We live together and despite that fact, we've barely seen each other for probably two months now. Yeah, well, because if I'm traveling your home, if you're traveling, I'm home. So now we're finally reunited and it feels good. In that time, it's like, that's such a long amount of time for two people to be a part that life has happened in the interim.
I hit millions subs, recorded with Bumstead, Sam Harris, Paul Mosi went to that Gymshark event. You traveled to the UK, Korea, Japan, then came back, then went to the CrossFit Games for the entire time. Rogan posted a piece of your content on the show that he did, reacted to a piece of content on the show. I think you've broken some most subscriber milestones.
And now I'm about to leave for another two weeks. So this is like a brief period. Like everybody else might not care. I haven't caught up with you.
So I want to know what the headlines have been from the last couple of months of your life. Just more of the same, like it's the content game. You know it. I know it's very, it's what's cool is like for those of us, for people who aren't in the content game, basically everyone who's listening to this.
It's very interesting to find people who are also in it and then live with that person. So it's like, I kind of get motivated by your work. And I feel like sometimes you check in and you're like, holy shit, Zach's done something pretty big here. But yeah, it's just more the same, like getting crazy interviews, meeting people who.
So Ben Smith, the winner of the CrossFit Games back in 2015 or 2016 or something, maybe 2014, I forget. He was one of my heroes in CrossFit. I'm at the airport and he walks up to me. He literally likes a beeline for me.
He goes, Hey, man, I love your stuff on YouTube. I'm like, I'm like, I have, yeah. So, so we like clicked immediately. I went to Virginia Beach and I actually just did a training session with him.
I didn't even cover it or put it on my YouTube channel. It was just so cool for things like that to happen. And I know that that's been happening to you. Like, because I knew you before you would have ever had a chance to have been on Rogan, let alone be friends with Rogan.
So it's really, really fun. You just had an episode on Rogan where some episode got responded to, what was that? I haven't watched that episode yet. I saw your screenshot of it, but I haven't seen it.
What were they reacting to and what they say? So it was Alexander Karelen, who is one of the most dominant athletes period of all time. I think he went over a decade without losing and wrestling. So he's a Greco-Roman wrestler and he was a super heavyweight, I think.
So that's like kind of like the unlimited class, but he was picking up guys, like he's picking up the super heavyweights. Not typically the thing. He had, you know, his main move was the Karelen lift, where it's like, you hold someone around the waist, but upside down and then you can throw them whatever. He was so good and so athletic that some athletes would forfeit before even going up against him.
They would literally forfeit before going up against him. And the numbers that he hit in the weight room, this is why it was so interesting to me. The numbers that he hit in the weight room, the size of this guy, and then his athleticism, he could do backflips. He could do the splits.
He was about like six, three, 280 pounds in his prime, like right around 300 inches, maybe at his heaviest, but he was a freak of nature. And I made a video on it and it kind of popped off a little bit. It exploded late. You know how videos do that?
Like they're just kind of whatever. And then like a year later, they just go that happened to this video. And then I posted it a part of it to my Instagram and Rogan saw it on my Instagram, followed me on Instagram, which was pretty cool. And then recently he was talking with someone, I forget who it was, but yeah, Gadsad, and he was like, I can hear this guy, Karelen go on YouTube.
You search Alexander Karelen, who's video pops up. It's your boy's video. It's right there. Let's go.
So they're pulling it up watching it. How did that feel? It felt good, but it was also like, you know, it's not like they went, oh, this guy, Zach Teler made a really good video. It wasn't about exactly.
I just provided the info for them. However, the follow on Instagram was much bigger deal for sure. Yeah, adrenaline dump is one hell of a drug. Yeah, I think it's interesting, like finding cool stories.
Think about coffee zilla when he was pumping out stuff more frequently. What was exciting about him was he was finding crypto scams and grifters and stuff from projects that you'd never even heard of. It wasn't always Sam Bankman free, an FTX or Logan Paul's crypto zoo. It was people that you didn't even know about.
So it's like, it's like a literally like a documentary that teaches you about something that you would have never known about previously. So I think that's what's cool. And obviously when you have someone that goes narrow and deep like you do or Derek in sport specifically or pharmacology, you end up with really interesting ideas. So yeah, man, one of the things that we're going to talk about today is this new transgender athlete division in some strength sports.
But first, we need to talk about our old friend Billy McFarland, guy that did fire festivals. So the people aren't familiar frauds the Billy McFarland relaunches fire festival from behind bars with $8,000 tickets. His rerun of the event, which previously ended in disaster in 2017, is set to take place in December next year. So he was in jail for quite a while.
It seems like he's out now. And he puts this video up in a bathrobe, looking like the most aristocratic, like New York wanker that you can think of. And he said, this is a big day. It has been the absolute wildest journey to get here.
And it all started during a seven month stint in solitary confinement. I wrote out this 50 page plan of how it would take this overall interest in demanding fire and how it would take my ability to bring people from around the world together to make any possible happen. Long story short, he has released tickets, first sale of tickets have sold out for another five festival in the Caribbean, which I think is where it was last time, Pablo Escobar's island. And he's just running it back.
Well, I just do it again. Yeah, I have a question. So he wrote a 50 page manifesto or something in solitary confinement. Like a business number one thing, my brother in Christ, it's not that deep.
It really isn't. You got a bunch of models. I'm sorry, you got a bunch of models and, you know, kind of a celebrities to post an orange photo and that, but this was before viral was like so saturated online and this idea of fire festival will explode. It was over your head.
You didn't cancel it quick enough and you stole a bunch of money from a bunch of people. It's not a deep. Oh, what? So you're reinventing yourself doing this thing.
I'm, you know, it's like you're just trying to do another festival. Like it's been done now. You're not Ted Kuzinski. This isn't like you trying to fix the problems of the world.
