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Speaking of no commitment, I don't know if that doesn't make any sense.

Nish is here.

I don't know what that means.

Speaking of no commitment,

you don't get enough credit for your transition.

Oh, I've been seamless.

Like butter over here.

Over to you, Elijah.

Great to be here for our Terminally Online Love It or Leave It ad-free ad-free Bonanza crossover show.

I'm here.

Love it or Leave It writer Hallie Kiefer's here.

Hi, Hallie.

Hi, thanks for having me.

And Pod Save the UK host, Nish Kumar is here.

Hi, Nish.

And famous commitment foam.

Yeah.

Ooh, does that feel accurate?

How do you feel?

Does that strike you?

I've been in an entirely monogamous relationship for 13 years.

It's actually the only thing I can say that

I'm decent at is commitment.

It really is a transition that would work much better if Nish was a CAD.

Ooh, International CAD.

Yeah.

I think I'm one of the least Caddish people that's ever, truly, that's ever lived.

I've not put up strong numbers is what I would say.

I do associate CADs with being British.

I feel like over here, it's just, we just got fuckboys, and there's no class to that.

Yeah.

We don't have enough FOPs either.

No.

No, yeah, we've got CADs.

We've got FOPs.

We've also got fuckboys as well.

There's a huge diversity in the different type of arseholes we're over here.

Gorgeous country.

You got going over there.

That's part of the special relationship.

The fuckboy exchange between our countries.

Now there's going to be a tariff on fuckboys.

Now we're going to be paying an extra 20% just to get a fuckboy into this country.

You're going to pay so much more money on Hugh Grant.

And now domestic fuckboys, they're going to hike the prices.

So this is a special crossover episode with our subscription show, Terminal A Online.

It's a format we all like.

We figured we'd do it for the Love It or Leave It this week.

It's a in-part behind the scenes show.

Nish, you are a crooked media host, currently on tour here in America.

Take us behind the scenes.

Have you found anything unexpected while touring in America during Trump 2.0?

I mean, it was, I will say, the...

I'm not, I would say I'm not interacting with a broad section of the American populace at my comedy shows.

It turns out there's no huge crossover between fans of obscure British comedians and voters for the Donald.

And mainly people have sort of just broadly been apologising to me for the state of the country.

But I just, I don't think, as a British person, you particularly want to get into apologising.

I just think, I think once you pull at that thread,

there's

nothing left to go on.

Next thing, the ashmoleon is empty.

And then there's nothing for people to look at in there.

Well, there you have it.

The tour has been a lot of fun.

Oh, great.

Okay, good.

I'm glad to hear it.

We'll love it for your behind the scenes.

We just won a Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin.

You were there a lot.

How was your experience in Wisconsin?

You were going to knock at Doors.

So I just want to say

now that we have won the election, I can now tell all of you that if we lost, I think we really were totally fucked in a pretty universal way.

Yeah, for sure.

Now, it's not that, you know, Elon Musk was out there saying that this was a civilizational election.

I'm not sure that's true, but I do think it would have made the next year pretty bleak if even in this environment we couldn't manage to protect abortion access and stop a right-wing judge from rigging elections after Elon Musk dropped 25 million or more in that race.

It's in hindsight, right, knocking on doors, and I talked about this before.

Elon Musk did make himself the main character, not just on the news, but in just conversationally, he was someone people were bringing up.

And not just the Democrats, we were there kind of turning out the vote.

It wasn't just Democrats, but even the independents we met.

They were like, Elon Musk, they're setting Tesla's on fire.

It's a lot of money.

What's he doing here?

What's going on?

It just was on people's minds.

And

it's one election, but like, this is a rejection of that.

Or at the very least, what you can say pretty definitively is that $25 million,

which is an insane amount of money to drop on one statewide race in Wisconsin, not California, it's not New York, it's Wisconsin,

is

not enough to overcome the underlying dynamics.

And so, when you have a swing of plus 15 or more in Republican House races in Florida, combined with the fact that Elon's money

didn't make a difference in Wisconsin and could very well have hurt, that's enough to tell you that Republicans, especially from the more moderate districts, are in real trouble.

And it's going to make voting for a Republican reconciliation package to cut taxes for billionaires and millionaires and cut services for people a much tougher pill to swallow.

So I think the Republican political job of getting that bill over the finish line got a lot harder and that's the most important thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I it's always dangerous when I get into political analyst mode, but people forget that like Doge was like a very late thing and Elon Musk being part of the administration was like a very late thing.

It's not like something they campaigned on.

And there's something fundamentally American about telling the richest man in the world to go fuck himself.

Absolutely.

That was pretty cool.

Absolutely.

He did that in Wisconsin.

I do.

My thing about it was like him sort of like,

you know, sort of blaming George Soros in the lead up to all this.

And it was like, first of all, you're so much richer than George Soros.

It's like, well, maybe like the idea that this, it was him versus George Soros.

It's like, well, maybe George Soros, maybe our side won because George Soros wasn't out here jumping around, fucking humiliating himself.

Wearing a cheese hat.

Like, I'm like, do you like, and that's, I feel bad.

I don't feel bad, but it's just sort of like interesting that, like, he's going to be around because he has nothing else but this.

Like, it's, he's going to be in every state.

It's going to be, he will not learn anything from this because he's not capable of it.

So, he, we're just going to have to see his influence.

And my hope is that a lot of people will see this sweaty fucking loser and understand like this is not a compelling representative for conservatives or whatever he thinks he represents.

And so, that was nice.

I thought that was satisfying.

Yeah.

I was actually, I did a show in Madison, Wisconsin on Sunday night, and I made some pretty choice remarks about Elon.

So, I guess what I'm saying is, you're welcome, America.

Hell yeah.

Anish bump.

Anish bump.

Hell yeah.

The 250 comedy nerds

at the Majestic in Madison.

Hey, who's the swing vibe?

Didn't he?

You know, your Quibi show that I was on called Hello, America, and it's follow-up that sadly can't exist because Quibi doesn't exist could have been you're welcome, America.

Yep.

All right.

Well, thanks for protecting Small B and George Soros.

And way to go, Wisconsin.

Let's move on to Termly Online.

If you're unfamiliar, it's a segment where we share kind of how when we were two online each week, we'll rate everyone on a scale of one to five.

One being you're fine, you can deal with it at home, five being your terminal.

So, Love It, when were you two online this week?

So, I saw a video, and

the second I saw it, I understood why it existed, even though the poster is famous for a kind of subtle, a velvet glove, right?

A fist inside of a velvet glove.

So, I love

the content that Megan Markle produces.

I love it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nicky fan for anything you did.

We did it.

We booted those people out for your good.

We're gobbled it over here.

I think they self-deported, but the content is fantastic.

The show is amazing.

I love watching someone move peanut butter pretzels from a bigger bag to a smaller bag.

You finally learned how to make popcorn.

You learn how to make popcorn.

It's excellent.

But in the first episode, Megan makes a one-pot pasta.

And it's actually like, I think one-pot recipes are the best.

I like, I actually, if you were to look at my Google history, and you won't, and I hope you never do,

mixed in between, you know, the various sexual searches.

