Open your mind

00:00:13HOST

That one particularly deserved a do over because one thing I just realized when I was just sermonizing into the ether. No, I don't think anybody heard a word of what I was saying. And I was going ballistic on that last basis, like absolutely ballistic. Just pulling things like a bolt from the blue out of the sky.

And I realized it just confirmed to me how motivation truly is intrinsic because I get high as off my own stuff. Like when I talk to you guys, I'm. I'm like a rottweiler frothing at the mouth the rest of the day. Day I'm just, I'm ready to take on anything.

Just feels good. It's cathartic to talk to you guys. So that was one thing I noticed and then two, I just wanted to rip back into this. I was talking about the, the most underrated, the, the truly the most underrated, under received institution that in my eyes, in my lifetime that was ever created is the wwe.

It is the most brilliant. It is the most brilliant business arguably ever created, ever created. And people think WWE is fake. And I ask you to consider that the WWE is possibly genuinely the most authentic, real tapestry of humanity that you could possibly ever fathom on this planet.

It is so fucking real. Those Personas, those characters, it's so fucking real. It's. If you take the male ego and you stretch it out on a cord into oblivion, you get these characters in the wwe, the Ric Flairs, the Shawn Michaels.

Go, go pull up YouTube. Do yourself a massive favor today because, because truthfully, you will never need to crack open another red pill book. You'll never need to learn a thing about Game ever again. If you just look at the crystallization of the male ego personified through the characters in that show.

And what I want you to really understand is that those characters are tearing off the mask. They're not putting. The Rock was not putting a mask on to become the Rock. He was tearing off the mask because that's what masculinity is.

It's unabashed, it's unvarnished, it's shameless, it's bold, it's daring, it's daunting. So when those motherfuckers were in the ring, they were actually giving you the skeletal components of bravado and self confidence. And it's, it's very interesting to me because a lot of guys on here, I think we unanimously understand as a community that men are born in the primordial ooze and we have to pull ourselves up out of the slime and make something of ourselves. We have to carve ourselves from nothing, right?

But then we all understand that. But then we criticize the guy who adorns himself in these outlandish, bravado Personas. And it's like, you can't really have it both ways. If a man is born with nothing and you have to become something, then that means that a man has to wear an armor and a mask.

Everybody is participating. Everybody is playing a role. Every male is wearing some kind of mask and some kind of fucking armor. That's just the bottom line.

Don't care who you are. The world is a stage. Everything, to a degree, is performance art. Everything is street theater.

Everything is. And let me reinforce my point a little bit. Movie stars. Movie stars.

I. I would never. There's no amount of money you could pay me to play a role on a movie screen. Like, I.

I could never be like a Will Ferrell type. I could never play like a guy who's constantly getting cheated on or emotionally abused or verbally afflicted. Like, there's. There's certain guys that play these roles in movies, and it very much is a characterization of how they are in real life.

Like, there's. There's absolutely no way to differentiate the two because the roles that you're playing on screen. Here, look, here's a better example. Every hardcore Alpha in a movie, every single one, is a absolute killer in real life.

You think that's a coincidence? Think it's a coincidence that a guy like Tom Cruise, who arguably, I don't think he's ever played a role, even in Risky Business, he was sort of this rebellious, recalcitrant, sort of, you know, renegade type figure with. With a lot of masculine energy. That dude's like a massive winner in real life.

Never gets his heart broken in the movies. He's always doing the heartbreaking. He's the one who's always making things happen. He's.

He's the lightning rod. And I've noticed this, that all the actors who play these, like, supremely alpha roles are literally that in real life. And you go look at the movie top gun, Kelly McGillis was in that movie. She played the love interest to Tom Cruise.

If you look at all of her movie roles that she chose to play, she always gets her heart shattered by a man in those movies because, like, the man puts his mission before her and thinks it's more important. And she always gets her heart broken. Look at the physiognomy. Go Google Kelly McGillis and go look at who Kelly McGillis is.

Today. And tell me that there is not a correlation between the roles that we play in this life and reality. Tell me there's not a fusion between those two things. And tell me that there's not authenticity in that.

There is. There is. That chick is literally an abomination to look at. She is disgusting, she's portly, she's gross, she has no feminine bone in her body and she played nothing but heartbreak.

Heartbroken roles. Tom Cruise plays an alpha in every movie ages beautifully in real life. Because the screen is reality, the stage is the reality. The stage, whatever role these people are playing is really who they are.

That's what I'm trying to explain to you guys. That's what you don't understand. That's why the WWE is so genius. Because they took the male ego, which everybody, everybody grasps on a subconscious level how powerful it is, and they extruded it and they made it real.

They made it real. And there's no denying. There is no denying that the behavior that those characters are exhibiting are attractive to women. There's no denying that it rallies men.

There's no denying that it builds a fan base. There's no denying that it makes money. Pick any of those outlandish Personas in the wwe, any of them, and just go look at the things they're saying, the way they're talking themselves up. The arrogance.

The arrogance, the shamelessness. This is. This is what I call an ethical transformation. Because that's what it is.

It's an ethical transformation. Because here's the reality, guys. Let me give you another example. You know the character Guest Don and Beauty and the Beast?

Guest Don is a cartoon fucking character. But here's the deal. He symbolizes hyper masculinity, right? He's like this misogynistic, sort of violent.

The dude's jacked to slonks, raw eggs, carries around a little rifle, hunts rabbits. He's everything that society claims they hate. But here's the thing. He's born out of the imagination of somebody who's actually wrestled with those qualities in man.

See, the greatest way to convey reality is through fiction and art. I'll say that again. The only way to convey reality in a way that will shock people like a shocking truth is to weave it into art and fiction. And that's what the pantheon of the gods is.

Any polytheistic society, the Egyptians, we can go on and on. All the gods that God was born because the collective experience in the human consciousness had encountered real life qualities in heroic men that displayed virtues, courage, Things that were above the baseline of normal. And in order to convey those heroic qualities, they had to invent the pantheon of the gods to express the truth of those people that they encountered in real life. Those gods are infused with the spirit of people that they encountered in person.

And the reason why they chose gods is because they knew that gods would survive the annals of history. You can cement the hero of a mortal into an immortal, and then you have a story to tell perennially. Because now that God is essentially reproducing that story, like I said, into the annals of history until the end of time. So all of these Personas, all of fiction, it all is born out of somebody's conception of something they've dealt with, something they've seen, something they've wrestled with.

Maybe it's something that's even destroyed them in real life. And they use fiction as the vehicle to deliver that message. Whenever I read a fiction book, whenever I read a fiction book, there's an intimacy with the characters in a fiction book that is unrivaled by anything that I could read in an autobiography. There's.

There's something that's way more potent. And the characters seem a lot more fleshed out psychologically in a fictional tale than in an autobiography. Why is that? Because the author has to have a vast array of experience of dealing with those types of personalities in order to drum up and create that character.

Like the. Like, literally, like the characters in fiction are more real than the people you'll deal with in real life. Because it's a final product. The author has taken the best or maybe even the worst of all the people.

They've encountered that totality, and they've injected that directly into a fictional character. So you're looking at a more complete specimen. In other words, you're examining a more complete specimen. So my point in all this

00:12:54CALLER 1

is

00:12:54HOST

that if you could erase your social conditioning and your programming from birth and you could be unabashedly obnoxious, flamboyant, hottie cavalier, you would end up sounding and looking like a lot of these characters. That's the interesting thing. Like, if you were to completely break all social contracts and be boisterous and be vociferous and be obnoxious like these guys are, then eventually there would be a fusion between the character that you're trying to be and who you really are, and they would be indistinguishable. Because, remember, as men, we.

We are born from the muck. We have nothing. We are nothing. Every man starts this life as a Dork.

We're all dorks. When we're kids, we're dorks. We don't understand female nature. We don't understand reality.

We don't understand anything. We're carving out territory. We push boundaries to figure out who we are. That's what men do.

And then in the final stages of becoming a man, every man chooses an armor and a mask. And if you notice, in politics, the left is obsessed with disarming men. The left encourages men to take off their masculine armor and lay down their weapons and get. And live life on their knees because they don't like the ego and they hate the animal beast inside man.

They hate the animal beast inside man because the animal beast inside man arranges things in their proper place. The animal, the barbarian inside a man naturally gravitates towards putting things back in order and crushing disorder under its fist. That's the masculine essence. And so, of course, they hate men like Andrew Tate.

Of course they hate any man who has crystallized a very barbaric but yet civilized Persona. Someone who can, who can play in that delicate sandbox between civility and barbarism. And Tate did that very well. And Tate built himself from nothing and he created that WWE like Persona that I'm discussing with you.

And then he actually became that man. That was him tearing off the mask. Do you understand that? Bravado.

That's the real man underneath now. Because the roles have switched. Practice and repetition, practice and repetition makes things come true. That's the thing.

That's why actors, that's why I'm telling you, actors, acting is such a. Interesting thing because to me, it's more authentic than the, than the non actor. Because anybody remember I tweeted the other day, I was like, you are not who you really are when you're by yourself. You are who you really are when everybody's watching.