Yeah. I do. I mean, I've got such interesting thoughts about feelings about Bill McFarland because I know for a fact that if he managed to pull off the five festival, people, even if it even if it just wasn't a complete disaster, even if it was remotely acceptable, people would have hailed him as a marketing genius because. Yeah.
This is what we all me and you always end up talking about this. We love winners. The world loves winners and it doesn't even matter how evil, how bad they are. If they win, you have to, there's a decent amount of people who are just going to be like, yeah, but do it.
Look at the money. Look at the, you know, he fulfilled. He came back. We love a comeback story.
It's like, well, that can't, you can't forgive and forget everything like that. I mean, this is, this is Andrew Tate. This is, you know, Logan Paul, Jake Paul, the Logan Paul rug pull with crypto zoo. I think like two weeks later or four weeks later, he did a deal with Dana White and the UFC.
And now he's doing a deal with, you know, Bayern Munich. It's like there is no, it's just, you keep moving. You just, if you're one of these guys, you just, you get in trouble, you keep moving. You start winning again.
Everyone goes, yeah, but like they would have thought with Billy McFarland specifically after the two documentaries, one that was on Netflix and the other that was on Hulu, I think. They were so damning, right? People got to learn about him as this awful predatory business partner who called in the military genius of Ja Rule to be his operator. Like the guy that time in New York was crazy to, by the way, you and I, our age group, that was us.
It was like the, I think like the 2013 to 2016 Instagram was very interesting because virality and new social media trends was popping off. And my friend lived in New York at the time and he, I think he had one of those black cards that Billy McFarland was making and Ja Rule was promoting. And like weird shit was happening in these clubs and stuff and like weird partnerships. What a brain trust that was really, really pulled in all of the high IQ players to get Ja Rule and to come and fix it.
And then it's like, almost, if you do that, if you get someone who's a rapper, it is your business partner, it's almost a little bit like, well, you know, we couldn't have expected much. It was Ja Rule that, you know, he was the brains behind the operation that tried to bring it all to market. But yeah, I didn't know, man, like Billy McFarland, separate to Logan and Jake specifically, I think takes kind of a bit of a different animal, but Logan and Jake have an unbelievable resilience in terms of the public image. I don't know anybody that's been able to ride waves in the same way that those two guys have.
You can throw anything that you want, anything that you want to those guys. And it doesn't seem to stick. And a little bit of it is kind of like, well, maybe people have become desentatized to those guys being in the muse for bad things. So, you know, you know, just like, add it to the list.
It's the suicide forest and it's the crypto zoo and there's this thing. Like Prime doesn't have, it's all potassium, it's no sodium and it's the coconut concentrate, not coconut water and blah, blah, blah. You know, it's just a big list, a big laundry list of things that have occurred. And people no longer really see it with the same kind of gravity and the final thing, which is destiny strategy, which works so well.
He's, I've told you about this before. He calls it just keep streaming, which is like the Dory from finding Nemo. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming.
He says, people only remember your last three streams. So in the first one, everyone's going to come out and give you loads of shit. And on the second one, they're going to give you some shit. None of the third one, the shit's kind of a little bit old.
About the fourth one, everyone's forgotten. And I do think that it's this sort of momentum game that these guys are able to stone and regardless of what you think about them, regardless of what you think that Logan Paul is a good guy or a media genius or an idiot that's managed to position himself. Well, his ability to withstand media assault, whether it's from mainstream or below the line, whether it's legitimate or manifested like artificially is ungodly. Yeah, it's the nose blindness to fucking up that I think that the world has, right?
Fuck yeah. Yeah. Fuck yeah. That's such a good way to put it.
We're just like the room snakes like shit, but we've been in here for two, two hours. And at that point, like it's, you know, our base level. Yeah, that's phenomenal. I, uh, I don't know, but this, this, uh, five festival two point.
It's like, how is this guy able to conduct a business, is there no business litigation thing that says, you know, like you shoot someone and you get out of jail and it's like, yo, you don't get to have firearms anymore. If you con and trap people on an island with no water and a couple of tents from Hurricane Katrina, I guess what? You don't get to festivals no more, but maybe it's got a rule back in as the operator. I don't know.
This is a, this is definitely a stipulation or a sanction that a lot of white, white color criminals face. Um, when they go to jail, they're not allowed to trade anymore. They're not allowed to have these are literally written into their punishments. Computer hack is not allowed access to the internet or to be near a digital device.
So precisely. And I would love to know like the depth of these, because I think that's very interesting. I feel like your commenters would, you know, some people in business could chime in on it. But I think, yeah, someone will definitely know, but I think that, yeah, there, there has to be something like that.
Like he should not be able to do this for sure. There's no way. It's not even like, Oh, this is a tangential thing. I've actually pivoted and I'm going to do a call.
He's calling it fire. Fire two. It's like, in fact, the, um, the website is like fire two dot com or something. Yeah.
You think it's unbelievable. And then he was, he was defrauding investors and doing all of this other stuff. So yeah, I, I didn't know, man, you're right. The world, bloods are winner and they sort of trickle down effect that you get of success.
You know, in the last year, I've been around a lot of like super successful people and they have nothing short of a reality distortion field around them. Like they, they move and it's not largely their fault. Like people just are so keen to not upset the person that they see as being a gateway between them and success in the world, but they're just, they literally does move reality around them. And, um, yeah, I, I don't know.
We'll see what happens with this Billy McFarlane thing. It's December, 2024. Uh, it's already sold out on the first batch of tickets. It looks kidding.
It's already sold out, but then it was, it's really limited. It looks like there's only a thousand tickets in total, but the final stage of tickets top out at seven, seven grand each. So it's not, I don't know, it's like high, high ticket, low volume, which is the opposite. I think he just promised everything previously and there was the 25 grand villas and 100 grand yachts and all sorts of other fuckery that was going on.