How to,

you know,

how do sex good?

How to do sex?

Priest with a flat tire, that kind of thing.

I don't know.

But you would find one-pot recipes, love one-pot recipes.

So I watched that recipe and I actually thought, you know what, I'm going to maybe make a version of this one-pot recipe.

Megan Markle, you taught me something.

And then I go on TikTok and I see this.

So here's a recipe that has taken the internet by storm.

Everybody wants to make the one-pot pasta.

You add your 12 ounces of linguine, add one onion which is peeled and very thinly sliced.

12 ounces of cherry tomatoes.

Four cloves of garlic.

I'm going to put a little garlic here, a little garlic there.

Quarter of a teaspoon of freshly cracked black pepper, two teaspoons of salt, and four and a half cups of water.

Sprigs of basil, sort of stick them in there, onto the stove.

Bring to a boil.

And you'll be stirring this constantly and you're going to have amazing, delicious pasta.

It is fragrant and it is well cooked and it is just ready to eat.

Put it right in your bowl.

Is that enough for you?

So play it from the very, just play the first line of it again.

So here's a recipe that has taken the internet by storm.

Everybody wants to stay.

That's it.

Here's a recipe that's taking the internet by storm.

Everyone wants to make my one pot pasta.

And I saw it, and I just, first of all, that I didn't, it wasn't that I was when I watched it.

That's Martha Stewart for listeners.

Yeah, just so you know, that's right.

For listeners, that is Martha Stewart.

Clearly, people had mentioned to her whether she saw it online or in real life, I don't know, but but but it got back to Martha that Megan Markle in the first episode of her show of where she's meant to be a Martha Stewart-like figure, she's making a fucking Martha Stewart pasta.

And what does Martha Dewar do?

She just, in that perfect Martha Stewart way, says, Everybody is talking about my one pot pasta.

Everybody wants to make my one pot pasta.

Let me show you how a fucking pro does it.

And that's the Martha Stewart I love.

That's the Martha Stewart that was that I watched when I was a child to live inside of the fantasy.

And that's the Martha Stewart I still believe was wrong by who?

James Comey.

Wow.

Wow.

And this is where I want to come back to.

Because

Martha Stewart went to jail, not for insider trading,

but for lying about a crime they couldn't prove.

A crime that would have been over $5,000.

This woman is a fucking billionaire.

She blows $5,000 just walking by a William Sonoma.

She doesn't care about $5,000.

That is nothing.

She would throw $5,000 in the garbage.

Oh, Oh, that's a dog's birthday to her.

It is.

A little outfit for one of those giant dogs she's got.

And yet, James Comey decided that even though he couldn't prove that she had committed insider trading, he was going to get her on lying about a crime she didn't commit.

And that James Comey is the same fucking guy that also decides in another novel way to go in front of the cameras and publicly indict Hillary Clinton.

And isn't it amazing that two of the most famous examples of women being torn down by the government in novel and interesting ways are both by this six foot seven fucking menace, James Comey.

And when Martha Stewart went to jail, she was treated like fucking dog shit, that she had deserved it because she was rich and she was bossy and she was tough and it was a powerful woman laid low at a time when everybody was patting themselves on the back for America being post-sexism because James Bond was allowed to punch women

and

what

we did that we I think there's a there's a

Google that James Bond punching a woman

I'm sorry to start you were cooking love it I'm sorry you can come back the point being

Martha Stewart when she went to jail she lost that perfection that she was known for, right?

They took that from her.

And it was wrong.

It was wrong what happened to Martha Stewart.

It was wrong.

But you know what?

It made her tougher and more interesting.

And it led to this Martha Stewart, the Martha Stewart that goes on TikTok to just delicately, as if removing the meat from a fine soul,

to destroy

any commers.

And I appreciated that.

And that's what I saw.

That's what I felt when I saw this brief moment of her saying, everybody's talking about my one pasta.

Thank you.

It's Olympic levels of passive aggression.

I love it.

I love it.

I absolutely love it.

It's, yeah, it's so, it's so elegant in its contempt.

Yeah, I feel like as an American, there is, Martha Stewart represents both the fantasy and also she's put in decades of work, right?

So she has that behind her.

So I feel like the people who we allow to cook food are either someone like that, someone like an Ina Garden, where like they've called, they've spent decades, the

Nagella

across the pond, you know, someone where you're not.

Exactly.

I mean, we all are.

It's sort of someone who's been at it, or a completely insane person where this is the first time, but they're like bubbly personality, like almost like a TikTok star, like,

you know, like a real, we're going to allow that.

Like, like Julia Child.

Yeah.

Someone like that.

Someone more of a character.

Yeah.

Megan Markle to me, it's like, A million people can make that pasta.

I need Megan Markle to be funnier.

And I don't, that's not why she's here and what she's doing, but I'm like, like, uh, because as you're saying this, like, the other thing is also, like, Martha Stewart's genuinely very funny, and I feel like, other than this, the last time I saw her was like a series of interviews, she was like, Man, I cannot find a decent man to fuck me.

Like, I'm out here, like, she does, she's posting Thirst Trap, she's like, I am looking for a man, and I really respect that.

It's like, she's been around so long, I'm like, Yeah, absolutely, you do what you need to do.

Give yourself a little treat and watch a compilation of the moments where Martha Stewart is getting absolutely roasted by Miss Piggy.

Oh, yes, I've seen that.

Incredible.

Miss Piggy would go on the Martha Stewart show and absolutely

rip Martha Stewart to bits, and it is a fucking delight.

Just two queens.

Two queens.

I like your describing this.

Like, Miss Piggy's like, she's, she's making her own decision here.

Again, much like the promo chain, as far as I know, she is.

I don't even know what she is.

I'm not sure what you're saying.

I guess what I want to say.

Well, she's a puppet.

Right.

Elisha, I can hear this from you right now.

Hey, nobody cared.

Nobody cared about Jim Henson until he put on the mask.

Look, I'm sorry.

I'm just like getting side triggered by a genre of posts that's like, we need to give Superman more credit for how he fought Batman in this clip.

And I'm just like, he's fake.

He's not real.

And so you're getting side aggression from something I'm experiencing.

And that's not right.

A friend of mine watched the Megan Markle show and said, I can't think of anything that more clearly feels like fiddling while Rome burns.

Yes.

Yeah.

Like at this time in American history, to have a whole show that's about a rich person cooking quite basic food in a millionaire's house that's not the actual millionaire's house that they live in, but is a rented one for the purposes of making a TV show.

It all feels a little bit let them eat one pot pasta.

Yeah, it really could be called pottering around with Megan Markle, looking for things to do.

In the opening episode, she harvests honey with a beekeeper.

And it's a small detail, but she is wearing a pristine, out-of-the-box white beekeeper's outfit.

And it's like,

dirty it up.

At least pretend you can't.

At least pretend you know who these bees are.

At least pretend you know these fucking bees.

It is

crisp, clean.

There's a lot of discourse in the UK at the moment about whether, you know, because there was a sense that they were driven out of the country,

you know, on account of racism of the British state.

