black community that are like, hey, liberal women, shut up and stop speaking on my behalf. Like, you're, you're belittling people by speaking for them. They can speak for themselves and they don't need your pity handout and your bs. I'm sorry, I'm going to get on tangent. I'm going to get on tangent. I'm, I'm muting it, taking it back.

C (33:25)

To the dopamine thing. You know, the source of dopamine. You, Erica, you get dopamine every day already, right? And you get it from seeing Trump or any, you know, all the things that are happening, you know, golden age, you're getting that dopamine every day, right? So if you put yourself in their shoes, what is their dopamine source, right, where they're going to get it from? Also, I watch a lot of body cam videos on YouTube and a lot of arresting and tasting and a lot of that. And what I noticed is that some people, they like to get, you know, taken down and they. I feel like they have repeat people, you know, that keep doing it over and over again. And when once they take him down, they kind of like, they just like it, you know, they, they. Because I think they're starving for human touch. A lot of people, you know, a lot of these women, maybe they don't have somebody that goes, like, grabs them by the shoulders, like, hey, stop it, woman. You know, something like that, you know, so maybe these eyes taunting them is part of that too. Maybe. I'm not saying that it's 100%, but I think that what I've seen. What do you think, Owen?

B (34:41)

Down to the biological, like, I think we're all pointing out, but we're all biological creatures. And I think one of the reasons they, the women, this type of women are anti ice, is that they want immigrant men to come into this country. I mean, they might not know it mentally, but biologically they want to have more men around, which is something that Scott talked about. But it just seems like that it might also be that. But also they enjoy the banter and the, you know, them putting them in handcuffs by eyes. So they, they also enjoy the attention, I'm sure.

D (35:28)

Well, so the other thing I. That the article didn't really go into, but I think is true, is that a lot of these women are childless, and so they're not really playing the role that biology had in mind for them as a woman to be a mother. And, you know, if you do have a woman that has children, that becomes like, almost like their identity, you know, they're. They. They spend almost all their time, for many years just focus on their kids and raising their kids, and that becomes their main priority in life. And to an extent, it happens with men, too. So it's not just women, but I think for women, it's kind of like that is your primary function biologically is to have children and to be a mother. And I think everything from social media to institutions to just the whole feminist movement has tried to indoctrinate women to say, you shouldn't have kids when you're young. You should wait and, you know, maybe never have kids. And I think that derails a lot of the normal path that women would follow to say, I'm going to find a mate. I'm going to get married. I'm going to have kids. And if you don't do that, I think it leaves a hole. And I think they feel like they got to fill that hole, like they got to find another purpose. And it. I think that's what causes them just latch on to all these problems that aren't really their problems. It's like, oh, I gotta look out for these poor immigrants, or I gotta look out for these poor other people. And so they get involved with these things and act like this angry mother trying to protect these people that aren't their kids. But they almost treat them like they're their kids, right? Like they're. They're treating them as if they're. They're trying to be the mama bear and say, I'm gonna. I'm gonna do something to protect these people because they're oppressed, and I need to step in and save them, and I need to be the mother figure for that. And it just pushes them down a very negative path to take risks they shouldn't take and in this one case, to lose their life. And in that case, I think, you know, that person did have kids, you know, she was in some lesbian relationship, but I don't know what caused that person not to put their kids first, essentially. But, you know, a lot of them tend to be these women, like you said, who are single. Maybe single mother is part of it where they don't have a man in their life to help or to help guide them and provide for them and things like that. But a lot of them are just. They don't have kids, Right. And so they're. They're looking for something else to be their purpose in life. And, you know, it ends up being this political cause.

A (38:04)

Yeah. I also think that feminism ruined women. And, you know, okay, so I always say this, you guys, I'm not even kidding when I say this, but I would. I would, as a woman, say all women should give up their. Their right to vote if just men could vote. Because I swear, it's like, we have to stop voting emotionally. Like, we have a country to run, the country is a business, and we have a country to save. And if women keep voting based on emotion and what their friends want, we're f'd. Okay, so feminism ruined women. They. Feminism set women back so far. I mean, imagine. Imagine Hillary was going to be the president. I mean, what a sad state of affairs. Of all the women in the world, Kamala Harris, like, are you kidding me? Like, that's your example of the woman you should put forward to be the president of the United States. Forget Biden and all that. But I'm just saying, as a woman thing, so I just think it's a joke. And then watching other women, like, God, I can't. But the women on the View, I feel like Dave Rubin right now, they're insane. I mean, they're just setting women back so far. So I just wish that any one of these crazy lunatics could just take a beat and understand that not everything is emotional. And that if I honestly, Scott said this, I don't know, a hundred years ago, this is when all the me too stuff was starting. And he said, I would not hire a woman in my company now if he had a business with staff. I owned a business at that point that was all women, and I was in the process of selling it, but I was like, I will never do it again. I, like, honestly, I've had many businesses, and I just wouldn't hire a woman now at this point because they're just an emotional liability. So I dig the male energy. And I'm talking male energy, not femi male energy. Because there is a difference in people. And I just want stuff to be done based on merit, credibility, actual logic, I guess, actual signs. So I don't know. I'm just. I'm over the women. Like, I wish we couldn't vote. Honestly, I really do.

