In this episode, we delve into the persistent high quality of Japanese artistic endeavors, the influence of Western DEI initiatives on American and European companies, and how these factors contribute to the success or failure of media and gaming studios. We highlight the successes from Japan and China, the pitfalls of 'woke' culture on large organizations, and the implications of bureaucratic bloat on creativity. We also discuss the impact of UN initiatives on Japanese media, particularly anime and manga, and explore broader cultural tensions around gender roles, ethnic stereotypes, and the future of media production in a world increasingly influenced by AI. Additionally, we touch on the concept of teaching children about responsibility, financial independence, and the realities of the modern economy.

Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello, Simone. Today we are going to be talking about a interesting phenomenon, which is one, the persistent high quality of Japanese artistic endeavors as well as, The persistent efforts of the West to inject their companies and successful in some instances with D.

E. I. With the urban monoculture with woke ism and destroying those companies in the process we have seen, you know, throughout the course of this year, if we look at the disastrous dragon age veil card Assassin's Creed shadows..

It's encore, another major development project in the U S.

And for what I hear, things are looking good for a vowed.

And all of them are flopping. And then we get these huge successes both out of Japan and China. So like, I think blackness Wukong is out of China. We had a big success from Japan. I can't remember.

Yeah, the ones I was thinking of were games like Dragon's dogma to.

Final fantasy. Helldivers two,

frost punk [00:01:00] too.

And monster hunter wilds.

We had from like, I want to say Eastern European studio.

We had Helldivers. We had you've Helldivers? Was that a Japan? No, Helldivers was Eastern Europe. Okay. But even some Eastern European studios are getting corrupt. Like when they get too big, like, When any

Simone Collins: organization gets too big. Project Lead

Malcolm Collins: or whatever it's called, the one that developed the Witcher and like a lot of good games, they've become super infected with woke ism.

And they're now you know, like, oh, you see it in all this stuff. And it's correlated with the downfall of their studio and inability to make good products. Which I think we're increasingly seeing the bureaucratic bloat was in their studio was, which is that they adapted all this stuff. And, and the smaller studios in that region, like, you know, one of my favorite releases from this year, Frostpunk two, that's Eastern Europe, you know, And it's good.

It's Frostpunk two.

Simone Collins: Good.

Malcolm Collins: It's great. Yeah, I think the only good game that came out of the U. S. So I heard it had a big team in Eastern Europe was space Marines to but then we've also got like bad media in the U. S. And the question is, is [00:02:00] I want to get into like the U. N. Trying to ban this and the reaction to this.

Simone Collins: Okay,

Malcolm Collins: but why media like why I have a Crunchyroll account and I don't have a Netflix account and I know I should be giving money to Crunchyroll. It's just easy. Okay, and I don't have a Netflix account. Why should you not be

Simone Collins: giving money to Crunchyroll? Did they they're super woke

Malcolm Collins: they spend it on woke b******t.

They're terrible. But I don't have a Netflix account You know, I don't have an HBO account. I don't have a paramount account. And the the reason is Is because the media that's being produced there, if we talk about the one civilization hypothesis, is that wherever the one civilization blooms, it typically allows for large bureaucracies.

So I should note, if you haven't seen our one civilization hypothesis video, it's that humanity has largely consisted of one civilization that was, if you actually look at like the archaeological, artistic, and literature record despite what the DEI proponents want you to think, of only one civilization.

which is hopped from one ethnic group to another started in Egypt, went to Mesopotamia, then went to Ancient Greece, then [00:03:00] went to Rome, then went to Charlemagne like Central Europe, then went to the Victorian Empire then went around the world. And that after a while, like Greece today sucks.

Speaker: They smell like a bed of cheese. I

Speaker 2: The Faginoculuses are good people.

Speaker 4: Good people? They're Greeks. And Greeks are just Jews without money.

Malcolm Collins: Like this is not like an essence of premises theory at all. But like, it seems to exhaust the potential of a people after it reaches a golden age within a specific region. And I wonder if it's already exhausted a portion of the American potential.

I really worry about that. Like, are we. And this is what I always wonder. Are we at the end of the Roman Republic or are we at the end of the Roman Empire? I think it's more likely we're at the end of the Roman Republic. But it has exhausted a lot of the creative dynamism of America of the giant companies in America.

And so when I'm going for artistic creations, I need to go to a place less tainted because that's the [00:04:00] only place I'm going to find things that don't look like they came out of a factory line.

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, CEDAW, oh my god.

Can you believe they have, like, a whole committee on this? Like, our country is paying for, like, the United Nations to exist, and they're spitting that money on things like the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Committee. And they don't, they don't focus on, like, the Middle East. They focus on anime.

This is about imposing a cultural hegemony, not on actually lowering the amount of discrimination.

Simone Collins: No, the fan service must end, Malcolm. It is not to be tolerated. No man can experience

Malcolm Collins: pleasure. They have expressed concerns about Japanese media, including anime and manga in a report from CEDAW. They claimed that these forms of media could potentially encourage gender based sexual orientation, gender based or sexual orientation based violence against women and girls.

The committee recommended that Japan [00:05:00] implement quote. Effective legal measures and monitoring programs in quote to address the production and distribution of such content The report also emphasized the need to address gender stereotypes towards minority groups in japan Including a new burakim and zinachi korean women and girls.

Oh, you want to reduce japanese? Like, like, stereotypes of, like, Korean and Chinese people. They're like, could you take, like, a more direct shot at Japanese culture? Like, you guys need to stop being so racist against other East Asian groups. And they're like, but that's, like, our core thing, man.

I find it shocking that are so drenched in their own cultural perspective. That they fail to see that different cultures may have a degree of cultural supremacism as part of the culture itself and attempting to erase that is attempting to erase a core element of that culture. It is. Racist. To [00:06:00] attempt to convince a culture that has

That has ethnic pride, deeply embedded within it. To erase that aspect of their cultural inheritance. And this wouldn't be so bad if this rule wasn't applied it's so unevenly two different ethnic groups. As we have seen walkies are the first to argue that some groups are allowed to act with ethnic supremacy.

For example, black cultural groups in America, they, they would say, oh, well, they can't be racist. Whatever they do, it's not racist. , but Asians, Japanese. Oh no, they don't. They don't get that protection. Why? It was because they're racist. They believe that different humans based on their skin color or ethnic background are deserving of different levels of human dignity and human rights. And Asians are one of the bottom groups to them.

Speaker 5: What does that mean? I think she just called you a racist, Penny. Black people can't be racist! I agree.