Because that's true. Because that's true. Because the world is a stage. And because who, when everybody's watching you are showcasing the final product, there's no room for error.

Who you are is going to come out, especially when you're being scrutinized by an audience. And it's the only way to really test your mettle as a man is what does, what does everybody else think about you? See, that's another common, very common misconception. We're talking about two, we're talking about two different types of masculinity here.

There's stoicism, which is completely ineffective in a capitalist society. It's great if you want Inner peace. If your life's mission is inner peace and you just want to be left the alone, then sure, just start reading Marcus Aurelius, start reading Epictetus. Those guys will help you out.

But if you want to flourish and you want to leave a stain a on society, a stain. You want to leave a crater, you want to leave a legacy, you want to leave a tombstone that people will remember, then you got to play the other game, which is choose your weapon, choose your armor, choose your mask, and then make that Persona real through rep, through the power of repetition. That's it. Those are your only two options.

You either exit the game, you either exit stage left, and you turn to meditation, journaling, writing, quit the game completely because capitalism was too tough for you. Or you start challenging people to fights because capitalism is too tough for you. So you're frustrated, you're aggravated, because you can't get what you want through words, can't get what you want through communication, so you're frustrated. So violence becomes the last resort.

So let me just. Mma. MMA my way through this life because I can't figure out to get what I want through the. The.

Through the word. Which conversation runs the nation? Conversation runs the nation. I'm gonna take some question.

Yo, Valislav. What's up, baby?

00:19:06CALLER 2

Yo, what's up, brute? So I'm 16 years old. I'm a little bit younger than most of the guys here, but I currently live with my parents. And my.

My problem is that I can't still move out because I'm 16. I tried like, moving out, but the police got involved pretty quickly, so I can't really. I gotta stay here. But the problem with that is that I feel too comfortable.

You know, my parents, they've done well for themselves. I mean, we're not like rich, but we. I've never really experienced any true hardship or discomfort. And if it was.

If it was up to me, I would like move to Thailand tomorrow or somewhere where I don't know anybody or I don't even know the language in order to make it hard for myself, because that's what I really want. But I still can't do that. And I was wondering if I could get your opinion on how can I do something like that. Put myself in a really uncomfortable situation while still being underage and not being able to leave home or really put myself in any serious debt or something like that.

Like, I'm willing to do anything, man.

00:20:18CALLER 9

Just.

00:20:19CALLER 2

I'm open to any ideas.

00:20:21HOST

You're already in a very uncomfortable position. You're you're already in a very uncomfortable position, and you're. You're sort of stretching out beyond what we just discussed, which is that you want this high adventure, but you're sort of pinned down because of your age, to your family. So this is.

This is your battleground. This is your training ground. Right now. You have no choice but to play whatever role you're in at home.

And I advise you not to run from that, from that choice. And I advise you to play the role. You are their son and you are under their tutelage right now. So you're going to be wrestling with forces that are outside your control, and I urge you not to run away from that.

I urge you to lean into it because it's going to be extremely uncomfortable and you need to learn how to play the game. Right now, you're. You're playing the game with your folks. You're playing the game.

You've curated some. Some kind of Persona that makes. That is adaptable towards living in that environment. Right.

It's a survival strategy. I advise you to really take a deep look and take a peek into what that is, because there's a lot of wisdom and there's a lot of insight in that. When you're living at home with your parents, you are stuck in some kind of actor role, like we just discussed. You're.

You're wearing a mask, and you need to figure out where that's going to lead. Does that make sense?

00:21:42CALLER 2

Well, yeah, kind of. Yes.

00:21:44HOST

The opportunity will be given to you, obviously, at some point to cut bait. Like you will be able to sail your ship away from the harbor. That's gonna happen. But in the meantime, in the meantime, I.

I would be taking advantage of the fact that you have a roof over your head under somebody else's dime. I wouldn't. I really wouldn't want to run away from that. I would lean into it.

Like I said, use this time while you have your bills paid, while you have a roof over your head to build yourself, soak up knowledge. Read books, go lift weights, go. Go do those things. Go talk to girls.

00:22:20CALLER 2

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing at the moment. But sometimes, you know, I. When I have to work or when I have to do something, I really feel like there's no pressure. Think for two hours and nothing's gonna happen.

You know, I don't have that. I. I don't have any pressure to do to. And I'm not forced to do anything.

00:22:43HOST

So it's.

00:22:45CALLER 2

I've always wanted to Put myself in a situation where I'm forced because I know that's where the greatest power comes from.

00:22:55HOST

Jesus Christ. You sound like my. Sound like my prote. Ambiguous up here.

Yo, Ambiguous. Yo, man, can you hear me?

00:23:20CALLER 6

Yo.

00:23:20CALLER 3

Hello.

00:23:24HOST

I hear you.

00:23:25CALLER 3

Yeah, I'm just really interested in your concepts on juxtaposition. Like, I do a lot of nerdy stuff, but I'm also a total psycho actor type person. Like, I'm always acting like an insane kind of renegade in public especially. I just get off on that.

But then I go back to my laboratory and just do a bunch of computer programming.

00:23:47HOST

Yeah, that's good. So the nerd jock dichotomy that this culture has sort of. This culture has sort of pivoted a chasm has been a schism between nerds and jocks on purpose to separate men from rounding out their corners and making themselves complete. Like, jocks don't do nerd.

Nerds don't do jock. I completely disagree with that. I think nerds should be doing jock and I think jocks should be doing nerd. Now here's what's even, even, even more interesting from a teamwork perspective.

Jocks and nerds complement each other perfectly in projects, especially in business. Like if you're a front man, hype, hype man type guy like I am. Nerds are like my favorite people to work with because they can work in the shadows. They don't need the spotlight.

I do. And they can do. They can pull off a lot of magic tricks behind the scenes that I'm unwilling to do. So it's a very complimentary structure.

I love nerds. Nerds are my favorite people on earth. I love the body of knowledge they have. They understand their utilitarian roles very well.

And they don't want to. They don't. We don't. We don't have ego conflicts.

You know what I mean? Like, you know that saying, there's too many chiefs, not enough Indians? That's what the whole, that's what the whole nerd jock dichotomy created. Created a bunch of chiefs and not enough Indians.

And you can't create a business, you can't even create a half working society without Indians. That's why I've always said these nerd types don't understand that just because they're not in the spotlight that they're not important. Their roles are literally carrying. The entire world is built off of the back of these guys.

They just don't get the credit because they're eclipsed in the shadows.

00:25:30CALLER 3

What about the ones who have both, though, you know, like the cream is in the sauce, getting it all.

00:25:36HOST

Well, that's the point, dude, is like, you want to be a. A polymath. You want to be a Renaissance man. You want to be a complete man.

You want to have the. The intelligence and the athleticism and all that. I. I think that's what greatness is.

I mean, I think.

00:25:48CALLER 8

I think.

00:25:48HOST

Think that's why the right has taken such a liking to sort of the Roman golden proportion. That Roman ethic is because those guys strived to round themselves out into a complete man, meaning there were no deficits, no holes unfilled. And I do believe in that ethic very much so. I do like that Grecian philosophy.

I think it's extremely potent and powerful. I think that a lot of men will fail miserably on that path, which is fine, because, remember, you don't have to achieve everything you set out to achieve. You just have to give it an earnest effort. Because if you fail, all that matters is who you became in the process of trying to achieve it.

That's why I believe in lofty, unrealistic goals, because it doesn't matter if I break the world record in Olympic weightlifting. It just matters that I tried and who I became in the process. And I think that's sort of the. The courageous journey that we embark on as men is rounding out those corners.

I do nerd, for sure. I mean, I read some pretty esoteric books that people would not understand because I look like a meathead. Like my daily experience of walking through this world. People from afar view me as a meathead upon first sight.

There's no way. They couldn't, because I look extremely athletic, but then as soon as they talk to me, the veneer kind of slips away. Yeah.

00:27:18CALLER 3

I have one more question, too. I was wondering, how do you walk around and fill yourself with being jaded and disgusted, but also without becoming overly cynical. Or cynic being or cynicism also a strength for you?

00:27:39HOST

Cynicism is my greatest strength, bro. I am. I am a hard skeptic. I am a hard skeptic, and I'm a hardcore cynic.

I always have been. It's never done me wrong. I don't give the benefit of the doubt to anybody. Yeah, neither do I.

Yeah. At all. And that's just been extremely beneficial to me. It's very rare to find a hard cynic who's also very successful, by the way.

It's very difficult because if you notice, most successful people just kind of Ingest whatever comes their way. There's not really a filter. There's not really a filter. It allows them a lot more like free, willing mobility to.

To go through the world and to deal with certain types of people. I'm very prejudiced with who I deal with because I'm very judgmental. So, like, there's a lot of people that I won't work with based on personality types that I just don't vibe with. And that's obviously closed a lot of doors for me, but that's what sort of made me an outcast, and I kind of enjoy being in that space.

Whereas. Whereas a lot of people, man, I'm sure you understand, like, a lot of people don't. They keep all their doors open. I'm the opposite.