D (40:31)

Yeah, well, I don't think it's likely we're going to have women lose the right to vote or the right to work. But I do understand what you're saying. I think, you know, I often bring up the idea that, that ironically, Elizabeth Warren wrote a book about, which is entitled the Two Income Trap, I think, and I still can't believe she wrote this book, but she did. And it talks about how women were essentially tricked into going into the workforce and ended up much less financially secure as a result of it by entering the workforce. Because if you compare how it was back in, let's say, the 50s, where most women stayed home and raised their kids primarily, and their husbands was the provider and the breadwinner and would be the only income in the family, then that's what determined where they lived, you know, where they could go to school for their kids and how much they could spend on a house. Right. But now that we've evolved to having these two income households, where did all that money go from, that extra income? It didn't go into the bank. They didn't save it. They spent it on a better home for their kids in a better neighborhood. And so what really happened was we bid up all the real estate prices higher in these good neighborhoods until you ate up essentially all that extra money. And what that means is now if the husband loses his job temporarily back in the 50s, what that meant was maybe that wife could do some extra job on the side, like be a secretary or do some other job on the side to fill in until her husband could go back to work. Like you had that extra person available to potentially chip in as a sort of an insurance policy. But it wasn't part of their normal budget. But now you have, the budget is based on both incomes and if either one of them loses their job, there's no one to fill in. Right. You just have to hope that that person gets another job quickly. And so the point they make is that this, you know, it made everybody worse off because, you know, you probably also made wages go down because you have twice as many people competing for the jobs, which economically would follow that employers don't have to pay as much because. Yeah. And it, so it just, it seems like it, it was a kind of a hoodwink sort of thing. I don't know if anyone even intended for it to happen, but that's how it played out. Right. It was like all these families that are, you know, depending on two incomes and all the money just went into the real estate. It didn't benefit the families and it left them in a very Precarious position. And, and so I think feminism was just a net negative for, for, for families.

C (43:24)

But it was advertised. Oh, sorry, no, go ahead. It was advertised as the liberation, right. It was advertised as the, the social, the, the socialist utopia. Right. They, they were saying the Soviet Union, Cuba, they were saying, oh, our women are alongside our men, fighting alongside our men, World War II and everything. And they always like emphasize that. And everybody, you know, we, we ate it. I remember growing up in Mexico, my mom, you know, she was like a feminist. You know, she was a total into it. You know, she got her hair a lot short. She had like seven sisters and they all like, were smoking and like, oh, you know, we don't need. And I saw the effects of that in my childhood and the propaganda that came from with it. So yeah, it is happening here and I don't know what's going to stop it until we have this purpose like you're saying, you know, we had to find the purpose again. And that's what Scott Adams always try to get everybody inspired, to get everybody a task, a vision, an idea to do something with their life. So maybe the more Scott, we have out there and the more those women want to be like, Scott, man.

D (44:45)

So yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, the, the, the story does talk about predictions that follow from this and it's not really all positive, but it does say that maybe countries that have less smartphones would have less of an issue. And it does seem to be true based on the, the data that's available, that parts of Eastern Europe and Africa don't have as much of this problem. It says, you know, maybe the gap will narrow among women who have children because parenthood kind of breaks that feedback loop and gives you different priorities, which I talked about already. And then, you know, from there though, it's like maybe some women will escape this trap of having this social media consensus engine running on them all the time. Maybe it will be the ones that have children because that, you know, gives you a whole different set of priorities. Maybe some men will stop withdrawing or stop rage scrolling and find something that's worth building and get into that, but that essentially the system's going to keep running on everybody else and it seems like a negative force. And you know, Bill Ackman asked, why did this happen? I think the, the conclusion from the article is it's not because women are emotional and it's not because social media is bad per se, but it's that we have this global scale consensus engine that we deployed on a species that has this different response from women and men. And so I guess it is still saying that social media is part of the problem, but I think the solution sounds like it's more, you know, disconnect from that stuff, don't pay as much attention to what social media thinks about things, and, you know, connect more with people around you and have your own personal set of values and go after those personal relationships, and that seems to be the solution.