All right. Next thing, uh, the International Power Lifting Federation has changed its policy seemingly in response to outrage generated by male dominating female competitions, breaking records along the way. Male competitor Anne Andress, 40, recently defeated all female competitors at Canadian Power Lifting Union's 2023 Western Canadian Championship by lifting a combined score of 1,317 pounds, beating the second place finisher by more than 450 pounds. You did a video on this a long time ago or a good while ago, you were really out ahead of this, but the people that don't know what's happening in power lifting, what's happening with transgender categories in that sport.
So this was specific to the, uh, CPC, Canadian Power Lifting Commission or some, some, I forget what the name of the actual Federation was, but it had, it was in Canada. Um, and that happened, uh, the woman, uh, the trans, trans woman Andress, I think was her last name. Uh, and so she wiped the floor, especially in the bench press. Um, and then, uh, there was the one of the head coaches of the Canadian powerlifting team when they went to IPF world.
So the international powerlifting Federation worlds, he did a massive troll of this rule, which, which stated at the time, it stated whatever you determine you are. Self-dying. Yes. That is it.
And it was at the time it was pretty much the loosest form of this, although I think in skateboarding, they've been doing it, you know, things that aren't officially either Olympic sports or world champion sanctioned sports with like WADA and things like that. They've recognized self-ideafed gender category determination. So for a sport that's like, has a pretty decent world Federation. This was a pretty crazy rule.
And this guy went and trolled it and he did a hunt like for him, this bench press was pretty low, like 160 kilos for a strong, strong venture is really not hard. Like I know guys that can do sets of five with that. And again, this is like so far above the average human being, it's ridiculous. He goes up and does 160 kilos.
And the next nearest to him, I think was like 105. So this is the coach, one of the coaches of the Canadian powerlifting team, female powerlifting team. Just team. Right.
OK, a man. I mean, I was lifting team, decided bearded, like 200 pounds or more. Like just a man. Just a man who said I'm a woman now, decided to take this to the extreme with this particular competition, steps up, puts up what would probably be a world record.
Yeah, for sure. By a distance, in terms of it, because it wasn't a world, it won't be classified as that. But how do you have been at the Olympics or how do you have been somewhere else? He would have been that would have been a world record that will never, ever, ever, ever be.
Correct. Yes. And the craziest thing was Andres was on the spotting team for it. She was on the field.
Yeah. So if you failed the rep, then this person would have had to. Yeah, the woman who this was kind of pointing at at the time, it was in the same area. That's why this happened.
And it's interesting that this this rule came out. I didn't know that they had done it with powerlifting because my sport is Olympic weightlifting. And that's why I focused on they just recently came up with a transgender category. But I didn't know that they did this, but I had been covering what this dude had done.
And it's interesting that they're making the rule. But they're probably following suit of what was started by FINA, which is the nationals or the governing swimming organization. They were the first people to produce a open category. And what's open?
Open is the category for trans people who do not transition before ten or stage three, which is essentially just puberty. Like it's essentially it's going to be 11 to 13 in females and let's say 12 to 14 in males or 11 to 14 in males. Am I right in saying the current set of rules now create a limit and the limit is basically puberty for both boys and girls. If you go through that, you are unable to compete in the opposite gender.
You could compete in your own gender, your biological sex, or you could compete in this open category, but you couldn't switch across to the other one. However, if you did start on puberty blockers before you hit puberty, which is really, really rare to do it before gender dysphoria seems to kick in once puberty begins in any case and getting access to it, you know, especially in the UK after this tab is not clinic. I had this lady on the show, she was talking about how this is really, really being rolled back in the UK, which I think is a very positive development. It's going to be very unlikely.
And you're going to have to have one hell of a tyrannical parent to go, my daughter, my son is going to be a world champion female swimmer at 10 years old. So we're going to like put them on a course of puberty blockers so that in 15 years time, they can win a gold medal. That seems very unlikely. Yeah.
So they created this open category. The thing with that is though, it is now a self-identity. So you can have a whirlwind of problems if someone decides to self-ide and go destroy in that. But depends how prestigious the open category becomes.
It won't be. It won't be for sure. And it won't be in the Olympics either. So that is the big thing with when we look at swimming and Olympic weightlifting.
And I'm assuming that almost all Olympic sports are going to have this domino effect, because this is very new news for Olympic weightlifting. Olympic weightlifting is not prevalent in powerlifting, but this just happened in my sport as well. And I feel like it's going to just the dominoes are going to fall and it's going to be open category. But the problem is this open category will likely not exist.
It's definitely not going to exist in Paris. Who knows if it will ever exist? And I think after Paris is LA. But that's really where the limiting factor is.
Like, I think FINA responded to Leah Thomas. Yeah. Why is it that you think that swimming led the way? Because of Leah Thomas.
It was it had to have been they would never admit such a thing. But that whole Leah Thomas argument crossed every bit of culture. No matter, you know, if we look at Olympic sports, like we genuinely don't care about it. However, there are certain names, especially like Michael Phelps.
And when the Olympics comes on, swimming is for sure one of the most popular events. So, you know, that Leah Thomas thing comes in, it's like we can all kind of connect to swimming and then, you know, that that was massive, that crossed everything, that created a massive culture war. And I think FINA's response was directly from that. And then who was the one I want to say Riley Reid, but that's a porn star.
Who's the chick Riley Gaines? Riley Track and Field? No, she was the blonde girl that kind of came out being pro women. She was like, she was like the Fox News to the atomist to CNN.
Right. There I forget. It was right against. There was a spokeswoman who was right against.
Right. Right. Sorry for being you being Riley Reid. There are couples.