I close a ton of doors in my life. Like, there's so many opportunities, so many things I could have done to make so much money, but I just. Just wasn't, like, spiritually. I just wasn't into it.

And like, one thing I won't do is I just won't myself to anything that I genuinely don't want to do. Like, I really love these spaces. That's why they're free, because I just enjoy opening my phone and talking.

00:29:13CALLER 3

Yeah, sure, I know. I've definitely heard that. Or the portrayal of a regular successful person as someone who's happy, go lucky, optimistic, and not necessarily jaded. But I've never really identified with that caricature.

00:29:27HOST

I'm super jaded, bro, and I'm proud of it, because I'm not. Nothing rattles me anymore. I've just. I've seen so much and been through so much in my life, man, that the.

The pain circuitry is sort of just ripped out, which is what I always wanted. I was always tinkering with the. With the fight or flight response my whole life because I figured that's kind of the essence of the human experience. I'd never really seen any philosophers crack the code on the fight or flight stuff.

And I just. I've kind of made it my mission. I've been hell bent on figuring out how to just tear out the pain circuitry so that I could pretty much withstand anything, at least on an emotional level. Because I think.

I think what a lot of guys don't understand is that physical pain, being able to withstand physical pain just makes you a dime a dozen as a man. It's like, it's really easy. Physical pain is not a big deal. Papa tile and all.

Take an ice bath, get some sleep, get a Meal, everything's cool. But I think men really struggle in the emotional domain. I think men feel emotional torture far greater than women do, far greater than women do. And I have made it my mission to turn myself into a rock emotionally to where I just don't get.

I just don't get rocked, man. Just really. Just like, there's nothing that can happen in this life anymore that can truly surprise me. I see human behavior.

I see people do things all the time. And someone will comment in my ear, they'll be like, look how weird this is. And I'm like, dude, how is that weird? If you.

If you understand human psychology and you understand life, like, not. There's literally nothing that anybody does that's weird anymore. You understand it. I understand why they're doing it.

I'm not saying it's right. But I do understand fundamentally why people do what they do. I get it. I completely get it.

And there's some relief in that. There's some relief in being jaded because you can't get to that space that I'm talking about until life has cracked you upside the head so much that you're just kind of numb. I just don't feel the pain the way I did anymore. And the downside to that is you also don't feel the love that you used to feel anymore.

But that's. That's. See, that's a lot of what it means to become a man is there's this deep sense, deep desensitization process that is crucial because. Because here's the.

Here's the reality of it. If you're not somewhat desensitized as a man, then you can't also experience the hard truths. That's the issue right there. That's the issue right there.

Like, if you are a man who is obsessed with seeking out the truth of life, then it goes hand in hand. You're all that comes with a level of desensitization. There's just no other way about it. Because the truth is so atrocious sometimes.

It's so disgusting, it's so haunting that you have to have a threshold of numbness to be able to obtain it. And every great man is somewhat jaded. That's just how it is. And by the way, time is supposed to have the opposite effect on women.

It's supposed to have the opposite effect. You know how they say experiences are good for men, experiences are bad for women? Somewhat true. Somewhat true.

The more experiences that a woman has, the more jaded they become. The more experience a man has, the more youthful he becomes. See, that's the irony that people don't understand. The more experiences, the faster life you live as a man, the more you age beautifully.

But if you.

00:33:03CALLER 3

With the, with like the jadedness too is that women crave that the most in men, I think as their protectors. Yet at the same time they're super conflicted because they also want that emotional intimacy that it's just not available.

00:33:17HOST

It's not available. Of course, of course I will.

00:33:20CALLER 3

That's what I'm struggling with my

00:33:22HOST

girlfriend love right now. Well, that's why I just don't know why she loves you. Yeah, that's, that's, that's what I'm saying.

00:33:29CALLER 3

That's, that's like the ultimate conflict. The masculine family, which I find so fascinating.

00:33:36HOST

It's the ultimate conflict. There is no grand finale confrontation between the, between the anima and the animus than those two features that we just discussed. You know what I mean? It's like I'm glad you touched on that too because it's.

00:33:51CALLER 3

I don't really hear it from too many other sources other than cinema, which is a great portrayal of that.

00:33:58HOST

Yes, I mean it absolutely is. But there like there is no greater portrait of that clash between masculine and feminine than a beautiful, beautiful woman, unvarnished, draped over a man with, with that thousand yards there. Like, like if you, like if you had to find the most picturesque image of a, of a. It would be a haggard wrinkled man with a thousand yard stare and a beautiful dime piece just shining next to him like, that's it.

That's it. That's what I stand for. I stand for. I am anti youth.

I am anti youth in the sense that I do not believe in the preservation of youth. As a man, I think that is gay as I think men need to absolutely embrace that. Things just get better for you as you age. And I don't think that anything should be taken into place to stall that process.

I really don't. Especially when it comes to looks like you guys have seen me vilify skin care routines and all that gay for years. I was really the first one on Twitter to really put that under a microscope. Like what the are we doing here?

Why are we dyeing our hair, spray tanning, taking roids, getting veneers. Like what happened to that? The rugged archetype. Look at, look at what's his name?

Tom Selleck in the 80s, Magnum P.I. whatever the. That TV show was. Look at all the guys that were traditionally masculine just like 20 years ago, none of them had big biceps. None of them had pecs.

Like, none of them were doing any of this gay. They just had, like, average builds. But their essence, the essence of who they were was where they got their masculinity from. And that's what I'm about.

I'm about your essence as a man. Says way more about your masculine than what you look like. Don't care about my looks, dude. I'm getting charred in the sun six hours a day.

I got crow's feet, dude. In the last six months, I got crow's feet radiating from the sides of my eyes because I've been smoking so much. And it's bad for your skin. Like, my skin is starting to look rough.

I don't give a. I don't give a. Flying. And guess what?

Neither do women. Neither do women. They don't give a.

00:36:29CALLER 3

Yeah.

00:36:30HOST

The only people. The only people who give a. About your looks as a man, believe it or not, is other men. Is other men.

If you go. Someone. Someone told me this, and I thought it was interesting. If you go on incel forums, all.

All they do is scrutinize and tear apart the looks of other men. It's bizarre because beautiful women, you are

00:36:52CALLER 3

on the insult worms yourself.

00:36:53HOST

Don't lie.

00:36:55CALLER 4

Yeah.

00:36:56HOST

Being scrutinized. Yes, exactly. Yeah. Good call.

00:37:01CALLER 3

But, yeah, dude, thank. Thank you so much for that. And thanks for doing these spaces. And also what you were saying, the last space about how people.

The bag is going to start coming to people who can actually talk and not just regurgitate. I'm looking forward to that.

00:37:14HOST

Yep. We're already here, bro. It's already here. Right in front of our very eyes.

Thanks, bro. Yep. Got it. Yo, Comet, Comment.

Talk to us. Let's get zero soy up here. This is fitting. Yo,

00:37:54CALLER 10

isb for the Val Kilmer character in Heat. This guy, like, okay, he's a young player. The other guys are teaching him, but he cannot deal with his women. That's what I.

I was thinking that the other day. The guy. He doesn't have his together with the girl.

00:38:13HOST

Yeah. The only reason why he doesn't have his together with the girl in that movie is because he doesn't have stability. He has no. He has no stability.

He pisses away all his money every week. I think he's. I think he's a degenerate gambler in the movie, but he. But here's the thing, dude.

He does have. The mission does come first in his life. Every character in that movie. The mission does Come first.

So it's like these women are simultaneously torn apart, but drawn closer. There's, like, this ambivalence. The women are very ambivalent towards him. They don't know which direction they're being pulled into with him.

But guess what? Even if they leave, deep down they respect that guy because he doesn't put him first. He doesn't put him first. A woman cannot respect a man who puts her first.

It's that simple. Doesn't matter how much she hoots and hollers and. And cries and tells you she does. A woman absolutely cannot respect a man who puts her first.

It's impossible. And if you've noticed, if you're very. If you're very astute and you're very keen, you've noticed that the women who love you will give you the most on the most important days, when you got the most important going on. Like if you've been preparing for some crazy speech or you've been preparing for some kind of performance or a professional athlete is playing in the super bowl, then the morning of, the morning of before you're about to put on the performance of a lifetime is when a woman's going to give you a ton of that morning.

She's just going to start up with you, start with you, Cause a problem, cause an issue, because she wants to add one more brick of weight to see if you're going to crumble. It's what they have to do. It's what they have to do. And let me tell you something.

It's not a malicious impulse. It's not coming from a malevolent place. It's coming from a very good, honorable place. It's that a woman constantly.

There's no letting up. A woman will test you until the end of time to make sure you really are that guy. So it's like the morning of when you're getting ready and you're. It's like a huge day for you.

You're focused, you're concentrated, you're in the zone. She'll pull a move on you. She'll pull a move on you and start some petty argument just to see if it's going to throw you off course. And you know what you do?

You just sit there and crack a grin because you know what she's doing. You know what she's doing. It's not going to rattle you because I see what you're doing, baby girl. You just want to see if I'm gonna.