Malcolm Collins: I think that it is okay to accept that societies like korea like when I was [00:07:00] in korea I experienced a lot of racism. And I was like totally chill with it.

I was like, yeah, I get it I shouldn't be here. This is, this is, this is not your culture. I am in many ways parasitizing on your culture's arbitrage that you have given me. And that is it's so funny that like, you know, I, I'd say that like people in the U S like Kamala Harris can't say, I only have this position because I'm a black woman.

I only have this job. Joe Biden said he's only hiring black women for this that I would never have gotten this far in my wife life. If I was a white man given my qualifications, given my achievements she was unable to admit that to the public in Korea. I admitted that all the time. I'd be like, I probably wouldn't have this job if I was Korean.

And I understand why there's animosity towards me. And I think that that is part of what's needing to be accepted by the modern elite black community in America. If we're going to get through this is they need to say, look, as a black person who grew up upper class. Now, I'm not saying that this is true of black, lower and middle class people.

They actually have it much harder. [00:08:00] But the programs don't really end up benefiting them. They only end up benefiting the black elite class. These people can't, like Kamala Harris can't say, I understand I benefited from systemic privileges throughout my entire life that gave me advantages over other people.

That's the first step in any form of healing. And the unwillingness to do that is, is, is, is really, I think, a core moral failing of the individual. I'm not saying that they need, they need to leave their jobs, but just admit that, like, you played an arbitrage game. And most of our black friends do admit this, like, behind closed doors, like, Oh, f**k it.

Yeah, I know what I don't have this job for real Z. But also a lot of our black friends are Africans. And so they're even like, like double cucking the US black population. They're like, yeah, my ancestors. have always been leaders of our area of whatever, you know, they're all like descended from royalty.

And you know, we, we came here with a lot of wealth already, and now we're taking all the VC jobs because the VCs don't see a difference between us and the Americans the black [00:09:00] Americans. So they're not even helping the people they're supposed to. They're, they're helping the people that sold their ancestors into slavery.

As we saw was that horrifying movie what was it? It was about like the, the, the queen, like the African queen.

Speaker 8: It's crazy to me that you live in a time where when you share the truth about slavery and the fact that Africans were brutal about enslaving and slave raiding other tribes and delivering them to the coast for the transatlantic slave trade, you get called a white supremacist and that you hate yourself.

This happened when I called out the movie, The Woman King, which glorified slave raiders. Those warrior women were slave raiders, but at least some people are honest about it, like Lupita Nyong'o. Brutal truth of what were some of the outcomes of their actions.

Malcolm Collins: the truly twisted thing about.

The woman king as a movie. Is that it portrayed this tribe as. Fighting back against Europeans who were pressuring [00:10:00] them. Into being slavers when the exact opposite was true, specifically, the British at the time were already zealously. Anti-slavery. And even went so far as to. For no financial benefit themselves, they were just doing this because they saw slavery as a moral negative. Blockade the port capital city of this kingdom. Uh, this was an 1852. Uh, and demand that they both stop selling slaves and stop wide-scale human sacrifice. There was a capitulation, but the treaty only lasted for five years.

And under his advisors that king gesso resumed the slave trade in 1857.

So the reality is. Is that the white people in this story would have been trying to end slavery and the black. Tribe of women warriors [00:11:00] that is being elevated by this story. We're the ones perpetuating it.

They did like a really big movie like last year or something that's all supposed to be like affirming of black people and this queen in this tribe. Yeah, she did exist historically and she made all her money by selling other black people into slavery.

That was her, her, her tribes economy. They don't, they don't talk about that. But it's, it's, it's horrifying. It's horrifying. This dehumanization of the American black population to just being black and not being like different ethnic groups. But this is not the first time that the UN has done something like this.

Simone, did you have any thoughts before I go further?

Simone Collins: No, I just, they're, they're going to have to try the anime from our cold, dead hands. It's not going anywhere. Like, I just, I don't know what people think they're doing. In the end.

Well, no, they have

Malcolm Collins: successfully fucked up anime studios, and we'll get to this in a second. Really? Specifically, like, Bandai, for example, has adopted a bunch of DEI practices. We've seen some in Sony, we've seen some in [00:12:00] Sega, we've seen some in Nintendo. Like, it's getting bad for the big bureaucracies, because they're the ones that are most susceptible to this.

And then, even when they do make a good game, like, the latest Fire Emblem wasn't great, but, like, at least it had, like, romance options. They were all taken out of the U. S. version, because the translators took all of them out, because they're like, oh, we can't have you romancing your subordinates in a game.

It's like, ugh. Okay. I hate you guys so much. I hate you so much.

Speaker 2: And don't even get me started about this whole labor rights thing. What have we come to if you can't demand sexual favors from the people in your employ?

Malcolm Collins: However much you think you hate the, the, the infected population you should hate them more. The Cordyceps virus has eaten their brains and they ruin everything good and positive about this world.

Speaker 2: Our people have lost their way. A report that over 40 percent of the population no longer believes that you have to buy your way into the divine treasury when you die.

They don't teach [00:13:00] children the rules of acquisition anymore! Spreading through Ferengi society. It's making us soft.

Malcolm Collins: But this isn't the first time that the UN has done this in 2016.

So you can get an idea of how overreaching they want to be and what their actual goals are. So I want you to keep in mind, our taxes are

Simone Collins: super creepy. This is super fascist, big brother, big brother. Oh, very.

Malcolm Collins: So the committee remains concerned at the persistence of patriarchal attitudes and deep rooted stereotypes regarding the roles and responsibilities of women and men in the family and in society.

Particularly concerned that, so by the way, isn't this horrifying? Horrifying! This is the U. N. This is what our tax dollars are going for, and they're pulling this fight the patriarchy, ultra, ultra, ultra feminist woke s**t.

Oh my gosh.

That's what they're trying to erase from media. Women being mothers.

Women being happy with subordinate positions within the family life.

I mean [00:14:00]

Anyway, wow, thank god, by the way, all this is coming like even if they destroy the anime studios because of AI Independent creators will be able to create like really high quality content soon so they'll be destroying this as more and more of the eyes are moving to smaller and smaller studios smaller and smaller creative And the bureaucracies just die out.

But anyway, so the three things they really are concerned about a the persistence of these stereotypes continues to be reflected in the media and educational textbooks and has an impact on educational choices and the sharing of family and domestic responsibilities between men and women. You know, what's funny here is that women go into STEM professions more, the more society discriminates against women.