And now I read a couple of things online and from the British press about like, ah, well, we always knew.

And you're like, two things can be true at once.

You can be the victim of racism and be a complete dickhead.

I am living proof that it is possible to be both a complete piece of shit and the victim of racist abuse.

I would watch you.

collect honey.

I would watch you make a one-piece hostage.

Like, I only feel like it's just a little, you bring a little joie de vivre.

I feel like we love rich people so much.

We hate beautiful women, but we will allow them to do certain things.

They either have to be funny or they have to give bring us into our life.

You know what I mean?

Like Ina Garden's husband, my husband's coming home.

Oh, Jeffrey.

She's like, I refuse to give you anything.

And there's something I admire about it, but I'm also not going to watch it.

Oh, I'm going to watch it.

Yes.

I'm going to watch it.

Well, there's an audience.

And just to cycle back, now, it depends on what you mean by hitting a woman, but Roger Moore does slap a woman in the man with a golden gun, which was quite a while ago.

I am thinking of Pierce Brosden fighting, and I believe Die Another Day.

Okay.

Is what I am remembering.

I believe he fights Madonna with a sword.

He does.

He fences with Madonna.

Yeah.

Okay.

That is what comes to mind for me.

As it should.

Well, listen, Bezos has got hold of James Bond now, so the next movie is going to be him fighting, unionizing Amazon workers.

Oh, absolutely.

Absolutely.

Did you see that Amazon just put a bid in to buy TikTok?

Well,

great.

But it makes sense because TikTok, which actually ties into my video, where it's like TikTok is just a store now, and occasionally then you get interesting videos around it.

So it makes like an Amazon button on TikTok.

That makes total sense.

Right, right, right.

Finally, finally, I can watch a viral recipe and then be served an ad for how to buy something called like Nooombi paper towels.

Is that what you're getting?

I feel like I'm getting just like ass leggings.

And it's like, have you ever thought about how your ass is a mess?

Give me the illusion of

an ass as in one piece of these leggings, like a Trump Loy ass and leggings.

I'm getting increasingly Barogue videos of basically people setting up for themselves

human cages to sleep in at night that basically

people are setting up their, like, they're binding and taping their faces.

They're sleeping

in their mouths.

Oh, yeah.

And they're building little tents inside of their beds.

People aren't okay.

No, this is an effect of, this is the Brian Johnsonification of sleep.

Yes.

Because it's all about the guys who are like obsessed with rejuvenation and the aging.

Specific sleep is a big part of that.

But with Brian Johnson, his sleep schedule precludes him from sharing a bed with another person.

Oh, and I think that's for the best.

I think that that is.

Who would be there?

Whatever, whoever that is, they're also not doing really well.

So I think that's good.

Feel the message.

His son.

His son.

If you're familiar with Brian.

Oh, yeah.

Yes, he famously came out and said he's measuring his nocturnal erections and then his sons.

I'm like, that should be a crime.

Even if your you son's an adult, it's like, that shouldn't be allowed.

He must be sent to jail immediately.

Yes.

Counterpoint dudes, rock.

Well, let's, let's.

How online is Love It

for this?

I mean,

the pasta controversy seems like it's part of the core appeal of the show.

Like, it's a feature, not a bug.

But the passion with which you're talking about James Comey makes me feel like, this is a three, you got, at least, you got to go to the doctor's office.

Yeah, I think I should go to to the doctor.

I think I should go to the office.

What's two again?

You just got the sniffles.

You can deal with it at home.

I think two.

I just think

Martha Stewart is a heritage American brand.

I feel like it is.

She's not very online.

So I feel like, and Megan Markall feels like she's never been on the internet.

That's part of her power.

Is that she hasn't been, like, that part of her brain hasn't been destroyed.

And yeah, so I'm going to say two.

Not too high, though.

Not too online.

Yeah, I'll go with two as well.

I think that I think there's a lot of old media in the mix here.

These Martha Stewart and Comey references keep a lot of old media in the mix that suggests Lovett is also still watching broadcast television.

Yeah, this is an analogue.

I guess I'm having an analogue obsession.

This is an analogue.

That's good.

It's nostalgia.

And I also feel like

we have to cling to something from the past.

And I think Martha Stewart is a good

thing to cling to.

It does also evoke an era where you reach a certain stage of your career and it was time to launch a magazine that had your name on it and your face on every issue.

And that was a beautiful part of it, too.

Like there was the Oprah magazine.

Oh, there was the Martha.

There's Martha Stewart living.

There was George, which was George Washington.

So that's different, I suppose.

But

okay,

I accept my diagnosis.

All right.

So love is it too.

You got the online sniffles.

You can deal with it at home.

We'll be right back with more Love It or Leave It.

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Hallie, what were you doing online this week?

I have a TikTok video.

I'm going to call it when we, we don't have to watch the whole thing because it's quite long.

So if we could just take a look at my video and we could discuss.

All right, so while my food is finished cooking, I'm going to give you guys a speed run of the cute winter boots that I found these last few days.

So, this first pair I found in Tennessee, I really think this is more of a Valentine's Day boot than a winter boot is because it's like it's pink, it's got all these cute little black hearts about it.

And the cutest thing, in my opinion, is the aglets.

If you guys don't know what an aglet is, you should definitely look it up or look up that Phineas and all right.

I think that's plenty.

So, basically, the audio you just heard is a young woman on TikTok talking about buying a pair of boots.

And at the end, she says, like, you buy it on the TikTok shop, you know.

And what she's showing is a series of notebook paper where she has written out,

basically, please Google Tennessee SB

6202 HB 6001, which is a,

it's one of the things the reason I want to bring this up is like, I read the news all day, every day, but there's a lot of state level stuff I don't see.

And this is the first time I had heard of this bill, which is awful.

And I'm going to read what it is.

And so what this woman is trying to do is, how can I use the fact that TikTok is essentially just a shop to try to boost this into the,

you know, essentially this is an ad for these boots.

How do I boost this and spread this and the bill which has they both passed so tennessee uh created through this bill essentially a they put aside five million dollars to create sort of a um separate immigration enforcement division from through the tennessee department of safety and homeland security wow and then basically what they're saying is if you have to go renew your license and you are a legal resident but a non-U.S.

citizen,

they are only going to give you a temporary license, which visually looks different.

And so like, if say you could prove you're a resident, resident, I'm assuming birth certificate, social security card, passport, you get a regular card.

If you can't, they give you a temporary one.

So, when somebody looks at it, they can then see it's temporary.

And I presume they want to basically create separate IDs in case you're not for, you know, not a citizen.

And then it makes it a felony for local officials, such as a county commissioner or city council member, to vote for any policy

making any kind of city or town a sanctuary city.

So basically, if you are an elected representative in Tennessee, you could be charged with a felony for voting for a sanctuary policy.

I didn't hear about any of this.

Like this is just something that I completely missed me.

And I don't know if this is just me being online, but it's one of those things where I, unfortunately, for work have to be online.

And then I appreciated this young woman's attempt.

And the rest of the video is about like trans people's passports.