If I'm gonna fold and not show up to My performance. Because I have to talk about this with you. No, no, no. I'm still gonna show up to the performance, and we can address this later.

And that's all they want to know. So that they can continually surrender a daily. Because a woman has to wake up and really surrender to you on a daily basis. That's how it works with women.

Women are a historical. They're a historical. So, like, they don't care about yesterday. They only care about today.

So they have to wake up and they have to remake their commitments to you on a daily basis. So that's why the testing never stops. And that character and heat goes through that. You can see him going through that painful cycle of constantly being tested to see if he's going to, you know, drop the bad habit that she wants him to drop, or is he going to spend more time with her.

Is he going to stop doing his crazy little midnight missions. The second he makes that decision to stop doing those activities, that relationship is over. Gone. Poof.

Abracadabra. It's gone, and it ain't coming back.

00:41:48CALLER 10

You know, I ask you because I feel that's. That's what really the. A red pill means, you know, to know how women work. Sometimes you're just young and you don't know.

You're playing your game, but you don't know. I remember this sort of guy that you told him that his girl told him, I love you forever, and she dumped him the next day. I don't know if you remember this. This time, like you said, you saved his life.

You told him that the girl is just in the moment. What she says is probably in the moment.

00:42:17HOST

You know, of course, you can't hold anything a woman said five minutes ago because they're a historical. They only deal with the reality that's in front of them. And they have to surrender every day to the people that they love. That's in their nature.

That's what makes them so incredible. Like, that's why all this hating talk against women is really cringe. Because women are just playing out their destiny. They're playing out their nature.

They're supposed to whittle you down to nothing. If you're a man, they're supposed to at least try. Because who's going to hold you accountable more than a woman? Nobody.

A beautiful woman will keep a man in check like no other force on the planet. It's just that simple. There is no force on this planet that will keep a man together. Like having to perform under the scrutiny of a beautiful woman.

That's just how it is. That's just how it is. Welcome to the ecosystem. It's how it's always going to be.

And there's nothing wrong with it. It's beautiful. If you enjoy the game, then you should also enjoy that process. I love when women pull those moves on me.

It's fun. I enjoy it. Please give me more. Put more bricks on my shoulders.

I ain't breaking.

00:43:36CALLER 9

You will.

00:43:36HOST

A woman. A woman will never, ever see me physically or mentally break, ever. It's never going to happen. They can throw knives.

They can go absolutely ballistic. Psycho. It's never going to happen. My legs are never coming out from underneath me in front of a woman ever.

Because that's my duty as a man. Doesn't matter what they throw at me. I can't afford to let my knees come out from underneath me. I got to stay strong for, for both of us.

I love that responsibility. I fucking love that. I relish that responsibility. I, I want more of it.

I want more tests, I want more challenges. I want more puzzles. Like, literally, give, give it. Put it all on top of me.

And I tell them that when they're flipping out, when they're going crazy in my living room or whatever they're doing, I tell them, I'm like, look, you got to do better than this.

00:44:27CALLER 9

Give me more.

00:44:28HOST

Put more on me, please. I beg for that. Because I ain't breaking. I ain't buckling.

And by, by doing that, by the way, I'm actually towing the line. I'm actually towing the line for a lot of other men. They don't even realize it. Like when you're a man and you have your together domestically and you're taking care of these affairs and you, and you have these things in order, you're actually, you're actually doing a service to all of mankind.

You really are, you're, you're actually

00:45:01CALLER 9

really,

00:45:01HOST

really pulls up the overall structure of society when you, when you run a household like this. Just what it is. That's what it is. It's community service.

I appreciate your question, man. I'm gonna move on. Mr. Carnegie.

00:45:35CALLER 5

Hi there. Hi.

00:45:37HOST

What's up, bro?

00:45:38CALLER 5

Yeah, yeah, good, thanks. I, I quite interested. More some similar age and what you say is, it's something obviously you'd benefit from, from as a younger guy maybe 10 years, 10 years ago. But it's quite interesting what you were saying about like, you know, going to a coffee shop, something as simple as that.

You know, it takes away the differences. Let's say you're a young guy, you meet, you know, you see a CEO at a coffee shop and you know that guy will give you a bit of time purely because you both like coffee. You know, it's very difficult to kind of connect with these people in any kind of work environment because there's so many layers between you, if you know what I mean. And I thought that was quite an interesting point that you make about, you know, like, opportunities.

It's happened to me. Opportunities can arise purely from kind of meeting people well above you, but just in a kind of more in a scenario that kind of levels it a little bit. So I thought that was quite a. Quite a good point you made.

00:46:46HOST

Yup. I appreciate the feedback, brother. Thank you.

00:46:50CALLER 5

I was going to ask another question as well. See, when you talk about being quite a lone wolf, quite a kind of, you know, you don't have a lot of patience or tolerance. Maybe you're quite judgmental of others. Do you feel that kind of comes from the sort of the knowing that you know more than a lot of people, if that makes sense.

00:47:13HOST

Of course, it's very difficult not to hold people to the standard that you hold yourself to. But at the same time, I do want to make a distinction here. It's very possible to be a lone wolf and also be incredibly gregarious, which I am. When I am out in the real world, I am talking to everybody.

I am a very, very social creature. But I. It comes to recharging my batteries. Can you turn your speaker off, brother?

00:47:39CALLER 5

Oh, sorry.

00:47:43HOST

When it comes to recharging my batteries, I am an introvert and I have to recharge my batteries alone. Like, I can go put. I can go be a part of the greatest spectacle on earth. I can be in a social setting and I can hang with the best in any social setting.

But after about three or four hours, I am so physically and mentally drained, I literally have to go climb into my room by myself for a couple hours just to recharge. Because being around a bunch of people just saps my energy. That's the true definition of an introvert. A true definition of an introvert is I just recharge my batteries by myself.

Doesn't mean I'm not amazing in social scenarios. And extroverts are the opposite. Extroverts stoke the fires and gain energy by being around other people. And being alone drains their batteries.

So extroverts, when they're by themselves, they feel very lethargic and they feel like they're in a torpor. There's this catatonia that sort of saps their energy and they have to be in big social groups and big social crews and having wild conversations and being around ambiance in order to draw strength and energy. I'm the opposite. It's all about just knowing who you are.

But yes, of course, dude. Of course I'm disgusted by the. The affairs of the average person. Of course, of course the average person doesn't have to take a scalpel to life to try to figure things out the way that I'm obsessed with doing.

Like the average person doesn't give a. The average person just wants to work a job, slam some beers, watch a soap opera, go to bed, rinse and repeat. They don't have to live a deep life. I have to live a deep enriched life in order to feel happy.

It's just who I am. I just have to. I have to figure out and grope and wrestle with the harsh truths of reality. It's just what I'm inclined to do.

Appreciate the question. We got Sir Thomas Diesel up here.

00:49:37CALLER 4

Yes sir, Brute. Thanks for having me on. You said something just a little bit ago that really struck a good one with me. And it's kind of at the crossroads of traditional masculinity and also really knowing your self worth and just give you a little back background.

I had a kid in college and with my high school sweetheart we didn't work out. I'm 28, she's 26. I live in a smaller town and I work at a non profit. Pretty much had to get a job right away.

So I start paying bills, doing dad and in the process of that the relationship fell apart. So I took on a lot of sacrifices to try to make things work. Now I'm surrounded a non profit job with betas, fat women, liberals and people that pretty much have part participation trophy mindset every day. My grandpa was a fighter pilot.

Top Gun fighter pilot. So when you watch Top Gun and see Tom Cruise, that shit's based on some stuff my grandpa used to do. I broke records in sports hall of fame records and now I feel like I'm. I'm stuck a little bit.

I'm in between that transition of playing the game and getting out. And I just wanted to ask you if you had any, any thoughts on how to maintain your growth in that transitional period.

00:50:49HOST

Because I'm kind of between getting, getting out of the rats rate. Getting out of the rat race is the best part, man. Like the only reason why I give a about money nowadays is so I can Stay the, away from the people that we all lambast on Twitter. Like all the weirdos, all the feminists.

I don't come across any of those people. People, I never see those people. Those people aren't real to me. Like all the weird piercings, all these deranged archetypes.

I, I don't ever come across any of them because I, I hang out in very high end establishments. I live in an amazing neighborhood with great people. Like, I just, I don't, I don't subject myself to idiots. That's like the greatest ROI.

And I've been doing this since my 20s. Even when I was broke, I would drive 20 minutes out of town just to go hang out at a fucking nice little boutique health store so I could be around good people. It's just like, it's the biggest game changer, man. It's.

The whole purpose of money is to be away from morons. That's literally all it's for. It's. Other than that, it's just really not that amazing.

Like, I've driven all the supercars, I've lived in fucking mansions on the beach. I've done it all 100 times. None of it slaps like just waking up knowing you're in a fucking good community. I can go to the store.

I don't have to deal with any riff raff. No one's challenging me to fights. All that shit's like, I'm a 35 year old man. Do you think people are challenging me to street fights?