You see very low rates in Northern European countries and very high rates in Middle Eastern countries. So like, Their own narrative is just like anti reality. Okay, next B, the media often depicts women and girls in a stereotyped manner, including as sex objects. This is what they mean by women in anime [00:15:00] looking attractive.

This is like when they were trying to shut down. This is the

Simone Collins: same thing. Remember when this happened with. Superhero characters, and the accusation was like, look at the women wearing their whatever. And then like, wait, but what about these muscular men? Like the fan service goes both ways. And this also exists in anime.

Malcolm Collins: Oh yeah. When they rebooted She Ra, they didn't, you know, they make her look like an underage kid. Right. And that's, that's worse. It's so much worse. They rebooted He Man and He Man still has all his muscles.

Oh, gosh. Well, I don't know what to say. What? No, I know what to say. We live in a society where men are seen as an underclass and as a deserving underclass.

And it's just obviously true. And people, I think people are waking up to this and they're like, Oh s**t. Like, I think this is why a lot of moms move really far to the right when they're like, Oh wow. Like the level of discrimination my child would face. I can't stand for [00:16:00] that. I can't stand for the amount of systemic.

And structural privilege our society gives to women and their ability to just like believe women, like they can just get a guy jailed whenever they feel like it. Like just say whatever they want and you can't even question them. And, and so we're concerned

Simone Collins: about people getting jailed for posting their thoughts online.

That really scares me. But you've seen a lot in like the UK and

Malcolm Collins: stuff like

Simone Collins: that.

Malcolm Collins: If you're not familiar with what I'm talking about. One example here. Happened where a judge sent it to someone for two, two years and seven months in prison for writing after three girls were murdered mass deportation. Now set fire to all of the. F-ing hotel's full of the b******s for all I care while you're edit, take the treacherous government and politicians with them.

I feel physically sick knowing what these families were now have to endure. If that makes me racist. So be it. The same judge gave a zero month sentence to somebody with.

[00:17:00] PDA file material.

In another instance, Matthew Woods 20 was jailed for posting an offensive Facebook status update.

It's not a good sign. And so, C, sexist speech continues to be directed against women, ethnic or other minority women, such as Anyu, Baruka, or Zazaki Korean women and migrant women. And this is an anime. It's like, man, this is an anime.

The committee reiterates its previous recommendation. So they had recommended this before, by the way, even before the 2000 this is all the way back in 2016. But they did another recent more adamant one recently where Japan's actually pushed back a little. And urges the state party to A, intensify its efforts to change social norms that reinforce traditional roles of women and men and promote positive cultural traditions that promote the human rights of women and girls.

I sometimes talk about.

The imperialist nature of the urban mono culture. And I think some people might under sell just how strong and aggressive [00:18:00] it is in its desire to erase. Every other culture on this planet and replace it with only the urban monoculture. Outside of a few aesthetic flourishes, like maybe still being allowed to wear your local clothing or still being allowed to hold a few holidays. We really see that at play here. They define gender relations as the urban mono culture defines gender relations as a mandate for all of their cultures. When they go to Japan, because the way that Japanese people traditionally relate to women is culturally unique to Japan.

It is a way that Japan has historically done that it is Japanese culture. So when they go to Japan and they say, you have to do things, our European urban monoculture way, that is a cultural genocide mandate. That they are trying to impose upon a culture that they have power over even by their own racism is power plus [00:19:00] prejudice. Could anyone be wielding racism more clearly than the UN itself in this instance?

So they want to fight against traditionalism. They want to fight against the nuclear family. They want to fight against women taking a subordinate position in relationships. All of the s**t that You know works. And you grew up a progressive. You didn't think you'd want a subordinate position in a relationship, I think.

Simone Collins: No, I mean, absolutely not. But I also didn't think I wanted a relationship at all, which is pretty indicative of where we are today. I think what's disturbing about this is this is not the default people are growing up with. You don't need to extinguish this anymore. And to now go so far as to basically ban it as an option is far more restrictive and creepy than.

Any, you know, feminism should be about choices and of course, the classic thing you hear from trad wives all the time is this was my choice to pursue this pathway and that is feminism. So it feels [00:20:00] overdone at this point to say that, but that that is a freedom that is being restricted by these policies.

Malcolm Collins: And here the final point they wanted to make is effective implementation of existing legal measures and monitoring programs in order to regulate the production and distribution of video games and animation that exacerbate discriminatory gender stereotypes and reinforce sexual violence against women and girls.

They included corn in there. I just took it out because it was faster. But they're really buying into this sexual violence

Being depicted against women in art and media.

is something that is being driven by.

Males when it objectively isn't I will put on screen here the statistics which are very like like loud in showing like Girls wanting to be choked for example is not coming from male porn It's coming from female fan fictions and fantasies and you can see this in the average arousal patterns of women which we'll put on the screen here from some of aila's data but anything you want to say before I go further [00:21:00] Go on.

So the Japanese political response, so some in Japan have actually wanted to implement this. So Masaka Aara submitted a petition to the 213th diet session, calling for stricter regulations on content, including manga and anime that featured inappropriate. Depictions of characters resembling children.

The initiative aims to amend the current laws, including the no, what's interesting is how recently we'll go into this in a second. How recently Japan it, it, it made child corn illegal to the extent where I'll admit, there is some stuff where I'm like, could you not put this in a content that I'm otherwise enjoying?

Yeah, I'm feeling a little

Simone Collins: uncomfortable here. This was not asked for.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah, like, I, on Amazon, this was streaming on Amazon, I'm watching a show, I otherwise liked it, it's very, very, very low culture. If you want to watch it, I like the characters in it, and some of the themes, but it is basically, A sexual anime.

And it is called [00:22:00] Gushing Over Magical Girls.

Simone Collins: Oh, okay. Yeah.

Malcolm Collins: Very fun. Basically, the plot is, is that and I, I wouldn't recommend it. It's sort of like low tier slop if you love stuff that just like absolutely is the bottom of the cultural barrel. Like, if that elevates something for you, you'll enjoy this, but you need to be okay with that.

Where she becomes a villain in an anime girl story, but all she wants to do because she's obsessed with magical girls, is like, do sexual stuff to the magical girls. But then like, you get to like episode five or something, and an underage girl is introduced. And she does scenes that are like dressing one of the magical girls up in like diapers and stuff and her a bottle, and you're like, I didn't ask, like maybe this law would be okay.

Speaker 11: You want me more? Wait! What

Simone Collins: [00:23:00] Like that be where I'm like, I don't want that. No, I think, you know what? In the end, norm normative pressure and good taste, or the best. Standards here. And just being like, you know, did we really need to do that is a better policy than you were not allowed to do that.