There were a couple of women who had spoken out who were on previous Olympic teams. But I will say this. So Leah Thomas for weightlifting, it was a woman named Laurel Hubbard. And I've covered that plenty of times on my channel.
It's like I've literally been covering it forever. But for those who don't know Laurel Hubbard, she transitioned at 33 years old and was a junior weightlifting champion in New Zealand. And mind you, the numbers that when it was he he was lifting were not competitive on the international scale. In fact, I've actually lifted more than both of his previous junior pick whichever identification you want.
Yeah. Lifted more than them. Right. But that's not to say that I'm a good lifter.
It's just to say that like it's good, but it's not internationally good, not even remotely close. The transition happens and she wins the Commonwealth Games. She didn't. Didn't she bow or championships?
And she bow out if something was Tokyo that she. So she got injured. It's not that she. She snapped her shit in.
I think it was the world championships where we had an American woman in the same category. And I know her coach and I know her and if she had metaled and taken away a medal from her, they would have freaked out. These are Southern people from Texas, where they train, they would have freaked out. Yeah.
So that Laurel Hubbard, the response is now, you know, the I.W.F., which is the international weightlifting federation, they placed the open category. Then we have the whole Andres. And I think the guy's name is Avi Silverberg or something like that. Avi something.
And that whole drama created a bunch of, you know, culture war drama. Then they responded to that. It's almost as if every one of these organizations, they're all responses to these big culture war snaps. So it does work.
It does work. But it depends. It depends on what you mean by it does work. Is it the response that's working or is it the fact that you need a leotomis, a Laurel Hubbard, Andres person to spearhead pushback?
Like they cause a problem and then people respond to that. But it definitely seems like the three sports, there may be more sports that this has happened in. I haven't seen it. The three sports that have done it and been most forthcoming with it are the ones that have had the most coverage about trans athletes.
I think track and field is next for sure. So because we had there was an intersex 800 meter sprinter who is 800 meter runner starts mid distance, who's like the fastest woman of all time. Like in that, I forget the name. It was the open category is the open category.
M to F open and F to M open or is just one block of both. I'm not sure I'm leaning towards. I'm leaning towards just one block of because if it's if it's a single block, then there's unfairness. So F to M that every single one of those athletes is part of it.
Right. I'm it's another it's another way to make it dominated by biological. It would make sense to just have it as one. But then again, you have to.
OK, well, now there's how many competitors are there? Does it keep just going and going? Yeah, and then it's the F to M who have got gluten intolerance and athletes foot. Then it's the F to M who've got gluten intolerance, athletes foot and like didn't like to eat peas as a kid.
And you just keep on rolling down from that. Right. The that is the one of the biggest arguments of people who are in support of self identification is that sport is filled with disadvantages and advantages. So someone can be born with that more testosterone than someone else.
So is that an advantage that we need to now hinder because testosterone works on a spectrum? You know, you could say this with so many different things. Humans are born differently, but that's why we have sport to see who is different, to see who is different, but we need to have some sort of classification, male, female, and now open. Yeah, very interesting.
I'm waiting for the it'll happen at some point and it'll get laughed out of the room. But there is a there will be a very extreme body positivity, sort of victimhood, progressive narrative that comes to try and take out success in sports. Like, so why is it that the thinnest people are the ones that get to do gymnastics? Like, who is it actually says that these standards of being able to do a backflip are the best in gymnastics?
It actually says that grace or the quickest one, because I noticed that when I look at the line of the hundred meters finals, that's not a very diverse set of bodies that we've got up there. You know, I do think that you're going to see like some insane, ridiculous person trying to push this narrative. But Lizzo, unfortunately, is not doing her part for the body positive community. Do you see the story about her making dances?
It bananas out of the vaginas of strippers and Amsterdam and then body shaming them all and doing all the rest of it. Yeah, you know, I think Tim Dillon and Joe Rogan talked about this and Tim had a really good point. It was like Lizzo kind of went on and hired people to be her dancers that aren't professional dancers. You know, like they're good, you know, and they're plus sized.
And the point was I want to prove that, you know, these people can be in show business as well. And what happened was there was a line of problems that followed up on it. And then I think someone tried to record her like being abusive. And then she threatened to like lock the doors and figure out who it was.
But yeah, I got to be honest with you, man. I can't. I couldn't care less about Lizzo and the things that she does to be fair. Yeah.
If you think that that woman was ever being genuinely like pro body positivity, I don't think that you're a particularly good judge of the people like Ellen DeGeneres. I know that there was all of this news that came out about her and how mean she was and stuff like that. She didn't ever seem like anyone to me that wasn't just a performative mouthpiece for what she thought would make her likable or make it make her money, make her money. Yeah, which included being being likable.
All right. Next thing that I want to talk to you about. Do you think that watching porn constitutes cheating? This is a good one.
Let me give you some more context. And you can ponder on that question along with everybody. Is there a study? A woman explains why she made her husband look away when Florence Pugh appeared in Oppenheimer.
Apparently there is a Ronchi sex scene throughout Oppenheimer. And this lady, West Virginia, Tik Tok, Jordan Kerr has revealed that there's one scene her husband didn't watch while they were enjoying the new movie at the cinemas as he had to close his eyes and rest his head on her shoulder. This is all because she said she suffered betrayal trauma after discovering that he watched porn. One of her female followers had asked if she had any advice for how her and her husband could watch Oppenheimer whilst being fully afraid of the Florence Pugh scene everyone's talking about.
And she said that she researched aggressively every single movie that they go into watch before they watch it. And especially this one. And when the movie came up, he had to place his head on her shoulder with his eyes closed. And then she got to tell him when that scene had finished.
I went through betrayal trauma 10 months ago after nine years of marriage, 10 years of being a completely monogamous relationship. She said, I was fully into the belief that he didn't look at other women. He didn't self-pleasure other women. Porn was the furthest thing from my mind.