Do you think I give a about boxing anymore? Like I did when I was in my 20s? I don't give a. It's, it's a, it's an, it's a useless skill after a certain point because you realize, hey, I can just circumvent all this.

I could just circumvent all the riff raff, just become successful. And then guess what? You just get to live in a nice neighborhood. You don't, you just don't come across those types of people.

Like, that's the real life hack. That, that's the real life hack. And it blows my mind that people haven't figured this out. Like, just go hang around nice establishments and then guess what?

You're not. You're 95 of the idiots evaporate. They're just not there.

00:52:51CALLER 4

Yeah, no, no, no.

00:52:53HOST

And I don't even not eat fast food because it's not healthy. Like, the main reason I don't like fast food is because I don't like the people that, that eat there. You know what I mean? Like, I just don't want to walk into a McDonald's, because I don't, I don't with those kind of people.

Those kind of people have a slave peasant mentality that I disagree with. So, like, that's the real reason, you know what I mean? And there's no coincidence. When you start eating higher end food, guess what?

You start meeting higher end people.

00:53:21CALLER 4

Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, you really hit it. You really hit it hard. I, I just.

This doing everyday 8 to 5 spiritually asking people for money to give back to our organization when I should be the one out there building my own path. That drives me nuts. And I'm in the process of getting the out of this and. Hey, good.

I just want to say good space here. I always appreciate listening and. Take care, buddy.

00:53:44HOST

Yep, Take care, man. Andy. Alfonso. What's up, buddy?

00:54:01CALLER 12

Yo, what's up? Br can hear me. Hey, brother, how you doing? Huge respect for you.

I think your, your concept of transcendence through intensity has been a, A big, I guess, guiding principle in my life ever since I came across you. I wanted to ask you about this tweet you put out the other day about coping was like, coping is like underrated or. And then healing is like overrated or something like that. Coping has kind of like a general, like, I guess, negative kind of concept or stigma, especially in our circles.

So just wanted. Can you expound on that, like, what you meant by that?

00:54:31HOST

Yeah, I mean, it's, it, it dovetails perfectly with my opening talk about those sort of outrageous Personas that people create. Those are, those are copes. Those are copes. I mean, I like to use Tate as an example because he's the most recent phenomenon that kind of took the world by storm.

But I mean, you don't think, you don't think the character that Tate became was a cope to some kind of trauma or turmoil in his life? Of course it was. It was a critique. It was an artistic critique.

It was a response. Just like every art movement is a critique to the prior movement, humans are no different. Humans are responding and giving artistic critiques, critiques to the things that have gone wrong in their life. And they, they bandage it and they build sort of these alter egos that help them cope with it.

I don't see any problem with that. Anyone who tries to not have you do that is running a shell game on you. Because they're doing it. They're doing it.

Here's the thing, too. You got to understand, coping is the opposite of Complaining, Right. Coping is an action. Coping is some sort of action is taking place to make you perceive a painful situation in a less painful manner.

That's a proactive. That's a proactive form of dealing with pain. I can't in my right mind or good consciousness recommend to a man that shifting their perspective into something that maybe is wrong but is going to help them as a crutch to deal with some temporary short term pain. I can't in good consciousness tell you that's a bad philosophy, because I know it is.

I've seen the power of cope in my own life. I've seen it. I've been hobbled, I've been bruised, I've had my ego obliterated a million times and I coped my way through it every single time. I never felt sorry for myself.

00:56:28CALLER 12

Gotcha. Yeah, for sure. Thanks for sharing that.

00:56:30HOST

Yep. Yep. Yo, Tyler. What's up, buddy?

00:56:42CALLER 8

Hey. Hey, what's up, brute? Can you hear me? What's up, brother?

00:56:48HOST

Hey.

00:56:48CALLER 8

I joined a little late, so apologies that this was already stated, but I was just really curious about your tweet. I think it was today or. Or yesterday. Something about outer space being fake and gay.

I don't know if that was just being hyperbolic or.

00:57:05CALLER 2

I just wanted to.

00:57:05CALLER 8

If you were actually being literally on that. Can you unpack that a little bit?

00:57:10HOST

No, I. I truly do think outer space is faking gay. Last year, I had no clue about any of this. I took a very deep dive down some very interesting avenues among some states, thinkers that I respect.

And I researched it myself and came to my own conclusion. When you look at the tide of evidence, it is overwhelming in my favor on that theory. Okay, feel free. Feel free to DM me.

I'll link you some material.

00:57:42CALLER 8

I was just gonna say. Yeah, what's the name of the guy? So like, all right, so then like, so like, when you look up and see, I don't know, you see the moon at night, you see stars in the sky or you see the sun, I guess. Like, is that just fake?

00:57:55HOST

It's not fake, but the. The moon. There's this Owen Benjamin video that I linked the other day. The moon, very, very interestingly, never seems to move.

It tracks the axis rotation of the earth perfectly on one side. Like, you only see the same side of the moon. If the moon rotated at even a quarter of a mile per hour of a different speed than it tracked the Earth, you would see the different sides of it. So how is it tracking the Earth?

Also, how is the how is the Moon a perfect sphere if. If they say the Big Bang is true, and debris and dust and there was this huge collision of atoms and rocks and chaotic material. How the. Does the Moon become a perfect sphere out of.

Out of the. Out of the crash of a Big Bang? Makes zero sense. Look, I don't claim to have any of the answers.

I just think that the mainstream answer, considering how little trust I have in the government and any kind of doctrine from on high, I'm skeptical of any mainstream narrative now.

00:58:59CALLER 10

Any.

00:58:59HOST

Any.

00:59:00CALLER 5

Even.

00:59:00HOST

Even. Dude, even. History. The Moon, outer space.

I think all history is. I think all of history as we know it is complete.

00:59:11CALLER 8

Listen, I'll tell you what about the. Like, growing up in grade school and high school, I would have, you know, obviously, I went along with the narrative, believe in everything, like the moon landing, all that. But I'll tell you what. Ever since COVID it's been like that.

Like, that was like the great awakening for me. I think that was the great awakening for many people of, like, a lot of things, but the government's. So. Yeah, man, I'll.

I'll hit you up in the DMS for some more info. I'd be very curious to. To look more into that. Go down that rabbit hole.

00:59:37HOST

Yeah, for sure.

00:59:39CALLER 8

Next one.

00:59:40HOST

Yep. So many speakers trying to request right now. Let's get Ian. Yo, bro.

Yo. Yo, Ian. What's up?

01:00:01CALLER 11

I appreciate you bringing me on, bro. These spaces have been, like, a staple for me, and I'm sure, like a lot of other young men, I've actually been taking notes on the last few spaces. So I wanted to hit on something you said on the. On the.

On the fast life space. And you were like, you said, every bad habit is profitable in some way or form.

01:00:22CALLER 4

Right.

01:00:23CALLER 11

So how do you determine if a bad habit is going to benefit you or not? And how do you, like, twist it and make it so it does?

01:00:32HOST

Yeah. I said, when it comes to removing a character defect or if you want to make a change in your life, or if you're exhibiting behavior that's causing you harm, the only question you have to ask yourself is, am I willing to get. Am I willing to dump the benefits that come from holding on to those behaviors? Because all of those behaviors are typically manipulative in nature.

Like, there's something you're doing with those behaviors that's manipulating your world in a way to where you're getting what you want, whether it's. And it. Dude, this can go all the way down the galley. You can take this to a very sick point, which a lot of people do, which is like, destructive habits is a way of keeping the pressure off.

People like to be losers and destroy their life over and over and over and over again. So they have nothing because eventually everybody turns their back on them and no one really gives a fuck about them anymore. Now they're alienated. Now they can fucking jerk off the porn.

Now they can descend into the sort of virtual reality fantasy world that they want. They don't have to be a part of reality anymore. So I think a lot of people use destructive habits to basically check out of the game because the game is hard. The game is hard, dude.

Capitalism's tough. Life's tough. And I think it's just so tough on a lot of men that they just purposely want to lose. They purposely want to lose.

They don't even want to win because winning comes with a lot of responsibility. When you win and you're standing at the top, you people are going to be. People will depend on you. People will depend on you.

If you have a lot of money, if you're a family man, if you're successful in your industry, people depend on you every day. Most people don't want that kind of pressure. Does that make sense?

01:02:04CALLER 11

Yeah.

01:02:05HOST

Every decision that you make is like, if you're a loaf, if you're a guy who's a loaf and you decide to sit on your couch all day and do nothing, okay, you're lazy. You don't have a job, you make no money, nothing. You're still dependent on somebody financially. Somebody's pulling your weight somewhere.

Maybe it's your mom. Maybe your mom can't say no to you. Maybe she's enabling you. Maybe your dad pays your fucking bills.

Someone's fucking taking care of you. So being lazy still has a profit margin. It like, it doesn't matter how destructive the behavior is, there's still some kind of profit margin that people are squeezing out of their bad behavior or you wouldn't be doing it. Like, the whole purpose of life is to survive.