Malcolm Collins: Unfortunately, Simone, the enemy has been financially rewarded better this last year than I forgot, like, a really mainstream enemy.

To give you an idea of just how popular it was. It even significantly outsold, both Fran and solo leveling.

You know what?

Simone Collins: Maybe we're in the wrong here. What do you call them, crinklers? What are the diaper fetish people? I guess those are the ones who like to walk around with the poopy diapers. That's different. No,

Malcolm Collins: I basically saw it as just a how far can we push the barrier in modern society is what the anime was doing.

And a part of me from like the 90s not in [00:24:00] like a lame way because a lot of things in like the 90s they'd be like, oh, let's make random like um, Pee jokes or whatever, right? Or like random sex jokes. Like Lex did this. It's a good example of this. This is not that type of humor. It's just like decent characterization done in an interesting setting that I and, and otherwise slop anime.

But anyway, to continue. But one senator was pushing back against this stuff, Tara Yamada. Yamada stated that no questions about manga, anime, or video games were raised during the in person review during the mention in the final report. He is considering requesting that CDawg disclose their sources and evidence and may even ask for a retraction if the information is not provided.

Now, there's been some other examples of censorship, like the Tennessee ban. So in the United States, Tennessee implemented a sweeping ban across various mega titles in school libraries.

And

popular franchises like Attack on Titan and My Hero Academia. What? My Hero Academia?

Simone Collins: Wait, what did they [00:25:00] do?

I don't know. Was she a little bit of a fan of this or something?

Malcolm Collins: I think this is some like jiggling breast, perhaps. What what is happening? There's not even that like my hero academia has is I think this is like the the sexual Puritans that still exists within some corners of the right accidentally got into power here and we're given a little too much power without the new right slapping them around a bit.

A short skirt flapping

Simone Collins: a little bit too vigorously.

Malcolm Collins: For people who don't know my hero academia, great anime. You have so many

Simone Collins: My Hero Academia AMVs in your little roster. Well,

Malcolm Collins: and the, the women are really well done in it. I think it's one of the most affirming of women's shows I have ever seen in terms of good female stereotypes.

Yeah, it,

Simone Collins: it, it doesn't, it doesn't. It doesn't come across a lot of a lot of anime does come across as very gendered. Right? There's sort of like the harem trope or there's, you know, a lot. There's a lot of like, very feminine roles. This is 1 of those anime that [00:26:00] just doesn't feel like it's about gender differences.

It's about people who want to be the best. And period. And they are. They're really great. Well, yeah,

Malcolm Collins: but not just that. But the women in it, the reason I like it so much is it, when it creates strong female characters, it doesn't make them strong in that, like, stereotyped Western way where, like, making them a Mary Sue who's, like, tough and puts down men and is, like, the alpha in every situation.

When I think of it's strong characters, like Udemy or Froppy or Well, really, any of the female characters in it. Like, every female character in it is, is, is, is pretty, who is fleshed out, is pretty interesting and otherwise a, a strong person, they're all very effeminate in the way that they're strong,

By that, what I mean here is as a conservative, if I wanted to give my daughters something that showed them how to be both strong without abandoning traditional [00:27:00] femininity. Along a number of metrics because most of the different females in it show a different type of female strings. Which is really interesting that they were able to find that many unique archetypes of female strength. I could think of few shows better to do that than my hero academia.

For example, in this scene, you see MENA having the courage to confidently deceive, a big strong villain and character, even when she's in middle school.

But the show immediately makes it clear that this is not because she is an intrinsically brave person, but just because her care for her friends is higher than her fear.

Speaker 16: What? You're not gonna answer me? Crap! Why aren't there ever any heroes patrolling at times like these? It's a simple question.

Speaker 17: MOve! Come on!

Speaker 18: Around that corner and then make a left at the big street! The agency's two kilometers [00:28:00] away! very much.

Speaker 21: 2km away!

Malcolm Collins: Even when they are completely subordinate.

So here I'm thinking of a gentle criminals sidekick.

I forget her name.

Speaker 35: Brava's love will set me free. La Brava, grab the cameras. We made a prank and look like amateurs. The moustache must look so glamorous. Otherwise in the comments they will slander us. To be remembered we can never be average. And my strength grows cause you feel so amorous. You were You are so much. You were there for me when everybody else would judge.

And I know I promised you we would succeed. That time is gone, and it's only a dream.

Malcolm Collins: Very supportive, very sweet character who is powerful in the way that many women are powerful in our [00:29:00] society by providing love and support to her partner. Yeah.

And I know gender to

Simone Collins: be gender. I'm also thinking about food wars, which you and I both love, love, love.

And I could see if some review board is watching food wars, they're watching it. And they see one scene of like food judges eating food and their clothes. Yeah. Their clothes blowing up.

Malcolm Collins: I tried to find a PC version of one of these scenes to put in here, but even finding a still image that was PC enough for the podcast

was challenging.

Simone Collins: I'm honestly just picturing like. The, the review boards, clothes popping off too. Just being

Malcolm Collins: like,

Simone Collins: wow,

Malcolm Collins: Food Wars also like really doesn't care about consent.

There's a number of scenes in it where the guy feeds a girl like gross food without just

Simone Collins: teasing her with like really gross food. And I would argue though, that there are many, many female characters in Food Wars that are extremely strong, independent, entrepreneurial, intimidating [00:30:00] women. Who come across as more masculine than some of the male characters.

Like, they just, it's not like things are these black and white stereotypical, weirdly gendered absolutes. So I they're,

Malcolm Collins: they're not, they're not tainted by Westernism. They're not like, you know, a Miss Marvel or a She Hulk or you know, one, like a, a just a translation of a male character into a female character, but two incredibly bland because they all have their.

Faults and the ways that they are strong are all uniquely feminine, which is something that Japan is still able to do and the west has seemingly forgotten how to do. Mm-Hmm. , how do you make a woman feminine and strong? Like I'm thinking food wars. The great scene with the mega, mega always gets me the, when she's in the war against you know, it's the, the, what was it?

Speaker 24: Then try a bite. Why should I bother? Do it.

Speaker 23: It isn't cooked right. The plating is off and the pate hasn't [00:31:00] set properly.

Speaker 25: Yet, why? Why is it tugging at my heart like this? The dish is crude. But the way each ingredient was treated shows careful consideration for the diner. It Reminds me

Speaker 26: Boy, you were fighting again, weren't ya? Oh Sweetheart You're always flying off the handle like this the truth is you're a kind boy.