It's all about like IDs and how they're changing IDs.

And I really appreciated that she was trying to do what felt like a unique thing.

I've seen people do this with other things, but I hadn't seen it for a specific state law, like just to look it up.

And so I don't know, I appreciate whether it's effective, I have no idea.

I like, I mean, the algorithm does, at least for me on TikTok, is constantly showing me advertisements.

So I was like, well, I'm glad this came to me.

And maybe it's because I.

I have purchased something on TikTok and now it knows that about me.

So maybe I am getting more of these things, in which case I appreciate the effort.

So I don't know if that's online.

It's just the only thing I've seen this week where I'm like, oh,

I hadn't thought about the layers that this person's trying to access in TikTok.

So I think that that's kind of what's going on,

but it's also part of another trend, which is people on TikTok.

So this idea of like winter boots, have you seen, like when people say, I need to get a pair of winter boots, it is also meant to mean like we need to have a revolution, but we're not allowed to talk about it on TikTok.

The content will be downvoted.

And the writing it on the paper is a kind of performance of

this is dangerous and banned information.

And you see people on TikTok making videos of they're not telling us about the protests happening around the world for America.

They're not telling us what's going on.

There's no way to find out what's going on.

We have to find interesting codes here on TikTok.

But all of these issues are being talked about.

If you, instead of trying to get your news via Chinese algorithm or a tech bro algorithm, you go to newyorktimes.com or

a Tennessee newspaper.com or

literally just consume news without it being mediated by these wealthy people.

All the way of saying is

there are people that are like performing that we're already living in an authoritarian state when in reality what's going on is people are just choosing not to consume a lot of news.

And like both they like, I'm not saying this is not a great way to get people to know about what's going on in Tennessee, but also there's a lot of people acting as if TikTok is the only way to get information when there's lots of ways to find out what's going on in the world right now.

No, the internet is not preventing us from seeing what's happening.

It's just that you are not a news consumer anymore because you have given yourself over to these

tech platforms.

That was, thank you for articulating that because I get so frustrated by what you just described.

So, Lovett and Elijah are very down on TikTok.

I thought it was helpful.

So, I don't need this rant.

I work here.

It's not for you.

It's not for the listeners of this.

I said something, and instead of responding to what I said, you went on this rant, which I've heard from before from both you and Elijah.

I don't need it.

I need you to engage with what I said, which is, as someone who does read the news, I'm not not going to New York Times.

When you say that to me, it's honestly very insulting.

You know that I read the news.

But it's not a you.

It's not a you.

I'm talking to the people making these videos that are acting as if this information is not readily available.

I feel feel like I want to have a conversation about what they're doing and you have a pre-prepared monologue to be able to do that.

And you feel prepared.

But the thing is, you're saying, oh, I'm saying you're not being served that video because you bought something on TikTok shop.

You're being served that video because the algorithm knows that you are part of a group of people that will respond to content about acting as if we already live in a fascist state, which is exciting and interesting for a subset of people.

You are an avid consumer of news.

You are different than the people that are acting as if that is the way we need to convey information but it isn't the problem is people being on tick tock and thinking that's a way to find out what's going on in the world it isn't you know that because you don't consume all your information from tick tock that's why it's not directed at you why can't it be both and why can't we talk about the positive parts of tick tock i'm not

tick tock i mean of course we can i i pay

a young person who actually understands it to put clips on my stand-up on tick tock but what what i so i have no dog in this fight okay i have no dog whose birthday it may well be in this particular fight I would say, what I would say is, you're actually all correct in different ways.

Yes, I agree with that.

It is worth celebrating because of the amount of particularly younger people who only consume all of their media through things like TikTok and Instagram.

It is definitely worth celebrating the idea that whoever this person is has managed to slightly game the algorithm to sneak that information.

And even if one or two people who had no concept of that have seen that and engaged with what's happening in Tennessee, then that is

a hugely valuable thing.

Definitely also the other side of it, which is we need to train people to get information from places other than social media is a hugely important thing because there's this sort of pervasive idea now that

the biggest problem is that everybody views the internet as a completely impartial source of information.

That the old media is owned by oligarchs and the new media is completely democratic, but it isn't.

It's just a different form.

We've just got slightly fewer oligarchs now.

And, you know, whether it's an oligarch or the Chinese government, either way, we're still, what information you're getting through the internet is still massively filtered through a specific individual's perspective.

So like, that's the thing that we definitely like need to break with people.

And also, there is this very funny, I feel like it's a very specifically British thing.

British internet subsect, which is the mainstream media won't cover this story.

And then underneath it, there will be a link to the BBC News website.

Where did you find out about it?

Where did you find out about it?

That's a common trope.

I completely agree.

What I'm asking is that we move past the monologue and we move past totally dismissing TikTok.

Because I know I'm on it all the time.

I'm not totally dismissing TikTok.

It was a reaction to what you, I saw that video from you for the first time.

It's not a pre-prepared monologue.

Hallie, can I offer a way to engage with it?

What do you mean?

Well, for us to move forward with the video you're bringing and bring it into

our work.

Yeah, you could tell me where you say.

I think.

yeah, Elijah, tell me, tell me.

Well, we've been making these direct-to-camera like four social videos.

And what I'm taking away from what you've brought today is that, you know, like we source things from the Atlantic and the New York Times and Washington Post all the time is that instead of being like, hey, there's this huge story, love it.

Now you should be starting these videos off by saying like, no one is talking.

And then immediately putting the graphic behind you that says like New York Times headline.

And that's just how we should do them going forward because that's the language on the platform.

So everything you're saying is not in this video.

The first thing she says is go ahead and Google it.

Now, I understand what you're saying that there is an underlying conspiratorial idea that maybe gets people interested in it.

But the idea, I think it's deeply condescending to immediately dismiss using the app in different ways to get out specific ideas.

Like, I don't think this person would have said, don't go to the New York Times.

This person says, just Google it.

I'm not, yeah, I'm not criticizing.

I'm saying this is part of a trend and it's a larger trend.

I have no problem with this video.

I'm not criticizing the video.

I am saying that the part where she is talking about winter boots is a specific, it's not about buying winter boots.

It's a specific trend where that is meant to stand in for we can no longer speak honestly.

It is time to foment

a revolution.

And it's so dangerous to talk about we have to use the term winter boots.

Like that's a real trend.

But I think that that trend really is more about trying to use the algorithm.

Like I think, yes, I hear what you're saying, but I'm also like, that is how you do kind of have to use the algorithm.

Like if you want to manipulate the algorithm of an app that is just a store now, that doesn't seem unreasonable.

And I think we have to engage with the idea that people are using the apps in this way and we'll have to.

Like Twitter is unusable.

I don't know.

It's like we, if people are manipulating them, I think that's interesting to talk about rather than immediately dismiss it as conspiracy.

Right, but what I'm saying is they're not doing it because it's a, it's not a, it doesn't, look, it's not a store thing.

It's not trying to game the algorithm around.

It's, it's taking the term,

it's imputing,

it's instilling in the idea of like winter boots this sort of secret knowledge.