So people nestle themselves in these, like, very interesting survival strategies, and they find a way to just kind of coast through life because their needs are met. The guy knows he's going to get three square meals a day, he's going to get a place to sleep. That's all he wants. He's not trying to thrive.

He's not here to do anything amazing. He just wants to survive every day. So he's going to be a lazy piece of. And he's Going to coast off of the labor of other people, that's what he's gonna do.

That's a profitable decision. That is a profitable decision for a loser.

01:03:16CALLER 11

Dude, you hit it on the head. I, I was just wondering because I know that for you personally, you smoke cigarettes. So, like, how did you determine, like, this is going to be my vice or whatever that I'm gonna use and it's gonna benefit me?

01:03:28HOST

Well, it just really works in conjunction with my lifestyle. I have a very explosive, high octane lifestyle. So I like uppers, you know, I like uppers. So I mean, I like stimulants.

Cigarettes are a stimulant. Coffee's a stimulant. I don't do drugs. I don't do cocaine.

I don't do, like that. But cigarettes just go hand in hand. I'm a gambler. There's nothing more romantic than sitting at a.

Sitting in a sports book with 500 grand on a game and lighting up a sick. They go hand in hand. The pathways, the neural pathways, the way my life is designed to seek out adventure and the hunt and the thrill of the hunt. Cigarettes are great for that.

But here's the thing. Cigarettes are a tool. I am wholly in control of my cigarette usage, even though it's excessive. And how I know this is true is like when I go hang out with my son for a week up in the mountains, when I'm with my son, I don't smoke at all.

And it's trivial. Like, I wake up in the morning and I don't even fucking crave it. It's just, I'm just in a different environment. I'm chilling, I'm a lot more in a relaxed state of mind.

I don't need a cigarette. And then when I'm working or I'm churning out massive force production, I just love to smoke. But I, I operate the tool, the tool doesn't operate me. Yeah, that's the key.

Yeah, but I've, but I've tested myself and look, I have, I have a ton of theories on quitting bad habits. Someone was like, so if you were going to quit smoking, what would you do? And I was like, if I was going to quit smoking, I would purposely have as much paraphernalia, I would have as much smoking paraphernalia in my house as possible. Like, I would literally have strewn tobacco rollers, papers everywhere in every cabinet to prove to myself that I'm truly quitting.

To prove to myself that I'm truly quitting. I would just keep all the Paraphernalia around. I wouldn't get rid of it because that's the fucking gimmick. I just don't believe.

I don't believe in gimmicks, man. When it comes to, like, making true change. Like, if I have to remove cigarettes or fucking liquor from my home or I'm gonna fucking drink myself to death, then I didn't really quit. Because everywhere you go, you are with you.

So you can't just pull a geographic. Can't. Polar geography. You can't just move things geographically and pretend that your life's going to change.

Like, I like to know that the cigarettes are there if I want one. And I like to know that I make the decision if I want one or not, But I like to know they're there. Like, that's true power over the substance. You understand what I'm saying?

01:06:04CALLER 11

Yeah, that makes perfect sense. That's good, man.

01:06:06HOST

Appreciate it. Yep. Yo, yo.

01:06:17CALLER 6

Thank you for having me on. So, brute. I want to know how many life experiences you've had to make you realize that a woman is always testing you. And furthermore, I want to know if a mother expressing her fears or concerns about her son carving her own path are the same as a girlfriend or.

01:06:44HOST

Yeah.

01:06:45CALLER 6

A girlfriend doing the same thing as they are.

01:06:47HOST

It's identical. It's identical. It's identical. Moms.

Moms will test you the exact same way a woman who loves you will. It's no. Literally no different. That's why, as a young boy, growing up in a household with a mom is a real opportunity.

It's a jungle gym. To really learn the truth about female nature. Because, of course, women are like a mom. How do I put this?

A mom. Will. Subconsciously. And I'm gonna.

I'm gonna change the subject here so you can kind of get a better understanding. A mom will subconsciously sabotage her own daughter by. Let me give you a good example. You know how moms will name their daughters?

Typical names. But they'll fucking tinker the spelling a little bit.

01:07:36CALLER 4

Yeah.

01:07:36HOST

Like, it'll be real weird. They'll, like, insert A, E where they're. Where, again, E doesn't belong. Yeah, yeah.

It's weird. But it's a regular name. And you're just like, why did you have to spell that name wrong? Right.

I thought about this for a while, and I came up with the conclusion that they do it because they know it's going to create some insecurity in the girl growing up, and then that girl is going to have to turn to their mother. It creates this like codependent relationship that's like a very crude, raw example. There's. There's more depth.

I could go into that. But women do the same thing with their sons. You don't think women are trying to test their sons to see if their sons are actual GS or not from an early age? Of course they are.

They're hardwired too. It doesn't mean they don't love you. It means they do love you. Women will test you till the end of time.

Even your mom, even your grandma will test you if you're a boy to see what you're made of. Because women are the true lab. Like, women are the ones who create all the Frankensteins. Women are the ones who create all the greats.

Remember I was saying on an old spaces how I felt that guys like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, I felt that they were so great. Because if you trace the thread back into the maze, I would almost guarantee you at some point in their life, they were heartbroken by a woman. Some point. It could have been in elementary school.

It could have even been by their own mom. Maybe their mom wasn't around in the way they needed her to be. And they broke his heart as a young boy and the way he responded was to become the best basketball player in the world. Like that's what happens to men.

Men get their heart stomped on by women and then they become monsters. They become monsters in their industries. They catapult to the top of domains. They build corporations.

Like they are fueled by heartbreak. And I've seen greatness. I've seen greatness. And these guys don't even.

It's unconscious. They don't even understand why they were compelled to show up to the court and just have no regard for human life. I mean, look at the fucking killer instinct of a guy like Kobe, man. Go watch the fucking 2006 playoffs against the Suns.

That guy was fucking possessed. That guy was possessed. I've never seen an athletic performance like that in my entire life. I've never seen a mentality like that.

That guy's mental game was just fucking unbelievable. I mean, he gets clotheslined. He gets clotheslined by Raja Bell in the game, gets thrown down onto the hardwood the next possession, he inbounds the ball from near half court and swishes a three. It was like a 45 foot three pointer.

After getting thrown to the ground and humiliated in front of the crowd. Like that guy was just on another planet, another planet. And guess what? Kobe Bryant was bullied as a youngster that's well documented.

That's well documented. Michael Jordan was bullied. That's why, like, my favorite tweet that I ever tweeted was that heartbreak one that I had pinned up there. I said, a man with a broken heart can go as far as he wants to in life as long as he leaves it a little bit broken.

Just a little bit. You just have to leave your heart a little bit broken. Because if you mend yourself too completely as a man and you go to therapy and you do all this work on yourself and you. You heal all your wounds, then you don't have motivation to be great anymore.

That's the problem. And I really, truly do believe this huge push to therapize men get men talking about their problems, taking mental health days, writing about their issues. I truly believe that was a scripted effort to get men to not fulfill their full potential. Because everybody knows a wounded man.

A wounded man is an un. Is a force to be reckoned with. You're just unstoppable if you're a wounded man. This is what it is.

It's human nature. It's human nature. And obviously the left and a lot of these policies that we talk about on Twitter, a lot of them are designed, like I said, to inflict damage upon the beast inside man. Because everybody knows the beast inside a man is the most powerful creature on earth.

And if you can tame that beast, then nothing changes and nothing gets done. That's the bottom line. You can't change the fabric of a society without having that barbaric instinct in men. And so the left is actually very intelligent because they attack that head on.

They attack the beast inside man specifically. That's like the entire doctrine of the left is about trying to apply rationality to an irrational world. You know, men are the irrational ones. I think it's funny that everyone talks about masculinity.

Masculinity. Men are. Men are super pragmatic and rational. No, no.

Men are the. Men are the ones who shape the future through our dreams and warped fears and perverted sort of visions that we have. Like, we. We're the ones who make that real.

Who the. The irrational one. Kobe Bryant's irrational. Michael Jordan was irrational.

Elon Musk is irrational. Irrational as. Irrationality is masculine. Irrationality is masculine as.

Because it gets things done. It makes people crystallize their visions and make them real. Know what I'm saying?

01:13:28CALLER 8

No, I can.

01:13:28HOST

Rational ones. The rational ones don't have the balls to make progressive change. The rational ones are the ones who are doing the same thing year after year after with their little system. But the ones who are actually moving the needle of society, the dreamers, the fanatics, the pioneers, those are irrational as hell.

They're irrational as hell and they're the ones who get the legendary status anyway.

01:13:56CALLER 6

Understood. Thank you so much, Brute. Well, and so would you say that the way you've resp. Like, how do you think you have respond, responded to it?

Have you just come to appreciate that aspect of female nature? Because I personally think, you know, you're pulling up a drop top Rolls Royce and she's still questioning you, like, what else do you want me to do? You know what I'm saying?

01:14:17HOST

Well, that's, that's the whole point is like, it's never enough. It's like it's never enough for a man. That's the, that's like the, that's the greatest part about being a man is it's never enough. There's no number you actually hit.