Now let's hurry back and eat. I'm making your favorite for dinner tonight. There's a rainbow. It's pretty, huh? Kojiro.

Speaker 27: Yeah Thank goodness,

Speaker 23: Okay, Dimwit.

Speaker 27: Yes?

Speaker 23: That spice you added to the pate, it was all spice, wasn't it? Um,

Speaker 27: Um, no, uh, right. Huh? Well, I know you've all been judging since yesterday, right? And I know you've had to eat a lot of different foods. Well, Allspice aids in digestion and might do you some good. I, I wanted to give you something that would be gentle and might help settle your tummies.

You really are [00:32:00] so thoughtful and sweet!

Speaker 24: Though clumsy, it resonates. That's the kind of food she's made.

Malcolm Collins: And that's such a where the males are strong because of like maybe technical prowess for her. She outcompetes everyone because she just cared more than other people.

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Malcolm Collins: So if you're a conservative adult and don't get why so many conservative kids are into things like anime, despite their lewdness, this is. Big part of it. It is one of the only places in society today because like American conservative media, I think does a fairly poor job. Of.

Showing the ways, for example, that women can be heroic in a feminine way. but anime is still captures that very well. In addition to that, we have the move of conservative culture in the United States from a deep south oriented culture to an Appalachian clan based oriented culture, which. Associates vulgarity with authenticity.

As we [00:33:00] seen with stuff like Trump, as we've mentioned in some of our more anthropological videos. Um, about the new right. And so I think that that's a second thing. Is it the vulgarity that is common within anime is seen as a lack of pretension and authenticity. Instead of as a negative.

Now the Tennessee ban, I get it. You know, whatever. It's school libraries. I really don't care. I guess like it annoys me. Who's

Simone Collins: hanging out in school libraries for fun anyway, just go to a library library, I guess. But although it's a shame, but also I went to a school library at a school that was, you know, these books were like 13 years old and falling apart at the seams.

I feel like I would rather have books that. We're relatively new. The idea of there being maybe manga in my library just seems so luxurious that I'm like, Oh, nice problem to have if they're taking away your manga. Oh, I'm so sorry. I had to borrow my manga from my very generous friends. Thank you very much.

And we just passed books around like, yeah, that

Malcolm Collins: would have been such a luxury. [00:34:00] That's like having a water slide in your library. Oh,

Simone Collins: they've taken away your water slide. Oh, boo. Can who? Cheese. Yeah, you're right. Like this is not that big of a deal, but it's still annoying, right? I mean, it would be nice to have a water slide in your library, so it's sucks.

Here's something I,

Malcolm Collins: I found really weird because I was like trying to understand because I also got into all of this and I was like, you know, I've noticed on like Japanese pornography, they do the like weird censorship stuff. Oh,

Simone Collins: yeah. Like, you can't see penises. Yeah,

Malcolm Collins: is that

Simone Collins: actually illegal in Japan?

Like,

Malcolm Collins: I wasn't

Simone Collins: sure. Yes. Yes. And that, I mean, this is more apocryphal that squid, the tentacle porn, is a product of penises not being permitted, right? But tentacles are. So, oh, how convenient. The penetration is from a tentacle, not a penis. And that's why you have those double lines over penises in anime, because there was some legislation at some point that banned depicting penises.

And I think maybe vagina. So you can actually see that. Did you know

Malcolm Collins: that owning child corn in Japan was [00:35:00] only made illegal in 2014? Well,

Simone Collins: that just, this, I think this goes to show how trying to legislate your way into, like, the Forcing people to be moral doesn't work like either. You're going to create an underground black market.

That's unregulated and even worse. Or, I mean, I guess I feel weird about this. So, I recently read this great sub stack going over the damage caused or subject caused by. Post going over the damage caused by allowing sports gambling. And it showed that in states that have come to allow sports gambling, the average savings of all citizens in that state goes down by like 360.

And that bankruptcies have gone up 18%. And that's, this is bad, right? So there, there are moral hazards or vices that, you know, are best regulated. I I'm, I'm starting to get that even though I'm, I feel deeply uncomfortable about that. I, that I disagree. Just let people gamble. I guess it's just [00:36:00] a survival of the fittest thing.

Like they're just going to fail.

Malcolm Collins: The correct thing to do is to allow the people in our future, all the temptations that we experienced today. Whether it's gambling or pornography or anything like that are going to be experienced multiplicatively by our descendants at all times. This is something you were talking about this morning, where you realized that gambling now had entered the way that stores sell toys.

The way video games reach people.

Simone Collins: Yeah, I was watching this, by the way, if you guys don't watch this, you should be watching Trixie Mattel unboxing the viral Christmas toys of every year. She's not, no, she's a, she's a cross dresser. She has, no, sorry. She's a drag queen.

Malcolm Collins: God,

Simone Collins: then if it's a drag, sorry, he's a drag queen.

He just looks so pretty. I have to, when someone looks like a beautiful, not, well, I mean, district one, capital. I wanted

Malcolm Collins: to do a whole thing on trans people looking like they lived in District 1. Yeah, but

Simone Collins: like, sorry, Trixie [00:37:00] Mattel is not, is not trans, not cross dressing, is just drag queen, but awesome drag queen.

But yeah, the theme of the Christmas unboxing of this year that Trixie Mattel did is Is toys. You don't know what you're going to get.

And I've just discovered that operate conditioning and like addictive loops and all of this has found its way now into consumer products for children. Like, it wasn't enough to have feeds and social media.

Do it now. It has to be in, like, the physical toys that people are opening because now you have to get more and you need to get that reward. And if it doesn't have the reward that you need. You know, ended up eating like 50 percent of the materials that in price that went into a toy, then what's the point?

And that's disturbing. But and I will, I see your point. Another thing that happened in the states that legalized gambling. And this took a while for the market to correct around this, but credit limits went down. And I do. I do kind of like that. So I noticed this with our kids, for example. I, after we got [00:38:00] so many kids in the house, now that we have four where I can't have an eye on all of them at all times I've discovered that I just have to be way better at childproofing things, you know, like no longer can we just make sure that they don't get into the toilet or that they don't get into certain things and make huge messes.

We have to just, Remove those as options. And I kind of like the idea of over time. We're going to have to remove various types of consumer debt from being an option because clearly people can't deal with that. And you're right. Like, to a certain extent, the market will correct around it and things are only going to get worse.