I never would have thought I believed that he was using porn, but he was. And I found out about it on September 17th, 2022. That was the hardest day of my life. It was the hardest following weeks and following months of my life.
Betrayal trauma has changed me as a person inside and out. It put me through a lot of stress, put me through a lot of pain. It put me through sickness, put me through depression, gave me a lot of stress and a lot of anxiety. I've come a long way in healing.
I'm slowly my husband and so happy and thankful. I'm proud to say that he's been sober for 10 months. He's been doing all the steps, all the work, everything necessary to not only change and stay sober. Reach long-term recovery, but also assure me that he's creating a safe space.
He's becoming a trustworthy person and he's showing me the signs that I need by his actions, his behaviors and his patterns that he's going in the right direction. Yeah, so the context is important with that situation for sure. Like if you're having problems, then yeah, both partners should stay away from self-pleasuring and porn and look to each other for that. I think that's got to be a pretty intuitive response.
If the porn is literally taking away from your sex life between you and your partner, then yes, it's absolutely a problem. And it hasn't and there's been some there's a massive meta analysis on this. Do you know what I'm talking about? It's not porn use and the relationship to either failed relationships or failed marriages.
And it was a huge, huge, what was the outcome? What was the outcome was? I mean, it was just the more porn, the less likelihood of the longevity of your. But the thing is the porn could be a result of problems and then it doesn't fix it.
Which direction is the correlation arrow going here? Do people that are in bad relationships watch porn or do porn calls you to have a bad relationship? Right. And maybe both are true.
But I think, you know, it's just all communication. Like I went with my partner to see Oppenheimer. She didn't even think twice about the Florence Pute scene. She's like, oh, Florence Pute, great actress.
Cool. I'm like, yeah, cool, nice tits. She's like, yeah, you pass a popcorn with a whole lot of money. That movie was fucking amazing.
How is that the part where you're stressing? That was the most important part. So what I've got in my head, there's another article here about the same thing from distractify.com. After finding out that her husband had an addiction, one woman began documenting her recovery journey and helping other women in her spot on TikTok.
But finding out your partner has a drug addiction or drinking problem is one thing. But finding out they're addicted to watching sexually explicit content of other women is a whole different ballpark. How so? Well, it's an addiction that involves betrayal.
The partner with the addiction chose to experience and lust over other bodies rather than their partners. When one woman learnt her husband had that type of an addiction, she starts documenting on TikTok. So I'm wondering how many men have been rumbled by a partner who evidently doesn't feel particularly comfortable with being sexually open, socially, sexually in evolutionary psychology speak. I bet that she's very low.
I think that she's probably got some, she said it, drove her into anxiety depression, which probably suggests that she maybe was predisposed to that. Maybe got some self-esteem issues and stuff like that. So she's a perfect cocktail for this to trigger something which is really, really bad in her. I wonder how many men have been caught by that and played the same card every celebrity for the rest of time when he's been caught cheating, has played.
It's my addiction. It's my pathology. They've pathologized like using porn once every couple of nights or once every week in an attempt to try and... So I would give it at least a 50% chance, probably more, probably like a 90% chance that this guy doesn't have an addiction to porn, that this is his way of making his partner calm down with the thing.
Was it stated in the thing that he was addicted? It said on both that he was addicted, but I'm going to guess that that's self-id. But porn addiction is a real thing and it's really... I don't disagree, but I think porn addiction, genuine, genuine porn addiction is relatively rare.
It's really, really rare, actually, especially in a relationship. To be addicted to porn is wild and to go to recovery groups and stuff. But anyway, the thing that's interesting here is, and obviously like the point to get around to, is it reasonable for a partner to have a problem with their partner watching porn? And if it is, is it unreasonable for you to pleasure yourself on your own without porn?
And if it is, should you have some sort of minority reporting thing that says the only person that you could fantasize about, whilst on your own, even if it wasn't with porn in front of you, is your partner, and what do you do if a thought creeps in about that one girl, that one hot girl from high school, or that chick that trains in the gym, or whatever? How scrutinized should your fantasies be to the point where you feel I have betrayed my partner? You know, during last night's FAP, I actually thought about Katie from 2007. And that's it.
I guess I've cheated on it now. Darling, I'm going to have to take my start to rehab. The, this, what helps me kind of parse through this is thinking about the timeline, because, you know, porn at this level was not available up until like what 2000? 99 maybe?
And then I'd say maybe in like 2009-ish is when it became, okay, now you can get any porn you want to stream. So that's an important factor, right? Because like what would somebody in the 70s, how would this, how were people thinking about this in the 70s? Well, they didn't have porn, access to porn.
They were looking at nudie mags all the time, then I guess that would be a problem. But if they're not, and they're masturbating, well, then they're using their mind to think about something else. I think what that comes down to is like the difference between fantasy and reality. And like a lot of, this is just my understanding of it, but a lot of women, specifically like fantasy to them is so separate to their reality.
Like if you think about how well all of these fantasy novels like romance novels do, if we think about how incredible 50 Shades of Grey did, like, I don't know, the numbers on that, but it was a massive thing. It was a cultural phenomenon. That's a movie where I would say like the only way a woman can enjoy that is to think about that scenario. And is it with their partner?
So the interesting thing here is men state around about an average of four sexual partners per fantasy. So if you're having a sexual fantasy, you will tend to cycle through in one session about four, because the male desire for sexual variety is significantly higher. Women will tend to be one, which is why in any romance, I mean, there's some probably some novels out there that are a bit different. Almost all romance novels have a single protagonist, right?