It's about a secret knowledge that everybody has.

And it's a way of kind of performing radicalism without ever doing anything, without leaving your house.

You see that here.

I'm not saying in this video, but you see that with that trend.

You see that with people kind of celebrating Mangione.

You see that in a lot of different ways where people are performing a kind of radical chic from their house where their politics means you have to, you can make videos.

You you don't really have to do anything outside of your house, you don't have to do anything other than consume TikTok, and you are being,

you are, you are being political, you are being radical when really everyone is just kind of putting on a little show for each other.

And I worry about that.

And I don't think that's an illegitimate thing to worry about, even if there are, it is also, as we use every day, these platforms as a great way to inform each other and try to get people to riled up and actually to do things in the world.

I don't disagree with that.

I'm interested in everyone's opinion on this because the UK Labour Party has said this week that there's going to be like massive push on getting information into social media and like actually like government messaging is going to go through.

Is that a waste of their time or is that valuable?

Because is the idea that you should be speaking about these things where people are actively listening?

Like, that's the thing that I can't decide, whether it's either condescending or patronizing or it's actually practical to actually start having conversations in places where people are talking right now.

I mean, I think it's practical.

I also think, and I don't know what, because every country has like different rules around it.

I think for me, for example, when you see like Amazon's about to buy TikTok, like then that will automatically change how people receive information through TikTok.

So like I think it, I definitely think, I think the rapid response videos are great.

I think meeting people where they're at, I think is going to be important.

And also acknowledging that like TikTok is where people get a lot of their information.

So I don't know.

I think it is important and like practically helpful.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think it's just about how they do it.

They have to figure out ways to communicate honestly.

And like, you know, there are good examples and bad examples.

Like, I actually am surprised, I'm pleasantly surprised by how much of a reaction there was to Corey Booker holding the floor for 24 hours.

I did, like, I thought it was a good thing when I saw that he was doing it.

And then I would click in and out.

And like, I like Corey Booker, but he could be pretty cheesy.

And like, there are cheesy moments.

But then, like, tons of it is getting clipped, tons of it getting shared.

And there is just a hunger out there for people to see.

politicians actually doing something and taking it seriously and being passionate in part because a lot of what politics is just doesn't get to those places.

And in part because a lot of our politicians haven't done enough and haven't seemed like they cared.

Yeah, it's valuable.

It's also, I feel like, a little bit of a misread because you have to be on the platforms, but this is kind of like when everyone was shitting on the at Democrats account for putting up like a big graphic and then they started doing better social media.

Well, the problem with reaching low propensity voters isn't the stuff coming from the at Democrats account.

It's reaching people through places where they don't normally get political or news information.

So you got to do a lot more than that, but it's a good like first step.

All right.

How online is Hallie?

Love it.

I think you knowing the winter boots kind of like

Hallie's sick.

Like she's a three, in my opinion.

This revealed that you actually should be in the hospital at four.

Yeah, I think Hallie's a three.

I think Hallie is sick, but doesn't necessarily need that much treatment.

I would say there's an interesting thing here because it's almost like there is a bit of online sickness, but at the same time, you got some actual useful use out of it.

So it's almost like you had bad diarrhea, but what you pooped out was a tapeworm.

So like this like,

yeah,

sure.

It's like you, you had an online sickness, but it did have some, like you knowing about this Tennessee state legislation is positive.

So you, you, I can't think of a better, less disgusting medical analogy than that.

I mean, it's exciting.

It's, um, I mean, I think it's the same way that like penicillin comes from mold.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know?

It's a it sometimes sometimes leeches help.

Yeah, we're all healthier for it.

Okay, so alley's a three, love it side four for knowing that winter boots trend.

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Well, I am completely obsessed with Morgan Wallen

walking off SNL.

Oh, what a dud.

And then full dun.

And then going on Instagram and posting a picture of a private.

I'm obsessed with every element of this story.

It's almost difficult to disentangle what I'm most obsessed with.

So the bare bones of it are Morgan Morland's the musical guest on Saturday Night Alive on Saturday.

He then breaks with the broad protocol of the show, which is the musical guest stays on stage with the host and all of the cast and does the good nights.

He walks off during the credits.

He then goes to his private jet, which presumably is not on a fixed schedule.

So there was no temporal excuse for him to leave.

He then posts a picture of it and the caption that says, get me to God's country.

He then now, as of, I believe, this morning,

is selling hats and t-shirts on his official website with the viral quote, get me to God's country on them.

And to me, the reason that I think this makes me incredibly online is I, before

two days ago, had never heard of Morgan Wallen.

And now he feels like the most important character of my life because he's intersected with my interests, which are SNL and comedy.

And so the the fact that he walked, like even I know, even British people know, you don't walk off during the good nights, you stand there, you wave for about, I think, a minute and a half.

Yeah, the credits for the length of the credits.

It's the show that's been out for 50 years.

They celebrated 50 years this

spring.

Everybody knows for half a century,

you do the same thing.

But the thing that I think is so like the idea that people are now selling, people selling merch based on

posts is like,

it's the end game.

all we're all in just a kind of

like a sort of existential internet.

Everything's merch, yeah.

Yeah, going back to also the idea that he's like, I got to go back to God's country, the real, obviously that's incredibly condescending and patronizing, but also within that, this like a guy where he's like, I need to go back to like the real America via private jet.

Right.

Also, I believe you went to Nashville, which is Country Music Hollywood.

Like, it's like, what God?

White God, I guess.

I went to Nashville for the first time about three weeks ago.

I had a very fun time doing a tour show there.

I went to Broadway.

I will say, God has not touched that place in a long time.

Oh, no.

Absolutely.

And I do mean this is a full insult.

The most British place I've ever been to in America.

Because if you take away the trappings of country music, which is popular in Britain, but not to the same extent, the behavior of the people on Broadway.

I have never felt more at home in America in my entire life.

Just people drunkenly fighting with each other on a Wednesday night.

It really, I'd like to thank

whoever it was that got drunk and had a fight in Nashville for making me and my partner feel like we were in London.

But for the threat of gunfire, it could be London.

There's a lot less street vomiting.

I'll say that much for it.

I feel like it's like if London, if there was just 50% more bachelorette parties.

No, again, that is what there's parts of London that are

specifically devoted.

And it's like being in the purge.

Like all the normal rules of society are abandoned it's like amsterdam in the wire for human decency can i ask a question oh amsterdam a lovely reference could i ask a question has there been any reporting that anyone was rude to morgan waller did anything go wrong for him that he was just too close to some homos i know but i don't know what the what they're saying i don't want to it's just i don't want to jump to that obvious conclusion but it's like was it just being around the now gayified SNL where now we have like real representation at long last in this medium Yeah.

And that was just too much.

I think unfortunately, yes.

It's uh, it's so um

it obviously is not important, but it's like it's so rude.

Like it's like it's so cool to be on SNL.

It's like so many musicians and bands would kill for the opportunity.

It's the opportunity of a lifetime for so many people.

Yeah.

And you're just like, you're, you spend the week with these people and then you agreed to go off.

You agreed

signed up for this.