So why create through legislation, these arbitrary barriers that only prolong our actually solving the problem or learning how to deal with the addictive stimulus. That makes sense. Thanks. But I still, I just feel uncomfortable with it because I don't like the, the suffering that takes place in the interim.

Malcolm Collins: Simone, suffering is part of how [00:39:00] humanity improves itself.

Simone Collins: Yeah, but I'm a human that experiences, highly unfortunately,

Malcolm Collins: empathy. We will be able to inject these people with chemicals so they won't have to feel any pain in the near future. They're doing

Simone Collins: that already. That's why we're seeing this massive spike in marijuana consumption in general and cannabis consumption.

Because I think that is how a lot of society is enabling themselves to deal with a reality that they are dealing with. deeply unhappy with. And I very much

Malcolm Collins: support that. And genetically unable to deal with.

Speaker 32: Malcolm was right. Look,

Speaker 31: I found a way.

Malcolm Collins: Because that's, that's what's happening here.

It's, it's, we've got to understand that the selective pressure is like, okay, I am from a [00:40:00] people who lived in areas where alcohol was freely consumable for a long time. So while I consume more alcohol than other people, I also am highly, highly, highly resistant to any of the negative effects of alcohol.

And like, like, Yeah, I've only seen

Simone Collins: you, like, I can only remember one time of seeing you, like, actually really drunk.

Malcolm Collins: You too! I, I, when Simone gets drunk, what she does on the nights where she gets drunk, is she'll, she'll take out a mug, like a like you would have Just fill the mug with vodka.

Simone Collins: But that's not, that's not drunk. That's tipsy. If I want to get tipsy, we fill the mug with vodka. The one time I actually got blackout drunk, if you'll remember, it was when we went to Chicago trying to raise funds. And it turned out that investor asked us to fly out for that lunch meeting that we'd like out of pocket.

We're paying for it personally, trying to raise our search fund. And they just had lunch with us and they were like, yeah, I mean, I was never planning to invest in you. And I was just like, [00:41:00] I was so mad. And then I bought, cause we had no money. I bought two boxes of wine and I drank both of them in that Airbnb that was a loft.

Do you remember that? Yeah. Yeah.

Malcolm Collins: And we didn't have a home back then or anything. We were living out of a suitcase. I think a lot of people they don't understand like how long we had nothing.

The whole thing was a hustle for so, so long. I don't know. It's still, it's

Simone Collins: still a luxury to be able to buy wine and consume them.

I had money to burn on that apparently. Not that I remember that night.

Malcolm Collins: Our YouTube channel, I think people have seen our YouTube channel for a while. They're like, Oh, They have this like super abundance mindset, which is like, even when the channel was like just starting and it was like, you know, like, I don't know, like 50 people would watch every episode there were like 10, 000 per episode or something, but we act like we're big YouTubers and stuff.

That's just the way we see things. It's the same way when we're raising money. Oh, we're going to be big

Simone Collins: and famous. It's quinetic though. [00:42:00] Like, I mean, Octavian's teacher at kindergarten couldn't believe that he had siblings. He, he I love that he has He's like,

Malcolm Collins: this kid has f*****g siblings?

Simone Collins: Yeah. He comes, he comes across like he's Joffrey from Game of Thrones.

Like he's just raised like that, even though he comes from our house. It came, it

Malcolm Collins: came, it reminds me of when I was a kid, one of my teachers came to my mom and they go your son, so this was even like in the previous generation, they're like, your son has some issues. Of like delusions. He thinks that he's gonna be king.

And and she was like, what's the problem? And she goes, you know, like king of like the planet. Why wouldn't I raise him believing that like He doesn't he doesn't think it's gonna be she's like, oh, I see you're misunderstanding You think that he's not gonna have to fight for it? No, no, no, no, no, no, no He doesn't think he's gonna be given kingship.

He thinks he's gonna have to build a coalition It's like

Simone Collins: your mom got A little too tipsy one morning, and instead of picking up like an old parenting guide, she [00:43:00] accidentally picked up Alexander the Great's biography and was like, oh, okay, so Olympia just do what? Do what she did. And, and no, she'd

Malcolm Collins: always tell me stuff like that.

She'd tell me like that she had dreams before I was born. My brother and I. We were both supposed to be, she was going to have two sons and they were going to become like incredibly important figures in human history. She said she saw like a psychic before I was born and that her first son was going to be one of the most important figures in human history.

And this is the stuff that like Olympia told Alexander. She's like, Oh, I was impregnated and like, you're going to become like the greatest man ever. I was a weaned on this stuff.

You were, you

Simone Collins: were maybe psychics are underrated though. Cause I remember when I was in college, there was some kind of Oktoberfest outside my dorm that our school put on because basically my university experience in the United States was going to like, Seven year old summer camp, but it was a university.

You know, [00:44:00] we did crafts. We painted pumpkins. I was a psychic. There was a band because that's what young adults need. But I went to the psychics. I'd never went to one before and she read my palm or something and said, You're going to be such a great parent. And I thought that was the most hilarious thing because I was never going to get married.

I was never going to have kids. I was going to get sterilized. I was so excited for it. And I'm like, ah, psychics. What a joke. This is hilarious. Goes and shows you. But no, guess who at the last laugh?

And I got friends on the other side. He's got friends on the other side.

Malcolm Collins: But

growing up, and I think this is actually really useful for young kids, growing up and understanding that they have some sort of a destiny or some sort of a thing that they're supposed to do with their life. And that it is going to be a challenge, but they are [00:45:00] expected to achieve it. It's really important.

Too many purges now. They're horrified when we hear we have expectations for our kids. They're like, Oh, no, they see

Simone Collins: it as a form of abuse. Like, how can a child live with the weight of that expectation? But here's, it's the sweetest thing. You don't see this cause you're, you're, you've been asleep for hours by that point, when I finally put the kids to bed, after we read the book, I'm going to the softest blanket in the world.

Thanks dad. I really like it. And after we then talk, you know, tell spooky stories in the dark, when they're finally ready to go to bed, the boys insist on climbing up on their ladders and then jumping onto me and giving me big hugs. But then each of them hug me and they say they love me and I say, I love them and I say, you've got to fix the world.

He's like, I'm going to fix the world. They both say they're going to fix the world. And they know that that's their job and they're excited about it. They have that sense of purpose. Like they know that That their job is to fix the world and because they love reading books about disasters and like spooky stories about terrible things happening.

They also understand what it means to fix the [00:46:00] world. Like Octavian's like, I'm going to build better buildings so that there aren't earthquakes that kill people and buildings that collapse. I'm going to, you know, get people off the planet. If the planet burns, I'm going to do it. Like he, he knows. What to do, but the, here's the great thing.