The woman isn't bouncing from bed to bed between different guys, because that doesn't fulfill the fantasy that on average most women have, which is a single usually very high value, usually very high status, kind of rough around the edges, man that she civilises, she domesticates him because of his desire for her. That is the typical sort of narrative that you see in this. If men had romance novels, each chapter would be a different gangbang with a group of different women, right? Like that's the way it would work.
So it's definitely using, if you were to say, and maybe people out there said if you were to say that even the thought of fantasising about a different person to your partner is constitutes cheating, that is a very female centric frame to place around this. And that's biological predisposition, very robust, male desire for sexual variety is higher, number of fantasies, a number of partners in any one given fantasy for men is way higher than it is for women. Now, maybe you can say if you were sufficiently faithful and this was genuine chastity, you would be able to use your love for your partner and your desire for them, and you could tamp down all of these other things and issues that you're not actually as whatever it is. But if I was to take as balanced of views, I can.
I think that that's firstly unrealistic and secondly a little bit unfair on men. That's not for me to say that men should be going out of their way to like reminisce or fantasise about their co-worker at work when they've got a wife who's pregnant and two kids at home. But we just need to be realistic here. Like you don't get to control every single thing that goes through your mind.
And unless you're going to peer into someone's mind, and that's what it thought crime, am I allowed to think things anymore? Are we getting to very dangerous territory? Well, so I don't know who said this, but it's this idea of thinking things is not always the problem, thinking bad things is not the problem. It's the action of making those things that you think, physical.
And that can be so if you're in a search bar on porn, you're searching for that thing you're thinking of. Okay, well, now you're making that thought real. And it is potentially that can creep into your partner's mind as being something problematic. Even further than that, if you're thinking of another woman, maybe that's bad, maybe that's not.
But if you message that woman, you have now, or if you say what you're thinking about that woman to another man, even. That's where it's like you become what you say and what you create in the world much more than what you think. Yeah, we're just going to think, think, think, think, think, think, think, think, think, think, new thing comes in, and then, you know, so I think in a certain extent, I think women can be correct in this, you know, what would be the line then like don't write out what you want to see, because then, you know, I guess it depends on exactly how sensitive that particular woman is to what's going on. I would be interested to know whether men would have a problem with their partner watching, their female partner watching porn, I would almost be certain, I guessing that if it was lesbian porn, which a massive proportion of women do watch, that they probably wouldn't care.
It's the same as the like one-sided open relationship that we're seeing in Austin a lot, which is, well, we bring additional people into our marriage or our relationship, but it's always a woman. And fundamentally, the guy just isn't quite as threatened. But yeah, I'd be interested to know what people think. I don't know in the comments, let us know if you think that watching porn, when you're with a partner is cheating, is fantasizing about an imaginary woman cheating, is fantasizing about like, what if you just enhance your partner a little bit, what if you make them a bit more tanned, or you put them in a blonde wig, or like you imagine that they've got a different job, it's just there's a line, and at some point you have to say, well, that's it.
That's it. But I would say on average that that lady there could probably do with doing a little bit of resilience work for sure, like if you are getting triggered by your partner watching, and she's recently come out of this thing that she was evidently predisposed to and she's like trauma, response, whatever it is and all the rest of the stuff. I would say on average that that person is in for a hard life, if they are permanently being vigilant to, okay, so we walk past Victoria's secrets, does he have to close his eyes and walk into a lamp host when it's Victoria's secrets there? But what about if they change it for body positive models?
Does that make it different? Like that sounds very big phobic or phobic or whatever it is. So anyway, next thing, Bradley Cooper, the Leonard Bernstein family defendant actor over the Maestro nose row. So Leonard Bernstein is in a movie, he's been played by Bradley Cooper in a movie, and it attracted some criticism over the size of Cooper's nose, which some social media users said played up to offensive Jewish stereotypes.
Bernstein said that they were perfectly fine with Cooper using makeup to amplify his appearance. There has also been criticism that a Jewish actor was not cast to play the West Side Story composer. Breaks our hearts to see any misrepresentation or misunderstanding of Cooper's efforts throughout Jamie Alexander and Nina Bernstein in a statement posted online. Now you'll remember recently the Snow White and the Seven Dwarves movie started sort of ramping up a little bit of movement.
Didn't cast dwarves for the dwarves, didn't cast little people, and a lot of dwarf actors had a problem with that. And Hollywood came out and said, you know, it's antiquated, they're like figurative dwarves, it's a fairytale. And yet when it suits them, no one isn't gay can play a gay actor, no one that isn't whatever can play whatever actor. I think that there's a massive asymmetry going on with the selection effect here.
Bradley Cooper, I don't know his politics, but he just looks like someone that would probably be a bit right-wing. And I think that that probably doesn't play into it very, very well. So the the dwarves thing is interesting because Frodo Baggins and you know was played by Elijah Wood and their halflings, they're literally four feet tall, maybe even smaller than that. And I think the reality was like Hobbits have the same dimensions as people and I think dwarves don't, that's part of their like condition.
So it's like, okay, well, are we, is it a height thing that we're looking for? Is it, you know, it's, it is a very weird thing, man, because on the other side of that, if you had people playing an African-American person or a black person and they just wore black face, that's, that's the worst of it, right? Right. But if you do the reverse, you know, we've got period dramas like Bridgerton and other movies to do with Vikings, series to do with the Middle Ages, and regularly somebody of an ethnic minority that isn't from that era in that region will be injected into it in an attempt to increase diversity.
So I don't know. I think that everybody's getting very, very sensitive about characters playing the characters. And I do understand that, for instance, with the dwarf thing, I don't imagine there's that many roles for dwarves in Hollywood. So maybe it's a good idea to actually limit those roles to the people for whom there is a very limited amount of work, but then on the flip side of that, if you say, okay, and if you want to cast somebody who is suffering with Parkinson's to play Parkinson's patient, that's going to go very badly.