And then you just like want to publicly be rude.

Like walking off is a a way to publicly be rude and oppose getting back to God's country, which again, like, I don't totally understand as a phrase.

Presumably, if you're a Christian, you would believe it.

It's the hobos.

I think, unfortunately, that's it.

Is God's godliness?

Oh, yeah, New York is godless.

No, no, no.

They think that it's like...

That's the, yeah, it's like...

The warriors over in New York.

What was it?

I think there's a 30-rock joke where they call it sex criminal boat or something, like in Kenneth Parcell's hometown in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Like, I think

the problem with the way that he's left, the fact that he's put back to God's country is the whole thing reeks of, I was around a lot of people, and I don't want to blow anyone's mind here, but some of them weren't white.

And I think even some of them might also have been people that were homosexuals.

Like, it just is very difficult.

I know we don't want to.

all boil it down to that, but it's very difficult to not boil it down to that.

Well, I think it is that just because he has not issued a statement clarifying.

If it wasn't that, he could just say like, oh, yeah, no, sorry, I was just.

In a rush to get back to my plane.

Oh, like referencing a song that's coming out.

Like, he could have said anything to clarify it, and he didn't.

And my thing that I don't like about it is that this merch is obviously like it looks like the most chat GBT merch.

To me, it's like that's AI.

They like poofed it out.

It's ugly.

It's very generic.

And they immediately start mass producing it.

I'm sure like the worst quality.

So it's not even like, oh, okay, that's a funny thing that people like caught on.

And we had somebody draw something up.

It's nothing.

And also, so Keenan Thompson gave an interview after this all happened.

happened, and he did say it was weird.

They didn't seem to be, he suggested that there was no inference that something had happened in the week that would cause him to be upset.

And he said that

he definitely saw it when he prematurely departed, and he said it was all sort of weird.

But then he said, I thought maybe he had to go to the party or something, which is like a very a line you can easily imagine in Keenan's voice.

But yeah, there was no inference.

There was no inference.

He'd refused to be part of a pre-taped sketch.

And apparently they replaced him with one of the Jonas brothers.

But

the report is that he was reportedly supposed to be in a pre-tape musical sketch and he declined to be in it.

But other than that, there doesn't seem to have been any kind of particular fight about it.

But I just think the grift of these people, like to post something and then almost immediately have merch ready to go on it,

it shows you the transparency of all, like...

how little any of this means to any of them and every everything everything now is just a grift and a way to sell merch.

Like, it's, there's no,

there's absolutely no love or art or anything behind any of this.

It's literally just we're going to be dicks and then we're going to do a grift based on posts.

And the whole cycle just feels very Trump 1.0.

Yeah.

Like

he doesn't, he didn't get the memo of how crazy MAGA is now and just like being passive aggressive, walking off, posting on your Instagram stories, like actually very soft and kind of bitch made.

Like you, you can just go on and just like criticize these people now and have the full culture war fight but like no he's just kind of very sensitive to we don't we can't really articulate we just have to speculate there's also just like a

like lack of like gratitude not even just to snl but like who cares about that but like just in a broader way to like to get to be a famous musician is such a lucky thing and it like it reminds me of this um it's not my it's like somebody's joke about Paul Newman and like the career, every the path every famous person's career takes, which is who's Paul Newman?

Get me Paul Newman, get me a Paul Newman type, get me a young Paul Newman, who's Paul Newman?

And like, that's the path everyone takes.

And

like, okay, great, you're in your big moment.

Like, what did you do with it?

Right.

You acted like a little bitch.

And also, it's like to have like, like you said, like the most soft life.

Like, it's like, you, this is not a problem.

You're creating an issue that doesn't exist because you have no problems, which to me is very conservative in terms of like, we have to exist.

And by we, I mean anyone who's not conservative, we have to be, they're confronting our existence or New York's existence in order to storm off and sell merch.

If it wasn't for New York or SNL, then what would the merch be?

It's like you don't have anything without the resistance that you've created in your mind.

Yeah.

It's also a weird thing to be like, I've got to get out of this place whose like iconic television show invited me to do a performance, even after, which again i didn't realize at the time he was scheduled to perform uh

like in 2020 oh yes i remember until that some footage emerged of him breaking covet 19 protocols and he was his appearance was like i think it was like cancelled and then and then they came back to it so like it is weird that there's like this is an organization and an institution that is showing you like a huge amount of like leeway and you know it just seems like it just seemed like such a incredibly petulant thing to do.

But then when you start selling the merch, you realize like literally everything is a group.

Like these people wake up every morning and all they can think about is what is the next grift.

And you're like, we're like all being dragged into hell by a group of people whose only interest is to try and sell hats.

And I think,

yeah.

Nesh is a one.

Yeah.

It's a one.

You just, you saw, you saw the biggest culture story of the week.

It's on people.com.

It's not online.

Yeah.

My only argument for this being an online thing is I literally had never heard of Morgan Wallen until I saw a picture of him on Twitter looking like he didn't understand how cameras were.

We're not saying you weren't a zero when you found the story.

Right, yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

You were healthy and fine.

And now you just have a, what is a one?

Is it like a headache?

No, you're fine.

No, a one is, you're fine.

Oh.

A passing headache.

You got a little dirt in your eye, maybe.

Yeah.

So you had to blink it out.

I think zero is somebody printed a tweet and pushed it into the middle of the book.

That's the dream.

That's what Megan Markle interacts with the internet.

Just a printed out binder of tweets for her to look through.

All right, so this is a one.

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All right, let's get to mine.

I was too online this week when I decided I wanted to zero in after Ashton Hall, that crazy morning routine video on something that I'm going to call the fancy dog male treatler retreat.

Now, this is

that.

Okay.

And I think it's, you know, Ashton Hall on a lot of these like male, like get ready with me things or what i like to call fancy dog content because it's just like if men were like fancy poodles that like get you know like frufed and all that kind of thing pampered absolutely this is specific content for high-priced retreats where men get together and like eat steak and like do cold plunges and like don't suck each other off like maybe like

not a little bit

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All right, we get it.

We get it.

We get it.

So I don't want to shit on this one too much in particular, because this is actually like a relatively non-toxic example of the genre.

My point is that this is actually a genre and the staples of this genre are men getting together with men in a secluded location sobriety prepared meals made by a quote-unquote private chef that's not necessarily true often these meals are very meat heavy meditation and journaling working out and cold plunges now

this sounds like a nightmare to me getting together with a bunch of randos being totally sober and talking about our life goals but it's a whole little industry uh the mother of all fancy dog male treatler retreats is something called the bali time chamber And I would love for you guys to take a look

at the Bali Tam Chamber.

That's tough.

Yeah, that's a tough one.

No veganism, no women, no distractions, no smoking, no drugs, no video games, no laziness, no partying, no procrastination, no hookups, no toxic relationships, no scrolling, no Netflix.

When you enter the Bali Time Chamber, the only thing to do is work on yourself, train consistently, eat premium meat, do sauna, walk to the waterfalls, reconnect with nature, build new habits, read books, do ice bath, meditate, exchange knowledge, learn new skills, get in your best shape ever, and network with other like-minded men.