You're going to love this as he's also like, and then I'm going to get paid a lot, I'm going to make a lot of money. And I'm like, yeah, if you fix the world, people will give you a lot of money. Like it makes money to fix the world too. Cause he also wants to buy a lot of stuff, which is about making money a lot.

He's grounded. Yeah. He's, he's grounded in reality. It's not like he's some kind of savior complex. He knows he gets compensated for this work. So I think that's, that's also important. People are like, Oh, how dare you have expectations for your kids. Well, how else do you think your kids are going to be motivated to work?

Like, again, there's all these kids who are graduating and thinking, why would I bother working? Nothing's, nothing's going to change. We're not going to achieve anything. Whereas our kids are going to be like, well, I have to build. The best company. And I have to make the best solutions that actually fix the world.

And then I'm going to get so much money and I'm [00:47:00] going to buy all the stupid stuff. And, and that's good. It's healthy. It's great. We also have to, I think it's so important to teach kids also that they have to build their own companies. I think another issue is a lot of these kids are realizing. Yeah. If you get a job, it's not going to pay you enough to do anything you want to do in your life.

You have to build your own company. You have to provide your own services. You have to build your own. Legacy by actually providing real concrete value in the world. And if you have that kind of mindset, you'll make it like, we're already starting to shape Octavian's views around this. Cause he was telling you the other day, remember when we were making dinner, he's like, dad, you got to drop me off at work so I can make money.

I need to go to work today. I need to make some money. And we're like, honey. Jobs don't exist anymore because they don't love

Malcolm Collins: that. You're teaching

Simone Collins: our

Malcolm Collins: kids at a young age. Like they're not really going to feel like sad. The jobs don't exist. They're just like, yeah, I need jobs didn't exist.

Simone Collins: No parents really need to start.

I think that that is extremely urgent that parents do not [00:48:00] raise their kids to think that they're going to get jobs. And I think that's part of what's happening now is already we have a generation that's coming. To age in a world where they were told they would get jobs that would support them. And there are no jobs that will support them.

And that's

Malcolm Collins: Well, and my parents did this to me in a big way around, like, inheritance. Where I was always told, you're not going to get inheritance, you're not going to get inheritance, you're not going to Even though they knew that they were fairly wealthy, and the family was fairly wealthy, and I would probably get inheritance, but the family ended up losing all this money over dumb s**t.

And I think a lot of my cousins expected some form of inheritance and I always expected no inheritance. So you were less

Simone Collins: devastated when the

Malcolm Collins: family,

Simone Collins: you were moderately pissed. Whereas other people acted like it was the end of their lives. So that's good.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah. I was like, whatever. I, I thought you guys would steal this from me some way.

Anyway, I wasn't interested in playing this game. Like,

Simone Collins: you know, even the money that we do have invested. I see this a lot in. The financial audit videos I watch and the money for couples [00:49:00] episodes that I listened to and things like that, where a lot of people treat their 401ks, their retirement savings, et cetera, as money that they have, that they could use if they want to really like want to buy something.

And we just pretend it doesn't exist. And I think that's,

Malcolm Collins: you pretend like it doesn't exist. And I'd say that that's a problem and something you need to stop doing.

Simone Collins: We need to pretend. No, that doesn't exist. Simone, we have so much money on our hands. I genuinely believe that if you are not making enough money to support yourself by providing good in the world, you don't deserve that money., Listen, you can spend your money however you want, Malcolm, but I'm going to shave you for it. Just like, you know, someone can have, like Torsten, he has terrible taste. He has terrible taste. He has completely terrible taste in toys and aesthetics.

I will, you know what, you know, celebrate him, but I will give him I have, I have

Malcolm Collins: recently been splurging more of our money than I should have on stuff like children's like inflatables and stuff. I'm excited for this new one. For handling the purchase of the big tiny tots inflatable. We're going to do some, all [00:50:00] the other inflatables doing so well, the bouncy house, the indoor bouncy house, they love it.

And now I don't need to go to outdoor environments for other parents. Shame me for beating my children.

Simone Collins: Yeah. And also like where our kids are picking up more. I'm kind of like Indy's still getting over the last. Virus that the kids spread to her from wherever it is. They've most recently been playing. So I'm ready for her to, and it wasn't Octavian getting it at school because Octavian never had it.

Torsten and Titan had it. And then Indy got it.

Malcolm Collins: That's probably from them, like licking the trampolines at Sky Place. As one does. I mean, if you're

Simone Collins: not licking it, you need to. The full five senses have to be engaged in any experience. If you are between two and three years old, well, zero and three years old, I guess, you know,

Malcolm Collins: You, you are a delightful wife.

I am so happy I married you. I'm so happy that we lived this life together. I'm so happy that we passed 29, 000 subscribers [00:51:00] recently. Thank you to anyone

Simone Collins: who's subscribed. And if you find it within your heart to do us a favor, If you could leave a, that's a five star review on Apple podcasts or any place where you can leave a good review, it'd mean a lot to us because

Malcolm Collins: we're like, what, like a couple of hundred, a hundred now we have 80 reviews.

We're not even at a hundred. Yeah. I got a classmate with over a thousand reviews. Okay. He just did Mark Zuckerberg for one of his shows. Why don't I have Mark Zuckerberg on my show?

Simone Collins: Because you don't know him. I bet that guy knows him. I know

Malcolm Collins: people as famous as him. They just don't want to be seen in public with me because I'm a naughty, naughty boy in the media.

Yeah,

Simone Collins: that's true. That's the problem is your, your Stanford classmates are just so Like that, there's this You know what? It reminds me, you get freaked out by that Utah pod person LDS thing, that look. Stanford MBA grads have such, there is [00:52:00] this like pod person version of them. They have their Patagonia pullover and, or like their nondescript You know, Laura Piana sweater that you have to know what to look for to be able to identify the quality of it.

And then they're just, but they're so relaxed and laid back and perfect. And they never really say anything controversial and they smile and put you at ease. And I just, Oh, it gets really puts me on edge. Like they are not disagreeable enough. They're like just hyper competent and agreeable. I'm just saying.

Well, I'll tell

Malcolm Collins: you what, they didn't marry weird Puritan wives who live in the woods like I did. I, I think, I think I'm getting the ones who are like the Mormons and stuff and the Jews and the, the, the, the like religious conservative ones. Like when I say the Jews, I mean like the conservative religious Jews, the conservative religious Mormons.