You're not going to have a particularly good movie because you're not selecting the best person. So this is why it's interesting. It's interesting because you want to have the best person to the role, but you also, there is a degree of like, well, you know, if this role is for a very specific sort of person and they get pushed to one side, that also kind of doesn't feel fair. And I think this tension is what makes it interesting.
This is definitely unprecedented, right? Because now Hollywood knows that they can, you know, the mob can bitch about prosthetics now, and how they can, you know, play up certain stereotypes. But I'm looking right now at an image, and it's Leonard Bernstein next to Bradley Cooper's Leonard Bernstein. There's obviously prosthetics, but there's prosthetic ears, looks like it's cheeks a little bit, and the nose.
But I wonder if they just didn't do that if it would have made a difference. I don't know. It's part of it's like you want to look like the guy because if people know who Leonard Bernstein is and they recognize his face, well, then it's going to be really important that the person playing him looks like it. Yeah, so you should have got a Bernsteinian look at like, when Will Smith played Muhammad Ali, he had his ears pinned back because Will Smith's ears stick out way more than Muhammad Ali's do.
And yeah, I know that. Yeah, he has been back to the movie. Here's something else. I just saw this before I was coming on.
You've been following this Vivek Ramaswani guy, do you know who that is? Republican candidate. And he is doing a lot of kind of viral talking head moments, whether it's on on street interviews or to the press. And he's a really, really slick talker.
Say what you want about politics and his positions on xyzad, but he's an unbelievably slick talker. It's very, very, very, very impressive. And I think he's sort of catching up in the polls and doing all the rest of it. And then it went on his Twitter and he is doing it because he's young.
I think he's 37 or 38. So by far the youngest president ever, maybe he's like, maybe he's in his 40s or something, but he's like around about that age. And his debate prep, he always uploads videos of him doing debate prep. And it's this video of him absolutely hammering four hand strokes, four hand baseline strokes with his top off in the sunshine.
And the guy is in good condition. And I'm like, what world is this? And there's another one, like three hours of debate prep today or whatever. And then there's another one of him with his top off doing burpees with his partner.
Really interesting. That's a big change from old grandpa Joe. You know, Trump, Trump, the guy that said that you have a particular number of heartbeats. And if you train, if you exercise it, use it up your heart beat, small quickly.
That's what Trump said. I'm pretty sure he said that. Or maybe it's a wide I don't know. That's incredible.
But the dude's just hammering thunderous four hands on the baseline. Yeah. That's so sick. Do you see that Trump has bowed out of the Republican initial debate, whatever the first GOP debate is, and he's gonna live stream with Tucker Carlson on Twitter instead at the same time.
Wow. Okay. So, so, and that's, so well, X actually is what it's called now. Oh man, that's going to be how many views?
I mean, it doesn't Twitter get the most views of anything right now? It does, but it's because the criteria for getting a view on it is the lowest. It's a half second scroll pass. And when you've got auto play on a platform, it counts pretty much anyone going past it as a view, which I don't think it's fair.
That being said, you can get into the analytics on the back end and see three second views, 30 second views, I think. You would just get it all watch time. Yeah. Yeah.
I would love to see that. I would love to see the comparison between the two. Yeah. Yeah.
Hilarious. All right. Next thing. San Franciscans are having sex in Robotaxes and nobody is talking about it.
Have you ever thought about getting down in dirty in a Robotaxe? All the time. What want to light up a SIG or a joint on the drive home from the club? You're not alone.
As autonomous vehicles have become increasingly popular in San Francisco, some riders are wondering just how far they can push the vehicles limits, especially with no front seat driver or chaperone to discourage them from questionable behavior. From some, that's a welcome invitation to test invitation to test the auto autonomous vehicles limits. Megan, a woman in her 20s took her first Robotaxe on a recent late night excursion. It's also her first time having sex in a driverless vehicle.
Just going to pause there. What do you mean? It was also her first time having sex in a driverless vehicle. Like, that's a rare thing.
Yeah. Like that's not everyone's first. Yeah, man. Yeah.
Right. Okay. So the standard is not providing exact dates of the riders to Borgeri to protect their privacy, but has verified the rides took place through documentation. Okay.
So I'm glad that they've been fact checked on whether or not this happened. We got in and just got straight to it, making out said Megan, who got into the cruise wearing nothing but a robe. One thing led to another and he made sure I was taken care of, if you will. I was like, I have no underwear on and I'm ready to go in this kimono.
And I was using his slippers that were five sizes too big. This sounds awful. Yeah. Have you ever tried to have sex in a car that's probably of the size of this autonomous vehicle?
Is? No. Right. I lost my virginity in a VW Lupo, which is increased the difficulty.
That's such, I'm sorry, but that is get more of a UK car. Hey, be more British. Yeah, be more British. You can't.
There's no way. Yeah. Let me tell you, man, like, if you don't know what you're doing, not knowing what you're doing in a car is way harder. So I've seen those autonomous vehicles driving around in Austin.
So every time I see one, I have to take a picture of it going by. It's crazy to me still. It's going to be crazy. In case somebody's getting butt-fucked in the back seat.
Yeah. Well, you know, that would be butt-fucked in the back seat of a robo-taxi. That's going to be my romance novel, the romance novels. That could be the sequel to Dick Down in Dallas, butt-fucked in a robo-taxi.
Yes. And so I think that the easiest solution to this problem is you just say it's a public place, right? Even though it's private transport, but like you have to have public rules then because you wouldn't be, you're not able to, just because you can't see any driver in the place is empty. It's illegal to have sex in a subway or in any sort of tram or something like that.
So this is weird too because there's cameras on the inside of all of those things. So I don't know who gets it. Yeah, there's cameras everywhere on those things. They have to be because someone could just come in and fuck up the whole entire thing.