This place is something different.

It's a sanctuary for men to grow.

Would you go there?

Well, would you?

First of all, a lot.

Of course I would.

Yeah, 100%.

So, so

I was at

the Bali Time Chamber.

I was at the Bali Time Chamber.

I still lost all my soul love it.

I was at...

No Netflix.

I love describing it as like exchanging knowledge.

You mean having a conversation?

You're talking about having a conversation.

Yeah.

Yes.

But I was at this dinner and somebody ordered a skinny margarita.

And it was a bunch of women at the table.

And one of them was saying, like, I feel so bad ordering a skinny margarita.

I feel silly saying that.

I wish we had another name for it.

And somebody at the table said, oh, we should call them clean margaritas instead of skinny margaritas.

And we were talking about it that like,

skinny margarita is girl-coded, but clean, eating clean is more guy-coded.

It's a way of being on a diet.

It's Coke zero versus diet.

Yes.

Yeah, that makes sense.

And like what you just showed has existed for women forever.

It's called Canyon Ranch.

It is a fancy resort that you go to and you're given a certain amount of healthy food.

You do spa.

You do exercise and sauna.

No Netflix.

There's sadly.

Prob HBO Max and Hulu available.

Yeah, probably for sure.

I don't know what the smart TV situation is these days, but it's just so funny to have to like, you know, it's like pH balanced, strong enough for a man, but pH balanced for a woman, but like in reverse.

Because it's just like, you mean you want to go to a, you want to go to a spa for the weekend with the boys?

Yeah, lift some weights.

What I want to know with that first one, it's like, what are the aha moments and what are this, what is the transformation?

Yeah.

Like, I would love to know what you walk away from more connected to or what you're, what you're thinking is because seeing this, I'm like, oh, it's like a fun vacation.

I'd go to the Bali time chamber, but it wouldn't be

for a psychological, it wouldn't be like, oh, I'm going to spiritually or psychologically change.

It would be like, you know, I get everything else.

But the idea that these are sites of deep masculine change, that's, I guess, I'm not, I don't know what that is.

It's a lie.

It's a lie.

Oh, yes, yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll tell you what wasn't mentioned in either of those two adverts is an hour speaking to a trained therapist.

Well,

like the, we, like,

I would love, I would love for one of those adverts just to go, oh, and by the way, there's an hour where a kind person says, it wasn't your fault that your daddy never hugged you.

Anyway, like, it's the like I listen, there is a crisis of masculinity.

It's, there's, there's this huge thing where men are being radicalized by these like online charlatans.

There should, we probably do need to have a conversation about men and the way men are behaving, but I don't think we will achieve that through the Bali time chamber.

But also, like, God knows how much it is.

That's like a $15,000.

I mean, like, who knows how much a payment is?

I submitted my email.

Oh, yeah, my email, and I got, I got the literature.

You So it's actually surprisingly cheap to go to the Balet Time Chamber.

Oh, okay.

Well,

it's about $1,400 a week.

Wow.

Okay, that's not bad at all.

I love Balet Time Chamber.

Love it.

Corporate Retreat with the Balet Chamber.

No women.

But yeah, that's the other part of this, too, which is like, I don't know what problems these men have, but I am sure it will not be solved until they have a healthy relationship with women.

Even in that second video where it says the phrase, build habits.

Can't do that on a weekend.

You just actually can't do that.

That's not how habits work.

These people are not transforming.

You don't fucking get it, dude.

The Bali Time Chamber.

One day in the Bali time chamber is equal to one year.

Oh, is that the time in the Bali Time Chamber?

Wow, it's like the eternity.

So it's like the beach from old.

It's like the beach from old.

It's actually like the based on the hyperbolic time chamber from Dragon Ball Z, according to the letter.

Oh my God.

Wait, I'm sorry.

Hold on a second.

It's actually inspired by fucking Dragon Ball Z, the show that people my age watch while stoned out of their minds in college.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Totally seriously.

I thought it was a good idea.

It's in the brochure that I got sent to my body.

No.

Shut it down.

Shut it down.

Here's another thing they don't mention, Nish, besides therapy.

They don't mention in either the one from Austin where they go to the Airbnb that we first watched or the Bali Time Chamber that it's shared bathrooms.

So

if you

get diarrhea and that amount of steak is an absolute nightmare.

Exactly.

So let's watch the last video, which is a video that I got of someone going to the Bali time chamber.

And then I kind of want to make a point that plays to what you guys are saying about what you actually learned from these.

Today was my last full day at the Bali time chamber.

Here's how it looked.

Woke up at 4.45, as always, followed by my non-negotiables, which are hydration, goals, gratitude, stretching, and visualization.

I also knocked out a cold plunge.

After that, I jumped into a file and I knocked out a thousand feet of elevation.

Came home to BTC, did some breath work with the other guys.

And then after the breath work, while we were all very focused, we did some visualization.

I had six eggs, rice, tomatoes, baby potatoes, and coffee for breakfast.

Then I jumped into two hours of deep work in the morning.

At 12, I knocked out a push day.

I didn't actually get any clips of the push day, but here's some clips of me doing muscle ups.

After that, I had lunch, a steak, some fish, shrimp, potatoes.

Since today was my last day, I really wanted to go back to the waterfalls.

So at 2 p.m., we went to one of the waterfalls just 10 minutes away from the Bali time chamber.

i came home did some more work then had this massive bali time chamber special burger for dinner after that i did my reflection journaling said bye to all the people that i met as well as all the amazing staff did a few tasks on my computer that i had to do and then went to bed next chapter of my life is going to be moving to miami dialing in and building a business that's going to change the lives of hundreds of men if you guys want to keep up with my journey follow my page for more

sounds like a threat

Yeah, it's his business is a window washing company.

So not exactly.

Is that actually what it is?

Yes.

And just so you know, if you read the caption to his Instagram, one of, he says in all caps, I love growth, which really does crack.

I will say that, but like, if that's what you're, like, if that's your deal, like, if that's what you're excited about, I think it's actually very, it's like cool to be passionate about.

Like, it is.

Like, if what you're excited about is like, I'm going to move to Miami.

I'm going to start this business.

I'm going to hire a lot of people.

I'm really going to build something.

Like, I think that that's like a beautiful thing.

The thing that made, like, you see that, that fucking influencer do that, that four and a half hour morning routine, which it only is possible if there's nothing that can disturb your routine.

You have no obligations, you have no responsibilities, and there's an off-camera woman handing you bowls of ice.

And like if that, like the challenge of life is doing those good things for yourself, gym, eating well.

doing your whatever tasks while also caring about other people and understanding that life is hard and there's things that get in the way.

Like, yeah, it's not hard.

You couldn't, you couldn't journal when you're at the Bali time chamber.

But like, are you going to be journaling when you're down there in Miami?

I don't know.

Yeah.

Well, here's the thing.