There's no destination you arrive at as a man where you're just like, you know what? I can finally take my clothes off and just sit under the sun all day and be happy. The work never ends. The work never ends.

As a man, it doesn't matter if you hit a hundred, two hundred million. Doesn't matter how many responsibilities, abilities, how much resources you got. If you love the game, if you love the game, then you play that game until you die. Just that simple.

There's no, there's no resting on your laurels as a man. You know why? Because even if you could, you wouldn't want to. Because the women around you will pick you apart.

You know what I mean? Like, they will just feast off of your corpse if you start getting, if you start letting yourself get caught slipping. That's why I talked about. In that one space is on Tate, which I think truly is my probably magnum opus, because I think I dissected the psychology perfectly.

Those who were listening to that space also probably were smart enough to see that in many respects I was talking about myself. That's how I know Tate so well, because I see a lot of myself in Tate. But what I wanted to say was, is you. So the game itself, right, never stops.

We know that. But the people around you have to constantly know that you're also not stopping. Because remember I was talking about like when you, when you walk into your home and you're having a bad day and you're in a bad mood, I said, look, if I'm in a bad Mood. And I'm the man of my house and I'm the spotlight.

Everyone's dependent upon me, right, to make it happen on a daily basis. My girl's dependent on me. My son's dependent on me. The people I work with are dependent on me.

Then if I'm having a bad day, you bet your ass. Everybody has to feel it. Everyone's got to suffer. If I'm suffering, that's the right way to go about it.

Because then you get the people around you to rally and then they uplift you. They uplift you. And you're actually more accountable that way because everyone's in a bad mood now. So now you're going to start making changes to get out of it faster.

Whereas when you walk into a home and you pretend like everything's great, trying to be a beacon of light, Mr. Optimist, there's no accountability there. You have no real reason to make a change because no one knows anything's going wrong. And here's the thing.

Women want to help you. They want so badly to help you and aid you in your quest. A woman will do anything for you to help you succeed. They'll do anything for you if they love you and they trust that you're that guy.

So it's like, nah, when I'm in a bad mood, everybody feels it. Everyone feels that sting. Everybody does because I'm the one who has to make it happen. So we're all gonna rally together.

It ain't just me. I don't believe in that tough guy. Like, it's my family. We all got to work together.

We all got to work together because that's what keeps everybody happy. The women want to feel it with you. They want to go through the roller coaster with you. They want to go through the journey.

They want to see you get out of it. That. That makes them feel whole inside. So that's just been my experience, bro.

I've seen that enough times to know. And especially with like all my high level friends that are super success successful also, I, I've seen the same thing. So I just, I gotta trust my eyes.

01:18:02CALLER 6

Thanks again, man.

01:18:03HOST

Yeah, brother, of course, dude. The idea people don't understand, man. Women are the most loyal creatures on the planet. You will never, ever, ever find loyalty like you will in a woman.

It's just that simple. Like, you want to talk about brotherhood, Guys that die in the pit together, dude, women will go above and beyond anything a brother will do for you. I promise. I've seen it over and over again.

There's like, literally not a woman will. A woman will completely destroy herself and her life for a man she loves. Guys won't really do that. Like, guys have a threshold.

Women are unlimited. Women will cannibalize themselves until there's nothing left for a man they love because they do have that strength. Women have that internal strength, and men have the external strength, if that makes sense. Like, men are a lot weaker internally than women are.

Women are rock solid internally, but their exterior is weak. That's how that works. So that's the polarity. Got it?

Got it. Yes, sir.

01:19:13CALLER 12

Thank you again.

01:19:13HOST

You got me. He got me running on all kinds of tangents, bro.

01:19:18CALLER 6

Yeah, man, I've had my mother just, like, in several situations, just question me. Like, there's this one time we're moving, and I'm telling her that I can, you know, drink a energy drink. I'm going back and forth, just. She.

And she just so, like, she can't. She's dumbfounded by how I just have energy throughout the entire day. And I'm just like, yo, I said I could do it.

01:19:41HOST

And you see me doing it, and

01:19:42CALLER 6

you're still questioning me.

01:19:43HOST

Still.

01:19:43CALLER 6

Still asking me if I want to eat. And I'm telling you, yo, off.

01:19:46HOST

Yeah. No, no, no. You can't. You can't fight women with logic, brother.

Can't do it. Logic does not work on women. You can't do it that way. That's the thing is, like, your mom's coming from a good place.

Honestly, man, your mom is testing to see if you're a. That's. That's honestly what moms do. Moms test their little sons, be like, is this guy A?

Like, can he actually get laid? Can he carry the baton of his genetics and reproduce? Like, your mom wants to know that she has a son who's capable of fucking reproducing and getting women and getting what he wants in life. Like, that's.

Your mom wants to see that. So she's going to fucking test you and put you through all kinds of ringers. But I don't think you should snap on her the way you should never snap on a woman who's testing you. Because you got to understand it's in her nature.

And she's keeping you razor sharp, baby. Women keep you fucking razor fucking sharp, man. They're the fucking best because they'll just throw the fucking sink at you when you least expect it. They want to make sure you're on your fucking toes at all times.

You're fucking sharp, you know? What's going on? Remember I said on my last basis, the woman wants to know above everything else. I've never heard anybody else articulate this.

All a woman wants to know is that she can't deceive you. She can't trick you. Her little games and manipulations don't work on you. That's all she wants to know.

And then I promise you, she will surrender and love you till the end of time. She just has to know she can't get away with the bullshit. She can't get away with it because you're a man who's fucking seen it all. You see it before she sees it.

I see you coming a mile away. It's all she wants to know. Your mom wants to know the same thing, by the way.

01:21:22CALLER 6

Yeah, I appreciate it, man.

01:21:23HOST

Of course. Yo, yo, Drew Pearson.

01:21:35CALLER 1

Hey, Brute. I appreciate. Can you hear me first off?

01:21:39HOST

Yeah, I hear you. Okay, perfect.

01:21:40CALLER 1

I just want to say appreciate the space once again. Something I wanted to kind of bring up, something I've heard, like my whole life is just. I've gotten from coaches and people and whoever about having a chip on my shoulder and how I shouldn't go through life with the chip on my shoulder. It's kind of like I've always kind of disagreed with that.

So it's good to hear you kind of back that up a little bit. Something I wanted also ask you was kind of at the beginning of this space, you mentioned how one of the final things that a lot of men go through is kind of having, you know, they kind of end up getting that mask and protecting or something kind of along the lines of that kidnapping mask on and everything like that. And I was curious if you remember if it was a specific time and place when you kind of started to develop that or if there was a situation that happened and how you respond bonded and kind of just how you first starting to get that mask on your identity. I guess so to say.

01:22:33HOST

Yeah, man. I mean, look, my parents divorced at a very early age. I got to see the truth about marriage and that a lot of it's, you know, I got to see how men and women play games for their kids all the time and pretend to be in love because they don't want to hurt their kids. I saw that from a very early age, and it woke me up to the reality of.

Of the world that a lot of couples are just sort of faking the love to. Trying to. To kind of keep the family together. And I think that creates a lot more destruction long term.

And so when those rose tinted glasses were crushed from an early age, I think my parents divorced when I was around 7 or 8. I 100 dude. Like, my conduct in school completely shifted. My whole Persona changed because I saw the reality that the, the world was a very cruel, harsh place.

That only, it only pays dividends on performance. Like, we just live in a performance based world and it's. Everything's a performance. Like, that's what I'm saying.

You can't coast on your laurels as a man or you're just gonna get clapped. Especially in the context of a relationship. Like, there's no amount of money, there's no title. You could be Jeff Bezos.

If Jeff Bezos rests on his laurels, he's gonna get cheated on. Even though he's the richest man in the world. A woman will lose respect for that overnight if he starts coasting and starts letting her little games and manipulation tactics slip through the cracks. If he's not sharp and he doesn't continually squash that down, he's gonna get cheated on.

So my point is, as a man, you have to have ruthless 247 identity maintenance. It's constant. You don't get days off because you have to stay on top of this stuff all the time. Or something's like somebody's gonna crack you.

You have to be on. You have to have the energy threshold to maintain this. Dude. It's, it's.

Of course, it's exhausting, but it's also liberating. So it's like, do you want emancipation or do you want to be a slave? If you want a man, if you want to be emancipated and you want the freedom you say you want, then the game doesn't stop. You don't get.

You don't get time off. Like, you don't get to break characters. What I'm trying to say, if there's a certain Persona of the certain person you're trying to be, you do not have the luxury of breaking that character. There's no luxury.

There's no, there's no downtime. It's a 24,7 fucking cycle. Especially if you want to actually become that person. If you want to become the man you want to be, then you have to be willing to invest 24 hours, 365 into curating that person.

That's what I could tell you. That's been the most. That's been the most instructive, powerful thing that I've realized in this entire life is that you don't get time Off. You got to be sharp at all times.

You got to be aware. That's why I personally don't like drugs and alcohol. Because I'm in an industry where I have to be sharp, I have to be turned on at all times. Why the would I want to impair my judgment for even one hour?