And no one would know. It's like a bird scooter at that point. Just a really expensive bird scooter. Do you reckon anyone's ever had sex on a bird scooter?
While it's moving? Yeah. No. Our friend fully face-planted off that and it took like six weeks to recover.
I know someone who had to have basically reconstructive teeth, like they're severed fucking nerves and shit in their teeth cut off. They fell off a bird scooter, man. How awful. Me and you have done stupid things on birds driving.
Yeah, but we're too athletic. That's what they're, you know, you are tempting fate there the next time that we're out. You can't teach this. Right.
Yeah, you can't. This grace is unstoppable. Yeah, I don't know. The robots actually think I would be very interested to see if this becomes a kink and if you start to see for sure will be.
Yeah, like grind above cars. Whoa. Driver. Driver.
Yeah. DRVR. Yeah. Well, that's a business opportunity.
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What else have you been doing? Tell me about your trip to Japan. And what was it like being a man? Oh man, Japan was incredible.
The best way to describe Japan is one moment that I had and it was it was we all stopped when we saw it and we're like, okay, wow, this is Tokyo, at least Tokyo. We didn't venture outside of it, but this is when we realized like, wow, this is what Japan is about. This woman's walking her dog and the dog lifts the leg up to take a piss on like this post. It's kind of like this barricade blocking this this uh, uh, cause way where it's only walking and she takes out her water bottle.
That isn't it's a it's a literal water bottle that like it's like a dishoni basically with a spray on top on it and she sprays down with a dog pissed. I have never seen anything like that. There is no litter or garbage anywhere. There are hardly any bins for throwing things away.
Um, the engineering of something as simple as an elevator, everywhere I went was ridiculous. So it's like you get in the elevator, you press where you're going and then you're moving and you're like, wait a minute, did we start moving? And then and then the door opens. It's like, how did we stop moving?
You can't feel it. That's how good the engineering is. It's like the process of being an engineer for an elevator must be so robust. The process, right?
I got a cup of coffee at the place next to our Airbnb, got into my elevator that felt like a fucking spaceship was like, got down, opened it up, took a left, went right in them to get my coffee. This guy made the greatest latte and I've logged about it and people were freaking out. Made the greatest latte ever. He measured out the ice cutie, like literally put the cup on a scale.
He had different spoons so that spoons wouldn't touch different of his ground up beans. This process, and he was going pretty fast. It took like two, three, four minutes to make, but I filmed the whole thing and it was the greatest latte I've ever had. And he didn't even think about it.
He just handed it to me and goes, there you go. I'm like, bro, if I was handing this to somebody, I'd be like, yeah, bitch, you're gonna like this thing, you know, because I'm an American. I'm gonna be like, yeah, I just killed that thing right there. You got to tell me how good it is, how good I did.
That's just their culture is just find things that are interesting or good and just be the fucking best at it and don't talk about it. You know, the world champion barista, the current title holder, at least the title holder in 2021 for a couple of years with Japanese. So I think they have an unbelievably strong coffee culture and whiskey culture too. Yeah, remember that whiskey that we had when we went for sushi?
I love this story. We got the some of the best sushi I've ever had. And I did go to Japan. I probably had better sushi there, but we're not drinking at this.
It's like a Tuesday. We don't want to drink. So they come by after it. They're like, hey, does anyone want whiskey?
We're like, no, no, no, no. He comes back. Our waiter comes back and he's like, so this whiskey has been ranked number one in the world for the past 15 years. We had to put our names in two years ago to get a bottle of it.
And then me and you were like, well, now that you mentioned it, I'm talking to say no. Yeah, of course, I'm gonna have some whiskey now is literally the best whiskey we could have had. So yeah, there's a wait list. They only issue 50 bottles of this around the world each year.
It goes to VIPs who know the batch small batches all that shit. Yeah, and then talk to me about, I've never been to either talk to me about Japan and Korea. So the movement between the two, yeah, so the flight to Korea, I think it's like an hour and 40 minute flight, super easy, solar port, which our Incheon airport is amazing. I think that I liked the Korean food and Korean culture more than I expected to.
It's definitely someplace where I want to go back for sure. The people and the traditional culture, it is a pretty conservative culture there. Like you not really allowed to be gay there. I don't think like it's not quite Turkey level.
Yeah, it's like a little bit too much here guys, but the food was like incredible. It was incredible. It's probably my favorite food I've ever ever had in any like period. It was so Korean barbecue out there or is it just barbecue out there?
Yeah, but it's like what they're Korean barbecue for us is like this big event thing, but for them, it's like they're just cooking the food for you and like walking away. It's like, like they'll just put the steak on the grill and cook it, flip it, and then they'll cut it for you and then they'll put it off to the side and they'll just keep adding more to it. So you just pick and grab when you're when you want something. It's that simple.
Like, and yeah, we had that all the time. This one guy took us out. He would we were drinking with him. Their drinking culture is absolutely insane.
It's like it's definitely alcoholic, like style of drinking. We show up. It's immediately five straight glasses of beer mixed with soju like back to back to back to back to back and then we went out from there. But that it was it was just incredible.
Soul is in and is a great city, definitely an underrated city. And Korea is going through this massive explosion. At the same time, their birth rate is the worst of any of the modern world. Correct.
Yeah, there's going to be 96% fewer Koreans in 100 years in the world now. Holy shit. And Japan. That's not that far.
Did you see a single pregnant person in Japan or in Korea? I saw some kids in Japan. I saw some kids in Tokyo. I saw a child and there was like a kindergarten that I walked by a bunch of cute little kids just running around.
Yeah, but Korea, no. I don't think I saw a teenager in Korea. It's not good. Korea is not good.
On that front. Really, really not good. Yeah. We used to have one of the big club nights of Easter run.