It strikes me as kind of like a multi-level marketing like an emerging multi-level marketing system for men where you're always making content about how you're a fancy dog and part of it is now you go to this retreat where you're really a fancy dog and you're constantly convincing people through more content about how you went to your retreat about how fancy of a dog you are and people should always be listening to you about how you're a fancy dog and you're getting higher well right it's when your money it's it's when your money comes from videos about how you're a fancy dog.

Like, how do you afford to be a fancy dog?

By showing people the ways in which I'm a fancy dog.

It's also.

Go ahead, guys.

No, no, no.

I would totally fucking go to the Bali Time Shampers.

Well, sure.

Of course.

It looks fucking awesome.

I'm sure we could cover it.

Not for Elijah, but for you.

Yeah.

I think it'd be good.

I just think with all the stuff about like, we need more spaces to discuss masculinity, I do think that the solution to this is not further secluding men from women.

That's the thing that rubs me up the wrong way with a lot of this stuff is like

half of the problems we're facing are men are disappearing into these like all male online worlds that divorce them from the reality of society, which is half of the people in it are women.

And you need to learn like it's I just think that everything about it, I don't know, maybe it's just a personal prejudice for me, but whenever I look at those videos, I was like, I do not want to be stuck in a remote retreat with a bunch of guys that used to beat me up at school.

Like that is, it looks like my worst fucking nightmare.

Well, it is funny the Bolly time chamber versus the other one is like a downstream thing from like the Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate, Maha masculinity, where like it's not enough to just want to go and better yourself like the first one.

Like it's a grievance-based bettering yourself.

No weapons.

No vegans.

Like that's part of the marketing.

All right.

We're getting late on time here.

How online am I?

I have so much to say about this that I feel like I'm more online, but we'll stop here.

I got the literature sent to my fucking email.

I'm going to be getting a lot of Bolly teachers.

Oh, yeah, they got your ass.

Yeah, I mean, I think you're going.

So I think you're a four.

I think you're a four.

Yeah, absolutely.

Elijah, Elijah, I want you to know something.

You had asked me, like, do you know what this is?

And I couldn't have told you what the name is, but I have 100% been served these videos.

Well, yes, I think if you're a man, you're getting it.

I'm getting slightly less so now that I'm

a lesbian, but like the white woman's version of it, I actually know someone from my college who changed her name and opened one in OHI.

And I believe hers is three days long for $5,000.

Oh, so it's like, it is the equal about, it's like, one, I will go on vacation and I will be healed.

It's a healing vacation, but it's strictly gendered.

Used to be, we call it a jumpstart.

You know, you can get that at least you could get away with it.

You're going for a jumpstart.

I'm going to jumpstart my diet.

I'm going to jumpstart my health.

I'm going to jumpstart my thing.

But now it's like, I'm going to go through a transformation.

No, you are not.

It's like this vacation just seems too faggy.

Gay.

Yeah, I didn't want to.

I don't like, I don't want to reduce everything to this, but it is literally like all I think when I watch these videos is as capitalism decays around us, the system is not delivering what it needs to for individuals.

Like you can't make enough money from your job, so you have to have like a second job.

Your house is unaffordable.

Everything in your life is increasingly expensive.

And now the solution to that is to give a different private company more of your money to settle down the mental health crisis that are brewing by living in the consequences of a collapsing economic system.

Like it is so evidence to me that everything about this is like late-stage capitalism crisis.

At least you're jacked.

It is

the end of the world.

You're fucking ripped, man.

I will, yes.

The late stage capitalism, though, it's actually, here's the thing.

I think it's like not

capitalism is thriving.

It's that it's gotten so good at capitalism.

Capitalism has gotten so good at capitalism that it is chewing us up and spitting us out.

And we are all like all of this is about maximizing, right?

Maximizing Maximizing your time.

Like you're like, like very little, was there anything in that video about being happier?

No, it's

absolutely right.

Yeah.

To get extra deep off Nish's point, like it's about control after like a global pandemic, political upheaval.

You can control your non-negotiables in the morning, your hydration, your gratitude, like that, like your breathing, you know, like that kind of thing.

And so, no, it's not about happiness.

It's just like clinging on to this little bit of shit you can control, which is like being a fancy dog.

There wasn't one one bit of the video where anyone was laughing.

No, I quite know.

No, it's not a laughing matter.

Transformation is no laughing, and laughing is gay.

No straws either.

No straws.

No chicken.

No chicken.

That's a red meat trip.

I love just, man, I love being a regular dude who's just loves a drink and has a couple friends who like to have a little drink.

Okay.

Just have a little drink.

Okay.

Love it.

Be an alcoholic like your forefathers.

Love it.

Was A2.

Don't be an alcoholic.

Let's recap.

God, the Bali time chamber made everyone a little crazy.

Okay.

Lovett was a two.

He's got the sniffles for Megan Markle's one pop pasta.

Hallie was a three.

She needs to go to the doctor for winter boots and gaming the tick tock algorithm to tell people the news.

Lovett got a side four for knowing the winter boots trend.

Nish is a one.

He got a little like you know, like piece of dirt in his eye for Morgan Wallen.

Yeah, you got to up your game here, Nish.

And I was a four.

I'm in the hospital for the bolly time chamber you're you're you're at the bali time chamber yeah i'm at the bali time chamber god it's got a heal once you go in you never come out though i love to make fun of the bolly time chamber and i would totally go absolutely looks great looks great all right we are at time we'll skip over q a's but normally the show is q a's from our discord subscribers go sign up for friends of the pod get that 30-day free trial get ad free love it or leave it and so much more what were the questions elijah elijah what were the questions well the question wants to know what uh nish's favorite part of is coming to America, and have you ever gotten in a public altercation that you're willing to share?

We could do either of those.

They're from our Discord.

Subscribers, subscribe for the Discord.

Do you know, we kind of hit your first one.

Yeah, my favorite thing about touring in the States, the shows were great.

And also, I have been, I am playing chicken with gout every single day.

Oh, yeah.

I'm in America.

Yeah.

From this day,

I had a brief respite in Canada, but every day in America, I am playing chicken with gout.

You coming to America is like me going to Wisconsin.

Yeah.

In terms of food.

It's an overall.

This whole country is one big fucking cheese curd deep-fried bonanza for you.

And for me, I see gradations because I live here that you can't see.

But for you, LA, Milwaukee, one big cheese

fondue.

The thing that I'd, I'd never been to the South at all, and the southern states in America share the South of India's deep love of okra.

And so I have been in absolute okra heaven.

Oh my god, deep-fried okra is crazy.

I went to a like fried chicken place in Atlanta and had like a side of deep fried ok.

I went to one place in

God.

I went to a place in Portland and I had

it was like a kind of southern invitation place.

But so maybe that's why I got the judgment because when I had, when I was actually in the south and I ate a portion of okra, it was not remarked upon.

But in Portland, when I ate some invitation okra,

the waiter actually said to me, you know, normally that's a portion for three people.

Okay.

Take off your

judge's robe.

But yeah, so my side issues, my favorite thing about touring is understanding that the southern states share the love of occurren that the Indian community shares.

And it's like my treat food from when I was a kid.

So I had that.

That was the real highlight.

That's nice.

That's awesome.

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