Those are the ones who ended up the coolest.

Simone Collins: Yeah, but even they look of their kind very normal. They, they become. Oh, they're

Malcolm Collins: too normie. Oh, I [00:53:00] agree Where are the, where are the smart non normies? It's so hard to be a smart non normie in this society.

Sad. Hey, I, I got a wife with a Cambridge graduate degree now, so I got, I got the. You

Simone Collins: fixed it. It was it was one of those blemishes. You just had to pop. And then it was gone, you know, she

Malcolm Collins: means that when I married her she had a degree from GW George Washington. I was like, that's gross. I'm like actively sexually turned off by you not having an elite education.

I was like, I need to get you an education, sweetheart. Well I, cause I was, I was raised culturally. I was told to expect that whatever elite education means for the next generation. Like I'm okay with my kids not going to like Ivy league schools cause like they're going to s**t anyways. Right. But I expect them to be known as the best of the best of their generation.

Simone Collins: Yeah. What? I'm just thinking about Octavian already asking about wives and marrying. I don't know where [00:54:00] he's picking that up because we're not talking with him about it. I talked to him about, you need to get married, you need to get off. Oh, okay. So that's coming from you. Yeah. Anyway. He's like, I'm gonna marry you.

Yeah, he keeps saying, he keeps saying he's gonna marry everyone, though. I don't think he understands what marriage really is. You're like, you keep saying that he has to get married, but he doesn't. You have to first define marriage, Malcolm. Because right now, just like he's like, He doesn't understand gender.

He's like, Mom, you're fired. And I'm like, okay. Make your dinner, Octavian. Clean up your mess, Octavian. And he's like, wait a second, I what, huh? He doesn't know what so many of these words mean. You

Malcolm Collins: let your son fire you? You can't do that! You're the boss! Simone!

Simone Collins: I'm sorry, but a lot of employees are, like, basically firing their bosses these days by quiet quitting and all this other nonsense. He

Malcolm Collins: doesn't understand gender. He doesn't understand. That's the biggest problem with marriage is I, I try to explain it to him and [00:55:00] he's still not like totally like, and this is where when people are like my three year old, this kid's five and he cannot persistently tell a boy apart from

Simone Collins: a girl.

Oh yeah, no. So this concept of parents saying that their kids are trans because they haven't worked out pronouns yet. Is really abusive because our kids definitely do not get pronouns, but they are Very gender. They're very secure in their gender. There's no doubt there that is really funny. Yeah.

Oh, well.

Malcolm Collins: All right. Love you. Simone. I'll let you know what are we doing tonight?

Simone Collins: Do we have any turkey left? Actually, yeah, so we do have turkey left. I was thinking about shredding it with a fork and making a golden curry brick with white rice for you, but I could do something else.

Malcolm Collins: I would love that.

Golden curry turkey with fried rice would be really good.

Simone Collins: Well, maybe it'll suck. I don't know, because you didn't like how it was. It might suck, but it's new. It's new. We haven't done it before, so. Do you want sautéed onion with that or not? I'd actually be okay with fresh onion with that. Ew, no, no, no, no, no.

Trust me. Golden [00:56:00] curry brick needs sautéed onion, not fresh onion.

Malcolm Collins: Whatever you think is best, my sweetheart. Okay.

Simone Collins: This

Malcolm Collins: is the Japanese

Simone Collins: golden curry brick, right? Yeah, curry rice. The brown stuff. Brown stuff. You got the curry on this side and the rice on this side. Curry rice. You know what would be really fun for me to make one day?

It's katsu. Yeah we have the panko. I just, Like don't want to waste that much oil. Like the, the frying, maybe if they did. No,

Malcolm Collins: we used to fry foods all the time and they find out you're not supposed to use the same oil over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Oh,

Simone Collins: but Malcolm, wait, we still have your Indian spiced breaded chicken.

We have a couple more. We've like maybe one more bag of it in the deep freezer. No, we

Malcolm Collins: got to use up the existing protein first. No, no, no, we're going to, I'm just

Simone Collins: saying like next week we can try air fryer. I

Malcolm Collins: want to go to the teriyaki chicken before we go to that chicken.

Simone Collins: Fine.

Malcolm Collins: Okay. I love you. Bye. Love you.

Bye.

Simone Collins: You're so funny.

Malcolm Collins: Do you have, by the way do, do that beforehand? Like, this is like something you prep for did you, by the way, [00:57:00] get the inflatable to be shipped or

Simone Collins: canceled? Yeah, no, I fixed it. I told you on WhatsApp.

Malcolm Collins: Oh,

Simone Collins: wonderful. You just, you just don't pay

Malcolm Collins: attention.

Simone Collins: I

Malcolm Collins: check WhatsApp in the morning before I get started on podcasts.

There's just no

Simone Collins: way for me to reach you. You're like, send it to me in an email. You don't read it. You talk to

Malcolm Collins: Google. You say, Hey Google,

Simone Collins: I did

Malcolm Collins: the thing. And then, and then, yeah,

Simone Collins: I'm screaming it to avoid. I never hear back.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll figure this out. You can tell I live in the same house as you.

You know that, right? Then I

Simone Collins: would have to like walk across our vast house from my wing to your wing. And I'm not ready for that kind of physical exertion. It's

Malcolm Collins: too cold. You're not even pregnant right now, Simone. This is ridiculous. I'm preparing,

Simone Collins: getting in character. I'm a method pregnant.

Malcolm Collins: You're always so excited when you're [00:58:00] pregnant.

Like it's like your natural state. I know. I'm so excited for it. It's going to be great. Anyway. Okay. So I'll get started.

Speaker 33: Show me what that is. What is that? Um, it's my paper airplane sign. And this is made out of paper. And right there, there's a lot of paper airplanes I can sell. Okay, so you're going to go outside and you're going to show people your paper airplane sign. Yes, well I'm going to do that in two days because it's cold out there.

That makes sense. And um, when people see your paper airplanes and your paper airplane sign, they're going to give you money. Okay. Um, yes, I'm making money. And what are you going to do with the money? Um, I'm going to buy a remote control ball with it. Like anything. Yeah! I want a remote control ball! You want a remote control ball?

Yeah. It's a silly [00:59:00] thing to want. Oh! Why I love you, Octavian. This is my paper airplane so everybody knows I'm my mom. Hey, Octavian, I really like how much agency you're showing here. You wanted something, we said you needed money to do it, so you came up with a plan to make money. Yes! What are you doing jumping on me?

What are you doing? Oh! You're silly. Gah!

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