I don't want to be vulnerable. I don't want to get caught slipping. I'm in an industry that demands that I'm at my best and I'm at my sharpest at all times. You know what I mean?

Like how you can't gamble millions of dollars. So it's just about knowing who you are and then just doubling and tripling and quadrupling down on that until the end of time, man.

01:26:00CALLER 1

Yeah, that makes perfect sense to me. So kind of to springboard off of that, would you say? Almost the more that you're getting tested by the women in your life, that's kind of an indicator of you're kind of doing the right thing and taking the right steps?

01:26:14HOST

Of course that's how they're telling you they love you, dude. You don't think when a woman goes psycho on me because I'm not bending or I'm not capitulating or I'm not doing what she wants me to do, that's how, that's literally her telling me how much she loves me. That's it. Like the words never matter, dude.

It's all the actions. Like she's so flipping out, she's so besides herself. Because what happens is, dude, is like when a woman really loves you, she kind of starts to hate herself for it. Like she hates that she gave you that much control over her and that she's relinquished that.

That's why I'm saying it's like a very paradoxical thing in relationships. Like a lot of what's being communicated under the surface is actually positive reinforcement. But guys take it the wrong way. Like the more a woman's testing you, the more she loves you, bro.

It's just that simple. And then it's. And then once you understand that, it's really easy to take it as a light hearted perspective. Like, I don't, I don't battle with chicks.

I don't argue with them, I don't get in conflicts with them. If they have to run their mouth and have a little episode, then they just have to have a little episode. It's not going to change my day at all.

01:27:25CALLER 1

Yep, I, I think that was something I really struggled with early on, was like I didn't take it light hearted. And I think earlier in this space, you kind of mentioned how you got to earn that back every day. Because I can think of so many times where I'd have, like, quote, unquote, like, that perfect night with the girl came over to my place, like, just had the most intense conversations, all that, yada, yada, yada. And then it's like the next morning, she, like, is just ghosting me, almost like just testing me to see how I'm gonna respond, and acted like last night didn't even happen.

So, I mean, if you want to talk a little bit more on that, on how you gotta, like, win that back every day, I'd really be curious to hear that a little bit more, too.

01:28:05HOST

You're talking about that specific vignette that you just gave me where she didn't respond.

01:28:08CALLER 1

I mean, just kind of the, you know, having to win it back every day. Like, you could have the most perfect day and night with a woman. And then that next day comes and it's like, I feel like as men, you kind of look back like, damn, we had such a good day yesterday. Why are you in such a bad mood?

And it's like, you got to win that back, dude.

01:28:23HOST

Exactly. And that's the same thing with winning

01:28:25CALLER 1

in business and life and in the gym.

01:28:27HOST

Everything. The deck. The deck reshuffles every morning, brother. Like, as men, we wake up, you gotta.

You gotta win every day.

01:28:35CALLER 8

That's.

01:28:35HOST

That is correct. That is the correct mentality. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday, no one gives a. What are you gonna do about it today?

That. That's. That's. That's how you attack goals.

That's how you attack the biggest dreams. That's how you become the best of the best, is you just take it day by day, one foot in front of the other. Sometimes it's just a minute at a time. Next right, move.

Next right, move. Next right, move. Next right, move. You can make a million mistakes.

And in this life, I have learned you can outrun all of your mistakes. If you. If you stay committed, you can outrun them. You can fix everything.

Everything is fixable. Everything is repairable. I've seen it firsthand.

01:29:12CALLER 1

Yeah, bro. I appreciate it, man. I got the chills right now, and I'm. I'm just ready to go.

I appreciate it, man. Thanks again.

01:29:18HOST

Of course, bro. Let's get Pedro's opinion. Yo, pedro. Pedro.

What's up, brother? All right, let's get Kiki up here.

01:29:44CALLER 6

Hello.

01:29:45CALLER 1

Hello.

01:29:46HOST

Yo, what's up, Kiki.

01:29:47CALLER 7

Yo, what's up, Brew? I have a question for you. How do you amicably leave a relationship? Just not just with a girl, but just in general?

Like, as you're leveling up, you're moving on from people. When do you know when it's time to move on? And kind of. How do you move on from those

01:30:08HOST

talking about how to break up, like, the mechanism or just how to deal with it yourself?

01:30:12CALLER 7

Well, breaking up, like, breaking up is one thing, but also just as I'm moving on, kind of some of my friends, I feel like I'm growing past. But these are obviously day one homies and people that I've, you know, I'm just seeing go down different paths of life as well as like my girl, kind of just relationships in general. Do you amicably, like, have conversations? Do you just kind of let that fizzle out?

I'm just wondering your take.

01:30:37HOST

I kind of let fizzle out. I think. I think when people make grand proclamations and declarations and have like, dramatic. I think when people have dramatic breakup conversations, they're setting themselves up to get back in.

I do think silence is golden in a lot of ways with stuff like this. That's how. That's how I've always approached it. It's like if a chick.

If a chick ever goes to a man and has some, like, lengthy, long breakup talk, then I just call. I think that's a bluff. Because when you're truly done with somebody, you just don't go through that whole. You don't go through the.

All the rigmarole of that.

01:31:20CALLER 5

That.

01:31:21HOST

Especially breakups in person. Dude, that shit's hilarious. Like, they just. They just want to smell your scent again so they can get right back on the saddle.

01:31:30CALLER 7

Oh, yeah, I've seen it with my boys. I've seen it with girls. One of my boys just broke up with this girl like three times in a week.

01:31:38HOST

It's just ridiculous.

01:31:42CALLER 7

But in terms of. In terms of non relationships, not just with women, but just with people in general, I guess. I guess it sounds like you just. You just kind of let it fizzle.

01:31:57HOST

It depends, man. Like, if shit's. If there's unresolved stuff, man, I'll keep lines and communications open forever. I'm a really good, big communicator.

I don't really. I don't really like turning my back on people. It's just not really one of my. Like, it's not something that I really enjoy doing.

But if I absolutely have to, I still do like to Communicate and kind of flesh out for sure.

01:32:23CALLER 7

Got you.

01:32:23CALLER 6

Gotcha.

01:32:24HOST

I'm all about. Especially. Especially with women, bro. Like, I'll just go back to that, because that's the important one is, like, just addressing things, man.

Like, I don't let things slide. If something bothers me that a woman's doing, I. I nip it in the butt right then and there. I said that on other spaces.

Like, I'm not gonna sit in a car ride and have awkward silence because things are bothering us, and I'm. I'm too tough guy to talk about it. Like, if something's bothering me, it has to be addressed right the. Then in there.

I'm not gonna sit in any kind of awkward energy with anybody. With anybody, not just women. Like, it has to be. Has to be addressed.

And the problem is, a lot of these guys have been taught that if you address what's bothering you with a woman, that's beta. That's the problem. Like, a lot of guys will be like, oh, well, if I. If I share with her that this is bothering me, I'm gonna look like a.

And it's like, dude, that's not the case at all. It's the exact opposite, because you have to enforce boundaries, and you have to enforce the ground rules. Like, you have to do that in order to. In order to garner respect and actually make progress in the depth of the relationship.

Okay.

01:33:25CALLER 7

Glad we're on the same page then, because I've gotten some from my boys that, like, bro, you're way too honest. There was even a time where I told the girl. I was like, I literally just, like, got with another girl and.

01:33:35HOST

Exactly.

01:33:36CALLER 7

My boys were like, what the.

01:33:37HOST

Like, you snitched on your.

01:33:38CALLER 7

Yourself, bro.

01:33:39HOST

And I'm like, no, that's how it's done. That's how it's done. I do not believe. I do not believe or advocate lying to women in any capacity.

01:33:52CALLER 7

All right. Glad we're on the same page. Appreciate it.

01:33:54HOST

Yep. Holy. You got, like, hundreds of people trying to get questions in here. This is absurd.

Yo, simon. What's up, buddy? Simon, you're up. Let's get Machiavelli.

What's up, buddy? Machiavelli, can you hear me dropping like flies. Solo, man.

01:35:07CALLER 9

What's up, Brute? Again, bro? You're spitting pure gold. Love these spaces.

My question to you bros. Like, well, first and foremost, I want to tell everybody here that you need an abundance mindset, and when it comes to anything in life, you got to be the buyer. How can you be the buyer? You gotta have the money, you gotta put the work in.

You gotta provide value, and then the world is yours, basically. But anyways, quick question.

01:35:37HOST

So I meet all kinds of girls,

01:35:39CALLER 9

and they usually tell me, like, oh, even the party girls, they're like, yeah, I'm not looking for a relationship. I want to have fun. But after a while, they try to sneak that in, right? They try to, like, pin you down.

So what's your advice on that, bro? I can't hear you. Wait, you're. You're cutting up, bro.

01:36:13HOST

Hello?

01:36:18CALLER 9

Hello?

01:36:22HOST

Can you hear? It's a little choppy, Brute.

01:36:26CALLER 9

Yeah, bro, I can hear you now. I can hear.

01:36:30HOST

Yeah, Brute. Sa.